Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
simlar to one of these? http://imageshack.com/a/img922/6626/eQjeFK.jpg

Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
I would first be more concerned with the ones I've circled https://goo.gl/photos/jweLs4meE2to3mom8 Guessing this guy was built > 30-40 years ago. If it was mine I would replace all the smaller ones. Get it over and done with. The ones that have screws, you can take the chance of putting a scope

Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
In equipment that has regulators, increasing the line voltage can have its own issues. I have a very fast acting adjustable solid state circuit breaker. If the running current is under say 100 W, a incandescent lamp in series is a poor mans current limiter. I has been a long time but a couple ot

Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 4/16/2017 11:28 AM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Hi guys, I recently impulse-bought a paper tape reader from eBay, a Remex RRS6500BE1/660/DRB/U901 Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/292050475397 Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/Wa3W7mtTwwuTczUV7 I have a half a dozen of these. A friend use

Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
There are what appear to be 1976 date codes on some caps. If its that old then replace all and any electrolytic capacitors plus any paper based caps. If they aint bad now they soon will be. Rod Smallwood On 16/04/2017 22:45, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Thanks for the tips, I think I'

Extra copy of DOS Programmer's Handbook available

2017-04-16 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
Hi Noel, I don't think I need it it but I know someone on the list for about a year that probably does. Let me know the status. Can you call sometime this week? Thanks, Paul

Re: Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Thanks for the tips, I think I'll replace the caps first as I don't own a variac. I'd rather not damage anything in case the foil in those caps have shorted upon application of full power. =] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Pete Lancashire

Program Logic Manual (PLM) for APL\360 or APL.SV?

2017-04-16 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Did IBM publish a Program Logic Manual (PLM) for APL\360, APL.SV, or any other APL language implementation, as they did for e.g. their FORTRAN(E) and PL/I(F) compilers?

Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

2017-04-16 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Hi guys, I recently impulse-bought a paper tape reader from eBay, a Remex RRS6500BE1/660/DRB/U901 Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/292050475397 Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/Wa3W7mtTwwuTczUV7 It has several enormous capacitors in it and I want to do my due diligence before powering it up. Does a

Extra copy of DOS Programmer's Handbook available

2017-04-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
I have an extra copy of: DEC-11-SERA-DDisk Operating System Monitor Programmer's Handbook, February 1971 if anyone has a use for it. Noel

Re: Harry Huskey, Bob Taylor -- sad news

2017-04-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > Harry did an oral history at CHM There are also a pair at the Smithsonian: http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0196_husk730419.pdf http://amhistory.si.edu/archives/AC0196_husk720309.pdf and the CBI did one too, but alas it does not seem to be on-line (it's not in

Re: C, STL, primitive languages that live on and on ... Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

2017-04-16 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
COSS4 cant event find it on google On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 7:56 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > There are a lot of smart people here with wide ranging experiences, so > I like to ask questions from time to time that get more to philosophy. > So "If C is so evil w

VideoBrain APL/S (Was: APL and descendants - was Re: If C is so evil why

2017-04-16 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Dwight said > I have a tiny APL that was written for the 8080 someplace. > It has input that use ASCII keyboard input instead of the > funny characters. > I played with it a little on my IMSAI. The fellow had hand > written and assembled it by hand. > Not something I'd ever like to do. > I make to

Re: Looking for PDP-8 G603 "Memory Selector Matrix" boards (or dec T-2052 transformers)

2017-04-16 Thread Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk
From: Charles Dickman via cctalk: Saturday, April 15, 2017 6:15 PM Do we know who made the transformers originally? I maintain some old industrial hardware designs that used pulse transformers from the mid-60's and I may still have catalogs and/or data sheets. The DEC part number for these part