On Wed, July 3, 2019 18:52, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/3/19 7:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
>
> What does "actively support" mean?
>
> I got DECnet working in 2.6.38 with everyt
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:51, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>
>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 9:05 AM, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> Kernel 2.6.32 was the last one to activly support Decnet.
>
> Do you mean that in the sense of "it's listed in t
On Wed, July 3, 2019 19:25, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
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> On 7/3/19 6:39 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
>> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
>> work with Decnet?
>
> Version 4.4.x kernels (Ubuntu 16.04.x) and maybe later can be made to
>
On Wed, July 3, 2019 14:39, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
> Say, can anyone tell me which version of the kernel was the last one to
> work with Decnet?
>
> Does anyone know what the actual issues are? My friend who does kernel
> stuff wants to know.
>
> --
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On Fri, June 28, 2019 18:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> I saw this half-dollar sized plastic fob on the desk and asked what it
>>> was for.
>
> On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>> If I may just say -- only about 5% of humanity know how big that is. I
>> don't. I don't
On Fri, May 10, 2019 17:59, W2HX via cctalk wrote:
> What is this used for? RL02's or something? and what does it do?
>
> From: cctalk on behalf of Bob Rosenbloom
> via cctalk
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2019 1:49 AM
> To: cctalk
> Subject: DEC disc pack
snip snip snip
>
> (I could do it with a PIC - did that for a Documation card reader to PC
> interface, but I am really tired of fighting Microchip's IDE.)
>
> BUT - it also occurs to me someone may have already done something like
> this? Any leads / ideas?
>
> JRJ
>
Yes, see
On Fri, December 14, 2018 11:41, Peter Van Peborgh via cctech wrote:
> Fellow geeks of more mature vintage,
>
> Do any of you guys know whether it is possible to find out to whom any IBM
> equipment was sold back in the day? (Still chasing IBM 2321 Data Cell - I
> never learn!)
>
> Many thanks,
>
On Tue, November 6, 2018 19:26, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> For those not in the know, orange binders for RT-11 should mean v5.x. An
> probably v4.x for RSX11M. Definitely a great pile of documentation for
> someone that is close enough!
>
Hmm as far as i remember, V5.x came in grey binder,
On Fri, April 20, 2018 21:33, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
> anyone ever come across sugar packets? this came in a lot of manuals and
> documents that arived the other day kinda neat
> https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x512q90/922/T4MCLS.jpg
>
Wow, that's an oldie.
Sugar sachets
0:57, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> At 07:46 AM 3/31/2018, E. Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
>>Today I received a PDP-11 instruction video on a laser disk, part 3 & 4.
>>The disk partno. is EY-5537E-V2-0001, the title says
>>'Introduction to the PDP-11, Internal use Only, (c)
Today I received a PDP-11 instruction video on a laser disk, part 3 & 4.
The disk partno. is EY-5537E-V2-0001, the title says
'Introduction to the PDP-11, Internal use Only, (c) 1988'
Besides that, no indication if the video stream is NTSC or PAL.
Anybody have a clou?
I want to have the disk
So, all this talk about panels made me making an oak frame for an
IBM panel I had lingering around in the attic for a while.
Still need to make a back panel to close it tough.
http://bit.ly/2HI2cHC
The cables were already cut when I got it.
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For the cost of postage: 2 Sun brackets, part no 330-1806
One is made of clear plastic, the other is purple.
They are located in the Netherlands.
Regards,
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Recently I got a VT100 in pretty nice condition with an extra keyboard.
Now, both keyboards did have missing keys, but I was able to make one
of them nearly complete by cannibalising them from the 2nd one.
I only miss the 'SETUP' and the 'No Scroll' key cap.
So, is there someone who has these as
Hello Mattis.
I could use a PSU for the 131 if it is still available.
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On Sat, January 6, 2018 21:50, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
> I was given three VT100 and one VT131 in not great condition.
>
> The biggest problem is
Hello.
Can someone maybe help me with a VT-10x 'break' keyboard key?
I was able to get a keyboard for my VT-102, but this key is missing.
Thanks,
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ably pick one up on the way home if you are in North America.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Santo
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 3:38 PM, John Wilson via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:04:11PM +0200, E. Groenenberg via cctalk
>> wr
Hello.
Does somebody maybe have a spare switch of a VT-100 (the one at the back)?
Thanks,
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Re-purposed art or vandalism?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/253015301943
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On Tue, April 11, 2017 12:44, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember using xvscan? Does anyone know how to get a hold of
> it anymore?
>
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> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a
Hello Paul.
What are these actually? I never have heard of them.
If they are decorative and are a necessity in one's computer room,
I would like one?
Is it possible to have a picture? I really have no ida what they are.
Regards,
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It is the MK11 MOS Memory box backplane, not the cpu backplane which
is bigger (and has lots of twisted pair wiring).
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On Thu, March 23, 2017 21:19, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> This:
>
>
Henk,
Your '' high speed lineprinter is most likely a Dataproducts
Model 2230 (a.k.a Dec LP05).
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On Wed, February 15, 2017 15:12, Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
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>>> I could swap something for a nice creed machine.
>>
>> I suspect they're more common in the UK than elsewhere. They were used
>> by the Post Office
>> for the Telex service, for example.
>
> I know. Here everything is full with
On Thu, January 26, 2017 21:41, jim stephens wrote:
>
>
> On 1/26/2017 12:26 PM, Jay West wrote:
>> A fully working 11/34, in a complete period rack (with all side panels
>> and
>> filler panels), and 4 working RL02's, VT220, a Decwriter, a good set of
>> disk
>> packs, RSTS 7 media and
On Thu, January 26, 2017 13:32, william degnan wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2017 7:10 AM, "E. Groenenberg" <e...@groenenberg.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Nice 11/34 with 4 RL02's and some misc other stuff.
>> Not mine, just passing it.
>>
>> http://www.ebay.
Nice 11/34 with 4 RL02's and some misc other stuff.
Not mine, just passing it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/192087506057
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M, "Paul Anderson" <used...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Congrats!!
>>
>> The LA180 is probably my favorite DEC printer.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 1:00 PM, E. Groenenberg <e...@groenenberg.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Not so much news
Not so much newsworthy, but 2 weeks ago I stumbled by accident on the
serial option for the LA180 (Decprinter I). My offer was accepted and I
got the card 2 days ago. I installed it this afternoon and after
configuring
it and checking the jumpers on the main board, it now works as a serial
We have a similar common name for it being 'brand spiritus'.
It's basically 90% - 92% alcohol, with the rest being methanol and water
and it's color is blue-ish.
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On Thu, January 5,
On Fri, December 16, 2016 20:30, Marc Howard wrote:
> I replaced my motor caps with some that I found on Alibaba (or maybe
> Aliexpress) a couple of years ago. They are the right diameter and height
> and have wire leads instead of lugs. They're also made with yummy
> vegatable
> oil and seem to
Henk,
Have you tried using a block and tackle to pull the drived up the stairs
using the planks?
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On Fri, December 16, 2016 21:23, Henk Gooijen wrote:
>
>
>
> Van: Tony
On Thu, October 13, 2016 06:13, Al Kossow wrote:
> https://grafeauction.proxibid.com/asp/catalog.asp?aid=117590=288#288
>
> someone needs to grab those 11/45's!
>
>
There are a few DEC terminals & printers too, as well as a Documentum M200
punchcard reader.
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Mattis,
Seen from the front, use a pencil or whatever fits in the holes and
count 3 (or 2) holes from the back of each side and push it gently in.
There is a notch on each side which locks the cover.
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On Thu, July 7, 2016 00:48, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 12/31/1969 04:00 PM, E. Groenenberg wrote:
>
>> Anybody know more about this computer?
>
>
> No, but the date of your email indicates that you wrote the message long
> before the 68000 was even a glimmer in an engineer's
On Wed, July 6, 2016 23:38, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> On 1969-12-31 17:00, E. Groenenberg wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I recently acquired a 'CHAS' single board computer containing a Motorola
>> 68000 processor. It contains a keyboard and 2 roms (have not powered it
>&g
Hi.
I recently acquired a 'CHAS' single board computer containing a Motorola
68000 processor. It contains a keyboard and 2 roms (have not powered it
up yet).
See the picture at http://www.groenenberg.net/download/pic/CHAS.jpg
I have googled for documentation or any other information, but no
On Mon, May 30, 2016 21:42, Adrian Graham wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Been rummaging in the garage for stuff I'll be exhibiting in the UK in
> July
> and found this:
>
> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/LSI1123.JPG
>
> It's a 4-slot cage containing:
>
> M7270 11/03 CPU
> M7944 4K RAM (x2)
> M8027 LP11
Well, I feel somewhat stupid, but the problem with the hung bus is solved.
The cause of it? no jumpers on the backplane to bypass the battery backup.
The machine had a BBU regulator, but it was removed as I don't have the
battery pack. So, after adding the 3 jumpers the NPG signal was cleared
On Thu, May 19, 2016 02:33, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Ed Groenenberg
>
> > After hooking up the PMK05 to the unibus, the machine was powered up
> > with the memory card, and the 'NPG' led was on.
>
> Oh, that's truly wierd. Most memory cards don't even connect to any of the
> bus
A little progress on the 11/34a
I have a PMK05 (Unibus exerciser) of which I forgot I had it.
I checked it out first and noticed that the aluminum casting around the
4 slot backplane was broken on both sides. After repairing it by making
2 sleeves of thin copper sheet and a cobblers hammer
On Sat, May 14, 2016 23:41, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From Ed Groenenberg
>
> > - insert both CPU cards, KY11-LB card & bootstrap card, 5 full grant
> > cards, DL11-W and bus terminator card.
> > ...
> > - cntrl + boot shows register dump at printer.
> > ...
> > All
On Wed, April 13, 2016 02:06, drlegendre . wrote:
> The 'Zoom Spout' Turbine Oil (Supco, other mfrs.) is brilliant for
> lubricating any fine mechanisms. It's also quite inexpensive, and the
> extensible spout is worth the price of the bottle alone. The oil contained
> is crystal-clear and
On Tue, April 12, 2016 23:55, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> On 12 April 2016 at 15:55, E. Groenenberg <e...@groenenberg.net> wrote:
>> First thing I did was to replace the gooed up rubber hammer, only to
>> find out that my replacements were also starting to deteriorate :
On Tue, April 12, 2016 23:12, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 3:55 PM, E. Groenenberg <e...@groenenberg.net> wrote:
>> ...
>> Closer inspection showed that the pawl of the advancing/return section
>> was barely moving. With the application of WD4
So after cleaning up and reorganizing my computer/hobby room I thought it
was time to get the asr33 working again. It has a stuck carriage (at the
right end), and it would only go back after repeated CR's.
First thing I did was to replace the gooed up rubber hammer, only to
find out that my
On Sun, April 3, 2016 09:01, supervinx wrote:
> Well..
> The RSXM70.dsk has many TSKs not built.
> How can I build them?
>
>
A standard RSX-11m distribution in a so called 'Baseline' system which
boots an nearly all PDP-11's and is a very basic system.
Normally you do a sysgen to build a target
Hi.
When looking for Unix distro's for rhe PDP-11, I did find information
of how to make a System II using a Unix version 7 as it's base.
I also came across some hits about the existence of System 5 Release 1
for the PDP-11 (basically intended to be only for the 45 & 70).
On www.archive.org I
On Wed, February 17, 2016 06:59, Arno Kletzander wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is anyone interested in PCS Cadmus/QU68000 systems? We at Hack42 have no
>> idea what to do with them. We need to downsize and these take up a
>> significant amount of our space.
>>
>> See http://dev.ramdyne.nl/IMG_2750.JPG for
While getting though some stuff, I did find a 800Bpi 9 track tape
with Oregon Pascal V2.0 for RSX.
Anybody interested in it? Free to get, only postage fee would be nice.
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Hello Pontus.
As far as I remember, DPX/2 uses AT System 5 rel. 0 with some additions
in the terminal database for the specific Bull terminals.
So, basically all standard command could be find in the usual places.
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Jerome,
Well, you could use VirtualBox for example. It supports even windows 3.1
as a guest O.S. Also, it's free.
I would by an of the shell laptop, install you favourite modern O.S.
W7, W8,1, W10, or Linux and on top of that
VirtualBox.
VirtualBox allows you to create VM's with SATA, PATA/IDE
So I saw this NCR376 card punch on the German Ebay and placed a bid,
getting it for Eur 1.50 (approx $1.75).
Last Saturday I picked it up near Frankfurt and brought it back home and
came with a small user manual (in German), 2 sheets of diagrams (need to
find a magnifier to read it properly) and
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