test-drb April 2001

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by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

I think there was an entire line of TI minicomputers that were sold off by TI to HP. I have part of a TI explorer and several TI 1100's and 1500's. These minicomputers are still used by several HMO's in Kansas City for some medical billing application. My local computer surplus has 6-7 of them. There were ASCII TI terminals that went with the system. I seem to remember that there was a terminal emulation application for the TI-99/4's. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu

25 years, 1 month

Update on dates for VCF East

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> > >It came to my attention that June 23-24 is the nationwide AARL event >weekend so I have decided against holding the VCF on that weekend. I'm >currently looking at the weekend of July 14-15 in Worcester or July 28-29 >in Marlborough. I'd push myself for Marlborough as its real close, likely the cost for the hall is much cheaper too. Allison

25 years, 1 month

Message for Bruce Lane

by jpl15＠panix.com

Well, Bruce, I've tried to reply privately to your Tucson message from my private and office accounts... both bounce with 'host unknown' errmsgs. I can understand wishing to guard against Colds and Flu, but wearing a spacesuit 24/7 to accomplish that is a little... dare I use the word... obsessive? ;} A shame too, I have contacts in Tucson... O well... "I wanted to join Paranoiacs Anonymous, but when I called for info the guy on the other end asked to know how I got their number, started screaming about just exactly how I knew they were there, and slammed the phone down on me. Next day, when I called back, the number was disconnected." Chz John

25 years, 1 month

Heath/Zenith stuff

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Bill Gunshannon <bill(a)cs.scranton.edu> >>Your thinking of the Heath H11 which was in fact an LSI-11/02. But it had none DEC hardware peripherals like the console SLU and disk controller. IT was an LSI-11/03. The 03 card had 4kw or ram on it and was quad width where the /02 card was dual width and no ram. >>By the way, they were not the only non-DEC LSI-11 system. The Terak also was an 11/02 with custom console and disk hardware. The list of companies that also shipped the base dec hardware repackaged is rather lone and includes Charles River, ISI, DSD, Tektronix and likely many I missed. DEC sold those boards (cpu and supporting) as peice parts for the embedded systems of the day to people that did NC mills, gas analysers, plant controls to name a few. It's part of the reason why PDP-11 Qbus hardware is so common and still in widespread use. Allison -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

25 years, 1 month

TI Minicomputer?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Eric Dittman <dittman(a)dittman.net> wrote: > > Did the 990's go to HP with the Unix systems, or to Siemens or Fujitsu or > > somebody else, or were they just abandoned? > > I don't know where they went, but my guess is they were just > abandoned. Pretty much so. They did not go to HP with the S1500. Al Kossow has what info he has been able to turn up on his Minicomputer Orphanage web page: <http://www.spies.com/~aek/orphanage.html>. -Frank McConnell

25 years, 1 month

Tampa Area Sites

by gene＠ehrich.com

At 08:20 AM 4/12/01 -0500, you wrote: >I have still never seen anyone on the list post any info on >good places in the Chicago area to find computer goodies. What about the Tampa Bay area. Any good locations around here?

25 years, 1 month

VCF East in Worcester

by r_beaudry＠hotmail.com

I'll batch up my replies into one, sorry for the non-attributions.... >What about facilities for those choosing more reasonable means of long >and short distance transportation, such as train stations and boarding >stables? Trains, yes, an Amtrak station, but as others have pointed out, the route may not be direct. I would suggest calling Amtrak and trying to find out about direct routes. Other than that, you could go to Boston or Providence, and most likely get transport to Worcester from there (by bus, most likely, and it's only about 1hr. from Boston, or 45 min. from Providence by bus/car)... >> By the way, do I get any points for suggesting Worcester? :-) >Yes, as in the points surrounding a bulls-eye painted on you so that >we can keep score when the pieces of buck-shot, or at least peas from >pea-shooters, start heading your way for choosing such an annoyingly >distant location for most people on the east coast - and for >suggesting that the festival be held on the wrong side of the >Mason-Dixon line. :-) HEY! I just suggested it. Sellam chose it! :-) And as I understand it, it was a very scientific method he used to choose the spot. :-) I never even dreamed he was thinking of New England until he mentioned Providence, so I just jumped in. I figured Boston would be WAY too expensive, especially if Providence was... Besides "annoyingly distant" is relative -- as your annoyance goes down, mine goes up :-) >The plus is the Ararat restaurant on Burncoat Street, which is about the >only thing I can think ofto go to Worcester for. The Higgins Armoury >is pretty cool, though. For eats, Eric's La Pattisserie, Shorah's, The Firehouse Cafe, Aku-Aku (not great, but close to the venue), and Cafe Dolce (EXCELLENT coffee/tea/pastries!) come to mind. For entertainment, try these: EcoTarium, Foothills Theater, Mechanics Hall, and the Worcester Art Museum. For shopping, the Worcester Common Outlets are right next door to the Centrum Center (also a decent fast-food food court) There are many more, but I'm of course biased :-) I will admit however that Providence's Federal Hill area trounces most Worcester restaurants, and you might even get a chance to see the resident criminal^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H mayor Buddy Cianci at one :-) Rich B.

25 years, 1 month

Collection list (just for phun)

by frustum＠pacbell.net

At 07:13 PM 4/10/01 -0400, THETechnoid wrote: >I'd like to see some of your lists. I bet some of you would be hard >pressedd to list your whole collection in a message that the list server >would accept (too large). I don't have a lot of machines, but I do focus more on quality than quantity after all: - i432 development system - the original 4004 mask set - IBM 5100 prototype - Apple I (qty 6) - EDSAC 1 (re-wired to run off 120V) - CRAY-1 (mint; still in shrinkwrap) - Steve Wozniak (mostly working, but sometimes needs power cycling) - Zuse Z1 (does anybody here have a copy of the boot disk?) - Analytical Engine running MSDOS 1.00 My wife is getting kind of pissed about having all this stuff in the garage, though, so I might start trading this stuff for some calculators or something smaller. ----- Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net

25 years, 1 month

Early Grid connector cable

by lgwalker＠look.ca

I have a large 5 1/4 Grid fdd, mod# 2022 with 2 50 pin (17-16-17) connectors on the back. It is dated 1982. I also have the cable. Anyone know what model this beast hooked up to and what this connector is called. larry Reply to: lgwalker(a)look.ca

25 years, 1 month

Crays and i432s (Was: RE: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (jus t for phun))

by CordaAJ＠nswc.navy.mil

I wonder if the shrinkwrapped Cray-1 has one of those shrinkwrap licenses... i.e. "By opening this package you are agreeing to..." :) BTW, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an i432... a long time ago ('84?) I actually worked on one for a year or so in an attempt to get it to do something useful. I had some success, but was continually hampered by having to run over to another building to use their VAX as a cross-compiler. Now that I have a VAX sitting on my desk at home I imagine I could probably do quite a bit more! It was a unique architecture (quite a bit ahead of it's time) but hampered by the lack of provision for I/O (usually handled by a 8086 co-processor board) and the lack of a native OS based development package. -al- > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:12 PM > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (just for phun) > > > > The likelihood of someone having six Apple 1s is similar to that of > having an i432 dev system, the original 4004 mask set, an ibm 5100 > proto, an EDSAC1, or a shrinkwrapped Cray-1. Or even possibly Steve > Wozniak (hopefully in shrinkwrap) etc etc etc. > > -Dave McGuire > > On April 12, Lawrence Walker wrote: > > Was this a typo or do you really have 6 Apple 1's. > > > > larry > > > > > At 07:13 PM 4/10/01 -0400, THETechnoid wrote: > > > >I'd like to see some of your lists. I bet some of you > would be hard > > > >pressedd to list your whole collection in a message that > the list server > > > >would accept (too large). > > > > > > I don't have a lot of machines, but I do focus more on > quality than > > > quantity after all: > > > > > > - i432 development system > > > - the original 4004 mask set > > > - IBM 5100 prototype > > > - Apple I (qty 6) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > - EDSAC 1 (re-wired to run off 120V) > > > - CRAY-1 (mint; still in shrinkwrap) > > > - Steve Wozniak (mostly working, but sometimes needs > power cycling) > > > - Zuse Z1 (does anybody here have a copy of the boot disk?) > > > - Analytical Engine running MSDOS 1.00 > > > > > > My wife is getting kind of pissed about having all this > stuff in the > > > garage, though, so I might start trading this stuff for > some calculators or > > > something smaller. > > > > > > ----- > > > Jim Battle == frustum(a)pacbell.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Reply to: > > lgwalker(a)look.ca >

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