se by the time "bus[s]-bar" was invented, which
is where the computer sense comes from. We wouldn't call a vehicle a
"buss" any more, but both spellings survive in electronics.
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mand:
gw write --format amiga.amigados MyDisk.adf
It's also apparently possible to use David Given's FluxEngine program to
do the same kinds of thing -- I've not tried this yet but it looks
interesting:
http://cowlark.com/fluxengine/
Hope this helps,
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http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/maslin_archive.zip
See maslin_c_d_10apr97/ddrive/sydex/dos/scp86dos.td0 (Teledisk format;
ImageDisk can convert this to other formats if needed).
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a command-line tool "ia"
which can drive much of archive.org's interface programmatically; I use
it for searching and batch uploads/downloads rather than the web
interface.
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the 1980s. (They say 8 million on
http://www.amstrad.com/products/archive/, but that includes the
much less popular PCW16 which wasn't a CP/M machine.)
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found quite a lot of useful information for the DB ITS project by
mining relevant groups on Usenet -- a web interface isn't nearly as good
for this as having the text on disk...)
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s ago (the full
listing has pictures of the insides):
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/322312097162
The September 1986 date on the case of yours means that it dates from
around the time when Lear-Siegler sold their terminal business to
Zentec -- is it actually badged Lear-Siegler?
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ttps://archive.org/stream/PC-Mag-1988-12-27#page/n227/mode/2up
The ad in the 1988-11-15 issue doesn't mention IDE, so it looks like
that's one of the first times CompuAdd thought it was useful for
marketing...
Cheers,
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t;, but in a narrow hole that means some bits won't
reach. Xcelite do a nut driver that fits nicely:
https://stuff.offog.org/model-m-screwdriver.jpg
I got mine in the UK a few years ago from Mouser, part numbers 578-997
for the driver and 578-99-1 for the handle.
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/AT machines:
http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/bios/bios.htm
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Eric Smith <space...@gmail.com> writes:
> Anyone else notice it in _John Wick Chapter Two_? I don't recall
> having ever seen a VIC 20 in a mainstream film before.
That film's not on "Starring The Computer"'s list yet -- submit it!
http://starringthecomputer.com/comput
gp30/papertapes/Games/
The story is about porting it to the RPC-4000, though. The manual for
the RPC-4000 version (including the cheat switch) is on Bitsavers:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/royalPrecision/RPC-4000/programWriteups/W1-01.0_Blackjack_Game.pdf
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guess it's a PP front panel?
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as each page had to
be stored as a separate file, which made adding text to page 1 quite a
chore!"
http://vintagecomputers.site90.net/aes/
So perhaps there's something unusual going on with the "filesystem"
structure...
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ut here's one in its case:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52561.0
Looks like it's from the same Key Tronic family as the Sol-20 keyboard,
but that hex keypad with INCR and DECR keys is really unusual... a
really fancy PROM burner, ICE, or protocol analyser?
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They have a nice page about the machine's history:
http://www.underhill.ca/land-survey-project/15/underhill-engineering-computing-services
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sirbooga.com/doomarena.html
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acer (serial link), Gravity Power, Blob Kombat, Space Taxi, XTreme
Racing, and Super Skidmarks (all two joysticks). On Unix machines, hunt
(terminal) and XPilot (X).
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place inside
| my head where computer design comes from. Most engineers like to
| proceed from A to B to C in a series of logical steps. I'm the rare
| engineer who says the answer is obviously Z and we will get on with
| that while you guys work out how to do all the intermediate steps. It
| make
in Kent, but only one A1500 (with an accelerator, KCS PC emulator, and
various other expansions, which eventually meant it remained in use long
after the rest of us had upgraded to A1200s).
Cheers,
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ly that's used
NetLogo as a modelling tool for studying granuloma formation. It's come
a long way from its FD 10 LT 90 beginnings!
https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
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e.com/catalogue/feature-page/computer-and-coding-books.aspx
(My copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" lives on my bookshelf at
work next to Knuth and K)
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) work on the Master 512's 80186 coprocessor?
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plodingthephone.com/
The "Documents" archive on their has scans of most of his source
material.
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of the computers
used). I remember seeing it with friends in the cinema when it first
came out, and being amazed that anybody would make a film about such a
(relatively!) obscure bit of computing history...
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ay) an Electron with a dead ULA than just sitting around
gathering dust, and it's easy enough to do it reversibly these days.
I've occasionally wondered about building an ARM workstation inside an
IBM Model M keyboard...
Cheers,
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Adam Sampson <a...@offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
a gentle poke with the scope probe was enough to make it come
good?
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of Future Computers Ltd. at that
point, and his CV includes Developed Future Computer PC, so he'd
probably be the person to ask for more details:
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/bill-bostock/17/9a4/42
Thanks,
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it in something else? I've added a lower-res version as well.
Thanks,
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was still in use (with non-DEC kit in it) in 2008.
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