VCF West exhibit registration is open

VCF West XIII will be held August 4-5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Exhibit registration is open: http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-exhibits/. Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation

System/36 Password Cracking

For those following from the VCFed thread I have been working on an IBM 5363 that I have managed to get running up to the IPL sign on. For everyone else this project is being documented at http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?62860-IBM-5363-IBM-System-36 >From there while I know who last

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

those are the ibm server ones right? On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Guy N. via cctalk wrote: > The new sysadmin at work is clearing out closets full of junk^H^H^H^H > cool old stuff accumulated by the previous sysadmin. There's a big > carton full of PATA hard disks.

PATA hard disks, anyone?

The new sysadmin at work is clearing out closets full of junk^H^H^H^H cool old stuff accumulated by the previous sysadmin. There's a big carton full of PATA hard disks. Most of them are in the 4.3 GB - 20 GB range, a few larger, a few smaller. Anyone have any use for these? You can have them

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 3:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I went noodling around eBay and found a couple of types > > SN-921 (2.1mm barrel jack for +5V) > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Sgi_dialbox_sn-921_front.jpg > > DANAHER CONTROLS Dials DLS80-1022

Re: Unix-PC

> > At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM > emulator to have near infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due > to limitations in the controller, it seems). > > I wondered about that. I heard someone was working on one but I never > saw it. Got any

Re: Identifying vacuum tube module

> On Mar 25, 2018, at 12:34, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > > Anyone knows what these go to? > > https://imgur.com/a/CpxLs If the 5815 is a Federal Supply Classification, then the module would most likely be used in some sort of teletype or

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > and if anyone cares, I just listed three SGI IRIS dial boxes on ebay. > they are just rotary encoders, the smarts were in the button box, which had a > 68008 in it. I went noodling around eBay and found a

Identifying vacuum tube module

Anyone knows what these go to? https://imgur.com/a/CpxLs Thanks, Kyle

RL02 Question

Sorry to keep bothering you all with RL02 questions. I think I am nearly there. It seems my head cleaning in a warm bath of isopropyl alcohol was a success. I bought a tested RL02 pack and loaded it - no bad sounds, I can extend the heads all the way. So that's good. I have supposedly a working

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

and if anyone cares, I just listed three SGI IRIS dial boxes on ebay. they are just rotary encoders, the smarts were in the button box, which had a 68008 in it. On 3/25/18 10:28 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 3/25/18 8:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > >>

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On 3/25/18 8:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > https://github.com/hanshuebner/sgi-dialbox-usb/blob/master/dialbox.py a friend of mine made a MIDI controller out of a E dial box, which also has alphanumeric LEDs over each dial. the box looks like the one on the right here:

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk > wrote: >> Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI >> one but don't know anything about the IBM

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 10:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI > one but don't know anything about the IBM ones. They were built by > Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On 03/25/2018 09:49 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: Maybe there's some relationship to the SGI dial boxes?? I have an SGI one but don't know anything about the IBM ones. They were built by Danaher and Seiko and both SGI and Sun offered those models...

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

On Sunday (03/25/2018 at 07:11AM -0700), Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote: > > > > On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg > > > > Neat! I haven't seen one

Re: Did anyone on the list get these tapes?

> On Mar 24, 2018, at 11:34 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > There's also what looks like some very early RSTS source in there. The BASIC-PLUS interpreter part, yes. RTS.P11, there are two versions. I'll look at them more closely. I have a 1971 listing

Re: IBM 6094-010 "Dials" protocol?

> On Mar 24, 2018, at 22:29, Michael Brutman via cctalk > wrote: > > Picture here: https://i.imgur.com/ClCw070.jpg > Neat! I haven't seen one of those since 1987, when I briefly played with a workstation that had one of those in an