Re: DEC DW11 information?

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 6:26 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: > Cool. I managed to snag an M8217+M9403 so all I need to do is track > down/build some cabling to tie the two together (any idea what the max Officially it's just a pair of standard DEC 40 way ribbon cables. > length of

Re: DEC DW11 information?

On 2/27/17 10:02 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:32 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: Hi all - Anyone have any technical information (manuals, schematics, etc.) for the DEC DW11 UNIBUS->QBus interface? I'm curious to know what it's capable of I am pretty

RE: DEC VT30-H and VTV30-J, was VSV11

Well, I did scribble a bit about the VT30 and VSV11 on my website … Check out www.pdp-11.nl/peripherals/comm/vsv11/vsv11-info.html

huge thank you

Hi: Just a quick note to thank the cc forum for providing a platform to publicize our needs in an (nostalgic?) attempt to re-create a Data General Eclipse and Nova environment that we used for a number of years, over 40 years ago, in what I thought might well be a fruitless endeavor. Were it not

Re: DEC VT30-H and VTV30-J, was VSV11

Well, it would be a very nice thing to put the hands on a copy of such manual! :) Given that I didn't find ANY information on Google about these boards, except for the bare description in the PDP11 field guide, it would be very nice to archive a copy on bitsavers too... If you manage to find

ViaNet?

I recently ran across a manual and disks for a PC networking product called ViaNet. It was marketed by Western Digital and targeted toward Arcnet, although it looks like it worked with Ethernet and other topologies. There isn't a lot of info out there about it but there are a few pieces in the

Re: Heathkit tube checker available

> From: Mouse > Might be nice to say where it is geographically. Yorktown, Virginia, U.S.A. Noel

Re: Heathkit tube checker available

> Hi, all, I have a Heathkit TC-3 tube checker, including manual and > prints, available. Image here: > http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/tmp/TubeChecker.jpg Oh, man, that takes me back. As a kid, back when electronics meant vacuum tubes (because that was what I had access to), I had a

Heathkit tube checker available

Hi, all, I have a Heathkit TC-3 tube checker, including manual and prints, available. Image here: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/tmp/TubeChecker.jpg It has been modified with an after-market Coletronics panel with a bunch of additional tube bases. Condition is unknown; it probably

Re: Full immersion emulation

On 3/2/2017 9:11 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: Summary: it is in fact some time since speech became a primary, and indeed sole, UI for some products. This is indeed their selling point: you automate your home by asking an "intelligent"

Re: Full immersion emulation

On 2017-03-02 12:36 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 03/01/2017 07:21 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: Well, we still had a Selectric (1050) on our 360/65 at Washington University up until the end. I'm pretty sure it was the most unreliable part of the machine. It seems about every two

Re: Full immersion emulation

On 2 March 2017 at 01:55, ben via cctalk wrote: > Well we talk to tablets and phones now, how long before they talk back? A short list of shipping products that do that: Amazon Echo https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GAGVIE4/ Google Home https://madeby.google.com/home/

Re: Full immersion emulation

On 3/1/17 3:07 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote: Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at

RE: Full immersion emulation

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jon Elson > via cctalk > Sent: 02 March 2017 03:21 > To: Paul Berger ; gene...@classiccmp.org; > discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > >