VCFMW drop offs, pick ups, visits

2018-07-20 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone going to VCFMW. I'm going to try to go up Friday and leave late Saturday. It's always great when people swing by the house, but try to give me some warning, especially with me going up Friday. I hope to have a path dug into my last 25 foot storage unit and

Re: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 at 00:30, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > I'm not healthy enough (last year I had another TURP surgery *Googles* *Winces _hard_* I'm in for surgery next week myself. They're going to try to stop my left arm from falling off. Snag is... I'm left handed. And I'm in Prague

Re: zilog system 8000

2018-07-20 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
IIRC that was one of the first donations to our club back in 2005 On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:04 AM Evan Koblentz via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > >> A very big and expensive door stopper without OS tapes. > >> But most importantly: the CPU board is missing! > >> The card in slot 2

RE: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Ali via cctalk
> My first 5150 started life with the white switch black power supply. > A decade ago, the college dumpstered the collection of one of my > colleagues; besides IMSAI, ProcTech, N*, he had had a few dozen clean > 5150s and 5170s, including several of the "gold-badge" 5170s. Fred, I've never heard

RE: GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

2018-07-20 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of dwight via cctalk > Sent: 19 July 2018 22:17 > To: Liam Proven ; General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: GoTEK SFR1M44-U100... > > One thing that bothers me is the continued emphasis on arithmetic and not > on

Re: zilog system 8000

2018-07-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 7/20/18 6:20 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: >> We also have some tapes, again, I don't know which ones. Be VERY careful with those if you find them. They are NOT QIC-compatible and the belts WILL be bad.

MOS MCS2529 math chip

2018-07-20 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
Anyone got pinout/spec information for a MOS MCS2529? In particular, I'm curious about operating voltage. I acquired a Melcor SC-635 calculator yesterday and there seems to be some uncertainty about the output voltage of its (rechargeable) battery pack; some places say 2.4V, i.e. the pack is

Re: GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

2018-07-20 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 5:06 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cctalk On Behalf Of dwight via > cctalk >> Sent: 19 July 2018 22:17 >> To: Liam Proven ; General Discussion: On-Topic and >> Off-Topic Posts >> Subject: Re: GoTEK SFR1M44-U100... >> >> One thing

68k development, Avocet Development

2018-07-20 Thread Carlo Pisani via cctalk
hi does anyone happen to use Avocet Development Tools for m68k? how good/bad is it?

Re: MOS MCS2529 math chip

2018-07-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Jul-20, at 10:18 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > Anyone got pinout/spec information for a MOS MCS2529? In particular, I'm > curious about operating voltage. I acquired a Melcor SC-635 calculator > yesterday and there seems to be some uncertainty about the output voltage of >

Re: zilog system 8000

2018-07-20 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
I have one model 21 and one model 11. Finch drive and ST506 drive respectively. Not sure about the status of disks, but I have a spare Finch drive. I also have three install tapes. One Sadie 3.5 and two ZEUS 3.21. When time permits I will read those. AJ Palmgren read a tape with a tar archive I

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Ed Sharpe via cctalk
yes  would  take  one  or  2  Ed# In a message dated 7/19/2018 4:44:02 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:   >> Is there ANY interest in Courier 56K V.92 modems? There's four or five. Next week, I'll check which sub-models. On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Grant Taylor

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: yes  would  take  one  or  2  Ed# In a message dated 7/19/2018 4:44:02 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:   Is there ANY interest in Courier 56K V.92 modems? There's four or five. Next week, I'll check which

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 07/20/2018 05:57 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Is anybody familiar with the firmware upgrade aspects of the different > models? I gave away three of the things last year--a "dual standard"; a "Courier V.92 (or something" and the latest "V. everything" one. There were firmware upgrades

SDL and SunOS

2018-07-20 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
How feasable is it to compile and run SDL for SunOS? My main reason for doing this is to play Z-machine games on Sparcstations using Frotz (https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz) using the SDL interface to play V6 games. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
There's now six requests for 4 or 5 modems. And I don't yet know which specific sub-models they are I may be able to get a look at them on Tuesday or Thursday. It is likely that they all work, but I will not guarantee them, nor even get around to testing them. I have some wall warts, but not

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

2018-07-20 Thread Tapley, Mark via cctalk
> On Jul 20, 2018, at 7:57 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > There's now six requests for 4 or 5 modems. ... That is a little scary. I will hunt for modems in my boxes, and post if I can find them. They will be available, but I’m sure I didn’t get any Couriers. > It would appear that

Re: zilog system 8000

2018-07-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 7/20/18 2:43 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > And as Al wrote:  No it is not at all QIC. The drive has four fixed tracks > and the encoding is MFM.  These 4-track fixed-head drives were common drives prior to the invention of movable head devices. TI used them in 990 systems as well as early 80

Re: MOS MCS2529 math chip

2018-07-20 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > If you want to power it through the charger jack, then you need to assess > whether there is any internal charging circuitry (rectification, > aforementioned > current-limiting R, etc.) sitting between the jack and the cells.

Re: zilog system 8000

2018-07-20 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 3:26 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 7/20/18 2:43 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > >> And as Al wrote: No it is not at all QIC. The drive has four fixed tracks >> and the encoding is MFM. > > These 4-track fixed-head drives were common drives prior to the invention of