Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:45:44AM -0800, Glen Slick wrote: > On Feb 23, 2017 12:23 AM, "Pontus Pihlgren" wrote: > > > (I'm just hoping I'l get lucky and find one.. I have an 11/73 with > graphics, it would be nice to add sound to it) > > > What do you have for graphics?

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread John Ames
> From: Bill Gunshannon > I always thought music in the old days was more about MIDI and letting > something designed for it do the work ala Usenix Nashville 1991. The MIDI control standard wasn't even finalized until 1983, and it took a couple years to really

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread allison
On 2/23/17 11:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: From: cctech [cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of allison [ajp...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:04 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: story of Mel On 2/23/17 3:23 AM, Pontus

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread allison
On 2/23/17 11:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: From: cctech [cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of allison [ajp...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:04 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: story of Mel On 2/23/17 3:23 AM, Pontus

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread allison
On 2/23/17 8:25 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Noel Chiappa [j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:49 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Q

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread allison
On 2/23/17 3:23 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:18:50PM -0500, allison wrote: The sound (not music) card was actually a internally built and not sold (that I know of). There must have been a few though, since several claim to have one and it even showed up on ebay. (I'm

RE: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Bill Gunshannon
From: cctech [cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of allison [ajp...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:04 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: story of Mel On 2/23/17 3:23 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Chris Elmquist
On February 23, 2017 2:02:50 PM CST, Fred Cisin wrote: >I love the wisdom of Allison's remark, that >what some of us still see as "recent current events" >is "ancient history" for the youngsters. and the youngsters insist on reinventing dirt. -- Chris Elmquist

Looking for a toggle switch

2017-02-23 Thread Charles Dickman
I need to replace the toggle switch on the M848 power fail and restart board for a pdp8/e. It is a singer controls corp T8001 as best I can read on it. A month or so ago I search and found an exact replacement, but Google is now failing me and I can't find it back. Anybody know who bought

RE: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Bill Gunshannon
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Fred Cisin [ci...@xenosoft.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:02 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: story of Mel I love the wisdom of Allison's remark, that

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Ethan Dicks" > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:08 PM > Subject: Re:

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Ethan Dicks" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:08 PM Subject: Re: story of Mel > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > I love the wisdom of Allison's remark, that > what some of us still see as "recent current events" > is "ancient history" for the youngsters. Indeed. That break-point is entirely relative to one's own age and

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Fred Cisin
I love the wisdom of Allison's remark, that what some of us still see as "recent current events" is "ancient history" for the youngsters.

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread Glen Slick
On Feb 23, 2017 12:23 AM, "Pontus Pihlgren" wrote: (I'm just hoping I'l get lucky and find one.. I have an 11/73 with graphics, it would be nice to add sound to it) What do you have for graphics? I have a DEC VSV11 board set and a Matrox QC-640 board.

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread ben
On 2/23/2017 4:36 AM, Tony Duell wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. I'll bet the music thing is some

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:25:24PM +, Bill Gunshannon wrote: > I think IO have a couple of them but I never heard them play music. :-) A couple of A6006 or a couple of Q Bus Music Boards? (I'm guessing A6006, I think that even I have D/A boards lying around) /P

Re: after a long search, I found the Dr. Dobbs bound volumes

2017-02-23 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 9:37 AM, geneb wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Randy Dawson wrote: > > Located here: >> >> >> http://6502.org/documents/publications/dr_dobbs_journal/ >> >> Were there only 13 volumes produced? > > g. > > > I know 1989 copies are all marked volume 14.

Re: after a long search, I found the Dr. Dobbs bound volumes

2017-02-23 Thread geneb
On Thu, 23 Feb 2017, Randy Dawson wrote: Located here: http://6502.org/documents/publications/dr_dobbs_journal/ Were there only 13 volumes produced? 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

RE: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Bill Gunshannon
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Noel Chiappa [j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 1:49 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Q Bus Music Board > From: Jim Stephens

RE: Data General MTB Reference Sought

2017-02-23 Thread Stephen Merrony
Hi Bruce, Thanks for that confirmation of my hazy memory! What I can't seem to find is any reference as to how the tape drives interact with the DCH bus and the associated map slots. I thought maybe a later guide might cover that? Steve -Original Message- From: Bruce Ray

Re: story of Mel

2017-02-23 Thread allison
On 02/23/2017 03:23 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:18:50PM -0500, allison wrote: >> The sound (not music) card was actually a internally built and not sold >> (that I know of). > There must have been a few though, since several claim to have one and > it even showed up on

Re: How to refurbish plotter pens?

2017-02-23 Thread Randy Dawson
Suggestion: drop them in an ultrasonic cleaner with solvent... From: cctech on behalf of David Gesswein Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:34 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: How to refurbish

Re: after a long search, I found the Dr. Dobbs bound volumes

2017-02-23 Thread Evan Koblentz
http://6502.org/documents/publications/dr_dobbs_journal/ Apologies to the list if this is common knowledge. We have the physical ones in the VCFed museum.

Re: Q Bus Music Board

2017-02-23 Thread Tony Duell
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> >> Sounds like it might be a standard analog output board, for lab settings. >> I'll bet the music thing is some marketing ploy, like the card game in

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

2017-02-23 Thread Jerry Kemp
then HP purchases SGI Reference: Jerry On 02/23/17 02:19 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:05:04PM -0700, Robert Ollerton wrote: Celerity Computing 6000 (multi processor scalar and vector;; San Diego,

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

2017-02-23 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:05:04PM -0700, Robert Ollerton wrote: > Celerity Computing 6000 (multi processor scalar and vector;; San Diego, CA. > bought out by Floating Point Systems. > then bought out by Cray then SGI bought Cray whic sold the "Superserver" part to SUN. SGI put their money into