Re: Core Memory Photo

[Chris Zach via cctalk]

Ouch. Looks like that core took a serious hit.

On 4/12/2020 4:37 PM, keith--- via cctalk wrote:

Here is a link to pictures of core memory from a PDP1145.
https://devilanse.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/nablopomo-digital-equipment-corporation-pdp-1145/ 

RIP John H Conway - Creator of the game of life

[Frank Tuccio via cctalk]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

[Rick Murphy via cctalk]

On 4/9/2020 6:10 PM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote:

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 6:01 PM David Gesswein via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:


Thank you David.  I was able to load the .SV file instead, but I am glad I
now know what was needed.  I think in my pdp 11 I have the same issue.
Bill



For the record, that's a really ancient version of OS/8 Adventure.

The current (2009) is much more stable as it uses the USR to open the 
files, allowing you to move them around without causing ADVENT to crash 
(the save image has the disk locations for the files being used, meaning 
it'll crash if they move around.)


https://www.rickmurphy.net/advent/advbin.rx has a floppy image with 2.4 
binaries.


    -Rick

Core Memory Photo

[keith--- via cctalk]

Here is a link to pictures of core memory from a PDP1145.  


https://devilanse.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/nablopomo-digital-equipment-corporation-pdp-1145/

RE: RIP John Conway

[Frank Tuccio via cctalk]

https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-conway

Creator of "the game of life"

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   1. Re: Discord (Anders Nelson)
   2. Re: pdp11/05 key? (Liam Proven)
   3. Re: pdp11/05 key? (Eric Smith)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:40:39 -0400
From: Anders Nelson 
To: Jay West ,  "General Discussion: On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts" 
Subject: Re: Discord
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Medal of Honor is one of my all-time favorite games.

--
Anders Nelson


On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:09 PM jwest--- via cctalk 
wrote:

> Perma-invite
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> https://discord.gg/CwhYHY2
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> From: Derek Newland 
> Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:47 PM
> To: jw...@classiccmp.org; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
> Posts 
> Subject: Re: Discord
>
>
>
> Hi J, it appears the invite has expired. Any chance to get a fresh one?
> Thanks!
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>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:55 PM jwest--- via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org  > wrote:
>
> I believe I sent the invite to my game channel, NOT the new classiccmp
> server. please use this instead:
> https://discord.gg/gV6PKYW
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk  cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> > On Behalf Of jwest--- via cctalk
> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 11:26 AM
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org  >
> Subject: Discord
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> Greetings folks
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>
>
> The past few years I?ve become fairly focused on a particular old
> 1999/2000 ww2 fps computer game. Of course playing it but I?m also on the
> development team for the game (EA has given up on it, but we still put out
> new releases, maps, patches, etc.). As a result of that, I pretty much
live
> on Discord text/audio chat these days. If you send me an email I will
> eventually see it and may even respond heh. But if you send me anything on
> Discord I?m going to see it immediately. If any of you are on discord, I
am
> ?Todesengel#9624?. Feel free to add me as a friend and that way you can
get
> me usually immediately. I am not leaving the hobby, nor am I saying not to
> email me at the usual address. But a lot of you do talk to me
> semi-frequently and I?m just saying discord will get to me far quicker.
>
>
>
> In addition, mostly as an exercise to see how to do it, I set up a
> ClassicCMP discord server. That Discord server is NOT meant to replace
this
> list, nor should it be taken to signal any less commitment on my part to
> keeping this list running. They are fundamentally different things;
Discord
> is great for real time text chat back and forth. There are also audio and
> video channels if people want to use that to talk verbally or via video.
To
> get on that server, here is a semi-permanent invite:
> https://discord.gg/U8Skw5g  Joining the server gets you to all the other
> folks who may join the classiccmp discord, not just me. Of course, that
> could be zero ? Like I said, I just did it as an exercise, and discord is
> how some of my family and friends stay in touch. But it is there if peeps
> want to use it.
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>
> I?d rather not turn this into a long debate of whether discord is good or
> bad or anything like that. I?m just saying it?s there, and it?s quicker to
> get ahold of me that way at times.
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> Best,
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> J
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> --
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> Derek Newland | (828) 234-4731 |  
> derek.newl...@gmail.com
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 23:51:29 +0200
From: Liam Proven 
Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"

Subject: Re: pdp11/05 key?
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On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:55, Chris Elmquist  wrote:
>
> This might be one of those jokes that if you have to explain it, it looses
the punch ...  but I?ll try,
>
> There used to also be something called a Hong Kong Whore House, similarly
staffed with young Asian women, but they didn?t make core planes there.

I've been to HK and I was never aware of this! Thank you for the
clarification. :-D

-- 
Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: 

Re: Weird Behaviour of VAXstation 4000 Model 60 Power Switch

[Peter Coghlan via cctalk]

>
> This machine acts oddly. After powering it off, you usually can't power it
> back on again for about 30 seconds or so, it just seems to ignore the power
> switch. Similarly, if it has been switched off at the front power switch, it
> will switch itself on after maybe a minute of two of being switched off. In
> all other respects the machine seems fine. I have not opened up the PSU at
> all, just wondering if anyone has ever seen this and might know what the
> problem is?
>

Not quite the same thing but I have noticed that many DEC power supplies
will sulk for a while if their overload trip is triggered.  Switching them
off and on again straight away is not enough to reset them even though the
overload is cleared.  The H7821 seems to need to be switched off for around
16 seconds minimum before it will contemplate coming to life again.  I have
come across similar behaviour with the power supplies in various other small
VAX and Alpha machines but I have not measured the exact time period
involved in any other cases.

Regards,
Peter Coghlan.

Re: Weird Behaviour of VAXstation 4000 Model 60 Power Switch

[Mattis Lind via cctalk]

söndag 12 april 2020 skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk :

> This machine acts oddly. After powering it off, you usually can't power it
> back on again for about 30 seconds or so, it just seems to ignore the power
> switch. Similarly, if it has been switched off at the front power switch,
> it
> will switch itself on after maybe a minute of two of being switched off. In
> all other respects the machine seems fine. I have not opened up the PSU at
> all, just wondering if anyone has ever seen this and might know what the
> problem is?


Guessing:  Check electrolytic capacitors.

/Mattis


>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>

John Conway

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/13614-john-conway-dies-from-coronavirus.html

Weird Behaviour of VAXstation 4000 Model 60 Power Switch

[Rob Jarratt via cctalk]

This machine acts oddly. After powering it off, you usually can't power it
back on again for about 30 seconds or so, it just seems to ignore the power
switch. Similarly, if it has been switched off at the front power switch, it
will switch itself on after maybe a minute of two of being switched off. In
all other respects the machine seems fine. I have not opened up the PSU at
all, just wondering if anyone has ever seen this and might know what the
problem is?

 

Thanks

 

Rob

Re: pdp11/05 key?

[Eric Smith via cctalk]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:35 AM Norman Jaffe via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> I hope that you mean 'hardware porn', not 'hardcore porn'... :)
>

Trivia: for a while in the mid-to-late 1990s, a Google search for "computer
porn" had as the number one result one of my web pages, of that title,
containing images of computers with covers removed. I could see from the
server log that the search was fairly popular, but nevertheless I believe
that most of the people doing the search were not satisfied with the result.