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by dm561＠torfree.net

My recent post re BBM manuals has left me with a bit of a dilemma; I've got several more boxes of various manuals etc. to dispose of and I'm not sure what's the best way. On the one hand, it benefits everyone to have them in Al's hands, who has the means, time and willingness (thanks, Al) to make them available to us all. On the other hand, anyone who actually owns the relevant equipment would probably like to have original documentation. When I put them up on the list, I'm inevitably going to disappoint someone; should I just offer it privately to Al and rely on him, or? Comments? mike

19 years, 6 months

HP 9000s, Canon Cat, felines, etc. was Re: rogues galleries

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

you can do very well copying manuals and such with a mini digital cam, if its allowed. Id loan you mine if interested, no problem. --- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > ---snip--- > > > > > A Cat is a machine I would also like, but I am not > > > going to find one at a > > > price I can afford... > > > > Mine...$20 US. Plus shipping. Hope is not lost... > > > > Hi > I've been having fun hacking my Cat ( Canon ). It was intended > to be only an appliance machine but one can program with it as well. > There is a page on the web that says one can just use the word > "see" to decompile words but he must have had a disk that someone > typed that definition in with. > I've been slowly hacking how to decompile and I've made good > progress. Still, there is so much to dig into. My main reason is > to make a printer driver for my HP 3si. > I was just doing some searches on Jef Raskin and the Cat and found > that the Standford Library has manuals on the Forth in the Cat. > Too bad I can't just photo copy them. I do plan on taking a > day off soon and sit in their viewing room with a lot of note paper. > They also have a lot of information from Jef's records on the Mac > and Apple in general. Jef was an interesting fellow. > The Cat is one of my favorite machines. > Dwight > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Shopping has everything on your holiday list. Get expert picks by style, > age, and price. Try it! > http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8000,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200601&t… > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

19 years, 6 months

Tentative early news of VCF East 4.0 date(s)

by jtp＠chinalake.com

Is not May 12-13 Mother's day (13th) weekend in the US? That might be more dangerous than Father's Day weekend. Cheers, Jim

19 years, 6 months

OT: Recent issues of Make Magazine?

by evan＠snarc.net

Anybody have recent issues of Make? Somebody told me tonight that I'm quoted, two or three issues ago, but I have no idea what that's about .... So naturally I am feeling curious! Would appreciate if someone could look. Thanks! - Evan (Koblentz)

19 years, 6 months

rogues galleries

by lee＠geekdot.com

> You know, I have a feeling that you can get 7805 regulators that'll > handle 2A each uA78S05 as used in the later Vic 20 PSU. http://members.lycos.co.uk/leeedavison/6502/vic20/psufix/index.html Lee.

19 years, 6 months

WTB: DEC H9275-A Qbus backplanes

by useddec＠gmail.com

Looking for several backplanes. If you have any you want to sell or trade please contact me off list. Thanks Paul

19 years, 6 months

cloning CDs with errors?

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Random thought of the day.... I've seen a few CDs around where the manufacturer has deliberately included errors on the disc to make piracy more difficult - which is a noble enough thing to do, but a bit of a pain in the butt when you want to make a legitimate backup copy of a disc :-( Has anyone come across tools (Linux preferred, but I could stomach Windows if I had to!) which can duplicate such discs and produce errors in the output at the same block as the input? (I assume any software on such deliberately-crippled media would check for the presence of known errors at install / run time) cheers Jules

19 years, 6 months

Still seeing IBM 5140 manual

by evan＠snarc.net

Anybody? Bueller...? I really need the 5140 instruction manual(s).

19 years, 6 months

Acorn Electron on ePay...cheap

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

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19 years, 6 months

IBM PC bios source available

by nfk＠zjtcm.net

Hi ,would u send me the IBM PC bios source? best regards, NFK

19 years, 6 months

Suppose I wanted to make a TTL terminal replica kit...

by legalize＠xmission.com

How hard would it be? I imagine that finding TTL parts isn't so bad, but what about appropriate era keyboards and CRTs? -- "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/>

19 years, 6 months

New data on the Antikythera device

by evan＠snarc.net

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/11/30/astronomy.calculator.reut/index.htm l

19 years, 6 months

Siemens-Nixdorf RM400-10

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> wrote: > roosmcd at dds.nl wrote: > > Citeren Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>: > >> I have one. I'd like to find hardware docs for it. SINIX/Reliant > >> UNIX install media would be heavenly. > > > > I still have a RM-200c, should start that up sometime :). But I have > > two sets of installation media, 5.43 and 5.45 IIRC. Please let me > > know if you haven't been able to find it otherwise and I'll see what > > I can do. > > So far, you're the only other person I've found that ever heard of > these things. > Mine seems to have an intact SINIX install on it, but it looks like I > need boot media to get root. > I'd also like to know a couple of other things, like what EISA and > ISA adapters are supported, how a mouse attaches, since it has a > single PS/2 port, and if a CD-ROM is supported, what models work. Any > help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. > > Doc Manuals for Siemens RM-Series unix based servers (most even available in English) can be found here: http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/softbooks/unix/us/rmop.htm Had to dig up that resource mere weeks ago because the university collection received a Siemens RM600 E. I'm eager to get some hands-on experience but alas that thing is far back on our priority list... HTH, -- Arno Kletzander Stud. Hilfskraft Informatik Sammlung Erlangen www.iser.uni-erlangen.de Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

19 years, 6 months

Tentative early news of VCF East 4.0 date(s)

by evan＠snarc.net

Mothers Day ..... how did I not realize that???? That leaves June 2/3 and 9/10. If we choose 9/10 then we give people a weekend off after Memorial Day. But would there be more conflicts with graduations (on either of the June weekends) than with the Dayton event? I know all about the "you can't please everyone all the time" rule but we're still trying.

19 years, 6 months

Wozniak book signing book report

by richard.cini＠wachovia.com

All: For those who might not have been aware, Steve Wozniak was in New York last night for a book signing at a Barnes & Noble. I attended this signing and I thought I'd provide a book report of sorts for those who haven't yet been (the last one was in Philadelphia about a month ago). I arrived not knowing what to expect and there were only about 25 people in the gallery at 5:30 (the presentation began at 7pm). This event was competing with the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, so I figured, hey, it shouldn't be too crowded. Yeah, right. While I was waiting, I grabbed a copy of iWoz and began reading. My report on the book itself is at the end. There were about 150 seats and by 7pm, 175 people were there. I'd say about 80/20 male/female ratio, from a 9 year old girl with a cello strapped to her back to about 55. Ethnically, it was a pretty diverse crowd. Steve arrived on-time and after a short intro, began his speech. I don't think he stopped to breathe. He spoke constantly for 45 minutes. In spite of his stated shyness, he was a very gracious and engaging speaker. You can tell that his mind is running far ahead of his mouth. Yet, in his speech, you can hear a boyish quality that conveys such excitement about computers and amazement as how he, as the "other Steve" with the engineering brains, created the first color personal computer that could be connected to the TV, and, by his accounts, lit the rocket on the nascent personal computing industry (I think he actually said something like "how we started the industry"). I bet that if the guy from Barnes & Noble didn't keep him to a clock, he would have told stories until closing at 10pm. I spent only a few minutes with Woz. He signed my Woz book, an original instruction manual from my Apple II (which he pawed over, not having seen one in years), and we talked momentarily about my Altair Emulator project. There were people there who brought old computers for him to sign (which he did). Most people just had their books signed. Now, onto the book itself. While I was waiting for the presentation to start, I began reading around the middle of the book and in an hour and 20 minutes time, read almost 100 pages. The book is an easy read and is in a conversational style that after hearing Woz speak, one can easily see how the book was created...he told the stories and Gina Smith, the co-author, wrote them down, preserving his familiar, conversational style. This isn't fine literature, and Steve readily admitted that he's not much of an author. But, if you think of it more as you and Steve sitting at a bar talking about old times, you will enjoy it. Since I began in the middle at a random spot, I didn't read about Steve's early years. He did allude to his childhood in his presentation, and this is where most people will discover the "I didn't know that." facts about Woz. I picked-up the story around the time of Steve creating the Breakout game for Atari. The back-half of the book is filled with common Woz stories about Breakout, the 500 machine purchase from The Byte Shop, his drive for elegance in design (and reduced parts count), and hacking a Shugart floppy drive to make a very elegant floppy controller system. There were some brief mentions of fights with Jobs, like over the number of slots to put in the Apple ][ and the failure of the Apple ///, but any disagreements with the other Steve were treated gingerly. I'm sure there are kernels of rare or never-heard Woz stories in there, but in the pages I read, I didn't really see any. Rich

19 years, 6 months

AT&T 5620 (was Re: AT&T 730 MGT graphic terminals)

by djg＠pdp8.net

>Speaking of 5620s... I've got a bunch of the terminals, but only one >keyboard for the bunch. > I have one terminal missing the red mouse. If anybody has a spare I am looking for one for sale/trade. Couldn't find a good picture, the best is on this page obscured by the hand. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/departments/sia/video-library/dyndisp85.html

19 years, 6 months

multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- arcarlini at iee.org wrote: > > Amstrad produced a 386 PC with a built-in Megadriv e. > So that's three. > Four if you count the keyboard :-) > > Antonio > They did?! I don't suppose you know of any pics online somewhere? Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

19 years, 6 months

multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

--- Adrian Burgess <classiccmp at discordance.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:22:02AM -0500, Bryan Po pe > wrote: > > > > Speaking of game consoles, there are also quite a > few arcade boards > > that use multiple CPUs. > > > > As far as games consoles with multiple CPUs the Se ga > Saturn has quite a few - > 2xHitachi SH2, 1xHitachi SH1 (CD controller), > 1x68000 (sound controller), > and a couple of DSPs (no idea how accessible to th e > developer these are) - > this ended up in the arcades as the Sega ST-V boar d. > SH1 was the CD controller? I thought it handled the sprites? The SH2's handled the polygon output (250,000 each) of 500,000 polygons per second. The board was nicknamed the "Titan" board and was still used well into the late 90's despite being superceded graphically by all of Sega's Model 1 & 2 boards (and Model 3 board in 1998/9). However, due to it's mastery of 2D and 3D it was used on many arcade games (sorry, can't name any now, been too long since I last spoke about this board). Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

19 years, 6 months

DECstations and Sun 3's Available

by sethm＠loomcom.com

Hey everyone, I've been in touch with someone on the East Coast (of the U.S.) who has about ten DECstation 3100s, a few DECstation 5000/200s, and some Sun 3/50s and 3/60s available for the cost of shipping. He just doesn't want them to end up in a landfill. I've snagged two DECstation 3100s and two DECstation 5000s, but that's about all I can do right now. If anyone is interested in any of the remaining stuff, please contact me off-list and I will forward your contact information to him. -Seth

19 years, 6 months

Need Help With a 11/44

by g-wright＠att.net

I finally got my 11/44 going and in the process of getting it to boot >from the tu58 port. It does boot from the TA80 drives. The switch options of coarse are many so I need to know what its trying to tell me. If I do a " B DD it comes back with "console 177777707 sp 173416" . the Tu58 software does see the machine being turned off or on. I have check the cabling (lines 2 and 3) and most of the switch positions. thanks, Jerry Jerry Wright JLC inc

19 years, 6 months

Tentative early news of VCF East 4.0 date(s)

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Re: "This isn't official yet, but we're aiming for Saturday, May 19 next year. We might add Sunday, May 20 as well" Bad dates. You are selecting the same weekend as the Dayton Hamfest. Not a good move.

19 years, 6 months

rogues galleries

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

supported by what? Curious if it uses the same 6845 as in the pc version. Not common in the US, but MSX units are all graphical, and likely better supported ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

19 years, 6 months

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by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

is the Tele TS- the unit with the symbiotic monitor? Theres a cp/m and a DOS version. Im partial to 1 of them. --- cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: > OK, my rogues gallery list: > > Minis: > PDP-11/03, dual RL01s > VAXserver 4000/300, 3 DSSI disks, TK70, CMD SCSI > > Workstations: > (4) Diser 'Eve' (upgraded Lilith) workstations > Evans & Sutherland ESV/50, fully loaded > SGI Indigo^2 R10000 Max. Impact > Sun 3/110 > Sun SPARCstation 5 > > PCs: > Commodore CBM 8032 w/8050 disk drive > Kaypro 4 > Televideo TS-803 CP/M PC (B&W graphics) > > Peripherals: > AT&T Pixel Machine, fully loaded (w/Sun interface) > Evans & Sutherland Advanced Rendering System > Evans & Sutherland Freedom 1000 graphics accelerator > Evans & Sutherland Freedom 3000 graphics accelerator > Fujitsu M2444 9-track tape drive > HP1351A graphics generator > Megatek digitizing tablet > Megatek valuator (dials box) > (2) Evans & Sutherland remote data concentrators > Tektronix video hardcopy > Xylogics Annex terminal server > > Serial terminals: > LA-120 printing terminal > VT-100 CRT terminal > Heath/Zenith Z-19 CRT terminal > HP2397A color graphics terminal base > HP2621A CRT terminal > HP2621P CRT terminal w/thermal printer > (2) HP2648A B&W CRT graphics terminal > Honeywell VIP7809 CRT terminal w/military shipping carrier > IBM 3180 CRT terminal > Lear-Siegler ADM-3A CRT terminal > (2) Lear-Siegler ADM-5 CRT terminal > (2) Megatek Whizzard 1645 CRT graphics terminal, 1 sans monitor > Tektronix 4010 storage tube graphics terminal > Tektronix 4014 storage tube graphics terminal > (3) Tektronix 4105A CRT color graphics terminal > (6) Tektronix 9200T CRT color graphics terminal > (8) Tektronix 9201T CRT color graphics terminal > Televideo 925 CRT terminal > (2) Televideo Personal Terminal CRT terminal > Teletype Model 43 printing terminal > Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 707 printing terminal > Texas Instruments Silent 700 Model 745 printing terminal > Westinghouse W1643 party line CRT terminal > > X terminals: > (4) NCD 16P2 > NCD Xplora 401 > (2) Tektronix XP217C > -- > "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/> ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com

19 years, 6 months

multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:35:42 -0600 From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries --------------------Original Message: <snip> >Ahh, I was originally asking after systems with different CPUs though, not >several of the same type - mainly to rule out lots of posts about parallel >machines (as I was curious as to how many manufacturers managed to make a go >of selling 'average' systems with a mixture of CPU types - parallel machines >tend to be in a different league) --------- Cromemco DPU? Z80 and 68000 on one S-100 card; add an IOP Serial I/O card, and you've got another Z80... mike

19 years, 6 months

Siemens-Nixdorf RM400-10

by roosmcd＠dds.nl

Citeren Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com>: > I have one. I'd like to find hardware docs for it. SINIX/Reliant > UNIX install media would be heavenly. I still have a RM-200c, should start that up sometime :). But I have two sets of installation media, 5.43 and 5.45 IIRC. Please let me know if you haven't been able to find it otherwise and I'll see what I can do. greetings, Michiel

19 years, 6 months

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