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by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

> >> The problem is that I can't tell how to attach another ribbon to the >> LCD, and the circuit board end is surface mount soldered. Ideas? I suppose that you only need to find the cable that's broken and just jump that one, rather than replacing the whole lot. You may even be able to find the break, scratch off whatever coating is around the metal conductor, and solder across the break (Ok, so it never worked with Sinclair keyboard ribbons, but it might be possible here :) cheers Jules

28 years, 1 month

Tektronix XD88 Unix box - help/info needed

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

Hi all, I was given a Tektronix XD88/10 machine a few years ago that has sadly been sitting around gathering dust in the hope that I'd be able to find sufficient info/parts to fix it at some point - maybe someone on this list can help... When I got the machine I just had the main unit, and (amazingly, seeing how only a few of these seem to ever have been built) got hold of a keyboard for it. I haven't got the original monitor, but a Sun 16" display seems to work well enough. The disk was on its way out when I got hold of the machine, and from what I remember wouldn't even boot to single user mode last time I tried it. It's a 300MB Imprimis (Seagate) SCSI-1, so finding an exact or similar replacement shouldn't be too much trouble. The problem is the OS software - I don't have the tapes, and Tektronix stopped supporting the XD88's a few years ago (I heard from one guy in Australia who got an XD88 from a sale without OS, and Tektronix Aus. gave him the tapes for free which was rather nice - they took the line that they should be part of the machine anyway!) Second problem is mouse - the keyboard has a 9-pin *female* port on it for a mouse - anyone know pin-outs, what protocol was needed etc? Other than those two minor details, it works fine :) When I first got it it did boot to some sort of semi-working state; I seem to remember that the ethernet was working on it (I never tried the tape drive, I have a spare in case the one in it is broken though) Thanks for any help though, about time I got this thing going again!!! (Could still be a useful machine actually, it's got 16MB of main memory on it and 2MB for graphics memory) cheers, Jules

28 years, 1 month

Franklin ACE 500

by francois.auradon＠worldnet.att.net

Hi, I just acquired a Franklin ACE 500, unfortunately it came without the power supply. Does anyone have info on the power connector and requirements. Thanks Francois ------------------------------------------------------------- Visit the Sanctuary at: http://home.att.net/~francois.auradon

28 years, 1 month

Your www site

by dwollmann＠ibmhelp.com

>Date: 25 Mar 98 20:46:29 -0800 >Subject: Re: Your www site >From: "Steve Wozniak" <steve(a)woz.org> >To: "David Wollmann" <dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com> >X-Mailer: Cyberdog/2.0 > >Dear Woz, > >Several on the Classic Computers mailing list have been asking about >you. >Someone listed your web site (http://www.woz.org/) and it looks to be >off >line. > >Wanna say hello to the list and tell them what you're up to these >days? The >scuttlebutt has it that you're teaching, we'd love to hear about it. > >Thanks > >-- >David Wollmann | >dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com | Support for legacy IBM products. >DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support | Data, document and file conversion >for IBM >http://www.ibmhelp.com/ | legacy file and media formats. > > > >That is the correct web site. Or http://woz.org or http://woz.com or >http://www.woz.com. Even a few more will work. Just type "woz" into >Netscape or Internet Explorer and they try adding "www" ond ".com". > >Steve >_________________________________ >Here's to the crazy ones. >The misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers. >The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things >differently. >They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status >quo. >You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them. >About the only thing you can't do is ignore them, because they change >things. >They push the human race forward. >And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. >Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the >world? >Are the ones who do. >_________________________________ > Steve Wozniak > 16400 Blackberry Hill Road > Los Gatos CA 95032 USA > 408.888.8889 408.354.8999 FAX >_________________________________ > www.woz.org steve(a)woz.org >_________________________________ >PGP Footprint 1D70 FF77 3046 B814 7420 4CB4 7DE4 535F 148C 6F43 > > > > -- David Wollmann | dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com | Support for legacy IBM products. DST ibmhelp.com Technical Support | Data, document and file conversion for IBM http://www.ibmhelp.com/ | legacy file and media formats.

28 years, 1 month

Early computer serial numbers??

by archive＠navix.net

Greets: Here's a question for you all: how does early serial numbers on classic machines effect their relative value to collectors. Here's an instance: I recently acquired five (5) old TRS-80 Model III computers. They are numbered in the following way: 0000365 0000474 0000475 0000477 0000510 Yeh, and two, almost three are numbered in succession... how often does that happen. Plus, those particular machines came from two different states, and the successive machines were also split up by 900 miles!! How often does that happen? Anyway, for a TRS-80 collector, or classic computer collectors in general... how does these early numbers effect their value to potential collectors of these machines. I've heard of someone (I think) that had a very early numbered CoCo (less than 10?), but haven't heard much else. Any more of you have stories like this that I mentioned above? Thanks, CORD COSLOR -- ___________________________________________________ | Cord G. Coslor : archive(a)navix.net |\ | Deanna S. Wynn : deannasue(a)navix.net | | |---------------------------------------------------| | | http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4395 | | |---------------------------------------------------| | | PO Box 308 - Peru, NE - 68421 - (402) 872- 3272 | | |___________________________________________________| | \____________________________________________________\|

28 years, 1 month

S/36 info

by rhblake＠bbtel.com

What size disks does the IBM S/36 use and is this the same machine you refer to as a "System 36"?? I may have a whole batch of books and disks coming to me in the very near future and am curious if they may be of any value to anyone out in "pooter land". -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 # 1714857 * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* --------------------------------------------------------------------

28 years, 1 month

What ever happened to Woz?

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

Tried it with IE4. Tried it with Netscape 4.04. Tried it with Mosaic 2.11... any ideas? -----Original Message----- From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 5:34 AM Subject: Re: What ever happened to Woz? > > > > > > > >Lynx worked fine too. Suggestive? >>>I tried that before. I get the following error: >>>The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy. >>> >>>Remote server closed connection. >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- >>- >> >> >>I can't get in with MSIE, but Netscape worked. Have you tried to >Netscape? >> >> -- Kirk >> >> >> > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 1 month

What ever happened to Woz?

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

Ok... there's this technicial genius, he makes what very well may be the two key foundations necessary for IBM to make a PC for Compaq to clone it, for Unix to serve it, to make the Internet to share it... BUT WHAT THE ^*%@ HAPPENED TO HIM? I've got a faint notation that he got involved in Be, what ever that is. It seems like an OS, I remember hearing that it was getting ported to Intel platforms... what happend to him? Why isn't he like... at Apple, where he belongs doing innovation? Thanks, Tim D. Hotze

28 years, 1 month

CLASSICCMP digest 364

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Subject: Re: SID chips Message-ID: <m0yHXT4-000Iy8C@p850ug1> Content-Type: text > > Hi! > > I have a question re. the Commodore 64c - what was the number of the SID > chip? I assuem that the C64c had one, but the most likely chip was > numbered 8580R5, whereas I was expecting a 6581 or 6582. The 64c was a cost-reduced version of the 64 where many chips were integrated into larger ones, they also re-vamped the SID chip which takes a different voltage then the original SID and has 'fixes' whaich makes some earlier programs sound worse (there was a 'click' you get when adjusting the volume control, and it was used for digitized sounds, the new sid fixed this click, now no digitized sounds in some progs. I dunno the 64c SID number but I think that (8580) may be it... :/ I think the 6582 was in the 128 or 128D... -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (300-2400bd) (209) 754-1363 Visit my Commodore 8-Bit web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/commodore.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

28 years, 1 month

CLASSICCMP digest 363

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

From: John Rollins <rexstout(a)ptld.uswest.net> Subject: Mac II problem >Here's the message I just sent to ClassicMacs mailing list, I'm too lazy to >type it all again ;-) ============================= >Just picked up a Mac II 5/80/two 800k FD's for $15(including a datatronics >keyboard and an Apple mouse), with an ethernet card that everyone seemedd >to think was a second video card... Good price. Though I myself would never have THAT much desk space available... [snip]! > Finally the normal >System Folder icon is back and it boots again. I launch the hacked HD SC >Setup and it sees a disk at SCSI ID 6(I haven't changed that yet, I need to >take the HD out and find the info on it), but it can't reformat. It says it >can't prepare the disk for initialization, no particular reason is given... >Current config right now is 5/80 with the two 800k drives, and the Radius >Pivot interface. Any ideas? I'm stumped. Most likely the hard drive is a non-Apple drive (i.e. a Quantum or whatever without the special Apple ROM). Apple rigged it's drive setups to only format identifiable Apple HDs. If this is the case there are two options: 1. Locate a 3rd party drive utility like FWB HD Toolkit which works with most SCSI drives, there are a couple on the net but no gaurantees... 2. Check web for the sites that have the patches to the HD Setup progs. to format a non-apple drive anyway. (they are out there, and some are harder than others to do.) I went this route on my external drive, it works great. Here is the site I had found: http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/scsi.html -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Larry Anderson - Sysop of Silicon Realms BBS (300-2400bd) (209) 754-1363 Visit my Commodore 8-Bit web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/commodore.html -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

28 years, 1 month

Early computer serial numbers??

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

>>0000474 >>0000475 >>0000477 > >I can see some additional value of the two consecutive, if kept together, >now all you need is 476 :^) This reminds me of a recent ad of a gent looking for his old (70s) HP calculator, which he had lost years back - he had the serial number and was advertising for THAT PARTICULAR UNIT. Now *that* would be an amazing find! Cheers A

28 years, 1 month

Early computer serial numbers??

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<Yeh, and two, almost three are numbered in succession... how often does <that happen. Plus, those particular machines came from two different <states, and the successive machines were also split up by 900 miles!! <How often does that happen? Early on they were allocated one per store! Also Board part number 1700069A was the first production model, the 1700069D was second and later the 1700069G. The A version required a fair amount of green wire from the factory to make it work. Below 10 and the first are of interest more than the nth copy unless that happend to be the last copy. Allison

28 years, 1 month

Early computer serial numbers??

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

>Anyway, for a TRS-80 collector, or classic computer collectors in >general... how does these early numbers effect their value to potential >collectors of these machines. I've heard of someone (I think) that had a >very early numbered CoCo (less than 10?), but haven't heard much else. >Any more of you have stories like this that I mentioned above? My favourite subject! I have Mattel Aquarius II computers serial #8, #10, #68 I have it's colour printer serial #2 I think early serial #s are very collectible, myself. YOu can see all my serial #s for the Aquarius items at http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius.html Cheers A

28 years, 1 month

What ever happened to Woz?

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

Lynx worked fine too. Suggestive? >>I tried that before. I get the following error: >>The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy. >> >>Remote server closed connection. >>--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- > > >I can't get in with MSIE, but Netscape worked. Have you tried to Netscape? > > -- Kirk > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 1 month

What ever happened to Woz?

by kroma＠worldnet.att.net

>I tried that before. I get the following error: >The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy. > >Remote server closed connection. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - I can't get in with MSIE, but Netscape worked. Have you tried to Netscape? -- Kirk

28 years, 1 month

Serial Eprom?

by jpero＠cgo.wave.ca

Hi guys! I have a need to burn new versions for a Always IN-2K scsi card using Xlinx chipset. Currently aspi driver is ingoring the card because the serial eprom containing firmware is old. I have new verions sitting on my HD along with new bios for the 27C256 chip. If you have one chip to sell and have equipment to burn that serial chip, that would be great! I can supply the 27C256-200ns or if you have one rated at 150ns for a price, burn it also. The serial Eprom is: AMD, am1736, DC, 031YEWH (date code?) The bios is 27C256 at 150ns. Thanks! This card also is nearing 10 years so there! Jason D. email: jpero(a)cgo.wave.ca Pero, Jason D.

28 years, 1 month

TI calculator display

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

The problem is that I can't tell how to attach another ribbon to the LCD, and the circuit board end is surface mount soldered. Ideas? >Chances are rather strong that there is a broken conductor in that >cable that makes intermittent contact, since you mention that a >consistent block of the display is flaky. _Might_ be a solder joint >on a chip, but those flat folded cables break often. The cable >might even be loose in the connector if you're lucky. >-- >Ward Griffiths >Dylan: How many years must some people exist, > before they're allowed to be free? >WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed", > they'll never be free. > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 1 month

Mikbug info?

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<>From very nearly the first day I bumped into a computer, I've <been finding sporadic references to MIKBUG, an early monitor <ROM for 6800 machines. For instance, most of the older 6800 <monitor ROMs (SWTBUG, SMARTBUG, others?) claim preserve MIKBUG <But I've never seen one, or any any real documentation for <one. Can anybody out there help me find any of this stuff? <Of course I'd be happiest to find a binary image, source code, <and whatever docs originally came with it. But I'll take Same here. I have a M6800D1 and MIKBUG but no source listing. The function is a very simple program loader/debugger. What was interesting is the code was written so that routines like TTYin, TTYout, PRINTCHR and PRINTnum could be called from external programs. Saving some coding effort. Allison

28 years, 1 month

TI calculator display

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

A certain TI-85 (which I will try to fix, but is not mine) has a strange problem. The display does not display a strip of graphics. Everything else is fine, but about 20 rows just don't work. They DO work sometimes, but are then distorted. The LCD is connected to the board with a ridiculously long ribbon connector, folded several times, made out of thin plastic. Any ideas? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 1 month

System/34 again

by maxeskin＠hotmail.com

NONE of those should be very high, since these are the wires going directly to the electronics. One has a label "+5v". I am pretty sure it's not dangerous at all. If you fry the system, you can take mine - I can't give you my hands if you blow them off, though.... >[Sys/34] >Looks... >Oh you mean the one by the "DANGER 480V" stickers? > >:) >ARE YOU NUTS!? > >Well, once I get the probe of my voltmeter fixed, I'll try it. >Any idea where I can stick probes w/o crisping myself? >------- > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

28 years, 1 month

Things seen

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<devices). Maybe if I can get my hands on an assembler, I'll finally <have a use for it! Keep looking as there was an assembler for disk (PEB, 32kram, rs232, floppy). I have a copy but not giving it away as I use it on my system >from time to time. The 9900 wasn't a bad cpu for the late 1970s timeframe (the 99/4a was later) but it was slow and the 99/4a was real slow. Allison

28 years, 1 month

Nintendo Stuff...

by adavie＠mad.scientist.com

Having spent over 10 years programming BOTH the NES and SNES, yet I know little about the hardware other than how to make it do stuff! That is; I know the registers, not the chips. I can confirm, however... NES = 6502 SNES = 65816 - the world's worst processor!!! Gameboy = Z80 There is a very good NES emulator ccalled Nesticle. Cheers A -----Original Message----- From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake(a)bbtel.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 4:59 AM Subject: Re: Nintendo Stuff... >Hotze wrote: > >> Hi. I've got a few questions, some are on topic, some arn't. >> 1) How do you get into the case of a NES? (Origional Nintendo, 8 bit) >> What's inside? (Other than the 6502) >> 2) What about SNES? >> 3) Gameboy? >> 4) (Off-topic) what processor does the Virtual Boy use? What kind of stuff? >> Emulators avaible? How do I transfer ROMS? > >Is anyone aware that on the original Nintendo that if you have problems where it >won't recognize the game cartridge you can call the 1-800 number on the game and >talk to them about getting a one time replacement, as long as you tell them >you'll repair the game and that you're the owner, not a repair shop? They'll >also want the game's serial number to track whether it's been sent a replacement >already. They know the original is crap and that they'll make a few $$$ doing >overhauls on machines made defective by their own penny pinching. If you insist >on buying the connector, MCM Electronics has the connectors for around $9. > >As for getting into the case, remove the outer screws, lift the lid, take off >the shield, slide the connector off and slip the new one on, and install the >shield and cover. No big deal. Some of the newer ones have security screws >though so get them out by drilling a small hole in them and use an "EZ OUT" to >revove the old screws, replace them with common screws of the same size. > >If anyone gets into this stuff regularly and needs security type bits, MCM has a >nice little set for around $12. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 # 1714857 > * Parts/Service/Upgrades and more for MOST Computers* > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >

28 years, 1 month

What ever happened to Woz?

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

I tried that before. I get the following error: The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy. Remote server closed connection. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- So, anyone...? Ciao, Tim D. Hotze -----Original Message----- From: Seth J. Morabito <sethm(a)loomcom.com> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 11:12 PM Subject: Re: What ever happened to Woz? >> >> Ok... there's this technicial genius, he makes what very well may be the two >> key foundations necessary for IBM to make a PC for Compaq to clone it, for >> Unix to serve it, to make the Internet to share it... BUT WHAT THE ^*%@ >> HAPPENED TO HIM? >> I've got a faint notation that he got involved in Be, what ever that is. >> It seems like an OS, I remember hearing that it was getting ported to Intel >> platforms... what happend to him? Why isn't he like... at Apple, where he >> belongs doing innovation? >> Thanks, > >All your questions, and more, can be answered at: > >http://www.woz.org/ (no kidding!) > >He's teaching 5th grade now. He's doing what every great person who >achieves tremendous wealth should, in my humble opinion, be doing: Giving >up the crazy game and going off to enjoy life :) More power to him. > >BTW, _definitely_ not on-topic and I apologize for that, but Be is >indeed an OS company, and it's gaining quite a following, although I >don't believe Wozniak has ever had anything to do with them. You may >be thinking of the CEO, Jean-Louis Gassee, who was an... "interesting" >figure at Apple for quite some time. More answers can be had at >http://www.be.com/ (amazingly enough). > >-Seth (Be Developer #3048)

28 years, 1 month

Mikbug info?

by yakowenk＠cs.unc.edu

28 years, 1 month

card reading

by jfoust＠threedee.com

David Wollmann <dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com> wrote: >I'm working with >Hollerith cards on my system right now with an optical card scanner. Data >storage capacity measured by bytes/pound anyone? Can you tell us more about what you're doing? Is this a commercial card reader, or something you built yourself? I was daydreaming the other day about reading punched cards using a flatbed scanner. Software to "read" them could be quite simple, and could easily adapt to the various card geometries. Or you could even make a reader from a feed-roller and an old hand-held scanner. I find using today's gizmos to rescue yesterday's data quite interesting... - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>

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