[cctalk] Re: Other input devices.

On 2024-04-13 19:22, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Apr 12, 2024, at 9:55 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: Did any one ever use a keyboard to magtape as input device? My wife did, sort of: for a while she worked with IBM MT/ST word processors. Those were very early word processing systems

[cctalk] Re: 5 1/4" and 3.5" disk duplication machines

Oh yes. Back in the late 80's, I delivered some 13-14 autoloader-equipped media conversion systems to norwegian, finnish and danish customers. The problem they solved, was that the customers customers had a variety of floppy disc formats, like Norsk Data, IBM, CP/M, IBM 3740 (which itself

[cctalk] Re: Overland Data Depot4 application

On 2024-02-08 05:16, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: On 2/7/24 21:51, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: Greetings! Based on the comment in a message posted last fall, I downloaded and installed the Overland Data Depot4 software that was mentioned during a discussion of SCSI tape tools. 

[cctalk] Re: Looking for Tape Control Software TFORMAT for Irwin 110/125 Floppy Tape Drives

Hello Lothar I checked my stock, and found the drive . Irwin Rhomat model 285-EE-10. Sorry, but I could not find the software Regards Nico On 2023-06-19 17:50, Nico de Jong via cctalk wrote: Hello I believe I have the software at home, but I will not be able to check it before Tuesday, as I

[cctalk] Re: Looking for Tape Control Software TFORMAT for Irwin 110/125 Floppy Tape Drives

Hello I believe I have the software at home, but I will not be able to check it before Tuesday, as I am out of town for the time being. As far as I remember, the IRWIN drive (at least the one I have) was seen as a floppy disk, and had to be connected to the floppy controller. I’ll be back Nico

[cctalk] Re: Anyone in or near Spain that can read 6250 GCR 9-track tape?

jong via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: We have some tapedrives on our conversion system. M4 and Qualstar. Please mail me directly if you are interested Regards Nico de Jong www.datamuseum.dk On 2023-05-30 00:48, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: List, I'd rather not put a customer t

[cctalk] Re: Anyone in or near Spain that can read 6250 GCR 9-track tape?

We have some tapedrives on our conversion system. M4 and Qualstar. Please mail me directly if you are interested Regards Nico de Jong www.datamuseum.dk On 2023-05-30 00:48, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: List, I'd rather not put a customer through the throes of sending a 10.5" reel of tape

[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

On 2023-01-10 08:12, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/9/23 22:31, Fred Cisin wrote: A little quick speculation, but not determinable without the system, . . . The Teac FD55F was a 96tpi "720K" drive at 300 RPM The Teac FD55G was a "1.2M" drive. 360RPM The FD55GF was both, and there were

[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

On 2023-01-10 07:31, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On 1/9/23 21:16, nico de jong via cctalk wrote: Hello Chuck Speaking of old floppies, when I was busy converting floppies (I've now been retired for 10 years) I frequently had problems reading some 5.25" disks, but only on specific d

[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

On 2023-01-10 07:14, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/9/23 21:16, nico de jong via cctalk wrote: Hello Chuck Speaking of old floppies, when I was busy converting floppies (I've now been retired for 10 years) I frequently had problems reading some 5.25" disks, but only on specific d

[cctalk] Re: Reading Old Floppies

Hello Chuck Speaking of old floppies, when I was busy converting floppies (I've now been retired for 10 years) I frequently had problems reading some 5.25" disks, but only on specific drives. Those disks came from IBM systems, probably S/3. I cannot be sure that the solution holds, but it

Re: Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

On 2021-12-10 10:31, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2021, nico de jong wrote: You need a COM port (or simulator) and a little box converting RS232 to 50 BPS serial.  Diagrams can be found everywhere. But you could also look at There isn't such a converter thing ;-) What you

Re: Overland T490 cartridge tape drive and autoloader

Hello Peter Yes, the drive is 3480 compatible. I have only seen them as "normal" SCSI, but that is not the same as saying that differential versions do not exist. I believe I have a manual somewhere, but can't look into it until mid next week I'll get back to you if I find it Nico On

Re: Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

On 2021-12-09 11:26, Dominique Carlier via cctalk wrote: On 9/12/2021 11:00, nico de jong via cctalk wrote: Sent !

Re: Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

it all here Regards Nico (OZ1BMC), formerly PTT telegraph operator On 2021-12-09 11:14, Dominique Carlier via cctalk wrote: Oh great ! But a little bit noisy to use like that ;) Well, I'm interested by your software anyway ! Dominique On 9/12/2021 11:00, nico de jong via cctalk wrote

Re: Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

>Please note : all mecanial Siemens machines I've seen, use 40 mA. Not 60 mA. /Nico On 2021-12-09 00:21, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote: Dominique, Nice to see your machine working so well! I like how it lights up from the inside. To connect it to a computer, you could simply get a Volpe board

Re: Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

Dominique, Well, that is in principle very easy. You need a COM port (or simulator) and a little box converting RS232 to 50 BPS serial.  Diagrams can be found everywhere. But you could also look at www.i-telex.net. This is a (primarily) german "band of brothers". They have set up an

Intermec 8625 printer

Hi all, I'm hoping to get an answer here. The 8625 barcode printer has a prompting mode, switched on by activating the bottom switch in a bank of switches. The printer is then supposed to write a prompt, so you can start programming the label formats. I seem to remember that the printer

Intermec 8625

Hi All, It might sound a bit strange, but I am looking for the manual for the Intermec 8625 barcode printer. I need it for a museum project in the danish Home Guard, but it seems to be just as rare a a hens teeth. I would be very grateful if I could borrow the user manual for copying the

Re: Strange magtape anecdote

Hi all, Back in the early 70's I was an operator on an IBM 360/40 with 4 tapedrives. Nobody could understand that sometimes a tape transfer would stop saying "end of tape", mainly around 3 PM, when not called for. It was mainly one specific drive, but its two neighbours, one on each side,

Re: ICL1501 Cobol manual available

On 2020-04-17 09:12, ben via cctalk wrote: On 4/17/2020 12:19 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:00:17PM +, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: [...] Tomasz, forgive me but I have to ask. You did note the date on which that announcement appeared, right? Yeah. I

Speaking of RPG.... was :Re: Is IBM RPG classic?

Hi all, This discussion brought up some memories. Until I retired, I was in the media conversion business (read : handling media Windows did not support). One of my customers was the danish Custom and Tax authority, and they had a peculiar problem. They wanted the incoming data to be

Re: New website has gone live

Nice ! On 2019-11-12 17:45, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: After months of procrastination and work, my new website has gone live at: https://www.computercollection.net/ It is a nearly complete makeover. The home page also has a link to what my site used to look like. (Context: The website

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-28 09:43, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, nico de jong wrote: Then you could generate turnkey systems, where the "operating system" could be floppy or cassette (ECMA34) based, Turnkey systems typically controlled process equipment and the like, where

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-28 09:43, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, nico de jong wrote: Then you could generate turnkey systems, where the "operating system" could be floppy or cassette (ECMA34) based, Turnkey systems typically controlled process equipment and the like, where

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-28 09:37, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2019, nico de jong wrote: As for documentation I have the CPU (only) technical manual for the P850, the 2 volumes of schematics for the P851 and the preliminary manual (alas without the microcode source) for the P854.

Re: Philips mini computers

Bedankt Fred Jan, Op XS4ALL vond ik 1 manual die ik nog niet had (VDU). Theo's website had ik al "gemelkt" :-) Bedankt voor de hulp Groeten Nico On 2019-10-27 18:39, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk wrote: Hi, Some manuals are available at:

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-27 15:56, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Sat, 26 Oct 2019, jos wrote: On software side not much : a single cassette with Fortran & manuals. That is also the problem with our P856, I have a single-density FDC with floppy drives but no floppy based operating system.

Re: Philips mini computers

The Honeywell does not look like a P800, and to the best of my knowledge Philips (with one L) did their own development in the mini sector. However, I do know that for example one of their text processing systems, one in the P5000 range (the P5001?), was a rebadged Canadiann system, Alas, the

Re: Philips mini computers

Yes, I know of Vaxbarn. I have copied many of Camiels manuals, and he has copied a lot of mine. I visited him and his lovely wife a few years ago. Very agreeable people (and nice kids...) I know about the P1000, but I've never seen one "on the flesh". When I started to work for Philips Data

Re: Philips mini computers

Yes, exactly. Do you have the manuals in a mailable version? Cheers Nico On 2019-10-26 21:30, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: mean like this https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x795q90/r/922/b5tczU.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/800x533q90/r/922/XYBanl.jpg

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-26 20:13, jos via cctalk wrote: On 26.10.19 11:00, nico de jong via cctech wrote: Hi all, Back in the 70's and 80's Philips had a quite popular series of mini computers called P800, which also branched out to the PTS series and possibly other. Could I be lucky to find other

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-26 20:01, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 6:53 PM nico de jong via cctalk wrote: In order to test things, I've developped a simulator and assembler for the P857, although without floating point and I/O processor, as I have no documentation for that, so maybe

Re: Philips mini computers

initial shipments! In 1985, every computer that included a CRT made by Philips was made at their factory in Ste. Laurent, QC, or so their engineers told me. cheers, Nigel (then known as Bill) Johnson On 26/10/2019 13:53, nico de jong via cctalk wrote: On 2019-10-26 19:44, Tony Duell via

Re: Philips mini computers

On 2019-10-26 19:44, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 6:36 PM nico de jong via cctalk wrote: Hi all, Back in the 70's and 80's Philips had a quite popular series of mini computers called P800, which also branched out to the PTS series and possibly other. Could I

Philips mini computers

Hi all, Back in the 70's and 80's Philips had a quite popular series of mini computers called P800, which also branched out to the PTS series and possibly other. Could I be lucky to find other list members interested in these products? I know of a few, but there surely must be others. I'm

Re: DEC TKZ10 Tapes

Hi *Bill I have 3x Bull 3215 tapes if you are willing to pay the postage from Denmark. I can erase them on a Tandberg drive, if you want. Nico On 31-01-2019 22:33, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have any DC6525 tape cartridges they would be willing to part with? One of the

Re: Wanted: LTO-5 tapes (used?)

Sorry Ethan, the cassettes I have, are marked HP ultium 200 GB, C7971A. I have 6 or so, plus a cleaning cassette Can you usem them? Regards Nico - Original Message - From: "Ethan via cctalk" To: Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 5:14 PM Subject: Wanted: LTO-5 tapes (used?) > > Looking

Re: EF50 was Re: radar history

Oh sh..l., It was a bit too quick Apologies... /Nico - Original Message - From: "ANDY HOLT via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2018 3:52 PM Subject: EF50 was Re: radar history >E =

Re: EF50 was Re: radar history

.. also known as Noval base /Nico - Original Message - From: "ANDY HOLT via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2018 3:52 PM Subject: EF50 was Re: radar history >E = 6.3v filament > F =

Re: IBM 2501 + doc + spares available in EU.

the 2501 was also part of the 3780 RJE terminal. The printer was a 1442 IIRC /Nico - Oprindelig meddelelse - Fra: Henk Stegeman via cctalk Til: cctalk@classiccmp.org Sendt: 12. november 2017 10:48 Emne: IBM 2501 + doc + spares available in EU. Hi, Available in the