On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> Is it too late to also set up an E-waste recycling even next to VCF?
>
>
>
Weird Stuff Warehouse is practically right around the corner...
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Erik Klein
www.vintage-computer.com - My personal collection
www.vcfed.org - The Vintag
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Curious Marc wrote:
I cannot download any drivers from there. Links download link opens a
Panasonic driver page, and if you navigate back to the HP QuietJet you
get the same links again, nice circuitous path. The Win3.1 driver link
was good though.
Supposedly drivers for
ctalk@classiccmp.org"
Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 3:25 PM
To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org"
Subject: RE: QuietJet Plus (wide Carriage RS232/Centronics) (FPUIB) (Was: Found
some stuff at the scrapyard
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
I have a WIDE CARRIAGE QuietJet Plus,
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Mouse wrote:
I just noticed this could be taken as being sarcastic.
I'm not being sarcastic in the least. Humour - even humor - is a very
significant thing to me; it makes you people feel human, for lack of a
better word, makes me feel this is a community of people instead o
Come visit with a vehicle, and we'll check what it takes to make your
springs sag.
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Adrian Stoness wrote:
mean the leafs upside down :P
That takes quite a bit.
Many cars now, instead of leaf springs have coil springs, often in the
form of MacPherson struts and Chapman str
Yep, recognized it. Just shows to go you, very few new stories out there.
It's all about character development and CGI.
Tom
On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, pdaguytom . wrote:
>
>> +1
>> Fred's dissertation on time for MSDOS code in CP/M was a fantastic gig
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, pdaguytom . wrote:
+1
Fred's dissertation on time for MSDOS code in CP/M was a fantastic giggle.
If you mean the bit about the Galactic Copyright laws, that was quoted
(without attribution) from "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
A very wise man (Dave, editor of Micro-C
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, ben wrote:
PDP 8 or a uNova?
no, sorry
just excessive PC stuff.
http://www.xenosoft.com/FPUIB
is about 3 years out of date, but will give you an idea of what kind of
stuff. Plus, I'm now ready to get rid of some books that I previously
wanted to hang on to.
On 7/27/2016 4:34 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
...
NO color nor colour!
...
OB_Standard_Disclaimer: Guaranteed not to work. In the event of our
quality control being shoddy, if it does turn out to be working, you
may bring it back (at your expense
+1
Fred's dissertation on time for MSDOS code in CP/M was a fantastic giggle.
Thanks,
Tom
On Wednesday, July 27, 2016, Mouse wrote:
> > Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
> ...
> > NO color nor colour!
> ...
> > OB_Standard_Disclaimer: Guaranteed not to work. In the event of
mean the leafs upside down :P
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> NO color nor colour!
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> OB_Standard_Disclaimer: Guaranteed not to work. In the event of our
>>> quality control being shoddy, i
Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
...
NO color nor colour!
...
OB_Standard_Disclaimer: Guaranteed not to work. In the event of our
quality control being shoddy, if it does turn out to be working, you
may bring it back (at your expense) for a refund of half your
purchase pric
>> Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
>> [...]
> See, now, this sort of thing is a big part of why I like this list.
I just noticed this could be taken as being sarcastic.
I'm not being sarcastic in the least. Humour - even humor - is a very
significant thing to me; it makes you
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Fred Cisin wrote:
I have a WIDE CARRIAGE QuietJet Plus, with serial/parallel, to get rid of.
FREE if you come get it. (Near Berkeley, in El Cerrito)
Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
. . .
Supposedly drivers for Windoze through 10! and Mac:
http://fbdri
> Bunches of money if you want it to be packed well.
...
> NO color nor colour!
...
> OB_Standard_Disclaimer: Guaranteed not to work. In the event of our
> quality control being shoddy, if it does turn out to be working, you
> may bring it back (at your expense) for a refund of half your
> purcha
There were also variant models with "Centronics" interface.
narrow and wide carriage.
College dumpstered at least a hundred of them.
Almost all working fine at the time.
At one point, they fired a tenured faculty member for dumpster diving.
I didn't get caught.
I have a WIDE CARRIAGE QuietJet
In a message dated 7/17/2016 9:45:20 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
> The HPIL thinkjet version was also used with the hp portable and hp
> portable pluslaptops.
> we have some of them in the SMECC here... butback when I was
CEO
> Com
> The HPIL thinkjet version was also used with the hp portable and hp
> portable pluslaptops.
> we have some of them in the SMECC here... butback when I was CEO
> Computer Exchange inc we sold lost of these.. it was a small laptop
> with applications in ROM but also had a
> On Jul 17, 2016, at 11:03 PM, tony duell wrote:
>
> The ink is also corrosive. It can corrode the metal faceplate
> on the cartridge, then drip onto the flexible PCB that connects
> the cartridge to the rest of the printer and corrode that too.
> If you ever have a Thinkjet with missing dots,
On 7/17/16 10:21 AM, tony duell wrote:
>
> The 9154B uses an HP drive known as
> a 'Nighthawk' which does not have a normal interface.
sorry, I misread the post as asking about drives inside a 360
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:34:22 -0400
> From: devin davison
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts"
> Subject: Found some stuff at the scrapyard
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Well, i will have to see if i can find any matching wire wrap cards to plug
into the backpane and i can perhaps make something of it. I did not pay
much for it, its no big liss if it is useless.
l Discussion: On-Topic Posts"
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard
You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984:
https://youtu.be/UiHNymmxKWs
Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regu
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From: "Curious Marc"
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts"
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2016 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: Found some stuff at the scrapyard
You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984:
https://youtu.be/UiHNymmxKWs
Original "A" version w
> > As far as the disk drive goes, if it is a proprietary hard drive in there,
> > that is a bummer.
>
> They are conventional drives. The 360 or 380 are nice machines that will also
> run HP/UX
As far as I am aware the HP9153B is the same as an HP9154B
with a floppy drive fitted. The 9154B us
On 07/17/2016 10:17 AM, tony duell wrote:
> Ethylene glycol is, of course, commonly found in car anti-freeze.
> The printer ink is not rediculously toxic, but some animals find it
> tastes sweet, they drink all they can find and it leads to kindney
> failure.
A couple of decades ago, there was a
> Very good information to know about the printer, thanks. I am assuming
> that the new cartridges I get from staples should not have the toxic ink?
> Will it still be corrosive?
My guess is that the ink formulation has not changed. I think other
things (maybe element power, timing, etc) would h
Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular
PCs of course. Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016, tony duell wrote:
It's mildly easier to use with a normal PC than the -B model (HPIL,
There were also variant models with "Centronics" interface.
Those
which also ran on PCs on the 82324B Measurement Coprocessor
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=909
On 7/17/16 9:53 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> It's "Rocky Mountain BASIC" V6.2,
It's "Rocky Mountain BASIC" V6.2, which you used to be able to get as floppy
images
from the Australian HP Museum. I think the standalone Pascal system still ran
on these
as well.
On 7/17/16 9:47 AM, devin davison wrote:
> The basic os that came installed on it looks pretty interesting too,
> a
Yeah i saw that it was capable or running HP/UX and wanted to take a look
at that. Sadly it did not come with a NIC, that would have been pretty
useful for getting data into and out of the machine over the network,
instead ill be limited to floppys.
The basic os that came installed on it looks pre
Memory sticks don't appear to be normal, though.
I never bothered to dig into what's different about them, since
they were available cheaply on eBay when i was working on the data
recovery project.
On 7/17/16 9:43 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
> On 7/17/16 9:21 AM, devin davison wrote:
>
>> As far
On 7/17/16 9:21 AM, devin davison wrote:
> As far as the disk drive goes, if it is a proprietary hard drive in there,
> that is a bummer.
They are conventional drives. The 360 or 380 are nice machines that will also
run HP/UX
and come in handy for recovery of HPIB disk drives. I used a 380 to
Very good information to know about the printer, thanks. I am assuming
that the new cartridges I get from staples should not have the toxic ink?
Will it still be corrosive?
There was a second printer over there, missing the plastic cover and
scratched up. I think i will pick it up too for parts.
> Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular
> PCs of course. Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing
It's mildly easier to use with a normal PC than the -B model (HPIL,
battery powered). Interestingly the -A version has an HPIB-HPIL
interface feeding HPIL to the main board
You got yourself the first consumer inkjet printer ever, from 1984:
https://youtu.be/UiHNymmxKWs
Original "A" version with HP-IB interface, useless for regular PCs of course.
Complete with the "SomethingJet" marketing name that has been with us since
then. The key innovation of that printer was t
well come to think of it, i was at a HAM convention and i bought a bunch of
wire wrap boards that were supposedly from CDC system. wire wrap boards
with a card edge connector. I will have to see if they fit together.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2016-Jul-16, at 8:3
On 2016-Jul-16, at 8:34 PM, devin davison wrote:
> as well as what im
> assuming is a s100 backplane.
> https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0148.JPG
> https://www.slashflash.info/~devin/images/scrapyard_lot/IMG_0149.JPG
Looks earlier than S100. I don't think I've ever s
Actually found a pretty nice hp machine with a bunch of peripherals.
Thankfully it came with the keyboard. Also a external hard drive and
floppy, as well as a tiny printer.
HP 362 "controller"
Hp thinkjet 2225A printer
Hp 9153B - HD and floppy
Also a IBM wheelwriter 3 with the parallel interface,
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