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by cb＠mythtech.net

>Low res monochrome porn, it doesn't get more pathetic. I just DLd the images and took a look... it was what I remembered. It should be noted that this was "Hi-Res" and there were versions in color... if you want to call it that >Best one I remember was called something like gogo, basically a topless >gogo dancer that looped endlessly in a corner of the mac screen. hehe... yeah, one of my favorite DA's of the time. When feeling stressed, you just pop it open and watch her wiggle for a moment. A sure way to lighten the mood. >More on topic would be the guy that did MacPlaymate, and then one of the >first CD games about some spaceship. Well, if you are going to get into the later stuff, I think Virtual Valerie should be mentioned. It might have actually beaten the spaceship one to market (but I'm not sure). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 2 months

Commodore & Kaypro

by bmachacek＠pcisys.net

I have a couple of more items that are looking for a good home. 1. A Commodore 1530 Datassette Unit (Casette Player), Model C2N-A, S/N 2267772. It is in its original box, but alas, I have no paperwork or manuals to go with it. I have not tested this item to see if it works but it looks complete and in good shape and even has a casette in it. 2. A KayPro memory card. It has both a 9 pin and a 25 pin female input connector. It has no identifying marks except the word "Kaypro" and a S/N of 2046. I can't guarantee anything about this board as I got it in a large box of mixed boards several years ago. This is not a motherboard. Please contact me if you are interested. Cost will be postage charges plus $1 for my packaging costs. Bill Machacek Colorado Springs, CO

23 years, 2 months

Contact will be a tad slow...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

...for the near future... Lost my 'regular' internet link, so until I get something new in place I can only get to the net about once a day and for a limited amount of time. So if you are trying to contact me, be patient... I'm out here (somewhere), just slower than usual... -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

23 years, 2 months

H-11A/H-27 (was ...couple of new items...)

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

Umm... EEK! Did not expect the 'feeding frenzy' that this would start, so a 'bulk' reply is going out for the moment. Short form: everyone who inquired about this system is getting this note, as well as the 'list' ofr anyone else interested... 'First Call' on this system is going out to the first response received (via a separate message). Should that person decide not to purchase the system I will move down the list as needed... Description: (so I don't have to do this multiple more times) <G> H-11A chassis and P/S, H-27 dual floppy drive unit, M7270 LSI-11 CPU, 64kb RAM (don't look like either DEC or Heath, but a nice board), (2) H-11-5 serial I/O, H27 Floppy I/O. No docs, unless I locate a spare set. No floppy based software, tho I do have the original paper tape based Heath software that was distributed with the unit. (so... if anyone has a copy of 'HT-11' tha tI could get... B^} ) Condition: decent. The 'usual' nick and ding for something of it's age. Should clean up rather nicely with a little TLC. No signs of notable 'abuse'. All for now on this topic. -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

23 years, 2 months

Sierra Adventure Games

by cb＠mythtech.net

>French Postcards! The way it worked was that there were two pictures, one >loaded into the first hi-res page and the other loaded into the second >hi-res page. The two pages were then alternated to produce "animation". >The obnoxious part was that it would play this loud trill between each >page flips, so if you were trying to be discrete there was no chance of >that. That might have been it, but I remembered it being more animated cartoonish video. Some kind of a story went with it (the two ladies came home from the store pulled the salami from their bag, and wondered what they could do with it). The art quality was around that of ArtWorx's Strip Poker game. And I don't recall their being sound with it, but I could be wrong. The whole thing only ran 30 seconds or so IIRC. I'll have to look thru one of the online A2 archives... someone must have it imaged somewhere. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 2 months

The H&H AoE book

by jss＠subatomix.com

Due to the recommendation of several on the list, I went to the local Barnes and Noble and picked up Horowitz & Hill's _The Art of Electronics_. You guys weren't fibbing: this thing's great! I've only read about 10 pages so far, but it already kicks the complete @#$% out of the book I previously had. I give many thanks to those who recommended this book. The other book I had was _Understanding Electronics_. I don't remember the author's name but the publisher was TAB Books. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone except maybe for use as a firestarter. That book sucks giant donkey balls (IMHO of course). -- Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 2 months

Model 100 DVI drive

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Roger: This helps a lot. The CoCo drive I have is a single drive in a dual slimline case. I have to open it up to get the drive model numbers but at least now I have something to go on. On the cable, I would call Tandy National Parts. About 3 years ago, I ordered the DVI cable for the 102 and they had it. It was $30 or $40, but well worth it. They had bood disks too for $5. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. First Vice President Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Roger Merchberger [mailto:zmerch@30below.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:44 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Model 100 DVI drive Rumor has it that M H Stein may have mentioned these words: >From: "Cini, Richard" <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> > > Does anyone know if the specs on the Model 100 Disk-Video Interface >is the same as the CoCo disks? I have a single-drive DVI and a single >low-profile CoCo disk drive. They physically look to be the same but I >wanted to be sure before I lashed them together. Depends... ;-) The DVI wants a "standard" 34-pin interface MFM SSDD 40-track drive -- the original CoCo drives were 35-track SSDD drives. If you put one of *these* drives in the DVI, you will most surely hear bad clunking noises when you try to format your first disk. The CoCo slimline drives came in 3 flavors: The FD-500, which was 35-track SSDD (bad) the FD-501 which was 40 track SSDD (which is OK), and the FD-502 which was 40-track DSDD (which side 1 will go unused, but should work fine). I have a DVI as well, but I don't have a boot disk or interface cable for my Tandy 200... so I have yet to use it. Hope this helps! Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers zmerch(a)30below.com What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????

23 years, 2 months

SGI GIO64 FDDI card trade

by jkunz＠unixag-kl.fh-kl.de

Hi. I have a SGI Indigo2 [1] with a SGI GIO64 FDDI / CDDI SAS UTP card. I don't have copper ports on my concentrator, so I need the equivalent DAS fiber optic FDDI card. (SAS would do also, but DAS would better fit in my network topology.) I can trade the UTP SAS card and possibly soon a SGI Extreme GFX for the DAS fiber FDDI card. Alternative: A CDDI/copper to FDDI/fiber optic media converter or a CDDI/copper interface module for my Hirschmann MC 10-03 concentrator. If someone wants to get "rid" of this "obsolete" FDDI stuff, please drop me a mail. ;-) I am located in Germany. [1] The I2 was released 5/93, so it is nearly on topic. :-) -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

23 years, 2 months

PDP-8: (and others) anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives?

by fm.arnold＠inn-salzach.de

>Message: 10 >From: "Will Jennings" <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com> >To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: PDP-8: anyone tried NVRAM simulation of hard drives? >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 19:44:46 -0700 >Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > >Omnibus or Posibus? Why not Negibus? Neither Omnibus nor Posibus would help >me on my 8/i, since mine is Negibus... An SSD would be a Very Cool Thing to >have though... Especially since it really wouldn't have to be very large in >terms of capacity.. > >Will J > > Hi, one way of doing this would be the use of a TU-58 tape drive. This device is internalley using a disc-like structure, and it will connect to any serial port. There should be a PDP8 OS8 driver for this. And with the RS-232 interface, this could be used for any other computer as well. The real TU58 is sweet, but terribly slow. On top of that, the tapes are expensive. But there are cool alternatives: You will find a semiconductor-emulated TU58 kit on: http://www.SpareTimeGizmos.com/Hardware/TU58_Emulator.htm Also there is a PC-Emulation on: http://www.not-compatible.org/PDP-11/programs/tu58sim.html I havn't yet used any of these, (have a real TU58), so see for yourself how useful this is in your system. Please post the results! Frank Arnold

23 years, 2 months

Was Removing duct tape residue, now guntalk

by loedman1＠juno.com

> I always find it interesting that computer types would also be gun >nuts. I've got a 1942 Soviet Musen Nagent (Spelling?) 7.62x54R, a 1970s >era Savage 30-06, and a .380 handgun. Cabela's has a good stock of >various odd ammunition sizes, including 7.62x54R. I believe that it has to do with "protecting" our precious computers, or maybe the family ? BTW, I prefer muzzle loaders (45 and 58 cal) and saddle guns Rich Stephenson Lake Berryessa, California

23 years, 2 months

DEC Rainbow monitor in picture

by mtapley＠swri.edu

Rainbow afficionadoes, at URL http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3204407169&category=21092 (auction title = "1985 DIGITAL AD/Rainbow Computer/DEC PC/Desq", ending Feb. 4) is a picture of an advertisement (apparently clipped from a period computer magazine, from the description). While I'm annoyed with the seller (starting bid = $7.98 for *one page* of one of his old magazines??!!??), more interesting to me is the content of the ad. It shows what looks like a VR201 monitor and LK201 keyboard (presumably hooked up to a Rainbow, which is not in view), running DESQ *with a color display*. The only color monitor that I knew of that worked with a Rainbow is a VR240, and the monitor in the picture does not look like one of those to me. Question: is there a monitor that looks like a VR201 and acts (ie displays in color if connected to a Rainbow) like a VR240, or is that advertising hyperbole? I have to say that the "color display" looks photo-retouched in - the upper border of the windows line up with the monitor screen edge but the lower borders do not. - Mark No connection to the auction.

23 years, 2 months

Fw: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!"

by ETILLMAN＠satx.rr.com

Thanks! Done. Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Sharp" <jss(a)subatomix.com> To: "Ed Tillman" <ETILLMAN(a)satx.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 06:11 PM Subject: Re: Spectrum Holobyte's "BreakThru!" > You probably want to send this to the list instead of to me. The correct > address for posting is cctalk(a)classiccmp.org. > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, Ed Tillman wrote: > > Thanks to all, for all the input that helped me locate Spectum Holobyte's > > BreakThru! I did indeed find it on the referred abandonware page, and > > snatched while the gettin' was good. The actual file size was @ 1.2Mb > > zipped, and over 5Mb expanded, with over 4.5Mb being the wall patterns. I > > do remember it pushing Windows 3.1 and 4Mb of 30-pin RAM to its limits > > though... :) > > > > BTW: I thought I'd have to apologise for being OT about the game (still > > debatably fuzzy), but right on the splash screen - the earliest copyright > > listed was/is 1989. > > > > If I can help anyone in a like manner, please don't hesitate to holler! > > -- > Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 2 months

more free stuff

by loedman1＠juno.com

Available cards (1) Genoa Systems Windows VGA Mod# 8500VL Rev:A " " Rev:G " " Phantom 32 Mod# 8900VL Rev:A (2) Audio PCI 9722 Sound Card (3) Creative Labs CT6030 Video Spigot for Windows (4) Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 (5) BIBM-VIDE-500X Video DCI tv (6) Headland Technology VRAM 2 (1991) 650-0218-blank (7) Sigma Designs ReelMagic CD Rev:A1 (8) Spider Graphics Spider 64VLB (9) Seattle Computer Ram+(plus) SCP130C (four banks installed) Free to a good home ;-) More to follow, as I get the time Rich Stephenson loedman1(a)juno.com

23 years, 2 months

ADMIN: Demime is now active

by acme＠ao.net

> By popular demand, Jay and I have set up demime on the ClassicCmp server, > and all posts are being filtered through it. From here on out, all posts you > get from CC will be in plain text, with no attachments or HTML. If you send > file attachments, they will be removed from your post. If you post anything > other than plain text messages, plain text will be extracted or rendered as > appropriate. Even HTML-only or RTF-only mail is rendered into plain text. > Demime tries very hard to convert your post into plain text, but if it > simply cannot, it will bounce your post. *Sigh* Thank you! Glen 0/0

23 years, 2 months

...couple of new items...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

for the 'Garage' Garage sale... (regular internet connection is down, so have to live with text for now...) Heath H-11A + H27 --- $300.00 Altos 586 --- $40.00 Altos 580 --- $40.00 Commodore VIC-20 in original box with docs and cables - $40.00 Items are untested and as such are offered AS-IS. Shipping/packing charges additional. Offers/interesting trades considered. Thanks; -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

23 years, 2 months

Macintosh II up for grabs in New York City

by vcf＠siconic.com

Contact original sender. Reply-to: silvernails(a)mindspring.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 23:30:09 -0500 From: Tim <silvernails(a)mindspring.com> To: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> Subject: Re: Mac II to donate I have a Mac II (still working!) to donate. It is from 1987. Please advise if you are looking for such things. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

23 years, 2 months

Spare Chips

by dougdu＠microsoft.com

The EPP-2 software is available on the Art website. http://www.artbv.nl - Doug -----Original Message----- From: Paul Arts [mailto:paularts@home.nl] Sent: Tue 1/29/2013 1:17 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Cc: Subject: Re: Spare Chips I want to work my Art EPP-2 programmer but i lost the software google doesn't have what i'm looking for any of you pherhaps (its for the 27 and 28 series) Paul [demime 1.01a removed an attachment of type application/ms-tnef which had a name of winmail.dat]

23 years, 2 months

Looking for MBasic for Tandy 68000 Xenix

by kelly＠catcorner.org

Subject says it all. dd image, tar file, 8" or 5.25" floppy. Anyone have a copy laying around? Thanks, Kelly

23 years, 2 months

Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards

by drido＠optushome.com.au

>Message: 45 >Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:03:44 -0800 >From: Marvin Johnston <marvin(a)rain.org> >To: ClassicCmp <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> >Subject: Ebay: Mark 1 Computer Cards >Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > >The pictures didn't load for me right now, but if these truely are the >Mark 1 cards, it sounds like a neat collection! > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2303799002&category=1247 Most of the cards pictures are small cards with 1 or more transistors on them. Theres a couple of other parts that I can't identify from the pictures, and and 8 bit ISA card that obviously doesn't belong. Not Mark 1 parts, at least not Manchester Mark 1 parts. Could be from some other machine called Mark 1 that I don't know of.

23 years, 2 months

Tamper proof tools

by classiccmp＠vulcanjedi.com

Greetings programs. I must de-lurk here for a video game related item :) The security bits used to open Sega and Nintendo items are 4.5mm and 3.8mm inverted torx bits. www.mcmelectronics.com part numbers 22-1150 and 22-1145 and they are listed at $1.99 each. They also have the tri wing bits that open gamecube and gameboy stuff. They are also a source for replacement cartridge edge connectors and other video game hardware. I promise my next post will be about free CBM and PET computers in the Philadelphia PA USA area. :) Mark webmaster www.vulcanjedi.com 30 years of game history! Message: 19 From: "Sue & Francois" <fauradon(a)frontiernet.net> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Tamper proof tools Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 06:00:23 -0800 Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Yep there they are again :) Now that I have a few names to search with I can find exactly what I need. But at $15 a piece that makes it spendy at the moment. But hey it's for the nomad after all... :) Thank you Francois Minnesota

23 years, 2 months

I am not dead!

by mhstein＠canada.com

Same here! If anyone finds pieces of mine, let me know; being Canadian, they'll be wearing little toques with red maple leaves on them... mike in Toronto ---------------Original message------------------ From: "Jeffrey S. Worley" <Technoid(a)30below.com> Subject: I am not dead! Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:27:03 -0500 There are very few things of which I certain these days, but one thing I am sure of is that I am not dead. I'm sorry for making such a mess of the list and of my dealings with Curt. He deserved better. I just lost my mind. Plain and simple. I have some of it back now and am hunting for more. If any of you find some, please let me know so I can put it back. Regards, Jeff

23 years, 2 months

Decserver 700-16 firmware

by doug_jackson＠citadel.com.au

Hi, I have got my hands on a couple of old dec terminal servers, and am having trouble finding the firmware to make them work. These devices do not have flash, and are attempting to boot from a bootp server, so I guess that they need an image. Does anybody on the list still have an image for these boxes. Unfortunately, without software, the boxes appear to be junk, and it would be really great to get these boxes going, so that I could connect to various systems (including my SBC6120) from my pc (via TCP!) regards Doug Jackson Director, Managed Security Services Citadel Securix +61 (0)2 6290 9011 (Ph) +61 (0)2 6262 6152 (Fax) +61 (0)414 986 878 (Mobile) Web: <www.citadel.com.au> Offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Hong Kong, Boston CAUTION - The information in this message may be of a privileged or confidential nature intended only for the use of the addressee or someone authorised to receive the addressee's e-mail. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)citadel.com.au. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Citadel Securix. Feel free to visit the Citadel Securix website! Click below. http://www.citadel.com.au

23 years, 2 months

Free stuff

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Hmm... Could you please list the dimensions/size/capacity of these drives? I'm trying to cobble together an authentic late-XT or early-AT clone system, and would like to get hold of one or two fairly early (as authentic as possible) 1/2- or 1/4- height hard drives. Note: If there are any serious cc history buffs out there, I'm curious when the first CDs and or sound cards were installed in marketed XT/AT systems. Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, TX; USA Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048 edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of > loedman1(a)juno.com > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:23 PM > To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Free stuff > > The following hard drives were delivered to me yesterday > > (1) Conner CP3000 > (2) Seagate ST-125 > (3) Maxtor 7213AT > (4) Maxtor 7245AT > (5) Maxtor LXT340A > (6) Maxtor MXT540A (3) > (7) Conner CFA340A > (8) Seagate ST-225 (2) > (9) Seagate ST-238R > > Also received a bunch of miscellaneous chips and cards that I need to > sort and identify that will be available > > Rich Stephenson > >

23 years, 2 months

Removing Duct Tape Residue

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

While out in Idaho picking up a PDP-11/83 I also managed to pick up a working LA-100 at a government surplus place. It had a piece of duct tape stuck to the clear plastic cover with the word "Spare" written on it. Anyone know of a good way to remove the remaining duct tape residue >from the cover? -- 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, 2 months

TI 99/4A Power Supply

by ygehrich＠yahoo.com

I have a number of TI power supplies Texas Instruments Power Supply - Model AC 9131 IP 120va 60hz 6 watts OP 3.3vac 500ma Texas Instruments Power Supply - Model AC 9132 IP 120va 60hz 6 watts OP 5.7vac 240ma Texas Instrument Power Supply Model AC 9180 IP 120vac 50/60hz 5w OP 9.5vdc 50ma Which is the correct Power Supply for the TI 99/4A What TI machines are the others for?

23 years, 2 months

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