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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:17:22 -0400, "Roger Long"
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"Silver K" wrote


Does it have wireless ethernet ? What is the capacity ?


Yes, wireless built in. 16 GM of solid state memory instead of a
mechanical
hard disk (strange not to hear a disk grinding when you click something).
1
GM of regular memory. The built in MMR/SD card reader allows for even
more
storage.

Battery life isn't great. I used it 45 minutes this morning on a full
charge and it said it was down to 30% after but that's not real critical
for
most of what I'll be using it for. It's also sometimes slow in responding
which I wouldn't expect from solid state memory but you can't expect a lot
from something this small. It's not a lot slower than my desktop machine
sometimes when it's doing heavy stuff.

BTW it's an Asus Eee PC 900.

What's old is new again!

http://oldcomputers.net/trs100.html

I used to supply these to news reporters so they could write stories
in the field and transmit them via an acoustic coupler that fit over
the mouthpiece of a pay phone to our ATEX mainframe editorial system.

I still have one of them that I saved for posterity. I have all the
manuals and accessories. It still works perfectly.

Ran all day or longer on 4 AA batteries. The news biz continued to use
these for a LONG time after they were obsolete, because they worked so
well for this particular application, and usually survived being
dropped and otherwise abused.



I had an old HP portable... one of the first solid-state ones. Battery
lasted 20 hours, with all sorts of programs on ROM chips. It was a bit slow
and the LCD screen sucked, but it wasn't bad. I finally dropped it.


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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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I had an old HP portable... one of the first solid-state ones.

(The older ones had tubes....(c

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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:45:49 +0000, Larry wrote:

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I had an old HP portable... one of the first solid-state ones.

(The older ones had tubes....(c


For whatever reason, I sometimes save old pieces of technology. I have
a non-working Altair, a Kaypro suitcase, my first IBM PC, complete
with all original books, disks and receipts, The TRS100, a non-working
trs102, a 300 mb disk pack from a CDC washtub, an 80 mb winchester
drive that weighs about a pound per mb, etc, etc.

I've seen websites of people who are really serious about this stuff.
I have the stuff, but it's all in boxes stored away. I hardly ever
have the urge to open those boxes. I just have it.


You should consider seeing if a museum would take them as a donation... was
in the Smithsonian recently and saw a system I used to have (well, not the
same box, but). If you've never see the exhibit, you should check it out.

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Anybody remember the Sinclair Z80? That was my first computer. A Basic
loop to count 1,2,3.... would go slower than you could say the number out
loud.

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"Roger Long" wrote in
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Anybody remember the Sinclair Z80? That was my first computer. A
Basic loop to count 1,2,3.... would go slower than you could say the
number out loud.

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Z80's good....especially running CP/M OS....(c;

I was an Ohio Scientific microcomputer dealer. OSI had the first hard
drive micro, a 74MB (MB not GB) fixed hard drive stolen out of
minicomputers. It had a 14" platter and was mounted in the Model 3's
standard 18" equipment rack. There were 3 processors you could switch
between very easily. A 6502, Z80 and 6800 (not 68000). OS-65/U was the
companies OS to run on the 6502, a great little processor, and it came
with a very extended BASIC interpreter making software fun to write.

We wrote an accounting system to keep track of a few thousand vending
machines/jukeboxes, etc., for Sumter Music and Amusements in our town.
The system was the 74MB computer under OS-65/U with our BASIC program
running on it. The box used dumb terminals and we had 4 cards in it
with 4 ADDS Regent 24 dumb terminals on various desks in their office.
They were thrilled that such a cheap system could do what it cost, at
that time, hundreds of thousands of dollars to do on an expensive
minicomputer. It ran for years 24/7 off a commercial UPS we installed
for it. Crashing on power glitches wasn't pretty! It usually took out
the database. Backup was in 8" floppies each week and we handled that
for them after hours. Dick or I would go down at night and take the
backup with us in case the building burned we'd still have the whole
database, only updating what had been done between the backup and the
fire, which never happened. The UPS failed once, but we got lucky and
noone was writing to the hard drive when the crash occurred. We went
way, way past the noted MTBF. OSI couldn't believe how long it ran....
(c;

IBM came out with the PC and that was the end of OSI and our little
computer store. My biggest sale was to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co in
North Carolina. They wanted to break their people into microcomputers
and funded a whole school with 36 OSI desktop computers in the training
room. Those used little NTSC video monitors as output and had two
floppy drives and a keyboard in a pre-Apple 1 small computer that
actually worked. Their IT boss was a fan of OSI and used to send us
some really neat software he wrote on them to play with on ours.

The PC just put everyone out of business....almost Apple, too!

================================================== =========

The Maemo Linux hackers have written or ported many old small computer
emulators to the tablet's Linux OS. There may be one for the Sinclair.
There's one for the old TI handhelds, I know.

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Roger Long" wrote in
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Anybody remember the Sinclair Z80? That was my first computer. A
Basic loop to count 1,2,3.... would go slower than you could say the
number out loud.

--
Roger Long





Z80's good....especially running CP/M OS....(c;

I was an Ohio Scientific microcomputer dealer. OSI had the first hard
drive micro, a 74MB (MB not GB) fixed hard drive stolen out of
minicomputers. It had a 14" platter and was mounted in the Model 3's
standard 18" equipment rack. There were 3 processors you could switch
between very easily. A 6502, Z80 and 6800 (not 68000). OS-65/U was the
companies OS to run on the 6502, a great little processor, and it came
with a very extended BASIC interpreter making software fun to write.

We wrote an accounting system to keep track of a few thousand vending
machines/jukeboxes, etc., for Sumter Music and Amusements in our town.
The system was the 74MB computer under OS-65/U with our BASIC program
running on it. The box used dumb terminals and we had 4 cards in it
with 4 ADDS Regent 24 dumb terminals on various desks in their office.
They were thrilled that such a cheap system could do what it cost, at
that time, hundreds of thousands of dollars to do on an expensive
minicomputer. It ran for years 24/7 off a commercial UPS we installed
for it. Crashing on power glitches wasn't pretty! It usually took out
the database. Backup was in 8" floppies each week and we handled that
for them after hours. Dick or I would go down at night and take the
backup with us in case the building burned we'd still have the whole
database, only updating what had been done between the backup and the
fire, which never happened. The UPS failed once, but we got lucky and
noone was writing to the hard drive when the crash occurred. We went
way, way past the noted MTBF. OSI couldn't believe how long it ran....
(c;

IBM came out with the PC and that was the end of OSI and our little
computer store. My biggest sale was to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co in
North Carolina. They wanted to break their people into microcomputers
and funded a whole school with 36 OSI desktop computers in the training
room. Those used little NTSC video monitors as output and had two
floppy drives and a keyboard in a pre-Apple 1 small computer that
actually worked. Their IT boss was a fan of OSI and used to send us
some really neat software he wrote on them to play with on ours.

The PC just put everyone out of business....almost Apple, too!

================================================== =========

The Maemo Linux hackers have written or ported many old small computer
emulators to the tablet's Linux OS. There may be one for the Sinclair.
There's one for the old TI handhelds, I know.



Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.


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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:24:29 -0700, "Capt. JG"
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Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.

Is that the one that used to run down Jackson Street?
Never met Concurrent.

--Vic

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.



Sure! Kept me poor buying parts to build them for years....(c;

My first was a Southwest Technical Products that had 8 toggle switches for
input and 8 light bulbs for output.....then, some smartass sold me a
TELETYPE interface!

REAL programmers use:

COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

on DOS machines....(c;

"Larry" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.



Sure! Kept me poor buying parts to build them for years....(c;

My first was a Southwest Technical Products that had 8 toggle switches for
input and 8 light bulbs for output.....then, some smartass sold me a
TELETYPE interface!

REAL programmers use:

COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

on DOS machines....(c;



I worked for Bill Godbout at CompuPro back when....

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On 2008-09-26 13:24:29 -0400, "Capt. JG" said:

Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while.

I remember it and all the rest mentioned. The first time I saw a
Kaypro, I was in lust: A computer that you could carry as a
self-contained unit!

My dad was an early programmer, starting with "flip the switches" and
ending on an an IBM 360. For my 14th birthday, he took me down to see
his baby, then to the Academy of Music, featuring Dvorak's "New World
Symphony", my absolute favorite piece of music (I played French
horn).... That day is burned indelibly into my brain.

Here it is, 40 years later. Now, the machine I take down to the boat is
more powerful than the fastest supercomputers extant then. Dad's
computer was in a temple of technology; we very nearly had to put on
clean suits to enter the inner sanctum. We toss ours onto a settee
without a thought, slightly worry that it might be dropped a couple of
feet.

The march of tech is scary.

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