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

by ddsnyder＠zoominternet.net

One more item as shown in the photos. A NEC 8500 thimble writer with tractor and bin sheet feeder. Spare ribbons and thimbles as well as interface cartridges for serial and parallel ports.

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ISO HP-UX 9.10 install CD

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I need to get a system running to recover some data from some HPIB drives. Does anyone have one to spare, or an ISO image of it?

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IBM 026 weight

by wdonzelli＠gmail.com

I am looking for the overall dimensions and weight of an IBM 026 keypunch. Does anyone have this data handy? -- Will

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PDP-11 video, was Re: VSV11 on pdp11

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire > Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:54 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: PDP-11 video, was Re: VSV11 on pdp11 > > On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: > > I have one 3rd party PDP-11 video card, and while most likely have > > RSX-11M > > software for it, I lack the means to actually hook it up to > > anything (or > > anything to hook it up to). > > I have a nice little dual-width Qbus board with a TMS9918 (classic > app-note circuit) on it. I've never messed with it, but I hope to > find time to someday. It'll be fun. > > -Dave > > > > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL [AJL>] Hi Dave! The next board we're making for the N8VEM project is an ECB "color graphics and sound" peripheral. The goal is MSX BIOS level compatibility. It probably won't be fully compatible with all MSX applications but should allow "well behaved" applications work that use the MSX BIOS. The board will have a TMS9918 for color graphics and AY-3-8910 for sound as per the MSX specification. We are considering some other items as well such as a SP0256-AL2 and/or CT5256A-AL2 depending on how the prototyping goes. So far, we've got three TMS9918 prototypes working. The board has a SRAM modification so no fussy 4116 DRAMs are needed. If you or anyone else is interested in helping develop and/or test a modern ECB TMS9918 board. Unfortunately, I've fallen woefully behind on my prototyping efforts as this week I got fully absorbed into this S-100 front panel board John and I are working on. John's got a prototype and I'm trying to make the PCB board. The schematic is done and the PCB has a layout but the trace routing is proving to be highly problematic. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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Netframe

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Back in the early 90's I worked for PC Technical Services in NYC. We sold and serviced Netframe systems. I became Netframe certified in 1990. Really nicely designed systems. I think they were bought by Dell at some point. Al

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IBM 026 weight

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

I had an 029 shipped across the atlantic last year. The 026 will weigh a bit more I think. I got the weight and dimensions for the carrier off of the original IBM spec on BitSavers. Of course if you could find the right search terms you might find Google could point you to a spec directly online. Roger On 31 Jan 2010, at 10:59, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > > Message: 20 > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:06:11 -0500 > From: William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> > Subject: IBM 026 weight > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: > <e1d20d631001301806k1d0f1526ubdf7b959d8c2e6e8 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I am looking for the overall dimensions and weight of an IBM 026 > keypunch. Does anyone have this data handy? > > -- > Will

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General religious wars (was Re: Editor religious wars)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 1/26/10, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote: > Intel 8080 vs. 6502 vs. Z80 > > WGF (World Geek Federation) Three Way Mashup.. I remember 6502 vs Z80 back in the day, and in the S-100 world, there was plenty of 8080 vs Z80, but IIRC, there wasn't a lot of user overlap between those that might run an 8080 vs the 6502. I was a bit young for the S-100 era - I used an occasional machine when visiting family friends, but was myself solidly in the 6502 camp as far back as 1977 with the PET - it was what we could afford, so that's the way it went at my family's house. Perhaps it was different for the guys who had an 8080 machine and watched the 6502 gobble up the low-end market. I myself never heard anyone espousing the "obvious merits" of the 8080 in the late 1970s, but I can concede that I might not have hung around that crowd. -ethan

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ETH Lilith schematics online

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

I put my (reverse-engineered) ETH Lilith schematics in Eagle format online. ftp://jdreesen.dyndns.org/ftp/CAD If anyone is crazy and foolhardy enough to create new PCB's, then I want a set ! You'd want to do a bit of redesign though, at the very least modern DRAM's and a different diskdrive. Or do everything in a smallish FPGA... Jos

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Recurring subject: Goo removal

by cclist＠sydex.com

I was going through some of my old equipment and decided to see if my old DDS autochanger still worked. I powered it up and, after many whirring and "SCANNING" "LOAD 01" etc. messages, it gave me an ERROR 10. Upon opening up the unit, I discovered that the rubber rollers that manipulate the magazine as well those that actually feed the cassette had turned to black goo and spread it all over the place. Alcohol wouldn't cut the stuff, so I tried mineral spirits. Better, but no cigar. Lamp oil was even better, but I finally settled on Coleman Stove fuel. Not perfect, but at least I got things cleaned up. I'm probably not going to do the next step any time soon--replace the now-gone rubber feed rollers. I don't need the drive (although it can read DAT audio tapes, which is kind of interesting) as I have other DDS drives that work just fine. Maybe a rainy-day project when I'm looking for something to do. Does anyone have any preferences for a goo remover? I've heard that Ronson Lighter fluid also works well. --Chuck

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French/German/Italian Sybex books

by fmc＠reanimators.org

A Friends of Library organization where I volunteer has a small bunch of non-English-language Sybex books, early 1980s vintage. They're wondering, "do folks in Europe have more interest in this sort of thing?" Not so much a value thing as a not wanting to throw them out if there's interest. They're unusual to us, maybe more usual over in Europe, we don't know. Though, we don't see the English editions as much as we used to. Some are shrink-wrapped, some are spotted or water-damaged. It's a mix. Author, title, year of publication, ISBN, the latter two where I could get 'em (sometimes the shrink-wrap made that hard): "Le Beux","Introduction au BASIC","1980","2902414161" "Lamoitier","Le BASIC Par La Pratique","1981","2902414315" "Laurent","Programmez en BASIC sur TRS-80 Tome 2","1983","290241451X" "Laurent","Programmez en BASIC sur TRS-80 Tome 1","1983","2902414501" "Hergert","Sinclair ZX Spectrum BASIC Handbuch","1983","3887450272" "Hergert","BASIC fu:r den Kaufmann","1983","3887450264" "Zaks","Les Microprocesseurs","1980","290241417X" "Grant","Introduction au p-System UCSD","1983","2902414579" "Gourlay","Jeux en BASIC sur VIC 20","1983","2902414773" "Shaw","Jeux en BASIC sur Spectrum","1983","2902414765" "Charlton","Jeux en BASIC sur ZX81","1983","2902414757" "Bunn","Jeux en BASIC sur Atari","1983","290241482X" "Glatzer","Introduction au Traitement de Texte","1983","2902414439" "Gee","Programmez en BASIC sur Spectrum","1983","2902414528" "Hamann","Programmes en BASIC sur VIC 20 Tome 1","1983","2902414447" "Lhoir","Decouvrez le Sharp PC-1500 et le TRS-80 PC-2 Tome 1: l'Ordinateur","1983","2902414617" "Le Beux","Introduction au BASIC","1980","2902414161" "Naiman","Einfu:hrung in Wordstar","1983","3887450191" "Glatzer","Einfu:hrung in die Textverarbeitung","1983","3887450183" "Lamoitier","Basic U:bungen fu:r den IBM Personal Computer","","388745023X" "Hergert","Mein Sinclair ZX81","","3887450213" "Bui","Planen + Entscheiden mit BASIC","","3887450256" "Trost","Programm-Sammlung zum IBM Personal Computer","","3887450248" "Hergert","Sinclair ZX81 BASIC Handbuch","","388745028" "Mateosian","La programmazione dello Z-8000","","" "Hergert","Erfolg mit VisiCalc","","3887450302" "Hergert","Commodore 64 BASIC Handbuch","","3887450485" "Hartnell","Sinclair ZX Spectrum Programme zum Lernen und Spielen","","3887450221" "Schmidt","Spielen, Lernen, Arbeiten mit dem TI-994A","","3887450396" "Black","Farbspiele mit dem Commodore 64","","" "Zaks","Introduction aux Microprocesseurs","1976","" -Frank McConnell

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Old Tektronix boards

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

I hit the recycler today and found some cool looking old circuit boards from an old oscilloscope. One has Copyright 1969 Tektronix, inc and is a readout system board and a smaller board with just a part number. What caught my eye was the hand laid traces (curvy pre CAD), and the chips on it all had gold/copper leads and were socketed. Most of the chips are Tektronics made (there is a ti sn7402n), I assume the chips are just logic chips. Are they worth anything?

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HP Connect Membership for Hobbyist VMS Licence

by drb＠msu.edu

> A while back I joined at the most basic membership level of Encompass > just to get access to VMS hobbyist licences as I was not really > interested in any other benefits. This used to be a free > membership. Am I right that now you need to pay $50 a year to be able > to get a hobbyist licence? Is there some way to avoid this charge? DECUServe is a chapter now, and registration is free. De

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HP Connect Membership for Hobbyist VMS Licence

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

A while back I joined at the most basic membership level of Encompass just to get access to VMS hobbyist licences as I was not really interested in any other benefits. This used to be a free membership. Am I right that now you need to pay $50 a year to be able to get a hobbyist licence? Is there some way to avoid this charge? Regards Rob

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Part Number for a MicroVAX II Fan

by bfranchuk＠jetnet.ab.ca

Rob Jarratt wrote: > I agree, I thought 30A was a bit ridiculous, but I typed what I saw, and > with the noise it makes 30A might not be too far out :-). > > It is back in the machine now so I can't check at the moment to see if there > was actually a faint decimal point before the "3", but I am sure there must > be. In fact someone sent me a picture of a similar one which does show a > clear leading decimal point. No you have wrong! 1 amp fans when you have a 30 amp CPU. 30 amp fan when have a 1 amp micro-chip! > Regards > > Rob > In any case use a bigger fan. :) Ben.

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Free systems in Archorage, Alaska

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

William, (not I), has a few systems to give away: TRS-80 Coco Zenith Data Systems portable from 1987 - a ZFL-161-93 Zenith Data Systems Z-Sport from 1990. Zenith Data Systems Z-Noteflex, complete with port replicator from 1994. PCMCIA-based ZPlayer (CD Player) from Zenith Data System from 1994. Contact *him* for more info! William Lidster williamlidster at gmail.com Anchorage, Alaska

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Acorn vs Sinclair (was Re: Editor Religious wars)

by julianskidmore＠yahoo.com

Of course, everyone knows the most important computer war was between Acorn and Sinclair. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00n5b92 Thanks to pompous Sir Clive's fallout with his ex-sidekick, the cigarette-chuffing Chris Curry, the UK got to enjoy a continual dust-up between the two biggest home computer companies of the early 80s. Acorn vs Sinclair had the lot: 6502 vs Z80; elistism vs affordability; skunk-works development vs glossy buildings; establishmentism vs the underdog. And into the bargain they introduced not only the earliest home computers using gate array chips; a generation of UK games programmers, but also the preeminent mobile RISC cpu: the Advanced Risc Machine. In comparison, Commodore vs Atari are just tiffs between best buddies ;-) -cheers from julz @P

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Amiga Slingshot

by brianlanning＠gmail.com

In short, I'd really like to have one of these: http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?product=slingshot&company= It's an adapter that turns the expansion port on an amiga 500 into a zorro 2 slot like those in the amiga 2000. They're rare enough to almost never show up on ebay. But they look really easy to construct. Assuming the card edge connectors were available, I bet someone with more hardware knowledge than me could make a batch of these for cheap. While you're at it, there's a few designs floating around for IDE adapters for amigas that wedge between the 68000 and the motherboard. A batch of those would sell out quickly as well. brian

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Tricord Servers

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

Curt, I don't know if "collect" is the proper term, but I have an untested, M 40-50C. I use it as a table, it looks to have been stripped of the drives and such. http://www.vintagecomputer.net/tricord/ Bill > > Hi, > > Anyone out there collect Tricord Servers? I used to install and > work on these back around 95', did work on a couple of ES7000 and ES8000 > systems at Newsday and Scherring-Plough. I was just remembering them > today, and figured I'd see if anyone had any of them. They are fairly > big sized units, about 3-4' tall, 19" wide styled cabinet, their > motherboards were rather unique and in a sense, weird too, like how the > card cage was accessed via the back and underneath the mainboard and such... > > Let me know if anyone collects these, thanks. > > > > Curt >

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Boomerang decompiler

by legalize＠xmission.com

Anyone using the Boomerang decompiler to recover vintage source from vintage binaries? <http://boomerang.sourceforge.net/> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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Solaris manuals

by bob＠copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca

Recently a friend of mine in Calgary (Canada) fell heir to a 13Kg box of Solaris manuals. He says that they are still in their original plastic wrappers and that most of them have "5.1" and "x86" on the spines. There are a few which appear to relate to Solaris 2.5.1 for Sparc. If anyone is interested please get in touch with him directly: rick at hartmantech.com Bob Bramwell | The birds have vanished into the sky, | and now the last cloud drains away. +1 902 531 2289 | We sit together, the mountain and I, | until only the mountain remains. | - Li Po, 8th Century Chinese poet

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Part Number for a MicroVAX II Fan

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

> Finally got round to getting the fan out. It is a 120mm fan, marked as > follows: > > Nidec > Torin > TA450DC > Model A 31728-10 > 10 V.D.C > 30 AMP I do not believe for one instant that that fan draws 30A! 0.3A, quite possibly. > > The only readily available DC fans I can find are 12V, guessing these would I've seen 24V ones, but those are even less use to you. > run at a reduced speed compared to the ones I have in the machine now, but > would probably otherwise work OK. What do you reckon? If this would work I Well, if it was my machine, I'd have a go are repairing the old fan first. Officially I'd claim that was for originality, practically it's bacuase I've got more time than money :-). Seriously, you've got nothing to lose by trying to take it apart and find the fault. If you can't fix it, you can just fit a new fan anyway. > might replace them both with quieter fans (not sure what the flow rate of > these fans is any idea? > > The connector is difficult to describe. The fan has two tags that stick out > and the cable has a plastic block on the end with a socket that fits the two > tags. Yes,t that's the standard arrangemetn. The tags can have wires soldered straight to them, or you cna use faston terminals . Smoe manufcatuters also sold leads with mouteded connectors that fitted onto the tags on their fans, as you have here. -tony

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Compaq Portable II fails to boot - some analysis

by thomas.gardner＠sbcglobal.net

Sometime ago I posted a request for help on my two Compaq Portable IIs that failed to boot from the FDD. I now can boot one using an "off the shelf" (at Weird Stuff) half height 360 kB FDD in place of either of the two Canon 5201 1/3 height FDDs that were in the two Portable IIs. Both exhibit the same failure mode, while trying to read the disk visibly spins erratically, as if there were some form of stiction causing it to go slower and then faster. Manually turning it with and without a disk, the spindle motor feels free of stiction. It is surprising to me to find both Canon 1/3 height FDDs fail in the same mode, suggesting a fundamental flaw in the design. For example, the full height and half heights I used in this project are older than the Canon's, of unknown provenance, but all 5 have worked flawlessly. Any ideas, other than avoid old Canon 1/3 height FDs? Anyone have a working 1/3 height 360 kB Canon FD? (I think I need Canon to get the bezel right on the machine I am "restoring"). Tom PS: I bought a package of 20 360 kB FDs off the internet and one of my problems was that about 1/2 of them were full of defects, causing some of my problems. I finally solved that problem by throwing away any disk with any defect found during Format and doing a Diskcomp after each Diskcopy.

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6809 SBC (was Editor religious wars (was Re: Museums))

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/281973.html 6809 SBC (was Editor religious wars (was Re: Museums)) David Betz dbetz at <mailto:cctalk%40classiccmp.org?Subject=Re%3A%206809%20SBC%20%28was%20Editor %20religious%20wars%20%28was%20Re%3A%20Museums%29%29&In-Reply-To=%3C1EA52674 -F26F-4783-9889-80FEBFDC0F0C%40xlisper.com%3E> xlisper.com Thu Jan 28 12:40:03 CST 2010 * Previous message: Editor <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/281971.html> religious wars (was Re: Museums) * Next message: 6809 <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/281975.html> SBC (was Editor religious wars (was Re: Museums)) * Messages sorted by: [ <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/date.html#281973> date ] [ <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/thread.html#281973> thread ] [ <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/subject.html#281973> subject ] [ <http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/author.html#281973> author ] _____ On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:28 PM, e.stiebler wrote: > David Betz wrote: >> On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ben wrote: >>> It seems only Motorola thought of 'home' computing >>> more with 6809. >> I always wanted to program the 6809. I have a SWTPc 6800/6809 system that I built but I never fleshed it out with a disk drive and OS. Does anyone make a 6809 SBC that will run OS-9 these days? > > I think there is one hiding on : > > http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem I checked this out a while ago but I think it is just a 6809 coprocessor board that only works with their Z80 board. > > Or take a cheap FPGA kit, there is the system09, which runs a lot of software in the meantime Thanks for the suggestion but I was hoping for something actually had a 6809 chip on it. _____ size=2 width="100%" align=center> The N8VEM 6809 host processor by itself is dependent on the ECB SBC for its IO. However, I recently released an "IO mezzanine" PCB that connects on top of the 6809 host processor board that allows it to be operated independently with its own power interface, serial port, timer, and dual VIAs for IO. One of the N8VEM builders ported CUBIX to the 6809 host processor and I am using ASSIST09 on the 6809 host processor with IO mezzanine as a stand alone computer. It definitely uses a real 6809 CPU. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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Looking for an SBUS CG3 501-1718 or 501-1909

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

Hi I'm looking for a SBUS cg3 card, the later models which were 501-1718 or 501-1909. I have a new monitor which will only sync to 1152x900x76 not 1152x900x66 the card I have (of course). Its for a sparcstation 1+. For some reason the cg3 is the only card I could ever get working with the sparcstation 1+. Later TGX cards, etc wouldnt work. Anyone have a spare? I'm in the UK, but for something this size shouldnt be too much to post. Thanks Ian.

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Herb Grosch

by evan＠snarc.net

Computer scientist Herb Grosch died today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Grosch

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PDP8E and compliments

by spedraja＠ono.com

Hello. I shall receive in a short one PDP8E in working state. It was used with one paper tape reader years ago. With independence of the revision of the machine that I shall do, I should like to locate some peripherals to interact with the computer. I was thinking in one Teletype with paper tape reader-punch, or both, one cathode-ray terminal or typewriter terminal and one paper tape reader-punch... I have one VT220 operative that perhaps could use with the appropiate cable, with I'm not sure about this. What I have is one offer for one modern storage device for the PDP8E of solid state kind or similar. It's expensive and I must think about it seriously. I should agree any comment and offer related with this matter. Better for free :-) Regards Sergio

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Shaft encoder in HP2631B printer

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

This is a long shot... On the other hand, there are people here who've done all sorts of odd things, and the only silly question is one that's not asked (or something like that). As I mentioned yesterday (when I asked about zneer diode data), I've got an HP2631B printer that's gone crazy. I had anohter quick look at it today, and it appears that one problem is the shaft encoder on the right hand end of the carriage leadscrew. This connects by a 10 way cable (integral with the encoder) to the 'printer logic' PCB, 6 of the pins on the connector sseem to be used, 2 grouds, 2 +5V and the 2 quadrature output signals. Those 2 outputs are buffered by a couple of sections of a '14, the outputs of that go to testpoints (and elswehere, of course). Anyway, both those testpoints are low all the time (turning the leadscrew by hand, I've not fixed the motor drive amplifer yet!). The outputs from the encoder are high all the time (so the problem isn't the '14, more's the pity), they are genuinely high, not floating. And there don't seem to be any pull-ups on the printer logic PCB< so the 'high' is coming from the encoder. Anyway. Iv'e read the HP service manual (on http://www.hpmuseum.net) and it appears you need special tools to remove and replace the encoder. The encoder disk is epoxied to the neadscrew, you need a special puller to break the bond and an alignment tool to get the encoder disk the right distance insde the encoder housing when you refit it. Of coruse I don;t ahve the tools... Has anyone ever done this? Maybe the same tools, or something like them, were used with THe shaft encoders that HP sold as loose componets. Any thoughts? -tony

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Sorta-OT: Selling IBM Model M13 Keyboards, proceeds benefit Infoage Science Center

by starbase89＠gmail.com

As a sort of fund raising method for Infoage, I am selling some things for them. This one is a Model M M13 keyboard with the built in trackpoint. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270522341799 Thanks Joe

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ARM & 8051 Shipments (and kinda PPC)

by ken＠seefried.com

I've looked into this a bit. As noted previously, it is essentially impossible to figure out exact shipments of 8051, as there is no central clearinghouse of licensees, and there are literally dozens of suppliers sticking 8051 IP in all sorts of things. That said, according to the only reasonably well cited analyst report I have (from Emitt Solutions), the 8051 architecture accounted for 19% of the US$4.9 billion 8-bit MPU market in 2007. If you wave your hand and say the average volume price across all 8051 variants is US$0.25 (a number I think is probably high), that's around 40 billion units shipped in 2007. According the Annual Report for ARM Holdings, Plc., there were shipped 2.6 billion ARM processors for mobile applications and 1.4 billion in other applications from all licenses in 2008. This was up from around 3 billion units in 2007 (in a total market for 32-bit embedded processors of around US$3.8B). Safe to assume it was more than that in 2009. Not sure what that represents as a revenue number, as ARM Holdings revenue numbers are for licensing fees. However, one could guess it's a market of significantly more than US$4b across all licensees in 2008. By comparison, Freescale did around US$1.88B in microcontroller sales, but that was across all their lines (including the still very popular 68xx/HC lines), so is safe to assume the actual units shipped for PPC is a fraction of ARM numbers. I know there are other PPC licensees, but I don't think they're going to make up that gap. All analysts agree that the 8-bit market is eroding and the 32-bit world is exploding, from a market share if not revenue perspective. KJ

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Sort of On-Topic?

by doc＠vaxen.net

http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ Yes, exactly what the URL implies. Doc

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Manual for Matrox Video Controller PND00188 - 166 D06 2

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

I looked in bitsavers under Matrox for the manual. The board is a Qbus quad with the number PND00188 - 166 D06 2 (Matrox Alpha Video) Made By: Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. Type: QRGB - Alpha Date: November 10, 1986 Might anyone have a copy of this as a PDF? Jerome Fine

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OT: RIM/MSFT developers needed for Haiti relief efforts

by evan＠snarc.net

Got this email from my boss. It's off-topic here, but perhaps some cctalk'rs can help: ------------------------- http://www.CrisisCommons.org is looking for app developers with BlackBerry and WinMo experience to help build mobile tools for NGOs and others on the ground in Haiti. Learn about this and other inspiring efforts to restore communications in the earthquake devastated here: http://bit.ly/bWtUFG

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Yet more books, free for cost of shipping from Austin, TX

by amigansoftware＠gmail.com

>The Instructor 50 Desktop Computer User's Guide >Signetics, 1978, 300 pages? >Introduction to the Instructor 50 Desktop Computer >Signetics, 1978, 120 pages? I'm interested in these two, as I am the programmer of the world's only emulator (WinArcadia) of this trainer and it would be invaluable for improving the compatibility. Many thanks James Jacobs Canberra, Australia

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RTE-A VC install screen

by glen.slick＠gmail.com

How did you get to this screen? http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/3300388502/ Was this a boot from a physical tape in a physical tape drive? A cartridge tape or 9-track? Do you have images of these boot tapes? I wonder what it would take to get something like the HPDrive emulator setup for HP-IB tape drives. I have an HP A900 but no boot/install tapes, and even if I had them I don't have any HP-IB tape drives. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Rik Bos <hp-fix at xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > The board is on flickr, put it on a few weeks ago. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hp-fix/4247818112/ > > -Rik >

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Be careful handling computer racks

by fryers＠gmail.com

Man crushed to death by computer gear http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/12/2790875.htm Simon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Well, an engineer is not concerned with the truth; that is left to philosophers and theologians: the prime concern of an engineer is the utility of the final product." Lectures on the Electrical Properties of Materials, L.Solymar, D.Walsh

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Seeking dump of TRS-80 Model II ROMs

by d_cymbal＠hotmail.com

Hi folks, I am looking for a dump of the boot and character generator ROMs from a TRS-80 Model II (not Model I Level II) if anyone can help out. Thank you.

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TU58 Tape Images for 11/750

by iamvirtual＠gmail.com

I have imaged all of the TU58's that I have in my possession. See http://www.iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11software.html for additional 11/750 software including stand-alone backup and console images. From what I recall, I read each of the tapes twice and binary compared the results. I used PUTR running on a *shudder* modern laptop connected to my external TU58 drives. The external box uses RS232, so it was rather easy. Make sure you check the rubber roller inside the TU58 before you use it. I had to replace all of my rollers with a slice of PVC hose in order to use the tape drives. Is there anyone interested in acquiring the various bits of media and knowledge in one area specific to the Vax-11/750? The result of the work would still go to bitsavers, this would be a special interest group ;-) My 11/750 has VMS 4.7 loaded, and I am looking for images that I can use reinstall VMS onto a new drive (I don't want to scribble over top of the drive I have for fear it may contain something important). I would also like to organize a SIG for the really early PDP-11's (PDP-11/20 and PDP-11/10). Comments? --barrym > David Comley wrote: >> Has anyone imaged the VAX RDM Microdiagnostic tape (tape #1) for the 11/750 ? I'm > > Check my modest repository[1] at: > http://www.jaredblaser.com/antique/vax11750/TU58_diag_images/ > > I seem to have Tape #1. Please note that I haven't tried these images > yet. My 11/750's power supply is still under the weather, but slowly > we're sorting it out. > > -- Jared > > [1] Thanks to Barry M. for these images!

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Ebay final fee increases

by vax9000＠gmail.com

I received an email today of the new auction final fee schedule. I dug out the old emails (thanks to gmail). Before 02/18/2005: $0.01 - $25: 5.25% of the closing value $25.01 - $1,000: add 2.75% for those over $25 Over $1,000: add 1.5 for those over $1000 After 02/18/2005: $0.01 - $25: 8% of the closing value $25.01 - $1,000: add 5% for those over $25 Over $1,000: add 3% for those over $1000 (may miss some increases in between) After 03/01/2010: 9% ($50 cap) Thank you, monopoly.

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Free Stuff for pickup in NJ

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

I have some extra hardware that is free for pickup in Keansburg NJ starting next week: Qty 2 - HP Laserjet IIIP Printers Mixed lot of ISA network cards, mostly NE2000 clones. I think there's at least one NE1000 in there. Cards only. No docs or drivers. Most are dual Coax/10-Base-T Lot of Corvus stuff: Constellation Controller, mixed lot of Apple II/IBM adapters, a Mirror board, I think there's a 5mb Mac Omnidrive too, Constellation Cables, and some manuals/software. IBM Graphics Printer (EPSON MX-80) Power 100 Computer PowerMac 8500 Mac IIsi Mac LC III Mac LC I with a newer logic board in it. I have the original also. (I have keyboards and mice to go with all Macs.) HP Deskwriter Wallstreet G3 233mhz I'm moving to a smaller place and this old stuff has to go. PM me off-list. Al

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Wanted: Altair 680 VTL image and 1702 burning...

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

Hi, I would like to put VTL on my 680. I have a few 1702s but I need the image to put on them and someone to put them on for me. Can anybody help with either? Thanks, Bill

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Great old IBM Pic's

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Someone at work forwarded this link to me, knowing I like old computers. Definitely a nice set of photo's. http://www.luckham.org/LHL.Bell%20Labs%20Days.html Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

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Great old IBM Pic's

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 1/26/10, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Someone at work forwarded this link to me, knowing I like old > computers. Definitely a nice set of photo's. > > http://www.luckham.org/LHL.Bell%20Labs%20Days.html What a great blast from the past. I remember scenes like those from when I was a kid and we'd go on field trips to places like Rockwell and Battelle. -ethan

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Floomla / Floola

by woyciesjes＠sbcglobal.net

> From: Keith <keithvz at ...> > Sent: Mon, January 25, 2010 10:53:21 AM > Subject: Re: Museums > > ... > > Floomla is a decent free ipod app, btw... > > Keith This got me curious and looking... But I've got some detailed questions that I haven't been able to realy answer via Google. Can I contact you directly, Keith, (or any other Floola user) about it? Reply direct to me, since this is OT.... -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss

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Univac 422 sighting

by cclist＠sydex.com

Just happened to see one on an ancient rerun of the "Patty Duke Show". Although it was a "training computer", it still had 512 words of 15- bit storage and an instruction repertoire of 61 instructions. (6 bit opcode+9 bit address). Ed Thelen's list gives it as 1963. Power consumption, from the manufacturer's brochure, was 500W, with a 115VAC supply. Thelen gives it as 1.13KW, but I suspect that the difference is in the I/O device (typewriter, paper tape punch). Given the modest space and power requirements, would the 422 qualify as another one of the first minicomputers? Cheers, Chuck

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Square D Sy/Max 8010-SPR-300 Programmer rescued

by wgungfu＠gmail.com

Hey all, just rescued a Sy/Max Programmer today. Same model as the following: http://www.maraindustrial.com/catalog/8010SPR300.jpg Unlike that pic, everything looks in great condition. Thought I'd check here for any interest. Looking for trades or cash (which will ultimately go towards other equipment anyways). Marty

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ebay: PDP-11/03, dual RL02, RX02

by legalize＠xmission.com

Sitting at $100 right now. Seems like a good price. Item # 150408425839 -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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Display peripherals for PDP-10

by legalize＠xmission.com

Do any of these still exist? >From 1970 PDP-10 reference manual, part 7, pg. 631: "346/ 340B PRECISION' INCREMENTAL CRT DIS- PLAY: plots points, lines, vectors, and char- acters on a 9 3/8 in. square raster of 1,024 points along each axis. 1 1/2 us is required per point in vector, increment, and character modes. Random point plotting rate of 35/is. A 370 high-speed Light Pen is included. 342B CHARACTER GENERATOR for 346/ 340B 348/VR30 PRECISION POINT PLOTTING DISPLAY: operates at a maximum plotting rate of 20 KC or one' point every 50 ,ts on a 9% in. x 9% in. display area. Number of addressable points along each axis is 1024. A 370 high-speed Light Pen is included. ' VP10 POINT PLOTIING DISPLAY CONTROL: operates at either of two maximum' plotting rates. Low rateis 10 KC (one point every 100 ns). High rate is 50 KC (one point every 20 Ms). Number of addressable points along each axis is 1024. Control interfaces to. a cus- tomer supplied oscilloscope (Tektronix Type RM503 or equivalent) or to a CRT display. 370 HIGH SPEED LIGHT PEN: for use with VPl0." I'd never heard of there being graphics display peripherals. Looks like these are storage tube technology based, even though the description says "raster". I think here they just mean the addressable range of points on the tube. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

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David Ahl sez: Phila. Computer Music Festival remastered onto CD

by evan＠snarc.net

Got this email from Dave Ahl tonight: -------------------------- Hi Evan: At VCF last summer, I mentioned the Phila Computer Music Festival (Aug 1978) and asked if anyone was interested in a CD of it. Quite a few hands went up. So I finally took the time to make a CD of the Festival. Unfortunately I had to start with the vinyl record because the tapes had long since disappeared. But in remastering it, I was able to balance the tracks (on the original, the left was at a higher volume) and also adjust the volume of the various pieces to make them more of less equal (there was a 50% difference on the original). So now I have remastered CDs available with all the original jacket and liner notes (slightly re-edited) for $7.95 postpaid in USA. Maybe you could put out a notice to the VCF list. Complete Info and how to order can be found at http://www.swapmeetdave.com/PhilaMusic/

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OT hardware flexibility and reliability, was Re: Museums

by dm561＠torfree.net

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:26:54 -0500 From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> Subject: OT hardware flexibility and reliability, was Re: Museums <much snippage> >I'll simply explain my point and move on. <much more snippage> >Dave McGuire --------------------------------------------- Sigh... if only 'twere so; 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished... mike ********************

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HP HPIB chips

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

A week or so ago there were a few messages about the HP 'Medusa' HPIB chip. While looking for indormation on the custom chips in the HP printer I'm working on from time to time, I cam across some comments that might be applicable. The HPIB interface chip in the HP2531 printer is called 'Phi'. According to HP Jorunal July 1978, it is a silicon-on-saphire CMOS device. It's pacakaged in a 48 'pin' leadless ceramic package, and has the number 1AA6-6004 The Medusa, packaged in a 48 pin DIL package, seems to be a closely related device. The pinot is in the same order, for example. This probably explains the rather curious numbering of the data bus pins on the Medusa (D0, D1, and D8-D15, with D15 as the LSB). The best reference I've found so far on this is the reference manual for the HP12009A HPIB interface for HP1000 machines. It's on http://www.hpmusuem,net. THe earlier version of the manual there covers the Phi-based board, the later version the Medusa-based one. They are very similar.. -tony

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