RE: Extracting and viewing the original Mac bitmap fonts today

Thanks! Great find. Marc -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Liam Proven via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:12 AM To: Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Extracting and viewing the original Mac bitmap

RE: Anyone have an HP 12661A DVS card manual, 12661-90004?

Sweet. Thanks Al! Marc -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Friday, May 11, 2018 11:30 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Anyone have an HP 12661A DVS card manual, 12661-90004? scanned, and uploaded to

RE: ISO 9816 small keyboard

Would the small keyboard be the same as the one on the "Munchkin" 2382A terminal? They appear on ebay regularly. http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=421 There is one right now, but at a completely unreasonable price.

RE: Ethernet cable (Was: Sun3 valuations?)

Noel, Have you seen this part of the video where David Boggs (designer of the first 3 Mb Ethernet card for the Alto), and Ron Crane (designer of the 10 Mb Ethernet) are doing a show and tell in their own words? You get to see the clamps, the drill, the transceivers, the cards, and some of the

RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

You need OSR2, and even then it's hard to get Win95 OSR2 to work reliably with TCP/IP. You'll first need to add the TCP/IP client for Microsoft Networks protocol, as it's not even installed by default (darn Microsoft!). By default it has only NetBUI and Netware, which must have paid them money...

RE: Looking for 3COM 3C905-TX Drivers

>From: "Robert Jarratt" >Does anyone happen to have drivers for this card? I am not sure what OSs >this card was supported on, so any drivers at all would be appreciated. I have a few versions of the drivers. They are part of Windows 98SE and Windows XP distribution

Looking for WinXP drivers for Trident Video Cyber9520

In the series "looking for drivers". I have taken to using DolchPac 65's as my retro workhorses so I can multi-boot DOS, Win98 , WinNT, WinXP and Linux while sticking weird old PCI and ISA interface cards in it. One of the OS always ends up having some software for the card. It has a custom video

Re: HP (Agilent) SCSI BUS Preprocessor

> Which one? > > I have never found the config and IA software for the 10343B version > which attaches to a 10269C General Purpose Probe Interface. Dang. Yes. That one. > The standalone E2423A version is the same thing as the FuturePlus FS2230. > >

Re: IDE knowledge anyone?

>> Just going by what you write...BTW, what are you using as a reference? > I've used ftp://ftp.seagate.com/acrobat/reference/111-1c.pdf a lot. > Also other IDE implementations on ATMegas. Do you mind providing links to any good implementations of IDE on ATMega you know of? Marc

RE: Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS

Woot! I finally got my HP 7970E (yeah, a year in the making!), HP 88780, and Overland Data OD3201 9-track tapes all working at the same time. One on HP-IB, one on SCSI-1, and one on Parallel Port interface. Only my ever finicky Qualstars got jealous and decided not to play ball. Here is a family

Re: HP & 800BPI / was Re: Tape cleaner on eBay

Thanks Brent, I had used your very helpful site before to help me figure out IO cards, but had missed this gem. Marc == From: Brent Hilpert <hilp...@cs.ubc.ca> On 2015-Oct-10, at 9:59 PM, Marc Verdiell wrote: >> I had originally written it in a r

Re: HP & 800BPI / was Re: Tape cleaner on eBay

Brent Hilpert wore: >I had that problem with the stuck reel hubs. Failed to take my own advice-to-self to leave the reels unmounted and they stuck again, >although easier to get off this time as it hadn't been many years under pressure. I ended up covering the rubber hub with

RE: HP & 800BPI / was Re: Tape cleaner on eBay

Glen, I'm right in the middle of resuscitating an HP7970E (1600 bpi with the HP-IB interface). The main problem I had so far was the rubber in the reel hubs had completely fused to the tape reels that were left on the hubs. I had to disassemble the hub locking mechanism and use lots of careful

Re: Manual for the Overland Data OD3201 Tape Drive?

I will never get this right, I should have said John Singleton. Jim helped also. And Chuck. Very helpful community. Thank you all. Marc > On Oct 6, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Marc Verdiell <marc.verdi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jim Cimmeri also sent me some relevant files, thanks

Re: Manual for the Overland Data OD3201 Tape Drive?

> Jim Cimmeri also sent me some relevant files, thanks Jim. I meant Jim Stephens... Much appreciated.

Re: Manual for the Overland Data OD3201 Tape Drive?

>I've got a bunch of files that are Overland 32xx-related, but I don't >know if they'll be useful. I don't recall where I got them off the web, >but I'll be happy to forward them along. Probably close to 75MB worth. Thanks, I¹ll gladly take all of it. Email away, or if you can share on a web

Manual for the Overland Data OD3201 Tape Drive?

Anyone has the operation and service manual for the 9-track mag tape drive Overland Data OD3201? Similar to a Qualstar, but seems larger-faster-quieter-better. Just succeeded putting it online. This one is unusual in its simplicity - it has both a Pertec and a Parallel Port interface. Once I found

Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS

Chuck, Thanks for your STP2T02.exe SCSI tape to SIMH program. Ran like a champ under Win98 DOS, first time. It's the only utility that did work out of the box to read a tape from my SCSI-1 HP 88780 9-track into a SIMH file, out of the 5 or so I tried. Before I jump to Linux, which seems to be

Re: IBM 026 - Decision Data 8010 card punch on Ebay in

Henk, Congrats! What a buy. Gorgeous super-clean machine. The Juki looks almost like a copy of an IBM 029, down to the angled styling and stacker section. Except of course for the color. Marc From: Henk Gooijen Subject: Re: IBM 026 -

Re: IBM 026 - Decision Data 8010 card punch on Ebay in

Wow. Thanks for sharing. What a beautiful looking machine. I hope one of us gets it. Marc = Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:36:20 +0200 From: Mattis Lind Not really a 026 but maybe contemporary with the 029:

Re: IBM 026

Todd, Well, hopefully this community is about celebrating people that have an interest in saving old valuable hardware. Not bullying them. Saving substantial hardware involves a substantial personal investment in time and money. So, Todd, well done, congratulations on your buy, and thanks for

RE: Re: 21MX proms (per request)

Absolutely (assuming you count your engineering time as free), not to mention it feels rewarding to use clever engineering tricks to solve a problem instead of money. But I want to keep my machine original and vintage if I reasonably can. My programmer ended up very reasonably priced, and it is

RE: 21MX proms (per request

>From: dwight >If I were doing it. >First you need to find out if it needs OC output. >There are many flash parts in surface mount that can have the higher speeds. >Add some 74LVC245 to give bus drive needed, also surface mount. >All on a little PC board. There would be a lot

RE: RE: 21MX proms (per request)

Thanks for the answers everyone, I am writing everything down... Marc

RE: Reading ROMs

Jay, Mike, John, Thanks for the helpful information. It just dawned onto me that these were "write once" PROMs, not modern EEPROMs. Duh. So you get one shot at doing it right... The Data I/Os on ebay seem to be quite a bit more than $100 right now, I'll keep looking. I guess none of the modern

RE: Reading ROMs

I was going to ask a similar question here, and I am sure it has been asked before. I do have a HP 82901 and a HP 9121 but I am not equipped to read ROMs, so I can't really help yet. Plus I will soon need the ability to burn ROMs for my HP 85 and HP 1000. Not only the standard 24 pin ROMs but the

Re: VCFMW

I wanted to extend my thanks to the organizers of this event, and to Jay in particular who showed me the way around bringing up a cantankerous HP 1000 E system in real time, and somehow never got tired of my newbee questions. And the Chinon FR-506 5.25" drive that I picked up there for a very

RE: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

Chuck, I looked at the pin 2 signal and resulting drive behavior. It doesn't properly auto-switch between densities as it should. It does switch it for reading, but not for writing. Below is the full story. There is one jumper that controls DD/HD switching mode. In the auto position, I can read

RE: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

Thanks Chuck. Looks like you are on to something, I'll search in this direction. Unlikely it has anything to do with the disks themselves, which were blank. The 500 kHz write signal present on the connector just doesn't make it to the head, whereas the 300 kHz does. On the other handm something

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

On 2015-Aug-19, at 3:58 PM, William Donzelli wrote: . . . In fact, due to your time constraints, I would not bother with the HP, Tek, or Heathkit manuals at all . . . Gosh, please don't do that! What a terrible piece of advice. A large portion of the HP manuals are unavailable, and HP

Re: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write On 08/18/2015 09:05 PM, Marc Verdiell wrote: I have connected a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to my computer. After a bit of jumper learning and setting, it's recognized and reads my old DD and HD floppies fine. But for the life

RE: Speaking of Creating 5 1/4 floppies

Try Imagedisk for DOS (with actually somewhat of an interface). Great software, superb manual. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm Also Omnidisk for DOS (command line) http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniDisk/OmniDisk.htm#Downloads And Omniflop for WinXP with a GUI

5.25 floppies that read but don't write

I have connected a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to my computer. After a bit of jumper learning and setting, it's recognized and reads my old DD and HD floppies fine. But for the life of me I cannot write to it. Not under DOS, Win98, or WindowsXP. Which all read fine. But can't add a file. It goes through

Re: SCSI Tape to TAP utility

Thanks Al, I downloaded the assembler just in case. And to Chuck's point, it always felt like the MSDN distribution was a poorly documented, disorganized mess. I was not impressed. The old Turbo C and new Watcom C are available freely for DOS 16 bit and people say very good things of both.

Re: SCSI Tape to TAP utility

Thanks Jay! Marc From: Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net The link below is to a Google Drive folder with three files that I will leave up for a while: awstape.c - Read a SCSI tape, output in AWS format (Linux) awstoraw.c - Read an AWS file, output a raw byte stream

RE: SCSI Tape to TAP utility

Well, Chuck, thanks a bunch, this is very useful and quite difficult code to write from scratch. How does one compile for DOS by the way (I have to admit I am too young to have ever tried), and get a copy of MSC 8.00C. Is the DOS compiler buried in some part of Visual Studio? I have some old

Re: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System

Wow. I'll never complain again that it takes too long to boot Windows...

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 12, Issue 5

Good info David. Thanks once more. - J. David Bryan jdbr...@acm.org said: Subject: Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor I might put NiMH batteries instead That may not be advisable, given the continuous constant-current trickle charger in the CPU power supply. The Panasonic Nickel

Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor

And I opened the pack up, and you are 100% right! It's just a plastic shell containing 10 big C-size cells, 3.5 A.hr each, indeed from the time period it must be NiCd! Now if I can find similar cells I will be able to reconstruct the pack inside the same shell. It will even look like the original.

Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor

Thanks a lot for the detailed answer Glen. I have looked in more detail into my machine and its rear connectors. It's a 21MX (2112A), and it has two battery holders at the back. The old batteries even came with it (!). On this machine the battery connectors are just two pronged, + and -, so no

Re: Place for a build log?

And I have not found the equivalent of our Builder Logs Thread on the Vintage Computer Forums which I just discovered. Maybe Erik would consider adding a category on VCF for build logs? That's a good suggestion. On the R2 group, the Builders Log section was actually added after I suggested

Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor

Ah thanks, this is what these are for, thermistors. They are supposed to monitor the temperature somewhere I suppose? Attached to the batteries? The power supplies? The computer won't start without these I understand? Sorry I am a bit of a newbee with HP 1000's. Have not tried to power mine quite

RE: Memory options for an HP 1000 (HP 21MX / 2112A)

Jay, I have gotten a M.E.M memory expansion board (two of them actually!) for my 21 MX. And many memory cards. So now all I need is the DMS firmware board. I am interested in yours if you still have it... I tried to contact you off-list but no success, maybe I ended up in your junk mail pile. I

Re: Bitcoining on a 1401

We do have two 1401s, and on a good day, they both work. No working 360s. But even if we could have the two 1401's talk to each other, it would still take about the age of the universe to mine a block. This is about the worst machine for scientific calculation, as it does BCD, character by