New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing
May be of interest to some list members https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48962557 Kevin Parker 0418 815 527
Re: 5 1/4 diskettes available
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 6:21 PM Guy Dunphy wrote: > > So they are! Oops. Sorry! > Maybe they had a rush of orders, and it's not entirely my fault? > Or maybe the 89c price was a typo, and my order alerted them? The magic of automatic reactive pricing systems, I guess. I received my package from BG Micro today with the disks and a few other items (including a IBM PC Convertible 128K RAM card - never know when I'll need one of those. Comes with original $190 Sears price tag!) I was happy to see that the floppies came with sleeves bearing the old Compaq logo. Very classy! No clue if the disks are any good but they do appear to be 360K media. https://imgur.com/QGrpowk -j
We are looking to buy RCA VP3501 keyboard or any of the 3000 data term items please drop us a line off list ( and art material photos posters etc too to add to display as well as
We are looking to buy RCA VP3501 keyboard or any of the 3000 data term items please drop us a line off list (and art material photos posters etc too to add to display as well as hardware) Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
Re: Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.
Good eye. It’s an HP 2116B. In the queue for restoration. We were starting to work on it, then the AGC opportunity came along... Marc > On Jul 13, 2019, at 4:10 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk > wrote: > > At 01:48 PM 13/07/2019 -0700, you wrote: >> Another of the un-acknowledged people in the upcoming July 29 >> 'celebrations'. >> >> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women >> >> --lyndon > > > Highly related: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhVKYDVZxWQ > Apollo AGC Part 19: Restoration complete! > Published on Jul 12, 2019 > IWe finally are able to make the original erasable core memory work, under > the watchful eye of guests more famous than us. This completes the > restoration of the AGC. In the process we dump the historical content that > was still present in the memory module and find all kinds of interesting > things. > > > > Also, at 17:26 is that a HP 2116A in the background? Tall gray rackmount > unit. First minicomputer HP made. > > Guy
Re: RF08 light panel
$113.50 seems pretty cheap to me, that's like four cocktails in Manhattan. Hope someone on this list got it! -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:57 AM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 6:28 PM Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > bet this won't go cheap > > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/372706567865 > > Did anyone here get it? I did not bid because I have zero parts of an > RF08 (and if I ever make a modern RF08 emulator, I might as well make > one of these to match). > > -ethan >
Re: visit to Bletchley Park / comp museum - Elliot 803
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 14:04, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > > Bill, > Ask Peter about emulators. Pretty sure some one at the museum did an 803 > emulator, (not in SIMH) >From a casual Google there seem to be several... https://sourceforge.net/projects/elliott803/ http://www.peteronion.org.uk/Elliott/ http://www.peteronion.org.uk/Elliott/PIC803.html http://www.emucr.com/2012/06/elliott-803-simulation-v110.html?m=1 -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
