> A few years ago I picked up a old Plus to convert into an aquarium (I know,
> I know; but it was a fun idea). I had never quite seem a Plus like this
> before. It had a Sticker to denote it was a plus. It did not have printing
> or a platic label. It was simply a sticker.
>
> Now, Plus was stolen (why people stole it was beyond me), but I am still
> curious of the history that Mac may have had.
>
> I'd love to hear of any thoughts or such. I still have the keyboard and
> mouse from it, but I trashed the dot-matrix years ago. It was also an apple
> printer, but I was never able to id it. Wasn't and LQ or a first gen
> imagewriter. Very wide but not descript. Thoughts on that?
It might have been an upgraded 512K Mac; I believe there was a Plus upgrade
for those. The printer might have been a Wide Carriage Imagewriter. There's
a story that goes with that item:
"...
As Cary and I walked past Steve's office, we heard him yelling at the
printer guys, reminding them that every Wide Carriage ImageWriter built with
the hard-to-get microcontroller would likely cost the company a Mac sale.
"If you build even one of those Wide ImageWriters?", and then he told them
about a certain part of their anatomy that would be "cut off" if that
happened. The printer guys looked like they would rather be anywhere else
than right where they were. Before too much longer, Apple did ship the Wide
Carriage ImageWriter, the microcontroller shortage cleared up, and I always
felt privileged to have experienced so much about the Mac division on my
first day....."
The whole story is at
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=First_Day_in_t
he_Mac_Group.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date
Seth Lewin
I'd say any of the technical books from Addison-Wesley are worth keeping. Ive
got the BASIC programming with ProDOS and it's pretty detailed. There were so
many neat options back in the day. For example, I've got a ][+ with a special
80column card designed for it that could run a patched version of Appleworks.
It also had a replacement encoder board to do lowercase and had macro
capability.
Of course, the apple SCSI card is worth looking for. I've got one and tried
to connect a drive and no luck. Will have to try again.
The //c+ is pretty neat. I eventually got one, but they are not easy to find.
If you can find a working Apple /// or ///+ get it. I lucked out and got a
complete functional one with hard drive and original disks.
And of course, the LCD display for the //c.
>>What in the Apple line of computers, etc. is worth keeping, i.e.
>>hardware, software, documentation, and books? Besides the Apple I, are
>>there any other "holy grail" type of items?
I could use some help with what seems to be a BAD power
supply. For the past month, I started to experience more
and more frequent crashes of the system. About 2 weeks
ago, I figured that it seemed to be the power supply and
I started to use an external power supply for the 3 hard
disk drives. That solved the problem and a few days ago,
I replaced the internal power supply so that now the 3 hard
drives are back on the new internal power supply with the
rest of the system (and it is now very quiet again since the
external power supply had a noisy fan!).
Since I am not Tony Duell, I will just be tossing the old
power supply. However, before that, I would like to
know if there is a simple way to test the old power
supply to determine if that was the actual problem?
Please don't mention anything that requires me to open
up the old power supply. I only have an old analog
volt meter and could put a few light bulbs into a test
circuit, but that is about the limit! It really is not that
important, but it sure would be interesting to know if
that was the specific problem.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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I had written....
> >Why do I have a sneaky suspicion that this VT100 has been recently
> >repainted.
I was incorrect, the seller mentioned in the previous post is not in fact
who I was concerned it may be. My apologies for the aspersion!
Jay
Try:
http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/media/index.html
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:46:35 -0700 "Ed Sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>
writes:
> is there any Mattel manuals or sales lit. out there online? we need
> some
> visuals to go with the machine we are adding to the display
> here...
>
> thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
> To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"
> <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 1:23 PM
> Subject: Mattel intellivision
>
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Anyone have any troubleshooting expertise on these things? Got one
> of my
> > spares out for sale and typically the bloody thing is pretty dead.
> I say
> > *pretty* dead 'cos I get the cart intro screen on power up, but
> with the
> > computer module attached I get nothing. I've left it powered up
> for 15
> > minutes in case it's a warm up problem but that makes matters
> worse :)
> >
> > According to the service manual I have to replace either the RAM
> or CPU in
> > that order, but since spares for those will come from working
> intellivisions
> > I don't want to do that! Also, off the top of my head I can't
> think of any
> > other videogames that use the General Instruments GI1610 CPU,
> assuming
> it's
> > that that's croaked. The RAM is a GI-specific chip too. Spares,
> anyone?
> >
> > TIA :)
> >
> > --
> > Adrian/Witchy
> > Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs
> > www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online
> computer
> museum
> > www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________
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I found several of these a few days ago but I can't find anything about
them or the company that made them on the net. They're 3U type cards with
68000-10 CPUs and are marked MATRIX MS-CPU-02C. I found one mention of a
computer company called Matrix in an old copy of a VME news letter and they
said that the URL for Matrix is www.matrix.com but now that URL belongs to
a company that supplies hair care products. Does anyone know any more
about Matrix or these cards?
Joe
Hello all,
I have a question or 2 to ask on the HP9826. I am now the proud owner of
the labs old system.
Now I have several issues to resolve. The first is the reason I have and
the lab does not. The
display is out of focus and not too bright. I have tried to adjust using
the pots inside labeled focus
brightness. It helped alittle but not much. Any ideas?
Also its no fun without an OS. Now we have BASIC Ver 5.12 at the
lab. Unfortunately its on
3 1/2 inch diskettes and the HP9826 has a 5 1/4 diskette drive. Hence
short of using a mallet
that won't help. So is there a method of using a PC to make 5 1/4s for it
since I do have the
3 1/2s?
Thanks
Max
A friend has some diskette drives available. Please contact Jack Boatwright
directly jboatno4(a)outlawnet.com if you're interested. He probably doesn't
want much for them.
13 - 3.5" floppies (all 720K)
04 - 5.25" half-height floppies (size unknown, 360K?)
02 - 5.25" full-height floppies (size unknown, 360K?)
01 - 5.25 full-height floppy (DSQD)
Additionally, he is selling off some very unusual Timex Sinclair clones on
eBay (Jack most likely has the largest collection of Timex Sinclair related
items on Earth). Search for seller jboatno4.
Later --
Glen
0/0
I only got this auction email today, and hopefulltythis will be posted to the
list before Sat morn.
I hate when they send me the notice the day before the auction.
Anybody in the Amarillo, Tx area? Amarillo by morning?
The auction list shows a vt102 and a micro-pdp among hundreds of lots of
peecee stuff.
The stuff goes to the dumpster if not sold.
list:
http://www.bentleysauction.com/misc/catalogs/ama040304.txt
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the beginning.
Hi All
I love it. There is nothing worse than getting hundreds of incorrect
address notices from people you know you never sent anything
to. I just wonder if they can catch them all. Many are outside
of the country.
Dwight
>From: Patrick <patrick(a)vintagecomputermarketplace.com>
>Headline: "JURY FINDS BUFFALO SPAMMER GUILTY OF IDENTITY THEFT AND FORGERY"
>
>>From the text: "He was also found guilty of falsifying business records of
>EarthLink, when he forged the headers of email sent from the EarthLink
>accounts."
>
>Hmmm... if this is upheld, it has the beginnings of a major blow to that
>"industry", perhaps. --Patrick
>
>http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/apr/apr1b_04.html
>
>
>
Headline: "JURY FINDS BUFFALO SPAMMER GUILTY OF IDENTITY THEFT AND FORGERY"
>From the text: "He was also found guilty of falsifying business records of
EarthLink, when he forged the headers of email sent from the EarthLink
accounts."
Hmmm... if this is upheld, it has the beginnings of a major blow to that
"industry", perhaps. --Patrick
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2004/apr/apr1b_04.html
Hi folks,
Anyone have any troubleshooting expertise on these things? Got one of my
spares out for sale and typically the bloody thing is pretty dead. I say
*pretty* dead 'cos I get the cart intro screen on power up, but with the
computer module attached I get nothing. I've left it powered up for 15
minutes in case it's a warm up problem but that makes matters worse :)
According to the service manual I have to replace either the RAM or CPU in
that order, but since spares for those will come from working intellivisions
I don't want to do that! Also, off the top of my head I can't think of any
other videogames that use the General Instruments GI1610 CPU, assuming it's
that that's croaked. The RAM is a GI-specific chip too. Spares, anyone?
TIA :)
--
Adrian/Witchy
Owner & Webmaster, Binary Dinosaurs
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
I pulled one of my early 128k Mac's from storage for part of a Apple display
I'm doing on the 17th and was trying to find out the breakdown of the serial
number. The number on the unit is F40220FM0001 and I'm guessing that the two
F's are just there for show and that 40220 is the serial number and M0001 is
the model number? Is this correct?
On Apr 1, 20:16, Christopher McNabb wrote:
> Well, it's not strictly porno, but I do have the Mona Lisa printed
out
> on nice wide green-bar paper hanging in my cube. I also have the
Basic
> Plus program and data file.
Could I get a copy of that?
> I think that www.textfiles.com might have a bunch of ASCII art, if
they
> are still around.
I have a collection rescued from a few tapes about 10-15 years ago,
which I can put on my website if anyone wants them. Some of it is very
small simple files, some are fairly ambitious and run to a few 100K
bytes, and I have some VT100 display hacks as well, about 12MB in all.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Dear Kevin:
I've been browsing the web for a schematic for the Heathkit ET-1000 digital
trainer and I saw your posting. The unit has been fully repaired, but I'm
still worried about future repairs.
By any chance or design, do you have a schematic you could fax or email me?
It would even be helpful (and perhaps sufficient) if you could identify the
DIP chip on the Main Board (not the Power Supply board) that is labeled "2206CP
8271". Might it be a function generator chip? NTE and other sources do not
list what this chip is or what it does.
Anyway, if you still have data on the ET-1000 help would be very much
appreciated!
Thanks,
Dave
(DFoster(a)aol.com)
All --
< RANT_MODE=1 >
Sorry, I never could pass up an internecine fued of the UNIXes.... I'd like
to go on the record. I love AIX. And there are a couple of bullet points
we've missed in our description of it. The most important is its underlying
object repository. This may have been the seed of the AIX vs. AS/400
thread. AIX invented the central system registry long before Microsoft.
That's the engine behind its package and device management. It's the
underlying engine most of the standard admin commands ultimately converse
with. Very un-UNIX - and thank you to the IBM _wunderkinder_ for that.
UNIX is a wonderful thing, but why must we live in a timewarp where
anything not envisioned in the 1980s isn't "real UNIX". Let's move on
shall we? Linux is a good example. It's based on a complete rewrite of
Minix, itself a complete rewrite of AT&T System V. By all means, let's
preserve the vintage, and don't throw the baby out with the bath water. But
why should the UNIX community turn Luddite?
IBM as we've all said, did a rewrite of the kernel. Rather than porting
System V and glomming on some Berkely additions, IBM re-engineered the code
>from scratch. In the upcoming version, they are doing it again to
accomodate even more robust enterprise configurations with sub-CPU LPARs
and mainframe like accounting/management facilities on a rapidly advancing
64-bit CPU design. It's my own assessment they are moving AIX to the top of
the tree for big iron, and moving the zOS hardware toward commodity Linux
VMing. It's a move that follows the market's application development trend
for enterprise systems. Thee development community writes more for big
Unix, so this is perfectly sensible.
Just to keep this post from being too out of thread, I might just mention
my 10 year old 990 and 390 RS/6000s are still wonderful machines to work on
now. I use the 390 as a graphic station (if you could believe it). It scans
and GIMPs with the best of them. Only compression routines make it slow
down. The I/O's faster than the laptop I'm writing this post on.
Okay,
< RANT_MODE=0 >
Colin
Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
> Just curious - are you using iverilog?
Yes.
> I wonder about viewing waveforms, however.
Well, it says you can use GTKWave, and I assume it works, but I myself don't
need any pretty pictures: I personally can see whether my logic works right or
not from textual simulation output better than from pics. My brain prefers
text to graphics in absolutely every area of life.
MS
Just out of curiousity, does anyone still have a working drum storage
device? wondering if any working examples have survived...
I have a half-assed plan to try and find one from somewhere at some
point. We have a Sperry unit that's way beyond repair, and don't have
anything other than the drum assembly itself anyway (the bearings still
seem good though so I might see if it can be coaxed into spinning) - but
a working demonstration would be great hooked up to one of the 1960's
machines.
I gather that telphone exchanges used to use them here in the UK so
maybe there are still a few lurking in private hands as they must have
been reasonably common at one point. The flipside of course being that
they're pretty bulky devices in themselves, and with the low reliability
they've maybe all gone to scrap years ago (unlike other peripherals of
the area which survived).
cheers
Jules
Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com> wrote:
> >[snip] My brain prefers
> >text to graphics in absolutely every area of life.
>
> Including Porn??? :-O ;-)
Well, since I'm absolutely loyal to my fiance, I am not interested in porn, but
for those who are, yes you CAN have ASCII porn. Not too long ago I was chatting
on IRC and a gal joined the channel I was on. Some guy asked her if he could
see her tits. She replied:
(@) (@)
So ASCII works for porn too.
MS
Forwarded...
contact original author with any help or inquiries;
he's not on the cctech list.
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 07:17:13 -0800
From: Mike Koon <mikekoon(a)comcast.net>
To: [...]
Subject: xxdp v1 handbook,and running pdp11-84
[...]
My name is Mike Koon, and I maintain PDP 11-70's and an 11-84 at a west
coast newspaper. We will be removing these running machines any time
between May 1,2004, and August sometime. Are you interested in having
these for your museum? They have an interesting device attached to
them, called a PCL, which was a early DEC networking system. I haven't
talked to the owner, but I would think that they would give them to you.
Let me know.
Also, I am Looking for a copy of the XXDP-11M+ Diagnostic handbook, or
Card. I am looking for the procedure for building a v-1 diag. tape,
from disk, to tape.
Let me know -
Mike Koon
Mike Koon(a)comcast.net
der Mouse <mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
> Possibly - or perhaps a KA620 is one example of an rtVAX, much as a
> KA630 is an example of a VAX.
You are right of course conceptually. But I'm pretty sure now that KA620 was
the only implementation of the rtVAX architecture.
> My VARM is "Revision 6.1" and is not obviously marked with an edition
> number.
1982-05-20, right? I have that one too, it's my first VARM, one of Tim Shoppa's
early gifts to Quasijarus Project. The early VARMs, the EK-VAXAR-RM ones, are
lovely: 100% pure ASCII, except for boldface section headers the book is line
printer output. From the appearance seems to be very close to the DEC internal
VAX spec, DEC STD 032 (though not having a copy of the latter it's an educated
guess). But then they stopped issuing VARMs in that format, and published it as
a book (with ISBN and all, rather than an EK part #). The book version of VARM
had two editions: 1st ed. in 1987 by Tim Leonard (listed as the keeper of the
DEC internal VAX spec in an appendix to another highly secretive DEC internal
spec I have) and 2nd ed. in 1991 by Richard Brunner (wonder what happened to
Tim...). I have acquired both of these books recently. Not having a copy of
the genuine article (the DEC internal STD 032 spec) I have to live with the
published versions instead, so I was trying to acquire as many of them as
possible to complete my mental picture of the complete architecture spec and its
variations. (I'm designing a new VAX CPU chip, so I have to have a very solid
picture of the spec requirements and options and their evolution.)
Would anyone perchance have a copy of the real VAX spec, DEC STD 032 aka
EL-00032-00 aka A-DS-EL00032-00-0?
> I don't recall seeing an rtVAX mentioned in it, and the index
> does not list anything beginning with rt-.
Yeah, of course the 1982-05-20 VARM predates it by a few years.
Brian Chase <vaxzilla(a)jarai.org> wrote:
> The 2nd Ed VARM has a section on rtVAX memory management, 11.2.3 on pgs
> 422-424. I don't yet see any other mentions of it the book to indicate
> whether it actually is designated as the KA620.
Table 8-2 on pp. 331-332 lists the SID code assignments, and 16 decimal is
listed as "rt/uVAX (chip 78R32)". Knowing that 78032 is the MicroVAX II chip,
used in KA630, KA410 (MV/VS2000), and a bunch of other less-known systems (see
the SYS_TYPE codes the same table lists for SID 08), it's pretty obvious that
the rtVAX 1000 listed by the table as being based on this 78R32 is the KA620.
Since the MMU is internal to the CPU chip, the difference between KA630 and
KA620 is in the silicon (78032 vs. 78R32) rather than board-level.
MS
On Apr 1, 9:39, Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Tony> You hope... If the power fails and your NiCd pack isn't any
> Tony> good, then the heads will land on the platter with nasty
> Tony> results...
>
> NiCd? You must be thinking of the big capacitors (not batteries)
that
> do the emergency head retract in the event of powerfail.
Erm, in my RK05s there are NiCd packs which provide the power, and no
capacitors in the way.
> Tony> Anyway, the 'ting' when the heads load on an RK05 is claimed
to
> Tony> be the heads bouncing off the platter, so they may well touch
> Tony> for an instant.
>
> I rather doubt that. The sound is no different from the "ting" sound
> you hear when the head actuator seeks.
It shouldn't 'ting' on a seek! That's a bad sign.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know of w freebee uudecode for windows?
If Weendoze can still run DOS executables, this should work for you:
ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/micro/msdos/interchange/uuencode/
MS
I still have one that my dad purchased it is still in its original Styrofoam
with manual and all the parts I even have the warrantee page and the page
with the types of cassette players and TVs it is not compatible with and a
program my dad wrote for it my husband was laid off and we need the money or
I would hold on to it. It is the first home computer he ever bought I
remember going with him to get it
Let me know if you are still interested in it and how much you might be
willing to pay for it I can send you a picture if you wish
tablab(a)kellerits.com
I'm 75 miles away in St. Joseph, MO, but no wheels until next Wednesday,
and will have through Sunday. Nothing worse than to have to rent a car to
find another car to buy.
Gary Hildebrand
> The Teletype in question is actually on the outskirts of Topeka, Ks.
>
> If there are any list members there who could possibly assist in packaging
> it would be greatly appreciated (and a reasonable fee paid)
>
> The shipper is NOT a collector, rather if a person who "inherited" the TTY
> and is basicly clueless [although very nice].
>
> David.
>
>
I have a nearly complete KSR-33 that I'd like to find a good home
for. It is literally a basket case - it's in quite a few separate
pieces but all there as far as I can tell except for the
cover/housing, and possibly a few small springs. Motor is good. I
also have a papertape reader assembly but no punch (you'd need an
ASR baseplate to make it into an ASR-33).
Make me an offer. I'm in West Plains, MO 65775 so you can figure
shipping.
-Charles
Hi
Although, one may have some success by shipping in
a cardboard box only ( mine was trashed ), it should
be bolted to at least a piece of plywood. If this
is put into a box, proper strain relief should be done
where plywood edge meets the box. This is so that the
plywood doesn't just poke through the box.
These units are too heavy to be in a cardboard box
alone.
Dwight
Does anyone have any suggestions about debugging a TU58?
This is a dual TU58 from a vax 730. The symptom is that when I try to
boot from it the tape rewinds a bunch of times and then reads off the
end of the tape.
I removed it and poked all around with a scope and the schematics. The
motor control is fine as well as the tachometer. The read channel shows
no activity, even when I put a tape in and move the tape. The micro
seems happy.
I connected it to "tu58ctl" and I can talk to it and send/receive
commands. But when I try to position the tape I get a "motor stopped"
error.
I'm begining to wonder if the 3 TU58 carts I have have been bulk erased.
I have no "known goods" and I've never read these tapes. I made the
assumption they were good but that might be a mistake.
(wish I had those mythical proms which can write carts :-)
I put a scope on the signal from the read heads and I see nothing when
the tape spins by. I find that very odd. I would think I'd see pulses
even if the blocks where all zeros... So nothing makes me think the
tapes have been bulk erased.
Is there any way I can test the read channel without having a good tape?
(I assume not, but I know very little about tape drives, perhaps there
is some 'technique').
I know the tapes are useless if they have be bulk erased - but will the
symptom be no read channel activity? (I assume so).
blah. if I've wasted all this time on bulk erased tapes %$#%@#@!#$
-brad
I've found an old RadioShack package with an MK5017BB Clock/Calendar chip.
Unfortunately, the datasheet which was once stapled to the back of the
card is missing. Google doesn't have much on it. One interesting reference
is at www.datamath.org/Mostek_IC.htm where the part number is listed in a
series of calculator chips (it lists the MK5017 as having been in the
Corvus 305 calculator, with square root, 1/x and a clock/calendar).
I also found this picture on the die itself...
http://www.mindspring.com/~mary.hall/mosteklives/photos/mostek_mickey.jpg
But no specs.
Does anyone have info on this thing?
Thanks,
-ethan
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SIMMS are the new stuff -- lets talk old, like:
1 meg X 1 bit DRAM in a 20 pin DIP package. I bet most of that has ended
up on the landfill by now. I need a large quantity to populate Amiga RAM
boards.
Gary Hildebrand
St. Joseph, MO
Antonio:
CDCheck looks like what I need. I can do two checksum files (one on
each directory) and compare the results.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Rich
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:12 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Comparing existence of massive number of files
> Any good MD5 utilities for Windows that will handle
> large file sets? I downloaded two today but one is a file-by
> file MD5 and the other doesn't recurse down the directory
> tree...it only does the current directory.
These days, when I put together a data CD, I use CDCheck to
build a CRC file for it. Once the CD is burned, I verify using
the same tool to be sure it all made it onto the CD.
I use MD5SUM too, but that does one directory at a time
(AFAICT) so it is a little less useful.
Antonio
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---------------
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Joe R. was asking about Matrix cards
We used to have a VME based x-ray film scanner that was a Matrix
product, it was a prototype. If I remember correctly I think Matrix was
based in California and made film cameras and scanners for industrial
applications. Our initial unit had a VME controller with a micro PDP-11
as the network interface. I think I have the micro PDP-11 somewhere in
my garage.
Looks like Agfa purchased them.
Mike
Patrick:
Funny you should mention Windiff. After reading the responses today
I was going to use Windiff to compare the directory printouts produced on
both machines and see if there's a difference in the output.
But thinking about it, Windiff has the ability to directly compare
directories. If I point it at the top "parent" on each machine I should be
able to see differences right away.
I guess then the final test would be comparing the MD5's on each
directory to ensure file integrity.
Any good MD5 utilities for Windows that will handle large file sets?
I downloaded two today but one is a file-by file MD5 and the other doesn't
recurse down the directory tree...it only does the current directory.
Rich
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:54 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts; CCTech (E-mail)
Subject: RE: Comparing existence of massive number of files
Rich, one word: windiff. It's in the NT resource kit, and I think it's in
the small version of the kit downloadable at the URL below. --Patrick
http://www.microsoft.com/ntworkstation/downloads/recommended/featured/ntkit.
asp?SD=GN&LN=EN-US&gssnb=1
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard A. Cini
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:44 PM
> To: CCTech (E-mail)
> Subject: Comparing existence of massive number of files
>
>
> Hello, all:
>
> I just moved most of my collection of on-line data to a new
> server here at
> home. I want to verify that all files have been copied and I
> didn't miss any
> directories/subdirectories. Basically I did it through a drag-and-drop
> across the network.
>
> What's the best way to do this? The OS is Windows NT
> (Server) and I'm
> looking at about 22gb of files of various types -- from music to source
> code.
>
> Any ideas? I still have the original server on standby for this
> verification before I wipe it clean for sale.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Rich Cini
> Collector of classic computers
> Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
> Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
> /************************************************************/
>
>
>
Another IT department here at Caltech (not mine) is looking to unload
an IBM "mainframe". Details of the configuration are listed below.
I believe they are willing to entertain offers of "I will take it
away", if made fairly soon. If you are serious, contact me off list
and I will put you in touch with the right folks.
Thanks,
John
>Hardware: IBM 9221-170, mem - 64mb installed, no expanded ; disk -
>IPL & all other vols. resided on EMC; 3274 console controller; ps2
>processor console.
>
>This is what the system supported in 1999 (EMC was bus/tag
>connected; all adapters supporting the equip. listed below should
>still be in place):
>
>ES9000 Mainframe Channels:
>
>Channel 0 -
>
> 02B - Printer 4245
> 02F - Printer 3203
>
>Channel 1 -
>
> 120-159 EMC2 drives
>
>Channel 2 -
>
> 220-259 EMC2 Alternate Address
>
>Channel 3 -
>
> 360-39F 7171
> 3A0-3BF 3274
> Note: 3A1 is the main ES9000 Console
>and 3A9 is the alternate
> 3C0-3FF 7171
>
>Channel 4 -
>
> 420-43F 3274
> 440-45F 3274
> 460-47F 3274
> 4A0-4DF 7171
>
>Channel 5 -
>
> 5A0-5A5 3480
>
>Channel 6 -
>
> 620-659 EMC2 Alternate Address
>
>Channel 7 -
>
> Microsoft Gateway
>
>Channel 8 -
>
> 820-859 EMC2 Alternate Address
>
>Channel 9 -
>
> 960-99F 7171
> 9A0 MT Gateway TOSS 256 LU's
> 9A1 MT Gateway CITNET 256 LU's
>Channel A and B -
>
> Unused
--
John A. Dundas III
Director, Information Technology Services Infrastructure, Caltech
Mail Code: 014-81, Pasadena, CA 91125-8100
Phone: 626.395.3392 FAX: 626.449.6973
> It's almost certainly a video card. I don't think
> Matrox ever built anything else.
Me and my Matrox CTM 300 ANSI terminals say different 8^)=
Cheers,
Lee
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I've gotten a pile of emails this morning, so after I sort through who
wants what and who asked first, I think it's all gone as of this
moment. As soon as I figure it out, or if I come up with more stuff,
I'll post up.
If you've sent me an email -- I'll get to it in a little bit.
Thanks!
Paul Braun
Cygnus Productions
nerdware(a)ctgonline.org
"If you can make it all the way through Warren Zevon's 'The Wind'
without crying,
you have no soul.
"At Microsoft, Quality is Job, oh, I dunno, maybe 6 or 7?"
>Any estimates on what would be a "reasonable" estimate for shipping a
>Teletype (with base, two cartons] Origination is Long Island, Destination is
>not known except it will be within the "lower 48" states.
I shipped one a while back. I broke it down into two parts, the teletype
and the base. I packed each in their own box. I got boxes that were a
good bit larger than the part to be packed, and IIRC, then lined the
boxes with formed FedEx boxes (the free ones you get from them) to act as
stiffeners. Then lined the interior of the now "double box" assembly with
bubble wrap. Then heavily wrapped the item in layers of bubble wrap. Then
placed it into the box, filled the voids, put on the top layer of lining
boxes, then taped it shut.
I think the total cost was something like $40 or $45 per box to go from
NJ to St Louis (it was probably 2 years ago, but I seem to recall it was
something in that range... I think the boxes were about 65 lbs each
packed).
I'd assume they arrived in good condition as I didn't hear any complaints
>from the person I sent them to. You can ask Jay to be sure, he's the one
that got it.
>Also any recommendations on a carrier?
I used FedEx Ground, simply because I had a FedEx account, and they were
willing to do it cheaper then UPS.
>Finally any "sepcial packing techniques [specifically any internal
>assemblies that need to be secured]?
Um... I can't help you there, I honestly hadn't thought about that issue
until you asked it here. Now I am worried that I caused the thing to be
trashed in shipping because I failed to bolt something in place.
(Probably not, or I'm sure Jay would have complained)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>From the 1977 Fairchild Bipolar Memory book:
93448-DC isoplanar schottky ttl memory, 512x8 programmable read only memory.
nichrome fuse links. d is for ceramic dip, c is for supply voltage
tolerance and temperature range (needs better supply, not as wide an
operating range) 24 pin.
joe heck
At 11:41 AM 3/30/04 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>
>> I found a board with several of these yesterday. Can anyone id them? I've
>> searched the net and all I can find are sellers with no names or
>> descriptions of what the ICs are. Chip directory comes up empty. They're
>> 24 pin ICs with white ceramic bodies and gold lids and legs. They're marked
>> "93448-DC" and "F 7633".
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
>
>
>Fairchild 512X8 Bipolar RAM
>
>(First hit with Google :-)
>
You guys must have a different Google than I have! The first TWO hits
that I got are for Dial Electronics. They have the part listed but don't
say what it is, who made it or how much they want for it. The next two
hits are for HKinventory and they give the same lack of information. Then
USBid, Doom, and others. NONE of them give any information about the part
at all. Thre are pages and pages of the same kind of useless hits. That's
why I'm dumping Google!
Joe
>Peter Wallace
>Mesa Electronics
>
>
I'm officially giving up collecting. When I started, I didn't realize the
amount of space it would take, and I also didn't realize that there
were people out there with 1000 times more stuff, who actually had
time to use it....
I've gotten rid of most of it a couple years ago, but it's time to get rid
of everything except my original Vic20 and C=64, and my 2 Amigas.
Here's what has to go:
2 Apple IIGs cpu's, one 5-1/4" floppy, one 3-1/2" floppy, modem and
monitor
3 Apple Disk ]['s
Apple ][e
Apple ][
Monitor for ][ (monochrome)
Macintosh Performa 400
Imagewriter ][
Smith-Corona Daisywheel printer (was used with Kaypro II)
Commodore Plus 4
IBM PCjr
box of Kaypro software
miscellaneous Apple software
other crap as I come across it
I just want this to go to someone who has time to play with it. You
pay shipping -- it's yours. Or, if you're in the Chicago/NW Indiana
area, I can arrange for pickup.
I want this out of here by the end of next week. If nobody wants it, it
will unfortunately go to the recycler.
Email me. Thanks.
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
nerdware_nospam(a)laidbak.com
"A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog
without a bunch of bricks tied to its head."
Hi,
Does anyone out there have a TC08 wire list? I am thinking of creating a
replica TC08 and need a way to check my work.
ECO information would be good to have, too.
Thanks!
Vince
Matrix might have been a maker of VME CPU boards, but video board maker from
Montreal was named Matrox and they are still in existence, web address is:
http://www.matrox.com/ .
You might want to try VITA's web site: http://www.vita.com/jun96vj/toc.html
for some information on Matrix' CPU boards; VITA is VME maker's association
and they might have information on legacy products. Additionally, you can
try search on Google for all three words: "matrix cpu vme".
Regards
Miroslav Pokorni
Hello, all:
I just moved most of my collection of on-line data to a new server here at
home. I want to verify that all files have been copied and I didn't miss any
directories/subdirectories. Basically I did it through a drag-and-drop
across the network.
What's the best way to do this? The OS is Windows NT (Server) and I'm
looking at about 22gb of files of various types -- from music to source
code.
Any ideas? I still have the original server on standby for this
verification before I wipe it clean for sale.
Thanks again.
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
/************************************************************/