David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else. But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen! But we have a mystery: https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/ Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though? You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere. Best wishes, -Adam <https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/>
It looks like a 6085 mouse. The keyboard we think is for the 6085 may not be. I don't think it looked like these. https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=14478 https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1052 CHM has one of the mouse but they didn't identify its use. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08:14PM -0500, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else.
But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen!
But we have a mystery:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/
Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though?
You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere.
Best wishes,
-Adam
I'm going based on this: https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/xerox/star8010.shtml And a photo posted by someone Facebook (that I don't think is on the above link - I think it might be a personal collection item). Quite possible the keyboard for the 6085 is mixed up with some of the other Xerox items. Can't wait to find out! On 1/27/2020 10:17 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It looks like a 6085 mouse. The keyboard we think is for the 6085 may not be. I don't think it looked like these.
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=14478 https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1052
CHM has one of the mouse but they didn't identify its use.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08:14PM -0500, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else.
But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen!
But we have a mystery:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/
Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though?
You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere.
Best wishes,
-Adam
It's a daybreak mouse- look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Daybreak#/media/File:XeroxWorkstation.jp... And you can see the daybreak keyboard, which we don't have. -andy
On Jan 27, 2020, at 10:29 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm going based on this:
https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/xerox/star8010.shtml
And a photo posted by someone Facebook (that I don't think is on the above link - I think it might be a personal collection item).
Quite possible the keyboard for the 6085 is mixed up with some of the other Xerox items. Can't wait to find out!
On 1/27/2020 10:17 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It looks like a 6085 mouse. The keyboard we think is for the 6085 may not be. I don't think it looked like these.
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=14478 https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1052
CHM has one of the mouse but they didn't identify its use.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08:14PM -0500, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else.
But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen!
But we have a mystery:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/
Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though?
You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere.
Best wishes,
-Adam
Yep. So we have two Stars CPUs, one Star keyboard, one Star Monitor, one Daybreak CPU, no Daybreak keyboards, and no Daybreak monitors. And a as yet to be identified Xerox keyboard for some other machine. So close, yet so far. And it appears both the Daybreak mouse and Star Mouse require a special mouse pad (which, thankfully, can be printed... not 3D printed... literally Xeroxed). http://www.digibarn.com/collections/devices/xerox-mousepad/index.html Anyone want to donate a Star mouse? And as long and we're shooting for the moon, why not the Stars (sorry), a Star mouse pad? And, what is the deal with that strange mouse connector on the Daybreak mouse? On 1/27/2020 10:56 PM, Andrew Diller wrote:
It's a daybreak mouse- look at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Daybreak#/media/File:XeroxWorkstation.jp...
And you can see the daybreak keyboard, which we don't have.
-andy
On Jan 27, 2020, at 10:29 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm going based on this:
https://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/xerox/star8010.shtml
And a photo posted by someone Facebook (that I don't think is on the above link - I think it might be a personal collection item).
Quite possible the keyboard for the 6085 is mixed up with some of the other Xerox items. Can't wait to find out!
On 1/27/2020 10:17 PM, David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
It looks like a 6085 mouse. The keyboard we think is for the 6085 may not be. I don't think it looked like these.
https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=14478 https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1052
CHM has one of the mouse but they didn't identify its use.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 10:08:14PM -0500, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else.
But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen!
But we have a mystery:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/
Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though?
You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere.
Best wishes,
-Adam
And we have almost immediate confirmation it is definitely a Star mouse missing the connector! One step closer to hands on use of a Star at the museum. Thanks everyone! On 1/27/2020 10:08 PM, Adam Michlin via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
David Geisswein was so kind to take a look at one of our Xerox 8010 (Star) machines at the recent workshop. It turns on... counts to 10 on the LEDs, and then does nothing else.
But, as you know, that's a huge first step. The Star is now in the musuem and is slated for further repair as soon as possible. Hands on use will happen!
But we have a mystery:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B72OuuBn4D2/
Our donor provided two Xerox 8010s (Stars, if you prefer) and one Xerox 6085 (aka Daybreak) and only one mouse. Neither machine seems to have a port that matches the connector the pictured mouse. Maybe we're missing a piece, though?
You shouldn't need an Instagram account to view the pictures, but let me know if that is causing problems and I can upload them elsewhere.
Best wishes,
-Adam
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