Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/22/20 8:35 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote: Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did ask, and there was no response I could see. I asked @bmoshix what the system was. I've not gotten a reply yet. The error messages suggest it's some sort of Linux system

Re: Getting files off a 7300--Mission accomplished

2020-07-22 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:12:10PM -0400, Chris Zach wrote: > Working on it. Question: Was the 67mb drive in a 7300/3B1 a miniscribe 6085? > Yes it was. http://www.pdp8online.com/3b1/drive.shtml

Re: Getting files off a 7300--Mission accomplished

2020-07-22 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hm. Then I have a dillema. When I popped in the Miniscribe and tried booting it started reading the disk then popped out a boot error. Possibly a bad sector, but how can I read this disk to find the rest of the data? Hm Anyone got one of those Beaglebone/RPI to MFM readers I could borrow

Re: Getting files off a 7300--Mission accomplished

2020-07-22 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Ian Finder wrote: > I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is > extinct in the wild... > It may exist but is wounded. https://archives.loomcom.com/retrocomputing/UnixPC/Install/standardized/ethernet/ All the 10S disks

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 7/22/20 7:52 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Just put up a big pdp11 and be done with it. A PDP11 might be a "mainframe" (personally, I'd call it a minicomputer), but in the world of mainframes, it's hardly "big". FWIW, Chuck

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Just put up a big pdp11 and be done with it. Hm. Running on Simh a fully loaded 11 should handle just about anything the internet could toss at it... C On 7/22/2020 10:35 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote: Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did ask, and there

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Doug Jackson via cctalk
Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did ask, and there was no response I could see. The error messages suggest it's some sort of Linux system using Docker containers, so it's not OS/360 :-) I suspect given that it's running out of memory, that it's yet another

HP3000 Microcode is in SYSDUMP (backup) for WCS machines (64,68,70, 37,...)

2020-07-22 Thread Rodney Brown via cctalk
If written on a Series 64, 68 or 70, or on the Series 37 or it's successors, the first file on a SYSDUMP (Backup) tape may include the Microcode from the WCS (Writeable Control Store). Please collect such files if you have tapes available that you can read. Note that the first file includes a

RE: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-22 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Well I suppose the important thing is that they have been spoken for. Hopefully I will get to see Dave's in action. > -Original Message- > From: Antonio Carlini > Sent: 22 July 2020 20:24 > To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; 'Dave Wade' ; 'General > Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' ; >

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Kevin Lee via cctalk
Ask the tweet included in the initial posting.. I have nothing to do with it .. cheers > On 22 Jul 2020, at 23:15, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 09:52:14PM +0200, 821--- via cctalk wrote: > >> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 09:52:14PM +0200, 821--- via cctalk wrote: > Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe! > Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure games > on a mainframe > >

RE: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Well still glad its getting used :) > cheers So am I except I want to use it as well LOL!

Re: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Kevin Lee via cctalk
Well still glad its getting used :) cheers > On 22 Jul 2020, at 22:37, Ali via cctalk wrote: > >> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe! >> Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure >> games on a mainframe >> >>

RE: Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe! > Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure > games on a mainframe > > https://twitter.com/bmoshix/status/1285905078373814273/photo/1 Too popular for its own good. Currently failing due to a lack

Looking for copy of BASIC ROM for HP 3396B Integrator II

2020-07-22 Thread Martin.Hepperle--- via cctalk
Recently, I obtained a HP 3396B Integrator II. This is a device for the chemical analysis laboratory. I had hoped that this device contained a BASIC interpreter, but this was not the case. Through the serial interface I can connect a terminal program. Pressing CTRL+BREAK outputs the sign-on

Adventures online

2020-07-22 Thread 821--- via cctalk
Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe! Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure games on a mainframe https://twitter.com/bmoshix/status/1285905078373814273/photo/1

Re: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-22 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 22/07/2020 19:40, Rob Jarratt wrote: I would like to come to see it when you get it Dave. I wish I could take one too, I wonder if I could make room as the dimensions don't seem *that* huge. Regards Smaller than a VAX-11/780 orĀ  a VAX 6000 or a VAX 7000. So yes, pretty small :-) The

RE: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-22 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
I would like to come to see it when you get it Dave. I wish I could take one too, I wonder if I could make room as the dimensions don't seem *that* huge. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Dave Wade via > cctalk > Sent: 21 July 2020 22:16 > To:

RE: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-22 Thread Martin Reilly via cctalk
Just found the specs. "Typical" installed weight 75kg, max 100kg. Minus power supplies and drives I think two fairly strong people could lift into a car as long as the tailgate is fairly low. -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Martin Reilly via cctalk Sent: 22 July 2020

RE: AlphaServer 2100s available

2020-07-22 Thread Martin Reilly via cctalk
I'd be very interested in one of these. Depending where in Oxfordshire I'm probably within 90 minutes drive. -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini via cctalk Sent: 21 July 2020 20:58 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: AlphaServer 2100s

Re: Fwd: Looking for BAD / Faulty core memory for a display piece

2020-07-22 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
The following Ebay listing seems nice: https://www.ebay.com/itm/252576335317 It shows the advance in technology from core to transistor to SRAM wafer. On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:52 PM Gary Sparkes via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I was looking for confirmed broken, not just "this

Wanted Sun 3/80

2020-07-22 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
I'd like to buy a Sun 3/80 machine. I'm not too interested in other models. I'm willing to pay a fair price plus shipping, but not a L@@K RARE price.