Slightly Meta: Travel tips for people traveling internationally with vintage equipment?

[Michael Brutman via cctalk]

I'm actively working on show planning for VCF PNW and I'm noticing that we
have a few international travelers planning to attend and exhibit their
machines/projects.  I'd like to put together a FAQ for the logistics of
traveling with vintage equipment across the US border.  If you have ideas
please let me know.

For example: Should I plan on providing letters in advance stating that a
person is a registered exhibitor at our show, including details like the
show location, dates, times, and contact information in case there is a
question about why somebody is carrying strange looking equipment into the
US?  Is there any sort of paperwork or customs form needed even if nothing
is being sold or left in the US?  Any other gotchas to look for?


Thanks,
Mike

Re: Slightly Meta: Travel tips for people traveling internationally with vintage equipment?

[Sam O'nella via cctalk]

I'm curious about this idea as well. Feels less fun to take a favorite kim-1 on 
field trips lately.
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Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 11/29/2017 3:36 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:

On 2017-11-29 6:27 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:


On 11/29/2017 3:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:

On 2017-11-29 4:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:

On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:

Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
pages.

The hint is the size, I suspect.  You need a multi page TIF viewer, or
download the entire file and find a TIF to PDF converter and run it thru
there.

The first tif file converted to a 100 page PDF, for instance.

There are plenty of good TIF readers - OS X Preview does a great job on
these as they are.

I didn't have as much luck with Windows Photo Viewer. While it does
support multipage TIF, it seemed to hang after a few pages.

--Toby

When I had software which generated 12 and 14 bit depth TIFs, on Windows
XP, the desktop Explorer would reboot the machine when you tried to use
the viewer.

I had the Photometrics viewer which could bring them up, and my own
python program.  However windows crashed on several TIFs.  It isn't
a surprise to hear that you had problems with the viewer.  The files
convert to PDF just fine, however.

Thanks to Mark G for scanning them, as well.

The ones I linked to were scanned by me.

However, only the foldouts were scanned to high quality. The rest of the
pages had to be shot on a copystand with a camera, because the binders
were partly water damaged.

--Toby

Thanks for your efforts too, certainly a more difficult job than with a 
bed scanner.

thanks
Jim

thanks
jim



thanks
Jim

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:


Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this
version:

https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/

There is probably more related material to come.

--Toby

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Toby Thain via cctalk]

On 2017-11-29 6:27 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/29/2017 3:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
>> On 2017-11-29 4:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:
 Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
 pages.
>>> The hint is the size, I suspect.  You need a multi page TIF viewer, or
>>> download the entire file and find a TIF to PDF converter and run it thru
>>> there.
>>>
>>> The first tif file converted to a 100 page PDF, for instance.
>> There are plenty of good TIF readers - OS X Preview does a great job on
>> these as they are.
>>
>> I didn't have as much luck with Windows Photo Viewer. While it does
>> support multipage TIF, it seemed to hang after a few pages.
>>
>> --Toby
> When I had software which generated 12 and 14 bit depth TIFs, on Windows
> XP, the desktop Explorer would reboot the machine when you tried to use
> the viewer.
> 
> I had the Photometrics viewer which could bring them up, and my own
> python program.  However windows crashed on several TIFs.  It isn't
> a surprise to hear that you had problems with the viewer.  The files
> convert to PDF just fine, however.
> 
> Thanks to Mark G for scanning them, as well.

The ones I linked to were scanned by me.

However, only the foldouts were scanned to high quality. The rest of the
pages had to be shot on a copystand with a camera, because the binders
were partly water damaged.

--Toby


> thanks
> jim
>>
>>
>>> thanks
>>> Jim
 On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
 cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
> manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
> the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this
> version:
>
> https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/
>
> There is probably more related material to come.
>
> --Toby
>
>>>
>>
> 
> 

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 11/29/2017 3:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:

On 2017-11-29 4:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:


On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:

Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
pages.

The hint is the size, I suspect.  You need a multi page TIF viewer, or
download the entire file and find a TIF to PDF converter and run it thru
there.

The first tif file converted to a 100 page PDF, for instance.

There are plenty of good TIF readers - OS X Preview does a great job on
these as they are.

I didn't have as much luck with Windows Photo Viewer. While it does
support multipage TIF, it seemed to hang after a few pages.

--Toby
When I had software which generated 12 and 14 bit depth TIFs, on Windows 
XP, the desktop Explorer would reboot the machine when you tried to use 
the viewer.


I had the Photometrics viewer which could bring them up, and my own 
python program.  However windows crashed on several TIFs.  It isn't
a surprise to hear that you had problems with the viewer.  The files 
convert to PDF just fine, however.


Thanks to Mark G for scanning them, as well.
thanks
jim




thanks
Jim

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:


Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this version:

https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/

There is probably more related material to come.

--Toby

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Toby Thain via cctalk]

On 2017-11-29 4:59 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:
>> Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
>> pages.
> The hint is the size, I suspect.  You need a multi page TIF viewer, or
> download the entire file and find a TIF to PDF converter and run it thru
> there.
> 
> The first tif file converted to a 100 page PDF, for instance.

There are plenty of good TIF readers - OS X Preview does a great job on
these as they are.

I didn't have as much luck with Windows Photo Viewer. While it does
support multipage TIF, it seemed to hang after a few pages.

--Toby



> 
> thanks
> Jim
>> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
>>> manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
>>> the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this version:
>>>
>>> https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/
>>>
>>> There is probably more related material to come.
>>>
>>> --Toby
>>>
>>
> 
> 

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:

Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
pages.
Sorry didn't say how I converted.  I have the Imagemagic package 
including "convert" loaded on several linux boxes.  Convert .tif  
.pdf does the conversion, though it seemed to take a while.


The first file went from 9.7mb to 27mb pdf.

thanks
Jim

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 11/29/2017 1:47 PM, drlegendre . via cctalk wrote:

Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
pages.
The hint is the size, I suspect.  You need a multi page TIF viewer, or 
download the entire file and find a TIF to PDF converter and run it thru 
there.


The first tif file converted to a 100 page PDF, for instance.

thanks
Jim

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:


Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this version:

https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/

There is probably more related material to come.

--Toby

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[drlegendre . via cctalk]

Help me out here.. I don't find any manuals, just .tif images of cover
pages.

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
> manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
> the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this version:
>
> https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/
>
> There is probably more related material to come.
>
> --Toby
>

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[jim stephens via cctalk]

On 11/29/2017 1:24 PM, Jay West via cctalk wrote:

Links I have found so far are all dead:

 http://home.comcast.net/~forbin376
This one has the text for APE intact (web page text), and the links to 
the Zips were scraped


https://web.archive.org/web/20150623115257/http://home.comcast.net:80/~forbin376/

10/20/2015

Scraping it as I type this.  Some of the other dates which show the web 
page don't have the zips successfully scraped.  Thought it would be 
useful to anyone interested to know which walnut shell the pea was under.


Thanks
Jim

RE: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Jay West via cctalk]

My fault for being hopelessly backlogged. I will have a website spot ready for 
the content by tomorrow morning.

How about http://ape.classiccmp.org ? FreeBSD/Apache/MySQL/PHP ok?

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I have the archive from Frank but I haven’t put it up yet. I 
was waiting for a sub-site on classiccmp. 
If you need it quicker, the Wayback Machine may have it. 



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On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:05 PM -0500, "Mark G Thomas via cctalk" 
 wrote:










Hi,

Does anyone know where I can find the Altair Peripheral Emulator?

Links I have found so far are all dead:

http://home.comcast.net/~forbin376

http://frankbarberis.tech.officelive.com/default.aspx

Mark


-- 
Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com), KC3DRE

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Toby Thain via cctalk]

Speaking of Altair, I just scanned a bunch of Processor Technology
manuals. These may already be online in some version, but it's likely
the schematics and assembly diagrams are better quality in this version:

https://docs.telegraphics.com.au/ProcessorTechnology/

There is probably more related material to come.

--Toby

Re: Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Richard Cini via cctalk]

I have the archive from Frank but I haven’t put it up yet. I 
was waiting for a sub-site on classiccmp. 
If you need it quicker, the Wayback Machine may have it. 



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On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 4:05 PM -0500, "Mark G Thomas via cctalk" 
 wrote:










Hi,

Does anyone know where I can find the Altair Peripheral Emulator?

Links I have found so far are all dead:

http://home.comcast.net/~forbin376

http://frankbarberis.tech.officelive.com/default.aspx

Mark


-- 
Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com), KC3DRE

Altair Peripheral Emulator

[Mark G Thomas via cctalk]

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can find the Altair Peripheral Emulator?

Links I have found so far are all dead:

http://home.comcast.net/~forbin376

http://frankbarberis.tech.officelive.com/default.aspx

Mark


-- 
Mark G. Thomas (m...@misty.com), KC3DRE