Re: HP 1670E logic analyzer QUESTION ??

2020-01-05 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
The HP 16500 / 1660 / 1670 series which have hard drives use standard IDE drives. They might be slightly picky about which drives work. Any drive larger than around 2GB might have some issues. Why do you ask? On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 6:42 AM GerardCJAT via cctech wrote: > This equipment is said

Re: HP 1670E logic analyzer QUESTION ??

2020-01-05 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
I forgot that at some point they switched from 3.5-inch drives to 2.5-inch drives. I just pulled the cover off my 1670E to check exactly what it has for a hard drive. It is an IBM Travelstar model DBCA-203240, 3.2GB, 4200RPM, 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive with ATA/IDE Interface, with a date code of

Re: Mach

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 15:21 -0800, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > On Jan 5, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > It did seem for a while that a lot of things were based on Mach, > > but > > > > > > very few seemed to make it to market. NeXTstep

Re: Taligent

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 15:06 -0800, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > On Jan 5, 2020, at 12:56 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Does Talingent Pink sound familiar? OS/2 was ported to powerPC, > > and so > > was Netware iirc. The field was quite busy with

Vintage computing spots in Chicago?

2020-01-05 Thread John Herron via cctalk
I'll be in Chicago for a week soon for a work event. Limited time for myself but I'll have some time Sunday to maybe Uber around. Any suggestions or cool spots for a computer collector to hit? I see a museum of broadcast communications is close to where I'll be which may be neat. Not sure if

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-05 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 1/5/20 3:12 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: On Jan 5, 2020, at 7:02 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: Sun *did* do a full port of OpenStep to Solaris, but while I know people who saw it, I am not sure if it got a full commercial release. Not quite! Sun was a participant in

Mach

2020-01-05 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Jan 5, 2020, at 2:30 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > > It did seem for a while that a lot of things were based on Mach, but >> >> very few seemed to make it to market. NeXTstep and OSF/1, the only >> version of which to ship AFAIK was DEC OSF/1 AXP, later Digital UNIX, >> later

OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-05 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Jan 5, 2020, at 7:02 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Sun *did* do a full port of OpenStep to Solaris, but while I know > people who saw it, I am not sure if it got a full commercial release. Not quite! Sun was a participant in creating the OpenStep standard (the NS class prefix stands

Taligent

2020-01-05 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Jan 5, 2020, at 12:56 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > Does Talingent Pink sound familiar? OS/2 was ported to powerPC, and so > was Netware iirc. The field was quite busy with hopeful Microsoft > killers. OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform o/s, to wean > folks from

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 23:41 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final > > fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU > > had (things like

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 23:30, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > > Yes. We first started with Mach 3.0 build MK58. We did our final > fork at MK68. We made some *significant* changes from what CMU > had (things like changing mach messages from IPC to RPC) and a > whole lot of work in the area of

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 21:54 +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6 > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for > PPC. The way

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 20:58, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > > Just to clarify, the reference to "i810 RISC" should be the i860 > ("N-10"), their second general-purpose RISC design - versus the 960MX > from the BiiN project with Siemens in the mid-80s as their first (?), > which would become

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original 6 > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 for > PPC. The way thatthe microkernel project was structured was that most > of the "OS" was

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 01/05/2020 07:02, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: OS/2 was to be morphed into a cross-platform o/s, >> to wean folks from dos/x86. > True, but what few remember now is that as well as OS/2 1 (80286) and OS./2 2 (80386), there was also OS/2 3 (CPU-independent). It was initially

Re: SCO software box last chance

2020-01-05 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: All, have not yet brought myself to throw away this big box of SCO software. Last call, though. I’ll pay media rate to get it to you in the US, just let me know that you want it and where to ship it. If you are abroad, email me and we can

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 03:56 -0500, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > A lot of odd PPC work happened in a group a friend worked for > inAustin TX, but not sure if they did Netware work there.? There was > a lot ofOS2 work there as well, but that's off track a bit more. > thanksJim > I was lead

HP 1670E logic analyzer QUESTION ??

2020-01-05 Thread GerardCJAT via cctalk
This equipment is said to have an internal 2 Go HD. Who knows what KIND of HD  ??  HP SCSI  ?? Thanks

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 09:56, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly > > > > > there was > > > > >

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 1/5/2020 12:56 AM, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly there was some attempt at Apple to put it on

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-05 Thread Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote: > On 1/2/2020 1:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > > > > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly > > > > there was > > > > some attempt at Apple to put it on what later became the > > > > Network