[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

The Otrona Attache 8:16 had a Z80A and an 8086 on a daughter card. Bob

[cctalk] Re: WWVB

>Message: 17 >Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:52:15 -0500 >From: Bill Gunshannon >Subject: [cctalk] Re: WWVB >To: cctalk@classiccmp.org >Message-ID: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > >On 1/15/2024 10:47 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: >> On Sunday (01/14/2024 at 09:55PM

[cctalk] FYI: Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April

>From The Register: Bad news for OS/2 fans: the Hobbes OS/2 software archive is to be shuttered once and for all in April. The Hobbes OS/2 Archive, run as a service by the Department of Information & Communication Technologies at the US New Mexico State University,

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

>Message: 7 >Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 02:41:56 + >From: John Floren >Subject: [cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks. >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > > >It's funny that luggable power packs come up here as I'm trying to revive my >Otrona

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

>Message: 21 >Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 04:35:28 +0100 >From: Tony Duell >Subject: [cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks. > >On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 10:57 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: >> >> On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: <> > an example of early "mobile

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks

>Message: 6 >Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 07:25:39 -0700 >From: Chuck Guzis >Subject: [cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks. > >On 5/20/23 04:21, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > >> I was startled to discover my (long gone) Athlon XP box could only >> handle a single floppy drive.

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

>Message: 23 >Date: Thu, 18 May 2023 17:32:00 +0100 >From: Tony Duell >Subject: [cctalk] >

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

>Message: 21 >Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 04:56:05 +0100 >From: Tony Duell >Subject: [cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer >Club (GCCC) >As for the target machine having a serial port, one of the machines I >want to get stuff onto is an Osborne 1A. The serial port on

[cctalk] Re: list problem with digestmode

>Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 20:44:34 -0700 >From: Stan Sieler >Subject: [cctalk] list problem with digestmode > >Hi, > >Is anyone else getting 4 to 10 digest emails a day, each with 4 to 8 >messages? >(cctalk) (Instead of one a day) >Stan Sieler Same here. I have not changed my email service, so

Re: The TRS-80 Journey Continues

> >Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 06:24:38 -0400 >From: Bill Gunshannon >To: Fred Cisin , "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" >Subject: Re: The TRS-80 Journey Continues > >>On 5/10/22 22:33, Fred Cisin wrote: >>On Tue, 10 May 2022, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >>DDensity.? I

YouTube on the History of DEC

A friend who used to work as a software trainer for DEC sent me the following link (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uIqlMfSCs0E), which points to an hour-and-a-half-long YouTube video from June 2021 about the history of DEC. It is a Zoom presentation from the Maynard Public Library done by a

Wanted: Windows Driver for Lexar PC Card Reader

Does anyone have the Windows (preferably Windows 10) drivers for the Lexar Media GS-UFD-20SA-TP PC card reader? I found a driver online, lexar_card_34806.zip at admirestore.top, but Malwarebytes gives a warning about the download site, so I am hesitant to download that driver. I want to get my

FS: Large Collection of HP LX Palmtop Items in Germany

I am posting, with permission from Daniel, the following "For Sale" message from the HPLX Mailing List for a large collection of HP LX Palmtop hardware, software and books. Daniel Hertrich has been a major contributor to the HPLX List, creating a backlight mod, and doing HPLX repairs. His web

Re: MS-DOS 2.11 Assign.com

>From: Fred Cisin >Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 2:35 PM > >BTW, A "1.2MB" drive is fully capable of reading/writing the Otrona disks >WITH SUITABLE SOFTWARE on MOST machines. > >-- >Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com I have legal copies of several format translation

Re: MS-DOS 2.11 Assign.com

m/download/MS-DOS%202.11%20for%20Otrona%20Attache%202.11/?id=10494 > >...to see if you're copy is missing assign.com for some reason. > >Bill > >On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:15 PM Robert Feldman via cctalk < >cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> I'm trying to copy

MS-DOS 2.11 Assign.com

Assign.com to assign C: to A:, but the Attache version of MS-DOS 2.11 does not include Assign.com. Does anyone have a copy of the MS-DOS 2.11 version of Assign.com they can send me? Thanks, Robert Feldman

RE: Pioneers of computing

>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 17:18:26 -0400 >From: Murray McCullough >Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas >Instruments Merryman died on February 27. >From the New York Times (March 7, 2019): Jerry Merryman, Co-Inventor of the Pocket Calculator, Dies at 86

Re: George Keremedjiev

>Message: 10 >Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:17:27 -0500 >From: ED SHARPE >To: jfo...@threedee.com, cctalk@classiccmp.org, cctalk@classiccmp.org >Subject: Re: George Keremedjiev >Message-ID: <16738228ce4-1ebf-2...@webjas-vad240.srv.aolmail.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > >who? knows??

Re: SPACEWAR! Switch Boxes for a PDP-12

>Message: 13 >Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:53:20 -0700 >From: Al Kossow > >On 9/23/18 7:46 AM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: >> Before we cave >> in and buy some modern C toggle switches > >ugh > >use black arcade pushbuttons > >that is what the PDP-1 at CHM has been using for over 10 years

Re: Kaypro 2000 charging

Message: 20 Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 20:40:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cisin >I remember an interview with Lee Felsenstein, in which he was asked how >much a battery power unit for the upcoming Osborne would weigh. He >reponded that the external DC connection was currently for

Re: Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

> On Wed, 16 May 2018, geneb wrote: >> On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: >> >>> OK? I? see there is a? mix? of? photos in this? directory! >>> some? tape? reader? some? drum? 2? separate? topics. >>> ? >> Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else) can see this, but there's two junk >>

RE: Kodak Diconix 150plus - looking for info

>Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 23:27:29 + >From: Philip Pemberton > >Hi folks, > >I just picked up a Kodak Diconix 150 Plus portable inkjet printer. No >power supply or documentation, but it works fine. >Which brings me onto my question... Does anyone have any information

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

>From: Fred Cisin >Is there a reason to AVOID mentioning the Poqet? Yes... >The original MSRP at announcement was WAY too high, and priced it out >of the market, but the actual/street price wasn't bad. >Larger keyboard that the HP (which was otherwise a better deal for the

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

Re: PCMCIA (Was: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE

Apologies for replying to this old message (I'm behind on reading the digests) and for top posting, but info on the Poquet PC card and how it differs from PCMCIA 1.0 can be found at http://www.bmason.com/PoqetPC/docs/poqetpc/techref/chapter1.html#Cards. Just scroll down to the "PCMCIA & JEIDA

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

Warren Toomey wrote: > are there any _good_ VT100 terminal emulators Another alternative is to get a used HP LX 200 palmtop computer. Its DataComm program has a good VT100 mode. Bob

Re: Windows use in medical spaces (Re: vintage computers in

>Message: 111 > Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 09:18:11 -0700 (PDT) > From: geneb > What I don't understand is why Windows is being used on these devices at > all. It specifically states in the license that it's not to be used with > life-critical systems or infrastructure (like

Re: Random VGA question: 160x200 "high color" mode?

>Message: 12 >Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 19:30:27 -0800 >From: Josh Dersch >Subject: Random VGA question: 160x200 "high color" mode? > >Awhile back a "pre-alpha" version of the PC classic "DOOM" was unearthed >(dated Feb 28, 1993), and it claims to support a "high color" VGA mode.

RE: HP 700lx

>Message: 6 >Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:42:59 + >From: Benjamin Huntsman >To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org" >Subject: HP 700lx > >Hi! > Maybe a long shot, but does anyone on here have an HP OmniGo 700LX? And > further, might anyone be

Re: Know any Fortran programmers who need a more interesting job?

>From: "Jerome H. Fine" >Does anyone have any idea as to the actual hardware platform? > Jerome Fine >From >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/30/has_voyager_1_escaped_the_sun_yet_yes_but_also_no_say_boffins/: > "250 Khz General Electric 18-bit TTL CPUs, complete with

re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

>From: Mouse > >> I think a more important issue in backing up is "How many GENERATIONS > >to you keep around?" > >For many purposes, that's an important consideration, yes. There's >something (small) I back up weekly for which I keep the most recent >seven backups,

Free for Shipping

I have the following items that I want to get rid of. All are quantity one, except the Poqets. They are free for shipping cost from Chicago (ZIP 60659). I prefer to ship in the US, but will consider shipping internationally. Contact me directly at r_a_feld...@hotmail.com if you are interested