Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
heck just the empty rack with drawer is worth that - -Yes Guy I know about the anguish of half sets of rack rails - we have that in Arizona also! Ed# SMECC In a message dated 11/2/2019 2:40:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: Well, it's sold. I hope someone here hought it, and will post some better pics and details. If it had been near to me I'd have bought it instantly. A rack, a Tektronix XY display, a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy drives, and a probable PDP-something all for $45? Bet the various items are on slide rails too. How rare is it to get both parts of workable slide rails? Here in Oz, virtually unheard of. Separating slide halves and losing one half seems to be a near universal syndrome with people who part out test equipment. Guy (Australia) At 01:37 PM 2/11/2019 -0400, you wrote: >Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus but 18 bit switches >that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting. > >On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote: >>> Has anyone seen this? It looks like an 18-bit machine. >>> >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/ >> At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's. The CPU at the >> bottom sure looks like a PDP-11, >> I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a >> custom logo. >> >> Jon >> >
Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
Well, it's sold. I hope someone here hought it, and will post some better pics and details. If it had been near to me I'd have bought it instantly. A rack, a Tektronix XY display, a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy drives, and a probable PDP-something all for $45? Bet the various items are on slide rails too. How rare is it to get both parts of workable slide rails? Here in Oz, virtually unheard of. Separating slide halves and losing one half seems to be a near universal syndrome with people who part out test equipment. Guy (Australia) At 01:37 PM 2/11/2019 -0400, you wrote: >Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus but 18 bit switches >that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting. > >On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote: >>> Has anyone seen this? It looks like an 18-bit machine. >>> >>> >>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/ >> At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's. The CPU at the >> bottom sure looks like a PDP-11, >> I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a >> custom logo. >> >> Jon >> >
Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus but 18 bit switches that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting. On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote: Has anyone seen this? It looks like an 18-bit machine. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/ At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's. The CPU at the bottom sure looks like a PDP-11, I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a custom logo. Jon
RE: getting your data from yahoo
> I also asked for and got one of these files. Mine took something like > 30 > hours, and gave me a 584 MB .zip file. I tried it using a Windows 10 > machine, and it consists of directories, each with the name of a group > I'm > subscribed to. Opening each directory, there are one or more .zip > files > in it; for example, files.zip, links.zip, and messages.zip are in one > I'm > looking at now. files.zip contains the files without further > complication, with their directory structure from Yahoo maintained. > links.zip contains .url files. messages.zip contains files of the > format > 1959542.mbox.1, 1959542.mbox.2, 1959542.mbox.3, etc. These > seem to be 10 MB (uncompressed) chunks of the concatenated messages, in > plaintext format as email messages. I haven't tried feeding them to > something like Pine, but it would appear to be compatible. Email > addresses appear to be intact, with the exception of one group I looked > at > with messages back into 1999 (perhaps they started on egroups or > something). The one thing that does not appear to be there is photos, > unless they were stored as "files." > > Overall, it's exactly what I would have hoped to get, with the > exception > of the photos. I had the same experience, although mine was much smaller (only one group, not very active and not with many files). Overall very painless. -All
Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote: Has anyone seen this? It looks like an 18-bit machine. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/ At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's. The CPU at the bottom sure looks like a PDP-11, I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a custom logo. Jon
RE: getting your data from yahoo
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: What tool do I use to look at the contents of this verschlagener file? I also asked for and got one of these files. Mine took something like 30 hours, and gave me a 584 MB .zip file. I tried it using a Windows 10 machine, and it consists of directories, each with the name of a group I'm subscribed to. Opening each directory, there are one or more .zip files in it; for example, files.zip, links.zip, and messages.zip are in one I'm looking at now. files.zip contains the files without further complication, with their directory structure from Yahoo maintained. links.zip contains .url files. messages.zip contains files of the format 1959542.mbox.1, 1959542.mbox.2, 1959542.mbox.3, etc. These seem to be 10 MB (uncompressed) chunks of the concatenated messages, in plaintext format as email messages. I haven't tried feeding them to something like Pine, but it would appear to be compatible. Email addresses appear to be intact, with the exception of one group I looked at with messages back into 1999 (perhaps they started on egroups or something). The one thing that does not appear to be there is photos, unless they were stored as "files." Overall, it's exactly what I would have hoped to get, with the exception of the photos. Richard Schauer
RE: getting your data from yahoo
OK, Yahoo took more than 24 hours, but finally handed me a link to download my e-mail. It's a 462MB .archive file. zcat tells me that it's multipart, and only unloads the first part (which contains about 10 messages as .eml files). What tool do I use to look at the contents of this verschlagener file? Thanks, Rich Rich Alderson Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2245 1st Ave S Seattle, WA 98134 http://www.LivingComputers.org/
Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
Has anyone seen this? It looks like an 18-bit machine. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/ --Bill
Re: Best email to reach a human at the centre for computing history (computinghistory.org.uk)
I also responded off line. They did scan a doc for me in the recent past. Marc > On Nov 2, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk > wrote: > > I will answer Al offline > > Dave > >> -Original Message- >> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Al Kossow via >> cctalk >> Sent: 01 November 2019 22:36 >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> Subject: Best email to reach a human at the centre for computing history >> (computinghistory.org.uk) >> >> I've tried several times to email them, and never received a reply. >> Could someone send me an email adr for a human who might be able to >> answer if they could scan something which is in their catalog but isn't >> available >> on line there? > >
