Hi Again:
Anybody else have one of these? I understand that Bill Yakowenko (sp?)
does, but don't have his email.
Any and all info appreciated. There's nothing on ther web that I can find.
It dates from 1975.
Kevin
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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi(a)sfu.ca
> >My main find tho was a "TV Typewriter Cookbook" from Sams by Don
>Lancaster, the
Have to check my basement, but I _think_ I have an extra copy of this book
if anyone needs it.
Arlen
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Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com
> Sam Ismail <dastar(a)ncal.verio.com> wrote:
>
> Oh cool. I didn't think anyone would have ever heard of these, let alone
> work with one as Jim did.
>
I think they're genuinely rair ;)
I also own two. The first was a hand-me-down from the Scottish university
where I worked in the early 80's. (Too bad I wasn't able to inherit the
Perq they had around then too!) I found my second Rair, incredibly, at a
garage sale in Aylmer, Quebec, only a few months ago.
Information about these machines is scarce also, although I'd expect Tony
and other friends in the UK might be in a better position to dig something
up. These rather elegantly styled micros (well, for the time: 1979-81)
originated in England. The earliest models were built using the 8085,
around an idiosyncratic motherboard/bus design (not S-100), and ran CP/M.
Mine has the most complex-looking, overdesigned switch-mode power supply
I've ever seen (although some DEC models perhaps come close). I think, but
I'm not sure, that they put 8086's into their later models.
Around 1981, I recall the British computer conglomerate ICL re-badged the
Rair micros under their own name and sold them that way for a couple of
years, probably because like many other huge computer companies they needed
to get a micro on the market quickly to regain some credibility in the new
marketplace for small computers. Somewhere, I have a reference to a defunct
American company (Drake Micros?) that sold Rair for a while. If anyone is
desperate to know I will dig up that bit of history.
My original Rair machine is I think the original design: dual floppies, 32K
ram, running CP/M v1.4 with a dumb terminal. It runs, and I can supply a
boot disk for this model.
The other machine is a little more recent and is blessed with a hard drive
and is supposed to run CP/M v2.2 --but it won't boot. The hardware design
is quite different from the original model, and my v1.4 floppy won't boot
up this machine. So, if anyone can provide a system disk for this beastie
I'd be very grateful.
Arlen
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Arlen Michaels amichael(a)nortelnetworks.com
I have two Kaypro machines, (a II and a IIX) both with daisy wheel
printers (a converted SCM teletypewriter and a Juki marketed under the
Kaypro name). I have all of the original software, documentation,
cables, etc. as well as some supplies (extra ribbons, printwheels,
floppies, etc.). When last used, about ten years ago, everything worked
fine. I would like to donate these items to anyone who will pick them
up. I would be unable to pack and ship them. I am located in Sparta,
NC, which is located in the Northwest North Carolina mountains close to
where NC, VA, and TN meet. If you have any interest and are able to
pick them up or have someone do it for you, please E-mail me at
jwrobertson(a)skybest.com.
At 12:30 PM 12/20/98 -0500, you wrote:
>making a small radio receiver powered off an AC line. And the book says,
>"for all ages". We don't have these things anymore, it's hard to learn.
When I was a kid, (<7 y.o.) I wanted my drill to be just like my dad's. So
I tied a piece of string around the handle, tied a paper clip to the other
end, and plugged it in. Luckily, we had flame retardent carpeting and a
good family doctor.
Recently, my idiot sister's idiot dog bit a woman who worked for a
neighbor. In talking with her, she told me that "this is the sort of thing
you hope for." I believe she got about $20K out of my insurance company
before they cancelled my insurance.
So, with those two examples, can anyone guess why companies are reluctant
to produce things like we would like them to?
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roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
I have a the drivers diskette for the 10Mb devices.
I believe the controller card is a PC2B or something along
those lines. It could be had with or without a boot ROM.
Please drop me a line at mwp(a)acm.org with if you
haven't found a copy, and I'll arrange to get them
to you some way (electronically or snail mail).
-- Mike Passer
On Dec 21, 21:17, Aaron Christopher Finney wrote:
> Subject: Re: Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up
> On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
> > My guess would be any Sun that only runs SunOS isn't, and won't be Y2k.
To
> > the best of my knowledge they've no intention of making SunOS Y2k as
they
> > want you running Solaris.
>
> I'll have to check the site again...we don't run any SunOS machines, so I
> didn't pay too much attention. But I was under the impression that any
Y2K
> problem with the Sun3's was about the NVRAM,
No, while they do have a problem with the NVRAM/clock chip, that's far from
the only issue with SunOS.
> and that there are patches
> available for some of the 4/xxx series and the Sparcs that are still
> running the most current SunOS.
Which is not usable on a Sun3. "Current SunOS" is Solaris 2.6.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Hi everybody-
A while back I got an Iomega Bernoulli Box at a hamfest, along with a big
stack of cartridges. It's almost the exact same size, shape, and style as
an XT, with dual 10MB 8" drives. I also got the sort-of-SCSI host adapter
card. I didn't worry much about asking the guy about drivers, because,
hey, there's a bazillion Bernoulli Box users out there, right? Wrong. I
can't seem to find anything of use on the web, Iomega's site doesn't yield
anything except that the drivers that sound like they should work, have a
line buried deep in the readme file that says that they don't support 8"
drives. So, I ask:
Does anyone have the drivers for Bernoulli Box 10MB 8" Alpha drives? I'd
really appreciate a copy.
Thanks,
Richard
ps. The pictures of the weird systems I promised a while back- I'm still
working on them. The film's still got some exposures left.
>LEGO MindStorms, the lucky bastards.
Heehee, aren't we though? 8^)
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Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad
roger(a)sinasohn.com that none but madmen know."
Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates
San Francisco, California http://www.sinasohn.com/
