Re: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-08 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, geneb wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: [...] I prefer my solution. If you opt to format the second side, you'll end up clobbering the first side in the process. But then, what does this bozo know? FYI Christian, in case you weren't aware the

Re: R: Floppy disk: one drive per face

2020-11-08 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, "Enrico email.it" wrote: So this for to read 1st face A: BEGIN MUP1 Mupid Seite 1 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25" [...] And this for to read the other side B: BEGIN MUP2 Mupid Seite 2 - SSSD 96 tpi 5.25" [...] Absolutely correct :-) Christian

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
You are welcome! I have had a blast restoring and running my SEL 810A and wanted to pull together some of what I had found, done, and helped with. It is really just a placeholder for now until there is a critical mass of interest. The SEL 810 emulators are really awesome. Kgober's can run SEL

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
Eric: Thanks for starting this. I've been doing little updates to the SEL wikipedia pages recently, but a dedicated site would be great. I used the machines heavily from 1977-1995, most of the 32/X series, as well as the NP1. AFAIK, I was the first person to get C++ (cfront) working under

Re: Syquest druve owner in 541 area code? (Usa)

2020-11-08 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 08:17 PM 11/8/2020, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Thus came into my site, if you can help contact me privatelthanks >... >I have an old Syquest 5.25" removable cartridge (44MB) and am >trying to find a service that will get the graphics data off the cartridge >for me. If you have

Syquest druve owner in 541 area code? (Usa)

2020-11-08 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Thus came into my site, if you can help contact me privatelthanks Bill VintageComputer.net Inquiry Contact Information Name: Robert Email: robwynia@-- Phone: 541967 - Comments: I have an old Syquest 5.25" removable cartridge (44MB) and

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Al said > On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: >> The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the >> fastest thing at the time. > > If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a > fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running

Re: Looking for PDP-11/23+ parts for museum restoration

2020-11-08 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2020-11-02 19:16, Stephen Buck via cctalk wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm working on restoring a DEC PDP-11/23+ for the University of Colorado > computer museum and I'm struggling to find a few parts, working or not, > needed to complete the system. Please let me know if you have any of > these items

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/6/20 12:11 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the fastest thing at the time. If you look at the Gould advertising at the time, it was a picture of a fire-breathing dragon toasting a DEC salesman running away.

Looking for PDP-11/23+ parts for museum restoration

2020-11-08 Thread Stephen Buck via cctalk
Hi All, I'm working on restoring a DEC PDP-11/23+ for the University of Colorado computer museum and I'm struggling to find a few parts, working or not, needed to complete the system. Please let me know if you have any of these items and would be willing to donate or sell them. You can see a

Re: removing melting rubber from metal?

2020-11-08 Thread Dennis Grevenstein via cctalk
> The rubber feet melted. […] > I have no clue how it got that hot, or if they are just some composition for > them to melt. My question is how do I clean this up? It is probably not heat that melted the rubber. It’s likely degradation. Some rubber parts get dry and break, some parts sort of

Re: Systems Engineering Laboratories - SEL History

2020-11-08 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
I worked at Gould CSD in Urbana on the Powernode Unix kernel from '86-'88 and knew the machines were descendants of SEL machines, but that is about it. The ECL based logic was named "firebreather" for a reason. They were the fastest thing at the time. Being a computer company in Urbana Illinois,

Re: Strange magtape anecdote

2020-11-08 Thread Yeechang Lee via cctalk
Guy Sotomayor says: > We had a similar problem when I was at IBM and we were developing a > follow on to the PC/AT (it never shipped). Was this the "PC II" (a "true" sequel to the PC) that magazines constantly talked about IBM working on, until the PS/2 disappointed everyone? --