On 10/21/18 7:12 PM, Ken Shirriff via cctalk wrote:
> Someone pointed out this CDC disk drive on Craigslist in the Washington DC
> area:
> https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/d/early-computer-era-rolling/6728728220.html
>
> I have no connection to this, and don't know anything about it, bu
I have a Basis (apple ][ clone) with a cpm card built on the main board….
George
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:09 AM, systems_glitch via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I'd heard, but have no sources for said hearsay, that the most common CP/M
> machine in volume was the Apple II.
>
> There were definitely kn
Someone pointed out this CDC disk drive on Craigslist in the Washington DC
area:
https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/zip/d/early-computer-era-rolling/6728728220.html
I have no connection to this, and don't know anything about it, but figured
someone on cctalk might want to pick it up, rather t
Hello alltogether,
i am restoring a PDP8A at the moment. The machine got a problem in the
Powersupply. I think one of the emergency ciruits trigger a shutdown of
PSU. In tracing this isue i hab two questions.
My 8A`s manufacturing year is 1977. It`s model is 8A620. On Bitsavers i
found a mat
Tony Duell says:
> > In some of the documentation, the sketch of a joystick was clearly
> > the Radio Shack Coco joystick (which needed a different connector)
>
> And is electrically different.
The Tandy 1000 series has Color Computer joystick ports (and the
TRS-80 card-edge parallel port). I've
Hi Tom, thanks for getting in touch. I got some hardware and documentation from
PWA as they wanted to get rid of all the small portion which remained. I
focused on the 16 bit machines so I have 1602 (forwarded 1602b to a colleague)
and a mse14. All restored to working condition.
With two collea
On 10/21/18 11:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Because of my job, I have to think about what the museum needs to collect
> at the bottom of the supply bathtub curve, and I get nervous when things
> start to come up on the tail side.
I should probably expound on that a bit more.
I've noti
On Sun, 21 Oct 2018, systems_glitch wrote:
I'd heard, but have no sources for said hearsay, that the most common CP/M
machine in volume was the Apple II.
At one time.
I have heard that Amstrad eventually passed them.
How were sales of Commodore 128?
There were definitely knockoffs of the Micr
On 10/20/18 10:05 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> It's Beanie Babies all over again, people. Give it a year or two and the
> keyboard market will likely crash.
I don't see it happening, unless someone turns up a warehouse full of the
things cheap to drive supply up.
All I hear about a
I'd heard, but have no sources for said hearsay, that the most common CP/M
machine in volume was the Apple II.
There were definitely knockoffs of the Microsoft Z80 Softcard. One of my
IIe systems has one from SPACE BYTE, the other is no-name. I've personally
seen more knockoffs than actual Microso
On 10/20/18 8:11 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> I have an old Apple Newton keyboard... would that be useful? It's just a
> simple serial protocol with a table that at one
> point I write a program that used the xtest extension to allow me to use it
> as my main keyboard while in X11 Would
> tha
Hi Paul, thanks for your reply - good to see that there are still guys out
there who worked with this heavy iron. So you have been in the UK while working
with the Rolm? I guess it was a 1602B or later and pesumably some airborne
early warning stuff? Best wishes, Erik.
Am 21. Oktober 2018 03:
I was at the DG factory school at Southbourgh in 76 or 77, and worked on a
ROLM NOVA while at RAF Chicksands in the late 70s. Unfortunately, my EX
through out all of the manuals, prints, etc along with a complete set of
SAGE (ANFSQ-7) docs.
Paul
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 3:38 AM Thomas Hollowell vi
Hi Eric,
My name is Tom Hollowell. I took the US support of Rolm in 1998. PWA assumed
the international. I noticed that you have some ROLM hardware. I may be
interested in finding out what you have.
Let me know,
Thanks,
Tom
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