Just a heads up in case anyone here is interested, Ebay has what appears
to be a complete or nearly complete set of library bound Popular
Electronics. The kicker is that the descriptions says pickup in
Tennessee or mutual agreement. This seems like a *really* great buy
since it also includes 1975 (the MITS Altair issues). The auction number
is
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3014129873&category=15050.
Current price is $49.99 but was "stuck" at $49.95 for a few days with a
BIN of $75.00.
Hello
(1. If I'm in the wrong place - sorry / 2.My English is terrible I know)
I own an old PC4. It is still running well.
My question to you: Does someone know the jumper settings??????????
I searched for all jumpers on the board and found 12. One of it is pink
(JP10).
My system only got 1MB of RAM. Now I added 4 more RAM. But in the BIOS
they are disabled. How can I activate them?
Hope you can help me in that way... :)
Regards, Joerg
Jarkko Teppo <jarkko.teppo(a)er-grp.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:41:32AM +0000, Joe wrote:
> > Picked up two of these yesterday. Anyone know what drive they
> >fit? They have seven platters and are roughly 12" in
> >diameter. Marked 404 Mb.
>
> HP 7933 ? I don't have mine at home so can't check. Don't throw them away :-)
Yes, HP 7933 and 7935 drives.
7933 is the "fixed-pack" version of the 7935. Pretty much the same
drive but the load/unload button is blank and doesn't do anything when
you push it.
There was an earlier version of the pack for the 7933 (which was
shipped before the 7935); it wasn't as robust and there was an HP
field service program to replace those older packs with the newer ones
in drives with support contracts. Of course this involved scheduling
time when the customer could back up and restore all the data on the
drive (or volume set).
-Frank McConnell
Picked up a National Instrument ISA bus GPIB board. This provide computer
interface to many lab instruments. It's up for grabs for $25 or best +
shipping. Send me your zip code so I can figure shipping.
Thanks Norm
Why do I keep getting old PC's donated to me? *sigh* Just received an epson
equity I, if anyone wants it. Also, didn't someone want the Leading Edge
500AT that I got a while back?
Jay West
>From: Witchy <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
>> Behalf Of Philip Pemberton
>> Sent: 17 March 2003 07:37
>> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>> Subject: Jupiter Ace
>>
>> I also need a 32-ohm speaker, circular, about 1 inch in size
>> edge-to-edge. Has anyone got a spare for sale? These same speakers were
>> *apparently* used in some of the Sinclair machines (Spectrum and ZX-series
>> IIRC).
>
>Can't have been from what I remember; the original Speccy used a piezo
>'speaker', and later ones fed the sound output through the RF line....none
>of my Sinclair machines have that sort of setup, *but* the likes of the
>Oric-1, Camputers Lynx etc all did. Even the Microbees that I'm currently
>looking at have that sort of speaker....not sure if it's 32ohm though.
>
>cheers
>
Hi
My Jupiter Ace has a small dynamic skeaker. I don't
recall how the graphics was done.
Dwight
In a message dated 3/21/03 7:48:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, vcf(a)siconic.com
writes:
> Hey, that was probably the guy that sold the Lisa-1 on eBay for $10,000 ;)
>
I think in 1992-93 or so I sold one to a listmember for $100. It was in our
large warehouse at the time.
I remember thinking it wasn't worth much because it had those weird
pushbutton 5 1/4 inch floppies. Oh well.....
Paxton
Astoria, OR
>Knew there was a reason why I wasn't a real Apple fan:
>
>Gore Joins Apple Board
>
>Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Gore "brings an incredible wealth
>of knowledge and wisdom to Apple from having run the largest
>organization in the world--the United States government--as
>a congressman, senator and our 45th vice president."
>http://eletters1.ziffdavis.com/cgi-bin10/flo/y/eUOp0BzN6x0DUm0vVG0AK
>
>
Joe
SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT!
With that said... I've just put up a maintenance manual for the MicroVAX 1 & 2, and a collection of three manuals for the MicroPDP-11 series (owner's manual, technical manual, and supplement for the 11/53 system) on E-pay. Low starting bid, no reserve, yadda yadda... ;-)
Thanks (again) for putting up with my occasional ads.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3519&item=3408502046http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3519&item=3408503185
The only thing I ask is, whoever the winning bidder turns out to be, please play nice and share with the rest of the group. ;-)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (Formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77 -- kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"I'll get a life when someone demonstrates that it would be superior
to what I have now..." (Taki Kogoma, aka Gym Z. Quirk)
> > I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
> > used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
> > connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
>
> I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
> system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
> remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
> 2U in size.
I got both of them at the same time I got the PDP-11/44 from you (I still
have the /44).
Zane
I found a couple of odd DG parts yesterday. One is a "Paddle Board". Copywrited 1974. It's about 5" x 1 1/2" and has an edge connector on one side and a bunch of small individual wires soldered to it. The wires are about 18" long and have small number tags on them and appear to have been used to connect to multiple small devices.
The other piece is a round wiring cable with a DB-25M connector on one end and a male and female HP-IB(?) connector on the other. The cable is black and about 6' long. Anyone know what these are for?
Joe
How about a VS 7110?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3408448778
>I'm trying to find a Wang VS-85 or VS-90. Any condition. These are
>rather large systems, the VS-85 is about the size of a washing machine,
>and the VS-90 is a little bit wider than the VS 85. If anybody runs
>across one in their adventures, please contact me. I used to have a
>VS90, many years ago. Now that I have space, I'd like to find one, if
>there are any still out there.
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Looking for CP/M boot disks for the xmess emulator, in particular the
Kaypro 2 boot images. Tried 22disk with my Kaypro disks on several
systems, but none of them would read them :-(.
In a message dated 3/21/03 1:01:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
healyzh(a)aracnet.com writes:
> I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
> used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
> connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
>
>
I think you got one of those SMS Q-Bus Boxes from me. They are an interesting
system. A small QBus system piggybacked into a SMS Hard/Floppy drive box. I
remember one with 8" drives and one with 5" drives, rack mount approximately
2U in size.
SMS made all sorts of Q-Bus interface cards. I think they might have gotten
their start with 8" floppy controllers but I am not sure. I know they made
serial port cards.
Some SMS cards are marketable. I think they made a SCSI. I would think the
floppy controllers because they supported other types of drives than DEC. I
will have to look into my box and see what I have left.
I don't think there is a lot of support out there.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
I've been digging through my old floppies looking for some *OLD* datafiles,
and I ran across some "Star Fleet Battles" Files from the old SFB GEnie
forum. I vaguely remember that .MAC files were some sort of Graphics file,
but what sort? Does anything modernish read them?
Zane
> > I usually leave them behind but I picked up one yesterday for parts. this
> > one is a Q-bus card and has an AM2901ADC bit slice CPU, an Intel 8085, an
> > intel 8155 and an Intel 8253. It says that it's model # FWD 0106, Assy #
> > 000420-0001, Fab # 0004222 Rev C.
>
> I'm not so familiar with SMS products... what connectors are on the
> edge of the board?
I've never seen an SMS product that was actually Q-Bus. The SMS systems I
used to have had all the I/O on a *big* board that the Q-Bus backplane
connected into. The only Q-Bus boards you had to have were CPU and Memory.
Zane
does anyone have Visio Stencils for all the cool old DEC kit? that would be
great. if not, i guess it's time to get to work. ;)
-brian
--
"I'd say don't quit your day job, but you're pretty lousy at that too." -Bender
They could be MacPaint, which can be read by PaintShop Pro (shareware),
among other programs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy [mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 1:27 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Old .MAC files from MS-DOS
I've been digging through my old floppies looking for some *OLD* datafiles,
and I ran across some "Star Fleet Battles" Files from the old SFB GEnie
forum. I vaguely remember that .MAC files were some sort of Graphics file,
but what sort? Does anything modernish read them?
Zane
Up For Grab: Textool/3M 264-5086 64 pin PLCC ZIF-type socket. A few weeks ago someone here was complaining that they couldn't find any PLCC sockets. I found one yesterday and grabbed it. The person that gives me the best story about why they need it can have it. It's soldered to a small circuit and both are mounted on an aluminium plate about 4" x 8". Postage should be minimal.
Joe
Hi,
i'm still looking for coprocessor boards for IBM compatibles (AT-BUS and/or PCI) ...
At the moment, i'm specially interested in
- Definicon DSI-32
The last one that i saw was offered on eBay some months ago, but unfortunately, Al Kossow grabed that one :-(
- Z8000 "Trump Card" (Ciarcia)
I never saw an offering for that card. In 1984, when that card was build, i did not have an IBM compatible (and
i didn't have the money to even think to buy that card)
... but i may be interested in any other card ...
I appreciate any hints !
Thanks Bernd
BTW: I'm still looking for documentation/software for my YARC ProTran and Sprinter boards ...
Bernd Kopriva Phone: ++49-7195-179452
Weilerstr. 24 E-Mail: bernd(a)kopriva.de
D-71397 Leutenbach
Germany