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by fernande＠internet1.net

Don't really know what it is, but it claims to have MCA slots?? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2036499330 Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

23 years, 9 months

Lisa 1 Registry (WAS Re: And, the insanity continues)

by jd＠hq.sjaa.com.au

Hi Sellam, Well better count me in for my "frankenlisa" as you previously referred to it. You may remember it was upgraded to a Lisa 2/5 and I subsequently 'downgraded' (?) to a Lisa 1. Had to find the I/O ROM, twiggy drives and cage and the front panel, reconnect the two resisters etc,etc. I even managed to find a complete set of Lisa OS and Office v1 disks. Unfortunately, the Lisa OS disk 1 went bad before I could install the Profile. I now have a new (copied) set on the way. I have got it to boot the Lisa 1 version of BPI accounting though. I've also got a copy of Unix for Lisa 1 but the serialized ROM is causing me trouble. Anyone ever found a technician's video ROM with no serial number? If so I'd love to get a copy! I remember someone contacted me about an application they were writing to take images of twiggy floppies - a flurry of activity at first, then nothing. Anyone else heard from them? Kind regards, Justin Dunlop Melbourne, Australia >The reserve was met at $10,000, which is exactly the value that I would >place on a working Lisa 1 of this caliber, with the accessories included. >I know of around maybe a dozen in existence now (with you having two that >brings the total up :) >I need to start a Lisa 1 registry. Who's got one (or two)? > >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 * -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Justin M. Dunlop email: jd(a)hq.sjaa.com.au ____________________________________________________________________________

23 years, 9 months

C8080A needed

by classiccmp＠mail.vintage-computer.com

Due to a small mishap I find myself in need of one or two C8080As or some other variant of that chip. Does anyone out there have any functional ones for sale or maybe for trade? Thanks, Erik

23 years, 9 months

Need IC Master Catalogs (1989-1991)

by foo＠siconic.com

I am in need of IC Master catalogs for the years 1989-1991. Anyone have any to part with or know where I can get them? Please reply directly to <sellam(a)vintagetech.com> Thanks! 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, 9 months

[maybe OT]: WTD: Panasonic KXP4400 RAM upgrade board

by philpem＠dsl.pipex.com

Hi, About a month ago, I bought myself a laser printer. Specifically, a Panasonic KX-P4400 (OK, so it's an LED printer, not a laser, big deal). Unfortunately, the thing only has 1MB of RAM onboard. Panasonic want $400 for a 4MB upgrade board ($100 per megabyte? WHAT?) and Kingston have discontinued their $40 clone. Sooo... Has anyone got a Panasonic "KX-PEM1", "KX-PEM2" or "KX-PEM3" module lying around somewhere? Alternatively, the Kingston Technology equivalents, "KT4400LP/2" or "KT4400LP/4" would be suitable. Anyone got one of these boards they feel like parting with? Printing out schematics on this thing is damn near impossible with only 1MB of RAM... Contact me off-list if you've got one of the aforementioned boards; I wouldn't want to end up pushing the signal-to-noise ratio on Classiccmp any higher :-) Thanks. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/

23 years, 9 months

Fw: Good Finds

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Can anyone help this guy out? I will have to look around and see if I have a manual for one of these but that will take awhile. ----- Original Message ----- From: Rasmus Djupedal To: jrkeys(a)concentric.net Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 6:36 AM Subject: Re: Good Finds hey i just saw your mail adress on an old messageboard on the net. im wondering if you have any info about the Sharp CE-150.. i mean list of available commands and how to use them. I would really appriciate if you could reply tot his message with some info or a link som get site on the net explaining all the commands and how to use the CE-150. thanks /Rasmus

23 years, 9 months

Philips Garage Sale and Auction, update

by class＠fliptronics.com

Hi, Philip's garage sale and auction, phase 1, is comming to an end. I have updated the web site with more details, and some new items. Please see this URL for auction details, and the new pics. http://www.fliptronics.com/garagesale/ Thanks for your interest, Philip Freidin

23 years, 9 months

Questions about Central Point Deluxe Option board

by aek＠spies.com

High resolution scans of both deluxe and non-deluxe boards will be up at www.spies.com/aek/c2opt for the next week or so, for the curious.

23 years, 9 months

And, the insanity continues

by celt＠chisp.net

Maybe it's time to drag my two Lisa 1's out of storage... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2033627836 And the reserve isn't even met yet! /mpm

23 years, 9 months

Philips Garage Sale and Auction, update

by philip＠fliptronics.com

23 years, 9 months

non DEC drives (was: DEC 350)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 1, 13:42, Megan wrote: > Somewhere I have a set of the sources for the RQDX1/2 boards. They > were designed to recognize certain disks from certain vendors. The > code does not make much attempt to truly determine geometry, it > uses hard-wired values, which is why only certain ones work. > > I have no doubt that when the RQDX3 was done it was implemented in > the same way... that only certain disks from certain vendors would > be recognized. To have it recognize another disk, you would have > to add an entry to the disk characteristics table in the source > for the firmware and blast a new set of ROMs. Actually, you wouldn't, that's one of the big differences between the RQDX1/2 and RQDX3. The 1/2 perform various tricks to try to work out what disk is connected, especially when formatting. The tricks vary between versions of the firmware, so I have a 10MB Rodime disk which one RQDX2 version will "recognise" and format but other versions won't. Several years ago, I had an interesting email conversation with Chuck O'Toole who wrote the sniffer code (and most of the MSCP, geometry, and access code) for the RQDX1, which is part of the DUP utilities in the firmware. It was intended to autosize certain known drive types that DEC would/might sell, to differentiate between them, and it was known that the succesor (eventually, the RQDX3) would be along later, so there was no great incentive to make it fully general. However, the RQDX3 doesn't depend on the tricks. The formatter doesn't rely on DUP utilities built into the RQDX firmware but uses tables in the formatter software (XXDP ZRQC??.BIN). It only uses the DUP utilities to perform the actual track formatting. There's an option to force it to use a table entry of your choice (including entries for common drives like ST-251 and ST225) and even an option to bypass the tables and enter all the necessary values by hand, though it takes a bit of effort to work out what they all should be for any given drive. Tim Shoppa posted some information to the list in 1997 about the makeup of the various numbers, and I have some more in some manuals which I might be persuaded to dig out if anyone is really enthusiastic. It would still take a bit of exprimentation and guesswork, though. DEC's patent describes the basic ideas and the TLAs: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/ne…''4,434,487''.WKU.&OS=PN/"4,434,487"&RS=PN/"4,434,487" -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 9 months

VAX11/780 going further

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Hi, today I received the PCS module replacement I needed for the 11/780. And it helped indeed. See the transcript below. I do get some timeout at step 54, please have a look. I don't know what the problem is. May be it was going to test the DW780 and I didn't have the UNIBUS cabinet powered? Thanks, -Gunther CPU HALTED,SOMM CLEAR,STEP=NONE,CLOCK=NORM RAD=HEX,ADD=PHYS,DAT=LONG,FILL=00,REL=00000000 INIT SEQ DONE HALTED AT 00000000 (RELOADING WCS) LOAD DONE, 0800 MICROWORDS LOADED VER: PCS=01 WCS=0E-10 FPLA=0F CON=V07-00-L ?WARNING-WCS & FPLA VER MISMATCH >>>TEST ZZ-ESKAB V14.0 ESKAD -- V13.1 01,02,03,04, NO. OF 1K BANKS OF WCS = 0002 05,06,07,08,09,0A,0B,0C,0D,0E,0F,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17, 18,19,1A,1B,1C,1D,1E,1F, ESKAH-V13.2 20, SYSTEM ID REGISTER = 0140B63E KE780 FPLA NOT PRESENT 21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,2A,2B,2C,2D,2E, 2F,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,3A,3B,3C, END PASS 0001 MOUNT FLOPPY ZZ-ESZAD & TYPE "DI" MIC>DI ESKAR-V2.0 3D,3E, CPU TR = 00000010 MS780H 256K CHIP AT TR 00000001 LOWER CNTRLLR MAX ADDRESS+1= 01000000 UPPER CNTRLLR MAX ADDRESS+1= 01000000 DW780 AT TR 00000003 RH780 AT TR 00000008 RH780 AT TR 00000009 3F,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,4A,4B,4C,4D,4E,4F,50,51,52, MS780-E/H IO BASE ADDRESS = 20002000 LOWER CONTROLLER MAX ADDR + 1 = 01000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000000 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000001 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000002 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000003 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 MS780-E/H IO BASE ADDRESS = 20002000 UPPER CONTROLLER MAX ADDR + 1 = 01000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000000 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000001 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000002 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 BOARD NUMBER = 00000003 NUMBER OF CRD ERRORS = 00000000 53, MS780-H 256K CHIP AT TR 00000001 M8376 ROMS OK 54, ?TIMEOUT IN TEST 01FF UPC= 1241 MIC> -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

23 years, 9 months

Apple ][ ignorance

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

Okay, dug out the Apple ][e, DuoDisk, and ImageWriter II I was given some time back, got a SuperSerial card installed and configured and the ImageWriter II works fine. DuoDisk works too, but what is the command to select a specific drive? At this point all I can read/write to is the boot drive (left-most drive) TIA -- Glen 0/0 If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if not now, when? -- Pirkei Avot

23 years, 9 months

[CCTECH] PC board storage

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I'm seeking opinions on long-term PC board storage. Is it better for longer term storage of "classic" boards to individually pack them in "metal out" static bags and store them in conventional cardboard boxes or should I buy a few static dissipative cardboard boxes or Bentron plastic totes and store the boards there? Rich _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

23 years, 9 months

Classic Computer Spider

by blacklord＠telstra.com

----- Original Message ----- From: Chad Fernandez <fernande(a)internet1.net> Date: Saturday, June 29, 2002 1:07 am Subject: Re: Classic Computer Spider > David Barnes wrote: > > and aren't brown recluse spiders VERY dangerous? > > Well not like the Sidney Funnel Web, but yes they are dangerous. SYDNEY!!!! They're *very* nasty, ranks up there as about the most deadly spider in the world, the females bite can kill within 2 hours, the males within 15 minutes. However, they generally don't lurk in old computers :-) Shoes, clothes & beds are better :-) Deaths are fairly rare though, anti venom has been available for some time. This thread recently came up in the Fidonet SF echo too, wonder if it's spreading..... Lance ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

23 years, 9 months

help with majordomo

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Alex White <meltie(a)myrealbox.com> wrote: > Putting it in the headers is a nice touch but hardly the first place i'd > look for unsub info. It seems to be the wave of the present for automated mailing lists. Personally I miss the days when, given a list addressed "list@host", list-request@host could reasonably be assumed to be read by someone who understood words like "please", or at least didn't reply to such words with an error report. I like automated list-management software too, I just don't appreciate the change of the old convention. -Grumpy Ol' Frank

23 years, 9 months

Apple ][ ignorance

by mythtech＠mac.com

>Okay, dug out the Apple ][e, DuoDisk, and ImageWriter II I was given some >time back, got a SuperSerial card installed and configured and the >ImageWriter II works fine. DuoDisk works too, but what is the command to >select a specific drive? > >At this point all I can read/write to is the boot drive (left-most drive) I'm REALLY rusty on my Apple II stuff, but IIRC, you swap drives with the D command (D1 for drive one D2 for drive 2). So for a catalog, it is "catalog D2" to show what is on drive 2. And IIRC once it is issued, it stays on the last drive used, so from there, RUN and similar commands will effect drive 2. You would issue a new "catalog D1" to swap back to drive 1. Ok, that is my rusty as hell rememberance (I haven't done anything on an Apple II in YEARS other than boot them to see if they come on), so I am eager to see just how wrong my memory is. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 9 months

OT: Power Line Carrier communications ...

by edick＠idcomm.com

If anyone has some recent COTS-equipment experience with this technology, please contact me off-list. thanks, Dick

23 years, 9 months

And, the insanity continues

by mythtech＠mac.com

>I need to start a Lisa 1 registry. Who's got one (or two)? Who's got one (or two) and wants to give one to ME? And when is a working 128k going to pull 10 g's? I have two of those I could hock (and one dead one). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 9 months

help with majordomo

by hjagnew＠mba1.mba-consulting.com

I'm really sorry to post but I have no choice, there is no admin link on the web page that tells me where else to go for problem resolution. I want to unsubscribe from the list but huey.classiccmp.org is not accepting mail for majordomo. Here is a copy of my session with smtp. Thanks for any help! Jared hjagnew:mba1:~/mail > telnet huey.classiccmp.org 25 Trying 209.145.140.36... Connected to huey.classiccmp.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 huey.classiccmp.org ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:41:01 -0500 (CDT) HELO mba1.mba-consulting.com 250 huey.classiccmp.org Hello hjagnew(a)mba1.mba-consulting.com [207.154.57.74], pleased to meet you MAIL FROM: hjagnew(a)mba1.mba-consulting.com 250 2.1.0 hjagnew(a)mba1.mba-consulting.com... Sender ok RCPT To: majordomo(a)classiccmp.org 550 5.1.1 majordomo(a)classiccmp.org... User unknown quit 221 2.0.0 huey.classiccmp.org closing connection Connection closed by foreign host.

23 years, 9 months

Help booting CTOS/BTOS

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Doc I have 3 or 4 CTOS/BTOS machines, power supplies and cables. One of the machines has a hard disk and a floopy. I suspect there is an OS on the hard disk. I don't have a console terminal. I'll try and look at it this week. mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

23 years, 9 months

Fw: DEC Vax 6000-310

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Can anyone do something to help out this young lady? Her husband was aiming for a noble deed, and we should support him. Bob >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kate Olin" <blue(a)intrnet.net> >To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> >Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 08:00 PM >Subject: DEC Vax 6000-310 > >I have a DEC Vax 6000-310 I have to sell. If interested, please email... blue(a)intrnet.net > also >If he could get his expenses back, he'd be happy in that he'd feel he was >preserving it and sending it to a good home, but if he can't get that, I'm >sure the tax deduction [to a charitable, computer-preserving, organization] > might take the sting out of it. He didn't pay that much for it. With the >hauling and what it cost him, I think he's got a 100 dollars in it. > >Anyway, thanks so much. I hope we can get our money back on it. My husband >just couldn't imagine letting them scrap it and he loves DEC stuff. If >anyone is interested too, perhaps we should tell them that it is located >deep in Southern Illinois (almost the tip of the state). And if needing >shipping, freightquote is really cheap for that. We've been really happy >with them.

23 years, 9 months

help with majordomo

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"H. Jared Agnew" <hjagnew(a)mba1.mba-consulting.com> wrote: > I'm really sorry to post but I have no choice, there is no admin link > on the web page that tells me where else to go for problem resolution. > I want to unsubscribe from the list but huey.classiccmp.org is not > accepting mail for majordomo. Here is a copy of my session with smtp. In the header of every message sent to this list is the following: List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk>, <mailto:cctalk-request@classiccmp.org?subject=unsubscribe> -Frank McConnell

23 years, 9 months

Fwd: Teletype model 33 TBP in UK

by jfoust＠threedee.com

Return-Path: <chezzy.williams(a)virgin.net> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:31:37 +0100 From: Cheryl Williams <chezzy.williams(a)virgin.net> Reply-To: chezzy.williams(a)virgin.net Organization: Netscape Online member Subject: Teletype machine for preservation Hi, I have a Teletype model 33 TBP that I need to get rid of. I have had this for years and obtained it as part of a deal when I bought a Commodore VIC 20 many moons ago. The unit is (I believe) in full working order. Would you be aware of anyone in the UK who might be interested in preserving this unit. If so could you please forward details to me a.s.a.p. regards, Ed Williams please reply to ed.williams(a)virgin.net

23 years, 9 months

Question about DECservers

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I seem to remember someone saying that the DECservers are basically a Q-Bus PDP-11 system. Is this correct, or am I thinking of something else? Also, does anyone know what they're based off of and if it's possible to make them boot a 'conventional' os by changing their bootroms? Thanks -- Pat

23 years, 9 months

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