Re: Weird Lear-Siegler ADM-3A board

2018-05-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jon Elson > Steve Ciarcia ... made a board using the NS405 called the Term-Mite. I decided I'd do an article about the Term-Mite for the CHWiki; I found Ciarcia's long article about the Term-Mite (in his book, which Google books has); it talks throughout the article about the

Re: I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd?

2018-05-27 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
> On May 26, 2018, at 9:38 AM, Bruce Ray via cctalk > wrote: > > And 'yes', Novas and its derivatives are still used today... That's news to me, and it sounds quite interesting. Would you mind elaborating on that? -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X

Re: IBM 5140 - schematics?

2018-05-27 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
Forgive me for replying to a nearly month-old post. You definitely want the "serial/parallel" slice option. They are relatively cheap on eBay. Besides all of the goodness of the serial port, you can also get a Xircom PE3-10BT Ethernet adapter that attaches to the parallel port and connect it to

Re: I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd?

2018-05-27 Thread Bruce Ray via cctalk
G'day Chuck - DG extensively used both its microNova and microEclipse processors for various products. The microNova was used for printer, terminal and display products around mid '70s, the microEclipse (code named "Alpha") was heavily used in communications processor add-ons. I do not

Re: I ran across this strange modernistic? Data General ...odd?

2018-05-27 Thread Bruce Ray via cctalk
DG extensively used both its microNova and microEclipse processors for various products. The microNova was used for printer, terminal and display products around mid '70s, the microEclipse (code named "Alpha") was heavily used in communications processor add-ons. I do not recall a single

RE: Original CAD code in the wild?

2018-05-27 Thread Paul McJones via cctalk
Also, the computer history museum has a listing, so someone might be interested in getting the original code running on an emulator: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102726903 > On May 26, 2018, at 10:00 AM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > > I don't know if any source is still

Re: SOT: OCR errors PDF

2018-05-27 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2018-05-26 7:00 AM, Kevin Parker via cctech wrote: > Hi guys - wonder if any OCR aficionado can help me out please. > > I'm trying to clean up some old computer docs. > > One of things I'm doing is running OCR over them, in particular Adobe's > ClearScan which I really like for document