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

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have an HP diagnostics pack on 7900 media that I would like to put on 1/2 bootable mag tape. According to the manuals on the diganostic configurator, going from 7900 to 7970 media isn't directly supported by the configurator diag initialization routine. It does say that the way to do it is to boot up DOS or RTE and copy the binary images from disk to tape. I know nothing about DOS or RTE. From what I can tell DOS should be much easier to set up quickly and require less knowledge/learning than RTE. I have no desire to learn DOS or RTE, I just want to get something up quickly and temporarily that will let me copy the diag suite from 7900 pack to 7970 mag tape. Does anyone here know how to install DOS on a 2100/7900/7906 system and what commands to use to copy the diag absolute binary images from disk to tape? I'd appreciate the quick "cheat sheet" version. Thanks! Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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AMSTRAD PCW8256 systems & sw available

by jvansickler＠cox.net

I have 3 complete systems, all working. All upgraded to 512k. Two desktop cases, one w/single 5 1/4", one w/two 5 1/4" (PCW can be config'd to use both, instead of 3" A:, 5 1/4" B:) One contains a home-made (wire-wrapped) ser/par interface Two spare 5 1/4" drives Chips for 2 more memory upgrades A few printer ribbons Numerous Public Domain prog's, on 3" and 5 1/4" A couple of dozen 3" diskettes, all written to. A couple of year's worth of the PCW SIG Newsletters (Al Warsh's UG) Various PCW app's - Mini-Office Professional DBase II LocoScript II more - I can't recall exactly, but will look for it if you ask about it. Let me know if you're interested. Thanks, Jim

22 years, 6 months

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Bruker Aspect 3000 computer and drives available

by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Wow -- these are funny computers. If I'm not mistaken the Aspect 3000 is a more modern looking machine than the Bruker/Nicolet one that Sellam has pictures of. I'd love to see a picture of it if you can get one. It has semiconductor memory. It uses some bit-slice ALU or other. The disk drive that's with it, if it's a removable type, is probably RK05 compatible, although I read that later models supported SCSI disks. I used one of these in graduate school that was part of an experimental NMR imager (this was before the marketing types came up with "MRI" to get rid of the word "nuclear"). It came with an assembler and Pascal compiler. If I'm not mistaken the OS was called Adakos. It was a two-task foreground/background thing. Our application program was called Tomikon, but I think the one used for analytical work was called DISNMR. Sad to say I can't remember the history of the Bruker/Nicolet link. It may be that Bruker started out making just spectrometers and originally bought their computers from Nicolet (or vice versa). But, I believe that the Aspect 3000 was entirely Bruker's creation. Back the mid to late 80's, they were making and selling these out of Karlsruhe, Germany, and had a sales/support office in Billerica, MA. I spent a week at the Karlesuhe factory for training. These machines are probably still in use in the basements of University chemistry departments and possibly in corporate labs. If the University that has it doesn't want it, they might find a taker by posting on one of the NMR newsgroups. Or, someone with a keen interest in bizarre Pascal implementations should rescue this. Brian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _| _| _| Brian Knittel _| _| _| Quarterbyte Systems, Inc. _| _| _| Tel: 1-510-559-7930 _| _| _| Fax: 1-510-525-6889 _| _| _| Email: brian(a)quarterbyte.com _| _| _| http://www.quarterbyte.com

22 years, 6 months

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Geek Destinations in St. Louis?

by bill＠timeguy.com

We'll be in St. Louis this weekend. Any good museums, junk shops, or other recommended geek destinations in the area? GPS coordinates happily accepted. :-)

22 years, 6 months

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Pertec tape formatter manual

by aek＠spies.com

The Pertec 9 track PE formatter manual that is on loan from Joe is now scanned and on line at www.spies.com/aek/pdf/pertec/101399_F6X9_PEfmtr_Dec71.pdf It isn't going to be directly of use for 7 or 9 track NRZI though, since it appears to be PE only. It does describe the original PERTEC dual 100 pin interface cables, though. I've gotten about 2/3 of the way through scanning the material that arrived from him earlier this week. Things should start trickling onto the web site over the next few weeks.

22 years, 6 months

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2600 video touch pad

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

So I was poking around a brocante in Sherbrooke and I spied a bag with Star Raiders and a Video Touch Pad. SCORE! Also in the bag : a RCA RF cable. I got it all for 3 CAD. The place had a hugely inflated idea about what these were worth : they were selling what looked like a Coleco 2600 clone for 20 CAD! I'd never seen a video touch pad before and only vaguely heard it refered to. I've not tested it, but plan to soon. -Philip

22 years, 6 months

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Perkin Elmer 550 Terminal

by richardbrown＠testman.com

Hi, I noticed your email with comments about the 550 terminal. I have one that has no vertical and am trying to get info so I can use another terminal in its place. I'm trying to find out what the mode switch position 2 in the on position does to the settings. ANy chance you might be able to tell me that? That's the only MODE switch setting used. The BAUD rate is set at 9600. When I try another ASCII terminal, the characters come out incorrectly on the display of the equipment I'm trying to use the ASCII terminal with. WHere as the perkin elmer terminal gives the correct characters except there is no vertical on the display so I can't read it. Thanks for any help you can give me. Richard Brown 781 938 7033

22 years, 6 months

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stuff FA

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Just finished listing a Cablescan ET-1024 cable continuity tester, a couple of NICE Real Time Devices PC/104 Data Modules, a National Instruments GPIB card and a DDC Syncro to Digital or Resolver to Digital converter card on E-bay. See <http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=rigdonj> Joe

22 years, 6 months

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parts

by P_tornatore＠westcomp.com

Im looking for about 60 of TIL308 ? would you know where I can get these ? thanks Paul

22 years, 6 months

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386 motherbrds.

by MARKF＠LSI-MA.COM

Hello Chris, I would like to take those 386 motherboards off your hands if they're still available. Believe it or not we have a use for them. Thanks Mark F. Cell (603) 305-5124 markf(a)lsi-ma.com

22 years, 6 months

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Texas Instruments software on ebay...

by tothwolf＠concentric.net

Found this one on ebay (Not affiliated with seller, etc, etc): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048936176 Dunno if it is worth it or not, as I don't collect TI stuff myself...I also noticed a few other TI related auctions up as well, one of which is a complete setup. (Though it seems to be very misplaced in the category system.) -Toth

22 years, 6 months

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Unwaged

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

As Tony so interestingly put it, I have become "unwaged." The company I worked for -- J.D. Edwards -- was aquired by PeopleSoft. Part of the merger's "synergy" is a staff reduction :( . Anyway, I have a few odds and ends (OK, junk) at the office that I do not want to move. Free for postage from Chicago. Do not reply to the list, as it comes to my work email (soon to go away), but rather to r_a_feldman(a)hotmail.com. 1. Toshiba T3100e/40. Power light comes on, but goes no farther. At least the screen is not cracked. 2. Kenitec laptop (XT or AT??), probably non-functional. 3. HP Portable Vectra CS Model 20. Unknown condition (and heavy). 4. Apple IIGS (case, motherboard, Power supply). 5. Epson "Mars board" (an 80C88 motherboard) w/o CPU. Unknown condition. 6. Adaptec Microchannel card, AHA-1640. 7. Set of AT&T 6300 Plus (80386) manuals. Has diagnostic disks, IIRC, but not MS-DOS disks). 8. Borland C++ V3.1 manual set. 9. Borland C++ V4.5, unopened package of 28 floppy disks (no docs). Bob

22 years, 6 months

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Mac SE/30 revival

by cb＠mythtech.net

>However, when I turn it >on, the screen comes up 4 grey scan lines, then alternating 8 black scan >lines and 8 grey scan lines. A friend mentioned that this is normal boot >config, that it should then proceed to the happy mac icon and so on. He >asked if the ROM was still in it. Er... none of my healthy classic macs start like that. And if that WAS normal, then it indeed should proceed to either a Happy Mac, or a floppy with a blinking question mark, or a Sad Mac with a code number. Since you don't indicate that you get any of the above, I'd have to say something is wrong. If it was something internally testable, such as bad or missing ram, or a bad or missing ROM simm, then you should get a sad mac code (lots of other things are internally testable as well and would resuld in a sad mac code). Do you get any noises when it is on? Any squeels, or flupping noise, or anything? Is there a startup BONG when you power it up? Can you hear a hard drive spinning up inside? are the lines vertical or horizontal? Once it goes to the 8x8 pattern, does it just continue to repeat that? What happens if you leave it on for a while (5 minutes or so). -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 6 months

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Looking for (Irwin) EZtape V1.0 for DOS

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, Dont laugh. Yes, I need that annoying program, so I can read some of my (very old) tapes which contain seemingly interesting stuff.. didnt know I still had those :) Cheers, Fred -- 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, 6 months

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CorelSCSI for Macintosh

by markk＠clara.co.uk

Hi, I recently picked up a copy of CorelSCSI v1.01 for Macintosh on eBay. What was the last/final version of CorelSCSI for the Mac? Does anyone have a version later than 1.01? I'd also like to get hold of earlier Corel SCSI-related Mac software. I think the product names were CorelDRIVER and Optistar. Some background: CorelSCSI allows SCSI devices to be used on (older) Mac computers. Apart from CD-ROM and direct-access devices, e.g. SyQuest drives and rewritable magneto-optical, it supports WORM drives and media. It may be the only Mac software which supports write-once media, with Mac applications seeing WORM disks as normal HFS volumes. It's no longer sold or supported by Corel. No more modern packages like FWB Hard Disk Toolkit and FormatterOne from Software Architects support write-once media. Regards, -- Mark

22 years, 6 months

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Garage sale, DEC 3000/500 $50, HSZ40 $25, ...

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

Am I crazy to sell a DEC 3000/500 server (desk side) for $50? I believe it's got all the RAM it can fit and disk in and lots SCSI plugs out. My HSZ40s go for $25 a piece. My HP9000K400 with 2xDDS2 drives and 30 GB (?) RAID array and HP Terminal all in one rack go for $100. Am I crazy or just fed up about stuff taking space in my garage? If you are in the Indianapolis area and want to get some stuff, go for it as long as supplies last. -Gunther

22 years, 6 months

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Quick Basic (Bob Mason): Zipping it

by r.mueller＠fz-juelich.de

I could ZIP the files, though not eagerly. QB 4.5 fits on two 3.5 inch diskettes, so it is not large by today's standards. I do not recall how large 7.x is. It always amazes me to look at modern bloatware and compare how little more USEFUL work it produces than earlier, much smaller programs. I happen to have Winword 2 and it meets most of my needs. In fact, except for Internet activities, I am not sure any program I need requires Windows past Windows for Workgroups=3.11. I find Quick Basic sufficient for most calculations and I doubt Visual Basic will do any more beyond filling a larger chunk of my hard disk and DRAM, unless it can handle a larger array (matrix), which is a real limitation in Quick Basic, which dates back to the time of 1 MB machines. Of course, if I loose my mind and decide to promote my image in the form of elaborate Web pages, or to write some parasites, I will find Visual Basic better, but I have not yet reached that stage. I suggest writing directly to me if you are requesting a copy of QB; it reduces the clutter on the newsgroup and it is doubtful others care whether I email one of you the program. And I will send 4.5 unless you really need 7.x (I am not sure where the diskettes are!). Bob

22 years, 6 months

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Intel Above Board AT

by gesar＠tiscalinet.ch

Original Message: >well, I dug around some more and found a 5.25 inch disk "above board/at >version 1.1" and also a hand written label for intel above board at and >ps/at ver 2.4 > >contact me off list if you need some support or replacement files. > >Joe Heck trash3 at splab dot cas dot neu dot edu So, there may be some hope. In fact, I just have the bare board, no software, no manuals. I tried several installers I found for download, but none of them worked with the AB AT. I'm an absolute novice on old DOS-machines and I'm always glad if some installer does the configuration of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. You'd do me a great favor if you could send me this installer. Thanks. Steff

22 years, 6 months

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386 motherbrds.

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Hello Chris, > I would like to take those 386 motherboards off your hands if they're >still available. Believe it or not we have a use for them. Sorry, ALL PC's have been sent to the dump. Nothing left to give away in the 386/486/low Pentium level. I do have some IBM AT's, an XT, and a few PC's available however. They are on the junk list, just haven't made it that far yet. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 6 months

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8-inch floppy drives

by booned＠ccvalve.com

please get back asap if you have any available units left...my cell is 405-659-0494 or reply to this e-mail or fax me at 405-629-0470 thanks ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

22 years, 6 months

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Intel Above Board AT

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

well, I dug around some more and found a 5.25 inch disk "above board/at version 1.1" and also a hand written label for intel above board at and ps/at ver 2.4 contact me off list if you need some support or replacement files. Joe Heck trash3 at splab dot cas dot neu dot edu

22 years, 6 months

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Intel Above Board AT

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

According to the "Installing the Above Board/AT" manual, there really isn't much to the setup program. It is just a helper in that it will properly set up config.sys and autoexec.bat for the expanded memory manager, a print buffer and ramdisk. It does include the print buffer and ramdisk, but dos's ramdrive program (or shareware) should work. I haven't stumbled across the disks yet. Joe Heck

22 years, 6 months

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Intel Above Board AT

by gesar＠tiscalinet.ch

Could somebody help me with the original software-installer for the Intel Above Board AT? I got such a board in a 286 AT and I were too keen to get it working, however all the installers I found were for some different type of AB. Thanks for caring! Steff

22 years, 6 months

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9 track reel tapes

by cb＠mythtech.net

>If I were you,I would specificy the reel diameter and the certified >density. The tape I'm looking at at this instant, says on the label "3M >Scotch 777 6250 bpi", so in this case I would say "7 inch reel, 6250 bpi" I just pulled one out, and I rather assume all are the same. This one says Endura 800 BPI to 6250 CPI BASF It has an inner diameter of about 3.5" and an outer of about 7" A quick look on ebay last night turned up some disappointing results. It seems a bunch of 9 track reel tapes failed to sell in the last 30 days. Maybe I'll try them on the Vintage list instead. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

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Picked Up An Mits Turnkey 8800b Today

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Late this evening a long drive to get it, I picked up Mits Altair 8800b in great shape and the following manuals: altair 8800b Turnkey Computer Documentation 1st printing July 1977 Altair 88-MDS Minidisk Documentation Preliminary July 1977 altair Disk Operating System Documentation DOS June 1977 Dynabyte Operating Manual for 16k & 32k Fully Static Memory Modules October 1977 Mits Disk Extended BASIC Version Reference Manual July 1978 Now to have some fun getting it up and running. :-)

22 years, 6 months

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Bruker Aspect 3000 computer and drives available

by dancohoe＠oxford.net

Hello all, At my favorite salvage spot near Rochester the other day I noticed a Bruker rack with an ASPECT 3000 mini, two 8" floppy drives (FDD 280) and a hard drive (BDS 160). Lots of cables as well. It appears from Google that this would mostly be used for NMR Spectroscopy, but if anyone is interested, I expect its available for a quite reasonable price as long as you speak up quickly. Get back to me off-list if you want me to call them to save it. Dan Cohoe

22 years, 6 months

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TI 990 minicomputer

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Just obtained a complete TI 990/10A system including several period TI terminals, TI 810 printer, cpu, CDC 94xx drive, and some media. Most importantly, a virgin OS install pack and complete manuals/docs. Not sure if it was DNOS or DX10 though. Anyone in need of copies of anything? >From what I understand, one could get an optional programmers front panel for the TI990/10A, I would love to get one of those if anyone has one spare. Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

22 years, 6 months

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Digital Group ?

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

All, OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the Digital Group stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems? I used to have the whole nine yards of their stuff... about, oh, 8 or 10 2cuFt boxes or so. The only thing I liked in the system was that funky tape drive system... Phideck or something like that. Threw it all away (...) when I moved to the U.S. in '93, and had no more space in the shipping container :) These docs were strange leftovers from that.. must have forgotten to pack them at the time. Cheers, Fred -- 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, 6 months

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Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protection ???

by gehrich＠tampabay.rr.com

Does anybody know or remember Are 5-1/4" original diskettes for Lotus 1-2-3 v. 3.1 (DOS) copy protected in such a way as to prevent the diskettes from being copied to produce usable 3.5" diskettes or a CD? I remember that the earliest versions of Lotus 1-2-3 required the diskette in the floppy drive as a "key" for the program to start-up. I'm not sure what measures were taken for version 3.1.

22 years, 6 months

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Hayes S100 modem (80-103A) commands

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

Sorry - I wasn't paying too much attention to this thread, but I have the manual for the Hayes S100 modem (80-103A) which includes a short modem control program written in 1977 by Dale Heatherington (the co-founder of DC Hayes; guess who was the marketing guy and who was the engineer!). Control was by bit-setting a couple of control bytes to handle bit (baud) rate (high/low - typically 300/110 bps, but low rate could also be set to 75 or 134.5 bps). Other bits set transmit enable (on/off), mode select (answer/originate), break, self-test, ring indicator, and off hook. The manual includes a chapter on "Applications". Section 5.5 Telecommuting is reproduced here: "The energy situation being what it is, more and more people are seriously considering alternatives to commuting. If your job consists mostly of slaving over a hot computer terminal, the 80-103A may offer an economical way for your job to come to you instead of the other way around. Of course you would want to make an occasional trip to the office for meetings, but think how much pain and energy you could save. You might even be able to move to that beautiful valley 'way up there in the mountains..." Of course the hot setup was the PMMI modem which could be overclocked to 450 baud, but Don Brown died in the late '70s (?) and the company disappeared. But what the world was really waiting for was a good 1200 baud modem... Jack Rubin USRobotics 1984-95

22 years, 6 months

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PDP 11/73 SLU

by cmcnabb＠4mcnabb.net

Our Physics Dept. recently decommissioned their old Bomem Interferometer computer, which was PDP-11/73 based. Somehow, when it got around to what to do with it, my name came up. The thing is now sitting in my cube. The only DEC cards in the box are the CPU and the disk controller. Everything else appears to be custom. One of the boards appears to be a custom multiport serial/EGA Video/PC Keyboard interface that wants the console to be on the PC Keyboard and EGA monitor. Unfortunately, none of the EGA monitors (NEC JC-1402P3A) that I got with the system will power-on. You plug them in, flip the switch, and nothing happens. Not even a power light. I really have no need for all the custom stuff and would just as soon remove it as use it. I do have a spare DHV11 here that I could put in the box, but I do not know if the DHV11 can be used as a standard serial console. The DHV11 tech manual does not seem to have any info on using the board as a console. Any help would be appreciated. -- Christopher McNabb <cmcnabb(a)4mcnabb.net> The McNabb Family

22 years, 6 months

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[taken] Re: AVAIL: stuff

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

All, The MSX stuff has been claimed. Same for the DigGroup docs, and the Apple stuff. Cheers, Fred -- 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, 6 months

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More Stuff available

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, See above. I found some stuff that I can safely let go, without too much heartache: - several binders with manuals and periodicals from systems from The DIGITAL Group, Inc. (*NOT* DEC !!) - an Apple II Technical Manual an unsoldered, virgin AppleII clone board, once sold by Eijlander Electronice in Ede, The Netherlands. I never got around to assembling it, so its still virgin. - several master tapes from Informix for SCO Xenix/UNIX - a whole bunch of silly 9600/14400/19200 voice-band modems designed for (analog) leased line operation, including the power supplies. The PSU's do +5V and +12V at 1A, so might also be useful in other apps. Cheers, Fred -- 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, 6 months

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Socal Swapmeets

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Here in Socal we have 5 going on 6 monthly or semimonthly old computer often containing swapmeets. The first two saturdays of the month are Santee and Fontana, which are either small or too far for me most of the time, but I did manage Pomona last weekend, and TRW and ACP this weekend, and plan to try for the new Chino Hills next weekend. The bad news is that space prices seem to have risen enough to drive away most of the small non regular sellers, and that most of the stuff is recent junk (Belkin is local and TONS of returns get dumped to swapmeet sellers). So what did I see, good stuff first, ACP had a pair of fresh from the shed Imsai something 40 boxes with like 9 in CRTS on the front, and dual 8" floppy box and a Selectric. I didn't buy or even offer on any of that, sticking to a mini R/C tank and some hifi cables. Pretty boring when the results of 3 swapmeets are just some cheap parts.

22 years, 6 months

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Equipment Available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Yes, I have received everyones emails about this gear. I am still working out the particulars for who can get what, who responded first, etc.... I'll be in touch with all who expressed interest. Jay West

22 years, 6 months

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interesting finds: Matrox VME Video card, AST Advantage

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Stopped and looked through a bunch of scrap today. Found a Matrox VG-640 video card for the VME bus. Does anyone have any specs on this? Google didn't find ANY hits for it. Also picked up an AST Advantage card with the Advantage Pak daughterboard. Anyone need it? OT stuff: Also picked up a Beckman UV 5270 SpectroPhotometer. Man this thing is loaded! Will try to re-assemble it and get it working in a few days. Joe

22 years, 6 months

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Epson RC-20 : Looking for software and cable

by ss＠allegro.com

Hi, I just got an Epson RC-20 ... with no software and with no cable :( I'm looking for software, naturally :) And, if anyone has a cable or information about how to make a cable, I'd be interested! thanks, Stan sieler(a)allegro.com

22 years, 6 months

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HP stuff available

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I have a couple 6 foot HP racks that will be available shortly. Pretty nice racks actually. They are not the really old brownish/green racks, they are the slightly less old cream colored racks. Nothing inside them :)

22 years, 6 months

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More HP Excitement

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Finally got the system processor (TSB) back up to snuff with no parity problems. Looks like the upper 8K of core suddenly got bit 12 stuck on. That's easy enough to fix, barring a core plane failure there's only about 5 discrete components per bit on the card. More exciting though, I got a 7906 drive up and working on the system via a 13037 rackmount box. Woohoo! The good news is the fixed platter (head 2) formats fine and passes diagnostics. The removable platter (heads 0 & 1) I'm not so lucky. I am not sure if the problem is the removable media, or the upper two heads. I'll grab another piece of media shortly and find out. This means that shortly I should be able to supply anyone who wants one - a 7906 disc cartridge with a complete set of HP diagnostics! I really need to boot up DOS so I can dump the diagnostics library to bootable mag tape too. Jay West

22 years, 6 months

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IIGs Vulcan & RAmKeeper

by Ksessions＠TroyCable.net

Can you supply any info on these two? Any info APPRECIATED! Thanks,Kenny

22 years, 6 months

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AVAIL: MSX stuff

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hiyas, While going through Many Boxes (tm) of old stuff (yes, I finally found the PC I was looking for ;-) I also bumped into some old MSX home cputer stuff. Any takes for this, before I make it fly straight into a dumpster? Cheers, Fred -- 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, 6 months

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ADMIN: filtering for spam + other stuff

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Just wanted to let folks on the list know.... 1) I am putting some spam-related keyword searches on posts to both lists. This is an effort to make my pseudo-daily moderation of posts easier, because the lists get a LOT of spam I have to filter out manually. 2) I would rather not post the specific rules I am putting in place in case a spammer has subbed to the list. Be just be advised that I would recommend that everyone be a little cognizant of the subject line of the message that they post. Messages which trigger the spam list will be rejected. 3) To my knowledge, all reported bugs/issues since the switchover to the upgraded mailman software have been addressed. If anyone feels there are still outstanding issues please email me directly. There is still some tweaking to sendmail to be done, and I need to regen the archives after getting rid of some posts and including some missing posts, that I am already aware of. Now, back to old computers :) --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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Kaypro II boot disk

by ko6jt＠comser.com

Hello I have a Kaypro II computer in need of a boot disk CP/M what is the price for this item thanks Bob -- ARS KO6JT Bob Hutcherson 7330 White House Dr. #8 Anderson, Calif. 96007-9422 Ph. 530-241-0771 pager. 530-224-3691 Only in Shasta County. Cel Phone. ------------ Email. ko6jt(a)comser.com Webpage. http://www.qsl.net/ko6jt

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V5.01A Distribution of RT-11

by jhfinexgs2＠compsys.to

Does anyone have access to V5.01A of RT-11? I would prefer the RL02 image which has a Volume ID / Owner of: BC-P607C-BC RL2 1/1 However, any other media would be great if the RL02 image is not available! I already have V5.00, V5.01, V5.01C (V5.01B does not exist) and V5.02 of RT-11. So it is ONLY V5.01A of RT-11 that I do not have. All of these distributions (any prior to V5.03) are allowed to be used under the Supnik emulator by hobby users of RT-11, so It would be "nice" to be able to have all of the versions that are allowed and make them available to other hobby users. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

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9 track reel tapes

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Data General also had a delightful small two reel 7" tape drive also. Used with the Nova series of computers BASF Endura is good tape. It shouldn't delaminate. When I got boxes of new tape I looked for a reseller in the back of Processor Magazine that specializes in tape. Shipping is a killer though. I was never able to sell a box of 7" reels of tape (1200') though. No one wanted them.

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Fw: CCDP / Soviet computing

by nico＠farumdata.dk

From: "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 5:05 PM Subject: CCDP / Soviet computing > The document has now been completed. > > Fred has converted the Word document to PDF format. > Because of the scanned figures, the filesize is rather big : about 10 MB > You can find the overview of Soviet computing at http://www.microwalt.nl/fred/soviet.zip > > The zip file contains a PDF version as well as a .DOC version > > Again, it would be informative if some of the guys involved in parts of this project, could comment on the accuracy. > > Nico A slip of my mind, I'm sorry to say. I forgot to ask Fred if he could host the document. It is there for the time being, but as it probably is going to be around for a long time, we need someone who can have this document on-line. The document is at present on my FTP server, but I would prefer a more "regular" archival function Nico > >

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9 track reel tapes

by GOOI＠oce.nl

The small rack-mount tape drive from DEC is the TS03. By joke, the "TS" was for "Tape Stretcher" as the TS03 did not have a sort of vacuum column, but just a roller with a spring to keep the tape tensioned. - Henk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Smith [mailto:eric@brouhaha.com] > Sent: dinsdag 30 september 2003 8:20 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: 9 track reel tapes > > > "Nico de Jong" <nico(a)farumdata.dk> > > I've never had problems with BASF tapes, so that would be > ok. 800 to 6250 > > means in fact that they can be used on all 9 track drives. > > However, I dont think you can sell 7" tapes. The capacity > is too limited, > > There exist some small rack-mount 9-track drives that will > not work with full-size reels. I'm not talking about front > (slot) load units, but rather units that had two small reels > side by side. DEC made one, but it wasn't very popular. > I don't recall the model number. > And no, I'm not talking about DECtape, which used even smaller > reels of 3/4 inch tape. > > Anyhow, 7-inch reels are useful to people with those drives.

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CCDP / Soviet computing

by nico＠farumdata.dk

The document has now been completed. Fred has converted the Word document to PDF format. Because of the scanned figures, the filesize is rather big : about 10 MB You can find the overview of Soviet computing at http://www.microwalt.nl/fred/soviet.zip The zip file contains a PDF version as well as a .DOC version Again, it would be informative if some of the guys involved in parts of this project, could comment on the accuracy. Nico

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Quick Basic ( a bit of detail)

by knightstalkerbob＠netscape.net

Could you zip the files? This will "hide" the exe. By the way, what is the size of the archive? Bob Mason "R. Mueller" <r.mueller(a)fz-juelich.de> wrote: >If you should ask me to send a copy of Quick Basic, please be sure you can >receive it. I once sent it to a fellow behind a firewall and the firewall >bounced it. The set contains executable files and they could be >dangerous (Indeed, you have to trust ME not to insert a virus, but then >again, I don't know how! Don't even want to know how.) > >Bob > > -- Bob Mason 2x Amiga 500's, GVP A530 (40mhz 68030/68882, 8meg Fast, SCSI), 1.3/3.1, 2meg Chip, full ECS chipset, EZ135, 1084S, big harddrives, 2.2xCD Homebrew AMD Athlon 2400+, 512MB, etc. Heathkit H-89A, 64K RAM, hard and soft-sectored floppies, SigmaSoft and Systems 256K RAM Drive/Print Spooler/Graphics board HDOS 2 & CP/M 2.2.03/2.2.04 __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

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SGI Indigo/Crimson - PS/2 to SGI adaptors found

by jplist＠kiwigeek.com

Greetings; I don't know if its any form of blasphemy to do this. But for only $40, you can get a prebuilt convertor of standard PS/2 keyboard + mouse to proprietary SGI keyb/mouse bus for Indigo/Crimson. (The dude says Onyx uses them too, but I was kinda sure that was PS/2 like Indy. No matter) The adaptor guarantees an endless supply of working Granite keyboards and mice from Indys and upwards. I'm not a representative of the guy at all, but I think its damned useful and I figure some of you might too: chris 'at' ckcomputersystems 'dot' com Enjoy folks; JP

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