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by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, I just closed a deal for a run to get some 60 miles from here. I was "called to duty" on the Classic Computer Rescue Squad. I tell you Penske is your friend! I got a liftgate truck for $75 and $0.18/mi. When you guys rent a truck make sure you claim a business rate. After all, we are a voluntary non-profit "organization" that helps businesses get rid of their old computing equipment and save the environment and the technology. We share equipment with people in need, including private collections and museums. That's what we do, so that's what we can claim business rates for. cheers, -Gunther

23 years, 1 month

Apple //e disposal

by edunn＠frontier.net

I have an Apple //e that I need to dispose of, but I hate to take it to the dump. Is anyone interested in it know of any place who would take it off my hands. It has a Cider hard drive and a 1 mb ram card and 2 printers. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Ed Dunn Cortez, CO

23 years, 1 month

Classic find at the Dayton Computerfest

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

In addition to modern stuff I found, I picked up an Intel SDK-86 trainer - it has screwposts for +5VDC, -12VDC and GND, an unremarkable 8086, several peripheral chips, 8 x D2142 RAMs, 8 x MAN71A 7-segment LED displays and a pristine prototyping area. Since I have stack of +5VDC -> -12VDC DC-DC converters (from Qbus COMBOARDs), I was planning on attaching one to this board so I can run it off of +5VDC only. Now to find docs... -ethan

23 years, 1 month

Transistors (2 of 2)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Articles named as found on MSNBC website links to Newsweek. Thought you might like! [Article begins...] Newsweek Weblogs / The Practical Futurist Michael Rogers [...] March 14, 2003 / 1:16 PM ET THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW I'm on vacation for a week in Death Valley (which is not, by the way, the new name for Silicon Valley), hoping to catch a bit of the springtime desert flower bloom. But before I sign off, here are a couple of interesting pieces from new magazines. IEEE Spectrum has a nostalgic story on early transistors, especially the classic CK722, the first such device widely sold to hobbyists. I still remember saving my allowance at age 10 to buy my first CK722; I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with it, but you could just feel the magic in that tiny component. (In the end I decided to build an audio tone generator solely powered by copper and zinc electrodes stuck into a lemon, thus celebrating the fact that we were now liberated from the power requirements of vacuum tubes. Practicality was never a major factor in my early electronics work.) The CK722 came up again in my life. A little over a decade later, Esquire assigned me to profile the Nobel-prize winning inventor of my beloved transistor, William Shockley, who unfortunately by then had transferred his energies to pseudoscientific theories about race and intelligence. When the article came out, Shockley was shocked that a kid who could reminisce so fondly about the CK722 would turn around and call its inventor a deluded racist. When he called to complain, all I could tell him was that he should have stuck to semiconductors. [...Article Ends] Cheers! Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of Valero5.bmp]

23 years, 1 month

Transistors (1 of 2)

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Articles named as found on MSNBC newspage links to Newsweek. Still thought you might enjoy! [Article Begins...] The Irresistible Transistor Fifty years ago this month, a man embraced his inner hobbyist and gave thousands of engineers their first transistor By Harry Goldstein Is it possible to love a transistor? Certainly what Jack Ward feels for the Raytheon CK722, the first transistor sold to the general public, goes beyond casual affection. He's collected thousands of early transistor specimens, including dozens of CK722s. His stately yellow Victorian home on a quiet, tree-lined street in Brookline, Mass., has a basement crammed with enough code oscillators, Geiger counters, radios, hand- wrought circuit boards, transistorized hearing aids, subminiature vacuum tubes, diodes, resistors, and capacitors to make any collector of vintage electronic gear drool. He's written one book about the CK722 and has started another about early transistor history at RCA. When he's not working as associate director of quality for the Bedford, Mass., facility of gene-chip maker Affymetrix Inc., he's busy maintaining his virtual Transistor Museum on the Web and is widely acknowledged by fellow collectors as a techno- anthropologist par excellence. [...Article Ends] Cheers! Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type image/bmp which had a name of Valero5.bmp]

23 years, 1 month

DEC InfoServer ?

by Fred.van.Kempen＠microwalt.nl

All, is anyone here familiar with installing and operating Info Servers? I got word that they are pretty much the same as a stripped-down MV3100, so installing the InfoServer CD on such a machine (equipped with CD drive) should get us the desired result... Pse contact me off-list if you can help, and I'll summarize here, later. Thx, Fred

23 years, 1 month

IBM 4331 in MA

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, Thanks for all of the responses. It appears that there are several parties interested in this, so I am withdrawing my hat from the ring. I have neither the floor space nor the domain knowledge to make it all work. However, I only live about an hour away from this system, so if the lucky new owner wants help loading/hauling it, I will be glad to offer any assistance I can, including space in my pickup truck (Dodge Dakota) for smaller items... Rich B. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

23 years, 1 month

Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems

by melamy＠earthlink.net

you can find all the cp/m 3 docs here... (as well as 2.2, etc) best regards, Steve Thatcher http://www.cpm.z80.de/drilib.html >--- Original Message --- >From: "Damien Cymbal" <d_cymbal(a)hotmail.com> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Date: 3/16/03 10:36:28 AM > Hello All, > >I recently inherited a Visual 1050 that I am attemping to resurrect. > >The docs I got include _CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating SystemUser's >Guide_ from Digital Research. > >In its forward, this manual mentions that the doc set should also >include: > >_CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer's Guide_ > >and > >_Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems_ > >I've found online copies of OSPG via google, but haven't found anything >concerning the utils guide. Did such it actually exist? Does it exists by >some other name? > >Thanks. > >dc

23 years, 1 month

Complete AS400 9406 for sale

by rick＠holygrail.com

I have the following AS400 system for sale. It was up and running prior to me rescuing it from a dead dot com auction. Please email me for more information. Rick Rack 1 Contents: - 9309-2 rack - Power Supply: 21F9008 - Case containing 26 slots: o 59X4819 FN2615 (Has 2 EIA I/O cards + Floppy Controller) o 86G8303 SCSI Controller o 85F9041 FC 6112 (RL) o 74F1455 o 85F8935 FC 6501 (RL) o 85F9107 Ethernet o 85F8909 6500 IOP o 16G7241 FC 2592 (RL) o 56F0269 o 17G2598 FC 2700 (RL) IO Regulator o 17G2598 FC 2700 (RL) IO Regulator o 21F9209 - RAID Array 9337 o 8 1g drives (55F9818) - Tape drive 9337 - Control panel 21F5769 Rack 2 Contents: - 9309-2 rack - Power Supply: 10F9298 - IO Card unit feature 5010/5030 03F8338 o 76X4669 FC 6019 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 46F5467 FC 6130 (RL) o 68F7321 FC 6134 (RL) o 26F5028 FC 6031 (RL) o 26F5028 FC 6031 (RL) o 08F5361 FC 6130(RL) o 59X4270 Token ring - RAID Array 9337 o 8 1g drives 55F9818 Lots of cables & Parts Three manuals Several tapes

23 years, 1 month

Amiga Term Softs needed

by mcb242＠psu.edu

Hello, I am currently resurrecting an Amiga 2000, but I have neither an Ethernet card or Terminal software. There are tons of programs on the net, but getting them from the net to the Amiga is proving difficult. If anyone can help me in this chicken/egg scenario, I would REALLY appreciate it. Thanks -Marlin

23 years, 1 month

anyone working with IBM PC-RTs?

by brendle＠ems.psu.edu

Just a quick "ping" to see if there any any people out there who are working with the old IBM PC/RT platform. Had a request from a friend to get my two old 6150s up and running so he could have access to them since he wants to work on the port of 4.4BSD (these are currently running "AOS" which is a 4.3), but seem to have a toasted monitor & might need to track down another of them (with the funky square connector) or maybe someone with the cable that connects to the also-strange serial so I could try a Teleray/HDS/DEC terminal or some such thing (think I might be able to locate an old one). Thought that before I go too far, it might be worth my while to see if any folks here are doing the platform (I fear these are going to be too rare to find much, but where better to check? =-)). thanks! -j Jeff Brendle Office: 248A Deike Bldg./(814)865-3257/fax 863-7708 Desktop Support Spv. Home: #210 Parkgate 349 Toftrees Ave. Penn State - Coll. of E&MS State College, PA / (814)861-8180 Mailto:bli@psu.edu AOL/MSN/Yahoo! IM - JSBrendle

23 years, 1 month

8" floppy drive manual

by rachael＠rachael.dyndns.org

Hi have just collected two NEC FD1165-FQ, does anyone have any infomation about such a drive ? Google doesnt seem to have any usefull link on those. Need to know if its a standart shugard bus and the pinout of the power connector. Regards Jacob Dahl Pind -- CBM, Amiga,Vintage hardware collector Email: rachael(a)rachael.dyndns.org url: http://rachael.dyndns.org

23 years, 1 month

8" floppy drive manual

by rachael＠rachael.dyndns.org

23 years, 1 month

Big Want List

by mhstein＠canada.com

Hi, Sellam: Tell us more about this large project, especially if this equipment has to be in working condition or is just for display. Although I'm annoyed by people who say, "Gee, you should have asked me last week, I just threw out...", I'm afraid I did indeed scrap a Z2D (or equivalent), a 103, a Rainbow, a Spinwriter and most of a North Star. I do still have a CS-2 (Equivalent to a Z2D) with a TopHat (dual 8" floppy) and a BRZ-II fan system which fits underneath the CS-2, a System 3 (late model, single 8" drive & HD), several System 1's, and have access to several more System 3's, 100s, 300s and 400s as well as several boxes of cards, manuals, software and sales literature. Also a C-5 Terminal and, I think, most of a C-10. I've also got a few other miscellaneous terminals, Falcos and an ADM-11; what other "periperhals" are you looking for? I also have two Vector mz's, but no software or docs and I'm not sure I have all the cards; I loaded one with Cromemco cards and an MFM HD because it is easier to work on and quieter than the Cromemcos. Finally, I have 1.9 Hyperions (Hyperia?), (one missing the front cover), a user guide and various software diskettes but no other manuals. And of course I still have the various books & stuff that you and I talked about way back when. There are two problems however: some, if not all, of the Cromemco stuff is promised to Dan Cohoe (if & when I get around to sorting through it and getting as much as possible working), so you'd have to talk to him as well as me, and I really have no interest whatsoever in packing, crating and shipping this stuff from Toronto to California. So, if you're interested and have solutions to our problems, email me at mhscc(a)canada.com or phone me at 416-532-4322. Hope we can find a way to help you out at least a little bit. mike in Toronto (in the finally starting to warm up frozen north of Canada) ---------------------Original Message------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 12:13:08 -0800 (PST) From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: Classic Computers Mailing List <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>, Subject: Big Want List I'm working on a rather large project and am looking for the following computers and hardware: Cromemco Z2D (and periperhals) Cromemco System Three (and peripherals) Centronics printer (103 or any model) DEC Rainbow 100 (and peripherals) DEC Pro350 Heathkit H11 (and peripherals) Micro-Term ACT I (terminal) NEC SpinWriter NorthStar Dimension Ohio Scientific Challenger (any model, prefer II or III) OSM Zeus (any model) SWTPc 6800 (and peripherals) Vector Graphics (prefer MZ/2) Fortune Systems 32:16 Dynalogic Hyperion Corvus Concept (and peripherals) (Peripherals include monitors, keyboards, terminals, disk drives, hard drives, printers, etc.) I am also interested in any and all collateral material including: * System software (originals preferred) * Application software (originals preferred) * Manuals and schematics * Related magazines * Related books * Ephemera such as posters, buttons, mugs, etc. If you have anything on the above list please contact me with an asking price. International or domestic. I can also be reached by phone at +1 925/294-5900. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival

23 years, 1 month

FSOT: Perkin Elmer stuff

by che1hsh＠sccc.susc.ac.ir

Dear Joe, Can you give me information about the manual? Where are you? can give me your mail address? Best Regards, >>>> Hi, I picked up a couple of blue three ring binders with Perkin Elmer logos on them. Both have manuals in them. One is for PECESS Software Packet for a UV/VIS/NIR Spectroscopy and has some printouts with BASIC listings. The other has a manual for Command Descriptions Reference Manual for CDS-3 Application program. Does anyone want them? I'll trade for something I can use like HP manuals, Tektronix 4041 manuals or ???? Joe.

23 years, 1 month

PDP-11/24 Available in Virginia

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

I've decided that the PDP-11/24 I have is not getting enough attention since I've acquired the 11/83. So, if anyone is interested, I've got the following available for pick up near Blacksburg in Southwest Virginia: PDP-11/24 EIS FPP 1 Megabyte of RAM DZ11A RL11 UDA50 Unibus Map RA80 Disk Drive RL02 Drives (two of them) RL02 Disk Packs (nine of them) RSTS/E 9.2 (with Y2K patch) is installed on the RA-80 The system is in two racks, one contains the PDP-11/24 and one contains the RL02s. I will not break this system up, so whoever wants it has to be willing to take the whole thing, including all the disk packs and the spare grant cards I have for it. You can see a picture at http://cmcnabb.cc.vt.edu/~cmcnabb/projects/pdp11 . The HP Terminal is NOT included, since I kinda need it for the HP-9000/832 If there are no takers, then I will keep the system (no E-bay for this one) Scrappers/Board Collectors need not reply. -- Christopher L McNabb Operating Systems Analyst Email: cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net Virginia Tech ICBM: 37.1356N 80.4272N GMRS: WPSR255 ARS: N2UX Grid Sq: EM97SD

23 years, 1 month

Intel 4004 was: New To List and PDP8 Question

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

Hi Bill It is a complete SIM4-01 setup with the programmer card. see: http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/digibarn/digibarn4004.jpg It isn't clear in the picture but under the newer MCS4 manuals is one of the older ones with a complete descrition of the SIM4 in it. You didn't put the programs in RAM, it still require one to blow 1702's that you'd replace those on the SIM4 board to test out your programs. You need to remember this is a Harvard architecture type processor. The motherboard/box has some dip connectors, LED lights and switches that can be used for I/O to simulate your application with. I still use it every now and then to blow 1702A for various things. Dwight >From: "Bill Kotaska" <bkotaska(a)earthlink.net> > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwightk.elvey(a)amd.com> >To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:26 AM >Subject: Intel 4004 was: New To List and PDP8 Question > > >> >> I have a SIM4 but mine doesn't have the nice LCD read out that >> yours has. I wrote an assembler as well. Mine is single pass >> but I can still do forward references by having the lables self >> resolve them selves as their location is assigned. I also have >> a simualtor that I wrote. It is built around the SIM4 board. >> >Wow Dwight, a real SIM4. Is it the -01 or -02. I think the main difference >was the number of PROMs it would hold. Do you also have the box with the >mating connectors? I think it was used to interface the SIM4 to another >board for programming 1702s. Oh what THESE would fetch on eBay. All joking >aside, I hope you wouldn't do that. I know I couldn't. >> >> Most 4004 systems have a lot of hardware dependencies since >> not all used things like the 4002's for RAMs or the normal >> I/O methods. >> >I toyed with the idea of making a SIM4 clone but I would have had to do too >many part substitutions. It wouldn't have been much of a clone. And I still >wouldn't have been able to execute out of RAM. >Right? > >Bill

23 years, 1 month

Fujitsu disk drive info ?

by SAMFAUST＠aol.com

Hi: I am looking for the same information for the power supply (just the output wiring diagram). I have a source for a lot more of the supplies if you need any. Thanks, Joe F.

23 years, 1 month

RS/6000 Console Help

by larry＠laurelnet.com

c20 = An unexpected halt occurred, and the system is configured to enter the kernel debug program instead of entering a system dump. > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On > Behalf Of Steven Nikkel > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 4:21 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: RS/6000 Console Help > > > I just obtained an RS/6000 C20 and am having problems > getting access to the serial console. I know the null > cable and terminal I'm using works, but I can't get anything > to display. > It runs through its post and ends up with c20 on the front > panel display, I don't know if its booted up correctly > and displaying its name or stalled at an error. > Help!

23 years, 1 month

Semi-OT: VMS Webserver book

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

On Friday I happened to get lucky and find a copy of a new VMS book that I've been wanting to get, but hadn't bothered to order from Amazon. The book is "OpenVMS with Apache, OSU, and WASD -- The Nonstop Webserver", by Alan Winston. While it's decidedly on the expensive side at $45 I've been finding it to be an excellent book and well worth the money. One thing I found interesting is that a large portion of Alan's target audience seems to be OpenVMS Hobbyists. If anyone has been thinking of picking the book, I would highly recommend that you do. Now I'm going back to reading it! Zane

23 years, 1 month

today's finds

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

A Pair of 2001 Pets, one with the chicklet keyboard one without, A Commodore 64, A sun 3/80 A few external floppies for the commodores There is also someone with an IBM 3511 SCSI enclosure with an IBM 350 and 365. They look like one of my old office machines but the dual PPro makes makes it interesting. The problem is that I've almost run out of space. I'll have to start getting rid of a few machines in order to fit any more in. -- Ottawa, Canada Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600

23 years, 1 month

Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems

by d_cymbal＠hotmail.com

Hello All, I recently inherited a Visual 1050 that I am attemping to resurrect. The docs I got include _CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating SystemUser's Guide_ from Digital Research. In its forward, this manual mentions that the doc set should also include: _CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3) Operating System Programmer's Guide_ and _Programmer's Utilities Guide for the CP/M Family of Operating Systems_ I've found online copies of OSPG via google, but haven't found anything concerning the utils guide. Did such it actually exist? Does it exists by some other name? Thanks. dc

23 years, 1 month

IBM 4331 in MA

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

Hello all, Here is a list of what's available on that IBM 4331 in Massachusetts... Any idea how much floor space this would use up? Also, does any of it run on standard 120V AC? I realize a truck w/ lift gate would be ideal to haul this, but would any single pieces fit in a pickup truck? I doubt I could take this over, but I have opened communications w/ the current owner. I asked if he would be willing to give away the system, but no reply yet ... Would anyone like help rescuing this system? I'm about an hour away from it... > >1 3803 Tape Control Unit >2 3420 Tape Drives >1 3179 Console >4 3278 Monitors >1 4331 Main Frame(including boot diskette) >4 3340 Disk Drives >13 3340 Disk Packs >1 2821 Control Unit >1 1403 N1 Printer with Print Train >1 2540 Card Reader Punch >3 29 Keypunch >2 83 Card Sorter >1 129 Punch/Verifier > All Cables and Connectors > All Manuals _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

23 years, 1 month

FA: HP 7957/7958 hard drives with HP BASIC and HPL installed

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hi, I just listed a pair of HP hard drives on E-bay. One is a HP 7958B 155 Mb drive with HPL, BASIC V 4.0, two copies of BASIC V 6.3 and Basic V 5.0 installed and operating. The other is a HP 7957A 80Mb dirve with HFS BASIC 6.3 installed. This drives and software will work with the HP 9000 200 and 300 computers (9826, 9836, 9920, etc) or the drives can be formatted and used on the HP IPC (Intergral personal Computer) or other computers that support CS-80 drives. The 7958 has HPL version 2.0 installed. This is the same language as used on the HP 9825. With it you can run your 9825 SW on a 9826 or other 9000 200. See <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> Joe

23 years, 1 month

Hyperion 3032 questions

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hi All, This past week I picked up a Hyperion model 3032 computer with a low serial number (<800) made in Canada. I found some info on it on the web but not much. Can anyone tell me if this will run PC-DOS? I powered it up and it appears to boot PC DOS 5.0 fine but then I can't get any response from the keyboard so I don't know if it's a DOS problem or hardware problem. Anyone have pinouts or other info on the keyboard port? Joe

23 years, 1 month

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