- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by andrew＠leadic.com

Hello Tony, I am having a little problem finding info for this part and I found you comment on the internet that you have the databook. I am doing a small repair that calls out for ZN448E-8 but I only found info on ZN448E. Are these the same part? Any information is much appreciated. Regards, Andrew

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by micheladam＠theedge.ca

Hi. Nice to know these listings have been found. The game brings back fond memories. The 2000 was the first mini I programmed on, in college. I have read all the replies, and no one has suggested what I am about to suggest, so here it is: In order to do a really good job of sanity checking, it would help if we could see the listings to compare with what has-been/wil l-be typed. People will want to port it to other close version of basic (hp-eloquen ce) or BASICV on the 3000, and a typo is always a problem with languages that dont necessarily declare variables before assigning things to it. So, if you had a way of scanning the listings and making them available on your web site, that would be a boon to everyone. Assuming the listings are in good enough shape to scan. As well, you could then spread to work around! Just my 2 cents worth... Thanks Michel Adam micheladam @theedge.c a ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Turnbull <pete@dunn ington.u-net. com> Date: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:17 pm Subject: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73 > I need some help with some HP 2000 BASIC. I probably last used it > around 1980, and not often even then for somehow the PDP-8s looked > moreattracti ve than the grey HP box in the same room. Yeah, I know > betternow. Luckily, I'm sure some of you can help me out... > > I've been retyping TREK73 >from a fairly poor-quality listing, and it > needs a sanity check. Also I'd like to learn a bit more about what > I'mtyping. This is the original source for the Star Trek program by > William Char and friends, and what I've typed so far is on my Star > Trekweb page at http://www. dunnington.u -net.com/pu blic/startrek / > > I've added some other stuff to that page, too. > > Questions: > > All the lines have two spaces between the line number and the code. > All, that is, except for a few that have an '@' in place of the > secondspac e. Is that significant (does it mean "ignore this" or > something?) or is it just an artifact of a noisy Teletype line? > (The listing > appears to have been made on a Teletype, which needed a new ribbon and > a better platen roller.) > > What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, > mean(eg in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like > PRINTTAB(1 4)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character, > perhaps? If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd > guess decimal) and is there a table anywhere? > > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do? > Theyalways seem to have three variables (eg ENTER T2,T,X$). > > That'll do for now :-) > > If anyone would like to proofread what I've retyped so far (about half > the total) and check for obvious sillies, please do - especially in > TREK0 around line 740 (cf line 840). Better still, if anyone is > willing to actually try this out, please do! though it won't work very > well with half of it missing. > > -- > Pete Peter Turnbull > Network Manager > University of York >

22 years, 4 months

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OMT MFM 5200 disk controller board

by aek＠spies.com

> I have some repair info for the OMTI 5000 series, such as pinouts of the > ASICs, and the like. > > -tony > Useless data for those who care. What Tony actually has are the ASIC specs for the 5000 series, which originally came from me, not just the pinouts. -- > Some time after we had talked to them (and found out about the name), the > sold it all to SMC OMTI was sold to SMS, not SMC. See www.bitsavers.com/pdf/sms Somewhere, I think DTC was connected to all of this as well. I'll have to ask the people I knew who worked at Shugart.

22 years, 4 months

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help identifying S100 board

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi This may not even be a s100 board. The height is wrong. Check the power leads carefully before plugging into a s100. It does seem to be a complete single board computer. Dwight >From: "Ian Primus" <ian_primus(a)yahoo.com> > >I recently acquired this board, it appears to be an S100 board, since >it has the 100 pin connector and voltage regulators onboard. Does >anyone know what this is, or what it came from? In the upper right >corner, it says "Dynatech NEWSTAR 1MP481 REV. A (C) 1990" The board has >a Z80, a 27128 EPROM, an 8k static RAM, some 41c256 DRAMS, a Z80 SIO, >some RS-232 line driver pairs (1488/1489), and two 26 pin headers, >which appear to be serial ports. > >Here is a picture I took: >http://24.194.65.231/images/unknownboard.jpg > >It appears to be a complete Z80 computer on a board, so I would imagine >that it would be possible to power it up, and connect a terminal to it, >but I don't know if it would do anything. Any information on what this >could be, or what it might do would be appreciated. > >Thanks! > >Ian Primus >ian_primus(a)yahoo.com > >

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

I need some help with some HP 2000 BASIC. I probably last used it around 1980, and not often even then for somehow the PDP-8s looked more attractive than the grey HP box in the same room. Yeah, I know better now. Luckily, I'm sure some of you can help me out... I've been retyping TREK73 from a fairly poor-quality listing, and it needs a sanity check. Also I'd like to learn a bit more about what I'm typing. This is the original source for the Star Trek program by William Char and friends, and what I've typed so far is on my Star Trek web page at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/startrek/ I've added some other stuff to that page, too. Questions: All the lines have two spaces between the line number and the code. All, that is, except for a few that have an '@' in place of the second space. Is that significant (does it mean "ignore this" or something?) or is it just an artifact of a noisy Teletype line? (The listing appears to have been made on a Teletype, which needed a new ribbon and a better platen roller.) What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, mean (eg in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like PRINT TAB(14)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character, perhaps? If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd guess decimal) and is there a table anywhere? What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do? They always seem to have three variables (eg ENTER T2,T,X$). That'll do for now :-) If anyone would like to proofread what I've retyped so far (about half the total) and check for obvious sillies, please do - especially in TREK0 around line 740 (cf line 840). Better still, if anyone is willing to actually try this out, please do! though it won't work very well with half of it missing. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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OT almost - Who's a linux/Emacs guru? please contact off list.

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

I hate that my backspace key generates some ugly help menu instead of backspacing can I do anything about it? (running emacs_nox in xterm under X) Linux Slackware 3.0 1995 - Emacs. Thanks..

22 years, 4 months

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FA: HP 2116B Computer w/16K Word Core Memory

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2765699545&category=1247> Not mine. (If it was it wouldn't be on E-bay!) Joe

22 years, 4 months

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Car boot sales, etc?

by transit＠lerctr.org

Any convenient to Greater London (preferably accessible by public transport)??? Also, what about the continent? I've heard about flea markets in Paris (Clignancourt and Montreuil come to mind): any computery stuff there? Thanks!

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 10, 23:53, Eric Smith wrote: > "John K." <john3000(a)cox.net> > > some day I'll get my set of HIB tapes back > [...] > > there were > > many games and programs from HP 2000 ACCESS vers. 1812 on that tape set > > (which dates from Jan. 1984). I'd love to see them run again. > > I've written a package "tsbutils" which contains two programs that are > useful with HP 2000 Access hibernate and dump tapes While they're not immediately useful to me, I've noted that for reference. What I really would like is an HP 2000 (2100?) emulator. I've found Jeff Moffat's but not tried it yet. Is there anything else I should look for? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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more Press stuff.

by witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk

Well, I hope that didn't turn out too bad. The article is actually about market values of Sinclair machines and things like the Black Watch and will be in the Financial Times in a couple of saturdays. I basically spent an hour deriding ebay and emphasising the historical side of collecting for exhibition and educational purposes, not financial. Apparently I'm not the only one he's spoken to that thinks that, though there's also been others who've said stupid things like 'turn up with a non-yellowed zx80 and I'll give you ?400 for it' We both agreed that it was highly unlikely you WOULD get ?400 if you did that. The journalist is speaking to a lot more people and at present he's on the fence between telling people to sell their MK14s now and telling people to hold onto them. Naturally I told him to tell people to give things like that to me :o) The current ebay situation with Zebra ZX81 kits is a good example of how greed can go wrong...... On a sort of unrelated note it's idiot week on ebay again - a battered looking yellowed ZX80 is currently at ?155 despite it only having the bottom sorry looking poly, PSU and manual.....many days left to go, too. Meh. -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(

22 years, 4 months

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AVAILABLE: HP 82161A Digital Cassette Drive found

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Since the person who initially wanted this thing never replied to me, and I now have it here, I guess it's available to anyone who wants it. It looks OK, comes with 4 tapes, and the *US* power supply brick. Not the connecting cable, so it seems. Do me an entertaining offer, or I'll put it up on ePay. --f

22 years, 4 months

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HP-85 HP Series 80 Software

by rhahm＠nycap.rr.com

I have aquired the following Series 80 software on 3.5" and 5.25" discs: If anyone with any titles not listed below would like to trade email me. Thanks HP85 1. Standard Pac 2. Training Pac 3. Math Pac 4. Text Editing Pac 5. Graphics Presentation Pac 6. General Statistics Pac 7. Basic Statistics & Data Manipulation Pac 8. Regression Analysis Pac 9. Linear Programming Pac 10. Waveform Analysis Pac 11. AC Circuit Analysis Pac 12. Data Communications Pac 13. Information Management Pac 14. File Management Pac 15. Assembler 16. Modem Software 17. Speech Synthesis 18. Graphics Tablet (2 discs) 19. VisiCalc Plus 20. Portfolio Management (3 disc set) HP86/87 1. Math Pac 2. Demonstration Disc 3. Arcade Games Disc 4. Linear Programming Pac 5. General Statistics Pac 6. Basic Statistics & Data Manipulation Pac 7. Data Communications Pac 8. Assembler 9. Modem Software 10. Speech synthesis 11. CP/M Operating System 12. VisiCalc Plus 13. Word/80 14. File for 80 Series (5 disk set) 15. Series 80 Graphic Presentations 16. Portfolio Management (3 disc set) 17. USCD Pascal

22 years, 4 months

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(no subject)

by ttt184＠hotmail.com

Yes, the 5285 is a dumb terminal. _________________________________________________________________ Is your computer infected with a virus? Find out with a FREE computer virus scan from McAfee. Take the FreeScan now! http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

22 years, 4 months

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NEC MULTISPEED HD

by KC8QAA＠aol.com

Robert, I read your entry on some bulliten board about your NEC MULTISPEED HD. I just recently acquired one and it runs fine, just not sure if the backup battery works. For now Im running it with the original NEC a/c power pack. The only "problem" that I can find is at the startup it says "bad or missing /dd.bin" but other than that all directories on the hard drive are accessible and floppy drive works fine (even though its only a 720kb 3 1/2") If your interested in this computer, make me an offer and we can work something out. Thanks Bryan

22 years, 4 months

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OMT512/7250 controller board

by nico＠farumdata.dk

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk> To: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr(a)zipcon.net> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 8:25 AM Subject: Re: OMT MFM 5200 disk controller board > Hi Geoff > > The 512 and 7250's come in pairs. > The 512 is an 8 bit SCSI controller. I have the strapping documentation > available. The 7250 connects to the 512 (cables available). > The 7250 has the following connectors : > J1 - 50 pin SCSI interface > J2 - 34 pin ESDI or MFM disk control connector > J3, J4 - 20 pin data cable connector > J7 - 34 pin floppy connector > J10 - power connector (like 5.25" floppy disk, but DONT connect the +12V. It > will fry the board....) > > The 512 supports up to seven SCSI devices. It can be strapped to 4 IO > adresses. > > The major thing is the software. Originally, it was used with the EMS Media > Conversion software. The card has a BIOS socket, but I've never seen the > BIOS. A qualified guess is therefore that you can only use the cards if you > have the EMS software, unless you can find a BIOS. > As the software rights were sold to IBM in 1993, I sincerely doubt if I can > give you a copy of the software. The EMS company went belly up, and IBM > bought the assets. > > Nico > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geoff Reed" <geoffr(a)zipcon.net> > To: <nico(a)farumdata.dk> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:59 AM > Subject: Re: OMT MFM 5200 disk controller board > > > > are the OMTI's you have SASI to MFM cards? I am looking for some for > > TRS-80 use. > >

22 years, 4 months

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OMT MFM 5200 disk controller board

by giles.mascarenhas＠lineone.net

I am looking to repair my OMT 5200 bd and came across your find of these MFM controllers. Do you still have them and are the boards functional? Kindly let me know,by E-mail. Regards Giles Mascarenhas

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by micheladam＠theedge.ca

No, a very anchored Mac 7500 running OS 9.1 and IE 5.1 . It looked ok on the screen, and I only saw the result when the post came back. Something is/was wrong with the Java VM on it, as best I can determine. Time to downgrade to OS 8.6... Hopefully this reply will come across better. Michel Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf@siconi c.com> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:15 pm Subject: Re: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73 > > Was this message typed on a mobile phone or something? :) > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Michel Adam wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > Nice to know > > these > > listings have > > been found. > > The game > > brings back > > fond > > memories. > > > > The 2000 > > was the first > > mini I > > programmed > > on, in > > college. > > <snipificatio n> > > -- > > Sellam Ismail Vintage > Computer Festival > ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---- > ---------- > International Man of Intrigue and Danger > http://www. vintage.org > [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Tra de Vintage > Computers ] > [ and academia at www.Vintag eTech.com || at > http://mark etplace.vint age.org ] > > >

22 years, 4 months

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need some info on some sort of pocket terminal

by dhofstetter＠triad.rr.com

Hey, how you doing.. I was doing a search for TM990 for work and came across your message. I work on that antique stuff you have come across. TI had two calculator type programmers. These units were used with the 5TI sequencers and PM550 PLC's. This stuff is still being used in industry for controlling machines. I've had to refurbish a couple of the larger calculator type programmers last year. They are a polled RS232 device that only talks when told to by the PLC / Sequencer. http://www.datamath.org/ This is where i got the pictures... There is some thrill rebuilding these things hooking them up and punching in some ladder logic and watching the flashing lights on the I/O racks.. Some of the stuff you pick up may still bring a decent price on ebay.. Even this old seemingly antique stuff.. Just my .02 Duane Hofstetter ke8bg(a)triad.rr.com duaneh(a)delta-control.com http://www.delta-control.com

22 years, 4 months

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What is an M750 "Line I/O control" for?

by v.slyngstad＠verizon.net

I asked this in alt.sys.pdp8, but didn't get the answer, so I will try here: When I got my PDP-8/i (oh so many years ago), it came with a supply of flip-chip spares. Among them are 24 M750s, which I can't find any info about, except the phrase "Line I/O Control". What are they for? They aren't for any of the 8/i's built-in options, so there must be an external option that calls for them? Is there a reason for me to keep so many of the things? Thanks! Vince

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by micheladam＠theedge.ca

Try: http://www.hp-eloquence.com/download/ The package is mainly for a re-implementation of the HP3000 IMAGE database on different platforms, but it started life when HP discontinued the HP 250s years ago, and it includes a version of BASIC that is probably closest to the 2000 ACCESS, other than BASIC V on the 3000s. The latest version has departed from using line numbers, but I think version 6 still fully support a line-number mode for the basic language. If not, you may have to go back to version 5. Michel Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 5:04 pm Subject: Re: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73 > On Nov 10, 23:53, Eric Smith wrote: > > "John K." <john3000(a)cox.net> > > > some day I'll get my set of HIB tapes back > > [...] > > > there were > > > many games and programs from HP 2000 ACCESS vers. 1812 on that > tapeset > > > (which dates from Jan. 1984). I'd love to see them run again. > > > > I've written a package "tsbutils" which contains two programs that > are > > useful with HP 2000 Access hibernate and dump tapes > > While they're not immediately useful to me, I've noted that for > reference. What I really would like is an HP 2000 (2100?) emulator. > I've found Jeff Moffat's but not tried it yet. Is there anything > elseI should look for? > > -- > Pete Peter Turnbull > Network Manager > University of York >

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 11, 9:39, Bill McDermith wrote: > There is a copy of the 2000F Reference Manual on Al Kossow's site at: > > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/2000TSB/2000F-rm-300.pdf > > That would have answers to your questions... Undoubtedly. Thanks! Did that come from Eric Smith? I've read Eric's pages, and found a link to Jeff Moffat's HP2100 archive. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 11, 9:02, Joe wrote: > Pete, > > Very cool! You even included the Intel MDS version! Thank you :-) I can't quite remember why I started collecting so many different versions of Star Trek, but if anyone has any other interesting versons, I'd be happy to put them on the page. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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Colossus.... the movie

by bmachacek＠pcisys.net

Thank you Gene for coming up with the name of the movie that had the CDC equipment in it. This board can get answers to ANY question I do believe. Bill

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 10, 22:50, Frank McConnell wrote: > Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote: > > All the lines have two spaces between the line number and the code. > > All, that is, except for a few that have an '@' in place of the second > > space. > Noisy line, most likely. I don't think it has any significance. OK. > > What does '14 in a PRINT statement > The leading single quote outside double quotes is how HP BASIC (2000 > and 3000) represent a non-printable character in a string constant. > So '14 is decimal 14 as a character, or control-N. Makes sense. > > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do? > I don't recall the details clearly, I'm thinking one is a limit in > seconds on the time the user has to reply, and I'm thinking the other > is used to return the time it took the user to enter the reply. That makes sense too. Thanks to everyone who has replied. Now all I need is a machine to run it on (or an emulator). Any suggestions? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 11, 1:27, John K. wrote: > At 2003-11-10 04:17 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote: > > I need some help with some HP 2000 BASIC. > HP 2000 BASIC placed printing characters inside double-quotes (") and used > the apostrophe notation for non-printing characters. The apostrophe was > followed by the decimal value of the character that belonged at that point > in the string. Thus, any character in the extended ASCII character set > could be expressed using the apostrophe notation ('0 through '255). This makes sense. > The '14 was used to instruct an HP terminal (probably an HP2640, HP2645, or > near the end of support for the HP2000 ACCESS, the HP2621 and HP2624) to > switch to the alternate (usually line drawing) character set. The '15 was > used to switch back to the normal character set. >From other information about the origin of TREK73 (see Kermit Murray's page at http://ch309c.chem.lsu.edu/~kmurray/other/trek73/), and knowing where my listing came from, I'm pretty certain it was intended to be run using a Teletype [AK]SR33. On that machine, SO (decimal 14 is Shift Out) would, as far as I remember, switch to the second colour if you had a two-colour ribbon. And SI (decimal 15) would shift back. OK, I can see a use for that, though it's slightly odd in that the lines where it occurs aren't particularly special, and the text is bracketed by a pair of '14, not by '14 and '15 as I'd expect. My ASR33 only has a black ribbon, so I can't check if SO is cancelled at the end of a line (I have a feeling it might be). Oh, well, I better finish typing and find a way of trying it out... -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 10, 21:34, Frank Schickel wrote: > I programmed a little bit on 2000F and may retain a little > bit.... [...] > If it's a straight "LIST" of the program, then the format would > be a standard format of the line number followed by two spaces; so > I would bet that the @s are spurious and can be ignored. OK, I guess it's just line noise, and I'll remove them. There's another place where there's something that doesn't quite make sense to me (yet) so I'll have a closer look there too (line 740 in TREK1). > > What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, mean > > I'm not sure about this one, but this may have been a way to print > control characters in a PRINT statement without using CHR$(). If so, > what would a control-n do on a teletype? I thought it *might* be octal, > but that would make it a form-feed, which wouldn't make much sense > in the status sections because it would print <FF>TORPEDOES<FF> and > then the status, which would waste a *lot* of paper.... I wondered about octal, but decimal 14 is Shift Out which makes more sense. Sort of. See my reply to John K. > > What exactly do the first two parameters to the ENTER command do? > > If I remember rightly, ENTER lets you get > the time the user takes to enter the input. It looks like it's probably > "ENTER <time allowed>, <time taken>, <input>". I'm sure that's it. The code has provision for various null inputs too. > This brings back memories. I never could get into this one, since I > could never get the proper strategy figured out. I preferred the > other TREK where you had to eliminate the Klingons in the galaxy.... Oh, I have a few of those online, too :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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Apple Lisa 1

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Apple? Old stuff? Hahaha. I'd be surprised if they still have last >month's Macintosh model sitting in some back closet somewhere. Actually, Apple has a testing lab that has a pretty wide range of old Macs running assorted mac OS versions. Its even free to use if you are an Apple Developer. The catch is, its in Cupertino, and you have to do the testing yourself, so unless you are local, or have a good budget, its tough to use. Poor shareware developers like me have to depend on our own collection of old macs (of which I just liquidated 95% of my own). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 4 months

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PDP-8/L not incrementing properly

by sebastian.brueckner＠epost.de

Hi! I once again tried to get my PDP-8/L to run this weekend. Unfortunately I am not not yet a PDP professional - I don't have a clue what most of the modules are doing. I started to read the Maintenance Manuals but I do not quite know where to start. Maybe you can give me a hint: I tried the "simpler" instructions like set accumulator, or accumulator with switch reg. etc. What I did not yet try are the different jump instructions. I will be more specific as soon as I tried more instructions. CLA and STA work, i can set all bits in AC. IAC (increment) and all the rotate instructions however always set AC to 1 completely ignoring the previous value. Where should I start looking for the problem? What information do I have to gather to narrow down the source of the problem? Regards, Sebastian

22 years, 4 months

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Another Computer in a Movie

by bmachacek＠pcisys.net

Does anyone remember the name of the movie that came out in the mid 60s that had a CDC 3600 (I think) as a background in part of it. I had a friend who told me he was the CDC rep during the shooting of the movie, but it's been so long ago I've forgotten the name of it. He said all he had to do was go in each morning and bring the system up and make sure all the lights were flashing, that was the important thing about it. It was definitely a CDC computer, since my friend worked at CDC, but I am not real sure about the model. It was, of course a sci-fi movie.... Thanks for any help and there are movies other than TRON. Bill Machacek

22 years, 4 months

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Tron?

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

lo, are we talking about the Tron movie from 1982? I just grabbed it in digital format. --f -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 4 months

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FA: Sun Spark VME cards & chassis, DEC OS/8 Hnadbook

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Been putting more on E-bay (Sorry Sellam!). The OS/8 Handbook should be of prticular interest to this group. <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> Joe

22 years, 4 months

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Apple Lisa 1

by alanp＠snowmoose.com

From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de> > > If you got a Lisa-1 to sell...I'd gladly pay $1K! > > > I'm a big Lisa fan, but don't have $8-10K to pay for one...I'd rather > > spend it on my other love - A Lotus Esprit! > > Now, if you would ask about a cheap Lotus, I might help, > since a friend of mine deals with such kind of cars. This is way off-topic, but there is no such thing as a cheap Lotus. You either pay up front or pay later. alan perry Admin of the original Lotus Cars mailing list Editor for the Seattle area Lotus club newsletter Former editor for the San Francisco area Lotus club newsletter Former officer in the Los Angeles and San Francisco area Lotus clubs Owner of a Lotus Elise Former owner of a Lotus Esprit and two Lotus Europas ... get the idea BTW, for Hans, former contractor at Siemens-Nixdorf in Neu Perlach (Munich)

22 years, 4 months

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Getting ROOT on Indy (last question!)

by nemesis-lists＠icequake.net

Also, if the indy has accounts with login allowed (like guest, lp, etc), and no shadow passwords, you can log in as one of those accounts, grab the password hash for root from /etc/passwd, and crack it on another machine. I got into a IRIX 6.2 box this way. IRIX 6.5 I believe uses shadow passwords by default so you might be out of luck there for an "easy" solution. -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis(a)icequake.net>

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Getting ROOT on Indy (last question!)

by owen＠bardstown.com

OK, my Indy is now (almost) all working. I need to change the monitor refresh rate, but I can't do that unless I can log in. I don't have the root pwd either. Apparently you can't go to single user without the root pwd. I can do just about anything -- I have a serial console hookup, but no root to go with it :( I can't get it on a network either... I tried using the setenv command to set the IP to a local address, but I don't think it works (new to IRIX/SGI, so that may be way off!) Anyone have any ideas? I already tried most of the normal ones -- guest, tours, lp, etc. and found them to be closed! Jeez, just what I need... a security consious admin! I have no floppy or CDROM installed on this, nor do I have a SCSI adapter to mount the drives under linux and do the deed the _simple_ way. I also lack IRIX media. Any thoughts? I don't want to buy many more components... but I guess that if I have to, I can make a few more purchases... Thanks! Owen

22 years, 4 months

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TRON electronic game and *old* batteries...

by bpope＠wordstock.com

Next time I visit my parents I will be pulling my TRON electronic game out of storage... It looks like a mini arcade machine and had three or four games. Now the question: What causes batteries to start leaking? I am worried that there may have (now) 15 year old batteries in it. :( Cheers, Bryan

22 years, 4 months

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American Automation EZ Pro Development System

by ClemensCo＠aol.com

Hello Arlen, I am a consulting engineer working with a client up in Sacramento, CA that has a Model AA-545 development system (S/N 5129 CEI) used to program a Motorola MC68HC05C8 microprocessor back in the late 1980's. We are also interested in learning more about this system and if there is someone out there who could use it... We do have some 5 1/4 in floppy's (MS -DOS 2.0) for the system. Did you ever find any further information during your search in July? Perhaps we can in some way help eachother? Regards, Chuck Clemens Medical Device Development Consulting Office: 760-942-2272 Cell: 760-613-2272 Fax: 760-436-9476 Net: clemensco(a)aol.com

22 years, 4 months

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Do you have a Mac SE internal SCSI hardrive???

by imadepancakes＠juno.com

I am looking for a hard drive for my MAC SE. I would need the cable to connect it to my computer. An external HD would be ok if you dont have an internal one. Thanks Bill ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

22 years, 4 months

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help identifying S100 board

by ian_primus＠yahoo.com

I recently acquired this board, it appears to be an S100 board, since it has the 100 pin connector and voltage regulators onboard. Does anyone know what this is, or what it came from? In the upper right corner, it says "Dynatech NEWSTAR 1MP481 REV. A (C) 1990" The board has a Z80, a 27128 EPROM, an 8k static RAM, some 41c256 DRAMS, a Z80 SIO, some RS-232 line driver pairs (1488/1489), and two 26 pin headers, which appear to be serial ports. Here is a picture I took: http://24.194.65.231/images/unknownboard.jpg It appears to be a complete Z80 computer on a board, so I would imagine that it would be possible to power it up, and connect a terminal to it, but I don't know if it would do anything. Any information on what this could be, or what it might do would be appreciated. Thanks! Ian Primus ian_primus(a)yahoo.com

22 years, 4 months

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Heath H-89 & Magnolia Disk Controller

by patrick＠evocative.com

I'm trying to get a Magnolia floppy controller running in an H89, and I'm having some odd problems. The Magnolia controller apparently requires their own monitor ROM, which I have (444-84B revision 10). It's my understanding that this ROM actually negotiates the baud rate with the terminal logic board rather than requiring a fixed 9600 as the Heath ROMs do. However, when I have this ROM installed, the machine doesn't seem to be able to "sync". The CPU and TLB speak together perfectly with the normal Heath ROM (444-84 or 444-142), so I'm inclined to rule out problems with the UARTs, transceivers, and cables. But most of the time the screen spouts gibberish with the Magnolia ROM in place, and when it does sync up, I can't type more than a few characters before things go to pot. I've also gotten the same behavior with two known-good CPU boards. Any suggestions? Does anyone know if revision 10 is a good version of Magnolia's ROM, or do I have it because the guy I got it from uses version 11 in his '89? :-) This controller supports a variety of 5-1/4" formats, as well as 8" drives, so I'd love to get it running. Thanks! Patrick P.S. Yes, I do have the "other" recommended Magnolia PROMs in place... full set is 444-83 (Heath), 444-61 (Heath) and 444-66B (Magnolia). --P

22 years, 4 months

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Do you also get these virus?

by r.mueller＠fz-juelich.de

I regularly receive messages for this group with proper-looking titles and all (Such as "Subject: cctech Digest, Vol 3, Issue 15" ) Am I alone? Whatever is generating these things is fairly clever to even change the subject line to resemble the rising issue numbers of the current volume. It makes me wonder if it is in the "cctech Digest" server. I have never investigated what the removed content looks like to determine if something is being incorrectly identified as a virus. Bob ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on ******) Security warning Exceed_Decompression_Layer in file email-body The file email-body is moved to /etc/iscan/virus/virGhMU1y. Information from **** Mail-Server: Scanner detected a virus (Exceed_Decompression_Layer) in an attachment (email-body) of this message. The attachment was removed from the message. No further action is required on your part. If you have questions, please contact postmaster@********* --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Virus Warning Message (on *******) email-body is removed from here because it contains a virus. ---------------------------------------------------------

22 years, 4 months

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HP disk drive alignment stuff

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I just got a kit off ebay (Item # 3056408822) that is pretty much a complete kit for working on HP 7905/06 type drives. Thing even includes an air pressure guage :) However, I actually HAVE most of the parts in this kit already, most of the boards and the DSU. However, my DSU has most of it's switches broken off and hasn't yet been tested. This also means I now have two alignment packs, two extenders, etc. etc. As a result I'll be taking my partial kit to ebay to recoup the costs of this complete kit. If anyone here is interested, let me know within a few days and we can work out a trade or something before I go the ebay route. Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

22 years, 4 months

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SGI refrigerator

by tomj＠wps.com

http://home.planet.nl/~mourits/koelkast/

22 years, 4 months

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FA: 1965 IBM 1232 manuals, HP & Varian Front Panels

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

FA: Manual set for IBM 1232 Optical Marked Page Reader, New HP 1000 computer front panal, a front panel for a Varian 620/L-100, CDC documents. <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj>

22 years, 4 months

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The Geek Test...

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 4, 15:14, JP Hindin wrote: > > > http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html > > Geeky enough that I can't use the damned thing because the twerp that > wrote it only allows the use of JavaScript to do the point counting, and > my browser is so old it doesn't support that :P I had almost that problem -- mine does Javascript but it's normally switched off. Final result was 34.31953% - Total Geek. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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Cubix Power SMP Video/mouse/keyboard Connector Pinout

by Tomgen1＠aol.com

I am playing with an old Cubix Power SMP system, but I don't have the breakout box for the video/mouse /keyboard connector. Does anyone have the pinout for that connector so I can build a breakout box? I have looked on the Cubix website and searched everywhere. Thanks in advance Tom

22 years, 4 months

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Non crap plastic glue

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Please tell me that you are kidding!!! Cats don't need a TV and VCR!! Nope not kidding in the least. And trust me, when you have a room of 30 cats of assorted ages, they most definitly DO watch the TV to pass time. Companies even make videos specifically for the purpose. They are of birds or other animals that a cat would normally chase. Its not as if they are watching Matlock reruns or anything. These are videos of small animals flying or running around the screen. Basically, its a video version of pulling a cat toy around on a string. Lots of movement and sound, zero plot. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 4 months

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Information about a HP 13197 1K WCS for the HP 1000?

by aek＠spies.com

> For the best info on this board, see the following manuals: > HP1000 M/E/F-Series Firmware Installation and Service Manual 12791-90001. The 83 and 86 versions of the document are now up at www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000

22 years, 4 months

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Lisa software now online

by witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk

Evenin' folks, I've updated my Lisa page to include most of the software I've got, including Lisa OS V2 and V3.1 plus apps, Lisa PASCAL Workshop V2 and V3, Lisa BASIC (not tested that one), DART and Diskcopy 4.2. I *think* Lisa OS V1 is in there too but the filenames don't make it obvious. Let me know if any of them don't work - I can't test ATM 'cos my main Mac is on the floor while I'm rejigging my geekosphere :o) cheers -- adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the online computer museum www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(

22 years, 4 months

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DEC PDP-11, RSX equipment, books, etc.

by zaffts＠comcast.net

My company has various DEC and DEC-compatible components (with manuals for most) that need a new home. Most of the stuff works (the last time I tried it). I also have a fairly comprehensive set of RSX-11M and RSX-11M-PLUS manuals and software distribution tapes. I hate to see these things scrapped. They paid my rent for more than a decade. So, if anyone is interested in becoming a foster parent or knows of someone, please let me know. Wayne Zafft

22 years, 4 months

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Information about a HP 13197 1K WCS for the HP 1000?

by aek＠spies.com

> You're not supposed to view them in your web browser. It should work fine that way, assuming the pdf plugin is sending the right html commands to the web server. I see people reading docs this way all the time. To answer the original question, the WCS card is documented in the 1000 M/E/F Engineering Reference http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/1000/1000_MEF_EngrRef/ 92851-90001_Mar81_6.pdf section B

22 years, 4 months

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