Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread SPC
I got two VT100 that I'd need to repair. I'll we watching this thread too. I'm libing in Spain, by the way. Kind Regards Sergio 2015-10-21 3:56 GMT+02:00 Paul Anderson : > I have most of the VT100 family parts, and can help somewhat in identifying > part numbers. > > If you need any, feel free t

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Lukas Kaminski
On 10/21/2015 09:43, SPC wrote: > I got two VT100 that I'd need to repair. I'll we watching this thread too. > I'm libing in Spain, by the way. > > Kind Regards > Sergio > > 2015-10-21 3:56 GMT+02:00 Paul Anderson : > >> I have most of the VT100 family parts, and can help somewhat in identifying

Re: Data General NOVA 4/C help

2015-10-21 Thread Rod Smallwood
Well done Sir!! Knowing the terminal is OK is a real booster. Regards Rod On 20/10/2015 20:45, Henk Gooijen wrote: With thanks to Bruce, Jay and Rod, good news, although something has gone wrong first. Learned a few things! Long story ... As I did not see anything o

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Rod Smallwood
VT 100's have one weak point. The monitor is a bought in part from Ball Bros. The Ball supplied drive board burns up a diode and cap. It will be obvious on inspection of the board. I have never been able to get a circuit diagram or I'd do a replacement board. Needless to say the DEC parts are

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread william degnan
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Rod Smallwood < rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote: > VT 100's have one weak point. The monitor is a bought in part from Ball > Bros. > The Ball supplied drive board burns up a diode and cap. It will be > obvious on inspection of the board. > I have never been a

RE: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Robert Jarratt
I had forgotten about that. There is a useful page on this somewhere, but I am away from home and can't get the link right now. Will try to send out the link later. Regards Rob -Original Message- From: "william degnan" Sent: ‎21/‎10/‎2015 12:51 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Of

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread william degnan
> > > -Original Message- > From: "william degnan" > Sent: ‎21/‎10/‎2015 12:51 > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Rod Smallwood < > rodsmallwoo...@btint

Re: Has anyone hear of the Computer History Archives Project?

2015-10-21 Thread Christian Liendo
- Original Message - > From: Al Kossow > I think it is a guy in Sacramento. I remember buying a CD of the 1050 film > off ebay years ago and I think that was what he was going by then. I think it's really cool. I just figured someone here did it.

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Rod Smallwood
Yes I think it is. Board is easy to check. It looks a totally different type of board ie cheap and nasty Rod On 10/21/2015 11:51 AM, william degnan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:19 AM, Rod Smallwood < rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote: VT 100's have one weak point. The monitor is a bo

Re: 360 mockups Re: Has anyone hear of the Computer History Archives Project?

2015-10-21 Thread Jon Elson
On 10/21/2015 12:42 AM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: Great film. I'm sure there are a few mockups in there. For instance, towards the end at 17:23 there is a mockup of a console with a slim white/black masthead. I have a high-res copy of that photo, and here is a the lower right corner detail enla

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Oct-21, at 3:19 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > VT 100's have one weak point. The monitor is a bought in part from Ball Bros. > The Ball supplied drive board burns up a diode and cap. It will be obvious > on inspection of the board. > I have never been able to get a circuit diagram or I'd do a

RE: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread tony duell
[VT100, etc, monitor PCB] > Is that true of the vt102 as well? I don't think I've ever worked on a VT102, but the same video monitor boards turn up in the VT100, VT105 and VT101 (at least). There are at least 3 different types, at least 2 made by Ball Brothers. From what I remember the 2 Ball B

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread william degnan
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, tony duell wrote: > [VT100, etc, monitor PCB] > > > Is that true of the vt102 as well? > > I don't think I've ever worked on a VT102, but the same video monitor > boards turn up > in the VT100, VT105 and VT101 (at least). There are at least 3 different > types, at

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Jarratt RMA
> On 21 October 2015 at 20:52 william degnan wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, tony duell wrote: > > > [VT100, etc, monitor PCB] > > > > > Is that true of the vt102 as well? > > > > I don't think I've ever worked on a VT102, but the same video monitor > > boards turn up > > in th

Re: 360 mockups Re: Has anyone hear of the Computer History Archives Project?

2015-10-21 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson
On 21/10/15 07:42, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: (By the way - I'm looking for a red INTERRUPT insert, red STOP insert and pearl POWER ON insert for my 360/40 console, if anyone can help :) Steve. For what it's worth, I'm also looking for a red INTERRUPT button for a /30 - I suspect it's identica

Re: VT100 and/or VT105 rescued from scrap

2015-10-21 Thread Paul Anderson
The VT101,02,31, and 32 are the same, as are the VT100, 105, and 125. The VT103 is different Paul On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jarratt RMA wrote: > > > > On 21 October 2015 at 20:52 william degnan wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:29 PM, tony duell > wrote: > > > > > [VT100, e

LA-36 DECWriter II Keyboard Assembly

2015-10-21 Thread Rick Bensene
Hello, all, I have an otherwise good DECWriter II (LA-36) terminal that has a bad keyboard. A number of the keyswitches are messed up (the little gold contacts are mangled or the switch assembly itself is damaged), and the nature of the Cherry-made keyboard in this thing is that the keyswitch

Re: LA-36 DECWriter II Keyboard Assembly

2015-10-21 Thread Paul Anderson
There are a few to choose from: keyboard without numeric keypad keyboard with numeric keypad numeric keypad only I'm not going to guess at the part numbers . Contact me off list when you get a chance. Thanks, Paul On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > Hello, all, > > I hav

KIM Uno /PiDP-11 plans...

2015-10-21 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, >> Oscar is already working on another very promising product. >> [..]He will also pay a visit to my "museum" to take a few measurements. Sorry, can't say more >> I'll leave that up to Oscar. Perhaps he want to stay "below the radar" until that project is finished ... Thanks for the kind word

Re: KIM Uno /PiDP-11 plans...

2015-10-21 Thread Mike Ross
Well done. Have you looked at 3D printing? Not fast, not especially cheap, but potentially the least difficult developmentally. And once it's set up you can just let her rip and churn them out. This is only going in one direction of course... once you have the 11/70 nailed, you *have* to do a pdp-