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

by obsidian＠panokratie.de

Hi! Does anybody have information about how the Apollo Domain xx00 series goes about netbooting? I didn't recognize any standard boot protocol... Is it possible to teach it to user BOOTP/TFTP/RARP stuff or maybe the HP remote boot thingies? Thanks, Kevin

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Packaging service recommendations?

by eric-no-spam-for-me＠brouhaha.com

John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> writes: > San Jose to Portland is about 400? 500? miles right up the 5.. make > a pleasant roadtrip of it, and only pay for the rental and gas. 665.2 miles, according to Yahoo Maps. Sounds about right, I've driven it several times.

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Rescue of Four Phase Systems mini-computer from Tampa (long)

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Blech, brown recluses! I have a computer that was a home for them... My uncle lives in Colorado Springs, and his old house had a seperate, free-standing shed/garage type of thing (much too big for a shed really). Anyway, that's where he kept his tractor, camper, etc. And his garage was infested with the things... And back in the far corner was my Honeywell DPS-6/54, and the previous owner had thoughtfully coiled up the cables in the bottom of the cabinet, creating a nice hiding space.. Needless to say, my uncle and I were wearing thick gloves and long shirts when we put it in the truck.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Offering HP 200LX palmtop

by azog＠azog.org

This is not necessarily off-topic, because the device is interesting enough to qualify, even tho it is less than 5 years old. I recently picked up an HP 200LX "palm-top". This is discontinued from HP, in favor of their PocketPC products, but the details can be had at http://www.hp.com/jornada/products/200/. In short, this is a palm-sized PC, with a slightly-less-than 8MHz 80186 processor, 2mb of RAM, and embedded DOS. It has your slew of familiar PIM type apps - calendar, contacts. It also has an embedded version of Quicken and cc:Mail. It has a PCMCIA controller, but I dunno what devices it supports. I tried a Lucent WaveLAN 803.11b Silver card in it, but, as I suspected, it did not work. According to HP docs, you can use flash-ram, modems, and other devices. I have the recharger, but it's fitted with alkaline batteries right now. You'd obviously need NiCad to use the recharger unit. Includes a fairly thick users guide. I'm offering it here first, just because I find it a "gee-whiz" type of device, if not exactly "classic". If no-one here is interested, I'll try to offer it on e-bay. It works, except I get error messages that the backup battery is low, even tho I replaced it. Perhaps something is wrong? I'll trade it for pretty much anything of interest (but I'd really like a VAX 750 :) so let me know please. Shop online without a credit card http://www.rocketcash.com RocketCash, a NetZero subsidiary

25 years, 4 months

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ID a keyboard please ?

by lgwalker＠look.ca

I usually pick up any old uncommon keyboard that I see. I recently acquired one that has no Logo or company name on it. Opening it up gives some #s and the name Handaman on the PCB. The connector is a right-angle 5pin DIN. It has a plastic silver-gray case and a metal bottom-plate It is qwerty with grey and black keys. There is a reset button on the upper-left side. There's a row of 5 function keys on the left labelled PF1 to PF10. On either side of the space key are LOCK on left side and GRAPH on right side. On the left side of the qwerty are ESC, a tab-key,CTRL, and SHIFT. It has the >< keys between the l-shift and Z.and double periods and commas where those usually are. Some others are also differently placed- INS/DEL are one key. It has a numeric keypad with a RED break key and a double 0 next to the regularly placed 0. Anyone recognize this beast ? thanks larry Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

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computers in movies

by jim＠calico.litterbox.com

I was just watching CircuitryMan the other day on cable. Amusing to find that even in the distant future when jacking into someone's brain is common place and the environment has been so despoiled as to be uninhabitable (and we get the environmental lecture from Plughead, the bad guy) that the tools the police use to scan someone's brain for information are driven by a Kaypro 2. :) -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------

25 years, 4 months

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Attention: KS10 owners

by aw288＠osfn.org

Would the people on this list that are involved with the DEC KS10s I have stored in my shop please contact me off the list - I may need to move them out within a month or two. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

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Fax Machines

by mowhite＠pegasus.rutgers.edu

> While I'm at it, anyone remember an old Live from Off Center PBS show that > featured a single, half hour long Rube Goldberg contraption? It was in a > dark wharehouse and they taped it as some sort of performance art peice. It > rocked, and I can't find any info on it. Thanks! > I know you posted this a while ago, but I just found it. I was wondering if you ever found the information you were looking for - I am looking for the same tape of the 1/ 2 hour Rube Goldberg I saw on PBS. Please let me know if you got any further info. Thanks so much. Monyca White

25 years, 4 months

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8080 Programs to be posted

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Cini, Richard <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com> > If anyone's interested, I've been working on producing compilable >source for some printed 8080-based programs. I have to do some final proof >reading, but I will post shortly to my Web site the source for Lawrence >Livermore BASIC (from an early DDJ issue) and the Amsat-Golem monitor >program (from an early BYTE magazine). I have the listings for them in one of the Best of Interface Age books. It also contains: LLL BASIC Dr Wangs Palo Alto BASIC (tiny) National TinyBasic (NIBL) Floppy Rom #1 Robert Unterwyks 6800 4k basic Allison

25 years, 4 months

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Popular Computing on eBay for $150+

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Wasn't Bill Yates listed as a co-author on the original Altair article in P-E with Ed Roberts? 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: John Allain [mailto:John.Allain@Donnelley.InfoUSA.Com] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 12:10 PM To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Popular Computing on eBay for $150+ Hey, issue 2 has an article in it by "William Yates and Paul van Baalen" IIRC. Can anyone back up that these guys exist? Seems like a pretty interesting co-incidence. I'm referring to of course "William Gates and Paul Allen" John A.

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need info on Datel ERPOM64 Eprom burner

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

I found a small circuit board marked "Datel EPROM64 8/88". It has a ZIF socket on it and it appears to be part of an EPROM burner. One end of the board has a 24 position card edge connector socket. A quick net search showed that Datel built a lot EPROM burners that plugged into the Commie 64. Is anyone familar with this product? If so, what else is needed besides the card with the ZIF socket? Joe

25 years, 4 months

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RZ,nI: Claude Shannon

by stephen.j.gabaly＠baesystems.com

> -----Original Message----- > Some of Shannon's better known known theorems include > the Sampling Theorem, which indicates that a bandwidth-limited > signal can be reconstructed only if sampled at least at twice > the frequency of the highest-frequency spectral content. > Take a 1 Vpp@40Hz Sinewave, highest-frequency spectral content is 40Hz, sample it at twice this frequency, 80Hz, sample at 0 and 180 degrees (0Vpp Amplitude), the reconstructed sinewave will be 0Vpp at 0 Hz. Oh well, guess Shannon's theorem is incorrect... steve

25 years, 4 months

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Popular Computing on eBay for $150+

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

On March 2, Paul Braun wrote: > They came up with the name "MITS" to siphon off some of the > prestige from the school of the same initials, and then made up the > words necessary to make it an acronym....I believe it was "Micro > Instrumentation and Telemetry Something"....obviously, my brain is > protesting because it wants more Phish Food and I haven't fed it > yet..... It was Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems. Forrest M. Mims was quite the writer...I grew up reading his books. And who could forget that his wife's name is...MINNIE! Yes folks, Minnie Mims. Stop laughing now. ;) -Dave McGuire

25 years, 4 months

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Looking for Query/36

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

Owen, I've got the original IBM system install disks and RPG subsystem on 8" floppies. Unfortunately, that's the only software I have for the /36. Wouldn't mind finding COBOL or some other more interesting software for it. If you don't have RPG already installed, I'll loan you the disks (I guess it's safe to loan software to a fellow Robertson). Send your address and I'll try to get it out next week. Steve Robertson > >Sure. I'll have to check to see if it's on there already or not, but if it >isn't, I'm interested. Is it on 8" diskettes? > >Thanks, >Owen > >on 2/27/01 2:36 PM, Steve Robertson at steven_j_robertson(a)hotmail.com >wrote: > > > I've got RPG for the /36. Don't know if that interests you or not? > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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New here :-)

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

In a message dated 3/2/01 8:18:54 PM Central Standard Time, jpero(a)sympatico.ca writes: << > From: "Edwin P. Groot" <epgroot(a)ucdavis.edu> > Subject: Re: New here :-) > Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Duh, I was thinking of the model 60 with the steel case and the full > height ESDI hard drives. It has a carrying handle at the top and a warning > that it is over 45 kg. 60,65 SX,80 shares same case and 95 series are all towers and heavy. Even my 90 XP is heavy too for desktop case. Heck, both P70/P75 are heavy (appox 20lbs) and do have handle. Wizard w/ his small IBM collection. >> even the small 9556 is very heavy, due to its all metal construction including the wrap around case. Even so, a 9595 is very heavy. I ebayed one with a FH SCSI drive and the guy paid shipping for it from one coast to the other! david, with a *big* IBM collection. DB Young Team OS/2 visit the computer collection, and hot rod pinto at: http://www.nothingtodo.org

25 years, 4 months

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EXOR-bus?

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

Is there anyone out there that collects EXOR-bus stuff? I just lucked into a pile of Motorola Exor-bus cards. Joe

25 years, 4 months

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Fw: "lusher file?"

by fauradon＠mn.mediaone.net

Hi gang, Anyone knows what that person is talking about? I suspect it might have been a file manager but please let me know if I'm wrong. Thanks Francois > Hi Francois, > > I had a friend of mine say he had something called a lusher(sp?) file > program on an old comodore computer he had. Any idea what this might have > been and what it did? > > Thanks, > > Kriss Davis > kpdavis(a)ilstu.edu > >

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Tatung Einstein disks

by PeksaDO＠Cardiff.ac.uk

> A friend of mine has a working Einstein and thinks he has Xtaldos > and possibly another OS (pseudo-CP/M?) for a 40-column system. > There was apparently a genuine CP/M version for an 80-column > machine, but he doesn't have the 80-column add-on, nor real CP/M. > Unfortunately, he's about to go on holiday, so it will be at least a > couple of weeks before he can look for disks, but I've saved your > mail, and will remind him. Thanks Pete. My Einstein came with the 80 column add-on so now I've got something else to find :-) i.e. the genuine CP/M as well as XtalDos. After changing a few jumpers in the 80 column add-on, the Einstein now works with the Phillips mono monitor I use with my BBC Master. Doug

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Popular Computing on eBay for $150+

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Hmm, if it was shipped USPS, there is a department that warehouses all of that unreturnable and unforwardable mail.. read about it in Smithsonian once.. they even had some guy's ashes on the shelf, and due to that article, the family who was related to him was able to contact the USPS and retrieve his remains.. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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HP-UX librarian has been chosen

by steven_j_robertson＠hotmail.com

I'll catalog everything and figure out a fair distribution scheme as soon as I receive the package. Any thoughts from the group about the legality of copying the CDs? The 10.X stuff was available for free from HP as Y2K updates and I see install packages being sold on Ebay all the time. Thanks again Paul, Steve Robertson >From: "Paul Braun" <nerdware(a)laidbak.com> >Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org >Subject: HP-UX librarian has been chosen >Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:25:45 -0600 > >Hi, group. > >Steve Robertson has volunteered to be librarian. I'll be boxing the >discs up this weekend and shipping them out, and I'm assuming >he'll catalog 'em and post what he's got after he gets 'em (would be >kinda hard for him to do it *before* he gets them.....) > >Thanks again to everyone who volunteered to help. Hopefully, this >system will help the greatest number of you *nix-heads. > > > > > > >Paul Braun WD9GCO >Cygnus Productions >nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com > >"A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without a >bunch of bricks tied to its head." _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Fw: "lusher file?"

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Commode-ore? Maybe its the flusher file then? Does the machine stall instead of crash? hehe _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

25 years, 4 months

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8080 Programs to be posted

by RCini＠congressfinancial.com

Hello, all: If anyone's interested, I've been working on producing compilable source for some printed 8080-based programs. I have to do some final proof reading, but I will post shortly to my Web site the source for Lawrence Livermore BASIC (from an early DDJ issue) and the Amsat-Golem monitor program (from an early BYTE magazine). Enjoy. Rich

25 years, 4 months

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Rescue of Four Phase Systems mini-computer from Tampa (long)

by vcf＠siconic.com

The rescue of a very obscure 70s era mini-computer was accomplished last Thursday and Friday. It had been sitting in a storage shed on a forsaken piece of property in Tampa, Florida, for at least 15 years, quite possibly 20. Although it wasn't exposed to the elements, the humidity, termites and rats did a number on the machine. I was told of the machine by a man related to the person who used to own the property, but has been passed away now for several years. The property was tied up in probate, and he invited me to just come and take the machine whenever I wanted. The machine was made by Four Phase Systems, somewhere in the 1972-73 timeframe. Four Phase Systems was a company that ran out of Santa Clara, California, from the late-60s through the 80s. I believe they were eventually bought out by Motorola. One of the biggest technological achievements of Four Phase was in producing a sort of microprocessor before Intel, in the 1968-1969 timeframe. It was called the AL1 and was intended to be a general purpose CPU for mini-computer systems. I don't have many details on it yet but I'm awaiting more literature. I became aware of it from my research during VCF 2.0, when I was promoting the unveiling of Ray Holt's F14 CADC "microprocessor". I don't know if the AL1 has all the elements of a "microprocessor" as defined by the base standard, which is the Intel 4004. But one professor at North Carolina State University wrote a paper arguing that FPS could have called it a microprocessor, but chose not to. He's sending me a copy of the paper he wrote and I'll report further when I receive it. The rescue was not without its challenges. Louis and his wife met me at the airport and we drove over to the site. It was a dark storage shed cluttered with junk. We immediately set about pulling out the computer hardware. Luckily, it was all in racks on rollers, but we still had to roll it out onto dirt to get it onto the truck. The machines were filthy, having been infested with rat's nests. We didn't realize the extent of it until we got them to Louis' warehouse. Louis had made a couple prior visits to investigate the site and to round up various bits of documentation. Some of the manuals were almost complete destroyed by termites. They looked simply water damaged until you opened them up, where you would find that they were almost completely eaten out by termites (with still live termites running around inside). Fortunately, a lot of the documentation did survive in relatively good shape. We grabbed up all the docs worth saving and stuffed them into two big garbage bags. I'll have to sort through them (and hopefully not introduce a horrible strain of termites to the California environment :) Some of the manuals that survived included schematics of the various boards that comprise the system. We loaded everything up onto the truck within the limits of the sunlight we had. We then drove it over to Louis' warehouse. The next morning we palletized everything for shipping. We had a 5' tall 19" rack for the CPU, another for the tape drive, and then a 3' tall cabinet that housed a removeable platter hard drive. We also got a smaller Xerox 800 word processing machine. All the racks had a tremendous amount of shredded paper, Spanish moss, and other undesirable elements from the rat's nests. One nest even contained the remains of one of its previous inhabitants. Luckily, Louis' shop had an air compressor. We tried to blow everything out as thoroughly as possible. Here are the pictures of the machine: CPU card cage http://www.siconic.com/computers/Four%20Phase%20Systems%20CPU.jpg CPU Front Panel (front cover removed) http://www.siconic.com/computers/Four%20Phase%20Systems%20Front%20Panel.jpg CPU (left) and tape drive http://www.siconic.com/computers/Four%20Phase%20Systems%20Mini-Computer.jpg This picture shows the grime and yuck that was inside the hard drive unit. A lot of the mess was the decayed sound-dampening foam lining the inside: http://www.siconic.com/computers/Inside%20Four%20Phase%20Systems%20Hard%20D… This picture shows the rat's nest inside the Xerox 800 unit: http://www.siconic.com/computers/Xerox%20800%20Rat's%20Nest.jpg I didn't take any pictures of the terminals, but we saved four out of the 8 or 9 that were there. We also found an old Televideo all-in-one CP/M machine inside the house on the property. We put the CPU and tape drive on one pallet, and the hard drive on another. I left the Xerox 800 behind, for now. Louis is holding it for me until I can determine if it is significant enough to save. The reason I left it is because it is fairly rusted inside. I don't like to trash anything, but the circumstances being that it was very rusted and I didn't want to fill another pallet, I decided to leave it until I could research it further to determine if it is worth saving. It looks like it might be some predecessor of the Xerox 820 computer, as it has the same color scheme and badge. Or it may be related to the 8010 in some odd way. I'm not sure. But if someone has information on this machine I'd certainly appreciate you sharing it. It had a typewriter attached by a thick cable, and two digital cassette drives on the front. If anyone has any info on this machine then please let me know. If it ends up being worth saving, Louis will ship it out to me. If not, Louis will dumpster it. I shoved the rest of the terminals, keyboards and documentation inside the open space of the cabinets, first wrapping them in cardboard to give them some cushioning. Everything was very snug. We wrapped the machines in cardboard and then Louis banded them. Everything was tight. We had a guy from the business next door load everything onto the U-Haul we rented with a forklift. If we'd thought about it, we could have gotten by without the U-Haul, since we originally were going to use pallets that would not have fit inside Louis' pickup. But we ended up using very narrow pallets. Oh well. Something to keep in mind for next time. We drove the pallets out to Forward Air in Tampa for shipping. (http://www.forwardair.com). Forward Air is a favorite shipper amongst arcade game collectors (and myself) because it is so cheap. They charge USD$0.20/lbs from Tampa to San Francisco (rates vary depending on distance and other factors). The only drawback is that you must haul your pallets to and from their depots, which are located throughout the US (check their website for locations). But it's entirely worth it. The pallets weighed way more than we anticipated: 1,377 pounds total! I was thinking, based on the weight estimates I initially got, that it would cost me only around $120 to ship. It ended up being $294. Still, not bad for almost 3/4 of a ton. I will have more information about the machine once I retrieve it from Forward Air's depot in San Francisco either today or tomorrow. I'll have a chance to look over everything over the weekend. I'd like to profusely thank Louis Schulman and his wife for their help with this project. I certainly would have had extraordinary difficulty trying to do this whole thing without his help. While we're on the topic of Louis, I would just like to give a plug to his business, Island Wood Works. He makes fantastic outdoor wood furniture. This is real quality stuff. You folks in Florida (and just about anywhere for that matter...they've shipped furniture to places all over the country, including the San Diego Zoo) should definitely give Louis a call and buy some furniture from him. His number is 727/572.1119, or find him on the web at http://www.islandwoodworks.com. He's in Clearwater. Thanks, Louis!!! Lessons learned: I planned well in advance for this adventure. You all might remember me posting a message back in January asking for assistance on this project. I got a few responses (thanks, all), but Louis was right in the Tampa area, had a truck, the facilities to palletize everything, and a keen sense of adventure, so it worked out perfectly. I checked where everything was in advance (the nearest U-Haul location, the location of Forward Air, the hotel I'd be staying in, etc.) from MapQuest which helped me get an idea of the geography and how much driving/hauling would be involved. It was very, very helpful having Louis pre-field the site and try to determine how much everything weighed so I could estimate the shipping costs for my budget. This, it turns out, is more difficult to estimate than one might think. We thought each rack weighed only a couple hundred pounds but it turns out each must've weighed 400-500 each. U-Haul is always a fricken nightmare. Just trying to get them to answer the phone is a challenge. I've used them many times before, but I'm pretty well aware of what goes on inside U-Haul because they were a client of the last company I worked for, and I've visited their coporate HQ. The place is a mess. Still, it is the only game in town, and the best value (as long as the truck doesn't break down :) It cost $42 to rent a 10' truck, but only for the 4 hours they allowed us to keep it (their rentals are not "daily", but they still charge you the full 24 hour rate). Don't get me started on how much I hate U-Haul, but as I said, they are the only game in town unless you want to shell out a hundred bucks to use a truck for a day with a company like Ryder or something. Forward Air is a great company to use for shipping large loads of old computers. I used them before on a haul of Xerox 6085 "Daybreaks" from Raleigh, North Carolina, and that went well. Be aware that Forward Air does have a reputation for dropping things and damaging them. I hope my machine arrived OK, but I won't know until I go get it. I'll report on it once I do. Still, the value can't be beat. Always give yourself enough leeway in terms of time. Everything went as well for us as it could have, and so we actually finished quicker than I originally scheduled. I planned to leave on Saturday morning for Fort Lauderdale, but ended up taking off at 4pm on Friday instead. Retrieving the computers only took about 2 hours. Palletizing everything took about 4 hours. We did this leisurely. If we'd have rushed we probably could have done it all in 2 hours. This was a very fun project. Every serious big iron collector should do at least one long distance haul like this. Even you guys who only collect micros should try something like this once. It always makes for good stories to share with other collectors. :) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

25 years, 4 months

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Websites listing Apollo's for sale

by wstan＠localhostnl.demon.nl

Can anyone recommend any websites that may list Apollo's that are for sale? I have tried eBay and don't see anything there. I even checked the eBay sites set up for each country (ie. Germany, France, etc.) Also, what is the most common model of Apollo that I am likely to find? Are there any companies or educational institutions still using Apollo's and running Domain? -Bill wstan(a)localhostnl.demon.nl

25 years, 4 months

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HP-UX librarian has been chosen

by nerdware＠laidbak.com

Hi, group. Steve Robertson has volunteered to be librarian. I'll be boxing the discs up this weekend and shipping them out, and I'm assuming he'll catalog 'em and post what he's got after he gets 'em (would be kinda hard for him to do it *before* he gets them.....) Thanks again to everyone who volunteered to help. Hopefully, this system will help the greatest number of you *nix-heads. Paul Braun WD9GCO Cygnus Productions nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com "A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without a bunch of bricks tied to its head."

25 years, 4 months

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VAX question

by vcf＠siconic.com

VAX g00r00s! This question was posed to me: Did VMS have a built in utility that allowed to 1) time how long a given user was logged in, and/or 2) track what directories on the VAX the user entered? Answers appreciated. Thanks! Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

25 years, 4 months

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Pair of CSA Transputer Education Kits on E-Pay

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, Currently on auction is a pair of CSA Transputer Education Kits: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2005933703 Cheers, Ram

25 years, 4 months

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Apple II CP/M card

by paul＠orchard.wccnet.org

For a good overview of Apple II CP/M, please see http://www.blkbox.com/~jdbaker/SmallSys/AppleCPM.html Paul R. Santa-Maria Monore, Michigan USA

25 years, 4 months

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Subject: Re: Contents overview of Transputer Applications Noteboo k

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Ram the book my local library has is: Title : Parallel processing : the transputer and its applications / edited by M.E.C. Hull, D. Crookes, P.J. Sweeney. Publication : Wokingham, England ; Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994. Description : xii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Series : International computer science series Note : Includes bibliographical references and index. Subject(s) : * > Author(s) : Hull, M. E. C.Crookes, Daniel, 1956-Sweeney, P. J. (Patrick J.) ISBN : 0201627558 Holdings : Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

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Subject: Contents overview of Transputer Applications Noteboo k

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Ram That title seems to ring a bell. Somewhere I have the full set of the documentation and software that came with the CSA transputer kit. I also have a set of the boards that go in the PC. One board is a single t805 with the PC interface the other contains 4 T805's that can be connected via jumper cables. 5-6 years ago I modeled several ultrasound algorithms using the transputer to see if parallel processing using the transputer would produce real-time images. The kit came with reprints of several transputer and occam articles. I also researched what others had done and got reprints of their articles. My local public library has a book on creating applications using the transputer. I'll try and dig up more this weekend. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

25 years, 4 months

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What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Jarkko Teppo <jarkko.teppo(a)er-grp.com> wrote: > as the subject says, what do you people use for tape cleaning ? Isopropyl alcohol (>91%) and lint-free cloths. Should be OK on all HP 914x and 79[78]x drives *excepting* 7976, whose drive is some bizarre STC contraption that is made with the vacuum columns lined with little glass beads that are glued to the sides of the column -- alcohol is a solvent for this glue! -Frank McConnell

25 years, 4 months

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What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Hehe, yes I would agree that missiles are a *very* bad product for your body : ) And yes, I know what you were meaning but I love being a smartass... Yes I can tell its lovely stuff, its labeled harmful or fatal if swallowed, vapor harmful, avoid prologned skin contact, etc. etc. etc. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Contents overview of Transputer Applications Notebook

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, Can someone provide me with the contents overview of the following book if you have it: Transputer Applications Notebook - Systems & Performance It is basically a collection of technical notes from INMOS. I need to know if there are any technical notes that are in this book that are NOT in the following two books: Inmos Technical Notes Inmos Communicating Sequential Processes Thanks, Ram

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What do you people use for tape cleaning ?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I also have that cleaning kit, but both (totally empty) bottles are marked "Freon TF"... But I still love my genuine IBM Tape Unit Cleaner, "Contains Trichlorotrifluoroethane, isopropyl alcohol." Should I ever run out of tape drives to clean, just add water and then its Sterno, hehe Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Wang VS-100 system

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

John, Yes, I got around 3 or 4 of them, but those boards were all I/O boards, memory, and maybe a disk controller.. All that Intel parts do in those machines is run I/O... the CPU is custom. The CPU in my VS300 appears to be made of 74AS881 4-bit ALU's and other 74xx parts, as well as 29xx parts. 32 bits, by the way. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Wang VS-100 system

by ip500＠home.com

Anyone using or hacking a Wang VS-100 system for anything these days? I ran across a very complete looking one in a storage building but as it's reasonably huge I've left it for the time being. O/S is unique to Wang is it not? Too proprietary to be of any use? Thanks, Craig

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Wang VS-100 system

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I'd say it must be the 100 that requires the boot console, as the 300 has a console built into it. Heck, the 300 is like an 11/780, i.e. has 2 computers in one, since it contains an entire Wang PC as the console/front end. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Wang VS-100 system

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

I can say for sure that my 2200MVP's floppy drives use them, as all of the software and floppies I have for it are Wang hard-sector floppies... Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Scanner plays music?

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 21:05:53 -0800 Jim Battle <frustum(a)pacbell.net> writes: <SNIPPAGE> > I used to work at a place called Palantir, which changed its name to > Calera, which later got bought by Caere. All of them made/make OCR > equipment. WOW, is that a blast from the past! Palantir made one of the first spell-checkers for Windows 2.0! Gawd, I remember using it with 'write' in 1987. I had always wondered what had happened to them . . . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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NW USA Quake

by jpl15＠panix.com

My thoughts and prayers go to all of us on the List who have been affected in any way by the recent siesmicity in Seattle. I hope sincerely that your families, yourselves, and your Stuff is okay. Here in India, as you might know, there was a huge quake which levelled a whole region, though I live 1250 miles from it, it was felt here (In Madras) Also, there has been El Salvador, and recently in the Afghanistan region, some activity which affected lives. I hope to hear good nes from some of the regular members who post from the Pacific Northwest. Cheers John

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In search of Apollo workstations

by wstan＠localhostnl.demon.nl

Does anyone know where I can find an Apollo workstation? I am looking for the vintage that runs the Domain OS. I would also prefer a source somewhere in Europe, although I could make special arrangements for the US if necessary. Bill Amsterdam, NL

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First computer singing

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 19, 23:18, Sellam Ismail wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, John Foust wrote: > > > Some .ram files merely reference an .rm file via http://, > > such as a .ram that contains: > > > > http://streams2.vortex.com/rmf/daisy.rm > > > > which would allow you to just enter that URL directly, > > or save-as, and then you'd have the .rm file. > > Sheer genius. But it didn't work :( I used the audio hardware on one of my SGI machines to snarf the stream as it played and uploaded it to http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/temp/daisy.wav for you (about 3MB). I was intrigued by the recording, and I knew I'd seen a reference somewhere else, so I spent a while hunting for more information. Interestingly, the first reference I found was in the classiccmp archives, from two years ago! But the following may be of interest: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/INST/mar98/histquiz.html (a little background) http://neil.franklin.ch/Usenet/alt.folklore.computers/20001109_Musical_main… (several recent informative Usenet posts) http://korova.com/kmr98/kmr8002.htm (near the bottom, explains that "Daisy" was useful because it contains all the notes in an octave) http://www.mindspring.com/~dmaxey/ssshp/ss_btl1.htm (relevant published papers and archive tapes at BTL, including the one from which "Daisy" is taken) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager Dept. of Computer Science University of York

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OT: Shake, Rattle, & Roll

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

For those who may not have caught a news report lately, our area was hit with a pretty good-sized shaker today -- 6.8 on the Richter, to be exact, with the epicenter about 30 miles southwest of Seattle. The vast majority of the damage was in the older sections of the state capitol in Olympia, and in parts of downtown Seattle. The local news had some footage of a twisted pile of metal, buried under (literally) a ton of bricks from an older building. Said pile had once been an SUV in the Ford Bronco (full-size) class. The building I work in at Boeing's Renton plant appears to have sustained minimal damage, though it is still closed at this hour. It is expected to reopen tomorrow unless major structural problems are found. Thanks be to God, the sum total of our "damage" here at home was a stuffed animal fallen from its shelf, and my mate's closet door jarred out of alignment with its track guide. I have yet to check on the level of damage at the local used-computer places. The only fatality I know of, and I'm not even certain it can be directly attributed to the quake, is that a heart-attack victim died. And that's the Way it Is from southeast of Seattle, Kent's East Hill. At least Peter Jennings wasn't on the air to say "Earthquack" like he did with the Bay Area's 'Quake of '89.' ;-) Keep the peace(es). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K) "I'll get a life when someone demonstrates to me that it would be superior to what I have now..." (Gym Z. Quirk, aka Taki Kogoma).

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NeXT MO disks

by mark_k＠iname.com

Hi, This message replies to several in the thread about NeXT MO disks. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 Jerome Fine wrote: >> A question about MO disks and the Canon MO drive installed in some NeXT >> cube computers. >> I know NeXT MO disks are single-sided, commonly quoted as having a capacity >> of 256MB. > > I have some rather old MO disks as well, but they are made by Sony and are > for a 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Disk drive - an S501. They are very close to > 290 MBytes on each side and are formatted for 512 bytes per sector. The sector layout is stamped into the disk at the factory; it is not possible to change. That's why there are two variants, e.g. 600MB and 650MB for first- generation drives. 600MB disks have 512-byte sectors, and 650MB disks have 1024-byte sectors. The extra capacity of 650MB disks is because less space is wasted on sector headers. Without special driver software, some computers only work with media with 512-byte sectors, which is why the lower-capacity disks exist. (On a kind-of-related note: I understand the sector layout or servo tracks of e.g. Zip disks are written at the factory. Does that mean if you degauss a Zip disk it is then useless, and cannot be reformatted?) > I don't know anything about the NeXT hardware, but if the shoe fits, .... > >> ... > > Since 250 MBytes per side is close, they might be the same as the ones I > have. Mine are 5 1/4" disks and formatted at 512 bytes per sector and hold > about 295 MBytes on each side for a total of about 590 Mbytes per disk. The Canon/NeXT disks are not the same as the ISO standard 600/650MB disks which the Sony drive uses. They may be the same physical shape, but that is all. A page on the Sony web site indicates that NeXT drives can use 600/650MB disks. I'm almost certain that is wrong. (The URL of the page is http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/rmeg/data/cg/table1mo.html - scroll down to the Canon section.) > In addition, a friend of mine has a large number of these disks which he no > longer wants. For a nominal charge plus shipping and handling, I am sure > that they can be made available. The shipping alone (these weigh about 1/2 > lb. EACH) will likely be more than the disks, so I do think it is a good > deal. On eBay, they often try to get the suckers to pay over $ US 5.00 a > disk just to start, although sometimes they start at a more reasonable $ US > 2.00 each. I am in Toronto, so the shipping may be more than you want to > pay! Shipping may not be that expensive. A while ago I bought 50 5.25" MO disks, and shipping within the USA by UPS cost $17 (from memory). The "media mail" USPS rate is comparable to book rate, but for computer media. Getting an older MO drive and disks is a really cheap way to get reliable removable storage. The drives are so cheap (usually under $25 for a 650MB drive, under $50 for 1.3GB) it is practical to get one for each computer. Used disks cost $1 or $2 each. Way better than using a Zip drive, I think. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 Jeff Hellige wrote: >> I have some rather old MO disks as well, but they are made by Sony and are >> for a 5 1/4" Magneto Optical Disk drive - an S501. They are very close to >> 290 MBytes on each side and are formatted for 512 bytes per sector. > > If I recall correctly, one of the problems with the MO drives > was that there was little to no standardization of the formats or > disks for the drives. That's not really true any more. Well, since 1991 anyway. Before the original ISO standard was finalised, there were some problems with interchanging disks between drives from different companies. This was around 1989-1990. I believe most manufacturers updated the firmware of their drives to solve the problems. The major standard 5.25" MO capacities are: 600/650MB "1x", ISO 10089 Format A 1.2/1.3GB "2x", ISO 13549 2.3/2.6GB "4x", ISO 14517 4.1/4.8/5.2GB "8x", ISO 15286 8.6/9.1GB "14x", new, no standard published yet Newer drives can usually read all, and write to some or all previous standards. Currently 5.25" MO drives are manufactured by Maxoptix and Sony (HP and IBM drives are manufactured by Sony). They are completely compatible; a Maxoptix drive can read disks written in a Sony drive etc. In the past, drives have also been made by at least Ricoh, MOST, NEC, Nikon, Sharp, Pinnacle Micro, IBM, HP. Disks written on any of those should be readable on modern drives. There are some other less common capacities; Hitachi made a drive which used 1.7GB/2GB disks, Pinnacle Micro's Apex drive could use 4.2/4.6GB disks, and Maxoptix made drives which could use 900MB/1GB disks. All those types of disk are still available new incidentally, and current Maxoptix drives can read and write the 900MB/1GB disks. There are a few uncommon types which you will rarely come across: - Pioneer make MO drives which are mainly used in medical imaging applications; apparently some CT scanners use Pioneer drives. Drive and media prices for these are quite high, as Pioneer are the only source. There are three types of rewritable MO media for Pioneer drives: 654MB (ISO 10089 Format B), 1.7GB and 2.2GB. - ... and of course the Canon 500MB disks. On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 Jeff Hellige wrote: >> Pinnacle called their drive the REO-650 and in a dual configuration it >> was called an REO-1300. Since I also have an REO-650 and have >> looked inside, I can verify that on the early models, this was the actual >> hardware. Obviously, both the S501 and the REO-650 use the >> identical media. > > I took a look at the Pinnacle drive today and it is a > Pinnacle Micro Sierra Optical Hard Drive with a 1.3gig capacity on > 5-1/4" removable media. Supposedly it is a double-sided cartridge > capable of holding 650Mb per side. It appears to be a standard SCSI > drive, but unfortunately I do not have any of the disks for it. The Sierra is a very nice drive, at least going from the specs; I haven't used one. Perhaps the fastest 1.3GB MO drive: spins at 4500rpm, average seek time 19ms, 4MB cache memory. You can use any 1x (600MB, 650MB) or 2x (1.2GB, 1.3GB) MO disks with it. These can often be found on eBay for a couple of dollars each. 1.2 or 1.3GB disks will give faster data transfer than 600 or 650MB ones. -- Mark

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Apple II CP/M card

by eweidenh1＠hotmail.com

I have an old Apple IIe with a CP/M card. Is there any way of finding a boot disk for this card? Any information on running CP/M on an Apple would be greatly apreciated. Thanks _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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IBM SIMMS question

by cmurillo＠emtelsa.multi.net.co

Can anyone help me identify some odd IBM RAM? I think that this is almost on topic, since the some of the datecodes in these 72 pin SIMMs are from '91. These are made by IBM and apparently were in some RS-6000 machine originally. However, they differ slightly >from normal 72 pin SIMMS in that the key notch is shorter, so that if you try to install this on a normal SIMM socket, the module can't go all the way into the socket. The notch in a normal SIMM is about 6mm long, but the ones in these SIMMs are just 3mm long. All SIMMs have 10 chips. Some have the following sticker: 40 IBM091 4M 80NS E P/N 68X6356 FRU 70F9973 (these have ten IBM chips with the numbers 01G9222, M15075P0) the remaining one says P/N 68X6356 P/N 09G9647 FRU 70F9973 (This one has ten HM514400AS8 chips) So I am guessing that these are 4MB, ECC propietary modules. Can anyone confirm? Or, perhaps I could file a larger notch and use these somewhere else? carlos.

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My emulator stash

by sipke＠wxs.nl

I've decided to put my stash of emulators on my website so the folk of this list can have a peek. Most emulators come >from other sites but some of these have closed down Documentation will be included in the compressed files usually For some a ROM-download may be needed. Have fun! http://xgistor.ath.cx Drill down via: Go Files / Various downloadable files / emulator Sipke de Wal

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Netbooting Apollo Domain [34]x00

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

OK, so umm I'm mildly confused... the machine in question is an actual Apollo, DNxxxx series, correct? What OS are you running, Domain/iX or Domain/UX? What kind of environment are you trying to integrate the machine into? I may be able to help you.. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Looking for Query/36

by univac＠earthlink.net

I just picked up an IBM System/36 (5362) yesterday. It works perfectly, and (thankfully) had no password security. It has the Interactive Data Definition Utility, but not Query/36. I was really hoping to use it for something, and I was wondering if anyone has Query/36 on 8" diskettes. I have it on 5.25" disks, but not 8". Also if any one has any of the programming languages (BASIC, COBOL, etc...) I could use those too. Thanks, Owen

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Compaq trade offered

by vcf＠siconic.com

Please reply to original sender. Reply-To: kreativkc(a)aol.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 13:20:04 -0800 From: KC Ross <kreativkc(a)aol.com> Subject: VCF Feedback! I have a Compaq 386 PORTABLE, with an external expansion board, orange plasma screen, carry case, and full original documentation. Perfect running condition. I am looking to trade it to someone who can appriciate it, for something else interesting. KC --- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org

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