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by rhblake＠bbtel.com

I have about half a dozen PS/2 model 55SX machines that I need to sell or trade. They're all in excellent working condition with hard drive, floppy drive, built in video/com/lpt/mouse ports. Can accept up to 16mb of ram and runs a 386SX-16 processor. These are tested and in good physical and working condition. Just add SIMMs, keyboard, mouse and monitor. Great replacement for a flaky unit or to add a machine for the kids. All have MS-DOS 6.2 on the hard drive. Reference/Setup disk included. Asking $30 each plus shipping. The Dallas realtime clock chip on the board or even the floppy drive are worth that alone. Trades of other IBM ISA, MCA or VLB equipment will be considered. I also have 55SX motherboards in great condition for $10 each plus shipping. Shipped in foam padded mailer with setup/reference disk. Just open your dead machine and replace the board. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ ICQ UIN #1714857 AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN" * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

27 years, 11 months

old Toshiba laptop help (on topic??)

by bill.sheehan＠stoneweb.com

I'm now on my fourth set of batteries for Toby-San, my T1000. The latest set was purchased from 1-800-Batteries, a company that seems to have every size and style of laptop and camera battery ever dreamed of. You can find them on the web at http://www.800batteries.com. -- BIll Sheehan Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> on 05/29/98 02:53:59 AM Please respond to classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> cc: (bcc: Bill Sheehan/Corporate/SWEC) Subject: Re: old Toshiba laptop help (on topic??) At 12:59 AM 5/29/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hi: > >I just picked up an older style laptop that I need some hlp on. It is >a Toshiba T2200SX laptop. It is a 386 I believe, 3.5" floppy drive, >80 something meg hard drive, black and white LCD VGA display running >Windows 3.1. Here's what I am looking for, or at least some advice on >where to direct this help request to. > >1) I need a battery for this unit. I have the power supply, but the >battery with it won't charge. The battery I have is made by Toshiba >and is model # PA2404U. Please let me know if you have one of these >or know where I could find one! Cord, Your chances of finding another battery are slim. Even if you find one it will be old and probably won't last long. My suggestion is to take it to one of the battery places that rebuild batteries and have them replace the cells in your old battery. There is a place in Sanford, Florida that I have used a lot and that I'm very happy with. Their name is TNR, I don't have their phone number handy but you can get it from directory info. They use good quality batteries so their batteries will usually last a lot longer than the original ones since the OEMs usually use the cheapest junk they can find. Joe

27 years, 11 months

Locking RL-02 Heads

by healyzh＠ix.netcom.com

Quick question, how does one make sure the heads of a RL-02 drive are locked? I'm supposed to be picking one up this weekend (mainly for the Q-Bus controller and diskpacks). I want to make sure I transport it correctly since I might need it for my PDP-11/44 (still don't know the state of it's drives. On another note, anyone have any recommendations on where to get some RAM boards for a /44? Once I have the packs that will be the only thing I'll need (assuming everything works). Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | For Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | | For the collecting of Classic Computers with info on them. | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/museum.html |

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > So, indeed, you're talking about a keyboard buffer, only intelligent > and on a much larger scale. Or multiprocessing. Maybe Tim is, but on reflection (no pun) I'm not. The terminal acts as a buffer for the data, not for the keyboard. The keyboard is used to make changes to the data in the buffer and initiate the transfer of the changed data back to the 3000. The keystrokes themselves don't get sent to the 3000, only the edited data. -Frank McConnell

27 years, 11 months

Looking for Osborne I or Executive

by jvaverysm＠sprintmail.com

I'm looking for an operational Osborne I or Executive CPM machine to operate or restore. If you know of one I would be interested. Thanks! Joe Avery jvaverysm(a)sprintmail.com

27 years, 11 months

Original IBM PC (was Re: Prices to pay for old

by desieh＠southcom.com.au

-----Original Message----- From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 1:58 Subject: Re: Original IBM PC (was Re: Prices to pay for old >At 02:40 PM 5/27/98 +1000, you wrote: >Desie, > > Let me know if you want some. There's plenty of them here in the trift >stores. I can buy the entire PC for about $5. If you want some drives and >are willing to pay the cost ($5) and shipping (?), I'll get some for you. > > Joe > > >> >>oh well with my 5150 it has two FH IBM drives in i and they both seem to be >>dead, Ive replaced the controllor card check the dips, >>checked power output, it seems here in Austrlaia these drives are almost >>impossable to get a hold of...... >> >> >> >> > email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au desieh(a)bigfoot.com museum_curator(a)hotmail.com Apple Lisa Web Page: http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm where abouts do you live?? to ship from anywhere other than within Austrlaia would cost a small furtune considering the weight of a IBM PC

27 years, 11 months

Compaq Portable in OZ?????

by desieh＠southcom.com.au

-----Original Message----- From: Adam Jenkins <adam(a)merlin.net.au> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 12:04 Subject: Re: Compaq Portable in OZ????? > >>anyone on this list in OZ have a original Compaq Portable they want to >>sell/trade or give away?? > >Are you still after one? What are you after generally? I might have a >lead on one, but I am inclined to keep my own unless it is for something >urgent. :) > >Adam. > > email: desieh(a)southcom.com.au desieh(a)bigfoot.com museum_curator(a)hotmail.com Apple Lisa Web Page: http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm Im looking for a original Compaq Portable the first one, (1981-1982) I have 2 x Compaq Portable IIs and I love them.............

27 years, 11 months

Coleco and Sensation

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 98-05-28 21:20:23 EDT, you write: << I believe it wants you to use the \\c propped up on the handle because it will air out better. They didn't have as good fans as they do now in those days. I'm not sure though. That computer is before my time (i'm only 12). I'll check in my \\c manual though. mike >> because the //c was compact and had more capabilities in it than the //e, i guess it runs much hotter so propping it up by the handle allows more air access for cooling. i never had a problem with it though. i thought the pivoting handle was just to tilt the keyboard for certain typists. david

27 years, 11 months

Fwd: Coleco and Sensation

by icyblackhand＠hotmail.com

I believe it wants you to use the \\c propped up on the handle because it will air out better. They didn't have as good fans as they do now in those days. I'm not sure though. That computer is before my time (i'm only 12). I'll check in my \\c manual though. mike

27 years, 11 months

Help identify this not-so-classic board

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

I searched and came up blank! is that the part number or fru number? are you sure thats the board number, or just a number for one of the components? In a message dated 98-05-28 17:41:47 EDT, you write: << trying to find some info about an IBM ISA SCSI board which has the following part number etched onto it 75H8895. This group seems to have the most diverse resources of any I've seen so I figured I'd give it a try and hope someone's got some info. Any info on this not too classic board would be appreciated. >>

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by IVIE＠cc.usu.edu

From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> > Good question. I have a couple of 150s and I have WS for the 150 but my > disks have bit rot :-( Last time I was in Sunnyvale, CA I found a pile of WordStar 3.24 distribution kits at Weird Stuff Warehouse. I payed (IIRC) $2 for the one I wagged off. There were several other copies. They're marked "CP/M-86 or MS-DOS" or somesuch only because it's not obvious from the documentation which version it is; the one I bought is for MS-DOS and I presume the remaining ones are as well. I picked up a copy of Desqview/X there, too. It's a good thing I don't live in Silicon Valley; Weird Stuff Warehouse would get all my money. Roger Ivie ivie(a)cc.usu.edu

27 years, 11 months

Apple IIgs in Apple II case?

by kaikal＠MICROSOFT.com

How would you tell a prototype from the conversion? thanks Kai -----Original Message----- From: KFergason [mailto:KFergason@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 8:19 PM To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers Subject: Re: Apple IIgs in Apple II case? I can verify this. We got 2 beta units to develop on, in the IIe case. I always wondered what happened to them. Kelly In a message dated 5/26/98 10:01:56 PM Central Daylight Time, photze(a)batelco.com.bh writes: > I seem to remember hearing (although I couldn't tell you where if my life > depended on it...) that Apple made it's earlier IIGS prototypes inside of > IIe cases. > Ciao, > > Tim D. Hotze >

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

So, indeed, you're talking about a keyboard buffer, only intelligent and on a much larger scale. Or multiprocessing. >> Back when I asked about the HP 3000, someone mentioned that it >> processed data in blocks. What exactly does that mean? How does it >> work? >I think the comment you're talking about was directly related to >HP3000 full screen editors; these generally need a HP terminal >that's capable of block-mode operations. This means that >the terminal is capable of simple on-screen editing tasks by itself, >and transmits a bunch of changes to the computer only when the >computer needs to ask for the accumulated changes. > >This is very different than the mindset in the microcomputer and Unix >world, where it is expected that the main CPU will want to devote >attention to each and every keystroke typed by every user, and then >the main CPU will devote all its effort (for a little while) to >echoing this single character. This simply isn't the way >things are done on mainframes and "heavy-duty" mincomputer OS's. > >Tim. > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

27 years, 11 months

Help identify this not-so-classic board

by pechter＠shell.monmouth.com

I'm trying to find some info about an IBM ISA SCSI board which has the following part number etched onto it 75H8895. This group seems to have the most diverse resources of any I've seen so I figured I'd give it a try and hope someone's got some info. Any info on this not too classic board would be appreciated. Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive | Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724 | | 908-389-3592 | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. | | pechter(a)shell.monmouth.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+

27 years, 11 months

SUN equipment (x-post)

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

Pulled this from the web, and I know there are Sun users that might be interested in these. Email Pat direct if interested... ................................................................................................................................ Pat Stakem <stakem(a)loyola.edu> Columbia, Md - Wednesday, May 27, 1998 at 12:18:02 I have 5-10 spare Sun workstation video monitor cables (about 1 meter long, and 13w3 standard). also, 5-10 spare type 4 keyboards, with optical mice. email me if interested. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Russ Blakeman RB Custom Services / Rt. 1 Box 62E / Harned, KY USA 40144 Phone: (502) 756-1749 Data/Fax:(502) 756-6991 Email: rhblake(a)bbtel.com or rhblake(a)bigfoot.com Website: http://members.tripod.com/~RHBLAKE/ ICQ UIN #1714857 AOL Instant Messenger "RHBLAKEMAN" * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

27 years, 11 months

Tandy web page malarkey

by dastar＠wco.com

Check out Tandy's version of history from their web page: "1977 TRS-80 Model I Personal Computer introduced. (First mass-marketed personal computer. In contrast to build-it-yourself computers available at the time, the TRS-80 was fully-wired and tested. Sold at a breakthrough price of $599. More than 200,000 TRS-80 computers were sold from 1977 to 1981.)" Ok, let's conveniently forget about the Apple ][. This is the most blatant denial of reality and outright lie I've ever seen a company publicly endorse. "1980 TRS-80 Model 100 Portable Computer introduced. (First computer ever to feature five programs and a telephone modem built-in. Used by journalists throughout the world.)" First I question the year (I know it was later than 1980). This claim is dubious at best. Mostly its broad and irrelevant. It seems they're trying so hard to make this seem like a breakthrough (it was) that they forgot to mention the real reasons why. "1984 Tandy 1000 Personal Computer introduced. (First PC-compatible personal computer. Within one year, the Tandy 1000 became the best-selling PC-compatible computer.)" God, what a load of chicken turds. I think they missed this distinction by 3 years and umpteen other companies. I'd like to kick the guy who wrote all this crap in the nuts. Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever onward. September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2 See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details! [Last web page update: 05/11/98]

27 years, 11 months

Steve Wozniak home page

by stephen.j.gabaly＠lmco.com

For anyone that's interested Steve Wozniak has a home page at www.woz.org <http://www.woz.org> . He has a digital camera in his office which you can point and zoom to see what he is up too, just click on the wozcam button. His email address is also there, I have emailed him several times about questions I had on the early days of Apple, he responded quickly (few minutes). Generally if he can answer the question off the top of his head, he will, otherwise he will politely tell you he is too busy. I think I have used up my quota of questions for the year so perhaps someone on this discussion group can organized a question of the month so he won't get bombarded with a hundred questions and change his email address. Just a thought. steve

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<At 10:42 5/28/98 -0700, Roger wrote: <>Wordstar on the Otrona Attache was also very WYSIWYG because the Otrona <>could do any video attribute Wordstar ever dreamed of.... < <Nice keyboard, too. Visual 1050 had all the char modes and graphics as well. The keyboard is better than many. Allison

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Max Eskin" <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Back when I asked about the HP 3000, someone mentioned that it > processed data in blocks. What exactly does that mean? How does it > work? Tim's answer got part of it. Here's some more of the picture, maybe in gorier detail than you wanted to know. Many HP terminals are somewhat intelligent and can be told (via escape sequence or strap setting) to operate in "block mode", where the terminal buffers data in its local display memory and lets the user do local editing of it there. There can also be protected and unprotected fields, which basically turn the display into a fill-in form where the user can type in the unprotected fields and not in the protected fields. Some keys (ENTER (not RETURN) and the function keys) will still initiate a transfer to the host computer. How that works is a collection of fiddly little details but I'm going to try to describe it in terms of the DC1/DC2/DC1 block-mode handshake. Once the form has been sent to the terminal by the application (which basically sends escape sequences and text to set up the block mode, the form, and the unprotected fields), the application starts a read. The terminal I/O system then sends a DC1 (control-Q) to the terminal so the terminal knows there's a read pending. When the user presses ENTER or a function key to tell the terminal to send the form, the terminal sends a DC2 (control-R) to the host as an indication that there's a block of data ready for transmission. The host does whatever it needs to do to get ready for the block (this was important in the days of the Series II/III which used a terminal controller that couldn't handle all 16 ports sending 2400 bps data at the same time) and then sends another DC1 as a go-ahead, and the terminal sends an escape sequence for the pressed key followed by the block of data (usually the data from the unprotected fields on the form, separated by field-separator (FS) characters, and finishing up with a record-separator (RS) character). The terminal won't send anything more 'til it sees another DC1 from the host. OK, well, that's about what you see on the wire if you stick a serial line analyzer in between the 3000 and a terminal, and watch as an application written using one of the more popular block-mode application subroutine libraries (VIEW aka V/3000 aka VPLUS/3000) is in use. Later 3000s have terminal controllers that can handle full speed on all ports, and they can use a simplified block-mode handshake (i.e. the 3000 sends the initial DC1, and the terminal just sends the block when the user presses ENTER or a function key). The goal of all this was, as Tim said, getting a rather slow HP3000 to run a surprisingly big bunch of terminals doing transactions against data on the 3000. The 3000 didn't have to do any work for the user until the user had the transaction edited on the screen, in particular it didn't have to respond to every user keystroke, and as the terminal didn't have anything better to do it could respond to the user's keystrokes right away. There were also some full-screen editors that relied on the terminal to buffer lines of text and let you do your editing in the terminal. Those I used tended to run in line block mode (vs. VIEW which I think used page block mode) where once the user pressed ENTER the host would home the cursor and start sending escape sequences ("<ESC>d" I think, followed by a DC1 once the read was pending) to get the terminal to send the current line 'til it got to the bottom. Feel free to ask questions about this if you want to know more. -Frank McConnell

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by IVIE＠cc.usu.edu

From: Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> > HPWORD was actually a little more WYSIWYG than, say, Wordstar, because > the terminal actually had bold and italic faces and underlining > features. Wordstar on the Otrona Attache was also very WYSIWYG because the Otrona could do any video attribute Wordstar every dreamed of: italics, underline, strikethrough, bold, etc. Roger Ivie ivie(a)cc.usu.edu

27 years, 11 months

VAX 785 Backplane Schematic

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

Anyone have the printset describing the VAX 785 CPU backpanel? I'd be interested in a scan of it... -------

27 years, 11 months

More stuff acquired

by jon＠techniche.com

Hi, I've not participated much since I joined this mail group a number of weeks back, so I thought I'd make myself heard. A few of you seem to be pretty familiar with HP equipment so maybe you can tell me what I have (or have not) here. I pick up a box of junk at the local recycler several weeks ago. It caught my eye because it has some microprocessor emulator pods. In the box were the following: Z8002 emulation pod, HP part # 64233A (says use with 64271A) Z80 emulation pod, HP part # 64252A (says use with 64251A) 6801/6803 pod, HP part # 64256A (says use with 64255A) also the following boards: 64300/66501 internal analysis bd 64154/66501 Static Ram board (only one of 4 rows has sockets installed) 64152/66501 Static Ram board (All 4 rows socketed and populated) [both of the above have 2147 memory chips] 64211/66501 680x Control board I called HP and asked what the pod normally connect to, just in case it was still down at the surplus store and I had overlooked it. HP says that they would normally be used with a "frame" (?) i.e. some sort of general purpose analyzer having a part number of 29000 or 29120 (these two number are from memory since I can't find my notes at the moment where I wrote down the two numbers. It was either 29000 or 59000 but I'm pretty sure it was 29000). I was attracted to the emualtion pods because they looked like they had never been used. All of the pins appeared to be straight and intact. There was protective foam one each pod. What can you guys tell me about these? I'm thinking that without the frame they are not very useful to me. Perhaps they're worth something in trade? Thanks, Jon

27 years, 11 months

Processing data in blocks

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"D. Peschel" <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> writes: > I hope the invitation isn't directed at only one person. :) Nope. > One thing I realized from the exposure (and have since read about) is > that the local editing features are usually horribly limited, _and_ > they're impossible to extend unless you modify the hardware. What > kind of local editing do the HP terminals provide? (Any fancy cursor > movement keys, line editing, cut- and-paste, etc.?) I'm trying to get > a feeling for how well the HP editors stack up against more modern > ones. The line editor sounds pretty nice, actually. (I use vi -- > which is the same kind of full-screen line editor -- a lot. The > navigation commands are nice and quick.) For what passes for full-screen editing, the display is pretty much something you can type on. Cursor movements available are up, down, left, right, page up, page down, home (top-of-buffer), and end-of-buffer. Typing defaults to type-over but there is an insert-char mode that you can turn on and off from the keyboard. If you do this, wrapping is kind of simple (it will open up a new next-line and wrap characters onto that as they go past the right margin). Also you can delete characters from the keyboard (but this does not un-wrap wrapped characters). It's also possible to delete lines and add blank lines, and clear to end-of-display. Not cut-and-paste, though; well, if you can use the memory lock feature of the terminal you might be able to do it but some of the full-screen editors used it in a way such that if you tried to use it you would screw things up and lose work. Things are somewhat different if protected fields are set up; those will limit character insertion and deletion. > I mentioned reading... there are stories about people trying to > combine full-screen interactive editing with local terminal editing, > and finding that the two don't mix. The people usually bit the > bullet, invested in the extra hardware, and gave the workload back to > the CPU. I think there was an enhanced version of TECO at Stanford > that falls into this category. I know that Emacs on MULTICS was > developed like that. Mind pointing me to some of those stories. HP did something odd in the early-mid 1980s: HPWORD. This was a word processing system for the HP3000 that used 2626W (and later, 2628A and HP150) terminals as intelligent front-ends. When you first started HPWORD after turning the terminal on, it would spend about 10 minutes downloading code to the terminal, and then the downloaded code ran the interface and the communications link back to the HPWORD process on the 3000. I was told at the time that the terminal handled processing up to the paragraph level, and got the 3000 to do anything larger. HPWORD was actually a little more WYSIWYG than, say, Wordstar, because the terminal actually had bold and italic faces and underlining features. And it was nifty because you could queue up a print job >from one terminal to a printer connected to another HPWORD terminal; the backing HPWORDs running on the 3000 would talk to each other and get the document printed. Oh, and someone could be typing on the terminal that had the printer connected. All in all, it was a cheaper solution than PCs in the 1983-1984 time frame when we bought into it -- we didn't have to buy a printer for every workstation, and we didn't have to pick a PC LAN with lots of funny cabling. > Personally, I found the local editing completely inadequate for > dealing with the multicolumn file lists and pop-up windows the AS/400 > kept putting onscreen. Using only arrow keys to move the cursor to > precise places all over the screen was a real chore. The designs of > input and display just didn't match ewll. Yeah, and back then I used to switch between editors depending on the job at hand. Some things just work better with good old EDIT/3000, and even for editing code I liked QUAD. Later when I went to work at Wollongong I discovered Voodoo on the 3000 there and got kind of used to it; it tries to be vi-like but the inherent inability of the 3000's terminal I/O to accept characters without a pending read (and to do anything else while there is a pending read) really got in its way sometimes. Now I just use Emacs (though not on the 3000), and quite frankly I do think it works better. -Frank McConnell

27 years, 11 months

IBM SYSTEM 36 IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA NEEDS LOVING HOME

by Marty＠itgonline.com

An IBM System 36 (Type 5336 or Type 5360 depending on whom you speak to) is available free in Richmond, Virginia at CW Wright Construction Company. Contact Vaughn Atkinson or Bob Jennings @ 804-768-1054 for more details. Marty

27 years, 11 months

DEC Rainbow available in Cambridge UK

by kevan＠heydon.org

Hi, I have a DEC Rainbow that I want to pass onto another collector. I live in Cambridge UK, and while I can deliver for a short distance collection would be the best as there are quite a few manuals that go with it. Drop me an email if you are interested -- Kevan Old Computer Collector: http://www.heydon.org/kevan/collection/

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