On 2020-06-19 11:27 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links.
>
> Which rot over time.
>
> If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
> attachments as well.
>
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect
Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links.
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
Which rot over time.
If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
attachments as well.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect example of messages full
Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links.
Which rot over time.
If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
attachments as well.
http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect example of messages full of link rot.
It looks like what I’m looking for from CSPI (aka CSP, Inc.) is the “SuperKit”
board support, function, and RPC library for the SuperCard SC-3XL and SC-4XL,
along with their documentation.
There are mentions of it in the Wayback Machine for http://www.cspi.com/ and
the vendor is still around,
Agree that current mailing list format is best as simple, low
bandwidth and can always post links to images or other large
files. I still use Eudora as my email client and have text only
emails. Seems to perplex a lot of people I deal with when I can't
read their emails, but it seems
Yes, there was D and F, and F and G versions. Everything else was
emulated slowly. Putt putt it was
On 6/8/2020 3:26 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2020-06-08 11:55, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
4) The 11/730 could emulate pdp11 instructions, the MV1 could not. Come
to think of it I
Follow-up: Drive is working well and now has a real virgin install of M+
4.6 on it. I also was able to make a TK50 backup tape of it, and even
remembered how to make BRU64K bootable on a RX01 floppy so I can restore
it :-)
Next step will be to get the 383mb Wren VI disk up and going. ESDI
On 6/19/2020 12:24 PM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
Ok, maybe a bad bit in the command register so I'll check it out. But then
it dawns on me - how do you work on this thing? It's three boards connected
with "over the top" connectors - you can't use a module extender on it.
Worse, the
Or an http, https, ftp, or gopher url to somewhere else hosting the image.
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
Well, not everyone can afford to host their own site, for various
reasons, and if hosting externally you have to agree to T's you may not
necessarily be happy
On Fri, 2020-06-19 at 12:24 -0700, Robert Armstrong via cctech wrote:
> It appears that my RK8E has a problem - it fails the diskless
> control test
> with
>
> .R DHRKAE.DG
> SR=
>
> COMMAND REGISTER ERROR
> PC:1160 GD: CM:0001
> DHRKAE FAILED PC:6726
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:24 PM Robert Armstrong via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> It appears that my RK8E has a problem - it fails the diskless control
> test
> with
>
> .R DHRKAE.DG
> SR=
>
> COMMAND REGISTER ERROR
> PC:1160 GD: CM:0001
>
It appears that my RK8E has a problem - it fails the diskless control test
with
.R DHRKAE.DG
SR=
COMMAND REGISTER ERROR
PC:1160 GD: CM:0001
DHRKAE FAILED PC:6726 AC: MQ: FL:
WAITING
Ok, maybe a bad bit in the command
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
> > Sure, there's always `uuencode' when you do need to post that non-text
> > piece (which I guess will keep the eyes of Luddites away from it too).
> >
>
> Or an http, https, ftp, or gopher url to somewhere else hosting the image.
Well,
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 3:31 PM Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Sure, there's always `uuencode' when you do need to post that non-text
> piece (which I guess will keep the eyes of Luddites away from it too).
>
Or an http, https, ftp, or gopher url to somewhere else
Dave Wade wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Ethan Dicks
> > Sent: 19 June 2020 15:44
> > To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic
> > and Off-Topic Posts
> > Subject: Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of
> > cctalk/cctech
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:26
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
> > It's time to adopt a platform that can handle modern mail. Some may still
> > choose a degraded experience, but everyone is entitled to their own fetish.
>
> Any old mail client can read "modern mail": MIME is designed to be
>
UNIBUS. Cable plugged into a UNIBUS slot connected to an external box with up
to 128Kwords.
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 4:07 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> From: Camiel Vanderhoeven
>
>> I know Intel made the in-4011 for the PDP-11, but I never saw a picture
>> of it.
>
> Was it UNIBUS
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>
> Paul Koning wrote:
>>> I think Greg Thompson said he brought Maze to MIT in 1974. Wikipedia
>>> says 1973. The game was first developed at NASA Ames in 1972.
>> Ok, chances are that predates PLATO MUGs by 2-3 years.
>
> Spasim from
Paul Koning wrote:
>> I think Greg Thompson said he brought Maze to MIT in 1974. Wikipedia
>> says 1973. The game was first developed at NASA Ames in 1972.
> Ok, chances are that predates PLATO MUGs by 2-3 years.
Spasim from 1974 is usually regarded as contemporary with Maze.
I'm not so sure
We have a working Linotype at the System Source Computer Museum in Hunt Valley
Maryland.
Open now only by appointment with a maximum of two masked visitors due to COVID
https://museum.syssrc.com
Bob Roswell
-Original Message-
From: cctalk On Behalf Of Alan Perry via cctalk
Sent:
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 10:43 AM, 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
On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now
On 19/06/2020 11:07, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
I already tried extracting ZSDRIVER.EXE from the DECnet/OSI kit for
VAX/VMS 7.3
and placing it in SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES but ZSA0: remained stubbornly
offline
until I installed the rest of DECnet/OSI and the LES$ACP_V30 process
started.
I think
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 3:07 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> BTW, speaking of Intel PDP-11 memory, I have this:
>
>http://gunkies.org/wiki/File:IN-1611.jpg
>
> QBUS Intel memory board; hven't tried to get it running, though.
>
> Noel
>
I have a similar M8044 DD PDP-11
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>> Paul Koning wrote:
>>> airfight and any number of other multi-user games -- a thing made
>>> popular by PLATO and possibly originated there.
>>
>> What was the date on that? Multi-player MazeWar
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 17:36, Peter Corlett via cctalk
wrote:
> There are *no* "modern" newsreaders,
> apart from the occasional kitchen-sink monstrosity which does nothing well.)
There was...
https://panic.com/blog/the-future-of-unison/
--
Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
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
> -Original Message-
> From: Ethan Dicks
> Sent: 19 June 2020 15:44
> To: Dave Wade ; General Discussion: On-Topic
> and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of
> cctalk/cctech
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:26 AM Dave Wade via cctalk
>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:28:05PM -0400, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> And sometimes, a picture really is worth 1000 words.
But pictures also consume magnitudes-of-order more resources than a thousand
words, and should be used rather more judiciously than they are.
> A tiny SVG diagram
Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > Paul Koning wrote:
> > airfight and any number of other multi-user games -- a thing made
> > popular by PLATO and possibly originated there.
>
> What was the date on that? Multi-player MazeWar on the Imlacs/ITS at
> MIT was running before 1976 (I played it about then), but
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 15
> and RX clock input on 17.
> So if on checking
You forgot to mention the freenode irc channel as well
Sent from my iPad
> On Jun 18, 2020, at 12:01 PM, jwest--- via cctech
> wrote:
>
> The period of me making decisions about the list is coming to an end, but
> based on all the posts I just caught up with here's some thoughts:
>
> I
> From: Camiel Vanderhoeven
> I know Intel made the in-4011 for the PDP-11, but I never saw a picture
> of it.
Was it UNIBUS memory, or what? It doesn't seem to be in that table of early
Intel products.
BTW, speaking of Intel PDP-11 memory, I have this:
> From: Paul Koning
> airfight and any number of other multi-user games -- a thing made
> popular by PLATO and possibly originated there.
What was the date on that? Multi-player MazeWar on the Imlacs/ITS at MIT was
running before 1976 (I played it about then), but I don't recall
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 07:27, Stan Sieler via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Back in 2017, I posted something about seeing a possible first-ever
> reference to the idea of 3-D printing in a 1951 issue of Galaxy Science
> Fiction magazine.
>
> I stumbled over an even earlier one tonight...
>
> The
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 6:07 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> ...
>
> The specifications manual says that the maximum speed for the DST32 is
> 19200 bps (for HDLC or SDLC) or 9600 bps (for DDCMP) but worryingly
> doesn't list a speed for BISYNC which is what I want to do with it :-(
Antonio Carlini wrote:
On 18/06/2020 14:06, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>
> I have found the whole thing very confusing too. My suspicion was also
> that they were pretty much the same thing but the DST32 had exernal
> connectors suitable for mounting in a MicroVAX 2000 while the DST32 had
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:21:14AM +0100, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
> [...] Some of the UK banking systems like HOBS survived using viewdata that
> way up to the end of the 1990s, and I still have at least a couple of 1275
> modems.
Hobbyists are still running Viewdata BBSes. Here's one
Core memory driver board?
On 19/06/2020 02:22, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote:
Remember buying boards like that at electronics surplus places in late
60's but never knew where they came from. Just used them as a cheap
source of parts. Also suspect the black boxes are pulse transformers
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Peter Coghlan
> via cctalk
> Sent: 18 June 2020 23:11
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: Re: Synchronous serial Re: E-Mail Formats RE: Future of
> cctalk/cctech
>
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 18,
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