VTech Laser 3000 / Dick Smith CAT composite video pinout
Hi all. I know I could scope this out, but just wondering if anyone has the pinout for the VTech Laser 3000 / Dick Smith CAT (in Australia) composite video pinout. It’s not in the technical manual that I have, and can’t find it online. Thanks, Chris
Re: Found today
> On 2 Jun 2019, at 5:07 am, Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > > Found the Ultrix poster from 1984 I was asking about today when cleaning > out my truck: > > https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1134855890689855488 > > Warner I see that there is a Pro sitting on the desk, was there are version of Ultrix for the Pro 350/380?
Re: Interest in a DiscFerret?
> On 11 Jan 2019, at 10:33 am, Guy Dunphy via cctalk > wrote: > > That's a very good point, thanks. Hadn't occured to me, but of course the > vast majority of Apple IIs ever sold used the 16 sector format. So that was > the target market. > Since almost all my A2 disks are DOS 3.2 13 sector, sounds like reading them > with the A2 then transferring contents to PC via some link is the way to go. > > Hmm, I was given an Apple IIe about two decades ago, but never used it. > Presumably > my Apple DOS 3.2 driver card would work in that, and it could boot DOS 3.2 > Possibly that's a fallback plan if I can't resolve the severely flakey > operation > of my early model, massively hacked Apple II. Assuming the IIe is less flakey. There is a 13 sector version of ADTPro. All you need is a working Apple II or IIe with a floppy drive and serial card (or ethernet card). It can even bootstrap the Apple into 13 sector DOS 3.2 mode and then you can read and transfer disk images to a PC via serial or ethernet. Then use CiderPress to read the files from the disk images.
Re: Interest in a DiscFerret?
> On 10 Jan 2019, at 12:26 pm, Guy Dunphy via cctalk > wrote: > > * At the moment I'm attempting to restore my old, heavily modified Apple II > to working condition, > and then archive all my old Apple II files on floppies to PC. Part of a > project to document a > bunch of projects I did in my 20s, 1970s t0 1980s. > The intro article is here: > http://everist.org/NobLog/20181001_missing_wave.htm > Another article is in progress, about the restoration and doco of all the > mods I did on my Apple II. > After it's working and old files extracted, then an article about my hacking > Apple DOS 3.2 to > get higher data density. The old thermal printer listings are faded to > illegibility, so I'm > really hoping the floppies are still readable. If you have a working Apple II and floppy drive you can use ADTPro http://adtpro.com at least for standard Apple formats (probably not higher data density) it works rather well. Chris
Re: determing date on TI 99/4 computers.
Hi Ed Did you do any research on this at all? The beige one was later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A Bill Cosby was their spokesperson. I can scan the advertising stuff that I have, but I’m pretty sure that it is all online somewhere. > On 6 Sep 2017, at 4:00 pm, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > There is a white or beige one > > then there is the black and chrome one? > > which first? and dates please? > > This is unfamiliar territory for me. > but need to pay homage to these > in a museum display here. > > looking for good hi res scans of > adv. material etc. for display?? > > thanks ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
Re: ChipQuik Troubles
> On 6 Jul 2017, at 6:42 am, Rob Jarratt via cctalk > wrote: > > I bought some ChipQuik recently and managed to successfully remove a 74LS125 > with little trouble. Today I have come to trying to desolder another similar > sized chip, but try as I might I just cannot get it to work. The ChipQuik > just balls up and won't "take" to the pins. I applied plenty of the flux > supplied with the ChipQuik, but I wonder if I applied too much? Hi Rob, is there a chance that the second chip is on a lead free board? Sometimes it helps to flow a bit of normal lead/tin solder on the pins first. Chris..
Re: Model M case screws
> > It was on a test-bench setup. Part of my job back then was calibrating > the stroke of cylinders to the 3-15 psi control signal. Plant air > (power supply for the cylinder) was around 50 psi, IIRC. Lucky it was just the pliers. Pneumatics can be rather dangerous at that pressure. > > Just one of those things, where you forget where you left things. Of > course, nowadays, more than a half-century later, I forget where I leave > my keys, glasses, wife, etc. So it's not something that's remedied > with age… I’m sure your wife loves that.. When I was an electrician working in the HVAC industry, we had fortnightly catchups to swap tools that we had found (or left) in ceiling cavities. I still have stuff with other peoples names engraved on them. > > Indeed, lately I seem to be suffering increasingly with the "where did I > put that?" problem, even if the "when" was only a few minutes earlier. I’m not even fifty, and I have that problem.
Re: Model M case screws
> On 2 Jul 2017, at 4:03 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > I once got a pair of electrician's pliers caught between the yoke and > body of a 6" pneumatic cylinder. Snapped the handles right off, it did. > The local Sears store replaced the pliers without > questioning--although they did marvel at the damage. > > --Chuck Chuck, dare may I ask what you were doing with electricians pliers that close to a pneumatic cylinder? Chris..