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

by lproven＠gmail.com

Who says "I want this to be my laptop dock" http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/56240544544/kadrey-i-want-th… I suspect that's not a computer at all, but possibly a radar out something. Anyone know? -- Sent from my phone - please pardon brevity & typos.

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old old laptops

by sales＠elecplus.com

We just got in 16 pallets of laptops, and they contained everything from 8088 to i5 notebooks. Notebook being something of a misnomer; these early machines were barely portable. Speeds and conditions vary widely. Brands include IBM, Compaq, Dell, HP, CTX, etc. All are 80486 or less. Most have some broken plastic, missing hard drive, probably no battery, no AC adapters, etc. None will have a physically cracked screen. 1 or 2 might be considered parts machines only. Sold in lots of 10 machines, grab bag style, $25 each. Will pack very well for UPS ground shipment. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 (830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax AOL IM elcpls _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3349 / Virus Database: 3204/6511 - Release Date: 07/22/13

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Announcing DEC Legacy 2013, October 19th/20th, Marchesi Centre, Windermere

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

DEC Legacy is back! To be held on October 19th and 20th 2013 at the usual venue, The Marchesi Centre, in Windermere, Cumbria, UK. More details on the website: http://declegacy.org.uk Registration is now open, please follow the Registration tab at the top of the page. Last time the event was opened to anyone with an interest in the highlights of 20th Century computer technology - this provided an interesting mix of hardware from a variety of manufacturers. I would like to continue the event in this vein. So if you own interesting hardware, whatever the origin, we would love to see you at the event. There will hopefully be a couple keynote speakers this time as well, to be announced. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone who might have an interest. I look forward to catching up with familiar faces and making some new acquaintances. Regards, Mark.

12 years, 11 months

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PCI video card for SGI 1600 SW

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi If any of the SGI fans have an SGI 1600 SW video display, I have found a PCI video board (Number Nine Revolution IV-FP PCI) which can drive it. These cards are quite unusual since they have the required OpenLDI interface which was an evolutionary dead end. Apparently the SGI 1600 SW video display was very nice and way ahead of its time. Some are still in use by vintage SGI collectors and operators. I would rather like this unusual board go to an SGI collector/operator if possible. I am selling it a vintage computer and gaming marketplace. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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Spindle motor bearings

by digitgraph＠gmail.com

On Motor bearings, take to a motor repair place (with older people there), ask cost to repair, repaired some 9766 motors, $100 or so. They will have the right equipment and experience to remove and put back on. John>

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Video cards needed (Bounty available)...

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

I'm looking for the following graphics cards and/or media: SonicBlue Fire GL2 graphics card SonicBlue Fire GL3 graphics card Original Media (drivers) A bounty is available... Regards, Lyle -- Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

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FS: Thinkpad 760L with OpenStep 4.2 And Apple IIe Card

by slandon110＠gmail.com

I just threw this together but found I like my Thinkpad 380ED much better for running OpenStep 4.2. Ill include a OpenStep/NeXTstep CD so you can reload the OS if you choose. Also Got an Apple //e card in original box with cable for 80 dollars shipped. Lets you run Apple II software on your Color Classic or other LC PDS Slot Mac Its the following specs Pentium 90 1GB HDD, 16MB RAM OpenStep 4.2 $50 dollars shipped

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EK-VTX78-TM-002 DECstation 78 Technical Manual Needed

by bobvines00＠gmail.com

Does anyone have a copy of (or a link to) EK-VTX78-TM-002 DECstation 78 Technical Manual? I have a sick VT78 and the manual would be a big help. I'm more than willing to pay copying or scanning costs. Or, maybe someone will be willing to *loan* me a copy that I can scan and post? I've already downloaded the maintenance schematics along with the users manual and the programming manual. I'm hoping to find the Technical Manual to aid in troubleshooting (since I'm not experienced enough, electronically speaking, to use the schematics by themselves). Thanks, Bob

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NeXT/OpenStep Samba Configuration- Here's a template to get you going

by slandon110＠gmail.com

It was about 3 am when I finally got this figured out Samba 2.0 running on NeXTstep/OpenStep so you can share files between your windows/linux computer and your NeXTstations. The smb.conf file is located on NeXTstep 3.3 in /usr/local/samba/lib. In OpenStep 4.2 its located in /usr/samba/lib. after you edit the config file just restart the smbd by going /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd* restart in NeXTstep 3.3. In OpenStep 4.2 use this command /usr/samba/bin/smbd* restart. Now due to apple's persistence to force upgrades, you wont be able to access the share's on your OS X 10.8 box, 10.6 works ok, 10.7 doesnt work. So your best bet is to use a VM to get files to and from your NeXTstation. Or access the shares from a linux box If you don't have samba on OpenStep or NeXTstep. Grab the files here http://nextftp.onionmixer.net/- HUGE NeXT archive with everything you can think of for NeXT/OpenStep 4.2 Here is the file below [global] workgroup = INSERT YOUR WORKGROUP NAME HERE netbios name = INSERT YOUR NAME HERE server string = INSERT YOUR NAME HERE security = share map to guest = nobody log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 # interfaces = 192.168.2.194/24 dns proxy = no [home] path = INSERT YOUR PATH TO YOUR DIRECTORIES HERE public = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes read only = no create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 force user = nobody force group = nobody [storage] path = INSERT YOUR PATH TO YOUR DIRECTORIES HERE public = yes guest ok = yes writable = yes read only = no create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 force user = nobody force group = nobody

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Z80 based boards

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

Two Z80 based boards : http://www.retroleum.co.uk/v6z80p/ http://electroprojectshb.co.nf/ -- Stephane FreeDonne <http://www.freedonne.org> Join FreeDonne - Rejoignez FreeDonne.

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Reset SPARCSTATION 20, SunOS 5.6 password

by arrowrunner＠gmail.com

Hi all. I was recently gifted this machine but as you can probably ascertain from the subject of this email, it has a forgotten password on the OS. Unfortunately I can't find how to get to single user mode. I downloaded http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_for_Sparc but it doesn't make any attempt to boot to the cd drive. Is there a startup key/sequence I need to hit, or is my only option to pull the drive and slave it to another machine. I don't have anything with SCSI setup yet but if that's the route I have to take then so be it. -- Sent from my time machine

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Rhapsody DR2 on Intel Thinkpad

by slandon110＠gmail.com

After finally getting enough parts, I was able to install Rhapsody 5.1 on my Thinkpad 760L, Sound and video are supported. For those of you who dont know Rhapsody 5.1 was the precursor to MacOS X Server 1.0, using the base from NeXTstep/OpenStep Mach. It runs pretty good in 16 megs of ram, I need to upgrade that to at least 32 to make it really viable and snappy. I run DR2 on a PowerMac 7500 with 128megs and its really really snappy. My VCFMW Display is going to show the succession of NeXT into MacOS X as we know it today. Ill have the following all networked hopefully with internet access NeXT Mono Slab NS 3.3 HP PA Risc Box NS 3.3 SparcStation running OpenStep 4.2 Thinkpad 380ED running OpenStep 4.2 Thinkpad 760L running Rhapsody DR2 PowerMac 7500 running Rhapsody DR2 Beige G3 running OS X Server 1.2, AKA Rhapsody 5.6 PowerBook G3 Pismo Running OS X 10.0 iMac G3 running OS X 10.4 Intel iMac running OS X 10.8

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AS/400 720 first steps

by iamcamiel＠gmail.com

Hi Everyone, I had a blast at a bankruptcy auction today. I was after some networking gear, which went for more than I was willing to spend on it, but ended up with an IBM AS/400e 9406-720 for 10 euros (no other bidders). I managed to get it home (don't ask me how ;-) I'm not sure if it qualifies as a classic, but if it does, I could use some help from this list... The system was running until recently. They then pulled out all the hard drives and destroyed them, so no left over OS on the machine. The system came with two breakout cables which end in 12 twinax connectors (1 x 4 + 1 x 8), and an external V.34 modem with cable (so I do have a cable to get >from the odd IBM connector to regular RS-232). The system did not come with any terminals, so no console. It would appear that the console was put on a pallet with a bunch of computer monitors and auctioned off as a big lot of monitors. The system powers on, and there's a bit of activity on the display. So, questions: 1) How to connect a console. Would a serial console with a null-modem cable do any good at all? Or would I need to get a twinax console terminal? Any good pointers to find one in western Europe? Preferrably cheap; I don't know if I can get the machine going) 2) Will ordinary SCSI hard disks work in this system, or do they need to be specific IBM types? There's 20 disk slots, and 20 disk brackets that appear to take standard 68-pin SCSI disks. 3) Once 1 and 2 are solved, how to get an operating system on there? If there's a good "AS/400 from scratch" site or text around, please let me know... Cheers, Camiel

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EK-VTX78-TM-002 DECstation 78 Technical Manual Needed

by j＠ckrubin.us

I've got a copy of the above manual and will try to get it scanned in the next week. Jack

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For Sale: Jaz, Syquest, and Zip Cartridges

by slandon110＠gmail.com

I got a ton of Zip 100 cartridges 10 for 15 bucks shipped About 5 syquest 88mb cartridges 10 bucks shipped about 10 44mb cartridges with drive $50 shipped Jaz 2GB Cartridges $1 each, or fill a padded flat rate envelope for 10 bucks.

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My Apple IIGS on YouTube

by terry＠webweavers.co.nz

The Apple II line's last hurrah! http://youtu.be/mDZmoZA1AYU Terry (Tez)

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Museum Exhibit

by jthecman＠netscape.net

Hello Does anyone know if the "Computers in Chess" exhibit was completed? I tried google but found nothing about it. Thanks, JK

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FS: DEC Professional 350 [sold]

by js＠cimmeri.com

[located in Washington, D.C. area or Harpers Ferry, WV (near Frederick, MD)] For sale, DEC Professional 350, 512KB. Machine has been restored (email me for what that means) and tested with RT-11, POS, and Venix. currently configured and tested as: M000401 -- RD 5 1/4" Winchester disk controller (rev 0, MFM) M002004 -- RX 5 1/4" floppy diskette controller M001002 -- Video bit map controller M000034 -- option RAM (256 KBytes). also included: M000401 -- rev 1 M001403 -- extended bit map (EBO - color option)

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PDP-11/44 Sun 3/160 MicroVAX II and More in MA on ebay

by mc68010＠gmail.com

This is a cool lot for someone a lot closer than I am. It's in Gloucester, MA. It is only a 3 day auction and it could end up being a rescue by the sound of it. Hopefully someone can save it from landfill. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231018428749

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Circuit Cellar site...

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi! Thanks to everyone for all the great work you've been doing in my partial absence. Still trying to sort things out and making some progress but slow and very intermittent. Would someone please take another whack at the Wikipedia Gods (aka editors) to reinstate the N8VEM article based on the great work that Oscar has done? He has singled-handedly done a huge amount of work getting the Circuit Cellar article published. That may be enough to spur them to reinstate. Always open for discussion and new ideas. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch From: Wayne Warthen [mailto:wwarthen at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:01 AM To: Oscar Vermeulen Cc: Tothwolf; Andrew Lynch Subject: Re: Circuit Cellar site... Indeed. Regardless, great to see this progress. Thanks again for making it happen! --Wayne On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Oscar Vermeulen <o.vermeulen at altis.ch> wrote: Wayne, On 24/06/2013 15:52, Wayne Warthen wrote: Makes sense. Sorry if I caused any grief by bringing this up. No, not at all - the idea of getting these articles published was exactly to get justification for a Wikipedia article. It's also a nice demonstration about the difference between Old Print Media and the internet age... getting the darn thing in the magazine costs 10 months. Some people develop two generations of a computer + operating system in less time than that :) Regards, Oscar.

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VCF Midwest 8.0!

by silent700＠gmail.com

Greetings ccmp'ers across the globe! I have so far been remiss in my planning and advertising duties for the upcoming eighth installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. But worry not, the show *will* go on! What: A fun, friendly, open and FREE exhibition of vintage and classic computers of every type and era. We like obscure, (formerly) expensive, exotic and interesting electronics but (almost!) anything goes. Bring stuff to show, trade or sell or just come and enjoy the exhibitions and the camaraderie of your fellow hobbyists. And once again VCFMW will be sharing the convention center with ECCC, the USA's premiere Commodore exhibition When: September 28-29, 2013. That's two days of fun - plan to stay over night! Where: Heron Point Convention Center/Fairfield Inn and Suites, Lombard, IL Who: YOU! And your friends from across the Midwest and beyond. WWW: http://vcfmw.org Please feel free to post this message and/or the show's URL on all relevant lists, fora and permitted public places. We at Chicago Classic Computing and our friends in the Chicagoland area are looking forward to another great show - hope to see you there! -jht -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

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Help with a .MACRO in MACRO-11

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

I have a program in MACRO-11 and I have retained just the essential aspects related to my question. That portion of the program is at the bottom. I have unsuccessfully attempted to isolate the first 5 characters of STRING in the MACRO ABC, but I have been unsuccessful. Concatenation is possible along with checking individual characters of the argument, but there does not seem to be support for changing the last character from "T" to "2" as in my example. If that were possible, I could always use "ABC WRKTXT" and check to determine if "WRKTX2" was a defined STRING name at which point the MACRO ABC would automatically use: : Mov #WRKTX2,-(SP) without the necessity of providing the explicit STRING name of WRKTX2 to be used WITHIN the conditional A$. It is essential that the address of the STRING be placed on the stack when the text is in the .PSect TX2. Sometimes, the text must remain in .PSect TXT, so that is why ABC has the additional code to detect the last character of STRING. As I have shown, it is possible to determine if the 6th character of the STRING name is a :"2", but I don't seem to be able to strip off the 6th character of the name from STRING and replace it with a "2". At that point, it would be possible, still within the MACRO ABC, to test to see if the STRING name for which the 6th character has been replaced by a "2" exists and use the second form of ABC. Thank you in advance for any suggestions? Jerome Fine ============================= .IIf NDF A$,A$ = 0 .IIf NDF A$,A$ = 1 .MACRO ABC STRING ..STRI = 0 ...STR = 0 .IRPC ..STR.,<STRING> ...STR = ...STR+1 .If EQ ...STR-6 .If IDN ..STR.,<2> ..STRI = 1 .EndC;IDN ..STR.,<2> .EndC;EQ ...STR-6 .EndR;.IRPC .If EQ ..STRI Mov #STRING,R0 .IfF;EQ ..STRI Mov #STRING,-(SP) .EndC;EQ ..STRI .ENDM ABC .If EQ A$ .PSect TXT RW,D WRKTXT: .Ascii /Work/ .IfF;EQ A$ .PSect TX2 RW,D WRKTX2: .Ascii /Work/ .EndC;EQ A$ .PSect Code RW,I .If EQ A$ ABC WRKTXT .IfF;EQ A$ ABC WRKTX2 .EndC;EQ A$ .End

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Solvents for removing very old masking tape from front panels?

by derschjo＠gmail.com

My PDP-8/L arrived this afternoon (in one piece and without any damage) and I'll be going over it and cleaning it up over the next few days. Looks like it won't take much more than elbow grease to make most of it look nice again,but there's a big piece of masking tape stuck right above the switches. Age has more or less permanently affixed this to the front panel -- any recommendations as to how to remove this without damaging the front panel? Thanks, Josh

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OT: puppet questions

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I'm having a hairtearing time with some basic Puppet configuration involving getting RabbitMQ to provide a stomp listener/server thingy. If you can help me, please send me a private email. We can do this as a professional gig. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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Dec stuff in Scotland....

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

Just saw this on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23330157 Lots of interesting tech stuff to be scrapped, including a decwriter.... Too far away, and really no clue on to how to get this stuff... Jos

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Circuit Cellar site...

by marvin＠west.net

In case anyone is not aware, a lot of the Circuit Cellar magazines are posted online in digitized format at: http://archive.org/details/magazine_rack Also of interest is 73 Magazine back in the late 70's and early 80's as there are a number of good articles on the early computers (Kim1, etc.) The only unfortunate thing is they are scans so you can't cut and paste >from the articles except as images.

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Xebec S1410 wanted

by roelof_klaas＠gmx.com

Hello David, That's wonderful, Ive sent you an offlist message. Regards Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: David Griffith Sent: 07/13/13 11:56 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Xebec S1410 wanted On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Roland Huisman wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? > > http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… I might have one. I sold something similar a couple months ago. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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Xebec S1410 wanted

by roelof_klaas＠gmx.com

Hello Jules, I know there is a newer board revision that also works. I have several firmwares. Some of them are special for one model drive. Others are versions which are configurable for several drives. I have the right version for this computer. Only the board is missing. I think all versions of the S1410 will work. But I don't know about the S1410A version. Maybe that version will not work. I really have no idea. Regards, Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: Jules Richardson Sent: 07/15/13 04:22 PM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Xebec S1410 wanted On 07/13/2013 04:29 AM, Roland Huisman wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? > > http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… Do you need that specific board revision? If I remember right, Xebec released a few S1410 board with different revision numbers, and I'm not sure if they all behave exactly the same. In addition to that, I believe that Xebec would happily produce custom firmware ROMs for customers (but of course if you have a damaged board with an intact firmware ROM already, this isn't a problem - and there are probably a lot of boards out there with stock firmware, too) cheers Jules

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Xebec S1410 wanted

by roelof_klaas＠gmx.com

I've heard from a friend that he has this board on his Apple II. So probably yes :) But he also wrote his own driver for it. I don't know if that is original equipment or not... ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexandre Souza Sent: 07/14/13 07:19 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Xebec S1410 wanted > Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? > http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… Isn't that the same board used in the "Sider" HD for //e computers?

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Which PDP-8 is this? (ebay: 261232211533)

by glen.slick＠gmail.com

Did some quick web searching and had a hard time finding a webpage that has decent photos of all of the different versions of PDP-8 front panels. Which version is this one? http://www.ebay.com/itm/261232211533

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IBM P5 9110-510

by b4＠gewt.net

Evening all, It seems the service processor bit the dust on my POWER system and it won't boot at all now. I would however like to investigate further. Anyone familiar with the FSP/service processors on the POWER boxes to the point they know of debug headers? I'd love to have boot output for the service processor itself so I could see where it's screwing up. Any information appreciated! -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

12 years, 11 months

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FS: vintage/classic computer items

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

My Vintage Computer auctions at Vintage Computer and Gaming Marketplace: Number Nine Revolution IV-FP PCI video card for SGI 1600 120.00 USD GESPAC GESBUS-8M backplane (DIN 49612) 40.00 USD Apple Computer SCSI Loopback Test Card 077-0219 40.00 USD RasterOps ColorBoard 104 with the 24 bit daughtercard expansion kit 40.00 USD N8VEM Z80 CP/M home brew computer PCB (SBC V2)? 20.00 USD Barbie Fashion Memory Phone 10.00 USD Application Software for NorthStar Advantage 10.00 USD Southwestern Bell Freedom Phone Cordless Telephone 5.00 USD Serial/Parallel Port manual AB switch 5.00 USD Televideo 925 Serial Terminal 25.00 USD LeapFrog Fly Fusion "Pentop Computer" 10.00 USD SOROC LQ-120 Main Board 40.00 USD Dell PowerEdge 2400 various parts 25.00 USD Dell PowerEdge 2400 Motherboard (part number 0330NK) 25.00 USD Authentic Disk Doubler Kit 15.00 USD Control Data Corporation (CDC) BR8BIA Double Sided Floppy Disk Drive 20.00 USD Shugart Associates SA-400 minifloppy disk drive 20.00 USD Tandon TM-100-2A floppy disk drive 10.00 USD Citizen GSX-220 Color Dot Matrix Printer 10.00 USD Tandon TM-100-1A floppy disk drive 10.00 USD Available N8VEM home brew computer PCBs ECB Boards # Cassette Interface 4 Disk I/O V3 4 Prop IO 4 ECB Backplane (8 slot) 2 SBC V2 22 4MEM 5 SCG 4 MSX Cartridge reader 1 DSKY V2 4 6x0x ECB backplane 5 VDU 2 4MB RAM-Floppy 1 ECB PIC (68K Multifunction) 12 ECB bus extender 1 uPD7220 V2 4 N8VEM mini SBC v8 2 ColorVDU 9 ? ? S-100 Boards ? IDE 13? ? ? Mini Boards ? PPIDE 10 ECB to Z80 socket adapters 4 Shipping in the US is $3 for a single PCB and $2 for each additional PCB.? Shipping internationally is $10 for a single PCB and $3 for each additional PCB.? This is for the bare basics USPS first class postage with no tracking or insurance.? The builder assumes all risk of delivery as per usual arrangement. If you would like one or more S-100 PCBs please send a PayPal to LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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NeXT Networking

by slandon110＠gmail.com

So after spending countless hours messing around with Netinfo, I got basic NFS Functionality up between a Mac running OS X 10.8.2 and OpenStep 4.2 on SPARC. OS X Dropped support for mounting NFS shares, but it will gladly hand them out, so ive got file transfer working over something other then FTP. Works great on Sparc, but the intel thinkpad I havent been so lucky. Going to try and reload OS 4.2 on it today and get it operational For anyone that is interested I found this, Its the next administration manual http://web.archive.org/web/20070722131827/http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/NeXT…

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IBM S/34 Must Go

by stephen.hunt＠iname.com

> Off topic question - is there any type of S/34 or S/36 virtual machine? The AS/400, iSeries, System-i, or whatever name you want to call it supports S/36 mode and S/36 virtual machines...or at least it did up until a certain release of OS/400.

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NeXT Networking

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Is there anyone here proficient in NeXT/OpenStep Networking, Ive got NeXT on black hardware, Intel and SPARC, and I thought it would be cool to share files with them and possibly get them on my Appletalk network

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Wanted: A few things. VT100 Terminal or compatible and Sun Boxen, And a few things for sale

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Looking for a few things to offset my collection of apple stuff a VT100 or 102 or even 220 Terminal A sun box of some sort, SparcStation 5 would be nice or a 10 Some sort of computer with blikenlights and switches. Oddball Laptops Old 8086s, 286s stuff like that A regular desktop PC with a 5.25inch 360KB Drive in it and a 1.2MB Drive in it, Can be an old pentium box or 486. Just need something to archive floppies with. Im in Flint Michigan, so it would be cool if it was in michigan, or in the tri state area. I am PayPal ready or I have alot of apple stuff to trade. Trading Fotter or stuff for sale Apple //e LC PDS Card in box with cable & manuals and a 5.25inc Disk drive and joystick. Lets you run Apple II stuff on your Color Classic or other LC PDS equipped Mac $100 dollars shipped or trade Televideo 925- Working Terminal- Will trade for another VT100 compatible terminal, or make an offer Mac SE Dual Drive with 20SC HDD, 1MB RAM, System 6 Keyboard and mouse $100 dollars Mac SE FDHD, High density drive 4MB RAM- Needs OS Installed No kbd or mouse $50 dollars Nice rev 0 //e unit DuoDisk Drive, Z80 Card, Monitor //, Super Serial Card. And disks for everything. $150 Apple Liron 3.5 Disk controller card and Unidisk drive $75 Applied Engineering RAMworks III Card for Apple //e, Gives the //e 80 col and 1MB Total RAM $50 dollars shipped Apple II workstation card, Gives your //e Appletalk connectivity $75 dollars Apple //e 64k RGB Card and Color Monitor 100. The RGB Monitor for //e and Apple III $150 dollars- The Color Monitor 100 is a heavy beast 50lbs heavy

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cctalk Digest, Vol 119, Issue 19

by FRED＠miser.misernet.net

>From: IN%"cctalk at classiccmp.org" 16-JUL-2013 11:59:07.67 >To: IN%"cctalk at classiccmp.org" >CC: >Subj: cctalk Digest, Vol 119, Issue 19 >From: Steven Landon <slandon110 at gmail.com> >To: cctalk at classiccmp.org >Subject: Great Lakes Vintage Computing- A group for the great lakes > area of collectors >Message-ID: <51E427C1.6060508 at gmail.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >Just created this on Facebook, for everyone in the great lakes area, >Looking at having a Monthly meeting where everyone gets together and >play's with old computers Any chance something could be created that doesn't require me giving data to Zuckerberg? I do not and will not use Facebook. I'd be interested in participating in the group since I just happen to be in Ohio ... Cheers, Fred

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PDP 8/L (was Re: Which PDP-8 is this? (ebay: 261232211533))

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:48:18 -0700 > Subject: PDP 8/L (was Re: Which PDP-8 is this? (ebay: 261232211533)) > > The 8/L arrived on Friday and I've finally had some time to take a few > pictures; I have a brief synopsis here: > > http://rottedbits.blogspot.**com/2013/07/new-plaything-pdp-**8l.html<http://rottedbits.blogspot.com/2013/07/new-plaything-pdp-8l.html> > > But the gist is:Aside from the rebranding, itappears to be a completely > standard (if minimal) 8/L setup -- 4KW of core, teletype interface and > that's it.It looks to be complete and in very good condition, though the > rack is ugly as sin(and weighs a ton). There's nothing else in the rack > aside from the 8/Litself. The teletype it came with is going to need a lot > of cleaning, but is solid and complete. > > Also -- Thanks to all for the maskingtape removal recommendations; I'm > going to start with something minimal like WD-40 and move on to more > powerful options if need be. > > Thanks! > Josh > The RICM revived a PDP-8/L that was in pretty rough shape. You can read about the saga here: http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/pdp-8-l/pdp-8-l_blog Hopefully you won't need to repair/replace as many modules. I made a high-speed paper tape reader emulator from an Emcraft Linux SmartFusion Evaluation Kit <http://www.emcraft.com/index.php/products/146>. You can read about it here: http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/pdp-8-l/making-a-posibus-per… It connects to the Posibus and the 8/L thinks that it is the real thing even though the read rate is more than 3500 CPS. It loads Focal in just a few seconds. Your Teletype will take 13 minutes to load Focal. -- Michael Thompson

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5363 ISA card

by mark.s.waterbury＠bellsouth.net

The 5363 was a "hybrid" machine -- IBM was starting to use some technology (like the ISA bus, memory cards, etc.) in these machines, to make them smaller and more cost-efficient. The 5363 was the last model of System/36 prouced -- it actually came out after the 5364 "Baby/36" model. The System/36 family was developed and produced by "GSD" (General Systems Division) -- the same folks who produced the IBM PC. All of the System/36 machine did use an IOP (what were called "channels" on System/34) -- to off-load the work of managing I/O from the main CPU ... that would explain the 286 processor to "manage" the I/O queue ... and the memory for I/O buffers, etc. This card was not running anything like PC-DOS -- it would have an embedded control program in ROM on-board for the IOP software. Hope that helps.

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Rainbow 100

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Yeah it was odd to find the HDD in its original box. Mine does have the color card and has 512k ram in it total. Ive been running it as a serial terminal to my mac, It does make a great VT100 term other then it being a power sucking monster. Ill have to find a way to get some stuff over to it via serial

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AS/400 720 first steps

by mark.s.waterbury＠bellsouth.net

You might find more AS/400 specific help by joining the MIDRANGE-L mailing list at www.midrange.com

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Any Interest in a Michigan based computer festival

by slandon110＠gmail.com

So I live here in michigan and most things are a 4-6 hour drive away >from me. I live near Flint Michigan, and there is quite a nice conference center and hotel in Birch Run Michigan, about 15-20 miles north of Bishop International Airport. Of course it would be open to all types of CCMP Gear. For those of you into telephones, The Montrose Telephone Museum is worth a visit and is about 9 miles from the hotel/conference center. Just tell me your thoughts on this, Since we have VCFMW in the fall and VCF East in early spring/summer. I thought a Winter event would work pretty darn good Steve

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Great Lakes Vintage Computing- A group for the great lakes area of collectors

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Just created this on Facebook, for everyone in the great lakes area, Looking at having a Monthly meeting where everyone gets together and play's with old computers https://www.facebook.com/groups/162929197228642/

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My Amiga 500 on YouTube

by terry＠webweavers.co.nz

Advanced technology without the price tag. A reflective look at Amiga generally, and my Amiga 500 in particular. http://youtu.be/UejJtLx3dzE Terry (Tez)

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FS: Modems & Other goodies

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Im thinning down my collection so alot of this needs to find homes Complete 11/83 Build Date Apple //e System Monitor // DuoDisk Drive Super Serial Card Microsoft Softcard Z80 Card $150 plus shipping AppleColor Monitor 100 with RGB/80 Col Card for Apple //e $100 dollars plus shipping. The monitor is a HEAVY beast Boxed Apple IIe Card- This is the card that fits in your LC PDS Slot essentially turning your Mac into an Apple //e. Has cable & Software and owners manual and original box $100 shipped Supra 144 Modem- The kind with the neat LCD display that shows you how fast you are running, External 14.4 Zoom MX 2400S 2400 Baud Modem How about $25 dollars each shipped on them AST SixPack RAM Card- Fully Stacked, adds 256k RAM to your DOS PC $25 shipped Box of 10 Tandy Branded DSDD 5 1/4 Floppy Disks, New Never used $15 dollars shipped Apple IIGS Keyboards- Some yellowed and some with school markings on them, $25 each shipped. TI 99 4/A System Complete with a load of games, 2 Sets of Joysticks, 2 Speech Synthesizers, RF Modulators, all of it for $30 dollars plus shipping\ Dont like the price make an offer on stuff, just want this stuff gone so I have some more room

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Looking for documentation on MIDWEST SCIENTIFIC 6800 Micro-Computer

by christian_liendo＠yahoo.com

Picked up a?MIDWEST SCIENTIFIC 6800 Micro-Computer. http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=732&st=1 I have no documentation. I wonder if anyone had any in PDF format or in print that they would trade for US Federal treasury notes.? I know about this. It doesn't really help me.? http://www.hinkles.us/chuckbo/MSI-6800/index.htm.?

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Any Interest in a Michigan based computer festival

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Well I think this could very well happen, Any michigan guys want to help out, putting on a show is hard work. As far as funding it, Id do a crowd tilt. Any certain dates that you guy's want. There wouldn't be a theme, Just bring out what you want, show up and have fun, Id do a 2 day event like VCFMW. As far as event locations, Im looking at the Country inn and suites in Birch Run and the Hampton Inn. Both very nice places. Tony's I-75 restaraunt is right near the hotels. Home of the 1LB BLT sandwich, a full pound of bacon on the sandwich. Bishop Airport is 20 mins away in Flint. Train station is 20 mins away in flint as well. So you can get here by driving, air or rail.

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Best of Byte...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

I've got Best of Byte - Vol 1. Were any other volumes published? tnx. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

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Counterfeit 7400 logic?

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Just ran across an interesting oddity -- I ordered a few 7475s to replace the ones with corroded legs on my Imlac's memory control boards; upon replacement I note a dead short between 5V and GND (as evidenced by the 5V supply being drawn down to 1.5V or so on powerup). After pulling the chip out, it's pretty clear that pin 5 (VCC) is shorted to pin 12 (GND), as are pins 4 and 13. Verrry odd. I grab the other replacements I ordered and they test the same way. My curiosity getting the better of me, I break the top off the chip (not entirely successfully). You can see the results here: http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/imlac/fake7475.jpg The picture's not great, but you can see that pins 4,5,12, and 13 are connected to asolid piece of metal! There does appear to be adie in the chip, interestingly enough(not pictured). Defective chip? Other chip relabeled to be a 7475? Who knows... Unfortunately, I can't find the invoice for these items (I ordered these a couple of months back), so I don't know where it came from; it was probably either Jameco or Digi-Key... Ugh, I wonder how many others of these chips I ordered are fakes... - Josh

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Xebec S1410 wanted

by roelof_klaas＠gmx.com

Hello everyone, Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… Thanks in advance! Regards, Roland

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