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Intro to Vintage Software Restoration
For those of you who missed it, here is a copy of the packet Kelly Leavitt and I handed out for our Vintage Computer Festival East workshop - Introduction to Vintage Software Restoration. The workshop was held on Saturday at 10:15... read more

by billdeg - 05/08/2012 23:25 - Total messages in this thread: 1
 
Large Apple III Collection
The Apple III Plus Computer. This unit is configured to use three drives.
I received a very large collection of Apple III computers and related items including docs and software from David ... read more

by billdeg - 08/19/2010 14:23 - Total messages in this thread: 4 Last Post: Profile 5MB Hard Drives 05/08/2012
 
Big Iron Dominates VCF East 8.0
The highlight of the 2012 Vintage Computer Festival East 8.0 was this beautifully restored original PDP 8 computer. David Geeswein is the exhibitor a... read more

by billdeg - 05/08/2012 08:38 - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: Videos from VCF East 8 05/15/2012
 
Building a CP/M for Lobo MAX 80
I wanted to see if I could do more than boot my MAX 80 using LDOS 5.1.3.
A Lobo Max 80 with a Lobo twin 8" drive, TRS 80 5Meg ... read more

by billdeg - 02/13/2010 13:36 - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: lobo cp/m disk images on the 'Net 05/06/2012
 
Off The Hook Interview re: VCF E 8
I was interviewed on the "Off The Hook" radio program by 2600 Magazine's Emmanuel Goldstein. Subject: VCF East 8.0, and a little about the upcoming HOPE conference talk Evan K and I will be doing there in July: The segment starts about 31:35 into the show. http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/... read more

by billdeg - 04/28/2012 18:50 - Total messages in this thread: 1
 
Help! I need a Tandy WP100 for my father
Hi Folks, I am looking to get a Tandy WP100 replacement for my dad. Tandy is a Radio Shack Brand. Does anybody know of a Brother version of this exact word processor? Or another brand name it might be under? My dad is very particular about this exact one. Thanks so much!... read more

by adistel - 12/03/2008 11:34 - Total messages in this thread: 13 Last Post: did u find it? 04/20/2012
 
XOR S-100-4 Computer 1982-3
I recently purchased a XOR S-100-4 computer from Jim Battle. http://www.thebattles.net/xor/xor.html This weekend I took some new pictures: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/xor/ With very little work I was able to get this machine up and running. ... read more

by billdeg - 07/09/2007 11:18 - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: US Micro ad for XOR S-100 products 04/19/2012
 
MS-DOS S-100 Bus Board
For those that may be interested I have written up a detailed description and construction details of the new MSDOS Support S-100 bus Board that Andrew & I have completed. A while back we decided to try and put together a kind of "catch all" S-100 board that would cleanup some loose ends need to e... read more

by monahan_z - 03/31/2012 22:21 - Total messages in this thread: 2 Last Post: 8088 S-100 board update 04/10/2012
 
IC and chip inventory
Thread date is last update date. This list is about 50% of actual loose chips on hand. ID 2nd ID Comment/Quantity 2114-550 120 2708 1 2716 TMM3233D EPROM 1 6509 6581 6820 7403 8146 8331 1534 9616 1 1702 AM1702ADC 1702 PROM 2111A-4 2 2382-... read more

by billdeg - 04/04/2012 23:42 - Total messages in this thread: 1
 
PDP 8e
Started work on a PDP 8e full-height rack with DecPak RK05, Decprinter-I, and VT-52 terminal.
Digital PDP/8e Computer
Pictures. Status: System itself appears to work, in that I... read more

by billdeg - 01/31/2010 18:15 - Total messages in this thread: 12 Last Post: Names for Partitioned RK05 drives 03/18/2012
 
Northstar Horizon DOS on any S-100
Been working for the past week and a half to build a set of hardware that I can install into any S-100 computer that will boot the Northstar Horizon DOS system. So far I have a working MDS-A3 card, disks, dual external drives, cable. I am working with various monitor programs to fit the DOS bootst... read more

by billdeg - 11/06/2011 22:15 - Total messages in this thread: 5 Last Post: Personalizing CP/M2 24K on Northstar 03/18/2012
 
A New 68000 CPU S-100 Board
For those of you building S-100 bus systems and are following our work, I am delighted to announce that Andrew and I now have an S-100 bus Motorola 68000 CPU board that can be configured as an S-100 Bus Master or as a Bus Slave. In the second configuration the 68K CPU can sit silently in the bu... read more

by monahan_z - 03/12/2012 21:05 - Total messages in this thread: 1
 
DEC PDP 11/40 Project
This weekend my wife and I drove 1200 miles to pick up a working PDP 11/40, RL02 disk drive, and Decwriter II from A. Carder in South Carolina. He's an expert on the PDP 11/40 and runs this web site: http://www.woffordwitch.com Here are the initial pics before I... read more

by billdeg - 03/11/2008 16:08 - Total messages in this thread: 8 Last Post: Bootstrap RX02 drive to the PDP 11/40 08/29/2010
 
Xerox 8010 Star
The XEROX model 8010 was known as the Xerox Star because that was the name of its application software. Before the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh, the "Star"... read more

by billdeg - 11/13/2011 23:31 - Total messages in this thread: 3 Last Post: Xerox Star 8010 02/27/2012
 
Archiving and Copying Software 101
Kelly Leavitt and I will be doing a workshop at the Vintage Computer Festival East 2012 this May. This thread will contain notes and ideas as I think of them. Tools: Laplink Serial Terminal Media Conversion Programs Image Disk Catweasel SD card / USB drive devices ... read more

by billdeg - 02/27/2012 15:19 - Total messages in this thread: 1
 
 
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