I have received several emails about machines from people since the article
about came out in the paper Monday. If anyone has any interest please this
person. Thanks John
----- Original Message -----
From: bill57 <bill57(a)uswest.net>
To: <jrkeys(a)concentric.net>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:56 PM
Subject: my old NEC
> This link is dated Oct. 1, 97, but I thought I might try you
> anyway. I saw the article in the paper today and I am
> guessing your the man in that article. I picked up just
> yesterday an old NEC APCIII with monitor and printer. It is
> a NEC Pinwriter P7. I was wondering if you have any interest
> in it. If not, where can I get some info on it. Your help
> will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Bill Jungbauer
>
>
I'm forwarding this to both CLASSICCMP and the port-VAX lists.
Attached is a message found on Usenet from a fellow who could use (a),
some help setting up a QDSS graphics subsystem on his MicroVAX 3, and (b),
a "hockey-puck" mouse and a reference for the appropriate cable to use it,
the monitor, and the keyboard.
His current cable, a BCC-06 series, lacks the mouse connector.
Please reply to him directly at dan(a)dna.rockefeller.edu. Thanks much!
Attachment follows.
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 20:35:46 GMT, in alt.sys.pdp11 you wrote:
>>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,alt.sys.pdp11
>>From: dan(a)tsolab.org (Daniel Tso)
>>Reply-To: dan(a)tsolab.org
>>Subject: Help: Setting up a MVAX3 GPS system...
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>> I have been running Ultrix on a MVAX 3 and want now to
>>use the parts for the GPS (QDSS? QVSS?) graphics subsystem I have
>>lying around.
>> I have the boards required, I think: M7169 and two M7168,
>>with a 20pin ribbon cable bus on the left and I presume it needs a
>>50pin ribbin cable bus on the right.
>> I have the panel mount which as a DB15 on it, and I have a
>>BCC03-06 cable which has the DB15 on one end and a header box with
>>RGB BNC's on the other, along with a RJ-11.
>>
>> What I can't figure out is how the mouse (as well as what
>>kind of mouse) is supposed to be used with this setup. I presume
>>the RJ-11 is for the standard DEC keyboard. So how does the
>>mouse interface ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dan Ts'o, 212-327-7671, FAX: 212-327-7671
>>The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Ave. Box 138
>>New York, NY 10021
>>dantso(a)cris.com, dan(a)dna.rockefeller.edu
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Blue Feather Technologies -- kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech [dot] com
Web: http://www.bluefeathertech.com
"...No matter how we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object,
event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them..."
In response to a request from a guy in Poland, I recently
scanned my circa 1979 Intel data sheet for the 8257 DMA
controller.
Did I duplicate effort in that this doc was already online?
If not, where should I put the resulting 17 TIFF files?
- John
Does anyone have a power supply pinout or info for the TS2068? I didn't
get a good look at the unit (it appeared in good physical shape), but it has no
power supply and I'm unwilling to buy it merely for collectable value (all
my classic computers do WORK, darn it!). Well, okay, the KIM-1 doesn't. :-)
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--- Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com> wrote:
> >> > > So... does anyone out there have a Mac "null-modem" cable...
>
> How is this cable different fromAAAIcAAACIAAAAiQAA
> AIoAAACLAAAAjAAAAI0AAACOAAAAjwAAAJAAAACRAAAAkgAAAJMAAACUAAAA
> lQAAAJYAAACXAAAAmAAAAJkAAACaAAAAmwAAAJwAAACdAAAAngAAAJ8AAACg
> AAAAoQAAAKIAAACjAAAApAAAAKUAAACmAAAAp
Say what?!?
-ethan
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I just tried to order one from Circuit City Online. They bounced my
order - their web site will not let you backorder "out of stock" items.
Bleah.
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--- Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> wrote:
> <There does not appear to be an RS-232 port...
> This is one way, Ugly and prone to problems. Easier to hack the parallel
> port and do a parallel to serial converter. I consider the parallel port
> a resource.
So do I. I want the parallel port for PLIP or for network or to possibly
control an LCD module (if I can't control it from a serial port).
> I happen to be lucky and have a few Xircom Pocket eithernet adaptors so
> those will fill the parallel port.
At the moment, I have no Xircom adapters (I'm casually looking for a bargain
on a couple of PE-3s) and even if I had any, AFAIK, they only work under DOS
and DOS derivatives, not any flavor of UNIX. There are pocket adapters that
work, but I have never seen a working one for sale (there was this busted one
at the hamfest...)
As it turns out, one of the many pages on the iOpener that has sprung up
claims that the modem interfaces to the motherboard with RS-232. I don't
know if that means +/-12V or TTL, but it's a start. It appears to connect
via a .1" spacing DIP header of 2x5 or perhaps 2x6 pins. Easy enough to
squirt some data out the serial port and see what lights up with either an
oscilloscope or even just a traffic light.
> If linux supports USB there are all sorts of USB to whatever converters
> including Eithernet, modems, printers...
Depending on the USB chipset, yes. As I said earlier, USB support is imperfect
under Linux at the moment.
-ethan
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--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com> wrote:
> > Agreed, but I may stick a Linux Router Project kernel on the internal
> > SanDisk and mount stuff via NFS
> One of the links I posted earlier mentions that there are two related Linux
> distro's in the works. One will fit on a 500MB HD, the other will fit on
> the SanDisk.
I'm not worried about stuff not fitting at all - I have been playing with
entire functional distributions that act as dedicated web cams or routers
and the like that fit on a single 1.44Mb floppy. For something requiring
non-local space, it might be nice to mount over a network adapter, slow
or not. I do have a spare 500Mb disk to throw to the effort. It's in that
486/DX4100 flatpanel box I've also got.
As for fitting Linux on a small disk, I used to use a dedicated Linux
router not based on a reduced kernel. It was on a 125Mb disk. No C compiler,
no X, nothing but the kernel and basic networking. I had room left over.
ISTR it was Slackware, vintage 2.0.30 kernel, whatever that works out to be.
-ethan
ObOnTopic - I'm interested in putting up Doug Jones' emulator and running an
emulated PDP-8 on mine.I think it'd be cool to have the blinkenlights
simulated under X and cut to an OS/8 window, all on something that is very
portable. RadioShack sells a generic laptop adapter that some poster some-
where claimed works with the iOpener, but it's $80!
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I am looking for detailed information on the TMS-7000 microcontroller
>from Texas Instruments. On the web information on this processor is
very scarce.
Among the many things I do is maintaining a web site for a Dutch Amateur
Radio museum. This museum sometimes receives old rigs from the national
PTT, so they can sell them to licenced radio amateurs. This way the PTT
does not have to scrap them, and the homebrewers get quality rigs cheap,
and the museum gets some well needed money.
This time the rigs are somewhat modern, they are controlled by the TMS-7000.
Rewriting the firmware of this rig should be enough to get it to work on
amateur frequencies. The museum already has a pledge from someone willing
to undertake this task, but he needs documentation on the processor. There
is already documentation about the rig, but this only covers the radio
part of the set, not the computer part.
Does anyone have detailed info on the TMS-7000, like instruction set,
appnotes, etc? This would be a great help.
Thanks in advance.
Kees.
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I've gotten several requests for the Hayes Stack Chronograph Owner's Manual.
I finally got around to scanning it and putting it up on my web site. It's
available at:
http://incolor.inetnebr.com/bill_r/archive_of_esoteric_documents.htm
Hope this helps some of you who have been trying to figure out how to run
the things! :-)
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