Re: TOP POSTING
/dev/null again... On 11-12-15 19:33, Liam Proven wrote: On 10 December 2015 at 18:07, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: If your mail program doesn't let you scroll to the end of a message and start typing then it is fundametnally broken. It may not be convenient, but that is not my problem! Strongly agree. Adrian, if your email client doesn't let you bottom-quote properly, it's broken. The only desktop client I've seen that is so completely broken is MS Outlook. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Bye for now... was:
Hi all. Another great day started with me deciding that thorwing away 70% of a list every day is not worthwhile any more. This list is acting like Whatsapp and Facebook more and more. It seems that a lot of people are unable to keep on topic. Its a shame. It would be so handy if people could refrain from "biting the troll". I am truly not interested in top, bottom posting, and other non classic computer blabla. Bye -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!
sudo mv thread /dev/null On 09-12-15 22:58, Jay West wrote: Please make an effort not to top-post :| J -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: papertape repair tape or kit wanted
what are the specs of the tape and glue? remember that using a lasercutter from a nearby fablab or hackerspace could produce the exact tape you need. On 30-11-15 02:40, william degnan wrote: NOTE: I will pay a generous price for a few inches of papertape repair tape if anyone has any! I am located in Landenberg, PA USAContact me privately if you can help. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: DEC Papertape Readers
Oh a paper organ. they are quite common in The Netherlands, although the tunes they play are mostly horrible. the books as they call them are suited to a specific machine and sometimes wider or smaller. the predate computers at least 80 years. On 27-11-15 16:14, Liam Proven wrote: On 27 November 2015 at 13:44, Holm Tiffe <h...@freibergnet.de> wrote: ..a friend forwarded something that look very similar to them, looks as if DEC cloned them in some way .. https://www.facebook.com/Excite.Espana/videos/10154330747448032/ :-) Very nice! But that looks like the roll (book, whatever) equivalent of a lace card. I'm amazed it held together enough to play, and I suspect it's not going to survive more than a handful of plays at best. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms
I am very curious as what you are talking about. Is it something with html in mail? I configured thunderbird to only show me plain text so I can focus on the content and not some graphic noise. simon On 20-11-15 23:06, Peter Coghlan wrote: Just a hit . . scanning/printing without having to go to kinkos etc to any of you needing something that will print--- nice photos print 11 x 17 scan a tad larger than 11 x 17 fax reasonable price free OCR software built in duplex printing has a bin sheet feeder too for doc size get a hp officejet 7612 I got mine on sale for $160 not a speed demon but a helpful device it is handy. there are times we need to print something larger than legal size for museum displays etc or scan large magazine cover, schematics etc... it has worked well. we use this for pretty much in house use. patrons needing lots of something scanned we have still have to contract with one of our offsite vendors. (shoemakers children analogy etc.) Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Are you formatting your outgoing emails like this in retaliation for not getting [cctech]/[cctalk] in the subject line in order to be able to sort your incoming AOL mail? Regards, Peter Coghlan. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
[cctalk]Re: Could someone make the list do the thing in the subject line?
nothing a simple script on the connected computer can't fix though... On 18-11-15 12:48, John Many Jars wrote: On 18 November 2015 at 11:14, tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: COMBINE THEM THEN JUST ADD TWO LETTERS AND A DASH AS THUS CC- SOMEONE SUGGESTING THIS AND USING CAPITALS ONLY PROVES TO BE A MAIL NOOB ;-) Or is using a Model 33 ASR (or KSR) :-) -tony MY INFOTON TERMINAL IS UPPERCASE ONLY! -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Nextstep: Visions in black
While copying some data from a bunch of Next HD's, i stumbled upon a snd file containing a song written for Steve Jobs, accompanied by guitar and handclaps from several people. Is this a known song? I was unable to find a better version on the web than the 8012hz sample I have here. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Distilled water (was re: Model 152 PSU dummy loads)
car bulbs? (just to be as pedantic...) On 27-10-15 19:03, Craig Ruff wrote: Just to be pedantic, as this is the Internet after all :-), distilled water is a pretty good insulator, but not a "perfect" one. Neutral (pH 7.0) water always has a very small amount of the molecules disassociated into H+ and OH- ions. However, as others have stated, the effective value of the water resistor, compared to the load resistor(s), will be negligible. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Caps. Was: Mac IIsi - SoG?
did you replace the caps on the motherboard. those machines are in the suspect zone, like the IIci, IIcx and the like. On most of them the aluminium caps have gone bad and are leaking on the board, inflicting all kinds of damage. simon On 27-10-15 06:54, Sean Caron wrote: AFAIK there's nothing special about the video on the IIsi ... pretty sure that if the adapter and monitor will work with i.e. a standard Mac II 640x480x8 NuBus board (or equivalent) it should work with the IIsi. Best, Sean On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Jules Richardson < jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote: Can anyone confirm whether a Mac IIsi spits out sync-on-green (and only sync-on-green) or not? I've found mixed info on the 'net so far. I've got a system here which makes encouraging startup noises, but isn't outputting any video to a VGA screen (adapter cable OK with my other Macs). If it's SoG-only, well, there's my problem :-) If it does output h/vsync like my other Macs then I need to look elsewhere (most likely nonsense NVRAM settings, I expect). cheers Jules -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: testing...
hmm. strange.. this seems to work. thanks for ignoring this. simon On 26-10-15 08:47, simon wrote: Please ignore. it seems my mail does not get through the last couple of times. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
testing...
Please ignore. it seems my mail does not get through the last couple of times. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US
(As previous post did not get through, again a repost) Hi All, I was contacted via the greenkeys list for my spare parts of the two T100 telexes, but I think it should be possible to obtain them in the states. Is there someone willing to part of their broken or otherwise non/half functional T100 in the usa. they need the parts for a movie. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
filtering?
Hi All, it seems that some of my messages do not get through to the list. Is there a filter on this list of some sort? -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: filtering?
"imagine traveling beyond time, you entering the cctalk-zone!" OOooOOOoohhh ;-) On 26-10-15 22:06, Lawrence Wilkinson wrote: On 26/10/15 21:58, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, simon wrote: Hi All, it seems that some of my messages do not get through to the list. Is there a filter on this list of some sort? Someone who knows more should chime in, but I believe messages to the list go through a human filter based on how on-topic they are, before being dispatched to either cctalk ONLY or cctalk+cctech. Yes, usually me. But I don't think that was Simon's problem. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Siemens T100?
Hmm. very strange that only this specific mail and all probable answers did not get through. Rick Murphy kindly send a reply directly to me (thanks for that) It seems that some word in my subject did trigger an spam filter somewhere. There are no mails in my spambox on the webmail client to be found and no filters are active on any of this. I Apologize for these multiple posts. simon On 26-10-15 09:31, Rik Bos wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens simon Verzonden: maandag 26 oktober 2015 9:18 Aan: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Onderwerp: Siemens T100? (As previous post did not get through, again a repost) Hi All, I was contacted via the greenkeys list for my spare parts of the two T100 telexes, but I think it should be possible to obtain them in the states. Is there someone willing to part of their broken or otherwise non/half functional T100 in the usa. they need the parts for a movie. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl Just counting ;) This is the 5th time you're sending a T100 inquiry and I'm receiving it... Maybe your spam box is ahead of you? -Rik -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Model 152 PSU dummy loads - Re: NeXT Cube - powers on briefly then off again
please skip this ridicule and grab yourself a couple of headlights from a car. On 26-10-15 17:16, Dale H. Cook wrote: My recommendation of oil is based upon my decades of experience with broadband dummy loads from 60 watts to 2.5 kilowatts. The dummy loads that I have worked with for medium wave and below and from 5 kilowatts down have all been convection air cooled. Broadband dummy loads that I have used for higher powers (up to 25 kilowatts) have been forced air cooled. I prefer to stick with what I have experience with. As for water, YMMV. Dale H. Cook, Radio Contract Engineer, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US
As my mail to cctech dod'nt came through, here a mail only to the cctalk list. sorry if it becomes a double post. Hi All, I was contacted via the greenkeys list for my spare parts of the two T100 telexes, but I think it should be possible to obtain them in the states. Is there someone willing to part of their broken or otherwise non/half functional T100 in the usa. they need the machines for a movie in the New York area. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US
Hi All, I was contacted via the greenkeys list for my spare parts of the two T100 telexes, but I think it should be possible to obtain them in the states. Is there someone willing to part of their broken or otherwise non/half functional T100 in the usa. they need the parts for a movie. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Hmm, that may com handy... first I need a little time to build a 2114 tester from a sanguino (arduino clone at hand) On 12-10-15 20:30, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, just came accross, what might be helpful for you: I found some pages with my spare 906 controller (unfortunatley not working), listing the functions of the DIP switches. I scanned them and you find them on my server in the specials section: http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X/Calcomp_OPC906-907-Switches.pdf Good luck, Erik. On Mon, 5 Oct 2015, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for your email. I took the pictures on the weekend and loaded them onto my server - curious, whether you have got the same setup: http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X/ than that pictured in the user guide. I took some more picts of the pcb's in the machine. I will post them on our hack42.nl site later today. Great, I will check for your pictures and compare... I have got engineering drawings (i.e. schematics) only for the power supply, the logic board (sequencer) and the pen driver. Unfortunately the schematics for the OPC (online plotter controller?) are missing, i.e. exactly for the interesting PCB with the CPU there are no schematics at the moment :-( was loose inside the machine, and it seems ours is wired for current loop, looking at the settings decal on the inside of the backplate. How is yours wired? That looks very crowded as you can see and I do not know whether this is representative. I guess mine was used in some form of daisy chain setup but at least the levels are RS232. Yes - I have been able to plot data on my plotter, but the PCI/906 language the OPC uses is quite strange and the RS232 is not that easy as it is using hardware handshake and checks for all signals (RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR) I think. I had to put away the calcomp for the time being as we had a fair yesterday. Yes, that is quite a heavy machine. Mine is stored at my parent's basement, so I only have access to the plotter and the documentation once a month... Best regards, Erik. On 03-10-15 20:18, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, Hello to the group, this weekend I went digging for the Calcomp 1038/1039 manual and if your plotter looks like this... http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X.gif ...I may have what you need. Drop me a note and I will try to scan the schematics next week and load them onto my web page. Did you make any progress with the plotter already? Best regards, Erik. P.S. My plotter is a 1038 which has been upgraded with the PCI/906 interface but it only has got a single pen holder. Does your plotter have got three colors? On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi All, the 1039 is an interesting plotter I have got a 1038/1039 as well: There are two big PCBs inside - one is for the low level functions (essentally driving the servos and drawing lines using TTL implemented Bresenham) the second one contains the computer (68xx based) which is handling the communication. So for simply moving the pens with the arrow buttons, the computer PCB may not be necessary. Have you tried this? The computer PCB controls the LEDs and blinking may well indicate a problem on the computer PCB - I thinke I have got a set of documentation. But unfortunately it is stored away, but surely I can do a search within the next four weeks if there is real interest. I even read out the bipolar PROMs of the processor card for safety some years ago... Erik, e...@baigar.de tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> hat am 20. September 2015 um 20:02 geschrieben: Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. Silly question... It doesn't happen to use 2114 RAMs does it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: MFM Emulator
That sounds like the museum we have at hack42.nl. we are a hackerspace with a enormous collection of old computers but we are not open at regular times. of course making the collection available in an database on the web and digitising the documentation is one of our goals (besides having fun with those machines. :-) ) simon On 08-10-15 20:38, Ian Finder wrote: That's my pet project at this point. We are having some issues with the space so it will probably (hopefully) open as appointment-only early next year. The idea is to find trustworthy people who we can give access to the space to so they can see projects thru from end-to-end on these systems- learn the development environments, etc. We do not intend to overlap with a big, professional museum like CHM or LCM. Rather think of this as a kind of a maker-space for old systems; There is a lot of interest in Seattle- largely people from the software industry- who would love to code something on a real PDP 11, Symbolics or a Xerox or a 3B2 / BLIT, but aren't equipped to handle care and feeding of these sorts of machines. We also hope to set up reasonable networking and remote access for systems where it is possible so that people can continue to write software and reverse engineer things from home, but also visit the machines whenever they need or want to. It's a pretty crappy little basement but better than nothing, we will see what happens. Perhaps it was premature to spin up the Twitter, we have a ways to go but are slowly making progress. Cheers- - Ian -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS
well, we at hack42 are discussing a pertec to usb converter based on a microcontroller. pertec seems straightforward, now how to present the drive to the os... Simon On 03-10-15 10:20, Mike Ross wrote: Question: will this kind of hookup work with a USB-SCSI converter? If so, are there any specific brands and models known to work? I'm interested in both SE & differential, 50 pin & 68 pin. Or does it need a traditional Adaptec or similar card? Preferably under Linux; Windows possible but deprecated. Mike On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:52 PM, John Wilson <wil...@dbit.com> wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 11:28:49PM -0700, Marc Verdiell wrote: Thanks for your STP2T02.exe SCSI tape to SIMH program. Ran like a champ under Win98 DOS, first time. It's the only utility that did work out of the box to read a tape from my SCSI-1 HP 88780 9-track into a SIMH file, out of the 5 or so I tried. Before I jump to Linux, which seems to be the more straightforward option, does anyone have the reverse tool to write a SIMH image file on a 9 Track tape under Windows/DOS? None of the utilities I found using Windows Tape APIs could deal with my tape SCSI-1 early interface, they all expect some basic (SCSI-2?) functions that are not implemented. My "ST.EXE" program (available from http://www.dbit.com/pub/ibmpc/util/ including source) runs on real DOS (not Windows) and can write from an E11-format .TAP file (which SIMH uses a garbled version of, but they're interchangeable for *even* record lengths which are 99% of the universe) to a real tape. It works on my HP 88780, and my Qualstar 1260S and even a DEC TZ30 or TK50Z-GA (which aren't quite full SCSI-1). Not picky at all. "st wput foo.tap" should write your image out. You need a DOS ASPI driver for your SCSI card, and you'll need to use something like "-f scsi5:" on the command line (or set the TAPE environment variable) so ST will know which SCSI ID (etc.) to use. John Wilson D Bit -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Hey this is interesting. we have a different controller, indicating that a change from a 1038 to a 1039 involved changing the controller as well. see my pics. https://hack42.nl/gallery/v/Museum/2015-09-18-138.jpg unfortunately i cannot find a picture of the back of the controller. simon On 05-10-15 07:59, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, thanks for your email. I took the pictures on the weekend and loaded them onto my server - curious, whether you have got the same setup: http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X/ than that pictured in the user guide. I took some more picts of the pcb's in the machine. I will post them on our hack42.nl site later today. Great, I will check for your pictures and compare... I have got engineering drawings (i.e. schematics) only for the power supply, the logic board (sequencer) and the pen driver. Unfortunately the schematics for the OPC (online plotter controller?) are missing, i.e. exactly for the interesting PCB with the CPU there are no schematics at the moment :-( was loose inside the machine, and it seems ours is wired for current loop, looking at the settings decal on the inside of the backplate. How is yours wired? That looks very crowded as you can see and I do not know whether this is representative. I guess mine was used in some form of daisy chain setup but at least the levels are RS232. Yes - I have been able to plot data on my plotter, but the PCI/906 language the OPC uses is quite strange and the RS232 is not that easy as it is using hardware handshake and checks for all signals (RTS/CTS and DSR/DTR) I think. I had to put away the calcomp for the time being as we had a fair yesterday. Yes, that is quite a heavy machine. Mine is stored at my parent's basement, so I only have access to the plotter and the documentation once a month... Best regards, Erik. On 03-10-15 20:18, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, Hello to the group, this weekend I went digging for the Calcomp 1038/1039 manual and if your plotter looks like this... http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X.gif ...I may have what you need. Drop me a note and I will try to scan the schematics next week and load them onto my web page. Did you make any progress with the plotter already? Best regards, Erik. P.S. My plotter is a 1038 which has been upgraded with the PCI/906 interface but it only has got a single pen holder. Does your plotter have got three colors? On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi All, the 1039 is an interesting plotter I have got a 1038/1039 as well: There are two big PCBs inside - one is for the low level functions (essentally driving the servos and drawing lines using TTL implemented Bresenham) the second one contains the computer (68xx based) which is handling the communication. So for simply moving the pens with the arrow buttons, the computer PCB may not be necessary. Have you tried this? The computer PCB controls the LEDs and blinking may well indicate a problem on the computer PCB - I thinke I have got a set of documentation. But unfortunately it is stored away, but surely I can do a search within the next four weeks if there is real interest. I even read out the bipolar PROMs of the processor card for safety some years ago... Erik, e...@baigar.de tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> hat am 20. September 2015 um 20:02 geschrieben: Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. Silly question... It doesn't happen to use 2114 RAMs does it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Hi Eric, Yes, that looks the one we have, and yes it has the three pen holder. I found a user guide of the machine, but our left control panel area is different than that pictured in the user guide. I took some more picts of the pcb's in the machine. I will post them on our hack42.nl site later today. On our machine, the pcb DIL connector from the terminal connector on the back was loose inside the machine, and it seems ours is wired for current loop, looking at the settings decal on the inside of the backplate. How is yours wired? please take a photo of the main pcb with al the dip switch settings so we can compare, Besides the side positioned jumper switches, there are also some dials and switches in other formats on the board. those are also interesting. I had to put away the calcomp for the time being as we had a fair yesterday. How many ram chips are on your board. on ours there seems to be two missing. I'm thinking about a setup to test the socketed 2114 RAM chips based on a microcontroller with just a simple good or fault indicator. On 03-10-15 20:18, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, Hello to the group, this weekend I went digging for the Calcomp 1038/1039 manual and if your plotter looks like this... http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X.gif ...I may have what you need. Drop me a note and I will try to scan the schematics next week and load them onto my web page. Did you make any progress with the plotter already? Best regards, Erik. P.S. My plotter is a 1038 which has been upgraded with the PCI/906 interface but it only has got a single pen holder. Does your plotter have got three colors? On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi All, the 1039 is an interesting plotter I have got a 1038/1039 as well: There are two big PCBs inside - one is for the low level functions (essentally driving the servos and drawing lines using TTL implemented Bresenham) the second one contains the computer (68xx based) which is handling the communication. So for simply moving the pens with the arrow buttons, the computer PCB may not be necessary. Have you tried this? The computer PCB controls the LEDs and blinking may well indicate a problem on the computer PCB - I thinke I have got a set of documentation. But unfortunately it is stored away, but surely I can do a search within the next four weeks if there is real interest. I even read out the bipolar PROMs of the processor card for safety some years ago... Erik, e...@baigar.de tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> hat am 20. September 2015 um 20:02 geschrieben: Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. Silly question... It doesn't happen to use 2114 RAMs does it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
ist an 6800L and in this machine it is a gold capped case. On 21-09-15 18:01, Erik Baigar wrote: Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> hat am 21. September 2015 um 17:47 geschrieben: Hmm, that sounds like my 1076C. One board had a 68000 that ran the plotter servos, the other was the "plot manager" that had a big RAM buffer and sorted the plot vectors for optimum speed. I think it mostly communicated with the host computer and plotter main board by serial. Both boards had 68K processors. Well, the 103x really had the 68xx, not the 68xxx. I think it was a 6802, but not sure now... -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Spot on. it HAS the 2114 ram chips. now to find replacements.. strange enough there are 12 positions for ram chips and two of them are left unpopulated: pos 1 and pos 7. On 20-09-15 20:02, tony duell wrote: Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. Silly question... It doesn't happen to use 2114 RAMs does it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Sounds good. Docs are much appriciated. Our printer has three boards inside, one processor, one pen driver and i forgot what the thirdt was. Next time i will take photo's of that card as well. simon On 21-09-15 08:45, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi All, the 1039 is an interesting plotter I have got a 1038/1039 as well: There are two big PCBs inside - one is for the low level functions (essentally driving the servos and drawing lines using TTL implemented Bresenham) the second one contains the computer (68xx based) which is handling the communication. So for simply moving the pens with the arrow buttons, the computer PCB may not be necessary. Have you tried this? The computer PCB controls the LEDs and blinking may well indicate a problem on the computer PCB - I thinke I have got a set of documentation. But unfortunately it is stored away, but surely I can do a search within the next four weeks if there is real interest. I even read out the bipolar PROMs of the processor card for safety some years ago... Erik, e...@baigar.de tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> hat am 20. September 2015 um 20:02 geschrieben: Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. Silly question... It doesn't happen to use 2114 RAMs does it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?
Hi All, we have a 1039 in our space with the user guide, but without any service docs. Our specimen does not react to buttons except the reset and test buttons. the four statusleds light up on a reset and after a second the center two leds start blinking in sequence. paper and pens are loaded as per the user guide. anyone with documentation on this thing? -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Cryptolocker (was RE: Is tape dead?
Windows? On 16-09-15 14:41, Jay West wrote: I took on a brand new client a while back, and before doing any real work for them they were hit by cryptolocker. I hadn't yet even done a "IT Review" for them, so didn't yet know what systems they had in place. Thus, under the gun, I started looking at their backup setup, and found it "severely lacking". They did have a backup system from the previous IT guy, but due to the way it was set up it would have taken days to get the data off of it and all moved back into the correct spots. So given days of billable time/work or paying the ransom, we chose to pay the ransom as the most expedient solution. They only accepted bitcoin, and there was a deadline after which the ransom doubled or more. So we jumped through hoops to get a bitcoin account set up, funds deposited, etc. That was a rather convoluted process and took time (albeit less time than working with the existing "backup" system). Soon as the bitcoin was transferred to the hostages account, a key was received online via the TOR browser. Yep, the key worked, and decrypted all the data. A new (and easy/functional) backup system was put in place immediately thereafter. I've also talked to a few of my associates who own IT consulting firms, and any of them that decided to pay the ransom did in fact get a working decryption key. ZFS is a good solution :) Best, J -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: punchcard svg file available
Hi, Hmm. russian carsds. sounds interesting. I'm certainly interested in their looks. could you post a scan of one of them? On 12-09-15 10:36, GerardCJAT wrote: Shall I understand that some of you guys, are looking for blank punch/punched cards ?? I have about a hundred ( here in France !! ) Let me know if this can help. These came from ex Soviet Union, and, as far as I can tell, they "fell and taste" like original IBM cards that was used to "play" with some 40 years ago. --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: punchcard svg file available
shure. go ahead. the svg has layers. top to bottom: demo (with the dot matrix text) holes (all the holes, but not with a solid fill print (the numbers) card (the card itself) As I made the original card in illustrator on a mac three years ago and I'm a "switcher" to linux, I changed the format to svg for portability. in translation, the dot matrix font was lost (or it did'nt exist in the first place. I could have made the font with separate dots) simon On 11-09-15 00:39, Marc Howard wrote: Question: Is there a way to edit the SVG file to produce a custom message? Thanks, Marc On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:38 PM, geneb <ge...@deltasoft.com> wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Fred Cisin wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Mike Stein wrote: For a while many utility bills etc. were sent out with prepunched cards containing the customer and billing information, to be mailed back with your payment for proper allocation. A guy that I went to school with, would always take those utility bills, and before sending them back, would punch "/*" in the first two columns. (NOTE: we're talking 360 JCL, not C source code) This is at least the 2nd time I've seen this message today. Mailman gone mental on us Jay? 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_! -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: punchcard svg file available
Its hard to explain. it feels tough and bendable, but it is thinner as you would expect from the toughness. On 10-09-15 18:08, tony duell wrote: If you find a source of paper stock that works, please let everyone know about it. The real paper is gone, and will likely never be made again. It is a specialized stock that is extremely difficult to make. What is different about it? Thickness? Weight/square metre? Density? Impregnated with something? -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: punchcard svg file available
A nice guy at greenkeys spotted an error in the printed characters. the c cedille should actually be a cent char. I fixed it. Simon On 10-09-15 17:54, Simon Claessen wrote: Hi Lee. Thanks. feel free to rename the file to anything you like. :-) I decided to ignore rude yelling people. Being right and being polite are two completely different things. btw. in the Netherlands where I live, they are called ponskaarten and are nowhere to be find also. We only have one box of fresh cards and one box of used cards with our IBM 029. Of course the unused cards stay in the depot until we can do something usefull with them. That is why I made this file. As soon as I find a good local supply of the right type of paper, the cards can be reproduced. :-) Simon from hack42.nl On 10-09-15 17:22, Lee Courtney wrote: punchcard or PUNCH or PUNCHED card, still nice work. Thanks for sharing. Lee C. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:38 AM, simon <sim...@dds.nl> wrote: Hi All, just to let you know that i've made a vector graphics file for A hollerith punchcard. https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Punchcard.svg enjoy -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: DEC 8235 IC? (repost)
To answer my own question, DEC 82xx type IC's are actually Signetics N82xx IC's. On 07-09-15 11:10, simon wrote: As something went wrong in posting this question, I try to repost it here. please don't be offended by this. - Hi all. is there a list of equivalents for DEC ic's? I've made a mistake in attaching our BA-8 to the PDP8/f and plugged in the ribbon cable connecting connector C and D the wrong way. some magic smoke came loose and there are a few chips broken . by comparing the signals on those connectors, I made a list of suspect chips on which some pins got-15v or +15v... The M8330 board got most of the blast, resulting in 4 burned chips, but other boards could well be affected. --- -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: punchcard svg file available
Hi Lee. Thanks. feel free to rename the file to anything you like. :-) I decided to ignore rude yelling people. Being right and being polite are two completely different things. btw. in the Netherlands where I live, they are called ponskaarten and are nowhere to be find also. We only have one box of fresh cards and one box of used cards with our IBM 029. Of course the unused cards stay in the depot until we can do something usefull with them. That is why I made this file. As soon as I find a good local supply of the right type of paper, the cards can be reproduced. :-) Simon from hack42.nl On 10-09-15 17:22, Lee Courtney wrote: punchcard or PUNCH or PUNCHED card, still nice work. Thanks for sharing. Lee C. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:38 AM, simon <sim...@dds.nl> wrote: Hi All, just to let you know that i've made a vector graphics file for A hollerith punchcard. https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Punchcard.svg enjoy -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
list troubles. was: DEC 8235 IC? (repost)
On 07-09-15 19:29, David Gesswein wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:10:26AM +0200, simon wrote: As something went wrong in posting this question, I try to repost it here. please don't be offended by this. - Hi all. is there a list of equivalents for DEC ic's? I think this was all posted previously but if you missed it. http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/query.pl?Search=cross Hi, I had some troubles with the list. I unsubscribed before my holiday and forgot to subscribe again afterwards, bus somehow my first post still ended up in the list, although i was not subscribed. Of course I did not see the post or its replies, hence the subscription and repost. that ended up in another thread (in my mailclient at least) so then the third post. thank you for the link. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: BBC Model B with Raspberry Pi Internals
On 08-09-15 00:18, Mark Wickens wrote: Bit of a tricky one to google this, so thought I'd consult the list - does anyone know of a documented project that replaced the internals of a BBC Model B with a Raspberry Pi (or MiniITX PC) interfacing with keyboard etc. to bring modern internals with a traditional interface? I don't even know if there is a word for these kind of projects? Thanks, Mark. That is called a hack and that is what hacking is about: http://hackaday.com/blog It't fun! -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
DEC 8235 IC? (repost)
As something went wrong in posting this question, I try to repost it here. please don't be offended by this. - Hi all. is there a list of equivalents for DEC ic's? I've made a mistake in attaching our BA-8 to the PDP8/f and plugged in the ribbon cable connecting connector C and D the wrong way. some magic smoke came loose and there are a few chips broken . by comparing the signals on those connectors, I made a list of suspect chips on which some pins got-15v or +15v... The M8330 board got most of the blast, resulting in 4 burned chips, but other boards could well be affected. --- -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Front Panels Sample layout.
ours is visible on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/simski/15171396948/ On 19-07-15 00:00, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi I am working on an 8/f version. Its not far along enough to send out just yet . Rod On 18/07/2015 12:34, simon wrote: Hi Rod, that sounds like a good idea. we have a 8/f here and i could try to match your version with it. simon On 18-07-15 00:14, Rod Smallwood wrote: White layer 8/e front panels A and B On 17/07/2015 22:23, Adrian Stoness wrote: Sure On Friday, July 17, 2015, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Guys! Further to my previous email. If anybody would like to see the artwork I can send you a copy. Its in *.svg format. Regards Rod -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: Front Panels Sample layout.
Oh, they are merely scratches from the key. We decided to keep the labels for history's sake and yes the printset is in good condition, but not better than te scans available on bitsavers. On 19-07-15 12:38, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Simon Yes thats what I am working on right now. I can see your problem - cracked area around keylock. Of course I can't reproduce the old sticky labels That looks like an original set of /e drawings in front. How good are they? Regards Rod On 19/07/2015 10:14, simon wrote: ours is visible on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/simski/15171396948/ On 19-07-15 00:00, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi I am working on an 8/f version. Its not far along enough to send out just yet . Rod On 18/07/2015 12:34, simon wrote: Hi Rod, that sounds like a good idea. we have a 8/f here and i could try to match your version with it. simon On 18-07-15 00:14, Rod Smallwood wrote: White layer 8/e front panels A and B On 17/07/2015 22:23, Adrian Stoness wrote: Sure On Friday, July 17, 2015, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Guys! Further to my previous email. If anybody would like to see the artwork I can send you a copy. Its in *.svg format. Regards Rod -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
what IBM system is this?
found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM system is this. https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692 -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: DEC Logo
On 30-06-15 15:10, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-30 4:44 AM, simon wrote: On 29-06-15 14:56, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-29 3:54 AM, simon wrote: the front of the internal bus options maintenance manual in front of me. But looking at the f in 8/f gives me the impression they mixed some fonts for the logo and taking a closer look at the line: digital equipment corporation . maynard. massachusetts is proving both of us wrong. the y in maynard is a rounded version, but both futura and avant garde hve a straight y. ...the search continues... Can you scan the page you're looking at? tada.wav: https://hack42.nl/mediawiki/images/a/a7/Dec_footer.png it is also used on the front of the pdp8/f here at our museum. Right. This isn't Futura or Avant Garde. It's the font Paul K. and I have been discussing - similar to Chalet but possibly a custom font. --Toby simon yes, that is what i stated in my mail from 20150629. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: DEC Logo
On 29-06-15 14:56, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-29 3:54 AM, simon wrote: the front of the internal bus options maintenance manual in front of me. But looking at the f in 8/f gives me the impression they mixed some fonts for the logo and taking a closer look at the line: digital equipment corporation . maynard. massachusetts is proving both of us wrong. the y in maynard is a rounded version, but both futura and avant garde hve a straight y. ...the search continues... Can you scan the page you're looking at? tada.wav: https://hack42.nl/mediawiki/images/a/a7/Dec_footer.png it is also used on the front of the pdp8/f here at our museum. simon -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
Re: DEC Logo
:-) ze web to ze rescue: grabbing a png from the pdf of the maintanance manual and uploading it to myfonts.com points me to the font rescue regular. but it is not perfect as the verticals have rounded ends on rescue and straight on the dec font. another is insignia but having the wrong letter t On 29-06-15 04:50, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-28 10:12 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-28 6:34 PM, simon wrote: It seems to me that pdp8 is written in futura bold ITC Avant Garde would probably be closer. (released circa 1970) Oops, I was looking at the vertical d e c when I said that. The font used in the industrial11 logo and across the PDP-8 range, has been pinned down to the New York style of Chalet; here's a revival: http://www.houseind.com/fonts/chalet/viewfonts But I can't find a pdp8 image in the thread. Simon, what image are you referring to that leads you to say Futura Bold? --Toby Avant Garde was used in a LOT of DEC's marketing -- it was the signature face for VAX-11, for example (even the machine badges use Avant Garde). --Toby On 28-06-15 18:52, Chris Osborn wrote: On Jun 18, 2015, at 7:20 AM, Chris Osborn fozzt...@fozztexx.com wrote: The logo up to then had been the letters DEC in blocks the shape of the plug-in cards that DEC had been producing. Does anyone have a picture of that? My Google-fu is failing me. I love cutting vinyl stickers of old logos and I think an original DEC logo would make a great prize in the contests I run on RetroBattlestations. I did my best to recreate the plug-in card DEC logo, you can download it as an SVG here: http://www.retrobattlestations.com/DEC/DEC-1957-3.7x4.5.svg Proportions probably aren’t perfect since all I had to work from was very low resolution pictures of the original. I’m happy to send out vinyl cut decals to anyone that wants one if you send me a SASE. Email me privately for my address. http://i.imgur.com/HJki7WI.jpg (Atari 2600 cartridge for scale) -- Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
using new technology on old machines. Was: PDP-12 Restoration at the RICM
as long as it is done in a way that it can be restored to its original, i have no problems in using newer technology in older machines. we have a alix sbc build into our tek 4002a for demonstrational purpouses, all done without damaging or altering the original machine. On 14-06-15 17:25, tony duell wrote: The ripple on the power supplies is still going lower as we put more run time on the system. The power supplies are now within spec. Capacitors reforming naturally? Warren made an Arduino based programmable baud rate generator that works for both serial ports. After some debugging, it works nicely. I am sorry, but I find that obscene!. To use more components than the rest of the machine (probably) just for the baud rate clock is ridiculous. IMHO if you are going to modify a vintage machine, particularly one as rare as a PDP12, you should use the components that were available at the time. It's not as if a programmable buad rate generator is hard to make from TTL either. In fact given the Arduino thing needed 'some debugging' it might well have taken less time to do it in hardware. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
pdp8/e /f /m Omnibus legenda available
Hello all, As part of my effort to resurrect our lately broken pdp8/f, I've made a nice drawing of the connector lugs of an omnibus card with its signals next to it. Both sides are done together on one page. any comments are welcome link: https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Omnibus_legenda.pdf -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl
