Linear Power Supply (Conversion Equipment Corp) from a basic four 510

2015-07-10 Thread Armin Diehl
The one from my 510 does not supply the main +5V, all the other voltages are present. Does someone have a schematic for that one, would me more easy. I have uploaded pictures here: http://basicfour.de/mai510-PSU/small/ Thanks a lot Armin

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Adam Sampson
ste...@malikoff.com writes: One thing that intrigues me is the end-on photo IMG_3161. It appears the top edge projects further than the bottom by a tiny bit leading to a tapered appearance, It's not tapered; it just looks that way because I'm not holding it very straight in the photo. I've

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 10/07/2015 02:21, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: Pete: also teriffic photos, thanks as well! Nice measurements especially the letter heights. Thanks, you're welcome. A common method of determining radii is to use an engineers radius guage. Which is what I did :-) -- Pete Pete Turnbull

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
PS: To clarify (if needed) what I mean by 'the flange': orient the piece as it would be if it were on the H960 (i.e. with the little interior tabs at the top, and the coloured panel on the front); the 'flange' runs down one side, along the bottom, and up the other side: it's a continuous piece,

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 11/07/2015 01:21, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: I've adjusted the drawing based upon some of the measurements provided, so far. I'd like to get it as accurate as possible. So, I've taken some of Adam's photos and annotated them with labelled arrows (hope that's ok Adam). Would it be possible

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jul-10, at 5:39 PM, jwsmobile wrote: On 7/10/2015 5:05 PM, Brendan Shanks wrote: Also there's a Toshiba T1000 and Apple II+ probably still there. http://www.estatesales.net/CA/Huntington-Beach/92646/931308 Brendan What did you make of the thing on the hand truck? Gizmo

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread jwsmobile
On 7/10/2015 5:05 PM, Brendan Shanks wrote: snip Also there's a Toshiba T1000 and Apple II+ probably still there. http://www.estatesales.net/CA/Huntington-Beach/92646/931308 Brendan What did you make of the thing on the hand truck? Gizmo

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Pete Turnbull z = about 0.5mm - you're trying to measure the taper on the edge of the flange? Not easy to be accurate. Ah, I've just realized I made a mistake in a previous message. I thought 'z' was calling for the distance between the inner edge of what I'm calling 'the

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread steven
I've adjusted the drawing based upon some of the measurements provided, so far. However I'm not sure I interpret Pete's measurement of 33.1mm from the back of the flange to the front of the box, correctly. Noel also says the same 'from the back of the flange' so I must be missing something here.

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Steven Malikoff I'm not sure I interpret Pete's measurement of 33.1mm from the back of the flange to the front of the box, correctly. Noel also says the same 'from the back of the flange' so I must be missing something here. Hmm. I thought for a moment I'd misread my

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread Brendan Shanks
On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:39 PM, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote: On 7/10/2015 5:05 PM, Brendan Shanks wrote: snip Also there's a Toshiba T1000 and Apple II+ probably still there. http://www.estatesales.net/CA/Huntington-Beach/92646/931308 Brendan What did you make of the thing on

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread jwsmobile
On 7/10/2015 7:45 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: On 2015-Jul-10, at 5:39 PM, jwsmobile wrote: snip Gizmo http://pictures.estatesales.net/931308/21760158/1.jpg That's the rear of a 70s colour TV, the stuff on the side looks like either/both convergence control or an early electronic tuning system

Schematics/Service Manual for Yamaha C1

2015-07-10 Thread ethan
I'm just going to toss a feeler out there. One of my more recent most sought after machines was the Yamaha C1, a 286-12mhz MS-DOS laptop with 11 midi ports. I picked one up off of ebay, not cheap in it's non-working condition. I'm now working on getting it running. I'm looking for

80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread Brendan Shanks
I bought the two old Macs there this morning, but there's *years* of 80s magazines still there: BYTE, nibbles, MacUser, Softalk, Creative Computing, Personal Computing, Call-A.P.P.L.E, a few Macworld and PC Magazine issues, probably some others I'm forgetting. Only one more day for the sale,

RE: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread Randy Dawson
Most of the Byte magazines are here: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm Subject: Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale To: cctalk@classiccmp.org From: j...@jwsss.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:33:39 -0700 On 7/10/2015 7:45 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread Sean Caron
There absolutely was a P5 Overdrive from Intel for 486 motherboards ... I saw a few of them in the wild back in the day... On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:51 PM, jwsmobile j...@jwsss.com wrote: On 7/10/2015 1:21 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote: Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think

Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-10 Thread Jay Jaeger
Long story, but I recently acquired an Altos ACS 8000-2 with an 8100-01 mainboard (which currently is not functioning). Acquired it on eBay where it was represented as an ACS-8000-7, along with an Altos 8000-7A 29MB hard disk (a Shugart 4008). The hard disk was fine, but the computer

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jul-10, at 9:33 PM, jwsmobile wrote: On 7/10/2015 7:45 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: On 2015-Jul-10, at 5:39 PM, jwsmobile wrote: snip Gizmo http://pictures.estatesales.net/931308/21760158/1.jpg That's the rear of a 70s colour TV, the stuff on the side looks like either/both convergence

Re: Altos ACS 8000-7 (8200) mainboard wanted / Shugart 4008 motor pulley

2015-07-10 Thread wulfman
On 7/10/2015 7:50 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: Long story, but I recently acquired an Altos ACS 8000-2 with an 8100-01 mainboard (which currently is not functioning). Acquired it on eBay where it was represented as an ACS-8000-7, along with an Altos 8000-7A 29MB hard disk (a Shugart 4008).

Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale

2015-07-10 Thread jwsmobile
On 7/10/2015 9:52 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: Most of the Byte magazines are here: http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm Subject: Re: 80s magazines at Huntington Beach, CA estate sale To:cctalk@classiccmp.org From:j...@jwsss.com Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:33:39 -0700 Here is

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
a 486 jump to p5~ impressive!! now to find one Collecting microprocessors is fun, and I am,trying to figure a way display the entire array in one large glass panel over it. Perhaps use a half of a sliding glass door as a cover over the display rack.frame. Any other ideas Ed

Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

2015-07-10 Thread Alan Perry
In the registry that I was planning on creating, I was going to include a lot of 11/750-specific fields. Does it have a Unibus expansion cabinet? What control store does it have? From the responses that I have received so far, I have already run into questions about what should be listed as an

Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

2015-07-10 Thread John Willis
What control store does it have? I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Are you asking for the microcode revision? That would also apply to pretty much all VAXes. Probably referring to the L0005 CPU Control Store vs. L0008 Patchable Control Store. There's also a few types of L0008

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread Sean Caron
... sorry, I really dislike Google Mail sometimes :O Here's a URL: http://www.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/29054401.pdf Also a nice full-color pic here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive Best, Sean On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Sean Caron sca...@umich.edu wrote:

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread David Humphries
- Original Message - From: devin davison lyokob...@gmail.com To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk@classiccmp.org Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 2:05 PM Subject: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice I asked for advice a while back on

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
I made a mistake. I was reading about the floppy drive and accidentally mentioned the rx01 / rx02. The hardware to be moved is actually RL01/RL02 hard drives, not the floppy drive. Please forgive the mix up, any help is appreciated. On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Matt Patoray

RE: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

2015-07-10 Thread Robert Armstrong
Alan Perry [ape...@snowmoose.com] wrote: ... I was going to include a lot of 11/750-specific fields. Does it have a Unibus expansion cabinet? That would apply to all 7xx VAXes, as well as many of the 8xxx family. I don't think any others had a UBA option, but I could easily be wrong. What

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread Sean Caron
If this is an old P5 Pentium, IIRC, it was the same CPU whether you were in a laptop or a desktop. I remember many of those early Pentium laptops; they ran incredibly hot and the battery life on them was just awful ... Depending on a myriad of factors ... whether or not your particular laptop's

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
Once I do this myself i plan to put up a gallery of lots of pictures to help another newcomer such as myself. Not having seen the actual hardware is what gets me the most mixed up. On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:11 AM, devin davison lyokob...@gmail.com wrote: I made a mistake. I was reading about

SGI Indy available for collection in Sao Paolo, Brasil

2015-07-10 Thread Steven M Jones
I think we've got a few active list members in Brasil, and somebody's got a nicely configured SGI Indy available for collection in Sao Paolo. it has irix 6.2 installed (maybe) and (may still have) Maya and Photoshop 1 with licenses. and medias for irix only. two hdds inside. maxed ram.

OT: captcha (was: Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750) )

2015-07-10 Thread Tapley, Mark
On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:22 AM, Fred Cisin ci...@xenosoft.com wrote: Isn't third world labor cheap enough to out-source Captcha answering in bulk? Only if someone has a failure of imagination. Here’s the way the third-world interface on that application will probably look: “Exercises in applied

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Chris Osborn
On Jul 10, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Paul Koning paulkon...@comcast.net wrote: Wow, it’s amazing that a device like that would be bothered by splines. It speaks to the lack of competence on the part of the implementer. Perhaps this problem dates back to the dark old ages of first generation

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread Paul Koning
On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: From: devin davison I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. Err, I think we told you to lock the heads the RL0x's, not RX0x's; the former use large rigid packs, the latter are 8 floppy drives.

Re: A 'good-enough' H960 |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| PDP11 masthead replica

2015-07-10 Thread Paul Koning
On Jul 9, 2015, at 9:21 PM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: Wow, I wake up and you blokes on the other side of the world have been busy during the night working at getting a bunch of details for me :) Thanks Barry, Pete, Paul, Noel, Bill, Adam for your responses - the measurements and photos

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread Jerry Weiss
Make sure the doors are shut. I used to tape them. Remove any floppies you care about. Some of the non-DEC 8” drives used to come with a cardboard blank. But these were double sided disks and the blank was meant (I believe) to prevent the heads from banging against each other. Jerry Weiss

PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread devin davison
I asked for advice a while back on what to expect with moving a pdp 11, I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. I'M getting pretty lost in all the information about the drives, are there any good guides or sites with lots of pictures of the drives taken from different angles

Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

2015-07-10 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Jay West jw...@classiccmp.org wrote: One problem is going to be authentication. If it has any contact information (and it seems like it would need to in order to be useful) then it's gonna become a target for SPAM. Captcha? And if you add a simple question

RE: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread tony duell
I asked for advice a while back on what to expect with moving a pdp 11, I was told to lock the heads in the rx01 and rx02 drives. I'M getting pretty No. The RX01 and RX02 are dual 8 floppy drives. There is no need (or way) to lock the heads in those. Both are single head units, so there is no

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread Jerry Weiss
See page 2-8 for a view of the packing configuration. http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02-tm-001.pdf http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-0rx02-tm-001.pdf Jerry Weiss j...@ieee.org On Jul 10, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Jerry

RE: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread tony duell
From: tony duell I find [RL0x's] easier than RK05s Try taking out an RA81! I did an R80 (not much lighter) single-handedly. The trick with those is to take the HDA out. It takes only a few minutes. Raise the logic chassis (top part of the case including the front panel), then

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread Matt Patoray
The RA60 is my least favorite drive to move. The thought of disassembling it crossed my mind but since it was being slid into a rack with a shelf and not on rails it would not have helped much, so just picked it up, carried it over and shoved it in. On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 3:22 PM, tony duell

Re: PDP 11 - how to lock heads in a rx01 and rx02 - seeking advice

2015-07-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: tony duell I find [RL0x's] easier than RK05s Try taking out an RA81! (Somewhere I have pictures of the rig I built to take a couple of RA81's out of some racks I was sent. I should post them...) Noel

Re: VAX-11/750 registry (Was: Reviving a VAX-11/750)

2015-07-10 Thread Fred Cisin
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Jay West jw...@classiccmp.org wrote: One problem is going to be authentication. If it has any contact information (and it seems like it would need to in order to be useful) then it's gonna become a target for SPAM. Captcha? Isn'y third world labor cheap

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread jwsmobile
On 7/10/2015 1:21 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote: Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of another forum to ask my question. I'm just looking for information as to whether there are different sizes Pentium processor dependent upon whether the processor is for a desktop or

OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread Joe Giliberti
Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of another forum to ask my question. I'm just looking for information as to whether there are different sizes Pentium processor dependent upon whether the processor is for a desktop or laptop. I want to see if I can give my old Hewlett

Re: OT: Pentium processor sizes

2015-07-10 Thread ethan
Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of another forum to ask my question. I'm just looking for information as to whether there are different sizes Pentium processor dependent upon whether the processor is for a desktop or laptop. I want to see if I can give my old Hewlett