: personal history of personal computers
I believe I describe this. There is a nylon clip that holds the guide rail for
the head assembly. This nylon was over stressed. Every machine that I've seen,
the nylon had hardened and cracked. It allows the rail to float. What happens
is that the
Sunday, January 24, 2021 3:13 PM
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Cc: Fred Cisin
Subject: Re: personal history of personal computers
On Jan 4, 2021, at 1:31 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
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> There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat. Although
On Jan 24, 2021, at 3:13 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk
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> What happens if it's not possible to talk to you? Can you write up just what
> the deal is with the drive, so that everyone can learn?
And now I see that you've done so—thank you!
-- Chris
On Jan 4, 2021, at 1:31 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
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> There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat. Although, it was
> generally not intended as a development machine, in its short life, several
> applications were developed.
> It was primarily sold as a word processor ( quite
On 1/4/2021 5:53 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Need to grease/lube it periodically
That is your problem there! You grease pigs not cats.
Ben.
first before changing the constant for the offset.
Dwight
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> There was a little known 68K
On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 19:53 -0500, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> Need to grease/lube it periodically
Is it English? I understand the English stopped building computers
because they couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil.
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 6:20 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
> cctalk@
Need to grease/lube it periodically
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 6:20 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat.
>
> I love the form factor of my Cat. Wish it was easier to "do things" with it
> though.
>
> > If you should
> There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat.
I love the form factor of my Cat. Wish it was easier to "do things" with it
though.
> If you should ever get one, don't use the disk drive until you talk to me.
Don't leave us in suspense! However, mine seems to be fine.
--
On the issue of the Cat re-formatting disks that it couldn't read, my
suggestion was that they should add enough circuitry that it could
recognize the existence of FM, MFM, and GCR formats.
Then, it could say, "This disk appears to already be formatted for a
different kind of machine. Would y
On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 1:38 PM Mike Loewen via cctalk
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> Andy Molloy had a Canon Cat at VCF East in 2006. Unfortunately, it
> smoked.
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2006/dscn4151-f.jpg
Someone could buy one from Jack and fix it up eBay 324441040706.
On 2021-01-04 4:38 p.m., Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote:
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> Andy Molloy had a Canon Cat at VCF East in 2006. Unfortunately, it
> smoked.
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2006/dscn4151-f.jpg
>
... there's one on ebay now FWIW.
--Toby
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, dwight wrote:
There was a little known 68K machine. It was the Canon Cat. Although, it was
generally not intended as a development machine, in its short life, several
applications were developed.
It was primarily sold as a word processor ( quite powerful one at that ). It
h
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Subject: Re: personal history of personal computers
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I suppose that the 68K only trickled down to the home/consumer market
after about 5 years. The original Mac was circa $2.5K and the Lisa was
around $10K --
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Subject: Re: personal history of personal computers
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> I suppose that the 68K only trickled dow
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I suppose that the 68K only trickled down to the home/consumer market
after about 5 years. The original Mac was circa $2.5K and the Lisa was
around $10K -- *not* home computer prices for most people, even in the
USA.
And yet, . . .
I remember an
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