[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

Apologies for the off-topic. On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 15:34, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: > I got a government official to give me the legal definition and > published it on wikipedia, quoting the official source. > Was it Measurement Canada's complaint form? Because they - that is,

Re: PMI memory on an -11/93 (Was: Installing an operating system on an 11/83)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 16:10, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: > half populated with memory. I don’t think you can add memory > externally. But I might be wrong … > You are not wrong. From the KDJ11-E module user's guide (on BitSavers) the solder-side of the CD fingers is left unpopulated, but

Re: PDT11/150 supported in RT11 5.7?

>From the freshly installed RT-11 v5.7 disk image I have available to me: .type pd.mac .MCALL .MODULE .MODULE PD,VERSION=09,COMMENT=,AUDIT=YES On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 at 14:44, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote: > I was just reading the RT 11 5.7 documentation the other day and noticed the > mention

Re: IEEE-488 on the PDP-11

On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 at 16:27, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > Fun card. Thanks for starting this thread. I have one too (came with > my MINC-11) and I have experience with IEEE-488 from my many hours > spent with Commodore PETs. > Hmm now that I'm reminded that a large proportion of Commodore's

Re: Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 21:32, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > As for operating system support, the only DEC operating system which could put > tapes and disks on the same Massbus was TOPS-20. Tops-10 explicitly tells you > in the SYSGEN process that disks and tapes must reside on different

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 09:27, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > I learned it about 15 years ago (OpenAPL, running on a Solaris workstation > with a modified Xterm that handled the APL characters). Nice. It made a > handy tool for some cryptanalysis programs I needed to write. > I am interested

Re: Text encoding Babel. Was Re: George Keremedjiev

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 at 03:44, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > If it's in Roman, Cyrillic, or Greek, they're alphabets, so it's a letter. > Correct, Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic are alphabets, so each letter/character can be a consonant or vowel. > I can't read Arabic or Hebrew but I believe

Re: DEC PDP-14 Programmable Controller simulator

On 4 April 2017 at 20:21, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: > I have written a PDP-14 simulator using the simh framework. Paired > with a PDP-8 simulator as a front end it passes all the DEC > diagnostics. A pointless effort, perhaps, because there isn't much > that can be

Re: Full immersion emulation

I'm replying to the "top level" original message just to put some other comments in on "full immersion" emulation, without trampling over the discussions that are going on about the sound experience. On 1 March 2017 at 14:14, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote: > Part of