Re: Unibus SCSI - was Re: Rescue update: DEC RC-25s + / was Re: DEC cartridge ID

2015-06-05 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ian S. King isk...@uw.edu wrote: The UC07 manual on Bitsavers shows this as a Qbus adapter - although I'd sure think it was Unibus from the name. The seller calls it out as Qbus and the documents back him/her up. Yeah. I have one. It's Qbus. Nothing wrong

Re: Unibus SCSI - was Re: Rescue update: DEC RC-25s + / was Re: DEC cartridge ID

2015-06-05 Thread Ian S. King
The UC07 manual on Bitsavers shows this as a Qbus adapter - although I'd sure think it was Unibus from the name. The seller calls it out as Qbus and the documents back him/her up. On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au wrote: On 2015-06-04 8:49 PM, Ethan Dicks

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion or DEC MSCP protocol specs

2015-06-05 Thread Richard Loken
On Thu, 4 Jun 2015, Paul Koning wrote: No escape codes. Just text, and return without line feed to overprint one line on another, to do underlining. If you don???t use underlines, the text is just plain text, suitable for viewing with ???cat??? or ???more???. But not: $ TYPE /PAGE

Actually QBus SCSI - was Re: Unibus SCSI - was Re: Rescue update: DEC RC-25s + / was Re: DEC cartridge ID

2015-06-05 Thread Toby Thain
On 2015-06-05 2:05 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Ian S. King isk...@uw.edu wrote: The UC07 manual on Bitsavers shows this as a Qbus adapter - although I'd sure think it was Unibus from the name. The seller calls it out as Qbus and the documents back him/her up. Yeah.

Re: X11 expertise on ancient HW sought... (4-plane visual (overlay) via X-server on MS-WIndows)

2015-06-05 Thread IMAP List Administration
On 06/05/2015 12:19 AM, David Brownlee wrote: Have you tried MobaXterm? On my Thinkpad T420s (Intel gfx) booting into Windows 7, then running my NetBSD install in Virtual box and firing up an xterm using Moba as the X server reports: depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 The Personal

Re: pdp8/e /f /m Omnibus legenda available

2015-06-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Jun 5, 2015, at 14:31 , Simon Claessen sim...@dds.nl wrote: link: https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Omnibus_legenda.pdf Nice work! -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net http://www.nf6x.net/

pdp8/e /f /m Omnibus legenda available

2015-06-05 Thread Simon Claessen
Hello all, As part of my effort to resurrect our lately broken pdp8/f, I've made a nice drawing of the connector lugs of an omnibus card with its signals next to it. Both sides are done together on one page. any comments are welcome link: https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Omnibus_legenda.pdf --

Re: X11 expertise on ancient HW sought... (4-plane visual (overlay) via X-server on MS-WIndows)

2015-06-05 Thread David Brownlee
On 5 June 2015 at 16:15, IMAP List Administration li...@y42.org wrote: On 06/05/2015 12:19 AM, David Brownlee wrote: Have you tried MobaXterm? On my Thinkpad T420s (Intel gfx) booting into Windows 7, then running my NetBSD install in Virtual box and firing up an xterm using Moba as the X

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-05 Thread Connor Krukosky
That has been posted up for a LONG time and will likely NEVER sell at that price or at any offer since this guy seems to think its made of gold. It's less rare than an 029 seemingly anyway. The 026's seem to have had a lot more of them run for a longer time, meaning more survived to see the

Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-05 Thread jwsmobile
This seems excessive, to say the least. RARE-VINTAGE-IBM-26-INTERPRETING-CARD-PUNCH-OWN-A-PIECE-OF-HISTORY http://www.ebay.com/itm/161725243156 but it's rare.

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
I think I'd enjoy having an 029 if the right one appeared at the right cost and location. But I think I could get by with an 026 for $9! :) I have zero experience with keypunch machines and zero practical use for one... but I think it would be fun anyway. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X n...@nf6x.net

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-05 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Connor Krukosky conn...@connorsdomain.com wrote: Its in better condition than the one I got, but I got mine for only 9 dollars!! http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-26-Keypunch-Punch-Card-/141603779673 Nicely done. I have an 026 that needs to be completely cleaned,

RE: Rescue update: DEC RC-25s + / was Re: DEC cartridge ID

2015-06-05 Thread Robert Armstrong
Ethan Dicks [ethan.di...@gmail.com] wrote: did not come with a removable cartridge so I've not been able to spin it up Yes, one of the annoyances of the RC25 is that you can't spin it up w/o the removable platter in place. I have only one cartridge myself, and it's probably bad. Somebody