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

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

I was given an interesting machine on the weekend. I was told it was an Apple clone from Saudi Arabia. One of the manuals that came with it says micom, but it doesn't look like my other one which is in a apple II style case with the built in keyboard. This is in what from the front looks like a PC clone with the dual floppies, and an external keyboard which is missing. http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/clone.jpg This time I set the camera to the lowest setting so the picture should be a little easier to view.

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sale of linux.net

by fisher＠fabric7.com

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 00:20:21 +0100 (MET) From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)InfoMagic.NL> To: dwight(a)linuxtoday.com, lwn(a)lwn.net, lweditors(a)linuxworld.com, Subject: Re: Linux.net Hey guys, Just thought I'd drop you a note to let you know that I've finally sold the linux.net domain. It took a while (about 15 people have bid on the domain) to find someone who had plans to do something worthwhile with it, but that finally happened last week. I'm not allowed to tell you who actually bought the domain, because they apparently have some big announcement planned for LinuxWorld next week, but I can tell you this: It's *definitely not* Microsoft, and they're planning some cool & useful things for the site. Cheers, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, MCSE waltje(a)InfoMagic.NL InfoMagic Nederland VOF ICQ: 2944198 WWW: <http://www.infomagic.nl/~waltje>http://www.infomagic.nl/~waltje Postbus 1185, 1400 BD BUSSUM NL +31 (35) 6980059 FAX +31 (35) 6980215 UNIX, Windows NT BackOffice and Internetworking Consultants ---------------- I have been reading some of the code you wrote in the early 1990's, lib/getargs.c So doing a little google search turned up the attached message. Going to the www.linux.net web page turned up nothing of interest. May I ask Who bought the name from you and what WERE there plans? Seems that all has gone by the way-side. Thanks, -- Bill (fisher(a)fabric7.com -- Bill (fisher(a)fabric7.com)

22 years, 8 months

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HP Integral

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

Last week I purchased an HP Integral :-). For those who've not heard of it, it's a mains-powered portable with a 68000 processor that runs HP-UX :-). Of course I've taken it apart. There are 2 main PCBs, one each side of a vertically-mounted chassis plate. 'Logic A' on the rear of the plate contains the CPU, 512K RAM (and controller), the 'MMU' (a simple RAM mapping circuit), address decoders, bus buffers, and the HP-HIL port (for the keyboard and optional mouse). 'Logic B' on the front of the plate contains the real time clock, floppy controller, beeper (controller by an odd NatSemi sound chip, COP452 I think - -I have the datasheet), HPIB interface and the Thinkjet printer electronics (with a 1LB£ HPIL chip to link the Thinkjet CPU to the 68000 bus). Also in the case is a Sony full-height 600rpm 3.5" floppy drive, a SMPSU, the Thinkjet mechanics, a Sharp dot-matrix display and the expansion backplane (2 slots, using DIN41612 connectors). The system ROMs are in a plastic cartridge that plugs into the Logic A PCB. There's a PCB in said cartridge containing 4 EPROMS (128K bytes each) and a TTL glue chip. It's obvious a daughterboard containing another 4 EPROMs could be fitted in the cartridge. The EPORMs I have contain the HP-UX Kernel and PAM (a rather lusing shell). I am told daughterboards containing HP Technical BASIC (which I have on floppy) and some more unix commands existed. The 2 expansion slots on my machine contain a 1M RAM card and an interface for an external expansion chassis which I don't have. The latter has a 64 pin Blue Ribbon connector on it (I've never seen one this large!) which I guess is just a buffered version of the normal expansion bus. OK, a few questions. I asusem that ROM daugtherboards are impossible to obtain, but has anyone dumped the ROMS from one? Any ideas if it's ever possible to find the GPIO and serial interface cards for these machines? Any software out there on the net for it? I have the normal HP disk set (System disk, HP-UX commands (2 disks), Utilities, Diagnostics, Tutor, and NP Technical BASIC). Anything else I should know about it? -tony

22 years, 8 months

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TIFF to PDF (slightly OT, but for a good cause :-))

by root＠parse.com

I have the chance to pay some money and get my 17x22" PDP-8/I schematics scanned, but they only offer TIFF output. These will be scanned in 400 DPI mode and put on the web. These are a newer revision than the ones posted on the web. What I'd *really* like to do is convert them from TIFF to PDF and bind them into multi-page PDFs instead of the one-per-page TIFF files that I'll get >from the scanning house. Any volunteers? Suggestions for *free* software than runs on FreeBSD or, worst case, Windoze? Cheers, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!

22 years, 8 months

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Future uncollectable computers...

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 7/17/2003 11:33:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rdd(a)rddavis.org writes: << Hopefully this isn't too off-topic, but a thought just occured to me about computers that some may, or may not, want to collect in the future, which aren't classics yet. >> One model that I used to support and I'd like to find would be the IBM Aptiva stealth model they made back in 1998/1999. I thought it was a neat idea to put the drives in a seperate enclosure below the monitor.

22 years, 8 months

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TIFF to PDF (slightly OT, but for a good cause :-))

by GOOI＠oce.nl

Get access to an Oc? 3165 with the scan2file option, or the newer model called DPS100. The machines scan at 52 A4-sized pages per minute at 600 dpi resolution. A3-sized runs at 23-26 pages/minute AFAIK. The output can be selected: either (multi-page) TIFF, or PDF, but the PDF files are *large* because they are TIFF with a PDF wrapper. Acrobat would make those big TIFF files a lot smaller in size, but then with CD-ROMs available, size only matters if you need to download from the 'Net. I could scan them to a number of PDF's described above, but you need to ship the doc to The Netherlands, and pay for the return shipment, if you want them back. And you do! I am only interested in PDP-11. If I start collecting -8's, I will definately run out of space as many of us, fighting the never-ending battle for more space. - Henk. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Krten [mailto:root@parse.com] > Sent: donderdag 10 juli 2003 3:00 > To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: TIFF to PDF (slightly OT, but for a good cause :-)) > > > I have the chance to pay some money and get my 17x22" PDP-8/I > schematics > scanned, but they only offer TIFF output. These will be > scanned in 400 DPI > mode and put on the web. These are a newer revision than the > ones posted > on the web. > > What I'd *really* like to do is convert them from TIFF to PDF > and bind them > into multi-page PDFs instead of the one-per-page TIFF files > that I'll get > from the scanning house. > > Any volunteers? Suggestions for *free* software than runs on > FreeBSD or, worst > case, Windoze? > > Cheers, > -RK > > -- > Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. > Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!

22 years, 8 months

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M220B (PDP-8/I) schematics available

by root＠parse.com

For those of you who missed the announcement in alt.sys.pdp8, I've now almost completed the M220 version B schematic. It's available at: http://www.parse.com/~pdp8/pdp8i/m220b.html The trials and tribulations of the PDP-8/I restoration can be found at: http://www.parse.com/~pdp8/pdp8i/restore.html Plenty-o-dead 7474's in that one :-) Cheers, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!

22 years, 8 months

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Using a Mac mono monitor with PC VGA

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

I recently picked a Macintosh High Res mono monitor (from a Macintosh II system) out of the trash. I'd like to use it with an old PC I have that has a VGA card. I've found a pinout for a VGA->Mac cable at www.technick.net, but I'm wondering if it will work with a mono Mac monitor, as opposed to a color one. TIA. Bob

22 years, 8 months

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IBM POWERstation 220 serial terminal

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

IBM RS/6000 information is here http://www-3.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIAccess query for 7011 Model Highlights 7011-220 * RS/6000 workstation with a POWER Single Chip processor. * 16MB to 64MB of memory, using standard PS/2* memory SIMMs with error checking and correction (ECC) for high reliability and availability * Optional internal fixed disk 200MB, 540MB, 1GB, and 2GB and optional internal 2.88MB diskette drive * Open system design: industry-standard memory, industry-standard integrated SCSI and Ethernet controllers, and two industry-standard Micro Channel slots, for additional growth capability * Dataless, diskless, LAN-attached, or stand-alone workstation * Disk storage expandable up to 9.5GB * Optional POWER Gt1 or Gt1b graphics adapter, including 1-bit graphics frame buffer (does not require a Micro Channel slot), is upgradable to 4-bit or 8-bit graphics * Optional POWER Gt1x graphics adapter for maximum 2D performance Discontinued 1995 _ Mike

22 years, 8 months

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what might this isa board do?

by james＠jfc.org.uk

i suppose it could be a plain old memory board, but 1992 seems very late for that (but still classic :-). the faceplate has two stickers, one for the serial number (1074) and the second has "HYPERTEC R9_BC HRAM CL EX SIMM". http://www.jfc.org.uk/misc/card-small.jpg [80 KB] http://www.jfc.org.uk/misc/card.jpg [432 KB] does anyone have any ideas about this card? -- J.F.Carter http://www.jfc.org.uk/

22 years, 8 months

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Need Osborne help with drives

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

22 years, 8 months

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plotter

by ktoker＠marmara.edu.tr

The broken gear is occured because of using thickker paper. This is true for this mechanism made by ALPS. You can fix it by using a cement which has two elements to combine and get rigit. Then the gear is permanently stabilize. Kenan

22 years, 8 months

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Varian Data Machines

by asholz＠topinform.com

Hello all, I got a Varian(Univac) Data Machines 620L100 in very good conditions including a fixed-head disk, a teletype and a Tektronix storage display. This machines is dated to 1974. I'm in the stage to reassemble to machine and to check the boards. I hope I'll be able to power on within the next weeks. Is there anyone on this list who has experiences with this type of machines? Andreas

22 years, 8 months

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PDP 8 for over $3000

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2738787795

22 years, 8 months

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Anybody on here do anything with the OLD intel IN-xxxx memories

by kklusend＠fatsinc.com

Hi Joe, I would be interested in your Intel IN-xxxx memory boards. Thanks, Kelvin Kelvin(a)synapticbrew.com

22 years, 8 months

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Plotter

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 18, 19:14, James Rice wrote: > I've used both products. In my previous life, I was an industrial > control contractor in food packaging plants. We used the Loctite stuff. > to stick polyurethane conveyor belts together as in a spliced loop. There are lots of types of Loctite, though, and the one for polythene and nylon isn't the same as the one for polyurethane. Polyurethane isn't nearly s hard to stick. > >There's a type of Loctite that does as well -- even sticks polythene. > > I can't remember the number, thugh. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 8 months

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HP Integral

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote in cctalk-689: > Is this Tech BASIC ROM a plug-in card that goes into one of the expansion > slots, or a daughterboard in the OS cartridge, or what? Its a small board that attaches over the OS daughterboard. **vp

22 years, 8 months

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TRS-80 Mod I Video Display

by classiccmp＠vintage-computer.com

I've got a TRS-80 Mod 1 with a bad display. There is a horizontal scan line in the center of the screen but no vertical sweep. Is anyone familiar enough with these displays to give me repair hints? Failing that, does anyone have a working one lying around that they'd part with? Thanks! Erik Klein www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum The Vintage Computer Forum

22 years, 8 months

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OT-- need plans for a wireless switch

by cb＠mythtech.net

>disconnect the horn and use its button Make sure you put a switch to toggle between horn and ham radio. I don't know about other states, but you can't pass vehicle inspections in NJ without a working horn. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 8 months

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Drive specs for Fujitsu m2682TAU

by kenziem＠sympatico.ca

it s at 350 meg drive, my copy of the hardware bible is bit too old, and all I get from google is places wanting to sell them. Does anyone have the CHS for this drive?

22 years, 8 months

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Plotter

by jrice54＠charter.net

I've used both products. In my previous life, I was an industrial control contractor in food packaging plants. We used the Loctite stuff. to stick polyurethane conveyor belts together as in a spliced loop. These belts ran at 2-300 ft per minute in a wet, oily, washdown environment (salad oil bottling plant) for months without a break. It was extremely expensive and the supply room checked it out and in. The clerk used to chase me down when I forgot to return the splice kit. The "cyanopoxy" stuff was used to build up delrin and teflon conveyor gudes when they wore through, until new ones could be machined out of block stock. I know it would stick a teflon gear together and would probably be stronger than the original gear. Just be careful and don't stick your fingers to the gear. You will have to remove the skin with a single edge razor blade...don't ask, trust me on this one. I can't remember how much it costs, but I'm sure it wasn't cheap. James >There is a product called "Cyanopoxy" that is like a two-part "super > > >glue" that can bond slippery plastics like delrin and molded nylon that >should work. It is fairly expensive, though. I haven't used it myself, >but I've read about it in the model railroad hobby press. > >There's a type of Loctite that does as well -- even sticks polythene. > I can't remember the number, thugh. Unfortunately it costs something >like UKP 35 for a tiny bottle (well, two bottles, actually, because it >comes with an activator). > -- http://webpages.charter.net/jrice54/classiccomp2.html

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plotter

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jul 18, 7:14, Feldman, Robert wrote: > There is a product called "Cyanopoxy" that is like a two-part "super glue" that can bond slippery plastics like delrin and molded nylon that should work. It is fairly expensive, though. I haven't used it myself, but I've read about it in the model railroad hobby press. There's a type of Loctite that does as well -- even sticks polythene. I can't remember the number, thugh. Unfortunately it costs something like UKP 35 for a tiny bottle (well, two bottles, actually, because it comes with an activator). -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 8 months

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Can anyone id these HP ICs?

by swperk＠earthlink.net

Hi Joe, The only reason that I can come up with for HP's construction techniques is that their IC's were made during the heyday of HP's own IC division. They overbuilt everything, probably because of reliability concerns. Other people certainly will know more about this than I do, but I think that HP was one of the earliest developers/fabricators of ECL. Thanks in advance for the manual! Regards, Stan Hi Stan, Thanks for the info. Any idea whey the fancy construction? I've dealt with ECL before but never seen anything like this. BTW I'm made copies of that memory board manual for you. It's packed and ready to ship. I'll try to drop it off at the post office today. Joe At 08:21 PM 7/17/03 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Joe, > >The 05370-60022 part number IDs this as the Arming Board from the HP 5370A/B >counter. The 1820-0753 is an ECL dual 3-input gate, the 1820-1999 is a >multiplexer, and the 1820-2000 is a D flip-flop. These are all ECL IC's, and >on each of them the two end pins are connected to the substrate and tied to >the -5.2 V bus. These two pins act as both power input and heat sinks for >the chip. > >Stan > >Message: 3 >Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:54:54 >To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> >Subject: Re: Can anyone id these HP ICs? (Joe) >Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > Bingo! You're right. It's part number is 05370-60022. I had tried to >look up that number but all I found was a scanner with the same PN. Do you >have a service manual for this? If so, can you tell me what these parts >are? PNs 1820-0753, 1820-2000 and 1820-1999. > > Joe > >At 10:55 AM 7/15/03 -0700, you wrote: >>Hi Joe, >> >>Your board looks like one of the interpolator cards from an HP 5370A >Universal Time Interval Counter. Do you see an "05370-6xxxx" part number on >the board anywhere? >> >> >>Message: 14 >>Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:52:26 >>To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >>From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> >>Subject: Re: Can anyone id these HP ICs? >>Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >> >>Hi Ed, >> >> I posted a picture at >><http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/t-bird/hp-ic.jpg>. >>I unplugged the two ICs in the top RH corner and turned them over so that >>you can see the bottom and side of the ICs and the heat sink that the IC >>normally sits on. There is a depression in the bottom of the IC case and a >>rasied pad on the heatsink that fits into the depression. I've never seen >>anything like this before! Note the delay line (?) on the LH side of the >>card. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture. This is as close as I could >>get with my camera. >> >> Joe > >-- __--__-- --__--__--

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HP Integral

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

At 09:08 PM 7/17/03 -0400, you wrote: >On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Tony Duell wrote: > >> > He has practically *all* the software for this machine. The only >> >> Alas much of it (C development stuff, etc) is still HP copyright and >> therefroe can't be distributed. > >How close is it to being considered abandonware by HP? I know for a fact that HP dropped support for these many years ago and literally threw out their remaining software/hardware/manuals/testers. I think we can safely say that they've abandoned it. BTW I have HP-IL cards, serial port cards, a combined serial port and memory card, Technical BASIC in ROM and even a Diagnostics ROM for the IPC. I think I have all or nearly all of the docs, software and manuals that they ever produced for it. And yes, the Tech BASIC ROM is made of standard parts. Joe

22 years, 8 months

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Future uncollectable computers...

by jforbes2＠mindspring.com

> One model that I used to support and I'd like to find would be the IBM Aptiva > stealth model they made back in 1998/1999. I thought it was a neat idea to > put the drives in a seperate enclosure below the monitor. 1996/97 maybe? Cluttering up my office/lab/computer room is an Aptiva 166mhz machine, with the neat black tower and black monitor with the drive pod below it. It's a non-upgradeable system, a gift to one of my kids from a grandparent, and has been replaced with a more modern generic pc. You should be able to find on on epay if you're patient. I want to save this one for the kid when he gets older he might want to have his first computer, with it's antique windows 95, cd rom drive (with no writing or dvd reading capability), and miniscule 2.5gb hard drive. At least it's almost stackable...the roundy styling had not set in yet. I have no idea what my dad will do with his Emac when it gets slow, perhaps it could turn into art, hang two of them on the wall (screen facing the wall) next to each other? -- Jim Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum! http://www.mindspring.com/~jforbes2

22 years, 8 months

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Future uncollectable computers...

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 7/18/2003 2:07:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jforbes2(a)mindspring.com writes: > >One model that I used to support and I'd like to find would be the IBM > Aptiva > >stealth model they made back in 1998/1999. I thought it was a neat idea to > >put the drives in a seperate enclosure below the monitor. > > 1996/97 maybe? Cluttering up my office/lab/computer room is an Aptiva > 166mhz machine, with the neat black tower and black monitor with the > drive pod below it. It's a non-upgradeable system, a gift to one of my > kids from a grandparent, and has been replaced with a more modern > generic pc. You should be able to find on on epay if you're patient. I > want to save this one for the kid when he gets older he might want to > have his first computer, with it's antique windows 95, cd rom drive > (with no writing or dvd reading capability), and miniscule 2.5gb hard drive. > Yups, that sounds like it. 2159-Sxx series. Sound like yours is the first generation model with that cursed MWAVE modem. There was 2159-S80 and S90 models which were MMX, no MWAVE and slightly redesigned and much better IMO. -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

22 years, 8 months

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OT-- need plans for a wireless switch

by cb＠mythtech.net

>D'ya know how to test the emissions of a VW converted to electric? >A friend of mine could not satisfy the DMV until he welded a piece of pipe >to the underside for the "tailpipe test" (aka "rectal probe") I had a similar problem with a convertable car. They failed me because I didn't have a roof on my car. Their claim was, they couldn't inspect the rear windows to make sure they weren't broken. I actually had to look up the laws and then bring the appropriate title back to the station with me to show that their is no requirement for having a roof on your car in NJ (you only need to have a windshield). Of course, I could have just put the roof back on my car, but I was much happier proving the idiots wrong. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 8 months

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OT-- need plans for a wireless switch

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > >On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Mark Firestone wrote: >> I always wondered how they hooked up wiring to things that rotate, like >> helicopter blades. With brushes? > >by periodically running it in reverse to untwist the wires? Hi I'm not sure that they run wires to the blades of helicopers. If it is current caring wire, they most often use brushes. For signal lines and low power, rotory tansformers are common. For autos, it is either a wire or brushes. This depends on the manufactures choice. Both have relaibility issues. Dwight > >> >I'm trying to put a push-to-talk switch on the steering wheel of my >> >car so I can key the 2-meter ham radio while keeping both hands >> >on the wheel. I've got a little boom mic and have built an interface >> >box, but how to mount the switch has me stumped. > >disconnect the horn and use its button

22 years, 8 months

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Fujitsu (Fuji) Eagle manuals

by aek＠spies.com

> What I didn't see was if the manuals were ever scanned and made available/on-line. www.spies.com/aek/pdf/fujitsu/B03P-4655-0001A_2351_Dec84.pdf

22 years, 8 months

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Future uncollectable computers...

by cb＠mythtech.net

>It will make g4 machines dirt cheap as the herd sells them off to buy the >G5. And I'm hoping it will shove the price of used early iMacs even lower. Those things make GREAT office workstations. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 9 months

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Future uncollectable computers...

by cb＠mythtech.net

>and a good excuse to dump the dual G4 >I already own. ;-) Your excuse can be that you gave it to me :-) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 9 months

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Can anyone id these HP ICs?

by swperk＠earthlink.net

Hi Joe, The 05370-60022 part number IDs this as the Arming Board from the HP 5370A/B counter. The 1820-0753 is an ECL dual 3-input gate, the 1820-1999 is a multiplexer, and the 1820-2000 is a D flip-flop. These are all ECL IC's, and on each of them the two end pins are connected to the substrate and tied to the -5.2 V bus. These two pins act as both power input and heat sinks for the chip. Stan Message: 3 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:54:54 To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: Can anyone id these HP ICs? (Joe) Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Bingo! You're right. It's part number is 05370-60022. I had tried to look up that number but all I found was a scanner with the same PN. Do you have a service manual for this? If so, can you tell me what these parts are? PNs 1820-0753, 1820-2000 and 1820-1999. Joe At 10:55 AM 7/15/03 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Joe, > >Your board looks like one of the interpolator cards from an HP 5370A Universal Time Interval Counter. Do you see an "05370-6xxxx" part number on the board anywhere? > > >Message: 14 >Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 17:52:26 >To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org >From: Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> >Subject: Re: Can anyone id these HP ICs? >Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > >Hi Ed, > > I posted a picture at ><http://home.cfl.rr.com/rigdon14/t-bird/hp-ic.jpg>. >I unplugged the two ICs in the top RH corner and turned them over so that >you can see the bottom and side of the ICs and the heat sink that the IC >normally sits on. There is a depression in the bottom of the IC case and a >rasied pad on the heatsink that fits into the depression. I've never seen >anything like this before! Note the delay line (?) on the LH side of the >card. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture. This is as close as I could >get with my camera. > > Joe --__--__--

22 years, 9 months

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plotter

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

There is a product called "Cyanopoxy" that is like a two-part "super glue" that can bond slippery plastics like delrin and molded nylon that should work. It is fairly expensive, though. I haven't used it myself, but I've read about it in the model railroad hobby press. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:51 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: plotter <snip> I've not found anything that will reliably stick to the plastic for said pinion. 2-pack epoxy resin adhesives (Araldite, etc) certainly don't. And no common plastic solvent disolves that plastic either. <snip> -tony

22 years, 9 months

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Cray Memorabilia

by mrjackson99_uk＠yahoo.co.uk

Interesting Cray memorabilia for sale on ebay (with pcitures). Check it out http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2742835004&ssPageName=… ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

22 years, 9 months

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Old Word Processors and Now

by cmurray＠eagle.ca

Well Mark, I'm still teaching word processing and the short cuts are CTRL-S and CTRL-L and I mention it most every day. I can remember using an Applewiter-clone and the formatting commands haven't chnaged. Why do away with things that work and make sense even if students forget them!!! I try not to scream though. Not good for a teacher. Murray > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:00:20 +0100 > To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > From: Mark Firestone <nedry(a)mail.bedlambells.com> > Subject: Re: Old Word Processors > Reply-To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org > > I can still remember screaming at my father (I must have been 13 at time > time) "it's CTRL-S to save, and CTRL-L to load. How could they make it > simpler for you?" when he was trying to use Applewriter //e, a very nice, > full featured, non-WYSIWYG word processor. Good old . formatting commands.

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Future uncollectable computers...

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> > There is one microcomputer I would love to have. The Power Mac G5. > > Me too. Need some bucks though, and a good excuse to dump the dual G4 > I already own. ;-) Same here, I've finally gotten over my dislike of Mac OS X, and am *REALLY* liking it. Largely because it's got Unix underneath which means I can use it both as my Mac and as my Unix box. My G4/450 is one of the originals, and finally starting to feel a little old and slow (not bad considering it's almost 4 years old). Though my video card rocks, I bought an ATI Radeon 9000 for it :^) It's really nice running all my Adobe App's, MS Office, and Eudora on a system with Unix underneat! I *REALLY* want a dual G5, unfortunatly I'm not going to be able to get a G5 anytime soon :^( Still by the time I can get one they should be even better :^) Zane

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IBM POWERstation 220 serial terminal

by owen＠bardstown.com

Greetings, I have recieved an old IBM Model 7011-220. There is very little documentation, and IBM has no clue... I have no video adapter or monitor, can someone tell me the type (guessing Sun 13W3...) Also, can someone provide instructions on how to use this with the Linux term. program Minicom? And... *grimaces* anyone know HTH to get the cover off ;) TIA, Owen Marshall

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IBM Wheelwriter find Need Info

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Picked up a IBM Wheelwriter30 Series II today and was wondering if it can be used as a front-end input device?

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MT-80Z Micro Professor Manuals

by larry.washburn＠DTRA.MIL

Glen Noticed your posting about the missing manuals for the E&L z80 trainer. I am also in same boat, just won mine on ebay,,, minus manuals etc Did you ever locate any manuals, experimenter books for the unit? Larry

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HP Integral

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

In cctalk digest, Vol 1 #684 ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: > I asusem that ROM daugtherboards are impossible to obtain, but has anyone > dumped the ROMS from one? > > Any ideas if it's ever possible to find the GPIO and serial interface > cards for these machines? > > Any software out there on the net for it? I have the normal HP disk set > (System disk, HP-UX commands (2 disks), Utilities, Diagnostics, Tutor, > and NP Technical BASIC). > > Anything else I should know about it? Check Pete Johnson's website dedicated to the IPC (http://www.coho.org/~pete/IPC/integral.html) He has practically *all* the software for this machine. The only bad ting I can say for the site is that the HPUX utilities work only on big-endian machines. I have written a converter tool (HPUX filesystem image to tar [1]) that is hopefully platform independent, and I will send it to him after I have tried it a bit to make sure that it is mostly bug free. [1] so you use it like hpux2tar image-file | tar tvf - ----- I think that the daughterboards have standard parts so it should be possible to create replacements. I have the BASIC sub-daughterboard so I can send you a dump of the BASIC ROMs if I can find where they are mapped into the 68K address space. I have used the IPC to access HP-IL peripherals via the HP-IB port (using the 82169A HP-IL/HP-IB Interface), and I think it would be trivial to write a short program to talk with computers over the HP-IL via the HP-IL serial interface. There is also a built-in HP-IL interface (to talk to the built-in ThinkJet), but it is directly connected to the ThinkJet without the transformers and (anyway) I have not found a way to address the ThinkJet using IL addressing (rather than the /dev/internal interface). **vp

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VAX 6360

by vance＠neurotica.com

Does anyone know the power burn on one of these babes without disk? Peace... Sridhar

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OT: Diamond video card for mac

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

I ran across a diamond Javelin Video card that has the mac video connector but looks like it might have the PC bios. My pm7500 wont recognise the card and the drivers cant find it either. Anybody have such a card or know if the bios is flashable? Of course the company that purchased diamond/s3 doesnt support these products anymore.

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Was: Commodore CBM/PET Now: Reply Trim Rant

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

> Hey Guyz - not to squelch List traffic, nor appear to be a > NetCop - but d'ya think it might be possible to try and > TRIM YER DAMN REPLY CASCADES???? <AOL> me too! </AOL> :-) (maybe that should have been in caps) > I mean, 152 lines of triple-posted reply threads, it's actually remarkably annoying in digest mode too. Seconded only by replies in which people top-post and include the entire original message, headers and all, but without any indentation characters... cheers Jules ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/

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Fujitsu (Fuji) Eagle manuals

by dundas＠caltech.edu

There was a brief discussion here a little over a year ago regarding manuals for the M2351A Eagles. What I didn't see was if the manuals were ever scanned and made available/on-line. Tony or anyone know? I have two M2351As and would like to return them to operational status. Thanks, John

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updates...

by jimw＠agora.rdrop.com

some new updates on the catalog page: www.rdrop.com/~jimw Item 124 might get someones attention... Then there will be a slight break in the updates for a week or two while I get caught up with shipping, moving, and other localized annoyances... Thanks; -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw

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APTIVA RISER CARD

by dmb7443＠dctexas.net

HI I KNOW YOUR POSTING IS OLD BUT I THOUGHT I WOULD ASK IF YOU STILL HAVE THE APTIVA RISER CARD IBM # 11H8453 THANKS FOR YOUR TIME MIKE B TYLER TX

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Northgate ZX Portable HELP

by hdlee＠shaw.ca

Hello, I am rebuilding a Northgate ZX-Portable (almost done) but need some information on the AC charger. The AC Adapter output connector (the part that plugs into the computer) was hacked off when I acquired the computer. I've bought a replacement connector, but still need information on the AC Adapter pin-outs. Does anyone have a similar machine, and could tell me the pin-outs for the battery charger, or offer some advice on where to find this information. The part number for the Northgate AC Adapter is 850-0215. I am new to this list, and glad to have found it. Classics are great! Thanks in advance, Dan Lee

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by BLapsley＠aol.com

hi have you the drivers for ppc 640s

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HP9000/300 Computers, CS80 Disks and Windows

by keith＠saracom.com

Hello, I am new to the list. My classic computer collection is mainly DEC but I must use "classic" HPs at work. Hence my current problem. We have multiple HP9000/300 computers connected via SRM to a HP9826 computer running SRM ver 3.12. We also have several standalone Viper board based PCs. My current problem is that one of the hard drives attached to the HP9826 has died. It was a HP7937 HP-IB drive. I believe it was a CS80 device. I have backups made with a HP9144 tape drive. We could buy a refurbished drive. We were quoted $1300 for a HP7937. I would like to avoid that. Since I only need a few files from the backup and my application could run from the Viper board, if I could get the files into a MS-DOS format, my problem would be solved. I looked through the archives and ran across a thread "HP storage formats on ss80 protocol disks". It seems work has begun on a Windows program to read at least LIF volumes attached to a NI-GPIB board. I have acess to such. The files are RMB ver 5.13 files. The drive that died was not the boot device. Couple of questions: 1) What format is the SRM backups in? LIF? HFS? Other? 2) Peter Brown, would you share your software? I am also open to other suggestions. If you have a HP7937 drive or similar, we can talk. Either purchase or trade. We have a spare HP9826 computer with a dead display along with extra HP9000/300 computers. Thanks Max

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Marchant Calculating Machine

by auringer＠tds.net

Hello, I thought someone here might find this interesting. https://mds.bussvc.wisc.edu/swap/product.asp?mscssID=&auction_id=908 Later, Jon

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