Re: Glass memory?

2022-04-07 Thread Joshua Rice via cctalk
From: "steven--- via cctech" Paul and others said What if you can't make ICs any more? Or rather, what level of IC fabrication would it be possible to construct from scratch? For semiconductors, you'd start with machinery to make ultra-pure materials (silicon, I'd assume). A Czochralski

RCA COSMAC MS2000 MicroDisk Development System

2022-04-07 Thread Joshua Rice via cctalk
Hi all, I’ve recently come across something i’ve soon realised really quite unusual. An RCA MS2000 MicroDisk Development System. I’m very green to the COSMAC scene, with this being my first 1802 machine. I’m very interested in knowing the pitfalls i may come across in restoring such a

Lecture: A tour of Update's new premises, 2022-04-09, 19:00

2022-04-07 Thread Anke Stüber via cctalk
Hi all, you're invited to the Update computer club[0] public lecture series "Updateringar"[1]! When: 2022-04-09, 19:00 CEST Where: https://bbb.cryptoparty.se/b/upd-0mo-m2u-aq8 A tour of Update's new premises In December and January 2021/2022 Update moved out of the Uppsala University IT

Re: Short PDP-8 Memory Test...

2022-04-07 Thread Lyle Bickley via cctalk
Hi Mike, I consider myself fortunate. I have a PDP-8/E, PDP-8/E with a PDP-8/M Front Panel and a PDP-8/M. My PDP-8/E has an RK05 HDD, RX02 dual FDD and VC8E XY with HP1311 XY Display, Extended Math, 32KW core, etc. I used to have a huge running PDP-12 with Dual TU56, TC08 w/TU55, Dual disk

Bob Lucky

2022-04-07 Thread Jim Brain via cctalk
I don't remember seeing this here, and not sure how many of you read his articles, but: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bob-lucky-obituary -- Jim Brain br...@jbrain.com www.jbrain.com

Re: Bob Lucky

2022-04-07 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Thanks for the link. I met him when I was at Bell Labs. He was an outstanding technology speaker and writer, with a great sense of humor. His columns were hilarious and right in target. A written form of Dilbert for the technologist. Marc > On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:41 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk >

Re: RCA COSMAC MS2000 MicroDisk Development System

2022-04-07 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On 04/07/2022 2:50 PM Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I’ve recently come across something i’ve soon realised really quite unusual. > An RCA MS2000 MicroDisk Development System. > > I’m very green to the COSMAC scene, with this being my first 1802 machine. > I’m very

Re: RCA COSMAC MS2000 MicroDisk Development System

2022-04-07 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
This one is from 1975 just before the Altair 8800 https://www.vintagecomputer.net/rca/COSMAC/EDN_COSMAC_Microkit.jpg ...but I bet yours is more like 1976-77. What is the CPU type 1802 or something else? BIll On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:54 PM geneb via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Joshua

Re: RCA COSMAC MS2000 MicroDisk Development System

2022-04-07 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote: Hi all, I’ve recently come across something i’ve soon realised really quite unusual. An RCA MS2000 MicroDisk Development System. Does it look like this? https://i.imgur.com/Q96sRhE.jpg Nice find! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: Any CodeWright users: still have patch installers?

2022-04-07 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 17:52, Daniel Moniz via cctech wrote: > This is a long shot, but on the off chance anyone else on the list > shares some of my particular weirdnesses, anyone got a line on the > *patches* for Embarcadero (nee Borland (nee Starbase (nee Premia) > CodeWright? > > I