Is anyone familar with these? I don't don't know much about them other
than that the surplus dealers all think they're worth a fortune. Anyway I
"rescued" one out of a scrap pile. First, is it worth trying to repair and
use? I already have a Data I/O model 29. Second, it's missing the two
disk drives but otherwise it seems to be in decent condition. Can these
use standard 3.5" floppy drives? I THINK these have their complete
operating system on disk. Can anyone confirm that? Does anyone have the SW
or manuals for it?
Joe
IIRC A couple of months ago somebody on this list said that the Beehive
terminals used 4040 CPUs. Can anyone confirm that? Yesterday I spotted a
pair of old two-tome brown Beehive terminals in a trash pile and I was
wondering if I should go back and pick them up.
Joe
An aside to all this, and hopefully the last words.
The equipment was mine to dispose of. How, is my choice.
To put it bluntly, if there were no response, I'd have
called a few people on last resort and if no interest I'd have
then landfilled them. Often with my time being very limited
I will impose those conditions that will least impact my time.
Usually no outside the US 48 states as packing, paperwork
and shipping requires *time* even if minimal effort. I am not
a business with a shipping department.
Personally I'd rather see them used or at least recycled.
However, I dont have unlimited space and If I can't use it
or don't use it then maybe it's time to remove it.
I was glad that there were at least three people that
could and would pick them up.
Allison
Hi,
This is an unreasonable request.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Torquil MacCorkle III <torquil(a)rockbridge.net>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: Thinning the heard
>Hi,
> I think it is very nice of you to give away machines like this. I was
>just wondering if you'd be willing to, if you do this again, give me first
>dibs on the next complete machine you give away?
> Thanks for the generosity to the list,
> torquil
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Allison" <ajp166(a)bellatlantic.net>
>To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:12 AM
>Subject: Thinning the heard
>
>
>> Thanks everyone.
>>
>> The two Pros are claimed.
>>
>> In the future there may be other hardware but, not alot.
>> I'm not getting out it's more a selection process as I
>> with to run more of the peices and that takes space.
>>
>> Allison
>>
>>
>
>
> > Stardent was not a follow-on from Ardent.
> >
> > Stardent made a graphics supercomputer with a fancy very wide data path
> > between the CPU and the graphics engine. Something like 512 bits
> > wide...
> >
> > My wife worked there. Stardent attempted to generate a market for a
> > product that did not already exist. Some were sold for scientific
> > visualization and other high-end uses. Quite a unique machine
> > really...not your average workstation at all.
>
> Cool. I have one which I got from the University of Texas at Austin last
> summer. I believe that I owe it to a list member who sent me some cool
> hardware in exhange for it.
I may be confusing it with another firm, but I think
Bill Poduska founded Stardent after leaving Apollo...
-dq
> I suspect the practicality is that, although technically feasable to convert
> to a DVD, _copyright_ issues prevent any commercial project from
> doing so (starting with the arm and a leg than ordnance survey would charge
> for the map data, and following with the impossibility of contacting all the
> other copyright holders) and the amount of work required (and legal
> minefield) being too much for a hobby project.
Has "migrating a copyrighted work from an older decaying
medium to a newer stable medium" had a court test already?
-dq
I was going through the archives on www.techtales.com, and I came across this one:
Punch Card Problems
This one really belongs to my dad.
Many years ago, he was using a PDP 8 with 8k of core
for generating geological maps. All the programmes
and data were entered via punch card or paper tape. On
one run, it just wouldn't work. All the cards were
manually checked, a very labour and time intensive process.
Still nothing worked. Eventually, the whole run was repunched
card by card and in the end it did work.
Some detective work revealed the source of the errors.
The dye used in the blue punch cards was slightly hygroscopic.
The absorbed water made all the blue cards slightly longer than
the rest, just long enough to throw off the reader.
The solution: replace all the blue cards.......
Thanks to: Araneas
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