Re: CP/M for IBM Displaywriter

2016-05-14 Thread Nigel Williams
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ali wrote: > I've seen references to a CP/M port for the IBM Displaywriter in magazines of > the era. Has anyone ever seen this beast in real life? Better yet anyone have > a copy of it? Thanks for the reminder, I'd been meaning to send an

CP/M for IBM Displaywriter

2016-05-14 Thread Ali
Hello All, I've seen references to a CP/M port for the IBM Displaywriter in magazines of the era. Has anyone ever seen this beast in real life? Better yet anyone have a copy of it?

Softech p-System for Macintosh

2016-05-14 Thread Nigel Williams
AEK recently uploaded this to Bitsavers (thanks Al!): http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Softech/Macintosh_UCSD_Pascal.zip It was a surprise to re-learn of the port of UCSD p-System done for compact Macintosh. The diskettes were labelled: Softech Microsystems MacAdvantage UCSD Pascal UCSD

Re: DEC Correspondent LA12R-06 Ribbons

2016-05-14 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On May 14, 2016, at 20:10, Mike Ross wrote: > > I bought a few cases of those not all that long ago... Let me see if I can > dig up the source. Thanks, and I hope you can find the source! One of these days I'll try cleaning out the old dried ink in my ribbon's roller

Re: DEC Correspondent LA12R-06 Ribbons

2016-05-14 Thread Mike Ross
I bought a few cases of those not all that long ago... Let me see if I can dig up the source. Mike On May 15, 2016 2:38 PM, "Mark J. Blair" wrote: I think I already know the answer to this ("no"), but is there any remaining source of usable, or at least restorable, ribbons for

RE: News about hpmuseum.net

2016-05-14 Thread David Collins
A further update to the HP Computer Museum website. This weekend it appears the site was comprised and hacking files were found in the site. The site and associated mail accounts have been taken offline until the issue can be addressed Only a temporary outage but I can't say how long it will be

DEC Correspondent LA12R-06 Ribbons

2016-05-14 Thread Mark J. Blair
I think I already know the answer to this ("no"), but is there any remaining source of usable, or at least restorable, ribbons for the DEC Correspondent printing terminal? The re-inking roller in the single ribbon that came with my printer is hard as a rock. Maybe I'll be able to restore the

Re: PDP-11/34a hung bus problem.

2016-05-14 Thread Don North
On 5/14/2016 2:41 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From Ed Groenenberg > - insert both CPU cards, KY11-LB card & bootstrap card, 5 full grant > cards, DL11-W and bus terminator card. > ... > - cntrl + boot shows register dump at printer. > ... > All looks ok I'm

Re: PDP-11/34a hung bus problem.

2016-05-14 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From Ed Groenenberg > - insert both CPU cards, KY11-LB card & bootstrap card, 5 full grant > cards, DL11-W and bus terminator card. > ... > - cntrl + boot shows register dump at printer. > ... > All looks ok I'm surprised the bootstrap ran OK with no memory at all

Re: ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-14 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 14/05/2016 20:29, Josh Dersch wrote: Got me an early MIPS workstation, an RC2030. I'm trying to track down a keyboard and mouse for it. The keyboard connector uses an 8-pin DIN connector. Anyone have any leads? (Or know what the pinouts and protocol might be?) I don't know, but having

ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-14 Thread Josh Dersch
Hi all -- Got me an early MIPS workstation, an RC2030. I'm trying to track down a keyboard and mouse for it. The keyboard connector uses an 8-pin DIN connector. Anyone have any leads? (Or know what the pinouts and protocol might be?) Thanks, Josh

Re: PDP11 M9301-Yx ROM dumps

2016-05-14 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Rob Doyle > the 'objcopy' utility in the Binutils package can translate between > binary, tekhex, srec, ihex, etc. Right, but the problem is that I had dumps which were what the PDP-11 CPU saw, but due to hardware oddities on the M9301 board, the _ROM contents_ were diferent:

RE: beige rant (was Re: IBM 5150 with red case on ebay)

2016-05-14 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis > Sent: 14 May 2016 01:43 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: beige rant (was Re: IBM 5150 with red case on ebay) > > For the

Re: COSMAC ELF switch panel v2

2016-05-14 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: > In the absence of any details, I'll use some variant of Hevetica. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > That is probably a great start. The art from the Popular Science > article should be a good guide. I can't find a decent scan of the cover