Re: 3270 controller simulation

On 11/18/19 7:34 PM, Frank McConnell wrote: > Wall Data (5250 emulator, maybe 3270 too) yes, both, 'Rumba' which supported several different boards/drivers they bought the Apple Nubus coax/twinax board product line and snaPS software product line as well (I've been trying to find the hardware

Re: 3270 controller simulation

On 11/19/19 8:43 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/18/19 7:34 PM, Frank McConnell wrote: >> Wall Data (5250 emulator, maybe 3270 too) > > yes, both, 'Rumba' which supported several different boards/drivers I've also been chasing down the histor

Re: Who changed the gravitational constant (Dec pdp11 stuff)

On 11/22/19 11:16 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > That > could be a problem if I want to re-load Cobol 81 onto this RSTS/E system. weren't RL01s usable in an RL02?

Re: TurboDOS for S-100, IMS or L/F Technologies

did anything more ever turn up? I'd like to try getting a 16-bit 1.43 running, there is a set of disks on ebay, but the seller has blocked me https://www.ebay.com/itm/193098921854 On 6/28/19 7:17 PM, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk wrote: > Just sending a thanks for the replies from various folks on

Re: First Internet message and ...

On 11/25/19 8:55 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > Like most things, the colors of computer networking history get > extremely blurred and runny, like using watercolors on toilet paper. A lot on the subject has been written. Sometimes they even go back to primary sources. Most times, th

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

you can ftp the uncompressed files to me and I'll take care of the conversions On 11/26/19 6:52 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > I am going through stuff in my office and found that I have some SCSI device > docs that aren't on bitsavers. As far as > multi-page documents, it seems as if my s

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

On 11/26/19 7:10 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote: > Al, is there a "standard" you would recommend us mere mortals to scan and > archive docs? I've moved to 600dpi bi-tonal tiffs for all new text work since that is the maximum resolution my Panasonic KV-S3065 scanner supports. I use a flatbed at 300

Re: First Internet message and ...

>     I wouldn't consider this a Personal Computer. THIS THREAD NEEDS TO DIE

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ; login:)

Usenix wasn't good at archiving. I was told they were given a set of early conference proceedings and tossed them. Would be good for people to keep an eye out for them. We don't have a complete set either https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102713986 On 11/30/19 1:43 AM, Nigel W

Re: System/36 Twin-Ax decode help

On 11/30/19 8:59 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > > I might put this project on the shelf for a > while unless I can find more docs that explains the command further. Thanks for getting this far. I'll keep looking for documentation.

Re: P112 [Don Maslin Archive]

> Here's the archive > > http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/ HERE is the archive https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102703903 Another curator and I went down to San Diego and both ended up with heat exhaustion recovering it from a storage unit in the middle of summer. you'

Re: SMD disk specifications

ANSI has a spec, X3.91M_1987 I don't know if it covers the SMD-E , etc. On 12/13/19 9:55 AM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve been trying to find *detailed* specifications (mainly detailed signal > timings) for the SMD disk interface but all I’ve found so far are the > interface s

8 inch floppies

anyone know what system these floppies are for? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-33-8-034-Floppy-Disks-/184071352445

Re: SMD disk specifications

On 12/15/19 12:47 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Oddly enough I have a 9457 Lark out in the shed. I've been looking for one for a while to try to recover an early Sun Unix if you don't have a need for it.

Re: SMD disk specifications

On 12/15/19 10:22 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: While the CMD and SMD drives could be used on the same host interface the Hawk could not since the interface was different from the SMD interface. I've been told by someone who worked down in OK that there were MANY different OEM variations o

Re: Bad heads on RL02: Worth replacing

On 12/16/19 7:57 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > I'm wondering if the problem is the leading edge of the head is angled down > or something: From the debris on the leading > edge it's looking like it is digging into the pack. Not sure if this can be > adjusted, or even what adjusting the h

Re: RCA 1802s available

On 12/17/19 9:30 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > An ad was emailed to me today with an interesting item: RCA 1802 processors. Not a bad price, did you buy any? Were they actually RCA-branded parts from the 70's?

Re: 8048 Family Applications Handbook

On 12/18/19 3:13 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > Hi All, > I have a copy of this Intel book, 8048 Family Applications Handbook, January > 1980. Does anyone know if scans of this book are online anywhere? let me dig around, I'm sure I have a copy somewhere

Re: First Internet message and ...

> Niklaus Wirth is still around and your hero, Bucky Beaver(*) spent a year at PARC while Mesa was under development and went to Stanford so it didn't spring fully formed from him * i will leave it as an excercise for the reader why he has that nickname and where "Bucky Bits" come from

Re: ORNL ORACLE story

https://computerhistory.org/blog/jingle-bits-auditory-maintenance-whirlwind-holiday-songs-the-dawn-of-computer-music/

ODS-1 structure examiner

Lee was looking for info on RSX ODS-1 earlier this year Looks like he's made progress groking it http://rsx11.blogspot.com/2019/12/opind-rsx11-ods-1-disk-structure-utility.html

Re: Lars Hamrén / Computer Automation Museum Project

I never heard anything more about this. It would be good to get the manuals back online On 10/16/19 10:13 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > there was an email adr on the site, and I've asked if I can mirror the > contents on bitsavers > > > On 10/16/19 10:01 AM, Pontus Pihlg

Re: Odd vintage computer sellers

On 1/2/20 11:02 AM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > I find this amazing and odd. I've noticed prices going up on eBay a LOT, without even including obscene shipping charges AND sales tax and people parting out things, including attempting to sell individual disks of multi-disk sets.

Re: NetWare for PowerPC was Re: Portlock Storage Manager?

On 1/2/20 11:37 AM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: > Anyone done anything with Netware *for PowerPC*? Allegedly there was > some attempt at Apple to put it on what later became the Network Servers > (the codename was apparently "Wormhole"). > I know the people who were working in it (based

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: > I think these are pretty rare. They were sold by many office supply companies as consumables for the MCST I bought a box a while ago on eBay, don't see any right now though.

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone > needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet > to move the head across track-to-track. Wonder if you could build an > 80-column card reader out of

Re: Corvus Concept

On 1/3/20 3:34 PM, Curt Vendel via cctalk wrote: > Anyone on the list have one that they might consider selling/trading for? I have a couple now, make me an offer. I tried emailing directly, but the atarimuseum.com adr bounced.

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

On 1/3/20 4:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > >> I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone >> needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet >> to

Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)

On 1/3/20 7:07 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 1/3/20 4:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: >> >>> I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone >>> ne

Motorola app notes

did anyone copy the moto app notes that were once at http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/willem/PDF/Motorola/apnoteindex.html ?

TU55 / TC01

I just listed one of my TU55s on eBay I have a second one available in a rack with a TC01 avalilable for pickup in Fremont, CA that I'm accepting offers on.

Re: TU55 / TC01

On 1/7/20 11:22 AM, Marc Howard wrote: > Wow, a TU55 + TC01.  Were they once a part of a PDP-12? PDP-8I I have around 100 R series modules and some custom cables with scotchflex ribbon instead of the printed stuff that de-laminates available that I'm going to sell since I'll never be doing any

Re: TU55 / TC01

On 1/7/20 11:37 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I have around 100 R series modules and some custom cables with scotchflex > ribbon instead of the printed stuff that de-laminates available that I'm > going to sell since I'll never be doing anything with negative-bus equipm

Re: Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

On 1/7/20 4:08 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > Have you searched for them on the NXP web site? no, I was hoping someone had grabbed the whole directory. there are a few obscure ones there. I was looking for AN1123 MCS3201 Floppy Disk Controller in MC68000 System

Re: Design flaw in the SCSI spec?

On 1/8/20 10:58 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: > The A3000 did have > a problem with the hardware. If you upgraded the SCSI controller chip it > fixed the A3000 problem. I guessed it was a WD http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=73936 yup.. Amigas weren't the only systems that had prob

Re: Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

On 1/8/20 7:51 PM, Stanley Ruppert via cctalk wrote: > I have a pretty complete set from an139 into the 1100s if there are others > you need. thanks! another list member forwarded his collection which are now on bitsavers I have a few hundred early ANs that I should dig out and scan. After d

3M third-party replacement flex-print cables

I started going through my cable sets and put a few up on eBay this morning.

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

On 1/9/20 8:57 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: Hi all -- Got one of these: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/amcodyne/7110/Arapahoe_7110_Brochure_Nov84.pdf sans power supply and packs. HP used them in one of their disk products, that is probably where the eBay guy pulled the drive from, since he

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

On 1/10/20 5:18 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Right off the bat it looks like a CDC Lark pack. Wonder if the whole thing is > a re-badged Lark. There were three different companies that made 8" drives like that, Amcodyne, Datapoint/Honeywell-Bull, and CDC I don't think the packs were int

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

yup! that looks like it! On 1/10/20 12:02 PM, John-Paul Stewart via cctalk wrote: > Is it from the HP 7907A drive? The 20.5 MB capacity (each) for the > fixed and removable discs seems to match. It's roughly the same time > frame, too. > > http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=555 >

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

here is the disk https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=561 the hardware support manual is 07907-90903 On 1/10/20 1:06 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > yup! that looks like it! > > On 1/10/20 12:02 PM, John-Paul Stewart via cctalk wrote: > >> Is it from the HP 7907A d

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

and it looks like I have a pc board http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/disc/photos/7907/07907-60003_7907_DTC_488_F.jpg The controller was made by DTC On 1/10/20 1:09 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > here is the disk > https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=561 > > the hard

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

some packs https://www.ebay.com/itm//362021616865 On 1/10/20 1:12 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > and it looks like I have a pc board > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/disc/photos/7907/07907-60003_7907_DTC_488_F.jpg > > The controller was made by DTC > > On 1/10/20 1:09

Re: Info / packs for Amcodyne 7110 "Arapahoe" drive?

I checked my drive, pn 7110S-HP likely SASI, that DTC board is a SASI to HPIB bridge Maybe HPMuseum knows where there are used packs. My drive looks like it came off of a HP1000 system (LU40 and 42) I just checked all of the scans I made from Crisis Computer's service library and it figures I d

Re: Old Nokia/alfaskop 3270 terminal

On 1/11/20 5:03 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > They have 122-key PC style keyboards with a large plug. Not sure if they are > AT or XT style. A parallel printer port. Inside there is a M68000P12 CPU. If you ever pull it apart, i'd be interested in seeing pictures of the board(s), what the

anyone heard from Cindy Croxton?

I tried sending an email about a week ago after noticing https://elecshopper.com/ was "down for maintenance"

Re: Anyone interested in ARCNET, Token Ring, FDDI, HIPPI, Strip network code?

On 1/14/20 9:47 AM, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: > The code is quite old and the drivers are not MP safe, so its being > proposed that the code be dropped Goose step to the monocuture netBSD, we USED to run on everything..

Re: Scientific Data Systems Cards

On 1/16/20 6:46 PM, Ryan Eisworth via cctalk wrote: Greetings all, I have a contact that has unearth a massive cache of Scientific Data Systems modules like the one pictured here in the Houston area: If anyone has a need for these modules or can identify base

Re: bitsavers is showing down here

jay should be posting here about the situation On 1/19/20 11:42 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2020, 12:15 PM jim stephens via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> >> Not responding from the bitsavers.org domain. >> >> I'm guessing if it's down, the list might be ail

Re: bitsavers is showing down here

fortunately, he set up a Discord channel, which is where the backup communications has been happening On 1/19/20 12:12 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > jay should be posting here about the situation > > On 1/19/20 11:42 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 19, 202

from Discord

9:10 PM jwest and now the image of the classiccmp mailing list server should be back to where it was the day of the failure. As per above, no data lost except a handfull asking if the server was up.

Re: recovering data from old hard drive

On 1/25/20 11:57 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Does anybody have any suggestions on what to try? not really, beyond checking termination. you should see the select light flash during boot if the OS can see it at all

Re: recovering data from old hard drive

On 1/26/20 4:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >>> I have dug out an old SCSI hard drive from 1997 that may have some >>> interesting stuff, most especially the source code >>> for the SGI Iris flight sim demo. this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Dogfight I should have the code for

Re: recovering data from old hard drive

https://github.com/lkesteloot/alice/tree/master/alice4/software/flight On 1/26/20 4:36 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 01/26/2020 01:13 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> On 1/25/20 12:57 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >>> I have dug out an old SCSI hard drive from 1997 that may have some

Re: Naked Mini 73-53628 Information

On 1/27/20 10:38 AM, TangentDelta via cctalk wrote: > From what I've been told, the Naked Mini CPU board is Nova compatible. very funny look at the documentation on bitsavers, the only thing they have in common is that they are both 16-bits

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

I ran into the same thing. The adr you use to post from doesn't resolve On 1/28/20 2:21 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Hi Jorg! > > Don't think my emails are going through, do you have an order site? I'd love > one. > > C

Re: IBM Type 31 Alphabetical Duplicating Keypunch available, Seattle area

On 2/11/20 8:28 AM, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: > It has a label on it that says "BR 2412". Bunker-Ramo, originally Nuclear Data NDP-812 Hang in there, man.

Re: Wire list for the RKV11-D Qbus RK05 controller backplane anywhere?

On 2/12/20 7:14 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: > No idea if it has additional logic on it or not. It is a Qbus to Unibus converter. Also, it is only 18 bits.

Larry Tesler

https://www.cultofmac.com/685669/larry-tesler-the-apple-employee-who-invented-cut-copy-paste-dies-at-74/ https://twitter.com/cdespinosa/status/1229996808052469760

Re: Larry Tesler - Computer Pioneer

> Heard of death today of Larry Tesler Does ANYONE bother to read the list before posting?

related parts?

24-bit front panel https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computer-Control-Panel-Concept-Development-Inc-Model-T-119-12-X-19/313004537395 diode memory https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computer-Printed-Circuit-Board-Memory-Array-DDI-908/283788894622

Re: Looking for Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10 Specification

On 2/22/20 12:47 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have the "Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10" > specification either in printed/book form that they are willing to separate > from or in some sort of electronic format ala PDF? I am mostly interested in > the

Re: Looking for Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10 Specification

On 2/22/20 7:31 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > the spec was only released to members of the EISA consortium > same problem with PCI, etc. etc. specs > > Global Engineering Documents sells it, their search is currently down so I can't tell how expensive a copy is

Re: Looking for Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10 Specification

3.12 was the last release of the spec

Re: Looking for Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10 Specification

On 2/22/20 11:45 PM, Ali wrote: I am surprised that after thirty or so years and many of the original "gang of nine" being gone the standard has not made its way into the wild. I was as well, which was why I tried digging for it as much as I did Global Engineering's standards search is re

Re: Bendix G15 Drum

Will Donzelli has a G15 in need of a drum On 2/24/20 9:09 PM, Barry Hills via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone have an idea as to the value of a Bendix G15 Drum? Its time to > pass mine to another caring collector who would appreciate it but I am not > sure how of its value. Obviously it is rare bu

4054 in Sacramento

https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEKTRONIX-Model-4054A-ALL-IN-ONE-Microcomputer-Vintage/372966927909 good price, it's BIG though..

Re: 4054 in Sacramento

On 2/26/20 11:56 AM, jos via cctalk wrote: > On 26.02.20 20:43, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEKTRONIX-Model-4054A-ALL-IN-ONE-Microcomputer-Vintage/372966927909 >> >> good price, it's BIG though.. >> > Would have loved to pick that up I wonder who got it?

Re: G15 Drum Followup

that is really sad I hope you sold them to Will On 2/27/20 12:50 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Barry Hills wrote: >> I sold the heads separately along with a set of replacement cards and the >> remote display for $400. > > You did what??? > Did you really "ruin" a

ISO National HPC microcontroller users manual

National didn't document the opcodes for the HPC in the data sheets. Does anyone have the users manual? I found the DOS disks for the cross-assembler and c compiler tonight http://bitsavers.org/components/national/hpc

Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

On 3/3/20 8:48 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Which terminal was it used for originally? IC date codes appear to be 1983/84

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

if it's LEC, it may be for a MAC-16 the form factor of the SUE boards is quite different (single edge connector) docs under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/lockheed On 3/4/20 8:32 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > The Unibus was patented. Don't lmpw jpw ,icj pf the WCS/,ocrpcpdomg > SIE jad avao;ab

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

found it in this MAC-16 ad https://adspast.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=62927 On 3/3/20 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > > > Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue > what system this core board was from: > http://www.classiccmp.org/

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

On 3/4/20 12:40 PM, dwight via cctalk wrote: > It is interesting, the way the edge connector is curved. I wish I'd seen this > done on more boards. it was common in Burroughs systems

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

On 3/6/20 4:42 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: Thanks, Al! Definitely it. Hopefully I'll make it back to the site at some point and see if there are more related boards, although I think everything that was left had been "decommissioned" and had the card edges snipped off (which is the

ISO earl TI DSP kits

CHM doesn't seem to have much early DSP stuff in the collection Does anyone have any of the TMS32010/20/30 or C1x/2x/3x hw/sw kicking around? Other than the docs I've scanned there doesn't seem to be much on the web either.

Re: ISO earl TI DSP kits

related, if anyone made a copy of the TI bbs320 ftp site. I did find at least one copy I made of the Moto 56K DrBubb files On 3/6/20 11:53 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > CHM doesn't seem to have much early DSP stuff in the collection > Does anyone have any of the TMS32010/20/30 o

Re: ISO earl TI DSP kits

On 3/6/20 11:53 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > CHM doesn't seem to have much early DSP stuff in the collection > Does anyone have any of the TMS32010/20/30 or C1x/2x/3x hw/sw kicking around? and sure enough, the 320C3x I had been watching on eBay vanished. thanks a lot

Re: ISO earl TI DSP kits

On 3/7/20 11:38 AM, David Gesswein via cctalk wrote: > I found around 70 disks for the TMS320C30 and TMS340x0. I can read these > Let me know your current desires for archiving such as IMD or files, text > label > info or disk pictures etc. Do you want the TMS340 graphics processor disk > i

does anyone have a tektronix 4170?

Went to Sacramento today to pick this up https://www.ebay.com/itm/TEKTRONIX-Model-4170-Local-Graphics-Processor/372967901897 and it's missing the cpu and memory boards If I can get pictures of them, I'm going to ask the seller to look for them in the stuff that they still have.

Re: does anyone have a tektronix 4170?

On 3/8/20 8:04 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: Wondered who grabbed that one. Did it come with any boards? IO and floppy he also had an external floppy/hard disk box but the 4170 didn't appear to have an external sasi connector I will try to dump the ST412 on monday

Re: does anyone have a tektronix 4170?

On 3/8/20 8:04 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > I'll see if I can pull one out for images of the boards. > could you dump the firmware while you have it out?

ISO National Instruments MPW DSP tools

One shot in the dark if anyone has the DSP development or interface toolkit for NI's TMS320C30 Nubus cards. I have a bunch of boards but never found any software to use with them. This is probably LabView 2 or 3 timeframe. I see NI, who is normally pretty good with keeping manuals around doesn't

Re: Looking for Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10 Specification

I was forwarded a scan of chapter 4 It is now on line under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/bcprServices On 2/22/20 12:47 AM, Ali via cctalk wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have the "Extended Industry Standard Architecture Revision 3.10" > specification either in printed/book form that they are willing

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

> Years ago us SGI hobbyists were able to talk to SGI about this and a huge > problem SGI had with any kind of hobbyist > license for IRIX or turning it free is it's fully of licensed 3rd party > stuff. But maybe now that's it's expired, or all > the companies things were licensed from are gone

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

On 3/11/20 8:07 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > No promises but my contact is at a fairly high level within HPE (and > formerly SGI) so I am hopeful it will at least get discussed. that's good. that is the only chance you have for getting anything done i'd also suggest using the CHM ex

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

On 3/11/20 12:59 PM, James B DiGriz wrote: > In which case, why not a FOSS release? Bob Supnik got Unisys to release the sources to BTOS while he was VP of engineering, but we've never been able to find a copy of them. They outsourced support to India, and all traces to what happened to the so

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

On 3/11/20 5:38 PM, Frank McConnell wrote: > That was well done. I just wish y'all had got FOCUS 9000 included in that. > Earlier than 68K and maybe HP didn’t have the bits any more but I think > some folks have some bits. It was all just luck and timing. The building that 1000 development wa

Re: IBM chip cross reference list?

On 3/14/20 3:21 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: Is there a cross reference list available for IBM numbers to standard chips? there is a small list here http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/6580_Displaywriter/re/ it may have been expanded since the last time I searched for info on the web for a cro

Re: IBM chip cross reference list?

On 3/14/20 3:38 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 3/14/20 3:21 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: Is there a cross reference list available for IBM numbers to standard chips? there is a small list here http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/6580_Displaywriter/re/ it may have been expanded since the

Re: Wangtek 5125ES End-of-Tape Sensor

On 3/14/20 3:34 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > Hello all, > > This is probably a long-shot, but does anyone have any advice for testing the > End-of-Tape sensor on a QIC drive? The only tricky thing would be having a mirror in the optical path. You should see something happen on the p

Re: help needed: Document scan of ISS Sperry Univac Driver Exerciser avalaible for bitsavers upload

On 3/27/20 3:55 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: I contacted two times Al via email for access credentials to upload the document as I did in the past years for numerous scans, but I never got an answer. private msg sent sorry, things have been crazy

Re: APL-11

On 3/30/20 7:58 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? APL-11 was released through DECUS. Here is the RSX-11 version http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/freeware/decus/rsx85a/370360/

Re: ISO: Documentation for Interphase SMD 2181 disk controller

On 4/6/20 11:37 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: Subject line says it all. The Lambda uses this as its disk controller and it's looking like the one in mine needs some debugging. There doesn't seem to be any documentation for this controller out there. There are docs for the Interphase SMD 21

Re: ISO: Documentation for Interphase SMD 2181 disk controller

On 4/7/20 10:03 AM, Bill Degnan wrote: Wondering if you can get/inquire from http://retrotechnology.com/#multi   site.  Manuals are not always listed there, you have to ask. Bill Herb is on the intel-devsys mailing list, I just posted a request over there which would also get to a bunch of o

John Conway

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Re: Sun 3 and memory

On 4/15/20 6:51 PM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Does anyone here know whether a 501-1102 memory board be used with a 3/160 CPU? nope, the P2 buses and memory subsystems are very different between the 1xx and 2xx

Re: Looking for a document regarding PDP8

On 4/16/20 10:12 AM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: I am bout to pull out my BigMac that might have the data in it. As in the Apple 68020 Rich Page computer? If so, I'd REALLY like to get a copy of the disk image to use on the BigMac that the museum has. https://www.computerhistory.org/collection

Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?

On 4/15/20 11:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: If anyone is interested, I could pack it up and send it to you. This was for VAX/VMS.  The directory contains 67 files. I'd like the files you have. I have a partial copy of mini-movie

Re: paging rik bos

On 4/20/20 12:10 PM, jwest--- via cctalk wrote: Anyone seen Rik Bos around? I sent him some 12920/21 mux boards to repair, and he got to keep some but haven’t heard anything in a long time…. I may start playing with the HP2000 again soon 😊 he is on the vintHP list

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