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by allisonp＠world.std.com

<I think this calls for the development of a custom Pascal unit to access <foreign filesystems (ie. FAT). I don't think Pascal gives you enough lo <level control to do this right from the language itself, but I'm sure <there are ways to link in assembled code. A project to add to the <spare-time list. P-sys pascal can get to devices and disks so to write a disk with a different directory structure is doable. It's been done for P-sys to CP/M, Turbodos, apple][. You can also link in assembly code. Also I believe it may be possible to write a disk driver(for hard disk) in pascal and bind it to a free unit. For that you would UCSD pascal Docs and any implementation docs for the specific system. Some of that might be possible to infer. Though it's been 10 years since I last ran my copy of NS* UCSD P-sys but other than speed I remember it as flexible, well organized and cramped (northstar* single density drives were only 80k!). Allison

28 years, 3 months

UCSD Pascal

by jfoust＠threedee.com

UCSD Pascal for IBM PC-DOS could run on a hard disk by using .VOL files, which were floppy images of the P-System block format. For much UCSD P-System info, see my web page, including utilities that can get a directory and burst these .VOL files. - John Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>

28 years, 3 months

Mac hi-res monitor

by A_Finney＠wfi-inc.com

Are you still interested? At 10:56 AM 2/11/98 EST, you wrote: >yes! i need one! glad to pay shipping to nc. is it available? > >david > > >In a message dated 98-02-10 15:25:34 EST, you write: > ><< Does anyone need a Mac mono monitor? Model number MO400, circa 1987. Best > offer takes it, no matter how pathetic. Recipient either pays shipping or > picks it up in the LA area (it's not heavy at all, I can't imagine that ups > ground would be more than a few bucks on this thing). >> > >

28 years, 3 months

TIMSAI (was Photo of Smithsonian microcomputer exhibit)

by rcini＠email.msn.com

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 08:28:45 -0800 (PST), Tim Shoppa <shoppa(a)alph02.triumf.ca> wrote: {snip} >>For those who really want a S-100 front panel machine, maybe they'd be >>willing to pay for me to make duplicates of my TIMSAI. Features: {snip} Tim, I heard that at one point you were making schematics and info about your TIMSAI project available to those who are interested. Is this still the case? ------------------------------------------------- Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use) - ClubWin Charter Member (6) - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking

28 years, 3 months

Photo of Smithsonian microcomputer exhibit

by photze＠batelco.com.bh

Well, I've had an idea for quite some time, and now's the best time yet to pop it up... in many developing contries, resources are streesed out, and many attempts to industrialize these contries are going underway. The thing is that in some areas, going to school's a new requirement, and that these schools arn't up to specs. The idea for them going to schools is so that they have better opertunities than their parents did (so that they could say do accounting instead of sweeping floors). Now, to me, that means having at least a little coputing experience. I want to design (with help!) a computer that gives the most power at the lowest price. The shipping computers to other contries idea is noble, but we need to go farther, and, this can be fun. We could use the same idea, etc. if anyone's interested, please contact me privately. I'm really interested in it now, but need lots of help. Thanks, Tim D. Hotze -----Original Message----- From: Charles A. Davis <cad(a)gamewood.net> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 1998 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Photo of Smithsonian microcomputer exhibit >Scott Walde wrote: >> >> > >Thinking out loud: >> > >I wonder what the market would be for an Apple I replica? >> >> Also thinking out loud: >> Maybe if we as collectors flood the market with Altair and IMSAI and Apple >> I replicas it would drive the price of the real things back down. > >Yeah, but!!! > >Can you picture the problems trying to document the lenieage of a >'genuine' Altair, IMSAI, or Apple. > >Chuck > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------- >He, who will not reason, is a bigot; William Drumond, >he, who cannot, is a fool; Scottish writer >and he, who dares not, is a slave. (1585-1649) >While he that does, is a free man! Joseph P. 1955- >----------------------------------------------------------- > (be sure to correct the return address when using 'reply') >Chuck Davis / Sutherlin Industries FAX # (804) 799-0940 >1973 Reeves Mill Road E-Mail -- cad(a)gamewood.net >Sutherlin, Virginia 24594 Voice # (804) 799-5803

28 years, 3 months

[Fwd: Any info on an 8-bit Sharp computer?]

by hansp＠columbia.digiweb.com

Can anyone help with info/softwre on a Sharp MZ-700. Reply directly to Eurico and perhaps suggest that he subscribes. -- Hans B. Pufal : <mailto:hansp@digiweb.com> Comprehensive Computer Catalogue : <http://www.digiweb.com/~hansp/ccc/> _-_-__-___--_-____-_--_-_-____--_---_-_---_--__--_--_--____---_--_--__--_

28 years, 3 months

Pascal System

by mallison＠konnections.com

I have an IBM Pascal System for the PC Does anyone know if it's possible to use a hard drive with this system? There are no references and no seeming commands for manipulating storage.... Ideas?? -Mike

28 years, 3 months

Photo of Smithsonian microcomputer exhibit

by allisonp＠world.std.com

< My recent COSMAC 1802 find had a white CPU with gold cap. I'd <never seen anything like that before. That was the ceramic package RCA used until about 1981ish. I must have two or three date coded '76-78 time frame. Actually I have tubes of LSI all from before 81 just laying around. Allison

28 years, 3 months

Pretty good week

by adam＠merlin.net.au

> Re: where to find them. You guys should be down here in Florida. I find >so many that I have to pick and choose. I left behind 4 AT&T 3B2s, a NeXt, >an AT&T 6300, 2 HP Appollos and 2 HP 9000/300s yesterday. All of that was >at a GSA auction at KSC. I did get a COMPLETE Commodeore Pet set and a Vax >Station 3100 for Zane. Do you have any idea what I would do for a NeXT Cube? :) Almost anything - it is right up the top of my wish list. I have only seen one for sale in Australia in the past 12 months, and they were asking $1200 for it. :( Mind you, it didn't sell. Adam.

28 years, 3 months

Classic Displays (was RE: Future Computing Trends)

by foxnhare＠goldrush.com

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com> Subject: RE: Future Computing Trends >I defy _anybody_ to say that a "better" display would improve any >Big Five Software arcade games as they ran on the 128x48 monochrome >graphics of the TRS-80 1/3. And I defy anybody to find a better >batch of arcade games, unless you really want to see the blood from >kicked-in faces, a fetish I outgrew 25 or so years ago. I know exactly what you mean, I recall my few months of playing with a TRS-80 (loaned to me from the high school) with that wobbly picture when there was too much white on some lines... Sometimes you loose the translation with the sharp graphics generated on multi-sync displays by the emulators. I recall a video flaw on the PET what would generate a hairline verticle line between two characters which I took advantage of in one program (I would not expect VICE to reproduce that)... Then on the 64 some games looked cooler on regular composite monitors than on the crisp split-composite due to the artifacting (case in point was the game Sword of Fargoal, the unicorn's horn looked more like a rainbow than a white dotted line). It was those minute blurs that made the graphics a bit more fancy. Larry Anderson -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Visit our web page at: http://www.goldrush.com/~foxnhare/ Call our Commodore 64 BBS (Silicon Realms 300-2400 baud) at: (209) 754-1363 -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

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