Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 7/20/2021 10:13 AM, pspan via cctech wrote: I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the 80's and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the work used a scope. She replaced cores and wires. Good luck finding someone to do that work now. If I reme

Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread jos via cctalk
On 21.07.21 02:15, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: In general comment to the topic, I have seen planar arrays ("mats") with some number of randomly-situated wire splices in them. These splices are in the gaps between bit arrays, not interior to a bit array (there isn't enough space between cor

Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2021-Jul-20, at 4:04 PM, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > On 7/20/21 12:13 PM, pspan via cctech wrote: >> I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the 80's >> and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the work used a >> scope. She replaced cores

Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 7/20/21 12:13 PM, pspan via cctech wrote: I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the 80's and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the work used a scope. She replaced cores and wires. Good luck finding someone to do that work now. If I remember

Re: Items Wanted

2021-07-20 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 7/20/2021 7:34 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: On 7/20/2021 6:59 AM, Eric Moore wrote: > > >      >> 11) ESDI disk emulator >      > >      > I am not aware of any such beasties in

Re: Items Wanted

2021-07-20 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 4:06 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: > On 7/20/2021 6:59 AM, Eric Moore wrote: > > > > > > >> 11) ESDI disk emulator > > > > > > I am not aware of any such beasties in the wild. MFM, yes, but I > > haven't seen ESDI. I would love for such a thing to e

IBM 1410 Processor Operating System Compiler Status Report

2021-07-20 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
Over the past few weeks I have been playing with the COBOL, FORTRAN and RPG compilers that are present on the IBM 1410 PR108 Processor Operating system tape, available at: http://piercefuller.com/library/kau1401s.html (it is really 1410) and https://sky-visions.com/ibm/ibm7010_soft.shtml (For u

Re: Re: DEC PDP-8/e H212 core mat repair

2021-07-20 Thread Richard Milward via cctalk
Going by the size, I'd say the Keronix board is for a Data General Nova or one of its ilk. Keronix did make core boards with p/n starting 816 for Novas. **Richard Message: 1 Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:50:10 -0500 From: Jules Richardson To:cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: DEC PDP-8/e H212 core m

Re: Items Wanted

2021-07-20 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 7/20/2021 6:59 AM, Eric Moore wrote: >> 11) ESDI disk emulator > > I am not aware of any such beasties in the wild.  MFM, yes, but I haven't seen ESDI.   I would love for such a thing to exist, thinking of my Apollo, 3B2 and IBM RT/PC workstations. I’d also love t

WANTED: IBM 360 operators panel

2021-07-20 Thread Barry Hills via cctalk
I am looking for an IBM 360 operator panel. Model 55 would be wonderful but I would consider any 360/370. To be used for demo so condition of switches & lights is important.

Re: core matt repair

2021-07-20 Thread pspan via cctalk
I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the 80's and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the work used a scope. She replaced cores and wires. Good luck finding someone to do that work now. If I remember the process, first the mat was removed from t

Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/20/21 12:11 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk wrote: Is there a market for any of this that is worth pursing, or is this all too generic and plentiful to worry about? Giving shipping and that, I am not sure how much of this I'd care to deal with this through resale (eBay or privately) versus

Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-20 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Indeed, those are nice systems. Some of them were a bit daffy (the Prosignia Pentium 120's were odd) but I still have an XE4100 that I run NextStep on. The integrated video was great I do however miss my Deskpro/2000. Dual Pentium Pro and by the end I had dual PODP chips running in it with

Re: Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-20 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
If you're looking to donate, Kennett Classic can use these to support what's in our "post vintage" room (goes up to 1997) Bill On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 2:11 PM Kevin Anderson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired (for > fr

Compaq Deskpro boards/hard drives from the late 1990s

2021-07-20 Thread Kevin Anderson via cctalk
For a time I had quite a few Compaq Deskpro towers that had acquired (for free) from my employer after they updated to a newer HP Compaq model. These Compaq Deskpros were the white-boxed variety with Pentium III the like processors that date to the later part of the 1990s and into the 2000s. T

VT101 parts available, found on Reddit

2021-07-20 Thread Joshua Rice via cctalk
Someone on Reddit has found much of a VT101 and would like to rehome it. Not sure where he's located, but somewhere in US Thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/ogy6im/so_i_found_a_vt101/

Re: Items Wanted

2021-07-20 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
> > 4) SD2SCSI > > Do you mean a device that emulates a SCSI drive with an SD card? Why > not just go out and purchase a SCSI2SD V5.1 - a little slower than the > newer ones, but works fine in my Sun, SGI and Intergraph Boxen. > > I also just bought one of the less expensive Androda SCSI emulators

Re: Items Wanted

2021-07-20 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
> > >> 11) ESDI disk emulator > > > > I am not aware of any such beasties in the wild. MFM, yes, but I > haven't seen ESDI. I would love for such a thing to exist, thinking of my > Apollo, 3B2 and IBM RT/PC workstations. > > I’d also love to have one of these, preferably using SD or CF cards. T

RE: Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab software

2021-07-20 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk > Sent: Monday, July 19, 2021 7:25 PM > To: Al Kossow via cctalk > Subject: Re: Tektronix 8002 microprocessor lab software > > On 7/19/21 4:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On