Re: Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

BTW, how old is little Ms. Gina? I'm guessing 8-10 yrs? That's a perfect time to start venturing into programming. I first dug into PCs (at the time, "home computers") ca. 1977-78; I would have been 8-9 yrs. That would have been an Apple II - not a II+ or IIe / IIc - just the old ][ as we said.

RE: Sage II

> Crashed after a while, and only shows 128K (512k is populated), > It appears that there's a DIP shunt block on the CPU board where each shunt corespond to a row of DRAMs. You should check all 4 positions are shorted. I think that the power-on test checks the first 128K RAM, then sees if the

Re: WTB several IMSAI-8080 ON-OFF-ON momentary switches

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Mark G Thomas wrote: > Does anyone have any available? I don't need the paddles, just the > the ON-OFF-ON momentary switches. > Just FYI, technically those are known as MOM-OFF-MOM.

Re: Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

Awesome. I have a 16 year-old that hasn't gotten in vintage tech that much, but thinks it is cool! Your daughter will have a more visceral understanding of computing if she continues. Bravo! Lee C. On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > Here is my daughter

WTB several IMSAI-8080 ON-OFF-ON momentary switches

Hi, Does anyone have any available? I don't need the paddles, just the the ON-OFF-ON momentary switches. I got good ON-OFF address/data ones from Herb Johnson, but the momentary ON-OFF-ON ones I have are worn out and do not return to center properly. Mark -- Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com),

Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

> The first printer that IBM sold with the 5150 was a re-badged Epson MX-80. IBM 5152 Graphics Printer. It may have been equivalent to an MX-80 with the optional Graftrax-80 upgrade. However, I'd still really like to get a scan of the Epson manual.

Re: Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

Very cool.  I love how that display works.  It's just like something from an early 80s movie. I want one badly but not $3000 badly. Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: Randy Dawson Date: 2016-11-04 5:03 PM (GMT-08:00) To:

Re: Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

How completely charming. Good for Gina, and good for you! (And I'm sure that Future Gina will 'appreciate' the fact that you put her on the web, dressed in a bathrobe. >Smirk<) On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > Here is my daughter Gina, I thought you

Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

Here is my daughter Gina, I thought you guys would like, Tek is still exciting. Sure, we have lots of PC's around the house, but this is the first one that she is programming, and programming the 4051 creates a smile. Randy https://youtu.be/o0LiYkHG3iE

Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

On Fri, 4 Nov 2016, Eric Smith wrote: Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical Manual? It may be a long shot, . . . The first printer that IBM sold with the 5150 was a re-badged Epson MX-80. The ROMs are likely to be different, but the rest of its circuitry should be

RE: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

It doesn't work from the UK. I can't get to the checkout if I add an item with a cost. I think its broken. Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jim > stephens > Sent: 04 November 2016 20:38 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic

Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

On 11/4/2016 1:29 PM, Eric Smith wrote: Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical Manual? It's apparently intended to be available here: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39747/Epson-MX-80-Dot-Matrix-Printer-Technical-Manual/ but I was unable to actually download

Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?

Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical Manual? It's apparently intended to be available here: http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39747/Epson-MX-80-Dot-Matrix-Printer-Technical-Manual/ but I was unable to actually download it.

Re: Sage II

On 2016-10-30 15:40, william degnan wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 9:44 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote: I also got last week a IBM PC 5170, if I could get it working, it should be able to write the SAGE II floppies, right? if it's a 96 tpi drive and you have a newer OS like DOS

RE: VAX Common Lisp

From: Ian S. King Sent: Friday, November 04, 2016 8:54 AM > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:10 AM, wrote: >> any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp? > ISTR when I installed it on the VAX-11/780-5 at Living Computer Museum, I > got it either from the hobbyist distribution or from

Re: VAX Common Lisp

http://wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/vmslisp.zip LISP031 Regards, Mark. On 11/4/2016 4:19 PM, Glen Slick wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:10 AM, wrote: any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp? 917AA VAX LISP/VMS [LISP030] or [LISP031] was on VMS Consolidated Software

Re: VAX Common Lisp

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:10 AM, wrote: > > any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp? > > 917AA VAX LISP/VMS [LISP030] or [LISP031] was on VMS Consolidated > Software Distribution CD sets from at least

Re: VAX Common Lisp

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:10 AM, wrote: > any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp? 917AA VAX LISP/VMS [LISP030] or [LISP031] was on VMS Consolidated Software Distribution CD sets from at least Jan-1990 to May-1993 according to this link:

Re: VAX Common Lisp

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 4:10 AM, wrote: > any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp? > ISTR when I installed it on the VAX-11/780-5 at Living Computer Museum, I got it either from the hobbyist distribution or from the freeware collection at HP. I know I didn't jump through any

Re: What interest in a

I love older machines and had to part with several SGI and HP systems in order to 'downsize' enough to fit in my apartment, so an HP-UX laptop is very desirable. Unfortunately, I don't have access to 80-BUS parts, so my offer would be for cash; I'll make my offer outside this forum. From:

Re: What interest in a

I'm much less interested in a bidding war that most people would be. The computer is sitting on my shelf, it isn't being used, it just takes up space. I'm not a dealer in old computers, I don't rely on any profit to feed my family. I would prefer that this machine went to someone who would use

Re: What the heck is the deal with this eBay item

> The listing seems to have vanished now. (Probably just as well). > Maybe the listing was reported and removed. It was listed again exactly the same. https://www.ebay.com/itm/272436936862

Re: Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, etc. for sale in Philly

> On Nov 4, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Sam O'nella wrote: > > Out of curiosity and ignorance what's with the solder joints on the cards in > the pictures? That orange color seems like it's everywhere around cold > looking solder joints. Is that rust, some sort or protection, or

Re: Looking for Prompt-475

I'd have thought they had it better under control by the 432 time but you never know. Most times on the UPP, you could hit the reset a number of times if there was a problem. The changes in randomness would usually let it reset and start code that would reset. Intel had a number of poorly

Re: Unknown DEC indicator panel

> I suppose I should try and round up images of 19" x 5-1/4" PDP-10 > panels, too So there are quite a few, although I'm not sure they are exactly the same as the ones used in the PDP-11's, PDP-15's, etc. Those use a plastic bezel which is the same as the blank panels in the H960 racks,

Re: Altair, IMSAI, SWTPC, etc. for sale in Philly

Out of curiosity and ignorance what's with the solder joints on the cards in the pictures? That orange color seems like it's everywhere around cold looking solder joints.  Is that rust, some sort or protection, or acid corrosion? Original message From: Mark G Thomas

Re: What interest in a

$50 to U.S. would likely be the same for Canada, so I'm still interested... but let's try not to make this into a 'bidding war'. From: "Richard" To: "cctalk" Sent: Friday, November 4, 2016 4:26:14 AM Subject: Re: What interest in a Wow! That

Re: What interest in a

Wow! That amount of interest wasn't expected at all. I have a best offer so far of £100 (112€ / $124) plus shipping. The cheapest shipping to the USA would be $50, into Europe would be 18€ for the parcel which weighs in at 8kg / 18lb. All at your risk. I don't want to put it on ebay, I'd

Re: What interest in a

Wow! That amount of interest wasn't expected at all. I have a best offer so far of £100 (112€ / $124) plus shipping. The cheapest shipping to the USA would be $50, into Europe would be 18€ for the parcel which weighs in at 8kg / 18lb. All at your risk. I don't want to put it on ebay, I'd

Re: What the heck is the deal with this eBay item

On 02/11/16 00:12, Glen Slick wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Corey Cohen wrote: https://www.ebay.com/itm/272433760795 This Helios II has been "sold" multiple times for varying amounts and then suddenly hours later appears for sale again. I'm done bidding on

VAX Common Lisp

any idea where to get VAX Common Lisp?

Re: R: What interest in a

On 11/3/2016 9:55 AM, Ian S. King wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Norman Jaffe wrote: Hi: a Hi, very interesting machine. I've always been a fan of hp-ux... How much would you think it's going to cost, to ship to Italy ? ( near Milan ) Alessandro