Anyone know what happened to Jim Willing? I've yet to receive the part
I ordered from the Computer Garage Sale and emails have gone unanswered.
--
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
Oops. Forgot the Apples. A serious decision between a highly
loaded A2 Plus, GS with 5.25 and 3.5 floppies, Mac 512 with heavy
upgrade, and Mac IIc that I have affection for.
And then their are the Zines and docs. sighhh. Not easy.
Lawrence
lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
Re: Optical paper tape readers
I have a number of PTR's from industrial controllers (my field).
Smallish Facit units (about 2.5"h x 4"w x 3.5" deep) - late 70's / early 80's model ? Mod 4032 (have circuits diagrams and an interface unit for this, and also a diagram I made to interface to bi-directional PC printer port.)
I also have one or two older Remex units that's a little bit bigger (about 5" x 4"), quite robust - mid / late 70's model. These mounted on a 19"rackmount plate with power supply (240V input) and a pulse generator to simulate step pulses (though this can be bypassed).
and some very modern looking (mid 80's) units from Data Specialties Model R150. These are really cute little units, only about 2.5" all round and weigh nothing. They have a led light source too, so no filament burnout. These have an external interface board about 3" square to link to TTL level and I have pinouts for this.
All units are designed for panel mounting, but you could easily mount them in a small metal or plastic case for bench use. I want to keep some of these, but if you're interested, contact me and we'll see what we can work out.
I'm in 'down under' by the way.
BTW, not sure if anybody has seen the waaaay old Siemens PTR's that didn't use light. Instead they used small wire brushes and contacts underneath - ah the old days! ;o)
Grant
Hi Bob,
Do you still have the Power supply from the Aptiva 2168?? How much would you charge? How would you ship? Is it in good condition?
power supply, FRU 06H2973, P/N 06H2971
has 3.3V, and an extra connector, keyed 3 pin with a latch, 22GA black,
white, & red
Dave Dickinson
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Joe, yes, I'm the seller. You are welcome to come browse the warehouse
anytime(as long as I'm in town!). We're in Melbourne Fl. Send me an email
for directions. We have thousands of boards, systems, power supplies,
keyboards, monitors, printers, cables and more. You can see a partial list
at www.tarinc.com (click on the DEC PARTS link)
thom
email me at trestivo(a)tarinc.com
Hi;
I found your post thru a Google search for an IBM 06H2973 Power Supply. I know it was a while ago, but I'd be interested in ti if you still have it. Glad to pay postage plus something. Let me know if your interested.
Thanks!
Jim Leonard
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Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking more towards commodity laptops because they are much
> more common. The LX palmtops certainly qualify for an out-of-the-box
> device that's easy to add a terminal emulator to.
The 95LX/100LX/200LX have the terminal emulator in the ROM; in fact
the 95LX's usefulness as a portable terminal is why I got interested
in the HP MS-DOS palmtops way back when. But it's been long enough
since I used a 95LX that I don't remember what its is like, other than
the less-than-24x80 screen. The 100LX/200LX have a usable VT100
emulation, and have a serial port that can do hardware flow control
which is a plus.
The 1000CX is a 100LX/200LX that just boots to MS-DOS without the
applications that are built-in to the 100LX/200LX; you'd need to add
an MS-DOS terminal emulator program to that, but then it would sit in
the internal RAMdisk until you let the batteries go flat. Maybe you
would put it on a PCMCIA flash card.
If you want to go the commodity laptop route, I wonder if the easiest
solution wouldn't be a flash device with an IDE connector. Just install
it as the "disk drive" and put FreeDOS and your favorite MS-DOS terminal
emulator. These things do turn up on eBay fairly regularly.
-Frank McConnell
Sorry if this screws up someone's snipe plans... but it was
offered a couple of weeks ago and closed with no bids. It
currently (10:50 am EST) has no bids with 11 hours to go. I
can't imagine that nobody one the list would want this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1789314629
I am looking for an old Intel unit, the IUP 200/201 universal prom
programmer, with software, and information how to use. I have the IUP-F87/51
module and userguide, and a folder of the IUP-200/201 but not the programmer
it self.
Gijs Meirmans
The Netherlands
> By the late '80's it covered most of Western Europe and the States
> including non-academic sites. CIX (Compulink Information
> Exchange) was
> founded in 1987, and Demon Internet in June 1992, both offering public
> services in the UK. Demon charged UKP10/month for dialup access.
In The Netherlands, Internet (not UUCP, but IP-based service) was simply
not affordable until the mid-to-late nineties. Demon, too, started off
as an UUCP provider- I worked with Cliff :) A lot of politics were
involved too, at least in The Netherlands. Even right now, if you not
an organization or a company, you *cannot* get a domain in the .nl space,
and several other totally BS rules.
(I got my Trailblazer UUCP link straight into the U.S. in 1988, because
we were denied a connection by NLnet (aka UUNET aka WorldCom.)
For regular people, I doubt one could get a decent and affordable conn in
1992 in the UK, Pete. Thats why Cliff started doing UUCP first :)
--fred
In a message dated 11/30/02 9:01:19 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Fred.van.Kempen(a)microwalt.nl writes:
> I have been checking some dates, and I'm quite sure that someone on
> this list isn't for real, but a spam-address-collector instead. If I
> post something on this list, I get spam pretty soon thereafter. And
> yes, I varied my sender address (a little), and it takes over that
> spelling.
>
>
I don't think this is true for me. I use a separate email address for this
list, that only is used for this list, and it gets almost no spam at all. I
see no differences when I reply to the list. I get no increase of spam that I
can detect.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
James wrote:
> I think my wife says prayers of thanks each day, that I don't
> like or collect big iron or mini's.
Owww... if you change your mind, I still have a Masscomp 5700 for
you... wife can use it for laundry dryer, too !
Seriously.. anyone interested in a Masscomp 5700?
Cheers,
Fred (trying to make room.. VAXen are trying to assimilate me..)
>Which connector are you referring to? The KA630 and KA65x both use the
>same console bulkhead, and in turn use the same two cables that connect
>it. The KA630 and KA65x do of course use different memory boards, but the
>ribbon cable that connects them is the same. Those are the only 3
>connectors that I can think of offhand, except for the Q/CD bus
>connectors...
The over-the-top connector in question is the one used to connect
the memory cards to the CPU; sometimes also called the PMI connector.
The KA630 one and the KA650 one(s) are different. The KA630 one
does have some issue in a KA650 system, but I don't know exactly what
the problem is. IIRC the KA630 one has three connectors (two mem boards
max) so a four connector one (three memory boards) would be a KA65x one.
(I don't have part numbers and a quick google didn't help).
This may, of course, have nothing to do with your actual problem.
>Well, *none* of the memory boards are faulty :)
OK - if you know they work, that's different.
>For some reason, they seem to not be getting clean power, so they are not
>working properly. I won't know for sure until I get my scope probes, but I
>expect to see lots of noise on the power supply output that happens to
>power most of the chips on those boards.
Antonio
Thanks to Tony and Dwight for their advice on
repairing my ailing teletype model 33 ASR. It is now
functioning correctly.
The problem turned out to be the trip lever which had
come unseated from its guide, plus a mal-adjusted
distributor. The distributor clutch was permanently
engaged, not synchronized with the keyboard.
Characters printed OK when holding REPT because the
keyboard reset concided with the start of the
distributor cycle, bringing them both into sync while
REPT was held down.
I should have realized this before as I watched that
distributor whiz round and round... D'oh. Anyway now
it runs a lot quieter too and the carriage responds
crisply to keystrokes after all that cleaning.
Dave
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>This is a all beige mouse with a long 9 pin connector. On the connector is
>the number KPT-0044J-03 and on the mouse is model A2M4015.
Going off the model number, it would seem to be an Apple part. If it is
all the same color beige (button isn't a slightly darker color), then I
would think it is the original Apple II mouse (which would fit with the
model number designator A2M for Apple 2 Mouse). I believe these were used
with the Apple IIe (pre IIe Platinum).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On Nov 29, 12:33, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Peter Turnbull wrote:
> > After some of the posts here, I'm seriously thinking of getting one.
Can
> > anyone tell me what the screen resolution is (chars x lines) if I use
it as
> > a terminal?
>
> I found a site that offers a VT100 emulator for it.
>
> The original model (which is now selling for 25$US on Amazon.com), has
> the following specs:
>
> 32bit, 11MHz Hitachi H8S/2246; a 4MHz Amtel AT90S2313; 512KB of RAM, LCD
> display of 160x100 pixels,
I found that, and also saw in the terminal emulator blurb that there's a
choice of fonts including 3x5, 4x6 and 5x7, so it should be able to make a
reasonable display, say 40 chars by 16 lines. The software is hardly a
VT100 emulation though; it only does clear screen and cursor movements, and
none of the other VT100 ops. So far :-)
> an RF2915 transceiver, RS232 serial port. The
> RF communication specs are that it operates in the frequency of
> 902-928MHz. It supports 30 digital channels, with rates of 19200
> bps/channel. The range is 150ft indoors, and 300ft outdoors.
It says "up to 150ft". In some places I've been, I bet it would be pushed
to manage 150" :-)
> And it
> mentions a "max on-line Cybiko computers" of 3000 (100 units on each of
> 30 channels). My impression that each unit can communicate
> simultaneouly with that number of other units.
>
> This information was found near the end (pg 46 or 47) of their online
> guide: http://www.cybiko.com/guide/guide.pdf
>
> The newer Xtreme (gah!) model has more RAM, a faster main processor, and
> a USB port (I don't see an RS232 port mentioned.)
> http://www.cybikoxtreme.com/support/specs.asp
USB isn't useful to me. None of my SGIs, Suns or older machines support
it.
BTW, the RRP in the UK is ?29.99 according to Cybiko's online shop. I've
seen it for ?26.99 at Jungle, it may be cheaper elsewhere. That includes
batteries, charger, RS232 cable, etc, so it's worth buying "on spec" at
that price. And the Linux SDK is free, like the Windows one, except it's
(the Linux SDK) currently one revision ahead, interestingly.
Anyway, I found the terminal emulator. More importantly, I found Asteroids
and Colossal Cave ;-) Now I just need Wumpus ;-)
http://www.devrs.com/cybiko/download.php
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Network Manager
University of York
On Nov 29, 17:00, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Just out of interest, how many people here over the age of - shall we say
> twelve - have got a Cybiko? From the photos I've seen it would make a
nice
> portable terminal, but it looks a bit "kiddy". Nothing a can of Humbrol
> spray-on matt enamel paint and matching varnish wouldn't cure, though.
After some of the posts here, I'm seriously thinking of getting one. Can
anyone tell me what the screen resolution is (chars x lines) if I use it as
a terminal?
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Network Manager
University of York
I'm still unemployed (but hopeful), and last week I spent about $200 on
classiccmp gear that I couldn't really afford. I've got to recoup the cost
of this or bills don't get paid this month. So I did some housecleaning and
put a bunch of items up on eBay. There is some DEC stuff, an HP workstation,
and a grab bag of other miscellaneous items:
http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=xor-ax-ax
In a few days, I'll add more to that list: 2 HP-85s, a couple more DEC
boards, and maybe some more cables.
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Jeffrey Sharp
Hello folks,
I've registered at cpq user group, got OpenVMS license, but I do not really
want to order OpenVMS media for $30 (or whatever). Would anyone be so kind to
supply me with a link where to get these iso images?
Thanks in advance,
--
freddy
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> So what? People still did useful work on those machines. I wrote a
>> database program to store my comic book collection on a computer with 2K
>> of effective memory and a rubber "chiclet" keyboard using cassette tape
>> for storage. Are you saying this was't real?
>
>One of my related interests is programmable calculators (which are really
>computers IMHO -- or at least I've love to see a sane definition which
>excludes them). I've been using an HP65 (100 program steps, 10 registers
>(variables)), an HP67 (224 progam steps, 26 variables), and so on. And
>from the published software I have for these machines, I'll bet that
>'real work' was done using them.
>
>-tony
>
>
Oh no!
Tony has brought 4 bit computers into the world of being
useful. We are just lucky that one can't make a useful
0 bit computer.
Dwight
I recently posted to this list my desire to give a good home to big
bunch of old computers, including some DEC PDPs and some CP/M lunks, and
Atari and Commodore pioneers.
The response was amazing. I never realized there were so many people
still interested in preserving and using these classics. In less than a
week, I had contact information and offers and requests for information
>from many parts of the continent.
As it turned out, conveniently, they all found homes right here in
the Ottawa area.
Thank you all for your generosity with contact information and
suggestions.
I believe the old computers thank you also.
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