On Jul 9, 2015, at 9:27 AM, P Gebhardt p.gebha...@ymail.com wrote:
I remember encountering them mostly as replacements for the terrible 821
drives, which had the appearance of an 808, but substantially increased
capacity. I don't think any 821s were ever installed at a customer's
On 07/09/2015 06:49 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Chuck, what (in this context) is a “MAC”?
Multiple Access Controller--pretty much just a software-programmable
switch. At one time, was strictly a QSE--we used them extensively on
4-Cyber configurations sharing 4MW of ECS and multiple peripherals.
I don't have any firm data, but I suspect it's way beyond that.
Only among the people I know personally, and clubs, I'll probably be able to
count around 20 (if not more). And that is a very small circle of people
compared to the whole world.
Yes, the true number may be well beyond 1000. Just
This may be hosted on the classiccmp server if you wish. There are already
plans afoot for a registry there that would include both public and private
listings, as well as measures to ensure entries that are desired to be
anonymous (but verified) can be presented as well. The initial idea was for
But with an rdbms and a nice front then it could encompass all makes and
models.
Linux, a web page form, some PHP scripts and MySQL and we're done. Any
volunteers ??? :-)
One problem is going to be authentication. If it has any contact
information (and it seems like it would need to in
Gotta give Rob credit for at least throwing something out there ... what
approach would you take?
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au
wrote:
On 2015-07-09 1:20 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
But with an rdbms and a nice front then it could encompass
I have requests from several list members to stop b y and do some shopping/
trading. I'm still on the mend from my latest replacement shoulder and will
be out of commission for quite a while yet. While not quite up to the show,
I have no problem with members stopping by. But I still have doctors
One problem is going to be authentication. If it has any contact
information (and it seems like it would need to in order to be useful)
then it's gonna become a target for SPAM.
Captcha?
J
Linux, a web page form, some PHP scripts and MySQL and we're done.
Any
^
Chilling words. Are you TRYING to get Jay to withdraw his offer of hosting?
Hah. The classiccmp server is LAMP... so none of the above is a
Wow, I wake up and you blokes on the other side of the world have been busy
during the night working at getting a bunch of details for me :)
Thanks Barry, Pete, Paul, Noel, Bill, Adam for your responses - the
measurements and photos are exactly what I need. I'll go through them in
detail soon
On 2015-07-09 1:20 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
But with an rdbms and a nice front then it could encompass all makes and
models.
Linux, a web page form, some PHP scripts and MySQL and we're done. Any
^
Chilling words.
I was wondering along those lines myself earlier this morning... I am
thinking, regardless of how many may have originally been produced, I bet
if you gathered up all the VAXen in the hands of collectors now; big and
small; bussed and bus-less, I bet you'd end up with only a few hundred
machines,
On 07/06/2015 16:24, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-07-06 3:33 PM, Clem Cole wrote:
...
One other note about the MC-500. If was the first commercial
Multiprocessor UNIX ... display processor, a number of 29000's in the FP
and APP's units, more 29000 logic in the Data Acq Unit, ...
Pretty cool for
On 2015-07-08 19:21, Robert Armstrong wrote:
Perhaps SDI is a typo for SBI, as in the 11/780?
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes the fingers are faster than the brain :-)
Synchronous Backplane Interconnect - the system bus used on the 78x and
some of the 8000 machines.
The 8600 and 8650 are
On 3 July 2015 at 18:22, Jerome H. Fine jhfined...@compsys.to wrote:
I understand that Netscape has been replaced by Mozilla. HOWEVER,
since CHROME seems to be the most widely used, would CHROME
be able to support the retention of ALL of my old e-mails and posts
from usenet? Over the past 15
Liam Proven wrote:
On 3 July 2015 at 18:22, Jerome H. Fine jhfined...@compsys.to wrote:
I understand that Netscape has been replaced by Mozilla. HOWEVER,
since CHROME seems to be the most widely used, would CHROME
be able to support the retention of ALL of my old e-mails and posts
from
From: Steven Malikoff
a replica PDP11 masthead panel for the DEC H960 rack.
That would be great! (I'd buy one! Or more!) But how are you going to produce
the plastic housing? I suspect that's going to be harder than the inset
coloured panel.
I need some help from the list, if
On 2015-07-09 09:29, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Sorry for top-posting but having read this thread I feel you are
discriminating for no real reason.
Certainly, if the registry is a plain old text file with one
maintainer then some limitations is probably good.
But with an rdbms and a nice front
On 09/07/2015 05:00, ste...@malikoff.com wrote:
Following the recent discussion here on the 'DEC logo' topic, I've
been mucking about with my own efforts to produce a replica PDP11
masthead panel for the DEC H960 rack.
I need some help from the list, if possible - I would like the
dimensions
On 2015-07-09 5:28 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-07-09 09:29, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Sorry for top-posting but having read this thread I feel you are
discriminating for no real reason.
Certainly, if the registry is a plain old text file with one
maintainer then some limitations is
I remember encountering them mostly as replacements for the terrible 821
drives, which had the appearance of an 808, but substantially increased
capacity. I don't think any 821s were ever installed at a customer's
site, however--I saw the lot of them that we had falling to the CE
No one can see it, just use painted wood or something that holds it in
place, eh?
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
wrote:
From: Steven Malikoff
a replica PDP11 masthead panel for the DEC H960 rack.
That would be great! (I'd buy one! Or more!)
On 2015-07-09 15:13, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-07-09 5:28 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-07-09 09:29, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
Sorry for top-posting but having read this thread I feel you are
discriminating for no real reason.
Certainly, if the registry is a plain old text file with one
On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Adam Sampson a...@offog.org wrote:
ste...@malikoff.com writes:
I would like the dimensions of the width and height.
I've got one of these panels that came from the UKC machine room. I've
put some photos of it, along with a 600dpi scan of the front, here:
On Jul 9, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Adam Sampson a...@offog.org wrote:
ste...@malikoff.com writes:
I would like the dimensions of the width and height.
I've got one of these panels that came from the UKC machine room. I've
put some photos of it, along with a 600dpi scan of the front, here:
Pete Turnbull p...@dunnington.plus.com writes:
overall height 106mm
Note that the plastic moulding's actually different between Pete's
Galway panel and my Maynard one. The outer flange at the sides continues
around the bottom of the panel on mine, whereas it's cut away on Pete's:
ste...@malikoff.com writes:
I would like the dimensions of the width and height.
I've got one of these panels that came from the UKC machine room. I've
put some photos of it, along with a 600dpi scan of the front, here:
http://photos.offog.org/pdp11-panel/g/
The printed panel is 471mm x
On 09/07/2015 05:00, ste...@malikoff.com wrote:
I need some help from the list, if possible - I would like the
dimensions of the width and height.
I've uploaded 14 pictures of the masthead to Flickr. Some of them have
a ruler (metric and imperial) included so you can not only see the shape
On 09/07/2015 20:58, Pete Turnbull wrote:
I've uploaded 14 pictures of the masthead to Flickr.
overall width 514mm
[etc...]
There does seem to be some variation between reported dimensions, so
just in case anyone is wondering, mine were made with a 60cm certified
engineer's steel rule and
Wow, more than hundred of these CDC drives??? This must have been a massive
installation! I didn't know so many disk drives could be combined with
Cyber systems. Thanks for the insights!
Pretty much any of the big mainframes of the day - IBM, Univac, CDC,
Burroughs, and so forth - could deal
- Original Message -
From: P Gebhardt p.gebha...@ymail.com
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 9:27 AM
...
Wow, more than hundred of these CDC drives???
This must have been a massive installation! I
didn't know so many disk drives could be
combined with Cyber systems. Thanks for the
During my mid- to late-80s tenure at Georgia Tech, we had 2 x Cyber
180/855, 2 x Cyber 180/830 and 1 x Cyber 180/990. I'll have to ask around
for someone with better memory than me as to how many, but we had quite an
ocean of disks.
KJ
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