[cctalk] Walter Shawlee of Sphere, RIP

I purchased several items from Walter at Sphere over the years. I suspect many others of you Tek and HP fans on this list have, too. He was always helpful and kind. Walter has been ill for some time and passed away yesterday. It's good that his wife, Susan, will continue to run the business (I

[cctalk] Re: VCF West?

Yes, there very much is a VCF West!!! https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-west/vcf-west-exhibits/ Cheers, Lyle -- On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:19:32 -0700 (PDT) Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Is there going to be one this year? > > > Is there a reason why it never gets mentioned

Re: List migration

On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 01:38:36 -0400 Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > Friends, > > The process of migrating the cctalk and cctech mailing lists to a new > host in Chicago is underway. This evening, I've moved the list mail > handling to the new server, and this message will be the first live >

Re: I can't sent to gmail either with my domains

Exactly what I found. Setting up correct SPF (I had done that a long while ago) and then several months ago correct correct DKIM DNS records. This action helped get my email domain "approved" per Google's "Postmaster Tools" https://postmaster.google.com/managedomains Google is doing their best to

Re: Short PDP-8 Memory Test...

, 9-Trk tape, PTR/PTP which I donated to the CHM. It'll probably never see the light of day :( Best, Lyle -- On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 20:31:41 -0500 Mike Katz wrote: > Another PDP-8E?  You are very lucky :) > > On 4/6/2022 1:06 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > I recently a

Short PDP-8 Memory Address Test..

Continuing the debugging of my recently acquired PDP-8/E, I wrote an address test that's easy to enter from the front panel: --- # PDP8 Quick Address Test # Pass 1: Loads locations 23- with their own address. # Pass 2: Tests each location for the correct address. If # it fails (address does

Short PDP-8 Memory Test...

I recently acquired another PDP-8/E and wanted to test basic CPU functions and memory before I added peripherals. There are some available short "memory tests" online, but most don't have have the flexibility to test multiple data patterns by design. The test below does a classic checkerboard

Re: HP1000 A series servers, interface card, cables, and accessories.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:52:33 -0400 Jesse Dougherty via cctalk wrote: > I have A series servers, parts, interface cards, and probably any > accessory that you might need. If anyone is looking for any HP 1000 A > series hardware, let me know. I still have a few of these loaded A990 > boxes that

Re: HP1000 A series servers, interface card, cables, and accessories.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:52:33 -0400 Jesse Dougherty via cctalk wrote: > I have A series servers, parts, interface cards, and probably any > accessory that you might need. If anyone is looking for any HP 1000 A > series hardware, let me know. I still have a few of these loaded A990 > boxes that

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

AFAIK, I have an entire library of MODCOMP documentation - consisting of over one thousand manuals as PDF's. I will check with the person who had the original manuals scanned and check to see if it is O.K. to zip them up and give them to AL to post on bitsavers. (I expect them to say "O.K.").

Re: IBM PC Network

On Sat, 22 May 2021 23:00:31 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 5/22/21 6:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;) > > Nor have I. > > > BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"

Re: IBM PC Network

On Sat, 22 May 2021 23:00:31 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 5/22/21 6:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;) > > Nor have I. > > > BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"

Re: IBM PC Network

rrific. Oh yes, that and we used to charge about $250-$350 a node for network cards with a 40% margin. Ah, those were the days ;) Cheers, Lyle -- > On Sat, May 22, 2021, 4:34 PM Lyle Bickley via cctalk > wrote: > > > Hi Grant, > > > > On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600

Re: IBM PC Network

Hi Grant, On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Q: Does anyone have any IBM PC Network hardware and / or software that > they would be willing to part with? My company installed a several hundred IBM PC Network equipped workstations "back in the day" ;) It was

Restorations...

Jim, I sent you an email to your jwsm...@jwsss.com mail account and haven't heard back from you, so thought I'd better try to reach you on cctalk! It's about potential restoration work needed in the LA area. Please get back to me privately. Sorry for the interruption of posting this to the

Re: DEC PDP-8/e Omnibus backplane lubrication

I've been successfully using Deoxit and related products for many years, after I learned of them from government projects where I was a consultant. In a specific case: My PDP-8/E has 32K of core memory in four banks (original DEC). Several years ago, it developed random memory errors. I did all

Re: Lisa Source Code

Al is right. AFAIK, the CHM has never made an official announcement regarding the release of the LISA OS. Perhaps the confusion comes from this email from Al to the LisaList: -- Al Kossow Dec 24, 2017, 7:49:23 AM to lisa...@googlegroups.com Just wanted to let everyone know the sources to the OS

Re: Systems Concepts SC-4 computer

ly forgot about the SC-4, whatever it was supposed to be." Cheers, Lyle -- On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:13:26 + Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Phil Budne wrote: > > From: Lyle Bickley via cctalk > >> > >> I contacted Peter Samson regarding a "SC-4" and this was h

Re: Systems Concepts SC-4 computer

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:03:47 -0500 (EST) Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Lars Brinkhoff > > > Anyone ever heard of the Systems Concepts SC-4 computer? > > Given the SF address, and Peter Samson's signature, this is the _the_ Systems > Concepts. Never heard of the SC-4,

Re: The best hard drives??

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:27:45 -0600 Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: > Hello all, > In the opinions of you experts out there considering reliability > being number one on the list with speed be number two on the list what > would you folks consider to be the best SATA drives on the market? >

Re: Computer stores

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:52:19 -0400 Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > 45 yrs. ago last month, mid-July, Dick Heiser started a new industry, the > retail computer store. It opened in West L.A. under the name Arrow Head > COmputer Company. aka, The Computer Store. This began the direct

Re: BYTE Magazines

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:04:33 -0700 Donald via cctalk wrote: > Computer Museum of America might be interested. They have a Byte wall. > > http://www.myimagecollection.com/webpics/cmoabyte.jpg Almost all of my vintage computer collection went to the CMoA (Computer Museum of America - two 26'

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:58:59 -0400 Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > NL7776 /SETUP -2 > TAD (-7776) /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE > SZA CLA /SKIP IF OK > JMP IMA8S /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER > > / IF WE GET HERE,

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

To see if HP is still issuing VAX hobby licenses, a few days ago I applied for same directly online. Today I received the following in a similar manner as others have described: Hello dear OpenVMS Hobbyist,   Please see

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

I forwarded your email to the 1401 Restoration Team at the Computer History Museum... Cheers, Lyle -- On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:34:36 -0800 Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > (resending as this appears to have gotten eaten last time...) > > Hi all -- > > As the subject line says I've got an IBM

Re: Vintage HP test gear and other stuff at Anchor Electronics...

here were no attached > photographs. > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > > On 1/28/2020 7:02 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > I was browsing around in the back of Anchor Electronics a couple of days > > ago and came across some clean (but dusty) vintage HP test

Vintage HP test gear and other stuff at Anchor Electronics...

I was browsing around in the back of Anchor Electronics a couple of days ago and came across some clean (but dusty) vintage HP test gear - and several very cool large variable resistors. I've attached some pictures of both. BTW: Those of us in Silicon Valley are fans of Anchor - because they

Re: Portlock Storage Manager?

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:15:33 + Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote: > Anyone on here remember NetWare? :P I started and ran a network VAR company which was both Novell (Netware) Certified and IBM Business Partners. We sold a LOT of Netware, associated network cards, cabling and services. Both

Re: TSS/8 on RK05

Josh, THANK YOU (!) for the conversion of TSS from RF08 to RK05! I have a PDP-8/E with and RK05 and it will be fun to get TSS/8 running again. I had TSS/8 running years ago - on my PDP-12 and RF08 (w/2-disks!). Unfortunately, I donated both to the CHM in the mid-90's - and they've been sitting

Re: Discord

Hi Jay, What game are you working on? There are SO many WWII FPS games of that period ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_video_games Cheers, Lyle -- On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:25:41 -0600 jwest--- via cctalk wrote: > Greetings folks >

Re: swtpc.com expired???

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:15:01 -0500 William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote: > Domain has been down for 7 days now. No reply to emails. Does anyone know > anything? I looked it up and got this from "GoDaddy": --- NOTICE: This domain name expired on 10/30/2019 and is pending renewal or deletion. ---

Re: Modcomp Minicomputers Related - Preservation and Repair

I have what I believe to be an entire set of Modcomp manuals, sales brochures, etc. I obtained them from a firm that supported Modcomps at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and other firms throughout the world for years. They have all been scanned into PDF's. I recently asked them for

Re: General Automation SPC 16 on eBay

Bob, It went for $130 on eBay... Somebody got a very good deal ;) Was it you??? Lyle -- On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:28:12 -0700 Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk wrote: > There's a cheap General Automation SPC 16/45 on eBay that someone needs > to get. It's for pickup only > in Royal Oak, MI otherwise

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

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, so replacing just one of them would require

Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 23:43:17 + W2HX wrote: > Thanks, Lyle. I was reading this. I guess its wrong? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroVAX > > The MS630 memory expansion module was used for expanding memory capacity. > Four variants of the MS630 existed: the 1 MB MS630-AA, 2 MB MS630-BA,

Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 21:11:39 + W2HX via cctech wrote: > Hi there. > > > I just acquired a board with the number M7609. It was advertised as an > M630-CA which my research tells me is supposed to be 16MB. How do I tell on > the board if this is 8MB or 16MB? There does not seem to be a suffix

Re: Looking for a Intel multibus 88/30...

stem to make sure it wasn't DMA... Repeating the CORRECTION: I NEED AN iSBC 88/30!!! Thanks again, Dwight!!! Cheers, Lyle __ > From: cctalk on behalf of Lyle > Bickley via cctalk Sent: Monday, June 17, > 2019 1:39 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subj

Looking for a Intel multibus 88/45... (minor corrections...)

I'm in the process of restoring an Intel 310 system. I had it working to the point where it was trying to boot - when the 88/45 processor began to fail intermittently and then solidly. My debugging seems to indicate that the problem is in a PLD - which is a serious bummer. I have preserved the

looking for a Intel multibus 88/45...

I'm in the process of restoring an Intel 310 system. I had it working to the point where it was trying to boot - when the 88/45 processor began to fail intermittently and then solidly. My debugging seems to indicate that the problem is in a PLA - which is a serious bummer. I have preserved the

Re: PDP-11 disk image question

Bill, On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:55:10 + Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > So, I used SIMH to do an install of a complete OS on > an RA81 disk. I would like to move this to a real disk > and try it on a real PDP-11. Is there a way to do this > using dd on a BSD machine? I tried but it

Re: sun 88780 on ebay

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:04:42 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/132933407806 > > this is interesting because of the price and that all of the Sun > drives I've ever come across had the 800bpi option in them That's been my experience, too. The 88780 I use is a Sun

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:04:52 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 12/7/18 1:25 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > Anyone has old DECUS distributions? > > For all intents and purposes, no > > DECUS threw them out. Not true for PDP-8 and PDP-12 DECUS. I was the last PDP-12 Coordinator for

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:22:16 -0500 Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:44 PM > Subject: Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals > > > > > > > > On 11/20/18 12:33 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk

Re: A very sad PDP-8/S

On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:13:16 +1100 Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > This is rather sad. > I've received a PDP-8/S. It turns out to be missing so much, that > it's probably beyond restoration. Anyone who can think of potential > ways to find the missing parts, please speak up. > >

Re: Anyone have a HALstation 300 install CD?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:21:28 -0700 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I'm evaluating two that came in as a donation, and the donor didn't > have any passwords They are crackable (I did it for my two HAL's - a 350 and a 375). Hint: Use Solaris running on SPARC. I also created a forensic copy of the

Lot of DEC QBus gear available...

With the demise of Weirdstuff, I decided to visit Outback Equipment in Gilroy this week. Jim Schuetz, formerly a partner at Weirdstuff is now the Business Development Manager at Outback. While there, I looked over the following DEC gear (includes several non-DEC QBus cards that I'm not listing -

Re: SGI stuff in the UK

Totally legit and Ian (the owner) knows more about SGI gear than anyone I know. My company's server is the U.S. mirror for his tech site: http://www.vintagecomputers.info/sgi.html Cheers, Lyle On Thu, 3 May 2018 13:51:48 -0500 Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: >

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:35:28 -0400 Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > Last Day is this Sunday > > > > http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-buisiness-( > > > > since I can't attach a

Re: R.I.P. Robert T. "Doc" Suding

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:27:35 + Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > I just learned from the April 2018 issue of QST that Robert T. "Doc" > Suding, W0LMD, has died. Suding cofounded and was chief design > engineer of The Digital Group, an early microcomputer company in >

Re: UCSD p-system manuals and disks?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:50:12 +0100 Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > So I have imaged the three disks I found using ImageDisk: > http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/TEXAS.zip > > Then I scanned one of the manuals. UCSD Pascal : >

Re: Four Unibus boards from radiation dose measurement system.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:15:23 +0100 Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Hello! > > I have four unibus boards that came in a 11/34 which was used for > radiation dose measurement at a hospital. > > Three of them are made by Computer Design & Application inc and is a > three

Re: who is in this picture? (VCF 199x)

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:55:47 -0500 Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > https://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/vintage-computer.jpg > > I was not at this particular VCF out in California in the later 90's > when this photo of a DEC exhibit was taken; the original

Re: non-PC Floppy imaging

Hi Guy, I just copied several IBM 8" Maintenance Device (MD) Diskettes - and verified that the copies work on the IBM MD. They seem to be in an IBM 3x0 format (with a standard IBM VTOC). Track 0 on the diskettes is 128 byte sectors, Tracks 1 through 76 are 256 byte sectors. The diskettes are

Re: Sync on Green RGB video

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017 18:44:07 -0500 william degnan via cctech wrote: > On Nov 18, 2017 4:09 PM, "Douglas Taylor via cctech" > wrote: > > > > I have a couple of vaxes that output 'unique' video, Alpha 3000 > > 300, > Alpha 3000 400, Vax 4000 VLC,

Re: PDP8.org

he domain DNS record points to DNS Servers that are no longer in service or whose name has been changed. Lyle --- On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:38:39 -0700 Lyle Bickley via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > pdp8.org is NO

Re: PDP8.org

pdp8.org is NOT in: Comcast DNS: nslookup pdp8.org ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 75.75.75.75, trying next server Server: 75.75.76.76 Address:75.75.76.76#53 ** server can't find pdp8.org: SERVFAIL Google DNS: nslookup pdp8.org 8.8.8.8 Server: 8.8.8.8 Address:

Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:00:30 -0700 steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > >> found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem > >> Computers cartridge

Re: More videos of VCF's Univac

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 01:00:34 -0400 Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > Here it is loading/running memory tests and Wumpus. :) > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrzeovlnioDfQR86zJOLPQ-D Terrific!!! Passing this on the the PDP-1 and 1401 Restoration and

Re: Univac

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 01:20:40 -0400 Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > Here's a phone video from a recent repair workshop at the VCFed > museum in New Jersey. Bill Dromgoole is demonstrating progress on one > of the tape drives for our Sperry-Rand Univac 1219B mainframe

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:45:12 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > Well, this is the stupidest thing I've read today. > > "Do Not Feed The Troll" should go without

Re: RX01 and RL01 on same UNIBUS system

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:48:47 -0400 william degnan via cctech wrote: > Just curious, > Is there anyone out there with a combo RX01 and RL01 on the same > UNIBUS system, today? Are there any known issues? I have an 11/34C (cache and floating point options) with (1) RX02,

Re: DEC archives

On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:45:37 -0500 Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: > Ok revising my overly simple thought of vounteers showing up.  What > about a class on document archival at VCFw (or other) and then an > archive party? Not trying to push a non-issue, but if that gets past

Re: DEC Archives

On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:42:18 -0700 Lyle Bickley wrote: Note: This is a re-post - as my last post didn't seem to make it to cctalk... --snip-- > I have personally reviewed several boxes of the DEC archives - and > they are a terrific asset in understanding both DEC's

"What the DEC?!? Records of Minicomputer Giant Digital Equipment Corporation Open for Research at CHM"

The CHM has posted this on their blog: I thought you all (especially DEC buffs) would appreciate this: https://goo.gl/BV6MXH I have personally reviewed several boxes of the DEC archives - and they are a terrific asset in understanding both DEC's business successes and failures, engineering

Re: Directory of old computer collectors

On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:29:22 -0400 william degnan via cctalk wrote: > can you send a link to the people who are on the list so they can see > their listing? I personally don't mind as long as any record that > includes me personally does not include my email address or

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017 09:14:24 -0400 Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote: > > BSD 2.11 should run fine on a 34 or 23 > > You need split I for 2.11BSD, that rules out the 11/23 and IIRC the > 11/34 as well. I want to say 2.9BSD will run though. > > Thanks, > Jonathan I run