> From:?silvercreekvalley <silvercreekvalley at yahoo.com>
> Date:?Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:23:18 -0800 (PST)
> Subject:?Sun 1 optical mouse
> I have a few early Sun mice. These all have 3 buttons and a black case. The logo on the front
> is the usual Sun diamond but is more of a blue colour rather than the later purple.
I have one of those, made by Mouse Systems. It has the RJ-11 connector.
> Does anyone know if Sun's ever supported 3MBit ethernet?
I have a PDF file of a 1982 Sun manual titled SUN 3MBit Ethernet Board.
I think that the Ethernet board in my Sun 2/120 is jumperable 3MBit/10MBit.
--
Michael Thompson
>> I have this huge collection of Macs (302 different), accessories, software, manuals, magazines, and all such related.
>> I have collected these since '84, and have these in my 1400 Sq ft house. I just turned 68, and my aging takes a toll on my work. I'm at the point where I'd like to sell the collections. In my opinion, they belong in the US - the home of their creations.
>> I have been advised (by John and James of Retromacast) that the collection is worth millions, though my estimate is $990,000.
>> Might you know other Mac curators who at least would like to talk? I would not like to have this historic collection broken up.
>> All your ideas and info are appreciated. When you return from your collecting trip, or whenever you have time, I'd like to chat.
>
Steve Abbott
eMail: macabb at carolina.rr.com
Site: www.macabb.com
Mail: 6500 Deermont Ct, Charlotte, NC 28211
At 12:14 PM 1/19/2012, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
>In the auto junkyard world there's the concept of "salvage title" for motor vehicles and the whole process is nicely codified by the state.
>In the military surplus world there's the concept of "de-milling" surplus but I'd be surprised if that applied to a pile of Macs.
Any computer recycler of any significant size has procedures to reassure
commercial clients that their hard drives will be wiped in a bonded fashion
in order to comply with their industry requirements for data privacy.
In my experience, perhaps a third of today's PC consumers ask about what'll
happen to their hard drive when they give me an old computer for recycling.
They just want to be assured I'll erase their drive. Maybe one consumer
in a hundred asks to keep their hard drive so they can destroy it themselves,
and I'd say most of them don't know how to do it.
- John
Hi,
as being a bit sick at the moment and at home from work I'm playing around
with my SIMH-Vax. After a few days of work and re-learning old skills it
now runs smoothly on my home network. TCP/IP is up, also all major
Programming Languages and that stuff. It's no performance-beast but I enjoy
to use it.
Now I'd like to re-use some of my older sources that rely on RDB. I believe
it is open for hobbyist use - license-wise.
Just looked around at the Oracle Site but found nothing for VAX. Does
anyone have an idea how to get RDB for VAX?
Regards,
Wolfgang
--
Wolfgang Eichberger - OE5EWL
Operating System Collector
Blog: 5ewl.blogspot.com
Homepage: www.eichberger.org
I have a few early Sun mice. These all have 3 buttons and a black case. The logo on the front
is the usual Sun diamond but is more of a blue colour rather than the later purple.
One of the mice (part number 530-0307 Rev A) has the earlier orange Sun logo on the back, and
is fitted with the DA15 style connector (15 pin).
The other mice although looking similar, have RJ style connectors. They are also stamped
on the back with 'Sun 2'.
Does anyone know if Sun's ever supported 3MBit ethernet?
> It's just like a junkyard. They buy wrecked/broken cars and sell them for parts or scrap metal.
In the auto junkyard world there's the concept of "salvage title" for motor vehicles and the whole process is nicely codified by the state.
In the military surplus world there's the concept of "de-milling" surplus but I'd be surprised if that applied to a pile of Macs.
Tim.
I have two video cassette tapes from "digital media services" (DEC).
Both are Copyright 1976.
One is:
Introduction to Minicomputers
Instruction Sets
EY-A0083-VT-001
The other is:
Introduction to Minicomputers
I/O Techniques
EY-A0090-VT-001
These are obviously part of a series "Introduction to Minicomputers."
Does anyone have any of the other tapes? Are they archived somewhere?
Should they be archived somewhere? Are they a part of a larger set of
educational materials for a course?
Hi Everyone,
I have a bunch of PDF files that contain the microcode listings for an IBM
7201-02 CE (enhanced system/360 model 65), like this one:
http://ibm360-console.wikispaces.com/file/view/QZ001.pdf. I need their
contents for the emulator that drives my '65 control panel. Unfortunately,
the OCR software I have tries to recognize English words, and makes
gibberish out of them. I'm only interested in the 1's and 0's, so it would
be wonderful if there was OCR software that you can tell only to look for
0's and 1's (or have some bias towards recognizing characters as a 1 or 0.
Is anyone here aware of such software, or can anyone recommend a program
that might do a good job with these? I've been copying sections by hand, but
that gets very tedious when there's 2,816 lines of data, each having 100 0's
and 1's...
Cheers,
Camiel
