Wake-on-LAN, teletype style

2020-04-27 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
I've started scanning a few more of the BHP docs I recovered a while back, and thought this one was interesting. A 1973 gizmo that buffers just enough received data for a relay to close and power up a teleprinter's motor to operating speed before printing, apparently half a second was sufficient

Re: LINC-8

2020-04-27 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 4/27/2020 7:47 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Bob Smith > saw a comment that this belonged to CJL. Chris Lindblad? Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on someone with those initials who is connected with the LINC. Charles Lasner.  He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to

Re: LINC-8

2020-04-27 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
Charles Lasner. On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:47 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > > From: Bob Smith > > > saw a comment that this belonged to CJL. > > Chris Lindblad? Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on someone with those initials who > is connected with the LINC. > > > > From: Jon Elson

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
NL7776 /SETUP -2 TAD (-7776) /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE SZA CLA /SKIP IF OK JMP IMA8S /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER / IF WE GET HERE, WE'RE NOT A PDP-8/S. Ok, that made me laugh. C On 4/27/2020

Re: LINC-8

2020-04-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bob Smith > saw a comment that this belonged to CJL. Chris Lindblad? Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on someone with those initials who is connected with the LINC. > From: Jon Elson > Wow, those were fairly rare back when, and now there may only be a > couple in

Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: > Charles Lasner.  He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to > complications from the COVID-19 virus.  I'm fuzzy on his exact > biography, but he was big in the development of OS/8 for the PDP-8 at > DEC.  His current

Emergency help needed

2020-04-27 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
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Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 4/27/2020 9:58 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: NL7776 /SETUP -2 TAD    (-7776)    /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE SZA CLA    /SKIP IF OK JMP    IMA8S    /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER /    IF WE GET HERE, WE'RE NOT A PDP-8/S. Ok, that made me laugh. C I

Re: Ok, got the Perq tapes

2020-04-27 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Picture 267 is a Corona Data Systems (later Cordata) laser printer. It's an ordinary Canon CX engine (Same as HP LaserJet and LaserJet-Plus (which had a large rasterizing board in them), with same toner cartridges, trays, etc.). It connects via DC37 to an ISA board in the host computer. Watch

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 4/27/2020 7:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 09:08:24AM -0500, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: Charles Lasner.  He passed the weekend of April 3rd due to complications from the COVID-19 virus.  I'm fuzzy on his exact biography, but he was big in the

Re: Ok, got the Perq tapes

2020-04-27 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:11 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Tony Duell wrote: > > Of course toner cartridges for these printers are getting almost > > impossible to find now. And I don't think any later Laserjets had a > > 'VDO' interface option. > > Does that mean that

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
I can say over the last 30 years or so, I enjoyed a number of exchanges with CJL. I did enjoy the repartee - iirc most of it was just between us, but some was in some 8 related channel. I found him knowledgeable, opinionated, but most of the time just plain fun to argue with. Over the last 6 or 7

Re: Ok, got the Perq tapes

2020-04-27 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
[Canon CX printer] > > But, I didn't know that there was a popular Perq interface. It's hardly 'popular' (or common). Any PERQ OIO card is rare. It's just that the most common one (in fact AFAIK the only one from 3 Rivers) has the option of the Canon CX printer interface. Note that if you find a

Re: Ok, got the Perq tapes

2020-04-27 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Tony Duell wrote: Of course toner cartridges for these printers are getting almost impossible to find now. And I don't think any later Laserjets had a 'VDO' interface option. Does that mean that if I can dig them out, that somebody would like the used CX cartridges that I

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:01 PM Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > I can say over the last 30 years or so, I enjoyed a number of > exchanges with CJL. > I did enjoy the repartee - iirc most of it was just between us, but > some was in some 8 related channel. > I found him knowledgeable, opinionated,

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

2020-04-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/27/20 6:34 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: He said he had his own OS that he wanted me to try out that wish has dragged on for decades I hope whoever ends up with his estate knows people are interested in P?S/8

Re: Ok, got the Perq tapes

2020-04-27 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 3:54 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Eliminating one of the LEAST important: > > Picture 267 is a Corona Data Systems (later Cordata) laser printer. It's > an ordinary Canon CX engine (Same as HP LaserJet and LaserJet-Plus (which > had a large rasterizing board in