Re: Wanted: AT&T 3B2 Ethernet Card ROM images

2017-03-26 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
I am looking for ROM dumps for the NI card as well. I've dumped ROMs from most other cards. I've placed there temporarily here: https://www.retrotronics.org/tmp/3b2_romdumps.zip [1] I've disassembled the ones I have. They all appear to be based on the same CIO reference firmware, mostly comp

Re: TRS-80 Model 12 versus 16B

2017-04-25 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
Jim, I'll have a 16B at VCF-SE this weekend. You take as close a look as you want. It has a single slim 8" drive, an internal 15MB hard disk, and an external 5 MB hard disk. It also has the 68K card stack with 768KB RAM. I don't have a keyboard for it though. I bought a 16 keyboard thinking it w

VCF-SE 5.0 Videos Uploaded

2017-05-07 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
[cross posted] I was able to find time to edit and post speaker videos from this year's Vintage Computer Festival Southeast held last weekend in Atlanta. Amazingly I did it within one week and not a year or more! Here is the speaker summary and bios from the VCFed website: http://vcfed.org/w

AT&T 3B2 list

2017-05-08 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
A few people on the Sun help rescue list raised interest for AT&T 3B2 community projects. So I've created a mailing list to help segregate traffic for detail oriented 3B2 related topics. Seth Morabito has invested lots of effort into adding WE3K chip set and machine emulation to SIMH. I'm inte

Re: Announcing: VCF Midwest 12!

2017-05-22 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
Is it this one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5574940 [1] Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky and Mike. If I like the girl who cares who you like? Certainly a festive - and vintage - New Edition... -Alan On 2017-05-22 12:19, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: >> Very cool! Wish we had one of these up here

Re: Announcing: VCF PNW

2017-07-08 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
On 2017-07-07 17:37, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Michael Brutman via cctalk wrote: > >> Vintage Computer Federation is pleased to announce an expansion of the >> Vintage Computer Festival series to the Pacific Northwest. > Finally! :) I will definitely be there. I'm just no

Tandy 5000 MC Reference disk - found

2017-07-16 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
After a two decade long search, the Tandy 5000 MC Reference disk used for Microchannel config has been found. Can be downloaded here: https://www.retrotronics.org/download/tandy-5000-mc-reference-disk/ [1] -Alan Links: -- [1] https://www.retrotronics.org/download/tandy-5000-mc-referenc

Tandy Technical Reference Manuals

2017-07-21 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
I have several Tandy TRMs that apparently are not yet posted on-line. I just scanned in the 4000 TRM and will upload it to the tvdog archive today. Will take a few weeks to get the rest in. But in the meantime, if there are any requests, I can reshuffle the order: Tandy 2000 Service Manual (TR

Re: recent ebay lot of assorted ICs - did somebody on the list win this?

2017-08-09 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
Will 310 ROMs work in a 300? I believe 310, 400, 600, and 1000 ROMs are posted in Seth's emulator project's git hub. If not, I can resend them. -Alan On 2017-08-08 20:48, r.stricklin via cctalk wrote: > Folks; > > I keep meaning to ask... a couple months ago, there was an eBay auction for

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

2017-08-24 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
I'm a little surprised to see a list administrator specifically calling out a critical response to an original statement that seemed destined to provoke one; and not including the original post and poster in the admonishment. It may lead one to presume Jay sympathizes with the original statement

Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

2017-10-02 Thread Alan Hightower via cctalk
On 2017-10-02 08:22, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > I mean, why SCSI wasn't used? It would have been an established standard by > then, the drive complexity seems comparable to IDE/ATA (i.e. intelligent > commands over a parallel bus), and SCSI controllers can be extremely simple - >