test-drb December 2002

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by spectre＠stockholm.ptloma.edu

Spotted on the ti99 list on YahooGroups. ----- Forwarded message ----- X-Apparently-To: ti99-4a{{{at}}}yahoogroups.com To: ti99-4a{{{at}}}yahoogroups.com Message-id: <200212292023.NAA07743(a)aztec2.asu.edu> X-eGroups-From: dlormand{{{at}}}aztec.asu.edu (DAVID L. ORMAND) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 13:23:55 -0700 (MST) Subject: [ti-99/4a] TMS9900 Lives! Just thought you guys would get a charge out of this: Regardless of what anyone else thinks, the Army thinks we will be at war with Iraq imminently. So the old TOW team has been busy through the Christmas break. And I got to play with 9989 assembly again! Joy! Furthermore, since the old development tools don't seem to be working anymore (VAX and HP9000), I had to drag in one of my TI-99/4A systems to do module testing! Much to the amusement of the rest of the team! The old dog still lives! For users/owners of TI-99/4A and compatibles everywhere! To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: ti99-4a-unsubscribe{{{at}}}eGroups.com ----- End of forwarded message ----- -- ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ -- Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu -- Less talk, more synthohol. -- Lt. Worf, Star Trek: TNG ---------------------

23 years, 1 month

Qs about big tape drives

by jss＠subatomix.com

All right. College is over, and I'm starting to map out plans for my Machine Room of Ultimate Power (Consumption). Trouble is, my 850 sq ft house is not much bigger than an apartment. I've found that vertical storage is my friend here, and I want to use as much of that as I can. I've got this Kennedy 9300 tape transport. It's big like a DEC TE16 and has vacuum columns and such. It will live at the top of a rack. Unfortunately...um...I've never actually *used* one of these big tape drives, or any tape drive for that matter, and I can find zilch docs on it. Are there going to be problems with sticking anything else (storage or processor) under it? Specifically, would vibrations from the 9300 cause problems (e.g. alignment) with a disk drive (e.g. RK05) mounted below it? Could vibrations cause problems (e.g. cards working themselves out of the backplane) with a processor (e.g. 11/34)? -- Jeffrey Sharp

23 years, 1 month

Manual(s) for Fluke 9010 Troubleshooter 8080 and 8085 pods?

by alandevlin＠bigpond.com

Gidday Tony, you may wish to check my WEBSITE ! I have the (almost) complete SET of Service Manuals for this hardware. Cheers. Alan. Alan Devlin. RF RESALE... where Honesty & Integrity are paramount ! Melbourne, Australia. WEB PAGE URL http://www.users.bigpond.com/alandevlin/index.html manual(s) for Fluke 9010 Troubleshooter 8080 and 8085 pods? Tony Eros cctech(a)classiccmp.org Sun Oct 13 18:59:32 2002 Previous message: manual(s) for Fluke 9010 Troubleshooter 8080 and 8085 pods? Next message: 10 years Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

23 years, 1 month

VAX 11/780 anyone with some working experience out there?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>As for a second RX01, I cannot help you. On the 86x0 you have a command to say that you really want >to play with a second RL02 instead of the standard one, but it's not very easy to use, and not >really ment for customers to play with. Then again, there isn't even a DIR command on the 86x0 >console (nor a command file to do the same). I should read those 8600 manuals but, not having an actual 8600, I lack the incentive :-) On the 11/780 that I used briefly many years ago, you could get to the console devices by doing CONNECT CONSOLE within SYSGEN and then the CSA0: and CSA1: devices were available (this is under VMS). The EXCHANGE utility could then get to the RT-11 formatted data. Similar deal for the VAX 82x0/83x0 and its RX50. I'd expect that something similar would apply to the VAX 8600. >As for copying the RX01. Install VMS on a drive, and play with that. >You have a command file for making copies of the console media there. I seem to remember Gunther and VMS not being such good friends last time around on a VAX 6000 - maybe he should try a smaller system first :-) I'm pretty sure that something like: $ SYSGEN SYSGEN> CONNECT CONSOLE SYSGEN> EXIT $ MOUNT/FOREIGN CSA1: $ HELP EXCHANGE should help (OK - I forget how to drive exchange!). I don't remember whether the console devices will be CSA1: and CSA2: or CSA0: and CSA1: ... SHOW DEVICE CS will sort that out. Merry Christmas, Antonio arcarlini(a)iee.org

23 years, 1 month

M200 interfacing

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> wrote: > Whether this will work depends on how punch card encoding works. From > what I can tell so far, there will only ever be one of the 1-9 numbered > rows punched per column, but there can be any combination of the 0, 11, > and 12 rows. Is this correct? No. Symbol characters do not follow this rule, for example the period character '.' is encoded as punches in rows 12, 3, and 8. You should assume that any combination of rows may be punched. As a general rule, I think you'll find that for cards containing printable characters, no more than 3 punches are made in any column, but I don't think you can assume this for cards containing binary data. Doug Jones has a page that you should look at: <http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html> ...but I can't get there right now, so you might need to look in Google's cache (long URL w/wrap): <http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:AeJS4EmmG4gC:www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/c…> -Frank McConnell

23 years, 1 month

Incredible Find

by marvin＠rain.org

Well, occassionally we stumble across something that is kind of unusual at a great price! Yesterday at TRW, Dave (senior moment, can't remember his last name but former member of this list) told me about a Heath 3400 microprocessor for sale. Turned out that the guy had the Heath Microprocessor trainer AND and a mostly unbuilt (resistors only soldered in the board) Heath I/O interface; both were in the original box and included the original manual! I have seen very few of the Heath interface units, and finding one that was essentially unbuilt was ... inspiring :)!!!

23 years, 1 month

Dinosaur Computer Company?

by netsurfer_x1＠fastmailbox.net

I had a friend who was telling me once about a computer company he had heard of called, oddly enough, Dinosaur Computers. If memory serves me right, they were based out of the state he was living in at the time (either Michigan or Wisconsin, I don't remember which). Anyone know anything about these guys? -- David Vohs netsurfer_x1(a)fastmailbox.net -- http://fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.

23 years, 1 month

Sound Computer Trades

by rdd＠rddavis.org

An explanation of the title: I'm looking to trade some of my surplus classic computer, and other, equipment for used pro-sound equipment (what I'm looking for is listed at the end) Some of what's available for trade: * A large, double-height, non-DEC, Qbus expansion chasis, complete with it's own power supply, lighted power switch, etc. on the front panel. This is rather large and heavy. * A set of DECVoice cards for a q-bus VAX * Kaypro IV computer * Many Sun-3 VME-bus boards (sorry, still no complete list of these) that have taken over too large a part of the garage and the top of my workbench. What I do know is that there are many CG3 boards that I'd like to get rid of, along with graphics accellerators, etc. If you've discussed these before with me, please don't hesitate to pester me to check to see if I have a board that you're looking for... sometimes I forget, and sometimes there are other things in the way of my getting to these boards. * PDP-11/03 chasis (may or may not have any boards, such as a CPU, in it) * 25" Zenith picture tube from the 1970's or earlier (I've no idea what to do with this, but it would be a shame to toss it in the trash... it's been taking up space for a couple of decades, and I'd like to find a good home for it). Somewhere, I may even have the solid metal front panel that goes with it. Buy this tube (for a ridiculously low price!), and I'll toss in the front panel for *free* if I can find it ...don't delay, as this special bonus offer may expire within the next decade or so! :-) * 17" HP color monitor * 19" Apollo color monitor * Apollo DN3500 with color board. * Parts for a PDP-11/34A, including power supply in bits, front panel, assorted hardware such as cables and screws, boards, etc. Just add a chasis and you may find that you have nearly a working system... maybe you can even convince me to part with the real core memory for it! * A Falco 5000 (F5000?) terminal that needs a few adjustments * A Macintosh 512K * A 19" wide rack-mountable slide-out drawer. You need one of these in your PDP-11's rack, don't you? Yes, you do! :-) * A QMS printer controller (?) board for Macintosh computers Other things that may be of interest to some... * CRT from an ancient Dumont oscilloscope * A modular GE mobile transceiver with valves in the transmitter and receiver. The third module is a vibrator type power supply. This was originally used as a police radio or somesuch. The case that surrounds this is missing, but you get the frame that holds the modules together. Somewhere, I may have the service manual for it. * A vintage Kenwood (KR-7070, IIRC) top-of-the line receiver, from the 1970s, in need of a little restoration work, complete with real-wood, not veneer, cabinetry. = = = = = = = = = Items on my audio and synthesis "want list" include: * compressor/limiter (preferably one using tubes) * spectral enhancer or similar equipment (e.g. DBX model 726) * instrument condenser microphone (at least 30Hz to 20KHz bandwidth, +/- 3 db); * Tascam DX-4D, 4-channel DBX-1 unit * 8-channel 1/2" reel to reel with good heads & motors ...and other mechanical bits in good or repairable condition. Test tape for calibration must still be available from some source. * old 12-plus channel mixer board (must have analog VU meters); ok to be in need of electronic/electrical repairs; prefer Yamaha boards, but that's not a definite requirement * 19" mobile console rack that will hold rack-mounted multitrack recorder at a 20 to 45 degree, or so, angle (e.g., something resembling a Tascam CS-607B rack) * phase shifter * factory patch tapes for Juno-60 synth * audio patch bay (16 to 32 channels) -- Copyright (C) 2002 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

23 years, 1 month

Mac Plus and Signatures

by cb＠mythtech.net

>If you really want to open it, take a >BIC disposable pen, and remove the ink and the black end piece, leaving >an empty tube. Shove a hex shaped pencil in one end, and a T-15 driver >bit in the other. This creates a crude, but very functional Mac opener. >If you use a long enough pencil, it is pretty easy to use. Now if that ain't the coolest Mac Hack! >Getting the >case apart after the screws are out can be tricky too, and they sold a >special tool to do it, but I have always just to be able to pull the >halves apart. A small spring wood clamp with the rubber end caps removed works well. Stick the clamp end into the slot between the front and rear halves, and then squeeze the handle. As the clamp goes to open, it will pry the halves apart. Do this gently in a few places around the case, and the whole unit will easily pop apart. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

23 years, 1 month

Looking for Definicon DSI-32 board ...

by bernd＠kopriva.de

Hi, i've put this request on the list some times ago, but i was unsuccessful :-( ... ... maybe i've more luck now ?? Thanks Bernd Bernd Kopriva Tel: 07195 / 179452 Weilerstr. 24 E-Mail : bernd(a)kopriva.de 71397 Leutenbach

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb December 2002