OK. I have just read in a bunch of Rainbow disks. Most of them read fine on
the first, second or third try. Some have a sector or three amiss (I've not
yet checked to see if those sectors are mapped to the filesystem or not).
Some appear to be 'unformatted' though sometimes they read with errors.
These disks have what appears to be some kind of grime/mold/??? on their
surface.
Is there a good way to read these diskettes? To clean the grime off and
allow the floppy to spin (they all are super loud)...
At the rate things are going, there will be 5-10 of these...
Warner
Hello,
I have a number of DC1000 tape cartridges, with and without relevant data on them.
I have 2 questions:
1. Has anybody the IRWIN TFORMAT software?
2. I want to make images from the cartridges.
Has anybody done this?
We tried with Linux Mint, but the drive is unknown.
Thanks in advance
Lothar
Does anyone have one of Dwight Elvey's KIM-1 diagnostics boards out there who
would be willing to let me borrow it (I'm in southern California)? I would be
happy to pay shipping and a rental cost, provide a deposit, etc. Please contact
me off list if you're willing and the arrangements you'd prefer.
Yes, I'm aware schematics exist, but I was hoping not to place my ability to
fix this unit entirely upon my ability to assemble a board if a working one is
already out there.
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Just letting everyone know that Bob Applegate passed away a few days ago.
He had been battling cancer for some time. He was involved with vintage
computing for some time. Here is his website: http://www.corshamtech.com/
This is the website for his memorial:
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Take care,
Jeff Brace
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Along the same lines as the 640K quote, I vaguely remember reading a book
that quoted Bill Gates when asked about developing any software for NeXTSTEP
(Probably porting Microsoft Office to compete against Lotus Improv and Word
Perfect) where his reply was "Develop for it? I'll piss on it!"
It's been 20 years since I saw that book and I have never been able to
confirm that was something he was quoted as saying, but it would then
explain why Microsoft entirely ignored NeXTSTEP (or they were just too busy
working on Windows and other unix ports).
-John
Hello Chris,
I saw this old post while searching for stuff related to the CPT Phoenix word processors. I was an engineer at CPT Corp. from 1978 thru 1989 and helped design the CPT 8100, 8500, 9000, and Phoenix systems.
The original monitor that I have has burned-out and I am searching for a replacement. You seem to have found/acquired the exact monitor that I have been looking for!
Would you care to sell the monitor, and keyboard too, to me? I would be most appreciative. It would certainly find welcome home, back with one of its original designers.
Best regards,
Rich Jones
Metasoft, Inc.
> 640K was maybe "enough for anyone"
>
> Weird but I even seem to remember someone saying "who woukd been more than
> 64k"
> Ed# SMECC
>
>
>
And let's not forget "what's the hardest part about emulating Gerald Ford
on a PDP-8? Figuring out what to do with the other 3K."
Hi all,
I'm looking for various Itanium systems:
IBM eServer xSeries 380
IBM IntelliStation Z Pro Type 6894
Fujitsu Celsius 880
Silicon Graphics 750
HP i2000
HP Integrity rx4610
Dell Precision Workstation 730
Dell PowerEdge 7150
If you have a system you want off your hands, I'll pay!
Thanks,
Vivianne
>Message: 21
>Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 04:35:28 +0100
>From: Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1(a)gmail.com>
>Subject: [cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.
>
>On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 10:57 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
><cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
<> > an example of early "mobile computing". (Tongue firmly in cheek).
>>
>> The original Osborne 1 had a 12V power input!
>
>Actually it's +12.6V and +5.6V and you have to supply both voltages.
>It's one diode drop to the +5V (logic supply) and +12V (DRAM, disk
>motors, monitor supply), the -5V for the DRAM is produced on the logic
>board.
>
>I am told it was never used and that the Osborne battery pack came
>with an inverter to provide 110V AC.
>
>-tony
It (the Osborne Powr-Pac (tm) ) has a what the manual says is a DC-DC inverter that plugged into a Gould lead-acid battery (or the cigarette-lighter socket in a car) at one end and the AC input of the Osborne 1 at the other. I have read on this list that Lee denies that OCC ever sold them, but I have one that I bought for $50 at Compumat in Chicago on October 10, 1983 -- I still have the unit, receipt, and User Registration card. It came with a glossy-printed grey-and-blue manual, like other contemporary OCC products.
If anyone wants a copy, I can email you a PDF scan of the user manual.
Bob
