Sorry to continue, but I don't currently have newsgroup access and
I have serached on the newsgroups for my problem via Dejanews.
I decided to attempt to recharge my battery using a PC power supply.
Will this work? The battery is labelled to be 12V, 1.7 Ahr. It's a
NiCd. The power supply is 12V 6Ah. I'm doing it now, but I'm wondering
how long I should leave it, or should I not have done it at all.
Also, can I power the laptop with 6ah directly from the PSU though
the battery is rated at 1.7 without frying it?
No more questions about this from me. Thanks.
P.S. does anyone know why this laptop has three batteries? THe main
one that I was talking about above, a little black 2.7v NiCd like on
a PC, and a round flat one like in a watch, only bigger. What's this
last one for?
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At 03:04 PM 7/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>2. Fortune 32:16, formerly running ForPro. Unfortunately, the boot drive
crashed. He has tapes,
>floppies, but no HD (I think) - is this worthy to be kept?
The fortune 32:16 was one cool machine; it was way ahead for its time,
so naturally, scarcely anyone bought them :-(
Ok, one more question. This may seem dumb to you electronics experts,
but when charging, should I attach the positive terminal of the AC
adapter to the positive or to the negative terminal of the battery?
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Okay, I just dug through my bookshelf, and found a 1986 inmos databook.
Chapter 5 is "Transputer Products", and includes the following:
Selection Guide (1 page)
IMS T414 Transputer (16 pages)
IMS T212 Transputer (12 pages)
IMS C001 Link Adaptor (4 pages)
IMS C002 Link Adaptor (4 pages)
IMS B001 Evaluation Board (4 pages)
IMS B002 Evaluation Board (4 pages)
IMS B004 Evaluation Board (4 pages)
IMS D100 Development Station (4 pages)
IMS D600 Development System VAX/VMS (4 pages)
IMS D700 Development System IBM PC (4 pages)
OCCAM (2 pages)
Let me know if you need info from this, and if it is urgent.
Cheers,
Bill.
> Dellett, Anthony wrote:
>
> > Well... I finally found one, I ordered a used Imsai 8080 from an
> > undisclosed place in CA (they had one on consignment) and they're
> > shipping it to me here in Boston.
>
> Not even gonna guess what shipping is cross country for that
> heavy of a
> machine. Does it work did they say?
>
Shipping was only $71, the guy is even foam packing it.
I guess I can confess and say it's coming from Weird Stuff Warehouse in
Sunnyvale.
This is an as-is sale but I'm sure if it doesn't work, I can fix it :)
Tony
A friend of mine has two systems that he needs to find info on.
1. Symbolics 3650 - this system boots into a wierd LISP command prompt, but complains durring boot
about not being able to find the rest of the "world." Any info to help admin the thing would be
groovy.
2. Fortune 32:16, formerly running ForPro. Unfortunately, the boot drive crashed. He has tapes,
floppies, but no HD (I think) - is this worthy to be kept?
Any help will be appreciated. I might end up adding these systems to my collection, right next to my
7 VAX systems.
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These hinges are metal, and there's no pointing device of any sort.
Do you know the pinout of the power connector or not?
>
>I have seen more broken hinges on Compaqs than any other machine. In
>fact, I challenge anybody to find a used Compaq Concerto that doesn't
have
>broken hinges. There's a thriving third-party industry in Compaq
Portable
>repair. As a result of this, it's fairly easy to find replacement
parts
>for them (but often at high prices).
>
>As far as ergonomics go, I give you 10 minutes of trying to use that
>screen-mounted track ball before you throw the machine across the room.
>
>> have to agree with. Unfortunatley, the docking station was being sold
>> for more than the portable. But, hey! You use one too! Hipocrite ;)
>
>I use Compaqs to practice my repair technique. I got a couple of them
>recently in which the hinges had become degreased and stiff, so the
owners
>broke the displays off trying to use their laptops. I haven't found a
>good replacement for the hinges yet, but re-greasing and reinforcing
the
>hinges with metal plates gives me working 486 laptops at around $10
each.
>I put them to work as dedicated controllers and linux servers since
their
>power consumption is lower than an old desktop.
>
>-- Doug
>
>
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At 11:08 AM 7/20/98 PDT, you wrote:
>
>Sorry to continue, but I don't currently have newsgroup access and
>I have serached on the newsgroups for my problem via Dejanews.
>I decided to attempt to recharge my battery using a PC power supply.
>Will this work? The battery is labelled to be 12V, 1.7 Ahr. It's a
>NiCd. The power supply is 12V 6Ah.
The power supply is probably rated at 6A, not 6Ah. 6 amps charging would be too
much for an 1.7Amp hour battery and would greatly shorten its life. 200 or
300 mA would be much better.
However, charging a 12 Volt battery off a 12 Volt regulated power supply
most likely will not completely charge it, as the float charging voltage is
closer
to 13.5 volts. You need something designed as a charger to get the full
capacity from the battery.
-Dave
Just want to brag, like the rest of you about this weeks' find. A
Compaq SLT 286!! Anyone know anything about it, how much it's worth??
Mike Sheflin
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Remember that Compaq is the first PC clone maker and the first
portable PC maker ever. I think that's not bad.
>Bragging about Compaqs -- that's an interesting concept. Kind of like
>being proud of pimples.
>
I doubt any of that is true. I mean, sure, they're not GRiDs, and I
don't think this one is unergonomic. The power connector bit, I'll
have to agree with. Unfortunatley, the docking station was being sold
for more than the portable. But, hey! You use one too! Hipocrite ;)
>Compaq is the leader in three areas of portable design: the world's
most
>fragile portables, the world's least ergonomic portables, and the
world's
>weirdest and largest variety of proprietary power connectors.
>
>The power adapter is pretty hard to find, compared to finding a
>thrown-away LTE Lite. I've never seen the connector available as a
>standard part. You can also power the thing from the proprietary bus
>connector, so you might have an easier time finding a cheap docking
>station to power/charge than finding/making an A/C adatper.
>
>Another alternative is a cool briefcase made for insurance adjusters
that
>was custom designed for the LTE Lite, and has an A/C plug in the
>briefcase. You can get them for around $30 from Halted:
> http://www.halted.com/
>
>BTW, I need the flex cable that connects to the display of an LTE Lite.
>I'll trade a battery for one.
>
>-- Doug
>
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At 04:06 PM 7/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
>
>> I also want to brag that I got a Compaq Lite-25 486.
>
>Bragging about Compaqs -- that's an interesting concept. Kind of like
>being proud of pimples.
>
>> question: does anyone know what their power connector pinout is? It's
>> a weird little three-pin thing like the compaq monitor power
>> interface. Does anyone have plugs or know where to get them?
>
>Compaq is the leader in three areas of portable design: the world's most
>fragile portables, the world's least ergonomic portables, and the world's
>weirdest and largest variety of proprietary power connectors.
>
You forgot one category: Most difficult to open. The last LTE I tried to
open required the skill of a surgeon to dissassemble.
Jeff
>>OK, possibly the last entry in this thread. (Hey, I've been too busy to
>>keep up with this list!)
> Nope, I'm even slower at getting around to doing things...
:) Not slower, courious before sending myself, but now:
Meeeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooooooooo:
Computer:
KIM
PC 100 (OEM AIM 65 from SIEMENS)
PET (small and big Keyboard)
CBM 2001
CBM 3016
(and several 40xx and 80xx)
CBM SK 8296
CBM SK 8296D
CBM 610
CBM 720
Commodore B500
(and some printers and floppies)
VC-20
C64 (more than 10 - never counted)
C64-II (C64C)
C64G
(and some 1541, 1570,1571 floppies)
C128
C16
C116
Plus 4
Amiga 500
Amiga 1000
Amiga 2000
ITT MP-Experimerter
SC/MP II
EUROCOM I
APPLE ][euro+
APPLE //c
APPLE ///
Lisa 2
Macintosh 128K
Macintosh IIsi
Macintosh LC II
Macintosh Performa 630 DOS
Basis 108
Ohio Superboard II
TRS 80 Mod I Lv2 & Expansion
TRS 80 Mod III & Hard Disk
TRS 80 Model 4
Video-Genie
EG2002 Colour Genie
Olivetti M10
IBM-PC
IBM-PC/XT Clone
(And about 5 or 6 modern clones)
SIRIUS 1
OSBORNE 1DQD
Philips P2000C
Pascal Microengine
ATARI 400 (German and US)
ATARI 800 (German and US)
ATARI 600XL
ATARI 800XL
ATARI ST 520+
ATARI 1040 ST E
ORIC 1
ORIC ATMOS
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair ZX Spectrum+
Sinclair Z88
Sinclair QL
Your Computer (8300)
Laser 50
Laser 2000
Dragon 32
Dragon 64
BBC Computer
Yashica YC-64 (MSX I)
Sony HiBit (MSX I)
Philips VG8010/00 (MSX)
S100-Bus Systems (several CPUs and so on)
Eltec 80
SANYO MB 1000
Sharp MZ80A
Sharp MZ80B
Sharp MZ80K
Sharp MZ811
Sharp MZ821
SWTP 6800
Motorola MEK6802D5
EXORterm (...), sowie ca. 15 weitere 6800, 6802 & 6809 Boards,
ENTERPRISE 128
TA Alphatronic
TA Alphatronic PC
TA Walkstation 286
Superbrain
HP 9121
Tatung TCS-4000
SIEMENS Mikroset 8080
SIEMENS 5521
SIEMENS PC 16-10
SIEMENS PC-D
SIEMENS PC-MX (9780)
SIEMENS PC-MX2
SIEMENS WS30-435(Apollo)
SIEMENS PCD-3T
SIEMENS PCD-4T
SIEMENS PCD-4G
486er Clone
Pentium.
Terminals:
TI Silent 700
TI Silent 709
Whisper Reader Mod 1951
SIEMENS 97801 (gruen && weis)
EECO D400
Heazeltine 1000
(and several other)
Taschenrechner:
Newton OMP (OS 1.3 upgraded)
Newton 120 (OS 1.3)
Newton MP2000
Ti 74S
SHARP PC 1211
SHARP PC 1241
SHARP PC 1250
SHARP PC 1251
SHARP PC 1261
SHARP PC 1430
SHARP PC 1500A
sowie 14 nicht-Basic Taschenrechner.
Videogames:
ATARI XE
ATARI Jaguar
ATARI Lynx
ATARI VCS
ATARI VCS 2600
Philips G7000
MEMO TEST
(and several early '80s junk :)
Maybe sone are missing ... I never did a listing :(
Gruss
H.
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Christian Fandt <cfandt(a)servtech.com> wrote:
> Aha! Now I can connect QIC36/QIC02.... My HP 250 uses DC600 type tape carts.
Don't be too sure of that. If it's a 9144 drive or one integrated in
a 79xx disc drive, it uses tapes that are mechanically the same but
with a completely different format called HCD that predates the QIC
formats and cannot be completely recorded in the field. THe format
involves full-width block markers that can't be recorded by the heads
in the drives.
Bob Niland used to post something about this over in comp.sys.hp.*
when someone popped the question. Go do a search in DejaNews for
author rjn(a)csn.net in comp.sys.hp.hardware looking for the keywords
QIC and HCD and you will probably turn it up.
-Frank McConnell
>> Just want to brag, like the rest of you about this weeks' find. A
>> Compaq SLT 286!! Anyone know anything about it, how much it's worth??
hmm, was there sarcasm buried in there or not? :)
I've got one of those things somewhere... weighs about five tons and the
battery lasts for about five minutes. Still, they were pretty well built
machines, had mono VGA screens, the one I've got has a 42MB hard drive
in it (which I suppose was pretty damn good for a laptop of that time).
not really worth anything now (seem to remember they were over 4000 UK
pounds when new - isn't depreciation great? ;) but you may find a use
for it...
(I suppose it has some nostalgia value for me - it was my first exposure
to the world of PCs... I remember the hard drive on mine had been
partitioned into two, and I spent months marvelling at a whole 12MB of
space before I found the other 30MB ;*)
cheers
Jules
>
Wow... those were some really quick responses, thanks!
The gear I'm looking to unload is a PDP 11/35 and a VAX 750, both in the
Dayton, Ohio area. Fairly big stuff to move if you're familiar with.
I hate to barge in on a mailing list and ask newbie questions; But if
anyone could point me to, or provide info on subscribing, FAQs, etc I'd
appreciate it !
Me?? - - A 30ish hack, teeth cut on PDPs and Apples in the late 70's. Why
is my 45000000MHz windoze machine so @!#$ slow ?!?!?
-Wayne
A heads-up for any Southern CA GearHeads.. the TRW Swapmeet is
this Saturday, the 25th, at the TRW El Segundo facility, from 7:30
am til 11:30 am. (Every month, always the *last* saturday)
I have made many happy recoveries there over the years, including
the $50 IMSAI 8080 / 4 8" drives/ tons o' software that I scored a
few months back... and Marvin's Rockwell AIM with FORTH in PROM...
as well as loads of electronic and radio-related Stuff.
Anyone wishing more info, e-mail me direct... also it might be
an Amusing Idea to have a bit of a get-together afterward... maybe?
Just a (not original) thought...
I have two permanent Selling Spaces... Items are cheerfully
accepted for sale by you (unless they're bigger than my truck...) as
long as I get Rights of First Refusal on yer jun^H^H^H merchandise.
Cheers
John
This thread is becoming awesome!!
OK I've been holding off. Since I'm the great procrastinator, I've been
avoiding catalogueing what I've got.
Synapsis is I've got 40 to 50 computers, heavy into Atari and PS2
Many monitors that I'm weeding out to keep the unique ones like the
Radius Portrait for Apples or historic like the IBM 5151and 5153.
Vic-20, C-64 ,C-64c, C128
Mac Plus, Apple II, IIPlus , IIe
CoCo 1 and CoCo 2
TI 4/99
TRS80 model II with 3 physically huge 8 meg HDDs
Phillips Micom 2000 dedicated WP with an 8" Shugart
and a Qume daisy wheel printer that has a power supply big enough
to power a small villiage.
Epson QX-10 which I'm only missing a monitor to activate.
Phillips XT Luggable with pop-up floppies. The nicest design I've seen yet for
a luggable.
Kaypro 2X that I haven't got running yet, but soon.
DEC Rainbow, one of my first garbage finds that after 4 years I finally have
the all hardware for. Last week a local store anti'd up a BC002 cable.
Wang PC002 no means of I/O , but I'm sure it will turn up.
NEC Prospeed 286 laptop
Numerous other MSDOS boxes
I think what especially interests me are the external hacks. Like the
Intel Inboard 386 board.in a 5150, or the hardcard drives. I have a good
proportion of the Atari and C64 add-ons. I have an X1541 cable for a C64. The
adapter on my CoCo 2 that I still haven't explored its use. A Videomate to use
my old boxes as TV's long before the new TV cards for Windoze. Of course you
could do the same with a VCR and a composite video. Quickshot remote control
Joysticks Some graphics tablets.
These were all attempts to respond to a burgeoning home-computer market that
were developed in response to consaumer wants. Many of these small but
highly innovative companies quickly disappeared. The boards switches were
not easily evident unless you had the documentataion So if the board cloned
the IBM docunentation you're home-free but if it was a board that had
anomilies, you're on your own. That to me is one of the values of this m-l .
Having access to true hardware hackers like Tony Duell and Allison and others.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Hi Tony and all,
At 01:07 PM 7/19/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>I'm got a partially faultly Sirius (aka Victor 9000?) on the bench at the
>moment, and it appears to have (at least) a sound fault.
>
>Alas there are 2 chips in the sound circuitry that I can't find any data
>on :
>
>Harris CI55516-9 (16 pin DIL, maybe a codec or similar)
>Spague (?) ULN3701Z (5 pin TO220, audio amplifier).
>
Pin 1. audio input.(+)
Pin 2. Feedback.(-)
Pin 3. ground
Pin 4. out
Pin 5. Vcc
Uses the same circuit as National LM 383.
-Dave
Hi Richard and all
At 08:41 AM 7/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello, all:
>
> While going through the old Popular Electronics magazines that I
>recently got, I found two article series that I would like to have complete,
>but I'm missing two issues...bummer.
>
> Does anyone have the following and would be willing to mail me a copy:
>
> 1. Popular Electronics, March 1977, Part 3 of the "Build the
>Cosmac Elf" construction article.
>
I have this one, it is 5 pages. The memory used is 8 2102 ram's.
Don't have the first 2, August, 1976 or September 1976, however.
-Dave
I also want to brag that I got a Compaq Lite-25 486. This is not a
classic, and I am about to go to Compaq's site to research it. A
question: does anyone know what their power connector pinout is? It's
a weird little three-pin thing like the compaq monitor power
interface. Does anyone have plugs or know where to get them?
>That's not terribly amazing.
>
>Its basically a Compaq 286 portable. Probably from around the 1986 or
>1987 timeframe.
>
>What did you pay for it? That's what its worth (to you).
>
>Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Ever onward.
>
> September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2
> See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
> [Last web page update: 07/05/98]
>
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i did some bartering a while back and got a mitsubishi 286 laptop circa 1987 i
think. it boots up to some post errors which i can get past by hitting F1.
it's a phoenix bios, and i've tried every key combination thats's known to
access the cmos setup, all to no avail. it appears to have a hard drive, but
am unable to access it. i've web searched everywhere, but cannot find any
support contact for this machine. i ended up round filing a mitsubishi 386dx
machine last year because i couldnt find any info on it. i didnt even get any
replies in comp.sys.laptops about this laptop. help anyone?
david
I've a number of Transputer boards dating from the late
eighties which fit into PCs. Whilst I can use any one
single board, I've been unable to install more than one
board as I've no information on the jumper and dip switch
settings. Of course, some boards may not be capable of being
anything other than the root transputer. Anyone
have, or know where I can find such information on the following
boards:
Transtech TMB04
Sundance ST101
Gemini GM8101
Microway Monoputer2
Thanks,
Doug.
I can't find who was originally asking to locate some copies of OS/2. I
just pulled down a copy of Warp (requires Windows already installed).
The software comprises 2 floppies to install and 1 CD with the OS/2 v3
system and a "bonus" CD with IBM Works, Online access and 'more'.
The CDs are still shrink wrapped. I can't verify that it's original but
I know that where I picked them up would have no reason to re-wrap them.
I have no burning desire to let these go but if the people who
originally asked, or anyone else, REALLY needs it, I'll send them for
6.00 (six bucks) plus shipping.
Unfortunately for everyone, I ran OS/2 v3 for a while when it came out.
It turned a marginal machine into a hummer on the internet. It was
probably an excellent OS, just not too popular.
Please contact me direct at:
mallison(a)konnections.com
Thanks,
Mike
Muchas Gracias to Allison and Megan and Tony (O My!) for your help
with RT-11... the machine is running as I type this, and displaying
a directory... all entries no later than 1979... just about the
time I was spending long nights trying to figure out the Cromemco
Z2H that I had pieced together... all I had was the monitor and 16K
of RAM.. so I never shut it off for weeks... and a GE Terminet for
a console, so at the end of a session the room was swimming in roll
paper covered with hex....
Now to get the 2nd RK05 running.... THEN to figure out how to
make the RL02s peacefully co-exist in the system... THEN to install
one of my old classic modems, and write to my list friends from the
DEC system.... THEN....
But first things first.
Thanks again!!
Cheers
John
I picked up a nice, small, 9-track tape drive made by Qualstar for use
with IBM PCs. The fellow I got it from said he had the ISA adapter and
software and manuals "somewhere in a box". Of course, he can't find
them, and it's the adapter and software that I'm really after, since
Pertec-interface 9-track drives are fairly common.
(I'd like to think this isn't the old "promise the important stuff to
have someone haul away the big stuff" ploy, but it's happened to me
several times now!)
Pehaps someone out there has one, or knows the whereabouts of an
ISA Pertec adapter, probably made by Qualstar, Chi Corporation, or
Overland Data. Software and docs to go with it are almost mandatory,
and anything that runs under DOS/Windows or any flavor of PC Unix is
OK.
Thanks,
Dave
