C Fernandez wrote:
I've been wondering the same thing. My guess is that what I would
normally call "wire cutters", just wont work for some of the picky types
on the list ..... like Tony and Toth :-)
Chad
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I have to disagree. There are many instances where you want the component
flush. For example, an RF can - don't want the leg to touch. Same for a
daughter board. Or a PCB that fits into a tight case. And so on.
Flush cutters are an extremely useful tool and you want one that give a
clean sharp cut with damaging the surface of the PCB. It's the same
principle as using a saw with no tooth offset to trim a dowel pin - cut but
don't damage.
Billy
The drive in my Tandy Model 6000 has +5, +12 and +24 connected to it (pins 5, 4, and 1). The schematic in the service manual I have shows 4 as NC and a 7812 providing the 12v from the 24v line. The specs for the drive in the service manual do not mention +12 on pin 4 at all. The scematic at bitsavers isn't a lot of help.
I don't have the drive here in front of me. Does anyone have one where they can verify the connections from the AMP power connector to see if pin 4 actually goes anywhere on theirs?
interested in 1 as long as theyre not on the west
coast.
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<overfie at attglobal.net> wrote:
> Arthur Gardner
> Gardner Business
> I just read your message of July 21 to Jim Kearney
looking to purchase an
> IBM Displaywriter.
> I am the owner of two IBM Displaywriters w/a shared
printer and desire to
> find a home for them.
> Are you still interested or know of anyone who has
an interest?
> Ralph Overfield
> roverfield at pacbell.net
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I just read your message of July 21 to Jim Kearney looking to purchase an
IBM Displaywriter.
I am the owner of two IBM Displaywriters w/a shared printer and desire to
find a home for them.
Are you still interested or know of anyone who has an interest?
Ralph Overfield
roverfield at pacbell.net
Hi,
My wife would be eternally grateful if you could email a copy of the above. She loves this calculator, but can't find the manual for it anywhere in the house!
Regards,
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:20:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
> Subject: Re: eBay idiocy
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <200701211822.NAA13073 at Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> >> Well, as long as we're being petty, I tuned out your
> incessant (and
> >> often off-topic) jabbering long before I unsubscribed.
> > Is this view wildly held?
Let's just say that you've mellowed quite a bit since the 90s.
> Richard said:
> The stuff I'm remembering is from the 1990-1995 period, so it would be
> "apopros" vis-a-vis the 10 year rule, which isn't a rule, really more
> a rule of thumb or a guideline, well not really a guideline, more like
> a hint, well not really a hint, but whatever Jay says it is...
The "really off-topic" stuff I'm talking about are the current cards-
those Suns are outside of my budget. Creator was mid to late '90s and
was the first Sun 24-bit midrange option (I don't think there were any
8-bit UPA graphics options).
GP2 was, I think (don't have one) a single 9-U VME board that attached
to the CG9 via a private bus on the P2 or P3.
CG13 looks to be unaccelerated based on anecdotal evidence.
Does anyone know if the S24 (SS5 AFX framebuffer) was accelerated?
This doesn't cover 3rd party products, either
Well, since the MSX subject seems to be fine here, anyone up to a
brazilian MSX showing using webcast on weekend? Maybe I can organize a "MSX
SHOW", showing the brazilian computers and some brazilian hardware.
Greetz
Alexandre
sure dude
--- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
<alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
>
> Well, since the MSX subject seems to be fine
here, anyone up to a
> brazilian MSX showing using webcast on weekend?
Maybe I can organize a "MSX
> SHOW", showing the brazilian computers and some
brazilian hardware.
>
> Greetz
> Alexandre
>
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So I get this pair of free SS20s today at the weekly geek lunch at the
Chinese restaurant down the street - one nice, clean one, and one
that, um... well... was corroded inside due to an unfortunate meeting
with a dog, I'm told. I stripped down the soiled unit before I even
got home to recover a (clean) 1"-tall Toshiba SCSI CD-ROM, two (clean)
SM50 processor modules, and a mixed pile of DIMMs with some corrosion
on the fingers. The motherboard was a total loss, as was the chassis.
I have washed and brushed the SIMMs, a mix of 8MB and 32MB - not sure
about a couple of them, but most seem to be visually intact. I was
planning on an alkalai wash before testing them.
The other box being clean made it a good candidate to boot up... it
had a single SM50 (now two), 48MB of RAM, a TGX framebuffer, and an
internal SCSI drive of a type I'd never seen before. I had to google
it - an ST5660NC. I was surprised to confirm that even though it was
an SCA-connector drive, it was a whopping 545MB, and *narrow* (thus
the "NC"). I didn't know anyone made a) SCA drives below 1GB, and b)
narrow SCSI SCA drives. I think the drive bracket is probably one of
the most expensive things in the box, really.
I think there was some recent list traffic about using an SS20 as,
essentially, an X terminal with that optional internal frame buffer,
but since I don't have one, I'm thinking "headless server". Not as
powerful as the cheapest of "haul-it-away" commodity boxes, but
substantially more robust. At least I'd expect this box to stay up
for 6 months at a time.
At least it runs Solaris 9.
-ethan
Several Qualstar 1054s that I have used an OEM bridge
board from NCR. Later drives used a Qualstar design.
Does anyone have the manual for the NCR board? No obvious
part number on them..
>
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:12:03 -0700
> From: Richard <legalize at xmission.com>
> Subject: Re: Strange things found in a free SPARC 20
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <E1H92iB-0006EE-00 at xmission.xmission.com>
>
>
> In article <45B4DDBC.5080303 at gmail.com>,
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [...] Did Sun ever make an
>> accelerated 24-bit card?
>
> Yes, they made a bunch of different 3D accelerators during the 90s
> (and most likely beyond, but I haven't been attending SIGGRAPH often
> enough to say for sure). Ironically, they didn't start making good 3D
> accelerators until they hired ex-Evans & Sutherland engineers. I can
> concur that working at E&S was good training in 3D! They really knew
> their engineering, its such a shame that marketing and management were
> utter failures.
> --
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> download
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>
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There was, I believe, something that could be paired with a CG9 in the
Sun-3/early Sun-4 days. Ah yes, here it is: the GP2 graphics processor.
VME based, with Weitek engines.
Then there was the Leo/ZX option for SBUS.
Can't tell you anything about performance of either of these two.
With the introduction of the UPA bus things got better: Sun introduced
Creator/Creator3d and Elite3d. Of course, none of these graphics could
touch what SGI was putting out, but it was a valiant attempt. Creator3d
used the SPARC for geometry but had onboard Z-buffer calculations,
Elite3d had a full graphics pipeline but not much texture cache.
Can't say anything about the really off-topic stuff for the current
machines.
MSX machines were mainly home machines, no? I doubt
too many homies were buying 286s in 85-6. And is
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In the summer of 1961, I worked on a computer made by CCC (California
Computer Co. ?) It used a magneto-resistive delay line for main memory.
The model number was SPEC, which stood for Special Purpose Educational
Computer. It was aimed at computer training in the military (I was in the
Army at the time). It was a small sub-desk size computer, certainly not a
mini. Only had 128 words of meory.
I thought my memory was betraying me until I recently found a brochure that
has a poor picture of it. And I found one of my coding sheets from the
class. But that's all.
Does any one on the list have anything else? Would love to see more
pictures or a schematic. How about a manual?
Or even more basic - has anyone else even heard of it?
Billy
William Maddox wrote:
3C must have made several kinds of trainers. I have
a brochure for a large trainer with an oversized
front panel, as if it were deliberately enlarged to
allow a lecturer to present it to a classroom.
Unfortunately, it is only a brochure -- no manual
or schematics. I can scan it and send you a copy,
though.
--Bill
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I'd love to have a scan of it. Even if it is a different model, it helps
bring back memories. after years of looking, I was beginning to doubt my
memories.
Billy
> Hi Robo,
>
> I saw an old email from you, do you still have any of the VLS96 emulators for sale? I want to
> start learning about this chip.
Could we change the list such that the replies to emails older than a year
don't get reposted to the list?
Clearly people don't realize that they are not replying to an individual when
they come upon some ancient message (ex. the recent posting directed to Don Maslin).
One of them is a Quantum Q280 and a couple of the other drives are
also made by Quantum.
These are drives that were accompanying the Eves but not attached
internally.
Doesn't that imply that these Eves have been upgraded to a SCSI bus
>from what the Lilith had?
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Unit is free. I am happy to put it in the post providing I get
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>Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:05:55 -0600
>From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Re: OT Crimp tools & Cutter Re: DEC MMJ
>Sridhar wrote...
>> It's just a finer instrument. It does the same job.
>>
>> If you want to trim a lead flush to a surface, it's very difficult to do
>> with a pair of scissors.
>Ahhh this makes sense. Example... trimming the excess from an IDC type
>connector. This flush cutter would get right next to the wall of the
>connector as my scissors won't. Gotcha.
>Jay
-------------------
A sharp utility knife has always done that for me.
m
I just got in some LD-V1000 laserdisk players that are basically NOS units. The
LD-V1000 was used for a number of laserdisk games including Cinamatronics Space
Ace. They were powered up quite a few years ago and there is a sticker on each
one with the measured laser output (76 mW for the one in front of me.) While the
units themselves are pretty much prisitine, the boxes are in probably very good
condition and show signs of mice/rats having visited. $125.00 plus $10.00
packing and shipping from zipcode 93105. They will be shipped in another box 30"
x 24" x 12".
Each one will be tested to make sure it will play okay, and will be shipped with
the lens cap and a shipping screw of some sort (these had the shipping screw
removed, and I'm not sure yet exactly what they look like.) No paperwork except
the registration card on the outside of the box.
I suppose I'll be sorry for this, but I want to mention that one of the
hardest to find early 6502 systems just showed up on eBay: the PAiA 8700.
But it wasn't on the vintage list; it was on the music instrument category.
Most of these were built into keyboards. I've been looking for one of these
for 5 years and only seen 3 of tem on eBay. Always get outbid. Had to stop
bidding on this one at $93..
Anyway, if anyone else wants one for their collection, take a look at this:
110079964730
You can see the keyboard and the display in one picture. The description
gives it away.
So if you are looking for these, do a search pointed to midi keyboards or
PAiA.
Billy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexandre Souza" <>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Is MSX on topic?
>> which do you own? Are they easy (whatever that means)
>> to find?
>
> Almost all of them. Experts are very easy to spot here in pawn shops
> and "ferros velhos" (place where you sell scrap metal). Hotbits are more
> scarce but no one likes it, it is too easy to break, the internal PCBs are
> too fragile and almost all MSX hobbist likes to open his puter to mess
> around.
>
> Take a look at http://www.tabajara-labs.com.br and
> http://www.msxpro.com (both in portuguese but you can at least take a look
> at the figures, or use babelfish). There are many interesting photos of
> MSX.
>
> About my "collection", I have:
> - Some expert 1.0
> - Some expert 1.1
> - one Expert Plus
> - One expert DDPlus with pc power supply, floppy drive/controller,
> megaRAM, SCC chip, 2+ kit, 256K memory mapper and lots of small mods
> - Some hotbit (white model, 1.0/1.1)
> - NO black hotbits :(
> - Panasonic A1-WSX (2+, great puter)
> - Philips VG8235 (2.0)
>
> And lots of other brazilian puters non-related to MSX
which do you own? Are they easy (whatever that means)
to find?
--- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
<alexandre-listas at e-secure.com.br> wrote:
> > there was at least one Brazilian made unit, with a
> > detachable keyboard. Ive heard a rumor to the
effect
> > that they were somewhat common in Mexico. Anyone?
>
> In Brazil there were:
> - Expert 1.0 (detachable kbd)
> - Expert 1.1 (same, different ROM)
> - Expert Plus (same, but black, different
innards
> - Expert DDPlus (same as plus, but with internal
floppy drive)
> - Hotbit 1.0 (white and gray)
> - Hotbit 1.1 (same, different ROM)
> - Hotbit "1.2" (black, but everything the same
as 1.0)
>
> They are somewhat common in argentina, but I
don't know about mexico.
> Ask me if you want to know something else
>
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