uot;worth" and
> "selling price" aren't the same thing with a datapoint of just one sale
> particularly on ebay.
Naturall.
> But as to "worth"... I would bet $3K to $5K USD.
I'd certainly say this machine should support at least $3K price.
-ethan
em. In the full-sized
BA11-K, plenty of room for peripherals. The only real limitation I
ever had was the 256K memory space (that's where the 11/24 comes in
handy - not faster but fatter).
It will be interesting to see if that price holds up to real-world demand.
-ethan
Never mind. I took a picture of the internals of both and they are NOT at
all the same, unfortunately.
http://vintagecomputer.ca/sanyo-vm-4209-vs-hitachi-vm-909/
Good luck in finding the Sanyo schematics. I'd love to have a copy myself.
Santo
Step #1. Replace all electrolytics?
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Ethan
. There are the cans of chemicals, normal
garage air compressors, or scuba tank used for diving which is filled with
very dry clean air?
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he 3151 is a later model in the sequence - it appears to
emulate the IBM 3101, plus the ADM-3A, ADM-5, ADDS Viewpoint A2,
Hazeltine 1500, and various Televideo TVI 9xx models.
$85 for a working dumb terminal sounds pretty good these days.
-ethan
s/pdp8/hard8e/bc01v.html
http://gunkies.org/wiki/DEC_asynchronous_serial_line_pinout
-ethan
We've talked about the most expensive, the most rare, the less usual...
Now lets talk about what you love most <3
For me is the Apple IIe signed by Woz :D
What is your most prized and loved possession? :)
For me it's similar, IIGS signed by Woz!
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er comes up with a solution, like many of us, I
have kilograms of the stuff - DEC and IBM for me, mostly mid-1980s.
Probably very little if any of it unique, but if I really need to look
up the engineering docs for a Unibus peripheral or want to browse VMS
source code prior to 5.0, there it is.
-ethan
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:51 PM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am sure you did not mean to cause offence but I don't that if this is an
>> appropriate question to ask her
t want to start a flame war
> either, just stating my friendly opinion.
I'm sure there are people who are offended and/or horrified by the
question. The number of responses (or lack thereof) will likely
indicate the size of that pool.
-ethan
an Amiga 3000 purchased at the launch for full
price (minus a trade-in discount on an old A1000).
-ethan
iga, 2000 desk top type, with a video toaster in it that
needs a keyboard and factory mouse!
Can anyone help?
Thanks Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
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Ethan O'Toole
if
there were deck control solutions for doing assemble editing based on time
and serial deck control for C64?
The Newtek toaster and other add-on are in a whole different
league versus what the C64 could do.
There were crude capture devices also. Maybe ComputerEyes existed for C64?
--
Ethan
manual that even Yamaha doesn't have. It came with
documentation that wasn't in the wild, so I set it free and it should
answer questions for others. Would like to get hold of working unit eprom
dumps.
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uot; when
I said I was going to take the bus home...
-ethan
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Pete Turnbull <p...@dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
> On 09/01/2017 20:30, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>> Esters... we mixed a variety of alcohols with a variety of fatty acids
>> and let the audience smell the results... it was all fun and games
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:28 AM, Adrian Graham
wrote:
> We have 2 or 3 sets if Xcelite nut spinners at work with the torque sleeve
> and they've always stunk, I started there in 2004 and they weren't new then
> so it's obviously been a thing for a long while!
I have
sion of CP/M (from Jan 1985) does all
the right things, but two newer versions (Dec 1985 and May 1987) don't
respond after prompting the user for input.
I haven't tried xtrs yet, in part because there already is a TRS-DOS
version of this game (which wouldn't need CP/M, and I haven't ever
fiddled with running CP/M on real Tandy hardware).
Thanks for the response!
-ethan
see it on Bitsavers and Manx says "No
copies are known to be online"
http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,6163
>> https://imgur.com/a/mDvhD
Nice.
> Yes! That looks like it.
Looks like it's 7 bits (D5-D11 -> P01-P07).
-ethan
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Christian Corti
<c...@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Charles Dickman <c...@chdickman.com> wrote:
>>> I want to see if I can use it to interface to
S on the LC8-P is a mode select like it is on
an LP11/LPV11 (perhaps the LC8-P doesn't switch modes), but it
shouldn't be hard to trace that out. The data and handshake lines
should be at the same positions or the LC8-P wouldn't be able drive an
LA-180.
-ethan
y.com/itm/Apple-IIe-Workstation-Card-Model-Part-Numbers-820-0204-A-670-0204-A-/222346169582
Maybe for that kind of money one will shake loose?
-ethan
too bad someone has not made a new modern network card to put old Apple
II on a current network...or have they?
Ed#
I think IIGS supported tcp/ip sort of?
Also this:
http://a2retrosystems.com/products.htm
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Ethan O'Toole
That is exactly what I was just wondering. Thanks!
-ethan
7 cabinet, that will be a
good thing to check since the TU56 would be easy to use in the top
spot (there's no top-mount plastic panel on an H967, so it might fit
there just fine).
-ethan
On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Jay West <jw...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Speaking of which - I'll put out a call again for if anyone wants to get a
> group purchase on the motor run caps for a TU55/56
I need a few.
-ethan
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Alexis Kotlowy
<thrashb...@kaput.homeunix.org> wrote:
> On 14/12/2016 09:19, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> So far, this loop hangs on all three emulators I've tried - simh's
>> altairz80, simcpm010 for AmigaDOS, and EMUZ80 for Raspberry Pi...
>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 4:26 PM, allison <ajp...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> On 14/12/2016 09:19, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So far, this loop hangs on all three emulators I've tried - simh's
>>>> altairz80, simcpm010 for AmigaDOS, and
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm disassembling a vintage program...
>>
>> MYSUB:
>> LD A,R...
I'm now thinking this is the R
about what this is really
doing and what the right thing to do for emulators is? I can patch
this if that's what's needed, but I'd like to understand it first.
Thanks,
-ethan
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm disassembling a vintage program...
>
> MYSUB:
> LD A,R...
>
> So far, this loop hangs on all three emulators I've tried - simh's
> altairz80, simcpm010 for AmigaDOS, and EMUZ80 for Ra
me into play and perhaps
one type won't work for all.
-ethan
Damn, you're right, that's the pinout for the Indy. I have both an Indy and
an Indigo with a modified ATX power supply.
You're running an Indigo on ATX power supply guts? Interesting. My
co-worker has a SGI Fuel on his desk with a bad PSU and has talked about
converting it.
--
Ethan
supply (but the wires from those are just passed directly to the power
supply connector.)
Might get a chance to poke at it tonight after work and I'll compare!
Thanks!
- Ethan
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Ethan O'Toole
I started updating my blog with (hopefully useful) information.
I did a write up on the SGI Indigo so far and will update it with future
findings. It's at http://ethan.757.org/?p=32
I made a list of all the tantulum SMD capacitors of the style of the one
that fried. I think I figured out
the physical size of the SMD caps and start making a list to
replace.
- Ethan
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Ethan O'Toole
if the chime should play before the time of day
clock error?
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to put money
twords my Onyx fund.
I'm going to try to repair mine first, but if all else fails I will let
you know!
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Ethan O'Toole
output. There was no startup
sound that I knew and loved.
The 9430810 is the R3000 power supply, the 9430812 is the R4000/R4400 PSU.
Any leads?
--
Ethan O'Toole
And plenty of entries for terminals and PDP-8 models below that...
> Is there a volunteer our there to sign up as an editor there (note:
> applications have to be approved, which can take a couple of days, due to
> busyness on the part of the admin) to start writing up VAX content?
I'm sending off an account request.
-ethan
arger.
d1 == 0.236" (shaft diameter)
d3 == 0.224" (clip ID)
s == 0.039" (clip thickness)
Has anyone had to buy grip rings for their fan refurbs before? Do
these numbers sound right?
-ethan
o on DEC ACE XX2247 keys including pin
depths and even 3D models.
-ethan
IGS system with it stenciled on.
He added the Woz to one of mine for me when he spoke in Virginia Beach.
But yea that machine isn't leaving my possesion!
--
Ethan O'Toole
n
about 1992 or so because someone in WI bought our VAXBI COMBOARD to
send EDI purchase reqs to a vendor network run by IBM and the device
on the other end of our customer's modem was a Series/1 that didn't
quite exactly implement 3780 like all the IBM products before it.
-ethan
ne
> out there have one of these?
I have an RK11-C that I've never attempted to power on. I haven't
even made an inventory of it. What would I look for to know?
-ethan
/play.php?vidId=9753
If you're into this, you should also check out the documentary Sound City.
Also there is a Muscle Shoals recording studio documentary as well that is
on NetFlix.
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Ethan O'Toole
onix X221CHT / XP221
I got no answers. I found all the dead links.
-ethan
climbed so much that there isn't enough power/cooling to match.
--
Ethan O'Toole
I wonder if LCM has ever measured the power draw of each of their big machines?
Do they run them on any sort of commercial PDU system? I'd hope so, not
too expensive and they should be able to see real time at least the
current draw.
--
Ethan O'Toole
amps @ 5vdc, power supplies set me back maybe $300 or less.
Could probably adjust them down or get similar units or higher quality
stuff from surplus (Pioneer Magnetics, etc)
--
Ethan O'Toole
Yup, all dumpstered by the company formerly known as Rackable
What survives is in the hands of collectors. They worked hard to save what
was still left at the end.
SGI was just as brutal to Cray. Scorched earth to their archives a decade
before.
Ugh. To be fair, I even know CEOs today of
ss
transistor.
Jon
Am I getting this right?
So they take AC turn it to DC then turn it back to high frequency AC
then turn it back to DC to drop the need for larger capacitors to keep
the DC clean?
Pretty wild.
Anyone run any of this stuff at home / light commercial clubhouses?
--
Ethan O'Toole
of the guys might of
mentioned you! But he talked as if much of that documentation was gone.
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Ethan O'Toole
uot; In my travels there is a guy
named James who has/had a very nice Cray collection. Haven't talked to
him in a few years though hope he is doing well. He had some of the 6000
pounders IIRC.
--
Ethan O'Toole
I'm making arrangements to have four (mini-)supercomputers from the
1980's shipped to me. In the mean time, I'm trying to find out what I
can about these systems, so this is a fishing expedition.
The systems are:
* Convex C1-XP
* Convex C1-XL
* Intel iPSC/860
* Ardent Titan
Pictures of these can
Yes. Mine says "11/20" and has some later-rev CPU boards (-YA) that I
think date to 1972.
-ethan
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:11 AM, emanuel stiebler <e...@e-bbes.com> wrote:
> On 2016-10-31 08:48, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
>> One of the great recent updates was backporting the MSCP driver from
>> 2.11 to 2.9. That opens up KDF11 MicroPDP-11s to running 2.9
ting started.
One of the great recent updates was backporting the MSCP driver from
2.11 to 2.9. That opens up KDF11 MicroPDP-11s to running 2.9 with an
RQDX3. Prior to that availability, one needed an RLV12 or other Qbus
disk controller for that platform.
-ethan
e into an existing system by
adding a modern peripheral because ancient disks are no longer
reasonably available.
-ethan
more than one Qbus SCSI card, but far more Qbus CPUs than I
could ever afford to so equip. Also, I have plenty of Unibus and one
VAXBI for which SCSI is far more expensive, so I keep dreaming of a
way to do that, but I never get as far as implementation.
-ethan
ing close to maxed out. Most of our other machines had
1-2 DD11DK outside of the CPU backplane but not nearly as many cards
or bus traffic. We never had any Ethernet hardware, so all of our
sessions were handled via local serial ports. Lots of serial ports.
-ethan
was thinking back to the finger file from the ID software guy
talking about how horrible MacOS was, not from the perspective of
preventing viruses.
I suppose Apple was early in the networking game with Appletalk but not
sure if the viruses ever made use of it.
( I grew up Atari -> PC )
--
Et
But, I was explicitly referring to the time BEFORE OS-X! (<1999?)
Assholes who proclaimed themselves to be "experts" kept pushing our college
administration to SWITCH ALL of our our student computer labs from PC to Mac,
mostly using the LIE that "Macs are immune to viruses".
Jumping in here
repaired the line filter caps in a BA23).
-ethan
11 (M8256) is a quad-height card that does DMA. There are
various quad-height tape controllers that should too, IIRC. Mostly,
DMA peripherals are hex height because they can be and there's plenty
of silicon to fill a hex card, but that's about real estate not about
reaching certain Unibus pins.
-ethan
didn't see video projection hardware on the
auction and usually that is used to project the stuff outside the cockpits
no?
What was left is the interesting stuff :-)
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Ethan O'Toole
Wonder if anyone got the actual simulators/cockpits? Fun toys but
won't fit in your average basement...
There were bids on them, hopefully they go to home flight simulator nerds
that will entertain us with videos on youtube of them running inside their
houses!
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Ethan O'Toole
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would consider one for my VAX/11-750 since Unibus disk emulation
> solutions aren't plentiful (but I think I'd have to get a DR750
> (L0014) first).
Correction: RH750 (L0007). The DR750 is a CMI-bus
since Unibus disk emulation
solutions aren't plentiful (but I think I'd have to get a DR750
(L0014) first).
-ethan
ven the option of the
RQDX3 for modest-sized systems).
For a "serious" Qbus system, the present solution seems to be looking
for a Qbus SCSI card at $250 or under, then using an old 3.5" SCSI
drive or a SCSI-IDE adapter and any (nearly) modernish desktop hard
drive or a CF card or SD card.
-ethan
of surprised since
this was late in the VMS game, perhaps mid 2000's. And the system was
still being built.
Not sure if that board is a part of that setup but it was VMS. Probably
still have the screenshots somewhere.
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Ethan O'Toole
s on his OpsView console.
-ethan
but the game showed
weakness since you could look to the right and see the monsters walking
towards you but caught on the edge of the wall -- had to advance a bit
then they would come for you. I remember it was strange seeing the medical
kit clipping through my leg.
--
Ethan O'Toole
As I understand it, the SGIs were the development platform for DOOM, and
the PC version is the 'port'.
-- Charles
SGI was a development platform for Nintendo 64 console games.
http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/my-complete-sgi-ultra64-dev-set-manual-scans-dev-software.45165/
--
Ethan
attendees - fascination, surely, but
not nostalgia.
-ethan
nal hardware where possible.
If you've played anything in the past 3 years, I'd especially like to
hear about it since that speaks to enjoyment and replayability. If
you like it, someone here will probably like it too.
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
-ethan
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Douglas Adams was instrumental in a few games.
> But, somebody once asked him what he most liked to play with on his Mac. He
> said The Desktop.
It's like "Hunt the Wumpus" but with no Wumpus...
-ethan
iness systems based on
what games there were, but pretty much everywhere I've worked, games
appeared on whatever systems we had.
-ethan
Just like the car collecting, comic book collection and just about
most other hobbies when they mature. The same type of people who
The comic book market crashed due to the flipping side of it as far as I
know. When it changes from a hobby to a speculative mania, I suppose that
is when
machine, a 960A,
for which I'm (still) missing the key -
http://marc.info/?l=classiccmp=104965575922594=2).
I keep meaning to get a key to test it but the last one I spotted on
eBay closed a day or so before I found it.
-ethan
is almost complete, then the cleaning and reconstruction can begin.
And yet another one is a Commodore Colt - it _may_ be repairable, but
I'm going to get some practice on a simpler repair first.
Those 90s NiCd batteries have destroyed a lot of hardware.
-ethan
for the
original chips.)
- Ethan
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is involved) to
run Mac software on Amigas as well.
SCSI card is a great start, none of mine ever had those.
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age device - perhaps hacking one of the
DMA serial cards to add a 5380 SCSI chip in place of a serial chip.
So... short form - I'd love to read over some 68K UNIX code to see
what it would take to make it run on orphan hardware from 30 years
ago.
-ethan
e they *getting* it?
-ethan
OS 7 and Windows 3.1... (it was not USB -
it was RS-232 - it was far older than USB)
-ethan
On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Rod Smallwood
<rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> > From: Ethan Dicks
>>
>> > One aspect of it is that some of the labels are damaged
>> > ...
>> > Before embarking on spinning up a proce
://www.smecc.org)
I thought the 1400 and more importantly the 1450XLD with the integreated
disk drive were pretty much limited to the color brochure that was packed
in with the XL series?
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Ethan O'Toole
-ethan
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/xl/1400xl/1400.html
Curt
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Ethan O'Toole
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Joe Piche <fast7...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/2016 1:58 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> ... One of my scores was an Atari-badged Novation CAT modem.
>
> I have the manual for a 103/212 smart cat modem. PN 490418-1/490521-1. Circa
> 1982
>
&
Just two random pieces that I've been after for my collection:
#1. Sun Voyager tote bag. The bag the computer goes into.
#2. BeBox front plastic part, and the IO board for a BeBox. Have a dual
66Mhz that is case, PSU and mobo only. Would like to complete it.
Thanks.
--
Ethan O'Toole
ture from my external SDI<->ESDI box,
but, yeah, SDI drives aren't getting more abundant.
> I assume VAXBI SCSI
> adapters are even more scarce than their Unibus counterparts
ISTR back in the day, new, a VAXBI SCSI board was $10,000. I have
never seen one in person.
-ethan
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Steven M Jones <classic...@crash.com> wrote:
> On 09/15/16 22:24, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> Hi, All,
>>
>> I unearthed what appears to be a Tektronix X terminal, marked on the bottom:
>>
>> MODEL: X221CHT
>
> I'd guess th
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Glen Slick <glen.sl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> My question is, what is the device name in /dev for the first drive on the
>>> second controller?
>>
ero information on the web
searching for variants of the vendor and model number.
Anyone here have any info? If it is an X terminal, it's probably a
brick without a somewhat sizable tftp area for it to slurp up.
Thanks for any tips, comments or pointers.
-ethan
ther controllers.
>
> My question is, what is the device name in /dev for the first drive on the
> second controller?
Isn't it rb?
-ethan
s that exercise the graphics/color? For my own uses, RT-11 or
VMS preferred.
-ethan
@ 350 mA, for example, which may be
easier to find than an unregulated 20VAC PSU).
I would love to play with a CBM 8010 (since I have so many PETs) but I
do happen to have a couple of IEEE-488 to RS-232 devices, which will
work fine with this Atari 830/Novation CAT.
-ethan
well as RK11-D, RKV11-D and RK8E) and I used to
have a Diablo 30, but it was badly damaged in a (backed-up sewer)
flood 25 years ago and discarded. It's on the restoration list with
the other Unibus gear...
-ethan
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