Circa 1986 I was working at the Research School of Physical Sciences at the
Australian National University.
As late as that we were still running CP/M on an eclictic mix of Imsai8080
and STD Bus based machines. These were all running laboratory
experiments.
Turbo Pascal was king in that
Wow,
I agree that there is clearly an incompatibility - I wonder how? CP/M
should be CP/M... Just the BDOS changed for the individual machine
hardware.
One thought is the screen RAM may be an issue with overlaying.
I suspect that Borland didn't notice, as the TRS80 Model 4 was really late
in
Having paid personally for a Borland C++ compiler in the Windows 95 days, I
can confirm that the set of books can comfortably elevate a monitor by
about 14" when used as a monitor stand.
On Sun, 7 Apr 2024, 10:27 am geneb via cctalk,
wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote:
>
ASCII Graphic of an EMP:
Much EMF
_
| |
| |
--- -
zero EMF
t=0 t= very short time
What frequencies would you like Fourier would
Ans sway they have in congress to get laws specifically modified for their
benefit...
On Fri, 29 Mar 2024, 1:27 pm Fred Cisin via cctalk,
wrote:
> >> OTOH, spammer mailing lists, and leaked personal and trade secrets
> >> seem to last forever.
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024, ben via cctalk wrote:
> >
Hi Kevin,
Often that is because you signed up using an old email that is forwarded to
your current email - Have a look at the message headers to see which email
it is sending messages to. You can then log into the list manager with
that email and remove yourself.
it is particularly tricky for
Hi Stephen,
Sorry to use your Fig Forth thread - I too have a Corsham 6809 system, with
a SD card - I can not for the life of me figure out what files / how to put
stuff onto the SD card to boot - either Basic or Flex/09.
If you had success down the Fig route that would also be great - but do
Years ago I had the 5.25" installation floppies and the important yellow
slips of paper with the authorisation keys to install the operating system
and various extensions
Sadly I tossed them when I moved to FreeBSD.
Nowadays - I wonder how useful the installers would be without the licence
/
To be completely honest, Electrotechnology students with 415v DC bench
supplies and HV caps all learnt very quickly not to catch something when
somebody threw it to you.
Ahhh - The folly of youth :-)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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Hi Everybody.
It is important to keep everyone aware of phishing attempts, but it's also
important to make sure when you send warning emails to simply delete the
actual URL that the criminals provide so that nobody accidently clicks on
something...
Kind of like making sure that 400V capacitor
Wait !! - there was BASIC in ROM for the IMSAI?
How was the memory laid out? What I/O devices did it expect?
Does it run with a Z80 CPU, or only the 8080?
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 at 12:51, steve shumaker via cctalk <
That's the crux of it.
Without advertisers magazines are too expensive. As advertisers needs
change they move to diferent media.
It's frustrating. But part of the world in which we live.
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023, 12:34 pm Wayne S via cctalk,
wrote:
> Not progress just consolidation of the pc
At this point I will chime in.
I brought what looked like an Imsai keyboard from this crowd, or a previous
version of them - The web site is *amazingly* similar.
The keyboards were cheap as chips, $149, so I went for it, knowing that I
was protected by PayPal.
I get tracking details pretty
I love the small note about Steve Wozniak in the second magazine... lots
of hardware experience - Time poor :-)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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On Fri,
I would be interested in it - Happy to pay postage to Australia, and a bit
for the machine ;-)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2023 at 20:42, David Brownlee via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I had some idea of trying to get money
This may be a pertinent message from 11 July 2022.
I use Gmail, so I never delete email - It's all stored for me. Forever.
--
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:38:36 -0400
From: Dennis Boone
Subject: List migration
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org,
Off topic - but interesting.
I had a very frustrating experience with an 80188 made by Innovasic.
The SBC188 BIOS would halt if the chip was used because its power on
behaviour was different to the Intel 80188.
http://www.vk1zdj.net/?p=551
That's *many* hours of my life I won't get back.
I agree that we should probably use the intent of a specific era.
I believe that the world certainly dropped out of my personal definition of
'Classic' when the 386 came in.
I have an interest in things up to and including 80186, and they certainly
are not run of the mill.
Just my thoughts.
radio adventures at vk1zdj.net
On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 at 06:51, Doc Shipley via cctalk
wrote:
> On 10/20/22 20:15, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Yet another American seler who doesn't understand how simple overseas
> > shipping is.
>
>
>
Sigh...
Yet another American seler who doesn't understand how simple overseas
shipping is.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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ph: 0414 986878
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On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at
Hi Dennis,
That makes complete sense - All of my cc* related emails get forwarded into
a single folder here anyway.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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Hmm - Depends on where that pesky ground connection is put :-) (Duck)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 12:55, Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> > Nice job, but isn't the 7915 the negative regulator?
>
> Whoops :-)
>
> >
> > --Chuck
>
"worked the last time used but no guarantees and are sold as is"
Reminds me of the test and tag rip-off that has been embedded in
legislation.
It was OK when we tested it at 3pm on Tuesday afternoon Your Honor.
Gone are the days of personal accountability.
On Mon, 27 Dec 2021, 2:50 pm Ali via
I spent years working in field service, and this was a conversation I had
multiple times per day...
Me: Silently types 'vi ' or 'edlin ' depending on the platform
Client: Wow you still use - You should use Qedit12005b
its the best!
me: But the next client I visit won't have Qedit12005b, so I
We can synthesise those with a Female edge connector and a nice Gold Plated
set of long fingers.
I agree - those connectors were beautiful and very useful in the days of
barely adequately buffered signals slapped onto a tin plated PCB edge
connector.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
em:
I use any of the 'Orange' based goo gone type cleaners for labels.
Be careful to have an absorbent tissue. Once the black goo has been
dissolved, mop it up quickly - otherwise in the next few weeks you will
find black smears everywhere wnd wonder where they came from.
Kindest regards,
Doug
Dwight.
That smells like one of the Rifa caps. Thick brown smoke.
Or was it one of the big electros?
On Wed, 12 May 2021, 12:59 am dwight via cctalk,
wrote:
> The rivets are likely more of a safety thing than an issue warrantee
> repair thing. The inside of a Apple II is intended to have
Hi Paul,
I also found an example of the HD BNC connector - It is interesting.
HI Paul,
"I don't know what "HD BNC" means. There's only one BNC"
Years ago when working in a university with Photomultiplier tubes, we used
HV BNC connectors - these looked like standard BNC, but were rated at 10kv.
I will never know - They use some sort of filter that prevents access from
Australia.
Perhaps somebody would like to post the photo and description
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Doug Jackson
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Well,
That went quickly.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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---
Just like an old fashioned letter,
Oh no.
I wonder what it was this time.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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---
Just like an old
I could never get my head around Golf... except when the drinks cart
came.. then it was fun. :-p
On Wed, 16 Dec. 2020, 12:05 pm Bill Gunshannon via cctalk, <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 12/15/20 7:40 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 12/15/2020 3:40 PM, Bill Gunshannon
That's the beauty of the Internet, infinite overlapping groups.
My view is post it everywhere - I understand how to use the key :-)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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Have you considered asking them what they are doing?
You would be surprised how much logging various software packages do.
There are always chat logs (unless deleted) - always usage logs - unless
deleted.
Work with them as a first instance, failing that have them do the work
physically beside
Dwight,
I would be very interested in your NC4016 experience. I did collect a
NC4016 STD bus board a while ago from ePay, and have successfully spoken to
it via a terminal - It would be fun to add storage, but I have no idea
where to start :-)
And no doco..:-/
Kindest regards,
Doug
WOW!!
I Have one of those ETI boards, and I based my final Electronics
Engineering project on its big brother, the 65F12.
>From memory, I spent days trying to understand why you had to issue a HEX
1800 MEMTOP command before using the disk. ETI Suggested that it was
because the system had to
Those of us late to the party may like to know:
1. What was AL
2. Why was it famous?
3. Tell us more about Doug, and his apartment :-)
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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Could it have been a 5V LED with integral current limit?
That would explain the odd behaviour.
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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I recall some of the high end cards in the CGA / EGA era had adon boards
that were connected with a 20 or 36 pin jumper cable across the top of the
boards - They also ran more than 64K or ram, such as the ATI Wonder
boards. Maybe it's like that - the ATI boards had 256K so they could page.
Not fun at all - :-(
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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---
Just like an old fashioned letter, this
Not me either,
But I pass all of my email through gmail, and it filters out all of the
spam for me anyway.
A couple of years ago, some helpful person selected my email for sending
millions of messages and it broke my email environment, the only way I
could get it working again was to either
I can't get to the original domain.
It certainly looks unregistered.
On Sun, 30 Aug. 2020, 6:41 am jwest--- via cctalk,
wrote:
> Mike wrote
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Mike Douglas
> via cctalk
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2020 6:02 PM
> To:
That is absolutely in keeping with the flame nature of the group.
Sigh...
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Doug Jackson
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Comp.lang.forth taught me that flame wars were fun and all I needed to
enjoy them was popcorn.
It also showed me how every person writing their own version of a language
and the associated flame wars actually damaged the the community. I
suspect much of Forths lack of traction can be attributed
Ahhh,
Just m,aybe it is simply an I/O processor with different firmware - That
would run zork just fine :-P
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Doug Jackson
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Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did
ask, and there was no response I could see.
The error messages suggest it's some sort of Linux system using Docker
containers, so it's not OS/360 :-)
I suspect given that it's running out of memory, that it's yet another
Hi Peter,
That is a stunning board, and in beautiful condition.
The square cubes are transformers, most likely some sort of pulse
transformer on the base of the transistor.
A multimeter will tell you in quick form.
Doug
Kindest regards,
Doug Jackson
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ph: 0414 986878
I gave up on hosting my own email years ago when I was the recipient of
tens of thousands of spam messages per day, both to this and my business
email address. I now simply use gmail to handle email - seems like the G
beast has seen every bit of spam before, so the spam transfer rate is
Ah... I suspect it's an example of modern web apps being excessive.
That URL was likely only active during the session that the user was active
within. When the session went away so did the URL.
It's longer than the information content of the universe to stop it from
being accessed by
We could consider moving to Google groups hosting.
In the wake of the removal of Yahoo many of my groups moved there and it
works really well.
Doug
On Wed, 17 Jun. 2020, 7:22 am Rob Jarratt via cctalk,
wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Bill Degnan
> via
> >
I remember testing memory chips with a thumb. The one that took yoir
fingerprint ofd was always faulty.
Hopefully it's not whisker regrowth. That would be really frustrating.
On Fri, 12 Jun. 2020, 12:15 am Charles via cctalk,
wrote:
>
> On 6/11/20 2:29 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> >
> >
> >
Is it possible to share the link.
On Wed, 22 Apr. 2020, 3:38 pm Bob Smith via cctalk,
wrote:
> I found the referenced paper, wrong authors - it was Bell and
> Casasent, in a cache paper, a bit earlier than 78
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 9:17 PM Bob Smith wrote:
> >
> > Nice!
> > BUT no my
Hi everybody
I'm the proud owner of a PDP11/05 system with a couple of 8" floppy
drives. I believe they are likely to be RX01s.
Does anybody on the list have some boot media that they could provide. I
understand that the controller can't format the disks so I'm in a
frustrating state where I
Hi David,
That certainly is a shame. For the gold plated contact to corrode so badly
means large amounts of potential damage to the flexible PCB.
You may be able to repair it using some brass shim - but I cant see how
else to repair it.
The CX was a wonderful machine - and seeing this has
for me, the item that usually fails in the WTCP series is the switch at the
end of the sensor.
I have replaced the sensors each time, because dammit - My 40 year old iron
sometimes just needs a new cord, or a new heater, or a new tip, or a new
sensor. Best iron I have ever had :-)
Kindest
I'm literally in the process of starting this.
I have a pdp11/05 and the key was snapped off. I brazed it back together.
The barrel is a three wafer unit. It is easily removable by undoing the 4
screws to remove the front panel. Removing the screws holding the micro
switches in place and
'telnet ? that is very much indeed useful if someone wants to run a pure
old school desktop while managing !'
He he...
Of course it should be said that that old gear using Telnet shouldn't be
connected to the wider internet.
It's kind of funny when a kid in Sydney discovers he can turn off a
That's a beautiful board.
While I have no docs, a careful look confirms for me that it would
superimpose something (likely clock data) on a video signal. The
horizontal and vertical counters, mux and Rom give that away.
I love the layout. Absoloutly done in the days of tape ar 2 or 4 times.
Having worked for them in also not surprised.
When they absorbed Compaq their culture changed. Significantly for the
worse.
I'd be stunned if they existed in a form other that selling printers and
ink cartridges in 5 years time.
On Wed, 11 Mar. 2020, 10:42 am Patrick Finnegan via cctalk, <
So.
At the end of the day there are three paths.
1. Accept that HP doesn't give two hoots about hobbyists and patch the
abandoned operating system to fix the problem.
2. Declare that we need to develop an open replacement.
Or
3. Accept that HP actually owns the rights to our VAX 11/785
It looks like it's the hosting bill as well. That's not a simple expired
domain page.
On Thu, 7 Nov. 2019, 9:20 am Bill Degnan via cctalk,
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019, 5:15 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > Domain has been down for 7 days now. No reply to
It is.
He ended up serving 15 months in prison for making rescue disks that were
based on downloadable software that required licence keys that the PCs that
he refurbished already had.
It's a complex.case and the judge didn't understand the actual value of the
media which was zero.
Sadly
I am working on a USB interface for my Sinclair ZX 80.
The biggest problem im facing is how to buffer the 16GB through my 1kb of
program RAM. It's proving to be very slow.
Just as soon as I can get that working I'm hoping to be able to read these
devices.
On Tue, 27 Nov. 2018, 4:57 pm ED
I know it has been discussed a billion times before...
My personal measure has nothing to do with the 20 year rule - I use the
introduction of the PC as the end of the Vintage era. IBM made the
computing industry standard and boring.
Anything pre - 1982 is interesting, anything post 1982 is a
Camiel,
Without sounding super negative (my day job as a security consultant let's
me do that enough...) I would be especially wary of connecting anything
with a 10 year old stack to the modern internet. The range of automatic
attacks based on what the state of the OS was when it was last
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