Re: G4 cube (was Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...)

On 9/13/2016 10:00 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 9/13/16 9:53 AM, Ryan K. Brooks wrote: See Also RedHat and CentOS.No telnet, netstat, etc. csh though in the modern world I can see why clear text protocols aren't shipped out of the box They can be added, and it was only after quite a long ti

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

On 9/8/2016 10:41 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 9/8/16 10:03 AM, Murray McCullough wrote: What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are so ubiquitous today? The main thing that comes to mind is how often images or references to TOS appear in mid-70's computing magazines. I

Re: Odd memory error in PDP-11/04

Is there a hint as far as the affected hardware in that the ODT is working, but the ram is not? The rom that is running ODT is also being accessed for read correctly. Perhaps the problem is migrating since the system halts however. A wild jump and a fault if the rom path is affected might ex

Re: The huge lot that had the NIB 8" floppies is now on ebay

On 9/6/2016 9:04 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: So that's all I'm saying: re-advertising here what is already advertised and readily found on ebay itself Frequently it is not easily found on ebay. Mislisted descriptions and titles are common. i have a lot of watch list items now, but I find I

Re: The huge lot that had the NIB 8" floppies is now on ebay

On 9/6/2016 8:06 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: That would be my preference as well. A "cce...@classiccmp.org" list. Or at least in an indication in the subject line "ebay: [topic]" so they can get filtered out. - J. I will attempt to do that. Also you can trim off everything in any link

Re: The huge lot that had the NIB 8" floppies is now on ebay

Yes, we do. I had not found this ad and it is in Kansas City, where I have a warehouse. Cindy, I didn't see the 8" floppies though. I also thought this was in Colorado, but see it listed as KC now, though that may only be another auction. This unfortunately isn't up my alley for collecting.

Re: More mystery recycler boards - DEC, Fujitsu(??), Cipher, Emulex

On 9/2/2016 11:52 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: __Cipher boards:__ There are two of these: http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/ub/c1.jpg I suspect they're from some form of terminal (or maybe printer?), and now that they're separated from the rest of the system they're just junk. Note that s

Re: More mystery recycler boards - DEC, Fujitsu(??), Cipher, Emulex

On 9/2/2016 11:52 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: __Cipher boards:__ There are two of these: http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/ub/c1.jpg I suspect they're from some form of terminal (or maybe printer?), and now that they're separated from the rest of the system they're just junk. Note that s

Re: BA123 Side panels and Stuck TK50

I've bought a pile of drives recently, and may have one that you can scavenge. However I think mine may be TK-70's though. I got some make good items from one guy for a botched sale, will see if it was a 50 since you probably have to stick with those. thanks jim On 8/30/2016 3:32 PM, Rob Ja

Re: BA123 Side panels and Stuck TK50

On 8/30/2016 1:54 PM, shad wrote: A tape in this condition of striction is probably unusable anyway, unless you back it up a little in an oven, but even so it could be readable just for a couple of hours I wonder if the header could be cut off and used for the other guy's thread, who ha

Re: CHM

On 8/29/2016 8:24 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Folks, I am going to be in San Francisco in a few weeks' time, but only for about a day and half. I could spare 2 hours at CHM but is it worth dragging myself up there on a Sunday when there are no working exhibits, and I will only have two hours.

RX02 and RXV11 emulators

I got interested in a thread which mentioned RX02 emulators by C H Dickman, and found a nice page on that, which is still live. However, one of the pages was on geocities, and though there are about 10 or 15 hits for the path below, noone had any links which i could find which hit the original

Motorola 88000 system on Epay

a bit pricy, but it seems to be able to be powered up. Looks to be 25mhz according to the boot screen. The seller has done the smoke test for the buyer, and was even going to replace a dead NVram to verify that one message about the config being bad was recoverable. 16mb ram. Seller has do

Re: complete displaywriter set in Canada

thanks Jim Dave -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jim stephens Sent: 29 August 2016 05:23 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: complete displaywriter set in Canada There is a reserve set. Any idea how much h

Re: complete displaywriter set in Canada

There is a reserve set. Any idea how much higher than $99 Canadian it is? I suspect that noone was interested enough in this auction to find out. I'd look for it to be listed with a high minimum bid, or maybe to someone who negotiated offline, or off Ebay directly with the seller. but it is

Re: Repairing Tape Leader Damage in TK70 Drive

On 8/26/2016 1:35 PM, Dave Wade wrote: There is a TK50 piccy well down this page here:- http://williambader.com/museum/vax/vax.html I think that is the same as the TK70 Looks like he tore out the end hook on that tape as well, there is a gap in the photo of the disassembled cartridge, but ther

Re: Million-dollar vintage computer

On 8/25/2016 3:48 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, couryho...@aol.com wrote: so, what was the vcf's take? In the consignment section at VCF, they took 15% I think he is referring to as a donation. Not sellers premium. thanks Jim

Re: Million-dollar vintage computer

On 8/25/2016 2:05 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 08/25/2016 01:24 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: so, what was the vcf's take? On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote: The pre-production Apple 1 auctioned via CharityBuzz and displayed at VCF West closed just now for $1,210,000.

Re: "Unix Implementation" paper in HTML

On 8/23/2016 6:35 AM, Electronics Plus wrote: I emailed you the PDF. Hope that helps. Cindy Thanks, i got it from multiple sources as well. When I have more time am going to hunt for the HTML for Noel, he has my curiosity up. Mainly wanted the text for search engine grist. I wish there w

Re: "Unix Implementation" paper in HTML

On 8/23/2016 6:29 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: On 23 August 2016 at 15:24, jim stephens wrote: On 8/23/2016 5:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote: This one? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2866044_UNIX_implementation Also google barfed up this @ Archive.org https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6

Re: "Unix Implementation" paper in HTML

On 8/23/2016 5:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote: On 23 August 2016 at 13:44, Noel Chiappa wrote: "UNIX Implementation" by Ken Thompson. This one? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2866044_UNIX_implementation The other, you'll need to give the exact title/author... Also google barfed up th

Re: "Unix Implementation" paper in HTML

On 8/23/2016 5:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote: On 23 August 2016 at 13:44, Noel Chiappa wrote: "UNIX Implementation" by Ken Thompson. This one? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2866044_UNIX_implementation The other, you'll need to give the exact title/author... Is that this paper (PDF)

Re: Are old SCSI tape drives not all created equal?

On 8/19/2016 9:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: On 8/17/2016 6:17 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 08/17/2016 02:59 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: Hi, Chuck. Excellent question -- and they do respond per your minimum, but beyond that, I'm not sure. When a drive wouldn't work, I only thought to check

Re: Imaging and Emulating Rainbow

I downloaded the site and the zip file today (in the last 6 hours or so, Sunday PDT US time, I saw your don't mirror warning after i'd taken a lot, so continued. many thanks for the stuff there. I had some things from the profolder, but not the floppy images. thanks jim On 8/14/2016 3:17

Re: Tape Imaging

On 8/11/2016 6:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 08/11/2016 02:08 PM, Stan Sieler wrote: I've had a couple of tapes with "fooler" double file marks. The first was a zero-length file--had I thought to look at the block count (00) in the HDR label, it would have been obvious. The second was a

Re: Tape imaging

On 8/10/2016 9:30 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 08/10/2016 08:03 PM, dwight wrote: I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer ascii HEX format. SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years. 50 years ago, ASCII (USASCII) wasn't terribly common, except on 7-level TTY. A lot of machines used 6-bit cod

Re: Tape imaging

On 8/10/2016 7:04 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote: On 10 August 2016 at 15:22, wrote: I successfully took a (factory new) DEC TSZ07 SCSI tape drive into operation using a Sun SS20 and a Linux box. Now I do have a big pile of CDC, DEC, HP, Convex and IBM tapes and I'd like to create tape images to f

Re: Photo album and video from VCF West

ou offline about one for Sherman as well thanks Jim On 8/9/2016 6:30 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: On 10/08/2016 00:37, jim stephens wrote: https://goo.gl/photos/KdnDMBHeryMZqctV9 Youtube Channel playlist of videos. Some walking around Saturday morning before the show, Charles Anthony's ex

Photo album and video from VCF West

https://goo.gl/photos/KdnDMBHeryMZqctV9 Youtube Channel playlist of videos. Some walking around Saturday morning before the show, Charles Anthony's exhibit. Also a fellow who dropped by after my buying a PDP 11/34 and was one of the engineers. I recorded an impromptu interview with him.

Re: PDP-11 prices

On 8/7/2016 11:02 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: So that most recent PDP-11/20 (well, technically, a /15) on eBay went for $2200: http://www.ebay.com/itm/191933305000 which was a lot less than the other one _but_ this was only one drawer, only one ME11 memory, no H960, no documentation, no softwa

Re: Video From VCF West

about it please? It's part of Jim Stephens' collection, and was lent to me for VCF. It is a maintenance panel off a 6180 series machine, like the panels in your collection. The roller is missing. The text in the upper left reads "ADDRESS/SAMPLE TALLY CONDITIONS" I'

Re: Video From VCF West

On 8/7/2016 7:36 AM, jim stephens wrote: 6 videos from saturday, youtube playlist once more with the link https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5NK70kdq3-JGwb_8GXFN5SqDtbTKtLi7

Re: Video From VCF West

6 videos from saturday, youtube playlist On 8/6/2016 5:59 PM, Kirk Davis wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjf3WkYDaEk Carl Claunch at Vintage Computer Festival West, Mount View CA 2016

Re: SWTPC 6800

On 8/3/2016 10:58 PM, Brad H wrote: Thought I would post this here in case it reaches eyes my forum posts don't. So I finally got my hands on a SWTPC 6800! This machine is chock full of boards.. 4 ram boards, the cpu card (with SWTBUG ROM), MP-S, MP-C serial cards, a floppy controller,

Copyright act Section 108

IANAL, and this is way off topic, but needs to be put out as there are a lot of ears here that depend on Bitsavers, and probably some of the other Museums. The Copyright office seems to be unhinged with an unrelated matter I won't post here (email me off list if you don't know about it), and i

Re: Why classiccmp is awesome [junk spots to visit]

On 7/31/2016 6:42 PM, Erik Klein wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Is it too late to also set up an E-waste recycling even next to VCF? Weird Stuff Warehouse is practically right around the corner... .-) Can someone in the know add to this thread, or somewhere w

Re: Is MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS vintage enough to count?

On 7/31/2016 4:48 PM, Liam Proven wrote: On 31 July 2016 at 20:21, jim stephens wrote: I used Windows 95 for dos multitasking. Windows 95 booted the processors into real mode dos, then ran the windows system out of that base dos much like Windows 3.1 had. As such, the dos boxes all shared

Re: VCF West tickets

On 7/31/2016 12:42 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: THAT should be mentioned on the ticket page of the website. (along with full details of how much, a link to the CHM ticket page, AND howzbout, on the ticket page, have a deal to buy both CHM and VCF admission as a package deal? Since he stated they a

Re: Is MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS vintage enough to count?

On 7/31/2016 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 07/31/2016 11:21 AM, jim stephens wrote: Windows 98 switched to protected mode almost immediately on boot, and all the dos boxes were synthesized in virtual 8086 mapped mode, and had no underlying booted dos environment. I'm not sure t

Re: Is MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS vintage enough to count?

On 7/31/2016 10:18 AM, Liam Proven wrote: DesqView: yes to multitasking, no to graphics. The only snag is that it is itself DOS based, so you don't get a lot of free RAM in your sessions. But it works, and it's much lighter and faster than even v3 of Windows. If you want an actual graphical

Re: DECmate, Rainbow, and Pro 350/380 parts

On 7/29/2016 12:51 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: Hi Andrea, I replied but maybe you didn't get it. I'll check me sent file later. You have a unit with power supply , CPU, and no boards? Which boards do you need? Thanks, Paul Paul, I also sent along a reply, and am interested if Andrea can't swi

Re: Nova 3 front panel

On 7/23/2016 10:57 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: From: Henk Gooijen: Saturday, July 23, 2016 10:36 AM Somebody knows of a source for 28V 40 mA “grain” bulbs with wires? I could use some 10 … and 20 as spare 😊 Mouser has 950 CM2185 bulbs in stock, which should work nicely. The Netherlands vers

Re: Nova 3 front panel

On 7/22/2016 10:39 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: I'm not a big fan of the surgery involved in LED conversion, though I understand why folks do it. Particularly if they, like Emil, have used the wrong bulbs and found themselves replacing them all the time. I wouldn't do the surgery, but here's

Re: Nova 3 front panel

On 7/22/2016 12:25 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: From: jim stephens: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:53 PM I have not had time to figure out the driver circuit for any of the lamps to see what that may turn up, and wanted to know whether it was 28v lamps before I buy 40 of them. (the thing has

Nova 3 front panel

Is there anyone with documents on the Nova 3 front panel, and what drives it? It has some number of custom DG chips, which hopefully are good if I want to try to fire it up to play, but am interested in that on good authority there are 28v incandescent lamps. A friend has an Eclipse front pan

Re: OT: Scanner discussion board(s)

On 7/21/2016 9:44 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 07/21/2016 09:29 PM, hollan...@ccountry.net wrote: Does anyone here know of newsgroups or discussion boards for scanners? One that I have in my bookmarks is the DIY book scanner forum: http://diybookscanner.org/forum/ But if you search using the

Re: LASERS! && Freemont Street LED array (was Re: Cray J932SE (was Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now))

On 7/19/2016 1:22 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Those have been around for decades - I recall seeing them used to draw things on the sides of building,_many_ moons ago. I know that the pen motors from Brush recorders were used eons ago. They have frequency response that is very high, and if you had

Re: Straight 8 up on Ebay just now

On 7/18/2016 10:23 PM, Sam O'nella wrote: There may be some archives here or vcf with enough prices. Iirc i thought i remember one selling for something pretty high (8000/12000?) X years ago although i think like this it's a calculated price of doubling the last sale they saw. Although apple

Re: DEC and Emulex boards

On 7/18/2016 5:07 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: Rats, I was leaning toward there not being any SCSI ones - the ones with 50 pin connectors didn't seem to match anything I could find online. Here is a Qbus Emulex UC07 image. http://web.frainresearch.org:8080/projects/pdp-11/troy/images/uc07.jpg

Straight 8 up on Ebay just now

25,000, Alexandria, Va. Josh Dersch can have one for his home and for work. BTW, about the other nice system noted here, I was hoping the 11/20 would stay off the radar and not go for a zillion bucks, so much for that idea. At least I have the means to go to Tucson and get it if I'm nuts and

Re: DOS code in CP/M? Revisited...

On 7/15/2016 12:15 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 07/15/2016 11:52 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: P.S. A full build for the board I work on (OS and creating the boot image) for work takes < 1 hour. The firmware I’m working on takes just 2-3 seconds to build! This is on a PC with a 3.2GHz Skylake i

Re: Grey Wall (VMS) available (Retrieving things from another zip code, several removed)

It is just that he is independently employeed, and makes these trips maybe every one or two months to recover someone, frequently for another agent in one of the 5 or so counties he covers. It is hard to find people that can just drop things and go, but in his business, others out of his off

Re: Mystery system

On 2/5/2016 8:16 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Mike Loewen wrote: > >The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top, >labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some >sort of IBM 370, perhaps? Funny that the

Re: DEC Dual 1173 cpu with rack available

On 2/4/2016 9:26 PM, Ian S. King wrote: OMG that's sexy... but I'm on the wrong coast.I really like my 11/73. I've already got 2 individual systems which this appears to be. The other thing is that I think that is a 5mb or 10mb removable over a hard drive arrangement for disk drive. Ve

Re: Mystery system

On 2/4/2016 9:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I was there on a tour, a few years earlier. I think they still had the model 195 at the time. A vast facility filled with big blue boxes. They had two 195's at McAuto in STL. We may have gone on the same tour, probably in 72 or so. I am not sure if it

Re: Mystery system

On 2/4/2016 6:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2

Tymnet Node processor

I was talking to a former co-worker who worked for McDonnell Douglas Network Systems Company who owned Tymshare at one point, and he had a picture of a 1mb memory from one of the nodes. He passed along this link to the manual for the node processor. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/tymsh

Re: Front panels Video clip

On 1/8/2016 2:09 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Guys I have a short video of part run boards awaiting their turn for the next layer. (probably a bit boring). One of the girls is in the picture (not boring) If you want I can attach it to an email. Its a .mov file. Email me off list for a copy. R

Re: 10 forgotten wonders of 1980s homes

Santa Ana, Ca goodwill store is full of what I think you are after. They also have a pretty well stocked electronics / computer section. Also online sales http://www.shopgoodwill.com/?adcode=ocgoodwill Thanks Jim On 12/29/2015 11:08 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: On 12/29/2015 03:03 AM, Kevin P

Re: Data I/O 29B

At microdata we had a support contract with Data I/O and every set of roms for the base unit and the Unipak came with a new poster up to date with the latest parts from the manufacturers. So you don't need to just get a poster or table or list, but you also need to match it to the firmware set

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