Looking for Maxtor LXT/MXT series firmware updates / docs

[Philip Pemberton via cctalk]

Hi folks,

Has anyone happened to squirrel away a copy of the Maxtor/Sequel LXT or 
MXT series documentation or firmware updates?


I've got an LXT200A sat on the bench which seems to have corrupted 
on-disk firmware -- the firmware version is shown as "1.02BROM"
I've got an identical second drive which works but has bad sectors, 
which identifies as "1.02BHAT".


I'm hoping to dump the on-disk firmware on the working one and load it 
onto the dead one -- either onto disk or temporarily into RAM... high 
hopes I know.


This is all an experimental thing - the local data recovery firms aren't 
interested in a drive this old or this small...



If anyone has a mirror of Maxtor's old FTP site or support BBS, these 
are some of the files I'm after...



MXTA_53.EXE MAIN41K 03/94   MXT540A/AL Frimware Rev 5.3
firmware 540

MXTA_54.EXE MAIN40K 03/94   MXT540A/AL Firmware Rev 5.4
Firmware Upgrade for MXT-540AT.

MXTA_55.EXE MAIN40K 03/94   MXT540A/AL Firmware Rev 5.5
Firmware Upgrade for MXT-540AT.

MXTA_60.EXE MAIN41K 03/94   MXT540A/AL Firmware Rev 6.0
Firmware Upgrade for MXT-540AT.

Alternatively the same covering the LXT series.


Or this (or similar) documents covering the LXT series:

MAXTOR LXT-200A TECHNICAL MANUAL 1019707


Cheers
Phil.

updates to the Alpha Micro Phun Machine

[Cameron Kaiser via cctalk]

Besides link cleanups and custodial changes, there is now a model-specific
page for the Eagle 450, one of the earliest ColdFire systems extant, plus
performance statistics for many of the machines and several more newly uploaded
freeware games. Hosted on an Alpha Micro Eagle 300.

http://ampm.floodgap.com/

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one. -- Phil White 

Updates to the Dick Smith System 80 site

[Terry Stewart via cctalk]

Apologies for cross-posting. I've added a few new bits and pieces to the
Dick Smith System 80 site.  If anyone is interested, take a look at the
first three entries under this link.

https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/system-80/whats_new.htm

Incidentally, this month is somewhat of a milestone. It's 20 years since
the site went live!

Terry Stewart (Tez)

UNIVAC 422 material acquisitions updates..

[ED SHARPE via cctalk]

UNIVAC 422 Training  Computer  material acquisitions updates..


- UNIVAC 422 Training  Computer program Instruction reference cards   -  (4 
each)- Photograph  of  students  using one  in an educational environment (1 
each)- Applications programs description sheets  fro  2  programs ( 1  each ,  
2  programs)- UNIVAC 422 Partial Maintenance Manual  (1 each)-UNIVAC Card 
Spares  suitcase -  some dividers-   removed  (1 each)

The   Game is  Afoot! Please  check  your  files  for ANYTHING  related to  the 
 UNIVAC  422  or  UDT  Training  computers!  -   Ed Sharpe -   Archivist   for 
SMECC

UNIVAC 422 material acquisitions updates..

[ED SHARPE via cctalk]

UNIVAC 422 Training  Computer  material acquisitions updates..


- UNIVAC 422 Training  Computer program Instruction reference cards   -  (4 
each)- Photograph  of  students  using one  in an educational environment (1 
each)- Applications programs description sheets  fro  2  programs ( 1  each ,  
2  programs)- UNIVAC 422 Partial Maintenance Manual  (1 each)-UNIVAC Card 
Spares  suitcase -  some dividers-   removed  (1 each)

The   Game is  Afoot! Please  check  your  files  for ANYTHING  related to  the 
 UNIVAC  422  or  UDT  Training  computers!  -   Ed Sharpe -   Archivist   for 
SMECC

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/31/18 6:13 AM, Adam Sampson via cctalk wrote:
> Al Kossow via cctalk  writes:
> 
>> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
>> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of
>> metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures
> 
> It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:
> 
> https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Awalnutcreekcdrom[]=identifier=csv

Most of the entries have no date metadata, so here is a sorted list extracting 
the dates from the identifier field.
At least you can get an rough idea of what is there, and where there are 
duplicates.

??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_February
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_June_199
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_March_19
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_November
??  
ADA_-_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_Septembe
??  Bootable_Slackware_4.0_2
??  Garbo
??  LibrisBritannia
??  MS-DOS_Archives_Volume_One_Walnut_Creek

198812  
NOAA_Aeronautical_Data_Sampler_CD-ROM_Next_Generation_Cartography_December_1988

1992Desktop_Library_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_1992
199201  X11R5_GNU_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_January_1992
199203  CDROM_March92
199203  Source_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992
199203  Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1992
199204  MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1992
199205  OS2_Archive_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1992
199206  SIMTEL_0692
199207  Cica_July92
199208  GIFs_Galore_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_August_1992
199208  GifsGalore_Aug92
199209  Simtel20_Sept92
199211  CICA_MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1992
199211  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1992
199212  cdrom-simtel20msdosarchivedecember1992walnutcr
199212  simtel1292_SIMTEL_1292_Walnut_Creek
199212  X11R5_GNU_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1992

199303  Libris_Britannia_Walnut_Creek_March_1993
199306  Aminet_CD-ROM_for_the_Commodore_Amiga_Computer_Walnut_Creek_June_1993
199306  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_June_1993
199306  La_Coleccion_Walnut_Creek_Junio_1993
199308  cdrom-cicamicrosoftwindows0893
199310  GIFs_Galore_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_October_1993
199310  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_October_1993
199312  CICA_MS_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993
199312  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993
199312  GEMini_Atari_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_December_1993

199401  C_Users_Group_Library_Walnut_Creek_January_1994
199401  FreeBSD_CD-ROM_Version_2.0_Walnut_Creek_January_1994
199402  
Aminet_CD-ROM_For_the_Commodore_Amiga_Computer_Walnut_Creek_February_1994
199402  Clip-Art_Cornucopeia_CD-ROM_February_1994
199402  Fractal_Frenzy_Walnut_Creek_Japanese_February_1994
199402  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_February_1994
199403  
ADA_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Aminet_CD-ROM_For_the_Commodore_Amiga_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Source_Code_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199403  Tax_Info_1993_Walnut_Creek_March_1994
199404  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1994
199405  Sentimental_Wings_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1994
199405  Sys_V_r4_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_May_1994
199406  4.4_BSD_Lite_Export_Walnut_Creek_June_1994
199407  
ADA_The_International_Language_for_Software_Engineers_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  Kirks_Comm_Disc_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  Visions_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199407  X11R6_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_July_1994
199408  C_Users_Group_Library_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  CDROM_of_CDROMs_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199408  Toolkit_for_Linux_Walnut_Creek_August_1994
199409  CICA_Shareware_for_Windows_Walnut_Creek_September_1994
199409  Simtel_MSDOS_1994-09
199409  Welcome_to_Africa_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_September_1994
199411  cdrom-1994-11-walnutcreek-cpm
199411  CPM_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  DOOM_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  La_Coleccion_Walnut_Creek_Noviembre_1994
199411  Plug_and_Play_Linux_Walnut_Creek_November_1994
199411  Ready_to_Run_Hobbes_OS2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_November_1994

1995cdrom-x11r610395
199501  Music_Workshop_Walnut_Creek_January_1995
199501  Simtel_MSDOS_Walnut_Creek_CD-ROM_January_1995
199501  Walnut_Creek_Sampler_44_CDROMs_to_Try_Walnut_Creek_January_1995
199502  
CICA_Ultimate_Collection_of_Shareware_for_Windows_Walnut_Creek_February_1995
199503  Hobbes_OS2_Archived_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_March_1995
199503  Slackware_Ready_to_Run_Linux_Walnut_Creek_March_1995
199504  Best_of_Walnut_Creek_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Clips_for_QuickTime_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Giga_Games_2_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  Raytrace_The_Official_POV-RAY_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199504  X11R6_CD-ROM_Walnut_Creek_April_1995
199505  Simtel_MSDOS_1995-05

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:


On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:


Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.



I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than
to shoot at the messenger.


No worries, I'm good at ducking. ;)

g.

--
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http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 05:01:18AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> 
> Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.
> 

I'm sorry for barking up the wrong tree :) I should know better than
to shoot at the messenger.

Cheers,
Pontus.

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Adam Sampson via cctalk]

Al Kossow via cctalk  writes:

> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of
> metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures

It's fairly well hidden, but you can indeed do that:

https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=collection%3Awalnutcreekcdrom[]=identifier=csv

There's some documentation here: .
The "advanced search" form is handy for setting up queries like the above.

The Python internetarchive module comes with a command-line tool "ia"
which can drive much of archive.org's interface programmatically; I use
it for searching and batch uploads/downloads rather than the web
interface.

Cheers,

-- 
Adam Sampson  

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Bill Degnan via cctalk]

>
>
> >>
> >
> > It's very time consuming to browse through that though.
> >
> > It would be nice if you could make the service more
> > accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for
> > each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you
> > some bandwith as well.
>
> Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.
>
> g.
>
>
For the record you're saying that you have a circus and a monkey but
they're not to be used for such things, or that the Inernet Archive uses
circus monkeys. Because I think that's great, once the circus no longer
needs them that they have a home doing meaningful work.

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:




On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL

You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
"pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
you'll get a block of text that describes each one.



It's very time consuming to browse through that though.

It would be nice if you could make the service more
accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for
each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you
some bandwith as well.


Take it up with the Internet Archive.  Not my circus, not my monkey.

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:53:18PM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
> >
> >>Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
> >>https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> >
> >It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
> >instead of
> >a bunch of pretty pictures
> >
> >THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
> You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those
> "pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and
> you'll get a block of text that describes each one.
> 

It's very time consuming to browse through that though.

It would be nice if you could make the service more 
accessible. A csv export of a table including metadata for 
each entry shouldn't be so hard. It would probably save you 
some bandwith as well.

/P

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Bill Degnan via cctalk]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:09 AM geneb via cctalk 
wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>
> > I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
> > is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
> > Bill
> >
> Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced.
>
> g.
>
>
>
WOW.  ok

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:


I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
Bill


Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced.

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Bill Degnan via cctalk]

I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso
is this it?  ~635 Mb - 46860 files.
Bill

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 10:52 PM Al Kossow via cctalk 
wrote:

>
>
> On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
>
> > This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either
> exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
> > die, whichever comes first. ;)
>
> Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
> Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
>
> For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out
> of disk space.
> I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly
> been trying to
> find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.
>
>

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Peter Corlett via cctalk]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:46:50PM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:
>> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
>> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
> It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata
> instead of a bunch of pretty pictures

If you are looking for machine-parsable metadata, have a look at the RSS feed.

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Ethan via cctalk]

You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those "pretty 
pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll get a block 
of text that describes each one.

g.


I would assume he means text listings / directory listing type view.

- Ethan

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote:




On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL
You realize that you can click a button and get a text list of those 
"pretty pictures", right?  Click the "Show Details" checkbox and you'll 
get a block of text that describes each one.


g.



--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:


Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives.

I've got some WC CDs here:

"Internet USENET source code."  CDs 1,2,3

C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997

"Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set.
---
Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code
published in magazine form, as well as a few books.  Put out by I-Mode,
Inc.  Some of the later ones are still in shrink wrap--I just got too
overloaded with the information.   I may have volumes 1-3, but I'm not sure.

Let me know and I'll some or all of them in your book box (they qualify
as "media mail", right?


That's my understanding, yes.


I probably have a ton of other goodies, since I just started tossing CDs
in a big box.


That works for me, thanks!

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote:

> Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
> https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom

It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata 
instead of
a bunch of pretty pictures

THAT is where IA is a colossal FAIL

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Chuck Guzis via cctalk]

Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives.

I've got some WC CDs here:

"Internet USENET source code."  CDs 1,2,3

C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997

"Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set.
---
Developer Source Vols. 4-10 (1995-1998); archives of source code
published in magazine form, as well as a few books.  Put out by I-Mode,
Inc.  Some of the later ones are still in shrink wrap--I just got too
overloaded with the information.   I may have volumes 1-3, but I'm not sure.

Let me know and I'll some or all of them in your book box (they qualify
as "media mail", right?

I probably have a ton of other goodies, since I just started tossing CDs
in a big box.

--Chuck

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Ethan via cctalk]

Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.
For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.


I was recently talking to friends about making a Pi project with the Pi 
camera above a CD-ROM drawer, and a pushbutton to trigger picture of CD + 
ISO image automagically.


I have some AIX CDs, Oracle CDs, and old FreeBSD/Linux CDs to archive.

Years ago I had a robotic CD changer that could cycle through about 200 
discs hands off. Seems like it would be ideal now :-)


Are you short on disk space?


 --
: Ethan O'Toole

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:




On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:


This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
die, whichever comes first. ;)


Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.


All the shareware CDs are in a collection called "cdbbsarchive".
https://archive.org/details/cdbbsarchive

I'm going for all the low-hanging fruit first - sets of CDs from the likes 
of Nightowl, PsL, etc. Then I'll move on to the singles.  It's still a 
huge job though. :)  I've got a 5TB NAS that I'm storing these on, so I'm 
in no danger of running out of space. :)



For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.


Here's the Walnut Creek collection: 
https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom


I'm pretty sure these came straight from the guy that owned Walnut Creek.

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:

> This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
> exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I
> die, whichever comes first. ;)

Even a full list of what CDs Jason has there w/o indexing would be helpful.
Trying to figure out what is there is a nightmare.

For a while, I had about 400gb of cd images on bitsavers until we ran out of 
disk space.
I probably have a few hundred more gb I've read since then. I've slowly been 
trying to
find a full set of physical disks from Walnut Creek for CHM's archive.

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Tomasz Rola wrote:


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:

First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.
The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s
and early 90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows
product line was sold in the early 90's.

[...]

Wow. So many goodies.


There's more coming too.  Pics of original install media, some corporate 
"swag", and a short historical write-up by Ethan Winer and maybe some 
others.


--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Ali wrote:




Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.

http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html

What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of
the
zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal
was
to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
search spider bots.


Very nice! Thank you for doing this!

You're welcome.  It's been a fun project.  It does suck up space fast 
though.  Each CD unpacks to about between 1.2G and 1.7GB of data. :)


g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Tomasz Rola via cctalk]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:11:14AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.
> The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s
> and early 90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows
> product line was sold in the early 90's.
[...]

Wow. So many goodies.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.  **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...  **
** **
** Tomasz Rola  mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **

RE: Updates at retroarchive.org...

[Ali via cctalk]

 
> Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.
> 
> http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html
> 
> What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make
> them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of
> the
> zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal
> was
> to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and
> search spider bots.

Very nice! Thank you for doing this!

-Ali

Updates at retroarchive.org...

[geneb via cctalk]

First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line.  The 
company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s and early 
90's.  Note these are all DOS products - the Windows product line was sold 
in the early 90's.


http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html

When the documentation arrives, I'll be paying the IA to get it all 
scanned.  It's a lot cheaper than me buying a Scribe scanner or building a 
DIY version. :)


Next up is a HUGE CD-ROM and FTP site archive I've been working on.

http://www.retroarchive.org/cdrom/index.html

What I've done here is pull CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive and make 
them easily browseable.  I've also extracted the contents of each of the 
zip, etc. files and created index files for those as well.  The goal was 
to make the material more easily accessible for both us meat bags and 
search spider bots.


This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either 
exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I die, whichever comes 
first. ;)


There's a number of holes in the sets that are on the IA - if you've got a 
disc that would fill a hole, please consider making an ISO of the disc and 
upload that along with a photo of the disc to the IA and then let me know 
so I can get it processed.


I'm also looking to acquire a manual set for QuickBASIC 4.5 and the 
Microsoft Professional Development System 7.1.  If you have either one, 
please contact me!


Thanks!

g.

--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby.  Geeks collect hobbies.

ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

RE: Blog in portuguese - are updates allowed/wanted?

[Jay West via cctalk]

Definitely OK by me, does anyone object?

Also don't forget www.tabalabs.com.br as well :)

J

-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre 
Souza via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 2:52 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Subject: Blog in portuguese - are updates allowed/wanted?

Dear friends
I have a blog in portuguese where I write my adventures in repairing and 
maintaining old computers. Today's post is:
http://tabajara-labs.blogspot.com/2018/04/msx-yamaha-yis303yis503-e-seus-irmaos.html

Should I post updates to my blog here? Are these wanted/allowed? I believe yes 
to both

Thanks
Alexandre

(and don't forget to click on the ads and share around :) ) (and check often 
the blog, there are tons of great info :D) (and google translate is your 
friend!) (and the groove is in the heart :D )

Blog in portuguese - are updates allowed/wanted?

[Alexandre Souza via cctalk]

Dear friends
I have a blog in portuguese where I write my adventures in repairing and
maintaining old computers. Today's post is:
http://tabajara-labs.blogspot.com/2018/04/msx-yamaha-yis303yis503-e-seus-irmaos.html

Should I post updates to my blog here? Are these wanted/allowed? I believe
yes to both

Thanks
Alexandre

(and don't forget to click on the ads and share around :) )
(and check often the blog, there are tons of great info :D)
(and google translate is your friend!)
(and the groove is in the heart :D )

updates to the Little Orphan Tomy Tutor site

[Cameron Kaiser via cctalk]

The Little Orphan Tomy Tutor site has finally been updated again:

* Tutti II 2.0, the tape-enabled Tomy Tutor emulator, is updated with lots of
  core fixes (including a new ALU core derived from MAME/MESS), improved
  faster graphics with fixed 9918A palette, and all-new high quality
  SN76489AN sound emulation. Still running on any Power Mac or Intel Mac
  from 10.4 to 10.12 (and AltiVec-accelerated on G4 and G5 computers).

* New demotapes (compatible with Tutti II), including four of the Japanese
  Pyuuta cassette "games" converted for American systems, and another James
  Host masterpiece BASIC game.

* Expanded BASIC programming section with more keywords.

* More screenshots and entries on the Tomy Tutor catalogue.

* Updated trade list.

* Other custodial changes.

See you there: http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/

Next up is some additional photos, particularly of my Pyuuta PR1000 cassette
deck and the Pyuuta-kun I got off Yahoo! JP, and some upgrades for XTOMYDEV
to do proper quantization of sound input on a wider array of systems. I'm
hoping to have that done in a couple more months.

-- 
 personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com
-- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal ---

Re: More updates

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 8/26/17 7:36 AM, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
> For official bitsavers mirrors, rsyncd has been turned back on (it was off
> while bitsavers was migrated to the new classiccmp server, and during
> testing).

A HUGE thank you to Jay for taking the time to do this. I had about 100,000 
pages
in pdf's in my upload queue, which I took care of yesterday.

I've also made a reorganization to bitsavers, breaking what was in 'pdf' into 
'computing'
'communications' and 'test equipment'

'computing' is still in a directory called 'pdf' so the change should have 
minimal
impact on the mirrors. There are still some stragglers in there that will get 
moved to
the two new heirarchies as I find them.

More updates

[Jay West via cctalk]

For official bitsavers mirrors, rsyncd has been turned back on (it was off
while bitsavers was migrated to the new classiccmp server, and during
testing). If you host a bitsavers mirror and have any issues with rsync (you
will, if you were using the IP instead of the host name) please let me know
asap.

 

Websites hosted by the classiccmp server are being migrated one at a time
from the old server to the new server. For most of them, I can adjust DNS
(yes, the IP address of the classiccmp server is changing) so the change
will be transparent but for a few of them, I ask that the site owners be
ready and waiting to change DNS.

 

The disk space allocation for the free hosting vintage computer related
websites has been doubled, separately from the increase in disk space for
bitsavers. There is actually quite a backlog of people/organizations that
have requested free hosting for their vintage computer website and I have
had to put them all on hold for a long time due to shortage of disk space.
With this increase in disk space, I will be contacting each one soon and
saying "if you still want to proceed, I'm ready". If you wanted a free site
hosted and I do not contact you within the next 30 days, please reach out to
me again.

 

There has always been plenty of available space on our san, but the
classiccmp server has had some precarious issues preventing an easy increase
in space. I've rectified that by just spinning up a new VM and migrating
data. This also gets us on recent versions of freebsd, mailman,
apache/php/mysql/etc.

 

As long promised. and if I find enough round-tuits, the list(s) will get
recombined into one list again. Not sure I have the motivation to tackle
that one, but we'll see.

 

J

 

 

VCF West XII updates

[Evan Koblentz via cctalk]

Everyone,

Online ticket sales for VCF West end this Friday night. Of course you 
can buy tickets at the gate, but you'd save time going online.


All the latest show details are available at 
http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/.


Less than two weeks away!!!


Evan Koblentz, director
Vintage Computer Federation
a 501(c)3 educational non-profit

e...@vcfed.org
(646) 546-

www.vcfed.org
facebook.com/vcfederation
twitter.com/vcfederation

PDP 11/03 for sale (re-post with corrections, updates)

[Sellam Ismail via cctalk]

I posted for sale last week a "LSI 11" system which I've since had help
properly identifying as an 11/03.  I never called it an 11/34 but my
photobin indicated it was, and some people were confused, so my apologies.

The updated information is in the replies to the original ad (link below),
along with photos of the whole unit, which I neglected to include
originally:

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?57667-LLNL-LSI-11-Homebrew-system

Also, I have decided upon a $200 asking price, or your best offer.

I will also be replying to those who have already contacted me about this
system.

Thanks!

Sellam

Re: Any updates on the 3b2 emulator?

[Seth Morabito]

* On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 12:16:30AM -0500, Jerry Kemp <ot...@oryx.us> wrote:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> Its been a few months, and I am wondering if the 3b2 emulator project is
> still moving forward, or put on the back burner for now?
> 
> Thanks for any updates,
> 
> Jerry

Hi Jerry and the list,

Unfortunately, it's been back-burnered for now. The key factor in
deciding to postpone work on it is simply a lack of documentation.
There was far too much guesswork involved in the emulator. If only I
had some kind of description of the architecture -- even a block
diagram that included interrupt sources would help -- I think I could
have made it further.

As it is, it almost half boots. Not bad for pure guesswork and reverse
engineering from SVR3 source code, but not good enough to be usable.

-Seth
-- 
Seth Morabito
s...@loomcom.com

cut some updates and BS-windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb-explained/

[COURYHOUSE]

Due to the gnashing and wailing on windows  10 updates recently -  
wondering if this offers some relief!
 
Ed#
 
http://www.howtogeek.com/273824/windows-10-without-the-cruft-windows-10-ltsb
-explained/

Any updates on the 3b2 emulator?

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello Seth,

Its been a few months, and I am wondering if the 3b2 emulator project is still 
moving forward, or put on the back burner for now?


Thanks for any updates,

Jerry

Re: VCFMW 11 Updates and Special Guest

[Jason T]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Jörg Hoppe  wrote:
> Jason,
>
> Update to the exhibition "Jack Rubin/Joerg Hoppe/Mark Matlock - Digital
> PDP-8 minicomputers and a preview of the PiDP-11 "
> I'm also showing an original PDP-15 panel with SimH simulation behind.
> See
> http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/blinkenbone-physical-panels/256-pdp-15-console-panel-on-blinkenbone

Very cool project!  We're going to be honored to have it at our show.
I've updated the site with the new info and link.

-j

Re: VCFMW 11 Updates and Special Guest

[Jörg Hoppe]

Jason,

Update to the exhibition "Jack Rubin/Joerg Hoppe/Mark Matlock - Digital 
PDP-8 minicomputers and a preview of the PiDP-11 "

I'm also showing an original PDP-15 panel with SimH simulation behind.
See 
http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/blinkenbone-physical-panels/256-pdp-15-console-panel-on-blinkenbone


best regards,
Joerg

Am 08.08.2016 um 23:49 schrieb Jason T:

Hello retro fans - we are approaching the one month point before the
Eleventh Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and plans are quickly
coming together.  Here are a few announcements and updates to bring
you up to speed:

- We're happy to announce our very special guest speaker, former
Commodore engineer, Bil Herd!  Bil will deliver an entertaining
90-minute talk and Q on his time at Commodore and his many
post-Commodore adventures in engineering that continue today.

- We are going to be packed FULL!  And that means full of great
exhibits, including the ones listed here:  http://vcfmw.org/ex.html.
The main hall's tables are all accounted for but there will be some
unassigned space in one of the side rooms for late-comers and
impromptu displays.

- VCFMW Auction - an experiment last year, now a feature!  Quality
entertainment and a fundraiser for the show, 4pm Saturday will see
another auction of donated items at low starting bids.  If you have
items you wish to donate for auction, please get in touch with show
organizers Friday night or early Saturday.  Auctions items need not be
classic computing related.  No registration is required for the
auction.

- The Free Pile tradition continues!  One corner of the "Grove" side
room (http://vcfmw.org/HIEGV_FloorplanDetail.jpg) will be dedicated to
the infamous Free Pile - leave your junk there but be prepared to take
it home if it's still there Sunday afternoon!  No printers, please!

- Hotel rooms are still available at the $84/night convention rate;
please follow the link at http://vcfmw.org or use the code "VCF" when
calling the hotel; if you are unable to obtain the con rate, please
let me know as I may have to ask the hotel to expand the reservation
block.

- We remind you that VCF Midwest is a community-funded show; we
receive no funding from any other organization.  If you appreciate
what we do and you are able, please visit the donation links on our
site at http://vcfmw.org.

Please feel free to help us get the word out and re-post this message
in your favorite vintage-related forum.  Thank you for your interest
and support and we'll see you in September!

-j

VCFMW 11 Updates and Special Guest

[Jason T]

Hello retro fans - we are approaching the one month point before the
Eleventh Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and plans are quickly
coming together.  Here are a few announcements and updates to bring
you up to speed:

- We're happy to announce our very special guest speaker, former
Commodore engineer, Bil Herd!  Bil will deliver an entertaining
90-minute talk and Q on his time at Commodore and his many
post-Commodore adventures in engineering that continue today.

- We are going to be packed FULL!  And that means full of great
exhibits, including the ones listed here:  http://vcfmw.org/ex.html.
The main hall's tables are all accounted for but there will be some
unassigned space in one of the side rooms for late-comers and
impromptu displays.

- VCFMW Auction - an experiment last year, now a feature!  Quality
entertainment and a fundraiser for the show, 4pm Saturday will see
another auction of donated items at low starting bids.  If you have
items you wish to donate for auction, please get in touch with show
organizers Friday night or early Saturday.  Auctions items need not be
classic computing related.  No registration is required for the
auction.

- The Free Pile tradition continues!  One corner of the "Grove" side
room (http://vcfmw.org/HIEGV_FloorplanDetail.jpg) will be dedicated to
the infamous Free Pile - leave your junk there but be prepared to take
it home if it's still there Sunday afternoon!  No printers, please!

- Hotel rooms are still available at the $84/night convention rate;
please follow the link at http://vcfmw.org or use the code "VCF" when
calling the hotel; if you are unable to obtain the con rate, please
let me know as I may have to ask the hotel to expand the reservation
block.

- We remind you that VCF Midwest is a community-funded show; we
receive no funding from any other organization.  If you appreciate
what we do and you are able, please visit the donation links on our
site at http://vcfmw.org.

Please feel free to help us get the word out and re-post this message
in your favorite vintage-related forum.  Thank you for your interest
and support and we'll see you in September!

-j

VCFMW 11 Updates and Special Guest

[Jason T]

Hello retro fans - we are approaching the one month point before the
Eleventh Vintage Computer Festival Midwest and plans are quickly
coming together.  Here are a few announcements and updates to bring
you up to speed:

- We're happy to announce our very special guest speaker, former
Commodore engineer, Bil Herd!  Bil will deliver an entertaining
90-minute talk and Q on his time at Commodore and his many
post-Commodore adventures in engineering that continue today.

- We are going to be packed FULL!  And that means full of great
exhibits, including the ones listed here:  http://vcfmw.org/ex.html.
The main hall's tables are all accounted for but there will be some
unassigned space in one of the side rooms for late-comers and
impromptu displays.

- VCFMW Auction - an experiment last year, now a feature!  Quality
entertainment and a fundraiser for the show, 4pm Saturday will see
another auction of donated items at low starting bids.  If you have
items you wish to donate for auction, please get in touch with show
organizers Friday night or early Saturday.  Auctions items need not be
classic computing related.  No registration is required for the
auction.

- The Free Pile tradition continues!  One corner of the "Grove" side
room (http://vcfmw.org/HIEGV_FloorplanDetail.jpg) will be dedicated to
the infamous Free Pile - leave your junk there but be prepared to take
it home if it's still there Sunday afternoon!  No printers, please!

- Hotel rooms are still available at the $84/night convention rate;
please follow the link at http://vcfmw.org or use the code "VCF" when
calling the hotel; if you are unable to obtain the con rate, please
let me know as I may have to ask the hotel to expand the reservation
block.

- We remind you that VCF Midwest is a community-funded show; we
receive no funding from any other organization.  If you appreciate
what we do and you are able, please visit the donation links on our
site at http://vcfmw.org.

Please feel free to help us get the word out and re-post this message
in your favorite vintage-related forum.  Thank you for your interest
and support and we'll see you in September!

-j

RE: VCFed auction updates

[Smith, Wayne]

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:20:11 -0400
From: "Bill Sudbrink" 
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'"

Subject: 

> I think that VCFed (was MARCH) had that one
> signed at the same workshop that mine was
> signed at.  A couple of others were signed
> at the same time.  Picture of Herb getting
> his signed (right after mine) here:
> 
> http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/sol_1.html
 
Woz was at VCF 8.0 (2005) and I quickly bought a Macintosh Portable for $50 
from one of the vendors just so I could have him sign something - got a picture 
of him doing so as well:

http://tinyurl.com/jkxcv89

Re: VCFed auction updates

[COURYHOUSE]

yes there was a vast difference between him and Jobs
 
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 6/14/2016 9:32:18 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
cct...@snarc.net writes:

> Woz  sounds like a nice guy.

He's incredibly nice. It always impresses  me.

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Evan Koblentz]

Woz sounds like a nice guy.


He's incredibly nice. It always impresses me.

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Evan Koblentz]

It would be cool to get it signed if he comes by


We expect to know by July-ish is he'll attend. It depends on his travel 
schedule.


> and is in the mood to do so.

Always! He and Crunch signed by shirt at one of the original VCF Wests.

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Rod Smallwood]

On 14/06/2016 12:17, jwsmobile wrote:



On 6/14/2016 1:26 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:


Well the signature does not a lot for me but the system looks really 
nice.

Just as I remember them.
Wozniak signed systems sell for a lot more than unsigned. Assuming the 
bit Woz isn't faked of course, so one needs to get good authentication.


I have an original unit I bought with a packing box, but I don't know 
if I'll bring it along.  PS died some years ago, otherwise all 
original as I bought it from Advanced Computer Products.  It would be 
cool to get it signed if he comes by and is in the mood to do so.


Thanks
Jim

Might be worth getting the PS fixed then.
Woz sounds like a nice guy.
With that kind of money you would not normally care much.

R

Re: VCFed auction updates

[jwsmobile]

On 6/14/2016 1:26 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:


Well the signature does not a lot for me but the system looks really 
nice.

Just as I remember them.
Wozniak signed systems sell for a lot more than unsigned.  Assuming the 
bit Woz isn't faked of course, so one needs to get good authentication.


I have an original unit I bought with a packing box, but I don't know if 
I'll bring it along.  PS died some years ago, otherwise all original as 
I bought it from Advanced Computer Products.  It would be cool to get it 
signed if he comes by and is in the mood to do so.


Thanks
Jim

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Rod Smallwood]

On 13/06/2016 20:03, couryho...@aol.com wrote:

should have  kept the good  signed stuff
and  sold  the  lesser  stuff perhaps?
unless you had  them sign a stack of them.
Ed#
  
  
In a message dated 6/13/2016 12:00:32 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,

cct...@snarc.net writes:


One  thing I did want to ask was, there was some debate about an original
  signed Apple. I couldn't make out if there was or was an announcement or

if it  did or

did not get sold.

The auction has four days  remaining:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890608380.

We're also  auctioning a signed  Sol-20:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890605553

Both machines are  super-clean, fully working, and autographed by their
respective inventors  (Woz/Felsenstein).

All proceeds go to VCFed which is a  non-profit.



Also what had northern California go to do with  it?

Nothing. :)  Someone asked, in a wishful thinking moment, if  the
announcement is about a new VCFestival in southern California. I  replied
it's not and that northern Calif. is a good place to visit for VCF  West
this summer.



Well the signature does not a lot for me but the system looks really nice.
Just as I remember them.

At the time I did a line in modified 12" TV's as monitors. (sold loads)
There was also a silver cased version.

Rod

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Evan Koblentz]

should have  kept the good  signed stuff
and  sold  the  lesser  stuff perhaps?
unless you had  them sign a stack of them.


I think that VCFed (was MARCH) had that one
signed at the same workshop that mine was
signed at.


No. These are different ones. These were donated to us very recently 
specifically for auctioning as a fundraiser.

RE: VCFed auction updates

[Bill Sudbrink]

COURYHOUSE wrote:
> 
> should have  kept the good  signed stuff
> and  sold  the  lesser  stuff perhaps?
> unless you had  them sign a stack of them.

I think that VCFed (was MARCH) had that one
signed at the same workshop that mine was
signed at.  A couple of others were signed
at the same time.  Picture of Herb getting
his signed (right after mine) here:

http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/sol_1.html
 
Bill S.

Re: VCFed auction updates

[Evan Koblentz]

should have  kept the good  signed stuff
and  sold  the  lesser  stuff perhaps?


We have plenty of good stuff. :)  These two systems were donated 
specifically for us to auction as a fundraiser.

Re: VCFed auction updates

[COURYHOUSE]

should have  kept the good  signed stuff
and  sold  the  lesser  stuff perhaps?
unless you had  them sign a stack of them.
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 6/13/2016 12:00:32 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
cct...@snarc.net writes:

> One  thing I did want to ask was, there was some debate about an original
>  signed Apple. I couldn't make out if there was or was an announcement or 
if it  did or
> did not get sold.

The auction has four days  remaining:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890608380.

We're also  auctioning a signed  Sol-20:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890605553

Both machines are  super-clean, fully working, and autographed by their 
respective inventors  (Woz/Felsenstein).

All proceeds go to VCFed which is a  non-profit.


> Also what had northern California go to do with  it?

Nothing. :)  Someone asked, in a wishful thinking moment, if  the 
announcement is about a new VCFestival in southern California. I  replied 
it's not and that northern Calif. is a good place to visit for VCF  West 
this summer.

VCFed auction updates

[Evan Koblentz]

One thing I did want to ask was, there was some debate about an original
signed Apple. I couldn't make out if there was or was an announcement or if it 
did or
did not get sold.


The auction has four days remaining:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890608380.

We're also auctioning a signed Sol-20:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191890605553

Both machines are super-clean, fully working, and autographed by their 
respective inventors (Woz/Felsenstein).


All proceeds go to VCFed which is a non-profit.



Also what had northern California go to do with it?


Nothing. :)  Someone asked, in a wishful thinking moment, if the 
announcement is about a new VCFestival in southern California. I replied 
it's not and that northern Calif. is a good place to visit for VCF West 
this summer.

Updates to the Alpha Micro Phun Machine

[Cameron Kaiser]

For those of you not on vcfed, yes, this is a real, live Alpha Micro Eagle
300 with AlphaTCP serving you information on the unusual Alpha Micro 68K
systems and their peculiar DEC-like operating system, AMOS.

New in this iteration is a lot of link cleanup, some custodial edits and a
number of new downloads, including a tool for browsing ISO 9660 CDs and
even a Rogue/Nethack port!

http://ampm.floodgap.com/

(And if you don't believe it's an Alpha Micro:)

http://ampm.floodgap.com/cgi-bin/systat

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-- Bowl angry. 

Re: H-11 Updates

[Zane Healy]

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Richard Cini  wrote:
> 
> All —
> 
> It’s been a productive two weeks with my pseudo-DEC Heath H-11. I got myself 
> an Emulex UC07 SCSI card and a SCSI2SD SCSI drive emulator. After a week of 
> noodling around with why the on-board diagnostics wouldn’t load (stupid LTC 
> jumper) I was able to confirm that the board and SCSI2SD setup worked. 
> Tonight I built an RD54 image of RT-11 v5.7 using SIMH and dd’ed it to the 
> card and now I have RT-11 5.7 running over SCSI. Yea!
> 
> Rich

Nice, somehow a SCSI2SD card sounds like a nice upgrade for several of my 
systems, but especially my PDP-11/73.

Zane

H-11 Updates

[Richard Cini]

All —

It’s been a productive two weeks with my pseudo-DEC Heath H-11. I got myself an 
Emulex UC07 SCSI card and a SCSI2SD SCSI drive emulator. After a week of 
noodling around with why the on-board diagnostics wouldn’t load (stupid LTC 
jumper) I was able to confirm that the board and SCSI2SD setup worked. Tonight 
I built an RD54 image of RT-11 v5.7 using SIMH and dd’ed it to the card and now 
I have RT-11 5.7 running over SCSI. Yea!

Rich

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http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

Updates

[Guy Sotomayor]

I know some folks have been trying to get in touch with me for a while and I 
want to apologize for not getting back in touch with folks before now.

The short and long of it has been the fact that first my wife had health 
issues, then I had health issues and finally in the middle of all of this my 
ISP decided to move me to a new static IP block which caused my email to be on 
various black-lists that took a while to get off of (so I could *see* the 
emails, I just couldn't respond).

So, that's why folks haven't heard from me.

Up until the above, I had been making steady progress on the MEM11 code.  Right 
now I have most of the forth code written along with a J1 simulator (written in 
forth).  I was in the process of debugging the simulator when all of the above 
occurred and I haven't been able to get back to it yet.  I hope to start on it 
again in the next few weeks.

TTFN - Guy

Re: Updates

[Mark J. Blair]

I hope that you and your wife are doing better now!

-- 
Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net
http://www.nf6x.net/

Re: Updates

[Guy Sotomayor]

 On Jun 15, 2015, at 9:13 AM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
 
 I hope that you and your wife are doing better now!

Thanks.

She's doing great!  I'm still recovering.

TTFN - Guy