test-drb May 2005

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by wmaddox＠pacbell.net

This appears to be a SAGE pluggable unit, though it looks like it has been partially stripped. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5196683042 eBay item 5196683042 (Ends May-15-05 11:21:43 PDT) - 1950's Vacuum Tube Computer

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Fw: Looking for Grant Writer

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Sending it to both ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keys" <jrkeys at concentric.net> To: "cctalk at classiccmp" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: Looking for Grant Writer > Anyone on the list a professional grant writer or have written successful > grants for operating expenses? I need help big time to keep the museum > going with some grant funds. If you could share a copy of a successful > grant for operating funds it would be of great help. Thanks Reply off > list. John

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Looking for Grant Writer

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Anyone on the list a professional grant writer or have written successful grants for operating expenses? I need help big time to keep the museum going with some grant funds. If you could share a copy of a successful grant for operating funds it would be of great help. Thanks Reply off list. John

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[VCF-OZ] Monash Museum of Computing History (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

FYI... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 17:38:05 +1000 From: Michael Borthwick <holden at netspace.net.au> Reply-To: VCF-OZ at yahoogroups.com To: VCF-OZ at yahoogroups.com Subject: [VCF-OZ] Monash Museum of Computing History This new museum opened last Wednesday at Monash Caulfield. It's in Building B and consists of several large display cases showing a timeline of computing history including displays of minicomputers and personal computers. A feature of the museum is the Ferranti Sirius which was Monash's first computer and the only one for some time. A crane was required to lift up to the level the museum is on. The museum would be an ideal location to organise a retro computing get together later in year, possibly making use of the lecture theatres. I worked on the project creating a multimedia system in the Ferranti exhibit which incorporates an LCD TV showing a great internal promotion film made about the computer by one of its UK purchasers. Cheers, Mike

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Free: Grinnell GMR270 Image Processing System for PDP-11

by hardware＠ees1s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu

Dear Community, Free to a good home (knowledgeable collector): Grinnell GMR270 Image Processing System with documentation Location: Manhattan I took some pictures of the Grinnell GMR270 and put them here: http://134.74.16.64/wwwa/web/hardware/grinnell/ It comes with documentation and the card to interface with a PDP-11 Qbus. It also comes with an RGB monitor. -kurt

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Moore's Law/Byte magazine

by leeedavison＠yahoo.co.uk

> Nope that is the SB180 I have those. I'm also looking > for the BCC180 info and the BCC is not the SB. Ok, try January-March 1988. Lee. . ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com

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Moore's Law/Byte magazine

by dave04a＠dunfield.com

>Wow, if you're that well-connected and can gain access to Byte issues, >what I need are the Steve Ciarcia articles where he discusses the Z-180 >bases BCC180. I aquired one recently and can order the docs >(supposedly) from Micromint, but thus far have been too cheap to do so. > >(anybody else with info on this single board machine feel free to chime >in) Do you know which issues the BCC180 articals are in? I have a fairly complete collection of early byte from issue#1 (Sep75) to late 83 and a few issues after that... Regards, Dave -- dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html

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Looking for eBAY Bidder

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Is "energydynamics" on this list? I had the bid on the "IBM 1401 Data Processing System Operator's Guide from the IBM Systems Reference Library. It is dated March 1965 (major revision) with 151 pages" that ends today and do not want to get into a bidding war with a list member. Contact me off-list please.

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Anyone playing with the 8x300

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Re: Anyone playing with the 8x300 > From: Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> > Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:07:06 -0700 (PDT) > To: > Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On Fri, 13 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote: > >> I'm looking at an application of the 8X300 by >> Signetics. This is for a hard disk controller. >> Is anyone fiddling with simmulators for this processor. >> It seems like someone was a while back. >> My current application is on an Olivetti M20 not >> a TRS80. > >Having written code for it (long, long ago though) its a rather >bizarre and hard to work with chip. > >In the real (physical) world it was extremely expensive to write >code for -- code was in bipolar PROMs. Maybe there were PROM >simulators but we didn't have one, so it was burn PROM, debug with >scope. Ouch. Yuck. Even with a rom emulator it's nasty. I played with one I have for a while just because. It's whole concept must have originated to solve a particular problem and was then vended out. It's not suited at all to general computational use. For those interested in microprogramming and building their own computers from the instruction set up... http://www.homebrewcpu.com/ Follow links around for many differnt CPUs. http://www.pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html This is an interesting link as it describes how to hang a IDE disk off a 8255 PPI, worth looking at. Allison Allison

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Making Fontpanel Labels

by swtpc6800＠comcast.net

Ethan Dicks asked about label sheets for front panels. In the past you could get brushed aluminum material with a black coating that was etched away with printed circuit board chemicals. (Kepro made it but they are going out of business.) The front panels of SWTPC equipment used this material. I have not found anyone who does this in small quantizes (One or two units.) There is a fellow selling Altair front panel labels on eBay, so someone must do it. There is a mail order company here is Seattle, Rippedsheets.com, that sells satin finished aluminum sheet you can run through a inkjet printer. They sell a bunch of different types of material for inkjet and laser printers. http://www.rippedsheets.com/inkjet/alumi.html http://www.rippedsheets.com/inkjet/whitepoly.html I have not used it because it works with Epson printers (they keep the stock flat.) I used FrontPanelExpress to make the back panel of my TV Typewriter. http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/CT_1024/Restore/BackPanel.htm Back in the 1960s and 1970s I would hand ink my panels with a Leroy Lettering Set and spray clear Krylon on them. A lot of work but they looked nice. Michael Holley www.swtpc.com/mholley > From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> > Subject: Today's garage sale findings > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Speaking of > which, does anyone know if they manufacture an adhesive-backed > _plastic_ sheet that's meant to go through printers? I know I can > pick up an 8.5"x11" paper label from any office supply place. I am >

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