12 Jan
2017
12 Jan
'17
11:49 a.m.
A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff:
- A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a 4.2bsd port called
UTek
- A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper tape
reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core memory(commonly runs with a
32K NVRAM board), 2 serial ports, EAE, RTC, Memory Extension/Timeshare board, Diode boot
board (RK05 boot)
- Wang 300-series calculator field service parts kit (two wooden briefcases)
- Friden 6010 Computyper Diagnostic Console
- Friden Electronics Training Course manuals (1960s)
- Wyle Laboratories WS-02 punched card programmable electronic calculator (1964)
- Busicom 207 punched card programmable electronic calculator
- Altair 8800 with Altair dual 8" disk drives
- IMSAI 8080 kit built in high school as a school project in 1976/1977
- Televideo Personal Terminal
- GE transistorised current loop acoustic coupler modem (110 baud)
- Hewlett Packard 9100A and 9100B programmable electronic calculators
- Tektronix mini-Board Bucket computer and many boards for it (EPROM Blaster, TI
TMS9918-Based Video Board w/RTC, SASI Interface, 6809 CPU, 6809 ICE CPU. 32K Static and
64K Dynamic RAM Boards, 300-Baud Modem Board, 5 1/4" Floppy Controller
- SWTPC TV Typewriter
- A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics digitizing tablet with GPIB interface
- A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola 6800 CPU) with
very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
- Wang Laboratories dual-cassette drive for 700 series calculator
- An old fluorescent-lighted, two sided sign advertising Denon electronic calculators
- Some original Digital Equipment System Modules (Used by DEC for making some of their
early computers)
---
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
12 Jan
12 Jan
12:05 p.m.
I have an nCube2 with the front-end Sun 4/470, card, cable and software. I
think having a complete system is probably reasonably uncommon.
I have no documentation on the thing at all, though, so I've never
actually powered it up. If anyone has anything, I'd love to hear from you.
Certainly less so in rarity given the numbers manufactured, but I think to
be retained in private hands, a Cray J98.
I'm not sure if it falls in any of the category above, but I have a fully
stacked out E10k with about two machine's worth of spares. That's my
favourite system just because I always thought they were the sexiest
system ever... when I was first entering the industry back in the late
90s.
- JP
12:10 p.m.
Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want
to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold.
Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via
individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2894.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2895.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2896.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2897.jpg
12:15 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Cory Heisterkamp
<coryheisterkamp at gmail.com> wrote:
Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch
card reader, if you want
to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold.
Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via
individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2894.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2895.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2896.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2897.jpg
Not that exact one, but I have something similar. It reads half a card
(40 columns)
at a time. You turn the card round and put the other end in to read the other 40
columns I guessed.
It has 40 PCBs each with spring contacts and diodes stacked up over the
card slot. And a pair of BIG solenoids underneath to lift the card holder to
the switches.I think it said 'Feedback Data' on it somewhere, a company
I have never heard of.
I got mine as just the bare mechanism with a little PCB on the back containing
the decoder ICs to select a column and a ROM to turn the Hollerith code into
ASCII. About 30 years ago I boxed it up and added a board of ICs to scan
through the columns and output the data serially. And yes, I did get it to scan
1-40 and then 40-1 on successive insertions. so that by inserting each card
twice you got all 80 columns in the right order.
-tony
12:49 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Jan 2017, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:
Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch
card reader, if you want
to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold.
Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via
individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2894.jpg
45 years ago, there was a similar design ("bed of nails", alternate
columns, fos use primarily with port-a-punch cards) but in very spiffy
little portable vertical clamshell packagings, used with a Wang
programmable calculator.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1196402
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/a-wang704.pdf
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wang360.html
12:54 p.m.
I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised? that I don't actually have
any particularly rare or unusual items ? the nearest I can think of is a Commodore N-60
navigation calculator, but I also have two early Apple IIs.
If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly longer: a PC532,
Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
16 Jan
16 Jan
12:42 p.m.
On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised? that I don't actually have
any particularly rare or unusual items ? the nearest I can think of is a Commodore N-60
navigation calculator, but I also have two early Apple IIs.
If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly longer: a PC532,
Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer?
-- Chris
1:06 p.m.
If I can
mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly
longer: a PC532, Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer?
4:16 p.m.
On Jan 16, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
If we're considering MacIvories in this category, there's one sitting
next to me (MacIvory III in a IIci host, 8MW RAM, Genera 8.3).
Why wouldn?t we? They?re actually really rare, and quite nice.
Some of us have been looking for a MacIvory ? or a microExplorer ? for a very long time.
It requires quite a bit of luck to acquire one.
One thing I?m keenly interested in finding is a way to reload the TI Explorer and
microExplorer software. I?ve used the Meroko emulator, but only with the image of a
workstation at WSU running the Explorer 4.1 system. I?d like to load a fresh environment
on it from the final Explorer system release, if I could acquire such a thing.
-- Chris
If I can
mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly
longer: a PC532, Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer?
4:58 p.m.
If I can
mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly
longer: a PC532, Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer?
8:56 p.m.
On 16 Jan 2017, at 21:42 , Chris Hanson <cmhanson
at eschatologist.net> wrote:
On Jan 12, 2017, at 12:54 PM, Raymond Wiker <rwiker at gmail.com> wrote:
I sold the MacIvory II, and traded the microExplorer to one of the serious collectors on
this mailing list.
I've been following this topic, and suddenly realised? that I don't actually have
any particularly rare or unusual items ? the nearest I can think of is a Commodore N-60
navigation calculator, but I also have two early Apple IIs.
If I can mention items that I have owned, the list becomes slightly longer: a PC532,
Symbolics MacIvory II and a TI microExplorer.
What happened to the MacIvory II and microExplorer? 
12 Jan
12 Jan
1:38 p.m.
On 1/12/2017 12:49 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I recently picked up a Wang 174
from a list member (via ebay), and also
have a Wang 320K nixie head, no electronics.
thanks
Jim
12:55 p.m.
Perhaps its for some kind of switch matrix for programming analog computers. EAI were big
into analog and hybrid computers...
Dave
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Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want to
call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold.
Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via
individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2894.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2895.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2896.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2897.jpg
>
1:06 p.m.
My thinking is that it is a cryto device. They used such to
change keys for encoding and decoding.
Although EAI did a lot of analog stuff, it wasn't uncommon
for many different companies to do gov contracts.
As an example, during WWII, Lionel Train company made
ship's compasses. These couldn't be more different.
Dwight
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January 12, 2017 12:10:33 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?
Given the topic, I have this rather *unique* punch card reader, if you want
to call it that. It is marked EAI but that's where the trail turns cold.
Perhaps used as a microcode source? All holes are read simultaneously via
individual switches. If someone has seen one before, please speak up. -C
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2894.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2895.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2896.jpg
http://www.radar58.com/reader/IMG_2897.jpg
14 Jan
14 Jan
12:04 a.m.
On 12.01.2017 20:49, Rick Bensene wrote:
- A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics
digitizing tablet with GPIB interface
- A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola 6800 CPU) with
very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
Is this RAM disk module documented ?
Sounds like a possible solution for my 4052, such that I would not have to resurrect those
DC300 cartridges from the dead.
Jos
3:49 p.m.
On 12.01.2017 20:49, Rick Bensene wrote:
>
> - A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola 6800 CPU)
with very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
To which Jos D. asked:
Is this RAM disk module documented ?
Sounds like a possible solution for my 4052, such that I would not have to resurrect those
DC300 cartridges from the dead.
Not to my knowledge. I haven't found any documentation of it. I am not even sure it
was ever a real product offered by Tektronix.
It's a bit fussy, too. It has its own power supply that bypasses the power switch so
that it's always on. That's how it keeps the RAM alive.
If the mains are removed, the RAM Disk content is gone. Sometimes when I switch the
machine off, the content does get scrambled, and the next time the machine is powered up,
it gets a device error when it tries to talk to the RAM Disk, ad doesn't recognize it
anymore. Unplugging the mains and leaving it for a while seems to clean things up so
that the RAM Disk will work again. It has its own firmware on the board that augments
the commands within BASIC to provide for saving and retrieving programs from the RAM Disk,
and getting a directory of its contents, as well as deleting files. It does not seem to
work with binary files or anything else other than BASIC programs.
I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at least from a
longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those cartridges in a number
of vintage systems that I've got. Broken tension bands, sticky tape...just plain
bad stuff. Plus, the tape transports in the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have a
4907 single 8" floppy disk drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't
have the proper ROMpack module to use it with the 4052, which apparently needs a different
ROMpack than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So far, such a ROMpack has proven elusive.
-Rick
15 Jan
15 Jan
8:17 a.m.
Bob Rosenbloom or Ian Finder might have one.
I forgot to inventory the ROMpacks in the 4054 that I sent to Ian and Bob
has a pretty big collection of 405x stuff.
On 1/14/17 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk drive for my
4051, and it works great, but I don't have the proper ROMpack module to use it with
the 4052, which apparently needs a different ROMpack than the 4051 to talk to the 4907.
So far, such a ROMpack has proven elusive.
-Rick
9:06 a.m.
Well, after reading what other people have, my contribution seems
pretty piddly, but here it is.
The rarest hardware I have is probably a Sun SPARCstation Voyager or a
Tadpole 3GX - I'm not sure which is rarer (and those are just my
perception of rarity, which could be wrong). It's possible one of my
klunker peecees happens to be a particular rare model, but I'm not
aware of any, and unless there's something notable about it, that kind
of rarity is not interesting - to me, at least. :-)
The rarest software I have is, of course, software that nobody else has
a copy of (given how much software I've written, there's a fair bit
nobody else has, because it's too new or because I haven't bothered to
export it or because nobody has cared to pick up a copy). But I doubt
that's what the question was really asking for. My open-source
fanaticism means I don't have very much that would be of interest here,
sorry.
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28 Jan
10:13 a.m.
On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
--snip
I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at least from a
longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those cartridges in a number
of vintage systems that I've got. Broken tension bands, sticky tape...just plain
bad stuff. Plus, the tape transports in the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have a
4907 single 8" floppy disk drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't
have the proper ROMpack module to use it with the 4052, which apparently needs a different
ROMpack than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So far, such a ROMpack has proven elusive.
-Rick
I have the Tektronix 4052/4054 File Manager ROM Packs. Can be seen here:
http://www.tekmuseum.com/linked/tek_roms1.jpg
I should have the documentation on them also. Only problem is they are
buried somewhere in a cargo container.
Are you still looking for one?
Bob
--
Vintage computers and electronics
www.dvq.com
www.tekmuseum.com
www.decmuseum.org
1:13 p.m.
I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I am not sure if it is
working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The video
is not mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
--snip
I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at
least from a longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those
cartridges in a number of vintage systems that I've got. Broken tension
bands, sticky tape...just plain bad stuff. Plus, the tape transports in
the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk
drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't have the proper ROMpack
module to use it with the 4052, which apparently needs a different ROMpack
than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So far, such a ROMpack has proven
elusive.
-Rick
I have the Tektronix 4052/4054 File Manager ROM Packs. Can be seen here:
http://www.tekmuseum.com/linked/tek_roms1.jpg
I should have the documentation on them also. Only problem is they are
buried somewhere in a cargo container.
Are you still looking for one?
Bob
--
Vintage computers and electronics
www.dvq.com
www.tekmuseum.com
www.decmuseum.org
5:12 p.m.
I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on a
Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day business.
The system incorporates significant new systems techniques, as well as
several basically new component developments. One of the outstanding
features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information from magnetic
tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of 60,000
decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after processing back to
magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational speed of the central
processor maintains full compatibility with the high speed of
information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties caused by programs
which are either tape limited or processing-time limited do not arise in
the majority of commercial applications of this system.
Doug
On 1/28/2017 4:13 PM, Tony Aiuto wrote:
I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I am
not sure if it is
working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The video
is not mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
>
>> --snip
>> I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at
>> least from a longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those
>> cartridges in a number of vintage systems that I've got. Broken tension
>> bands, sticky tape...just plain bad stuff. Plus, the tape transports in
>> the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk
>> drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't have the proper ROMpack
>> module to use it with the 4052, which apparently needs a different ROMpack
>> than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So far, such a ROMpack has proven
>> elusive.
>>
>> -Rick
>>
> I have the Tektronix 4052/4054 File Manager ROM Packs. Can be seen here:
> http://www.tekmuseum.com/linked/tek_roms1.jpg
> I should have the documentation on them also. Only problem is they are
> buried somewhere in a cargo container.
>
> Are you still looking for one?
>
> Bob
>
>
> --
> Vintage computers and electronics
> www.dvq.com
> www.tekmuseum.com
> www.decmuseum.org
>
>
5:40 p.m.
On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957
for training on
a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the
ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day
business. The system incorporates significant new systems techniques,
as well as several basically new component developments. One of the
outstanding features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information
from magnetic tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of
60,000 decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after
processing back to magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational
speed of the central processor maintains full compatibility with the
high speed of information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties
caused by programs which are either tape limited or processing-time
limited do not arise in the majority of commercial applications of
this system.
Doug, you can probably re-live part of your dad's experience. There are
some Datamatic 1000 manuals on bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/honeywell/datamatic_1000/
Big, wide tape reels.
--Chuck
5:51 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2017 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I am pretty sure I have the first print of that manual, but I thought
Datamatic was a pre-Burroughs machine not Honeywell...I am not home to
check, if you'd like me to I can Monday. That's the base 10 system,
right? I also have some orig decimal counter tubes IIRC too. I suppose
that all qualifies as pretty rare. Or I am confusing with a different,
similarly - named system.
Bill
I have a certificate that my father was given in
1957 for training on
a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the
ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day
business. The system incorporates significant new systems techniques,
as well as several basically new component developments. One of the
outstanding features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information
from magnetic tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of
60,000 decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after
processing back to magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational
speed of the central processor maintains full compatibility with the
high speed of information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties
caused by programs which are either tape limited or processing-time
limited do not arise in the majority of commercial applications of
this system.
Doug, you can probably re-live part of your dad's experience. There are
some Datamatic 1000 manuals on bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/honeywell/datamatic_1000/
Big, wide tape reels.
--Chuck
5:53 p.m.
On Jan 28, 2017 8:51 PM, "william degnan" <billdegnan at gmail.com>
wrote:
Datamatic was
a pre-Burroughs machine not Honeywell...I am not home to
check, if you'd like me to I can Monday. That's the base 10 system,
right? I also have some orig decimal counter tubes IIRC too. I suppose
that all qualifies as pretty rare. Or I am confusing with a different,
similarly - named system.
On Jan 28, 2017 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>
> On 01/28/2017 05:12 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
> > I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on
> > a Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
> >
> > Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the
> > ACM:
> >
> > The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
> > data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
> > increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day
> > business. The system incorporates significant new systems techniques,
> > as well as several basically new component developments. One of the
> > outstanding features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information
> > from magnetic tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of
> > 60,000 decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after
> > processing back to magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational
> > speed of the central processor maintains full compatibility with the
> > high speed of information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties
> > caused by programs which are either tape limited or processing-time
> > limited do not arise in the majority of commercial applications of
> > this system.
>
> Doug, you can probably re-live part of your dad's experience. There are
> some Datamatic 1000 manuals on bitsavers:
>
>
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/honeywell/datamatic_1000/
Big, wide tape reels.
--Chuck
I am pretty sure I have the first print of that manual, but I thought Bill
Yup I must be mistaken. Nevermind I'll check when I get back to my office
B
29 Jan
29 Jan
3:58 a.m.
Doug ... which sites or state was your dad working on them? Railroad owned some IRS too..
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On Saturday, January 28, 2017 Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at comcast.net> wrote:
I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on a
Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day business.
The system incorporates significant new systems techniques, as well as
several basically new component developments. One of the outstanding
features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information from magnetic
tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of 60,000
decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after processing back to
magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational speed of the central
processor maintains full compatibility with the high speed of
information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties caused by programs
which are either tape limited or processing-time limited do not arise in
the majority of commercial applications of this system.
Doug
On 1/28/2017 4:13 PM, Tony Aiuto wrote:
I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I am
not sure if it is
working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The video
is not mine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom <bobalan at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
> On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
>
>> --snip
>> I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at
>> least from a longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares with those
>> cartridges in a number of vintage systems that I've got. Broken tension
>> bands, sticky tape...just plain bad stuff. Plus, the tape transports in
>> the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk
>> drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't have the proper ROMpack
>> module to use it with the 4052, which apparently needs a different ROMpack
>> than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So far, such a ROMpack has proven
>> elusive.
>>
>> -Rick
>>
> I have the Tektronix 4052/4054 File Manager ROM Packs. Can be seen here:
> http://www.tekmuseum.com/linked/tek_roms1.jpg
> I should have the documentation on them also. Only problem is they are
> buried somewhere in a cargo container.
>
> Are you still looking for one?
>
> Bob
>
>
> --
> Vintage computers and electronics
> www.dvq.com
> www.tekmuseum.com
> www.decmuseum.org
>
>
8:11 a.m.
Ed;
He was working for the US Air Force in Washington, DC. He was not a
'computer guy', but rather a management person.
When I found the certificate in his papers I realized that that was very
early in the computer revolution.
I sort of followed in his footsteps and became a physicist at a Gov't
research laboratory using computers for numerical simulations.
He didn't think much of computers, even published an article in the
National Enquirer in 1972 with the title "Computers are turning us into
lame brains".
I always thought that was quite an accomplishment; it is easy to get a
paper published in a scientific journal, you have to have a really good
angle to get into the National Enquirer!
Doug
On 1/29/2017 6:58 AM, Ed Sharpe wrote:
Doug ... which sites or state was your dad working on them? Railroad
owned some IRS too..
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On Saturday, January 28, 2017 Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at comcast.net>
wrote:
I have a certificate that my father was given in 1957 for training on a
Honeywell Datamatic 1000 computer.
Here is a summary of this 'advance' in computer technology from the ACM:
The DATAmatic 1000 (D-1000) is a high-capacity electronic
data-processing system designed specifically for application to the
increasingly complex problems and procedures of present-day business.
The system incorporates significant new systems techniques, as well as
several basically new component developments. One of the outstanding
features of the D-1000 is its ability to feed information from magnetic
tape into the central processor at a sustained rate of 60,000
decimal-digits per second, and to deliver data after processing back to
magnetic tape at this same rate. The operational speed of the central
processor maintains full compatibility with the high speed of
information transfer. Consequently, the difficulties caused by programs
which are either tape limited or processing-time limited do not arise in
the majority of commercial applications of this system.
Doug
On 1/28/2017 4:13 PM, Tony Aiuto wrote:
I have a Minivac 601, but it is in storage and I
am not sure if it is
working. I'm thinking of restoring it and bringing to VCF East. The
video
is not mine -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6OA8HfnxxU
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Bob Rosenbloom
<bobalan at sbcglobal.net
<mailto:bobalan at sbcglobal.net>>
wrote:
> On 1/14/2017 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote:
>
>> --snip
>> I know what you mean about the DC300 carts...what a lousy design...at
>> least from a longevity standpoint. I've had numerous nightmares
with
those
>> cartridges in a number of vintage systems
that I've got. Broken
tension
>> bands, sticky tape...just plain bad
stuff. Plus, the tape
transports in
>> the 4051/4052 are fussy as can be. I have
a 4907 single 8" floppy disk
>> drive for my 4051, and it works great, but I don't have the proper
ROMpack
>> module to use it with the 4052, which
apparently needs a different
ROMpack
>> than the 4051 to talk to the 4907. So
far, such a ROMpack has proven
>> elusive.
>>
>> -Rick
>>
> I have the Tektronix 4052/4054 File Manager ROM Packs. Can be seen
here:
>
http://www.tekmuseum.com/linked/tek_roms1.jpg
> I should have the documentation on them also. Only problem is they are
> buried somewhere in a cargo container.
>
> Are you still looking for one?
>
> Bob
>
>
> --
> Vintage computers and electronics
> www.dvq.com <http://www.dvq.com>
> www.tekmuseum.com <http://www.tekmuseum.com>
> www.decmuseum.org <http://www.decmuseum.org>
>
>
5 Mar
5 Mar
9:22 a.m.
Here is what comes to mind, it may not qualify as a computer. A
Westinghouse Numa-Logic PC700. It is an early PLC. uses a Sinetics 8X300
bit slice. Unfortunately Westinghouse only started to invest in PLCs about
the time the they merged with CBS and in a few years
all of Westinghouse became history.
BTW Looking for parts, manuals, software, the "lug-able" CRT based
programmer, IDE PC interface etc. etc.
Also will get my Allen Bradly PLC with core memory running someday.
-pete
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Rick Bensene <rickb at bensene.com> wrote:
A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff:
- A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a
4.2bsd port called UTek
- A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper
tape reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core
memory(commonly runs with a 32K NVRAM board), 2 serial ports, EAE, RTC,
Memory Extension/Timeshare board, Diode boot board (RK05 boot)
- Wang 300-series calculator field service parts kit (two wooden
briefcases)
- Friden 6010 Computyper Diagnostic Console
- Friden Electronics Training Course manuals (1960s)
- Wyle Laboratories WS-02 punched card programmable electronic calculator
(1964)
- Busicom 207 punched card programmable electronic calculator
- Altair 8800 with Altair dual 8" disk drives
- IMSAI 8080 kit built in high school as a school project in 1976/1977
- Televideo Personal Terminal
- GE transistorised current loop acoustic coupler modem (110 baud)
- Hewlett Packard 9100A and 9100B programmable electronic calculators
- Tektronix mini-Board Bucket computer and many boards for it (EPROM
Blaster, TI TMS9918-Based Video Board w/RTC, SASI Interface, 6809 CPU, 6809
ICE CPU. 32K Static and 64K Dynamic RAM Boards, 300-Baud Modem Board, 5
1/4" Floppy Controller
- SWTPC TV Typewriter
- A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics digitizing tablet with GPIB
interface
- A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola
6800 CPU) with very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
- Wang Laboratories dual-cassette drive for 700 series calculator
- An old fluorescent-lighted, two sided sign advertising Denon electronic
calculators
- Some original Digital Equipment System Modules (Used by DEC for making
some of their early computers)
---
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
12:28 p.m.
I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the past.
BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards. And I still have Terak boards (should
qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work OK in any QBUS backplane.
I'm sure if I thought about it there is more.
bill
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From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Pete Lancashire via cctalk
[cctalk at classiccmp.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2017 12:22 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?
Here is what comes to mind, it may not qualify as a computer. A
Westinghouse Numa-Logic PC700. It is an early PLC. uses a Sinetics 8X300
bit slice. Unfortunately Westinghouse only started to invest in PLCs about
the time the they merged with CBS and in a few years
all of Westinghouse became history.
BTW Looking for parts, manuals, software, the "lug-able" CRT based
programmer, IDE PC interface etc. etc.
Also will get my Allen Bradly PLC with core memory running someday.
-pete
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Rick Bensene <rickb at bensene.com> wrote:
A selection of some of my more unusual computer-related stuff:
- A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a
4.2bsd port called UTek
- A Digital Equipment PDP 8/e system with 2 RK05 drives, high speed paper
tape reader/punch, RX01 Dual 8" floppy drives, 16K of DEC core
memory(commonly runs with a 32K NVRAM board), 2 serial ports, EAE, RTC,
Memory Extension/Timeshare board, Diode boot board (RK05 boot)
- Wang 300-series calculator field service parts kit (two wooden
briefcases)
- Friden 6010 Computyper Diagnostic Console
- Friden Electronics Training Course manuals (1960s)
- Wyle Laboratories WS-02 punched card programmable electronic calculator
(1964)
- Busicom 207 punched card programmable electronic calculator
- Altair 8800 with Altair dual 8" disk drives
- IMSAI 8080 kit built in high school as a school project in 1976/1977
- Televideo Personal Terminal
- GE transistorised current loop acoustic coupler modem (110 baud)
- Hewlett Packard 9100A and 9100B programmable electronic calculators
- Tektronix mini-Board Bucket computer and many boards for it (EPROM
Blaster, TI TMS9918-Based Video Board w/RTC, SASI Interface, 6809 CPU, 6809
ICE CPU. 32K Static and 64K Dynamic RAM Boards, 300-Baud Modem Board, 5
1/4" Floppy Controller
- SWTPC TV Typewriter
- A large format (4'x5') Summagraphics digitizing tablet with GPIB
interface
- A Tektronix 4052 desktop computer (bit-slice implementation of Motorola
6800 CPU) with very rare RAM Disk module installed under keyboard
- Wang Laboratories dual-cassette drive for 700 series calculator
- An old fluorescent-lighted, two sided sign advertising Denon electronic
calculators
- Some original Digital Equipment System Modules (Used by DEC for making
some of their early computers)
---
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com
12:56 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the
past.
BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards. And I still have Terak
boards (should
qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work OK in any QBUS
backplane.
I'm sure if I thought about it there is more.
bill
I have an original copy of the New York Weekly Messenger 2-13-1833
newspaper announcing Charles Babbage's "Calculating Machine".
Here is a link to download the PDF:
http://vintagecomputer.net/babbage.cfm
Bill
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