RE: PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Dave G4UGM
Rob, How much in the UK Dave -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Stoness Sent: 06 June 2015 14:39 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: PDP8/e front panels. pic? On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:13 AM,

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-06 14:36, Robert Jarratt wrote: I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encountered some problems. It seems the files have some commands in them that are not recognised by any of the versions of runoff that I have. I have tried on VMS 5.5-2, 7.3 and 8.4. The commands that

RE: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Robert Jarratt
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J. Blair Sent: 06 June 2015 03:06 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026 I think I'd enjoy having an 029 if the right one

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Brent Hilpert
On the one hand the 25K is ridiculously excessive; on the other I'm surprised you were able to obtain one for so little, even in poor condition, and there was so little bidding. Replacing the missing keycaps may be difficult, but it otherwise looks quite recoverable. On 2015-Jun-05, at 6:21

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Connor Krukosky
The two bids where actually me pushing my bid up worrying that there would be a snipe at the end but there was not... No-one else wanted it, it was luckily only about and hour from me. I have been slowly working on it, it now feeds and registers a card correctly but my main problem is dirty

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-06 Thread Robert Jarratt
I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encountered some problems. It seems the files have some commands in them that are not recognised by any of the versions of runoff that I have. I have tried on VMS 5.5-2, 7.3 and 8.4. The commands that are not recognised include (not a full

PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Rod Smallwood
Hi All I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e front panels. They are full size reproductions of the original. The production methods are exactly as used in circa 1971. They are not photographs. The front has the two colours plus the white each done with its

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

2015-06-06 Thread Marco Rauhut
+1 Marco Am 05.06.2015 um 23:47 schrieb 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!

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Todd Goodman
* Robert Jarratt robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com [150606 02:16]: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J. Blair Sent: 06 June 2015 03:06 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Holy mother of pearl.

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Adrian Stoness
pic? On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi All I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e front panels. They are full size reproductions of the original. The production methods are exactly as used in circa 1971.

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

2015-06-06 Thread Mouse
I'm trying to get an application that currently uses a local display on an ancient DEC Alpha workstation with a (for the time) mid-to-high-end graphics controller (ZLX-E2) to instead use an X-server running under MS-Windows. The application is complaining that it cannot find a 4/5-bit

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

2015-06-06 Thread IMAP List Administration
Mouse, thanks very much for taking the time to comment. On 06/06/2015 02:35 PM, Mouse wrote: Am I correct to assume that the GPU must support 4bpp in order for it even to be possible for the X-server to propagate a 4-plane visual to a client? No. However, it is substantially more difficult

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Mike Ross
Oh I'll take two or three of those if they're any good. Might be interested in commissioning your young ladies to do pdp-15 and pdp-12 panels too. Mike On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi All I have recently produced a number of

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Lee Courtney
I know that as late as the mid-1970s 026's were refurbished and upgraded by a third-party (SORBUS?) as cheaper 029s and with the 029 character set. We had many of these 026--029s where I went to school. Lee C. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Cory Heisterkamp coryheisterk...@gmail.com wrote: I

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-06 Thread Robert Jarratt
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: 06 June 2015 21:53 To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO On 2015-06-06 14:36, Robert Jarratt wrote: I have had a

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 06/06/2015 11:13, Rod Smallwood wrote: I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e front panels. They are full size reproductions of the original. The panel fits the bezel and the switches on the key + lamps board line up. I have a few to sell and can do more

Need Dos bootable 5 1/4 floppy with binary or hex editor

2015-06-06 Thread jwsmobile
I just got a Compaq Portable 3 (286). I need to edit the contents of what will be the C drive when dos boots, though it probably doesn't have a file system on it. Anyway i'll need to boot up from a floppy because it has a pick r83 system on the C drive. Not sure what the system is, so fdisk

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-06 Thread Mark Wickens
I've run the converter too that was in the DECUS collection and there are plenty of errors/warnings but you do get output - I've put the resulting doc files here (they are terminal formatted so you can open them in a text editor to view): http://wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/mscp/

Re: Need Dos bootable 5 1/4 floppy with binary or hex editor

2015-06-06 Thread Cory Smelosky
I have no pick experience - I'd be interested in poking at it and seeing if I can find anything at all. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2015, at 21:20, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote: I just got a Compaq Portable 3 (286). I need to edit the contents of what will be the C drive when dos

PDP-8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Rod Smallwood
Hi Guys Thanks for all of the enquiries for panels. I have ten in total. One I have here (as in photo) and the other nine are in the drying rack at the silk screeners. My photo does not do them justice. The screening is a lot sharper and clearer. On Monday I'll go and get the rest of them

RE: PDP8/e front panels.

2015-06-06 Thread Robert Jarratt
Yes, I might be interested too, keen to see a picture, and I am not entirely clear if the panel includes switches or not. Not that I have such a machine, but with a thought to hooking it up to the SIMH emulation someday. Regards Rob -Original Message- From: cctalk

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

2015-06-06 Thread Ernest G. Allen
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote: Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 05:36:40 From: Robert Jarratt robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO I have had a go

what happened to the atrificial 8 E panel with the 6100 built to it?

2015-06-06 Thread COURYHOUSE
what happened to the artificial 8 E panel with the 6100 microprocessor board built to it? are these still being made? Thanks Ed# _www.smnecc.org_ (http://www.smnecc.org)

Troubleshooting a N* Advantage

2015-06-06 Thread Steven Hirsch
My Advantage decided to stop booting from floppy disks (the only media it is capable of booting). At first it threw random disk errors, then progressed to the point where I get an immediate Hardware Failure diagnostic on screen at power up. If I reset and hit 'Enter' it starts the disk drive

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread Mark J. Blair
On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:28, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote: The main IBM keypunches (026, 029, and 129) are sort of like Teletypes - yes, they have respectable value, but there are still a whole lot of chances to get into a right place, right time situation and get them for

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

2015-06-06 Thread William Donzelli
On the one hand the 25K is ridiculously excessive; on the other I'm surprised you were able to obtain one for so little, even in poor condition, and there was so little bidding. Replacing the missing keycaps may be difficult, but it otherwise looks quite recoverable. The main IBM