[cctalk] Re: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks

2024-05-01 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
the 9114A and B versions and some of the differences, but I'm wondering whether my 9114 is identical to the 9114A. Is it maybe like World War I which was just 'The Great War' until WW II came along; same war, different name. m On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 12:38 AM Paul Berger via cctalk < cctalk@c

[cctalk] Re: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks

2024-04-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
As Mike said there are two models 9114A and 9114B, they are functionally equivalent, however the B model uses a 1/2 high drive mechanism and I believe there are changes to the controller as well, but I have only seen the inside of a B model. Paul. On 2024-04-30 8:29 p.m., Mike Katz via

[cctalk] Re: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks

2024-04-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Mike, You can get new and guaranteed recycled 720K diskettes at floppydisk.com. As you probably already know the drive in the 9114A is known to have issues with lubricants becoming gummy and the mechanism not operating properly, one particularly nasty effect is it may result in the upper

[cctalk] Re: PCs in home vs businesses (70s/80s)

2024-04-27 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2024-04-27 2:39 p.m., Wayne S via cctalk wrote: When you say “software drove hardware sales” do you mean complete software application systems or do you mean compilers available for the hardware so the software teams had variety in what they could program? Up to the ‘90’s, companies had

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2024-04-22 5:21 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 4/22/24 13:02, Wayne S wrote: I read somewhere that the cable lengths were expressly engineered to provide that signals arrived to chips at nearly the same time so as to reduce chip “wait” times and provide more speed. That

[cctalk] Re: The Atomic Energy Commission [was Re: Re: Odd IBM mass storage systems]

2024-04-12 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2024-04-12 7:09 p.m., Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:28:34 -0300 From: Paul Berger via cctalk The 1360 was apparently developed at the request to Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), I  would guess a forerunner of the DOE.   There where apparently only 5 built 3

[cctalk] Re: Odd IBM mass storage systems

2024-04-12 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2024-04-12 2:45 p.m., Christian Kennedy via cctalk wrote: On 4/12/24 10:28, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Isn't that the IBM 2321 Data Cell drive? Same idea, but I recall the cabinets being lower to the floor and the media being more rigid than the 2321 noodles.  Then again, it's been

[cctalk] Re: HP 9825A version of HPL / Roms

2024-04-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
You may also wish to join the VintHPcom group on groups.io where a lot of HP 98xx users hang out. Paul. On 2024-04-11 8:54 p.m., Andre Lewis via cctalk wrote:

[cctalk] Re: HP 9825A version of HPL / Roms

2024-04-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
You will find many manuals for the 9825 at hpmuseum.net  there is a manual for the base machine and manuals for each of the option ROMs.  Usable tapes for the tape drive are very rare and for a 9825A there is only one option for diskettes the 9885.  A machine that says 9825A on the outside may

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

2024-04-10 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Well core memory IS a form of Random Access Memory (RAM) as opposed to things like delay line memory that is sequential access. Paul. On 2024-04-10 7:29 a.m., Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: RAM? You mean CORE, don't you? On 2024-04-09 22:53, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: I had not

[cctalk] Re: IBM 360

2024-04-10 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2024-04-10 2:21 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 4/9/24 22:03, ben via cctalk wrote: On 2024-04-09 8:53 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: I had not realized the IBM 360 was 60 yrs. old this month. I worked on such a computer in the late 60s in Toronto. What one could do with

[cctalk] Re: RIP: Software design pioneer and Pascal creator Niklaus Wirth

2024-01-04 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Pascal did not have strings originally, but it is a common "enhancement".  I recall 40 years ago setting out to write a program to create a data file using the S/370 ANSI Pascal compiler and it did not have strings. Paul. On 2024-01-04 8:51 p.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: Pascal has

[cctalk] Re: flipchip cleaning and pin corrosion inhibition

2023-04-25 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
IBM did develop a machine to thread the wires through cores.  The cores where held in place in a tray by vacuum and wires threaded through by hollow needles to quote the book IBM's Early Computers, "When introduced in 1959, this core threading machine reduced the time to thread X and Y wires

[cctalk] Re: ATA-3 50-pin IDE

2023-03-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I have seen lots of laptop drives that would fit a 50 pin connector that is about 2mm pitch  Looking at the back of the drive from the left there are 44 pins in a group then 2 pins missing and the remaining 4 are for selecting master and slave. Paul. On 2023-03-26 4:33 p.m., Steve Lewis via

[cctalk] Re: on the origin of home computers

2023-03-08 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-03-08 2:13 p.m., Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: There is ample evidence of people doing personal computing before the microprocessor was invented. There was a whole terminal/time sharing scene in the late 60s, plus people who did personal computung by using the machine at a school,

[cctalk] Re: 5150 cassette (Was: DLOAD BASIC command for Color Comp

2023-01-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-01-30 6:39 p.m., ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: Hi Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:>> The 5150 had a cassette port!>> . . .>> The 5160 no longer had the cassette port. On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Paul

[cctalk] Re: 5150 cassette (Was: DLOAD BASIC command for Color Comp

2023-01-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-01-30 2:12 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: The 5150 had a cassette port! . . . The 5160 no longer had the cassette port. On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: The cassette port on the 5150 could also be used as a Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD) many years

[cctalk] Re: 5150 cassette (Was: DLOAD BASIC command for Color Comp

2023-01-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-01-30 1:47 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: The 5150 had a cassette port! Diagnostics were supplied on cassette tape. It was immediately adjacent to the keyboard port, and used the same 5 pin DIN connector, for the added convenience of being able to plug in to the wrong one.  THAT

[cctalk] Re: Mechanical Selectric keyboards on video terminals (was Re: Typing class in high school)

2023-01-29 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-01-29 12:25 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/28/23 20:20, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: The keyboard on a 1052 is a keypunch keyboard I believe it is the same as the 029.  The printer in the 1052 is a keyboardless Selectric with no tab rack and they spaced via a cam on the OP

[cctalk] Re: Mechanical Selectric keyboards on video terminals (was Re: Typing class in high school)

2023-01-28 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2023-01-28 11:10 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/28/23 17:34, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: Chuck said How does your setup differ form the 1052 keyboard? I know that uses a modified 024 keyboard, so interposers. Under DOS/360, a user program could write a CCW string to ring

[cctalk] Re: scsi

2023-01-20 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Indeed not not all SCSI terminators are created equal, there where three types of signalling used Single Ended (SE) High Voltage Differential (HVD)  and Low Voltage Differential (LVD). LVD was created to squeeze a bit more speed out of parallel SCSI. Any complaint LVD device needs to be able

Re: HP9825 internal ROM?

2022-05-04 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The 9825B should have a board part number 09825-66524 with 16 DRAM chips and 10 24 pin ROM chips these ROM chips replace teh OS ROM module pluged into the right bottom of the machine and also most of the option ROMs.  You may also have a second board with another 16 DRAMs a a lot of other

Re: Testing a 74S240

2022-04-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2022-04-30 19:25, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: In trying to fix my M7133 CPU from my 11/24 I thought I had identified a failed 74S240. However, when I replaced it (while adding a socket), the fault remained. So, I guess the original chip may not be faulty. I decided to test the original

Re: Felt pads for RX50

2022-04-19 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2022-04-18 21:49, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Anyone know of a source for the felt pads that go on the non-head side of an RX50? Missing at least one here. C I successfully made replacements from self-adhesive felt punched out using a leather punch like you would use to punch holes in

Re: ID UV erasable PROMS used on an IBM PC board?

2022-03-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I can tell you what some of the chips are on the power supply board, but the list I have is mostly TTL parts 1582684 LM324 1582606 74LS74  F/F D-TYPE DUAL +E/T 2392122 7417    BUF/DVR HEX O/C (TPD0 30NS) 8272147 74LS05  INV HEX O/C Aside from the house numbering of parts which is

Re: ID UV erasable PROMS used on an IBM PC board?

2022-03-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
You are correct ordinary glass does not transmit UV well, the UV lamps normally used to erase EPROMs and germicidal lamps like the window in an EPROM are made from quartz glass. Florescent lights do leak a little UV but it would take a long time to erase an EPROM. Paul. On 2022-03-22 06:40,

Re: ID UV erasable PROMS used on an IBM PC board?

2022-03-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The only new information I can gather from those picture is it would appear that pins 1 and 28  of the EPROMs is tied together and since 28 is Vcc, connected to +5V this would eliminate 27512 as pin 1 on a 27512 is A15, but on 2764, 27128, and 27256 it is Vpp and would normally be tied to +5V

Re: ID UV erasable PROMS used on an IBM PC board?

2022-03-21 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
They won't be 2732 as the EPROM in the picture has 28 pins, but 2732 is a 24 pin package 2764, 27128, 27256 and 27512 are all in 28 pin packages. The 8519602 does look like an IBM house number but unfortunately it is not listed in the cross reference I have . I would agree it should be

Re: HP 9915A failed 8048

2022-02-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2022-02-26 16:21, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 5:19 PM js--- via cctalk wrote: As the chances of success are highly improbable, looks like I'm SOL on this particular motherboard. My bench is rather full at the moment and will be for a few more weeks... But if

Re: HP 9915A failed 8048

2022-02-25 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The 8048 is a mask programmed part, there is an EPROM version 8748.  While the 8048 is mask programmed I believe that the contents of the ROM can be dumped. Paul. On 2022-02-25 16:09, js--- via cctalk wrote: Hi, folks.    I've a HP 9915A computer with an interesting problem.   The

Re: Information about an unknown IC

2022-02-24 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
2392100 Look like an IBM house number for a 7400 quad NAND Paul. On 2022-02-24 14:16, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: On 2022-Feb-24, at 8:29 AM, Clemar Folly via cctalk wrote: I'm looking for information about Texas Instruments TB-759933 IC. Does anyone have the datasheet or any other

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-02-01 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2022-02-01 14:09, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:04 AM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Slower on the outer tracks, I believe. CDs work this way. I suspect CLV was invented for CDs, in fact. Which came first CLV CDs, or CLV LaserDiscs? How about CLV diskettes as

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-01-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2022-01-31 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2022, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Partitions may have appeared in DOS/Windows for much the same reason; with 32 KB clusters, FAT16 filesystems were limited to 2GB. I distinctly recall having to use partitions when I bought a

Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed

2022-01-12 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Where are you located?  I have two full height single sided Shugart drives you could have for shipping.  I got them a few years ago for a project that I am no longer interested in.  They are used and I do not know if they are fully functional or not, but could do some basic testing if your are

Re: IBM transistor replacements

2021-11-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-11-26 9:11 p.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 11/26/21 3:52 PM, Al via cctalk wrote: Dear all, A while ago I received an IBM 3286 printer, annoyingly some of the transistors in the printer section have been corroded. What I am having trouble with is reading the part codes and

Re: HP-UX on HP 9000/217

2021-09-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-09-13 9:21 p.m., Larkin Nickle via cctalk wrote: Hey all, According to http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/9000_200/9000-200_periphSupp_Dec89.pdf (see PDF page 2), it seems as if HP-UX 5.1 should work on the 9000/217. http://hparchive.com/Catalogs/HP-Catalog-1986.pdf also

Re: HP-UX on 9000/200 series

2021-08-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I have a couple of those CPU cards too, and they should fit a a 9826 or 9836 as well, but looking at the pictures of that CPU card as posted on hpmuseum.net the part number of the processor on the card is a 12MHz 68000.  Since all the enhancements between 68000 and 68010 are internal and they

Re: Call for manuals and maybe floppies: IBM 8100

2021-08-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-08-26 6:48 p.m., Jay Jaeger via cctech wrote: My next project once I finish my IBM 1410 FPGA implementation (so, a couple of years out, probably) would be to write an emulator for the boat anchor known as the IBM 8100.  I had exposure to these things back in the 1980s.  The project

Re: Branching the thread away from Compaq deskpro boards: "What We Have Lost"

2021-08-01 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-08-01 1:14 p.m., Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: On Aug 1, 2021, at 7:10 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead

Re: Reading MT/ST Tapes

2021-07-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-07-31 1:19 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 7/31/21 8:55 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: Since there was still a few 360s around when I started I also got to see the inside of a 1052 a few times, they are a really stripped down keyboardless selectric.  They used a function

Re: Reading MT/ST Tapes

2021-07-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-07-30 11:34 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 7/30/21 6:22 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: The MT/ST did pretty good for being a electro-mechanical device,all the logic was relays in it.  I seem to recall many years ago one of the old OP guys telling me that it write

Re: Reading MT/ST Tapes

2021-07-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-07-30 9:39 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: One of the shortcomings of the MT/ST when compared to word processors is the lack of a good "mailmerge" option. You could code a stop code on the tape, where the typewriter would allow for manual fill-in-the-blanks operation, but that

Re: IBM Logic IC equivalency information needed

2021-06-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
My reliable list says your cheap logic tester is right 1582601 = 74157 Paul. On 2021-06-11 5:22 p.m., Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: I am currently working on an IBM 5100 that has some issues. I know for certain that the 5100 has a bad graphics controller card so I need to dig into component

Re: Motor generator

2021-05-04 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-05-04 8:54 p.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On May 4, 2021, at 7:06 PM, Donald via cctalk wrote: In the deep recesses of my mind I seem to remember something about S/360 machines using a motor generator. If I am right was this to create a stable power source at a certain

Re: Motor generator

2021-05-04 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-05-04 8:06 p.m., Donald via cctalk wrote: In the deep recesses of my mind I seem to remember something about S/360 machines using a motor generator. If I am right was this to create a stable power source at a certain frequency or voltage? Not just 360 but 370s as well, the 3031

Re: IBM cpu tear down

2021-04-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-04-03 11:11 a.m., Scott Quinn via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 21:56 -0700, D. Resor via cctalk wrote: I thought I had seen this before... EEVblog teardown of a ES9000 processor. https://youtu.be/xQ3oJlt4GrI Is that a similar package to what the CMOS POWER-2 used? I think I

Re: Logic Analyser Usage Advice

2021-03-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-03-26 6:08 a.m., Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I have an old HP 1630G logic analyser. I am trying to use it to debug a problem with an 82C206 peripheral controller (or rather I think damage between the CPU and the peripheral controller). I am not very experienced with logic analysers

Re: Digitalker 54104 IC

2021-02-13 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-02-13 1:05 p.m., Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 2/13/21 11:44 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: Bill...this just  struck a memory I think I have a Radioshack Digitalker in a packaging  but recall it being just one large chip...  Ed #    SMECC The one I have in front of me is

Re: One more thing to fix... HP9000/380 power supply

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-02-11 10:55 p.m., Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: This decade seems to have increased the number of failing things in such a way that the "to be repaired" backlog is growing much faster than I can get to diminish it. Argh.  A month ago my trusty HP9000/380 ran just fine

Re: Reading ESDI disks

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-02-11 6:35 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: I do seem recall using ESDI drives in a PC with 16 bit ISA slots but it is a long time ago but I am not sure if the controller used was the RT controller you have pictured, it seems to me

Re: Reading ESDI disks

2021-02-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-02-11 4:31 p.m., Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: Den tors 11 feb. 2021 kl 20:36 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: What is the best way of dumping the contents of an ESDI disk? Same as for ST506/412 I usually use

Re: Usenet and Google Groups

2021-01-31 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-01-31 3:21 p.m., John Foust via cctalk wrote: At 06:01 PM 1/30/2021, you wrote: Which Henry was that? Henry Spencer perhaps? Yes, Henry Spencer (formerly of zoo.toronto.edu). N. Another blast from the past. I haven't seen anything of or spoken with him in nearly 30 years. A

Re: Want To Buy: HP 9817 Monitor and Keyboard

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
. Does $150 sound fair? ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:16 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: I have a 35731A that is the 110V North American version that I could part with for a reasonable offer, however it is quite large and shipping outside of North America would

Re: Want To Buy: HP 9817 Monitor and Keyboard

2021-01-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-01-26 6:44 p.m., TangentDelta via cctalk wrote: I have an HP 9817 and 9133D disk drive that I am trying to get going. The 9817 has a 98204B composite video card. I can mess with the settings of a composite monitor enough to barely read the text on the screen, which indicates that the

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

2021-01-05 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2021-01-05 5:02 p.m., Patrik Schindler via cctalk wrote: Hello Tomasz, Am 05.01.2021 um 21:53 schrieb Tomasz Rola via cctalk : It says "Als Ersatzteil / defekt", which to my nose smells like "parts donor". Whoever would like to pick it, should verify this. I might be wrong. It’s

Re: DEDICATED HOBBYIST ALERT: IBM AS/400 9406-F2 for cheap sale in Germany

2021-01-05 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
That looks like it may be a 730 model complete with a twinax terminal for a console.  One thing that seem to be missing is the electronic key that fits into the odd shaped hole in the operator panel. Paul. On 2021-01-05 1:41 p.m., Patrik Schindler via cctalk wrote: Hello, to fellow readers

Re: Rod Coleman's personal history of founding, building & running SAGE

2021-01-02 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
North Bay is not on the DEW line the DEW line is above the arctic circle and while North Bay may seem like the far north to some it is a long way below the arctic circle is actually at about the level of the Pine Tree Line.  CFB North Bay was the SAGE site for the 22nd NORAD region.  The SAGE

Re: 8 inch floppy head pad adjustment

2020-10-09 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The big difference is most 8" drives had AC motors that turned the spindle all the time so if a diskette drive was loaded it would turn all the time and if the head(s) where loaded it would wear a groove in the media, hence the head load solenoid.   Most 5.25 and smaller drives have a DC motor

Re: Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller as a SCSI Controller

2020-07-17 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-07-17 5:36 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 7/17/20 2:30 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: Does modern software even let you know if a drive is failing? I'm not aware of any software RAID solution jumping up and proactively notifying you that there's a problem /by/ /default/. But

Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-19 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-06-19 11:43 a.m., Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:26 AM Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: Its been ages since I did this but looking here https://www.aggsoft.com/rs232-pinout-cable/RS232.htm I see we have a transmit clock output on pin 24, transmit clock input on

Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-18 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-06-18 3:34 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 6/18/20 6:06 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: and I also have two Nokia DS 60100 baseband modems, one with a V.35 interface card and one with an X.21 interface card.  When I hook up the former with the BC19F cable, I can get the

Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-18 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-06-18 6:06 a.m., Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: To get somewhere near back on topic, I am trying to set up a synchronous serial link between two MicroVAX 3100 machines with DSH32 (or DST32 maybe) interfaces. One of the options I have is a BC19D cable and a BC19V cable which seem to

Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I was doing field service on 3270 terminals among other things up until 1983 and I never saw a 3278 or 3279 with a keyboard like this, all the ones I recall seeing where an earlier capacitive switch keyboard that is sometimes referred to as the "Beam-spring" switch.  That said this ones does

Re: HP 9000 Series 360 Thin LAN

2020-02-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The 360 seems to have a 15 pin AUI connector as well as the thin connector so you can get a 10-BAseT transceiver and connect it to the AUI that is what I did for my 380.  I don't think there is any support for ethernet in things like Workstation BASIC you would likely need to be using a OS

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I used a Model B Executive for a few years as my office typewriter. Superb text quality; good enough for publication. They were available in several type styles and sizes. Can easily be distinguished by the split space bar. There also was a version of the tape station for the MT/ST that

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-01-03 12:46 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) The English-language name was "Composer". This was preceded by the very

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The magcard selectric was capable of a lot of basic word processing functions as could the MT/ST before it.  One function it was really useful for was creating personalized form letters. The body of the letter could be stored and personalizations filled in as it printed.  The MT/ST and magcard

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck Rural delivery is done to mail

Re: OT post delivery / Re: Ordering parts onesie twos

2020-01-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-01-03 12:11 a.m., Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: On 2020-Jan-02, at 6:11 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 01/02/20 17:22, Ali wrote: Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. How does that w

Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie

2020-01-02 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 01/02/20 17:22, Ali wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. How does that work? Community mailboxes that serve a neighbourhood.  You need to trek to one to pick up your mail.

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-12-02 4:57 p.m., Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:51 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: When I corresponded with Al Kossow about format several years ago, he indicated that CCITT Group 4 lossless compression was their standard. There are newer bilevel encodings

Re: Anyone have docs/jumper settings for Tecmar "PC 500K/1MEG FLOPPY CONTROLLER" ISA card ?

2019-11-09 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-11-09 6:57 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On 11/7/19 4:04 PM, rescue via cctalk wrote: I have one of these, it has 2 jumper blocks, JPR2 (4 3 pin jumper 'settings'... looks to probably latch each of the 4 high or low) and JPR3 (12 on/off jumper positions). It also has a JPR1 which

Re: Tandem Minicomputers

2019-09-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-09-30 1:27 p.m., Diane Bruce via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 10:57:25AM -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 09/29/2019 11:46 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out

Re: IBM 5110 transformer?

2019-09-30 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-09-30 3:44 a.m., Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: A friend of mine is trying to repair a IBM 5110. He is convinced that the transformer is bad. Anyone knows the spec of the transformer? Someone that has a spare? Looking into the tech documentation tell me that the machine requires +/-

Re: Early Univac Commercial

2019-09-20 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-09-20 12:52 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 9/20/19 8:16 AM, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote: Isn't there also one that's a "help wanted" for programming positions? I seem to recall that they didn't say anything about professional training or experience, just things like "do

Re: IBM PT-2

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I can confirm that this is a CE tool.  From what I remember they where used mainly by CEs in the GSD division.  The large grey lump to the left of the PT-2 is a channel adapter used for monitoring 370 channels.  The black box on the lower right is a coax switch and not part of a PT-2.  They

Re: IBM Series/1

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-08-06 5:33 a.m., Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Jay West via cctalk Sent: 05 August 2019 18:38 To: 'William Donzelli' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' ; 'Stan Sieler' Subject: RE: IBM Series/1 I used to run a

Re: IBM 5160 with oddball MDA input/output card

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-07-26 4:53 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 26 Jul 2019, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: Someone on one of the Facebook vintage groups found an IBM 5160 with an MDA display for sale in Australia, except that it's a bit odd in that the machine had what appears to be an

Re: RS232 Communications HP9000 Series 320

2019-07-07 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
When you say it is a DB9 I am guessing that you are using the serial port on the 320's interface card, the port is supposed to be the equivalent of a 98644 serial card.  In the manual 98561-90020_series300configRef_Aug85 I found a pinout of the RS-232 connector on what is reputed to be the 320

Re: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

2019-06-29 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-29 9:15 a.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 06/29/19 06:39, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote (in part): US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same size and colour, so you can't readily sort them. Some countries also put Braille dots (besides the

Re: OT: "half-dollar"/"50 cent piece" Was: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR

2019-06-28 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-28 7:50 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 06/28/19 16:54, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote (in part): On 06/28/2019 11:11, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: Canada also replaced the $1- and $2-bill with coins (26.5mm and 28mm, resp.). Oh, I know. I was questioned by the RCMP for

Re: HP9816 PAL16L8

2019-06-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-11 3:17 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 6/11/19 10:54 AM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: I have just remembered something that I guess you realised some time back... The 16L8 allows you to tri-state outputs under logic control (I think there's one AND term for the output

Re: HP9816 PAL16L8

2019-06-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-11 1:19 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 6/10/19 8:44 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: You can detect sequential logic in the PAL by : For each combination of inputs : Read the outputs Toggle an input (change from 0 to 1 and back again or vice versa) Compare

Re: HP9816 PAL16L8

2019-06-11 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-11 6:17 a.m., Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2019 12:19 AM To: Tony Duell via cctalk Subject: Re: HP9816 PAL16L8 On 6/10/19 8:44 PM, Tony Duell

Re: HP9816 PAL16L8

2019-06-10 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-08 7:14 a.m., Piero Andreini via cctalk wrote: desperately looking for jedec file of PAL 16L8 position U69 part # 1820-2991 I pulled the CPU board out of my HP9816 and was happy to see that the component in question is in a socket however there is a problem.  The component in

Re: HP98035 Real Time clock and AC5954N clock chip

2019-06-09 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-06-08 5:40 p.m., Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: On Friday (06/07/2019 at 11:01AM -0700), CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: I wondered if it's actually a digtal watch chip (2.5V could have been a couple of mercury cells in series, LED watches were not uncommon back then). In which case

Re: HP98035 Real Time clock and AC5954N clock chip

2019-06-06 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Are you able to set the date and time on your clock?  I had disconnected one end of the diode in the charge circuit and powered the clock from a lithium primary cell.  I got all 8s when the battery went dead but when it was in that state when I tried to set the date and time any commands after

Re: HP/UX 8 and hosts vs DNS

2019-05-27 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Yes SMIT is an AIX system management utility first introduced with AIX for RS/6000 Ver 3, start with HPUX 10 HP did however include Logical Volume Manager (LVM) which was also introduced in AIX 3.0 Paul. On 2019-05-27 1:23 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 5/27/19 3:05 AM, Stefan

Re: Raised Floors

2019-05-22 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-05-22 10:00 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On May 22, 2019, at 6:57 AM, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk wrote: ons 2019-05-22 klockan 08:45 + skrev Wayne S via cctalk: ... Funny, but Halon is outlawed and having it around did seem to bother them. It was replaced with some

Re: Model 40 Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-04-01 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-04-01 11:25 p.m., Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 8:59 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Marc said Which brings us to the real problem: we don’t have 360 Model 50 ALDs. Anyone has them? Marc And same for the Model 40 ALDs. All I

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-02-15 4:04 p.m., Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 19:27, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: Knowledge Center refers to it as IBM i, but it is not the name of a system it is just the name of another OS that runs on IBM Power systems and can even be vitalized

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-15 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-02-15 12:45 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 02/15/2019 08:03 AM, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote: I know, they're not called AS/400s any more.  We're on a POWER 8 box, an 8286-41A.  But until IBM comes up with a new name that's an improvement over AS/400, we're sticking with

Re: sun 88780 on ebay

2019-01-28 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-01-28 9:19 p.m., Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:04:42 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: https://www.ebay.com/itm/132933407806 this is interesting because of the price and that all of the Sun drives I've ever come across had the 800bpi option in them That's

Re: Interest in a DiscFerret?

2019-01-10 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2019-01-10 4:43 a.m., Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote: * Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF? They're not DOS compatible.  A HP 1630G logic analyzer with 9121 GPIB dual floppy drive, and a HP  8 data generator.

Re: SCSI for HP 9000/380

2018-12-27 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
The SCSI connector on the bulhead of the 380 CPU card is a standard 50 pin SCSI-1 single ended SCSI connector.  Like most SCSI initiators the bus is terminated on the system board.  The built in interface is equivalent to the 98568A DIO SCSI interface card.  I have never tried to boot from a

Re: Old HP stuff

2018-12-19 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I would add any of the earlier HP 9810 9815 9820 9825 9830 9831 9835 9845 to that list. Paul. On 2018-12-19 10:54 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: Thanks for all the replies! Based on the responses I got, this is the specific request list that I just emailed him: anything HP 1000

Re: RS6k 7012/320H woes

2018-11-07 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2018-11-07 8:57 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: The AIX on the SP2 would have been the same, in fact the hardware on the SP2 nodes was similar to the regular RS/6000 boxes except the console was through a special serial network in the frame

Re: RS6k 7012/320H woes

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2018-11-06 10:58 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 11/06/2018 05:39 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: As for the null modem cable, I actually tried several schemes in an RS-232 break-out box, but none worked. Are you

Re: RS6k 7012/320H woes

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2018-11-06 8:39 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: are equivalent manuals for the early PCI systems as well substitute "Multibus" for Microchannel" Since it does not stop after the "290 IOCC POST error (irrecoverable)." c

Re: RS6k 7012/320H woes

2018-11-06 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
Those code you highlighted are only a problem if it halts on that code if it continues on then its ok, in fact it is finding something to boot off of 299 means that it has loaded the bootable code from somewhere, in your case likely the disk and has transferred control to it.  Do you know if

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