It's moving time, and for various reasons I need to get rid of a few items:
DEC Multia 166 MHz
Alpha workstation, not sure what CPU.
Apple PowerBook150c
Cardinal 386 computer. All in one case, like a Mac SE/30
2 external CD drives, SCSI, with carts
various 72 pin SIMMS, some parity, some other
30 pin SIMMS
2 PS/2 keyboards
various cables.
First come, first served; take it all in one shot, it's free.
If you feel this pile is worth something, I won't turn down cash or
good beer.
If you want to disperse the items to others, that is your choice. If
you do make a profit, great! Enjoy it. I just need this stuff to
disappear by Thursday, Nov. 13.
I tried to give some of these things away before, but the recipient
never got back to me about something.
Let me know ASAP. Thanks very much
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--- Dave Woyciesjes
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"From there to here,
From here to there,
Funny things
are everywhere."
--- Dr. Seuss
Chuck asks:
> Anyone remember the
> Fairchild F8? Around the same time as the 9440, the F8 was hugely
> popular in embedded type applications.
Mostek's 3870, a derivative of the F8, was popular throughout
all sorts of mass-produced products in the late 70's and through the 80's.
STMicro had a chip that was very similar (clone? derivative?) of the 3870 that
appeared in consumer products in the 90's.
General Instruments certainly took a very similar microcontroller (now
known as the PIC) and built it up and out in several directions.
Tim.
As I recall, the 944x series did away with the high order indirect bit
just as the Xerox Alto did, thereby permitting full 16 bit addresses.
I wonder what became of my data sheet...
On 4 Nov 2008 at 5:51, Robert Borsuk wrote:
> Don't know if you guys found this but I did find one computer
reference.
>
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=196
>
> and the data sheet on bit savers for the chips(thank you Al).
1983? I was trying to get the attention of the Fairchild sales
department around 1978. You'd have thought with DG not selling the
MicroNova CPU to outside customers and the 9440 being a Nova-like
chip that Fairchild could have cleaned up. There weren't many other
16-bit chips at the time (e.g. NS PACE, GI CP1600, TI TMS9900). But
Fairchild seemed not to be interested in selling the stuff.
My understanding is that the 9440 is an "almost" Nova in that it
lacks certain features needed to run Nova software. Can anyone
verify this?
Cheers,
Chuck
> A very puzzling company, Fairchild.
And the Clipper..
They waited too long to get into CMOS, since they were making
tons of money on ECL and bipolar.
AMD also blew it in waiting too long to convert the 2900 product line to CMOS.
I am not selling, I found and am posting.
I figured someone would be interested
http://newyork.craigslist.org/que/sys/905721821.html
For sale: Vintage computers.. (Ditmars/Astoria)
Reply to: sale-905721821 at craigslist.org [?]
Date: 2008-11-04, 2:57PM EST
For sale I have the following computers..
-Amiga 1000 with mouse, monitor and kickstart/workbench disks (A1000 is refurbished to a nice white, but monitor is aged/yellowed) 100$
-Amiga software packages (Comic Setter, Professional Draw, TV Text) 30$
-Atari 520 STFM (Desert Camouflage custom painted, 360kb internal drive, 1/2 mb ram, no mouse) 45$
-TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (16kb ram) 35$
-TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (64kb ram) 35$
-Timex 1000 with manual in its original box (has a problem at display - probably a bad capacitor or a loose connection) 30$.
Pickup only in Ditmars/Astoria.
If anyone has the user manual for the Epox EP-9NPA+SLI motherboard,
could you do me a small favor and email it to me? Searching around with
Google is of no help, and the Epox websites don't seem to have it.
Trying to resusitate my Ubuntu 8.04 box with this MB. The caps on the
old board leaked....
The zip archive of it in archive.org appears to be corrupted...
Thanks in advance...
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"From there to here,
From here to there,
Funny things
are everywhere."
--- Dr. Seuss
Does anybody in the UK have a classic Space Invaders console? I'm
looking for one to borrow for a short while for a TV program.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I recently acquired a Vaxstation 3100 M76, it's missing a few parts.
Does anyone have a couple of drive brackets, 4M simms (x4) and
maybe a GPX or SPX card?
I am willing to pay.
TIA,
Dan Snyder
Thanks to Martin for grabbing 14 DEC terminals from me last week -- very
pleasant to meet someone who is still working with PDPs and real terminals
in the wild!
I've just passed our waste electrical skip at work and noticed that
someone has dumped a PDP-8/e box in there. I'm being imprecise about this
because I've never seen one before. This isn't a big rack, just a single
heavy box fronted by an orange and brown PDP-8/e front panel. I assume
it's the processor itself. If I can chuck this in my car this evening,
would anyone here be able to pick it up from me by the end of this month?
And here's a reminder that I still have a bunch of terminals left; see my
previous email for details. The later DEC ones have gone but there are at
least 20 Wyse WY-420 terminals available, which have (I believe) a
competent VT320 emulation. These are for pickup only from here in Crawley,
West Sussex.
As the subject says ...
I am looking for one of the fasteners that holds on the front panel of a
DEC SA482 rack. It is a Dzus-like head stud, except that it is turned
with a 4mm hex key. Anyone have one or know where I can get one?
alan
>Thanks to Martin for grabbing 14 DEC terminals from me last week -- very
>pleasant to meet someone who is still working with PDPs and real terminals
>in the wild!
>
>I've just passed our waste electrical skip at work and noticed that
>someone has dumped a PDP-8/e box in there. I'm being imprecise about this
>because I've never seen one before. This isn't a big rack, just a single
>heavy box fronted by an orange and brown PDP-8/e front panel. I assume
>it's the processor itself. If I can chuck this in my car this evening,
>would anyone here be able to pick it up from me by the end of this month?
Oh man, I am really interested but I really wish I didn't live in Western Canada ;_;
If I knew someone close to you I would ask them to pick it up for me and then ship it in chunks but even then it would still be expensive.
Hey folks. I'm looking for schematics for the Lear Siegler ADM-5
terminal. I don't see anything related on Bitsavers, which surprises
me. Would anyone have this handy?
Thanks,
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I'm trying to revive an EPROM programmer:
the bottom label says
Omni-Prom Programmer
model OMNI-01
SherTek, Inc.
Memphis, TN USA
but the inner label says
P/N OMNI05, V7.0, R0.0
(C) 1986, SherTek Inc.
It has 28, 40 pin ZIF sockets on top,
internal power supply.
But the only interface is for the PC's parallel port
so I'm unsure what protocol it uses
to read back the results.
I'm missing the floppy with OMNI.EXE
the DOS program that ran it.
The manual only documents the program menu,
not the parallel port protocol.
Any clues?
-- jeffj at panix.com
DEC PDP-8/L Users Handbook (1968).
My father was the original owner and he wrote his name on the front
cover in Magic Marker, and a couple of other scribbles here and
there.Overall good shape. Pages are turning brownish like all old DEC
publications do.
$10 shipped within the US. Overseas pay actual shipping cost.
Please contact me offlist if interested.
thanks
Charles
This is classiccmp-related in that I am repairing an old HP
'Multiprogrammer' (a modular input/output system for HP2100s, HPIB
machines, etc). While dismantling it I had one screw shear off and had to
drill out pop-rivets holding a heatsink to the side casting.
So waht I am looking for is a source of small UNC nuts and bolts in
reasonable quantites. 'Small' means 4-40, 6-32 and 8-32. I would be
looking for countersunk and pan head scewws, nuts, lockwashers, etc.
'Reasonable quantities' would be a bag of 100. These are not at all
common in the UK, we tend to use BA (older machines) or metric (M3/M4
sizes).
Does anyone know a company who can sypply these to the UK? Preferably one
based in the UK (to save on postage charges), but there's no real problem
with shipping a ag of nuts and bolts from anywhere.
-tony
I just picked up one of these old CP/M boxes but, I've been unable to
locate any software for it or documentation. They ran a custom version
of CP/M called OS8MT and came with a few different software packages.
They were made around 1984 I think.
Old-computers.com has a little bit about it if it helps ring any bells.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1078
If anyone knows of a source for any of these disks or docs I would love
to know about it. The system is in excellent shape and the monitor clear
and sharp. Really a shame for it to not be able to do anything but, hold
my doors open.
Thanks
>Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 07:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
>> Anyone know of a decent memory test utility that runs on classic macs (68k
>> based)?
>>
>> I have an old Mac Portable that I'm struggling to get an OS on -- I
>> consistently get "bad F-line instruction" traps when booting from System 7
>> disks (floppies and CD-ROMs), which from what I can tell probably means bad
>> memory. I'd like to find out if it IS memory, and if so, whether it's the
>> onboard 1mb (I hope not) or on the 4mb expansion...
>>
>> My internet searches have come up dry (I've found stuff for OS X, and early
>> PowerMacs, but nothing for the 68k line).
>
>If you can find Snooper, I think it has a RAM test tool in it that will work
>and does not require the Snooper NuBus board to be installed.
RAMometer from (OOB) NewerTech works on older Macs. I know it will
work on 68030 Macs. I'm not sure if it will work on 68000 based
Macs. It might need the PMMU. I think there's a copy in my
webspace: http://www.io.com/~trag
Jeff Walther
Josh,
If you can't boot the OS, you'd be hard-pressed to run a memory test.
As you already suspect, that error strongly suggests a hardware error.
Assuming the memory is not soldered to the motherboard, the first thing
I would do is to re-seat the memory. If that doesn't work, I'd try
removing
some of it, and try different combinations of memory cards to see
if some subset works. Usually memory from that era needs to be
added and removed in pairs, and needs to positioned in the right slots.
--Tim
On Nov 1, 2008, at 5:09 AM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
> Message: 26
> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:24:54 -0400
> From: "Joshua Alexander Dersch" <derschjo at msu.edu>
> Subject: Memory test util for classic macs?
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
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>
> Anyone know of a decent memory test utility that runs on classic
> macs (68k
> based)?
>
> I have an old Mac Portable that I'm struggling to get an OS on -- I
> consistently get "bad F-line instruction" traps when booting from
> System 7
> disks (floppies and CD-ROMs), which from what I can tell probably
> means bad
> memory. I'd like to find out if it IS memory, and if so, whether
> it's the
> onboard 1mb (I hope not) or on the 4mb expansion...
>
> My internet searches have come up dry (I've found stuff for OS X,
> and early
> PowerMacs, but nothing for the 68k line).
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
Geez, the 419 was uncommon, even in it's own time. And then,
most of the ones I saw didn't work. If you don't mind 'wasting'
part of the drive, I would think just about any 6-headed mfm
drive would work.
There's some difference (which I have been unable to quantify)
between different models of MFM drives (of equal or similar
geometry) that allows some drives to work in some applications,
but not others.
If there's anyone out there intimately familiar with the
ST-506/412 interface, now would be a good time to offer
some suggestions as to why this is so.
-- Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch> wrote:
I am in the market for a known working ST419 MFM disk
System software forces me to the 306 Cyl / 6 Heads format (@ 32 256-byte sectors )
Location : Switzerland .
Jos Dreesen
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:30:49 -0500
From: Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for a ST419
I'm new here so I apologize for opening this old can of worms :-)
<snip>
That's the path I've been on. I envision over-sampling and then just
playing and recording what was sent to the drive. I'd make no attempt
to go inside that datastream and try to interpret what was read or
written.
If entire tracks were always written, then it seems rather straightforward
to just store track images and play and record them as they are seeked
to.
<snip>
Ya... so, again I'm new here :-) But I'll go away quitely and think about
this some more-- knowing now that I can't cheat and do tracks at a time.
Chris
-------------Reply:
Oh, I don't know; that's all it'd take to make a few of us Cromemco folks
with failing MFM drives happy...
mike
> From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann at ans-netz.de>
> Subject: Re: Zilog System 8000
> So - none has a S8000... at home? ;)
The MARCH computer museum at New Jersey's Infoage
has a Zilog Z8000 model 21.
http://www.infoage.orghttp://midatlanticretro.org/
Sadly, I scrapped my model 21 and 31 when Linux overtook
Unix as the preferred software developer's platform.
I still have some pieces (SMD hard drive)
but I gave away some of the main boards
to someone claiming to want them for the CPUs.
I'm unsure how to get it running from bare boards
because I suspect the backplane
was not just parallel connectors.
All the slots were specific to the CPU, RAM,
disk controller, serial ports, tape drive, etc.
How I wish I had photos of the Exxon Office Systems office
in New York's Rockefeller center in 1982 when they were selling
the Zilog System 8000 running the Zeus OS as servers
to Z80 systems running Z-net (their proprietory coax network).
Only a few years later at the NJ Trenton Computer Fest,
a fellow was selling a pair from the back of a red pickup truck.
What a fall from grace!
> I'm missing a backplane so I tried at first hooking up power on my CPU
> module and connecting a serial interface to the tty1 (console) pins of
> the bus-connector.... powering on the system makes the cpu getting a bit
> warm but my console is quiet :( I'm not sure if I've to connect some
> other pins as well with +5V or GND. NMI... RESET whatever... so I
> wonder if someone has a S8000 at hand and can measure some things?
I suspect you'll need the front panel
with the reset and interrupt buttons (and a few LEDs)
to invoke the ROM monitor.
Or at least know where they connect.
Yes, I miss having a real ROM monitor
but it was no fun working on an abandoned system by myself.
> From: "Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Zilog System 8000
> I have a card set and backplane saved from a machine that went to
> scrap, nothing else. It is lost in my container.
I saved the hard drive since I was hoping to use it on another system,
failing to predict the amazing velocity of new technology
becoming available to everyone.
Anyone know of a decent memory test utility that runs on classic macs (68k
based)?
I have an old Mac Portable that I'm struggling to get an OS on -- I
consistently get "bad F-line instruction" traps when booting from System 7
disks (floppies and CD-ROMs), which from what I can tell probably means bad
memory. I'd like to find out if it IS memory, and if so, whether it's the
onboard 1mb (I hope not) or on the 4mb expansion...
My internet searches have come up dry (I've found stuff for OS X, and early
PowerMacs, but nothing for the 68k line).
Thanks,
Josh
Yah, I done that. The key is to find an MFM drive that has the
same or greater Cylnder/Head geometry: It has to have at least
the same number of cylnders, and at least the same number of
heads.
Keep in mind, though, that geometry alone does *NOT* guarantee
that this will work!! The 9133 seems to be allergic to some
MFM drives-- I could get most Seagate drives to work, for example,
but not NEC's. My fave at the time was the Quantum Q540. I
'wasted' over half the drive, but I had alot of them at the time!
When you format such a drive, you will not have a capacity
greater than the original.[1]
[1] Not quite true for the older 9133 V/X/XV drives. If you have
a 'V' for example, you can replace it with a bigger drive, adjust
the jumpers inside, and format for 10 or 15MB.
-- Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch> wrote:
Closely related to the previous post : I actually have an ST419, but is in use inside a HP9133D.
Looking back to old classiccmp articles indicate that it is not easy to replace the ST419 by other MFM drives of different geometries.
Has this changed ? i.e can somebody report a success in replacing the internal drive of an HP9133 ?
Jos
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