Cleaning out a desk drawer

I've got some old evaluation/development kits available for adoption. None is really anciet, but all offered as a unit to a good home. 1 Rabbit 2000 devkit with CD-ROM, wall wart and serial dongle 2 Digilent UNO Pic32 dev board 1 TI ez430-F2013 (MSP430) devkit (just small USB gizmo) with CD None

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

Check the date code on the 'new' battery, there are quite a few sellers that will sell you a battery 10 years old. Fry's is a perfect example. -pete On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:04 PM, devin davison via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Battery does not appear to ahve leaked but is planned

Re: Revive 11/34

There has been plenty of good suggestions already. If I were you I would: 1. Check voltages from the PSU as mentioned previously. 2. Check AC LO / DC LO signals as Bill mentioned. 3. Strip out every card on the bus except of the terminator boards and the M7859 programmers console. 4. Put the

Re: Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

Isn't Element 14 the UK version of Newark? On 12/11/2017 6:28 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: It is a AMP 202515-1 housing. I buy some M-style connector housings from Newark in the US, and they sell them in single quantity. I think Newark has EU branches as well.  This housing is a smaller

Re: DR-DOS

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:12:02PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Latest updates... > > I've taken the downloads for Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01-6 and 7.01-7, > trimmed the boot disk image to work with Virtualbox, added the actual > files to make the boot images bootable, and also added in the

Re: Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

On 12/11/2017 02:45 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: Hello! I am about to start with the project to archive disks from the Incoterm system. This system makes use of the Memorex 651 drive which is somewhat odd. It has 64 tracks,is hard sectored with 32 sectors and spins at 375 rpm. But I do

TI 99/4a It Lives! but extended basic? acts bizzare...Help?

TI 99/4a It Lives! but extended basic? acts bizarre... Great got the video cable 5 bucks from the UK - -SOLVED! Works and fires up with out the extended basic plugged in but when I pluged it in and selected the option for extended basic at book up just hangs no prompt on

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

Battery does not appear to ahve leaked but is planned to be replaced. I was unaware of having to press a key to boot to cd. Ill give it a go. Thanks for the quick response. --Devin On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 12/11/2017 03:35 PM,

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

On 12/11/2017 03:35 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > Going from memory you need to press ‘C’ to boot from CD and you might also > need to replace the PRAM battery. > I'll second the bit about the PRAM battery. I've got one of these beige G3 boxes and can affirm that a failing PRAM

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

> On 11 Dec 2017, at 23:18, devin davison via cctalk > wrote: > > Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it > up. > It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned > a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to

Picked up beige Mac G3

Someone just dropped off a mac g3 at the scrapyard I work at and I picked it up. It has a failing hard drive. Replaced the drive, downloaded and burned a disk with mac os 8 on it, but it refuses to boot to it. How do I go about installing the software on this machine? Not sure if this is the

Re: Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > It is a AMP 202515-1 housing. The mating 202516-1 which I need is still in > production and available for purchase from Mouser. The small coaxial > connectors on the other hand has a minimum order of 1000 units and costs 10 > euros each... > >

Canon BN22 Laptop manual, anyone?

Hi folks, I’ve been contacted by someone looking for the user guide for this particular beast, an early 90s mono laptop with built-in printer. The usual searches turn up nothing other than pictures and she says she’s found a PDF but in German. Any clues? — Adrian/Witchy Binary Dinosaurs -

Re: DR-DOS

Latest updates... I've taken the downloads for Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01-6 and 7.01-7, trimmed the boot disk image to work with Virtualbox, added the actual files to make the boot images bootable, and also added in the other updated commands -- SYS.COM, XCOPY, TASKMGR, SHARE, and their README files

Re: Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

Mattis said > Hello! > > I am about to start with the project to archive disks from the Incoterm > system. > > This system makes use of the Memorex 651 drive which is somewhat odd. It > has 64 tracks,is hard sectored with 32 sectors and spins at 375 rpm. > > But I do have the drive which hopefully

Re: Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

On 12/11/2017 12:45 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Or maybe a suggestion for another connector that could be modified into fit > somehow? Potentially using glue to fixate it. I wonder if you could re-work the drive to use a standard 13W3 connector? --Chuck

Looking for AMP / TE coaxial connectors - Memorex 651 drive

Hello! I am about to start with the project to archive disks from the Incoterm system. This system makes use of the Memorex 651 drive which is somewhat odd. It has 64 tracks,is hard sectored with 32 sectors and spins at 375 rpm. But I do have the drive which hopefully still is working. However

Re: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Oh, one detail I didn't look at: what's the physical interface this uses? > Hopefully three of the Berg/DuPont connectors (i.e. what's on the RHxx > boards, with flat cables going to the adapter to the

Re: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 08:59:46AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote: > > > > I am and possibly the Update computer club and some of it's members. > > However, I have very little experience with making hardware. How would > > we aproach this? > > There are plenty of companies in the "prototype

RE: Revive 11/34

> >> > >> Any suggestions as to what to try first? I may have the bus grant in backwards. I have other boards I can try. > >> For an 11/34A can one test for DC LO / AC LO? If so and you don't get the correct reading that's a show stopper right there. Remove all but the essential cards,

Re: Revive 11/34

Ray Fantini knows the 11/34 very well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU8DOKVxDJ8 He helped me with UNIBUS diagnosis. I am sure you have seen this: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1134/ I would definitely start with the power supply and work my way through the voltage regulators, etc. If you

Re: LA30 restore complete

On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:03 AM, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote: > Very nice! The LA30 and ADVENT both bring back memories... > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Got the last replacement components I needed

Re: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

> On Dec 11, 2017, at 4:45 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 06:19:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >>> From: Ethan Dicks >> >>> I look forward to taking a stab at this. >> >> I suspect there are a number of people who'd be

Re: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 06:19:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Ethan Dicks > > > I look forward to taking a stab at this. > > I suspect there are a number of people who'd be interested in MASSBUS storage > devices (e.g. me - suddenly all those RH11's I've got are no

Re: LA30 restore complete

Very nice! The LA30 and ADVENT both bring back memories... On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Got the last replacement components I needed for my LA30 restore today, > and finished it up! Here's a short video of the LA30 connected as