Re: Missing FORRTL

2018-11-20 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 11/20/2018 6:02 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: I'm trying to use the Compaq/HP Extended Math Library  (CXML) on a DEC Alpha under AXP Openvms 8.4 - Hobbyist License. Fortran 8.2 and CXML were part of the Hobbyist distribution I downloaded. CXML complains that FORRTL is not present

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2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
This has not been a good few months for historical/vintage computer people https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bozeman-founder-of-american-computer-museum-dies/article_cad693eb-f70e-5f1c-94d4-78590e64b430.html

Re: VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!

2018-11-20 Thread Jim Manley via cctalk
Hi Mike, I teach science (all of ‘em!) and computing at a small, rural, K-12 school in Montana (we graduated our Senior (sic) last year!) and we’re trying to figure out how to get all of our mini proto geeks to the museum (and house them) to both volunteer and exhibit some of our vintage

Re: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!

2018-11-20 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
Emulators do great things, but they can't replace the visceral experience of touching real old working hardware. Take the example the sound of a modem making a 1200 bps connection, or the grinding noise of a floppy drive zero-track seeking at bootup. Or how inconvenient it is to shuffle floppy

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 12:33 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > BTW, what's the story on Richard in SLC; is there a new address for the > Terminal Wiki? > https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-20 Thread dwight via cctalk
Great Todd. That is just what I'm looking for. It makes sense that it would keep track. I have two different ftdi chips that I'm using so I can see how it got messed up. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Todd Goodman via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Re: HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

2018-11-20 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Nov 19, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Sven Schnelle via cctalk wrote: > > On 11/06/2018 07:16 AM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > >> All that said I’m quite surprised MAME doesn’t include HP-Apollo 9000/400 >> series emulation. The hardware is very similar to the 9000/380, which is >> supported, and

RE: [EXTERNAL] VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors needed!

2018-11-20 Thread rar via cctalk
I could imagine a talk/exhibit demonstrating vintage software. The question that I have is how do we exhibit software (Hardware is challenging enough) A quick stab is on our website at https://museum.syssrc.com/category/software/ where online visitors can run some of the important 1980's

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- Original Message - From: "Brent Hilpert via cctalk" Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals > I did happen to RE the keyboard and analyse it's functioning some as it > needed repair, so that's included in the schematic bits.

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-20, at 11:42 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I just bought the users and programming manuals for the TS-1, need to get > those scanned today. -- You should have asked ;-) I think I've got 4 or 5 spare copies somewhere ;-) = > On 11/20/18 11:28 AM,

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- Original Message - From: "Brent Hilpert via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 2:28 PM Subject: Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals On 2018-Nov-20, at 1:21 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > - Original Message

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 11:51 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > Just curiousity, but was there something special about the Falcos that's > generating particular interest, or of note? > Mostly that they are uncommon. I suspect with the NiCd batteries that very few still work and unfortunately, they

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-20, at 11:18 AM, Paul Koning wrote: >> On Nov 20, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> ... >> The PCB-transformer key design is novel, but (in the TS-1) so is the >> scanning & communication. >> There is no microcontroller on the keyboard, scanning is

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-20, at 11:42 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 11/20/18 11:28 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > >> Were there 3 PROMs on the TS-1? I don't remember > > There are three bipolar proms on the 2624 that you can see on the pcb picture > I still need to dump those, only one is

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 11:28 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > Were there 3 PROMs on the TS-1? I don't remember There are three bipolar proms on the 2624 that you can see on the pcb picture I still need to dump those, only one is socketed. It looks like the keyboard is very similar in the 2624 with

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-20, at 1:21 AM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 6:29 PM > Subject: Battery warning in Falco terminals > ... >> Also, I suspect the

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Nov 20, 2018, at 2:07 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > The PCB-transformer key design is novel, but (in the TS-1) so is the scanning > & communication. > There is no microcontroller on the keyboard, scanning is performed by the > main unit, it sends a key matrix address

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-20, at 5:11 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 11/19/18 11:54 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > >> I didn't have need / get as far as doing an I/O map or memory map for the >> Z80. >> >> Should I send these files along? >> > > Yes, please to dumps/docs and board/terminal pics from you

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-20 Thread Todd Goodman via cctalk
On 11/19/2018 11:34 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote: I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com ports but recently

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/19/18 11:54 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: I didn't have need / get as far as doing an I/O map or memory map for the Z80. Should I send these files along? Yes, please to dumps/docs and board/terminal pics from you and Mike! I'm sure Richard would appreciate these as well for the terminals

Re: Missing FORRTL

2018-11-20 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
I'm trying to use the Compaq/HP Extended Math Library  (CXML) on a DEC Alpha under AXP Openvms 8.4 - Hobbyist License. Fortran 8.2 and CXML were part of the Hobbyist distribution I downloaded. CXML complains that FORRTL is not present or the version is too low, (it is not present - $Product

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- Original Message - From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 6:29 PM Subject: Battery warning in Falco terminals ... > Also, I suspect the first generation of terminals all have similar hardware > with