That price sounds more like a purchase by a business running legacy apps...
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Glen Slick glen.sl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:39 AM, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote:
I was going to play dumb and hope this didn't go nuts in price but it
did.
On Aug 26, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
I heard of this sort of thing happening to the DEC building at Marlboro.
Supposedly it had two mains entrances, served from different power lines
(and different companies? Seems
I've finally gotten a hold of a restored ASR-33. One question I have
concerns the paper tape reader.
My recollection of using this TTY in the 70's was that the reader switch
lever had 4 positions; on this tty there are 3. I know that for I have to
add a reader control relay to interface
On 8/22/2015 4:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
In my mostly misspent youth, I once had the opportunity to visit a
facility where a now obscure supercomputer was developed. The product
manager was showing me around.
Denelcor perhaps?
On 2015-Aug-26, at 12:13 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Also, when I was a kid, I was playing around with a Jacob's Ladder I had
made using a old vibrator-equipped Ford spark coil (I may still have
that around), and I had a telegraph key as a switch. Welll, one day I
was adjusting the ladder
From: Paul Koning
What happened is that the grounds were offset enough, and with enough
of a current supply, that the ground strap that's supposed to connect
the row of RP06 drives melted.
This sort of thing is a major electric code violation: you can certainly
have
On 8/26/2015 8:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
I heard of this sort of thing happening to the DEC building at Marlboro.
Supposedly it had two mains entrances, served from different power lines (and
different companies? Seems odd). One of the machine rooms had feeds from
both ends, and one
Hi,
I've finally gotten a hold of a restored ASR-33. One question I have
concerns the paper tape reader.
My recollection of using this TTY in the 70's was that the reader switch
lever had 4 positions; on this tty there are 3. I know that for I have to
add a reader control relay to interface to
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in
my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10
Kyle Owen wrote:
Just picked up a very complete MicroVAX 3800. I have very little experience
with VMS as this is my first VAX. Mostly a PDP-8 guy, I suppose.
I'm running through the change password procedure, which I had seen
mentioned previously on this list:
SET VAXCLUSTER 0
SET
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:39 AM, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote:
I was going to play dumb and hope this didn't go nuts in price but it did.
Anyone here bidding?
I'd be interested in one of these just to play with, but will probably try
to use the emulator if I ever get the chance to get into
Just picked up a very complete MicroVAX 3800. I have very little experience
with VMS as this is my first VAX. Mostly a PDP-8 guy, I suppose.
I'm running through the change password procedure, which I had seen
mentioned previously on this list:
SET VAXCLUSTER 0
SET /STARTUP OPA0:
SET
Nice one! A big'un and fully loaded, too!
You tried this procedure? Always worked for me.
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/journal/v1/atw.pdf
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Kyle Owen kylevo...@gmail.com wrote:
Just picked up a very complete MicroVAX 3800. I have very little
On 8/26/2015 1:20 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
Microdata card extractors were always engaged to a rail that was metal,
and in one site I was at, there was a CE sized hole in the wall behind a
system when the engineer extracted the printer card and the card
extractors came free from the system.
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in
my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10 going again to
image them, but might need
I know of two publications in 1975 that used the term second system effect or
second-systemitis.
1: Brooks' _Mythical Man-Month_.
2: Bell's and Streeker's What We Learned From the PDP-11.
Does anyone know of earlier usage of this term or earlier names for this
effect, possibly outside of
Yup, in the first house I owned, i had a computer room.
Whereas now you have a 'computer house' ?
The previous owner had done some retrofits and installed an
outlet in a closet. I plugged a printer into that outlet,
and my computer (S-100, CP/M) into another on the opposite
wall. Some
On 08/26/2015 08:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Turned out there was a 120v potential between the dedicated power for the
computer and the printer which was plugged into the normal building power.
There was probably as much as an amp going thru the grounds from the terminals
in the building and
Kyle Owen wrote:
That seemed to do the trick! I'm now in the system. I'm struggling to
understand how to switch between making it conversational boot and not. I'm
assuming the lack of the NiCd battery will mean it won't necessarily
remember such preferences, but maybe I'm wrong. At this
Agreed.
I know of a story of someone working with a drill was also wearing a tie*...
needless to say the tie accidentally got caught around the drill and the guy
was very nearly strangled to death...
* He had attended in interview earlier in the day and didn't go home before
returning to work.
On Aug 26, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
From: Paul Koning
What happened is that the grounds were offset enough, and with enough
of a current supply, that the ground strap that's supposed to connect
the row of RP06 drives melted.
This sort of thing is a
On 8/26/2015 2:21 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:00 AM, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on
them in
my collection.
At 04:03 PM 8/25/2015, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Since the topic of hard copy manuals is at least on a few minds,
I thought I would mention that I have at least 20 feet of mostly
DEC PDP-11 related manuals which will have to be tossed if
a home can't be found. While I estimate that at least 90% of
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Peter Coghlan cct...@beyondthepale.ie
wrote:
You need an @ sign in front of SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM
(Sorry - I think I originally posted that procedure with the @ sign
missing.)
That seemed to do the trick! I'm now in the system. I'm struggling to
understand
On 8/26/2015 2:33 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Aug 26, 2015, at 3:16 PM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote:
On 8/26/2015 8:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
I heard of this sort of thing happening to the DEC building at Marlboro.
Supposedly it had two mains entrances, served from different power
On 8/26/15 12:33, Paul Koning wrote:
90? Three phase power is 120 degrees apart, center-tapped two
phase home power is 180 degrees, but I don't know of any power
company service that produces 90 degree shifts.
There's a bunch of 90-degree two-phase stuff in Philadelphia; in
particular the
On 08/26/2015 12:02 PM, tony duell wrote:
Yup, in the first house I owned, i had a computer room.
Whereas now you have a 'computer house' ?
The previous owner had done some retrofits and installed an
outlet in a closet. I plugged a printer into that outlet,
and my computer (S-100, CP/M)
It's a bit late but I may as well post my list of stuff I'd like to
see go away this weekend. Small items can be delivered to you at VCF
Midwest. Large items you'll have to pick up from my home or storage,
both of which are 10 miles from the show, either during the week
before or on Sunday
On 8/26/2015 3:07 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Paul Koning
What happened is that the grounds were offset enough, and with enough
of a current supply, that the ground strap that's supposed to connect
the row of RP06 drives melted.
This sort of thing is a major
On 8/26/2015 3:48 PM, Christian Kennedy wrote:
On 8/26/15 12:33, Paul Koning wrote:
90? Three phase power is 120 degrees apart, center-tapped two
phase home power is 180 degrees, but I don't know of any power
company service that produces 90 degree shifts.
There's a bunch of 90-degree
On 26 August 2015 at 14:03, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
I've only ever seen the ones with 3 position levers, but from reading the
manuals I think the 3 position levers are manual control models and
4 position levers are automatic control models (with extra levers and
swtiches in
That TS05 is probably in excess of 100 lbs, no? Pity it's not a little
closer, I'd definitely take a 9-track to play with for free!
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Jason T silent...@gmail.com wrote:
It's a bit late but I may as well post my list of stuff I'd like to
see go away
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