Re: 11/34 with drives on ebay

2017-01-26 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: 11/34 with drives on ebay

2017-01-26 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Anyone have the service guide for a Sanyo VM4209 monitor?

2017-01-24 Thread 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? -- Ethan

Re: How do you clean your vintage computers?

2017-01-19 Thread 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? -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Tested Wyse and IBM terminals and keyboards available

2017-01-18 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Need serial cabe for pdp 11/34 M7856

2017-01-15 Thread Ethan Dicks
s/pdp8/hard8e/bc01v.html http://gunkies.org/wiki/DEC_asynchronous_serial_line_pinout -ethan

Re: What is the most prized possession in your collection?

2017-01-13 Thread 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! -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
an Amiga 3000 purchased at the launch for full price (minus a trade-in discount on an old A1000). -ethan

Re: Were C64's used in editing video like the Amigas - also need Amiga keyboard?

2017-01-11 Thread 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) -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Were C64's used in editing video like the Amigas - also need Amiga keyboard?

2017-01-11 Thread ethan
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

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-10 Thread 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. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Stinky resistors was Re: Stinky screwdrivers

2017-01-09 Thread Ethan Dicks
uot; when I said I was going to take the bus home... -ethan

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

2017-01-09 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Stinky screwdrivers

2017-01-09 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: cctech Digest, Vol 30, Issue 15

2017-01-06 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

2017-01-05 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

2017-01-04 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

2017-01-03 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: WTB: Apple II Workstation Card

2016-12-20 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: WTB: Apple II Workstation Card

2016-12-19 Thread 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 -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Rack-mounting a TU56

2016-12-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
That is exactly what I was just wondering. Thanks! -ethan

Re: Rack-mounting a TU56

2016-12-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Rack-mounting a TU56

2016-12-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
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... >

Re: Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: looking for keytronics keyboard pad replacement kit

2016-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks
me into play and perhaps one type won't work for all. -ethan

Re: SGI Indigo Update

2016-12-12 Thread 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

Re: SGI Indigo Update

2016-12-12 Thread 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 -- Ethan O'Toole

SGI Indigo Update

2016-12-11 Thread ethan
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

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-10 Thread ethan
the physical size of the SMD caps and start making a list to replace. - Ethan -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-10 Thread ethan
if the chime should play before the time of day clock error? -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread ethan
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! -- Ethan O'Toole

SGI Indigo, WTB Power supply? Burning smell?

2016-12-09 Thread ethan
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

Re: VAX expert 'needed'

2016-12-07 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Looking for small quantity of grip rings for Boxer fans

2016-12-04 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: PDP-8e power switch key?

2016-11-30 Thread Ethan Dicks
o on DEC ACE XX2247 keys including pin depths and even 3D models. -ethan

Re: Woz signed Apple IIGS system for pickup only near Dallas

2016-11-29 Thread 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

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-22 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Double Buffer RK11-C

2016-11-17 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: OT- PBS tonight...Watch TV along with Ed# Recording studio history... This is

2016-11-16 Thread 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. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: NCD19 / Xncd19

2016-11-15 Thread Ethan Dicks
onix X221CHT / XP221 I got no answers. I found all the dead links. -ethan

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-08 Thread ethan
climbed so much that there isn't enough power/cooling to match. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-07 Thread ethan
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

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-07 Thread ethan
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

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-07 Thread ethan
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

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-07 Thread ethan
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

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-07 Thread ethan
of the guys might of mentioned you! But he talked as if much of that documentation was gone. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-06 Thread ethan
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

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

2016-11-06 Thread ethan
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

Re: For sale 128K Core RAM Industrial PDP 11/40 Massbus System

2016-10-31 Thread Ethan Dicks
Yes. Mine says "11/20" and has some later-rev CPU boards (-YA) that I think date to 1972. -ethan

What hardware runs 2BSD (was Re: For sale 128K Core RAM Industrial PDP 11/40 Massbus System)

2016-10-31 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: For sale 128K Core RAM Industrial PDP 11/40 Massbus System

2016-10-31 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-25 Thread Ethan Dicks
e into an existing system by adding a modern peripheral because ancient disks are no longer reasonably available. -ethan

Re: Unibus / Qbus

2016-10-24 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: DEC bus transceivers

2016-10-24 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-24 Thread 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

Re: Archived viruses, was Re: Reasonable price for a complete SOL-20 system?

2016-10-24 Thread ethan
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

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread Ethan Dicks
repaired the line filter caps in a BA23). -ethan

Re: Unibus disk controller with modern storage

2016-10-20 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Photos from the NWA Auction

2016-10-20 Thread 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 :-) -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Photos from the NWA Auction

2016-10-18 Thread ethan
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! -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM disks)

2016-10-18 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: MASSBUS disk emulator (Was: Unibus controller for MFM disks)

2016-10-18 Thread Ethan Dicks
since Unibus disk emulation solutions aren't plentiful (but I think I'd have to get a DR750 (L0014) first). -ethan

Re: Getting out of the hobby

2016-10-14 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Highway interface [warning contains an ebay ref], but is an old VMS network interface

2016-10-12 Thread 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. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
s on his OpsView console. -ethan

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread 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

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread ethan
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

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
attendees - fascination, surely, but not nostalgia. -ethan

Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]

2016-10-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]

2016-10-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
iness systems based on what games there were, but pretty much everywhere I've worked, games appeared on whatever systems we had. -ethan

Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]

2016-10-09 Thread 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

Re: TI memory board

2016-10-07 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-05 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-05 Thread ethan
for the original chips.) - Ethan -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

2016-10-04 Thread ethan
is involved) to run Mac software on Amigas as well. SCSI card is a great start, none of mine ever had those. -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

2016-10-04 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: ka... ching!

2016-10-03 Thread Ethan Dicks
e they *getting* it? -ethan

Re: Is anyone making replacement clear labels for DEC gear?

2016-09-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
OS 7 and Windows 3.1... (it was not USB - it was RS-232 - it was far older than USB) -ethan

Re: Is anyone making replacement clear labels for DEC gear?

2016-09-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Atari 1400XL for sale...

2016-09-29 Thread ethan
://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? -- Ethan O'Toole

Is anyone making replacement clear labels for DEC gear?

2016-09-28 Thread Ethan Dicks
-ethan

Re: Atari 1400XL for sale...

2016-09-28 Thread ethan
http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/xl/1400xl/1400.html Curt -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Seeking docs and schematic for Novation CAT modem

2016-09-23 Thread Ethan Dicks
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 > &

WTD: Sun Voyager bag, BeBox front plastics + IO Card

2016-09-23 Thread ethan
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

Re: ISO: VAXBI hardware

2016-09-21 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: Anyone have any info on a Tektronix X221CHT?

2016-09-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: 2.11BSD Device Names

2016-09-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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? >>

Anyone have any info on a Tektronix X221CHT?

2016-09-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: 2.11BSD Device Names

2016-09-16 Thread Ethan Dicks
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

Re: More Weird Stuff

2016-09-15 Thread Ethan Dicks
s that exercise the graphics/color? For my own uses, RT-11 or VMS preferred. -ethan

Seeking docs and schematic for Novation CAT modem

2016-09-13 Thread Ethan Dicks
@ 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

Re: RK05 packs

2016-09-07 Thread Ethan Dicks
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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