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Thinker Toys (was: KFC (was: Mark your calendars for VCF 4.0

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> BTW, I also have for sale a post-namechange machine from a company once > known as "Thinker Toys". $20 with local pickup for machine plus printer > plus terminal (missing keyboard). $30 for machine by itself. > HINT: KFC and Thinker Toys were both in Berkeley, and moved > south once they became successful. That would be Morrow Designs... George should've kept the Thinker Toys thing, and put a hit out on the Tinker Toys lawyers. I am the proud owner of two Thinker Toys products, the Wunderbus, and the EconoRAM IV (hope that's the right model, this was one of those really EARLY dynamic RAM boards; the ceramic gold-topped versions of these chips worked fine, the but the plastic ones had trouble forgetting things when they got hit by cosmic rays). -dq

25 years, 10 months

Should I add a "Micro" PDP11/73 to the Herd?

by CLASSICCMP＠trailing-edge.com

>On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:51:17PM +0200, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote: >> Hi! >> [..] >> > Should I rescue this machine? What OS do I need to acquire for it? >> Sure!!! I don't know if 4.2BSD or 4.3BSD run on a PDP11/73, but in fact >> RT-11 does. It is now Freeware. >> Ciao, >> Freddy > >Since when is/was RT-11 freeware? It isn't, but Mentec will soon (I hope) have a hobbyist licensing program for RT-11, RSX-11M, RSX-11M+, and RSTS/E. Watch the "Hobbyist licensing" link on their "PDP-11"/"legacy systems" webpage at http://www.mentec.com/ > One of the hardest things about collecting >PDP-11s is getting OS licenses for anything but the older versions of >UNIX... 2.11BSD is the newest version and getting a hobbyist license for it is now easier than ever. See http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/ for the SCO license deal (now free). -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927

25 years, 10 months

VT100's and RX01 in Kansas City

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

> In my wanderings I just came across 2 VT100's, one of which doesn't power > up the other I can't get to to test yet. I haven't found the keyboards. > I also came across a "rack mountable" RX01. Basically a single 8 inch > disk drive is just below on the left side of a 23 inch wide 3 inch high > controller box. If there is any interest they will probably take $5 for > the RX01 and $5 for both VT100's and I can arrange packing/shipping if you > pay for it. > VT100-AA case is yellowed with some scuffs. It seems to have both RS-232 > and 20ma connector on the back. RX01 has a 8 inch floppy diskette in it > labeled "VMS 4.7 boot floppy working copy". > > Mike > Wandering computer scrounger

25 years, 10 months

KFC (was: Mark your calendars for VCF 4.0

by allisonp＠world.std.com

>> > TRIVIA QUESTION: What name did "Kentucky Fried Computers" change its name >> > to? >Jim, I'm disappointed. You, of all nerds, should know the correct answer >is Northstar Horizon. It's time to start taking a daily dose of Ginko >Biloba :) Still wrong! It was not the NS* Horizon as the name change preceeds it by not less than two years. Keep in mind I have the NS* MDS-A Minifloppy I'd bought before the NS* in late 1976 and KFC had long since been forgotten. If memory serves KFC was a 6800 based machine. Allison

25 years, 10 months

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Ooops, sorry, was supposed to be private... > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Quebbeman [mailto:dhquebbeman@theestopinalgroup.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 9:03 AM > To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org' > Subject: RE: Yo > > > Steve- > > Any luck digging out that Prime stuff? > > -dq >

25 years, 10 months

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

Steve- Any luck digging out that Prime stuff? -dq

25 years, 10 months

KFC (was: Mark your calendars for VCF 4.0

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> > > TRIVIA QUESTION: What name did "Kentucky Fried Computers" > > > change its name to? > > > (hint: I'm asking $100 with local pickup for one of their > > > post-namechange computers with the wood in good condition) > > Processor Technology? > No. > > Are you selling a SOL for $100? > Sorry. If I had one right now, I might. I'm still not certain anyone has answered this, so I'll try again... COuld it be a Scelbi? -dq p.s. not looking for a Sol, have a working one and two unfinished motherboards, one likely to go up on E-Bay soon, although I may solicit it for trade here first.

25 years, 10 months

A little more Am2900 learning/evaluation kit info

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> -> While I'd really like to lay my hands on one of these, I > -> suppose if I wanted to get daring, I could just pull the > -> ROMs from the Prime and burn my own (The Prime CPUs were > -> built using the AM2900 family; > > Same as all the Microdata systems. Wasn't Prime also Pick based > systems? Prime sold a subsystem called Information which was more-or-less a clone of Pick, and from the mid-80s on, this may have been its best-selling product (I'm certain it was in the UK). But prior and subsequent to that, Primes were very prevalent as university timesharing systems, and laboratory support systems. The Primos operating system had its initial roots in an older OS they called DOS, which had some legacy from another Prime OS, RTOS, which in turn was a port or re-implementation of Olert/4 and/or SAMTRAN, a Honeywell Controls OS funded by NASA. Beginning with the P400 processor, Prime systems were 16-bit data/32-bit address versions of the Honeywell Multics architecture (which was 18-bit data/36-bit address). -doug q

25 years, 10 months

by steverob＠hotoffice.com

> > Every collector should have a will, and it should direct the > disposition of their collection. Maybe the disposition is "sell it on > eBay", maybe it's offer it on ClassicCmp", maybe it's "give it to > Stanford"...or ? Since my only family is my sister, I told her "Just think, one day all of this will be yours". To which she replied "Great... Which dumpster should I put it in?" Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>

25 years, 10 months

DECassetes and HPIL/HPIB available

by schoedel＠kw.igs.net

NOTE: I am currently busy and will probably not reply promptly to email. To those already waiting for replies on other things, my apologies; I'll respond as soon as I get spare time. I have 200 DECassettes (TU-60 tapes) on hand; I want to keep a few in case I ever get a TU-60, but would like the others to find good homes. They are 'new' in sealed bags (though as they are obviously old magnetic media and I don't know how they have been stored, this is no guarantee they will be usable). Ideally I would like to trade the lot for something else interesting. The things I'm looking for that a TU-60 owner would be most likely to have available are an RL11 and RL02 packs, but if you want the tapes and have anything else to go, consider making an offer. Failing that, the tapes will be available for sale, to TU-60 users only, at some price not far above shipping cost. I also have a number of (used) HP-IL to HP-IB interfaces (HP 82169A) available. -- Kevin Schoedel <schoedel(a)kw.igs.net>

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