I had heard he was in poor health due to a bad diagnosis but it's tragic to
hear he's gone now.
It was because his annual Free Stuff Days I was able to build up most of my
lab equipment. Those were the days when you could still pull up and fill
your car with all sorts of goodies. I bought my first
Along the same lines as the 640K quote, I vaguely remember reading a book
that quoted Bill Gates when asked about developing any software for NeXTSTEP
(Probably porting Microsoft Office to compete against Lotus Improv and Word
Perfect) where his reply was "Develop for it? I'll piss on it!"
It's bee
I've been working on a machine since early October that has seen a very
rough life. My inventory found it to be an IV/70 that was upgraded with an
IV/90 expansion chassis, an NP80 peripheral controller and a Wangco tape
system that I only received the the formatter for. I've been trying to
document
I've done this several different ways in the past, depending on your take of
"Cell phone".
For the phone that is probably in your pocket right now I've used one of
those bluetooth bridges that looks like a bluetooth handsfree device to the
phone but on your side you get a 48/90v POTS RJ11 for a re
I just received a machine that someone found at a Vancouver second hand
store that I basically told them to buy on the single fact I don't own any
COSMAC machines and I've now had a chance to take it apart and photograph
the boards. It seems to be some sort of a kit system that the previous owner
p
Hey Kyle.
You can narrow things down a bit by removing the optional Z-buffer and
additional bitplane memory (ZB3 and BP4). While that removes those two
masses of memory out of the equation that still leaves the still massive
amount of ZIPP base video memory. for the later Onyx systems I've only see
>ELTRAN THE COMPILER
>ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT?
>(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!))
>
>ED#
Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;)
With VCF: PNW six months away I want to try and get something together to
make a presence. I am not aware of anyone demonstrating an entire fleet of
Apple machines in a configuration as advertised as "The Macintosh Office" at
any recent point in history so I thought I should dedicate a table or two
For those following from the VCFed thread I have been working on an IBM 5363
that I have managed to get running up to the IPL sign on. For everyone else
this project is being documented at
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?62860-IBM-5363-IBM-System-36
>From there while I know who last owned
>This sounds an awful lot like the KIMSI, which was the same manufacturer. I
>have such a unit, and as you would expect, it connects to the KIM-1. I can
>drag it out and take a picture of it but I don't remember it particularly
>complex on the board.
I know Bruce Damer has a KIMSI as well in the c
So it seems in the early days of the PET a company by the name of
Forethought Prouducts sold an expansion module called the BETSI which
plugged into the expansion bus of the PET and gave you four S100 slots. If
you google around you can find a flyer advertising the unit and optional
power supply an
Make this yet another person as well in BC who would be jumping on it . I
got almost no use for a card reader if I have no way to punch the cards.
>Ditto. I'd be all over that if I wasn't in BC.
>Anyone with a 3d printer want to make one for us?
>
>J
Not only do I also own a PRM-85 but I do have part-time access to a 3D
printer. If I can get the prototyped models (and the model itself fits
within the limits of the printer bed)I can verify that they fit together in
an HP 80 series machine
>I'm up in Kamloops but even at the cost of gas (about $120 tghere and back)
I'm tempted to go down and pick >it up if it has not already happened.
Failing that, There's a fantastic place at 304 Victoria drive that
>will accept the machine if you can't find a home for it. I can vet for them
as thei
I'm up in Kamloops but even at the cost of gas (about $120 tghere and back)
I'm tempted to go down and pick it up if it has not already happened.
Failing that, There's a fantastic place at 304 Victoria drive that will
accept the machine if you can't find a home for it. I can vet for them as
their s
I'm trying to figure out a logistical nightmare to get a number of machines
down there before I commit to any reservations. I'm several hours East of
Vancouver Canada but there is several hundred pounds in Silicon Graphics
workstations, monitors and peripherals I planned to take. My car is far too
>Good luck in finding media for AIX PS/2. As far as I know, it was never
released on
>CDROM and the last version I had was ~53 3.5? floppies (long gone now
unfortunately)
>and *only* worked on specific PS/2 hardware (no BIOS ? all drivers went
straight
>to the ?metal?).
>
>TTFN - Guy
Nope, AIX 1.
So in the past few weeks I've been playing with my latest aquisition, an HP
9845A that's been upgraded at some point to a 9845B. The filter caps for the
PSU are in the mail still and I have yet to actually see the system turn on
so I've been working on other projects in the meantime like cleaning t
Marc, this is a good reason for anyone to convert their old rec room into a
machine room. Just make sure to paint the walls brown and fit wall-to-wall
orange carpeting. ;)
I was seriously tempted on this myself but even picking up ONE 7925 from
Idaho was an astounding task. A whole setup in Denver
>Curious as to the setup you are attempting this with, i.e. exactly what
modem are you
>using?
>One in the base of the 33 or some common external one?
>
>I'm not familiar with all the possible modem variations one might find in a
33, but
>AIUI the modem for the 33 at the standard 110 bps was Bell 1
>I think I found Mike's Youtube videos of one of his other System/23. It
even has
>blinkenlights! Dang it, now I'm trying to figure out where I'd
hypothetically stick a
>System/23 in my little house. Probably in the breakfast nook, assuming it
would even
>fit through the front door. I doubt it coul
I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype
machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am
running into is I have nothing to easily dial into. Everyone I know off hand
either don't have a modem anymore or theirs is a Winmodem which won't work.
>> I actually need some slides for my RL02... Are these the same type?
>Nope. DIGITAL designed their own chassis slides after the 11/34
>11/44, RLxx and everything after were custom.
I think at that point there I'd wander down to the local computer recycling
center, buy a set of suitable rails an
>> I wanted to share this because it's pretty neat:
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg
>>
>> It's a ~6 minute tour of a home automation system from the 1980s that
>> features graphical floor layouts and touch screen programming. The
system
>> is built into the house.
>
>That screen
So last week I did a rather insane 3000km road trip that had me travel
through four states (Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montanna) and over an
international line to pick up a "pack-loading HP disk drive". It turned out
to be a rather nice condition 7925B with a 13037C controller in the cabinet.
It
Just a heads up that both units are now pending a sale. If one or either
completely fall through I'll bump this back up here on the list. Thanks to
all who inquired.
-John
Oh butts I sent that before I proofread.
I'm in the Pacific Northwest, about three or four hours east of Vancouver
BC. I have access to freight services should you take that route but for
your wallet I'd strongly recommend some sort of local or negotiated pickup.
;0
>>Are the readers in question t
About six months ago I struck a deal with a place down in California for
four Documation M1000's that I've been able to tell so far they all work but
I really don't have space for more than one. I've been trying to sell them
at a loss for months now over on the Vintage Computer Forums and Nekochan
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