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by austinpass＠gmail.com

On 2/11/07 22:50, "Gordon JC Pearce" <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote: > Hey folks, > I've bought a sampler off eBay - Casio FZ-10m, contains an 8086, is > user-programmable (Casio released the SDK, apparently) and is way more > than 10 years old, so fairly on-topic I'd say. I need to get it shipped > from Huddersfield up to Glasgow. Is there anyone within striking > distance that could be persuaded to pick it up from the seller, package > it and send it up? I'll pay for all the costs and throw in a few beer > vouchers too. > > Gordon More than happy to assist. I'm around 10 miles from Huddersfield (Saddleworth). I'll be back in the UK and available to collect / package / post from Monday onwards. Regards, Austin.

18 years, 6 months

Classiccmpers around Yorkshire?

by gordonjcp＠gjcp.net

Hey folks, I've bought a sampler off eBay - Casio FZ-10m, contains an 8086, is user-programmable (Casio released the SDK, apparently) and is way more than 10 years old, so fairly on-topic I'd say. I need to get it shipped >from Huddersfield up to Glasgow. Is there anyone within striking distance that could be persuaded to pick it up from the seller, package it and send it up? I'll pay for all the costs and throw in a few beer vouchers too. Gordon

18 years, 6 months

HP/CHM 21xx/1000 software agreement signed!

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> That is extremely cool. What are the plans for where / when / how > this will all be made available? It will probably go out on CD/DVD in stages as things are sorted out. There has been a volunteer going through the tape images as I've been reading them checking the contents and making inventories. I need to check with the people working on 2000 TSB to see what they might have as well. We wrote the license so that a sublicensee can redistribute with the same rights that CHM has, so a CD tree may be possible. I don't think CHM will be able to handle a click-through distribution on the web any time soon. I suspect some subset of the software will be available with SIMH as well.

18 years, 6 months

HP/CHM 21xx/1000 software agreement signed!

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Woah. That is a huge deal! I can't imagine the amount of time & > patience that went into making this agreement. The exciting thing is this is the most comprehensive agreenment we've ever been able to get from a computer manufacturer, and we're hoping we can use it as an example for other systems.

18 years, 6 months

HP/CHM 21xx/1000 software agreement signed!

by evan＠snarc.net

Anna Mancini, the HP corporate archivist, along with the corporate PR department has always been very aware of and friendly to historians and hobbyists. For example they're allowing me to republish the 1979 Gordon Dickson story, "Thank you, Beep" which they commissioned for an issue of the HP Calculator Journal -- the article was never published elsewhere or online. So I am happy, but definitely not surprised, to hear this news about the manuals.

18 years, 6 months

2.8" Floppies [Was: 3.25-inch floppies]

by austin＠ozpass.co.uk

On 2/11/07 09:35, "Gordon JC Pearce" <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote: > That's it exactly. It was the Akai S612 - or more specifically, the Akai > MD280 external disk drive. IIRC the sampler could be bought without the > drive, and either send and receive samples over sysex or from tape. I > *think* it had 48k of memory. > > I passed up the chance to buy one, with the drive and a large library of > disks, for 50 quid in a music shop in Inverness a few years ago. Oh well. > > Gordon Great little piece of kit. The samples were 12-bit (from memory) and there was *the best* interface for trimming samples I've ever encountered - basically two sliders representing 0 - 100% of the sample length. The top represented "start" and the bottom "end". If the "start" slider was further along than the "end" slider it would play the sample in reverse, still obeying the trim length - genius! MIDI compatible too.... I'm ashamed to say I threw mine out a few years ago after the disk unit got crushed (still functional, mind you). The right hand side of the disk unit was just red metal diagonal slots for storing the diskettes - pure 80's chic! -Austin.

18 years, 6 months

New Topic -- Xerox Memorywriter Keyboard Membranes

by dmc_67301＠yahoo.com

I have an old Xerox Memorywriter 630 typewriter. It works great except for the fact that it needs a new set of membranes in the keyboard. I can get a set of the membranes but I have no idea how to install them. Any help out there? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 6 months

modern serial terminal

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:43:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> Subject: modern serial terminal I'm thinking of a device about the size of a couple CD jewel cases that has two serial ports, a ps/2 or usb port, VGA port, power jack, and perhaps a JTAG header concealed within. This device is a regular RS232 serial terminal. Plug in a monitor, keyboard, and something talking rs232 and you're ready to go. Inside there would be a microprocessor, some ram, some flash, and an FPGA to take care of glue logic and talking to the VGA port. The FPGA would be loaded with the digital schematics of a particular terminal and its firmware, for instance, a Wyse 85 or 99GT (my favorites). That would get you most of the usual emulations. How hard would it be to create something like this? How much would it cost? --------------------------- Take an old Laptop, remove the screen and you're in business. Probably wouldn't cost anything, especially if the screen's broken; boot & run >from floppy or USB if the HD's bad. You've even got a built-in keyboard for those times you can't find the main one. (and, if it's still got a parallel port, a parallel ASCII keyboard if you need one), And you could probably listen to your favourite CD while you're working... A little bigger than two jewel cases but a cinch to upgrade... Not to mention one less land-fill item... m

18 years, 6 months

From the Sun haul - SIMMs

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

I got a file box full of 30-pin 9-bit 4 megabyte SIMMs if anyone has need of them. Most are 80nS, going down to 60nS, and even a few 3-chip "why bothers" (curiously with Sun numbering). Many 9-chip Sun 501-1739 parts if you want original Unsorted or semi-sorted chips (same-manufacturer, I went through many bags to come up with enough Toshibas to max out my Personal IRIS 4D/25) are free for shipping. If you want a matched set or guaranteed 70nS (or 60nS) kick in a little more to make it worth my while to sort through the bin. Probably not a high-interest item, but thought I'd pass them on if needed. In Renton, WA.

18 years, 6 months

3.25-inch floppies

by jvdg＠sparcpark.net

Alexandre Souza wrote: >> They were used on some MSX home computers, although I have only ever read >> about them (and seen pictures). I don't think they were commonplace >> outside of Japan and Korea. They were sort of a cross between tape and >> disk media; data was written sequentially in a spiral pattern on the disk. > > MSX with 3.25 disks? Is that the QD drive? No. QD disks are 2.8". Several drives are mentioned here: <http://www.faq.msxnet.org/hardware.html> ,xtG tsooJ

18 years, 6 months

3.25-inch floppies

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Please bear with me one more time... What was that URL to the stuff about the mythic 3.25" floppy disk? (the one that looked like a shrunken 5.25" and loaded onto a tray). -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

18 years, 6 months

IMI drives (was WTB/WTT S-100 Chassis (UK/Europe only))

by dm561＠torfree.net

Re: Looking for IMI drives for a Cromemco: Another solution would be to find an STDC HD controller; then you could use most ST406/512 drives, and they'd also be quite a bit faster (and it would be a lot cheaper to ship ;-). I'm running two 150MB Maxtors and two 20MB IMIs on the same system BTW. I don't believe there are any CDOS drivers for it though, so you'd have to run any CDOS or CP/M programs in Cromix. As an aside, there's also an ESDI/SCSI controller; they're pretty scarce and your card set wouldn't support one AFAIK, but there is at least one person out there putting a 1.2GB disk into his Cromemco (you know who you are); not sure if it's working yet though, looks like the drive may be bad. mike -------------Original Messages: Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:41:24 -0000 From: "Jim Attfield" <james at attfield.co.uk> Subject: RE: WTB/WTT S-100 Chassis (UK/Europe only) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:57:19 -0400 From: M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> Subject: WTB/WTT S-100 Chassis (UK/Europe only) ------------Reply: I have several IMI 20MB (and 5MB) drives, but they're also on the wrong side of the Atlantic (Toronto). Also, I'm not sure at this point how many are still working reliably or how many I can spare (if any). I have scrapped a few though, so if you happen to find an ST-412/506 version (they were used in some PCs) I could probably send you the PCBs to convert it. Why not just build a nice custom case & PS? mike ------------------------------ Hi Mike, glad to see they are still around to be had. Shipping a 20Mb IMI wouldn't be as bad as shipping a Z2D lol Nice tip on the PC drives although I believe I have only ever seen Seagate, Rodime, Micropolis, IBM etc. but I'll look more carefully from now on. Please keep me in mind, though, as soon as I have a chassis of some sort organised I'll want to run up the WDI-II (was a working pull from my old CS1-H, no longer with me, along with the DPU , 16-FDC and 256KZ) and get Cromix back on the go. Jim

18 years, 6 months

VCF Stuff for Sale

by marvin＠west.net

I'll be heading up to VCF tomorrow and will be bringing quite a bit of stuff. A partial list can be found at: http://www.west.net/~marvin/2007vcf.txt Also, for those of you who either live in the area or will be attending VCF, the Livermore swapmeet is Sunday starting at about 6:30AM or so. My intention right now is to go there with a selling spot ... it makes a great place to meet people AND store stuff bought there :) ... and head back to VCF about 10:30AM or so. Livermore is approximately 30 minutes or so from the CHM. If anyone is interested and needs a ride, see me at VCF.

18 years, 6 months

dsdd floppies

by dan＠ekoan.com

David, I picked up about three dozen sealed boxes this weekend, Verbatim Datalife 5.25" DSDD. How many do you need? Regards, Dan www.decodesystems.com At 11:37 PM 10/27/07, you wrote: >Someone here posted about a friend in Canada who has boxes upon boxes of >unopened blank DSDD 5.25" floppies. Who was that? I think I deleted the >relevant emails (or at least grep is failing me). > >-- >David Griffith >dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu > >A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. >Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >A: Top-posting. >Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

18 years, 6 months

Anyone around early for VCF?

by evan＠snarc.net

Hi all ... I arrived here in Mountain View today, up for hanging out tonight who whoever's around and I haven't previously flamed. :) - Evan K. (6465469999)

18 years, 6 months

modern serial terminal

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: modern serial terminal > From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> > Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:23:48 -0700 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >At 3:43 PM -0700 11/1/07, David Griffith wrote: >>I'm thinking of a device about the size of a couple CD jewel cases that >>has two serial ports, a ps/2 or usb port, VGA port, power jack, and >>perhaps a JTAG header concealed within. This device is a regular RS232 >>serial terminal. Plug in a monitor, keyboard, and something talking rs232 >>and you're ready to go. Inside there would be a microprocessor, some ram, >>some flash, and an FPGA to take care of glue logic and talking to the VGA >>port. The FPGA would be loaded with the digital schematics of a >>particular terminal and its firmware, for instance, a Wyse 85 or 99GT (my >>favorites). That would get you most of the usual emulations. >> >>How hard would it be to create something like this? How much would it >>cost? > >Just buy an HP Think Client. Older models show up on eBay for ~$100. >Out of curiousity, does anyone have experience with the HP Thin >Clients? I've been thinking about getting either a VT525 or one of >the HP Thin Clients. Get any dumb laptop with a 386 or higher plug in an external keyboard and load dos, under dos load your favorite terminal emulator. I have a Modular Systems 486/50 with 32Mb ram brick running W98 to do that. It has NIC, Parallel, serial, PS/2 Mouse, PS2 keyboard and S7 VGA in a 3"x5"x12" package and runs off a 12V at 1A wart. It was designed as a thin (diskless) client but a 2.5" 1gb disk mounts nicely. SIIG also made bricks that would do well for that also. Bottom line is there are plenty of small systems with more than enough power to do a VTxxx. If not you can get PC104 with dualcore. But really DEC did VT52 with random logic, Vt100 was 8080, Vt220 was 8051 and VT320 used two 8051s. It doesn't need a lot of CPU to do terminal other than PC display interface and keyboard is high software overhead. So there exists enough hardware out there that is smaller than the keyboard and a 15" LCD already. >BTW, from where I'm sitting the most important thing is how such a >device handles the keyboard, I need the keypad to act right when I'm >in VMS. I have yet to find a PC terminal emulation that gets the keypad near right. Some fail badly on VT52/100 emulation as well. So when the OS want a VTxxx I have a VT100/125/320/340/1200 as needed. Another area where they fail often is the DEC request "what are you" and often most terminal emulators put squiggles on the screen rather than handle the ESC correctly. Allison >Zane >-- >| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | >| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | >| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | >+----------------------------------+----------------------------+ >| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | >| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | >| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

18 years, 6 months

Smalltalk for OS/2

by ploopster＠gmail.com

I'm looking for Digitalk Visual Smalltalk Enterprise for OS/2 including PARTS Workbench. Let me know if any of you have a copy available. Thanks. Peace... Sridhar

18 years, 6 months

airport x-ray machines: can they damage 8" floppies?

by legalize＠xmission.com

I'm going to VCF/nanotech thing by plane and I thought this would be a good way to bring Al some 8" floppies (PLATO system!) to archive/image, but I wondered if the airport x-ray scanner would do anything bad to them? I'd hate to damage them on my way to having them archived... -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>

18 years, 6 months

Tandy! Pocket! Mania!

by spectre＠floodgap.com

Just in time for my VCF exhibit this weekend, I've finished putting up some pictures and commentary on the Tandy Radio Shack Pocket Computer line. The site is split up into PC-1/3/8, PC-2 and PC-4/5/6/7 pages, with catalogue number listings, specifications and links. See them in person this weekend! http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tpm/ -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Proponents of other opinions will be merrily beaten to a bloody pulp. ------

18 years, 6 months

Info about a Mullard Core

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

Hi, > From: "Gavin Melville" <gavin.melville at acclipse.co.nz> > Subject: Info about a Mullard Core > Hi, > > I have had for many years a large core, and while I don't really > want to > part with it, I also see what little pieces of core sell for on > ebay.... > > I was told when given this about 15 years ago that it was from a > Burroughs mainframe which was installed at the Cadburys head office in > New Zealand and that they had paid GBP 20,000 for it in 1960. 20,000 for the core or for the mainframe? How sure are you about it being Burroughs? Wouldn't they be using U.S. components rather than British? I know Cadburys bought an ICT 1300 series machine around 1963/4, and its now in a museum in NZ. It was a 48 bit machine, but I think it had a much smaller store of 1200 or 2000 words and would have cost around 100,000 GBP. I have read there was an option to replace all the 'barn door' core stores with a single store of 4,000 words of 48 bits, though I've never seen one, nor the logic diagrams. I have always wondered whether it used a full binary decode (using 16384 words to provide 4000 words of usable memory) of the 14 bits rather than a BCD decode. The 1300s use lots of Mullard components. Just a small piece of a jigsaw puzzle, maybe not even the right puzzle! Roger Holmes. Owner of the last working ICT 1301. > I have > been unable to find out if this was correct however. Does anyone on > the list know anything about it ? > > pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/8788341 at N05/?saved=1 > > There are 921600 cores in the array, which is made up of 48x48 > cores, 4 > to a layer and 100 layers. > > _________________________________ > > Regards, > Gavin Melville > Senior Engineer > Acclipse Electronic Ltd >

18 years, 6 months

SHARC stuff

by steve＠radiorobots.com

Hi, Looking for product lit for "Virtuoso Classico" by Eonic Systems. It was a dev environment for SHARC circa 1995. Thanks, Steve

18 years, 6 months

Better ESDI Controller? DTC 6280 or DTC 6282

by cclist＠sydex.com

I'm setting up an old system with a 380MB Maxtor (Miniscribe) ESDI drive and I have two ESDI controllers. One is a DTC 6280, the other, a DTC 6282. Which one is the preferable one? The 6280 is about a 2/3 length ISA card and the 6282 is about 1/2 length. Date codes are about a year apart (90 vs. 91) with the 6280 being the older one. For the life of me, I just can't remember which one I liked better. I do recall that it's possible to hang 4 floppies on the same cable off of either and that the FDC part handles FM very nicely. Thanks, Chuck

18 years, 6 months

Laser 512XT

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

I have a Laser 512XT I picked up at TCF a couple of years ago... The guy didn't have a power supply for it, and had jury rigged something with an XT Supply. Does anyone have or know where I can get a power supply for this venerable beast? I used one when I worked for Program STEPPE porting the Apple II version of FACTS+ over to the PC, and it would be fun to boot one up again and play. Thanks!!! Al Phila, PA

18 years, 6 months

An old dream come true: Iris Indigo!

by aijones2＠bsu.edu

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> Subject: Re: An old dream come true: Iris Indigo! > Irix 5.4 is IIRC the last version running on the Indigo. ... If memory > serves me correctly, there was also a Plan9 port at some time, but I > won't bet on it to still work The Plan9 open source release omits the SGI IP22 stuff, sadly. From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com> Subject: Re: An old dream come true: Iris Indigo! > The Crimson and Octane are much later in the product line than the > Indigo. The Indigo is after the Personal Iris but before the Indigo^2 > or Indy. The Crimson, technologically speaking, is contemporary to the R3k Indigo. The Crimson used the same (slow) bus as 80s SGIs, but had their top-end CPU in it. It was an upgrade path for existing SGI customers. If I recall correctly, the only way to get an R4k CPU with the old IRIS GL graphics boardsets. (VGX and friends.) While the first-generation (R3k) Indigo was similar to the old PI systems, the second-generation (R4k) Indigo guts were extraordinarily similar to the Indy. Nothing in them is common to the R3k Indigo. I expect they only used the old non-PS/2 keyboards to avoid confusion.

18 years, 6 months

More stuff from the Sun rescue

by compoobah＠valleyimplants.com

Turns out to be mostly Sun, but a bunch of other stuff as well. Much test equipment (list to follow when I decide what I want to keep), and assorted VME Sun boards (Sun-3 and Sun-4). There's also many boards for a (can't remember the name, it starts with "T" and is the ultra-high-reliability system that runs 2 or 4 processors in parallel. Think it's PA-RISC, but can't recall for sure). I don't have them, but can pick them up tomorrow if anyones interested.

18 years, 6 months

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