Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > > Paul K. wrote: >> TMS-11 did support some specialized devices that could do more. There > was the classified page layout system using a Tek 4010 style display > (4015? A BIG tube). > > The big-tube Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage

RE: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Paul K. wrote: > TMS-11 did support some specialized devices that could do more. There was the classified page layout system using a Tek 4010 style display (4015? A BIG tube). The big-tube Tektronix DVST (Direct View Storage Terminal) terminal was the 4014. The tube used in that terminal was

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Early 1979. I worked on TMS-11 from summer 1978 to summer 1980, as "firefighter" -- traveling on-site support and software repair. I was scheduled for CMS-11 training early 1979, but instead the Valley News developed a serious bug so I was sent there to learn on the spot. :-) Supposedly the

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Do those happen to have the fonts that DEC used in-house?

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-13 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:36 AM Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:29 AM Zane Healy via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Mar 13, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > > Anybody had any luck with

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-13 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:29 AM Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On Mar 13, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Anybody had any luck with this configuration? > > I used VTServer to install it and everything works fine

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-13 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 10:15 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > Anybody had any luck with this configuration? > I used VTServer to install it and everything works fine > except for the very last step. It installs completely > and boots from within VTServer with ra(0,0,0)unix. I > iss

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Atex, now Newscycle, also had a Classified Advertising system out at that time. I remember reading a article somewhere saying that Atex was going to use the J11 for that system. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2019, at 06:41, Toby Thain via cctalk > wrote: > >> On 2019-03-13 9:31 AM, Paul K

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2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-13 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Anybody had any luck with this configuration? I used VTServer to install it and everything works fine except for the very last step. It installs completely and boots from within VTServer with ra(0,0,0)unix. I issue the "dd if=/mdec/rauboot of=/def/rra0a count=1" and it completes successfully. B

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 12:56 PM, Wayne S wrote: > > Atex, now Newscycle, also had a Classified Advertising system out at that > time. I remember reading a article somewhere saying that Atex was going to > use the J11 for that system. So did DEC, the "classified management system" (CMS) was p

Re: Pioneers of computing

2019-03-13 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/13/19 7:10 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > Be careful handing out the praise. The idea of adding a external > signals and biases to crystal detectors was an old trick from the > 1920s. No one really knew what was going on, and no one really used > this technology, simply because perf

Re: Pioneers of computing

2019-03-13 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> > This is a bit interesting in that Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley are > > credited in the popular press as having invented the transistor. > > However, that was a bit overstated; they had to re-word their patent > > application to state that they'd developed a "junction" transistor, when > > a p

Re: Pioneers of computing

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 13, 2019, at 12:02 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > This is a bit interesting in that Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley are > credited in the popular press as having invented the transistor. > However, that was a bit overstated; they had to re-word their patent > applicatio

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2019-03-13 9:31 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Mar 12, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> Hmmm, are these the atex racks seen lurking in the background of that recent >> storage space trawl down near Houston? >> >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DEC-P

Re: atex system in Houston

2019-03-13 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 12, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk > wrote: > > Hmmm, are these the atex racks seen lurking in the background of that recent > storage space trawl down near Houston? > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-DEC-PDP-11-34-Minicomputer-With-Kennedy-Tape-Drive-J11-CPU-2-Termi