Hi Philip,
Don Maslin has the list of Intertec stuff below in his collection of
CP/M boot disks. He is kind enough to distribute these in the U.S. for
his cost of $3/first disk and $1/each additional. Contact him at
donm(a)cts.com and see what it would run for international shipping.
Kai
INTERTEC SUPERBRAIN & COMPUSTAR
Name Format Description
QD-BIOS4 DSDD System disk w/ experimental BIOS
QD-UTILS DSDD System-specific utilities
QD-ZCPR3 DSDD ZCPR BIOS and source
QDHDBIOS DSDD Hard disk BIOSes
SBRAIN32 SSDD SUPERBRAIN v 3.2 system disk
VPU-COMM SSDD COMPUSTAR communications files
VPU30ENH SSDD COMPUSTAR enhanced system disk
VPU30NON SSDD COMPUSTAR non-enhanced system disk
VPU30NRM SSDD COMPUSTAR non-enhanced system disk
WATSTAR DSDD COMPUSTAR(?) network BIOS & files
COMPUSTR TXT System description
SBRNINFO TXT Boot-up information
CMPSTR30 ZIP COMPUSTAR system files
CSR-COMM SSDD Backup to VPU-COMM
CSR30ENH SSDD Backup to VPU30ENH
CSR30NON SSDD Backup to VPU30NON
CSR30NRM SSDD Backup to VPU30NRM
NEW.COM Short program to allow 'smarter' C'Star to run
non enhanced operating system
NORMAL.COM Restores screen to normal video
> ----------
> From: Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
> Reply To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 1997 9:20 AM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Superbrain
>
> One machine I hear very little about nowadays - the Superbrain.
>
> It was one of the CPM machines that competed with the later PETs and
> things, and there used to be one that sat in the librarian's office
> where I work. One day I saw it being trundled towards the stores, and
>
> sure enough it appeared in the skip soon afterward.
>
> A little discussion with our procurement (= disposals) people, and the
>
> machine went home with me. It now sits on my shelves, waiting for
> someone to give it a boot disk.
>
> Anyone know where to get system disks for this machine? I have one
> friend who keeps promising to ask his neighbour (etc....) to get me
> one,
> but said neighbour never seems to be available. Can anyone else get
> me
> a disk? - I will pay all reasonable costs involved, of course.
>
> Philip.
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Philip Belben
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> Bloedem Volke unverstaendlich treiben wir des Lebens Spiel.
> Grade das, was unabwendlich fruchtet unserm Spott als Ziel.
> Magst es Kinder-Rache nennen an des Daseins tiefem Ernst;
> Wirst das Leben besser kennen, wenn du uns verstehen lernst.
>
> Poem by Christian Morgenstern - Message by
> Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
>
>
I saw a thing on SCO's webpage about submitting a success story to win a
prize. I decided it was time for some shameless plugging!
Look what I got in return... He almost gets the point...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:23:52 -0400
From: Jim Sullivan <jim(a)sco.COM>
To: dseagrav(a)tek-star.net
Subject: Re: Success Story
Well this came in through a strange interface....
At 05:20 PM 8/11/97 MDT, you wrote:
>Name: Daniel Seagraves
>Telephone: 692-5893
>
>Customer's Environment: I have a PDP-11. I bet it would make for some
>pretty decent advertising if you'd give me the
>source to compile Unix on it... :)
Well, since much of the early UNIX development was done on PDP11s, a version
of UNIX could possilbe be found for it, but it's probably very old and
out of date. Of note, my first job in the industry was with a company
called Human Computing Resources (later HCR, later merged with SCO).
HCR was one of the pioneers in the UNIX industry and was the provider of
UNIX ports and layered implementations of UNIX across many platforms,
including PDP11s. PDP11/Unity was one of our products. Of course, we
don't sell it anymore and haven't sold it for over a decade.
I seriously doubt that the current UNIX source code could easily port
to the PDP11 environment.
>The Economics: To be determined.
Probably not worth it...
>System Configuration: 2 systems:
>PDP-11/44 Unknown RAM, RA81 475MB 12" harddisk
> 32 terminal ports, FPP, misc. goodies.
>PDP-11/23+ 1 meg RAM, KDF11-B CPU, No harddisk, 2
> RX02 8" Floppy drives.
Well, loading UNIX, as it exists today, into 1M, may be impossible.
Good Luck, but I don't think I can help you.
----
Jim Sullivan "Don't plant your bad days. They grow into bad
SMB Segment Marketing weeks and then bad months and before you know it
SCO - jim(a)sco.com you've got a bad year" - Tom Waits
416 216 4611
Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> writes:
> No, it was not like a Koala pad or touch pad but more like a digitizing
> pad. The end of the arm looks like it has a magnifying lens on it. The arm
> assembly looks a lot like a miniature version of a drafting machine.
The arm has joints at its base and middle, right? And the base of the
arm is at the top center of the pad?
I'd expect this thing to look like two game paddles to an Apple ][,
where the obligatory 150K linear pots are mounted at the joints so to
report their angles. That and software could get you a tolerable
digitizing tablet depending on how tolerant you are and the quality of
the pots.
My vague recollection is one of seeing it advertised in Creative
Computing in the early 1980s, maybe by one of CC's related companies,
but I may very well have my wires crossed.
-Frank McConnell
At 00:02 12-08-97 PDT, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 20:38:05 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Brett <danjo(a)xnet.com>
>To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
>Subject: Hey Bruce - don't get rid of it yet!
>Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970811203257.24325F-100000@typhoon>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>
>Bruce, and everyone else. I just heard from Bill. He got in a car wreck
>going over to Bruce's place to pick some stuff up. Not knocking ya Bruce
>but from now on we can call a wreck - getting Bruced 8-) He is OK but in
>a cast and car-less (for a while) and can't get to read the list. Maybe
>we should have a little *Net Get Well* party for him?
Yikes! No offense taken, but I'd prefer to have something a little more
pleasant associated with the term -- perhaps being loaded down with
hardware? ;-)
Anyway.... thanks, Brett! I'm sorry to hear about the wreck, and I will
hold the stuff for him until I know one way or the other. Glad to hear it
wasn't more serious than a cast.
Any details on where or who hit him? There are a couple of hotspots on the
route to my place that are unavoidable unless you really know the area well
and, for the sake of my own hide, I'm curious as to where he got nailed.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Sysop, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fidonet 1:343/272)
(Hamateur: WD6EOS) (E-mail: kyrrin(a)wizards.net)
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our own
human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
does anyone have technical documentation (prints
would be nice, but just a high quality description of what's
where in the address space of the z80 would make
following out things easier) for a Morrow micro-decision md-1.
Kai Kaltenbach <kaikal(a)MICROSOFT.com> writes:
> Does anyone know what a Corvus Concept is?
A little. I have one, haven't actually fired it up as yet but
have looked through the manuals a bit.
It's a 68000-based system, integrated monochrome graphics, can deal
with the monitor in either portrait or landscape rotation. (I'm not
sure how it knows which way you've positioned the monitor, I think you
have to tell it.) Has built-in Corvus Omninet, which means it can
hook up to an Omninet network with other stuff and I believe can be a
file server or a diskless system or a diskful stand-alone system.
I think Corvus had word processing and spreadsheet software for it, as
well as a Pascal compiler. The innards of the operating system (what
I saw in the programming manuals) reminded me a lot of UCSD
Pascal/p-System, but it didn't seem to have a p-machine in there
anywhere, it just ran 68000 code and I guess that is what the Pascal
compiler produces. I gathered it would be pretty easy to port stuff
developed for UCSD Pascal, and I guess that's not too surprising as
there was a bit of that deployed with Corvus networking on Apple ][s.
There was a review in Byte sometime in 1984 or maybe 1983. I don't
remember and all my Bytes are in storage, with the Concept and the
manuals and other documentation I have for it.
The monitor is the monitor. The base is where the CPU lives. If it
has disks they are in separate boxes; I think I have one that is a
hard disk and another that is an 8" floppy drive. There's an external
keyboard too.
If you have other questions, holler and I'll go find the manuals,
I really ought to inventory them anyway.
-Frank McConnell
i came across some good luck today and bought an applecolor rgb monitor;
looks like it belongs with the gs model. however, when i connect it to a rgb
source, all i manage to get is a wavy blue bar and no text. i fiddled with
all controls and could stop the rapid scrolling, but that's about it. i still
get a diagonal blue bar that moves. does anyone know of an internal control
or setting i can check out? i'd hate to think i have TWO apple rgb monitors
that are bad!
david
Bruce, and everyone else. I just heard from Bill. He got in a car wreck
going over to Bruce's place to pick some stuff up. Not knocking ya Bruce
but from now on we can call a wreck - getting Bruced 8-) He is OK but in
a cast and car-less (for a while) and can't get to read the list. Maybe
we should have a little *Net Get Well* party for him?
If you need to talk to him - he is at the Other Address. Let's not flood
him under but I think short Get Well's will be appreciated.
BC
On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Marvin wrote:
> I just read the book "Accidental Empires" by Robert X. Cringely that was the
> basis for the PBS movie, "Triumph of the Nerds."
Sam Ismail wrote:
> I'll add that I thought the book to be extremely entertaining and a great
> read. I'll comment on the fact that not much mention was made of CP/M in
> that history seldom celebrates the losers.
I just recently saw "Triumph of the Nerds" (playing a lot lately on a PBS
station near you, no doubt) and was fascinated by the view of history
presented in it. Basically, if it did not involve Apple, Microsoft, or
IBM, it wasn't history; they only started talking about CP/M when it got
to the "and IBM needed an operating system" part of the story.
One curious bit. The statement that Apple had 50% of the PC market share
when IBM came out with its PC stuck in my mind. Going through my pile of
old BYTE magazines, I found a BYTE from that era (well, 1984 actually; which
is actually a match for era because they were building up the Macintosh
story) which gives 50% of the market share to Tandy...
Roger "cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Model I" Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
OK, it's been a month or two since my last trade list post, so here
goes:
Computers For Trade:
- Apple II+
- Apple IIgs (cpu only, appears to have 192K)
- Apple IIgs (cpu only, appears to have 320K)
- Apple Macintosh 128 w/correct keyboard & mouse, boot disk
- Atari 800, fully populated 48K
- Atari 520STfm
- Atari 1040STf
- Atari 1040STf (missing some keys)
- Commodore 64 in original box
- Commodore 128D (rare 128 with built-in 1571 drive & PS, separate kbd)
- North Star Horizon, wood case model
- Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I CPU & monitor (supply your own PS)
- Timex-Sinclair ZX1000 with 16K RAM Expansion
Peripherals For Trade:
- Bell & Howell "Black Apple" Disk II drive (labeled drive 1)
- Commodore Amiga 5 1/4" drive (Rare!)
- ICL Multi I/O SCSI HD interface for Atari 8-bit with 130XE connector
- SoftStrip Reader (extremely rare)
- Supra SCSI HD interface for Atari ST
Game Systems/Games For Trade:
- GCE/Milton Bradley Vectrex
- Magnavox Odyssey2 in original box
- Tengen Tetris cart for NES
WANTED:
- Anything MITS, IMSAI, etc. and various other S-100 and/or 8080/Z-80
stuff; drive systems, cards...
- Battery for Apple Macintosh Portable
- Battery for IBM PC Convertible
- Apple Lisa Mouse
- Apple-II-On-A-Card for PC (Quadram, Trackstar)
- Exidy Sorcerer
- 1975 BYTEs, Popular Electronics, 1974-75 Radio Electronics
- Brochures, ads, Micro Shopper/Byte Shopper, etc.
- Posters
- Robert Tinney prints
- Microsoft Adventure
