Re: Does anyone need any before I list them on eBay?

I have several Q-bus boxes available: BA11-M 4x4 MA11-N 4x9 BA11-S BA23- no cases right now, a few have rack mount kits, some I'll hang on to till I find the micro vax boards. Looking for offers. MOST CAN BE SHIPPED! Probably under $100 in US. All boxes can be configured within reason

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

It could also be from the popular article about George RR Martin using a vintage dos computer with wordstar 4.0 for his writing rig. Similar to some other authors I've heard look for a machine that doesn't offer distractions. My own mis-remembrance though for some reason I thought it was a trs-80

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

Radio Shack M100 ... still used by some writers for the very reason you mention. That is not true. It was an urban legend in the 1990s that a handful of old farts in the entirely sportswriting industry (thousands of writers overall) may "still" be using their Model 100s. I'm sure if you looke

Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

It seems with the internet that crowd-sourcing is way of resourcing things. Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply this concept to the scanning and archiving and retention of any paper based repositories that still exist. I'll call it crowd-scanning for the time being. Unfortunately,

Re: Look to get a copy of a Multi-Tech FM300 Modem manual

That would be great. Next year as one of my teleprinter demonstrations I want to have a Teletype 33 or 35 and the FM300 and a Bell System 500 rotary dial desk phone. -pete On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote: > Give me a day or two and I think I can help you out. I used to

CDC 6000 series transistors [was RE: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?]

From: Paul Koning Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 12:07 PM > True if you have a TTL machine. 6600 is discrete transistor, and the actual > transistor specs are nowhere to be found as far as I have been able to tell. > But that doesn't directly relate to gate level emulation. If you have gate > l

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 31/10/17 00:34, Liam Proven wrote: On 30 October 2017 at 00:57, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: cant find the Gateway HandBook on ebay :( if wanted the GPD Pocket i could buy these or GDP Win Toshiba Libretto size issues Your quoting is bro

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

thanks... I learn as I go!.. ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Monday, October 30, 2017 Jim Brain wrote: On 10/30/2017 10:35 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: Jim I thought  all TI  computers  had  one? But  I  am new  to  TI's never owned one  when were new...  just  dealing  with one in a  museu

Re: Image de-warping tool, and Multics/GCOS panels

For quick (and automatic) perspective correction, sharpening and OCR, I use Microsoft's Office Lens. (Android, iOS, Windows 10 desktop) There are a couple of other apps that do the same sort of thing but I haven't tried them. On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk < cctalk@clas

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

On 10/30/2017 10:35 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: Jim I thought  all TI  computers  had  one? But  I  am new to  TI's never owned one  when were new...  just  dealing with one in a  museum  environment  now. The only produced home machine, the 99/4(a), did not, but there is a prototype HexBus a

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

Jim I thought all TI computers had one? But I am new to TI's never owned one when were new... just dealing with one in a museum environment now. In a message dated 10/30/2017 8:25:17 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On 10/30/2017 9:32 PM, Ed

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

On 10/30/2017 9:32 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: ok .. does this mean I can put lots of ti 99/4 software on the sd card for people to play with in the museum? Ed# Do you have a HexBus interface for the 99/4a? Jim

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

ok .. does this mean I can put lots of ti 99/4 software on the sd card for people to play with in the museum? Ed# In a message dated 10/30/2017 7:06:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:14:41 -0500 Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:

Re: HEXTIr - TI HexBus SD Drive

On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:14:41 -0500 Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: > In case anyone has a fondness for niche tech... > > At VCF-SE this year, the TI folks had a great exhibit, and perusing > it I saw an unfamiliar machine, the TI CC-40 (Compact Computer-40). > While I was investigating, the exhibito

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

On 10/30/2017 2:42 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Well, "emulate" is a very fuzzy word, even in the context that you provide. Taking as an example, some pre-S/360 hardware that's easily verified, is the IBM 7094. It ran the instruction set of the 7090 but with a single departure--the use

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

On 10/30/2017 04:18 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > 2. What a UTM does is simulate another machine using only a general-purpose > machine. In fact, the UTM is arguably the most general-purpose machine ever > described. What IBM defined as emulation was use of extremely specialized > hardware an

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

RE: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

Apparently some of Hewlett's papers went to Stanford "Two new collections open for research: Helen and Newton Harrison & William Hewlett" http://library.stanford.edu/blogs/special-collections-unbound/2016/04/two-new-collections-open-research-helen-and-newton Tom -Original Message- From

RE: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

Eric, The folks who made ENIAC programable didn’t use the word “program” but they ran what we would now call programs. The fact that the word wasn’t used doesn’t mean the concept hadn’t already been invented. I did check and Turing didn’t use the term in his paper “On Computable Numbers” and

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

On 10/30/2017 06:18 AM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: 2. What IBM defined as emulation was use of extremely specialized hardware and/or microcode (specifically, not the machine's general-purpose microcode used for natively programming the host machine). As far as I know, IBM's 360s did NOT have an

RE: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

I have ordered the part now anyway. Whether I will replace it or not I don't know yet. I am told that ESR measurements are not enough to detect bad caps though, although I always replace ones with ESR that is at or close to the limit on the table printed on my meter. Regards Rob > -Original

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 30 October 2017 at 00:57, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: > > cant find the Gateway HandBook on ebay :( > if wanted the GPD Pocket i could buy these > or GDP Win > Toshiba Libretto size issues Your quoting is broken. It took 3 goes to type this

RE: Cleaning and Restoring a Badly Corroded PSU

Hi Rob, > By the way I just noticed a 15uF/25V one next to the fan connector. It isn't > one of the SXF ones as far as I can tell, do you recall replacing it? My notes indicate it is a Chemi-Con SM, a general purpose 85°C part. I did replace it at least once, in one of my H7826s that didn't ac

RE: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

On Oct 29, 2017 09:54, "Dave Wade via cctalk" wrote: I am not sure they invented computer emulation. I think that the concept Emulation/Simulation is as old as, or perhaps even older than computing. Whilst it was a pure concept Alan Turing's "Universal Turing Machine" was a Turing machine that co

RE: Picked up job at electronic recycling center

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of devin > davison via cctalk > Sent: 30 October 2017 03:40 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Picked up job at electronic recycling center > > I recently picked up a job