Does anyone have one (or know where I can get one) of the 80 pin high
density cables that connects the 16500B main board to the 16500-68733
(16500L or 16500H) LAN/High Speed interface board.
The cable part # is 16500-61607or 16500-61608.
Please contact me off list at bitwiz(a)12bitsbest.com
Thank you,
Mike
Is this email still active?
I found an old old (2016) post about various vintage computers for sale.
I found it specifically looking for a Poly88 - my "white whale".
While I'm sure that one got sold, if you're still active, and you have
any leads on a Poly88, please let me know!
Thanks,
Andrew Pullin
Hi everyone,
I may have asked this before, I can't remember...
I have a PDP-11/23+ pieced together on an H9276 backplane, sitting on the
floor. I have rigged
some fans to keep it cool, but I would love to have either a complete
BA11-S box, or the H9276-B
cardcage for it. The cardcage doesn't have to have the backplane since I
already have one.
Does anyone have either of these that they'd be willing to part with?
I am located in the US.
- Peter
As far as the Poly 88 is concerned, I probably have at least 3 in
various states "buried" someplace. I sold the most complete one some
number of years ago.
Along a similar vein, I probably have the worlds largest collection of
remaining original Poly docs (a three drawer file cabinet) all organized
by part number I obtained after Poly closed their doors. Note again,
they are organized by part number rather than description. If anyone
needs copies of the docs, let me know the part number, and I can check
to see if I have them. Additionally, I have a bunch (100?) of partly
build S100 cards. I took some of them to VCFMW a number of years ago,
but there was little interest in them.
Marvin, KE6HTS
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> Is this email still active?
>
> I found an old old (2016) post about various vintage computers for sale.
> I found it specifically looking for a Poly88 - my "white whale".
>
> While I'm sure that one got sold, if you're still active, and you have
> any leads on a Poly88, please let me know!
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew Pullin
I hope everyone had a good time at VCF Midwest last weekend.
The next meeting in Glen Ellyn of the CCC Hardware Repair and Discussion
will be held on October 17, 2026.
Meeting Starts at 2:00PM and we will order pizza around 6pm or so.
I hope to see you there,
Mike Katz
385 Saint Charles Rd
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
+1 (773) 414-1044 (Cell)
Hey, just an FYI, Devin D. <damicomainframe(a)gmail.com> has
spoken for this, and I'll be sending to him in Florida.
> I have a working VT510 if anyone would like it, I'd like to give it to a
> good home. This is the one that uses a PS2 style connector for a
> standard AT keyboard to be plugged into, and operates with RS232. I've
> just used it as a console on a fun project the last few years on and off.
>
> Just send me your address, and it's yours , you don't even need to pay
> for shipping , as long as it is continental united states.
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I have a working VT510 if anyone would like it, I'd like to give it to a
good home. This is the one that uses a PS2 style connector for a
standard AT keyboard to be plugged into, and operates with RS232. I've
just used it as a console on a fun project the last few years on and off.
Just send me your address, and it's yours , you don't even need to pay
for shipping , as long as it is continental united states.
Aaron
[Please reply to cctalk only]
Hello fellow simulator enthusiasts!
As a surprise reveal for the end of my "VT100 Deep Dive" talk at VCFMW
last weekend, I showed a Space Invaders clone running in the AVO
expansion ROM of the VT100 via MAME.
Did you know that there's a vt100/vt102 emulator in MAME? It's marked
as "not working" and isn't very well documented, but it does in fact
work pretty well.
In addition to the firmware hack, I've documented how to do various
things with the MAME vt100 emulator (see docs/mame.md):
- Play back a VT100 animation
- Connect to a physical serial port
- Connect to a network connection (SIMH console?)
Everything is on github in a fork of Paul Williams annotated VT100
firmware assembly listing.
<https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood/vt100-firmware>
Please note that if you wish to try this with real ROMs on real
hardware that some special considerations will need to be taken. See
the documentation for that.
--
"The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline>
The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals-wiki.org>
The Computer Graphics Museum <http://ComputerGraphicsMuseum.org>
Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://LegalizeAdulthood.wordpress.com>
