I'm moving and I need to clean out a few things.
I have a Sun 3/60 with no keyboard/mount/monitor/hard drive - just the
pizza box. It net booted NetBSD, but that was many years ago so YRMV.
Free for pick-up only in Queen Creek, AZ.
https://www.mact.io/
Hi folks! We've been away from Facebook for awhile, but we've been staying
busy here. Now that things are starting to get back to normal from the
disruption of Covid19, we're doing tours again, and we're getting our
volunteer work days rolling again, restoring more and more vintage systems for
you to enjoy.
However, we're in a bit of a pickle, and we need your help. Our main floor
air conditioning system has died, and is beyond repair. It's a 40-year-old
power hungry system anyway, so it really just needs to be replaced. We have a
quote in-hand from a local, reputable A/C contractor for a brand new,
ultra-efficient system, and we're trying to raise funds for it, about $8500.
We're already about halfway there from recent private donations. If we're
unable to get the rest of the way there, we'll have no choice but to close for
the summer.
As an all-volunteer, donation-funded nonprofit educational organization, we
depend on your support to keep doing what we do. Please help us if you can.
We accept donations via PayPal to donations at mact.io, or via check/money order
made out to Museum of Applied Computer Technology, mailed to the museum at 924
4th Avenue, New Kensington, PA 15068.
Any overage will be put toward our utility bills and other operating
expenses. LSSM/MACT is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Thank you,
-Dave McGuire
President/Curator, LSSM/MACT
The recently acquired a Memorex Telex IDE ISA controller (early 1990s),
number 711186669587 , that has an unpopulated floppy / tape controller area on the board. The board has 34-pin internal header and DC-37 for external drive.
I would like to populate those missing components on the PC board.
I could reverse engineer the design, and ?fill in blanks? of the likely floppy/tape controller. The PLCC package (44-pin) is likely a late model chipset (tape/floppy).
A schematic, parts list, or manual would shorten the effort for this board.
Greg
chicago
Hi!
Dragged out my old Compaq DAT tape drive and although it powers up some
of the rubber wheels have turned to goo. Since I don't have any reason
to fix it I thought I'd offer it here for shipping. Compaq 3000 series,
this is a 199527-003, rebadged HP tape changer.
It got a 10 tape capacity changer cartridge, powers up, moves the tape
cart, however throws an error 40 because the rubber is gone. One of the
wheels is liquid but intact so you can probably measure the OD to
install a spare.
Anyone want it? Or it goes in the recycling.
CZ
Hi all,
you're invited to the Update computer club[0] public lecture series
"Updateringar"[1]! Update is a Swedish computer club founded in 1983
whose members tinker with all kinds of computers, from Raspberry Pi to
PDP-12. The club has a big collection of historic computers. In this
lecture series we'll talk about everything related to computers:
Historic and modern computers, operating systems, programming, hardware
projects, creating art with computers, building a computer museum, and
more.
When: 2021-06-12, 19:00 CEST
Where: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8
The Oldenburg Computer Museum ? Rearing and Care
The Oldenburg Computer Museum (OCM) is a German computer museum founded
in 2008 and run by volunteers. This talk presents a historical outline
of the founding of the OCM. From building up the collection to opening
the first exhibition to founding the supporting association and moving
to the current premises ? and the professionalisation that goes with it.
Thiemo Eddiks presents the didactic concept, explains the museum work in
the team and gives insights into and outlooks on current projects. In
addition, he talks about problems associated with running a museum as a
hobby.
Thiemo Eddiks (Oldenburg Computer Museum)
The lecture is free and open to everyone.
Upcoming: 2021-07-10, 19:00: How I ported Space Invaders to a video game
console from 1978. Bjarni Juliusson (Update)
Hope to see you there,
Anke
[0] http://www.update.uu.se/index_eng.html
[1] https://www.update.uu.se/wiki/doku.php/projekt:updateringar
Hi all,
There was a post in one of the Facebook vintage groups from someone who has
Epson QX-10 Q10CMS and Q10GMS boards. The GMS is what I have in my own
QX-10, but does anyone know what the CMS board is?
Both boards have a NEC 7220 graphics controller, but the CMS appears to
have more on-board memory (384KB vs. 256KB). On the other hand, I'm not
seeing any on-board ROM in the photo of the CMS, unlike on my GMS.
cheers,
Jules
Hi all --
I picked up a DW8E backplane from a friendly listmember this week and now I
just need to find parts to populate it (a simple task, right?); I'm hoping
to use it with my negibus PDP-8/I for my ongoing TSS/8 project(*) (in order
to provide numerous serial lines and if I get really ambitious/lucky, an
RK05).
It looks like I need an M7101 and four M7103's. I intend to build the
cabling myself unless anyone has a set of single-to-Y (BC08D) I/O cabling.
Also on the hunt for a chassis to put these in; this is identical to the
one used for the PDP-8f/m (but sans blinkenlights).
Thanks!
- Josh
(*) RF08 restoration is underway and emulation of multiple RS08s is in
progress...