At 11:25 PM 30/04/2022 +0100, you wrote:
>In trying to fix my M7133 CPU from my 11/24 I thought I had identified a
>failed 74S240. However, when I replaced it (while adding a socket), the
>fault remained. So, I guess the original chip may not be faulty. I decided
>to test the original chip on a
At 07:50 PM 1/01/2022 +, you wrote:
>>
>True. But if you're trying to get > $5000 for something, it doesn't seem
>unreasonable to suggest that investing a bit in getting an extension cord run
>to the location of the machine would be a good idea. The absence of that
>effort makes me wonder
About the software:
I bought a couple of that seller's cards; one each of 284088568161 &
284088570014.
Asked him about the software. Here's his reply.
Regarding your question about the Analyzer software, if I recall correctly it
comes bundled in the "NI-488.2" software package. I
At 11:41 PM 10/09/2021 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Guy!
>
>Thanks for the post and interesting. No it's not quite the exact power
>supply but close. However
>
>Are you *sure* those cards are in the right slots?
Hmm... I was starting on that system back in Nov 2013.
I'm pretty careful about taking
Here are some disassembly pics of a HP 5061-6615 power supply.
http://everist.org/pics/hp1000_ps/5061-6615.zip 2.9M
Details:
HP 1000 Model 2113E SN 2340A03701 OPT 004 014
power supply Model 5061-6615SN 2340
Not the exact same PS as yours, but it might help?
My problem is
>Hello,
>
>For the sake of illustration to folks who are not necessarily used to
>thinking about what computers do at the machine code level, I'm interested
>in collecting examples of single instructions for any CPU architecture that
>are unusually prolific in one way or another. This request is
At 07:47 PM 17/06/2021 -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>A while ago there was discussion about the mini banana plugs
>used in this system.
>
>On another project at work, we needed some mini banana
>plugs, these sure look similar.
>
>I found that Digi-Key stocks some, as part # 314-1403
At 12:19 AM 3/04/2021 -0600, you wrote:
>On 4/2/21 10:27 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>> There are defects in your 'good' flatbed image too - for eg the
>> bleed-through of the orange lettering on the other side of the
>> sheet. The way to correct that is to use
Hi Kevin,
Are you _sure_ the two modes use the same optical sensor?
Often sheet feed systems use a different sensor somewhere along the paper path.
I suspect they are not, given the odd colour pattering off the top edge of the
paper, on the autofeed image.
If those two images are definitely
At 05:45 PM 25/03/2021 -, you wrote:
>https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313467585213
Seller is German. Of course they are serious.
The real question is whether they are sane.
Guy
At 12:14 PM 27/10/2020 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I have an EP-1 eprom programmer from BP Microsystems.
>
>The rubber feet melted. It was in my closet. I have no clue how it got
>that hot, or if they
>are just some composition for them to melt.
>
>My question is how do I clean this up?
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-1-Original-1976-Computer-System-1st-Steve-Wozniak-designed-computer-and/174195921349
Heh, all very jolly. Thanks everyone for reminding me... of my personal Apple I
story.
http://everist.org/NobLog/20181001_missing_wave.htm
Guy
At 08:39 PM 19/10/2020 -0700,
At 10:41 AM 12/09/2020 -0700, you wrote:
>I got an LK201 recently that was a little damaged in transit. A couple of the
>keycap assemblies and their corresponding leaf springs have come off. I can
>see how the leaf springs fit on the little posts on the keycap assemblies, and
>I can see where
Be glad you don't have to deal with this kind of thing:
http://everist.org/pics/misc/20200719_6831_wet_tapes.jpg
A bunch of PDP 8 system tapes. That were literally soaking in liquid water when
recovered.
Yes, that is mildew. They are nearly dried out now.
Still to be determined if they can be
At 02:22 AM 17/01/2020 -0800, you wrote:
>
>On 2020-Jan-17, at 12:11 AM, William Maddox on CCTalk via cctalk wrote:
>
>> The seller thinks this may be a drum memory, but it is clearly not. My
>> guess is that it is some kind of clock generator. Anyone recognize this?
>>
>>
Bah, attached photos don't work. OK, the pic is here:
http://everist.org/pics/misc/20200103_5346_IBM_mag_cards.jpg
Guy
At 10:51 PM 3/01/2020 +1100, you wrote:
>Huh, that's a coincidence. Going through a recent bequeathment to the
>Australian Computer Museum Society,
>I'd just yesterday opened
Huh, that's a coincidence. Going through a recent bequeathment to the
Australian Computer Museum Society,
I'd just yesterday opened a box with manuals, some cards, and other bits for
the same system.
See pic, with manual cover illustration of the system.
It was IBM trying to produce a word
At 01:20 AM 3/12/2019 -0200, you wrote:
>I cannot understand your problems with PDF files.
>I've created lots and lots of PDFs, with treated and untreated scanned
>material. All of them are very readable and in use for years. Of course,
>garbage in, garbage out. I take the utmost care in my scans
At 01:57 PM 2/12/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:51 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk
>wrote:
>
>> When I corresponded with Al Kossow about format several years ago, he
>> indicated that CCITT Group 4 lossless compression was their standard.
>>
>
>There are newer bilevel encodings that
They have all gone to good homes.
Thanks to Matt and Dave in England for taking an IRMALink each, and Alan in USA
for taking the MC/8e Intelligent Async serial set. Not cheap postage, but they
saved me from having to bin those nice old cards.
Guy
At 04:06 PM 23/11/2019 +1100, you wrote:
>I'm
I'm clearing out some old stuff. These are free (but you pay postage) if anyone
wants them.
Catch: they are in Sydney Australia.
---
Digital Communications Associates Inc. Circa 1985
IRMAlink IRMA 2 3270 Micro-to-Mainframe communications
IRMA 2 supplies the personal
At 10:09 AM 14/11/2019 +, ED SHARPE wrote:
>
>g11 for analog and g11a for digital and pulse
>we have a G11A new in box unused with cellophane surround available respond
>off list
Pretty cool. Some pics down a way in this page:
For others like me, who are newcomers to this group:
http://web.archive.org/web/20190616094729/http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/index.html
I hope he's just having a nice fishing holiday or ocean cruise or something.
That's the trouble with circles of 'net friends.' Without fallback physical
At 04:30 PM 3/11/2019 -0600, Bob Yates wrote:
>Sorry don't know how to respond directly
There's always the last resort of ctl-C copy and a text editor?
>https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Have you (or anyone here) actually tried Fontforge?
I had a go back in mid 2018, and then it seemed to be
Well, it's sold. I hope someone here hought it, and will post some better pics
and details.
If it had been near to me I'd have bought it instantly. A rack, a Tektronix XY
display,
a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy
drives,
and a probable
At 08:53 PM 2/10/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>I have 400 pieces of Signetics 10144L ECL static RAM chips.
>Anybody need some?
>These were salvaged from boards by a surplus dealer
>(Alltronics, I think).
>They are a 256 X 1 bit RAM, somewhere around 20 ns access
>time, ceramic package.
>
>Jon
I
Yesterday:
>These will go up on my site at http://everist.org/pics/pcbs
Then promptly the web hosting server goes down, since this morning of 20190930
Tue in Australia.
I don't yet know why, or have any estimate of when it will come back up.
Guy
Developments!
I asked:
>Alternatively, is there anyone on the US East coast who wants to play hold and
>reship?
Dan Veeneman in Maryland has volunteered. Thank you Dan!
His web site: http://decodesystems.com is pretty cool, check it out.
Assuming I can get the seller to ship the boards to
At 10:03 PM 27/09/2019 -0500, JRJ wrote:
>Thanks for the tip. (Part of not recognizing that is that I had never
>made the connection between the 2108B/2112B and the "1000" series
>before, until I read about it in this thread, and did some poking
>around. The HP's have not been one of my
At 05:42 PM 27/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>On Sep 26, 2019, at 7:24 AM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> 3. Just because you have different opinions doesn't mean their ways are
>> wrong. Hell, they even seem to be willing to work with people interested in
>> single boards. I'm sure
At 06:08 PM 26/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy
>> Dunphy via cctalk
>> Incidentally I've identified those boards. The ones with the pull rings:
>>
>> https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z
k up the boards.
Not to mention sidestepping the seller's problematical packing intentions.
Guy
>-Original Message-
>From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy Dunphy
>via cctalk
>Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 4:01 PM
>To: Brent Hilpert; General Disc
At 02:59 PM 25/09/2019 -0500, John wrote:
>What, isn't anyone going to speculate on the value of the gold here? :-)
The seller would seem to have been pulling rare boards from many old machines,
probably scrapping the systems (since they would have been more saleable with
the boards installed)
At 12:00 PM 25/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>On 2019-Sep-25, at 3:07 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Does anyone else recognise some of the other boards?
>
>
>There is a stack of IO interface boards, including HSTs, for the HP 2100/1000
>series there.
>
>Lower-rig
At 02:29 AM 25/09/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>I contacted the seller and was able to work out a very reasonable deal to
>purchase a selected subset for my future needs.
Oh, is that why the price dropped $50? Because some of the boards sold?
So really the seller still has the same inflated idea of
At 05:38 PM 24/09/2019 -0500, Cindy wrote:
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/174036836066
Sigh. A whole lot of HP 3497A data acquisition plugins (in the back there, with
the pull rings):
https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ZrUAAOSwI5Fdg5KH/$_57.jpg
Not sure which cards. Maybe optically isolated
At 04:59 PM 22/09/2019 -0500, Thomas Raguso wrote:
>Update: I have also found IBM 500-series punch card equipment.
If you find any full boxes of blank IBM punch cards, please mention.
I might be able to afford postage on a few.
> 1970s HP computers
I'm probably going to cry when I see photos.
It's good that these caps are so readily available.
But on the other hand, I don't have any sort of power supply
at all, for either of my two PDP 8/S machines. Sob.
Being in a 240VAC mains country doesn't help, since I understand
the original DEC supplies were 110VAC input only.
But I'm not
At 04:54 PM 8/09/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Kyle,
>
>On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 18:42:06 -0500
>Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Has anyone replaced the capacitor in a ferroresonant power supply with much
>> success? My current understanding is that the capacitor and transformer are
>> mated as a pair,
At 01:15 AM 28/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm just curious how many people have powered up their TRS-80 computers,
>and ended up with a bang and a room filled with smoke?
>
>So far, I've gotten the fireworks in two out of two TRS-80s (model 3 and
>4) when they were powered up. In both cases, the
Or to just the item number:
253997593352
Assuming your browser is going to expand typing eb to ebay.com, then you enter
the item number in the ebay search box.
Guy
At 08:45 PM 21/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>A small off-topic trivial tip:
>That URL can be reduced to:
>
Hi Guy,
If you didn't see this, it may be of interest:
http://everist.org/NobLog/20131112_HP_1000_minicomputer_teardown.htm
It won't help you identify your system model, but could be of help with
disassembly.
Funny coincidence that we have the same name, and similar HP-1000 minicomputers.
At 10:18 PM 7/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>Adam
WELCOME TO THE ANCIENT COMPUTER MVSEVM
All systems are emulated, on Raspberry Pi and Linux.
1: Multics MR 12.6f (Honeywell 6800 DPS-8/M)
2: TOPS-20 7.1 (PDP-10 KL-10)
3: TOPS-10 7.03 (PDP-10 KA-10)
4: ITS (PDP-10 KA-10)
5:
Adrian, what order of volume and weight are these?
I'm definitely interested, from a general preservation viewpoint, also a
personal interest in
lesser-known OS. And I have some PDP-11 systems to restore and play with.
However I'm in Australia...
Britain has a nice 'media mail' option - I buy
At 07:07 PM 23/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>Nonetheless, comparing some small amount of lost information
It's not a 'small amount of lost information', because destroying rare
technical works in order
to scan them, or afterwards because "now they are scanned there's no need to
keep the paper
At 07:16 PM 22/07/2019 +0200, Mattis Lind wrote:
>> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines as a future restoration
>> project. But can I find
>> a service manual? No. None online, only one for the later 028. And even if
>> there was a PDF
>Have you seen these:
At 10:41 AM 21/07/2019 -0600, you wrote:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 4:16 AM Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk
wrote:
>I'd suggest that in 2019 when bits are cheap and high-quality scanners
>nearly as cheap, "crappy quality digital image" is a bit of a straw man.
>Yes, I've seen plenty of
At 12:48 AM 22/07/2019 -0600, you wrote:
>On 7/21/2019 8:07 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>
>> BTW. I have three IBM 026 card punch machines as a future restoration
>> project. But can I find
>> a service manual? No. None online, only one for the later 028. And even if
At 07:58 PM 21/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> Even if the digital version _did_ fully capture the information content, I
>> strongly dispute that the physical item/document has lost it's value.
>> That 'digital is all we need' viewpoint is a trap for the naive, because:
>
>. . . and does it FULLY
At 01:48 AM 21/07/2019 -0400, Paul Birkel wrote:
>If I may summarize/generalize, Guy, I think that your point is that there
>are Technical Artifacts and there are Cultural Artifacts -- and the two sets
>overlap to some degree. Where the overlap lies is subject to great debate,
>IMO.
Indeed.
At 03:57 PM 21/07/2019 -0600, you wrote:
>On 7/21/2019 9:04 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Starting again with the clean full size scan, reduce to 1200 x 1620, (a good
>> screen size)
>> and 8 bit/px indexed. (Adequate for this page.) Saved file size: 339 KB.
&g
At 09:05 PM 20/07/2019 -0700, Al wrote:
>
>> I wish I knew why ISO and Adobe never updated PDF to include PNG images.
>
>The pdf format supports png just fine.
Oh does it! The texts say it doesn't, and it definitely didn't originally.
Maybe the change is in one of the more recent ISO standards
At 11:41 PM 19/07/2019 -0600, you wrote:
>OK. I've done the first of the manuals I have. Thanks for all the helpful
>hints.
>
>I took apart the Rainbow User's Manual's metal spiral spine. I scanned it
>with scansnap and ran it through the indexing function. I think I tweaked
>the settings in a
I'm posting a private email (anonymized) and my reply because it's a
significant issue.
>{Note private reply}
>
>> When the scanning process involves destruction of the original work
>> ... But if it's a rare document, or even maybe so rare that it's the
>> last one, then destroying
>> Have a look at
>> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aura-speeds-simplifies-all-your-
>> scanning-needs#/
>>
>> Carl Claunch pointed me at this, he has one and I am sure he can
>> comment
>> further. I have ordered one.
>
>You can actually get them off of Amazon and they run specials on them
At 08:51 PM 18/07/2019 -0600, you wrote:
>On 7/18/19 3:50 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
>> So, I have a bunch of old DEC Rainbow docs that aren't online. I also
>> have a snapscan scanner that I use for bills and such.
>>
>> There's four kinds of docs, and I'm looking for advice:
>
>I always
My net service dropped out yesterday, hence delayed reply. I did NOT expect
that thread to take off.
At 10:14 PM 16/07/2019 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
>> Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
>
>old news, dredged up again because of a youtube jackass
Ah yes, now I see there was exactly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik
Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!
via https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/lgr-retro-computer-warehouse/
To lessen risk of developing PTSD from watching that video, I'll mention that
right at the end
he explains there IS a process in place
At 07:30 PM 16/07/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>For those who saw this item:
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/183639487495
>
>but didn't know what it went to (Web searches for "5409818" and "5009817"
>didn't turn up anything useful for me), it turns out to be a "Configuration
>2" backplane for a
At 12:38 AM 14/07/2019 -0400, Jesse Dougherty wrote:
>Whats your deal dude? I'm not trolling anyone. I have hundreds of these
>boards here.. I don't need 170 HP 1000 Series MUX cards. They just don't
>sell that often for me to hold on to. What else do you want me to do
>with them. Its crazy
At 06:43 PM 13/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes
>Without the exact zipcodes and weight, can't get exact postage.
>However, it is likely to be "zone 6", for which parcel post for 1 pound is
>$7.62. There are ways of getting some discounts, such as online
At 01:48 PM 13/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>Another of the un-acknowledged people in the upcoming July 29
>'celebrations'.
>
>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women
>
>--lyndon
Highly
>They confirmed my order. Fingers crossed they actually ship them, and it
>doesn't
>turn into an argument about honoring transactions. Though probably, a higher
>postage
>cost would be fair. 88 floppies and covers will weigh a bit. (Should have
>bought 100.)
>4 Pack of 5.25" Floppy Diskettes
At 03:47 PM 11/07/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>> On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> > https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
>>
>> They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
>
>Weren't these 89 cents when this was first posted? Well they're
At 08:27 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, Grumpy Ol' Fred wrote:
>The 5.25" diskette or "Mini-diskette" is bar napkin size, because Dr. Wang
>said that 8" diskettes were too big. I have not been able to track down
>WHICH bar.
Perhaps the same bar where someone bet L Ron Hubbard that he couldn't create a
At 07:14 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>> And the index hole.
>
>What about it?
Because it's so long since I used any 360K floppies, that I could not
recall if some didn't have any hole. (But I did remember about the soft/hard
At 12:25 PM 10/07/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>On 7/10/19 11:32 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>
>> https://www.bgmicro.com/4-pack-of-5-25-floppy-diskettes-with-sleeves.aspx
>
>They have hub rings, so they are probably 360K
And the index hole.
Thanks Will, this is quite fortuitous. I've just
At 12:18 PM 8/07/2019 +, jesse cypress-tech.com wrote:
>If anyone wants 87 HP 1000 series mux cards for gold or to play around
>with, I'm starting to clean house. The ebay link is below.
>
>https://www.ebay.com/itm/383039137321
Wow. Way to make everyone interested in restoring HP 1000
At 08:21 PM 5/07/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>You could be sitting on $400K-$1,000,000. That's the current range of
>decent-condition Apple 1 boards.
I just _love_ being reminded of the circumstances of my NOT buying an Apple I,
and what that mistake cost me.
At 12:56 PM 25/06/2019 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 12:31, Tony Aiuto via cctalk
> wrote:
>>
>> On a related note, a fun talk about ARM
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2045=_6sh097Dk5k
>
>Remarkable. Thanks for the link. Astounding. Very thought-provoking.
Hi Ronan,
I know you meant 'in Ireland.' But I can't resist: I'm of Irish ancestry,
though born
and residing in Sydney Australia. Also "My particular interest is in DEC pdp-8
and pdp11 machines."
Never thought I'd actually have any, until unexpected events of 2018 and
ongoing. Now so far I
At 08:59 AM 16/06/2019 +0100, you wrote:
>There is a more complete archive here (with search facility):
>
>https://marc.info/?l=classiccmp
>
>Matt
https://marc.info/
My God. A firehose of firehoses.
At 07:32 AM 12/06/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> On Jun 12, 2019, at 7:13 AM, jesse cypress-tech.com via cctech
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is there a list search option on the archives? As in if I wanted to find
>> a relevant thread for part number ABC123 I could search that somewhere?
>
>A better question
>Subject: Things to do in Australia & New Zealand?
>From: Patrick Finnegan
>I'm going to be in Australia and then New Zealand for most of June, and was
>wondering if there was anything interesting classic computer wise to visit?
>I'm planning on being in Sydney for the Australia half of the trip,
At 09:36 AM 18/05/2019 -0700, Chuck wrote:
>There may be better solutions, but I haven't come up with one yet. It's
>a bit funny; I can remember when the tape seal adoption was causing
>dumpster-loads of hard plastic tape cases to be scrapped. The cases
>that remain tend to be intact, even after
Thanks, I'll check that.
At 07:48 AM 24/04/2019 -0500, wrco...@wrcooke.net wrote:
>
>> On April 24, 2019 at 7:39 AM Guy Dunphy via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>
>> I haven't dumped the chargen chip yet, because I don't know what it is, and
>> suspect it's mor
At 08:14 AM 24/04/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>On 4/24/19 5:39 AM, Guy Dunphy wrote:
>
>> The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable.
>
>8049s aren't protected. they are 2k versions of the 8048
>and can be read as 8749s
I did try reading it as an 8749. By 'not readable' I meant it
At 04:34 PM 23/04/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>
>
>On 4/23/19 3:35 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
[my Televideo 924]
>
>I have maint manuals for the 925.
>
>Some photos of the boards and dumps of the keyboard firmware and controller
>would be nice to add to bitsavers, si
When I saw this thread I thought 'Oh, I have a 925!' Which was working last
time (years ago.)
But wouldn't you know. When I checked, it's a Televideo 924. Off by one.
But perhaps the character ROM content is the same?
Anyway I will see if it still works, and secure all the ROM images. Today.
I
At 08:49 PM 5/04/2019 +, you wrote:
>Hi Kyle,
>
>hat's a really interesting problem, and the government (NSA) wanted this badly
>and done FAST.
>
>they asked Seymour Cray to create a specific instruction for this and they
>called it 'population count'
>
>Anybody know the why and how it is
At 10:17 PM 4/04/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>These are very different. That older one was really just a case - it
>had no lights, perhaps no actual switches (I am guessing not), and
>certainly no circuit boards. This one has that stuff (and I see that
>the price has gotten to an amount I once bid on
Or the drum isn't getting charged in the first place, before light exposure
then toner dusting.
A way to check this: while the machine is in mid-copy, cut the power then open
it up and look at the drum.
Is there a toner image adhered to the drum section between where the surface is
At 06:59 PM 10/03/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> On March 10, 2019 at 6:10 PM ben via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/10/2019 3:18 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
>> > Back in 1965 Jack Kilby, Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel at texas
>> > Instruments created an integrated circuit designed
At 01:11 PM 19/02/2019 -0800, you wrote:
>>> Old tech, but not computers:
>>> https://madison.com/business/galesville-antique-phone-dealers-looking-to-offload-vast-collection/article_b1845009-c861-50ff-82c8-60a15866fc6d.html
>
>On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
>> 451:
At 01:51 PM 16/02/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay
>them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much vintage computing gear as I
>can as we speak. I'll be here until they close today at 5pm EST, so if you
>see something
Hello Jesse,
I have this:
http://everist.org/NobLog/20131112_HP_1000_minicomputer_teardown.htm
It's a stalled project, due to unfortunate circumstance. I was at the point of
preparing
to reassemble the machine (after cleaning) and start testing. Wanted to first
test the power
supply under
At 12:03 PM 10/01/2019 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
>> All my Apple II disks are DOS 3.2. When 3.3 came out, it was a) too much
>> trouble
>> to convert everything up, and b) ... read that 'missing the wave' story.
>> It gave me a sour feeling about 3.3. Totally my
At 09:07 AM 10/01/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>One problem you may encounter reading LIF format diskettes on a PC using
>these tools is many LIF diskettes are formatted 256 bytes/sector and
>there is lots of PC diskette controller out there that cannot deal with
>that including all USB diskette
At 09:43 AM 10/01/2019 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
>> * Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF?
>Now that is as easy as it can be. There's lif_utils from Tony Duell
>(http://www.hpcc.org/datafile/hpil/lif_utils.html), or the HP LIF
At 07:34 PM 9/01/2019 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>> ...
>> What other all-formats floppy R/W and data recovery tools do people here
>> know of?
>> Comments of their functionality?
>
>A couple
At 03:39 PM 9/01/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I had the bug to do something similar.. then I found SuperCard Pro.
>It's closed hardware but the USB protocol is fully documented. Because
>if that, it's almost a perfect commodity turn-key hardware bridge to raw
>flux-level transitions - in or out.
At 11:05 PM 8/01/2019 +, you wrote:
>While tidying up I've found a few Irman infrared to serial dongles
>
>https://web.archive.org/web/20060314052558/http://www.evation.com/irman/index.html
>
>they connect via a 9 pin serial plug and then convert any consumer
>remote IR signals they receive
At 08:56 PM 8/01/2019 -0600, you wrote:
>On 01/08/2019 04:33 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, allison via cctalk wrote:
>>> SStandard lockout after three fails i 15 minutes.�
>>
>> Howzbout:
>> a quarter second lockout after a fail;
>> double that for each subsequent fail.
This may be a good place to mention a text I began writing some while ago:
On Scanning.
http://everist.org/temp/__On_scanning.htm
Meant to be a 'how to' about scanning and post-processing techniques, written
as I
explored that myself. It's not finished because I was working on a solution to
At 06:48 AM 1/01/2019 +, you wrote:
>
>Happy New Year to all!
>Ed#
>
>Sent from AOL Mobile Mail
So, no new year's resolution about not typing extra spaces after words, Ed?
Well maybe next year?
Best wishes to all, and hopefully 2019 will bring everyone lots of interesting
classic
At 03:10 AM 31/12/2018 -0600, you wrote:
>I know of one outside of Chicago that is as is. I might be ab;e to move it
>a state or two or help out with the arrangements. I know nothing about
>it, but I can text or email 2 pics.
>
>Paul
User manual:
At 12:05 PM 29/12/2018 -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
>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
>
Coming from you that's a worrying
At 10:50 PM 20/12/2018 +0100, you wrote:
>> How about you not join a nearly 20 year old mailing list and start
>> insulting people, most of which have probably been in the computer
>> industry longer than you've been alive?
>
>insulting? I posted a link to a project just to share the fun and I
At 09:03 PM 20/12/2018 +0100, Carlo Pisani wrote:
>ok, I give up.
>a forum with a bazaar should be more appropriate
>frankly this mail list looks like spam, and it's going irritating
>since it's difficult to follow and to handle
True. I don't have time to read all messages either. Haven't yet
At 08:34 AM 11/12/2018 -0800, Marc wrote:
>That's a beautiful old scope setup. I have a friend who collects this
>stuff but he is very low budget and on the opposite side of the country
>like me.
Heh. How about 'no budget, and opposite side of the world'? Do I win?
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