I don't know, I don't have a TV.
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At 06:04 AM 12/13/2011, vintagecoder at aol.com wrote:
>Hmmm, will any old CRT monitor work? I might be pursuaded to see if I can
>scrounge one of those even though finding a home for it would be a problem.
Oh, no, this thread has so much miscommunication in it, we have to keep
it going.
I assume you're not in the USA? So when you buy the average LCD TV
in Europe, does it not include the same threaded "F" connector for
an RF input, that would be able to tune this "channel 3" (61.25 MHz)?
- John
Can anyone id this Wang system? Looks like maybe a box on a desk with
another box in the desk with maybe an 8" floppy?
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/sys/2746923849.html
Also, a Tek 4051 system and accessories asking $550.
(No connection to this listing other than it being local to me.)
For the "very poorly" category, I'd like to nominate the DOS & Windows
command line globbing semantics, where ? matches one character OR
NOTHING. Likewise, ?? matches zero, one or two characters. And ???
matches zero, one, two or three characters.
So,
del *.?
will not delete just "file.a", it will delete "file" as well.
This sort of sets the gold standard for poor behavior.
Even Microsoft is at odds with itself about what ? means. In the
Windows world, the command shell doesn't expand wildcards. Applications
have to do it for themselves. The Visual Studio C runtime library
globbing routine incorrectly states that '?' matches "exactly one
char". So even some of their own developers aren't aware of this.
Brian
Hello folks.
I need any one of the following models of HP Vectras:
- HP Vectra VL2 4/33se
- HP Vectra VL2 4/66
- HP Vectra M2 4/50
- HP Vectra VL2 4/50
- HP Vectra VL2 4/50 CD
- HP Vectra XM2 4/66i
Bonus points (in increasing value) if:
1. They are original (i.e. no upgrades)
2. Complete
3. Have original OS and software installation
4. Come with original software install disks, manuals and paperwork.
If you have any one of these models, please contact me ASAP. I am looking
to purchase them.
Thanks!
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At 01:43 PM 12/12/2011, Liam Proven wrote:
>Perhaps it's just me, but I really quite /liked/ the VMS system:
>name.extension;version. Saved my bacon a few times, did file
>versioning. Given how cheap disk space is now, I'm saddened it's not
>made a comeback.
It's Time Machine in OS X, it's "previous versions" in Windows 7.
- John
Oh, I'll have to look at my junk pile. I seem to remember getting a TV card along with a few boxes of misc parts when I bought a desktop a few years ago. I had no use for it at the time. Maybe I will. Thanks.
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> > Or you can get a TV card for a PC for under $20. Most of them work
> > nicely with Linux and all of them work with Windows, though the actual
> > viewing applications get a bit ugly.
>
> I meant to ask about this since I have no idea what it is, I thought it
> would be used for receiving over-the-air TV signals. Are you saying they
> have input jacks that would work with old computers that had TV output
> connections?
Yes. Many (even most) of them have composite inputs, and some even have
S-video inputs. I used an Aurora Fuse card for this in my MDD until I got
a FireWire Canopus ADVC-300.
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Somewhere I have the schematic to tap the input of the RF modulator to drive a Composite Monitor. Several of my Cocos have these. But, newer flat screen TVs may not be able to accept this signal.
You are probably going to find it easier and cheaper to get an old Color TV on Freecycle to use with the Coco than to adapt it to RGB or DVI.
Al
> From: "Vintage Coder" <vintagecoder at aol.com>
>
> I have an old COCO II somewhere but I don't have a television. What are you guys who have similar old systems doing for a display?
> Is there a device to convert the TV out from those computers to D-Sub or dare to dream, DVI?? What do you call such a converter? Thanks.?
Hey folks. Can anyone recommend a good book (that I can find used
via abebooks etc) that'll teach me the ins & outs of small-scale (i.e.,
sheet-fed) offset printing? Old is fine. (I'm exploring old presses)
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
Pardon if you've heard this before, but...
I'm looking for the programming algorithm for Lattice/AMD/Cypress old
PALCE devices. I've got a bucketload of them (mostly PLCC) and I'd
like to do something with them or trash them, if no luck in the
programming department.
I've found algorithms for the PEEL devices as well as NS type plain
GALs, but nothing on the PALCEs.
I know that programming info is usually supplied to OEMs under a NDA,
but the technology has passed through a sufficient number of hands
that it's hard to believe that nobody has any information.
Note, unless it's very cheap (i.e. it costs less than thowing the
PALCEs out) I'm not interested in another programmer, but I'm not
opposed to tinkering a bit.
Thanks for whatever help,
--Chuck
I need a copy of the diagnostic program for a Qbus Data Translation board:
DT2768-I
The program that I need runs under RT-11. If there are other versions,
it may be possible to use a different operating system, so please let me
know if you have a non-RT-11 version.
I believe it is an Analog to Digital Adapter, but I am not sure.
However, the
module number is definitely DT2768-I.
Can anyone help or suggest where it can be found. I checked bitsavers on
both the bit and pdf sections, but there was nothing there.
Jerome Fine
Word 5.1 for the Mac runs fine under Executor (http://www.ardi.com). In fact, Executor came about as a way to run Word and Excel on NeXT systems, and was ported to Windows, DOS, and Linux.
Executor was how I ran Word for Mac on my PC until Word for Windows eventually caught up.
I also used the MagicSac on my Atari-ST with an Epson MX-80 and EPStart (to print with) to use Word on my ST. Later I got a program whose name I forget (Printworks for the Mac - Laser Version?) that was a driver for popular Laser and Dot Matrix Printers that came with a special Apple Serial to Parallel printer cable.
I have a Spectre-128 GCR now (I also have ARDI's Transporter One to read Mac GCR disks), but haven't booted my ST in ages. It has a 2.5gb RAM upgrade by AERCO that has stopped working, and I lost the documentation for it, so I can't figure out the jumper settings. Someday, I hope to find them or find someone who has it... Or even more unlikely, run into one of the principles of AERCO.
I remember that WordPerfect for the Mac 3.5 ran fine under Classic on MacOS X. Here's a webpage about it:?http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/macintosh.html
Hope some of this is helpful...
Al
Pontus <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm afraid that I have been unable to get a hold of the owners and by
> now it is probably to late.
Too bad. I know some DEC-heads from N Germany and I had hoped one of them would have made for the stuff.
> I can comfort you with that there was nothing terribly unusual there.
Anything DEC is too scarce to lose in a world dominated by PeeCees!
I had hoped for e.g. a Radiator VAX (BA23 ?VAX) to complement my VSII/GPX and perhaps some tower style Alpha hardware. Also original DEC terminals. Another time, perhaps...
So long and thanks for the heads-up,
Arno Kletzander
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On 8 Dec 2011 at 19:47, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> I'm thinking of building a "somewhat vintage" two-channel DAC board,
> intended to drive an oscilloscope as a vector display.
Well, if you want "vintage" (and I assume you do) there was at least
one such project in an old issue of Byte or Kilobaud (IIRC).
Given that typical period (I'm assuming vintage all the way) o-
scope's linearity is none too wonderful, you might get away with a
single 8255 PPI (or similar parallel chip) and a simple R-2R "ladder"
DAC. You can't get much cheaper than that.
--Chuck
Hi,
Noticed an old posting.
Just have to say that this was NOT an emulator.
It was a real hardware Burroughs mainframe.
Regards,
David Faultersack
Micro-A Engineer
I'm designing a video scan converter to connect my classic Amiga to a
new LCD. For the journey, not the destination. Don't want to buy one off
the shelf, etc.
I need to both read and write to my single-port freeware altera memory
controller simultaneously(ok, not exactly at the same time) . I'm
converting from 320x200 to 640x400, doing simple pixel doubling.
12-bit color, 4-bits per color, padded to 16-bit for ease of handling
within the FPGA.
Write side into the memory from amiga->my converter: 1 byte every 70ns.
Read side to go from memory->LCD: 1 byte every 20ns.
Memory is 8mb, 133mhz access, 16 bits wide, wishbone memory controller
has fixed burst size of 2.
What are some common ways of doing arbitration?
Time slots with buffering between writes? How would this be implemented?
Two-port memory controller (I can't find a free, working, easy to use
Altera one)
Some type of synchronization method? Semaphore/Mutex concepts?
My existing setup detects horizontal sync pulse, and reads the entire
line from DRAM -> block ram. Since I'm pixel doubling, I only need to
read one input line for every two output lines, so I can potentially
relax my READ times accordingly.
Any advice or recommended references would be appreciated.
My efforts are being blogged at
http://techtravels.org/?page_id=463
Thanks
Keith
Just forwarding this to the list in case there might be some interest
here.
These are old 1950s-era fax machines, not 1990s. Apparently they are
similar to the ones I present here (which is why he contacted me):
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/e/deskfax/index.html
They are located in Northern Ireland.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "cliff.corderoy" <cliff.corderoy at btinternet.com>
> Date: 2011 November 24 5:46:14 AM PST (CA)
> To: <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
> Subject: Desk-fax interest ?
>
> Hello Brent,
> I have three Creed Desk-fax machines in my garage and wish to
> let them go. Is there any interest in these machines ?
> As they are so heavy the transport cost perhaps are higher
> than their value !
> regards,
> Cliff. ?ham radio callsign Gi4CZW.
> 028 66329494.
On 2011-12-10 19:00, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
> Re: IBM something, what is it ?
A programming device for some kind of IBM network. You put the floppy
into the device only about half way for it to boot and then then you can
configure the network with the hand-held terminal part. I have seen one
working, but without the appropriate network.
Fred Jan
This 1980s-era bus supported multiple CPUs, and 20 bits of address space.
It was also known as IEEE-1000 (until that standard was withdrawn), and
used the DIN 41612 connector
common to VMEbus systems of that time.
I'm trying to find details on interface circuits, schematics for old
boards, etc.