A friend is looking for 6 computer racks. He is looking for
ones with "high ventilation (mesh doors, etc) and locking is a
requirement".
Anyone got anything like this in the MA/RI/NH area (or possibly
local enough that can ship (at an affordable rate) via freight) ?
If you don't have 6 then let me know what you have, and I'll
pass it along with your contact info.
-- Curt
Hi, All,
I'm sure many of us remember the "computer photo" craze of the late
1970s - go to a mall, get your photo taken by a computer, then buy
one of a number of trinkets (calendars, coffee mugs, etc.) with your
photo rendered by dot matrix... an old family friend even had one
of those rigs - driven by an Ohio Scientific Challenger III (a machine
I've long lusted after).
There must be a way to simulate that look today - some sort of GIMP
filter or web app or something. I've been googling around for
"ASCII art" and "dot matrix photo", etc., and have found some interesting
stuff (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/27/ascii-art-1939/) but
not what I'm looking for.
Ultimately, I just want to take a snapshot of me and filter it to
resemble that 1970s "computer photo" look. Any suggestions where to
turn? Discussions of how it was done and how it could be done with
vintage hardware now are interesting and probably on-topic, but not
the goal of my question.
Thanks,
-ethan
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>
>Subject: AmproLB+ SCSI...
> From: Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Allison wrote:
>
>>
>> Jeff..
>>
>> I have a AmproLB+ and a SB180 both in use. Both have hard drives on them via
>> SCSI adapters.
>>
>I apologize for hijacking the thread. :)
>
>I've got an Ampro Littleboard with a SCSI interface on it (it uses the NCR
>chip) and I was wondering what drive you're using with yours? I've been
>unable to get mine to see any drives at all. Is there another board that
>plugs into the 50 pin header required to make it work?
No other board. Your suffering from PCism, you expect it to work like
a PC and it will not.
I'm using a 45MB fujitsu 3.5" scsi drive That was given to me and a
modified version of the ampro scsi bios. The base SCSI software
supports a limited number of drives and SCSI to MFM bridges that were
available in the mid to late 80s. Those would be the Xebec and Adaptec
and one seagate drive all in the 10-30mb size range.
Add to that at the time the AmproLB+ software was written SCSI nee SASI
was still somewhat developmental.
Yes, I had to take the Ampro sources and rework them a bit for that drive
and debug them. The basic code is online in one of the repository sites
and it's well done so modifying it should be resonable. I'll admit it's
been 17 years since I did it and it's running so I haven't looked at it in
a long while.
Hope that helps.
Allison
>
>tnx!
>
>g.
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>http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
>Message: 12
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:00:44 +0100
>From: "Pete Edwards" <stimpy.u.idiot at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Unusual software carriers. (Was :Vinyl Data- Classic
> Computers )
<snip>
>Does anyone else remember 'Tomorrow's World' in the UK transmitting software
>via a flashing square in the bottom right of the TV picture? There was some
>kind of photocell dongle that attached to the computer. Memory is vague -
>did it plug into the tape input? I can't remember what the target system
>was, possible several via the basic translater mentioned earlier in the
>thread? No idea what the data rate was.
>--
>Pete Edwards
My son had a Timex Ironman watch that you programmed by holding it up to a computer screen that flashed the data to a sensor on the watch. It would not work on an LCD, only a CRT.
Bob
http://www.kempa.com/wp/2004/03/09/vinyl-data/
Excerpt:
One strategy that major record companies have been employing lately to
deter downloading is adding bonus computer content to new CD releases. I
recently discovered that this technique is not unique to CD?s, but had in
fact been practiced in the vinyl era as well. That?s right: there were a
handful of records released in the late 70?s and early 80?s that contained
computer programs as part of the audio. This is totally insane, and totally
great.
Most of these programs were written for the Sinclair Spectrum home
computer series. The Sinclair Spectrum was a relatively cheap home computer
system that used a television set as a monitor and loaded programs from
tapes. It thrived in England in the early 80?s:
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I am working on an HP9836C, in particular the colour monitor part.
The original problem looked to be slight misconvergence, with red
fringes. But I think it wasn't really convergence problems at all. I've
been looking at the video amplifier PCB (the one at the back of the CRT)
which not suprisingly contaisn 3 identical video amplifiers along with a
blanking amplifier and components to pass the correct voltages to the CRT
electrodes.
Anyway, there's a resistor in each of the amplifiers that according to
the colour bands should be 12.4k. In the green channel it's close --
12.7k. In the blue channel it's nearer 17k, and in the red it's
open-circuit. And I think this could be messing up the HF response of the
red amplifer, hence the fringes.
The problem is that if I replace it, I'll have to set what HP call
'colour alignment' and what I grew up calling 'grey scale tracking'. I've
read the offical HP procedure (if you're interested it's pages 134-138 of
the pdf service manual on http://www.hpmuseum.net/), and there are at
least 2 problems
The first is that I don't have a suitable photometer. The second is that
even though it claims I need this photometer for the gain adjustment, the
cutoff adjustments are done to 'barely extiguish the raster' I've worked
on enough monitors to know that that's not precise at all, so I am
wonderign just how accurte the photometer _really_ needs to be.
Has anyone ever done this setup and can offer any tips?
-tony
This isn't my auction, and I don't know the seller. This thing
is totally over the top, however, for lots of screens and buttons.
Looks like the helmsman's station for a starship. It's in
Mineapolis, and, as of this writing, its $9.99 with no bids.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170268552316
Aesthedes computer system vintage - eBay (item 170268552316 end time Oct-09-08 10:38:33 PDT)
All,
Out of the shadows to say, I need to sell/trade/other my Apple ][* gear.
I've detailed some of the Apple ][* items at
http://www.applefritter.com/node/23531
I'm also interested in hearing which items may be more valuable and
worth putting up on ebay (be that as it is).
If you have any interest or comments, contact me off-list.
Thanks,
Scott
us21090 at yahoo.com
-------Original Message:
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:21:56 -0500
From: "Robert J. Stevens" <trebor72 at execpc.com>
Subject: CROMEMCO Systems & ZPU
I have a Cromemco ZPU I need to qualify. I also have a lot of Cromemco
Floppies. If I could get the ZPU Working then I might be able to set
up a Cromemco HD System. There is a lot of source on those floppies. I
posted them for making copies. I just was able to look at all of them using my
Compu-Pro 8-16 system booted up to CP/M 2.2. Is there anyone out there
still running CROMEMCO's. Got a bunch of CDOS Floppies as well [they
are also posted to make copies available]
There is a wealth of Stuff here that should be wasted. Need to get
them copied and saved somewhere. Job is to big for me right now.
Bob in Wisconsin
--------Reply:
Well, I've got several Cromemcos running here, but I'm not sure exactly
what you want; copy disks, check the ZPU, and/or??
mike
--------Original Message:
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:57:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com>
Subject: Looking for some used floppy media
I'm in need of some blank floppies...
I need 8" soft sector disks for my TRS-80 Model II, I'm building an adapter cable to hook an 8" drive to a PC so I can write system disks for it. I've also got a Model 16 that's begging to get revived.
I could also use some more 5 1/4" DSDD disks - I'm beginning to run low. A while back I had rescued a very large box of used disks from a school basement - and it turns out that they must have gotten damp at some point in their past life. Many of them have that "disk fungus", and won't format. I thought I was set for disks, and hadn't sought more out in years.
I am primarily looking for used disks, I know that I used to run across large boxes of used 5 1/4" disks pretty regularly, but that was a few years ago.
Thanks!
-Ian
-----------Reply:
Well, I've got some boxes of each, but I like to get $10+S/dozen for the 8".
I'm sure others on here will have some free or cheaper; just thought I'd mention
it though, JIC.
mike
I revived my Servo-8 Z80 SBC (single board computer)
for the NJ VCF (Vintage Computer Fest).
Is anyone still running any, or have notes/materials?
Anyone still running Z80 Ampro Littleboards?
Circuit Cellar SB-180 ?
-- Jeff Jonas
jeff_jonas at att.net
Hi,
I've got several HP 264x terminals. These terminals expose a card
edge connector off the back of the terminal to which you attach an
RS-232 serial cable.
Before I go to the trouble of making one of these,
I wondered if anyone had one to spare?
Thanks!
--
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<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>
Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>
I checked vt100.net/manx and manuals are listed there but are not
online and I couldn't find anything on bitsavers.
Does anyone have information on this? I just know its an X terminal.
Digging around on the net implies that this is a diskless VAX 3100
model 30. How does it get its X server loaded at boot up?
--
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I have this drive sitting here, and no particular use for it. I'd started
talking about it to a list member some time back, but that never went
anywhere. A label on one side says "DFL413C04A" and "Alps Electric Co.
Ltd.", the drive has no faceplace on the front, and on the rear is a single
keyed edge connector and no separate power connector.
Anybody want to take this off my hands? I have no use for it.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
-
Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I'm in need of some blank floppies...
I need 8" soft sector disks for my TRS-80 Model II, I'm building an adapter cable to hook an 8" drive to a PC so I can write system disks for it. I've also got a Model 16 that's begging to get revived.
I could also use some more 5 1/4" DSDD disks - I'm beginning to run low. A while back I had rescued a very large box of used disks from a school basement - and it turns out that they must have gotten damp at some point in their past life. Many of them have that "disk fungus", and won't format. I thought I was set for disks, and hadn't sought more out in years.
I am primarily looking for used disks, I know that I used to run across large boxes of used 5 1/4" disks pretty regularly, but that was a few years ago.
Thanks!
-Ian
All,
I'm wondering if someone can confirm my diagnosis for a problem with my VAX 4000-300. One day, after it had been running for the better part of a week, I found it unresponsive with only the AC light glowing. I suspected an overheat problem, but the overtemp light wasn't on. Nonetheless, I shut the machine down, left it for a while and came back. It started up again, booted into VMS and seemed fine. I let it run for a half-hour or so, then shut it down normally. That was two days ago.
I just tried to power it up again to do some work, and the power-on tests fail about halfway through (but never in the same spot, so I don't think it's actually a power-on test failure). The machine goes to the same state each time: just the AC lamp glowing. I even have the fans on high (and that's noisy), but no go.
I figure it's time to replace the power supply unit (or refurbish it, but replacements are still relatively cheap). Any other thoughts? Thanks -- Ian
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
>Sent 10/7/2008 11:52:25 AM
>To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only cctech at classiccmp.org
>Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk at classiccmp.org
>Subject: Re: some odds and ends to get rid of
>
>
> Recent devices? The 2500 platform is upwards of fifteen years old.
>
> -Dave
>
Plus, the next task would be finding an IOS for it with DECnet. Back then, Cisco was
raping and pillaging for IOS. Then ya gotta hope the flash+RAM in the 25xx is enough
for an IOS with DECnet, assuming you find someone with a Cisco support contract to
get you an IOS for it.
Tony
At 12:00 -0500 10/7/08, Joe wrote:
>hello all,
>I have an original Mac SE here, which seems to be giving me lots of
>trouble. so far im in a new mobo, CRT (I let the magic gas out of the
>original one, second SE ive done that to!) SCSI and floppy cables, and
>floppy drive. the weirdest thing happens to it, and right now, im
>looking at power supply failure as the next logical guess. my problem
>is, I try to boot up my mac from either internal or external floppy,
>but regardless of which it is, it will read the disk, and on restart
>the floppy disk will be corrupted and will need to be reimaged.
>second, no matter the hard drive I put in it, the mac either will not
>see it, or it will go through, initialize, then at the end a dialog
>box will flash really fast on and off, and the computer I/O will lock
>up while doing this. the other thing that makes me think it is PS
>failure is the fact that one time i hooked the hard drive in to power
>while it was running, and when I did so, the fan speed bogged down
>significantly on spin-up of the drive. is there anyone with pinouts of
>this PS i can use to test it, or any advice as to what failure points
>I should check first? I tried google (they say its our friend...) and
>I get no info as to the voltages of the logic board connector or the
>like. any help is most appreciated!! thanks
On my Plus, I had sporadic problems which ended up being due to the
connector between the analog (including power supply) and digital
boards. I took that loose, scrubbed pins lightly with very fine
sandpaper and isopropanol, sprayed on silicone oil (but I'd recommend
a contact cleaner instead), and re-seated both ends of the cable.
Resistance across the cable (measured from solder joint on the back
side of the analog board to solder joint on the back side of the
digital board) went down from 10's of Ohms to fractions of an Ohm,
and the system turned reliable.
The resistance measurement is a pretty easy one to make, with the
system off. I'd recommend that, at least.
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- Mark 210-379-4635
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inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
I have a Cromemco ZPU I need to qualify. I also have a lot of Cromemco
Floppies. If I could get the ZPU Working then I might be able to set
up a Cromemco HD System. There is a lot of source on those floppies. I
posted them for making copies. I just was able to look at all of them using my
Compu-Pro 8-16 system booted up to CP/M 2.2. Is there anyone out there
still running CROMEMCO's. Got a bunch of CDOS Floppies as well [they
are also posted to make copies available]
There is a wealth of Stuff here that should be wasted. Need to get
them copied and saved somewhere. Job is to big for me right now.
Bob in Wisconsin
As part of my Downsizing efforts I am making available Copies of any of the following to interested parties. I can only handle Money Orders and Certified checks as I don't have a PAYPAL Account
CP/M 2.2 4FDG XEBEC BIOS
63K CP/M 2.2 Diagnostics 4FDC 4 8" Drives
4FDC BIOS 8-16-83
64K System Bios Unk bootable on a 16fdc
48K System boots on a 16FDC ITCCPM2.2
ITC 64K CP/M 2.2 A= 8MB HD B= 2MB HD C&D 8" floppies
ITC 64K CP/M 2.2 A B C = 8"
CP/M 2.2 no source boot fails
4FDC MP/M MASTER
CP/M 2.2 56K 16FDC/WD1
4FDC TUART Routine Cromtvar ,asm, .com
Intelligent Terminals Corporation Replacement disk
CP/M 2.25 for 4FDC 3 SA800 drives 63K
4FDC SA800 A&B sa400 C&D 63K CP/M 2.2
Cromemco Bios CRBIOS.z80
Cromemco System Diagnostics
I also have a ZPU and a 16K static RAM plus a 48K ByteSaver
Bob in Wisconsin
As Part of my Downsizing efforts I am offering the following items to
the BEST OFFER. I Can only handle Money Orders or certified Check as I can't acquire a PAYPAL acct.
I will make copies Available to any Interested Party but will not be selling the Originals at this Time.
CDOS 2.36 Drivers SSSD
CDOS 2.53 64K SSSD
CDOS 2.53 64K SSSD
CDOS 2.53 SSSD
CDOS 5.0 DSDDsystem disk 2 CCPM SSSD
System rebuild disk 1 SSSD
System rebuild disk 2 SSSD
I believe all of these to be for a CROMEMCO System
Some of them were readable on my NEC APC
and some I was able to read on the Compu-Pro 8-16
I just had a bout With Colon Cancer and am Downsizing my Computer Collection.
I have a N*Horizon with a Wooden Cover. I am going to stuff all the N*
Cards I have into it along with a Pair of SA400's and Offer it to the
Highest Bidder "AS IS"
Got a CPU, W/Prom Option[Untested] a MDS-AD3, 2-MDC-A4, MDS-A2, 2-RAM
32A1, 2-16K RAM, 2-HRAM6,
a SIO Rev3, HSIO [4 port serial]
Weighs about 65# not including Packing. Then I have some Manuals and a
box of 5 1/4 Floppies that I will have to send Separately
Make an Offer. I can Only deal with Money Orders or Certified Checks
Don't have a Credit Card so can't get PAYPAL
Bob in Wisconsin
Bout 15 Miles NW of Milwaukee right off Hwy 41-45 in Menomonee Falls
Above E-Mail is good
As part of my Downsizing Efforts I am offering the Following three 8" SSSD Floppies
SCP DISK 1 MS DOS v2.0
SCP DISK 2 MS DOS v2.0
SCP 86 DOS Cromemco Format
I will make copies available to interested parties.
Please contact me off-line to arrange Details
Bob in Wisconsin
I'm trying to get some loose ends tied up, and that involves
duplicating tape cassettes.
I have a TC-WE635 "Stereo Cassette Deck". It says "DC Servo
Controlled Motor" on the doors, so it must be good! : )
It has "Automatic Tape Selection", so I will have to trust that...
It gives me a selection of:
Dolby NR
(OFF) (ON) (ON FILTER) and then a (B) and (C)
Which settings do I want to use?
It has stereo audio outputs on the back, of course, so I will also
record the audio into a computer. However these days I don't want to
put all of my trust into the computer...
Grant