I had heard he was in poor health due to a bad diagnosis but it's tragic to
hear he's gone now.
It was because his annual Free Stuff Days I was able to build up most of my
lab equipment. Those were the days when you could still pull up and fill
your car with all sorts of goodies. I bought my first
Along the same lines as the 640K quote, I vaguely remember reading a book
that quoted Bill Gates when asked about developing any software for NeXTSTEP
(Probably porting Microsoft Office to compete against Lotus Improv and Word
Perfect) where his reply was "Develop for it? I'll piss on it!"
It's bee
I've been working on a machine since early October that has seen a very
rough life. My inventory found it to be an IV/70 that was upgraded with an
IV/90 expansion chassis, an NP80 peripheral controller and a Wangco tape
system that I only received the the formatter for. I've been trying to
document
I've done this several different ways in the past, depending on your take of
"Cell phone".
For the phone that is probably in your pocket right now I've used one of
those bluetooth bridges that looks like a bluetooth handsfree device to the
phone but on your side you get a 48/90v POTS RJ11 for a re
I just received a machine that someone found at a Vancouver second hand
store that I basically told them to buy on the single fact I don't own any
COSMAC machines and I've now had a chance to take it apart and photograph
the boards. It seems to be some sort of a kit system that the previous owner
p
Hey Kyle.
You can narrow things down a bit by removing the optional Z-buffer and
additional bitplane memory (ZB3 and BP4). While that removes those two
masses of memory out of the equation that still leaves the still massive
amount of ZIPP base video memory. for the later Onyx systems I've only see
>ELTRAN THE COMPILER
>ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT?
>(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!))
>
>ED#
Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;)
With VCF: PNW six months away I want to try and get something together to
make a presence. I am not aware of anyone demonstrating an entire fleet of
Apple machines in a configuration as advertised as "The Macintosh Office" at
any recent point in history so I thought I should dedicate a table or two
For those following from the VCFed thread I have been working on an IBM 5363
that I have managed to get running up to the IPL sign on. For everyone else
this project is being documented at
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?62860-IBM-5363-IBM-System-36
>From there while I know who last owned
>This sounds an awful lot like the KIMSI, which was the same manufacturer. I
>have such a unit, and as you would expect, it connects to the KIM-1. I can
>drag it out and take a picture of it but I don't remember it particularly
>complex on the board.
I know Bruce Damer has a KIMSI as well in the c
So it seems in the early days of the PET a company by the name of
Forethought Prouducts sold an expansion module called the BETSI which
plugged into the expansion bus of the PET and gave you four S100 slots. If
you google around you can find a flyer advertising the unit and optional
power supply an
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