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.
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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.JPGhttp://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! :-)
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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"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
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?
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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.
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Saw this in Craigslist:
http://fayetteville.craigslist.org/sys/541401232.html
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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!
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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).
> 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
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
> 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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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> 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
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.
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.
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
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i need some comfort just like you
beating like a bass drum time goes by
i want the last dance just like you
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> 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
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
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
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...
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> 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.)
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