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by joel.vedrenne＠mail.dotcom.fr

Hello, for my personnal collection I'm searching for HP-16C, 33C, 34C, 67, and/or 71B or all others HPs. I have too a HP-41CX to swap for another machine. Please respond me by mail. Thx. Joel.

28 years, 4 months

Found a decent use for a PC...

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

This is downright bad... :) Today is class pictures. A few days ago, my parents (Remeber that thread?) decided they wanted, of all things, a computer. My stepdad decided to see for himself what was available online, rather than just listen to the TV. (I think it's because he figured out he can automate a lot of his business [Running a motorcycle shop] on it...) Anyway, they got a nice Pentium, with a color printer and a scanner, and so they asked me to edit a few images for them. So, we scan in his 2 grandsons, and a volkswagen bug, and combined the 2 - they were dazzled. A few more interesting tricks - aged a picture of them in front of an old car, etc. Anyway, they like the picture of the volkswagen so much, they bought T-shirt transfer papers to print on. So, I did that... I also got some time to play with said paper myself last night... Remeber when I said today was class pictures? I'll be the one in the decsystem-10 shirt... :) I conjured up a T-shirt for myself! It has the decsystem-10 logo, stolen >from the front of a TOPS-10 user manual, and underneath that is says "If it's not 36 bits, you're not playing a full DEC." (I know there should be a with in there, but there was no room on the xfer sheet) -------

28 years, 4 months

Subject: Re: I got an Apple ProFile hard drive.

by rcini＠email.msn.com

Filing the graphite slug on the ground worked like a charm. Thanks! Also looking at the drive, it seems that the drive has an Apple-custom logic board. There's probably no chance that the interface to the internal controller card is standard. Bummer. Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com> (remove nospam_ to use) ClubWin! Charter Member (6) MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking ============================================

28 years, 4 months

Apple //gs boot problem

by kroma＠worldnet.att.net

> First, I know that this may sound silly, but where is the RESET key on the >GS? My system came with what looks to be a Mac ADB keyboard. Is the RESET >key the power key along the top, above the number keys? > That's the standard GS keyboard. I don't believe that true Mac keyboards include a Reset key. Yes, the key above the numbers is the Reset key. One other tidbit, the Option key can be used is also the solid-apple key. -- Kirk

28 years, 4 months

Junk nite

by Marty＠itgonline.com

I used to service the AT&T 6300 which was an Olivetti machine. The keyboard used a DB-9 connector and the power supply was unconventional using spade lugs to secure the power cables. Does this sound like your machine? ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Junk nite Author: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet Date: 2/19/98 8:17 AM At 08:24 18/02/98 +1100, you wrote: >Just curious if I should really keep this rather well designed computer >Its an "Olivetti M24 Personal Computer". Yes, the design was "original" (=completely different) for a X86-flavour based machine;specially inside where the layout is spread on three boards:CPU, VIDEO, 8 bit ISA.(have you openened it yet?) Do you have the original keyboard also? > I'd never seen an Olivetti before, which is why I saved it from the scap heap. Now is >it scarce or nice enough to attempt to get running? It depends on what you are looking for? As "collectible" can be interesting because of its early solutions on monitor power supply (1 plug with signal and DC-PS toghether) and its design. Otherwise is another obsolete PC as many other of that age. Ciao §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ § Riccardo Romagnoli,collector of:CLASSIC COMPUTERS,TELETYPE UNITS,PHONE § § AND PHONECARDS I-47100 Forli'/Emilia-Romagna/Food Valley/ITALY § § Pager:DTMF PHONES=+39/16888(hear msg.and BEEP then 5130274*YOUR TEL.No.* § § where*=asterisk key | help visit http://www.tim.it/tldrin_eg/tlde03.html § § e-mail=chemif(a)mbox.queen.it § §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ ------ Message Header Follows ------ Received: from lists2.u.washington.edu by smtp.itgonline.com (PostalUnion/SMTP(tm) v2.1.9g for Windows NT(tm)) id AA-1998Feb19.081721.1767.27610; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:17:22 -0500 Received: from host (lists.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.13]) by lists2.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with SMTP id FAA08510; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:14:26 -0800 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id FAA29306 for <classiccmp(a)lists.u.washington.edu>; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:47 -0800 Received: from mbox.queen.it (mbox.queen.it [195.223.140.7]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id FAA28895 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 05:13:39 -0800 Received: from async23-fo.queen.it (async23-fo.queen.it [194.184.164.33]) by mbox.queen.it (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA02799 for <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:17:15 +0100 Message-Id: <199802191317.OAA02799(a)mbox.queen.it> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:17:15 +0100 Reply-To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Sender: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Precedence: bulk From: RICCARDO <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Junk nite Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sender: chemif(a)mbox.queen.it X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 beta -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN

28 years, 4 months

Commodore tape and disk speed (was: Commodore Ramblings)

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

A friend and I wrote a game for 6502 machines. Versions exist for BBC B, Acorn Electron and C64. The load module in each case is 20k bytes. I haven't got a full list of time taken to load - must do that sometime! - but on the Commie 64 it was one minute on the 1541 and SEVEN minutes on the tape (same tape system as PET, BTW - among other things, saved everything twice.) The BBC disk system was much faster - but you only got 100K or so on a disk, and a file had to occupy a contiguous chain of blocks. Philip.

28 years, 4 months

Junk nite

by chemif＠mbox.queen.it

At 08:24 18/02/98 +1100, you wrote: >Just curious if I should really keep this rather well designed computer >Its an "Olivetti M24 Personal Computer". Yes, the design was "original" (=completely different) for a X86-flavour based machine;specially inside where the layout is spread on three boards:CPU, VIDEO, 8 bit ISA.(have you openened it yet?) Do you have the original keyboard also? > I'd never seen an Olivetti before, which is why I saved it from the scap heap. Now is >it scarce or nice enough to attempt to get running? It depends on what you are looking for? As "collectible" can be interesting because of its early solutions on monitor power supply (1 plug with signal and DC-PS toghether) and its design. Otherwise is another obsolete PC as many other of that age. Ciao ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ? Riccardo Romagnoli,collector of:CLASSIC COMPUTERS,TELETYPE UNITS,PHONE ? ? AND PHONECARDS I-47100 Forli'/Emilia-Romagna/Food Valley/ITALY ? ? Pager:DTMF PHONES=+39/16888(hear msg.and BEEP then 5130274*YOUR TEL.No.* ? ? where*=asterisk key | help visit http://www.tim.it/tldrin_eg/tlde03.html ? ? e-mail=chemif(a)mbox.queen.it ? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

28 years, 4 months

Commodore Ramblings

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Sam Ismail wrote (after Larry Anderson I think): > > (note, 1525 uses THIN paper not 9 1/2" form feed, a misunderstanding in > > the design specs, they thought 8 1/2" wide WITH the carrier.) > > Ok, now that is just plain lame. Who the hell designs a printer and > forgets about the tractor feed bands? Integral Data Systems, makers of the Prism and the Paper Tiger. The Paper Tiger was rev 2. Rev 1 was this...thing...called the BrighterWriter aka the IP-125 (text only) and IP-225 (with bit-mapped graphics). I used to have one. I can't remember what I did with it and don't think I want to be reminded. It was really underwhelming and without charm. Narrow paper path, lame tractors that didn't pull the paper worth a darn, dain-bread graphics support (send a ^C I think to enter graphics mode, then the characters you send go straight to the pins on the print head -- one bit per pin, send another ^C to get out, and no there was no way to escape ^C to send 0x03 to the pins). At least it took the same ribbons that went in a model 33 Teletype. -Frank McConnell

28 years, 4 months

Here's another 11/23+ question...

by DSEAGRAV＠toad.xkl.com

How do I enable the console halt-on-break? Is there a switch on the CPU board for that? It's the M8189 11/23+ CPU. -------

28 years, 4 months

Anyone want a Cray

by adam＠merlin.net.au

How often do these come up for sale? A Cray, about 6 or 7 years old, apparntly, is being sold in Australia. They're asking $100,000, which puts it a tad out of my range. :) However, if it isn't sold it will be scrapped - I wonder if they will accept a couple of cartons of beer over whatever the scrap offer is? Anyone want it? :) Adam.

28 years, 4 months

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