<Check out this entry I found on the web for a PAPERBACK book:
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<Programming the 6502 Computer by Zaks, Rodney Sybex, Berkely, CA 1978
<pbk near fine/ 305 p.8.5x5.3x.8 ISBN 0895880091 shelf wear otw clean
<tight bright no defects (Keywords: rodney zaks programming 6502 micro
<computer manual) The price of the book is US$ 153.00
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<The seller is Bennie R Warden - Bookseller
<39 S Alhambra , Port St Lucie, FL, U.S.A., 34952-2832.
<benwarden(a)earthlink.net. Ph: 561 878-9645. Terms of sale: Ten day
<Reserve by E-Mail or Telephone. Sorry, No Credit Cards at this
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I have that one and the follow on applications books. That means my set
is worth more. The guy is smoking something. Mine still have the labels
>from when I bought them new and they look new none were over 13$.
Allison
I just got my hands on a console refrence for the above, and it had a 5.25"
disk in the back. It's labeled "WAFI". (APparently the machine name).
How can I see what's on it?
I did a "MOUNT/FOREIGN DK0: B:" from PUTR, and it doesn't recognise the format...
-------
If you are interested I can manage to have the schematics and silkscreen
scanned, but I'll wait till you ask ;)
>I now have to work out which socket is which. Shouldn't take long - I
>recognise all the chips, have data one them, and it's quite simple. Don't
>spoil it for me by posting the answer just yet ;-)
Francois
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My most recent discard find is a Wang PC-S3-2 . It had had 2 winchester
disks removed before being thrown out, but otherwise seems intact. No
KB , monitor , or FDD's of course. From what I've been able to find on the
net ( Wang CUG) it's an early "Classic PC" but this predates their oldest
listed model specs. There seems to be many more sites on the CPM models
but not on Wang PC's.
The full-size motherboard has Z-80 and 8086 chips and 2 20 pinM ribbon
connecters below two cutouts leading to the HD enclosure ,a centronics
parallell printer, 25 pin serial, and KB ports on the rear. It has 5 half-size
expansion slots .all occupied. One card is labelled PM 101 IBM Mono emulation
and has 2 rear sockets. One is a regular 5pin kb socket and the other an 8pin
din which I imagine is the monitor port. Strangely enough the same din as my
Epson KB. This board is coupled with another by a 10 line ribbon cable. On
either side of these are 2 cards that look identical the bottom-most labelled
PM 021 / 022B Winchester Controller. Both have 20 pin and 10 pin male
ribbon connectors. The top-most card looks like a memory card and has a LED.
It's somewhat sparsely populated with mcm 6665 (motorola mem ?) and low-powered
schotsky chips but traces for many more sockets.
Seems pretty straight forward if it wasn't for the extra 20 pin connectors on
the HD controller cards. Fdd connectors ? My lack of technical knowledge is
showing. Maybe because of the company I'm keeping on this techno-whiz m-list.
It's intimidating. :^)
I believe Wang had it's own proprietory system and I did d-l a set-up from the
Wang CUG site but info on this beast seems scarce, tho IIRC they were widely
used in business operations. Anyone ??
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Hmmm 31 messages downloaded.
Score ?
Subject 19 Assholes errmm no thats The PC's Soviet
3 Star Treck At least more interesting than US dicks are
bigger than Russian dicks
9 classiccmp related
SAM !!!!!! I might have to rethink things.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
I dunno if this guy's going to privately e-mail me or send an e-mail to
ClassicCmp, but there's this programmer that I know that seems interested in
early Soviet computers. I'll see what I can see... the A2 clone sounds
cool, if it had a decent 6502/6502 clone.
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, April 16, 1998 9:57 PM
Subject: RE: The PC's Soviet?
>
>>Does anyone on the list have any Soviet-manufactured systems? This
>might
>>be a good thing to look for when (whoever it was that wrote the list
>that
>>he was going to Hungary soon) goes over there.
>>
>Do Russian slide rules coun
>
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> All right, I have taken this for a while, but no more. This ignorance
> about Soviet technology and abilities is ridiculous. I think you
> people have kept your anti-communist opinions along with you IBM
> 704s.
>
> Although the USSR certainly had ridiculous administration, and its
> technology was not very modern, there were many advances by the
> soviet union, and it now has just as much technology as the US.
>
The soviets always had comparable technology, but were limited by
inefficient manufacturing and logistics. Those only exposed to western
design philosophy tend to belittle soviet engineers because of the
seemingly crude appearance of their equipment, but they had to meet
vastly different product requirements. Their export market was the
underdeveloped third world, no infrastructure at all. When your target
market is some place like Mongolia, Eritrea or South Yemen you have an
entirely different set of design parameters. There is no Radio Shack
down the corner, no parts store in town, no UPS delivery service. Even
literacy is at a premium. Yet they were able to deliver relatively
sophisticated equipment to places like this, and were able to maintain
it locally. I for one have a great respect for soviet engineers like
Mikoyan or Antonov, even Mikhail Kalashnikov, the guy who designed so
well he worked himself right out of a job.
Jack Peacock
This Trainer was called the Dyna-Micro
Here is the Memory allocation:
Hi Lo
000 000 \
> Key Prom
000 377 /
001 000 \
> Optional ROM
002 377 /
002 000 \
> Optional R/W Memory
003 377 /
003 000 \
> R/W Memory
003 377 /
004 000 \
> Available for user expansion
377 377 /
Will post more later
Does anyone knows where I can find a 1702 programmed with KEX?
Francois
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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Roberts <groberts(a)mitre.org>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 9:12 PM
Subject: 8080 Trainer - more info
>Tony Duell originally asked this but the group may be interested. The MMD1
>8080 trainer was based on a design by Jonathan Titus and Company (Tychon
>Inc.) and was apparently described in a series of articles in the May-July
>1976 Radio Electronics, however it is also described in "The 8080a
Bugbook",
>a Howard Sams book (ISBN 0-672-21447-4), 1977.
>
>Tony: the two ROM sockets are for 1702 ROMS. The very simple but efficient
>monitor, called KEX for "Keyboard Executive", easily fits in the 256 byte
>space of one of these, leaving ROM socket 1 for "expansion".
>
>I don't have access to the original articles on this unit but it was easy
>enough to reverse engineer the assembly listing of KEX, below. I'd give
>y'all instructions on using the monitor but that would take the fun out of
>reading the source listing! i've also stuck the HEX file at the end of the
>listing. have fun!
>
>Does anyone on the list have any Soviet-manufactured systems? This
might
>be a good thing to look for when (whoever it was that wrote the list
that
>he was going to Hungary soon) goes over there.
>
Do Russian slide rules coun
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At 12:10 4/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Does anyone on the list have any Soviet-manufactured systems? This might
>be a good thing to look for when (whoever it was that wrote the list that
>he was going to Hungary soon) goes over there.
Er.... When we fell heir to the big heap of Apple stuff outside Sacramento,
one of the things we found when we dug in a bit was a Soviet Apple ][ clone
called an Elektronika. I can't quote chapter and verse because we haven't
really unbuttoned it yet, but it would seem that the really astounding part
isn't the computer, it's the monitor. We also have schematics and, when I
have a bit more (i. e. nonzero) free time, I'm going to ferret out someone
who can read them. Max would probably be a good start!
Also, for a source on this, remember that in _TCJ_ a guy named Helmut
Jungkunz wrote a bunch of columns about both Soviet and East German computers.
__________________________________________
Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
http://www.chac.org/index.html
Computer History Association of California
I check on this subject every 6 months whether I need to or not. What
happened to this invaluable resource? Has it ever been posted anywhere?
thanks
Kai
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Kaltenbach
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 1997 10:56 AM
> To: 'classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu'
> Subject: RE: Altair scans update
>
> Whatever happened to these?
>
> thanks
>
> Kai
>
> ----------
> From: Richard A. Cini, Jr.[SMTP:rcini@classic.msn.com]
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 5:31 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Altair scans update
>
> For those who have asked...
>
> The Altair scans are ready to post, I just have to ZIP them up and
> send the
> tape to Bill Whitson. Does anyone have his physical address??
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Rich Cini/WUGNET
> <rcini(a)msn.com>
> - ClubWin Charter Member (6)
> - MCP Windows 95/Netowrking
>
Can anybody help this guy out?
-- Doug
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:06:52 -0400
From: Mark Frey <markfrey(a)bright.net>
To: Doug Yowza <yowza(a)yowza.com>
Subject: Re: Epson HX40
I need it to control a traffic sign board like you see on highway
construction projects. Lets just say that these things are hard to find.
The manufacturer has a EPROM they plug into the HX40 with the program.
At 12:42 AM 4/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I just got an HX-20, and I've got some other machines that have a similar
>form factor (like the TRS-80 Model 100), but no HX-40. Why are you
>looking for that model specifically?
>
>-- Doug
>
>On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Mark wrote:
>
>> I need an Epson HX-40 to actually use. Might you have one????
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> markfrey(a)bright.net
>>
>
>
>
Mark Frey
> From: "Hotze" <photze(a)batelco.com.bh>
> Subject: Is this possible? (Storage) (Off-topic?)
>
> Sorry, but this has been bugging me for quite some time. In Star Trek, they
> use "Isolinear" based memory circuts to store information in both the short
> and long term. So, from the looks of it, it's some kind of crystal, and can
> transmit it's data very quickly, and with no moving parts, so I'm guessing
> that it's similiar to today's RAM. Now, for the hard part: It can hold
> entire encyclopedia's in tiny amounts. In one episiode, they had nanites,
> little robot-bugs that could hold "gigabytes of information," and were
> microscopic. Furthermore, in some episodes, they find Chodak and T'Kon
> ruins, between 900,000 to 700,000 years old, with half or more of the data
> intact.
> Was crystaline storage ever attempted like this? Is it possible?
> Feasable?
A few years back I read a facinating article on holographic storage systems.
Where the medium was a 'slide sized' wafer and was recorded and read
holographically using a laser beam. Being holographic in nature the denisty
was way more then magnetic disc or CD. That was the closest that I've read to
Star Trek like storage.
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>At 12:18 PM 4/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>A few years back I read a facinating article on holographic storage
systems.
>>Where the medium was a 'slide sized' wafer and was recorded and read
>>holographically using a laser beam. Being holographic in nature the
denisty
>>was way more then magnetic disc or CD. That was the closest that I've
read to
>>Star Trek like storage.
>
>There was a nice feature in Scientific American a few years back about
>holographic storage. Early 1995 i believe, possible 96.
I remember last summer, there was something in CNN about Berkley (or one
of those California universities that you'd associate with
computers/technology) Developing a blue laser. This could radically change
everything, including DVD.
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
At 12:18 PM 4/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>A few years back I read a facinating article on holographic storage systems.
>Where the medium was a 'slide sized' wafer and was recorded and read
>holographically using a laser beam. Being holographic in nature the denisty
>was way more then magnetic disc or CD. That was the closest that I've read to
>Star Trek like storage.
There was a nice feature in Scientific American a few years back about
holographic storage. Early 1995 i believe, possible 96.
Adam
( Adam Fritzler afritz(a)iname.com )
http://afritz.base.org/
>>The soviets always had comparable technology, but were limited by
>>inefficient manufacturing and logistics. Those only exposed to western
>>design philosophy tend to belittle soviet engineers because of the
>>seemingly crude appearance of their equipment, but they had to meet
>>vastly different product requirements. Their export market was the
>>underdeveloped third world, no infrastructure at all. When your target
>>market is some place like Mongolia, Eritrea or South Yemen you have an
>>entirely different set of design parameters. There is no Radio Shack
>>down the corner, no parts store in town, no UPS delivery service. Even
>
>Why Radio Shack when you have BFI? I can just imagine a fried US
>made cell phone flying into a third-world bonfire...that sure would
>stink. Another reason why Russian products were build to last was,
>very simply, because if you trash your phone, you'd have to get on
>a two-month waiting list to get another one.
See? That's my biggest complaint about the Soviets. They gave communism a
bad name. The USSR, in my opinion, wasn't a true communism any more than
Rome was a democracy after they had "dictators for life." Nice try, but a
true communism would be the opposite. Everyone would have everything, if
humans worked on an equal basis. That's why communisms don't work with
people: They'res a few rotten apples in every barrell.
Also, look at Soviet technology and people as a whole. Even though
MiG's did use vaccum tubes, they were still considered a threat, when
equipped with Soviet pilots.
As for the technology, I'll say that it wasn't behind the US, but rather
on a path that we didn't follow, and so it looked like they were behind us.
BTW, I'm guessing that with a $20,000 A2 clone, the avreage Dmitri didn't
get one in the USSR.
Tim D. Hotze
>
>Max Eskin wrote:
>
>> All right, I have taken this for a while, but no more. This ignorance
>> about Soviet technology and abilities is ridiculous. I think you
>> people have kept your anti-communist opinions along with you IBM
>> 704s.
>
>My guess is that Max has a bit of Russian blood lines in him to get so
>infuriated ;-]
I was born in the USSR an came here 7 years ago
>> Although the USSR certainly had ridiculous administration, and its
>> technology was not very modern, there were many advances by the
>> soviet union, and it now has just as much technology as the US.
>
>Becuase since the breakdown of the USSR they've imported shiploads.
Prior to
>this they were banned from technological advances openly available in
the
>free world, same as the restrictions on obtaining nuclear materials and
bomb
>technology.
Well, nowadays, Windows 95 is almost as easy to get over there as
weapons-grade plutonium ;)
>> a LOT of modern programmers are Russian. Most Russian immigrants
>> I know deal with computers.
>
>If any of us had to consider dealing with jail time for low grades we'd
get
>out act together too.
Jail time? No. Loss of self-respsect? Yes. Nothing the government
can do will get people to learn well. It is a good moral foundation
that most schools here don't teach, and parents don't have time to.
Sorry for the off-topic and anti-US stuff, folks.
>
>Max, I just can't hold this back....I have socks older than that! I hit
>first grade the year JFK was shot. (please no offense, I get the same
from
>those that saw the depression - my parents) You can't judge the US's
>capabilities by a public school inventory either - most have Apple II's
in
[ON TOPIC BELOW]
I meant simply to share the only computer I ever saw in the USSR.
There was a big sign on the wall that said "Turn the computers off
before leaving!". That wasn't meant for us, but I didn't know that,
and I once turned a terminal off. I came back next time, the terminal
didn't. I guess it had volatile ROM or something. In general, I liked
those terminals. They looked very, um, handmade.
>went on. I've disarmed and unloaded stranded Soviet aircraft that were
>forced to land in Iceland for mechanical problems prior to their
repairs.
>The Fixbat, Bear, etc have had panels opened by crews that were doing
>repairs "for diplomatic reasons" while we unloaded their heavy steel
>missiles and I've seen planes as late as 1985 with vacuum tubes and
"solid
>state tubes" in their electronics bays. We had a rectifier from a radio
in a
>captured Soviet tank that made our solid state items in 1970 look like
>microprocessors.
What's wrong with vacuum tubes? You're the ones collecting them :0
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> Hotze wrote:
> Yeah, that's why all the newest Soviet fighters and bombers
> used vacuum tubes
> even into the early 1990's. I'm sure they invented this and
Not so fast, there are very good reasons to use tubes instead of solid
state on certain types of military electronics. Look up "EMP" sometime.
This was a deliberate design decision on the part of soviet avionics
designers. They do have workable solid state devices. In fact, the
later Sukhoi and MiG models had very sophisticated interlocking radars
at the squadron level, a capability US forces do not have. Yes, overall
the US made much better avionics and electronics in general, but when it
was important enough the soviets could produce very good military
equipment. Off topic, but I much prefer Russian assault rifles to US
ones. I keep an AK47 at home, I would not trust an M16. I wouldn't
care to run a business with a Russian built computer though...
Jack Peacock
<What's wrong with vacuum tubes? You're the ones collecting them :0
In their time it was the best technology. But the answer to the question
is, too big, fragile, High power needs, lots of heat and they make lousy
high speed switches (IE binary elements).
As to EMP immunity, not much use if the memory is wiped and less help if
the system is so slow and awkward that reboots are impractical. Vacuum
tubes offer little help there.
As far as I know the Soviet Russins had technology but they were limited
in their ability to translate that to volume product. That combined with
no production capability that wasn't allocated to the military was a mess.
It wasn't for lack of bright people just a messed up system.
Allison
Starting Tuesday I have come across a few nice finds at very low prices,
here is a small sample: Televideo model 910 terminal; NCR workstation
C-256/89 no kb came with it; MicroNet ext HD; Apple tape Backup unit 40sc;
Apple modem power supply M0174; LN03R Scriptprinter Operator guide; HP85;
digital RX02 drive unit model RX02M-EA; Sun tape unit model 511; HP 9121 FD
drive unit model D; HP 82901M; HP 1615A Logic Analyzer; HP 9920A unit;
Fluke 2240B Datalogger; HP 9826; HP 86B;several old Mac KB's for model 128
and Plus; and several other items and manuals. The entire load set me back
$26. Will get around to testing these items someday. Keep Computing John
