If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I believe
you can do the following
^Y
$spawn
$
$reply/enable=all
initialize additional tapes as needed (prior tape should have rewound…)
mount tape
$reply/to=MESSAGEID
$exit
$continue
Jerry Weiss WB9MRI
Anyone interested in a Kaypro II in decent shape, complete with a couple of
keyboard overlays?
for trade or for sale...
thanks!
-Ben
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the
BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the way a
task can be suspended in UNIX with ^Z?
I'm no expert, but I think you can
Thanks! I will try that out.
On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick glen.sl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair n...@nf6x.net wrote:
Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the
BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS
Thanks! I'll look up all of those commands to understand them better.
^Y looks familiar. I think this is the second time I have learned about it. :)
On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:40, Jerry Weiss j...@ieee.org wrote:
If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I
believe
On Jun 13, 2015, at 16:28, Terry Stewart te...@webweavers.co.nz wrote:
I'm in awe of people who can build and design these devices
http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/2015-06-13-sio2sd-for-atari.htm
Terry (Tez)
It looks really slick. I wish Lotharek would make a UNIBUS2SD! :)
--
That is neat where can we get one!?
You can order there here:
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=63
Terry (Tez)
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 2:54 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
that is neat where can we get one!?
In a message dated 6/13/2015 4:28:28 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
I have one of his regular floppy disk emulators. I haven't actually used it
yet, but it is put together very nicely. When I get around to trying out the
Atari 8 bit world for the first time, I guess I will need an SIO2SD. I gather
that those are must-haves, much like the CFFA3000 is for the
nothing like running them through the dishwasher with hot water and good
soap.
I repair old arcade boards and i have found nothing better.
after they are hot from the wash you blow them off with compressed air
till try
and leave them in a rack in case you missed any water.
as long as they dry fast
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 04:41:26AM -0400, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
John - Ref your 8S below - Happy to add this to the list.
any other good background info as to prior users etc?
yes if you can get the S/N will add that.
Will do on next visit. Dunno about past user (IIRC it has a
I dunno, guys, that might be a little paranoid ... a lot of this stuff is
big and heavy ... I just can't imagine a thief coming in and carting away
PDP-11s, VAX-11s, RP/RL/TU drives, IBM mainframes, whole racks and the like
So I suppose I will just repost what I said on 8 May 2015 (not that
We have an Amiga with the Newtek video goodies inside but alas are
missing the keyboard was given to us by one of our cable station folks here
in
AZ Does anyone have extra keyboards!?
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
In a message dated 6/13/2015 12:24:21 A.M. US Mountain Standard
Well ... some things really are not more expensive... the money is
just worth less
back when I used to buy pdp-8 computers for 100-200 dollars ... like
24+ years ago cars were a bunch cheaper too by far
There are some things that went crazy like the Apple I but
I have an old computer collection in the workshop.
I also have a gun collection in the house :-)
If anyone can *still* successfully make off with my pdps, they can
bloody have them! :D
Mike
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Sean Caron sca...@umich.edu wrote:
I dunno, guys, that might be a
PDP-S ( and Classic 8 too) in the intake form . . yes we are working up
an entry for with different fields in it.
Be aware though as soon as you say you HAVE ONE OF THOSE on this
list or any other
you have tagged yourself as having one. if someone wants your details
it does
Well... we will accept anonymous entries for the listthat will be
public but the submitter will have to send us a nice photo of the unit
with s/n tag etc and their smiling face next to it for the non
published files! grin!
I think the only people this month that
That is NEAT! what application are they using it for and who is doing
the maint. on it?
Probably an interesting story there!
Ed#
In a message dated 6/12/2015 5:48:28 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
tdk.kni...@gmail.com writes:
been told of one in winnipeg. havent seen it to confirm
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Eric Smith space...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Rik Bos hp-...@xs4all.nl wrote:
The seller is Erik Brent.
Isn't that the guy that [...]
I was asking, not asserting as fact, but Erik Brens sent me email and
apparently disputes the claims
Heh! The will have to pry my PDP 8 from my cold dead hands to get it
grin!
In a message dated 6/13/2015 1:14:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
tmfdm...@gmail.com writes:
I have an old computer collection in the workshop.
I also have a gun collection in the house :-)
If anyone can
Hi Tony,
I don't mean to throw shade on your HP 1630 or your K100 ... just in my own
personal opinion, when I see a HP 1630 on eBay for $100 or a HP 1660 on
eBay for $100 ... and you see this all the time ... I think going with the
1660 is the better deal ... you do make a good point about
Aha, West Michigan! I know WOOD TV 8... I've got an Amiga 500 myself that
came from Cable Access TV in Kalamazoo. A friend of mine still in town has
a few more. Whodathunkit ... there's still some neat vintage gear out there
in the wild up here in MI after all :O Funny. There's a legacy system for
So I have a bunch of older DEC slides (for BA11 boxes, RK05's, etc) which are
rusty. No problem, I have a sand-blaster, but what's the grey coating on
them, and how do I reproduce it once I have them clean?
I saw Corey Cohen's really wonderful presentation at VCFE about restoring old
Soon, the model 4 was made available - same basic machine with 80x24 video (V
51x16),
ooops.
64 characters per line on the 1. Maybe it was Osborne 1 with 51?
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
So, what _is_ that grey coating - and, more important, how (if at all) can it
be reproduced these days?
Wild guess: some kind of oxide? I agree that it doesn't look like paint
or powder coat.
John Wilson
D Bit
On Sat, 13 Jun 2015, John Wilson wrote:
Re theft: yeah there's no way a random house burglar would bother
Are the middle of the night, in the rain, in the gutter, catalytic
converter thefts actually worth it?
Besides theft issues, there can be additional reasons for anonymity.
consider
something totally off topic from the 8S machines there are some
trs80 radio shack things that are huge like the MODEL 2 was but these were
later and had a 3 number designator ? there are many as I remember one
will be kept another kept for offsite displays but the others will
That is a beauty!
You moved all that gear from UK to USA?
In a message dated 6/12/2015 2:26:10 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
tmfdm...@gmail.com writes:
I have one, restored, was running when stored but not powered up in
some considerable time.
Serial number unknown; IIRC correctly
Rich.
did you want physical address listed too?
also need both s/n's
correctedurl at _www.smecc.org/pdp-8.htm_
(http://www.smecc.org/pdp-8.htm)
That address has not been current since 2010 or so.
Please use http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org instead.
Thanks!
Rich
Rich
I always wonder what the rational was on the 6000 name. I understand Tandy
wanted to move away from the TRS-80” name, hence the Tandy 6000”, but it was
really just a slightly enhanced TRS-80 Model 16B. Now, the “16” name makes
sense…16-bit OS support on the added cards. Of course. at the
PDP-8/e Panel Variants
I now have a list of _possible_ (not actual) variations.
Its not quite the same as what I had before.
In addition I have heard there may be colour variations in some cases.
A is the current shipping version
A No dividing lines between lamp groups
On 06/13/2015 11:53 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
I always wonder what the rational was on the 6000 name. I
understand Tandy wanted to move away from the TRS-80” name, hence
the Tandy 6000”, but it was really just a slightly enhanced TRS-80
Model 16B.
It was my impression that the Tandy branded
It might be cadmium
On 13/06/2015 16:45, John Wilson wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
So, what _is_ that grey coating - and, more important, how (if at all) can it
be reproduced these days?
Wild guess: some kind of oxide? I agree that it doesn't look
After all this time unless the configuration in the box is the same as
the label on the back
then all you have is the serial number of the box and I dont think empty
system boxes are worth much.
On 13/06/2015 12:57, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Sean Caron
it's a shame if the
The double cassette ports.
On Jun 13, 2015, at 4:08 PM, tony duell a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Trivia question : What feature was present on all disk based M1s (in fact any
M1 with an expansion
interface) but not on any M3 or M4 machines?
On 6/13/15 8:20 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
what's the grey coating on
them
molybdenum
cadmium not good for you... beryllium is even worse!
Ed#
In a message dated 6/13/2015 12:51:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com writes:
It might be cadmium
On 13/06/2015 16:45, John Wilson wrote:
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Noel Chiappa
this might help
I'm having trouble with the password reset procedure (but will resolve it by
the end of this message). When I run AUTHORIZE, I get this:
[snip]
$ set noon
set noon
$ spawn /nowait sys$system:startup.com
spawn /nowait sys$system:startup.com
%DCL-S-SPAWNED, process SYSTEM_1 spawned
$
Yes that is what was used... and yes too much is bad.. beryllium is way worse
. William Hansen at varian died from itEd#
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
Original message
From: Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com
Date: 06/13/2015 2:23 PM
I'm having trouble with the password reset procedure (but will resolve it by
the end of this message). When I run AUTHORIZE, I get this:
$ run authorize
run authorize
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image SECURESHRP
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file PIKE$DQA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]SECURESHRP.EXE;2
Ever looked at an old radio chassis?
They had what I was led to believe was a grey cadium plating over the steel
The boxes BA11-ES and the like had I think a coat ing was some kind of
Nickel
My 11/34A has a greyish coating on the tiltable runners.
On 13/06/2015 21:35, couryho...@aol.com
On Jun 13, 2015, at 14:29, Peter Coghlan cct...@beyondthepale.ie wrote:
Did I say that?
I meant:
$ spawn /nowait @sys$system:startup.com
(sorry)
Aha! Now I understand.
Ok, I have the SYSTEM password reset, and the license pak installed. Next task
is to perform backups. First attempt
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