WOW! What a great site! Your photos show what I aspire to for my collection. To Capture that early computer store feel. Some observations. The photo...
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B Degnan
billdeg
May 3, 2011 11:38 am
Check the large rice capacitor on power supply. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. epsilonprocess <als@...> wrote: ...
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Dan Roganti
ragoo_sauce
May 3, 2011 11:53 am
... great job Andy ! That brings alot of memories I see he have had a electronics parts section in there. The 2nd pic with the model of the Star Trek...
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David Gesswein
dgesswein
May 3, 2011 12:05 pm
... The 3B1 have a failure mode where the connector will overheat without any other fault due to contact resistance increasing. I don't know if 3B2's have the...
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Mr Ian Primus
ian_primus
May 3, 2011 12:18 pm
... I'm going to doubt there is actually a problem with the floppy drive itself. More than likely, that was just a convenient exit for the smoke. ... That's...
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Mr Ian Primus
ian_primus
May 3, 2011 12:21 pm
... The capacitor of which I speak is directly in front of the AC line filter, and between the transformer in the middle and the heat sink on the left. Check...
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epsilonprocess
May 3, 2011 2:24 pm
... itself. More than likely, that was just a convenient exit for the smoke. ... That's what I was thinking. I'll give it a quick test at some point. ... ...
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Mr Ian Primus
ian_primus
May 3, 2011 3:47 pm
... OK, then it really sounds like your power supply is OK. Check carefully the burned area, and see if any of the traces were damaged. Also see if you can...
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jack99rubin
May 3, 2011 5:03 pm
... Andy, Thanks so much for this tribute! itty bitty machine shop (ibm) was right near me in Evanston (the other early shop was Jacob Farber's Lillipute in...
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B. Degnan
billdeg
May 3, 2011 7:20 pm
Bob, Is this what you're looking for, Ebay auction 370286671944 ? Bill Degnan...
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Andrew Molloy
awmolloy
May 3, 2011 7:23 pm
Yeah, he was fun to be around and passionate about all this stuff. Even though he wasn't that mobile I remember him climbing up the barn stairs to the second...
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Andrew Molloy
awmolloy
May 3, 2011 7:34 pm
Bill, thanks for the photo corrections and comments. I'll update them tonight. I'm sorry to say I haven't seen a Dazzler running kscope in person, but would...
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Bob Applegate
bobk2ut
May 3, 2011 7:40 pm
... I'm not sure what those are. The KIM-1 had a pair of custom programmed 6530 ICs which each have two parallel I/O ports, timers, 64 bytes of RAM and 1K of...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
May 3, 2011 7:52 pm
You didn't make it to VCF East 6? Here's a picture: http://page2pixel.rutgers.edu/images/galleries/VCF6/IMG_0934.jpg Bill From:...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
May 3, 2011 7:55 pm
I forgot to add, you are more than welcome to visit any time you are in the Washington, DC area! From: midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com ...
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Andrew Molloy
awmolloy
May 3, 2011 8:30 pm
... I also noticed in that 2nd pic that there is the Apple 1 two-page advertisement hanging on the wall over the desk. I bet that places the photo at around...
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Andrew Molloy
awmolloy
May 3, 2011 8:32 pm
... How did I miss that? It must have been when you and Dan were playing tank battle on the little monitor. :) ...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
May 3, 2011 8:36 pm
Yup, that little monitor is being driven by a Dazzler. That game is TANKWAR if my memory serves. Again, stop by and play if you're in the area. From:...
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Evan Koblentz
evan947
May 3, 2011 9:05 pm
... There was an Israeli startup in the enterprise storage biz, circa 2003-ish, called Data Domain. EMC bought them....
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B. Degnan
billdeg
May 3, 2011 9:30 pm
Bill, Do you have pics / details of your dazzler set up on the IMSAI? What card set do you use other than the dazzer cards? Bill Degnan ... TANKWAR ... tank ...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
May 3, 2011 9:51 pm
All cromemco. If it had the cromemco art on the front panel, it would be a Z1. Cards: ZPU 16FDC Dazzler TU-ART 64KZ D+7A Oh, I almost forgot. I do have one...
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B Degnan
billdeg
May 3, 2011 10:03 pm
I really like the cromemco stuff -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Bill Sudbrink <wh.sudbrink@...> wrote: All...
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Andrew Molloy
awmolloy
May 3, 2011 10:06 pm
... I like the names of the early shops: Lillipute and itty bitty machine company. Reminds me of other fun names like Kentucky Fried Computer. I found a large...
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
May 3, 2011 10:36 pm
... Here are two pics of Bill'ss Dazzler display: http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/VCF-East2009/IMG_0559-L.jpg ...
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Richard Cini
altairmanrich
May 3, 2011 11:50 pm
On 5/3/11 6:02 PM, "B Degnan" <billdeg@...> wrote: I really like the cromemco stuff ... Agreed. I also have the Dazzler in my system and I recently...
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B Degnan
billdeg
May 3, 2011 11:57 pm
Rich are you coming to VCF?...
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Richard Cini
altairmanrich
May 3, 2011 11:58 pm
All -- The thread from Bill on the Dazzler and his Digitalker board got me thinking a bit. Has anyone hacked together a decent speech solution? I know that...
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Systems Glitch
systems.glitch
May 4, 2011 12:05 am
... Indeed...I'm putting together a Cromemco Z-2D, which may end up at VCF next year. I'm hoping to get CROMIX running on it, as well as compiling CP/M 3 for...
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Bill Sudbrink
bsudbrink
May 4, 2011 12:07 am
I'm trying to remember whether we've had this conversation before. But just in case, the joystick assemblies out of a Futaba FP-T5FN R/C transmitter are...
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Systems Glitch
systems.glitch
May 4, 2011 12:09 am
I've got some of the speech synth chips used with the Speak n Spell et al (they were also used in an IBM 8-bit ISA voice synth card...of which I was given...
