Does anyone know what format this CD is in? Someone I know has been trying
to access his copy which he just got with no luck. I've not gotten a copy
yet, but I'd been hoping to stick it in one of my Linux machines and NFS
mount it on the VAX.
Zane
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Sorry... I don't know about such things. I knew about PS/2 parts
(keyboards, mice, etc.) then PS/2 SYSTEMS (last summer), then PS/1 systems
(about 2 months ago). So, other than the fact that they DO EXIST, I know
nothing about them. I'm guessing Microchannel, but I've never seen such as
system myself.
I don't know if he was willing to GIVE IT TO ME. Anyway, what's a
"garden variety" PS/1? What are un-garden variety PS/1's?
>If it's a garden-variety PS/1, strictly he should pay you to take it, but
>you can be a nice guy and let him give it to you. After all, that way it's
>off his hands.
>
>__________________________________________
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> http://www.chac.org/index.html
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>
<Does anyone know what format this CD is in? Someone I know has been tryi
<to access his copy which he just got with no luck. I've not gotten a cop
<yet, but I'd been hoping to stick it in one of my Linux machines and NFS
<mount it on the VAX.
It's VMS file format, files-11. I doubt it can be read as linux NFS for
the same reason though you can read individual blocks.
Allison
Hi!
Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
but found almost nothing - are they worth getting hold of? Not saving as
such, as the owner isn't threating to destroy them or anything, but
simply worth owning. :)
It's been a reasonable week for me, computerwise. Other than being
offered a mainframe, which was fu, I picked up the Atari 800, 800xl,
heaps of software, and (a personal favorite) a Vectrex. Ok, so it is
only a games machine - but I have wanted one for 15 years, and I finally
have one. And for $15, too. :)
Adam.
Sorry about the headers, I use Lynx and Hotmail, but I now turned them
off, there should be no problem. About souping up Commodores, wouldn't
a 20MHZ CPU have a different instruction set than the original CPU and
thus require a different ROM? And if it has a changed ROM, then how is
it
a Commodore? Where can I get info on this? How much RAM would these
super-Commies have? What CPU?
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A trip to my local thrift today netted me some IBM technical manuals that I
needed. However, I didn't get it all. Still available are the following:
1) Hardware Maintenance and Service 3363 Optical Disk Drive.
2) Technical Reference 3363 Optical Disk Drive
3) Personal System/2 Model 30 286 Technical Reference
These are the IBM boxed three ring binders; the first two are still in
shrinkwrap. The other is clean and apparently complete. The price on each
is $5.00 plus 6% tax and whatever it costs me to ship them from here in
Ohio. If anyone wants/needs these, I'll go back and "rescue" them.
Also they have an Apple IIc and a dual floppy disk drive there for $50. It
looks clean, but there are no guarantees beyond that. There were no
manuals/software evident. There is also an Apple monitor there for $15. I
don't know if it is/was part of the IIc system. I say that because its been
sitting there for about a month, but the IIc just appeared. It's the right
color and looks as if it belongs with the IIc, but...........
Oh yeah, some time ago I picked up a CP/M Primer for the Epson QX-10. This
is a manual that shipped with the QX-10 and a duplicate in my collection.
It cost me a dollar, so if anyone has a QX-10 and needs this, contact me and
I'll pass it along.
Finally, a while back someone was looking for dBase II reference materials.
I just acquired eight or ten third party books on dBase II. I think I could
fix you up with something, el cheapo.
Regards,
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com
Does anyone have any inforn=mation about a Tektronics 4041 DDU? I is a lon
dbox that has a 5 1/4" floppy drive and hard drive mounted in the front. I
was told that it is for one of the Tek computers.
Slow but good this week. picked a PDP 11/73 with two small mini manuals
for $15; digital pro 380 not tested; Global teleport/mercury 14.4 modem for
free;LaserWriterII for $15;GTCO corp Digi-Pad controller type 5A; something
called a Nic Nicolet with 2 3.5 FD's no idea what it is not opened yet $15;
HP 1040A HPLC-Detection-System $15; Mettler GA44 printer very small uses
paper the size on a handheld calculator free; some Mac items like keyboards
and mice all were free; Panasonic RGB interface ET10g rack unit for
free;another PC8300 notebook by NEC for free; a Manzana model MDQ 3.5 ext
drive for free; Irwin 8-bit controller card free; ESDI card with 4 1-meg
simms on it by CompuAdd $5; and lot more items that do not meet the 10 year
rule. All in all it was a good week. It three of us my wife, daughter, and
myself to get the PDP off the pickup, the place I got it from used a
forklift to put in my truck. Out in the snow it was alot of fun. Keep
computing John
OK... where can I get the Atari clones?
It's hard to believe that they're's anyone more emotional than a Mac
fanatic... anyway... please give me more info. Also, how much will it cost
me?
Ciao,
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: New Amigas, Atari Clones
>> Who, what where, why? Tell me all. ;-) Tim D. Hotze
>
>Who? Well for the Amiga, Gateway 2000 (I know, no one's heard of them)
>owns Amiga, Inc. and Amiga International. Amiga International is located
>in Germany and is in charge of marketing. Amiga, Inc is located in South
>Dakota IIRC, and is in charge of research (Gateway formed them). There are
>several clone manufactures, and I'm anxiously awaiting the BoXeR
>motherboards. There are several other clones either currently available or
>soon to be.
>
>As for why, the Amiga is still actively used in the video industry, and
>fairly popular in England and Germany. Personally I've got a bunch of them
>because I think they are major league cool! You can still buy the A1200
>and A4000 new.
>
>
>As for the Atari, the clones are coming out of Germany, and mainly targeted
>at the Music industry. The Atari's have built in Midi. I've a couple, and
>while the concept of their OS is very, very cool (it's all in ROM), I find
>it cumbersome to use. Probably the most fanatical computer user I've ever
>met is an Atari user, makes me look calm :^)
>
>
>Linux and {net|open}BSD run on various models of both the Atari and Amiga.
>
> Zane
>
>
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>
>
Looks like some good prices here. If anyone's interested, please
contac the original author directly.
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I have some older DEC equipment looking to clear out of the basement,
everything is in working order...
TU-58 DA external dual TU-58 drive $20 OBO
DECmate III with monitor $30 OBO
External RD52 MFM drive with cable $15 OBO
VT 1200 base unit only, 4 meg memory $50 OBO
DECstation 3100, no memory or drives. Has color framebuffer and SCSI
floppy
adaptor, but missing the floppy $35 OBO
Prices do not include shipping.
-Keith S. Huff
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an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly
define any of them!..."
If anyone's using the classic Emulex serial boards in a QBus or Unibus
environment, this looks like a good deal...
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I have several Emulex CP34 and the older CP11/12 16 port
async panels that connected to various controller cards
emulating DH11/DHV11/DMF32 (CS11/CS04/?)
These were daisychained to 64 (or for the dmf32, 128)
ports with a single 34 wire ribbon cable from the controller
card.
If you have such a controller card and want more ports
speak quickly or the dumpster gets them
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define any of them!..."
Does any one have a copy of a repair manual for the Tandon/IBM 5-1/4" drives
in the original IBM PC? The model# is Tandon TM1000-2A.
I seem to have a short on one of the power supply lines, so I'm looking
tor a diagnostics tree.
Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
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At 11:26 PM 2/7/98 +0930, you wrote:
>Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
>passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
Now I've heard of Apple II GS, but no C-64GS.
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
At 08:17 PM 2/7/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I think it's intended for 64's and 128's that are a lot more advanced than
>that. A machine with a drive like that is probably running GEOS, with a
>20Mhz CPU, and a lot of RAM. It's pretty amazing how souped up some of
>these old "Commies" are!
Nope. it'll run on a perfectly stock C-64.
-John Higginbotham-
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On Sat, 7 Feb 1998 20:13:14 +0000 (GMT), Tony Duell
<ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Why do you think you have a power line short?
With the drive connected to a PC power supply, the PS won't give a
PwrGood signal; removing the drive's power connector enables the machine to
boot.
I think that the problem is on the motor control board; it looks like a
repair may have been done on it before.
Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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I picked up a couple of IBM circuit cards today for ~$1.50.
The first is about 3.5" x 4.5", has 2 24 pin connectors, 5 of the IBM
square metal IC cans and many other components. It has id numbers:
75114 4B01536A1590 VCC
The other is 7" x 4.5", has four 24 pin connectors, 6 larger metal IC
cans , 9 DIP chips and misc components, it is marked
4161595A2828 VCC13607010
Does anyone know what these do and what system they are from and their
approcimate age ?
They came in nifty plastic "conductive containers" marked IBM with small
windows allowing you to see what is inside.
If nothing else they are great examples of IBM technology.
Regards,
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On 06 Feb 1998 20:53:16 -0800, Frank McConnell <fmc(a)reanimators.org> wrote:
>>Given that this is a Sun 3, I would re-set them for disk ID = 0 and
tape ID = 4. At that point, you should be able to get to the monitor
prompt by pressing L1-A (hold L1, press A) while it's trying to boot
>from the network (or before) and typing "b sd(0,0,0)" to get it to
boot from disk, or "b st(0,0,0)" to get it to boot from tape. Oh yeah,
you need to press return after that ")", unless you want to pass some
arguments to the boot, in which case you should type them before you
press return (e.g. "b sd(0,0,0) -s" to boot single-user mode).<<
I don't have a Sun keyboard or mouse, so what are the
terminal-equivalent keys for L1?
I've tried the "b sd(0,0,0)" command from the montior in DIAG mode, but
it complains that the device is not present. I don't have a SCSI terminator
on the end of the chain, so that may be an issue (the shoebox did not come
with one; I ordered one :-)).
>>I don't recall exactly how to set the default boot device. Once you
have something bootable on the disk, you want to set the default
boot device to "sd(0,0,0)". This setting goes in the EEPROM, only
I don't remember exactly what locations to use. If you install
SunOS 4.1.1 there will be an "eeprom" command that will help you
to not remember too.<<
I figured this one out. I've set the EEPROM for polling. I don't even
know what system is on the hard drive, though.
Rich Cini/WUGNET
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Sorry, this is going out to a lot of people that it doesn't apply to, but
as was pointed out earlier today a lot of the people on this list seem to
be in the Portland area.
I know a guy that is currently trying to get rid of quite a few VT320's,
and probably a few others (sorry, no VT520's). He's not on the Internet,
but if you want I can put you in touch with him. As I said this is for the
Portland area.
Zane
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This guy has a working IDE interface for the Commodore-64/128. It will
accept up to an 8gb hard drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM support is in the works.
Price is $89US plus shipping. Access time is about 60 times faster than the
1541 floppy, about 25k/sec. It would be worth getting just to see it work!
Here's the address:
http://sgi.felk.cvut.cz/~vorlicek/Ide/c64ide.html
-John Higginbotham-
-limbo.netpath.net-
>> It's been a reasonable week for me, computerwise. Other than being
>> offered a mainframe, which was fu
>
>What kind? And what is "fu" (except what I think it is)?
Sorry. Fu was meant to be fun. I was offered a digital camera (or
something similar) this week, which included a bonus VAX to run it. Out
of my league, though. There is another mainframe I was offered a couple
of weeks ago where they didn't know the brand, but I am thinking of going
around to see it and work out if I can save it anyway, at least until a
more appropriate owner comes along. The third, which I was refering to,
was an AWA 5280 (I believe that was the number). I figure it may well be
just a mini or something, but I know nothing about this and he did say
Mainframe. :)
Adam.
>At 11:26 PM 2/7/98 +0930, you wrote:
>
>>Someone here has a couple of 64 GS's - I had only heard of them in
>>passing before, and thus don't know their interest. I looked on the web
>
>Now I've heard of Apple II GS, but no C-64GS.
It's a seriously cut down Commodore, apparantly. Intended as a
cartridge-based games machine. From the little I know it had no keyboard
and special joysticks with two fire buttons, the second of which replaced
the space bar from the keyboard. But I think it could use standard C64
carts.
Adam/
