Re: Honeywell DDP-516 console on Ebay - PLEASE don't bid!

2018-02-23 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
so did u get it? On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On 2/23/18 6:22 AM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk wrote: > > > With the stripped keyboard one can build something underneath to replace > the original terminal as well. > > > Too bad that

Re: SimH DECtape vs. Tops-10 [was RE: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]]

2018-02-23 Thread Rick Murphy via cctalk
On 2/21/2018 5:14 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Ok, then it could be for VMS, which also does this (via Andy's unsupported driver). I don't know of PDP-11 or other minicomputer systems that do DECtape overlapped seek. I suppose it could be for artistic verisimilitude... TSS/8. It was a

Re: WTB Intel 7110 Bubble Memory Subsystem or Chipset

2018-02-23 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > The original bubble memories were sort of dead end, but applying more > advanced semiconductor lithography to them, going to vertical Bloch-line > memory architecture, and such could have given them a lot

Re: WTB Intel 7110 Bubble Memory Subsystem or Chipset

2018-02-23 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 02/22/2018 10:37 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: This is all bringing back when Intel tried to see BM's to me at Tektronix. Got to go see them being made. Something just told me "dead end". The original bubble memories were sort of dead end, but applying more advanced semiconductor

Re: Honeywell DDP-516 console on Ebay - PLEASE don't bid!

2018-02-23 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 2/23/18 6:22 AM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk wrote: > With the stripped keyboard one can build something underneath to replace the > original terminal as well. Too bad that isn't what keyboard collectors do with them. It is good to hear that if a Lisp Machine keyboard gets in the hands

Re: WTB Intel 7110 Bubble Memory Subsystem or Chipset

2018-02-23 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
> On Feb 23, 2018, at 07:11, Anders Nelson wrote: > > That's one of the most beautiful machines I've ever seen! Are they > rare/expensive? (I'm guessing yes) Yes to both! I don't know how many are out in the wild today, and I don't know how many were made. I don't

Re: WTB Intel 7110 Bubble Memory Subsystem or Chipset

2018-02-23 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
That's one of the most beautiful machines I've ever seen! Are they rare/expensive? (I'm guessing yes) =] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I'm about to acquire a couple of

Re: Honeywell DDP-516 console on Ebay - PLEASE don't bid!

2018-02-23 Thread Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
On 22.02.2018 20:51, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: I can accept someone keeping the front panel and dumping the computer more so than when on strips a keyboard from the terminal. Oh, what!?! I have a totally different opinion on that :-) Two reasons - One because with the front panel one