I have an old Amdek color composite monitor with a built-in speaker/amp.
I no longer have any use for it, and it's currently just taking up space.
I will take ANY offer + shipping for it.
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-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
PS>> It works good, it's just a bit dusty.
To tell the truth, I can't think of ANY IBM that had a factory reset switch.
My L40sx laptop has a place on the mother board for one, but no actual
external switch.
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-Jason Willgruber
(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
ICQ#: 1730318
<http://members.tripod.com/general_1>
-----Original Message-----
From: Max Eskin <max82(a)surfree.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: PC question
>On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>>NO!!!!!
>>Any responsible computer manufacturer of the time included a reset switch.
>>But we are talking about IBM.
>>THERE WAS NO RESET SWITCH ON A REAL UNMODIFIED IBM AT.
>
>Well, the C-64 had no reset switch...or are we talking only about business
>systems? My DECMate III has no reset switch.
>
>--Max Eskin (max82(a)surfree.com)
> http://scivault.hypermart.net: Ignorance is Impotence - Knowledge is
Power
>
>
I have a couple of Mizar VMEbus Video boards, model 7710. Has anybody an
operator's/technical manual? Either an original or decent xerographic copy
will do. Has anybody written an OS-9/68K ver. 2.3 or 2.4 driver for this
thing? These are 1989 vintage.
I'm also looking for the following Motorola VMEbus Module manuals:
** MVME 236-1,2,3 (Publication number MVME 236-1 Dx ), DRAM memory module
(x = version or edition number. I'll take any version.)
** MVME 133-1 ( " " MVME 133-1 Dx ),
Processor module
** Support Docs manual for this processor: SIMVME133-1
** MVME134bug ( " " MVME134bug Dx ), debugger
manual for '134 processor module
** and finally the Support Documentation (schematics, etc.) for an
MVME147S which is publication number SIMVME147S. Already have the manual.
** I'm also looking for Xycom catalogs and any tech documentation from
back in the mid-80's.
Thanks for your help!
Regards, Chris
PS: Are there any of you out there who have VMEbus gear in your collection?
-- --
Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.ggw.org/awa
G'day,
The thing consists of tape feeder (model 1227-2001) and punch itself (model
1215-1001). It was manufactured by VEB Rechenelektronik
Meiningen/Zella-Mehlis, GDR.
--
Sergey Svishchev -- svs{at}ropnet{dot}ru
I've been reading back issues of Micro Cornucopia... They have a lot of
glowing things to say about the TI 34010. Has anyone used one? They sound
very powerful and they fit my ideas about what graphics hardware should do.
my ideasx: easy programmability and flexible memory architecture are good.
Comprehensive text routines are as important as graphics routines. If
hardware is proprietary (like 3D cards for IBM clones) or nonstandard (like
cheap VGA cards for IBM clones) or the OS can't deal with it, I don't really
want to deal with it either.
-- Derek
Believe it or not, the most common use of keeping keystrokes was for employee evaluation. I remember weekly postings of graphs of "keystrokes/hour" in data entry and word processing departments, with a weekly "prize" [nominal value] for the "best" data entry operator of the week.
This and similar productivity measurement measures were not uncommon.
"D. Peschel" <dpeschel(a)u.washington.edu> wrote:
> I guess posting something on-topic is the best solutioon. Does anyone have
> a Corvus Concept? I bet Blockout (3D Tetris) would look pretty cool on it.
What do you think a Corvus Concept would bring to Blockout? I don't know,
and it's been years since I played Tetris.
Yep, I've got one, the fancy landscape/portrait display boils down to
a VERT/HORIZ switch on the back of the CPU that the software reads to
figure out how to draw the display. (It's up to the user to make sure
the switch and the monitor are set the same way, and the switch doesn't
change anything about the beam deflection.)
-Frank McConnell
Hello everyone,
Last week I bought a pile of hard-sectored 5.25" disks. Most are used,
but are still in their original plastic box. Most disks have a lable
saying: AES diskette, Single Sided, Single Density.
Since I'm an Atari 8-bit freak, I don't have a real use for these,
however they can be used on 3/4 of my diskdrives since these do not use
the index-hole for anything. Someone in an Atari usegroup asked me to
write a msg over here before starting to write Atari-data on them. I
have some CP/M's laying around, but they seem to work well without the
use of hard-sectored disks too, so.... If someone wants them, I'll
swap them for anything ATARI-related. If not, I'll just format them,
and write Atari 8-bit data on it.
Would be nice if someone could pick them up in the south-part of the
Netherlands. I have no idea what it would cost to send them by
snailmail, cause I have more then 200 of them.
please note: I'm not subscribing to this newsgroup, so Email me at:
"fox-1 AT aq DOT nl"
Sysop Fox-1, Thunderdome, ATARI 8-Bit BBS,
+31 416-279990 (21:00 => 8:00 CET)
Hi again,
I conscripted my father to come and help me drag the AES 7100 home today.
It doesn't work. The display powers up but nothing is displayed. The
drives never turn but their lights shine at the instant the power switch
is flipped. I suspect its not working has something to do with several
empty sockets on the motherboard, but I can't be sure.
Even with it not working, it's an interesting machine.
It's a little over 26.5-inches wide, and over 16-inches deep if you
include the handles on the back for pulling out the motherboard. The main
box is about 4.25-inches high, with a 10.5" green phosphor monitor sitting
on top of it, connected with a swivel neck. The top of the monitor sits
about 16" above the surface of the table. The disk drive portion of
the box is about 10.5" high and 9.25" wide, and is visually disconnected
>from the rest of the box in the same way that an Apple III keyboard is
visually disconnected from the rest of the III... still built on the same
metal frame underneath.
The motherboard pulls out on a tray from the back of the machine, with
only two screws holding it in.
There are numerous holes for ports of various sizes, but most of them have
metal plates screwed over them and nothing behind them. Unscrewing the
plates usually reveals a picture of a telephone handset beside the hole.
There are plenty of post holes in the motherboard in locations that match
the holes in the back of the case, so there must have been plenty of
options.
My own machine only has one small daughtercard sitting on posts, with a
50-pin male edge connector accessible from a hole with a drawing of a
printer beside it.
There is also a 12-pin female port with a drawing of a printer beside it,
with the pins arranged in a 3x4 grid.
On the motherboard, there is a Mostek Z80A, probably 4MHz. There are
three Z80A PIO chips, and two Z80A CTC chips, and several other large
multi-legged critters.
There are three 8-chip banks of 4164 DRAMs, with a fourth row left empty.
That's quite a bit of memory for a Z80!
There is a 24-pin EPROM, with an empty 24-pin socket beside it.
There is a set of two other 24-pin chips which might be ROMs.
There are two other empty sockets, one with 18 pins and the other with 16
pins.
There is a 15.something MHz crytal, and a 24.0000MHz crystal.
There is oodles of TTL.
Chips range in dates from '79 to '82.
The keyboard connector inside the machine is cracked and broken and won't
stay in place.
The keyboard is larger than it has to be, with lots of photogenic
whitespace around the key areas.
The area that would normally be a numeric keypad on a normal keyboard has
pictograms of unknown function.
The key which must be the caps lock lights up when it is hit, but the
light doesn't turn off if you hit it again. It only turns off when the
keys which must be shift keys are hit.
The disk drives are full-height, single-sided.
It has a plate with "7100" on the front, but a small plate on the back
says "AES Model 203".
The monitor has no external controls, but there is what appears to be a
trapdoor on the back of the monitor which is screwed shut. Perhaps I
should try messing with that before I decide that the machine is
definitely dead.
There is another machine just like it at the same store, even grimier than
this one was. But considering the hassle of hauling and storing this
thing, I don't think I'll have the energy to go back for it.
--
Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
http://alcor.concordia.ca/~ds_spenc/
