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by TOwad＠aol.com

Hi Joe, Haven't heard from you. Did you ever find any Macs other than Pluses? Were you able to get system software? LMK. Sincerely, Tom

28 years, 3 months

I don't think these are RX02s...

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

These are some 8" disks which I was told are RX02 disks, but they aren't. I can't read them. And some of the labels sound funny... Z80 ASSEMBLER MANUAL Z80 INTERPRETER MANUAL PART 1 OF CDC PASCAL MANUAL PART 2 OF CDC PASCAL MANUAL WPS/78 V3.4 (No communications) WPS/78 V3.1F One labled "SA100 DISKETTE" WPS-v3 WPS SYSTEM< Anyone know what these are? -------

28 years, 3 months

Does anyone else here have a Fuzzball running?

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

I can't make Fuzzball start. It dies. You just load it like a normal RT-11 executable, right? I made a bos1.sav for my configuration, and when I start it, it halts at 2434. Is that a special address or something? I'm trying to load it on the 23+ at school. I have an 11/23+, MSCP, RX02s, 2Megabytes of RAM, and a DLV-11J. -------

28 years, 3 months

LNW Research computer

by weese＠mind.net

Gary: You have posted to a discussion group. Your friend meant to give you my personal e-mail address (weese(a)mind.net), I think. (I believe you are writing to me, as I haven't seen LNW stuff mentioned in the last month by anybody else on this group.) I'll write this both to the group, to clarify, & to you personally. ---mikey ---------- > From: Gary <glm(a)afweb.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: LNW Research computer > Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 5:45 PM > > A friend gave me your e-mail address. If you are the person that had the > LNW computer parts and manuals for sale, please send e-mail to > glm(a)afweb.com. I have one and the expansion board is defective. I need > schematics to fix it. Thanks a bunch if you can help. > > Gary >

28 years, 3 months

Mac IIci, was [Re: The IBM PS/2 model 70 again! -E61]

by sinasohn＠ricochet.net

At 08:20 PM 1/7/98 +0000, you wrote: >I agree. I just finished looking at the info as provided by apple's >site. So I will leave this IIcx alone. I thought of putting linux >on that when linux version get to full version release for that 68k >type. A IIcx for C$25 isn't that bad, assuming it has a decent size hard drive (80mb+) and some ram (4mb+). If it comes with a keyboard and mouse as well, and/or video card, you're doing pretty good. I would definitely pick one up at that price for Rachel's classroom. (The IIci is a little nicer, but a IIcx is very acceptable.) Note, if anyone (especially in the SF bay area) comes across mac stuff cheap that they're not interested in (especially monitors!) I'm always looking to get more computers into her classroom. (In case I haven't mentioned her before, my girlfriend (Rachel) is a 1st grade teacher in Daly City. We've put 10 or 11 macs in her school (8 in her class) so far, mostly based on my scrounging (or buying) parts and refurbing them.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

28 years, 3 months

How does microcode work??

by rcini＠email.msn.com

I know that this is a little off-topic, but here it goes. I'm reading the book "The Soul of a New Machine", a book about the development of DG's Eclipse minicomputers (great book, BTW). In there, they talk about a "microcoder," one who is responsible for developing the microcode for the processor. Inutitively I know what microcode is. I think of it as hard-coded ROM for the instruction fetch unit of the microprocessor. Since I haven't been formally schooled in computer science or microprocessor design, I'd like to understand (in 500 words or less <g>) how microcode works, i.e., how is it implemented and how does the microprocessor access it. I know that this is probably a topic that is worthy of volumes of paper, but the Reader's Digest version will do! Thanks. Rich Cini/WUGNET Charter ClubWin! Member MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking

28 years, 3 months

Kaypro's Available

by SjsPeak＠aol.com

I'm looking for a Kaypro II. Can you help?

28 years, 3 months

LNW Research computer

by glm＠afweb.com

A friend gave me your e-mail address. If you are the person that had the LNW computer parts and manuals for sale, please send e-mail to glm(a)afweb.com. I have one and the expansion board is defective. I need schematics to fix it. Thanks a bunch if you can help. Gary

28 years, 3 months

I now have a PDP-11/40 printset.

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

This should make for some interesting reading... I just says "PDP-11/40 system engineering drawings". The dates on the schematics inside say 09/22/72. Oh! This also includes the terminal? I guess this IS the "system" schematic... I was told that when you bought a PDP-10 that DEC included the operator's chair... and that the schematics for it came in the printset. I wonder what the part number would be for a PDP-10 console chair... Is this bull? Did they REALLY include the chair? -------

28 years, 3 months

PDP-8/Es available-another story.

by thedm＠sunflower.com

I'm 30 now, started playing with a Bell+howell apple][ in junior high school. Bought my first computer, a Timex Sinclair 1500 in 82, my freshman year in H.S. Everyone thought I was a big weenie and I was never socially accepted. in 85 I finally got an XT, I wanted an Apple][ but they were going by the wayside so I decided to get the XT scrictly based on software availability. I was a manager at Pizza Hut, things were looking grim for my future, I couldn't afford to go to college and was married. Then I got sick of all this and joined the Coast Guard, went to MST School in Virginia for the Coast Guard, 30% of MST's are system managers of some sort. I thought I might get lucky, I did, I scored a 99% on the computer section of the course and was made System Administrator of the 4th floor of Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington DC. I then got out of after my tour, I now collect older systems as a hobby, im way past 40 systems now, I have no idea how many I have, my new wife , hehe, another long story, tolerates it, and Im a network engineer for the Dept of Labor. I owe all this to Sir Clive Sinclair and my mom for encouraging my interest. I make about 43k a year, own my own home, not too bad for 30 and not a day in college. Good luck, and don't give up. Bill Girnius ---------- > From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead(a)retrocomputing.com> > To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> > Subject: Re: PDP-8/Es available > Date: Wednesday, January 21, 1998 10:45 AM > > > > > Ahh, that sucks! My parents have control of my money again, so I'd never get away with spending > > $50 on old computers... (They're trying to discourage me from playing with > > computers, and being about as subtle as a jackhammer...) > > I'll leave this public since it might be useful to someone...I'm 29 now > but when I was 16 or 17 my parents expended GREAT energy trying to get me > to stop playing with computers because my dad thought they were a FAD > (hahahahahahahahahahaa) and my mom thought it was unhealthy for me to > hide in the basement all the time like some brain-damaged monster. > > Tell your parents that today I have a college degree, have been out on my > own working productively since I was 20 (with VERY little external > support), earn twice the median income in my state, started a successful > business, own my own home, am married and honoring my parents by living > an upstanding and productive life. Playing with computers all those > years created that for me. And playing with OLD computers made me > self-reliant enough that in the last 9 years I've been unemployed a total > of about a week. > > My parents realize their mistake now...my father tearfully gave me his > gold retirement watch, which I accepted reluctantly, to show how proud > he is of me. My parents are happy with me and I'm happy with myself all > thanks to my tinkering all those years in the basement. > > > it'd be meeting the trashcan in a hurry. But if I tell them I got it free, > > they may not care. My parents (Esp. my stepdad) have a thing for tossing > > whatever I have that they don't like [Like my copy of Sailor Moon manga #13]) > > My brother tossed out a perfectly good 11/34a, some RL02s, a DecWriter > and a Franklin Ace 1200 from my parents' basement because he wanted a > weight room and my stuff was in the way. Pretty self-righteous of him > considering *I'M* not the one who's 42 and still living WITH mom and dad! > > BUT I'M NOT BITTER!!! =-D > > (Isn't it odd that if you get it free, they'll let you keep but if you > spent money on it they want to throw it away?) > > When I was 18 I waited until my folks were gone to move an 11/23 and two > RL02s downstairs to my bedroom. I made sure it was all racked up before > they got home...so it'd look too big and heavy for them to carry outside. > =-) I LOVED that machine! I put it behind the door sort of...so that > you could only open the door about 18"...kept my mom out of my room. =) > > Anthony Clifton - Wirehead

28 years, 3 months

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