Recent content by Al Kossow

He wanted $100 down payment, said I'd do it, then he ghosted me. See it sold for $1400 Friday, so apparently he blew me off.

as insane as it is https://www.ebay.com/itm/191911398847 is the going price I also found some notes about my hunting for these connectors 15 years ago.

attached is all of the info on male mrac42 plugs. they are expensive and the solder tail 8142 pins are hard to find and around 2$ PER PIN

this is the list of docs that aren't online AFAIK from the dead website https://web.archive.org/web/20161002070326/http://www.68bits.com/documentation.html "Pending review by FreeScale" isn't encouraging

thanks! mystery solved. i guess i'll document it under pdf/motorola web searches return nada for MEKRNI-2 (National Radio Institute. duh...)

gwiley and I have been working the problem. I have a stash of winchester connectors. the problem is my cables are mostly in a building I won't have access to until the end of June now. I have a couple on cables I'm going to desolder so he can prototype an adapter. An outstanding question is how...

I think the KT rubber domes started after they bought Honeywell's keyboard division. Looking at that last picture, that kb is cheaper looking than any KT I had seen before. An important thing to remember is to not stack keyboards on top of each other so the domes are mushed down.

someone started putting up obscure scans of 6800 stuff at http://www.68bits.com/documentation.html the domain is gone now, anyone know if the scans survived? also, this MEKNRI-2 just came in with some other boards I bought. it is still sealed but a bunch of ICs are missing I have no idea what...

Photoshop users like that were professionals. Keeping Adobe happy sold lots of Macs. Good tools make professional users more money.

Photoshop could use it, and that was the main usage case for MP

can you dump the eprom on the adaptec? i'm really curious if they modified the firmware which would mean it wouldn't match the adaptec docs

the 4404 uses a Xebec 1410 controller, which is SASI, not SCSI, and very much not SCSI Common Command Set

Macs of that era have their own partioning scheme.

Necro-posting since this is close to what I'm looking for Did anyone archive attachmate's ftp downloading site? https://web.archive.org/web/19990129025715/http://supportweb.attachmate.com/file/Section1.htm ftp://ftp.attachmate.com/BBSFiles/

I was going to offer him $200 for a copy, but there is no way to contact him