On May 24, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > I almost bought an iMac when they came out just so I could put it on a
> > desk next to my ADM-5. :)
>
> You guys know the rumor behind the design of the iMac, right?
Eh?
-Dave McGuire
All,
Got my OpenVMS hobbyist media kit (= one CD) today in the mail.
Still don't have any good idea what my id number (sic?) is or whether I
have one - have never gotten any email at all related to OpenVMS from
Montagar or Compaq. Guess I'll call next week to try to find out. Anyway, a
positive data point for anyone still waiting for one.
- Mark
On May 24, Jonathan Engdahl wrote:
> It looks like what you have here is 1/2 of an SDI adapter.
Yup.
> Now the next question: what is SDI? I'll assume for now that is was an early
> approximation to SCSI, something proprietary to DEC.
It has *nothing* to do with SCSI. SDI is a relatively
high-performance (amazing for its day) high-level command-based
interface that is used to connect to DEC RA-seris drives. It uses
small cables that contain four pieces of 1/8" coaxial cable that
terminate in an 8-pin Berg-like connector.
It's useless without the other board, and they're both useless if
you don't want to run RA-series disks. Contrary to popular belief,
not all RA-series disks are huge (14" platters) and power hungry. I
have a stack of 1GB 5.25" RA73 disks that are rather nice.
-Dave McGuire
> One of the Alto instruction sets was an extended Nova. The MESA machine
> is more like an HP3000 than a Nova. It is defined in the MESA "Princeops"
> manual. Alan Freier had this on line at one point, not sure if anyone
> saved a copy.
I've been after a copy of this manual for *ages*, does anyone have a copy?
Does anyone know what happened to the Wildflower site? I've tried mailing
Alan Freier a couple of times but not had a reply.
al
> OTOH, usability folks would probably say that the functions of the
> function keys should always be the same anyway. For most apps
> that's probably true.
Yeah, just ask the RAF's fighter controllers...
This is forwarded (by request) from my Tandy Model 100 mailing list
[m100(a)list.30below.com]. Please respond to the original poster, not me
[he's not yet a member of this list]...
Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>I just bought an Osborne Executive in great shape. I always wanted one! It
>came with these manuals:
>
>- Volume 0 - Beginners Guide
>- Volume 1 - Mastering the Osborne Executive
>- Volume 2 - Working with text and Spreadsheets
>- Volume 3 - Managing information with Personal Pearl
>- Volume 4 - Operating System
>- Reference Guide Binder with tabs for WordStar, SuperCalc, CP/M Plus, CBASIC
>and MS BASIC.
>
>Does anyone here on the Model 100 listserv know if these ALL the manuals that
>came with a new Osborne Executive?
>
>Also, unfortunately, it came with 4 non-original, non-labeled disks. It
is not
>clear to me what is on the 4 disks or the logic of them since I'm new to
CP/M.
>I know that WordStar and some CP/M Plus are on those disks. But I don't
believe
>I have SuperCalc, CBASIC, MS BASIC or Personal Pearl. I'm not even sure I
have
>the full WordStar and CP/M Plus.
>
>So I'm looking to get an exact copy of the original disk set that came
with the
>Osborne Executive. Also, I though it would be cool to get a picture of the
>disks' labels so I can re-create them.
>
>Can you help? Is there a file list by disk somewhere?
>
>I'm assuming the bundled software included:
>
>- CP/M Plus
>- WordStar
>- SuperCalc
>- Personal Pearl
>- CBASIC
>- MS BASIC
>
>Thanks a bunch.
>
>Chris
>Chris_Feeney(a)hillenbrand.com
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
A search of terms (from archived material of comp.terminals &
alt.folklore.computers, et al.) reveals nothing definitive:
Archer Daniels Midland
American Dream Machine
Advanced Display Module
A Display Monitor
Advanced Data Manager
Awful Dumb Monitor
Absurdly Dense Minicomputer
A Devil in Masquerade
...any former LSI employees out there to help solve this mystery?
I've always felt this statement, printed in the ADM-3a manual, has only
added to the "classic" factor of these baby-blue CRTs:
Note: Lear Siegler does not service ADM-3A kits. If service or technical
assistance is needed, your local Dumb Terminal Dealer should be contacted.
:)
Eric
Will Jennings had previously stated:
> I still prefer what my dad calls it: A Dumb Machine. I don't see why people
> pay so much for those things, they're not even very good terminals.
On May 24, Will Jennings wrote:
> No, I was meaning why do they go for so much now.. They're certainly not
> rare or for that matter, reliable. Not to mention that I find them ugly,
> ugly, ugly! But that last part was opinion.. Still, if you need a terminal
> today, get like a wyse-55 or something.
Not rare? They're pretty rare from where I'm sitting. Not to be
argumentative, but I've seen ONE (an ADM-5, now in my basement) in all
my travels in about the past ten years.
-Dave McGuire
I used them myself for the two years I went to college (the
school had a PDP-11/70 I think). As for speed, have you
ever looked inside one of these things?
Late one nite, I had nothing better to do than poke around
stuff in the computer lab; indide I found one *big* board,
covered with what I think was TTL. No uP, all random logic,
*no* processing overhead.
Talk about 'real time' . . . ..
On Thu, 24 May 2001 13:37:20 -0500 Tom Uban <uban(a)ubanproductions.com>
writes:
> At the time, they were fairly cheap in comparison to other "more
> intelligent"
> terminals, and they were one of the few which could keep up at a
> full serial
> line rate without handshaking. I worked at Purdue University's
> Engineering
> Computer Network back in the early 80's and we used then for that
> reason. Most
> ran at either 9600 or 19200, but we modified a few to run at 38400
> and they
> could keep up with that speed as well...
>
> --tom
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