[cctalk] Re: Typing class in high school

2023-01-27 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
Speaking of good keyboards, my typing class used IBM Selectrics for the lucky people but we also had some older Underwoods and Royals in the class. You got those when you irritated the teacher. I took Typing I & II and it's worked out great as every job I've had since required lots of typing. On F

Re: Programming Bipolar PROMs

2021-09-27 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
I recently picked up an EPROM+ programming unit ( https://www.arlabs.com/eprom_plus.html) from eBay used in order to program a couple of PROMs. Unfortunately, I haven't actually tried it yet but the 82S23 and others are supported. The owner of the company seems to be extremely responsive to any and

Re: Apple ][+ Keyboard

2019-05-22 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
Just ran across this a few days ago on different search... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.sys.apple2/kJ4SosdZTb4 May have some helpful info. On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:56 AM John Many Jars via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I feel like I'm falling down a rabbit hole with

Re: FTGH: Unknown extender card

2018-03-03 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
I have a CPU board with similar format that I bought thinking I'd eventually figure it out. Same boat, though, I haven't run across the system it goes with. It does look very similar to many S-100 designs, though. On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 9:39 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 03/03/2018 04:48

Re: Looking for a home

2018-02-13 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
Have you determined a price for the HP? Regards, Brian On Feb 4, 2018 19:46, "Pete Lancashire via cctalk" wrote: > Need to start cleaning aut, will have more/better pictures soon > > The Alphas have full True64 feature certificates, at least one ran > before going into storage and has 2 72 GBs

SOL-20 and Helios-II in Louisville

2017-12-02 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
Hope this isn't too far off topic, but noticed a SOL-20, Helios-II, and several disks available in Louisville via Craigslist. Can't afford more stuff this year myself but price doesn't seem too bad. i don't know the person that has it, just found it as I was searching. https://louisville.craigslis

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

2017-09-26 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
IIRC, the first time I had problems with the low level format was with one of the early IDE controllers and a 230MB Maxtor. Crapped out the entire firmware, was never able to get it to admit who it was again. Seemed to work okay with earlier MFM/RLL 40 MB and 80 MB Conner drives (I think, it's been

Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

2017-04-11 Thread Brian Marstella via cctalk
I worked with STL some but am much more familiar with structured text as used by Rockwell/Allen-Bradley. However, my first exposure to PLCs after getting out of the Navy back in 1991 was the Mitsubishi A series with a GPP for a programmer. I found that one interesting because you could program in l