Does anyone know where I can get info on an Aspect 3039 serial
terminal?
It looks like a rebadged something-I've-seen-before. It does have
both MMJ-female and DB25 (male?) ports, one set marked Primary & one
marked Auxiliary, as well as a DB25 female "Printer" port. ~RJ11
keyboard connector at front bottom left side, looking at the CRT.
Thanks.
Doc
Just found a copy of the "IBM Personal System/2 Model 70/80 Reference
Diskette" v1.10 in some disks being tossed at work. Anyone want it? Reply to
robert_feldman(at)jdedwards.com.
Bob
On February 5, Claude.W wrote:
> > Full books but stay with families IE: VAX, PDP-11, CPM S100 as a
> > set covers many varients
>
> Cant agree, lotta reference stuff can be looked up and printed from right of
> the www when needed!!!
...until the person putting the stuff online decides "nobody needs
this old stuff anymore" and takes it down. And MANY companies are
famous for the "we don't want to SELL these anymore so we don't want
to tell anyone about them" bullshit. Having been involved with the
world-wide web from its beginning, it makes me sick to point this
out...but the WWW is primarily a SALES tool nowadays. The fact that
we get information from it that is actually useful is a pleasant
side-effect. What is driving it is SALES. Suits figuring out more
efficient ways of taking peoples' money. Nothing more.
If everyone takes the "someone else will maintain this information"
attitude, who will maintain the information? We ALL must take
responsibility for this. Every one of us who cares about it.
> > With care and appling to specific systems or technoligies, not
> > complete archives of say Byte.
>
> Fun to look at but apart from that...
And highly educational. I read a very interesting article in an issue
of BYTE from 1984 while eating dinner last night. It compared a whole
slew of 32-bit processors that were due to be introduced that year.
The specific information was interesting from a historical
perspective, but it was also very useful because understanding what
drove our technology to where it is now an often help understand
CURRENT stuff more completely.
> I have taught of getting a bigger house but is too many hobbies a reason for
> moving it all and getting a bigger house...?
What is life for if you can't enjoy it?
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net]
> Well, if you could put up a few photos of the compartment and the
> connectors I could help you identify what kind of battery
> they use. If you
> can connect a DC voltmeter to the battery connectors, and measure the
> charge voltage, that will help narrow it down very quickly.
I might try that, but it will require pulling the PSUs (two) out and
carrying them downstairs. :) It may be several days before I can get
around to that.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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I was wondering if you had and could send me a copy of the boot software for the Toshiba T1200, I have been given 1 to repair but that seem the only problem, also if you could tell me how to get into the Bios, I was told to press Esc when 1st turned on but this doesn't seem to work...
Confused
R. Auty
Hi all,
I have recently acquired an HP9000 C100 workstation. It came without any
memory in it. I hooked up a PS/2 keyboard and a multisync monitor. The
video board is in slot 3, which is were I believe it belongs in this
machine. When I power it up, there is no display of any sort. Is this
normal for not having any memory, or is something dead?
Thanks,
Jon
Jon Auringer
auringer(a)tds.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com]
> A good woman will love you for who you are inside.
... and possibly even become attached to some of your minis. ;)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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I think I took a part-time job in Hell today. A non-profit corp who
funds its computers-for-children program by "salvaging" donated
equipment. That means selling most of it by the pound. I'll be working
for trade, for a while.
If anybody wants, there is, for its worth as scrap:
1 Sun 2/120 system unit. Looks intact.
2 AS/400 cabinets, I _think_ 9404 models. One intact, one missing
an expansion board (or bulkhead covers). Too dark to read the
badges & labels. More details tomorrow
1 IBM rack - Says it's part of a phone system. Behind a large
deteriorating box, so all I could see was an 8" floppy drive
unit, and what looked like a 3/4" tape drive.
2 Pallets PS/2 Model 77. Probably 40-60 machines
1 Pallet PS/2 full towers. Pallets were already shrinkwrapped, so
I couldn't further ID them.
Both lots of PS/2 equipment may already be gone.
Not headed for the crusher, 'cause "That's VINTAGE stuff!!"
2 Large (42"x42"x42") deteriorating cardboard boxes of Tandy &
Commodore equipment. Unsorted, and not well packed. OK, not
packed at all, in any real sense. He knows it's worth money,
but he ain't sure what it is.
The main problem is that I don't have the wherewithal to even ship
anything bigger than the model 77s. I can probably get the bigger stuff
put on hold, but if you want it, you'll need to arrange pickup &
shipping. His prices are literally by the pound.
On the Brighter Side:
*I* will be making out like the proverbial fat rat.
Doc
Excellent. Portoguese spam. O Spamo.
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
More and more spam comes. Nothing gets done about it. This list
represented the one sanctuary on the internet I could rely on not to have
spam. Now we have it. We could fix it really simply. Nobody cares.
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I don?t have the time for this beast right now and it has to make room
for my Rackmount Onyx anyway, so...
I have an CISC AS/400 9406 something to give away, I do not know which
exact model, this was printed on the rack which I didn?t take due to
weight reasons (boy these AS/400 rackmount enclosures are _heavy_... we
needed four people just to move one _empty_ rack. They put in some really
thick lead plates in 'em so there was no chance a rack could tilt wherever
you put your stuff). Maybe someone recognizes the model from the pics
below. It comes with two #9336 disk modules, one 8" floppy drive #9331,
one Infowindow Terminal, several SCSI cables, a little bit Twinax stuff as
well as one meter of mixed documentation and then some more. I also have
the keys for the machine. No system console though, but I guess this ain?t
a big problem. No part numbers are printed on the two CPU modules. There
may be the option to get an AS/400 9 track (? - big, heavy, I can make a
photo if someone?s interested and it is still available) drive with it,
too. Now for the bad news: Neither is OS/400 included nor is it
installed. The disks have been completely wiped before disassembly. The
company I got this from is still searching for the original media, but I
doubt they still have them and so do they. The machine was in perfect
working order before disassembly last year and has been carefully
transported to my home, but of course, no warranty included. So, if you
don?t have access to OS/400 for such a machine (legal aspects aside ;-)
this thing is going to be your new boat anchor. Anyway, I don?t want to
put this thing on ebay, or worse, into the dumpster. Hopefully there?s
someone who has more use for this than me right now. Of course, it?s
free for local pickup (only!) - the machine is located in Bochum /
Germany. If interested, contact me at andreas(a)pisec.de - I will gladly
answer any question as far as I can, but please bear in mind that my
experience with AS/400 stuff is very limited. Ah yes, I will only give
this away complete.
Some pics:
http://62.27.34.226/pics/400_1.jpghttp://62.27.34.226/pics/400_2.jpghttp://62.27.34.226/pics/400_3.jpg
The S/36 next to the beast stays here ;)
BTW: I?m still looking for one of these top plastic parts (with the
nifty Motorola logo on it) for my Motorola MVME197LE, an SGI Indy power
supply (this one badly!) and 8" SSP disks for my 5362 S/36. Anyone?
Best
Andreas
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In a message dated 2/5/2002 1:14:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lgwalker(a)mts.net writes:
<< I have a connundrum. I want to thin out my collection of computer
artifacts
and I'm having problems on what to part with. I also could use the money. >>
I'm starting to reach the saturation point as well. I'm getting married in
June and Judy wanted me to move to her house. As a result all the computer
stuff (1.5 bedroom's worth+partial garage) all had to move to climate
controlled storage to join an existing collection already in storage. It took
several trips and due to time constraints, everything is in disarray and some
things got damaged in the process. PS/2 models stack well, apple ][ series do
not! My original plan was to keep 2 of every model, but I've many PS/2 models
in various configurations that it just doesnt work as well as 5 OSI C1Ps with
various unique mods. Right now, I sneaked a few IBM server 95s as well as an
Ultimedia unit to use. I do keep books and mags though for reference. I've
simplified a little through sales and ebay but there's still too mucn and
they dont build houses with basements around here.
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www.nothingtodo.org
I was looking for a three-prong adapter at my in-laws house last
week so I could plug my laptop in to the socket (the laptop power
cord is grounded but all the wall outlets are two-prong). I found
the adapter, but I also found an old Commodore calculator, along
with the box. The packing material in the box is gone, but the
box is in pretty good shape. I haven't tried a battery to see
if the calculator works, but even so the calculator is small and
I won't have any problems finding room for it.
--
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Hi there, I was wondering If some1 could possibly email me and LET ME KNOW WHAT KIND OF SOFTWARE INCLUDING os AND sYSTEM DISK A tOSHIBA t1200 RUNS and where to obtain it.
DarkawE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf@concentric.net]
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > I'll be attempting to contact HP about getting replacements soon.
> > Meanwhile, does anyone know of any other sources (including price if
> > possible) for these batteries?
> Well, if you know what type it needs, I might be able to help
> you locate a
> distributor. Do you have any photos of the battery
> holder/compartment and
> connections? Does anyone else have one of these and know what type of
> batteries it needs?
I don't know the power rating. The compartments look to me like they
might be for small-ish gel-cells of some sort. about 2"x2"x1" -- the
connector is a two prong square thing. :) They're supposed to be
rechargable (of course...) Beyond that, I have no idea.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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"decsystem10 INTRODUCTION TO TECO (TEXT EDITOR AND CORRECTOR)"
manual now online. JPEGs, 100dpi; I'll be redoing it later with
TIFFs and 300dpi so you can reprint it if wanted. I also have the
"decsystem10 TECO" manual (about 3x as thick) here, that will be
scanned in the next couple of weeks, if nobody has it already.
http://www.mrbill.net/~mrbill/teco
(yes, I know the text is grey instead of black; working on fixing that
for the re-scan)
Bill
--
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mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
On February 4, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> > I think I took a part-time job in Hell today. A non-profit corp who
> > funds its computers-for-children program by "salvaging" donated
> > equipment. That means selling most of it by the pound. I'll be working
> > for trade, for a while.
>
> I want:
>
> > 1 Sun 2/120 system unit. Looks intact.
Ya gotta be fast, man...FAST!
-Dave
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St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
I haven't seen this here yet, so I am forwarding it. I expect at least
*someone* here will be interested.
PB Schechter
Standard Disclaimer: I am merely the messenger; I have no knowledge of,
nor interest (financial) in, this equipment.
Q-bus equipment up for bids, potentially free.
I have a moderately sized lot of Q-bus equipment up for grabs.
Before you get all excited, I have some statements to make up-front:
1.) This equipment is being offered as a LOT. It will not be pieced-out.
Equipment must be picked up in Las Vegas. I do NOT have time to box/ship
this stuff.
Boards, and small components are in boxes. Bigger items are not.
Since this is being offered as a lot, ALL the equipment must be removed.
There is enough equipment to fill a 10' U-Haul mover.
2.) It has been stored in a garage for the last 4 years.
Temperatures varied from 50 - 100 degrees,
with a humidity range of 10 to 25%.
Equipment has NOT been powered up during this time.
3.) All of the major equipment (drives, boards, etc.)
were working at some point, but there are no guarantees
as to their operability.
4.) I will accept bids on these items via e-mail, with a cut-off date of
02/22/02.
I will keep track of any interested parties, and if I don't receive any
bids,
the equipment will go to the first person that I can make arrangements
with,
to come out and pick everything up. In which case, all it will cost you
is
the time, and the truck rental.
Most of this list is from memory -- I'm sure there are things that I'm
forgetting.
Additionally, there are one or two boxes of miscellaneous pieces/parts.
Qty Item Notes
----- ---------------------------
----------------------------------------
2 6' racks, w/ PDP-11 logo No side panels, or back doors.
8" round fans on top.
2 BA23 chassis/power supply New-style internal power supply
cables, per ECO.
2 BA23 rack-mount kits
1 BA23 floor-standing enclosure Empty case only.
1 BA11 chassis/power supply 22-bit backplane. Don't know which
flavor;
could be 9275 or 9276.
1 BA11 rack-mount kit
1 Rack-mount RX50 chassis Don't remember the model number, or
which pieces/parts are actually
there.
I think the original power supply was
yanked, and a generic power supply
mounted
in the back.
1 LA180 printer. Might have the serial interface
inside,
but I'm not sure.
1 Cable for LA180 to LPV11
2 RL02 drives, w/ rails 10-meg removable pack drives. 19"
I have one set of unit number caps, 0
- 3.
I have about 5 or 6 RL cables, enough
to
daisy-chain 4 drives to controller.
2 RL01 drives, with rails 5-meg removable pack drives. 19"
1 Fujitsu Eagle 474 MB SMD drive, rack mount with
rails. 19"
1 Cipher F880 tape drive Front/auto loading 1/2" 9-track
magtape drive. 19"
2 Hitachi DK512-S drives 150MB 5.25" SMD drives.
1 Seagate 8" SMD drive Don't remember capacity; 800 meg,
maybe 1.2 gig.
In a home-brew chassis w/ power
supply.
1 Maxtor 130MB MFM drive Full height. Might be 150MB.
Unknown condition.
2 Quantum Q540 MFM drives 30MB Full height. Unknown condition.
2 Seagate ST-type drives. Half Height. At least one 10MB, one
20 or 40MB.
1 RX50 drive Full-height dual-floppy.
1 TK50 tape drive Full-height. Condition unknown.
1 TK70 tape drive Full-height. Condition unknown.
1 Generic chassis w/ 8" floppies Unknown condition. Probably not
RX02-compatible.
1 Centronics brand printer Wide carriage dot-matrix w/ lcd front
panel.
1 LA12 portable terminal Serial port works, not sure about the
modems.
2 VT220 terminals Possibly 3. . . w/ keyboards
1 IBM video terminal Unknown model (3150?) Does VT100
emulation.
1 VT50 terminal, w/ printer It's a classic. ;-)
Boards:
2 KDJ11 CPU's 11/73's, quad, w/ boot & serial
ports.
18Mhz crystals installed, if I
remember right.
1 KDF11 CPU 11/23, quad, w/ boot & serial ports.
2 Camminton CMV504 2-meg dual-height q-bus memory.
1 Camminton CMV4000 4-meg quad-height q-bus memory.
1 MSV11-PK (?) 512K quad-height q-bus memory.
2 DELQA Q-bus ethernet controllers.
1 LPV11 Probably 2. Q-bus line printer
controller(s).
1 Generic DLV11-J Possibly 2.
1 RQDX3 MFM controller.
1 RQDX2 MFM controller.
1 RQDXE Q-bus RQDX drive expander card.
1 QD32 Dual-height SMD controller.
1 DQ248 Quad-height, 4-drive SMD-E
controller.
1 Tape controller It's either a DQ132 or a TC03.
1 DEC Terminal server 200 or 200 MC -- requires MOP loader.
1 Emulex CS02 Multiplexer With 16-port panel and cables.
1 TQK50 controller For TK50 cartridge tape drive.
1 TQK70 controller For TK70 cartridge tape drive.
1 RLV21 controller Possibly 2. For RL01/RL02 drives.
This is all that pops to mind right now, but I know there's a bunch more
out there. I have covered all the important items, though.
I'm THINKING that I had a dual 11/73 board out there, as well as
an Emulex QD01/D MFM controller, but these might only exist in my imagination.
I know I have a few boxes of media out there (tapes, RL01/RL02 packs), but I
have
no idea what condition they're in at this point.
There are also a few boxes of DEC magazines, and a box of some sort of
UNIBUS hardware out there -- mostly DZ11 boards. There should be a set
of Q-bus extension/expansion cables, for daisy-chaining backplanes.
Interested parties can reply to: TiggerLasV (Thats on aol.com)
*** do NOT reply to this message, as it will bounce. ****
Thanks again!
Tim
On February 4, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I think he meant RLV11 or RLV12, but I would like to have one for my RL02
> > sitting in my bedroom. A cable to go from the drive to the controller
> > would also be nice, but not necessarily needed.
>
> If it's an RLV11, there's no big deal - it's a BC08 to the bracket,
> and a transition header, just like the ones on the back of the RL01/RL02
> drives. If you don't have one with the controller, you can get one
> from the back of a dead drive.
>
> ISTR the RLV12 has a custom cable from the Berg end to the RL01/RL02
> end. It _may_ be the same arrangement; it may not. It's been so long,
> I forget. I just remember using a custom cable from the back of our
> MicroVAX to the first drive, and an RL-11-style arrangement when I had
> an RLV12 at home.
I've used the same set of cables for an RL11, RLV11, and RLV12 with no
modifications. They involve a chunk of ribbon cable to the bracket
containing the transition header like the RLV11 setup that you
describe above.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
1 Shugart SA801 8" floppy drive
1 IBM 5151 AT computer
10 Reels 9 track tape - used...
1 VOXPC ISA voice synth
Free for pickup in SF bay area...
Peter Wallace
On February 4, Pat Finnegan wrote:
> A piece of QBUS backplane would be nice, if availble, along with an
> extension cable (and terminator...) Especially necessary if the RLV11/12
> expects a Q/CD instead of a Q/Q backplane.
The RLV11 requires a Q/CD backplane. The RLV12 (which is only one
board, not two like the RLV11) does not.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
>It can not run nicely, as long as there is no UNIX on it. ;-)
Once they're both running , putting Unix on one of them is the next step
- However, I only have 10Mb disks and 5.25" floppies - what's the best
way to go about this?
>What enclosure? BA23 (4? U 19" rackmount box or bigtower), BA123 (big
>deskside box), ...?
It's a 4U rack mount.
Fred Cisin wrote
> In place of current accepted sloppy terminology,
> how many remember what they were called THEN?
Most of the engineers I work with have never heard of Amphenol or Cannon,
let alone "blue range" or "red range" (popular Cannon connectors)
It's a classic chicken and egg thing. Ampenol connectors were adopted as
a "standard" connector for Centronics printer, IEEE-488 and SCSI interface,
but are often mis-named. As I don't have an Amphenol catalogue to hand,
I'm afraid I can't tell you what Amphenol's designation is for this connector.
On the subject of D-sub connectors I've sometimes come across some with
metric threaded jackscrews instead of the usual UNF thread, or is it UNC ?
Chris Leyson
Hi Guys,
I found some goodies this weekend. I went to a place that gets lots of
computer scrap and found them tearing apart a huge machine. It has three
separate chassis in it and one of them was Multibus!
I "rescued" nine Multibus cards. Four of them are Augut brand
prototyping cards. They're full of socketed ICs. These are the nice
expensive prototyping cards with the built-in IC sockets that use machined
pins and sockets. One of these even has four 2901 bit slice CPUs on it. I'd
sure like to have seen what this system was before it was scrapped.
The other five cards are Intel cards. Three of them are iSBC 286 single
board computers. One has at least four Mb of RAM and the others have at
least 1 Mb of RAM on daughterboards. They all also have iSBX cards marked
"Orbot I/O Channel (iSBX) CS". I haven't been able to find any listing of
them. They're not shown in my '86 OEM Boards Handbook. One also has an iSBX
344 Bit Bus card.
I also got one iSBC 214 Peripheral Controller Subsystem. Wahoo! NICE
card! It handles up to four SD or DD floppy drives, up to two ST 506 hard
drives and up to two QIC-02 tape drives. I'd sure like to get that on
working on one of my MDS machines! Side note: There was a 5 1/4" CDC hard
drive there. It may have worked with this controller. I'll have to go back
and pick it up too.
Finally I got one iSBC 534 Four Channel Communication Expansion Card.
Does anybody have docs for any of these cards??
I also found a NICE case with some kind of Motorola Exorbus cards in
it. I grabbed it and threw it into the car but I haven't had a chance to do
anything with it yet.
Then today, I went looking through some old catalogs and I found two
more Intel books. One is Memory Design Handbook dated 1977 and the other is
Intel System Data Catalog dated 1978. It shows the MDS 210, 220, 230 in
good detail and it has a good section about the uScope 820.
That's a pretty good haul if I do say so myself!
More later,
Joe
Yes well they ar labelled, but I don't know what it means.
What does PF(1) and PF(2) mean? And it also sais +12/24- and +12/15- ? And pin 13 and 14 dont' have a label, are they used or not?
Any help will be fine.
Roel
Thanks for the detailed instructions but I hope it won't come to trying to
repair the drive. Someone was kind enough to offer up a possible
replacement off list so I hope that does the trick.
Your guess about what happened sounds about right. I just got this IPC as
an "as-is" project and I'm not sure if the drive head was broken before it
was shipped, during shipping, or after I got it when I fought with the drive
a little to get a stuck disk out. At first I thought there was something
like a dead bumblebee stuck in the drive. Only after I disassembled the
machine enough to get the drive out and take a close look did I realize that
what I saw was the upper head broken off of the arm and dangling by the coil
wires.
-Glen
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
>Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
>Subject: Re: Sony OA-D32W Floppy
>Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 21:26:18 +0000 (GMT)
>
> >
> > Does anyone have any info on Sony OA-D32W 3.5" floppies? In particular
>the
>
>Enough to have repaired many of them....
>
> > one I have is a model OA-D32W-11 with a broken head. This was in an HP
>
>Let me guess. The grease on the disk holder/eject mechanism turned to
>glue and the upper head was ripped off when you ejected a disk. Seen it
>happen all too often.
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On Feb 4, 18:51, Tim Myers wrote:
>
> >It can not run nicely, as long as there is no UNIX on it. ;-)
>
> Once they're both running , putting Unix on one of them is the next step
> - However, I only have 10Mb disks and 5.25" floppies - what's the best
> way to go about this?
>
> >What enclosure? BA23 (4? U 19" rackmount box or bigtower), BA123 (big
> >deskside box), ...?
>
> It's a 4U rack mount.
Sure it's 4U? BA11-N, BA11-S, and BA23 are all 3U. Of course, it could be
a non-DEC box.
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Network Manager
University of York
Okay, A/UX users: how do I get the UFS filesystem mounted read-write from
A/UX Launch?
I was innocently trying to get my 8*24*GC card accelerated and stuck the
Control Panel in /mac/sys/System Folder/Control Panels, which causes a bus
error after the kernel loads. Fine; I reboot, go to the A/UX launch shell, and
try to rm -f the file, but it won't disappear. I try mv on it and the real
problem is revealed; the filesystem is read-only.
I cannot find a built-in or standalone mount command, and it won't run
/etc/mount. There has to be a way to do this.
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These are the items that iam interested in selling..
Could you help me with some details on the goods, history, origin etc.
are these worth anything and if so who would i contact with regards to
selling them? and the best way to sell them ie auction etc
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item 1
hand carved round table with metal chain link in the middle
item 2
magnum laurent perrier vintage 1988 champagne
item 3
miniture football on stand from euro96 signed by pele and bobby charlton
item 4
is a bit more interesting. its a protana minifon attache, as u will see
ive enclosed notes from a web site regarding this and you will see back in
the 50's it cost $340.00 so i could imagine this to be worth a bit. it
also has an original tape inside i do not know what is on this tape, but
judging by who made it and the cost of the machine, the tape could have
some important information on it. heres the note.....
The Minifon, developed in the early 1950s by Monske GMBH of Hanover(or by
Protona GMBH- I'm not certain), was an ultra-miniaturized, battery
operated magnetic recording device. It could not (initially at least)
record the full range of sounds and was thus limited to voice recording,
but it did offer easy portability in a very small package. The idea of
offering a pocket dictating machine was novel, since dictation had
previously been done in the office. However, it was thought that people
like salesmen could take the machine "on the road" with them. Once on the
market, the Minifon's promoters discovered that many people took advantage
of the recorder's small size to make secret recordings to be used as
evidence, as in court.<BR>
<BR>
The "legitimate" use of the Minifon, as a dictating machine, was somewhat
problematical. Recordings made on regular dictating equipment were usually
letters, and thus were normally sent almost immediately to a typist. The
Minifon offered no obvious advantages over standard dictation equipment
for office use, but its developers hoped to cultivate new uses for
dictation equipment, such as stock taking in warehouses, or the use of the
machine as a substitute for note-taking by reporters, insurance adjusters,
salesmen, and others.
In its original form, the Minifon was a wire recorder, using a type of
wire medium developed by the Armour Research Foundation of Chicago and
employed in many similar devices since the late 1940s. The machine at its
introduction in 1952 had a recording time of one hour, which was
remarkably long, and weighed only about 3 pounds at a time when a typical
office dictating machine weighed upwards of 10 pounds. It accomplished
this small size and light weight in part through the use of miniature
tubes and clever mechanical design. The basic machine cost $289.50-- a
price that sounds high today but was very much in line with competing
office dictating machines.
The parent company attempted to set up distribution, sales and service
networks in the United States. It established a business office called the
Minifon Export Corp in New York, and an existing company, Harvey Radio in
New York City became the main distributor. Although smaller tape recorders
appeared at about the same time, the main competition in the voice
recording field was from an American company, Mohawk, which made a small,
battery-operated cartridge tape recorder called the Migetape. Both
products sold less than 10,000 units per year in the U.S.<BR>
After a few years, the Minifon was modified to use transistors and
magnetic tape, further lowering its weight and cost. By 1962 the basic
machine weighed in at only 1.5 pounds. Competition by this time had helped
bring the cost down to $249.50.
The Minifon after about 1962 was distributed by the international
conglomerate ITT through its subsidiary in the U.S., Federal Electric
Corp. A little later, distribution was taken over by the ITT Distributor
Products Division in Lodi, New Jersey. (I don't know whether these were
the same company with different names)
By the time ITT became associated with this product, it had taken on the
name of Minifon "Attache," and a new line of models and options appeared.
These included a hi-fi model, the 978H, which sold for $330.50.Usinga
two-track, 1/4 inch tape cartridge operating at 1 7/8 inches per second,
the machine claimed a frequency response of up to 12,000 Hz, plus or minus
3db.
The coming of magnetic tape did not completely displace wire. The Model
240 series of recorders introduced in the early 1960s were probably the
last wire recorders in regular production. The 240L, at a price of $269.50
used a special long-playing wire cartridge that held 4 hours of wire.
Otherwise it looked like both the tape model and the 240S, which used a
2-hour wire cartridge and sold for $249.50.
Another innovation was the introduction of more conventional recorders.
After years of offering only "half" of a complete dictation system,
Minifon finally developed a restyled, non-portable "office" machine,
mainly for use by a transcriber, with pedal controls.
By the mid-1960s, Minifon was trying to market its machines as
multi-purpose devices suitable for nearly any recording need. In addition
to the hi-fi and long-playing machines, the company offered an astounding
variety of optional equipment such as foot controls, microphones, external
amplifiers and loudspeakers, headsets, external power supplies, telephone
recording attachments, conference recording adapters. One of the most
interesting options were the miniature microphones intended to allow users
to make "spy" recordings. In addition to a small tie-clip microphone, the
Minifon could be equipped with a microphone disguised as a wrist- watch.
> ----------
> From: pb(a)Colorado.EDU
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2002 2:58 PM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: A bunch of QBus stuff in Las Vegas
>
> I haven't seen this here yet, so I am forwarding it. I expect at least
> *someone* here will be interested.
>
> PB Schechter
>
> Standard Disclaimer: I am merely the messenger; I have no knowledge of,
> nor interest (financial) in, this equipment.
>
<<<<<clipped>>>>>
It's be a nice score, If only I had the time and space to grab it...
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Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
>But maybe there are devices or even companies specialized on scanning
> microfiche? - How would you load this information into an electronic
> archive on MO disks, for example?
>
> Some years ago, a friend of mine managed to get a couple of frames
> printed off these fiches, but the results weren't too good: poor
> contrast was the main problem. If you'd scan these prints, the results
> would certainly be unreadable.
I've researched it, but I found no affordable solution other than buying
a
fiche printer.
Actually, there are two somewhat-affordable solutions, if
I haven't missed too much of the discussion (Hotmail has
a habit of throwing away good stuff while keeping all the
junk mail).
I was faced with the same problem a couple of years ago:
digitizing for publication several hundred pages of journal
papers from the first quarter of the last century of the
previous millenium. All I had were dreadful xeroxes and
almost-as-dreadful microfiches.
I found that a local university (San Diego State) had a
gem - a microfiche/film viewer/printer/scanner which sat
unused 99% of the time. The value of course was that the
scan was sent to a PC, where it could be saved to floppy
disk. It lacked the ability to transfer by cable, the OCR
software was absent (wouldn't have made much difference in
my application, considering the age of the original documents),
and the staff knew next to nothing about the machine or its
abilities, and cared less. My offer of technical assistance
to bring it up to its capabilities were met with total
indifference.
However, I spent many agonizing hours scanning my fiche,
transferring to my laptop, proofing. Thank Dog for CD
players! The images cleaned up reasonably well with
Photoshop.
The other solution is a small device made by Anacomp
(www.anacomp.com). It is a small desktop scanner (footprint
about half a square foot) which will digitize fiche and
even microcards (those white opaque precursors to microfiche).
Anacomp has just exited Chapter 11, and a quick browse of
the website finds the ImageMouse still available with a
follow-on product. Not cheap, but you can likely find a
university or service bureau with the device.
Anacomp also provides a wide range of document services.
Details of these devices escape me at the moment. If of
interest, I can look them up.
Vern (who lurks for lack of time to participate)
vernon_wright(a)hotmail.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
> I could also be the batteries had corroded and needed to be removed.
> Also remember never left lead-acid batteries freeze.
Actually, I checked around the connector, and the battery compartment.
There were no signs of corrosion, so if they did corrode, I'm grateful
to the previous owners for cleaning it up ;)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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On Feb 4, 18:34, Roel Dirks wrote:
>
> [ Attachment (multipart/alternative): 1339 bytes ]
> Yes well they ar labelled, but I don't know what it means.
> What does PF(1) and PF(2) mean? And it also sais +12/24- and +12/15- ? =
> And pin 13 and 14 dont' have a label, are they used or not?=20
I don't have the diagrams for that specific model. However, most similar
Weir-Lambda SMPSUs have 4 or 5 outputs, so I expect that what you've got
has two separate +12V outputs, a single -15V output, and a single -24V
output. An odd combination, but possible. There should be two or more
terminals marked 0V, which ar the "common" terminals.
On Weir PSUs, there's usually a "Power Fail" output. It's an
open-collector (active-low) TTL-level output that goes active when the PSU
is operating normally, and INactive when the input power drops below a
level at which the PSU can regulate properly (eg becasue the mains has been
disconnected). Perhaps you have two of those.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> ----------
> From: Cameron Kaiser
>
>
> You can upgrade the IIci if you like (my NetBSD IIci has a Daystar '030
> 50MHz
> PDS accelerator + FPU) but not necessary. It runs fine as is.
>
> A/UX likes being on IIcis also. I'm going to try installing it next week
> sometime as soon as I build a boot CD and grab a spare HD from my shelf
> stock to slap it on. If people are interested, I'll make a report.
>
> --
Yes, keep me informed. I got one of those little suckers at home. I've been
wondering what to do with it...
--- David A Woyciesjes
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Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001
Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash
I'm trying to copy one RX02 disk to another on my DSD-440 dual
RX02 unit, with a 4.0 RT11XM system running on an 11/23. I first
formatted the new floppy with FORMAT/VERIFY DY1:. It ran for a little
while, and then verified for a little while. Next, I tried to do an
INIT/BAD DY1:, hoping to write a directory the new disk. It reads my RT11
disk in DY0:, and then asks if I'm sure, and then exits, without ever
accessing DY1. If I do a DIR on DY1, it complains that the directory is
missing, which makes sense since it never appeared to write it in the
first place. I did notice that there is no INIT.SAV file on the OS disk,
but I assume its an internal command if it goes as far as asking me a
question.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris [mailto:mythtech@Mac.com]
> I like this for the "teach them a lesson" factor... but if
> you are going
> to go thru the trouble of using custom patch cables... why
> not just use
> custom port connectors as well? Maybe something like the old 4 prong
> phone connectors (don't know the name... those 4 straight pin
> blocks old
> telco supplied phones used to have), or even something like a DIN
> connector.
Twist-lok ethernet? :)
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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Users of the HP LX palmtop computers (the oldest of which are on-topic)
might be aware of LXPIC, which is a picture viewer for MS-DOS computers
(XT/8086 and above). There is a new version of LXPIC available at
http://peichl.hplx.net/lxpic.zip. The previous version was only 16KB in size
while the new one is 19KB.
Highly recommended.
To quote from the doc file:
"LxPic is a very small, powerful and fast DOS picture viewer.
It has just 19 KB code and runs in 64 KB of memory on any 8086
compatible computer. It supports all screen modes from early
CGA up to the latest 2048x1536 QXGA True Color (32bit) screens.
This makes LxPic ideal for use on the HP Palmtops, for which
it was originally designed. On Windows systems, LxPic runs
perfectly in a full screen DOS box or in a DOS box window.
LxPic processes BMP, PCX, JPG and GIF files of any kind.
BMP and PCX files may have 2, 4, 256 or True Colors (16 Mio).
JPG files may have 256 gray scales or True Colors. GIF files
may have Version 87a or 89a (including multi images) with up
to 256 colors."
Bob
> I thought the IIci has a PDS slot. Isn't that what the "cache slot"
>really is?
I hadn't heard that before, but seeing as I don't have a IIci personally,
I can't say if that is right or wrong. Certainly bears some
investigation, as it wouldn't surprise me if the cache slot really was
just a PDS slot.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
This is sort of a sanity check. I'm putting the question here because
of the cumulative years of professional experience here, as well as an
"international" perspective.
How would you react to a guest in your (not normally open to the
public) building plugging a computer into a random ethernet port and
asking for a DHCP lease? Is there any non-emergency consideration that
would make that appropriate?
Doc
>My absolutely standard IIcx runs A/UX and as the main difference between a
>IIcx and a IIci is the number of Nubus slots, it'll just work
Actually, they both have 3 NuBus slots (only the ci has built in video,
so you don't loose a slot right off the bat to a video card). The main
difference between a IIx and a IIcx is the number of slots (the cx was a
baby x basically, but handles 4x the ram)
There are a number of differences between the ci and the cx. The ci was
more or less a replacement "next generation" for the cx. The ci is 32 bit
clean (cx is not), has built in video, a cache slot, and is a bit faster
(25 vs 16MHz).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On Sunday, February 3, 2002, Cameron Kaiser
<spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote:
>>> - all machines legitimately using the network are known as well as
>>> their ethernet addresses,
>>> - assign all those legitimate machines an (basically fixed) IP via
>>> DHCP,
>>> - for all unregistered machines, offer them IP addresses in the
>>> 127.0.0.0 range as well as themself as their default router and
>>> other
>>> stuff to make their network connection a notwork connection
>
>> I kind of like that! No! I *REALLY* like it! Have you tested this?
>
> We have something like this at PLNU. Unknown MAC addresses get dropped
> into
> a category where the network will only allow them to connect to the
> registration server -- it drops packets bound elsewhere. To register
> for a
> "fixed IP over DHCP" lease, they have to have their bills paid and their
> student ID, SSN, etc., and then they get the DHCP lease for the year
> wherever they go on campus. The system is now almost totally automated.
>
> So, an unauthorised laptop connecting on campus basically doesn't work;
> their packets end up in /dev/null. There are plenty of public terminals
> if
> surfin der Veb's all they want to do.
As a colleague of Pete Turnbull (80 miles or so south along the same
network) I can only agree with his comments so far... UK Universities
(and associates) are members of JANET and we have a responsibility to
"control" and "monitor" how our connections are used. If somebody
misuses our IP, we are *expected* to have some idea who might be
responsible. We (at Leicester University at least) don't deliver IP
addresses over RARP/BOOTP/DHCP to unknown MAC addresses.
Cameron's idea is OK but our students are smart enough to work to that
all they need to do is determine the IP address of a networked PC in a
student computing area, unplug the network connection and feed the
appropriate details in as a static address for his/her laptop. If a
student locates a "hot" outlet, it is always possible to enter a random
IP (for the campus network) and use that address to determine the
gateway and steal another IP address.
Blocking packets based on MAC address at switch level (if/when possible)
is not really practical. Teachers must be able to bring in their own
computers into public computer areas to lecture; we even provide a
mechanism for Windows 2000 (no snide comments, please) systems to have
IP in such areas. It is difficult enough to teach highly educated
lecturers that they can't just move one computer from one network outlet
to another *unless they use the mechanism to give them an IP address for
the new location*; requiring lecturers to register their MAC address in
advance just doesn't fit the academic world.
Phil
(not an expert in an IP but pretty clued in on how students misuse
networks)
On February 3, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> You seem kinda violent this weekend... Getting psyched for the big game???
I'm really irritated at the dickless schmuck with the machines on
eBay. REALLY irritated.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
There are starting to be a few classic computer auctions on Yahoo!
auctions. Right now, there is some MITS stuff on there. I picked up a
Mits 680 Main Board and am very happy with it! The URL is:
http://list.auctions.shopping.yahoo.com/23341-category-leaf.html?
>Has anyone ever heard of Nuclear Data? I found this cool-assed computer
>today. It's an all-in-one unit (CRT/keyboard/diskdrive/CPU) and is fairly
>big (say, as big as an IBM Datamaster, bigger than a PET).
Yes. I saw one recently in a big pile of equipment SwRI was surplussing. I
couldn't divert it from the surplus stream. It was supposed to go to a
surlpus dealer around here, whose name is on a piece of paper on my desk,
which is bad news because I may never see it again. I can excavate if you
need it, no promises though.
Don't recall whether it was a '66. It seemed to have some o-scope or data
acquisition type functions on it as well as computer stuff - I did not look
closely.
- Mark
>On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mike wrote:
>
> > I have 2 CI's siting on the shelf with an SI labelled as spare parts. I
> > wasn't aware that the CI would run A/UX or BSD.
> >
> > With 32 Meg how well do these run?
> >
> > Does the CI equire any upgrades?
My absolutely standard IIcx runs A/UX and as the main difference between a
IIcx and a IIci is the number of Nubus slots, it'll just work. I've only
got 8Mb of memory in the IIcx (it used to cost lots of money) but plan to
upgrade real soon now seeing memory got cheaper in the last 15 years :-)
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
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| air, the sky would be painted green"
On February 3, Doc wrote:
> > > The laptop should have been confiscated until it could be verified no
> > > company proprietary information and been copied to it. If there are
> > > encrypted files, the owner should be willing to decrypt them, or face
> > > the complete wipe of his hard drive.
> >
> > ...and broken fingers.
>
> <Splurt!> There's coffee on my display. Now *I* hate you.
Teehee! ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
On February 3, Bob Shannon wrote:
> If anyone wins the lot, I'd pay good cash for the 2114B!
Somehow I suspect this guy is going to have that hardware for a
while, now that the word has gotten out.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Hi folks. Some time ago, I found an online archive of scans of the
front covers of every issue of BYTE magazine. Now I'd very much like
to look at that again, but I can't seem to find it...searching BYTE's
web site, and a little googling, have turned up nothing. Does anyone
know where that might be found?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
On February 3, Tothwolf wrote:
> > I'm really irritated at the dickless schmuck with the machines on
> > eBay. REALLY irritated.
>
> Maybe he doesn't even have those machines and just put up pics of machines
> owned by someone else?
It's certainly possible.
-Dave
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St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
On February 3, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> The laptop should have been confiscated until it could be verified no
> company proprietary information and been copied to it. If there are
> encrypted files, the owner should be willing to decrypt them, or face
> the complete wipe of his hard drive.
...and broken fingers.
-Dave
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