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by dgari＠msn.com

(quote) I was just typing a message into a web forum, hit the post reply button, and while I am waiting I realize, SHEESH, this is just an graphical upgrade of the 3270 CICS I was running 20 years ago. Except not as fast. (end quote) There are other differences: No viri. No pop-ups. No spam. No anonymous morons. No evil cookies dropped onto your machine, 3rd party or otherwise. No audio, just peace and (beep) quiet. Oh yeah; no graphics, no mouse, no point-and-click. If the speed bothers you, get a faster connection. I just wonder if improving the user interface to the point where monkeys can use it is an evolutionary step forward or backward.... -David Gari _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

23 years

Cool little modulator

by cb＠mythtech.net

>>Its an RGB -> NTSC modulator for the Apple IIc. It also came with a >>game/TV switch box, but I don't know if that was originally part of the >>package, or just a seperate item that was included in the auction. > > >COOL >I don't know anythng about them, but have been curious for some time. >Please report all you know, post picts, play with it, etc. > >OTOH maybe I am thinking about the thing for the IIc+ Sellam indicated that he thinks the modulator came with all IIc's, but I have to question... Why? The IIc already has a composite video out, so why also ship with the modulator. For that matter... why make the modulator at all?!? If the IIc has composite video, why bother with an RGB to composite? Does the IIc+ not have the composite? I would not be surprised if the Computer/TV slide switch shipped with all IIc's, much like they shipped with all Atari 2600's. Just a cheap item to toss in so people can connect it to their TV set. But including an apparently redundant function modulator, that just seems silly. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years

Optimem 600 worm drives

by rjkulman＠optonline.net

the information and details provided by richard erlacher are completely false and unfounded, this person has never made a purchase from me, nor do I know of any dealings with him. His objective in writing this about his dealing with me is obviously to just tarnish my reputation for some unknown reason surely a dealer of making a living selling computer items would provide details of what they are selling, pricing is always an issue with any sale, there's always someone somewhere selling it cheaper, so so they think. don't beleive everything you read, especially from richard erlacher there are at least 2 sides to very subjective commentary rj -- rj kulman rjk consulting llc 718 968 9167 voice 1810/Fax Reply To: rjkulman(a)optonline.com new / used computer stuff - credit cards accepted: discover-mastercard-visa-amer-exp Verified Paypal Acct / paypal- sign up and get $5.00 for each of us: https://secure.paypal.com/refer/pal=rjkulman%40optonline.net Nothing But Net Keep Your Options, Opinions and Software OPEN - current ebay auctions: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=rjkulman@o…

23 years

Unknown Apple 2 cards

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> It's the only card of the bunch besides the ROM programmer (which I also > have) that I recognize. yep - someone's found the user manual for me (complete with details on how to hack the card to work with 27128 chips - ahhh, the good old days of computing!) luckily everything the card needs is in ROM so I'm not missing any software for it. Hope it still works, I could certainly make use of it! > This is truly one cool lot of Apple cards. I have a lot more too, but most of them are more common - disk interfaces, SSC cards, Epson printer interfaces etc. There's four different audio cards too I think, three of which are homebrewed and one which has four 40-pin ICs on it; I'm yet to identify that last one. Unfortunately no SCSI or network controllers (so far anyway!) - that would have been nice :-) I'm still to see what I've left in the machines themselves but they're way too buried to get at presently. I know both my ProFile interface boards are in the Apple /// but other than that I don't know. > really like to know what the IC Tester does (though I think it's pretty > obvious ;) Well I did a search via deja/google and someone managed to get hold of the software a couple of years back, so it might be floating around somewhere. That IC tester and the programmer could probably do useful work for me; I just need to hook one of the Apple systems up to the PC somehow so it can communicate with the outside world. Probably be via serial, but if I had a SCSI card in the Apple in theory it could share a SCSI bus with the PC would would be interesting :) (I've only ever seen that done between two identical modern SGI boxes - not between hardware with a 20 year time difference!) cheers Jules

23 years

Slightly OT

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I couldn't help but pass this on: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3611062497&category=40129 later Dwight

23 years

Systems Enhancement Corporation Power Administrator 800

by Paul.HILLS＠uk.landisgyr.com

Of course there is no "standard" 9-pin serial connector, except what has become standard just by virtue of mass usage on the PC. The original IBM PC had standard 25 pin connectors of course. Even that serial port was not a standard RS232, since the RS232 standard also has a second serial link on pins 14 and 16, along with all the control signals for the secondary link, which the PC didn't have (as far as I'm aware). I've never seen an RS232 comms link fully populated and used to the standard though! It is unlikely that any other equipment would conform to the PC world's 9-pin 'standard' unless it is quite new. Most recent test equipment tends to use the 25 pin connector if it has a serial port at all. The standard for test equipment (and probably UPSs as well) is GPIB (IEEE-488) which is parallel. paul -----Original Message----- From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net] Sent: 05 June 2003 21:22 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Systems Enhancement Corporation Power Administrator 800 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Feldman, Robert wrote: > It might be that the DE-9's don't have a standard PC serial pinout. At > work, we have a UPS that uses a DE-9 for programming, but the pinout on > the cable (a 940-0024C; Googling produces a number of hits) is > > Female Male > 1-4 > 2------------2 > 3------------1 > 5------------6 > 6 NC > 7-8 > 9 NC Let me guess...APC? :) Their ports are very fun, since if you plug in a standard serial cable, and open the port, it can turn off the UPS. The UPS' port supports both a dump-mode DTR/RTS/etc signaling as well as a smart-mode. The cable above is their "smart" cable. The 1-4 and 7-8 connections are also not needed if you are not using 3rd party software such as NUT, as they are just loop back connections. -Toth

23 years

HP front-panel keys

by coredump＠gifford.co.uk

Quick question for those people with HP 1000 machines and the like... what are the front-panel keys like? Only I have a few discarded HP keys here that are all alike: Corbin Cabinet Lock CAT99 Corbin 4T1427 All the keys are brass. Are they for an HP front-panel lock of some sort? If so, which? -- John Honniball coredump(a)gifford.co.uk

23 years

HP front-panel keys

by fmc＠reanimators.org

John Honniball <coredump(a)gifford.co.uk> wrote: > Corbin 4T1427 This would fit several models of classic HP 3000 -- mine has worked in a Series III and also in a Series 58, and I would expect it to work in at least Series II, 44 and 58. But not on Series 37, 64, 68, 70, or Micro 3000s. -Frank McConnell

23 years

DRIVER

by jcinet＠prodigy.net.mx

SORRY, DRIVER FOR Citizen Type II printer model iDP-560-RSL COULD YOU SEND THE CONTROLLER, IF IT IS THAT YOU HAVE IT? PODRIAS MANDAR EL CONTROLADOR, SI ES QUE LO TIENES? PLEAS.

23 years

Unknown Apple 2 cards

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

>> yep - someone's found the user manual for me (complete with details on >> how to hack the card to work with 27128 chips - ahhh, the good old days >> of computing!) > > Hey cool. Are these in electronic form? I'd like a copy. yep, see: http://home.iprimus.com.au/figjams/apple2/AP-64e.pdf Initial tests on the card seem to show it's working anyway. I need to dig out the Apple manuals themselves to see how to use the monitor, in order to look at data I've read from EPROM chips plugged into the card (just to verify that it's reading OK) >> need to hook one of the Apple systems up to the PC somehow so it can >> communicate with the outside world. Probably be via serial, but if I >> had a SCSI card in the Apple in theory it could share a SCSI bus with >> the PC would would be interesting :) (I've only ever seen that done >> between two identical modern SGI boxes - not between hardware with a >> 20 year time difference!) > > I don't see why it wouldn't work though. I imagine the controller in the Apple needs to appear as a device on the SCSI bus; I believe that rules out some of the available cards at least. Plus the ID of either the Apple or PC controller would have to change from the default obviously - I think this can be done with all the Adaptec PC cards I have, not sure about the various Apple cards that are available. Would be an interesting experiment to try anyway. cheers Jules

23 years

Qbus Backplanes

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 5, 7:28, Ethan Dicks wrote: > --- vance(a)neurotica.com wrote: > > Hello people. Is there any way to tell if a backplane is QQQQ or QQCD by > > looking at it, and without having to pull the backplane out of the > > chassis? > In some older chassis, you can see the backplane wiring, but not on > boxes like the BA23 or BA123. > > > What if I can find the model number of the chassis? > > That's useful... The model numbers that look like BA-23, BA-11N, BA-11M, > etc., are the ones you want. > > Also, remember in newer boxes, it's three slots of Q22-CD, with the > rest Q22-Q22. That's true for a BA23 (3 slots plus 5), but in a BA123 it's four Q-CD, eight Q-Q, and the thirteenth slot is not bussed at all. > Older boxes can be wired for either 18-bit or 22-bit addressing, > which may or may not involve Q-CD slots. I _think_ the BA-11N is a > 18-bit Q-CD box... that's what I remember my 11/23 is in (but I > added the extra wires some time ago to make it Q22). Yes, a normal BA11-N is Q-CD. So is a BA11-S. If you can read the H92xx number off the backplane (it's often visible without too much effort, for example it's on the top of a BA11-M/N/S backplane) you can look that up to see if it's straight (Q-CD), serpentine (Q-Q) or mixed. The following is not exhaustive, but includes the common ones: PDP-11/03 BA11-M H9270 18-bit 4 x Q-Q PDP-11/23 BA11-N H9273 18-bit 9 x Q-CD H9275 22-bit 9 x Q-Q PDP-11/23+ BA11-S H9276 22-bit 9 x Q-CD microPDP-11 BA23 H9278 22-bit 3 x Q-CD, 5 x Q-Q H9281 18-bit various sizes, only two slots (AB) microPDP-11 BA123 54-17507 or 70-22019 22-bit 4 x Q-CD, 8 x Q-Q, 1 x non-bus DDV11 18-bit 9 x Q-Q, slots EF are separate Q-Q backplanes are usually referred to as serpentine (or sometimes as zig-zag), Q-CD as straight. Serpentine slot order goes like this: slot 1 ----> slot 2 | V slot 4 <---- slot 3 | V slot 5 ----> slot 6 etc Some of the backplanes have optional jumpers to enable/disable LTC interrupt, or for termination. Many carry the SRUN_L signal only on row 1. Beware of such differences when changing backplanes or linking two together. The DDV11 is unusual in being hex-height instead of quad-height; the extra slots are nor bussed, except for +5,V, 0V, and -12V, but may carry odd voltages, depending on which OEM or experimenter last used it! There's a rumour that the first 3/4 slots in a BA23/123 are special and you can't use them for anything except memory or processor; that's rubbish, they're normal Q22-CD slots and you can put anything that's Q-CD compatible in them, so long as it's after the processor. What *is* special is the range of PMI memory boards; if you put them in *front* of a KDJ11-B they use the CD interconnect for the Private Memory Interface but if you put them *after* the CPU they use the Q-Bus like all other memory boards. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years

zenith minisport hd problems

by grunsjah＠talk21.com

Have minisport 2mb, external fdd (750kb only) and 10+, 2.5" floppy discs (mostly still sealed) also manuals somewhere. It all works but the battery life is very limited. Could mail it to you in return for postage. John Grunstein in U.K.

23 years

weekend additions

by LewGa4＠aol.com

hello is any body still there i have a few questions before i sell a canon cat v777

23 years

DSP starter kit for sale

by sartore＠elbatech.com

Hello, I wish to notice that my Company inserted a TI starter kit on eBay, with number 2734510160. (you may try the direct link http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2734510160) Best regards, Marco Sartore Marco Sartore ElbaTech srl Via Roma 1 57030 Marciana (LI) Tel e fax 0565-901002 http://www.elbatech.com

23 years

Unknown Apple 2 cards

by KevenM＠exegesys.com

>okay i don't remember the exact name of it the card with the button, but it >was used as a hacking card, the button when pressed issued a NMI, so and goes >into a program on the ROM, and allows you to debug any program running at the >time, and can also save memory contents, it was used for hacking games and >removing copy protection from programs. And I was going to be nice and just declare that I remember it as a debugging tool; such that the push of a button got you to a debugging status. ___________________________________________________________________ Keven Miller mailto:kevenm@exegesys.com http://www.exegesys.com

23 years

Vaxstation 2000 and VXT software, 4 plane color supported?

by sgust＠ithh.infoserv.de

Some time ago I got my hands on a Vaxstation 2000. I searched for some Information about the machine and read somewhere that it should be possible to run the VXT X terminal software on the VS 2000. The only version of the VXT software I found was in VMS BACKUP format which I could not read. So I put NetBSD on the machine, it runs disk-less from a PC with Linux. Last week I searched again and found version 2.1 of the VXT software in tar format, so I could finally try it. It works, but only in monochrome. If I put my VS40X 4 plane color option board into the machine it seems to crash when it has finished loading. Some pixels get randomly set and the machine does not react on the break switch at the back. Is the color board supported by the VXT software? Or is it a firmware issue? My board has version 1.4, are there newer versions available? Or even older version? Anybody want to swap firmware dumps? The loading process via mop often takes several retries or even fails completely, especially when loading the full VXT.SYS version. It seems to work better if there is some load on the Linux server, perhaps the mop daemon sends the data too fast. Has anybody else seen this effect? Is it possible to use the VXTLDR.SYS to load the rest of the software via TCP/IP? I know nearly nothing about DECNET and don't have any other DEC equipment to run it on. Another minor problem is that I don't have a real DEC mouse. I use a small Atmel AT90S2313 micro-controller as protocol converter. It currently only supports one mouse button and needs an Amiga mouse, but I plan to adapt it to PS/2 mice. The information about the DEC mouse protocol I found leaves some minor questions. How many packets per second does a real DEC mouse send in stream mode? I chose to send 60 per second, as this was easy to implement via the timer0 interrupt on the Atmel. What does a real DEC mouse return as revision and manufacturer code? I return 0 for both but fear that there may be some software which expects real data. Soeren Gust

23 years

simh help?

by wonko＠4amlunch.net

where do i get simh help? i'm trying to install VMS on a simh instance, and it doesn't seem to want to play nice. where do i get help for simh? the documentation is slim, and there seems to be no mailing list. help? -brian -- "I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're pretty lousy at that too." -Bender

23 years

Cool Stuff

by jrice54＠charter.net

Just barely off topic, I got a load of cool stuff yesterday. I bought an original Canon 17" monitor, an object.station 41 bezel new in wrapper, a prototype intel Pentium Overdrive preocessor that is listed on intel's site as never released, a replacement ISA/VESA bus riser card for the object.station, and a mouse/keyboard new in wrapper for the object.station. The monitor completes one of my object.stations while the other is now complete except for the proper Canon monitor. The Canon PS2 keyboards with the unix key layout and the green NeXT keys are very hard to find as are the monitors. It's been a four year quest to located all of this stuff.

23 years

ZX81 kits (was Re: Jupiter Ace)

by acme＠ao.net

From: Al Hartman <alhartman(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Jupiter Ace Date: 06/02/2003 1:13 PM > Stewart also still has ZX-81 kits for anyone who wants > to build one themselves. I think he sells them for > about $50.00US. May I suggest that you check Zebra's web site? Mr. Newfeld has these kits priced at *$99.95* A few years back he was listing them at $29.95. I bought a couple, and so did some friends. He immediately raised the price to $39.95, then $49.95, and finally the ridiculous price of $99.95. He's been sitting on these damn kits since the early eighties, and the only explanation for the price increase is plain and simple greed. Glen Goodwin Orlando, FL USA 0/0

23 years

Collectors worldwide, UNITE!

by toresbe＠ifi.uio.no

Over the weekend, a thought has been taking shape inside my head: What if we made a Grand Unified Union of Computing Collectors? Okay, GUUCC doesn't pronounce well. "Geeewkhkh". (shudder) How about Collector's International Association... Erm, nope. ;) International Computer Artifact Preservation Society! ICAPS sounds good. Or, if you totally disagree with it all, send a suggestion. OK, www.ipacs.org. What should it contain? -A member's directory with all the computers he/she owns -A directory of computers -A knowledge base revolving around all of the computers. For example, a user should be able to: Search for "6-611" 1 Machine found. Siemens 6-611 (198?) 1 Owner found. Tore S Bekkedal One would then click the entry link, and open up a window with pictures and specs etc, and there would be interesting links regarding that machine, downloadable boot images, etc, etc. If one clicked the owner, one would see other machines in his collection. There should also be a "Market" where people could exchange spares, and machines etc. Also an "Opportunities" "Map" where you could see pickup opportunities? Companies should be able to "Donate" to the organization whereupon an entry would appear on the "map". IPACS would also allow for sharing of storage space, people splitting the bill for major warehouses? Any suggestions, alterations, criticism, etc, etc, most welcome! -Tore "Why O why must I always write an interesting quote below my name? Can't I write something about toenails? Or are they interesting as well?"

23 years

DEC RL02 anyone need one?

by aek＠spies.com

If anyone has a copy of the RL02 Technical Manual, I'd like to borrow it to add to the documentation archive.

23 years

New to list...

by jdickens＠ameritech.net

Hi new to list... just won a SUN 4/690mp... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3027472460&category=1121… * have hints on moving... * what in it based on the pictures... * wants to make an offer to buy it for more than i paid for it * any one would care to comment? really just interested in the HP box going to convert it to a scsi disk box for some of my other smaller machines... and the monitor and keyboard.. the rest is a bonus Sincerly James Dickens

23 years

DEC RL02 anyone need one?

by aek＠spies.com

Can you scan fiche yet? -- No, that project is probably not going to happen this year. Too many other things going on right now.

23 years

id this 88100/88200 CPU card?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

I picked up a pile of cards yesterday at a scrap place. One of them has a Motorola XC81100RC25G and four XC88200RC25E ICs on it. I know the 88100 is a 32 bit RISC CPU and the others are 16k Cache/MMUs. The only other IC on the board appears to be a 24 pin PAL but it has a label on it so I can't read the part number. The baord itself has three high density connectors on the bottom and is marked "Motorola Inc (c) 1989" and measures ~4 1/2" x 8 1/2" and has 6 mounting holes around three sides. Anybody know what it might be for? Joe

23 years

QBUS board ID time

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On May 29, 17:28, Greg Elkin wrote: > The chap at Baydel (Leatherhead, UK) said he'd been there for years > (25 or more) and had seen them through making whole PDP11 systems > (apart from DEC CPUs) to their current range of NAS & SCSI RAID etc That was probably David Vallance. He was really helpful. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years

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