A number of the prior systems were picked up or other arrangements made, and
a couple more pulled from storage to make room. As before, these are FREE
TO A GOOD HOME but you have to come PICK UP from various locations in the
Riverside-San Bernardino, CA region. Contact me privately if interested.
T
On 8/3/21 4:51 PM, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote:
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From: cctalk On Behalf Of Dennis Boone
via cctalk
Sent: 03 August 2021 21:31
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Help reading a 9 track tape
> It was intended to be a stop-gap, to be discarded when the ICL was
> Well you could ask Silverfrost who now own it. I think a lot of Salford
> Pr1me software was lost.
Vague memory suggests that someone did, and that they don't have it any
more. When I asked Rob Jung, ex-Primate, if he still had the Prime
version of his ARJ compressor, he didn't have that eit
thanks Jim.you don't want to know what I paid for all of this, plus the
time I put into the project, but there is a point where you have to cut
bait. Hopefully someone else will want it,. Others selling just the same
DostEK adapter price closer to $500, but without it the FANUK is kind of
use
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Dennis Boone
> via cctalk
> Sent: 03 August 2021 21:31
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Help reading a 9 track tape
>
> > It was intended to be a stop-gap, to be discarded when the ICL was >
> replaced with PR1ME. However the P
On 8/2/2021 7:22 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
FANUC A860-0056-T020 Papertape Reader and DOSTEK 440A BTR
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274883740917
Ebay listing includes my project notes. Hopefully someone here will want
it.
Bill
I see that to ship from you to the Los Angeles area is $112.00
On 8/3/21 1:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>
>> On Aug 3, 2021, at 3:28 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> One of my favorite 6000 bits of code was the register save and restore
>> routines (not using CEJ). It was a favorite interview question for
>> those job seekers claiming to be proficient in
> It was intended to be a stop-gap, to be discarded when the ICL was
> replaced with PR1ME. However the PR1ME was benchmarked with Fortran 66.
> When Pr1me Fortran 77 was delivered its performance was "pants" so the
> "stop gap" ICL compiler was ported to PR1ME...
Wish we could find that Prim
On 8/3/21 11:58 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> Mostly true; some machines had the "compare-move unit" which would do what it
> says -- move or compare string of 6-bit characters". But nothing fancier.
I think the CMU arrived with the CYBER 7x line--I don't recall seeing a
6400 with one. Of course
> On Aug 3, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 8/3/21 9:46 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Hardware makes software interesting, or is it the other way around?
>> With C being developed on a PDP 11, you had no decimal operations,
>> but IBM had PL/I that did. Every thing
On 8/3/21 9:46 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> Hardware makes software interesting, or is it the other way around?
> With C being developed on a PDP 11, you had no decimal operations,
> but IBM had PL/I that did. Every thing was binary floating point
> since then, until the latest standard of floating
On 2021-08-02 5:07 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
IS the specialty of the language WRITING COMPILERS? If not, it would
seem that a better compiler for that language would be written in a
language best suited for writing compilers (strong string/text handling
and parsing, suitable tree str
I am not a collector exactly -- I just salvaged a bunch when they were
being sent to recycling.
My Model Ms are going strong, no bolt mod needed, but I also have 2
Apple Extended II and an Extended I and both, sadly, need some
attention. I am almost devoid of electronics skills.
Does anyone know
Recompiling Forth was always such a trivial process, there was no reason to not
recompile itself using itself. It was also a good check of the output. One
could compare the output and check any differences to ensure that they were
intended. One could run it twice again as a check as well.
It wou
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Good question.
You obviously understand the issue, but others might not. So, here is the
background:
This was a great read, Fred. Thanks for taking the time to write it up!
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The
I put my FANUC tape reader for sale on Ebay, if anyone might be interested:
> On Aug 2, 2021, at 8:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctech
> wrote:
>
> On 8/2/21 8:11 AM, James Liu via cctech wrote:
>> Thanks for feedback and offers to assist.
>
> Happy to contirubte.
>
>> For some background, Tini Veltman developed Schoonship in the 1960's
>> at CERN on the CDC 6600. My
On 8/2/21 8:11 AM, James Liu via cctech wrote:
> Thanks for feedback and offers to assist.
Happy to contirubte.
> For some background, Tini Veltman developed Schoonship in the 1960's
> at CERN on the CDC 6600. My understanding is that he more or less
> insisted on coding in assembly since he t
mån 2021-08-02 klockan 20:00 -0500 skrev Gavin Scott via cctalk:
>
>
> Another interesting question is whether the currently shipping
> version
> of a language written in itself was compiled using the same version
> of
> itself or the previous version. I recall HP compilers generally being
> buil
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