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

by d_cymbal＠hotmail.com

Does anybody have a Visual 1050 with hard drive setup? I am looking for any doc/pointers on how to get a hard drive configured under CP/M for this system. Thanks.

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russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o, address?

by jonas＠otter.se

>> CdS cells have quite a few problems that have made them obsolete for > > I don;t disagree that there are other devices that have advantages in > many applciaitons, and it's entirely reasonable to then use said > other > devices. But thee CdS photoresisto also has an advantage -- it's a > resistor. At a constnat ligjht level, the I-V characteristic is > pretty > darn lienar. That makes it ideal for the sort of amplitude-control > application that we've been discussisng > Indeed. They are probably perfectly good for photometric applications too, where it doesn't matter if it takes some time for the cell to adjust to the illumination. And as far as environmental issues are concerned, it would certainly be much better to get rid of CFLs. There has actually been some coverage in the news here about CFLs being thrown in glass recycling containers instead of being handed in as toxic waste (there are reasonably easily accessible places that accept toxic waste everyhere here as well, but nowhere near as many or as accessible as glass recycling containers) and causing problems at the recycling plants. LED lighting is being promoted instead. So far, there has been no discussion about environmental issues with semiconductor manufacturing... /Jonas

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Computer Machinery Corporation?

by jks＠jksq.com

I founded CMC in 1968 assuming we're talking of the same Los Angeles based firm. If you want any information about it, contact me and I'll try to fill you in. Jim Sweeney Law Offices of James K. Sweeney 2001 Wilshire Blvd.; Ste. 200 Santa Monica CA 90403 Tel: 310-477-0272 Fax: 310-496-0122 e-mail: jks at jksq.com website: www.jksq.com

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Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne Australia

by toby＠telegraphics.com.au

Macintosh Revealed - Programming with the Toolbox (Chernicoff) - Vol 2 - Apple Press/Hayden THINK C Object-Oriented Programming Manual - 1991 THINK C Standard Libraries Reference - 1991 THINK Reference - User Manual - 1991 THINK Reference - User Manual - v2.0 - 1992 THINK C User Manual - 1991 LAN WorkPlace for Macintosh User's Guide - First Edition - Oct 1992 HyperTalk Programming (Daniel G. Shafer) "includes Version 1.1" - Hayden Books - 1988 Symantec C++ Compiler Guide v 6 - 1993 THINK C for Macintosh (THINK Class Library Guide) - v 6 1993 Symantec Think C for Macintosh User's Guide - v 6 1993 Symantec C++ For Macintosh (Compiler Guide) - v 7 1994 Symantec C++ for Macintosh (Visual Architect & THINK Class Library Guide) - v 7 1994 Symantec THINK C for Macintosh (User's Guide) - 1994 Steven Levy, Insanely Great: "The Life And Times of Macintosh, The Computer that Changed Everything" - with stamp "Publication/Embargo Date, 1 May 1995, Penguin Books Australia Ltd." Learning Cocoa (O'Reilly) - May 2001 First Edition Using the Macintosh Toolbox with C - Takatsuka/Huxham/Burnard - Sybex 1986 While these are in Melbourne, Australia, if paid by PayPal I can ship anywhere, advise country/city/postal code/zip, and whether surface (60-90 days) or air, but please let me know ASAP. I can't ship anything after about Tuesday 6th Dec. --T

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Automatic file associations - Re: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:52:03 +0100 From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> MikeS wrote: > ---- Original message: > Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100 > From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> > > > >Files should have an header wich describes what type of data the file > > >represents. > > > Why? > > > What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the > > type > > of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to > > disdain > > elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer? > You ask me what's wrong? Never heard of a file called "your_win.jpg.exe" > for example and was most Windoze users are doning with such a file and how > its name is displayed on most windoze machines? I'm not a UNIX expert so I must have misunderstood; you mean UNIX cares about file extensions after all and I can't name a UNIX executable "your_win.jpg" ? At least the modern DOS equivalent (which is what we're talking about, remember?) *does* show the all-important .EXE in the file name, as will Windows if you've enabled it. How does UNIX warn me at a quick glance? ... <Half a dozen paragraphs of the traditional redundant and totally irrelevant Microsoft-bashing drivel removed for readability> ... > > BTW, I think this quote from Ritchie himself sums it up perfectly: > > "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." > > > m > Hmm, wasn't it "Unix IS user friendly, but it is a little restrictive what > his friends are.." Look it up! I think you'll find dozens of references, as well as to your quote, e.g. http://inagist.com/CodeWisdom/146592721312817153/ or http://quotes.prolix.nu/Technology/Computers/ > PS: > Sorry for my broken english, never learned it in a shool or so, it's > entirely from using unixoid OS's and communicateing with people like you > over the net. > Proably it's still better as your german :-) I doubt it; born and raised in Hamburg my German's actually pretty good. m

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Cheap Chinese electrolytics - a plague - Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

On 12/14/2011 08:29 PM, Toby Thain wrote: > I've "field repaired" at least five units in this way, giving them a > happy rebirth - The rest of the monitor lasts a lot longer than the > stupid capacitors do. Building in obsolescence like this should be a > crime that puts people behind bars. If they had successfully built in obsolescence, then all the parts would fail at the same time. The US big 3 automakers to their credit did a pretty good job with this for a long time. Yeah, cars in crashes still had good parts to pick over in a junkyard, but by the end of a cars natural life there really wasn't an awful lot left to pick over. Not that I'd wish a 1974 Dodge Monaco on just anyone :-) Tim.

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Computer Machinery Corporation?

by jks＠jksq.com

I just saw your message about CMC which was the company I founded in 1968. I had no idea people other than I ever thought about it anymore. I can help with information with anyone who is interested. Jim Sweeney Law Offices of James K. Sweeney 2001 Wilshire Blvd.; Ste. 200 Santa Monica CA 90403 Tel: 310-477-0272 Fax: 310-496-0122 e-mail: jks at jksq.com website: www.jksq.com

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Anyone collect "electronic organizer"s?

by alexeyt＠freeshell.org

I've got a Sharp YO-470 here that worked last time it had batteries in it. Free to a good home; if you live outside the US I'll ask that you pay shipping. Please reply off list. Alexey

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Cheap Chinese electrolytics

by spasticcolin-cctalk＠yahoo.com

From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Cheap Chinese electrolytics - a plague - Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible? Message-ID: <201112171752.pBHHptS8082368 at billy.ezwind.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: ..."When it first started happening, I heard the excuse it was a case of industrial espionage gone wrong where an ingredient was left out of the recipe..." at the time I heard 3 guys from the factory got together and stole 3 parts of the formula from a tiawanese factory and defected to mainland china for a $1M bounty. But they didn't know of a 4th part; the corrosion inhibitor. Without the 4th part the caps were supposed to little time bombs, slowly eating away at their aluminum cases. I do know I woke up one night after having a dream of popcorn popping only to find a ATX p/s with caps going off like popcorn in the room next door. I unplugged the PC and put it in the bath tub and went back to sleep. Changed out the p/s the next day and it worked fine. ________________________________

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by jonas＠otter.se

>> > It may be, but CdS cells abound, and I don't see them going away >> > anytime soon. There's so little cadmium in them that I really don't see >> > it ever being a problem. > You and I know it's not a problem,. but that is hargly going to satisfy > the non-scientific idiots we have in charge. I beleive that all CdS LDRs > are not RoHS compliant ;-(. This doesn;'t affect home constructios (at > least not in the UK), it does matter if you're going to use them commerially. CdS cells have quite a few problems that have made them obsolete for photographic purposes: temperature dependence, slow response and memory effect. They need a significant time to adjust to a different level of illumination to give a normal response. The response becoming non-linear with age has also been reported. For a long time cameras have been using silicon photodiodes instead. As an example of the memory effect, the manual for a Durst darkroom exposure meter, which I have just been given and which uses a CdS cell, says to illuminate the CdS cell immediately beneath the lens of the enlarger for 15-20 seconds before making a measurement. They do work well all the same, most of my cameras that actually have an exposure meter use CdS cells. And they seem to be easily available. /Jonas

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Classic Picture

by dj.taylor4＠verizon.net

I was looking on ebay at pictures of Balltimore. Lo and behold I saw something the Classic Computer folks would appreciate. See ebay item 260916992297 It is a picture of an actor, but who cares, it's the background that caught my eye.

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wanted: raised flooring for cheap

by legalize＠xmission.com

I figure there are three classes of "cheap" for raised flooring systems: - it's new and on sale - it's used and removed/reclaimed from a decomissioned data center/machine room - it's used and sitting in the existing machine room and you come pull it out so they don't have to deal with it Ideally I'd like to pick up something for free, because this is not a high priority item for the museum. It's more in the "nice to have" category. It would make it much easier to supply power to exhibits in the middle of a large open area because I could run power and data cabling under the floor. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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FS. PDP 11/35 + RK05 units in Yorkshire

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

I'm thinking of thinning down my PDP 11 collection a bit and have a nice PDP 11/35 unit which may be of interest. This is a collection only item in Yorkshire. This is in good condition and fully functional. It is fitted with the max memory 128KW I think, and the MMU. I also have the incredibly rare FPU for this unit, but its not fitted or tested. Also available with the unit, three RK05 drives with disks, cables and the driver cards (which are fitted to the 11/35). Other spares, parts available too including a spare CPU set (minus the MMU and FPU). This is a very tidy unit and as I say its fully functional, powers up cleanly, and even has its original key. Fitted with a UK plug (European voltage) and can be powered from regular mains. Email if interested. Sorry no postage on these units, I cant even lift them never mind post them :)

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Data General One: searching manuals and disk images

by shadoooo＠gmail.com

Hello. I have a nice DG One portable computer; it's the 2T version, and appears to be fully working. I doesn't have however manuals nor original OS disks for it, so I'm asking if someone has something to share. It would be very interesting to find also copies of the CPM OS disks. Thanks Andrea

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cctalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 52

by spasticcolin-cctalk＠yahoo.com

...When it first started happening, I heard the excuse it was a case of industrial espionage gone wrong where an ingredient was left out of the recipe... at the time I heard 3 guys from the factory got together and stole 3 parts of the formula from a tiawanese factory and defected to mainland china for a $1M bounty. But they didn't know of a 4th part; the corrosion inhibitor. Without the 4th part the caps were supposed to little time bombs, slowly eating away at their aluminum cases. I do know I woke up one night after having a dream of popcorn popping only to find a ATX p/s with caps going off like popcorn in the room next door. I unplugged the PC and put it in the bath tub and went back to sleep. Changed out the p/s the next day and it worked fine.

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Automatic file associations - Re: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk

by dm561＠torfree.net

---- Original message: Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:13:38 +0100 From: Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> > Files should have an header wich describes what type of data the file > represents. Why? What is so terribly wrong with using the file's _name_ to describe the type of data a file represents, so that those "humans" that you seem to disdain elsewhere can also know and work with its type, not just the computer? Always sad to see that in a community one would expect to be eager and open to explore different and perhaps even better ways of doing things, this sort of discussion so often is mostly just defending the status quo and _arguing_ over DOS *versus* UNIX, Win vs. Linux, Apple vs. PC etc., even sometimes to the point of insulting and name-calling, not to mention the all-pervasive disdain and contempt for those unwashed [L]users 'out there' whom all this is ultimately actually for and who indirectly pay most of our salaries. We are all in the same business/hobby after all and surely there are better ways to spend our precious time... But alas, it has ever been thus... BTW, I think this quote from Ritchie himself sums it up perfectly: "Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." m

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ISO: Binary editor with bit shift/complement, etc.

by cclist＠sydex.com

I'm looking for a binary editor (platform doesn't really matter) that can take blocks of bytes (or bits), shift them right (extended shift, carrying bits throughout the entire block, not just shifting things on a byte or word basis), XOR, AND, OR with a repeated value (i.e. 12 means 12 12 12 ...), modulo add or subtract, etc. Anyone know of such a thing? Most binary editors I've seen are very weak in the area of binary data manipulation. --Chuck

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SCSI to IDE/SD bridge project

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

[resending message as ASCII only due to severe HTML mangling of URL] Hi, I ordered some additional SCSI to IDE/SD prototype boards.? The project has a working design (so far) and some preliminary software. If you are interested in a helping to develop a completely free and open design please contact me. http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=MINI%20SCSI%20t o%20IDE%20prototypes This project uses the older style technology consistent with the rest of the N8VEM style boards for easy construction and customization. While I concede there are many paths to designing a SCSI-1 drive replacement this approach has merit and has shown some real progress. What we need is some additional help to get the project finished so it can be offered to the vintage/hobbyist community as a means to preserve computers or other devices which rely on SCSI-1 drives. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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SCSI to IDE/SD bridge project

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi, I ordered some additional SCSI to IDE/SD prototype boards. The project has a working design (so far) and some preliminary software. If you are interested in a helping to develop a completely free and open design please contact me. http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder <http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=MINI%20SCSI%20 to%20IDE%20prototypes> &param=MINI%20SCSI%20to%20IDE%20prototypes This project uses the older style technology consistent with the rest of the N8VEM style boards for easy construction and customization. While I concede there are many paths to designing a SCSI-1 drive replacement this approach has merit and has shown some real progress. What we need is some additional help to get the project finished so it can be offered to the vintage/hobbyist community as a means to preserve computers or other devices which rely on SCSI-1 drives. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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cctalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 22

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Sorry for the lapse, was meant to go privately of course... > Hallo Herr Eichberger, > > vielen Dank f?r Ihre Nachricht und Ihre Angebote. > Ich merke das vor und melde mich gegebenenfalls... -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zur?ck-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone

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cctalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 22

by Arno_1983＠gmx.de

Hallo Herr Eichberger, vielen Dank f?r Ihre Nachricht und Ihre Angebote. Ich merke das vor und melde mich gegebenenfalls. Selbstverst?ndlich stehe im Gegenzug auch ich zur Verf?gung, wenn sich in meinem Einzugsbereich etwas anfindet, was f?r Sie von Interesse ist. Im ?brigen trifft sich das sehr gut, denn wir besuchen etwa einmal im Jahr Freunde und Verwandte in ?sterreich und Tschechien und fahren dabei die Strecke Passau - Linz - Wien - Drasenhofen oder umgekehrt - da l?sst sich ein Treffen bestimmt einmal einplanen. Die Computersammlung am Universit?ts-Rechenzentrum in Erlangen, wo ich einige Zeit gearbeitet habe, besitzt ?brigens einige pdp-11 Rechner und hat evtl. vor, einen davon wieder in Betrieb zu setzen. D?rfen wir in diesem Fall auf Sie zur?ckkommen, wenn wir dann auf der Softwareseite einige Fragen haben? In meiner eigenen Sammlung habe ich bisher von DEC ?brigens "nur" zwei microVAXen und einen alpha-Rechner, die auch noch auf ihre betriebsf?hige Wiederherstellung warten. Mit freundlichen Gr??en Arno Kletzander // Vy 73 de DO 4 NAK -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:53:31 +0100 > From: Wolfgang Eichberger <oe5ewl at gmail.com> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Alpha, VAX available in Sweden > Message-ID: > <CANJYbi--vh5OW2MD1j1aKBzQ_LD5xE7b34d9Y_Jwtmz0AFqskg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Arno, > > I can offer you Store and Forward Service if you find something in Austria > / Southern Germany you'd like to have (offer is available to others if > desired). My collection "radius" is like yours somewhat limited too, but > for at least temporary storage I could manage that... > > My second offer is (as usual) a scanning service for everything up to A3. > If you are (more or less) local and having vintage documentation available > nowhere else that you'd like to have scanned in feel free to contact me. > This is a no charge offer, as I would scan in my spare-time. I have > permanent access to production scanners with reasonable image-quality (B/W > and color). > > BTW: Does anyone wants to get rid of a 9track Tape or a RL02 drive in the > Area mentioned above? I don't mind restauration-project-items as > hobby-capital is a bit limited here. My 11/23 feels a bit naked without > mass storage. > > Regards, > Wolfgang > > -- > Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL > Operating System Collector > Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com > Homepage: www.eichberger.org -- NEU: FreePhone - 0ct/min Handyspartarif mit Geld-zur?ck-Garantie! Jetzt informieren: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freephone

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SOLUTION (Was: Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"?

by technobug＠comcast.net

On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:09:20 -0800, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: > Has anyone here used CENVID--an interpreted C-- type of shell on DOS, > OS/2 or NT? It's in the SIMTEL collection from about 1995 or so. > There are 16 bit real, protected and Win32 versions. > > I found it to be quite handy when taking files from other systems > with strange names and converting them into something that most > DOS/Windows apps would be comfortable with. > > It was sold by Nombas, which seems to have long gone bye-bye. I remember we used something of that ilk in the late '80s or early '90s to support one of our products. However, specifics have fallen off the rear of the table of my mind. Currently, I've been using SoftIntegration's "Ch" <http://www.softintegration.com/products/chstandard/>, an interpreted, C-enhanced, scripting language which works quite well across the OSs I use. -> CRC

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Computyper (friden?) on eBay

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Not affiliated with the seller... Looks interesting but in rough shape. Anyone know more about this thing? 260917141380 Josh

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Classic Picture (PDP 11/x Newspaper Printing System)

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

> > >I was looking on ebay at pictures of Balltimore. Lo and behold I saw >something the Classic Computer folks would appreciate. > >See ebay item 260916992297 > >It is a picture of an actor, but who cares, it's the background that >caught my eye. We just rescued a system just like this from another news paper, this one in central New Jersey. A gentleman somehow affiliated with the paper had been holding onto it all these years. It's presently at our museum in Wall, NJ (Mid-Atlantic Retro). I don't know if anyone from our group took any photos, but many of the same components. Bill

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russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o, address?

by jonas＠otter.se

>>> YEs, a great book. Along with Bob Pease's book ('Analog circuit >>> > > troubleshooting' or soemthign like that). Well worth reading. >> > >> > I shall have to obtain a copy of this book. > I will try to dgi out my copy and post the exact title, ISBN, etc if you > like. Troubleshooting Analog Circuits Robert A. Pease (author) ISBN-10: 0750694998 ISBN-13: 978-0750694995 Publisher: Newnes; New edition edition (17 Jun 1991) /Jonas

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russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o address?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Tony writes: >> On 12/14/2011 08:14 PM, Mouse wrote: >> > On the other, I'm considering an AGC circuit that doesn't use a bulb, >> > but instead uses a FET as a variable resistor, and trying to figure out >> > where it's got anything nonlinear in it (assuming the amplifier is >> > running class A). >> >> Jim Williams (RIP) did a LOT of research on this. The bulb >> outperformed the FET by a gigantic margin. (just sayin'..) > I thoguht in the end he amanged ot get the FET cirucit to be better than > the light bulb, but it took a lot of work (and probably wasn't worth it). Good reference: AN-43: http://cds.linear.com/docs/Application%20Note/an43f.pdf I'm sure Jim Williams thought it was worth it and I really enjoyed reading about it so it was worth it to me for sure :-) A highlight was Note 5: "What else should be expected when trying to replace a single light bulb with a bunch of electronic components? I can hear Figure 39?s #327 lamp laughing." I had previously met Sir Denys Wilkinson and he had mentioned something to me about his pioneering days in nuclear instrumentation (including pinball machine multichannel analyzers). When he had told me that he had invented the D/A converter I didn't really believe him but kinda nodded along. Then I read it in Jim Williams' application note - with an actual reference - I felt a little sheepish in retrospect! Tim.

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Cheap Chinese electrolytics - a plague - Re: TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by dm561＠torfree.net

---- Original Message: Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:18:55 -0500 From: "TeoZ" <teoz at neo.rr.com> > Before ewaste was cheaper to ship overseas I am sure quite a bit of it > ended up in US landfills. Sooner or later those landfills will be dug up > and recycled since it will be cheaper then digging 5 miles into the earth > looking for it, plus anything currently junked will go straight to be > recycled and reused. Your optimism is truly refreshing! m

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Tandy Videotex and Office Information System

by robert＠irrelevant.com

Hi All. sorry about the quoting - only just re-enabled emails from the list; pasting this out of the web archive: Back in October Kelly Leavitt wrote: >>>In July of 1983 Tandy announced the "Tandy Videotex and Office Information System" that ran under Xenix. It was an early attempt at a hypertext system. It used dialup lines and was hosted on Tandy Model 16b (and later 6000) computers. An 8 port and 16 port multiplexor (that's how they spelled it) were announced. I don't know if either ever shipped. There is some information available in the July 25, 1983 issue of InfoWorld. There is also an article in "TRS-80 Microcomputer News" V5,I 11 (#54 ). I used to run one of these for a local company (that I still work for). Does anyone have the manuals or software from one of these systems? I still have the hardware (not the mux, just the 16b and hard drive). Kelly <<<< One of my standard searches on eBay brought up item 270408833511 "Tandy TRS-80 - Model 2000 - Videotex Plus (1983)" Looks like a complete set - manual in binder and software diskette. I'veNo connection to seller, etc.. I'm now firmly into collecting Prestel/Videdata/Videotex hardware and software, which is fairly easy on the pocket as not much exists, and nobody else seams interested in it. This one is borderline, but way too expensive for me! oh, I also run www.videdata.org.uk. (Hi Tony!) Rob.

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Looking for powerpc and decent graphics card for Apple Quadra 950

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

I'm dusting off my Quadra 950 and thought it might be good to try and upgrade it a bit if I can. I have a fairly slow TrueColour graphics card installed at the moment, so I'm looking for a better quality/faster NuBus card. I'd also like to put in a PowerPC upgrade if I can find one. I used to have one of these years ago, and it used to work pretty well. The Quadra has a PDS type slot. Anyway - anything considered. I'm in the UK - but shipping this weight of item from overseas wouldnt be too much I think. Contact me off list if you have anything. Thanks Ian. :)

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H200 series ID?

by phil+ccmp＠ultimate.com

I looked at the wikipedia entry for the Honeywell H200 series today, and when I came to the "Pupular Culture" section I remembered that when I was in High School (and our Computer Club got to use my school district's H1200 stand alone one night every week) Lily Tomlin did a "We don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company" bit that I could swear included an H200 series system. I found the video at: http://vimeo.com/16175616 http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TEbXhcfhdjEkec/HUOVvPTWha0QSW It still looks like a Honeywell to me. Can any one make a solid identifcation of what model? http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76aphonecompany.phtml says the skit aired 9/18/76. H200's were over ten years old at the time.. That's 5 computer generations these days! The wikipedia page has some H200 photos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_200 And more at: http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/PROJET/honeywell200/h-200.htm http://starringthecomputer.com/computer.php?c=48 says H200's appeared in several movies, including the original Casino Royale! There's a good still of the programmer's panel from the "Billion Dollar Brain". I still remember the boot sequence: 4 4 BOOTSTRAP RUN

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Computer Graphics Museum Sprawl 4

by legalize＠xmission.com

Moved into shelving: - DEC terminals - X terminals (NCD, Tektronix, HP) - AT&T 5620 terminals - TEC desktop terminal - Nuclear Data ND600 and ND6600 terminals - Personal Iris Moved into rack: - DLT tape drives - HP X-Y display - TEC rackmount terminals Nuclear Data gear (rack plus terminals) was relocated adjacnet to each other. <http://manx.classiccmp.org/collections/cgm/sprawl4/index.html> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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Solaris Sparc ZFS sun4u to sun4v migration

by jjacocks＠mac.com

Has anyone successfully migrated a ZFS-hosted Solaris 10 sparc host >from one arch (sun4u) to another (sun4v)? I have found all kinds of docs on how to do it, if your source is UFS-rooted, but nothing, if you're ZFS-rooted. This seems like a _huge_ oversight, to me, but I lost my faith in Oracle, a long time ago. I've tried: 1) root pool regeneration from "zfs send -r" snapshot backups 2) flar/jumpstart (add sun4v arch to flar, when creating) 3) liveupgrade 4) ldomp2v tool None of these have been successful. The closest that I have gotten was by doing a ZFS root pool restore, on the new host, and then manually installing the ".v" versions of all of the missing packages. That got the system booting, but there were a _lot_ of broken libraries. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! - Alex

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TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

When I bought my TRS-80 Model I Expansion Interface, I worked for Radio Shack and had put the unit on layaway. I bought the RAM mail-order because it was MUCH cheaper than what Radio Shack charged. The day before I was going to pay it off and take it home for good, I brought the unit home, cracked the case, installed the RAM, tested it, and then brought it back to the store. I paid it off the following day, and brought it home. I'm the only person I know who voided their warranty before it went into effect. >> In both cases, I WAITED UNTIL I GOT HOME before I opened the computer >> case.? (I'm not a hardware person) >> > > Err, yes... I think I've only ever once dismantled a computer on the way > home, and that was a DECmate II (whcih cna be taken apart without tools...) Al

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Microcode on Floppy for MV-2000dc Mod II

by jtpinch-treiff＠usa.net

Hello, We have a MV-2000 Mod II that we still use to manage our business. As time goes by, more and more of our tapes (DC-1000 21mb cartridges) are failing. I do have a copy of microcode (ver 10) from tape that has been saved to a hard drive as a disk image. As tapes fail, I've been able to make "new" copies, but I'm running out of tape cartridges. Would anyone know where I could find microcode for our MV-2000 mod II on 5.25 floppies? Our MV has an internal 5.25 (720kb) diskette dive that could load microcode at boot time. I've already tried copying the tape image to floppy, but it appears not to be enough. I'm guessing DG organized microcode on floppy a little differently then on tape. Does anyone have any ideas?? Thanks for your time. Tom jtpinch-treiff at usa.net

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"first" computer on the internet

by dgahling＠hotmail.com

I thought I had posted this, perhaps not. Anyhow, I have what's purported to be the "First" computer on the internet, the one that joined the pieces together and I guess you could say "made" the internet, or conversely, the "last" node, as it were (depending how you count). It's also the system where E-Mail was first created. It's a Sun SLC workstation, owned by Einar Steffard. I have the original box (very slightly torn), and the workstation itself is in very good shape except one cosmetic crack, which I believe can be fixed very easily. I tried the smithsonian, and other computer museums, but basically was told they already had too many of this model, never mind the significance of this particular unit. it still runs, last I checked, and has all the original data still intact on it, such as it is. now, I find myself with a severe lack of space, and need to part with it. I would like a little bit of money for it, it wasn't a donation to me, and shipping maybe expensive. or I would be willing to trade it for a vaxstation 4000, or perhaps a 3100 or two. (I have a need for 2 working vaxen you see) so anyhow, that's how it is, this piece of history sitting in the corner of my office, collecting dust, and not doing much else. I'd like to see it get to a good home, and never scrapped, I think it's too important for that. so anyhow, anyone who wants this piece of history, drop me a note. and yes, I have pics (including the shipping labels from Einar to me) for what it's worth... Dan. _________________________________________________________________ If you like crossword puzzles, then you'll love Flexicon, a game which combines four overlapping crossword puzzles into one! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208

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Word Perfect 5.1 Documents?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Out of curiosity, what is there in the way of modern software that can read Word Perfect 5.1 (probably some 5.2 as well) for DOS documents? The good news is that I retrieved all these files at some point in the past from the 3.5" floppy they were on. :-) Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

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LC475 and EDO RAM

by fraveydank＠gmail.com

Here's a rather esoteric question that I suspect at least one person may be able to answer better than the collective urban legendry found on Google. I have a Mac LC475 (same machine as Quadra 605), and I'm looking to max out the memory. None of Apple's tech notes mention anything about EDO memory, and people tend to generally think that it can handle it, but I've been bitten before. Does anyone have a good idea about whether the memory controller can handle it? Also whether it can actually take advantage of it? My gut feeling is yes to the first and no to the second. Secondly, does anyone have experience with Micro Memory Bank? They seem to be offloading piles of newly-manufactured vintage-compatible (5V FPM and EDO) DIMMs and SIMMs on Ebay. The collective common wisdom for the LC475 is that 128MB SIMMs will work, but only if they're single-ranked. The salespeople for the vendor don't seem to know what I'm talking about when I ask, and I'm having a hard time getting photos of the board from them (which should at least let me look at the traces). Anyone know about their 128 MB EDO/FPM SIMMs? Relevant auction number is 350478815002. - Dave

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CHM Digital Repository Grant Press Release

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/computer-history-museum-receives-go…

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S-100 CPU board PCBs

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi! I have some excess S-100 8086 CPU board PCBs. These are leftover from the recent S100computers.com and N8VEM group buy. They are $20 each plus $3 shipping in the US and $6 elsewhere. Please send a PayPal to LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM and I will send your boards right away. Build and test of these boards has verified they work and the hardware is correct although there is a minor top silkscreen error. http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder <http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=S-100%208086%2 0CPU%20board> &param=S-100%208086%20CPU%20board http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/8086%20Board/8086%20CPU%20Board .htm Also, if you are interested in an S-100 6502 CPU board, I am getting ready to make a PCB manufacturing order. So far there are 17 boards for builders signed up and I need another 3 to make it economical. Please contact me if interested. http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder <http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=S-100%206502%2 0CPU%20board> &param=S-100%206502%20CPU%20board Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch PS, there are some remaining S-100 Serial IO and S-100 buffered prototyping board PCBs left too.

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TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Listen fellows... I worked for two of the major hardware/software suppliers for the Radio Shack Color Computers. I have 10 of them in the next room, as well as a Tano Dragon 64k. A stock Color Computer or Color Computer 2 has no Composite output. It only has an RF Modulator that tunes to channels 3 or 4 VHF (U.S. Models, I have no experience with other versions). You cannot GET a composite signal without cracking the case and soldering a few wires to a simple circuit to clean up the signal. Several companies sold a tiny board with a few components that provided composite video and standard audio for use with a regular composite monitor (Mark Data Products, Dennis Bathory Kitsz, and a few others. I liked the MDP product best as it used little spring loaded clips and was basically solderless.). You can easily build one with parts in your junk box, or maybe $5 in parts from a local Radio Shack. I will track down the schematic and find a way to post it. The next best solution is the idea of using a VHS Player to capture the RF signal and convert it to Composite internally. There are several Coco Emulators that one could just use on a PC and bypass the whole thing. Jeff Vavasour's (?http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/trs80.html#coco2?) is supposed to be one of the best. I really like the Coco system, and I wish I had room to set one of mine up. I co-wrote The Coco Greeting Card Designer, which was similar to the greeting card version of Print Shop. I have the rights to sell the follow-on, The Coco Graphics Designer which has all the different things with a Mac-like GUI frontend. I just need to make the manuals up and duplicate the disks from my master copies. I also have the rights to the Car Sign Designer on the IBM-PC (DOS), C-64, and Coco. I have the disks, manuals, and car sign holders but need a working C-64 to test the disks. I got a c64 AND 1541 in trade, but the 1541 doesn't work and I haven't fixed it yet. Al

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well-written, concise man pages

by RichA＠vulcan.com

From: Josh Dersch Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:08 PM > I just wish UNIX man pages were as well written and as > all-encompassing as the online documentation available on my > Lisp machine. Basically three or four feet worth of the > printed manual set available at a keypress (or mouse click) > or two, thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, viewable > directly at the command prompt (even while in the middle of > typing a command -- invaluable when you've forgotten how > something works halfway through) from within the editor, or > inside the Document Examiner, with hypertext, formatting, > diagrams, etc... a lovely system and well ahead of its time. Yes, the Lisp Machines were, like the TOPS-20 operating system, "a great improvement on [their] successors." Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer Vulcan, Inc. 505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900 Seattle, WA 98104 mailto:RichA at vulcan.com mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/

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BBC News - Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

BBC News - Apple founding papers sold at auction for nearly $1.6m Apple's founding papers have been sold at auction for $1,594,500 (?1.03m). Sotheby's had estimated the three typed partnership agreements would sell for between $100,000 and $150,000. _http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5_ (http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5) Source: _http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953_ (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16170953) See if people are clicking on this link: _http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5+_ (http://bbc.in/rJJ3q5+) Try the _bitly.com_ (http://bitly.com/) sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: _http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar_ (http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar) Thanks, Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC See the Museum's Web Site at _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

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CPU Wars card game

by pontus＠update.uu.se

Hi all I just found this little card game which looks kind of neat: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/harrymylo/cpu-wars-volume-10-the-card-g… Quite x86 centric, I think the J11 would fit pretty nicely in there. What CPU would you add? /P

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cctalk Digest, Vol 100, Issue 34

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Ok, I dug up the schematic. This is for the Video Only. You'll have to get a copy of the Coco Schematics to find out where to tap the audio (Probably at the input to the RF Modulator, but I don' t know what you'd have to do to make it sound good)... http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8801/23fa5940.gif (The "New Board" mentioned in the GIF means the Coco 2 logic board) Here is a link to a repository that has the service manuals: http://goyim.dyndns.org:8080/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/ That's the best I can do now, as my Cocos are on a top shelf I can't reach anymore and can't pull one down to look at the installed adapter. Hope this helps. Al

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last call for AT & T 7300 UNIX PC docs

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

big box but cheap via media mail. Philip expressed interest in the tech manual. I'll joyfully send it to him if he still wants it. Let me know Phillip. I'll just chuck the rest I guess. Have the Wordstar manual/s too, but no disks.

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TV -> D-Sub converter possible?

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

Thanks. Sounds pretty gruesome.

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Looking for NeXT cables

by mokuba＠gmail.com

Looking for NeXT mono cables (DB19 -> DB19 ) and Y cables (13W3 -> 13W3 and DB-19) as well as NeXT Mice (broken or working). Anyone got any for sale or swap? -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG

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IBM something, what is it ?

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

The collective wisdom of this list should have no problem identifying this ?c ftp://jdreesen.dyndns.org/ftp/ibm_something.jpg Jos

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Unix handles file extensions "very poorly"? - Re: Mac/Mac, Programming/Cocoa/HyperTalk Books free - Melbourne

by alanp＠snowmoose.com

On 12/12/11 11:40 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Microsoft (Patterson) lifted THAT directly from CP/M. It is Paterson, not Patterson. alan

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russian PDP-11 like K1801BM2 CPU Startup reading w/o address?

by jonas＠otter.se

>> > In my experience, "solderless breadboard" is the usual term, at >> least >> > if you're talking about the things I suspect you are. >> Occasionally a >> > brand name gets used to refer to them. >> >> That's what I've always heard them called. I know they're generally >> considered terrible, but I've had lots of luck with them for >> low-speed >> projects (especially power supplies for tube amps; I've got one >> that's >> covered with capacitor juice from various electrolytics exploding >> and >> has some melted-out holes resulting from diodes installed backwards >> but >> still manages to work just fine). > > They're probaly fine if used within their limitations. That is that > stray > capacitance doesn't matter too much (and be warned it can matter even > when the system appears to be low-speed) and if the odd poor > connection > won't cause too many problems. > > That said, I don't think they save much tiem. The time taken to form > component leads to fit into one of these breadboards, or to strip a > piece > of isulated wire to go in, is not much less than soldering the > components > to stripboard (assuming your iron is already hot). And doing the > latter > will at least eliminate poor conenctions. > > -tony Around 1980-1981 I was working for Volvo Cars. At one time I was given the task of evaluating the optimum location for a knock sensor. I had an engine fitted with a number of knock sensors in various locations on a dynamometer test bench, and a device connected to the ignition which allowed me to advance the ignition from TDC in increments of a few degrees. This thing was provided as an official test device from a large US manufacturer, I have forgotten which one - RCA? GE? GM? It was built with CMOS 4000-series ICs IIRC, and constructed on - solderless plugboard... Changing the amount of ignition advance was done by moving a wire between different holes in the plugboard. Using this kind of thing in an engine test cell, with an engine running under heavy load close by and me standing next to it, struck me as rather shaky to say the least. Especially as a bad connection, or plugging the wire in the wrong hole, could make the engine produce "interesting" noises. Had something serious happened to the engine there might well have suddenly been large parts of metal flying around and plenty of hot oil and water spraying about. It did actually work OK though. /Jonas

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