Hi folks, I was in an antique store today, mostly to humor my wife, and much to her dismay spotted a fairly early luggable: it said TeleVideo on the face and, looking closer, it was a TPC-1 with the keyboard, the carrying bag, the documentation AND a metric butt-ton of floppies. Once I get everything sorted I'll let the list know what software I have, so if you need something maybe I can help....
...and maybe you can help me. I want to open up the TPC and check power supplies, etc. - OK, I'll come clean. I plugged it in, watched carefully for magic smoke and, seeing none, put a 'working disk' in the drive. I got an endless string of '.' but no boot. I tried a couple of other disks labeled <boot> and, after a couple, I no longer had a display. So no surprise, I really need to open it up and probably replace a bunch of PS capacitors. I have no idea how to get this box open! There's nothing in the documentation, and I found one online reference that suggested TeleVideo kept this information close to the chest because they didn't want any Tom, Dick or Ian opening up their machines. Now if I poke and prod long enough I'll probably get there, but with the collective knowledge on this list I figure there has to be SOME one who worked on these back In The Day, who just knows this off the top of his/her head. So... anyone? Thanks -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
