RE: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Jay West via cctalk
And FYI... bitsavers is mirrored multiple places, so if it is at bitsavers, it's already got multiple sources.

Re: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread David Collins via cctalk
I’ll put it on www.hpmuseum.net as well so we have at least 2 sources...thanks for doing this! David Collins Sent from my iPad > On 10 Nov 2017, at 1:29 am, Christian Corti via cctalk > wrote: > > The manual has been scanned and is on our FTP server: > ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stu

RE: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
Of course I looked at this in a browser and the ftp server does not like the re-connects so whats the timer set to? Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ed via > cctalk > Sent: 09 November 2017 15:41 > To: c...@informatik.uni-stuttga

Re: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Ed via cctalk
Many Thanks for this. A useful addition to our HP docs here. Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 11/9/2017 7:29:40 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: The manual has been scanned and is on our FTP server: ftp://computermuseum.inf

Re: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Mattis Lind wrote: Very interesting! I have a 2640 which I recently refurbished the screen on and it runs happily and then a 2645 that still needs treatment for the screen rot. Is the binaries for pong and space invaders downloadable somewhere? I searched the usual places, but

RE: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
The manual has been scanned and is on our FTP server: ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/hp/hp2648/13245-90001_2640SeriesCharacterSetGeneration_Oct1975.pdf Enjoy :-) @Al: you may push it to bitsavers Christian

Re: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-11-09 10:55 GMT+01:00 Christian Corti via cctalk : > On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, CuriousMarc wrote: > >> Awesome! The microcode listings would be fantastic too, as I also have a >> 2749 (which you are supposed to be able to program in assembly)! Let us >> know >> > > The firmware is already on bitsav

BBS'ing and early discussions.

2017-11-09 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
I wonder if there is any better archive of the original DejaNews and peoples personal archives than Google Groups. When the Google Groups took over I know a lot of stuff I had participated in was dropped for not reason from Googles take on the import of data. And the BBSs I used were general

RE: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-09 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, CuriousMarc wrote: Awesome! The microcode listings would be fantastic too, as I also have a 2749 (which you are supposed to be able to program in assembly)! Let us know The firmware is already on bitsavers, IIRC. But you can program every 264x terminal in assembly. There ar

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2017-11-09 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
My first FPGA-Elf (2009) used an FPGA board that is long-since obsolete, and while I updated it last year, it used an FPGA board that was not commercially available, and would have been frighteningly expensive if it was. For the most recent RetroChallenge, I updated the FPGA-Elf to work on a readil