Re: VCF West?

On Jul 30, 2019, at 11:43 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Is there a reason why there has been no mention of VCF West? Some of us have been busy trying to prep for it. :) -- Chris

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

On Jul 20, 2019, at 8:00 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: >> While I agree that making a non-optimal digital copy in such cases, is, >> well, non-optimal (because for _many uses_, the basic information is still >> available, wheras for many important documents, not even that remains), >> there's

Re: Computer Reset shop, liquidation. (USA)

On Jul 17, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > This. People on the internet are insane. I have gotten literal death threats > for refusing to sell keyboards. People threatening to find my home address > and do things about my “hoarding”. I should never have said a goddamn wo

Re: Lots of Apple 1 computers @ VCF West

On Jul 5, 2019, at 1:52 PM, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > > Today I can announce that 10 original Apple 1 computers will be displayed at > VCF West, and we're working on getting more. Why? That is, what’s the advantage of having 10+ instead of one or two? The Apple I never did very much,

Re: Latest Additions to the Virtual Warehouse of Computing Wonders Sale Inventory

I think the big difference between Sellam and a lot of people selling on, say, eBay is that Sellam is One Of Us: He’s a collector and enthusiast himself, not just someone hoping to make a buck off of a market in which they’re not themselves a participant. So the stuff that I’ve gotten from Sell

Re: Origins of nameless semaphores and Apple's non-support thereof

On Jun 25, 2019, at 5:39 PM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: > > I recently tripped over the fact that MacOS does not support nameless POSIX > semaphores. When attempting to use them, I get a complaint that they're > deprecated. I can't fathom why Apple would do that. I found this post >

Re: Apollo Guidance Computer Article

You might want to be explicit that the article is about the Apollo Guidance Computer, not about Apollo Computer the workstation manufacturer. — Chris

Re: Definicon DSI-020 software?

On Jun 17, 2019, at 7:16 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 6/16/19 4:42 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: >> There’s a zip file that claims to be the DSI-020 software, but it’s actually >> the DSI-32 software > > where would that be? I found it a couple places

Definicon DSI-020 software?

I’ve recently come into a Definicon DSI-020 coprocessor card, and would like the software that goes with it. Does anyone know where to find it? There’s a zip file that claims to be the DSI-020 software, but it’s actually the DSI-32 software: The DSI-32 is an NS32032 coprocessor card, while the D

Tandem 6526 information?

A friend not on the list obtained a Tandem 6526 terminal. In the process of trying to refurbish it, the first 80 bytes of its ROM got trashed. Does anyone happen to have one so she could recover from this? Also, she has no keyboard, and no information about Tandem’s block mode or other protocol

Re: Sun SS2 SBus memory expansion parts

On Apr 25, 2019, at 7:39 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > > I have the 32MB memory expansion card for my SPARCstation 2 (P/N 501-1823) > but not the accompanying cable (501-1814) or 32MB mezzanine card (501-1824). Of course I meant 530-1814 as the Sun part number for the cable.

Sun SS2 SBus memory expansion parts

I have the 32MB memory expansion card for my SPARCstation 2 (P/N 501-1823) but not the accompanying cable (501-1814) or 32MB mezzanine card (501-1824). Does anyone have either the cable or mezzanine card that they’d be willing to part with for a reasonable price? I’ve only found sellers carrying

Re: DECimage questions

Thanks so much for the detailed response! I’m especially glad to know regular 72pin SIMMs should work. If I find a DEC reseller that has DECimage or 10Base-T boards for a reasonable price, I’ll let you know. — Chris

DECimage questions

I recently acquired a DECimage X terminal, which is theoretically a VXT-2000 with an add-on 2D accelerator. Unfortunately while the terminal is badges as a DECimage it didn’t include the board, just a frame buffer. Does anyone have a spare DECimage board they’d be interested in parting with, or

Re: VAX 4000-100 Free to a good home

On Mar 12, 2019, at 3:14 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > > Based on his area code, he’s in Virginia, near Washington DC. So far enough > that I can’t be tempted, and this is one of the very few items I’d find > tempting. :-) You can’t really base anything on that, most people use mobile phones these

Re: VAX 4000-100 Free to a good home

On Mar 12, 2019, at 11:23 AM, Kenneth Moser via cctalk wrote: > > I have one, with some disks and other misc gear. Headed for the dump if I > cannot find a home. Would prefer to find a home for my old friend... You haven’t said where you are or the timeframe in which you’re trying to find i

Intel PC-BUBBLE Card documentation?

Does anyone have documentation stashed away for the Intel PC-BUBBLE Card? The PC-BUBBLE is an 8-bit ISA card that Intel produced for prototyping bubble memory applications in the mid-1980s, the ROM on mine is v3.0 and says it’s copyright 1986. I don’t want to insert this into a system until I’m

Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers

Sorry, but no. It’s grossly offensive for things that work perfectly well and that someone might actually find useful to go to scrap. There’s tons of useless and broken junk that our civilization can mine for scrap, we don’t need to actually destroy things that have actual value. If someone isn

Re: Jesse and the ebay mess

On Jan 24, 2019, at 2:26 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > > I just got off the phone with Jesse at Cypress. He said he did not post the > gold and tantalum items on ebay. It is someone else, trying to cast a bad > name on him. It was in the eBay Store linked from his web site. I didn’t

Re: Hewlett-Packard 3000, 9000, Itanium (HP-UX & MPE/iX) Servers, Storage Arrays, Replacement Parts, Maintenance, & Disaster back-ups

On Jan 23, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > How much would you charge for the following? > > - HP 9000-712/80 > - HP A4012 TeleShare card for the 9000-712 For the list’s edification, I recently paid about $200 total, including shipping, for the above (not from J

Re: Hewlett-Packard 3000, 9000, Itanium (HP-UX & MPE/iX) Servers, Storage Arrays, Replacement Parts, Maintenance, & Disaster back-ups

One thing I seriously dislike looking at the site is that there are no prices; that to me says you’re going to want to charge too much, and I also don’t like having to talk to someone or negotiate with someone in order to buy things for my hobby. How much would you charge for the following? -

Re: HP board "gold recovery" garbage

> > But people on this list do not like to hear this. > > -- > Will > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:57 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk > wrote: >> >> This hurts my heart: >> >> HP Gold vintage 1970's high yeld recovery plated ic chips leads

HP board "gold recovery" garbage

This hurts my heart: HP Gold vintage 1970's high yeld recovery plated ic chips leads w palladium caps https://www.ebay.com/itm/382505855460 Who cares what something could do, there might be pennies worth of gold to be had! -- Chris

Re: Folder for pics of Houston haul Jan 2019

To make things easier to organize, please don’t use a new subject line every time you post about this. Ideally, please use a more descriptive subject line in the first place (“Who is in Houston?” says nothing about why you want to know if anyone is in Houston, “Houston IBM haul” would be much mo

Re: xterm Tektronix xp217 for sale

Do you have any more details to share about this X terminal? Is it an XP217M or XP217C? How much RAM is in it? What version of the CD/firmware? — Chris Sent from my iPad > On Dec 29, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk > wrote: > > so, already asked but i haven't yet got a clear answ

Re: Want/Available list

On Dec 20, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: > > a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate > frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating > since it's difficult to follow and to handle What do you mean by this? Do you mean you would prefer to visit a

Re: More old stuff incoming

Thanks for doing this, Cindy! Old Apollo and HP stuff (they used to be separate companies, but HP bought Apollo in the late 1980s) is definitely something I and others want. There’s also a small aftermarket for HP 9000/200 and HP 9000/300 equipment since there are still industrial control & mea

Re: IT books available

On Dec 7, 2018, at 12:30 PM, Donald via cctalk wrote: > > Listed these on eBay a few times. No takers. Did you list only the lot or the individual books? Asking people to buy the whole lot might be the issue. -- Chris

Re: [rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install)

On Dec 5, 2018, at 3:59 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > I thought folk might enjoy this short-ish (~12min) Youtube video > showing startup of arguably the first ever Sun workstation It’s a Sun-2 so it’s not really arguable whether it’s the first ever Sun workstation: It’s not. -- Chri

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

There are also the Fujitsu LeiA SPARC portables. I’ve used OPENSTEP 4.2 on one… -- Chris > On Dec 3, 2018, at 8:45 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: > > A company called RDI made the Britelite and Powerlite laptops. They > eventually merged with Tadpole, which made its own SPARC laptops >

Re: sun model 47. code 4/40 does it have the nvram with battery?

Most Suns of that era don’t need intact NVRAM to run, you can just key in a few lines of Forth when you start it up (to set its Ethernet address and serial number), then tell it to boot off network/disk/CD, and it’ll be fine. -- Chris > On Dec 1, 2018, at 6:55 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk > wro

Re: HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

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

HP-Apollo 9000/400t series stand, disk sleds or their specifications

Does anyone have the stand for an HP-Apollo 9000/400t series, or specs for it (particularly the screws used to attach it to the main unit)? I haven’t seen screw specifications in the online reference material I’ve found, so it’ll be hard to make my own stand. Also, does anyone have a part numbe

Re: HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

On Nov 6, 2018, at 3:48 AM, Rico Pajarola wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 7:16 AM Chris Hanson via cctalk >> wrote: >> Hopefully I can install Domain/OS on a virtual disk using MAME (using the >> same node ID) and just blast the raw bits to a SCSI disk to

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

The i860 seemed to be everywhere in high end graphics for a brief period of time; it seems like everyone whose graphics had been several ganged Weitek units and their own execution engine to feed them switched to one or more i860 chips at once. (Wasn’t RealityEngine also i860?) Did Intel offer

Re: HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

To follow up on this with what I’ve learned: As expected, lots of places online will say they have a thing on their web site, and then when you ask for a quote they won’t actually have it. However, ServerWorlds not only had HP 98229-66524 16MB memory modules listed, they also had a price and in

Re: IBM Xstation 140?

On Nov 2, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Electronics Plus wrote: > > Memory > User-installable RAM boards provide the 425 with RAM in increments of 8, 16 > From > http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/hp/9000_400/A2100-90600_HP_9000_425_Owners_Guide_Aug91.pdf > >

Re: IBM Xstation 140?

On Nov 2, 2018, at 7:49 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > I bought a VME10 keyboard from them about 6 months ago > then the rest finally showed up a week or two ago, so now I have a complete > one > with color monitor. Glad to see you got that, I was kind of bothered by the listing of the VME

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

On Oct 30, 2018, at 6:48 AM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: > > So, what is this i960-based card for? Could it be related to what you say in > your post? > > https://imgur.com/NIvQPBv > https://imgur.com/hsF0jO2 > https://img

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

On Oct 29, 2018, at 4:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I guess someone has been looking at the site > Their inventory search broke. I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are outrageous. Guess we know how they accumulated multiple warehouses full of gear. -- Chris

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

They were used in some X terminals, so there were at least high level enough operating systems to support an X11 server. -- Chris > On Oct 29, 2018, at 11:12 AM, alan--- via cctalk > wrote: > > > I know i960 is a very different beast, but was there ever any high level OSs > that ran on it

HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

I’ve come into an HP-Apollo 9000/425t which uses memory boards with 72-pin headers rather than using SIMMs. Based on what I can see in pictures online, the boards themselves don’t appear to be anything special (they just carry TMS444000 etc. DRAM) and the connections aren’t anything special eit

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On Oct 23, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:59 PM Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: > >> An (optional) X server (and clients) can be added to the OS (I use them >> all the time) but >> is not part of the base install ... >> > > Wrong. Apple has been using

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On Oct 20, 2018, at 10:31 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > Oooh. My personal recollection about w95 is that there was a lot of > touting before the premiere day, how advanced it was because "object > oriented operating system”. [...] > I might have been one of the very few people who not

Re: DG/UX install media

On Oct 11, 2018, at 8:02 AM, Sophie Haskins via cctalk wrote: > > I'm pretty sure these are just raw images, as Torfinn suggested. Sophie is correct. What’s commonly referred to as an ISO is just a raw dump of the bytes on a volume; there’s no imposed structure, no imposed file headers, nothi

Re: SDL and SunOS

On Jul 21, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: > > David Griffith via cctalk wrote: >> How feasable is it to compile and run SDL for SunOS? My main reason for >> doing this is to play Z-machine games on Sparcstations using Frotz >> (https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/fr

Re: 68020 adapter

On Jun 15, 2018, at 1:39 PM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: > > hi guys > I need something like this (1) > anyone know where can I get one? > > (1) https://literature.cdn.keysight.com/litweb/pdf/64748-90901.pdf You could probably put one together in KiCad and have boards made by Oshpark easil

Re: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]

On Feb 21, 2018, at 11:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > That is tricky to cleanly and efficiently implement where each component is > modeled independently and > glued together with a higher-level framework. This is why I wonder if multithreaded emulation might be a reasonable future ap

Re: LMI Lambda Lispmachine Keyboard aka Space Cadet Keyboad

There’s an emulator called LambdaDelta by Daniel Seagraves: https://github.com/dseagrav/ld/ Really though, you should find someone with an LMI Lambda to give the keyboard to. It belongs with its mate. — Chris Sent from my iPad > On Feb 17, 2018, at 7:29 AM, Marc Holz via cctalk > wrote: >

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

On Aug 24, 2017, at 3:11 PM, Jay West via cctalk wrote: > > While one could argue about the intent of the original poster, one cannot > argue that the personal attack - and namecalling - from Evan was acceptable. > It was not. Evan did not engage in either a personal attack or name-calling. R

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

On Aug 24, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Jay West via cctalk > wrote: > >> It was written... >> --- >> That's crude, ignorant, sexist, and wrong. >> --- >> >> The above statement sounds to me as being intol

Re: Back To: Getting to NeXt Command prompt

It’s command-backquote, not quote. The backquote key is in the upper left of the numeric keypad. Sorry for linking to a keyboard poaching site but it has a couple good images of the NeXT keyboards: https://deskthority.net/photos-f62/next-non-adb-keyboard-t12259.html

Re: dd-equivalent for VMS

On Jun 15, 2017, at 11:30 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > > Is there a dd equivalent for VMS? I’m pretty sure PIP is the “dd” equivalent on DEC operating systems in general. -- Chris

Re: Chip in first Apple AirPort WiFi

On Apr 12, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: > I still have a pre-wifi 13" long ISA WaveLan card that is in the 915mhz ISM > band sitting on a shelf. Weird Stuff had one too when last I was there. -- Chris

Re: C, STL, primitive languages that live on and on ... Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

On Apr 17, 2017, at 1:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 04/17/2017 01:23 PM, Guy Dawson via cctalk wrote: >> I think timing had a lot to do with C's success. >> >> It's a decent language and at the time powerful and flexible compared >> to other languages. Universities picked up UNIX

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

On Mar 28, 2017, at 2:36 PM, JP Hindin via cctalk wrote: > > While I'm not specifically crapping on the guy selling this Indy - I'm kind > of curious how others feel about this sort of thing as it's something I've > been confronted with personally lately. It’s going to make it harder for peopl

Re: DEC VT520 in San Jose

I’d already arranged to pick it up by the time you posted this. ;) It works great! The seller only had an HP keyboard for it though (as shown), not an LK411, and those are terribly expensive right now on eBay. Still, it works just fine, and is nice and crisp amber on black even at 132×50. --

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Mar 15, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > The Star introduced the concept of icons representing files (and other > things) in 1981. According to “Inventing the Lisa User Interface,” Apple put emphasis on icons in the Lisa interface in its Marketing Requirements Document in

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Mar 14, 2017, at 1:46 PM, geneb via cctalk wrote: > >> Although I suppose you might have been talking about the software. I mean, >> without that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox, to >> allow ordinary people to use a computer, where would we be? > > Fixed that for

Re: Looking to re-home some NeXT hardware

On Mar 12, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > OK anyone else have a cube out there that is cosmetically decent? does > not need to be internally complete? > > Ours is a bit of a beater for the display What’s wrong with yours that you can’t clean it up for a non-operational displa

Re: NeXT in Toronto/Canada - was Re: Looking to re-home some NeXT hardware

On Mar 8, 2017, at 7:01 PM, Mouse via cctalk wrote: > >> I'm also a Cube owner in Toronto. Maybe we should start a local >> collector's / user's group :D > >> Any others care to speak up? > > I'm in Ottawa. I've got a - very small! - collection of NeXT hardware. > A slab or two, at least one

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