Hi list
A relative is selling these Macs in Victoria, Australia:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204136123378
Hoping they can find a good home.
--Toby
Hi list
A relative is selling these Macs in Victoria, Australia:
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/204136123378
Hoping they can find a good home.
--Toby
PS. Sorry if posted twice, I am in the middle of changing my email
address to toby -at- telegraphics dot net
On 2022-10-18 3:36 p.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Single package, multiple die. Same goes for F11.
And the MV1. And the MVII. And the 8200, CVAX, Rigel/etc
I think the NVAX was on a single chip
Ah, I didn't know there were so many multi-dies in the range! I wonder
if anyone
On 2022-10-18 10:57 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 18, 2022, at 10:01 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
On 2022-10-18 2:57 a.m., Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote:
Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 17, 2022, at 2:47 PM, Joshua Rice via cctalk
wrote:
Hi all,
After some
On 2022-10-18 2:57 a.m., Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote:
Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 17, 2022, at 2:47 PM, Joshua Rice via cctalk
wrote:
Hi all,
After some discussion on reddit about russian PDP-11 clones, i made the
(perhaps erronous) claim that the PDP series in general was
On 2022-09-14 1:06 p.m., Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Lots of Televideo docs scanned thanks to good old Al ==>
https://bitsavers.computerhistory.org/pdf/televideo/
Nothing for the 921 but there is an operator's manual for the 922 which may
shed some light on what the continuous beep might
On 2022-09-12 1:52 a.m., Raphaël Jacquot via cctalk wrote:
Le 12/09/2022 à 03:13, Stan Sieler via cctalk a écrit :
Hi,
I have 15 manuals, flyers, and miscellaneous papers from/about the
Symbolics, Inc computer(s), database, and more.
Pictures at http://www.sieler.com/symbolics
If anyone's
On 2022-08-16 3:42 a.m., P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote:
Hello list,
by coincidence, I came across this website:
https://www.micropolis.com/
It seems to have been set up by a former employee of Micropolis with
information about Micropolis products done until the late 90s.
If people are into
On 2022-07-30 12:18 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
I have these 3 books which are free for postage:
1) M68HC11E Family Technical Data
2) M68HC11 HCMOS Single-Chip Microcomputer Programmer's Reference Manual
3) MC68HC711D3 Technical Data
Pic: https://imgur.com/TQhzUHJ
Located: Toronto
Hi,
I have these 3 books which are free for postage:
1) M68HC11E Family Technical Data
2) M68HC11 HCMOS Single-Chip Microcomputer Programmer's Reference Manual
3) MC68HC711D3 Technical Data
Pic: https://imgur.com/TQhzUHJ
Located: Toronto Canada
--Toby
On 2022-07-02 11:24 a.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 7/2/22 3:50 AM, D. Resor via cctalk wrote:
This video just popped up in my YT view. It was posted a couple days
ago.
XEROX Word Processing Machines & Computers 1975 (Xerox 800 vintage promo
film)
That was an interesting video,
On 2022-05-12 11:37 a.m., Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-05-11 7:02 p.m., Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
Given the normal usage that has evolved for the terms DC and AC
rather than
their dictionary definitions, I would suggest that the current
On 2022-05-12 4:40 a.m., Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2022, Peter Coghlan wrote:
about it? Maybe it would be more accurate to use terms like steady
voltage
and alternating voltage? Alternating doesn't seem like that good a term
In German it's exactly like you suggest it.
On 2022-05-11 7:02 p.m., Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
It's hard to come up with suitable terms for this sort of stuff that
convey the meaning of what is going on. I struggled with it for a while
and that was what I ended up with.
With the strict meaning of DC and AC being direct current and
On 2022-05-05 1:43 p.m., John Robertson via cctalk wrote:
On 2022/05/05 10:26 a.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-05-05 1:03 p.m., John Herron via cctalk wrote:
Someone at work pointed this out and I've never really thought about
it. Is
anyone here aware of the decision or reason to use
On 2022-05-05 1:03 p.m., John Herron via cctalk wrote:
Someone at work pointed this out and I've never really thought about it. Is
anyone here aware of the decision or reason to use a different 1 character
for the last 1 vs the first 1?
Got a picture?
On 2022-04-27 2:54 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote:
>
> Cut and paste. Consider the S/360 Assembler (F) manual:
>
>
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/asm/C26-3756-2_Assembler_F_Programmers_Guide_196711.pdf
>
> Look at PDF page 10. Note the box at the bottom of the page and how
> it's not
On 2022-04-27 9:14 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
...
Re OCR-B: the difference between zero and O in that font is small enough that
contemporary OCR could not reliably tell the two apart. This is documented in detail in
"Travels in Computerland" by Ben R. Schneider, a book about his
On 2022-04-06 9:27 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 6, 2022, at 9:20 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
...
I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results that used
plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to push people to
switch to HTTPS (this
On 2022-03-28 6:34 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 3/27/22 8:50 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Hi Toby,
Digital Networks & Communications Buyer's Guide 1987 April-June
Can I get a bit more of a description as to what might be in that document?
I've got an (unhea
Hi,
Digital
Networks & Communications Buyer's Guide
1987 April-June
Also some DEC Letterprinter 210 and LA50 Printer manuals, ask for a list.
For postage from Toronto Canada.
--Toby
On 2022-03-26 5:20 p.m., Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
I had the H7140 PSU in my PDP 11/24 repaired a little while ago and I posted
about it here: https://robs-old-computers.com/2022/02/10/pdp-11-24-progress/
I have since had the PSU fixed again and it came back a couple of weeks ago.
When I
On 2022-03-11 8:03 a.m., Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
...
P.S. Is there some problem with the mailing list? The few "non-test"
messages I get are often out of context.
Open secret -- There's something wrong with every mailing list...
On 2022-01-03 2:37 p.m., Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote:
Hit Compile?
In my first job, it was triggered by the EOJ card!
You had a COMPILER?
As far as I can see, these days the state of the art is to crash at
runtime for as many different stupid reasons as possible.
--T
(get off my
On 2022-01-02 9:33 p.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Microvax 2 is .9 vup.
Oops, Zane vupped up.
C
On January 2, 2022 9:10:39 PM EST, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
On 1/2/22 6:18 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
VAX-11/780 = 1 VUP
VAX-11/782 = 1.8 VUP
MicroVAX 1 = 0.3 VUP
MicroVAX 2
On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: Jonathan Chapman
> Last one that went auction-style on eBay went for $1,178.00
When was that?
Do you have any details of the machine's config?
That's a pretty good deal for a 780 (IMO).
Someone I know won a '785, Feb
Hi,
2 volumes, Applications and System. See: https://imgur.com/a/ISXGK5N
FTGH for postage from Toronto, Canada
--Toby
On 2021-12-04 2:55 p.m., Chris Long via cctalk wrote:
On the contrary I consider it implicit that they played an equal role - and the
need to make toys to indicate it is somewhat sad.
False. Women still do not play 'an equal role' in STEM today, and did
not in the 20th C either. Have you
On 2021-11-29 10:24 a.m., dwight via cctalk wrote:
If it was fully functional, maybe about 48000/20.
Dwight
But have you considered, maybe it's an NFT of a photo of a Datapoint.
That should make it worth 10 x $48,000 at least.
--T
From: cctalk on
On 2021-11-21 3:42 p.m., Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote:
On Nov 21, 2021, at 1:39 PM, ben via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
[EXTERNAL EMAIL]
On 2021-11-21 9:45 a.m., Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote:
On 11/19/21 9:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
And what happens when
On 2021-10-30 2:14 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2021-10-30 1:14 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Located in Toronto Canada, for shipping cost only:
- 3 x Hitachi DK516-15
^^ Hitachis are spoken for.
- 2 x Computer Memories Inc (CMI) 6426-S
- Microscience HH-1060 (half
On 2021-11-16 1:25 p.m., Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 9:23 AM Douglas Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
I'm going by the 'Instrument Bus Subroutines Programmer's Reference
Manual' that is on bitsavers. [/pdf/dec/pdp11/minc] In section 4, page
4-1 it seems to imply that there
Hi all
Trying to get rid of some boxes of ephemera, including this one:
https://imgur.com/a/dm1vR
Note that the software media is not included.
Location: Toronto Canada
--Toby
with your finger and see if it moves the tape, if
it does i would like them.
Yes, both turn. I guess they're yours; I can post them to you.
--Toby
Cheers,
Nigel
On 2021-10-30 10:28 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2021-10-30 1:14 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Located in Toronto
On 2021-10-30 1:14 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Located in Toronto Canada, for shipping cost only:
- 3 x Hitachi DK516-15
- 2 x Computer Memories Inc (CMI) 6426-S
- Microscience HH-1060 (half height; marked bad)
- Tandon TM-502
Unknown working condition, but have been stored well
On 2021-10-30 1:14 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Located in Toronto Canada, for shipping cost only:
- 3 x Hitachi DK516-15
^^ Hitachis are spoken for.
- 2 x Computer Memories Inc (CMI) 6426-S
- Microscience HH-1060 (half height; marked bad)
- Tandon TM-502
Unknown working
Hi,
Located in Toronto Canada, for shipping cost only:
- 3 x Hitachi DK516-15
- 2 x Computer Memories Inc (CMI) 6426-S
- Microscience HH-1060 (half height; marked bad)
- Tandon TM-502
Unknown working condition, but have been stored well.
First come, first served, etc.
--Toby
On 2021-10-26 2:23 p.m., Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 26, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Oct 26, 2021, at 2:14 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk
wrote:
On Oct 26, 2021, at 7:45 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk
wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 2:43 AM r.stricklin via cctech
wrote:
On 2021-10-17 11:09 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to find homes for:
22 x 11" reels
5 x 9"
2 x 7"
Most rated up to 6250bpi, a handful to 3200bpi. Some CONTROL DATA
branded, rest mixed brands. All in decent condition.
Located: Toronto Canada, wil
On 2021-10-17 11:22 p.m., Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 10/17/21 9:09 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
Hi,
I'd like to find homes for:
22 x 11" reels
5 x 9"
2 x 7"
Most rated up to 6250bpi, a handful to 3200bpi. Some CONTROL DATA
branded, rest mixed brands
Hi,
I'd like to find homes for:
22 x 11" reels
5 x 9"
2 x 7"
Most rated up to 6250bpi, a handful to 3200bpi. Some CONTROL DATA
branded, rest mixed brands. All in decent condition.
Located: Toronto Canada, will post for cost of shipping by Canada Post
(reimbursed PayPal). First come,
On 2021-09-27 11:46 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2021-09-27 3:15 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
>> On 2021-09-27 10:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote (in part):
>>>
>>> However, much of the "Linux" software is in fact POSIX software, and
>>> can quite easily be ported between Linux and
On 2021-09-18 9:39 p.m., Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> I did finally dump the first wife. The second one is just too good to
> dump.
>
https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/64153952.jpg
> On 9/18/2021 8:36 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>> I'd dump the wife...
>>
>> Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
On 2021-09-14 6:30 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If anyone is interested, these are available for cost of postage from
> Toronto Canada. I will post selected sets but if someone wants the lot,
> be quick. First come, first served...
>
> https://imgur.co
Hi,
If anyone is interested, these are available for cost of postage from
Toronto Canada. I will post selected sets but if someone wants the lot,
be quick. First come, first served...
https://imgur.com/MggLbvQ
--Toby
On 2021-08-25 3:23 p.m., Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 14:58 -0400, Todd Goodman via cctalk wrote:
>> P.110 of https://walden-family.com/bbn/bbn-print2.pdf has some slight
>> information.
>>
>> It was advertised by Bolt, Beranek and Newman as the first computer
>> to
>> be
On 2021-08-25 2:17 p.m., Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 2:07 PM ben via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> All rendered useless if you move to gray or color. Sadly almost
>> all monitors are landscape rather than portrait, so we may never see
>> a good emulation of them.
>>
>
>
On 2021-08-25 11:49 a.m., ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 2021-08-25 1:25 a.m., Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> 432 GDP instructions were bit-aligned in an instruction object, and
>> occupied anywhere from 6 to 344 bits.
>
> Did not the IBM 7030 try a similar idea.
> All this work to replace a
On 2021-07-23 12:48 p.m., Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> I gave up trying to repair this PSU myself and I have got someone to do it
> professionally. It seems they have it working well but think that two
> capacitors should still be replaced. I think these are the two big "Coke
> Can" sized
On 2021-07-19 6:06 p.m., Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote:
>
> Yes most core stringing was outsourced.
>
There's more detail on early core production in the book "IBM's Early
Computers", iirc. (And possibly "A Few Good Men From Univac".)
> ...
> Rod Smallwood -- Digital Equipment Corporation
On 2021-07-16 9:03 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
>> On Jul 16, 2021, at 3:52 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> https://wiki.livingcomputers.org/
>
> That produces a page load error.
>
> paul
>
Loaded correctly for me.
--Toby
On 2021-06-20 10:06 p.m., ben via cctech wrote:
> On 2021-06-20 6:57 a.m., Toby Thain via cctech wrote:
>> On 2021-06-20 1:39 p.m., Paul Birkel via cctech wrote:
>>> Dave;
>>>
>>> I'm much more curious about programming books that were *not* machine
>>> specific.
>>> That is, about "general
On 2021-06-20 1:39 p.m., Paul Birkel via cctech wrote:
> Dave;
>
> I'm much more curious about programming books that were *not* machine
> specific.
> That is, about "general principles" of designing/preparing software for
> execution.
Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but if you
On 2021-02-26 9:40 a.m., Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Toby Thain wrote:
>> Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1) and
>>> Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me. ... produced, and
>>> we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat
On 2021-02-25 8:55 p.m., Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> ...
> Hey, Josh! You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1)
> and Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me.
> ...
> produced, and we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat down with
> a logic
On 2021-02-03 5:36 p.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Why don't we just use bitcoin?
Thanks for the belly laugh
On 2021-01-15 1:33 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote:
> As a grad student, I still remember the row of APL terminals at the
> computer centre with their APL-specific keyboards, always ruing that I
> had no time to learn it.
Seems backwards when students have no time to learn things. Just sayin
On 2021-01-04 4:38 p.m., Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote:
>
> Andy Molloy had a Canon Cat at VCF East in 2006. Unfortunately, it
> smoked.
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/VCF-East2006/dscn4151-f.jpg
>
... there's one on ebay now FWIW.
--Toby
On 2020-11-05 11:28 a.m., devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> I have a bankers box worth of dec ultrix 32 reference manuals in grey dec
> binders. Im looking to sell the box of books for a few $ plus the cost of
> shipping.
>
> Hoping to find these books a good home.
>
> --Devin D.
Please
Hi,
Offered these in a post last year.
1) VAX DATATRIEVE Reference manual AA-K079E-TE
(this is online but version KE079G?)
2) VAX DATATRIEVE Handbook AA-W675B-TE
(Does not seem to be online? Willing to scan)
3) VAX DATATRIEVE Guide to Writing Reports AA-P862C-TE
For Datatrieve version 4.1
On 2020-10-30 10:40 p.m., geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, jw...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
>> Gene:
>>> Nova 3: https://i.imgur.com/w4VI9Wo.jpg
>>
>> Nova 3 : Recognize the mustards but all the bezels I ever saw were
>> white?
>
> I got nothing for you Jay, sorry. :) That's how
On 2020-10-30 6:02 p.m., geneb via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020, Richard Milward via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Speaking of DEC fonts, does anyone know what was used on the Data
>> General Nova machines?
>> Thanks!
>
> Nova 3: https://i.imgur.com/w4VI9Wo.jpg
>
> g.
>
Helvetica for the main
On 2018-11-18 12:44 p.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> On 2018-11-13 10:21 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>> > From: Toby Thain
>>
>> > To get closer I'd need better images of the panels.
>>
>> Hi, I borrowed a DEC inlay from someo
On 2020-09-30 9:41 a.m., Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> I have a vintage computer sitting in the LA USPS since 9/17, with no
> further updates. I have read in the local papers there that the entire
> post office has ground to a halt. What's going on there? I have never
> heard of anything like
On 2020-09-16 9:44 a.m., dwight via cctalk wrote:
> One of the small floppy drive power supplies would be good. Too bad Halted is
> not still active.
> Dwight
>
Any benched PC PSU, which are thrown in dumpsters by the thousands daily.
>
> From: cctalk on
On 2020-08-16 1:42 p.m., Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> Nigel,
>
> Have you thought about using the MFM emulator from
>
> https://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml
>
> I don't know how well it works with MicroVax...
A friend (in Toronto) is doing a run of these:
On 2020-07-23 8:59 p.m., dwight via cctalk wrote:
> I would think to be a mainframe, it has to have a I/O processor. That is
> about all I can think of.
> Dwight
>
So, a BeagleBone then
>
> From: cctalk on behalf of Grant Taylor via
> cctalk
> Sent:
On 2020-07-22 10:52 p.m., Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Just put up a big pdp11 and be done with it. Hm. Running on Simh a fully
> loaded 11 should handle just about anything the internet could toss at
> it...
>
> C
>
When you've got that set up, post the link on Slashdot, they love text
On 2020-07-15 9:18 a.m., Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> On 2020-07-15 1:51 a.m., Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
>> I have been working on CDC CYBER 170 mainframes between 1977 and 1988. ...
>>
>> For many years I have been trying to find one of these vector drawn CC545
>&
On 2020-07-15 1:51 a.m., Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
> I have been working on CDC CYBER 170 mainframes between 1977 and 1988. ...
>
> For many years I have been trying to find one of these vector drawn CC545
> consoles to use with my emulator but I haven't been able to find one.
> Recently I
On 2020-07-14 11:37 a.m., dwight via cctalk wrote:
> I'm curious as to where the term P-code came from and what defined it.
> Dwight
>
The first thing that comes to mind is UCSD P-system, but some people
probably mean it to use "any interpreted bytecode".
--Toby
>
On 2020-07-03 5:42 a.m., Tor Arntsen via cctalk wrote:
> Registry Expiry Date: 2020-07-03T15:46:18Z
>
> Anyone in touch with Tore? Noel?
>
I pinged Tore a few days ago, appears to be back
$ dig +short gunkies.org
158.36.191.230
On 2020-06-19 11:27 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links.
>
> Which rot over time.
>
> If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any
> attachments as well.
>
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum is a perfect
On 2020-06-09 10:27 a.m., Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> Related question: Is there any reason, other than historical accuracy and
> cost, to not replace the power supplies in vintage computers with modern
> switching power supplies?
>
3) If it ain't broke, don't fix it
> --
> Anders Nelson
On 2020-05-29 4:05 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> Just to make sure everyone knows that we haven't lost our minds:
>
> Nothing is going in the skip/dumpster/e-waste recycling bin. It's a long
> pause, that's all.
>
>
After one completely out of the blue move, there will be no further
On 2020-05-29 8:20 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 21:40, John Ames wrote:
>
>> Agreed. While I'm much more favorably disposed towards C than you are,
>> the increasing homogeneity of almost all modern languages is
>> discouraging ...
>
> Indeed so.
>
> And I have
On 2020-05-28 5:02 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
>> You know, in general I don't disagree with this statement, but I'll go on
>> record here and say that in my 5 years at LCM, I don't recall a single
>> keycap going missing, or anything getting stolen.
>
> Good fortune, maybe!
>
> On
On 2020-05-28 4:14 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chris Hanson via
>> cctalk
>> Sent: 28 May 2020 04:54
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>>
>> Subject: Re: Living Computer Museum
>>
>> On May 27, 2020, at 8:48 PM,
On 2020-05-28 12:01 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 8:43 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>
>>> At the moment I have no wish to fight a web site,to find what should be
>>> simple information.
>>
>> It's a picture. They can be useful.
>
> That
On 2020-05-27 9:19 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 5:47 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>> On 2020-05-27 6:56 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of peop
On 2020-05-27 6:56 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 2:42 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>
>> It's easily worked around. This is how a lot of people code today in
>> relatively modern languages:
>>
>> https://imgur.com/ESMFgNb
>
> Arg a web pa
On 2020-05-27 4:25 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/27/2020 1:45 PM, Paul McJones via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Gogol is a simple, integer arithmetic language used under the PDP-1
>> time sharing system at Stanford. This memorandum includes the
>> syntactical definition of the language and a number of
On 2020-05-24 4:13 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 2:01 PM Toby Thain <mailto:t...@telegraphics.com.au>> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-24 3:20 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 24, 2020, 11:04 AM T
On 2020-05-24 3:20 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2020, 11:04 AM Toby Thain via cctalk
> mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> On 2020-05-24 11:17 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> > ... IBM was doing
> > Virtualization in
On 2020-05-24 11:17 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> ... IBM was doing
> Virtualization in the 70's.
1968 and probably before.[1]
Most operating systems concepts[2] are much older than people think.
--T
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_CP/CMS
[2] e.g. ref: Per Brinch Hansen,
On 2020-05-13 9:59 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Well, I put the VT52 back together, ...
> I feel like I accomplished something today. Thanks everyone for the help
> and thoughts in getting this old girl to work again...
>
> CZ
Congratulations on a really worthwhile achievement, and thanks
On 2020-05-11 10:57 PM, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk wrote:
> Nice how machines from that era were well made enough to still work.
Eric spared us video of what was probably months of restoration to make
it work as well as new.
Lovely video, beautiful machine. Thanks for posting.
Are the tapes
On 2020-05-08 7:15 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> "Trimmed" is a term meaning "scammed" back in the 1920's usually by a
> confidence man. The goal of a confidence game was typically to "trim a
> mark" for example.
>
> In this context the author was probably saying that not only did they
> get
On 2020-04-22 6:19 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> I am on a mission to fix a bunch of power supplies and now I am looking at
> my MicroVAX 3100/95. A few days ago I mentioned that the big smoothing
> capacitors on the primary side might need replacing. I have done that now.
>
>
>
>
On 2020-04-18 11:09 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> I checked Q6 (in circuit), it is not shorted. I have already checked all the
> electrolytic capacitors for a bad ESR and replaced those where it was high.
> There are no shorts on the electrolytic capacitors.
>
>
>
> I will have to
On 2020-04-09 10:16 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
> Hi All,
> somebody scanned documents for me in .pdfs.
> Looking into them, they are pages of jpgs embedded in .pdf ..
> (100 pages resulting in 350MBytes ...)
>
> Any easy way to convert them into some b/w .pdf file?
> It is all text,
On 2020-04-05 8:40 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> well, close.
>>> His BASIC quote is:
>>> "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
>>> that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers
>>> they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
On 2020-04-03 1:12 PM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk wrote:
>> Paul Koning wrote:
>> ...
>> ACM has currently opened up all of its digital archives during these
> pandemic times
>
> This is great - thanks for passing along the information!
>
> Now, if the IEEE would just do the same thing...
On 2020-02-13 4:26 PM, Toby Thain via cctech wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have access to some DEC items for a month or two before a house is
> sold. Photographs are linked here:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/HqxI4JA
>
> I can locate and forward any items, if still available, for actual
> shipping costs and any
On 2020-03-06 1:37 PM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
> Hello all,
> What I said below is from the CDC. That is all that I am going to
> say on the subject.
Good.
> GOD Bless and Thanks,
> rich!
>
> On 3/6/2020 9:48 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
>> Yes. I thought about posting a long
On 2020-02-18 4:16 PM, jwest--- via cctalk wrote:
> C'mon, lets keep the politics off-list please.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Jim Manley via
> cctalk
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:08 PM
> To: Holm Tiffe ; Jim Manley ;
> General Discussion: On-Topic and
On 2020-02-18 3:45 PM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 7:36 AM Will Cooke via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
>>> Would the US prefer to not use arbitration at all ? Then it would be
>> asimple matter of who is the strongest.
>>
>
> Worked pretty well for Teddy Roosevelt and the
Hi,
I have access to some DEC items for a month or two before a house is
sold. Photographs are linked here:
https://imgur.com/a/HqxI4JA
I can locate and forward any items, if still available, for actual
shipping costs and any nominal packaging material costs.
Summary:
Hitachi ESDI drives
RX50
On 2019-12-31 5:52 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 14:25, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
>>> wrote:
>>> On 12/31/19 2:15 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
>> On Dec 31, 2019, at 13:32, Ali via
On 2019-10-19 2:08 a.m., Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 18, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code
>>> that got archived in a
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