Springs are a notoriously annoying. In small volume they are very expensive or
hard to find. In high volume you basically have them wound for you and they are
very cheap per unit, if you make a ton of them. Not much in-between. In the US
I have used both of the below for stock springs with good
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 17:43, Rodney Brown wrote:
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-22/vintage-computer-museum-revives-hp21
> 16a-founder-dies/7638458
>
> A keen mountaineer who died trekking in Tibet has left a rare computer
> collection behind as his legacy.
A touching article; thanks
It would not take much time to archive these disks and post somewhere for
those who have the disks that have gone bad, have docs but lost the/s disk
in the set, etc.
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Jul 22, 2016 11:30 PM, "Rob Jarratt" wrote:
>
> > -Original Message-
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin
> davison
> Sent: 23 July 2016 00:11
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: heap of floppy disks
>
> I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch o
On 2016-07-22 9:17 PM, CuriousMarc wrote:
Unfortunately, I have the older ROM, the HP 98217A. Says 9885 Flexible Disk
Drive on it (duh). Only this 9885, single side low density 8" drive,
connected with the parallel interface and a special cable is supported. And
indeed as Tony says, to start fr
> On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:10 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>
>>> It's not. Peter is talking about a four-bit field in the
>>> instructions. You're talking about a six-bit field in the program
>>> counter.
>>
>> Something that's always bothered me about three-address architectures
>> like ARM is why
Unfortunately, I have the older ROM, the HP 98217A. Says 9885 Flexible Disk
Drive on it (duh). Only this 9885, single side low density 8" drive,
connected with the parallel interface and a special cable is supported. And
indeed as Tony says, to start from a blank disk, you need a tape cartridge
tha
> > It's not. Peter is talking about a four-bit field in the
> > instructions. You're talking about a six-bit field in the program
> > counter.
>
> Something that's always bothered me about three-address architectures
> like ARM is why there is the insistence on that scheduling bottleneck,
> the
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, devin davison wrote:
I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch of random
old utilities in there, borland turbo asm, turbo pascal, windows for
workgroups etc.
I found a set of disks with the DEC digital logo on them. 4-5 disks,
says dos for the dec pc
It was not someone at the PCB manufacturer. They would not have had access to
the prom software.
This was a pre-NTI board so Apple at the time was only a handful of people, the
only technician was Dan Kottke and he was asked about the board already.
BTW, The only known defective board is W
finaly got some pregress on this 8i from a feild restoration of mine..
now to sit down and do an order for the transistors
and go talk to the local ewaste recycler on monday see if they can help me
source some slider switches like one i found in the junk pile at the local
hacker space last night
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, devin davison wrote:
I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch of random
old utilities in there, borland turbo asm, turbo pascal, windows for
workgroups etc.
I would be interested in any of the Borland stuff!
tnx.
g.
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I picked up two crates jam packed full of floppys today. Bunch of random
old utilities in there, borland turbo asm, turbo pascal, windows for
workgroups etc.
I found a set of disks with the DEC digital logo on them. 4-5 disks, says
dos for the dec pc. Some utilitys too. Are these of any use to any
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Corey Cohen wrote:
There were no blank boards. That's the key. The sockets were wave
soldered by the PCB manufacturer according to Woz. There were 2 runs of
100 boards each.
This is also an early layout board (Non NTI) but with different wave
soldered sockets than the tw
Jim;
Thanks for the link... I went up the tree and saw the pics of that ADDS Envoy
terminal. I'm exceedingly green with envy. Congrats on an awesome piece of kit!
J
On 22/07/2016 21:23, "Pete Turnbull" wrote:
> On 22/07/2016 20:36, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> On 22/07/2016 10:04, "Pete Turnbull" wrote:
>
>>> If you have those, I would strongly recommend you arrange an offsite
>>> backup. Say, about 170 miles north via the A14/A1 :-)
>>
>> I remember why I've
On 7/22/2016 10:39 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
I'm not a big fan of the surgery involved in LED conversion, though I
understand why folks do it. Particularly if they, like Emil, have
used the wrong bulbs and found themselves replacing them all the time.
I wouldn't do the surgery, but here's
On 22/07/2016 20:36, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 22/07/2016 10:04, "Pete Turnbull" wrote:
If you have those, I would strongly recommend you arrange an offsite
backup. Say, about 170 miles north via the A14/A1 :-)
I remember why I've never fired them up, this is the label on the one with
the Be
If these are switching power supplies, the fizzing may be the output filter
caps
overheating and about to pop their safety 'corks' due to self heating due to
high ripple currents.
I can across this probelm in a Clary Datacomp 404 computer that I worked
on in the late 60's. The initial fix was a
On 22/07/2016 10:04, "Pete Turnbull" wrote:
> On 22/07/2016 00:33, Adrian Graham wrote:
>> On 22/07/2016 00:07, "Liam Proven" wrote:
>>
There were only a few
made. They were used internally during development - hence the podule to
connect it to a Beeb, which provided the I/O ear
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Corey Cohen wrote:
There were no blank boards. That's the key. The sockets were wave
soldered by the PCB manufacturer according to Woz. There were 2 runs of
100 boards each.
Then, there were blank boards before the shop making the boards populated
them. A bord could ha
On 07/21/2016 11:34 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> It's not. Peter is talking about a four-bit field in the
> instructions. You're talking about a six-bit field in the program
> counter.
Something that's always bothered me about three-address architectures
like ARM is why there is the insistence o
> From: Corey Cohen
> This board is from the 1st PCB house that made the "byte shop" boards
> but has the more expensive and reliable RN sockets.
Maybe someone at the 1st PCB house made an extra board for themselves, and
used better sockets (since it was for themselves)?
Noe
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
Somewhere, I have Oshino's write-up about bulb rated voltage and bulb
operating voltage, but I do remember the lifespan varies as some power of
the ratio, and it makes a huge difference. (There are also formulae for
derating brightness, etc.)
I fo
On 2016-Jul-22, at 11:00 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> From: Vincent Slyngstad: Friday, July 22, 2016 10:39 AM
>> Somewhere, I have Oshino's write-up about bulb rated voltage and bulb
>> operating voltage, but I do remember the lifespan varies as some power of
>> the ratio, and it makes a huge d
DG generally used 28V, 0.040 Ma (nominal), fragile wire-lead
incandescent bulbs for the Nova/SuperNova/Nova2/Nova3 front panels as
well as the early Eclipses. The S/130 was DG's first LED-based front
panel and was much-appreciated by Field Service.
More followup off-list...
Bruce
On 7/21/
On 2016-Jul-22, at 10:39 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> From: jim stephens: Friday, July 22, 2016 12:46 AM
>> On 7/22/2016 12:25 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
>>> I mentioned http://www.foxdata.com/blog/tag/nova-312/ to you earlier, which
>>> suggested the 28V bulbs. I also found
>>> http://www.ch
From: Vincent Slyngstad: Friday, July 22, 2016 10:39 AM
Somewhere, I have Oshino's write-up about bulb rated voltage and
bulb operating voltage, but I do remember the lifespan varies as
some power of the ratio, and it makes a huge difference. (There
are also formulae for derating brightness, e
Thanks for the link. My heart is sinking every time I read about Jon’s passing.
Marc
From: cctalk on behalf of Rodney Brown
Reply-To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org"
Date: Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:43 AM
To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org"
Subject: HP Computer Museum in the (local) News
http://www.
From: jim stephens: Friday, July 22, 2016 12:46 AM
On 7/22/2016 12:25 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
I mentioned http://www.foxdata.com/blog/tag/nova-312/ to you earlier,
which suggested the 28V bulbs. I also found
http://www.chookfest.net/nova3/ledmod.html
which makes it clear that the voltage
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
>> There are a couple of locking tabs on the sides in the back corner.
>> You poke at them through the holes in the outer shell. They look
>> decorative. Two of them are not.
>
> That did the trick! Thanks! I think I never would have found out
>
> There are a couple of locking tabs on the sides in the back corner.
> You poke at them through the holes in the outer shell. They look
> decorative. Two of them are not.
>
> Once you depress one, lift lightly on that back corner and it should
> move up 1mm-2mm. Do the other corner and the ba
There were no blank boards. That's the key. The sockets were wave soldered by
the PCB manufacturer according to Woz. There were 2 runs of 100 boards each.
This is also an early layout board (Non NTI) but with different wave soldered
sockets than the two known production runs which both used
Hi Guys,
I've got an HP 9810A that has been stored in sub-optimal conditions by
a previous owner; a lot of the keyboard springs have rusted away, so
I'm looking for a replacement. These are about 15.5mm outer diameter,
0.35mm thick wire, about 10mm high when uncompressed, and have only
about 1.5 t
Mattis,
Seen from the front, use a pencil or whatever fits in the holes and
count 3 (or 2) holes from the back of each side and push it gently in.
There is a notch on each side which locks the cover.
Regards,
Ed
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>You used to be able to find a set with connector blocks for $200 to $300
>range on EBay. But I haven't seen any pop up for a couple of years now.
>
There are actually two individual board on eBay now, but the they are a
bit expensive, ~$250 each. The freight change is about $200 to Sweden for
ea
Lars Brinkhoff writes:
> The link you posted above says "Sophie maintains that "inspired by"
> isn't the right choice of words." [...] I'm just genuinely curious
> exactly which features of the 6502 and ARM instruction sets people
> think are so alike?
I've always interpreted the "inspired by" d
Jim wrote...
---
Jay did your DG stuff on the back dock move? just curious
---
Not yet. One listmember expressed interest but nothing firm. Two racks of
DGblue just waiting for someone to cart them off ;) One is an S/200 and it uses
bulbs. My S/130 uses LEDS I seem to recall, but haven'
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> I am probably too stupid to not understand how to get into this box:
>
> http://i.imgur.com/7KXKP2l.jpg
>
> Before I break some parts of the old plastic I better ask...
>
> What is the procedure to open this up?
There are a couple of locking
I am probably too stupid to not understand how to get into this box:
http://i.imgur.com/7KXKP2l.jpg
Before I break some parts of the old plastic I better ask...
What is the procedure to open this up?
The drive doesn't seem to work properly. Either I need to get it working
somehow or replace it
"Original owner believed to be an early Apple employee ". You have the
current owner who has a receipt from the previous owner who had said he
got it from "maybe" an Apple employee back in 1977.
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Corey Cohen wrote:
The key to this board is the evidence it wasn't part of eith
On 22 July 2016 at 10:26, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> I took that as "SA110 came in a plastic QFP, ..., with threaded shanks".
>
> I see that what you evidently meant was "the Alpha, which had threaded
> shanks".
Well, no, I meant to write exactly what I did write, drawing a
comparison between the two
The key to this board is the evidence it wasn't part of either of the two known
production runs. It was assembled at a different time.
corey cohen
uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ
> On Jul 21, 2016, at 10:54 PM, TeoZ wrote:
>
> "Original owner believed to be an early Apple employee ". You have the
> current own
On 22/07/2016 00:56, Paul Koning wrote:
PLCC and PQFP both are plastic packages with leads on all 4 sides.
But PLCC specifically means a package with J-leads: the legs come out
the package side, go straight down, and tuck under the package in a
J-shaped curve. PQFP (and variations with similar a
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-22/vintage-computer-museum-revives-hp2116a-founder-dies/7638458
A keen mountaineer who died trekking in Tibet has left a rare computer
collection behind as his legacy.
Surrounded by bushland in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne is a wooden shed
with barn doors.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:55:26PM -0600, ben wrote:
[...]
> A read and cuss item I see. Thank you, but it seems it is still big $$$ for
> good compiler to follow the ever changing rules.
Eh? The LLVM backend generates excellent code for at least x86 and ARM, and is
effectively BSD-licenced.
On 22/07/2016 00:33, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 22/07/2016 00:07, "Liam Proven" wrote:
There were only a few
made. They were used internally during development - hence the podule to
connect it to a Beeb, which provided the I/O early on - and in the later
stages before the Archimedes launch in 19
On 22/07/2016 00:07, Liam Proven wrote:
On 21 July 2016 at 23:26, Pete Turnbull
wrote:
There were only a few made. They were used internally during
development - hence the podule to connect it to a Beeb, which
provided the I/O early on - and in the later stages before the
Archimedes launch i
On 22/07/2016 00:07, Liam Proven wrote:
On 21 July 2016 at 23:26, Pete Turnbull
Hmm. Never seen one like that. None of the ones I've seen in
real life are PQFPs, and none have a heatsink.
Perhaps you misread my message.
Ah, I misunderstood. You wrote:
The SA110 came in a plastic QFP,
On Jul 21, 2016, at 8:09 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
>
> I see that someone has picked it up via Buy It Now. No,
> it wasn't me.
I know the person who acquired it, who last I heard is seeking a good way to
move and safely store it near its current site right now. If anyone has any
suggestions, I
On 7/22/2016 12:25 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: jim stephens: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:53 PM
I have not had time to figure out the driver circuit for any of the
lamps to see what that may turn up, and wanted to know whether it was
28v lamps before I buy 40 of them. (the thing has only
From: jim stephens: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:53 PM
I have not had time to figure out the driver circuit for any of the
lamps to see what that may turn up, and wanted to know whether it was
28v lamps before I buy 40 of them. (the thing has only 2 out of a lot
of lamps).
I mentioned http://ww
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