15 Feb
2007
15 Feb
'07
1:47 p.m.
Hello, while doing some cleanup, I came across the October 1976 issue
of "Popular Electronics". Finding some fun ads for classic computers
I decided to scan them for the benefits of owners of those on this
list :-)
IMSAI 8080 full page color ad
Altair 680 full page color ad
Poly 88 3/4 page b/w ad
Schweber SC/MP 3/4 b/w ad
SWTP 6800 full page b/w ad
Processor Technology single column ad for an I/O card
I've put them up on picasa for now, but those are low quality jpg
images - if someone wants the full 600dpi lossless scans (huge!)
please e-mail me.
Note, I'm not quite sure about the copyright issues involved in
scanning ads for defunct companies out of defunct magazines. If
someone here tells me ther is an issue, I'll remove them ASAP.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Joachim.Thiemann/ComputerAds
Enjoy!
Joe
15 Feb
15 Feb
3:07 p.m.
New subject: Classic computer ads from the October 1976 issue of "Popular Electronics"
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
I've put them up on picasa for now, but those are
low quality jpg
images - if someone wants the full 600dpi lossless scans (huge!)
please e-mail me.
I kind of would like 2x the size ... I just can't read the text.
Note, I'm not quite sure about the copyright
issues involved in
scanning ads for defunct companies out of defunct magazines. If
someone here tells me ther is an issue, I'll remove them ASAP.
The only problem
I have is wanting to mail in the coupon at the
bottom of ad. :)
5:29 p.m.
On 15/02/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
I kind of would like 2x the size ... I just can't
read the text.
Hmmm, when I tested the images, I could read the text once I hit the
magnifying button on the top right corner. Otherwise, give me an FTP
address, and I'll happily send you the real thing :-) (The full-page
color ads are ~80M pdf files)
Joe.
5:37 p.m.
New subject: Classic computer ads from the October 1976 issue of "Popular Electronics"
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
Hmmm, when I tested the images, I could read the text
once I hit the
magnifying button on the top right corner. Otherwise, give me an FTP
address, and I'll happily send you the real thing :-) (The full-page
color ads are ~80M pdf files)
Well on dial up that will be about 3 days for me for the lot.
What I was looking for was the total memory supplied with the systems.
I seems to be 1K to 8K static ram with the basic system. How much memory
was expected back then? When I had a S100 - Z80 kit I was hopping to get
24K ram. What did power users use back then?
Joe.
16 Feb
16 Feb
7:59 p.m.
On 15/02/07, woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
Well on dial up that will be about 3 days for me for
the lot.
Thanks to someone (my GF :-) that knows all the tricks of pdfs, the
scans are now actually quite small - 209k for the biggest. I've put
them on my home server, so please be gentle :-)
https://fornost.dyndns.org/
Joe
9:01 p.m.
New subject: Classic computer ads from the October 1976 issue of "Popular Electronics"
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
Thanks to someone (my GF :-) that knows all the tricks
of pdfs, the
scans are now actually quite small - 209k for the biggest. I've put
them on my home server, so please be gentle :-)
READ READ READ -- DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD -- READ READ ... :)
Joe
Well better than -HACK HACK HACK - I guess.
Looking at all the ads it seems you were expected to have 12K BASIC
on the POLY 88 with only 5 slots -- CPU , Display , Basic on ROM ,
Two memory cards. The Altair 680 looks to be much the same.
17 Feb
17 Feb
8:57 a.m.
From: woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
Hi
I don't think the 12K BASIC for the Poly88 was ever in ROM.
It was always cassette based as far as I know.
I got a DynaByte memory board kit with 16K of RAM that I
latter expanded to 48K ( 16K DRAM chips ).
I did have a BASIC in ROM but that was PaloAlto Tiny BASIC.
The ROM's were all on the CPU board ( three 2708's ).
There was also a floppy controller as well ( hard sectored ).
one could put all the needed ROM on the CPU card. No need
to fill the slots. The Bus could be expanded if needed.
I've since collected a bunch of cassette based software, including
and assembler for the Poly 88. It was a simple line editor and
assembler in one load.
I have a number of applications as well. If anyone is interested,
I can send it in an image format. If your Poly 88 has a serial port
( not hard to add if it doesn't ), I wrote a down loader so that
one can save things to tape.
Dwight
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Thanks to someone (my GF :-) that knows all the
tricks of pdfs, the
scans are now actually quite small - 209k for the biggest. I've put
them on my home server, so please be gentle :-)
READ READ READ -- DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD -- READ READ ... :)
Joe
Well better than -HACK HACK HACK - I guess.
Looking at all the ads it seems you were expected to have 12K BASIC
on the POLY 88 with only 5 slots -- CPU , Display , Basic on ROM ,
Two memory cards. The Altair 680 looks to be much the same.
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