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by cctech＠beyondthepale.ie

> >I've acquired on old enterprise/small office 11x17 ADF scanner. Came with >everything except a cable, and any sort of support. I've tried signing up >for the KoFax forums, but seems to be dead. Have to wait for an admin to >approve me, and it's been a couple weeks now with no action. > >Its a fujitsu M3097DE, with a first generation KoFax VRS card in it. The >card is a Fujitsu CG01000-440201 (sticker) or kofax 13000125-000 (PCB >silkscreen) > The rather old version of the SANE scanner package I've got here (1.0.18) makes mention of the Fujitsu M3097DE. I would suggest asking for help on the sane-devel mailing list which despite it's name, is also for general users. I haven't been there for a while but last time I was, there was lots of lively discussion. http://www.sane-project.org/ Regards, Peter Coghlan.

13 years, 10 months

Old fiujitsu scanner

by fast79ta＠yahoo.com

I've acquired on old enterprise/small office 11x17 ADF scanner. Came with everything except a cable, and any sort of support. I've tried signing up for the KoFax forums, but seems to be dead. Have to wait for an admin to approve me, and it's been a couple weeks now with no action. Its a fujitsu M3097DE, with a first generation KoFax VRS card in it. The card is a Fujitsu CG01000-440201 (sticker) or kofax 13000125-000 (PCB silkscreen) It also came with an KoFax Adrenaline 650i PCI SCSI Scanner card, which I have it on good authority, was used with the scanner. The card has a HD68 external scsi on it, and the scanner has 3 connections (2 for rs232 control, and video. These are supposedly disabled with the 3rd party card installed), and one for the VRS card (which is DB37). As I understand it, it was a package offered by fujitsu. But, can't find really any info on it at all. Especially, what kind of cable it took. Anyone have any familiarity with such a beasty? It would be great for scanning a lot of my old documentation, because it does two sides at once, 200 dpi, grey scale. Thanks

13 years, 10 months

Preferably Data General fan-fold paper tape

by peter＠vanpeborgh.eu

I can't remember if I asked this before, but I am very keen to get such tape(s). Anyone out there got some? Will pay money (up to a point). Many thanks. || | | | | | | | | Peter Van Peborgh 62 St Mary's Rise Writhlington Radstock Somerset BA3 3PD UK 01761 439 234 || | | | | | | | |

13 years, 10 months

2314 parts on epay

by jws＠jwsss.com

These are horribly overpriced as is all the vendor has, but this auction includes three cans of hydraulic fluid for these drives and some other plumbing. http://www.ebay.com/itm/180899093505 There is another auction for more 2314 equipment http://www.ebay.com/itm/180899093355 Also if you look at other auctions, he is very proud of several Department of Defense manuals about card and unit record equipment. Maybe that is rare enough to be worth $500 / manual, but I'm not a buyer at that price. Jim

13 years, 10 months

VAXstation 3 with DECvoice unit available in Macon, Georgia

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

See below. Reply-to: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> -- Sellam Ismail VintageTech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintagetech.com Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...The truth is always simple. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:43:12 -0400 From: Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> To: donate at vintage.org Subject: Available VAX Down in Macon, GA my dad has a DEC that we would like to send to a good home. He purchased this several years ago from a man in north Georgia who said it spend the 1990s answering the phone at a utility company. My dad kept it in his classroom while he was a high school technology teacher, but now that he's no longer teaching it's gathering dust on his carport. There's a VAXstation 3, DECvoice unit, two hard drives, and a tape drive in an enclosure on wheels. There's also a VT420 terminal. You can see some pictures of the equipment at http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/sets/72157622981044137/ Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested! -- All the best, Brian Pitts

13 years, 10 months

I am looking for a few MINDSET items, in particular a BASIC cartridge, s/w

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

oh you know you meant it so stop all your fibbing!

13 years, 10 months

I am looking for a few MINDSET items, in particular a BASIC cartridge, s/w

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

oh you know you meant it so stop all your fibbing! ------------------------------ On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 7:17 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote: >C: See I knew you were insulting me. At least you're honest, despite said statement a paragraph ago. Regardless of what the MS-DOofiS manual says, I learned properly. I read Peter Abel's book. I want to check the Tandy 2000 MS-DOS manual also. I believe it gives more or less accurate info on that. > >Not deliberately. I included a lot of beginning and simplistic stuff, >because I had no way to know that you already had some familiarity with >different types of MS-DOS executable, etc. > >Sorry about all of the silliness about .COM, .EXE, EXE2BIN, etc. > > >A guy who used to work for me 20 years ago was into Mindset. But he >doesn't have any of it any more, and probably remembers little or nothing >about it. >

13 years, 10 months

Get a great deal on a recently published computer history book

by david＠classiccomputing.com

I've posted about my book here not long ago, so I hope you all will indulge me one last time. I really want to get a bunch of them into peoples hands, so I'm offering a special, great deal - Get both the book, "The Complete Historically Brewed" and the zine, "Classic Computing" for just $25 shipped! For international buyers, I'll subtract $3 off the shipping. Find out more here - http://www.classiccomputing.com/CC/HB_Book.html Best, David Greelish, Computer Historian - Author, "The Complete Historically Brewed" - Founder, Atlanta Historical Computing Society - "Classic Computing Show" podcast - "Stan Veit's History of the Personal Computer" audiobook podcast - "Retro Computing Roundtable" podcast ClassicComputing.com | atlhcs.org

13 years, 10 months

Seagate ST4206 disk drives

by useddec＠gmail.com

I have 3 ST4206 drives in sealed static bags (spares from a maintenance company) and 2 loose ones. Feel free to make an offer off list. More to follow soon. Shippping is from 61853. Thanks, Paul

13 years, 10 months

Webserver performance on VAX [Was: Retrocomputing ... VAMP ...]

by abs＠absd.org

On 8 June 2012 22:16, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:07:05 +0100 > David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote: > >> Retrocomputing with a VAMP stack: VAX, Apache, MySQL & PHP > About 10 years ago a friend run a web server on a MicroVAX 2000 to > serve his personal homepage. He netbooted the the NetBSD kernel for the > MV2k and mounted / from a local SCSI disk connected to the "tape port". > Though, he used static pages and thttpd. No AMP bloat. The VAX has quite different relative performance characteristics to current standard target x86/arm platforms in terms of memory bandwidth, context switch cost, function call overhead and suchlike. I wonder how various web servers perform on a VAX? Obvious ones to test would be apache (1,2.2 2.4), nginx, thttpd, bozohttpd (those are just the ones I've used myself), lighttpd. yaws and mono-xsp could be interesting is erlang and mono compile :) A simple static test and maybe php with fastcgi for a start. I'd probably just use apachebench from a fast local x86 box. Does anyone else have suggestions as to web servers or different tests that might be interesting?

13 years, 10 months

I am looking for a few MINDSET items, in particular a BASIC cartridge, s/w

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I might be forced to agree. They arent very reliable. To say the least. But that doesnt diminish theyre collectibility. Theyre just one of the grooviest units out there. And if anyone wants a non-working one, let me know. ------------------------------ On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 4:35 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote: >On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Chris Tofu wrote: >> turns out none of my units work anymore. Short of pulling the roms... I >> may have the service docs. I know I have the marketing guide. > >Mindset was always much more about marketing than about service. > > >

13 years, 10 months

I am looking for a few MINDSET items, in particular a BASIC cartridge, s/w

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

turns out none of my units work anymore. Short of pulling the roms... I may have the service docs. I know I have the marketing guide.

13 years, 10 months

I am looking for a few MINDSET items, in particular a BASIC cartridge, s/w

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I have a lot of M* stuff, but not everything. We can trade or I can send you moola-shmoola. Reply offlist or call 804-732-7608 (I intentionally put the area code after the exchange, so swap it).

13 years, 10 months

defective DEC RZ58-E

by holm＠freibergnet.de

I have here an 1,3Gbyte DEC Drive, 5,35 Inch full heigth. (Seems to have the old CDC WREN Mechanics) It looks, that the drive electronics are toast. It don't spin up the BLDC motor and it blocks the SCSI Bus where the drive is connected. Maybe there is someone out here that has a Drive with an Head Crash and want to sell me the electronics? Regards, Holm -- Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, Freiberger Stra?e 42, 09600 Obersch?na, USt-Id: DE253710583 www.tsht.de, info at tsht.de, Fax +49 3731 74200, Mobil: 0172 8790 741

13 years, 10 months

Corroded terminal removal?

by fraveydank＠gmail.com

I have two Mac logic boards (an LC and a Quadra 700) which came to me after the PRAM batteries had exploded, leaving a pretty awful mess. The good news is that there doesn't seem to be any permanent trace damage, and none of the surrounding parts were blown away except for a cheap, easily-replaced SMT diode. However, the last bits of the terminals for the battery holders are still in the holes. With careful application of abrasives and solvent, I managed to clean them to shiny metal, but they're resisting desoldering pretty well (they seem to be mostly rust or similar corroded detritus at this point). Anyone have tips on removing corroded battery terminals from a PCB? - Dave

13 years, 10 months

Grid Compass II Manual?

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Are manuals for the Grid Compass (or Compass II) archived anywhere? I picked up a Compass II this week (alas, no peripherals or media) and having a user's manual would be helpful to get to know my way around its OS. (I suspect there might be one or two things wrong with mine since about 90% of the time I get System Errors and other interesting behaviors while playing around; but having a manual to decipher the errors would at least be a start...) Thanks, Josh

13 years, 10 months

Death of Ray Bradbury

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

It was with great sadness I felt on hearing the news of the death of Ray Bradbury. His science fiction literature, that of computer in nature, gave me my earliest knowledge concerning computers and the potential they had. He will truly be missed. Murray---

13 years, 10 months

what would cause a 5 1/4" drive to choke on a standard disk?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I asked this in the past. You attempt to format a disk, and it grinds. Why?

13 years, 10 months

what would cause a 5 1/4" drive to choke on a standard disk?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Not grinding, but that DUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUH ------------------------------ On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 2:25 PM PDT Fred Cisin wrote: >On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Chris Tofu wrote: >> I asked this in the past. You attempt to format a disk, and it grinds. Why? > >I've had them squuek, screech, squeal, chatter, seek incessantly, but >never GRIND. 'course, thinking back to auto repair, sometimes people >have a strange idea of what "grind" sounds like. > >excessive seeking is due to read errors, and retries > >Are the heads filthy? > >is the disk able to turn freely? With a couple of fingers through the >center hole, you should be able to turn the disk in its jacket. Go to the >edge of a table, and with the disk perpendicular to the edge, rub it HARD, >so that it is slightly deforming the jacket; that will loosen it up a bit.

13 years, 10 months

Microsoft cordless telephone

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

No I don't have one, nor ever owned one (though I was given the base and the original box by the same guy who gave me my color Canon AS-100). What is one worth? Since I didn't have the actual phone, I chucked it. Stupid? It has to be a rare item. Curt Vendel can you either call me or send me your phone number 8047327608 (swap first 2 sets of 3s). Purdy please.

13 years, 10 months

Tek Magnolia (Was: 1970s microprocessor magazine articles)

by rickb＠bensene.com

> > ranging from the amazing Magnolia Smalltalk Workstation from 1976-ish, > > Really? That date is extremely hard to believe. > > Adele Goldberg wrote in "The Smalltalk-80 System Release Process" (in > _Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice_, June 1983) that the first > release of Smalltalk to licensees (Apple, DEC, HP, and Tektronix) did not occur > until February 17, 1981, with updated releases on July 24, > 1981 and November 18, 1981. "Implementing the Smalltalk-80 System: The > Tektronix Experience" by Paul L. McCullough, copyright 1982 and printed in > the same book, describes the initial bringup at Tektronix. It doesn't give a > date for the start of the effort, but after describing the initial bringup, states > "About this time, we received the second virtual image from Xerox Palo Alto > Research Center (PARC)." This suggests that they received the first and > second images at times consistent with the release dates in the Goldberg > paper. > > Didn't Magnolia use the Motorola MC68000 microprocessor? Motorola didn't > announce that until September 1979, and while it's certainly possible that > Motorola provided Tektronix with preliminary data on it prior to that, > Motorola didn't have working silicon until late 1979. > > Allen Wirfs-Brock's resume describes how he was involved in the Tektronix > review of the draft Smalltalk-80 books in 1980-1981, and that review occurred > before Xerox released the image. I think that my memory has failed me. I think it was more like sometime in the early 1980's, now that I think more about it. Magnolia used a 68000 CPU (two of them, I think...because I believe it supported demand paging, which the 68000 didn't support directly), which didn't exist in '76. Smalltalk existed, but the Smalltalk-76 release would have been a major pain to port to the 68000. Also, the machine used a Micropolis 8" hard disk (1200-series) that didn't come around until sometime in mid-'78 or so. So, though my memory tells me that I saw this machine running in a lab before I went to work at Tektronix in June of '77, my mind has to be suffering from wetware bitrot - something I'm becoming more and more familiar with as the years go by :-( In any case, the sad part is that it appears at least from a historical standpoint that a lot of information about Magnolia (along with other Tektronix forays into computer systems) are being lost to time. Rick Bensene

13 years, 10 months

defective DEC RZ58-E

by cctech＠beyondthepale.ie

> >I have here an 1,3Gbyte DEC Drive, 5,35 Inch full heigth. (Seems to have >the old CDC WREN Mechanics) >It looks, that the drive electronics are toast. It don't spin up >the BLDC motor and it blocks the SCSI Bus where the drive is connected. > I had similar problems with two RZ55 drives in VAX2000 size boxes. They blinked the activity LED several times at power on but didn't spin up. I thought the were counting out a fault code. The bus issue turned out to be a bad cable and the reason they didn't spin up was because they weren't supposed to spin up until commanded to by the host. (Just before trying them, I'd tried a different disk that is supposed to spin up at power up but didn't due to a power supply failure so I was in the wrong frame of mind for disks that don't spin up automatically. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!) Regards, Peter Coghlan.

13 years, 10 months

early internet telephony devices

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I have this little box that would let you make calls on the internet, from the mid to later 90s. I think there was a cd, but I can't locate it at the moment. It's an extremely crude device internally, there isn't even a perfboard IIRC, but rather a few discrete components soldered together w/wires. I didn't analyze it, and it's been years since I looked at it, so I'm guessing it's basically just a demodulator. ?Is this interesting? If so please discuss. Incidentally is this worth mondo big bucks on ePay? I see nothing like it. It's an unknown brand. But so am I. And likely you too.

13 years, 10 months

Corroded terminal removal?

by cctech＠beyondthepale.ie

> >Anyone have tips on removing corroded battery terminals from a >PCB? > If there is enough of it left, file or drill the existing solder to expose shiney clean areas. Then apply new solder to it. Hopefully the whole lot will then melt together and can be sucked away with a desoldering pump. While adding more solder might feel like the worst thing to do to unsolder something, it really does help. Regards, Peter Coghlan.

13 years, 10 months

Byte Magazines For Sale

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

I set up a page to sell of spare Byte magazine copies. The page has directions, will ship worldwide. http://www.degnanco.net/contact_byte.cfm Bill vintagecomputer.net

13 years, 10 months

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