[cctalk] Re: mod.sources archive?

2024-03-03 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Sun, Mar 3, 2024 at 3:11 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Maybe https://archive.org/details/usenet-mod It includes > > mod.sources.mbox.zip > > Anyone know of an archive that has stuff older than 1982? > I believe the utzoo Wiseman archive goes back to 1981. I

[cctalk] Re: Any RSX-11 fans able to identify file types?

2023-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 7:39 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Okay, I guess that's okay. Here's the data from the MFD: > > https://icedrive.net/s/Q56ZY2Sv4g62Gi9vZ9jzNQ2CD6Bu > > Since this is customer data, I can't publish the contents of the files > themselves. > >

[cctalk] Re: ST-251 Data Recovery for Glenside Color Computer Club (GCCC)

2023-05-16 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 11:21 PM Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: > At the most recent CoCoFEST!, I brought home the old Glenside Club > Computer Hard Drive. The mechanism is an ST-251, and I was wondering if > someone on-list would be willing to attempt to pull data off the drive. > In my

[cctalk] Re: long lived media (Was: Damage to CD-R from CD Sleeve

2023-01-17 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:48 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > What about M-DISC DVDs and BluRays? Archival grade, not susceptible > to magnetism or EMP. I think BluRay discs are made of a harder material > than DVDs and don’t scratch as easily. > > I have had magnetic, AND optical media

[cctalk] Re: How to print old files.

2023-01-04 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
There are some printers out there with ASCII 63 selectable via a DIP switch. For example a Teletype Model 43. Sorry, I don't happen to know what other printers might also have this feature. -ken On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 4:00 AM ben via cctalk wrote: > How do you print old files in ASCII 63 to

[cctalk] Re: Saturn-Calc

2022-12-30 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 7:23 AM Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I downloaded some RX02 images posted by Mark Matlock, but the disks > appear to be all zeroes where I expect the directory to be. > Is it possible the images are 'physical' disk images rather than

[cctalk] Re: Flipping an 8" diskette

2022-09-01 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 4:10 AM Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > Someone on Fesse Bouc just found a sealed box of SS/SD 8" floppies in > their garage. > > Someone suggested punching a notch in them and using both sides. > > Was that even possible on 8" disks? > On 5.25" diskettes punching a notch

Re: RT11 Freeware Collection

2022-05-01 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:33 PM Douglas Taylor wrote: > I was able to mount the partitions (as shown below) and actually extract > the entire 65K partition to a *.dsk file that SIMH was able to mount and > read. > This is what I was trying to do. Get files from the RT11freewarev2 cd > into

Re: RT11 Freeware Collection

2022-04-30 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:55 AM Douglas Taylor via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I wanted to extract some parts of the RT11 Freeware iso file that is > available on the internet. The note Tom Shoppa wrote indicates that the > CD has 2 partitions. When I burned the CD on a windows

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-02-01 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:43 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Paul Koning > > > When did Unix first get partitions? > > 'Partitions' the mechanism, or partitions the term for the mechanism? > > The former appeared about V5: > >

Re: Linux and the 'clssic' computing world

2021-09-27 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 11:18 AM Alan Perry via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 07:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk > wrote: > > > > Obviously, there's more hardware platforms that support Linux (like the > RPi and other ARM boards) > > Doesn’t this have the

Re: System Pro WAS RE: Compaq Smart Array 3200 Controller as a SCSI Controller

2020-07-18 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 2:38 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 7/16/20 12:07 PM, Ali wrote: > > MS LanMan was Microsoft's networking OS of choice before NT. The base > > OS I believe was based on MS OS/2 1.31. > > I'm trying to discern if it was it's own independent

Re: Changing the number of file headers on an RSX volume

2020-06-24 Thread Kenneth Gober via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:03 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > So I'm working on this RSX11M+ system here and while working I ran > myself out of file headers. Using the HOME /MXF command I was able to > increase the number of headers, but only up to 4090. or so. Trying to go > to 4100 gave me