Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
then I head ho some lisa cases later had mc boards shoved in them!? Ed# In a message dated 9/28/2016 9:54:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, santo.nucif...@gmail.com writes: I have this one one of my Lisa's as well. It's like a start up menu that allows you to launch the Finder. That's all I ever do with it. I don't know what the name is but it may be a part of specific version of MacWorks Plus. Sorry, I don't have any more info. Santo On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Paul McJones wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:42 + (UTC) > > From: steven stengel > > Message-ID: <916931269.6067118.1475054142...@mail.yahoo.com> > > > > > > What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? > > > > http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg > > I suspect it is a Macintosh utility (Disk Copy?) Lisas could run Macintosh > software using something called MacWorks. > >
Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Paul McJones wrote: > I suspect it is a Macintosh utility (Disk Copy?) Lisas could run Macintosh > software using something called MacWorks. It doesn't look like any version of DiskCopy I've seen, but I think Paul is right about it being Mac software, since the Lisa OS doesn't have "Finder".
Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:42 + (UTC) > From: steven stengel > Message-ID: <916931269.6067118.1475054142...@mail.yahoo.com> > > > What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? > > http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg I suspect it is a Macintosh utility (Disk Copy?) Lisas could run Macintosh software using something called MacWorks.
Is anyone making replacement clear labels for DEC gear?
Hi, All, I'm restoring some stuff from the mid 1970s and a recent acquisition was previously cleaned of mouse damage but needs to be sanded and repainted by me. One aspect of it is that some of the labels are damaged (but some can probably be masked and painted around). The level of damage I'm talking about looks a bit like this... http://fritzm.github.io/images/pdp11/h742-corrosion.jpg Most of the item intact, but rust and scale to be cleaned, sanded, primed and painted. The damage to the label in that pic is representative. I have access to all the modern tools, so it's easy to print black on clear adhesive sheet, but not so much with white. Before embarking on spinning up a process, I thought I'd ask if anyone has already done so. In particular interest to me is the era from about 1965-1980, from PDP-8s through PDP-11s and VAX-11 machines, both CPUs and peripherals. I would like to get close matches and I already know in some cases, there just aren't close matches with modern TrueType font files. I can, of course, just take photos of the label areas now, restore the damage, and put on stickers some time in the future, but doing it all at once has its own appeal -ethan
Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
On 28/09/2016 20:02, "Paul McJones" wrote: >> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:42 + (UTC) >> From: steven stengel >> Message-ID: <916931269.6067118.1475054142...@mail.yahoo.com> >> >> >> What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? >> >> http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg > > I suspect it is a Macintosh utility (Disk Copy?) Lisas could run Macintosh > software using something called MacWorks. I'd go with that, the floppies you can see don't look like Lisa OS ones. The character set is also different to a Lisa2 so it's probably a MacXL with 10mb Widget. -- Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
I have this one one of my Lisa's as well. It's like a start up menu that allows you to launch the Finder. That's all I ever do with it. I don't know what the name is but it may be a part of specific version of MacWorks Plus. Sorry, I don't have any more info. Santo On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Paul McJones wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:42 + (UTC) > > From: steven stengel > > Message-ID: <916931269.6067118.1475054142...@mail.yahoo.com> > > > > > > What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? > > > > http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg > > I suspect it is a Macintosh utility (Disk Copy?) Lisas could run Macintosh > software using something called MacWorks. > >
Re: Atari 1400XL for sale...
We have several Atari in the museum's collection is this really rare? I will have to go check which we have... we were given a bath of as new in box cpu, monitors, etc etc... What is a good reference site for us to come up to speed on this gear? Thanks Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 9/28/2016 7:00:47 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, et...@757.org writes: OMG RARE On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Curt Vendel wrote: > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:55:39 -0400 > From: Curt Vendel > Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Subject: Atari 1400XL for sale... > > I saw one of these go on Ebay recently and I'm considering sell my 1400XL. > Looking for a respectable amount, so if you are interested, please don't > offer low ball offers. Please contact me off list to discuss, thank you. > > http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/xl/1400xl/1400.html > > > Curt > > > > -- Ethan O'Toole
DEC ALL-IN-1
Hi, I had heard many years back that the DOS version of WPS could read and open DEC AI1 files. I was able to get a copy of WPSDOS and tried to no avail. Anyone have any luck opening AI1 files on a PC computer in DOS or Windows to get a file to open with all of the proper formatting and settings? I can open raw with notepad but much of it is buried is formatting code, I'd like to be able to properly open up a file with its formatting in tacked. Thanks, Curt
Re: Atari 1400XL for sale...
OMG RARE On Wed, 28 Sep 2016, Curt Vendel wrote: Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:55:39 -0400 From: Curt Vendel Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Subject: Atari 1400XL for sale... I saw one of these go on Ebay recently and I'm considering sell my 1400XL. Looking for a respectable amount, so if you are interested, please don't offer low ball offers. Please contact me off list to discuss, thank you. http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/xl/1400xl/1400.html Curt -- Ethan O'Toole
Atari 1400XL for sale...
I saw one of these go on Ebay recently and I'm considering sell my 1400XL. Looking for a respectable amount, so if you are interested, please don't offer low ball offers. Please contact me off list to discuss, thank you. http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8bits/xl/1400xl/1400.html Curt
RE: cctalk Digest, Vol 27, Issue 27
> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:15:42 + (UTC) > From: steven stengel > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" > Subject: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it? > Message-ID: <916931269.6067118.1475054142...@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? > > http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg It's the MiniFinder - part of Macintosh System release 2, I believe. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZan7K4UkAUvZak.jpg
KT11-B Paging Option engineering drawings and 'Technical Manual' online
So, the KT11-B Paging Option engineering drawings recently made their appearance online: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1120/KT11-B_EngrDrws_Feb72.pdf After a good bit of study of them, I have prepared a 'Technical Manual' for the KT11-B, somewhat in the flavour of the old DEC technical manuals: http://gunkies.org/wiki/KT11-B_Technical_Manual since the prints, by themselves, are fairly inscrutable: an incredibly large mass of gates (almost no MSI, other than a couple of Flip Chips included in the drawings as modules). The article basically attempts to describe how the thing works internally; it includes sections which describe the function (i.e. point) and operation of the circuitry on each page of the prints, and there's also a signal dictionary which describes what all the major signals mean/do. It's not quite absolutely complete, but it's 96% there at this point; I am still working on it. One thing I do intend to add (when I can work it out :-) is to annotate the table of states with info one what each states _means_. If anyone is particularly interested in this device, and reads the article, I would be very grateful for feedback on what's still missing that I could add, suggestions for better organization, etc, etc. Noel
Unexpected Apple Lisa display - what is it?
What is this unusual Apple Lisa display - some sort of diagnostics? http://oldcomputers.net/temp/lisa.jpg
Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines
On 27 September 2016 at 17:21, Al Kossow wrote: > How would you suggest they do that? They have one disk drive. There is a ton of discussion in here about imaging old media. There are also disk execisers and the like. It's not big by modern standards, and it's fairly well-documented; read the contents into RAM on something more modern, write it back to the other disk? > This is the perennial problem with the Alto, it expects there is a network > so you can do things like network copydisk. I'm sure they'll get to that eventually, no? > They also need to lubricate the wick on the drive, which I told them to do but > it isn't clear if they bothered in their excitement. They also need to clean > the > pins on the Winchester connectors on the drive. I ran into this bringing up > one > of my drives on an exerciser yesterday. Ah. Could that be why disconnecting and reconnecting the cable seems to have helped, do you think? > Also, if they have a Lyon optical mouse, they need to come up with a pad, I > pointed > them to a paper Dick wrote that shows the hexagonal pattern in enough detail > to draw > a new one. Indeed. I have successfully laser-printed a SUN optical mouse pad before now, IIRC. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
