Re: BYTE Magazines

2020-06-02 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 7:15 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > Do BYTE magazines have any collectability (maybe even from a historical > perspective or something else)? I know certain ones are sought after based on specific contributors or specific machines gracing the cover (Amiga, Apple,

Re: BYTE Magazines

2020-06-02 Thread Tomas By via cctalk
> On 02/06/2020 19:15, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > > Do BYTE magazines have any collectability (maybe even from a > > historical perspective or something else)? On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:18:31 +0200, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > Actually, yes. Quite a few are available on archive.org,

Re: intellec MDS80 on eBay

2020-06-02 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Our system at SMECC  has  the  big Blue orig. drives... no idea what controller is inside.. cpu box and  drive look  AS NEW  but  we  have never applied power. If anyone  has a set  of  Manuals  for  this  system and  drives  please let  us  know. A  dream  would be  to buy  a  Intelect 4 

Re: BYTE Magazines

2020-06-02 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Actually, yes.  I had the first two years of them bound - the first issue sold to me personally by Wayne Green, and let them go for a song .  A couple of years later each bound edition was advertised for $200 - that was in 1995 prices! No idea wha tthey woul dbe worth now. cheers, NIgel

BYTE Magazines

2020-06-02 Thread Kevin Parker via cctalk
I know the response to this might be quite subjective and depends on your particular interests. Do BYTE magazines have any collectability (maybe even from a historical perspective or something else)? I have to make some decisions about space (the perennial problem for a collector of course)

Re: intellec MDS80 on eBay

2020-06-02 Thread Mich.com via cctalk
Sent from my iPhone. > On Jun 2, 2020, at 6:22 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > > I take it back, there are not the typical two card intel disk controller. I > don't see what is the controller. I was the ribbon cable but realize now that > was the ICE interface. > I suspect the card near

Re: The X-Cap-Files

2020-06-02 Thread dwight via cctalk
These are directly on the power leads. I generally just cut them off. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Charles via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020 3:05 PM To: cctalk digest ; Jon Elson Subject: The X-Cap-Files Today I was working on a new-to-me VT240 which

Re: intellec MDS80 on eBay

2020-06-02 Thread dwight via cctalk
I take it back, there are not the typical two card intel disk controller. I don't see what is the controller. I was the ribbon cable but realize now that was the ICE interface. I suspect the card near the bottom of the picture is the controller. It likely still had ISIS software to run the ICE

Re: intellec MDS80 on eBay

2020-06-02 Thread dwight via cctalk
The drives don't look like a standard box but are likely fine as it has the two card controller on the card cage. The drives are still likely SA800s. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of ED SHARPE via cctalk Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2020 9:28 AM To:

The X-Cap-Files

2020-06-02 Thread Charles via cctalk
Today I was working on a new-to-me VT240 which hadn't been powered up in a long time (possibly 10 years). Hooked it up to an old 9" B CCTV monitor and everything was running fine for 20 minutes or so - when suddenly an astonishing amount of acrid whitish-gray smoke started pouring from the

AlphaMicro CPU Chip

2020-06-02 Thread William Machacek via cctalk
Hi, I've recently come across a CPU chip marked "AlphaMicro" . It has a date stamp of 8531 and appears to be of the 386 variety (1 5/8 x 1 5/8). It doesn't appear to be from Alpha MicroSystems. Anyone know who may be the maker of this chip? I can send a picture for those who'd like to see what

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-06-02 Thread Norman Jaffe via cctalk
Yes, and on some machines, like the IBM 1800, small numeric constants are stored in a common location, to reduce the size of executable images. So, once you've changed 4 to 5, it means that all programs that get loaded will now use 5 when they meant 4. Usually the generated code has a way to

Re: intellec MDS80 on eBay

2020-06-02 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-05-31 19:17:33 +, dwight via cctalk wrote: > That is a nice setup. With an Ice85 that is really nice. It will > clearly sell for a good price. Primarily for a good home. We haven't worked with it (maybe Michael did, ages ago, I'm not sure about that) and we probably won't ever

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-06-02 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 00:14, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote: > C > C CHANGE THE VALUE OF 4 > C > > CALL INC(4) > WRITE (*, 30) 4 > 30FORMAT ('2+2=',I4) > END > > SUBROUTINE INC(I) > I = I + 1 > END > > OUTPUT > 2+2= 5 I had no idea, and I