Among the things I found when I was unpacking into my new house was a
keyboard (minus a couple arrow keys) from a Model 40 Teletype. I
apparently paid $5 for it from the Island of Misfit Toys at the back of
Gateway Electronics in STL.
Anyway. As keyboards go, it is super-duper clicky.
It has a
I Frankensteined a P/390 together out of a P/325 server and the PCI P/390 card
back in the day.
I assume you do have the LIC for the P/390 card, without which you’re dead in
the water.
At least the PCI model wasn’t picky about the disks it used. And I’m pretty
sure it’ll work with whatever
> On May 14, 2018, at 11:29 PM, Dave Wade <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Adam Thornton
>> via cctalk
>> Sent: 15 May 2018 03:03
>> To: cctalk@classic
So, I've been porting Frotz to TOPS-20.
https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz
It's been going fine, except that I have something going on with the linker
I don't have enough expertise to understand.
On Mark Crispin's panda distribution, "cc -o frotz *.c" does the trick.
But on TOPS-20 on the
Last Saturday I went out to the location where the collection mentioned by
Kristina Kaur resides, to take photos, create an inventory to the best of my
abilities, and help her solicit proposals for the various items.
I’m going to lead off with one of my last sentences in this email: PLEASE DO
Last Saturday I went out to the location where the collection mentioned by
Kristina Kaur resides, to take photos, create an inventory to the best of my
abilities, and help her solicit proposals for the various items.
I’m going to lead off with one of my last sentences in this email: PLEASE DO
Last Saturday I went out to the location where the collection mentioned by
Kristina Kaur resides, to take photos, create an inventory to the best of my
abilities, and help her solicit proposals for the various items.
I’m going to lead off with one of my last sentences in this email: PLEASE DO
I have been invited out to the site tomorrow morning to take an inventory of
what’s there (I live near the machines).
I imagine that I may well have a lot of photos that I bring to the list and say
“what is this?”
The owner has assured me the machines will not be sent to the scrapper and that
I have an Apple /// that I've had for many years; it's never worked.
When you power it up, you get a checkerboard screen, where half the squares
are solid white, and the other half have a little mosaic pattern in them.
Looks like this:
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0NHNkEG9ssPsi65ojivBteKaQ
At Rice in the early 90s the department was "Electrical and Computer
Engineering" if my hazy memory serves.
The genealogy of Computer Science departments (and their curricula) (at least
in the US) is also weird and historically-contingent. Basically it seems to
have been a tossup at any given
https://mvsevm.fsf.net
Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
no passwords.
Please treat the dmr account respectfully.
I will get to account requests…eventually, probably. TImeliness is not
guaranteed. All systems are hosted on Raspberry Pis (the
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 11:52 PM, Boris Gimbarzevsky
> wrote:
>
> Thanks for putting it up. First time I've logged onto old Unix in decades
> (should try getting my copy of V6 up on simh).
> Have a couple of RasberryPi's kicking around that just fired up once to play
> with. Only part that
there. I suspect there is.
Adam
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 8:15 AM Adrian Stoness wrote:
> Be careful eh about posting credentials right to a public mailing list
> like eh
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:18 AM, Adam Thornton via cctalk <
> c
I just picked up a VT-320, with no keyboard.
I have some questions:
1) the price on DEC keyboards, at least on eBay, is insane. Does anyone have a
VT-320 keyboard they’d be willing to let go cheaply?
2) …or, failing that, I found a posting of someone who’d done an Arduino-based
key code
> On Jul 31, 2019, at 7:25 PM, systems_glitch wrote:
>
> You can use a LK201 or the seemingly less desirable LK401 with the VT320.
> There are a number of LK201s on eBay right now for reasonable prices. The
> cheap ones are always going to be untested/dirty/possibly missing a key or
> two.
I did have a case where the Pi I was using as secondary DNS/DHCP and as the
secondary backup server (using USB spinning disk) destroyed its SD card.
But then it turned out not to be the load at all. No matter what I ran on
that Pi, it would corrupt its SD cards in a matter of weeks (the symptom
My MicroVAX 3100 gets stuck in boot with the leftmost 4 LEDs on, which
indicates it's executed some instructions from ROM.
That in turn may indicate that the ROMs are corrupt.
From
http://gentiane.org/~miod/machineroom/machines/digital/vax/3100-30/bare_mobo.jpg
it looks as if the ROMs are a pair
> On Jul 9, 2019, at 10:00 AM,Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
> BTW, you would like a ride to the past? I would like a ride to the
> future. Although from what I have seen so far, maybe not...
Spider Robinson did a story about this, entitled “The Time-Traveler.”
The method, while as easily-implemented
I might have had something to do with
https://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/njeip
And as far as I remember, at least some of it was BSD licensed, so if
that's what floats your boat...knock yerself out.
> On Feb 29, 2020, at 11:00 AM, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
>> Anyway, my Googling turned up nothing on the OS, although I did find a
>> Robert Knight at Princeton, but no information on stuff he's done. I will
>> likely email him to ask about it, but wanted to ask here first if
*TOPS-20*
The set of config files you need to edit in TOPS-20 is found here, about
halfway down the page:
http://www.ldx.ca/notes/tops-20-notes.html
I'll paste it here:
Configuring the system
The *Panda Distribution* README has this to say about initial configuration:
You’ll need to edit the
I work at an astronomy facility. I get to do some fun dumpster diving.
I recently have pulled out of the trash a plugboard with a male and a
female D-Sub 52 connector. 3 rows of pins, 17-18-17. I took the
connectors off the board: there's nothing back there, so this thing only
ever existed so
I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in Tucson,
or want to come to Tucson for it, you're invited; email me for the address
and time).
Although the party is Elvis-themed, it's really about boardgaming and
classic videogaming.
So I kind of wanted to put a
I remember chatting a bit with John Fry who saw the sales margins in
electronics and compared them to food sales his family's supermarket
chain. He figured that the marketing that worked so well in the grocery
business would be a winner in electronics sales. Because of his
family's connections,
So, it's _mostly_ a 64K problem. All z-machine games have, in the file
header, a "high memory" address above which it's safe to page data in and
out as needed, because it's all read-only. Trinity's header claims what
smells like an implausibly high value for a z4 game to me: 0xf771. There's
no
On Apr 6, 2020, at 10:00 AM, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> They play with the
> pennies to discover that they can roll around, and learn that they're not
> food or nasal suppositories,
I was with you up till here, but wait, what?
I’m one of those kids who was just the right age.
I got an LK201 recently that was a little damaged in transit. A couple of the
keycap assemblies and their corresponding leaf springs have come off. I can
see how the leaf springs fit on the little posts on the keycap assemblies, and
I can see where those snap into the board, but what I don’t
I agree that whether a student learns has much more to do with the student
than what in particular they're studying.
I quit my undergraduate physics degree when I had a moment of clarity that
even if I managed to squeak through my Partial Differential Equations class
with a C (I did) I'd still be
> On May 25, 2020, at 10:00 AM, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
>
> The topic for my talk next week. Unix had virtualization in 74. The second
> Unix port ran under OS/360's VM in 78.
_Ahem_.
It ran under VM/370. Most (all?) models of the IBM 370 had virtual memory, as
had the (not
Once you've put your soul at ease regarding use of pakgen, and found a
copy, and built it (it is a C program), you might find the following
repository streamlines the process of application.
https://github.com/athornton/yarr
If it's actually running on real z hardware Linux is probably already
running under z/VM.
If it's running on Hercules, thenOK, but the host system could have
handled the Infocom games without ever even blinking. But I've been known
to do silly emulation tricks too:
>
> On 12/16/2020 05:40 PM, robinson--- via cctalk wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am setting up an IBM 2803 and 2804 INTEFACE test panel.
>> I need some lamps and lamp holders for it,
>> lamp voltage not important,
>> lamp color not important.
>>
>> Does anyone have any for sale
>> or know where I
If anyone goes to the Gateway sale, please, please tell Doug that Adam
Thornton is doing fine in Tucson but misses him and the store greatly.
Thanks,
Adam
> On Nov 14, 2020, at 5:20 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven
> wrote:
>
...
>
> One thing I'm better at than crystal ball gazing though, is I can give you an
> idea of how much hard-to-port assembly is left, since I wrote most of the x86
> assembly code in it :-)
I replied to Camiel off-list,
I for one was thrilled to see that there will be x86_64 hobbyist licenses for
VMS. I have an emulated VAX on a Raspberry Pi (I don’t know if my 11/730
works, but I doubt it—it’s nowhere near a 220V power supply and it’s not been
much of a priority, and I have a VAXStation 3100 that doesn’t
I seem to recall that in "how to shoot yourself in the foot in various
programming languages," APL is something like "There's a bang. Your foot
is missing. You don't remember enough linear algebra to know how it got
that way."
As long as we’re talking about divesting: if anyone has a VaxStation that
they’d sell me for substantially less than eBay prices, I’d be interested. I
have a 3100M38, but it doesn’t POST; indeed, a replacement mainboard would be a
place I could start. (I did try burning new ROMs and replacing
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> Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 15:18:04 +0200
> From: Liam Proven
> To: Jay Jaeger , "General Discussion: On-Topic and
> Off-Topic Posts"
> Subject: Re: That VAXStation4000vlc 3W3 video connector
> Message-ID:
> <
>
From: Liam Proven
> To: "Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> Subject: Re: Motor generator
>
> I think because for lesser minds, such as mine, [APL is] line noise.
>
> A friend of mine, a Perl guru, studied A-Plus for a while. (Morgan
> Stanley's in-house APL dialect.) He said to me that
I assume it would be way too much to hope that HD BNC would fit it? Does
anyone have a pointer to the actual physical dimensions of the itty-bitty
BNC-ish connector in the video port of the VAXStation4000vlc? If I can get
red, green, and blue out (assuming since there are only 3 connectors it's
Paul Koning may be pleased to know that his implementation of TECO has
supplanted Blake McBride's TECOC as the standard TECO in the Rubin
Observatory's Science Platform Interactive Notebook Aspect.
I used ZOC, and loved it, when I was an OS/2 user decades ago. I’m glad to
hear it’s still around.
Adam
You might want to search the Github repositories of a certain "athornton"
looking for something called "yarr".
Obviously it would be wrong to use it. So don't.
Adam
> On 11/19/21 9:33 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
>
> And what happens when you wake up one morning to find archive.org is
> gone, too?
>
>
Fundamentally, eventually we're all going to be indistinguishable
mass-components inside the supermassive black hole that used to be the
Milky Way and
The 11/83 question sounds like a job for SCSI2SD to me. Install a system
with simh. dd the resulting disk image to your sd card. Hook the SCSI2SD
up to your 11/83 and boot from the card. Copy the contents of that drive
to your real SCSI drive. Done.
SCSI2SD cards are not expensive and are a
> From: Grant Taylor
>
> I wince at the idea of running with QIC tape. But my experience is with
> QIC-80 tapes of the '90s which were so unreliable as to be in the same
> category as AOL floppy disks during the late '90s around the transition
> to CD-ROMs. As in I would trust an AOL
Seems like rather than going through MUSIC/SP it'd be easier to just fire
up VM/CE 1.2 (which is VM/370 r6) and use CMS TAPE (which is present)
directly from the CMS UI. You can probably attach the file you've got as a
tape device; not entirely sure Hercules will like the format, but it
wouldn't
To clarify a couple of things in response to queries: my time for
divestment is "not yet"--but rest assured, when it arrives, I will
certainly see who wants things from my assortment (don't get too excited;
there's nothing super-rare or valuable in it, and I've always been more
concerned with
I have heard rumors of one "fredmacs" which is a more-or-less emacs that
will run on PDP-11 v7 Unix. Since I've gotten "s" onto v7 and behaving
mostly happily, now I'd like an editor I actually _like_ rather than
_tolerate_.
Does anyone know where to find the fredmacs sources?
Adam
Been thinking about it a little recently, and, no, I definitely don't plan
to send my stuff to a scrapper. I have some younger friends with an
interest in retrocomputing. They want my stuff when I'm done with it,
sure. And if they want _just a little_ of my stuff I'll probably strike a
deal
Have you considered sqlite3? It's a SQL engine, but the backend is just a
file. So it doesn't support concurrent access by multiple users, but if
that's not a concern, it gives you the ability to do real SQL queries
without the bother of setting up an RDBMS.
Adam
I finally got an Emacs running on v7--it's on misspiggy at LCML now as "ue".
It's Microemacs 3.6; what I did was to clone
https://github.com/troglobit/MicroEMACS and check out the first commit.
Some experimentation later, it had the usual problem with v7 and DEC
linkers that not all the function
I picked that one because it said it had derived from a 1986 original, so I
guessed that if I went back to the initial GH commit I'd get something that
was K C and not a million miles away from v7, and I was right.
I...can't believe I never thought of just tossing some #defines up top. I
feel
From the "Mainframe Enthusiasts" Discord; I don't have any other contact
for him but I can send you a link to the Discord if you can't get there
yourself. This is one of the first (maybe the first) of the 64-bit zSeries
(descendant of S/360, S/370, S/390) machines. You would have to pay IBM a
> 640K was maybe "enough for anyone"
>
> Weird but I even seem to remember someone saying "who woukd been more than
> 64k"
> Ed# SMECC
>
>
>
And let's not forget "what's the hardest part about emulating Gerald Ford
on a PDP-8? Figuring out what to do with the other 3K."
Mostly to Bill, but also anyone else hanging out here who's got a surfeit
of 8-bit Apple stuff:
If you're planning on selling the Apple II, and it's not a ][+, I'd be
interested in buying. Not, perhaps, at optimistic eBay prices, but I have
a lot of ][+s and //es, most of them in working shape,
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