RE: RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)

2015-07-31 Thread tony duell
As Jules and Tony have said, that's not 380Z internals so if that puts you off I'll have a punt just for the power supply ;) ... Which also may well not be RML original. The 380Z has a regulated PSU, S100 has separate regulators on each board and an unregulated PSU. -tony

Re: Equipment available (Wichita, Ks)

2015-07-31 Thread Paul Anderson
I have BA350s, BA356s, drives, power supplies, etc if anyone needs more. Please contact me off list. Paul On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Sean Caron sca...@umich.edu wrote: I just heard DEC-branded drive box with 1 GB units and I figured it might be a ready source of RZ26 drives; I suppose

Re: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)

2015-07-31 Thread drlegendre .
@Eric others Good news, everyone. ;-) I found the hardbound volume in question, and it does have a very interesting and detailed discussion of aluminum electrolytics, and the Mallory FP series in particular. But my memory is a little hazy, and I'm not sure this is the +exact+ article I had in

Re: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)

2015-07-31 Thread Eric Smith
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:07 PM, drlegendre . drlegen...@gmail.com wrote: I found the hardbound volume in question, and it does have a very [...] But happily, I did a little searching and it turns out that the entire doc is available online via Cornell U and Google books. How cool! Here's the

RE: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)

2015-07-31 Thread Robert Jarratt
-Original Message- From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David Gesswein Sent: 31 July 2015 02:52 To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics) When I reformed the 1967? capacitors in MARCH's straight 8

RE: accidental post allowance

2015-07-31 Thread Jay West
Mark wrote As a matter of fact I assumed that you'd intentionally let it through to give him the opportunity to show us first hand what kind of person he is. Very effective in any case. (taking off my list-owner hat and speaking for myself) Nah - I believe that pretty much the most

Re: Equipment available (Wichita, Ks)

2015-07-31 Thread Sean Caron
I just heard DEC-branded drive box with 1 GB units and I figured it might be a ready source of RZ26 drives; I suppose there's nothing particularly special about them compared to any other 50-pin SCSI 1 GB drive but I like to keep a stock of DEC firmware drives in case I get a finicky system on my

Re: accidental post allowance

2015-07-31 Thread Jon Elson
Jay West wrote: When I saw his next (and last post), I dug further. His email was on a whitelist along with all members of cctech. This was a vestige of how the old two lists joined at the hip was configured. So I had to manually remove him from the whitelist, even though he wasn't subscribed.

Re: A Final Word (FINAL)

2015-07-31 Thread Tom Moss
pollutionI know I'm just adding to the noise, but the absurdity of the subject title gave me a good chuckle. Jeez Steve, I had to double-take there to make sure I wasn't reading some 12 year old's youtube comments./pollution On 31 July 2015 at 08:33, Steven Landon slandon...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: AM Varityper (phototypesetter)

2015-07-31 Thread Paul Koning
On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Chuck Guzis ccl...@sydex.com wrote: I don't know how many of you were familiar with the Addressograph-Multigraph (AM) Varityper phototypesetting systems. Basically small computers with floppy drives and a (very nice) terminal--and a big box that held quite a

Re: A Final Word (FINAL)

2015-07-31 Thread geneb
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Matt Patoray wrote: Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am done with the list. 7 messages (including yours...gah! Now *8*) out of 1163 is not exactly bad ratio. Maybe you forgot how to math today? :D g. -- Proud owner of F-15C

Re: A Final Word (FINAL)

2015-07-31 Thread Matt Patoray
Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am done with the list. Matt

RE: RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)

2015-07-31 Thread tony duell
I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a Special Control Unit, so does anyone know what this is? The PCBs and backplane in the last photo are not standard 380Z boards. The 380Z doesn't use edge

Re: RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)

2015-07-31 Thread Jules Richardson
On 07/31/2015 12:32 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote: I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a Special Control Unit, so does anyone know what this is? That's interesting... the case is typical of an early machine

RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)

2015-07-31 Thread Robert Jarratt
I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a Special Control Unit, so does anyone know what this is? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Faulty-Vintage-Research-Machines-380Z-Special-Cont

IBM 5150 available ($)

2015-07-31 Thread Jay West
Stopped in the local electronics haunt, and the owner directed me to a Fine to Very Good IBM 5150. I did not look at it closely, but externally appears to be very good shape with minor scratches on the under-side. It has two FH 5.25's, and a cassette port on back. He did say that memory had been

Re: RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)

2015-07-31 Thread Adrian Graham
On 31/07/2015 18:32, Robert Jarratt robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com wrote: I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a Special Control Unit, so does anyone know what this is? As Jules and Tony have said,

Re: AM Varityper (phototypesetter)

2015-07-31 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:25:04PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote: Basically, this thing, or a variation thereof: http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/varityper This looks to be a later model than the one I used, which was definitely an 8008 (I looked). The keyboard is different. When

Minuteman II Launch Control Computer

2015-07-31 Thread Ben Sinclair
I recently visited the Minuteman II launch control facility in South Dakota, and was curious about the computers used there. Here's a photo of the rack, with the Boeing part numbers visible: http://i.imgur.com/KTaW3Il.jpg Some Googling of those numbers didn't really reveal much. People love to

Re: A Final Word (FINAL)

2015-07-31 Thread Steven Landon
On 7/30/15 6:55 PM, Jay West wrote: You wrote I really dont see the reasoning behind my classiccmp ban, You just banned me for no reason.. You are incorrect. Just because you don't understand the reason doesn't mean I banned you for no reason. I will not be dragged into a senseless

Re: A Final Word (FINAL)

2015-07-31 Thread drlegendre .
How did his last missive make it through to the list in the first place? Didn't Jay just recently say he was perma-banned? On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:15 AM, geneb ge...@deltasoft.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Matt Patoray wrote: Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and

Re: accidental post allowance

2015-07-31 Thread Zane H. Healy
On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Jay West jw...@classiccmp.org wrote: drlegendre wrote: How did his last missive make it through to the list in the first place? Didn't Jay just recently say he was perma-banned? Within moments after I posted that he was banned, I went to the

Re: IBM 5150 available ($)

2015-07-31 Thread Fred Cisin
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Jay West wrote: Stopped in the local electronics haunt, and the owner directed me to a Fine to Very Good IBM 5150. I did not look at it closely, but externally appears to be very good shape with minor scratches on the under-side. It has two FH 5.25's, and a cassette port on

Re: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)

2015-07-31 Thread David Gesswein
When I reformed the 1967? capacitors in MARCH's straight 8 I took some data showing the improvement in leakage and also measured capacitance and ESR. I couldn't find original spec for the capacitor but the values seemed reasonable compared to datasheet for more recent capacitors. Graphs here.