LambdaDelta 0.98.1 released!

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages - I present to you LambdaDelta, my decidedly average LMI Lambda emulator. See https://github.com/dseagrav/ld for the source repository and release tarball. So far we have been able to run full-speed on a 2.3 GHz i7 and a 2.5 GHz i5, but

LMI Lambda - Software this time

Great progress has been made in running the Lambda firmware and diagnostics. A way has been found to structure things such that the emulator is releasable without infringing on anyone’s copyrights. Now what we need is software tapes, specifically a Lisp distribution tape of any version. If

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

> On Aug 24, 2017, at 4:12 PM, Jay West via cctalk > wrote: > > The world has gone mad with political correctness, and I will - at least in > the very tiny corner of it that I control - not allow it. OK then, which opinion is safely politically incorrect? Are women

Re: LMI Lambda Lispmachine Keyboard aka Space Cadet Keyboad

> On Feb 17, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Marc Holz via cctech > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have the keyboard for a LMI Lambda Lispmachine but I'm missing the > computer itself. Where’d you get this from, and do you have any idea what happened to the machine it was once

Re: Lisa Source Code

> On Dec 28, 2017, at 3:23 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk > wrote: > > What is a "Lisa Source Code" ? > The schematics? The source code for the Lisa firmware and/or Lisa OS? Whatever it is, it won’t be enough, someone will throw a fit about something being there or

Got a kidney!

Got the call yesterday. Transplant operation was a success. Still at the hospital recovering. Will update when able.

Re: Got a kidney!

Status update: They let me go home Thursday but I was too wiped out to post about it. Things are still pretty fluid, there were some complications, but they’re being managed. I was on the waitlist for 5 years and 4 months, they listed me immediately on diagnosis. I got the transplant through

Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts"

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 12:15 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > Really, is this any worse than the gold bugs scrapping whole systems for > the prospective precious metal content? It seems worse to me because the gold bugs are ignorant and greedy but the

Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts"

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 11:35 AM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > …are the bane of my existence and should all rot in hell. > > Sorry, I just received an email from a “keyboard enthusiast” who was looking > for > various IBM 327x keyboards and wanted to know if I

Re: Apollo Software

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:14 AM, jim stephens via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > On 1/23/2018 6:30 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: >> The Saturn software, which is what actually flew from Earth to the moon, > The navigation and guidanc

Re: Apollo Software

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 9:33 AM, jim stephens via cctalk > wrote: > The real work was done in the back rooms @ Mission control, with certain > features implemented on the systems onboard the rocket. > > You couldn't carry out a mission w/o the ground supporting either

Re: Apollo Software

> On Jan 22, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > >> From: Paul Koning > >> I[t] just dawned on me that the subject is Apollo the company bought by >> HP, not Apollo the spacecraft. Oh well... > > Actually, that stuff has all been saved, and run under

Re: AlphaServers

> On Mar 13, 2018, at 7:44 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk > wrote: > > Several people have now mentioned they have dead Alphas. What is generally > failing about them? > > Kyle When my 1000 started failing, the manual lead me to believe it was b-cache, but the jumper map

LCM MDE2 building/ordering

So did anyone actually buy/make one of these yet?

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk > wrote: > > Here is a great example of why the keyboards and terminals are getting > separated Keyboard fetishists are vermin; They are destructive and have no redeeming qualities, and should be treated as such. I had one of them

Re: Selling keyboards without the terminal

> On Oct 20, 2018, at 2:03 AM, Doc Shipley via cctalk > wrote: > > That's just nasty. Your invective, that is. There are idiots in any > enthusiast group, and predators. Including this group, if we're honest. You > want to talk conspicuous consumption? How many on this list, myself

SMD disk needed

Does anyone within driving distance of central Illinois have a SMD drive I can borrow for awhile until I can get some kind of SMD emulator working? Anything 450 MB or bigger will do. I need one for the Lambda.

Re: SMD disk needed

The controller is an Interphase 2181 and it should take any disk that works with that. LMI supported Eagles and smaller CDC drives at first, but later you could define drives of arbitrary geometry in setup and later directly in the ROM. I know that Super Eagles work at least at the software

Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

> On Dec 30, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Nemo wrote: > > On 30/12/2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: >> >> New-era-internet term for illegally gaining access to someone's real world >> “documents" (place of employment, home address, phone numbers, medical >&

Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

> On Dec 30, 2018, at 12:37 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk > wrote: > > What is dox? New-era-internet term for illegally gaining access to someone's real world “documents" (place of employment, home address, phone numbers, medical records, family members’ info, etc) for harassment, stalking,

Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

> On Dec 29, 2018, at 11:17 AM, Curious Marc via cctalk > wrote: > > Yes that would be lucky us. Hotel was no fun but owner understandably did not > want to ship or even get separated from his AGC. We have been offered some > real lab space in Houston for next time, so hopefully we’ll be

I finally got to see a LMI Lambda in real life...

Two of them in fact, and a CADR - In my garage, no less! The Lambdas are in bad shape, and the CADR is in very bad shape and missing its console and disk. It’s going to take awhile to get them cleaned up and see how viable they are. On the plus side, I got a some spares and debugging

Further Lisp Machine Developments

I spun up a blog for posting the ongoing status of things; It’s at https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/

Re: TI Explorer Lisp machine tapes

> On Feb 20, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > has there been ANY posts about the Explorer simulator in the last decade? > I haven’t posted about mine; When I left off, it was at a dead end. TI lost GENASYS, so there is no way to generate a new system, and no complete

Re: Apollo Computer Article

> On Jun 18, 2019, at 10:29 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk > wrote: > > This site has TONS of stuff, including (links to) much original > documentation. There are also copies of actual flight software that can be > run on the simulator. > https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ There is also a

Re: Shipping from Europe to USA

> On Aug 22, 2019, at 2:09 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 22, 2019, at 2:57 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 06:30:10PM +, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: >> ... >>> Only UPS did … and yes, the “horror” stories *are* true. They

Re: I'm sharing a toy

> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk > wrote: > > Yeah, you might be able to DOS my Raspberry Pi. Maybe you could break out > of simh and start using the Pi itself to mine bitcoins. I know you’re joking around, but IoT gadgets and other small devices are being exploited

Re: Computer Reset shop, liquidation. (USA)

> On Jul 17, 2019, at 11:26 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk > wrote: > > Oh, I did not mention how some of those misfits can throw their own > wrenches in the works. Piss one of them off and he calls the Fire > Marshall. Some dick did that when I was cleaning out Compass so many > years ago

Re: Restoring dull BOT markers?

Went to the hardware store looking for the 3M tape, found some aluminum foil tape for HVAC duct work. It’s a hair thick, but works just fine. Worked on 5 out of 5 tapes it was tried on so far.

I apparently have Spacewar for Unix?

While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label saying "Read it into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard saying where it can be found. -Bob”. There was another paper label that had fallen off. What I think is the label in question was later found in the bottom of the

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

> On Nov 17, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Jörg Hoppe via cctech > wrote: > > Yes, can (get a kit with SMT work done) OK, that’s the answer I needed; If I want to put one of these in a KS10, can the parity lines be hacked from the software (the KS10 uses them as two extra data bits) or are they

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

> On Nov 19, 2019, at 9:35 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > Joerg is the one building and selling the board, I'm just a satisfied > customer who's also been hacking new device support into it. I'll keep y'all > posted as to when I make progress on this. > > Also if anyone has a KS they could, uh,

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

> On Nov 20, 2019, at 10:37 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > > Gotta drag this stuff out and take a look. Oh and RD54's are *slow* compared > to ESDI disks and controllers. Ouchies! Can’t be worse than my original plan, which was to use a Viking SCSI controller and hack all the things to

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

> On Nov 19, 2019, at 5:41 AM, Jörg Hoppe via cctalk > wrote: > > Several people asked to make UniBone PDP-10able, it should be not problem. > > UNIBUS PA,PB are (like all other signals) just pins on a GPIO multiplier, no > interpretation is done in hardware. > > On software side the PRU

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

> On Nov 19, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Chris Zach via cctech > wrote: > > Ah. Another solution to the fabled "MASSBUS" to anything adapter? Putting it > in at the RH11-C level would remove a fair bit of complexity, then you could > simply emulate all the Massbuss insanity through the relatively

Restoring dull BOT markers?

What’s the best way to restore a dull BOT marker so I can get a good dump of a tape? I don’t need a long-term fix since tapes themselves are in exceedingly bad condition and are unlikely to survive more than one read.

Re: Living Computer Museum

I’ve been just kinda skimming along in this thread, I’ve been busy; Just wanna make sure I have everything down... 0: If you sent anything to a museum, you’ve been fleeced - you’re an idiot. 1: If you didn’t send anything to a museum, you’re a hoarder - you’re an idiot. 2: If you send things to

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech - text encoding

> On Jun 18, 2020, at 4:03 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk > wrote: > > Peter Coghlan wrote: >> Does anyone use ASCII anymore? > > I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator. > I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126. I vote we move the list to an Exchange server

Re: Greaseweazle

> On Feb 2, 2021, at 8:51 AM, John Foust via cctalk > wrote: > > How else will products improve? I don’t know what planet you’re from but here on modern-day Earth we don’t improve anything anymore. We just bitch and scream on the internet and find reasons to drive people out so nobody

Re: Early Programming Books

> On Jun 21, 2021, at 4:47 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk > wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2021 22:19:02 -0600 >> From: ben via cctalk > >> LISP still can't be compiled. > > May I respectfully suggest that you don't know WTF you're talking about? I’ll save you some time and trouble, because

Re: Writings on AI from 17 years ago....

> On May 24, 2021, at 3:31 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > > Well if it winds up in the dumpster then that's yet another lesson to not > trust "Museums". It's actually funny than MC was taken from the storage shed > and turned up at another "Museum”. I would expect them to sell it to

Re: DEC pin

> On Mar 31, 2021, at 1:38 AM, Curious Marc via cctalk > wrote: > > I’ll blame it on Kyle and Fritz, I could not resist… > > https://curiousmarcs-store.creator-spring.com/listing/VAXinated As a PDP-10 partisan I am anti-VAX. I feel it is my duty to make a big stink about this, but do not

Re: Need a BASIC expert

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 6:19 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk > wrote: > > It is not too hard to imagine a professional programmer who took a copy of > Dartmouth BASIC and adapted it for this flavor of BASIC, but I personally > dont have any reference docs about it or proof. I’m not sure I would

Re: What happened to control-data.info and controlfreaks.org?

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 12:53 AM, Jim Carpenter via cctalk > wrote: > > Is anybody able to access these sites? I just get redirected to Google. > > Jim Quite simply, Tom got mad, took his ball, and went home. It is my understanding that everything has been deleted and won’t be restored.

Re: What happened to control-data.info and controlfreaks.org?

> On Nov 18, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Michael Kerpan wrote: > > What happened? Looking back at my emails, the list was operating normally > until September 3. Then it just stopped. There were normal discussions going > on. There was no flood of spam. As far as I can tell, nothing occured that >

Re: Viking SCSI controller RS232 adapter

> On Jun 28, 2022, at 1:29 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > On 6/28/2022 12:58 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> I have a couple of these boards but have never got into the on-board monitor >> which requires an adapter board that allows a terminal to talk to the >>