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> From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com>
> To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
> Subject: RE: Apple III motherboard
> Date: Friday, June 16, 2000 01:39 PM
>
> Since I compose
> to paper (and still do and cannot understand why some
> programmers compose directly into thr machine),
Because I can type much faster than I can write.
Paul R. Santa-Maria
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA
paulrsm(a)ameritech.net
Anyone know where to find info on building a X1542 cable for a C64 floppy
drive, and getting the software? Someone on another list I'm on is looking
for the info.
Zane
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It has a built in 5 meg hard drive interface so it should just need cabling
to a hard drive.
It also uses the 6502 as a video controller to offload the video from the
Z80A.
The Keyboard is a 93 key keyboard with 17 function keys. If you go back you
might look around for it. It has the Visual 1050 Logo on it.
There was a VT100 emulator program supplied. Wordstar 3.3 was adapted for
it's special keyboard & it included Multiplan and GSS-Graph. New cost was
$2695 with SW, in 1984.
It is too bad many thrifts separate all of the component parts of the systems.
Paxton
In a message dated 06/16/2000 8:45:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
foo(a)siconic.com writes:
> Anyone ever hear of Synchro-Sette magazine (for the Sinclair ZX-81,
> TS-1000)?
Yes.
They were based in Addison, Illinois, and actually had an 800 number. The
magazine was $39.50 for twelve issues, and every other issue included a tape
cassette with at least six programs on it.
Unfortunately the programs and articles were all pretty much crap and the
company folded.
Glen
0/0
In a message dated 06/16/2000 9:53:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
foo(a)siconic.com writes:
> This is too cool. Advertised in the Dec/82 issue of Computers &
> Electronics, there's an ad on page 67 for a game for the TS-1000/ZX-81
> called Krakit. It's a puzzle type adventure game. What makes it special
> is that the publisher put up a $20,000 prize for the first person who
> could crack it.
>
> "KRAKIT consists of 12 clues on a ready-to-run ZX81 or TS1000 cassette
> tape (16k RAM). The answer to each clue is the name of a country, or a
> city or town, and a number. If you are the first qualified entrant to
> solve all 12 clues and declared the winner, you receive two tickets to the
> city of the secret KRAKIT vault location. When you arrive at that
> location, a check for a minimum amount of $20,000.00 (U.S.) will be
> presented to you. The amount of the prize money is augmented weekly."
>
> Has anyone ever heard of this? Did anyone ever crack it?
Sellam, if you ever read any of the Timex Sinclair related mags you would be
blown away.
Not too long ago on this ng the TS1000/ZX81 was voted "most limited" small
computer. Bull. Thousands of third-party developers of hardware and
software produced every imaginable type of product for this machine.
As regards Krakit, to my knowledge no one ever cracked it. I'll put out some
feelers.
> This game was published by International Publishing & Software Inc. It
> seems like an awful lot of money for a relatively unknown outfit to be
> offering. I wonder if it wasn't all just a sham, i.e. one of the clues
> was so hard as to be impossible to solve :)
I don't think it was a sham, it just didn't go over very well.
> If anyone has this game I'd like to have a copy of it.
Do you have a machine to run it on?
Glen
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Sounds like it could be reformatted and used as an RD53 for use in a PDP-11
or microVax.
Wim
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> >> 5.25" size, and note looking very easy to remove. Anybody interested?
Might
> >> even be a couple of them.
> >
> >I find no listing for a Miniscribe 6086. However, there were a 6085 and
> >a 6985E which were 71mb and ST506 MFM and ESDI RLL respectively.
>
> Most likely it is the 6085. Sounds like it isn't worth removing though.
>
>
On June 16, Don Maslin wrote:
> > > My primary car is a '95. It continued to run just fine when the '96
> > > came out. There's a clue in there somewhere.
> >
> > Big difference, though. A car is a car is a car. As long as it keeps
>
> I'm sure that there are a number of Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Lotus
> owners out there who would think that you are daft!
Well, since you mentioned it, the '95 car I mentioned above is a
Porsche 911...a car that has changed very little over the years since
its introduction. Any parallels of that in our industry? Aside from
people, that is...
-Dave McGuire
On June 16, William Donzelli wrote:
> > Non-HTML email is not exclusive to those of us who are into classic
> > computing. Non-HTML email isn't a "dying, quaint old way of doing
> > things" like some of the sold-on-Microsoft people seem to think.
>
> Well...yes it is. I would venture to say that these days, more use it
> than not.
I'm not sure I'd agree...but then I work in a company full of Unix
boxes and live in a neighborhood full of Unix people. But that's
the reality I see when I look out the window. Microsoft isn't
universally run everywhere. Sure, every suit has a Windows box on
his or her desk...but just as there's more to the human race than
suits, there's more to the world of computing than Windows.
-Dave McGuire
Despite the fact that every term program under the sun seems to support
Tek 4014/5, I cannot find a description of the control sequences anywhere
(just a reference to the termcap entry, but I want the *graphics* control
sequences, not the terminal ones). Does anyone know where I might find a
listing of them?
Until then, I'll use GNUplot ;-P
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On Jun 14, 17:58, Mark Champion wrote:
> Regarding the line length, I presume most users use "word-wrap" for their
email readers. This allows the reader to format the screen as desired
(similar to the way web browsers handle text). I believe all HTML
compatible email programs have this capability.
No they don't; and in any case many list members don't use "HTML
compatible" or even MIME-aware readers. HTML has no place in email. Email
does not revolve around M$ Outlook :-)
As you see from the above, you lose the quoting when most software does the
wrapping after the event. It's an accepted convention to keep lines short
-- and I seem to remember we had this discussion a few months ago?
> The big advantage of handling email this way is that when the line
lengths increase due to the > or > > or > > > which stack-up with each
reply, the email remains completely readable and well formatted. (I'm sure
everyone has received the email which is littered with tons of > > > > > >
> > > and barely intelligible.)
Well, I find the nesting usually makes it easier to retain attribution --
and I've never seen any software which can handle post-wrapping and keep
the correct indentations. Particularly since not everyone uses the same
quoting characters (I use "> " but others may use "<" or ":" with or
without a following space).
> If this is a general problem for other readers, let me know and I will
add the line breaks for any additional posts to this group.
Yes please.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
