RE: Character ROMs for HP 2631G printer / 264x terminals

2016-01-13 Thread CuriousMarc
And I was already salivating for the 600 lines/minute HP2608 that was part of the HP 3000 system since I have the interface card for it. Looks like it went to a lucky someone else... Marc -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West Sent:

RE: Free HP 3000 Equipment for removal (Denver Craigslist)

2016-01-13 Thread CuriousMarc
Looks like someone beat me to it. Congrats to whomever it is, I hope it's one of us! Marc - Original Message - From: "CuriousMarc" To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" Sent: Tue 05 Jan 2016 03:34 PM Subject: RE: Free HP 3000 Equipment for removal (Denver Craigsli

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Raymond Wiker
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:29 PM, Murray McCullough < c.murray.mccullo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a > PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a > refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build

Heathkit (Re: Building a PC - then & now)

2016-01-13 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 1/13/2016 7:15 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > Must be. New kits, old manuals, upgrades for old kits -- at least a brief > glance gave me a pretty positive impression. > > paul > Meh. It has taken them, like, 5 years to come out with this seriously overpriced radio, and it isn't even supe

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread COURYHOUSE
I think the Pilot brand TV at the museum may be continuous and yes has chan 1 Ed! In a message dated 1/13/2016 5:54:46 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ccl...@sydex.com writes: On 01/13/2016 03:27 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > In the old days, the shitty kit TVs would have continuou

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Paul Koning
Must be. New kits, old manuals, upgrades for old kits -- at least a brief glance gave me a pretty positive impression. paul > On Jan 13, 2016, at 8:07 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > Is that the guy that bought the Heath IP? > > -- > Will > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Paul K

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread William Donzelli
Is that the guy that bought the Heath IP? -- Will On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2016, at 6:01 PM, William Donzelli wrote: >> >> Er...Heathkit is long gone. > > It was for a while. But it's back. Check out heathkit.com. > > paul > >

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Ian S. King
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/13/2016 03:27 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > In the old days, the shitty kit TVs would have continuous tuners. >> > > In prewar days, it seems that there more than a couple of offerings. > Didn't Meissner(they of the "Signal Shifter" VF

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Paul Koning
> On Jan 13, 2016, at 6:01 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > Er...Heathkit is long gone. It was for a while. But it's back. Check out heathkit.com. paul

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/13/2016 03:27 PM, William Donzelli wrote: In the old days, the shitty kit TVs would have continuous tuners. In prewar days, it seems that there more than a couple of offerings. Didn't Meissner(they of the "Signal Shifter" VFO) offer a kit TV in the 30s/early 40s? I do remember the con

Re: Amazing game???

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, Mike Boyle wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM, drlegendre . wrote: > > > FWIW, I can't see the pic.. just a page full of busy ads, > > > > But I do remember the maze generator program. > > > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Mike wrote: > > > > > I have went over and

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread ben
On 1/13/2016 4:27 PM, William Donzelli wrote: I don’t know about how easy it would be to build a TV (from scratch…something Heathkit didn’t do BTW…tuner was pre-assembled and “tuned”) given that the over-the-air signal is now a digital signal vs analog (ie I can’t recall if there’s any encryptio

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread William Donzelli
> I don’t know about how easy it would be to build a TV (from scratch…something > Heathkit didn’t do BTW…tuner was pre-assembled and “tuned”) given that the > over-the-air signal is now a digital signal vs analog (ie I can’t recall if > there’s any > encryption involved that would require decrypti

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/13/2016 04:29 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build a computer? We did in the earliest days of the P

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Ian S. King
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > > On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:01 PM, William Donzelli > wrote: > > > > Er...Heathkit is long gone. > > > > However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or > > two to say about the original post. > > > > I agree. Kit c

Free (pay shipping) Hp DDS-4 40gb tapes (only have two)

2016-01-13 Thread John Robertson
I have two sealed C5718A tapes that are free to the first person to ask for them and pay shipping. I hate to throw out something that may still be useful. Can mail them for $5 (I think) to the USA, or local pickup. John :-#)# -- John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 C

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Jan 13, 2016, at 3:01 PM, William Donzelli wrote: > > Er...Heathkit is long gone. > > However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or > two to say about the original post. > I agree. Kit cars are still around. ;-) I don’t know about how easy it would be to bu

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread William Donzelli
Er...Heathkit is long gone. However, there are at least a few car guys that might have a thing or two to say about the original post. -- Will On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ian S. King wrote: > Can't build a TV? Heathkit. > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:40 PM, ben wrote: > >> On 1/13/2016

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Ian S. King
Can't build a TV? Heathkit. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:40 PM, ben wrote: > On 1/13/2016 3:29 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > >> I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a >> PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a >> refrigerator; can't build a

Re: Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread ben
On 1/13/2016 3:29 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build a computer? We did in the earliest days of the PC-

Building a PC - then & now

2016-01-13 Thread Murray McCullough
I was reading in a dated magazine article on the "freedom to build(a PC)": Well you can't build phone; can't build a car; can't build a refrigerator; can't build a TV. Do we have the freedom to build a computer? We did in the earliest days of the PC- the 8-bit era. Heck, that's all one could do! It

Re: Amazing game???

2016-01-13 Thread Mike Boyle
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM, drlegendre . wrote: > FWIW, I can't see the pic.. just a page full of busy ads, > > But I do remember the maze generator program. > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Mike wrote: > > > I have went over and over the code here > > > > http://www.atariarchives.o

Re: Sun SPARC at iBid State of Illinois auction site again

2016-01-13 Thread Joseph Zatarski
> Hey everyone, > I was browsing and I noticed that there's another Sun SPARC posted up: > > https://ibid.illinois.gov/item.php?id=170591 > > last time, I think there was one that went for a mere $5. Now of course, you gotta move it or pay to have it moved, but if you're interested, act now and sta

Re: Amazing game???

2016-01-13 Thread azd30
[ tulsamike3434 (at) gmail.com wrote...] > > I have went over and over the code here > > http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=3 > > but this is what I get??? > > http://i64.tinypic.com/nci35y.jpg > > I know all the code is right is there a misprint in the book? > > I

Sun SPARC at iBid State of Illinois auction site again

2016-01-13 Thread Joseph Zatarski
Hey everyone, I was browsing and I noticed that there's another Sun SPARC posted up: https://ibid.illinois.gov/item.php?id=170591 last time, I think there was one that went for a mere $5. Now of course, you gotta move it or pay to have it moved, but if you're interested, act now and start getting

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-13 Thread Jay Jaeger
Thanks for the pointer. I have an INDY with no software (well, at least no convenient software - I have IRIX 5.22 as 3 tar.gz files. I guess I will need to drag it out and if it still runs, get it a simulated SCSI disk (I don't have any disks in mine). JRJ On 1/12/2016 2:10 PM, geneb wrote: >

Re: Amazing game???

2016-01-13 Thread drlegendre .
FWIW, I can't see the pic.. just a page full of busy ads, But I do remember the maze generator program. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Mike wrote: > I have went over and over the code here > > http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=3 > > > > but this is what I get??? >

Re: I COULD JUST KICK MYSELF IN THE BUTT!!! commodore pet . . .

2016-01-13 Thread William Donzelli
> I don't think they had ANY IDEA how many people were going to hit there > servers back then lol! ! ! No, there was a good idea of the exploding usage figures, but the estimate fell short for both the server usage and the modem usage. US Robotics had trouble producing enough Total Control modems

RE: Character ROMs for HP 2631G printer / 264x terminals

2016-01-13 Thread Jay West
Marc wrote... - I just resurrected a nice HP 2631G dot matrix line printer: Like here: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=316 - Very nice printer, I'm jealous. However, I do have an HP 2610A that will get restored/running at some point. That thing

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-13 Thread Ben Sinclair
Amazing, thank you! I just finished putting together my dream system from 1997 or so, an O2 with a 1600SW. I'm running the latest IRIX on there, but have been looking of the development overlays. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:10 PM, geneb wrote: > > > https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?&sort=-

Re: TDL 8K Z80 Basic..

2016-01-13 Thread Holm Tiffe
Holm Tiffe wrote: > > Currently I'm fiddeling around with the old 8 Kbyte Z80 Basic Interpreter > from TDL, found an Paper Tape Image here: > http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/p/tdlsoft.zip > on Dave Dunfields pages. > > I've used the 12K Version from TDL many years before on my home c

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-13 Thread Steven Hirsch
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Ian Finder wrote: Solution- netboot. The CDs [there are a zillion point release layer things] are in EFS format and can't be mounted on OS X or Windows. At some point I mounted them all on Linux and wrote a script that copied the /dist folders to a folder structure on an

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-13 Thread Jonathan Katz
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Ian Finder wrote: > Yeah, the versions > 6.5.22 can be nice for a variety of reasons if you've > got the later hardware. [I think the last one even had an > almost-totally-working default DHCP config out-of-box. ;) ] > > I run it on systems where I can. The only t

Re: For you SGI fans...

2016-01-13 Thread Ian Finder
Yeah, the versions > 6.5.22 can be nice for a variety of reasons if you've got the later hardware. [I think the last one even had an almost-totally-working default DHCP config out-of-box. ;) ] I run it on systems where I can. 6.5.22 is nice because it doesn't have dependencies on some of the hard