I have two Digital VGA monitors destined for the curbside. Help me
avoid carrying them down the stairs. They're only standard VGA
resolution, but they're pretty, and they'll mate nicely with your lpv's
or other DEC PC's. And yes, with mfg date of 1992, they're _almost_
classic.
Regards,
Eliot
(Santa Monica)
Ok, to anyone who might have tried to mail me over the
weekend, only to have it bounce back in their face, my apologies. I
just finished getting Blue Feather's domain relocated to
USWest.net.
The only thing that's still down at the moment is my web site,
and I expect that to be taken care of Tuesday morning.
The move to USW is a temporary one until I can get my own
servers up and running. After that point, I'll not be depending on
USW for anything more than the DSL pipe and DNS service.
You may now return to your regularly-scheduled looniness.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bruce Lane, Owner/Head Honcho,
Blue Feather Technologies (www.bluefeathertech.com)
kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
"SCSI Users, Unite! Beware the IDEs of March!"
>I haven't yet decoded the tape (if it says anyhthing at all). Luckily I
>just got _Computers and Typesetting_ which covers plenty of obscure
>typesetting codes (which is the only area I know of in which six-hole tape
>ever became popular).
Check out BAUDOT code used for the old mod 15 teleprinters and
reperforators.
those were 5level code with a shift character. Commonly used for TTY
services
like Western Union and Hams.
Allison
Please see reply below.
In a message dated 05/22/2000 6:47:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
netsurfer_x1(a)hotmail.com writes:
> f it would be possible, could somebody please send me (via snail mail)
> MS-DOS programs that will work on my Sharp PC-7000. I am asking because
the
> 5.25" drive in our computer is not completely compatible in DSDD mode (it
is
>
> a 1.2 Mb drive), and all of my tries to transfer programs have been
> unsuccessful, so I have decided to give up & go here.
>
> A word of warning, the Sharp does not have a hard drive, so I'll need
> programs that will run off one or two floppy disks.
I have a variety of ancient DOS-based software on 5.25" diskettes -- mostly
360 KB. Not being familiar with your Sharp machine, I have to ask: how much
RAM does it have, and what version of DOS is it running? And what sort of
programs are you looking for?
Glen
0/0
In a message dated 5/22/00 10:02:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
foxvideo(a)wincom.net writes:
> > The video card ic an Apple Computer Inc. 820-0198-A7 Mackintosh II Video
> Card.
> It was packed separately from the computer, and condition is unknown.
> The story here is that a couple of friends closed up their repair
> business, and yesterday contributed a van load of computers and other odds
> and ends to my collection. I have had no Mac experience, the only other one
> in the collection is a Mac +, so don't really know what I am doing. I would
> like to make an adapter to go from the Mac 15 pin video,(size of a game
> port) to a standard VGA monitor.
i have a 4 bit video card in my cx, and i tried one of those cable adaptors
that allows a mac to use a vga monitor. the best i could get was a rolling
screen that was green to due to the sync on green signal not connected right.
i do have a ci that uses an adaptor and successfully worked with a nec
multisync display. only thing i can suggest is get one of those video cable
connectors for macs with all the dip switches, and a multisync monitor and
try various combinations to see if it works.
DB Young ICQ: 29427634
hurry, hurry, step right up! see the computers you used as a kid!
http://members.aol.com/suprdave/classiccmp/museum.htm
Hello, all:
In the process of repeatedly restoring various betas of Win98 et. al., I
seemed to have deleted my copy of the Teletype TrueType font that someone
made.
If someone has this, could they please send it to me. Thanks.
Rich
[ Rich Cini
[ ClubWin!/CW1
[ MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
[ Collector of "classic" computers
[ <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
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Hello,
A DEC Rainbow in Vancouver. (Kevin?) Get it while it's hot! Alan
said "...as you see fit" and I don't know many groups fitter than this. If
you *have* a RB but not MS-DOS 3.10B, you likely want the latter at least.
- Mark
>Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 13:10:57 -0700 (PDT)
...
>Subject: Surplus Rainbow
>
>Hi Mark. Thanks, I've found no interest locally yet, so spread the word
>as you see fit:
>
>Free for pickup in Victoria, B.C. on Vancouver Island:
>
>(I could get it to the mainland sometime or have it picked up by a
>forwarding agent in Victoria if they handle *all* the packing and
>processing.)
>
>Rainbow 100A in working condition in tower case, VR201 monitor (occasional
>rolling), LK201 keyboard, Letterwriter 100 printer (untested)
>
>cable, ribbon, installation manual, owner's manual, user's guide, MS-DOS
>introduction even the floppy disk inserts that say "Save this card".
>
>DOS 3.10b for the Rainbow, a variety of utility programs and games but no
>*real* software but there's shareware available.
>
>For those who don't know, this is *not* compatible with IBM-PCs. The
>diskettes cannot be interchanged although there is a utility to allow
>reading Rainbow diskettes in a PC drive. So, unless someone likes to
>play, it's probably a museum piece.
>
>Contact Alan at yjNOSPAM105(a)victoria.tc.ca (remove NOSPAM)
On May 21, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Since this is related to getting 2.11BSD up on my PDP-11/73 I figure it's
> Semi-OT.
>
> OK, I figured since I'd had to pull the TZ30 I might as well just plug it
> into the DECstation 5000/133 I've got. I take it that such a beasty won't
> recognize a TZ30? Doing a "CNFG 3" turned up the two RZ25's in the thing,
> but not the tapedrive, and I couldn't see it from Ultrix 4.3 either.
Hmm...can't help you with that; never tried it. I do remember,
however, reading something recently (here? or maybe NetBSD's
port-vax list?) about the TZ30 not being a well-behaved SCSI citizen
and needing some tweaks in somebody's (NetBSD's?) SCSI driver somewhere
to work properly.
Coincidentally though, Zane, I'm doing the same thing tonight...I
just finished putting together an 11/73 and now (in parallel with a
few other things) I'm trying to figure out how to get the
distribution onto a TK50.
I have a MicroVAX 3100-80 running VMS 7.2 with a TZ30...perhaps I
could write that tape there? Anybody know what VMS incantations I'd
have to do to "get there from here"?
> Once again I'm asking myself *why* am I doing this, I like my UNIX
> lightening fast and flashy.
Well, I've never run Unix on an '11...but you and I both have run a
lot of 11s in our day, and you know darn well there's nothing
slouchy about a J11. ;)
-Dave McGuire
This may sound ridiculous, but here goes.
If it would be possible, could somebody please send me (via snail mail)
MS-DOS programs that will work on my Sharp PC-7000. I am asking because the
5.25" drive in our computer is not completely compatible in DSDD mode (it is
a 1.2 Mb drive), and all of my tries to transfer programs have been
unsuccessful, so I have decided to give up & go here.
A word of warning, the Sharp does not have a hard drive, so I'll need
programs that will run off one or two floppy disks.
____________________________________________________________
David Vohs, Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian.
Home page: http://www.geocities.com/netsurfer_x1/
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, Okimate 20.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
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