test-drb November 2004

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by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

Hi I was looking at things on ebay and found item #5144198694. Does anyone recognize this thing. Is it in fact a computer or part of a guidence control? Dwight

21 years, 1 month

TV ALERT !!

by news＠computercollector.com

The Travel Channel is showing on segment about Burroughs, on John Ratzenburger's "Made in America" series. It starts at 9:00 EST -- that's in 15 minutes. Evan ===== Tell your friends about the Computer Collector Newsletter! -- It's free and we'll never send spam or share your email address -- Publishing every Monday(-ish), ask about writing for us -- Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all Visit our web site for lots of extra content: http://news.computercollector.com Contact us at news(a)computercollector.com 600 readers and counting!

21 years, 1 month

Is agcarrick on the list?

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

I lost out to "agcarrick" for the Sys/36 on ebay today.

21 years, 1 month

ZX81 denigrated! (was Re: Approaches to projects)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 30 2004, 0:49, Tony Duell wrote: > When I make the adapter I'll add a 3 position switch to it (the adapter), > postiions being 'Always on'. 'Always off', 'Controlled by the remote > cable). One of my Tandy cassette recorders, designed for home computer > use, has such a switch, and it's useful. I made a new DIN plug with the power lead entering via the side, and a 2.5mm jack socket on the end to control the motor. When the 2.5mm plug isn't fitted, the motor is on. No idea about the IEC plug/socket with flat pins, though. > > I had to replace the drive belt in mine a few years back. I got a belt > > from CPC for a few pence. > > There are 2 belts in mine. The large one (which has completely died) > which goes between the motot, capstan flywheel and reel drive pulley, and > a little one in the reel drive mechanism. I was going to change both. I > don't suppose you've got the CPC number for the belt you used, the CPC > catalogue is almost impossible to obtain... Hmm... I vaguely recall two belts as well, but I don't have a record of the part numbers. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

21 years, 1 month

Multibus pinouts

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Have any of you got Multibus pinouts online anywhere? ta! :) Jules

21 years, 1 month

Rescue a 6000! ... & other DEC

by allain＠panix.com

FYI: also there: 2 LP27 lineprinters, 1 TU81-plus tapedrive I was able to swing by Bob Donovan's company on the way to a family function and took a few pictures of the VAX 6000. He talked a bit about apparently three other parties trying to take the machine and giving up. the machine is weeks away from the scrapper. I will be going by in about a week in a normal hatchback car to pick-up what I can. Since the *entire* interior of the car, seats included, is about the size of the VAX, I will dismantle it to accomodate. Alright Jokesters, that's the VAX, not the car. This means that the other 1/2 of the machine is likely going to be scrapped, even though it is in better shape than my car. Just to let you know. If there is another thing I can do, let me know. It's a 6100. quick photos of the visit at http://www.panix.com/~allain/V6000/ John A. Thanks to Bob.D and Rich.B ----- Original Message ----- >From: Gene Buckle <geneb(a)deltasoft.com> >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 12:52 PM >The shipping charges from Conneticut were too rich for my blood so I'm >hoping one of you will be able to save this machine.

21 years, 1 month

Multibus pinouts

by aek＠spies.com

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/_busSpec/P796_multibusSpec_Oct80.pdf

21 years, 1 month

NECS (New England Computer Society) apparently defunct

by tomj＠wps.com

Just for the hell of it I googled the club I hung out with in the late 1970's or early 1980's, NECS. According to one reference (Springfield Mass. Library) their website was www.necs.org, which is now owned by one of those horrid 'buy this site' parasites. I can't even remember anyone's name! What a shame. Used to meet out near 128, meet then go to some local late-night restaurant. The club ran a BBS, ("NECS"...), how I got in touch with them in the first place.

21 years, 1 month

MSDos on a dial up ISP?

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Subject: MSDos on a dial up ISP? > How do you do that? Take a look at CWRU-PC/IP: ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/micro/msdos/net/ For dial-up you'll also need a Class1-emulating packet driver for your SLIP or PPP. Ask your ISP if they could perhaps set you up with SLIP instead of PPP as it's much less painful under DOS. MS, who has connected to Inet from DOS in this manner prior to starting Harhan in 2000.

21 years, 1 month

VCF 7.0 Pictures

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk(a)yahoo.co.uk> > >On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 17:27 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dwight K. Elvey wrote: >> >> > Of course my exhibit wasn't even noticed or photographed. >> >> Well, *I* noticed you, and *I* photographed you (my gallery is still in >> the making). >> >> > As usual Sellam gave me half a table and most just figured >> >> You get what you ask for! If you want more space next year then all you >> need to do is just ask ;) > >Heh, we found that with the CGE show (first show we'd done) - we were >allocated five tables and thought we'd have trouble filling them, and in >the end we needed seven. > >Main lesson learned for next year's show is that you can never have >enough display material to go on the big screens behind the tables, we >were somewhat lacking this time around (and of course anything put up >there needs to be big as the public end up a fair distance away from it) > >Oh, and keep a roll of tape handy to prop the case of your Domesday >system open when it starts overheating ;) > >Definitely need to get Spacewar up and running for next year's show... > >cheers > >Jules > Hi In Sellam's defence, I did only ask for half a table ( although, I only got 1/3 because of overflow ). My exhibit was small enough that it really didn't need more. I was there for the fun and I enjoyed it very much, as I'm sure Sellam knows. The erector set analog computer was fantastic. The PDP11 setup was great as well. I got to actually touch a Curta calculator :) More to my passion, I got a pile of Polymorphic disk from Marvin Johnston to archive. Really great stuff like the original files for the manuals and such. Thanks Sellam! Later Dwight

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test-drb November 2004