Eric Swenson got the original-ish MACSYMA built and running in ITS.
It's frankensteined together from a mix of source and FASL files from
ITS, Lisp machine Macsyma sources, etc.
From: Lars Brinkhoff
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:28 AM
> Al Kossow wrote:
>>> SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
>>> 10,000 TTL IC'S
>>> 3 MIPS
>> Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
> This says the Superfoonly was designed. Doesn't say it was actua
For extra credit was it drawn in any particular vintage software or
computer?
Not to my knowledge.
Apple II
IMSAI
ColecoVision
That's exactly right. We wanted to show some of his favorite systems. We
already knew he likes cats, robots, Star Trek, and building electronic
gadgets.
In any event, nice shirt :-)
Thank you.
Yes, they merged @ 1996 with the new company being named AII ("A" eye-eye).
Then the combined company was bought by AGFA @2001. All the big daily
newspapers used their photo typesetters, the Autologic model APS6 and/or the
III 3850.
They were fast and didn't break much and used Harlequin Ri
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 07:07:23PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Back in the 70s, 4000-series CMOS was among the slowest logic around.
I really wish I still had one technical magazine that came out during
the late 70s/early 80s. (I don't remember which one it was, anymore.)
It was devote
> And, if you went to 74S, Fast or 74AS, you could easily match the ECL
> 10K performance. Now, there were a bunch of tricks that you could use with
> ECL that helped, like wired-OR instead of adding a tri-state buffer. ECL
> had a notable advantage in 1970, but as TTL derivatives continued to
>
Wayne S wrote:
> Was this the machine that Triple I/Autologic created to digitize old
> color film movies?
> AFIK, it used lasers to scan the film and create digital color seps
> that were recombined later in the process. It was used in the Kate
> Winslett / Leonardo DiCaprio remake of "Titanic".
On 01/31/2018 01:27 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
Al Kossow wrote:
SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
10,000 TTL IC'S
3 MIPS
Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
This says the Superfoonly was designed. Doesn't say it was actually
built. Triple-I fund
On 01/31/2018 04:26 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> Then again, DEC Western Research Lab in the mid 1980s did an
> interesting project to do a full custom single ECL chip
> implementation of a MIPS (or Alpha?) CPU, intended to run at 1 GHz.
> The CAD system they built for this was quite intere
> On Jan 31, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:00:53AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> An all-ECL redesign (details escape me) resulted in no appreciable
>> improvement in performance.
>
> But I'm sure the local power company appreciated
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:00:53AM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> An all-ECL redesign (details escape me) resulted in no appreciable
> improvement in performance.
But I'm sure the local power company appreciated the extra revenue they
got from it.
(I recently donated the little chunk of E
For extra credit was it drawn in any particular vintage software or
computer?
Looks like it to me.
Shelf looks like:
Apple II
IMSAI
CollecoVision
Of course, I could definitely be wrong and it could be a PDP in middle or
another unusual model (sol-20?) on top.
In any event, nice shirt :-)
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:15 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wr
Gene wrote...
Just...no.
Yeah, agreed. No.
Fred wrote...
The "nuts" and "bolts" should be capacitors and chips.
The squared off U shaped object nearest on the desk >should be
replaced by
an Escher Fork (aka impossible >trident).
soldering iron and scope, instead of hammer.
maybe some magic
All,
Thanks for the info. Once I opened the drive up I saw that there was a
pack still in there. At first I was excited to get a free pack but then I
quickly realized that the heads weren't locked. In fact, they were deployed
about an inch into the surface. I retracted them manually. I can't s
Was this the machine that Triple I/Autologic created to digitize old color
film movies?
AFIK, it used lasers to scan the film and create digital color seps that were
recombined later in the process. It was used in the Kate Winslett / Leonardo
DiCaprio remake of "Titanic". Autologic even got a
Hi to all!
I'm looking for a boot medium for my NCR 7500.
It is the model with one cassette drive (standard MCs) and
the monitor in vertical position.
I think this model is called 7510 and there should have been
at least an OS "BASIC +6".
Regards
Rolf
I think it would be helpful if Evan and co. chimed in with the context
of the shirt and why it exists- maybe a bit more about who the guy on
it is.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
Fair enough.
It's a caricature of Dan Roganti aka Ragooman on this list, VC Forum,
various A
Thanks, Evan. With that bit of background, I personally enjoy the design
quite a bit more- and the 'quirkiness' makes a lot more sense.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:03 PM, Evan Koblentz via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I think it would be helpful if Evan and co. chimed in with the contex
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Still looking for ZCPR2 and ZCPR34.
>
Elsewhere nathanael pointed out to me that ZCPR1, ZCPR2, and ZCPR33 may be
found at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/cpmarchives/ftp.php?b=cpm/Software/WalnutCD/cpm
So, still looking for the ZCPR34 source cod
I think it would be helpful if Evan and co. chimed in with the context of the
shirt and why it exists- maybe a bit more about who the guy on it is.
Fair enough.
It's a caricature of Dan Roganti aka Ragooman on this list, VC Forum,
various Apple and S-100 forums, etc.
Dan drew most of the ea
I need to read a couple of Signetics 82S215 bipolar PROMs with my old Data
IO 29B / Unipak 2B. But it needs a 351B-068 adapter.
Does anyone has information regarding this adapter?
I did find an old post in data_io_ep...@groups.io mailinglist that a man
named Alfred Marin had boards. I even found
I've been told the fellow in the picture is someone active from the
community who I had never heard of or recognized, but who has fallen ill.-
which is very sad.
And the shirt was made to recognize him.
My criticism of the shirt was, admittedly, originally based on the
"stereotypical computer coll
On 1/31/18 7:02 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
> Just...no.
TOS shirt on someone who looks like Carl Helmers in 1976?
Find someone that can draw, or get serious about Cubism.
This just looks stupid.
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> That site has NZ-COM and Z3PLUS, but I've dug through it and cannot find
> ZCPR2, ZCPR33, or ZCPR34. It's possible that they are there somewhere and I
> just didn't find them.
>
OK. Found ZCPR33 on that site in the FOG collection, disks 205 t
Gene wrote...
Just...no.
Yeah, agreed. No.
Fred wrote...
The "nuts" and "bolts" should be capacitors and chips.
The squared off U shaped object nearest on the desk >should be replaced by
an Escher Fork (aka impossible >trident).
soldering iron and scope, instead of hammer.
maybe some magic s
On 1/31/18 12:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 1/31/18 11:27 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
>> There was
>> also a fourth whose role (I think) was to build the CAD system which
>> was used for the design. He later went to work for DEC.
>
> SUDS (Stanford University Design
On 1/31/18 11:27 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
> There was
> also a fourth whose role (I think) was to build the CAD system which
> was used for the design. He later went to work for DEC.
SUDS (Stanford University Design System)
also used to design the Livermore S-1
Modified version
> Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> When I asked about Flight of the Navigator many, many moons ago, I
>> remember the F1 did the special effects for that movie. That means
>> Disney had it for a bit.
> Seems it was at Paramount at that time
I see now I got an email from Gary Demos 18 years ago. He didn't
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:29 PM, wrote:
> On January 30, 2018 at 3:21 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> Now I'm still looking for ZCPR2, ZCPR33, and ZCPR34.
>
> I believe you will find this site:
>
> http://www.znode51.de/indexe.htm
>
> useful. I could be wrong, but I think it has the most up to
Al Kossow wrote:
>> SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
>> 10,000 TTL IC'S
>> 3 MIPS
>
> Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
This says the Superfoonly was designed. Doesn't say it was actually
built. Triple-I funded the construction of the updated design, the F
Jonathan Katz wrote:
> When I asked about Flight of the Navigator many, many moons ago, I
> remember the F1 did the special effects for that movie. That means
> Disney had it for a bit.
Seems it was at Paramount at that time:
"Probably the worst moment of my life with the Foonly came after we
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Before I do anything rash, has anyone seriously tried to track down what
> happened to the F1 and/or its software?
When I asked about Flight of the Navigator many, many moons ago, I
remember the F1 did the special effects for
Al Kossow wrote:
> F1 was the machine that Whitney-Demos had, I think, and there was only ever
> one of them.
Before I do anything rash, has anyone seriously tried to track down what
happened to the F1 and/or its software?
On 01/31/2018 12:00 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 01/31/2018 06:00 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Wow, 10 years later, with faster chips, and still the same speed? That's
surprising.
I believe that Honeywell went through a similar exercise at one point.
An all-ECL redesign (details
On 01/31/2018 11:43 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 1/31/18 12:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
10,000 TTL IC'S
3 MIPS
Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
F1 was the machine that Whitney-Demos had, I think, and
Gene wrote...
> Just...no.
Yeah, agreed. No.
Fred wrote...
>The "nuts" and "bolts" should be capacitors and chips.
>The squared off U shaped object nearest on the desk >should be replaced by
an Escher Fork (aka impossible >trident).
>soldering iron and scope, instead of hammer.
>maybe some magic s
On 01/31/2018 06:00 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> Wow, 10 years later, with faster chips, and still the same speed? That's
> surprising.
I believe that Honeywell went through a similar exercise at one point.
An all-ECL redesign (details escape me) resulted in no appreciable
improvement in
On 1/31/18 12:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
> SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
> 10,000 TTL IC'S
> 3 MIPS
Was this ever built? 10K ICs would have been bigger than the Livermore S-1.
F1 was the machine that Whitney-Demos had, I think, and there was only ever
one of them.
On 01/31/2018 08:00 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
wrote:
This document seems to imply that the Super Foonly and the Foonly F1
were separate machines. When I've seen them discussed, they always
seemed to be uses synonymously.
http:/
Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage
Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different
shirt color.
Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any
similarity to him or his interests in the current design is purely
coincide
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote:
Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage
Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different shirt
color.
Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any similarity
to him o
> On Jan 31, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> This document seems to imply that the Super Foonly and the Foonly F1
> were separate machines. When I've seen them discussed, they always
> seemed to be uses synonymously.
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/KC10_Ju
Neat! I'd be interested in a board. I missed out on the ones being handed
out at HOPE in 2008 (The Last HOPE, for which a friend and I embarked on a
last-minute trip to NYC for I think around $150 total, for the both of us).
Thanks,
Jonathan
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:04 AM, David Griffith via cct
Would anyone like a bluebox PCB or two?
This project was inspired by Don Froula's ProjectMF[1] in which he
presents a PIC-based bluebox[2] and PCB (handed out at HOPE in 2008). A
big reason I like AVRs more than PICs is because the development software
is OSS and free. So I reimplemented Do
I believe that's Pavl Zachary...
Photo from 2004 VCF West 7:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/geekmuseum/2908317855
On 1/30/2018 3:55 PM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote:
https://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/vintage-computer.jpg
I was not at this particular VCF out in California in
I believe that my case is identical to the original message of the list and
24-bit is required.
The problematic visual (the one which is not provided by the external
X-server) is the following (I cite an extract from xdpyinfo on the original
system):
* visual:*
*visual id:0x36*
*class
This document seems to imply that the Super Foonly and the Foonly F1
were separate machines. When I've seen them discussed, they always
seemed to be uses synonymously.
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp10/KC10_Jupiter/memos/foonly_19840410.pdf
SUPERFOONLY DESIGNED 1968-71
10,000 TTL IC'S
3 M
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