I kept the Fortran and C language manuals, and still use them to this day.

I.


On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 22:25, Jonathan Cooper <bogba...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Ian, I can, as a not very scientific footnote, confirm that Jim Austin
> still has your Convex on his farm and, it seems, most of the manuals:
>
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0087.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0086.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0078.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0077.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0089.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0084.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0103.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0110.jpg
>
> He also has at least one of the ex-bbk Evans & Sutherland PS300's:
>
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0091.jpg
> http://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/smallIMGP0093.jpg
>
> A few cobwebs, but pretty good going really for a 'former' pig-shed!! Not
> sure what happened to the 11/750, though... School of Pharmacy rings a
> bell??
>
> None of this matters, but I just thought you might like to practice some
> 'big-iron' byte-swapping again, and if so, York is the place to go, after
> covid-19, of course ;-0 ;-0
> On Friday, 15 May 2020, 10:47:40 BST, Ian Tickle <ianj...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi, that would have to be a very old map!  I remember implementing the
> auto-byte swap for VMS (necessary as we had both a Convex C220 running Unix
> and a VAX 11/750)!
>
> In fact the Convex was rescued from scrap by Jim Austin and is still
> working: http://www.corestore.org/convex.htm
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> -- Ian
>
>
> On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 09:24, Philippe BENAS <
> 00000d88e888355a-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Dear Bernhard,
>
> Is it an old map ?
>
> Back to the old VAX times I had to dump CCP4 maps to ascii map files, then
> swap bytes from VAX-DOS to Unix before converting them again to a CCP4 map
> format (I think I was using mapman from USF) on a Unix workstation and be
> able to read them in Frodo-Strasbourg or O.
>
> At least you could give it a shot and the ascii map file would help you
> figuring out the issue by a visual inspection of the header and sections.
>
> All the best,
> Philippe
>
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>
> Le jeudi 14 mai 2020 à 22:45:09 UTC+2, Bernhard Rupp <
> hofkristall...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>
> Hi Fellows,
>
>
>
> I am failing on conversion of a ccp4 map to mtz using Sfall
>
>
>
> I provide as a scale reference a mtz with FP SIGFP and R free
>
>
>
> All cell constants and SG 20 and map headers seem to agree.
>
>
>
> But I receive following warning:
>
>
>
> *** WARNING - your map spacegroup is different to the program default one
> ***
>
>
>
> and later
>
>
>
> >>>>>> CCP4 library signal library_file:Cannot open file (Warning)
>
>         raised in tmpfile() failed, opening normal file instead. <<<<<<
>
>     INPUT X USED AS  X
>
>     INPUT Y USED AS  Z
>
>     INPUT Z USED AS  Y
>
>
>
> Which then leads to the imho - given above- justified complaint:
>
>
>
> Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this
> spacegroup.
>
> Check Nxyz     180 200 120    180 200 120
>
>
>
> Check map header agrees with fixed requirements for SFcalc for this
> spacegroup.
>
> Check Iuvw       3   2   1      3   1   2
>
> <B><FONT COLOR="#FF0000">
>
> SFALL:   **** Fatal disagreement between input info and map header
>
>
>
> How do I fix this ?
>
>
>
> In principle all the information is there to do the job…
>
>
>
> Many thx, BR
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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