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by sbolton＠bfree.on.ca

All this talk about the floppy drives for the Yamaha made me wonder--has anyone out there plugged anything other than an official MU-01 mouse or joystick into this device? I see the pinouts online but haven't checked to see if it's compatible with a standard Atari type joystick. Anybody had any luck or even attempt this? We have one of these at the Personal Computer Museum (www.pcmuseum.ca) but we do not have the drives or a mouse. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.4/1275 - Release Date: 2/12/2008 3:20 PM

18 years, 2 months

tape drives

by rtellason＠verizon.net

I've been contacted by a guy who has some stuff to get rid of, he'd rather see it put to good use than end up in a landfill. Of the gear he's mentioned, a couple of things might be of interest to the folks here. I've put two pics online: http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/HP%20tape%20transport_2.JPG http://mysite.verizon.net/rtellason/six%20ft%20rack%205.jpg (I hope I got these right, if they don't work please let me know!) The equipment is located in northern Wisconsin. There's more to come, and I'll be hearing about it in email sometime soon, but I'm not hurrying him as he said something about it being -22F there the morning he sent me the first set of pics. Yikes! :-) -- 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

18 years, 2 months

MSX stuff, the Yeno, etc.

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

Are MSX computes standard w/regards to their floppy interface? Are they interchangeable I guess is what I'm asking. There are more Yenos in Australia, from the same guy who sold me mine. Just do a search, you'll find them. He gives you a BASIC cartridge, and 2 *blanks* (ram carts, I don't know what else they could be, (4) 4116-15s, (2)74LS157s or -257 (man my memory), and a 74LS32). I haven't had the opportunity to fire one up, so I don't know what kind of rom is onboard, but there's got to be something. Maybe these ram carts are meant to be used with a disk subsystem. Otherwise it doesn't make much sense. I'm looking around for info... Nope, said to be inoperable w/o a cartridge. So what good do ram carts do ya? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

18 years, 2 months

WTB External 8inch floppy

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Does anyone have an external (boxed) 8 inch floppy drive for sale. I'd prefer DSDD but wont get too choosy. This can be US or Europe. Pretty much anything considered. Please contact off list. Thanks Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

18 years, 2 months

Victor 9000 (Sirius 1) Computer Collection - $40 - in Fayetteville, NC

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Saw this in Craigslist: http://fayetteville.craigslist.org/sys/541401232.html ------------- Date: 2008-01-16, 5:13PM EST (two weeks ago...) 2 Victor 9000 machines, one in pieces but complete, one has hard drive and touch screen (super rare), other is dual floppy. This is the same computer that was marketed in europe as the Sirius 1. I have a ton of books and software for them. MUST GO SOON! --------------------------------- Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.

18 years, 2 months

MFM drive rescue

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

If it's one of the Tantalum-type "blasting caps" then there isn't much of an issue, provided that the board isn't damaged. It's probably a bypass cap, so the drive might even run without it, and there is quite a range of things that will work just fine. Pull one that's close (and meets the voltage ratings) off of one of your scrap boards (don't worry, Tony - nothing too nice in mine, mostly PC stuff).

18 years, 2 months

Syquest/Iomega removable cartridge drive interfaces

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:59:28 -0500 > From: "Roy J. Tellason" > Unreliable? Hmm. Very. I had a couple and tossed the drives, but kept the drive boxes- with-PSU. As someone has mentioned, the drive had an odd form factor, but the boxes could hold a 3.5" drive if you didn't mind a few gaps. OTOH, the Bernoulli boxes were very reliable. I fired up a dual 90MB unit here the other day--worked just fine. Heavy bugger, though. Cheers, Chuck

18 years, 2 months

error with tapecopy writing, buffer to small ???

by g-wright＠att.net

I have been playing with Eric Smith "TapeCopy" and some cartridge tapes.After reading them, when I try to write them, I get an error message that the tape image is too long for the for the 32768 byte buffer . I'm running it on a linux machine ver is RedHat 7.2. Not to sure why ??? tapes where DC600 (60 Meg). - jerry Jerry Wright JLC inc g-wright at att.net

18 years, 2 months

The "who lives where" map...

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

> Location is close enough for this purpose. > My question is, who is blstuart (Brian Stuart) and why is his pin blue ? > > I want a Big Blue pin to mark the home of IBMcollectables.com :-) That's me. It went blue when I went into the profile editing and marked my gender as male. It's not an indication that I'm a collector of classic IBM gear. Of course, I would be if I had the space and some good pieces came my way... BLS

18 years, 2 months

The "who lives where" map...

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

From: "John Floren" <slawmaster at gmail.com> > > On Feb 12, 2008 9:01 AM, Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote: > > John Floren wrote: > > > > Seems to be broken in Firefox - the 'move this pin' doesn't work, and putting > > my zip code in gives me an "Are you in...?" question but with no yes/no > > buttons to click on :-) > > Don't know what version you're using, but my Firefox (2.0.0.10) is > working just fine. I even tested "Move this pin" and had no problems. Don't know if this is anyone else's problem, but the first time I tried, I tried to drag the pin, and that didn't work. But if I clicked where I wanted it, then it jumped there. BLS

18 years, 2 months

Plans for Simon Relay Computer (was: Re: Does Anyone Have A)

by Johan.Iversen＠uk.fujitsu.com

Hi Bill, I don know if you can help me, I have been scanning the web for info about simon the relay computer and you came up in a forum, link shown below http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-April/064845.html <http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-April/064845.html> and I was wondering did you find the CD and if so would it be possible to have a copy ? regards johan

18 years, 2 months

Antique HP N3390 memory size?

by onymouse＠garlic.com

Have a HP N3390 laptop, 8 years old. An antique... I was told by HP that the maximum physical RAM it could use is 128Mb. I have 256Mb now. Need more. Anyone happen to know the real max physical RAM capacity? Want 1Gb+++ if possible. Thanks. == jd

18 years, 2 months

Syquest/Iomega removable cartridge drive interfaces of early 80's

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

C Sullivan writes: > Tim Shoppa wrote: >> I seem to recall a S-100 product I once owned called "XOR/IOMega". >> Don't >> know if it's the same thing. > Interesting Google hit along those lines: http://www.nelsonit.net/~jon/info-cpm/1986/04/10/171835.html > Quote: >>I hope someone can help me. Does anyone have an S-100 bus CP/M computer >>manufactured by XOR with IOMega 10 meg cartridge drives. In my head I cannot always keep clear the distinction between the early 80's IOMega and the early 80's Syquest removable cartridge drives. Am I correct in remembering that the Syquests of that time used the 34/20 pin MFM-hard-drive "ST506" interface? Were all the early 80's IOmega's SCSI or did they use something before that? Syquests were always 5.25" or smaller form factors, is that right? Any 8" things I'm remembering are probably Bernoulli Box carts? Tim.

18 years, 2 months

80C32 emulation?

by gordonjcp＠gjcp.net

Offtopic-ish, but does anyone know of a good 80C32 emulator for Linux? There seem to be a lot of closed-source ones for Windows, but since there's no apparent way to add specific emulated devices to them I can't see how useful they'd be for what I'm doing. Gordon

18 years, 2 months

MFM drive rescue

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

I have a Newbury NDR 1105 drive I'm keen to rescue. On its last use the drive spun up normally but after a few minutes there was an impresive flash and smoke. On inspection the only thing that seems to have burned out is a surface mount capacitor - although quite a large one (10u). The contents of the disk are quite valuable in that they hold a late copy of the 'colour card' edition of 42nix, a Whitechapel Workstation OS. I'd like to archive that if possible. Any tips for rescue? I've managed to remove the burnt out capacitor and can replace it. There appears to be no other damage on the board apart from some scorching to the PCB. Thanks Ian. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping

18 years, 2 months

my old machines in France (Intertechnique Multi 4

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:38:09 -0800 > From: jim s > Both the Multi 8 and the Multi 6 Alain found were licensed designs of > Microdata systems. The Multi 4 that he has excellent photos of is a 1600, > which is documented on bitsavers.org under Microdata and 1600. > > I believe, but do not have proof yet of that the Multi 8 was an 800. I am > researching that thru some of the original Microdata people who were there > when the deals were done. Going back to Alain's web page, I see that now--thanks for pointing it out. Do you know if the Multi 4 is a "strict" implementation of the 1600? That is, does is contain any unique "enhancements" over the 1600? I recall an associate who had worked with the Microdata Reality systems in the insurance industry who was very fond of them. Cheers, Chuck

18 years, 2 months

S100 SCSI board?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

David writes: > I found an S100 board in a file folder labeled "IOMEGA SCSI HOST". The > board itself says "I OMEGA HOST ADAPTER" and a part number "AMSEC > 670-1185". Does anyone here know if this really might be an S100 SCSI > board and if the IOMEGA we all know had anything to do with it? The Iomega Bernoulli Box was very early 80's. And Iomega had been around doing some S-100 and other mini-compatible stuff for a couple of years before the Bernoulli Box. Some of their early products were like SyQuest's early 80's cartridge drive offerings... but as far as I know not exactly compatible. I seem to recall a S-100 product I once owned called "XOR/IOMega". Don't know if it's the same thing. Remember when a Mega of anything was a lot? Talking about other companies that are still around... every time I drive by EMC's local office complex I think about the PDP-11 and Nova EMC memory boards I have. It's amazing, 30 years later and the logo is just the same, although the company itself seems to have completely forgotten anything before the mid-90's. Tim.

18 years, 2 months

DEC 1994 MDS (was Re: Dec Documents)

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Jason T wrote: >> http://www.carnagevisors.net/dec94mds/ so hopefully if anyone needs these >> you can browse. >Well, that's huge. Thanks! Who did the original translations to .txt format? The DEC 1994 MDS CD-ROM contained postscript and text documents. It was perhaps the most complete classiccmp-wise of all the DEC MDS issues. I converted the postscript to PDF many years ago (pretty much just ghostscript's ps2pdf) and made the index you see today. The text documents are pretty much as they were straight on the CD-ROM. Tim.

18 years, 2 months

Dec Documents

by cvisors＠gmail.com

Hi, Many years ago I put up my mirror of a load of dec documents on http://www.openvms-rocks.com/~cvisors/ but this has been slow or down of late, but i have now put them back on my own site http://www.carnagevisors.net/dec94mds/ so hopefully if anyone needs these you can browse. If you want a copy of all of them (a 300+meg tar.gz file) just yell and I will torrent the file. As always Ivy Jane Gardiner -- kisses on the dancefloor in my past i need some comfort just like you beating like a bass drum time goes by i want the last dance just like you Covenant - Bullet

18 years, 2 months

my old machines in France

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:33:13 +0100 > From: "nierveze" Very nice find, Alain! Do you have any information about the instruction set for this machine? Cheers, Chuck

18 years, 2 months

added some more cool pics online in the gallery with SEL computers from the 60's and 70's

by ragooman＠comcast.net

I added some more cool pics from the 60's and 70's with SEL computers in the gallery Polaris Missile Data Acquisition system, 1963 Vandenberg AFB Space and Missile Center, 1978, (declassified photos only) Flight Simulator, 1967, SEL 816A Computer Graphics system http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/computers_mini_gallery.html Feel free to take a look =Dan

18 years, 2 months

S100 SCSI board?

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I found an S100 board in a file folder labeled "IOMEGA SCSI HOST". The board itself says "I OMEGA HOST ADAPTER" and a part number "AMSEC 670-1185". Does anyone here know if this really might be an S100 SCSI board and if the IOMEGA we all know had anything to do with it? It is for sale, in case anyone's interested. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

18 years, 2 months

can anyone recommend a good DOS based jpeg viewer

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

preferably one where you can opt for a window into a large image, one that's bigger then the screen. I've tried a few and they're all goofy. If I have to write my own someone is going to pay... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

18 years, 2 months

How compatible were "MS-DOS Compatible" machines?

by cclist＠sydex.com

> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:13:55 +0800 > From: "Mike Shields" > One of those cheezy sales videos: (yo! ms raps) > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEvPZUdAVI Thanks for the video--I acually managed to watch the whole thing without falling asleep. I note from the comments on the video that some think that this was a commercial, but it's just one of the many cheezy sales promos of the time. At least it was halfway entertaining and not dull, dull, dull like so many others. Cheers, Chuck (BTW, I use the term "cheezy" with a "z", as using an "s" would imply a relationship to an edible and quite delicious food product.)

18 years, 2 months

IMSAI toggle-in program

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Can someone point me towards a listing for some programs that I can toggle into an IMSAI 8080? I have a couple to sell and would like to be able to state that I've run something on them. I've heard repeated references to a "catch the dot" program, but google isn't being very helpful. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

18 years, 2 months

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