Greetings
I'm looking for any and all information I can find on the DEC Rainbow
ethernet cards.
I know for sure that two exist, both plugged into the communications slot
that most rainbows have filled with a hard disk controller. DEC made one,
and Univation made the other. Univation also advertised a ARCnet card, but
I found that only in one issue of Digital Review and the next issue moved
up to Ethernet.
So far all I've been able to find is DECnet DOS/Rainbow 1.0 which might
have drivers for the former on it. I've seen no trace of the latter.
Also, is there a convenient way to extract teledisk disks these days to
something like an image file on Linux/FreeBSD? MAME almost can do this (I
can read it in with the Rainbow emulator and diskcopy to a flat file that I
can then examine), but I was hoping there was a tar-like tool to do the
deed.
Warner
On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 22:46, Wayne S wrote:
> I asked because i was curious if what you wanted to do could not be
> done in Acrobat.
Never having used Acrobat, I cannot say.
-- Dave
I have these 5-1/4" diagnostics disks but no need for them. If you're
interested, I'll send them to you for the cost of the postage from
Durham, NC.
* Diagnostics for IBM Personal Computer AT, ver. 2.03 copyright 1981, 1986
maroon disk label, p/n 6183111
* Advanced Diagnostics, ver. 2.20, copyright 1981, 1986
dark blue label, p/n 6139804
They are in excellent physical condition. Sorry, I don't have the manuals.
(I used to work for a ComputerLand store in '81-'82 and probably
acquired them there.)
They might be available for download somewhere, but these are the
physical, displayable versions.
**Richard
Scored an A3000. Prior owner cut a hole where the floppy goes and mounted
a PC floppy in there. Looking for an original front plate and the matching
floppy drive to restore machine to original look.
- Ethan
30 years ago this month the IBM PC debuted at $1565. Some say this began
the era of mass-computing and it is now what classiccmp.org
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> is all about! For those interested in the OS world
LINUX is 30 years old. Time has passed but this is what classic computing
is all about.
Happy computing.
Murray ?
It was sitting in the trash. No keyboard, no power cord. Case was open
and some of the bundles of wires inside are disconnected, so I doubt
it's in working condition.
I'm not much of a hardware collector, so I was hoping to put it in the
hands of someone who would like it.
On 8/13/21 7:00 PM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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> From: Ethan Dicks<ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> To: Al Kossow<aek at bitsavers.org>, "General Discussion: On-Topic and
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> Subject: Re: ISO Laserjet I/II/III firmware
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 10:48 AM Al Kossow via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> I suspect interest in emulating them will die out once they get past the 68000 models.
> I may still have a II, and I definitely still have at least one
> (functional) III and a 4Si
>
> I still use my 4M/L all the time - Postscript + LocalTalk + IEEE1284.
> It's a great little printer.
>
> -ethan
I have a IIp+ that I got for $2 at a hamfest around 15 years ago... I
have repaired it several times (most recently, visibly bad electrolytics
in the switching PS startup circuit). In fact that's the second time the
power supply has failed - the first time was years ago and I just
replaced the board. Now it's crinkling the bottom of pages... there used
to be a kit to fix that.
I love those old "bricks". Although mine is like my grandfather's axe
(new head and new handle but it's still my grandpa's axe) :)
The trick nowadays is finding toner cartridges that weren't just
refilled, but actually rebuilt (with a new wiper blade).
-Charles
Anyone have an early ?80s Motorola semiconductor reference manual? I am attempting to repair a Boschert power supply from ~1983 that is full of Motorola parts marked as 1027 (DO-42ish), 1077 (TO-3ish), 1078 (DO-5ish), etc. It would be extremely helpful to know their specifications, or ideally how to cross-ref them to ?standard? parts.
ok
bear.
