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by qkalfut＠yahoo.com

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13 years

I'm baack...

by woyciesjes＠sbcglobal.net

Well, it's been about a 3 year hiatus from the list for me... How many of the old farts & curmudgeons are still around? ;) One burning question, has the list's definition of a classic computer been updated from the 10 year rule? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "...Talking to you is like clapping with one hand." Anthrax, "Caught in a mosh"

13 years

OT: 1000 year DVD storage

by barythrin＠gmail.com

I can't wait to find my 1000 year old or perhaps my great-great-great...at grandkids will finally be able to access my password protected zip file. Maybe this is an investment call to collectors who get called upon to recover media?

13 years

virtual library

by sales＠elecplus.com

I found the Virtual Library today, vlib.org. MANY interesting sites, check it out! Cindy Croxton _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 2641/6195 - Release Date: 03/21/13

13 years

Vertical stand for IBM 7043-43P

by BHuntsman＠mail2.cu-portland.edu

Hi! Anyone have a vertical stand for an IBM 7043-43P they'd be willing to sell? Many thanks! -Ben

13 years

Surplus and haunts in LA?

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

Relocating, and looking for your recommendations to feed the electronics/computer/ham habit. I'm thinking there must be a ton of aerospace junk for sale, or perhaps today its sadly shredded. Whats out there on the West Coast in the LA area? Randy KF7CJW

13 years

OT: 1000 year DVD storage

by barythrin＠gmail.com

I may buy one in 1000 years if it proved to last that long. Reads a lot like a life time guarantee scam though. After the main batch of sales the company pays out employees then declares bankruptcy and you have your 1 year lifetime guarantee till they come out with a separate second company with the same name with a 2 and do it all over again. Its clever.

13 years

VMS documentation binders to give away

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Out of curiosity what language are the manuals written in?

13 years

"Lifetime" guarantees [was Re: OT: 1000 year DVD storage]

by a50mhzham＠gmail.com

At 05:34 PM 3/21/2013, you wrote: > > Back when I was a kid, there was a brand of tool - I think it was the > >That would be Craftsman. They still honor that guarantee, even for new >tools. Power tools are not covered this way, however. Ah, but the great thing about Sears power tools is that you can still get parts for them. I still use the router I got from my dad. He got it in the 60's -- and it was a rebuild then. About 5 years ago, I needed to replace the bearings and thought I'd replace the collet while I was at it. I went online, found the manual with a parts diagram, ordered the parts, and got myself a like-new router out of it. 767 . [Truth] Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. --Albert Einstein a50mhzham at gmail.com ? N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) ? Second Tops (Set Dancing) ? FIND ME ON FACEBOOK 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W ? Elevation 815' ? Grid Square EN53wc LAN/Telecom Analyst ? Open-source Dude ? Musician ? Registered Linux User 385531

13 years

Looking for information on Old Hewlett Packard Machines

by michael＠almegacy.com

Does anyone have information on how to get initial sale date for old Hewlett Packard computers? The current system that HP has doesn?t cover old computers from the early 1990s. I am trying to find date of sale for the systems below, and if possible, the country in which they were originally registered: ? Hewlett Packard Series 9000 712/60 (Model Number A4024A), Base Model Number A2615A, Serial Number: 6420A50415 ? Hewlett Packard Series 9000 712/60 (Model Number A2854A), Base Model Number A2615A, Serial Number: 6406A50027 ? Hewlett Packard Series 9000 712/60 (Model Number A4023A), Base Model Number A2615A, Serial Number: 6428A50358 ? Hewlett Packard Series 9000 A2051-66521 HP 9000 E35 64Mhz CPU, Serial Number: 40110293VF Is there a database for old HP computers that someone can direct me to find out information on these? Thanks!

13 years

RK05 drive foam deterioration and replacement

by Carl.Claunch＠gartner.com

I just picked up an RK05AA drive, unknown condition but it appears in good shape internally. As I was going through a detailed inspection, I touched the foam that surrounds the air duct that connects to the access door on the cartridge, delivering clean air. The foam flaked off and seems to be deteriorating. Not as badly as the foam used in Selectric typewriters, which has turned to sludge after a few decades, but not something I want releasing particles into an air stream that will flow under the heads. Is this a known issue with the drives? What do people who restore/repair these do to eliminate this source of contamination into the cartridge? I would like to address this before I install a new absolute filter. Any tips for a substitute for the CE pack when I get to the point of loading heads and adjusting the drive? Carl ________________________________ This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the person to whom it has been sent, and may contain information that is confidential or legally protected. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, you are not authorized to copy, distribute, or otherwise use this message or its attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Gartner makes no warranty that this e-mail is error or virus free.

13 years

FS: AMD "Build A Microcomputer"; Abacus "OS/2 Complete"

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

More housecleaning :) 7-part "Build a Microcomputer" looseleaf application note series from AMD 1978, based on their 2900 series devices. Chapters are: Computer Architecture, Microprogrammed Design, The Data Path I & II, Program Control Unit, Interrupt, Direct Memory Access. $5 plus Media Mail shipping from 65775. "OS/2 Complete: A practical guide to the OS/2 operating system" version 2.1 by Peter Franken, 1992. $3 plus shipping. thanks Charles

13 years

FS: MS-DOS & Turbo Pascal books

by charlesmorris800＠centurytel.net

FS: Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 "User's Guide and Reference", $5 plus Media Mail shipping from 65775; Borland "Turbo Pascal for Windows User's Guide". $3 plus shipping. Also "Microsoft Windows Graphical Environment User's Guide" Version 3.0 from the Z-Nix Company, $2 plus shipping. thanks Charles

13 years

The RICM Needs Two DEC BC09A Cables

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

The RICM has their PDP-9 processor and core working nicely now, except for the DAC and DZM instructions. Once we get the processor and paper tape reader/punch restoration completed the next task will be connecting the TC59 tape controller and the TU20 tape drive. Bitsavers has the TC59 manuals. I bought an HP 7975A maintenance manual for the TU20 tape transport that is now scanned and on Bitsavers. We don't have any documentation for the rack of electronics in the bottom of the TU20 that connects the 7975A to the TC59. Does anyone have DEC TU20 documentation? Where could we find two BC09A cables to connect the TC59 to the PDP-9 processor? -- Michael Thompson

13 years

I'm baack...

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On 03/21/2013 03:19 PM, Bill Sudbrink wrote: >>>> I've got this WONDERFUL >>>> *****RARE***** >>>> **** SUPER CLASSIC ***** @@@@ LOOOK @@@@******MUST SEEEEEEE****** >>>> ****////ORIGINAL DELL/////****** >>>> 2.8GHZ *SCREAMER FOR ITS TIME* PENTIUM *4* (NOT MANY LEFT!!!!!) >>>> >>>> **** TWO GIGS OF RAM**** SMALL IN OUR TIME, BUT HUGE, HUGE >> ABSOLUTELY >>>> HUGE >>>> FOR A WORKSTATION OF THAT PERIOD. >>>> >>>> FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY FOR SALE ON THE MARKET~!!!!!! ORIGINAL LIST >> PRICE >>>> $1,400 YOURS NOW FOR A LIMITED TIME BID STARTING AT $10,000 >>>> >>>> GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY BIDDING!!!! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I died a little inside typing that out. >>>> >>> If it's any consolation, I died a little bit reading it. >> >> ROFL!! > > Dave McGuire, man of action, laughs in the face of death. "Sport death: Only life can kill you." -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

13 years

VMS documentation binders to give away

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello everybody, there are eight grey VMS documentation binders to give away which are duplicates in my collection: -Volume 2a and 2b: Introduction to VMS, Guide to Using VMS, Guide to VMS Files and Devices, Mail Utility, Phone Utility, Sort/Merge Utility (VMS version 5.0) - Release Notes: Volume 2: Release Notes (VMs version 5.4) - General User: volume 1: General Information: Master Index, General User Master Index, Glossary (VMS version 5.0) - General User: Volume 3: Using DCL: DCL Concepts, Guide to Using Command Procedures (VMS version 5.0) - General User: volume 4: DCL Dictionary (VMS version 5.0) - General User : volume 5A:Processing Text: Guide to Text Processing, EDT Reference (VMS version 5.0) - General User : volume 5C: Processing Text: DIGITAL standard Runoff, EVE Reference (VMS version 5.0) - Programming: Volume 8: Device Support: Device Support Manual(VMS version 5.0) First come, first serve, I give them away for free whoever is interested in them. You only have to take care of the shipping costs. Documents are located in Germany near the belgian and dutch boarder. Kind regards, Pierre ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

13 years

Data Converter Reference Manual

by wmachacek＠q.com

I have the Analog Devices, Inc., "Data Converter Reference Manual", Volumes I & II, 1992 edition. These are big and heavy (3 pounds apiece). I am no longer interested in keeping these manuals around. I will be willing to send these to anyone who is willing to pay for the shipping (via Media Mail). It looks like the cost will be a little over $5, so the first person with $5 who wants these manuals can get them. Thanks and I'll be checking this list to see who, if anyone, is interested. Bill Machacek Colo. Springs, CO

13 years

OT: 1000 year DVD storage

by tom_a_sparks＠yahoo.com.au

----- Original Message ----- >>??Perhaps not close to 1000 years, but certainly across a lifetime spam--I > > In 1000 years, well past our lifetime, will there BE anything besides > "spam" > >>??would think that these would be handy for preserving family photos, >>??particularly of important events such as weddings. > > Other than archeologists, in 1000 years, who is going to WANT our data? there are a few known facts: * every generation well want to relive their childhood * military/corporate project become cheaper and enter the consumer market[1] * new data mining methods are discovered * old information has value but is lost/miss-placed/destroyed before the true value is discovered (wiping) [1] 3D printers, Remote control vehicle, computers, etc tom

13 years

Anyone have any interest in an NCD ThinStar 300 "terminal"?

by seefriek＠gmail.com

Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> writes: > >Apparently I did, but the URL - www.ncd-x.com/doc/TerminalUsersGuide.pdf - >made me think it was the original company. Nice they put the manuals up, but sure would be nifty if they put the last software for the traditional X terminals (e.g. HMX) up. As far as I know (and I haven't burned many cycles checking) that all died long before NCD did. Probably shouldn't have tossed my (pre-HMX) NCD with X in (many) PROMs, but it was mono X11R2/3-ish and not much past xterm/Xaw worked that well, post year 2000.

13 years

Anyone have any interest in an NCD ThinStar 300 "terminal"?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

Hi, All, A friend of mine who repairs and recertifies equipment occasionally runs across interesting hardware. He has an NCD ThinStar 300 WinCE thin client box that he was planning on scrapping (for the PSU, the metal, the PCB, the CPU, etc) but I thought I'd ask if anyone has enough interest to offer something for it to cover shipping and the time to pack and ship it. I'm told it works. Internally, it's some flavor of Pentium with a passive heat sink, a couple of PC-100 SDRAM DIMMs, a Crystal Sound audio chip, and some flavor of Ethernet. I found a manual on the NCD site with little effort. Anyone interested? Make an offer and I'll pass it along. It doesn't have to be an outrageous offer, just enough to make it worth the time to not strip it for the PSU and a small amount of electronic recycling value. -ethan

13 years

Thomson T-VT 6000 terminal in Ireland (ebay)

by legalize＠xmission.com

Looks worth saving if anyone is nearby. <http://www.ebay.com/itm/111032447415> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

13 years

Free: Solaris 2.5.1 Sparc Desktop

by kurt.m.nowak＠gmail.com

Dug up a copy of Solaris 2.5.1 Sparc Desktop while sorting out my stuff...All the manuals and disks all seem to be in the box...I know its a bit useless and dated considering other better OS alternatives for older Sparcs. Does anybody want this? I'll just send it in a USPS flat rate box. Contact me off the list if interested. I am in the San Diego area, 91942. -Kurt

13 years

Otrona Attache 8:16 DOS board debugging tip

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Thought I'd share this, just so it at least gets archived for posterity... Idug out my Otrona Attaches this week and decided to try and fix the16-bit (aka "almost PC-compatible") board in one of them. The symptom was that the board would run correctly for maybe 90 seconds before it would crash. The built in diagnostics (for ROM rev. H) can test the RAM on the 16-bit board (using the "[" command from the monitor), and doing so revealed that the RAM test would pass for a little while and then start failing, indicating "U66" as the fault.According to the service manual this indicates the actual faulty chip on the board. Not so! Replacing U66 had no effect. I then got out my Fluke 9010 w/8086 pod (I'm just dying for excuses to play with this thing...) and had ittest the RAM (the 16-bit board contains 256K). RAM from word 0x20000 to 0x3FFFF was fine, but the lower half of RAM started showing bit 0x4000 stuck after warm up -- looking at the Otrona schematic (http://oldcomputers.net/Attache_Schematics.pdf) this would point to chip U61 (which services bit 14 for the lower half of memory), not U66(which is bit 14 for the upper half). So: Moral of the story is the Attache's attempt at being helpful is simply misleading, alas.Hopefully this helps someone else someday :). - Josh

13 years

IC programmer with rs232?

by brain＠jbrain.com

Anyone know a good rs232-based programmer? I have a willem (great unit, use it all the time, hate the switches), and a Gq-4X USB unit (nice unit, no switches, A14 is a bit weak and won't program my ROM-3l 23128 devices). But, I was considering setting up a small set of scripts on a UNIX/linux box here that could program items via a menu, and thought a serial (or usb serial) would be easiest to script. I could grab an older unit (though I didn't turn up promising links in half hour os searches tonight), but I'd prefer it support at49F series FLASH. Jim -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com

13 years

Kaypro II floppy identification?

by xmechanic＠landcomp.net

OK, so I dug the Kaypro II back out of storage now that I have some usable floppy disks, thanks to a good friend. :) Anyway, I found out that the current A: drive wasn't being detected in the BIOS on my disk creation machine. B: disk works fine. Checked all connections and made sure everything was seated properly, and still no luck. So I pulled both drives and inspected everything and then just swapped positions and re-installed them, hoping that the different positions on the cable was what selects which drive is which. Well, not so. The machine still tries to select the original A: drive. Is there a jumper setting on these old full bay 5 1/4 floppies to select the drive ID? Any ideas? -- Dave Land Land Computer Service Check out my site at http://www.landcomp.net

13 years

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