From: Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org>
>I just looked at Ebay and found out that the PDP 16/M is a roll-your-own
PDP
>8 or PDP 11. I sure wish DEC had let me know this information when I
took
>the maintenance classes on it at the Maynard training facility. Here I
>always thought it was just a glorified solid state controller. We could
have
>saved some money instead of buying the 11/05 and 11/45s :). The URL is:
It's neither an 8 or an 11. It was what you wanted it to be based on how
you
built it.
Allison
First, Yes, Wang was indeed bought by Getronics (bunch of useless SOBs, if
you wonder why I say this just *try* to get some docs from 'em). Second, for
Iggy and any other non-Americans/persons not familiar with slang meanings of
the word "Wang", it is another term for penis, which is why Martin was
laughed at, and why I can get my friends to laugh by telling them I have a
600lb. Wang (VS300). I don't personally think anything is wrong with Wang,
they're pretty darn advanced machines, and they actually run real TCP/IP...
They like nasty X.25 and RS-449 and crap like that, but you can't have
everything... Nice pin, I have a Wang coffee mug myself, as well as 2 Wang
computers, the VS and a 2200MVP.
Will J
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>By then, will MICROS~1 have been broken up?
Not bloody likely. .NET will have taken over.
>By then, will we have a RELIABLE OS?
Yup. My linux box will have an uptime of 3,650,000 days. :)
>BTW, recent experiments were UNsuccessful at starting fire using
>CDs. Therefore, what good will they be?
AH, but have you tried microwaving CDs? They make a nice fire that way.
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In a message dated 12/10/2000 8:49:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
ajp166(a)bellatlantic.net writes:
> ST225 is a good one, the 251 and 4096 were junk. The ST251
> was far to hot running to survive unless cooled with great effort.
Well, at least one survives:
Last week a frantic woman brought a Zenith Data Systems DOS-based PC into our
shop. It wouldn't boot and she was in desperate need of retrieving some
1-2-3 files from the drive -- an ST251. Turns out the system battery had
died, and once replaced we were able to get the system going and the drive
looked healthy (as healthy as a Seagate MFM drive ever looks).
Since it was in and out of the shop so quickly we didn't get much of a chance
to check out the system (Z200? S200?) but it looked as if the mainboard was
pretty much just a backplane, with the 10MHz AMD 286 CPU on an ISA card.
Anyone familiar with this beast? It looked pretty cool. Could cards with
faster CPUs be installed in place of the 286 card?
Glen Goodwin
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On December 9, Gene Ehrich wrote:
> This is probably off topic and it may be old but I never heard it before:
>
> Why do nerds confuse Halloween and Christmas?
>
>
> Because Oct31 = Dec25
*GROAN!!* :)
-Dave McGuire
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
>Anyway, one such book (aimed at older children I guess) was called
>'Making a Transistor Radio'. The set was built on a wooden board, using
>woodscrews and screwcuop washers as terminials (and thus no soldering
was
>involved). You started out making a crystal set, then added a single
>audio stage (OC71), then a second stage (another OC71), then added a
>loudspeaker (using an LT700 output transformer). And finally you
replaced
>the crystal detector with the OC45 regenerative stage.
It's been years since I built that way but the first transistor design I
did was
back in '65 with my first "RF' transistor 2n384. It was regenerative.
The
battle (for me) back then I lived less than a mile from 3000W daytime AM
radio station. Not listening to that was indeed a learning expereince.
>Hmm, I'd never want to build a live-chassis set. Isolated PSUs seem like
>a very good idea on experimental designs...
I'd agree but it was a cheap circuit.
>Never built a valve radio. Built other valve stuff over the years,
though...
It good fun. I did one recently on maple (real wood breadboard) using
some of the talves (tubes) provided by one of the members. I went
for the classic Q5er, 4 tubes in all, osc/mixer feeding a regenerative
IF at 455kc followed by one stage of audio. Makes a fair shortwave RX.
Radio is one thing I still enjoy.
Allison
On 09 Dec 2000, under the subject: GOOD scrounging day!;
Joe Rigdon <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
> OK while the rest of you are freezing and getting ready for Christams, we
> here in Florida and enjoying beautifull wheather and still fighting over
> the election! A few of us are taking advantage of the weather and are out
> scrounging for old computers and other interesting stuff. <snip>
I am headed to Ft. Lauderdale later this month. Any suggestions for places
to visit with regards to finding 'puters? I am not looking for anything
in particular, probably something along the lines of fleamarkets or places
that sell used hardware. Keep in mind that my wife and her mother will
probably be in tow. They are concerned that I will be bored and want to
include something of interest for me. Also any pointers on book stores
that sell used books and/or used CD/45/LP's.
TIA
Mike
