[cctalk] Re: Borland Turbo C++ and Turbo Basic - Books and Manuals

2024-04-07 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 4/6/24 5:37 PM, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote: Additional I would like £5 beer money for this one please! Writing Open VMS Alpha Device Drivers in C - Margie Sherlock/Leonard Szubowicz I'd take it. I can send you beer money, or could send you 2 or 3 bottles of local beer. I'm living near

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi Emanuel, On 9/23/22 16:30, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: Hi all, anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above? Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain which supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days tools/OS's? I've

[cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port

2022-07-31 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 7/31/22 07:23, Ali via cctalk wrote: So I am wondering if there is a box that provides a telnet CLIENT to a serial port device? I.E. a box smart enough that handles the telnet client, LAN functions, and terminal emulations internally and then provides a text based interface through a serial

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-12 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 4/11/22 19:27, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Apr 11, 2022, at 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any communities / mailing lists / newsgroups / et al. for retro networking / WAN technologies? I find myself interested in (at least) the following and

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-26 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 11/20/21 5:55 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: That's why I am saying you literally need a family archivist who periodically converts content on old media to new media for.old family photos. That is the only practical way to preserve things or than if the original paper/photo/tape exists

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

2021-07-23 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 7/23/21 1:35 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: I remember when a Compaq 386 was I think the first 386 I ever worked on. I think Compaq was the first company to offer a 386 PC back then (before IBM). I remember, when I worked as a student at MBB around 1988, that we visited another

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

2021-07-22 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 7/22/21 5:12 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk wrote: In response to Chuck Guzis' mentioning that there was more than one design of what was labeled a Compaq "Deskpro" during the time of PIII processors: the series of desktops that I used to have,, and from where the extra boards and drives I

Re: VT340 Emulation

2021-06-18 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
I've got a real VT340, if somebody wants to verify an emulation. regards, chris On 6/18/21 7:14 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote: Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal?

Re: how to make use of daisy wheel printer

2021-05-29 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 5/29/21 2:11 AM, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD). MS-DOS would work, too. Maybe something like (g|t)roff? Ok, so Wordstar should work. I think I have version 5 or 6 for DOS. Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution

how to make use of daisy wheel printer

2021-05-28 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi all, what are the word processing options for a daisy wheel printer? I would like to be able to write "bold face" (double stroke) and underline some parts. I guess there aren't any other capabilities to exploit on a daisy wheel printer. Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD).

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-05-20 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
on a 512-byte-block CD-ROM ? If the former, I guess I'll have to find an old, 512-byte-block jumperable SCSI CD burner. On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 02:15:39 PM PDT, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: On 5/20/21 11:05 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote: >  MacOS (Mojave) can mount an ima

Re: Mounting ULTRIX CDROMs on Linux

2021-05-20 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 5/20/21 11:05 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote: MacOS (Mojave) can mount an image read from a 512-byte UFS CD. What does one have to do (Linux, MacOS, *BSD) to write such an image to the CD with 512-byte blocks, so it can be read by a DEC boot-ROM? I think that's a property of the

Re: FTAG: AlphaServer DS15, Sun T5140, Sun Blade 10, HP Proliant DL380 G7, VT220 [London, UK]

2021-04-21 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 4/21/21 2:41 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote: Ach, If only I was in UK ☹ Me too :-( -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Andrew Luke Nesbit via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 2:27 PM To: The Rescue List ; cctalk@classiccmp.org; t...@tuhs.org Subject: FTAG:

Unix text processing software with daisy wheel output

2020-08-10 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, I want to use my daisy wheel printer to create letters and memos and similar (rather simple) texts. What can I use to write the text? I think "special effects" with daisy wheel printers are "bold" and "underline" parts. And "double stroke" (if that's the correct word, I mean a space

Re: history is hard

2020-05-26 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 2020-05-26 22:06, Stan Sieler via cctalk wrote: Fred writes: ..."MS-DOS 3.3 did not even come with a disk cache." and discusses problems with SMARTDRV (in MS DOS 4.01 and later). I'm not sure if it was technically a form of caching, but the AmigaDOS delayed floppy write (well before

Re: Unable to download Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk

2020-03-25 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
e rest of the things should be in the same directory. Pat On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:47 PM Christian Groessler via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: Hi, the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for "ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparent

Unable to download Dave Dunfield's ImageDisk

2020-03-24 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for "ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparently most (or all) links on this page don't work. Where can I get the latest ImageDisk version? regards, chris

Re: OT - FTGH - U-Matic Tapes

2020-01-30 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 2020-01-30 20:11, Jason T via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:49 AM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: I have a umatic deck and capture hardware if you wanted them converted. What is your setup to capture videos? I've been given the task of digitizing some family VHS-C tapes. VCR

Re: old gcc #pragma handling

2019-01-30 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 1/30/19 7:19 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote: Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: [...] But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the sequence doesn't exist), and gcc-1.35

Re: old gcc #pragma handling

2019-01-30 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 1/30/19 3:21 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: [...] But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the sequence doesn't exist), and gcc-1.35 (where it's "#if 0"ed). Does anyone

old gcc #pragma handling

2019-01-29 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, I knew that since ~20 yrs, but I didn't know the affected gcc version(s). According to http://toni.technetium.be/hacker/pragma.htm this "special" pragma handling should be in gcc 1.34. But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the sequence doesn't exist), and

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-29 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 10/27/18 15:04, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: There was actually a nice PC Mainboard from Hauppauge, with an i486 & i860 on the same board ... Always wanted to have one of those, never found a used one. And it was running some king of Unix back then ...

Re: DR-DOS

2017-11-23 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 11/23/17 21:28, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Liam Proven > TCP/IP basically postdates the MS-DOS era, in PC terms, and it's Bloaty > McBloatface. This must be a uSloth TCP/IP you are speaking of. There's the one from FTP software which was based on the one done at

Re: Tektronix 8560 external hard disk connector

2017-10-11 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 10/10/17 01:24, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: Al K. wrote: there are two versions. the 1981 8560 uses microp 1200, later ones have xebec 1410 and are sasi 070-3899-00_8560_MSDU_Installation_Guide_Nov81.pdf 070-4759-00_8560_8561_8562_Service_Mar84.pdf If the 8560 in question uses the 8"

Re: Tektronix 8560 external hard disk connector [WAS: Re: The origin of SCSI]

2017-10-08 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 10/07/17 03:06, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: If I recall correctly, these machines used an 8" Micropolis hard disk drive. These were most definitely not SCSI, or even SASI. They used a proprietary Micropolis parallel interface. The disk expansion connector, while looking like it might be

Tektronix 8560 external hard disk connector [WAS: Re: The origin of SCSI]

2017-10-05 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 10/05/17 20:18, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote: I suspect this might start another discussion, but as I understand it Apple had little to do with the evolution of SASI into SCSI. Shugart Associates published SASI in 1981 and took it to ANSI in 1982 where they renamed it SCSI to avoid using a

Re: Floppy Disk Images

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, On 08/11/17 19:58, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote: And just to make it interesting, I have a number of hard disks (5mb to maybe 20mb) of both 5.35" and 8". I've got several Lobo drives 8" hard drives that I would love to get the information from since they came from Lobo Drives when

OT: Mercury (Was: BBS software for the PDP 11)

2017-05-22 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
At least here in the EU, they banned mercury batteries, mostly used by old photo gear, and then supported light bulbs containing mercury. How many people will need and by these batteries and how many people need and buy light bulbs? Go figure... regards, chris On 05/22/17 15:20, Bill

Re: Tektronix 8560 floppies

2017-04-24 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
On 04/24/17 17:54, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: that reminds me I wanted to see if the a.out format was compatible with stock V7 and if the tools would run on an ordinary PDP-11 Unix V7 system. If you want I can send you some sample execuables to test... I wanted to test the same but I first

Tektronix 8560 floppies

2017-04-24 Thread Christian Groessler via cctalk
Hi, I've imaged (with ImageDisk) some floppies I've got with my "new" 8560 system. You can find them at ftp://ftp.groessler.org/pub/chris/tektronix/8560/diskimages . Among other things there are cross-assemblers for 68000, 6809, and 6800. From the TNIX installation disk set one is missing

Re: Random VGA question: 160x200 "high color" mode?

2016-03-02 Thread Christian Groessler
On 03/02/16 04:30, Josh Dersch wrote: Awhile back a "pre-alpha" version of the PC classic "DOOM" was unearthed (dated Feb 28, 1993), and it claims to support a "high color" VGA mode. From the README.TXT: "Use High-color DAC (160 x200, but great color!) (Only newer VGA cards

Re: Programming

2016-02-08 Thread Christian Groessler
On 02/07/16 09:31, n...@farumdata.dk wrote: I really hate this damned machine I wish that they would sell it it never does quite what I want but only what I tell it I'm still working on a "do-what-I-want" program. It's difficult to implement... But I already have a good idea of the layout

Re: Terminal Emulation for Windows - supporting Kermit File Transfer

2016-01-26 Thread Christian Groessler
On 01/25/16 19:58, Oliver Lehmann wrote: c) Mapping my Windows COM-Port to a FreeBSD Oracle VirtualBox VM seems to work, but I'm not able to send CTRL + \ + C via Putty to the VM to get back from my serial connection to Kermit to terminate it You could set the escape char to something else