Re: Diablo 31 air filters / plugs ?

2017-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/17 1:31 PM, Jerry Weiss via cctalk wrote: > There wasn’t a head lock. yes, there is. It is a 'L' shaped bracket that screws onto the top of the actuator. Details in the manual You can tie-wrap the actuator or tape the disk with the cylinder numbers on it to keep it from moving without

Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/17 2:39 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > What  homed  you in  collecting Hallicrafters? A friends SX-43 got me interested in shortwave, and in getting my ticket when I was in high school. I was given a basket-case SX-115 when I was 17 that I never got going. Apparently, those are worth a

Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/7/17 4:05 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > I've got a sx28 needs to be recapped has allot of humming going on was last > serviced in the 70s by my dad he got it for free when he was 12 if he could > carry it home a mile this is all pretty far off-topic, so I'll leave this with som

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/8/17 7:42 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > Most hams today seem to be into 2 meter and not so much long range SW. > There is a huge base of HF work being done along with real-time mapping of HF and Tropo propagation, along with all the software defined radio work. http://www.reversebeacon.

Re: Tektronix 8560 external hard disk connector [WAS: Re: The origin of SCSI]

2017-10-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/8/17 3:14 PM, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: > On 10/07/17 03:06, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: > >> If I recall correctly, these machines used an 8" Micropolis hard disk drive. there are two versions. the 1981 8560 uses microp 1200, later ones have xebec 1410 and are sasi 070-3

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/19/17 9:15 PM, Ed Thierbach via cctalk wrote: I'd be interested in a classic computing net as well. I have 40 - 10 meters available on HF. Our area is lagging in digital repeater coverage, so no Fusion or DMR or D*Star for me just yet. 73, -Ed- AB8OJ I took an analog VHF/UHF radio and

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
7 12:12 PM, Paul Koning wrote: On Oct 20, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: ... Was looking at the digital repeater modes this morning http://www.mikemyers.me/blog/2016/2/19/d-star-dmr-fusion-which-is-right-for-you Pretty disappointing that the most popular ones use proprie

SDS 940 BASIC (was Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?)

2017-10-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/17 11:55 AM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > Noel, do have a reference for "some commercial time-sharing system in the > Boston area"? From Paul Allen's autobiography, the Harvard system was > followed > immediately by their move to Albuquerque, where they leased time on the local >

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/24/17 7:40 PM, Kip Koon via cctalk wrote: > The choice so far it seems is the PDP-11/70. Remember I still have no idea > beyond some searching on the internet what boards and peripherals a > PDP-11/70 consists of. For that matter, I don't know what boards and > peripherals are in the PDP

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/27/17 12:16 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > I've long had a fantasy about building a core-logic CPU such as the > Univac Solid State. I have been told the behavior of Univac magnetic logic was similar to NMOS which explains why there is an RF power amplifier for the clock driver in th

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/27/17 12:57 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > That doesn't sound even close. http://www.ussc90.nl/circ.htm Ferractors. While computers now are composed by many integrated circuits containing each millions of logical units, processing data with a speed of a few gigabits per second in a parallel

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/27/17 1:38 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > I wonder if they were just trying to draw an analogy between the inherent > dynamic operation requirements of magnetic logic and the dynamic operation > requirements of some (many?) NMOS designs (not really inherent to NMOS). this was a l

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/27/17 2:00 PM, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: > On the subject of NMOS dynamic logic, someone recently pointed out a > paragraph in the technical manual for a 1990s ARM2-based computer which > warned of dire consequences, including possibly destruction of the > chipset, if the circuitry w

Re: Anyone know who does 'decmuseum.org', PDP-5 pictures

2017-10-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/28/17 5:48 AM, william degnan via cctalk wrote: > Who is DVQ? > Bob Rosenbloom. Lives in the Santa Cruz mountains

Re: Tubbs fire consumed the collected archives of William Hewlett and David Packard

2017-10-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/29/17 4:59 PM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote: > Maybe we (that's us on this list) need to apply this concept to the scanning > and archiving and retention of any paper based repositories that still exist. What a brilliant idea. We could call it "bitsavers"!

Re: HP 2640 character set generation manual in the UK

2017-11-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/9/17 6:29 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > @Al: you may push it to bitsavers done

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-14 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/14/17 6:16 AM, william degnan via cctalk wrote: > Following top post of this reply... > > There is a doc called 709-7090 General Information Manual D22-6508, which I > don't see in bitsavers (I don't have). we have it http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102663993 I'll see

Re: RL02 weirdness

2017-12-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/17/17 9:04 AM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote: > I unloaded very quickly but I think the damage is done. > I KNOW the damage is done. NEVER attempt to load a pack if you haven't inspected it AND the heads first. Was this combination ever known to work? You now need to throw that pack o

Re: IBM MT/ST recovery; was: IBM 3480 DEC TKZ60 inquiry

2017-12-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102662523 Digi-Data made a widget to read the tapes as well. On 12/18/17 12:57 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Forgive the top-posting on my own post, but I think it's appropriate: > > Evidently, the client used an MT/ST to emulate a 2741 a

Re: DEC indicator panel mounting details

2017-12-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/19/17 10:49 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > Could someone who has one please take a look and let us know (or, even better, > send us photos)? If someone can't get to mounted ones, I can trundle over to CHM artifact storage and look at one of our racks. I would think LCM should have

Re: New to System/36

2018-11-11 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/10/18 6:59 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > The BASIC, FORTRAN, and COBOL languages were not installed. Languages are difficult to find.

desoldering (was Re: VAX 9440)

2018-11-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/12/18 7:24 AM, W2HX via cctalk wrote: > Hot air setup is the next thing. > I was doing some board repair this weekend, and used a mix of Hakko 472 vacuum and hot air equipment. I was having trouble clearing the holes completely with the Hakko so I heated the board with a 1" hot air no

Bill Godbout

2018-11-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
"drrt1...@gmail.com" posted on AFC this morning that Bill died in the Camp fire in Northern California on Thursday. Has anyone else heard about this?

Re: Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-13 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/13/18 8:58 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > I am not aware of one, but I can hunt around. I'm also waiting on a > friend who might have an idea about the DX11 panel, which is a different > font from this one. Wasn't the DX11 a Systems Concepts product?

Re: Looking for optical grid mouse pad

2018-11-13 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
here's one https://www.ebay.com/itm/192719727693 do you know if it needs a original coarse or fine grid pad? I'm surprised you don't have any Sun optical mice kicking around.

Re: IBM 3270 Emulation Adapter (ISA)

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/18/18 11:46 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/18/2018 11:00 PM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: >> I'm wondering if anyone knows where to find a copy of some software to >> make an IBM 3270 Emulation Adapter (the short ISA one) useful. It would be helpful to know which 3

Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP emulating terminal. I had bought this a while ago, and never dumped the firmware. Unfortunately there is a large NiCd battery right in the middle of the board that leaked all over. I've taken some pictures which are up

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The later model 500/5000 have a small NiCd as well. On 11/19/18 3:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP > emulating terminal. > I had bought this a while ago, and never dumped the firmware. Unfortunately

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/19/18 11:54 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: I didn't have need / get as far as doing an I/O map or memory map for the Z80. Should I send these files along? Yes, please to dumps/docs and board/terminal pics from you and Mike! I'm sure Richard would appreciate these as well for the terminals w

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 11:28 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > Were there 3 PROMs on the TS-1? I don't remember There are three bipolar proms on the 2624 that you can see on the pcb picture I still need to dump those, only one is socketed. It looks like the keyboard is very similar in the 2624 with

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 11:51 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > Just curiousity, but was there something special about the Falcos that's > generating particular interest, or of note? > Mostly that they are uncommon. I suspect with the NiCd batteries that very few still work and unfortunately, they

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 11:57 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/20/18 11:51 AM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: > >> Just curiousity, but was there something special about the Falcos that's >> generating particular interest, or of note? >> > > Most

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/20/18 12:33 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > BTW, what's the story on Richard in SLC; is there a new address for the > Terminal Wiki? > https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

George Keremedjiev

2018-11-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
This has not been a good few months for historical/vintage computer people https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/bozeman-founder-of-american-computer-museum-dies/article_cad693eb-f70e-5f1c-94d4-78590e64b430.html

Re: cctalk/cctech

2018-11-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/21/18 6:06 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: I thought cctalk was supposed to be a complete superset of cctech, but looking at the cctech archives, I see a lot of posts that didn't make it to cctalk. Does one need to do both to see everything? Noel Yes, unfortunately. Most of t

Re: Odd Hp leds in dip package

2018-11-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/21/18 7:52 AM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: > Hello. Encountered a couple odd parts in the pile today, not sure if they > are anything special. they're pretty cool quad 5x7 alphanumeric LEDs check http://bitsavers.org/components/hp

Re: Odd Hp leds in dip package

2018-11-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
probably hdsp-2010 1988 opto catalog pg 609 in the scan On 11/21/18 8:30 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/21/18 7:52 AM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: >> Hello. Encountered a couple odd parts in the pile today, not sure if they >> are anything special. > &g

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/21/18 7:36 PM, Mike Stein wrote: Al, If you're looking for a service manual for that HP2624 you might have a look at the manual for the MAI 4309; it's the same board with a few minor differences (memory) and different firmware. And of course it's on bitsavers ;-) mike thanks! It al

Re: TCL Terminal

2018-11-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/25/18 8:56 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > I can't seem to get into ant set-up menus, and I am sure it used to show > these, Does any one have any documents on these? try holding down the space bar on powerup dumps of the firmware would be nice

Re: TCL Terminal

2018-11-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
you accidentally included a pic of the memorex terminal as picture 1 so there isn't a picture of the back of the board. I'm assuming there is an AT keyboard connector on the TCL On 11/25/18 9:22 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/25/18 8:56 AM, Dave Wade via cc

Re: TCL Terminal

2018-11-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/25/18 9:22 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > try holding down the space bar on powerup this also works to get into local test on the mtx 1483 i was able to get this to work with a Compaq 122-key kb but not with the 102-key telex kb I tried

Re: TCL Terminal

2018-11-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
'TCL' are the initials of the person who created the first Ethernet transceiver (Tat Lam). https://books.google.com/books?id=ooBqdIXIqbwC&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73 He also sold the first 10mbit transceiver and repeater. On 11/25/18 9:41 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Don't know the exact product

Re: SPARCstation 20 with SCSI2SD

2018-11-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/26/18 2:42 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote: > I'm not sure, I don't personally see it as something worthwhile to > investigate when you can just rebuild the old NVRAMs. What is the best way to decap 28 pin parts? 24-pin ones come apart pretty easily but they don't leave a gap on the 2

Re: ISO: 68000/68010 CPU board for ZAX ICD-178 (CPU S-813)

2018-12-02 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I have literally dozens of non-Ethernet Applied Microsystems ES-1800 68000 ICEs Are you (or anyone else) interested in any? On 12/1/18 10:56 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > Hi all -- > > I picked up a ZAX ICD-178 in-circuit debugger in the hopes of using it to > help debug / reverse-engine

Re: ISO: 68000/68010 CPU board for ZAX ICD-178 (CPU S-813)

2018-12-02 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/2/18 7:24 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Are you (or anyone else) interested in any? they would be tested for $200 plus shipping with a 68000 pod I'll have to see how many other pods I have, I should also have 010 and 020

Re: P112 runs RSX-11

2018-12-04 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/4/18 7:51 AM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > > That's all I could find, too. If anyone knows where the source might > > be or stumbles on it, I would definitely be interested as well. > > I think that's Hector Peraza's site. His email address is listed; you > could try writing to hi

Re: Sun Monochrome TTL Monitors

2018-12-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/6/18 10:45 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > What are people doing for early Sun monitor replacements? I've got a Sun > 3/60 that I'd like to hook up to a modern monitor, but am unaware of any > means of doing so. > > Thanks! > > Kyle > http://tenoxvga.tenox.net/ https://github.com/ten

M7237 KJ11 board

2018-12-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I bought this and a line clock module on eBay and it turns out the person I got it for only needed the clock, so it's available for $50 plus shipping You need this if you're going to try to run Unix on an 11/35 or 40 and they are pretty tough to find.

Re: M7237 KJ11 board

2018-12-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
sold On 12/6/18 1:11 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I bought this and a line clock module on eBay and it turns out the person I > got it for > only needed the clock, so it's available for $50 plus shipping > > You need this if you're going to try to run Unix on an 11

ISO NCD M88K firmware dump

2018-12-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The MAME folks have the 68K versions of the terminals mostly working in simulation now, and are wondering if anyone could dump the firmware from the 88K model, which has a similar hardware design.

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/7/18 1:25 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Anyone has old DECUS distributions? For all intents and purposes, no DECUS threw them out. About the only thing that survives are the titles that were included on some of the SIG tapes. Working on gathering what parts still survive in indiv

Genrad 2511 Vibration Control System

2018-12-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
bought this on eBay suspecting it was LSI-11 based because of the floppies labeled DY: https://www.ebay.com/itm//192437124163 It's kinda neat, has a very late (1989) AED WINC-05 disk controller in it, 11/73 and a bunch of custom daq boards. It also has a Dilog Qbus to Unibus converter (didn't e

Re: PDP-8/e

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 1:55 AM, Rod G8DGR via cctalk wrote: Nice try Josh - close – you have to change the crystal first and you can’t get them. Dead bug a programmable epson ttl oscillator module, available from digikey

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 7:10 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > As long as we're talking about old PDP-11 DECUS stuff I > > am still looking for a copy of: > > 11S042   Symposium Tape from the RSTS SIG, Spring 1980, > > Chicago Version: Spring 1980 > > > Of course, I would be interested in pre

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 8:26 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > I also know of stuff given to USENIX > that they tossed (luckily some of that has been recovered > but I am sure much was lost permanently). Paper or USENIX tapes? The early tapes are problematic because they required source licenses

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 9:30 AM, Lyle Bickley wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:04:52 -0800 > Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > >> On 12/7/18 1:25 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: >>> Anyone has old DECUS distributions? >> >> For all intents and purposes, no >> >&

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 9:45 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: > Sounds like a great project, I'd be happy to help out. cool I also just noticed http://decuslib.com isn't responding The anonymous ftp still works, but doesn't have the zip files on it.

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 9:50 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > What I know about first-hand was all the research on The > > Software Tools Virtual Operating System.  I had worked with > > it  on Pr1me and Univac-1100 back in the 80's.  I got interested > > in it again and started searching for it. 

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The DECUS conference proceedings I've scanned gives attendance DECUS membership 1961-1972 1961 12 1962 25 1963 43 1964 202 1965 426 1966 850 1967 2008 1968 3476 1969 6054 1970 9110 1971 12213 - 5590 installation delegates, 6623 individual members. 1972 15295 - 7052

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 10:18 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > The DECUS conference proceedings I've scanned > gives attendance arg.. membership attendance would have been much smaller

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 10:19 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Do they include the sources?  Are they up on bitsavers anywhere? Not currently, what I have is what was released on the Languages and Tools SIG tape in RATFOR I'll put the tape images I have up as soon as I can find them. I'm trying to

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/8/18 10:24 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > my original DECUS Membership # was > > 368513.  Don't remember what year  but it was likely mid 80's. I just took my card out of my wallet last year. 113104, late 70s

Re: Conferences/Exhibitions (Was: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-09 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/9/18 12:24 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > Fyi...i have a square bankers box of decus conference proceedings from the > 70's. Are these otherwise available on the www? > I haven't gotten to them yet. I have several decades of proceedings that I need to scan beyond the ones from the

Re: Conferences/Exhibitions (Was: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

2018-12-09 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/9/18 12:28 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 12/9/18 12:24 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: >> Fyi...i have a square bankers box of decus conference proceedings from the >> 70's. Are these otherwise available on the www? >> > > I haven&

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-09 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I will be bidding on these On 12/9/18 1:40 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Don't know if this worth saving. https://www.ebay.com/itm/283294561797 > > 8 inch CDC disks from 1982. Maybe something interesting? >

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/10/18 6:52 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Al, why not offer $5 or $10 I made a higher offer than that, still no reply. I've had very little luck making offers on auction items. BIN is a different story. I think eBay changed something so that making an offer on auctions became a def

Re: Documation TM200 card reader - pinch roller restoration

2018-12-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/10/18 7:00 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > I'd rather find a > solution in the $50 range. The CHM 1401 team replaced the rollers on their M1000 and I thought they got them from some source in LA I asked someone on the team about it, and never got a reply.

Re: Genrad 2511 Vibration Control System

2018-12-11 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
ticed this before, but Tucker Electronics closed this past summer :-( who used to be a good source for manuals. I also was given a 2517 unit this morning. > On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 6:16 PM Al Kossow via cctalk <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I doubt I'll ever find docs for it though. >

Re: 8-Update

2018-12-16 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/15/18 11:36 PM, Rod G8DGR via cctalk wrote: > However I began to think would it be possible to create a close copy of an   > 8/e out of  modern parts. Redoing the CPU in obtanium TTL would be desirable.

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I suspected they were GE-PAC related. Ended up getting them, we'll see if they are readble He would have made 5x more if he wouldn't have ignored my offer, sucks to be him. On 12/17/18 12:48 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk wrote: > On 12/9/18, 10:40 PM, "cctech on behalf of Mattis Lind via cct

Re: Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

2018-12-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/17/18 4:27 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote: > Anything > Tru64 Unix does VMS does better.  Anything Linux does Tru64 Unix does > better. > > Have I made my bigotry clear? > Spoken like a true VMS Jackass Some things stay constant over the DECades

Spotted an NOS IBM 2314 disk pack

2018-12-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-computer-Wright-Line-Disk-Pack-Data-Processing-Accessory-in-Box-2314-6/323599528210 someone was looking for one in the recent past

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-18 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/18/18 12:38 PM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: >> Unfortunately I got no docs or media with this machine. And it appears >> all that is up on bitsavers are tape images? Everything DG related on bitsavers has been on hold for a while until the licensing situation with EMC worked itsel

Re: More old stuff incoming

2018-12-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/19/18 9:56 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I've been following @foone's development of the Snood Bloober on Twitter. "Tube Time" is the developer of the adlib (now sold by the Russians on eBay) and the SnBl https://twitter.com/tubetimeus

Re: More old stuff incoming

2018-12-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/19/18 11:59 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > I do have some 12AX7's lying around... sell them

Re: More old stuff incoming

2018-12-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/19/18 12:17 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > You'll get my vacuum tubes when you pry them from my cold, dead hands. sure thing, let me know when you croak 12AX7's are going for stupid money now

Want/Available list (was Re: Old HP stuff)

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
Isn't there some place this could go on a web page? there isn't much chance of someone trolling a mailing list after the first day or two of the post appearing Sellam seems to have come up with something with his Google spreadsheet. I don't know if something like that would be practical if a la

Re: Project sonoko, x11 xterm home-made

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
? buy a Neoware thin client for the box and power supply, and throw away the pcb if you really want to do your own board https://www.ebay.com/itm/Neoware-CA9-100-240-V-50-60-Hz-USED/222928084229 On 12/20/18 5:45 AM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: > to whom is interested, on DTB we are building

Re: Project sonoko, x11 xterm home-made

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/20/18 10:01 AM, Carlo Pisani wrote: > don't waste other people's projects for your stupidity! you're the one who sliced open their finger, asshat

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/20/18 2:46 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > I too want a web forum venue for hunting, acquiring and dispersing vintage > computing gear, with > a restoration/collector slant, ie not about the money, ie I'm poor, ha ha. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?28-Vintage-Computer-It

Re: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/21/18 5:19 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > The DEC brochure for it (P5141) is a little puzzling; it says (p. 2) that > "INTEGRATED CIRCUITS are basic elements of the low cost, newly designed > silicon FLIP CHIP modules used throughout PDP-7", but AFAIK, the first FLIP > CHIPs (R-seri

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/21/18 9:58 AM, allison via cctalk wrote: > On 12/21/2018 10:10 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> Does anyone know where the 'Straight 8' name for the first PDP-8 model came >> from? Obviously, it's probably a play on the car engine configuration name, >> but how did the connection get

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/21/18 10:03 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > "Straight-8" seems to be a fairly modern name coming from collectors > > I never heard it called that before then. Anyone feel like doing a alt.sys.pdp-8 search for it by date? I don't feel like going down the rat

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/21/18 10:16 AM, William Donzelli wrote: > Or NGram. > didn't see anything meaningful, but "minicomputer" and "software" are fun minicomputer peaks in 1980

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/21/18 10:56 AM, ben via cctalk wrote: > Now I got a stupid image of the newer models adding 6 bits on every > other clock phase for a faster cpu. > Pratt & Whitney R-4360

Re: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2018-12-21 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
yea, that was it http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/XD37.80 I didn't know we had this example in the collection, they were hybrids like IBM SLDs Do you know of any module part numbers that used them? On 12/21/18 2:40 PM, William Donzelli wrote: >> The original "Flip Chip" was a

Re: Another weird paper tape

2018-12-23 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/23/18 4:13 PM, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > USA. It is indeed 7 tracks wide. I didn't realize that until I tried > dumping the tape today. First time I've come across 7-channel tape before. > 7-channel punches were available on the Flexowriter. MIT Whirlwind tapes are all 7-channel

Re: OCR old software listing.

2018-12-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/26/18 2:55 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > Scan them all as-is, put them up and 'crowd source' this list And TYPE the programs in again

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/27/18 10:32 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > Table 1.2 Physical Specifications of this manual says 90 kg / 198 > pounds for a bare M2444AC outside of a rack: > > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/fujitsu/tape/B03P-5325-0100A_02B_M244X_Series_Streaming_Tape_Drive_CE_Manual_May89.pdf > sinc

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/27/18 10:53 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > The 1260 (or later) will do 6250, but I can't recommend it--it isn't > terribly good at reading tapes that the Fuji does fine on. I suspect a > couple of reasons for this--the transport mechanism itself and the very > low speed at 6250 (les

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/27/18 11:30 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > I have a bunch of tapes from some Harris minicomputer that I'd like to > digitize at some point. I finally got around to digitizing the paper tapes. Slash 6 or one of the other 24-bit machines they made? any of the tapes for the OS (Vulcan?)

Re: SCSI for HP 9000/380

2018-12-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/27/18 1:22 PM, Kevin Bowling via cctalk wrote: > I'd like > to use a SCSI tape to install on it. Series-300 doesn't support booting from SCSI/QIC tape It does support SCSI CD-ROM Docs are on bitsavers or the HP Museum sites

Re: SCSI for HP 9000/380

2018-12-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/27/18 1:35 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 12/27/18 1:22 PM, Kevin Bowling via cctalk wrote: >> I'd like >> to use a SCSI tape to install on it. Also, HP 16 and 32 track tapes are NOT compatible at all with QIC. They have no EOT/BOT holes. If you put

Re: straight 8 tape on ebay

2018-12-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
In particular, these are for a Teradyne IC tester "mjeffs" has been selling trays of tapes for a while, I bought this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/283247926027 because it has the source for Brooklyn Poly BASIC, something Richie Lary worked on On 12/27/18 9:40 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrot

Re: Harris Mini's

2018-12-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/28/18 1:19 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > What was the original company Datacraft or something? > bob correct

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

2018-12-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/29/18 12:00 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Stupid question, but doesn't IEEE CS already have these archived? of course they are we are speaking with paper obsessed siverfish lovers here though

Re: Osborne-1 with prototype-based motherboard

2018-12-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/29/18 12:53 PM, Brad H via cctalk wrote: > I reached out to Lee Felsenstein on it and he suggested it was related to > the boards produced for the 10 prototypes Osborne built I'm pretty sure I threw one of those out about five years ago. Will dig through the archive to see if there are

Re: RSTS source tape

2018-12-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
If you can't get these released, please send images to people that have been entrusted with other sources from the current rights holder, like Johnny Billquist. On 12/30/18 10:59 AM, B M via cctalk wrote: > I believe I have source tapes to RSTS/E version 5 & 6 that I would like to > release copi

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

2018-12-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/31/18 5:20 AM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > Are these currently online? They are on bitsavers under afips for now The intent/agreement when I gave IEEE my scans was they were to be hosted by CHM, but that hasn't happened yet. They are also the entire volume, IEEE distributes them by p

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

2018-12-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/30/18 5:04 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > It might be helpful to state the policy (or choice, if any) explicitly so > people know what to expect. > I will return documents if requested. Originals may or may not be donated to CHM for archiving, depending on if they are duplicative or are o

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