Hi, I have been testing some vintage Fairchild 2102 SRAMs and have found that a small percentage of chips that initially fail a pretty comprehensive memory...
My pristine original IBM PC green-phosphor CRT, the one with the SUPER long-persistence phosphor, just took a dive down a flight of stairs. I am pretty upset...
I was given two Intellecs, a 4 MOD 40 and an 8 MOD 80, a little over a week ago. Both are in phenomenal condition. They were bought from surplus in the ...
I have an eprom programmer kit, but it will be a few weeks before I can get all the parts and build it. I want to burn an "Altair" monitor to a 1702A....
Any NJ people here have power yet? Mayor of my town says it could be another week without power for us. So there's no heat and no hot water. My toilet doesn't...
Hi, Just testing. Evan put my email address, this address, back on the list after Yoohoo claimed I was "bouncing"; emails when, in fact, there was no way for...
I picked up another HP terminal from Epay (sorry, Jack) for my 2109E system: http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/Terminals/HP2645A.html It has some...
Hi Gang, Joe, N2CX here. Looks like I may find a few kindred spirits here. In addition to my ham radio addiction for the last (yikes!) half century I've...
Just a quick update to those that are interested in the SCELBI reproduction project that I've been working on. My goal has been to get a basic set of SCELBI 8H...
And by "a bit," I mean a lot. It's bad, unfortunately. I think some felines urinated on the front panel board, as it's certainly caked in something nasty mixed...
Hello all, I was wondering if there is anyone on this list that lives near Levittown, PA ? I would like a vintage computer picked up and am unable to get there...
Here's a whole other film prop project that would greatly benefit InfoAge and would also score big brownie points for MARCH. I was contacted about a production...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Scientific_Corporation I found an add in a 1973 Popular Electronics Feb 1973 page 130 "New Electronic Digital Computer Kit"...
The TV show for which we sold some terminals also needs one PET. Any PET will do as long as it's decent-looking on the outside. It need not run. Chances are...
I thought I would just throw a question out there for fun. What Silly Error Messages have you encountered? eg. Press the <Any> key? My favorite was on a 286...
What does "s/c" mean in the following line of text from the CBM PET manual? "If transistors Q1 and/or Q3 go open or s/c, we'll have solid retrace lines and no...
Hi, Does anyone know where I can buy some replacement belts for these old DC 100A tapes? Inside the actual tape there's a belt that drives the reels and...
All, I'm looking for 10-sector 5.25" hard sectored floppies for use with my NorthStar controller. I know these are really difficult to find. I'd read of...
Today I learned much about APL at the York University APL@50 Event. I met and had fun talking with Mers Kutt, the inventor of the MCM/70 PC back in 1972. ...
Are there any members of the Northstar_Computers Yahoo group on this list? I need a copy of Andrew Lynch's CWNS program from the files section, and my...
Last week's problem is solved -- we got the eighth/final keyboard that we needed. Whoever was the person sending me the seventh keyboard -- please email me...
Apologies for sending this to the group, but I'm unable to send this directly to Bill. I hope this makes it through. " As I tried to say, I don't run my own...
I managed to get a big 'ole steel box with two Tandon 8" drives. One of them had a broken handle, unfortunately. I went ahead and took the other off before it...
