test-drb January 2002

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by tarsi＠binhost.com

Got a good one, folks. A friend of mine is trying to use a Spur U.S.A.-1/DPC(7U) box. Spur U.S.A being the model and DPC being sub-model. I guess he knows that U.S.A. stands for Universal Subsystem Adaptor and DPC stands for Data Products C????. It takes input from a 50-pin amp connector and outputs to an IBM Channel Bus & Tag. He knows what the box does and has a Bus & Tag box to use it with, but can't figure out what DPC is or where to find the 50-pin amp connector or the pinouts for it. Anyone help out? Thanks! Tarsi 210 -- ---------------------------------------------- Homepage: http://tarsi.binhost.com binHOST.com: http://www.binhost.com Forever Beyond: http://www.foreverbeyond.org ----------------------------------------------

24 years, 1 month

eMag Solutions LLC announces end of life plan for open reel ( 9-track) tape

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Aw Geeze.... is this really the end? I would go nuts if I couldn't get 9 > track mag tapes anymore. Pretty much everything in my collection depends on > it. The note says emag is the last manufacturer. Is that in the US, or in > the world? I'm wondering if they will still be available for purchase, but > will originate from overseas manufacturers. I had posted disbelief about this in alt.sys.pdp10... I'd not heard of eMag, but if eMag is EMTEC Magnetics GmbH, then that's BASF! They didn't quite invent magnetic tape, but they claim to have been the first to have commercial success with it. If BASF is abandoning 9-track magtape, then I fear it's true, the end is near... Don Lancaster (yes, *the* Don lancaster) is selling new reels on E-Bay on a regular basis... bought two reels last year. So, I'll be stocking up on new and used tapes, for sure... -dq

24 years, 1 month

pinging Brian Hechinger...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Is he just off on another trip? I sent him a private message the other day, about some goods for him, and haven't heard a reply yet... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818

24 years, 1 month

(fwd) Free Radio Shack Model 100 computers (fwd)

by jpl15＠panix.com

Forwarded from a newsgroup for possible interest: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:51:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: (fwd) Free Radio Shack Model 100 computers -- forwarded message -- From: test2(a)pactec.net (Dave) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: Free Radio Shack Model 100 computers Date: 11 Jan 2002 09:28:49 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ I have 11 Radio Shack Model 100 laptop PCs and 5 associated Chipmunk 3.5" floppy drives sitting in the radio shop at work. We no longer need them and I wanted to offer them free to anyone who might want them before we throw them out. Only one manual. You pay only the shipping. Dave N7BHC (909) 389-1122 -- end of forwarded message --

24 years, 1 month

Compukit UK101

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk] > Sent: 10 January 2002 19:43 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Compukit UK101 > > Well, FWIW, the articles I have say time and again that if > the machine > ever fails to respond to the keyboard, the first thing to > check is that > Shift Lock is down :-) > And guess what! Working system.....grr....:) Now to attempt repair on the other one and maybe try and work out what all the spare boards I've got do! One is supposed to be a colour display, there's one with a Big Speaker on (hmm :) plus half a dozen others. l8r a

24 years, 1 month

Reading PET tapes (was Re: Apple disk -> MSDOS)

by mhstein＠usa.net

Some questions for the CBM experts: CBM->PC seems pretty trivial through a Parallel or Serial adapter (although ML might be tricky 'cause you can't just list it), but how do you get it back to a CBM? If you're just archiving, couldn't you just connect the CBM cassette port to the PC sound card line in&out, with _maybe_ a little padding and/or shaping since I think CBM, unlike most folks of that era, squared up the audio a little in the datasette (although ISTR that it usually worked OK with a normal recorder, and presumably you could set the levels with the PC volume controls)? Especially if there's an app that can decode the .wav files, what else do ya need? Reminds me of the days when I "networked" my PETs with a 40' cassette "Null modem" cable. Where could I find that cassette reader & .wav decoder, BTW? Tell us more! F'rinstance, I see someone elsewhere on the list looking for Phuzzy-Wuzzy; I remember it well and probably have it somewhere (although I didn't find it either in the Cursor tape index). So, if I do find it and this person wants it, how, specifically, could I email it to him/her in a format that he/she could load into the PET without having to build anything complicated (or mailing the actual tape)? Seems to me this goes on all the time in the amazingly active CBM community, I'm just not sure of the exact details (cable pinouts, required software, etc.) BTW, need a chiclet keyboard? Just recently tossed my small KB 2001 (yes, working - I can hear the curses...) but I think I've got at least two almost new chiclet keyboards (no worn-off legends, protective plastic still on most keys) left >from the days when we were replacing them with the full-size ones (that's me, toss the good stuff & keep the junk). Mind you, you might have to take the case with it, along with the funky chopped-up datasette. Also have a 2001 motherboard, maybe 2. BTW, speaking of CBM, I recall a recent discussion abt using a US 8032 in the UK and problems with a wavy screen (not to mention learning a lot about magnetic shielding); I wasn't positive at the time, but from what I've read there definitely (as definite as the printed word gets) was a different ROM for 50Hz operation to avoid that problem. mike ---------------------Original Message----------------------- From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com> Subject: Reading PET tapes (was Re: Apple disk -> MSDOS) - --- Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > > My X1541 cable also has a 6-pin C= cassette port on it. I have read > > many PET tapes directly from DOS with a real C2N tape recorder. > > How is the cassette data read by the PC? Does it decode the audio? Not audio (though there is an app that will decode .WAV files of PET tapes). Someone wrote a DOS app that reads the parallel port bits and converts them into a .T64 file directly. For alignment/phase, there's a graphical mode that scrolls the data up the screen along with "guard bands" that show where the app thinks a 0 and a 1 are. You use the cursor keys to align the data from the tape drive and the guard bands for optimal data parsing. Once you have an offset >from this process, you can use it as a command-line parameter for bulk reading. It works well enough, but I really wish the source were available (it never seems to be for DOS programs, unlike Unix and Amiga software). I have a small pile of PET Rabbit-format tapes that I want to extract from. My BASIC 2.0 PET needs repair (keyboard problems), so I can't just read the data and save it to disk. I have plenty of 8032s, but only one 2001 (got the 80-col PETs from university surplus for $10 a few years ago; we got the 40-col, 32K PET when I was grade-school for $1175). - -ethan

24 years, 1 month

pinging Brian Hechinger...

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Okay, thanks. Well, if anyone has another way to gat ahold of him, the VAX 4000 he's buying from us will be ready for pickup next week. Also wondering if the 2 4d/35's he offered are still available... He can call my work phone number... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Matt London [mailto:classiccmp@knm.yi.org] ! ! ! Hi, ! ! On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: ! ! > Is he just off on another trip? I sent him a private message the ! > other day, about some goods for him, and haven't heard a ! reply yet... ! ! He's waiting for his frame relay line to be installed and is ! without email ! for the moment. ! ! Hopefully not for long :&) ! ! -- Matt ! ! --- ! Web Page: ! http://knm.org.uk/ ! http://pkl.net/~matt/ !

24 years, 1 month

Old TV show

by mhstein＠usa.net

Just curious: anybody here ever see a TV show back in the 80's called Bits and Bytes, exploring the PETs, Apples, TI99's etc. of the day and starring Billy Van (Laugh-In) and Luba Goy (Cdn Air Farce)? mike

24 years, 1 month

(fwd) FS: Dauphin DTR-1 computer (fwd)

by jpl15＠panix.com

Forwarded from a newsgroup for any possible interest: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:52:06 -0500 (EST) From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> Subject: (fwd) FS: Dauphin DTR-1 computer -- forwarded message -- From: test2(a)pactec.net (Dave) Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.equipment,rec.radio.amateur.swap,rec.radio.swap Subject: FS: Dauphin DTR-1 computer Date: 11 Jan 2002 09:32:23 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ FS: Dauphin DTR-1 pen/tablet computer. 486SLC processor. $50. Dave N7BHC (909) 389-1122 -- end of forwarded message --

24 years, 1 month

VAX 6400 booting saga: barred from using MULTINET (sigh!)

by mrfusion＠uranium.club.cc.cmu.edu

you could also try to install CMU-IP. what version of VMS is this? it was once a popular free tcpip for VMS.. it should still be findable around here somewhere in some dusty directory on an ftp server.. On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote: > - Screw multinet and find some DECnet implementation for FreeBSD. > Heck, obviously Linux has a DECnet support, so why don't we? > The serial port is just not an option to move the several > hundred MB of ULTRIX data over. Also, an ultrix box has decnet support as well. Isildur

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test-drb January 2002