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Found a Commodore SX-64 but with a strange problem.

by Hans.Franke＠mch20.sbs.de

> OK - So it might not be strange to those experts in Commodore hardware, so > I hope one of them reads this! > This was one of the few missing things in my CBM collection until yesterday. > The system first appeared dead, showing just a blank screen. But then it > worked fine with any of my assorted game cartridges in the cartridge slot. > To test the disk drive, I pulled out a cartridge-based spreadsheet which had > load and save commands and the disk drive worked OK. > The big surprise was when I put in the Simons Basic cartridge and this heavy > old "portable" C64 came up with its normal opening screen "SX-64 Basic" etc > and it loaded and ran a variety of programs from disk without a problem. But > without a cartridge, or with a C64 Super Expander cartridge, just a blank > screen. > Could it be a RAM chip that is faulty, with Simons Basic causing some > relocation of memory that allowed the system to work? Unfortunately, the > insides are not nearly as easy to get at compared to a standard C64. The SX is, beside some minor changes and a complete different layout just a way ordinay 64 - so no special chips - grap another 64 and exchange the chips - basicly everything may be damaged .... except the RAM - RAM errors are quite rare. All relevant chips are socketed. Servus Hasn -- VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen http://www.vintage.org/vcfe http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe

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Dallas module battery replacement...

by Ralph.Sobek＠irit.fr

Hi all! Just curious, but are are the prices of these Sun NVRAM timer chips these days? I am looking for a replacement for the old SG Thompson M48T02 chip. Here in France they are on the order of $45-50!! What has happened to last year's $20-28 ? Are the Dallas chips identical to the ST ones, as concerns a Sun? --Ralph -- Dr. Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. Ralph.Sobek @ irit.fr sobek @ irit.fr http://beeline.to/genealogy/ Ph:(+33)[0]561556356 FAX:(+33)[0]561556847 http://www.irit.fr/~Ralph.Sobek/ =============================================================================== Estimates are that one-third to two-thirds of animal and plant species will disappear in forseeable future! AWFUL! SPAMMERS Beware: http://www.irit.fr/~Ralph.Sobek/welcome.shtml#Mail-Warning

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OT? PowerBook 5300

by Marion.Bates＠dartmouth.edu

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found the front half of an Asante ethernet card

by red＠bears.org

I found---completely at random, in a bin of completely unrelated cruft--- the media interface half of an Asante MacCON/30ie (the ethernet card for the Mac IIsi or SE/30 at a recycler's yesterday. I picked it up for $10 because I thought I remembered somebody on the list was looking for specifically this half, but I can't remember who. It has both UTP and AUI interfaces, and all you need is the PDS half and the cable to connect the two. It's a standard IDC ribbon cable. I haven't counted the pins yet, but it looks as if it could be the same width as a ST506 data cable. If you're out there and you still want it (I should've haggled), contact me off list. ok r.

25 years, 3 months

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Obsolete? (Was: Re: Speaking of cubes) (fwd)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> > >Here's an interesting e-mail I got this morning. Obviously these guys >have been monitoring the list. Why would I want to deal with this spamming twit? Allison >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:59:52 +0200 >From: Hesham Yehya <heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg> >Subject: Re: Obsolete? (Was: Re: Speaking of cubes) > >Dear Sirs ; > > It gives us the greatest pleasure to write to you , we are an Egyptian company specialized in the import of obsolete and used computer hardware products , processors , rams , motherboards , cd drives , sound cards , vga cards , and other inexpensive accessories for the egyptian and african markets .

25 years, 3 months

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Found in my inbox

by korpela＠ellie.ssl.berkeley.edu

Although it's not directly classic computer related, I got a kick out of this email I received today. Some of you may enjoy it... Remind me to tell you about the fun I had a few years back with surface mount MIL-SPEC 0 Ohm resistors. (Yes that is a zero). > There is currently a worldwide shortage of very high value ohmite resistors > in the range of 100 - 10,000,000 Mohms (yes, up to 10^13 ohms - they > actually do exist!). The best lead time is ~18-20 weeks. > > If anyone has a resistor of this type, I need the 10^13 ohms value, which I > would borrow for a few tests if possible. Eric

25 years, 3 months

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The DOS 10 Commandments (fwd)

by peter＠joules.org

I assume that as DOS is over 10 yrs old this is on topic ;-) -- Regards Pete ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 1) I am thy DOS, thou shall have no OS before me, unless Bill Gates gets a cut of the profits therefrom. 2) Thy DOS is a character based, single user, single tasking, standalone operating system. Thou shall not attempt to make DOS network, multitask, or display a graphical user interface, for that would be a gross hack . 3) Thy hard disk shall never have more than 1024 sectors. You don't need that much space anyway. 4) Thy application program and data shall all fit in 640K of RAM. After all, it's ten times what you had on a CP/M machine. Keep holy this 640K of RAM, and clutter it not with device drivers, memory managers, or other things that might make thy computer useful. 5) Thou shall use the one true slash character to separate thy directory path. Thou shall learn and love this character, even though it appears on no typewriter keyboard, and is unfamiliar. Standardization on where that character is located on a computer keyboard is right out . 6) Thou shall edit and shuffle the sacred lines of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT until DOS functions adequately for the likes of you. Giving up in disgust is not allowed. 7) Know in thy heart that DOS shall always maintain backward compatibility to the holy 2.0 version, blindly ignoring opportunities to become compatible with things created in the latter half of this century. But you can still run WordStar 1.0 8) Improve thy memory, for thou shall be required to remember that JD031792.LTR is the letter that you wrote to Jane Doe three years ago regarding the tax deductible contribution that you made to her organization. The IRS Auditor shall be impressed by thy memory as he stands over you demanding proof . 9) Pick carefully the names of thy directories, for renaming them shall be mighty difficult. While you're at it, don't try to relocate branches of the directory tree, either. 10) Learn well the Vulcan Nerve Pinch (ctrl-alt-del) for it shall be thy saviour on many an occasion. Believe in thy heart that everyone reboots their OS to solve problems that shouldn't occur in the first place.

25 years, 3 months

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Obsolete? (Was: Re: Speaking of cubes) (fwd)

by foo＠siconic.com

Here's an interesting e-mail I got this morning. Obviously these guys have been monitoring the list. I wonder if they take Altairs? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:59:52 +0200 From: Hesham Yehya <heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg> Subject: Re: Obsolete? (Was: Re: Speaking of cubes) Dear Sirs ; It gives us the greatest pleasure to write to you , we are an Egyptian company specialized in the import of obsolete and used computer hardware products , processors , rams , motherboards , cd drives , sound cards , vga cards , and other inexpensive accessories for the egyptian and african markets . We are seeking new suppliers for the following items : 1- used and obsolete hard disks up to 10 giga 2-used and obsolete motherboards with processors Pentium II 300 3-used and obsolete rams up to 64 mega 4-used and obsolete CD Drives 5-used Monitors 14 & 15 inches 6- Uesd Floppy disk drives we wiould be very grateful to you if you inform us if you have such stocks available , if so please provide us with the inventory and price lists , we order whole containers . waiting for your kind reply and hoping that this would be a begining for a fruitful business relationship with you , please accept my best personal wishes . yours respectfully Hesham Yehya Attallah General Manager Dragons International Egypt 23 Mohammed Eid Street From Hassanien El Dosoukey Street Hadayek El Maadi Cairo Egypt Tel : 002-010-5857875 Fax : 002-02-5231750 E-Mail : heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg --- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

25 years, 3 months

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Calcomp Drawing Card

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

I just found in the original box, minus software and documentation a "Calcomp Drawing Card". It is a full length ISA card with an attached daughter card that can display 16 or 256 colors of a palette of 4 million colors at 1024 X 768. The ROM chips on the board are all labeled 1987. It says it works with IBM PC AT. Anybody know anything more? I tried a google and altavista search but only hit was for a grayscale version. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

25 years, 3 months

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OT? PowerBook 5300

by azog＠azog.org

I inherited a PowerBook 5300. I know nothing about it, so I'm not sure if it fits the catagory "classic". All I have is the book itself - no power adapter. I haven't tried it yet, so I'm looking to glean info on it.

25 years, 3 months

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TRS-80 pocket computer

by azog＠azog.org

I have a catatonic TRS-80 Pocket Computer. I don't know what's wrong with it. I thought it was working fine, until I replaced the batteries. Now the screen just blinks and goes off. Perhaps the wrong kind of batteries, or perhaps they're dead. Anyone interested in this?

25 years, 3 months

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P.O.S.T. issue (was: Looking for Someone with IBM PC (fwd)

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 11:19 AM 3/15/01 -0800, Fred wrote: >Sorry, slipped up on my question. should read: >Just one remaining issue: does anyone know why the P.O.S.T. takes longer >WITH 16K (14 seconds) than it does with 64K (9 seconds)?? > >Why would MORE memory take LESS time? A theory, unfounded in any technical fact: could the RAM probe be performing some kind of time-out or retry when it doesn't encounter RAM? In other words, when it finds RAM, it speeds along. When it doesn't, perhaps some other memory bus fault or characteristic of the POST code makes it take longer. Doesn't the tech ref guide's BIOS listing include the POST routine? - John

25 years, 3 months

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Fwd: Sell Old PCs to the Egyptian and African markets

by jfoust＠threedee.com

From: "Hesham Yehya" <heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg> To: <jfoust(a)threedee.com> Subject: Re: "Old Crap" (was: NEC APC available) Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:58:42 +0200 : : : : Dear Sirs ; It gives us the greatest pleasure to write to you , we are an Egyptian company specialized in the import of obsolete and used computer hardware products , processors , rams , motherboards , cd drives , sound cards , vga cards , and other inexpensive accessories for the egyptian and african markets . We are seeking new suppliers for the following items : 1- used and obsolete hard disks up to 10 giga 2-used and obsolete motherboards with processors Pentium II 300 3-used and obsolete rams up to 64 mega 4-used and obsolete CD Drives 5-used Monitors 14 & 15 inches 6- Used Floppy disk drives we would be very grateful to you if you inform us if you have such stocks available , if so please provide us with the inventory and price lists , we order whole containers . waiting for your kind reply and hoping that this would be a beginning for a fruitful business relationship with you , please accept my best personal wishes . yours respectfully Hesham Yehya Attallah General Manager Dragons International Egypt 23 Mohammed Eid Street From Hassanien El Dosoukey Street Hadayek El Maadi Cairo Egypt Tel : 002-010-5857875 Fax : 002-02-5231750 E-Mail : heshameg(a)starnet.com.eg

25 years, 3 months

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OT-VisualStudio problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Sam: The first place that I tried was Microsoft. That's why I asked here :-) A search there turned-up nothing useful. I will try the other link, though. Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile) -----Original Message----- From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:21 AM To: 'ClassCompList' Subject: Re: OT-VisualStudio problems On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Cini, Richard wrote: > I just got a new laptop - a snazzy Compaq one, with Windowss ME. > I'm trying to reinstall MicroSloth Visual Studio 6 (no SPs). When I > run the IDE after the install, I get an application error that > prevents it from running. Two great resources for troubleshooting technical trouble: http://www.computing.net - I've found the solutions to some very obscure problems on the forums here. In this specific case: http://www.microsoft.com/support Believe it or not, MS usually does have very good trouble reports and fixes documented on their site, if you know where to look. You can use their Knowledge Base or do a search. I bet you'll find something useful in a fraction of the time it would take you to call an MS tech droid. Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

25 years, 3 months

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OT-VisualStudio problems

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: This is completely off-topic, but I thought that maybe someone ran into this problem before. I just got a new laptop - a snazzy Compaq one, with Windowss ME. I'm trying to reinstall MicroSloth Visual Studio 6 (no SPs). When I run the IDE after the install, I get an application error that prevents it from running. Not much to go on, but has anyone else installed VS on Windows ME? Rich

25 years, 3 months

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NCD 88k

by JRichardson＠softwright.co.uk

Hi, Does anyone happen to have the video connector pin-outs for an NCD 88k Xterminal (connector is the same size as the 15 pin joystick connector normally found on PCs, but has 3 rows of pins, not two - think it's something like 23-way) I managed to find information on the NCD website about 2 months ago, but it seems to have disappeared now and through my own stupidity I managed to misplace the data which I downloaded back then :-( (I guess I'll still need a boot image though too so hopefully the files I've misplaced will turn up...) cheers Jules

25 years, 3 months

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PC/MS-DOS 1.0?

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Sam: I've heard the same thing. I can check the file dtaes tonight, but as I recall, the dates corresponded to the release date of the PC. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 11:07 AM To: Classic Computers Mailing List Subject: PC/MS-DOS 1.0? Is it true that there was never a release of PC/MS-DOS 1.0, and that the first production release was 1.10? Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

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Rescue ASR-33 and manual in SC, USA

by jfoust＠threedee.com

From: "Lee" <leeb(a)islc.net> To: "Green Keys" <greenkeys(a)qth.net> Subject: [GreenKeys] Fw: (Green Keys) Cleaning out the garage. Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:08:20 -0500 : : : : : I have found in the deep dark corner of the garage, (1) AN/FGC-8 (Kleinschmidt TT-512/FG. I have with it the Army tech manual TM 11-5815-306-12 and -35. Lurking with it, is a model-33 ASR with Teletype Bulletin 273B Vol 1 Tech manual for model 32 and 33 KSR, RO and ASR. I looking for a good home for these machines. I am located in the bottom corner of South Carolina, but will travel a reasonable distance to transfer to your truck. I will be leaving this weekend for a week's trip, so there may be a delay in answering any queries. Lee -- W1WXS

25 years, 3 months

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Moving data to an Apple II

by eweidenh1＠hotmail.com

I have two apple II computers, a IIgs (Rom 0- no operating system)and an Apple IIc. Both have floppies and both have the latest 8 bit apple DOS. Neither have modems or any communication software. I am trying to get software from my PC to the apples using a Mac Classic II as a bridge. I can get Shrinkit and BinCSII to work on the apples but I need .txt files to work with. Unfortunately, somewhere between the PC and the apples, the resource fork designating the file type gets garbled so BinSCII can't recognise the .txt files. Does anybody know where I can find a Macintosh image file of an Apple II disk with Fazz or another attribute changer on it? Does anyone know of another way to get files onto the Apples with the tools I have? Also, where can I find a copy of an early OS for a Rom 0 IIgs? Thanks all, Erich _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

25 years, 3 months

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Atari Portfolio

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/14/01 12:28:48 PM Central Standard Time, jhellige(a)earthlink.net writes: << Also, I've been told that the Portfolio is what was used by John Conner in 'Terminator 2' when he broke into the ATM and the Cyberdine vault...is this true? >> yup, it is. That's what I tell people when they see mine in my collection.

25 years, 3 months

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Need Altos 8600 Software

by epgroot＠ucdavis.edu

Does anyone have a copy of an MP/M, CP/M, or XENIX boot disk for the Altos model 8600-12A? Don Maslin doesn't have what I need. Maybe the archivists at Trailing-edge, or Sellam's VCF archive has something. It has an 8" 20 MB HD and an 8" 512 K FD (SSDD Shugart 80?). Unfortunately it is unable to boot off the HD. I receive a 'record not found' error. I verified that the FD works by borrowing a friend's IMSAI-DOS disk and attempting to boot from it. After reseting and entering the ROM monitor, I found 'IMSAI' in the RAM. I have some 8" SSSD disks I can send to copy the software on. Any other Altos 8600 - related software, such as diagnostics and client software would be much appreciated. This computer, built in 1983 as a server, was much more powerful than the PC or the XT. It has 1 MB of ECC RAM (11 bits per byte), an 8086 CPU, memory protection, 3 - 8089s for interrupts, and several Z-80s for serial I/O. It has expansion ports for 8 serial devices, a parallel device, 2 Multibus units, a tape drive and a hard drive. Damn, this must have cost a lot at the time! I'd like to see how this performs compared to other micros I have. Thanks in advance for your help, Edwin Davis, CA

25 years, 3 months

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[Fwd: Inmos & the transputer - the early years]

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

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25 years, 3 months

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Atari Portfolio

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

>> parallel interface. Also, I've been told that the Portfolio is what was >> used by John Conner in 'Terminator 2' when he broke into the ATM and the >> Cyberdine vault...is this true? > >Yes, but you also need the Hollywood Credit Card O' Magic peripheral that >it was interfaced to that actually allows one to crack the PIN codes. I didn't say I was actually going to try and use it for that! I just thought it was one of those interesting footnotes. The scene wouldn't have been quite as effective if he had had to lug a <insert your favorite desktop> along. It was pretty cool. Of course, it didin't provide all the blinking lights to look at that the IMSAI in 'Wargames' had <g> Jeff

25 years, 3 months

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Questions on a couple PDP-11 boards (ABLE/AVIV)

by greg＠ciswired.com

I have an AVIV TFC-825 UNIBUS board, which I believe is a Pertec formatted TS11 interface. I also have an ABLE 10412-0 QBUS board, which I believe is some kind of UNIBUS->QBUS bridge. Naturally I've got absolutely no documentation on either. I've sent email to both AVIV and ABLE but haven't heard anything back. I'd like to use one or the other to help bootstrap a PDP-11/44 that I just got running last night. Plan 1 is to use the AVIV to interface to my existing DigiData 9-track drive. However, the DigiData uses 49-pin ribbon cables while the AVIV seems to want 59-pin cables. Plan 2 is to use the ABLE board to bridge the 11/44s UNIBUS to a QBUS backplane and then use a DigiData QBUS controller to connect to the tape drive. I've got all the hardware, cables, etc. to do this but I'm a little gunshy of just plowing ahead lest I end up letting the smoke out. Thanks, greg Gregory Travis Cornerstone Information Systems ATS greg(a)ciswired.com 812 330 4361 ext. 18

25 years, 3 months

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Garage Sale! So Cal this Sat

by mikeford＠socal.rr.com

Saturday, March 17th the garage of wonders* opens it door to the public. I live in the Old Chapman Townhomes in Orange, CA and about once a year they let us have a garage sale, and This Saturday at 7AM til noon or so is IT. My garage is FULL of neat mac stuff, with a couple 578 all in ones just added today. If you are within driving distance, and need a monitor or any kind of mac netorking or goodie, email me or stop by. I'll will be posting more completely soon, but I wanted to let people know its coming asap.

25 years, 3 months

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Manuals on eBay?

by jss＠ou.edu

Before I bid on some of these PDP-11 manuals on eBay, I thought it would be prudent to inquire about them here. These ones that have initial bids of $15, $19, or more -- is that a good price, or would I be getting ripped off? -- Jeffrey S. Sharp jss(a)ou.edu "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft advertisement "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler

25 years, 3 months

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CC40

by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

Well, I got the CC40 RS-232 adaptor and "solid state" cartridges in. Fun stuff, I'm going to write some interfacing stuff between the C128 and the CC40 this evening so the C128 can be its "network file server". -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! ------------------------------------

25 years, 3 months

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Carter AFB.. he he!

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> >You can drive an old car really fast (perhaps even faster than more modern >cars). Old computers are slow-assed beasts. I'm surprized at you. Many of those old slow machines were faster if byy virtue of not having four tonnes of nastiness grafted to them. Then again, a NS* horizon with static ram and a 10mhz Z80 does get out of its way. >I don't know that you'd necessarily be hot-rodding them, unless of course >you'd be boosting their abilities for better graphics, sound, nice >joysticks, bigger displays, etc. Feh, PCs are good gamers and all but if I want a good solid machine for real work it may be far from my first choice. Better is relative. ;) Allison

25 years, 3 months

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T series adapter card list

by geoffrob＠stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au

I am attempting to compile a list of the Txxx cards commonly found in 6000 class machines. I have info on quite a few, but either sketchy or meaningless descriptions of some and a cryptic name or even nothing for others. I seem to recall an online database of these, but I am unable to find it in any of my bookmarks or even in my email archive. I am currently searching the Digital/Compaq sites, but not finding much of use so far. Several resellers list the cards by number and some even have descriptions, but I was hoping for something more complete. For instance, an XMI 32Mb ram card is a T2014XX where XX is a 2 letter suffix detailing (I think) the speed of the ram and therefore it's suitability for a particular model. A full explanation of what these mean would be good. Any help appreciated, acknowledgements given etc. Cheers Geoff Roberts Computer Systems Manager Saint Mark's College Port Pirie, South Australia geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au netcafe(a)tell.net.au ICQ: 1970476

25 years, 3 months

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Speaking of ProLog equipment....

by r.stek＠snet.net

In the past year I have been down four dead-ends in my search for a manual for a ProLog M822 8080 analyzer. I've been in contact with three former employees and the oldest living former ProLog technician. So.... can anyone on the list help with a copy? I think Jim Willing needs a copy too. (Sellam - have you stumbled across yours?) Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols

25 years, 3 months

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Vintage DOS PC circa 1985 Honeywell available (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

Here's someone with an old Honeywell PC clone looking for a new home. Please reply to the original sender. Reply-to: earlbabt(a)mninter.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:03:19 -0600 From: Earl Thomas <earlbabt(a)mninter.net> Subject: Vintage DOS PC circa 1985 Honeywell available I have a vintage personal computer in working condition with all cables, a keyboard, display and impact printer all from the same period and bought to work together. The CPU is an IBM clone manufactured for sale through Honeywell Information Systems (naturally Honeywell would not utilize IBM since they were in direct competition with IBM for mainframe sales. If your group has an interest in this machine I would donate the entire set. For more information,I can be contacted by telephone at (952) 835-2628. My email address is earlbabt(a)mninter.net I look forward to your reply. Earl Thomas --- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

25 years, 3 months

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IBM PC & DOS 1.0

by dlw＠trailingedge.com

I've been contacted by someone writing an article about the PC and DOS 1.0. He wants someone with the PC and DOS 1.0 to answer some questions and try out some tests for him. I have the PC but don't have DOS 1.0. With the recent talk of DOS 1.0 going on around here I offered to see if someone here had both and might be interested in helping him out. If so email me off list and I'll give you his contact info. Or you can send me a copy of DOS 1.0 and I'll try it. Anyone here who can help out? ----- David Williams - Computer Packrat You can learn to like the life you live or live the life you like. dlw(a)trailingedge.com http://www.trailingedge.com

25 years, 3 months

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Dunno what was wrong - but it works now! (And Vax question)

by zmerch＠30below.com

Just for folks that wanna hear what went on: The mailing list stopped sending me mail - I just thought it was another list fubar, and the xmas holidays were *way**beyond**stressful* for me, so I didn't have a chance to check things out until yesterday. I have a secondary email address at 30below.com, so I subbed that mail - it still didn't help. Finally, I subbed my yahoo.com email account that I never use, so I figured at least some mail beats no mail... and guess what? The list started sending me *triples* - my regular email account, my secondary local account, and my yahoo.com account all started working again! Now is that crazy, or what? Now for my question: I'm looking to install NetBSD 1.5 on my vax at home (no, I'm not wiping VMS - I have a secondary drive) because as of right now, I have no VMS documentation. I have the documentation CD, but AFAICT, nothing but Vax/VMS can read the darned thing! :-( Can the dox CD be read under NetBSD 1.5 for Vax? (So finally, I can actually start *using* my uVax 3100/m38)... [[ a catchup for my problem: I have the 2Mbyte 8-plane gfx board & 19-inch monitor (which is sweet) but now VMS doesn't know kind of terminal it's running (IIRC, it thinks it's an LA36, but don't quote me) and most utilities (including every text editor I've tried) won't run because of the non-standard termtype... ]] Anywho, glad I'm back & hope everyone had a happy set of holidayz whilst I was incommunicado... Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

25 years, 3 months

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Transputer ... ?

by mapr0003＠stud.uni-sb.de

Hi, may be an obscure question, but I wonder why the transputer died without anybody missing it ? Mario

25 years, 3 months

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PC/MS-DOS 1.00?

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/13/01 12:14:03 PM Central Standard Time, marvin(a)rain.org writes: << I've been curious for many years but haven't received any info; did IBM ever release a cassette with the IBM name on it? >> I actually have a diagnostic cassette I found once whilst digging through a computer junk heap at a thrift store. Have not checked to see if it works yet, though.

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Free to a good home

by bill＠cs.scranton.edu

I have a GEAC 8775 SMD Disk. It is large and heavy and it is free to anyone who can come and get it. I need the floor space in the computer room. Sadly, if I get no takers this disk will be dismantled and thrown in a dumpster piece by piece, but my boss wants the space back for more usable equipment. It is located in Scranton, PA. Any takers?? bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

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Dumpster find SUN Solaris Sparc Compiler C++ ver 4.0

by ip500＠home.com

A little off topic but: Found several of these SPARCompiler C++ ver 3.0 & 4.0 today in the dumpster of a defunct local technology Co. Brand new in the box w/instal manual and the CD is still shrink wrapped. Trash or treasure? Can they be installed and/or used without a license agreement? Thanks for any info, Craig

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VESA SCSI

by jhellige＠earthlink.net

>What sort of a system used EISA? It was an attempt by a number of manufacturers, including Tandy and Compaq, to extend the ISA bus out to 32bits while maintaining some form of backwards compatability and without using IBM's MCA bus. I believe it was used mostly in servers and other high-performance applications. Jeff

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SCSI connectivity

by bobcaar＠softhome.net

I have a HP parallel to SCSI box also, haven't tried it, or even looked for the drivers yet, but...it's there. I also have a parallel to IDE convertor which I use with a 2x CD-RW. The only drivers/software available for the interface/drive combo (in write mode) are for x86 *nix, and Windows 9x/NT4 and above. I have used it successfully at 2x on a Am486/40Mhz running 95b, so it is possible given the speed of the port/machine (at least a bidirectional mode supporting port is required; damn windows overhead). And all those companies officially selling parallel port writers (older microsolutions and HP drives come to mind) tell you they require minimum Pentium 133.....pah. I've seen up to 4x parallel port writers but I doubt my 486/the port would handle that speed (at least in bidirectional mode), as reading from the drive tops out at about 4x. I'd like to try the faster speed (4x), with a faster mode port, ECP maybe? and/or more ram (I'd like to max this machine out at 128MB, but 16MB 30pin SIMMs are expensive). I'd also like to try on linux (also on this machine), but, alas, I blew the parallel port while playing with the parallelport to ide driver-module, the daisychain was drawing too much power. I hate how everthing now is LSI, I don't want to get rid of the card (as it has fast VLB IDE), but LSI is impossible to repair. The chain was fine with CDRW, SyQuest cartridge drive, scanner, and printer, but adding a Xircom PEII NIC was too much. Oh well, still haven't found a replacement card after a couple of years.... T.H.x. Devon >Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:56:42 -0500 >From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> >Subject: SCSI connectivity > > This isn't quite on topic but the info might help those who >need or want to connect SCSI items to older PC's. A few weeks back I >picked up a used Philips Omniwriter 26 CDRW to replace my flakey >Philips CDD2000. With it came quite an interesting looking cable >that allowed a standard SCSI peripheral to be connected to a parallel >port and the driver disks for Win 3.1, Win95, NT and 2000. Drivers >are also available for DOS and OS/2 and the cable provides for a >printer pass-thru so that a printer can remain plugged up to it as >well. It's called the 'Shuttle Connection'. It is an OEM item and >actually produced by SCM Microsystems. They do provide drivers for >it on thier website though it looks like it's one of thier older >items that may not be available any longer. > > Has anyone used one of these before? Granted the speed is >going to be limited by going through the parallel port, but it's an >easier solution than finding and installing an ISA/EISA/MCA SCSI card >for occasional use of a SCSI CD-ROM or some such item. > > Jeff > > >- -- > Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: > Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File > http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757 > ----------------------------------------- bobcaar(a)cyberdude.com is going away soon. Please use bobcaar(a)softhome.net

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classiccmp-digest V1 #538

by SPEDRAJA＠mail.ono.es

Hello. I'm searching a copy of IBM Topview (or the original program) to take or even buy. I have too one PDP-11/23 with this boards installed: * KDF11-B 5014313C M8189/DIGITAL * Q-BusMosMemory 5014500C M8067/DIGITAL * DQ614S153040 Rev F/DILOG * System Interface 11/03/ESI * 808836-05 Rev K/Datasystems Design I'd like to locate one PDP-11/23 mounting rack, some RL02 drive (and controller, I suppose), one old terminal like vt100 or similar, and the floppy stuff... but I suppose that could put it in motion with some more modern stuff like mfm disks, etc. I sincerelly like to hear some opinion or suggestion about this item, here in this mailing list or directly to my e-mail address. Thank you and Best Regards Sergio Pedraja

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Is this thing still alive? (testing...)

by zmerch＠30below.com

I haven't received any messages from this list since 2 Nov 00, and I've tried re-upping a few times, but it says that I'm already subbed. Did the list just die, or what? Lemme know via regular email, zmerch(a)30below.com Thanks, Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

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OT: New Subscription addresss... :-/

by zmerch＠30below.com

More testing - new address. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, just trying to figure this out - haven't had a classiccmp fix in 4 months... :-( "Merch" -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

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OT: testing again...

by zmerch＠30below.com

Testing again... -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

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Plus HardCard II

by red＠bears.org

I'm looking for a copy of the setup/install disk for a Plus HardCard II (80 MB if it makes a difference) or at least 'atdoshc2.sys' so I can use one of these two hardcards I've got in a system. 'atdoshc2.sys' no longer seems available from Quantum's site. Can anybody help? ok r.

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PC/MS-DOS 1.0?

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

At 10:03 AM 3/12/01 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Gene Buckle wrote: >> The earliest I've seen is 1.25 for the Sumicom System 330, but the machine >> wasn't 100% IBM compatible. It was a pretty neat machine though - I wish >> I could remember what I did with it. :) > >MS-DOS 1.25 appears to be the same as PC-DOS 1.10 > >Did ANY of the OEMS release MS-DOS 1.10? Yes, I think Zenith did for the Z-100. I think I have some of those disks here. IBM definitely relased DOS 1.10. I have the docs and disk for that. Joe

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Looking for--data on ProLog SBCs

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: I came across a small 4-slot cage with three STD BUS boards. One is an 8085-based SBC (#7805), an I/O board of some sort (#7604). The other is a PIO board from another manufacturer. Anyway, does anyone have any data on these boards? The Motorola Web site (new owners of ProLog) doesn't mention these boards (probably because of their age). Thanks. Rich ========================== Richard A. Cini, Jr. Congress Financial Corporation 1133 Avenue of the Americas 30th Floor New York, NY 10036 (212) 545-4402 (212) 840-6259 (facsimile)

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Need external floppy drive for a Grid

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I finally got my Grid 1535 working. Nice machine but it doesn't have a build in floppy drive. So I'm looking for an external floppy drive for it. Does anyone have anything like that laying around that they will part with? Or does anyone know if it's possible to wire up a standard floppy drive to the peripheral port on Grid. I took a guick look at the pinout and it looks like it won't be too difficult. I prefer a 1.44Mb drive but I'll take anything that I can get. Joe

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Transputer ... ?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 12, Mario Premke wrote: > > Eh? Mine works just fine. ;) > > What kind of transputer is it - are there any good general links on this > topic ?? Mine is a T414-based ISA board. Take a look at http://members.nbci.com/transputer for lots of info. -Dave McGuire

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Transputer ... ?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 12, Mario Premke wrote: > may be an obscure question, but I wonder why the transputer died without > anybody missing it ? Eh? Mine works just fine. ;) -Dave McGuire

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REt: Transputer ... ?

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Our application for the transputer was switched over to DSP boards which were at the time more powerful. TI was pushing the DSP's and the ultrasound machines already used DSP's for signal processing. There was also a long delay between the earliest transputers and the more powerful ones. Our setup used 25MHz transputers. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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