Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

I keep them all. Not counting the bad ones in the SS1 and 2, I have 7. I can send them to you. I don't mind pick up the shipping costs for something small like that. But the $70 that is it going to cost to ship the SS20 to its new home is another matter. alan On 4/27/18 3:33 PM,

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

On 4/27/18 3:03 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: - SPARCstation 1. Chassis is intact. It has a bad IDPROM; aside from that it passes onboard diagnostics. It has 12M memory, no HDD now, and a 3.5" floppy

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

You can always send me the dead modules and I'll rebuild them (GlitchWorks == me, my wife sometimes helps with assembly). Whatever you do, don't throw out the dead NVRAMs -- I'll buy them or pay for you to ship them or whatever, they're not making more and they're the only solution that's 100%

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

The ones from Mouser work well enough in every system that I have used them in. I still get the IDPROM corrupt message on boot on some systems, but it holds the MAC and the systems boot without intervention. I tried to repair a few and botched most of them. I know that I should be using the

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

Tip on replacement hard drives: you can use a SCA drive with an adapter inside some Sun boxes, or my personal favorite, a Sun "UniDisk" enclosure with a SCA drive inside. SCA drives are really cheap, even for big ones (they go up to 300 GB), and you can still get some of the later production

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

Don't get the new MK48T02/MK48T08s from Mouser et al, they're not fully compatible. They will retain NVRAM but the clock part is different and you'll get an error on that (system won't autoboot). Rebuild your old NVRAM! I made up some little boards to make the repair cleaner and faster to do (I

Re: SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > - SPARCstation 1. Chassis is intact. It has a bad IDPROM; aside from that > it passes onboard diagnostics. It has 12M memory, no HDD now, and a 3.5" > floppy drive. It has no SBus cards. Aside from the

SPARCstation rescue giveaway (Was: Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP))

I wrote: >... yesterday I managed to take the two SPARCstation 20s that I gotfrom >Pete's and make one working dual-processor SS20. I alsopassed on one of >the SS5s to its new owner. The person who originally spoke up for the >SS20 has not responded to subsequent e-mail, so it may be available.

Re: Early Honda cars - was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP

- Original Message - From: "Fred Cisin via cctalk" Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:48 PM > The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid > 1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out > of hand and went

Kei cars and motorcycles (Was: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP)

On 4/26/18 11:52 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 00:48, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid 1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out of hand and

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: heard that the CRT sold for the Model I had some safety concerns? I think that was just a rebadged RCA TV set with the tuner section removed? Yes Although I think that it is likely that Tandy bought them before a tuner was put in, rather

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: CP/M ran on the Model I and the Model III.  CP/M was a very adaptable OS. CP/M required RAM where the TRS80 Model 1 and 3 had ROM. An unmodified TRS80 (model 1 or model 3) could not run unmodified CP/M. FMG? marketed a relocated CP/M for

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

> On Apr 27, 2018, at 9:08 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk > wrote: > > Don't get me wrong. Like you I learned a lot due to all the variety of > differing machines that were available in the market early on. From a > business perspective I don't think it made a lot of

Re: Restoring rubber keyboard on a logic analyzer

Just out of curiosity, you might try a little extra fine sand paper on the button. You have little to loose as it doesn't work anyway. Dwight From: cctech on behalf of shad via cctech Sent: Thursday,

Re: Visiting Boston - Classic computer recommendations

I’m in Boston MA (technically Canton) for the next three weeks (April 29 to May 19). Looking for recommendations on classic computer/classic car/sailing things of interest to do on the weekends. - Visit the Science building at Harvard U. (Cambridge), where they have (most of) the Mark-1

Re: Restoring rubber keyboard on a logic analyzer

Hello, this kind of keyboards was made using small pieces of conductive rubber to close the circuit designed on the PCB. The rubber was an uniform compound, so even with severe usage, i.e. high consumption, the conductivity remained constant. However, in more recent / cheaper products, the rubber

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:53 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I see that the actual fragmentation is about how each and everyone got in > touch with computers, personal or mainframe or whatever! Me, I was in > junior high and usually understood

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:06 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Then they upgraded the model 1 to reduce the cords and cables, and made >> the Model 3. I don't know whether the resemblance to the Northstar >> Dimension was

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

Excuse my long post, but I get excited whenever I can talk about the Model 16. :) I will expound a bit on what was already mentioned. The Model 16 was an engineering marvel. It was released in 1982 in the same form factor as the venerable Model II. It was essentially an upgraded Model II.

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Then they upgraded the model 1 to reduce the cords and cables, and made the Model 3. I don't know whether the resemblance to the Northstar Dimension was deliberate. I think the primary driver for the Model III was that the Model I would no

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On 04/26/2018 10:00 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> D'ya mean like an automobile company making more than one model? Surely >> there is no need for Toyota to make both a Corolla AND a Camry!

Re: Visiting Boston - Classic computer recommendations (Huw Davies)

The KS10 is at my house, along with my DEC, SGI, and Sun collection. I have a DEUNA and another Unibus Ethernet board, but have not installed them. At the Lab, we have a PDP-12, and a PDP-8/I that are running. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2018, at 1:30 AM, Lars Brinkhoff

Re: Rick Dickinson, ZX Spectrum designer, RIP

On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 00:48, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > The Honda 600 was NOT a bike. Well, mostly not. After demise of the mid > 1960s Honda S600/S800 ("poor-man's-Ferrari" design exercise that got out > of hand and went into production), Honda engineers took a