On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:06 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> Yes, the TM02 and TM03 formatters allowed MASSBUS to connect to Pertec
> drives, but I don't think you could run a tape drive and a disk drive on
> the same MASSBUS channel anyway. Wonder why, technically the MASSBUS
> cable is just a
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:07 PM Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> The worst were the Fry's sales people on the floor that would ignore you,
> then badger
> you to let them write a sale up so they'd get sales credit if you made the
> mistake
> of asking them where something was.
And of course that
On 2/24/21 8:29 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
there won't be much of any liquidation sales
because they hadn't been paying vendors, who took all their stuff back
that's why the shelves were empty, no one would give them any stock after
that started to happen well over a year ago
On 2/24/2021 8:07 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
The worst were the Fry's sales people on the floor that would ignore
you, then badger
you to let them write a sale up so they'd get sales credit if you made
the mistake
of asking them where something was.
I always track down the Microcente
On 2/24/21 7:51 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/24/21 7:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
>> The cashiers, of course, were minimum-wage and so had no idea of what
>> was passing in front of them.
>
> They also had a no questions asked returns policy, which people abused.
>
> When som
The worst were the Fry's sales people on the floor that would ignore you, then
badger
you to let them write a sale up so they'd get sales credit if you made the
mistake
of asking them where something was.
On 2/24/21 7:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
The cashiers, of course, were minimum-wage and so had no idea of what
was passing in front of them.
They also had a no questions asked returns policy, which people abused.
When something was returned, they'd rebag it and put it back on the she
On 2/24/21 6:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> But, I remember the old days, when they had lots of "computer people"
> food items, and even Jolt cola.
You're forgetting Canfield Diet Fudge Chocolate Soda--I remember
customers wheeling out dollies of the stuff.The idea was simplicity
itsel
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/funky-electronics-chain-frys-is-no-more/
They could probably have hung on a little longer, by stocking those empty
shelves with toilet paper, and maybe even some groceries.
It has been many years since I was in a Fry's, because there weren't any
very cl
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 10:08 AM, Guy N. via cctalk wrote:
>
> https://www.seattletimes.com/business/funky-electronics-chain-frys-is-no-more/
>
> So sad to see them go. There was a Fry's store close enough for me to
> visit occasionally. What will I do now when I actually want to examine
> th
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 2/24/21 3:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
>> On 24/02/2021 23:02, stan via cctalk wrote:
>>> By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
>>> Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had
>
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 7:06 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> From: Chris Zach
>
>> technically the MASSBUS cable is just an extension of the Unibus
>
> No.
>
> For one thing, the MASSBUS has no lines for carrying memory addresses. So
> there is no way to even build a box that 'tran
Looks a little different since the last time I looked around that feature
(it was a while back) but I think it may be this site?
https://www.1000bit.it/
Santo
On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:32 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Thanks Stan - no it wasn’t anything to do with
On 02/24/2021 06:01 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 2/24/21 3:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
On 24/02/2021 23:02, stan via cctalk wrote:
By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had
an Alpha system talking to
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk
> wrote:
> I never got close to 1200 days, but I had an SGI machine at home talking to
> uptimes.net. I remember watching it from work as it got close to 1 hours
> (on the 416th day, 19th November 2002 according to syslog) when sudden
> From: Chris Zach
> technically the MASSBUS cable is just an extension of the Unibus
No.
For one thing, the MASSBUS has no lines for carrying memory addresses. So
there is no way to even build a box that 'translates' MASSBUS to UNIBUS; the
semantics ('the things you can say', basically)
On 2/24/21 3:11 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
> On 24/02/2021 23:02, stan via cctalk wrote:
>> By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
>> Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had
>> an Alpha system talking to it at one time.
>>
>> IIRC, the record at one
Thanks Stan - no it wasn’t anything to do with uptime. It was like a museum but
people registered/listed their machines with some info about them and some
pictures.
Kevin Parker
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On 24/02/2021 23:02, stan via cctalk wrote:
By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had an
Alpha system talking to it at one time.
IIRC, the record at one time was a VAX cluster, with an uptime of 1200+
days. Windows N
By any chance, are you thinking of uptimes.net?
Some years ago (early 2000's?) it was tracking systems uptimes. I had an
Alpha system talking to it at one time.
IIRC, the record at one time was a VAX cluster, with an uptime of 1200+
days. Windows NT systems fared a lot worse, average of about
Do you have 3-phase power? Will they even spin up?
I do, but I don't care enough about them to try.
I just want them gone. Bring your own fork lift, the battery in mine is dead
and they are 15 feet up.
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:06 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> I happen to have a massbus adapter and the cabling with terminator for my
>> 11/750, but I never came across any massbus peripherals. Considering the
>> price back then and the size for these, they seem nowadays quite rare,
onsdag 24 februari 2021 skrev Chris Zach via cctalk :
> They are RT11/TSX versions.
>
> Now for the problem of the day. The TSX 5.1 distribution have damage to
> track zero, my guess is they were in the Solarex drives where the wonderful
> silicon dust did a job on them. Anyone got really good 8
> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>> Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
>> http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
>> The site has an index of messages archived from
On 02/24/2021 12:26 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
I have two RP07s sitting on the upper mezanine here that
were left behind by the former tennant of the
building my shop is in.
Do you have 3-phase power? Will they even spin up?
Jon
Hi all!
Spent some serious time this evening with the RX02 drives: I managed to
download the images of the SaturnCalc 3.0, Saturn Graph, and Saturn WP
software to RX02 images. I think it's set right, can someone take a look
at the images and see if they are good? Should be RT11 format, RX02 (of
They are RT11/TSX versions.
Now for the problem of the day. The TSX 5.1 distribution floppies have
damage to track zero, my guess is they were in the Solarex drives where
the wonderful silicon dust did a job on them. Anyone got really good 8
inch floppy skills and want to take a crack at readi
I have two RP07s sitting on the upper mezanine here that were left behind by
the former tennant of the
building my shop is in.
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/funky-electronics-chain-frys-is-no-more/
So sad to see them go. There was a Fry's store close enough for me to
visit occasionally. What will I do now when I actually want to examine
the merchandise before I pay for it?
On 2/23/21 10:57 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:53 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
Wow, I've always wanted an 11/750. Not sure why, the small box size is
impressive and all that.
I started on an 11/750 in 1984. They are fantastic little machines.
If you only have
Well, I had a
program that could examine the home blocks, and I knew where to find the
backup home blocks. So, I hacked that program to copy the backup block
to the main one, and then change the checksums to agree.
That is one way to avoid a very long restore :-)
The other issue is the voice
Yep. I actually had one. The lid flew off the top of it while we were
driving it back from Eastern shore to Baltimore on Rt. 50 but the rest
of it was intact. Very different MBA controller from an RM02/03.
Unfortunately when Doug closed up the storage place someone swiped MC
from there before
On 2021-02-24 11:06 a.m., Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 02/24/2021 08:06 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> Sort of. MASSBUS was a very overpriced and to be honest weird system
>> that DEC developed in an attempt to be like IBM and charge very high
>> markups for generic peripherals. While
On 02/24/2021 08:06 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Sort of. MASSBUS was a very overpriced and to be honest
weird system that DEC developed in an attempt to be like
IBM and charge very high markups for generic peripherals.
While it did support a variety of interface formats (I
don't think t
Den ons 24 feb. 2021 kl 04:57 skrev Ethan Dicks via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org>:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 9:53 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
> > Wow, I've always wanted an 11/750. Not sure why, the small box size is
> > impressive and all that.
>
> I started on an 11/750 in 1984. They a
On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes"
(kind of their equivalent of UseNet).
It appears from the
I happen to have a massbus adapter and the cabling with terminator for my
11/750, but I never came across any massbus peripherals. Considering the price
back then and the size for these, they seem nowadays quite rare, which is a
real pity.
Sort of. MASSBUS was a very overpriced and to be hone
Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2021, 03:53:19 MEZ hat Chris Zach via cctalk
Folgendes geschrieben:
>Wow, I've always wanted an 11/750. Not sure why, the small box size is
>impressive and all that. However it doesn't look like that one has a
>MASSBUS adapter so I will have to pass...
>
>And I just
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