RE: VAXELN Datagram Service

2016-01-24 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Robert > Jarratt > Sent: 23 January 2016 19:33 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: VAXELN Datagram Service > > I am doing a bit of VAXELN

Re: opening the drive door/lid of an RM03 ?

2016-01-24 Thread Henk Gooijen
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Mike Ross Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2016 1:46 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: opening the drive door/lid of an RM03 ? Strange. Here's one of mine. No lid issues! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcc5fJOgp7A Mike

RE: ESR meter recommendations.

2016-01-24 Thread CuriousMarc
I use a BK Precision 879B and can only say good things about it, saved me numerous times (and also exonerated components I thought were faulty). http://www.bkprecision.com/products/component-testers/879B-4-count-dual-display-handheld-lcr-meter-with-esr.html Looks like the Der EE is an even

V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West

2016-01-24 Thread Jerome H. Fine
V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West An old RT-11 fellow tried to sell his V05..06 RT-11 DOC set on eBay, but no one bid. Jay West has expressed a desire to have the hard copy set of manuals. Is there anyone in the Los Angeles area who would be willing to

Re: SD Card disk drive for C-64?

2016-01-24 Thread Mike
On 01/23/2016 05:07 PM, william degnan wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Jim Brain wrote: > >> On 1/23/2016 2:18 PM, drlegendre . wrote: >> >>> First off, my bad - I thought the OP was wanting to change the device ID >>> (which is not the drive number, btw**) on a

Re: HP 9000/382 Questions

2016-01-24 Thread Pete Lancashire
Some pictures of the inside of 382 #1 http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=5159 Sadly no HD to boot I will try to bring home the other two. -pete On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > As already mentioned, you should start off looking at

Re: SD Card disk drive for C-64?

2016-01-24 Thread Mike
On 01/23/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Boyle wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Eric Christopherson > > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016, Jim Brain wrote: > > On 1/23/2016 2:18 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > > >First off, my bad

RE: HP 9000/382 Questions

2016-01-24 Thread Rik Bos
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Pete Lancashire > Verzonden: zondag 24 januari 2016 5:37 > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Onderwerp: Re: HP 9000/382 Questions > > Some pictures of the inside of 382 #1 > >

Re: V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West

2016-01-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 17:09, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > > An old RT-11 fellow tried to sell his V05..06 RT-11 DOC set on eBay, but > no one bid. Jay West has expressed a desire to have the hard copy set of > manuals. Is there anyone in the Los Angeles area who would be

Re: V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West

2016-01-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 23:17, Glen Slick wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: >> >> Do you know where in the LA area it is? If it's out in the Inland Empire >> (Corona, Riverside, Ontario, etc.), then maybe I could help. >> >

PC fonts...

2016-01-24 Thread geneb
This site has a lot of interesting info on a number of fonts used in PCs and compatibles. It looks like there was quite a bit of research involved. http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: HP 9000/382 Questions

2016-01-24 Thread Pete Lancashire
A picture of an example tape http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=5246 -pete On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Rik Bos wrote: > > > > If I read the doc's correctly I only have the medium resolution system > board, pity > > the graphics where not a daughter

NEC 8201a

2016-01-24 Thread Fred Cisin
Anyone still messing with the Kyocera machines? (Radio Shack Model 100, NEC PC-8201A, and a few others were part of the same series made by Kyocera (Kyoto Ceramics)) Somebody just returned one that I loaned out about 30 years ago. Also the N82 BASIC manual, which gives memory maps, etc. for

Free (for pickup): RX02 external enclosure (Seattle, WA)

2016-01-24 Thread Josh Dersch
I just rack-mounted my RX02 and I have no need for the "table-top" enclosure it came in any longer (as nice as it is). It's in good shape, but it's missing one rubber foot. Free to a good home. I'm near Seattle, WA. - Josh

RE: Terminal Emulation for Windows - supporting Kermit File Transfer

2016-01-24 Thread Rick Bensene
Oliver Lehman wrote: > > Is there free-for-use Kermit alternative arround to be used for Windows or > an other Terminal Emulation which supportes Kermit File Transfers "out of > the box"? > I have found TeraTerm to be a good terminal program, and it supports Kermit, XModem and other

What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-24 Thread Mark J. Blair
To my surprise, I found something just barely old enough to interest me on the e-waste pile at work: An IBM PS/2 85 from around 1993 or so. The hard drive is long gone and it didn't include a keyboard, but it did come with a model 8516 touch screen display and original mouse. I already had a

Re: V05.06 RT-11 DOC Set - Pickup Required in Los Angeles to Help Jay West

2016-01-24 Thread Glen Slick
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > > Do you know where in the LA area it is? If it's out in the Inland Empire > (Corona, Riverside, Ontario, etc.), then maybe I could help. > My guess is Pasadena, CA (91107) http://www.ebay.com/itm/141870596625

Re: HP 9000/382 Questions

2016-01-24 Thread Chris Osborn
On Jan 24, 2016, at 4:18 AM, Rik Bos wrote: > The VGA is IIRC SOG (Sync On Green) not all monitors support this. > If you have a HP-IB/GP-IB interface for a PC you can use Ansgars HPDrive to > boot. > It's found at www.hp9845.net . I have an HP 9000/360 and I don't have an

Re: SD Card disk drive for C-64?

2016-01-24 Thread geneb
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Eric Christopherson wrote: How did these dumb drives interface with the computer at a software level? I'd think a DOS would need to be loaded somehow. The drives had their DOS in ROM. Keep in mind that the 1541, 1571, etc. essentially were computers unto themselves with

Re: SO BEFORE i DO ANYTHING!!!!!

2016-01-24 Thread william degnan
On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Mike wrote: > Should I just plug in my floppy drive without the sd card and change it > to ,9 than plug in the sd card witch is set at 8 ? > Yes. If you even need the 1541 at all.

SO BEFORE i DO ANYTHING!!!!!

2016-01-24 Thread Mike
Should I just plug in my floppy drive without the sd card and change it to ,9 than plug in the sd card witch is set at 8 ?

Re: Introduction and RK05J Drive cabling

2016-01-24 Thread Joshua Stetson
> > Always happy to hear of another happy user! Even better to hear of another working 8/E. I've actually got a second 8/e chassis and enough boards to get a basic 12 kiloword core system up and running. I just need to replace a boxer fan (bearings went on one of them and it grinds), and then

Re: Introduction and RK05J Drive cabling

2016-01-24 Thread Joshua Stetson
> > I have had no end of problems with the *many* BC11A cables that I have (ie > they’re bad cables). It’s the flex ribbon cable itself that’s been the issue. > I may have a BC11 cable as another local guy, Josh Dersch may have one. Of course as you state, it could be bad given the flakiness of

Re: Introduction and RK05J Drive cabling

2016-01-24 Thread Ulrich Tagge
Hi All, Short introduction of myself: 37 Years old, living in Germany, since some time I collect all available and affordable stuff related to PDP11 and try to get a running system including some Drives. In relation to the emergency head locking: I have done basic overhaul on my RK07, and

HP 700lx

2016-01-24 Thread Benjamin Huntsman
Hi! Maybe a long shot, but does anyone on here have an HP OmniGo 700LX? And further, might anyone be willing to sell one? Thanks! -Ben

Re: HP 700lx

2016-01-24 Thread COURYHOUSE
and after ben gets his we would buy one for SMECC also... see _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) I have an omni whatever that looks like the computer part of this but never saw it with a phone on top! here is a video I found of this thing on the net...

RE: HP 9000/382 Questions

2016-01-24 Thread Rik Bos
> If I read the doc's correctly I only have the medium resolution system board, > pity > the graphics where not a daughter board. > > No problem with building a sync separator. > > My goal list to use the thing as a GPIB controller. Have quite a few HP > diagnostics that are on tape (and will