RE: Sanyo VM-4509 service manual

2016-09-27 Thread Jay West
Ditto. I have the device, and have looked high and low for manual - never could find one. Let me know2 if you get one. J -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:16 PM To: General Discussion: On-Top

Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

2016-09-27 Thread Adrian Graham
Excellent! Never having seen an alto 'for reals' never mind watch one boot this is fascinating! A On 27/09/2016 07:07, "curiousma...@gmail.com" wrote: > And it finally boots on session 8! > https://youtu.be/9OQMhvArI9g > > >> On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:46 PM, CuriousMarc wrote: >> >> Video of s

Sanyo VM-4509 service manual

2016-09-27 Thread Al Kossow
As common as this monitor is, I don't see a scanned copy of a manual on any real site. Anyone know of a copy? I went ahead and bought a VM-4512 manual from Tucker to scan. At least that will be around..

Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

2016-09-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/27/16 8:21 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > Also, if they have a Lyon optical mouse, they need to come up with a pad, I > pointed > them to a paper Dick wrote that shows the hexagonal pattern in enough detail > to draw > a new one. > http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en

Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

2016-09-27 Thread Al Kossow
How would you suggest they do that? They have one disk drive. This is the perennial problem with the Alto, it expects there is a network so you can do things like network copydisk. LCM solved their problem by having two machines, and building a 3 to 10mbit gateway with a simulated file server. C

Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

2016-09-27 Thread Liam Proven
On 27 September 2016 at 08:07, wrote: > And it finally boots on session 8! > https://youtu.be/9OQMhvArI9g Great work! But I think the team is secretly happy that it only _partially_ works as that means that there is lots more troubleshooting and fettling yet to do. ;-) Might it not be a good