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by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Anyone out there have one of these things? It's an oddball, made for IBM by Tadpole (same guys who made the Sparcbook). I'm trying to identify a scorched component in the battery compartment of mine in the hopes that I can get it running again. It's next to the memory, on the right hand side (with the front of the laptop facing toward you) labeled as "TR35" on the PCB. It's an 8-pin surface-mount component, but the one in mine is scorched so badly it's unidentifiable. And I somehow doubt i'll find a schematic :). Thanks, Josh

14 years, 8 months

Free for shipping (from Seattle)

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Still cleaning house. Came across the following things I have no need for, if you want them let me know. Free for the cost of shipping. - 2x Intel Pentium II Overdrive chips for Pentium Pro systems. These were working when I pulled them from a system about 5 years ago. If you have a Dual PPro system you're looking to upgrade a bit, here's your ticket. - Tandy Professional Deskmate & MS-DOS/GWBASIC. Binders (in boxes) with manuals and software (5.25" floppy). Looks like they went with a Tandy 3000/4000 originally. I've never owned such a system so I have no idea how I ended up with these. Or why I've kept them for so long. - TRS-80 Model 16 Owner's Manuals (Model 16 and Model II modes). Anything not claimed by 10/15 is getting donated to RE-PC in Tukwila... Thanks, Josh

14 years, 8 months

Has anyone heard from Mike Ross?

by james.w.stephens＠gmail.com

He went to Iceland On Oct 8, 2011 6:34 PM, "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: I tried emailing him yesterday, and didn't hear anything back. Not sure if it is related to corestore.org being down, through.

14 years, 8 months

Has anyone heard from Mike Ross?

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I tried emailing him yesterday, and didn't hear anything back. Not sure if it is related to corestore.org being down, through.

14 years, 8 months

Found a Bondwell 12...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

Anyone on the list have disks or disk images for this beastie? It's lurking quietly at the local thrift shop and has no docs/media. They probably think it's a DOS machine of some kind. :) (it's a CP/M portable) tnx all! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

14 years, 8 months

SunBlade 100/Astra UMAX scanner in Redwood City - Last call - items go to electronic recycling tomorrow. - Fwd: Re: [rescue] Free SunBlade 100

by toby＠telegraphics.com.au

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [rescue] Free SunBlade 100 Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:26:37 -0700 From: junkmail at crhhome.com Reply-To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org> To: suns-at-home at net-kitchen.com, rescue at sunhelp.org Last call - items go to electronic recycling tomorrow. --charles To: suns-at-home at net-kitchen.com, rescue at sunhelp.org Reply-to: charles at crhhome.com From: charles at crhhome.com Subject: Re: Free SunBlade 100 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:56:54 PDT." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <22712.1316905169.0 at locnar> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:59:30 -0700 X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/mixed by demime 1.01d X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain Here's the pic........... --charles charles at crhhome.com says: > Folks - these items are on my front prouch at the address below, whoever > wants them take them our they go in the dumpster. Call me at 6502611798 > if you want to check if they are still here. > > 1925 Vera ave, Redwood City, CA, 6502611798 > > --charles > > junkmail at crhhome.com says: > > > Free SunBlade 100 > > Astra UMAX 1200S scsi2 scanner - works with Suns > > Some scsi2 cables, cdrom, manuals > > > > U pick up at Redwood City - I will not ship > > > > > > > > --charles [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of IMG_6363.JPG"; x-unix-mode="0644] > Here's the pic........... > > --charles > > charles at crhhome.com says: > > > Folks - these items are on my front prouch at the address below, whoever > > wants them take them our they go in the dumpster. Call me at 6502611798 > > if you want to check if they are still here. > > > > 1925 Vera ave, Redwood City, CA, 6502611798 > > > > --charles > > > > junkmail at crhhome.com says: > > > > > Free SunBlade 100 > > > Astra UMAX 1200S scsi2 scanner - works with Suns > > > Some scsi2 cables, cdrom, manuals > > > > > > U pick up at Redwood City - I will not ship > > > > > > > > > > > > --charles > > > > > > > <<IMG_6363.JPG>> _______________________________________________ rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue

14 years, 8 months

hard sector diskettes...

by dougcoward＠hotmail.com

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Geoff Reed wrote: > i am now on the hunt for 10 sector disks for a northstar horizon. a few > years back I purchased a bunch and they were stolen... I thought that my > northstar had been stolen, but *happy dance* in the process of moving > from one storage unit to another, what did I find... my horizon :) no > media for it remains :( and the manuals are gone, don't remember if the > thief that broke into my storage P*ssed on them or is they were taken at > the time also. > Hi Geoff, If you don't mind a Do It Yourself project, back in 97 I posted instructions on how I turn soft sectored diskettes into 10 sector, hard sectored diskettes for my Horizon. You would just need one hard sectored diskette to use as a template. http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1997-December/146757.html --Doug Coward Poulsbo, WA The new home of the Analog Museum and History Center is http://www.cowardstereoview.com/analog

14 years, 8 months

Pertec, MPI, and Ampex disk drives + Xenotron II

by jws＠jwsss.com

Pertec 310348669864 MPI 310349702429 Ampex 310349706855 something called a xenotron II with horrible screen rash 310349704482 (listed as xentron, which is a totall different operation) Might be something related to this listing: (from a google search from another list) http://users.monash.edu.au/~ralphk/xvc2-xenotron.html

14 years, 8 months

Molecular computer, and, KAYPRO 10 available, Bytes, Microcomputing

by rcbartel＠yahoo.com

I am interested in the Molecular computer (CP/M).? Rick? 410-903--2759

14 years, 8 months

OSI 560Z card (PDP-8 emulation on OSI) info / software

by dfnr2＠yahoo.com

Hello, I'm looking for any information on the OSI 560Z card.? This was an OSI plug-in card that had an intersil/Harris IM6100 chip, and a Z-80 chip both under control of the 6502 Host CPU.? The card also had 64K of RAM on board, which could be accessed by the 6502 via a sliding 4k window at a fixed address in the 6502 memory map.? This allowed emulation of a PDP-8 via the 6502.? I found the schematics on Mark's OSI page (http://osi.marks-lab.com/boards/boards.html), but I'd love to find the manual and software.? If anybody has a manual or software, and care to share it (and let me post it on my web site, http://osiweb.org), I'd be grateful. I just did a quick search, and found a similar query from 2004, but I think enough time has passed that some new lead may turn up. Happy classic computing! Dave

14 years, 8 months

Bondwell 12 update + new scans...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

I stopped off to pick up the Bondwell and discovered two things - it DOES have a couple of disks tucked into the little slot underneath the drives, and the proprietor may want as much as $75 for the machine. The employee didn't know for sure and the machine wasn't priced. The person thought the price was "something crazy". I told him if it _was_ $75, it wasn't crazy, it was insane. I'm hoping I don't have a local version of wiredforservice or computerhistorymuseum on my hands. *sigh* I left my contact information - if the guy wants more than $20, he'll enjoy keeping the machine. On to the goodies... I've added a Z-System software catalog and issues 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the Z-Letter as well as an issue of ComputerLand magazine. Hit http://www.retroarchive.org to check 'em out. tnx. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

14 years, 8 months

Looking for : Sharp PC-1405

by mhstein＠canada.com

--------------Original Message------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:27:36 -0500 (EST) From: liste(a)artware.qc.ca Subject: Looking for : Sharp PC-1405 Or equiv (Tandy had them as PC-2 or something, iirc). The goal of my classic collection is to get one of every computer I've programmed over the years. One of the first computers I programmed was a PC-1405 (actually, I can't remember the exact model). I found one of these in a pawn shop. By brother "stole" it. I found another. This was my one classic computer that was helluva useful. So useful I took it with my places. And, well, I've just lost it. I've checked eBay and there are a few Sharp Pocket Computers, but W@W L@@K @ T3H PR1C3Z! Buy it now for "only" 300 USD! http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3000156764&category=15030 So, does anyone here have one they don't need and/or would be willing to let go for a reasonable price? -Philip -------------------------------------- I've got a PC-1421 Financial Computer if you (or anybody) are interested: 76 character keyboard 16 character display 40K ROM Basic 4.2 Kb RAM Interface for optional CE-126 Printer/Cassette (don't have) 6 modes: Normal calculator Financial calculator Statistical calculator Basic program mode Basic run mode Almost new, in box with cover & 280P manual. Make me an offer (less than US$ 300, or even CDN$ 300 :). mike

14 years, 8 months

FOR SALE: HP-2000A minicomputer from 1969

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

FOR SALE: HP-2000A minicomputer from 1969 ----------------------------------------- 1. *I* do not own it, just helping the owner. 2. Located in Santa Ana, CA (south of LA) 3. An early time-sharing systems, includes the world?s first 16-bit minicomputer, the HP 2116A. 4. Serial number 0156B. 5. They are asking for just 10% of it's original cost, OBO. 6. Contact me if interested. Must pick-up, no delivery. 7. There are also ASR-33, ASR-35, and ASR-45 terminals. See some photos here: (500K image size) - http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a.jpg http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-small.jpg (750K image) - http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-hd.jpg http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-hd-small.jpg http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-open.jpg http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-cards.jpg http://oldcomputers.net/temp/hp-2000a-config.jpg

14 years, 8 months

Z-Letter...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

Does anyone know how many issues of the Z-Letter (think CP/M & ZCPR) were published? I've got #s 1, 3, 4 and 5 plus the first Z-System software catalog. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

14 years, 8 months

CHM honors Jim Williams and Bob Pease

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

I just read that CHM will honor Jim Williams and Bob Pease in a new exhibit opening on October 15th. The exhibit will feature Jim William's well-known, unbelievably cluttered bench, painstakinly relocated in-situ. I felt a real physical pain when I learned about the deaths of Williams and Pease. Thank you, CHM, for doing this. Article with photos here: http://www.edn.com/article/519496-Computer_History_Museum_honors_Jim_Willia… This is, of course, not intended to detract from the well-deserved attention Steve Jobs (RIP) is getting. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

14 years, 8 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 98, Issue 15

by technobug＠comcast.net

On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 22:02:05 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: > The "rule" is that the period is SUPPOSED to go inside the quotes, > indisunirregardless of whether that conveys the correct meaning! > see: <http://www.uclick.com/client/wpc/nq/> :-) . ->CRC

14 years, 8 months

Getting further ot, but RE: Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage, Systems)

by jonas＠otter.se

"Business people" love Microsoft because they think Microsoft and > Bill Gates are the same entity, and like to be associated with money and > financial success. These people typically haven't an iota of technical > know-how, and they're NOT the people who should be telling others what > tools to use to do their jobs. That's nonsense. "Business people" love Microsoft because a) they think that if they buy the same as everybody else, there will be no problems exchanging mail, documents etc with other companies, b) they know that they can easily find staff who knows how to use MS products, and c) they assume that if they buy from a large corporation they can always get some reasonable level of support, the products and support will be around for the foreseeable future, and if something really bad happens, they expect they can get help to fix it. They also prefer to get everything from one place since it is easier to speak to one supplier than several, and the products can be expected to interoperate, without several different supplier pointing their fingers at each other when something doesn't work. However, in Europe quite a few government entities and private companies have got fed up with MSs total dominance, and have begun mandating the use of open source tools. The Swedish government's public procurement of software includes both proprietary software and open source software. /Jonas

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Getting further ot, but RE: Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage, Systems) at Living Computer, Museum,

by jonas＠otter.se

On 2011-10-05 19:00, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > Think of a rigid requirement of a specific mail program, or other largely > interchangeable tool, as an asshole/not-asshole filter of employERs. > > > My employer (a community college system) uses Outhouse, and more than once > a week IT/helpdesk has to try again to explain phishing, and begging > people to not open attachments. People who pass on urban legends, as > "TRUE", get thanked by their colleagues, debunkers get chastised for > "being mean". Last week was the "cell phone DO NOT CALL". There is a > concerted effort to AVOID compliance with the state mandate of teaching > "information competency". > > Yesterday, we received a> MB email that consisted of a single sentence. > BUT, it was tilted a few degrees, and the signature was a different color. > One of our top administators, to send out that single sentence, had > created a Weird document, printed it out, SCANNED that, and sent it out as > an attachment to an email with a Subject: line of "FYI", and a message > body (other than the attachment), of "Open the attachment." > > BTW, many years ago, they employed substantial additional temporary staff > to do scanning when they changed the OFFICIAL word processor from > WordPervert to Weird. > > They tried to fire one of my colleagues for being a hoarder, and > retrieving working computer hardware from college dumpsters (including an > 11/70, which was no longer in his office). They gave him 2 hours to get > what he could out of his [admittedly JAM-PACKED] office and then > dumpstered everything else that he hadn't stuffed into his car, including > NorthstarS, Sol, and a few more S100 machines. > > > I don't think that I can manage to avoid getting fired [for doing my job] > for another 3.64 semesters. Thursday, I gave copies to a student who > requested them, of the Grand Jury investigation into our administration > and the Accreditation Commissions' report when they placed our > accreditation "on probation". You make it sound as if Dilbert is actually true... That level of incompetence would be really hard to find over here. /Jonas

14 years, 8 months

Fwd: Donner Analog Schematics

by hilpert＠cs.ubc.ca

Forwarding this to the list in case anyone can help out. I presume the fellow found me through my web page about an analog computer, and/or my page about a Systron Donner counter. I don't have any Systron Donner analog computers however. This would, of course, be (the son of) Higinbotham of tennis-for-two fame. Begin forwarded message: > From: William Higinbotham <higinbotham at hotmail.com> > Date: 2011 October 4 5:36:08 PM PDT > To: <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> > Subject: Donner Analog Schematics > > Dear Brent Hilbert, (^Hilpert) > ? > ?? My name Is William B. Higinbotham, I am the son of William A. > Higinbotham > who worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory most of his life. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Higinbotham > ? > ?? I am writing you because the museums in the US and a local > laboratory is looking for schematics for (Systron/)Donner analog > computers. Here is an ad for the Donner 3400 > http://www.sciencemag.org/content/129/3349/671.full.pdf? > which Peter Takacs, takacs at bnl.gov has to rebuild the early game > computer. http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/higinbotham4.asp > Here is the Donner Programming Book > http://www.analogmuseum.org/library/handbook_of_analog_computation.pdf > ? > If you know of any forums to ask if anyone has schematics for these > analog computers, we all would be grateful. > ? > Sincerely > William B. Higinbotham, Bellport, NY? USA

14 years, 8 months

Steve Jobs

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

That answer is still less offensive than "during!" ------Original Message------ From: Eric Smith Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org To: General Discussion On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts ReplyTo: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Steve Jobs Sent: 6 Oct 2011 06:29 Fred Cisin wrote: > This may offend many, but, . . . > did he die before or after the iPhone5 event? Apple has not (yet) announced any iPhone 5. Assuming that they announce an iPhone 5 at some point in the future, the answer to your question is "before".

14 years, 8 months

The Commodore 65

by silent700＠gmail.com

Ok...anyone know who dropped the big 20 kilobux on this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/120784313119?s Not saying it's not worth it (I've certainly never seen a working one, ever,) but the price is still a shock. Big $ for an Apple 1 I can see...there are collectors of "cultural icons" like the original Apple product outside of our hobby. I can't see the same being so for a Commodore relic. -- jht

14 years, 8 months

Steve Jobs and Classic Computing

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

Steve Jobs was an early innovator & pioneer of microcomputers who went on to influence how we look at high technology today. An icon has passes on....

14 years, 8 months

Sr. Server Engineer (Vintage Systems) at Living Computer Museum, Vulcan Inc., Seattle

by RichA＠vulcan.com

We're hiring. The brief job description: Vulcan Inc. - Seattle, WA Living Computer Museum Vulcan's Vintage Systems Team is responsible for the restoration, operation and maintenance of the Living Computer Museum's collection of vintage computer systems. This collection includes mainframe and minicomputer systems manufactured by companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Data General, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard during the emergence of interactive and timeshared computing. The goal of the Living Computer Museum is to restore these systems to run historically appropriate software, presenting them as living artifacts to the academic and research communities and to the public. The systems and their associated software and documentation are curated to preserve their historical provenance. For more information on the Living Computer Museum, please visit http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/ ________________________________________________________________________ Sr. Server Engineer The Sr. Server Engineer is responsible for the restoration of vintage systems as well as day-to-day operation and maintenance of the Living Computer Museum collection. Responsibilities include hardware and software installation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, procurement of parts, and certification/performance testing of the various computer systems including associated peripherals. Additional duties include research and writing regarding individual systems and their restoration and preservation. When required and on occasion, responsibilities include assisting on special projects. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years related experience and/or training. Operations and administration experience required with mainframe and minicomputer systems, with emphasis on timesharing systems, or senior-level field service experience with same. Must have strong analytical and planning skills with the ability to communicate and conceptualize projects to integrate the technology with the needs and functions of the Living Computer Museum. For a full job description and to apply, please visit our careers site: http://jobs.vulcan.com/ Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/

14 years, 8 months

a sad day in computing history....Steve Jobs passed away

by jlobocki＠gmail.com

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/05/us/obit-steve-jobs/?hpt%3DT1&ved=0CBYQqQI… that is all I have so far...

14 years, 8 months

Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley pioneer Steve Jobs has died

by glen.slick＠gmail.com

Just in case you're not connected to news, Steve Jobs died today. http://www.mercurynews.com/obituaries/ci_19048827

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