test-drb February 2008

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by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

For those interested in S-100 stuff, I stumbled across this on e-bay - 270210911327 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270210911327 As info. . . . ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com

18 years, 1 month

Yamaha MSX CX5M Mouse

by jzg22＠drexel.edu

Afaik the MSX ports, while also DE9, are NOT compatible with the standard atari/commodore/sega joystick ports. A few pins were moved around. Blame Microsoft. (from http://pinouts.ru/Inputs/JoystickMsx_pinout.shtml) Pin MSX Atari/Commodore/etc 1 /FORWARD /FORWARD or mouse XA* 2 /BACK /BACK or mouse XB* 3 /LEFT /LEFT or mouse YB* 4 /RIGHT /RIGHT or mouse YA* 5 +5V POT Y 6 /BTN1 or OUT1 /BTN1 or Light Pen 7 /BTN2 or OUT2 +5V 8 OUT3 GND 9 GND /BTN2 or POT X * the encoding of these 4 bits for mice-trackball varied between manufacturer and sometimes even between products (see CX-44 vs CX-80 trackballs by atari) -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu(@t)hotmail(d0t)com jzg22(@t)drexel(d0t)edu

18 years, 1 month

Vintage Computer Marketplace. . .

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

Actually, I was only aware of http://www.vintagecomputermarketplace.com . . . Never heard of the shortened version. . . . ;-) ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com

18 years, 1 month

doppleganger.org, c4expo2007

by fu3.org＠gmail.com

Just in case this hasn't been through the circulation, or this isn't someone already on the list: http://www.doppleganger.org/c4expo2007.html (Nice pictures. Too modern, perhaps.) -- < http://whorehou.se/ >

18 years, 1 month

Vintage Computer Marketplace. . .

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

The domain registration expired on February 5th, and hasn't been (posted as) renewed as of yet. At least that's what the nice little page says when you try to go there. ;-) Just thought I'd mention it, since I hadn't heard any updates in a while. At least now we know. . . T ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com

18 years, 1 month

Vintage Computer Marketplace. . .

by marvin＠west.net

I told Sellam that bringing it up sooner rather than later would be good, especially with the new uproar at ebay about both outrageous fee increases for most sellers, and the new feedback perversion as dictated by ebay. A number of sellers (and buyer/sellers) are looking for other venues (again) and this would be a *VERY* appropriate time to be up, running, and advertising!!! > From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 22:45, tiggerlasv at aim.com wrote: > > It looks like the domain name registration for VCM hasn't been > > renewed. > > There's no problem with the domain registration. As Sellam mentioned > a while back on this list, he's in the process of completely redoing > the Vintage Computer Marketplace site. > > > Is it coming back? > > In about a month...

18 years, 1 month

PIC history

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Do you have a cite that states that the PIC1640 is a direct > descendent of the SMS 300? That seems highly unlikely. The PIC was being worked on at GI on Long Island when I was doing a project for GI in the late 70's on a CP-1600 system. The designers were Scottish. I tried to convince them to make the architecture more like the 1600's (ie. PDP-11 like) because I thought the 11 was a better architecture than what they were coming up with.

18 years, 1 month

Vintage Computer Marketplace. . .

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

It looks like the domain name registration for VCM hasn't been renewed. Is it coming back? ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AIM(R) Mail ! - http://webmail.aim.com

18 years, 1 month

IBM 6094 Lighted Programmable Function Keypad - bulk buy on eBay

by us21090＠yahoo.com

I'd be interested in a couple and could probably swing the purchase of the lot. Now of course, it all depends on: How high the auction price goes. How much the interested cctalkers are willing to pay for their X number of units. There's a some discussion needed, so we ought to take this off list, right? Scott Austin us21090 at yahoo.com ----- Original Message ---- From: "listmailgoeshere at gmail.com" <listmailgoeshere at gmail.com> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:00:35 PM Subject: IBM 6094 Lighted Programmable Function Keypad - bulk buy on eBay Hi cctalkers, The 6094 LPFK has been discussed on this list before (see thread "IBM 6094-020 Lighted Program Function Keys"). I notice that there's a bulk lot of 19 of them on ePay (see 180215874744) - now, I don't want 19, but I'd like one. I'm sure there are others on this list who would as well. Who else is game? This seller will only ship to the US, so someone within the US (I'm not) would need to receive them and reship - I'll happily pay a few $ on top of the onward postage for the trouble. Any volunteers? Ed. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

18 years, 1 month

HP1000/A600 Help and docs and sw needed!

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I have a HP1000/A600 machine sitting here at my place. And no clue where to start using it. I have the following stuff: - A600CPU, containing: * 2 serial interfaces (12005/...10) * 1 sandwich "32 channel MUX/12 bit ADC" * parallel port * HPIB interface * some other serial MUXes - 7908 HPIB Tape cartridge/Disk combination - 9133 HPIB 3,5" Floppy (with disk inside as well??) - 3292A serial Terminal (newer) - 2648A serial Terminal (older) - 12966-60008 serial cable for the terminal (is that right?) - 7978 HPIB 9-Track 1/2" tape drive - 7958B HPIB disk drive - HP6000 670H HPIB disk drive - A LOT of software manuals but no hardware manual. I have already found the only document at hp.com that told me something about select codes, switch settings etc. But nothing about cable pinouts etc. I tried my 2648 terminal with the cable, without success. Perhaps my terminal is broken or - what I think - the cable pinout is incompatible to the "new" A600. What should I do with all that stuff? I will have to decide what to do with my HP stuff, because I need to reassign my collection's priorities with respect to the LAB 8/e that will drop in next week. If I don't have any fun with the stuff, it will go to eBay/scrapyard (the latter is where I got most of it). Who knows how to make a serial cable? Who has software for me? Who knows how to get software from my PC/Sparc (short: modern world) into the HP gear? Who has docs? Bitsavers seems to have nothing about the A series. I powered up the CPU. Depending on the switch settings, the diagnostic LEDs say "bootloader running" or "VCP running". So the system should be in a somewhat usable state. Further when I remove the first serial card (which is in nearly factory settings, including VCP break enabled), the diagnostic LEDs tell me about some error. So I hope that the system already talks to the right port. I also powered up the 7906 tape/disk cobination. It makes some funny sounds and after a while, it shows me a "P" on its little LED display in the back. Some HP manual told me that this is a good sign, "P" for "passed". Also I have been told that there is an installed RTE on the disk. But I have no GPIB cable yet. And the GPIB connector looks rather different than on my HP1000/E (for which I have a cable). Thank you for every kind of information, I am excitedly looking forward for replies. Best wishes from Alfeld/Germany, Philipp :-) P.S.: I also have two HP1000/E machines and a lot of cards sitting around here. Perhaps I could hook the disks up to them? I never did anything useful with them - except hooking up a terminal and entering 4-word test programs via front panel (which worked). Any other ideas what to do with these machines?

18 years, 1 month

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test-drb February 2008