Not sure how it worked on the Vectrex, but I am familiar with Atari vector
arcade games (used to own a Tempest and Asteroids machine). In them, they
used a display controller that utilized a display list of coordinates,
colors, etc and IIRC it even had the ability to do jumps, etc probably
simi
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Richard Sheppard via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> May depend on the model, but mine has a spring under the plastic reset
> button in the top of the case and one of those metal domed tactile switches
> on the PCB.
>
This matches my recollection of the
Looks great!
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:52 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> From the Apple ][ up to PowerMac G4s. So, possibly a bit new for many
> of you folk, but I enjoyed them and thought others might too.
>
> http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html
>
> --
Depends on if you're talking about the 99/4 or 99/4A. The 99/4 was black
and silver and had a chiclet style keyboard and is rare. The 4A had a black
and silver finish first, and then later switched to beige I imagine in an
effort to curb costs since they were being undercut pretty badly by
Commodor
On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 6 September 2017 at 16:55, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> > There's a pretty good article about TI's home computers that I've been
> > trying to find
The way a lady at my work did them was to crack out the bottom piece of the
socket to give better access to the pins. She didn't typically put the
bottom piece back in since we used the PLCC socket to plug into an emulator
pod so there was no need for it (shoulder around the POD connector wouldn't
Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all!
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cc
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 9/15/2017 10:49 AM, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Wow... that really doesn't make him look good at all!
>>
>>
>>> It does not surprise me. Not that I
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:16 AM, allison via cctalk
wrote:
>
>>
> IDE disks format usually meant high level only. SCSI could be either
> depnding on the specific controller and media.
>
>
Seems like the omission of low level formatting of IDE drives had more to
do with preserving the servo trac
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 9/28/17 7:38 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
>
> > What is it that usually fails when the drive can't read the servo info?
> The data on the platter, or?
>
> I've never dug that far into it beyond fidd
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> What I find perplexing is the acronym "SATA" for "Serial ATA". The name
> would imply that a drive can be connected to a 5170, but I'm not aware
> of any SATA adapters for the 5170 PC/AT.
>
I'm sure you'r
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:05 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
>
>> Speaking of I've got a couple of old MFM drives (10 and 20 MB of a
>> variety whose name and model #'s escape me, I wanna say Tandon, but not
>> sure)
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:50 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> You could well be right--I do recall that there was "Mac SCSI" and then
> the slightly different "Everyone else's SCSI". I ran into this when
> talking with some SMS/OMTI engineers about an ST506-to-SCSI br
I felt like Cardiff also had a resemblance to Tandy/Radio Shack as well,
since they were in the electronics business before getting into computers.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:24 PM, tom sparks via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I have just finished watching [Halt and Catch Fire](
> https
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 18 October 2017 at 01:33, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
> > "Entry in my journal: First complete VisiCalc in a package was October
> 19,
> > 1979. I received a copy the next day as I recall."
> >
> > htt
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
??
> VisiCalc was written and developed in Massachusetts. 3 thousand miles
> from Silicon Valley.
>
>
Right. That was sarcasm on my part, since we have been repeatedly told by
armchair historians that w
On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Is that like the notion that we have Stallman to thank for Open Source
> software?
>
>
>
Exactly.
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "Ethan O'Toole"
> To: Murray McCullough , "General
> Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:11:49 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: Coleco & Atari
> > old? 1983. Coleco ADAM, my favourite, and Atari 600XL, not
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:58 PM, william degnan via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Did anyone attend VCF South East this past year, there was a large table
> run by a keyboard vendor. Just keyboards, laid out like tusks from poached
> elephants.
>
Lol! I love it.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> …are the bane of my existence and should all rot in hell.
>
> Sorry, I just received an email from a “keyboard enthusiast” who was
> looking for
> various IBM 327x keyboards and wanted to know if I could h
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:31 AM, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
> ah do they don't just collect just loose keyboards they 'snatch'
> keyboards leaving the rest of the carcus to of the terminal to rot??
>
>
>
>
I suspect that the problem may be two-sided. Could be there are a fair
number of
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Terry Stewart via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The PAL vrs NTSC TV standard complicated things when collecting home
> computers from other countries.
>
> In New Zealand we are on PAL. PAL Atari 800s are rarer in the world that
> NTSC ones. That
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2018-03-28 1:51 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >> The rock has been lifted (again)
> >>
> >> DOES ANYONE READ OLD POSTS HERE??
It is obvious that the TRS-80 line of computers suffered severe
fragmentation with differing architectures:
TRS-80 Model I, III, and 4(P) are all obviously of a mostly compatible
architecture.
TRS-80 Model II and 16, 68k based "business" machines
TRS-80 CoCo I, II, III (Dragon)
TRS-80 PC-x, variou
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 at 23:04, Fred Cisin via cctalk >
> wrote:
>
> I'd go for a bike over a car any day. Well, when I was young, anyway. Now,
> I'm getting kinda stiff and creaky... Because of all the bike c
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> D'ya mean like an automobile company making more than one model? Surely
> there is no need for Toyota to make both a Corolla AND a Camry!
>
>
Hmm... not really sure about that comparison. After all, it's no
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:06 AM, geneb via cctalk
wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>
> Then they upgraded the model 1 to reduce the cords and cables, and made
>> the Model 3. I don't know whether the resemblance to the Northstar
>> Dimension was deliberate.
>>
>>
> I th
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:53 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I see that the actual fragmentation is about how each and everyone got in
> touch with computers, personal or mainframe or whatever! Me, I was in
> junior high and usually understood everything
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:34 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi, All,
>
> I've been doing component-level diagnosis of a bad Amiga 1000 WCS
> board and since I was unable to find this information anywhere, I
> thought I'd post it to the list so that it's in the hands o
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 6:11 AM, Peter Cetinski via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to ascertain what the last computer released by Tandy/Radio
> Shack was that had the TRS-80 name on it
> >
> > I think it was the CoCo 3 in 1986
> >
> > Kevin Parker
>
> The CoCo 3 was Tandy
On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Below is a sampling of disks recorded between 2001 and 2009. It is
> likely that the disks of the same type were from the same package
> because I don't use many disks. They were stored without much care,
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> IMIHO, a grievous error by making things too physically small. The
> standard SD card is easy enough to pick out in a deep-pile carpet. Not
> so, the usual black-colored MicriSD. The dog might well eat
I’ll throw in my two cents to say that I’ve used a fair number of GUIs over the
years both commercially available and FOSS, and I’d say that Windows 95’s UI
blew the doors off of anything I’d used up that point in terms of usability.
Nobody IMO can fairly compare it with the previously available
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:53 AM Rob Jarratt via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> My jaw dropped when I saw this:
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223201002247?ul_noapp=true
>
>
>
> It looks nice externally, and it has the pedestal, which is nice, but the
> seller has not even give the spec or
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