Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Wayne: Yes this is a great reference!   The yellow manual is the one I had mentioned before along with others is available in the bitsavers link at the bottom of your article link. In addition there is the Bell System Technical Journal article announcing release of the microprocessor listed at

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
there should be a yellow covered 8x11 manual out there if not.. let me know... Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, January 13, 2019 Jason T via cctalk wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:47 PM ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > > If any the  group  gets the  bell mac  we would love  a scan  or  hi  r

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 7:47 PM ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > > If any the group gets the bell mac we would love a scan or hi res > photo of that multi colored sheet. It would look nice printed in the > back of a display ofone of these units here.We have 3 of these >

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
also if you have an IEEE library access I get a number of hits of other articles mentioning mac 8. thanks .. ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, January 13, 2019 Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: Sold to someone out there for $358 Is there an archive of The Western Electric Engineer journal o

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
is there anything in bstj? if so they are at archive.org.   ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, January 13, 2019 Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: Sold to someone out there for $358 Is there an archive of The Western Electric Engineer journal online anywhere? In the July 1977, Volume 21, Numbe

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
Sold to someone out there for $358 Is there an archive of The Western Electric Engineer journal online anywhere? In the July 1977, Volume 21, Number 3 issue there is a 7 page article "MAC-8: A Microprocessor for Telecommunication Applications", by Herbert H. Winfield". which provides a good archi

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
If any the  group  gets the  bell mac  we would love  a scan  or  hi  res  photo of that multi  colored  sheet. It  would  look  nice  printed in the  back  of  a  display  of    one of these units  here.We  have   3 of these units as  I remember...  and  actually   when I  get my hands around t

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great ben via cctalk once stated: > On 1/13/2019 2:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > >Being an old hard-of-seeing guy myself, I much prefer mixed-case to > >all-caps. All caps destroys the "shape" of words. > > Where is the $%!@ codepage for the ASR-33. Get all c

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread ben via cctalk
On 1/13/2019 2:06 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Being an old hard-of-seeing guy myself, I much prefer mixed-case to all-caps. All caps destroys the "shape" of words. Where is the $%!@ codepage for the ASR-33. Get all caps with a REAL keyboard and better text (with a new ribbon) than a tin

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 1/13/19 11:47 AM, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote: > Yup. He did it intentionally because, as he said, most of his friends > were hard of seeing, and by using ALL CAPS the letters were bigger and thus, > easier to read. But the new Chromebook removed the CAPSLOCK key. > > The fact that most

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
sometimea it starts out locked and when it is hard to type. I just finish it in uppers .  -ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, January 13, 2019 geneb via cctalk wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote: > >> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:32 PM, John Ball via cctalk >> wrote:

Re: wanted TO BUy any and all XSCRIBE KEY BOARD AND COMPUTER closed caption related & Steno typer key board related ... docs... parts.. units building up an working analog CC demo chain for displa

2019-01-13 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
Yes, Fred there is,a lot of differnt facts to cc history...  an odd one was when CBS wanted the own  system not compliant with line 21... that attempt touched off demonstrations in the street and more... we have some great pic of the event.  ed# Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Sunday, January 13

DiscFerret found a new home.

2019-01-13 Thread Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk
Hi Everyone, The DiscFerret found a new home. I did get some questions on its usefulness, which I would address here. Indeed the software developed for it is limited to a driver and some analytical tools. But it uses the same format for flux-intervals as the CatWeasel, at different (higher) c

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great John Ball via cctalk once stated: > >ELTRAN THE COMPILER > >ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? > >(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) > > > >ED# > > Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) My dad used to do that. At the time, I thought it was bec

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, Peter Cetinski via cctalk wrote: On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:32 PM, John Ball via cctalk wrote: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) ED# Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) Maybe he’s using a TRS-80

Re: wanted TO BUy any and all XSCRIBE KEY BOARD AND COMPUTER closed caption related & Steno typer key board related ... docs... parts.. units building up an working analog CC demo chain for display

2019-01-13 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
You could also do small sub-exhibits: on how closed captioning works (2 ASCII characters in line 21 of vertical retrace) history of federal actions difference between subtitles, CC, SDH: "He is in a meeting" "He can see you now" "Oh, I'm sorry, he seems to have stepped out" V Mozart horn con

Re: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread Peter Cetinski via cctalk
> On Jan 13, 2019, at 1:32 PM, John Ball via cctalk > wrote: > >> ELTRAN THE COMPILER >> ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? >> (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) >> >> ED# > > Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;) Maybe he’s using a TRS-80 without the lowercase enhancemen

RE: ELTRAN THE COMPILER ANY DOCS? (NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)))

2019-01-13 Thread John Ball via cctalk
>ELTRAN THE COMPILER >ANY DOCS? ANY ONE? USED IT? >(NOT THE SEMICONDUCTOR STUFF!)) > >ED# Hey ed, you might want to check your Caps Lock key there, bud. ;)