Re: Cassette Interface Assistance

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote: On Feb 28, 2017, at 9:55 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: Analog, which is my nemesis, curses me again. In my opinion, I fail to

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: I'm waiting for the rise of cell phones to make it 202x All the world's an ARM running Android on Linux. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Zane Healy wrote: I’m reminded of the current, and ludicrous, Mac Pro. :-( I wish the reply-to pointed at cctalk@classiccmp.org! I just took a peek at the Mac Pro. People actually buy that thing? I just got a Dell Dimension 7910 workstation at work. It cost around

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Chris Hanson wrote: On Mar 14, 2017, at 1:46 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Although I suppose you might have been talking about the software. I mean, without that whole display/windows/menu/mouse thing he copied from Xerox, to allow ordinary

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god? Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started... an unreliable source, who was working in Apple at the time, said that it was being touted "for the unwashed masses, or

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Raymond Wiker wrote: On 14 Mar 2017, at 23:49 , TeoZ via cctalk wrote: Jobs had to get fired for Apple to recall the expansion capabilities of the Apple II days and start making the Mac II series. Jobs left Apple in 1985 and returned in 1997. The

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Zane Healy > Good grief! When did Lisa stuff get so expensive? When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god? Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started... g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: geneb >> When people decided Steve Jobs had become a god? > Right about the time that whole "computer for the rest of us" started... Yes, of course: nobody had thought of a cheap personal computer before him. I'm going to

Re: Looking for cassete basic rom code

On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote: Has anyone made a ROM that runs BASIC and allows use of the disk drive to save on an IBM PC? This always bugged me that if you forgot to insert your dos disk before the computer powered up that one could not enter a basic command to tell

Re: Looking for cassete basic rom code

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: I need to study if there is a way to get push feed from interesting threads or such. I don't peruse much on sites anymore, and prefer to have an RSS feed or such and scan that with one liners or so. You can subscribe to threads or

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Liam Proven wrote: Yeah, god forbid you confuse the poor user with more than one button. Jeez, Gene, can't you find some _new_ nonsense? Why? The old nonsense still works! I gotta bring it out now and again to keep the rust off and the joints moving freely. :) This

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Below the user interface, is Android very similar to Linux? I'm pretty sure Android runs on top of Linux. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated

Re: Pair of Twiggys

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Warner Losh wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:13 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Below the user interface, is Android very similar to Linux? I'm pretty sure Android runs on top of Linux. A

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 9:37 AM, AJ Palmgren via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: Hi, Plamen & Al, I'm just catching up on some of these past threads involving QIC cartridges. What ever became of these Paragon tapes? Were you able to

Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: You might find more fertile ground plowing the plctalk.net forum when your questions relate to the STL/SCL/FBD/LAD/CSF area. FWIW, "STL" in Siemens-talk is an acronym for "Statement List". Why it isn't "SL" is anyone's guess. I kept trying

RE: If C is so evil why is it so successful?

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, geneb via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: From: allison Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every micro and many other systems. Because it was the language

RE: If C is so evil why is it so successful?

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, geneb via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: From: allison Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every micro and many other systems. Because it was the language

RE: bitsavers rsync server down

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Jay West via cctalk wrote: But the classiccmp server... has significantly more than that, due to all the classiccmp related websites and archives/repositories that are hosted there. One of these days you should post a list. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

RE: If C is so evil why is it so successful?

On Thu, 13 Apr 2017, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: From: allison Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 3:18 PM BASIC, why is that the most universal language implemented on nearly every micro and many other systems. Because it was the language offered on the GEIS timesharing system when a

Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Adrian Stoness wrote: Modicon, ge faunic, Allen Bradly, Allen Heath, hewert Rand, Siemens, abb, idec, square d, some I know I'm forgeting You don't "program" an STL file. It's a 3D object layout for a 3D printed part. :) (also, don't top post!) g. -- Proud owner of

Re: help needed installing USB to Serial Cable for ADTPro

On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, Raymond Wiker via cctalk wrote: Could it be that your FT232R adapter is using a counterfeit chip? FTDI changed their drivers some time back so that they refuse to work with chips that are not manufactured by FTDI. It's not that the driver wouldn't work, it would

Re: AIX documentation

On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: On 3/12/2017 3:15 PM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: I have a number of binders that have pretty thorough AIX documentation, but the trouble is, there are from security classes that were taught by private companies. Am I legally allowed

Re: sourcing Atmel 29Cxxx series flash roms

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: I'm almost out of Atmel 29C256 flash roms. I use these primarily for P112 boot roms. I'd like some more because I still have P112 boards to sell... and I want them for other projects. Mouser, Digikey, and Jameco don't have it anymore.

Re: AIX documentation

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: geneb > A lot of /completely irrelevant/ technicalities, especially considering > the material in question is a physical object, not software. Doesn't matter. The various matters I raised (copyright, restricted rights, trade

RE: AIX documentation

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote: Folks, Well I recently retired and was asked to return all training materials to my employer. I refused as the contracts included in the front of the books clearly stated that these were licenced to me personally not to whoever paid for

RE: AIX documentation

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: All that being said, the entire contents of the binder is obviously a photocopy! Sellable or not? Of interest or not? Sellable. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

RE: Kennedy 9000 Tape Drives, Terminals and Packs

On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote: ATHANA was a magnetic media manufacturer. They made floppy disks and cartridge hard disk drives that were compatible with many vendors' hard disk system. IS. http://www.athana.com/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: Announcing: VCF PNW

On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Michael Brutman via cctalk wrote: Vintage Computer Federation is pleased to announce an expansion of the Vintage Computer Festival series to the Pacific Northwest. Finally! :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: ✉Re: an interesting article

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 08:33:16AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: [...] For example, if you sent classiccmp.org an email with your "from" header tweaked to be from ge...@deltasoft.com, the mail server will reject it because your m

Re: ✉Re: an interesting article

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, Paul Koning wrote: It's a pretty safe assumption considering the fact that any mail admin worth their salt (and Jay certainly is) will have their mail systems configured to reject mail from non-authorized senders. For example, if you sent classiccmp.org an email with

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Wed, 17 May 2017, devin davison via cctalk wrote: I have both a pdp 11/34 and 11/23 and am trying to find some bbs software to run. Preferably something that will run under an os and not monopolize the whole machine. Any suggestions? i have not had much luck finding anything. I'd be

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: So a 11/03 aka a lsi11 would be to slow for such things? Such as those Heathkit h11 lsi11 macheans? Witch was a hobyist pdp11 for those that are unfamiliar with the hearhkits The machine is plenty fast. There's been BBSes run on a VIC-20.

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 05/18/2017 08:16 AM, allison via cctalk wrote: The real question is why BBS? What is it trying to fix or enable? You put the words into my mouth. Thank you. Because. That's why. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: Teletype 43

On Mon, 22 May 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2017, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: Does your PC have real RS232? A lot of "RS232" ports are serial ports, but not with correct RS232 levels. If you have "TTL RS232" [sic] it won't work with an actual RS232 port. The

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Wed, 17 May 2017, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: If someone had done such, it might have been in boardwatch if anywhere. I tossed tons of those in previous moves, so can't help with that. Plus as has been stated it would have been rare, and looking thru paper copies would be a long

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 06:07:03AM -0700, geneb via cctalk wrote: I'd be surprised if you did. This is however, an excellent opportunity to write your own. :) (At least to me, it would be a fun project.) FACEBK-11 *ducks* You can run

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Wed, 17 May 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote: There may have been Rainbow BBS programs, but I doubt anything for the 11/34. You may have to write this. That reminds me of a bit of obscure trivia... Back in the early days of FidoNet, one or more of the Fido BBS sysops had DEC

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, william degnan wrote: That's what I was thinking. I have some FidoNET files and mail from the Rainbow. My guess the BBS would have been written in Pascal or C if for the Rainbow (guess only) so if you wanted to attempt to port, after you find a Rainbow BBS? I'd start

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Fri, 19 May 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what your wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs

RE: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: 8250 is a VAX, not a PDP-11. I doubt it even ran off of 120v single phase. Um, yeah. It did. I bought the machine for $500 from Mannesmann Tally in Kent, WA. A friend and I removed the 8250 from their machine room and transported it

Re: bbs or crude facsimile of such

On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Labovitz via cctalk wrote: Another BBS obscurity — I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’ This was a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem. The

RE: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: As for power, if you have a wife and/or kids, a PDP-11's power consumption is not even above the noise floor in your electric bill. (Unless your trying to do it with RA disks!!) I used to have an 8250 with four RA-81s and a TU-81+. The

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote: On 5/18/17 12:51 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: So a 11/03 aka a lsi11 would be to slow for such things? Such as those Heathkit h11 lsi11 macheans? Witch was a hobyist pdp11 for those that are unfamiliar with the hearhkits No, BBSs were

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, Mike Whalen wrote: The machine is plenty fast. There's been BBSes run on a VIC-20. You can't get much slower than that. :) In New Orleans, there was a rumor someone ran a VIC-20 BBS with no persistent storage. Maybe true but you also might not be able to tell! I seem

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017, allison via cctalk wrote: Never forget, BBS were about storage and cheap which at that time were mostly opposed (disks weren't cheap!). The amount of Ram and CPU were less important considering what had to be done. Often the modem and hard disk were as costly as the

Re: DEC archives

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: I have therefore come to the conclusion that people don't want my scans (for whatever reason). And I am not going to waste my time scanning manuals as a result. So no Philips P800 schematics, etc. Instead of that, why not just upload the scans

Re: Chasing Digiac...

On Mon, 18 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: From what I can determine off the web, Digiac made quite a range of training tools, both analog and digital. One particular one could be a prize for some collector--a 25-bit (!) mini capable of running FORTRAN:

Chasing Digiac...

I'm trying to find out more information about a Digiac 4500 S-100 bus system that will eventually be coming my way. The machine was originally obtained through an estate sale and all the docs were thrown out. :( It appears to be some kind of computer system trainer, but information on the

Re: What's the matter with kids today (Was: The origin of the phrases

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Jack Harper > I HATE and LOATHE bloatware - e.g., so much MicroSoft stuff. Some of us consider contemporary Linux/etc bloatware. systemd. 'nuff said. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only

Re: Tek 4051 users and replacement for the 405x QIC Tape

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: I think he has a few of these left. The big problem is the RAMPACK plastic cases are recycled from old ROMPACKs and these are in short supply. I googled "tektronix rampack" to see what they looked like. That would be absurdly easy to 3D

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Ethan via cctalk wrote: Hi, trying to check some MFM drives I have on my shelf. Have an IBM PC AT, with an WD1003 controller in it. So, what is the best(?) or easiest piece of software, to format the drives, check for bad blocks, etc.? I think I remember something like

Re: VCF Midwest: (Not Even) One Week to Go!

Jason, can I order a 2x shirt from you? tnx! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data

Re: oh, this is great news!

On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: complaint over at godaddy.com's hosting forums. There's your problem. It's the cost of hosting with that dumpster fire known as "godaddy". g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: Visicalc Addendum

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: ?? VisiCalc was written and developed in Massachusetts. 3 thousand miles from Silicon Valley. Right. That was sarcasm on my part, since we

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at what's necessary for that. On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote: Have a look

Re: DR-DOS

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, william degnan via cctalk wrote: I have a few original Dr dos disks. Versions 5, 6, 7. Would these help if I am imaged and uploaded to my site? Liam, if you need me to I can build a full distro of OpenDOS 7 - I've got a machine that I can build the original sources

Re: DR-DOS

On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, Liam Proven wrote: On 17 November 2017 at 16:44, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Liam, if you need me to I can build a full distro of OpenDOS 7 - I've got a machine that I can build the original sources on. Thanks! For now, I'm trying to avoid bu

Re: BBS software was Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Ethan via cctalk wrote: I'd get a RS232toWIFI dongle, they're cheap and easy to make a connection via simple terminal software to an outside telnet target. I don't think the RS232 to WIFI dongles from the one guy are often unavailable. I think the creator hand solders

Re: BBS software was Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: I'd get a RS232toWIFI dongle, they're cheap and easy to make a connection via simple terminal software to an outside telnet target. I don't think the RS232 to

Re: ☀yahoo astonishing!

On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Walter Irizarry via cctalk wrote: Hey friend, This is merely something really amazing, I'm telling you, you have to take a look http://www.spaaam No spammer, I don't. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: TRS-80 Fragmentation

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Then they upgraded the model 1 to reduce the cords and cables, and made the Model 3. I don't know whether the resemblance to the Northstar Dimension was deliberate. I think the primary driver for the Model III was that the Model I would no

RE: Old newsreader source code

On Wed, 9 May 2018, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: From: Seth Morabito Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:23 AM As an aside: If you were active on Usenet in 1989, what software were you using? 1988-89 is about when I started reading Usenet newsgroups. At first, I used rn under Ultrix (on a VAX

Re: Old newsreader source code

On Thu, 10 May 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 05/10/2018 07:18 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: Rich, if you point a reader at nttp.olduse.net, you can start reading in 1988 again. :)  The most recent messages posted are from 05/10/88.  The messages that appear on the server are exactly

Re: Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

On Thu, 17 May 2018, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2018, geneb wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: OK  I  see there is a  mix  of  photos in this  directory! some  tape  reader  some  drum  2  separate  topics.   Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else)

Re: Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Paul Koning wrote: On May 16, 2018, at 8:28 PM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: OK I see there is a mix of photos in this directory! some tape reader some drum 2 separate topics.

Re: Eudora email client source code released

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Len Shustek via cctalk wrote: For the last five years I've been working with Qualcomm and others to allow the Computer History Museum to release the source code of what was, in my opinion, the finest email client ever written: Eudora. It's finally done!

Re: Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

On Thu, 17 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: wonder how many are running that version of alpine that exists errors? The problem isn't on the destination end, it's on the origin. Asking me to adjust my email client to fix your problem is like a noisy neighbor demanding I wear earplugs.

Re: Unknown CDC unit , looks like a drum memory ?

On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: OK  I  see there is a  mix  of  photos in this  directory! some  tape  reader  some  drum  2  separate  topics.   Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else) can see this, but there's two junk characters at the end of every word you write. I see

Re: Announcement: VCF Midwest 13!

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Jason T via cctalk wrote: Summer is almost here and that means it's time to get it in gear and start planning our next Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. Astute Ping me when the shirts are ready. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only

Re: WRQ Reflection 4+ DOS

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: Ed, *throws rocks at Fred for top posting* :D g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks

Re: New Items Up for Sale from Sellam's Collection

Advanced Electronic Applications PK-64 PAKRATT-64 - packet radio modem for Commodore 64; excellent condition - $60 Is this complete? (cables, manual, etc) Thanks! g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go

Re: where to find ZCPR2, ZCPR3, ZCPR33, ZCPR34?

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Bill Degnan wrote: https://archive.org/details/LOGIC_AppleII_Disk-CPM014 is this what you mean? While that's useful (thanks!), I'm really looking for the complete ZCPRn

Re: Sneak peak: this year's VCF PNW/East/West shirt design

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different shirt color. Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any similarity to him

Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, Charles Anthony wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 6:44 AM, geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: What do they have up there for Honeywell? Any DPS-8’s? I know they should have at least a box of GCOS-8 m

Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!

Here's another pile of photos. These are mostly of the basement and 3rd floor storage areas. https://imgur.com/a/ti86K g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things

Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!

On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: What do they have up there for Honeywell? Any DPS-8’s? I know they should have at least a box of GCOS-8 manuals (in hindsight, the only manuals I regret sending up there). Zane, they've got a DPS-8 maintenance/operator/? panel sitting right

Re: Books up for grabs

IBM DOS Technical Reference (the 3 ring binder + box) Greenleaf Software Comm Library (3 ring binder + box) I would be interested in these. Shipping would be to 98338. I don't think any of these will be a problem mailing to U.S. P.S. I am still waiting on confirmations for the two

Re: BBS for RSTS

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote: I'm sure it's been years since I've darkened anyone's door around here. I still have this idea that someone should write a proper BBS system (and run it) for RSTS... ...the age old problem is getting data in and out of it to connect it to

Re: Got a kidney!

On Sat, 14 Jul 2018, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: Got the call yesterday. Transplant operation was a success. Still at the hospital recovering. Will update when able. \o/ g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: AlphaServers

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Really on the VAX side, emulation makes sense. For $75, I picked up a HP i5 system that’s dedicated to running SIMH 24x7, and I also have SIMH running on my HP i7 ESXI system, and on a RPi2. The i7 is my fastest “VAX”. Zane, what's the

Re: Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: This turned up on Fess Bouc yesterday and it was news to me. It's a DIY replica of an original IBM PC motherboard: http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html That's actually been around for 3 or 4 years. So far I've made successful saving

Re: Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote: Umm, I'm missing something here. It can't possibly be $149.50 as listed on the webpage. I would think that would be the price for the bare board if anything. As far as I know, it's a complete kit. It's been the same price since it's

Re: 3100/90?

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: storage into my Cluster. Long-term I’m looking to drastically cut my power needs by taking physical systems offline, except when needed. A billion times this. :) I turned four physical machines (x86 servers) into 8 virtual machines on a

Re: AlphaServers

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote: Really on the VAX side, emulation makes sense. For $75, I picked up a HP i5 system that’s dedicated to running SIMH 24x7, and I also have SIMH running on my HP i7 ESXI system, and on a RPi2. The i7 is my fastest “VAX”. Zane, what's the host OS

Re: AlphaServers

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Zane Healy wrote: I’ve been using the HP SFF systems. I think the i5 I got specifically to run SIMH is a 6300. It’s an i5-3470 3.2Ghz system with 4 GB RAM. I had to add a hard drive, but had an old 500GB drive laying around. That’s plenty big to backup and migrate the

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote: On Apr 16, 2018, at 6:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: And lifting the sticker reveals the BIOS chip is just a W29C020P-12, a regular 256k x 8 Flash

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

From: "cctalk" To: et...@757.org, "cctalk" Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 11:48:22 AM Subject: Re: PATA hard disks, anyone? On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: and well... let's just say that "newer"

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: I wonder if you could use a photographic enlarger and a flatbed scanner to do this. This is a rather interesting question, it’s highly impractical, BUT, it might be a way for someone like me to get copies of single pages. A slightly more

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, geneb via cctalk wrote: I'm probably WAY over simplifying this because I don't have a grasp of the optics involved, but wouldn't it be possible to get a good image of individual pages on a microfiche by using a DSLR

Re: PATA hard disks, anyone?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: It's probably foolish and irrational, but I somehow just don't trust the bargain-basement 4TB drives to perform long-term. Am I being silly? Not really. Have you looked at the drive statistics published by Backblaze? Here's a report for

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, et...@757.org wrote: I'm probably WAY over simplifying this because I don't have a grasp of the optics involved, but wouldn't it be possible to get a good image of individual pages on a microfiche by using a DSLR with the right lens and a CNC X/Y table made from one of

Re: Digitising collections of microfiche - Re: Looking for opinions...

On Wed, 28 Mar 2018, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: The Illumitran uses bellows, but for a lot of DEC fiche, the page size is constant so extension tubes might actually be better - they won't slip. Initially I was going to suggest an Illumitran, but I don’t think it would work that well with

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote: windowing desktop per user, while X Window not only supports multiple desktops per user (each with its own context that can be swapped in to occupy the display area), but natively supports remote desktop access from a number of users over

Re: 70's computers

On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/24/18 10:53 AM, ben via cctalk wrote: I have no idea what is in a modern home computer, but I suspect it still follows the same design of the IBM PC. Single CPU with segmented memory and bit of DMA here and there. Wow... You are out

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/29/18 12:54 PM, geneb wrote: Here's the Walnut Creek collection: https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom It sure would be nice if you could get a comma separated list of metadata instead of a bunch of pretty pictures THAT is where IA is a

Re: MSDN CD disposition

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: That would surprise me a bit; I'm not aware of any OS software being "trial veriosn" type. I think the shrink-wrap agreement calls for being able to use it on up to 10 systems. The copies of, XP, for example are fully licensed working

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/29/18 6:11 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote: This is going to be a long term project that will end when I've either exhausted the available CD-ROMs on the IA, or I die, whichever comes first. ;) Even a full list of what CDs Jason has

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Gee, I didn't know you collected old CD archives. I've got some WC CDs here: "Internet USENET source code." CDs 1,2,3 C/C++ Users Group Library August 1997 "Toolkit for Linus"-2 CD set. --- Developer Source Vols. 4-10

Re: MSDN CD disposition

On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: What's Microsoft's policy on old MSDN CDs? I've got a ton of them starting somewhere around 93-94 and extended through the XP years. Do I respect MS's IP and send them to the crusher? There's a ton of them on the IA already. I would /love/

Updates at retroarchive.org...

First up is the addition of Crescent Software's entire product line. The company produced a number of good library suites in the late 80s and early 90's. Note these are all DOS products - the Windows product line was sold in the early 90's. http://annex.retroarchive.org/crescent/index.html

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