Re: late-night insane request

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 01:19:00PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: > I'd have to dust off some brain cells to remember which card we used > to port VxWorks on our (Mizar's) gear. 3Com perhaps? Nope, the 9-track tape says CMC. mcl

Re: late-night insane request

> On Oct 5, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter? > > I figure not, but I've been using a fair amount of alcohol to troll ePay > tonight, just out of morbid curiosity, and might as well ask. > > mcl

Re: late-night insane request

On 10/05/2016 12:59 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote: I figure not, but I've been using a fair amount of alcohol to troll ePay tonight, just out of morbid curiosity, and might as well ask. Never Drink and eBay. Just trust me on this one. :) This is far off-topic, but I like it :-) Philipp --

late-night insane request

Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter? I figure not, but I've been using a fair amount of alcohol to troll ePay tonight, just out of morbid curiosity, and might as well ask. mcl

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On 05/10/2016 09:13, Eric Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Epson Perfection V800 Photo A4 Flatbed Scanner * Dual Lens System - swaps between 6400dpi (for slides and film) and 4800dpi (for photos) Suitable for DEC 52x

Re: DEC 3000 model 400 memory

> > Someone in France was offering some on Nekochan recently. > Thanks Rob, I'll have a look. It's been a while since I've visited Nekochan (my SGI's are looking rather dusty).

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

I don't get the lack of love here. Every good hacker knows the answer is because it can. I think it adds to the charm and shows the power of the Amiga quite well. Also it shows off the technology of a computer on a card technology.  For the architecture wars fans it also reflects that they

Re: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in (Off Topic)

> On 6 Oct. 2016, at 07:24, jim stephens wrote: > > > > On 10/5/2016 12:34 PM, jim stephens wrote: >> >> Congratulations to Blue Origins on today's test >> >> http://gizmodo.com/blue-origin-shocks-everyone-even-itself-by-landing-ro-1787443961 >> >> >> I'm thinking that

Re: DEC 3000 model 400 memory

> Assuming this DEC 3000 is the model with the memory daughter boards > populated with endless rows of (expensive and hard to find) proprietary > 100 pin SIMMs,yes I have some extra memory and daughter boards. > > Though wikipedia tells me that the 400 model only has two such daughter > boards,

Re: mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > no. the 68451 is a segmented mmu, so you wouldn't use it for demand > paging. the normal way you use it in unix is setting up segents for > text, data, and bss On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Ian S. King

RE: DEC 3000 model 400 memory

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Cody > Swanson > Sent: 05 October 2016 03:57 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: DEC 3000 model 400 memory > > A generous list member gifted me a

Re: DEC 3000 model 400 memory

On Tue, 4 Oct 2016, Cody Swanson wrote: A generous list member gifted me a DEC 3000 model 400 early alpha system. This is my first alpha and I'm excited to play around with VMS and Tru64 however he warned me that it was having some memory issues when he retired it several years ago. It

Re: mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 02:22:53AM -0600, Eric Smith wrote: > I once wrote an address error handler for the MC68020 so that I could > execute misaligned code. Very very slowly. This cannot possibly be sufficiently funny except to anyone who was in the industry at the time. mcl

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > Epson Perfection V800 Photo A4 Flatbed Scanner > * Dual Lens System - swaps between 6400dpi (for slides and film) and >4800dpi (for photos) > Suitable for DEC 52x Fiche Scanning ? If you wanted to scan

Re: mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Ken Seefried wrote: > Dumb question...did the '451 have a mechanism to work around the > instruction restart issue in the 68000? Or was there some other way > that was handled? The MC68451 was just an MMU. The bus fault problem of the MC68000

Re: late-night insane request

> Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter? Is that a late-night typo? Because I might have a VME Ethernet, but I've never heard of VNEbus (before). (I might not, too; I gave away most of my VME stuff relatively recently. I think I found some more after that, but the

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

This is the one I have. It may be overkill because I think it goes to 8 x 10 transparency. A 5x7 format scanner will work just as well for fiche. If you plan to do aperture cards, you will need a longer dimension that 7" to cover that. The Epson 4990 apparently has that. i looked

Vintage Computer Festival West 2016 Gaming Panel 1080p with perfect audio

https://youtu.be/bS_qGy3Ei3s Finally got around to converting this down from 4k 100mbps to 1080p and uploaded it to youtube. Enjoy, Erik Kline did a great job moderating the panel. Cheers, Corey

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On 2016-10-04 06:49, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi All I have just had a huge DEC Miro Fiche library given to me. Just a stupid question, as we are on the microfiche again ;-) Is there no "modern" format of TIFF or similar, which could save the whole microfiche as one picture? Would save all the

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Al Kossow wrote: There are very few imaging programs that can handle an image that large. You run into this with scans of blueprints. There you have TWO size issues. The original may have enormous physical dimensions. A well chosen image format shouldn't have much

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

Yeah, on the note of that battery, it looks fine, but is going to be replaced asap. Ive had a couple of apple computers turn to trash over that battery going bad in there. I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and

Re: late-night insane request

On 10/5/16 8:29 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > There is a VME card by Excelan with an AUI > connector on it. Perhaps the model is EXOS 202. I have a couple as well. Figures I wouldn't have a manual for that model. Finding a manual would be handy. They had an ancient version of TCP/IP in ROM. The

Re: late-night insane request

On 10/05/2016 08:46 AM, Mouse wrote: Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter? Is that a late-night typo? Because I might have a VME Ethernet, but I've never heard of VNEbus (before). If VME is what you need, I have the remains of a Trace Multiflow here. There is a VME

Re: late-night insane request

On 10/5/16 2:41 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter? > I have some VME ones Any model you had in mind?

Re: late-night insane request

> >> I figure not, but I've been using a fair amount of alcohol to troll ePay > >> tonight, just out of morbid curiosity, and might as well ask. > >> > > Never Drink and eBay. Just trust me on this one. :) > > This is far off-topic, but I like it :-) So do I! --

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

> On Oct 5, 2016, at 07:29, et...@757.org wrote: > > All you Amiga heads watch out for those motherboard batteries! Especially on > the A3000! A3000s are probably going to be very rare due to all the destroyed > motherboards (Someone should reproduce one with sockets for the original >

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On 10/4/16 10:48 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > I have been doing some searching on the web. > There seem to be some Epson (Perfection range) that could scan fiche > How many lifetimes do you have allocated for the project?

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

> > Congratulations on rescuing the 2000! I wanted one pretty badly when I > > was working in an Amiga dealership in the late 1980s, but had a 1000. I > > still don't have a 2000, but I've scratched that itch with a 3000 that I > > got a couple years ago. I still have my old 1000, but haven't

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

Congratulations on rescuing the 2000! I wanted one pretty badly when I was working in an Amiga dealership in the late 1980s, but had a 1000. I still don't have a 2000, but I've scratched that itch with a 3000 that I got a couple years ago. I still have my old 1000, but haven't powered it up

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On 10/5/16 6:47 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote: > Is there no "modern" format of TIFF or similar, which could save the whole > microfiche as one picture? > There are very few imaging programs that can handle an image that large. You run into this with scans of blueprints.

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

On 05/10/2016 16:05, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/4/16 10:48 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: I have been doing some searching on the web. There seem to be some Epson (Perfection range) that could scan fiche How many lifetimes do you have allocated for the project? Well its not so much scan to start

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, devin davison wrote: I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and a vga card I am all set then. Try for a 386, or at least 386SX. Too much "modern" software demands it.

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and a vga card I am all set then. On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, william degnan wrote: turning an Amiga 2000 into a DOS machine is like turning a car into a boat. you technically can do

Re: late-night insane request

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 08:06:34AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > Any model you had in mind? I'd have to dust off some brain cells to remember which card we used to port VxWorks on our (Mizar's) gear. 3Com perhaps? I'll have to go root around upstairs and see if I can find any bits. mcl

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and a vga card I am all set then. >>> On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, william degnan wrote: > >>

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

I would by no means ignore the commodore amiga software side of things. IM pretty excited to get to mess around with workbench. That FPGA graphics card project is impressive. On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > I know it is not really practical to turn it

Re: Micro Fiche Library.

> On Oct 5, 2016, at 1:10 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Al Kossow wrote: >> There are very few imaging programs that can handle an image that large. >> You run into this with scans of blueprints. > > There you have TWO size issues. The original may have

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

On Oct 4, 2016, at 7:13 PM, devin davison wrote: > > It looks as if PC compatibility > boards can be added to the machine, boards with a 286, 386, or 486 and > some memory on a board, capable of running MS DOS. IF i were to install > such a board, what kind of graphics

Anyone in the UK wan 40 x PC Game CDROMS Win95/98 era for postage?

Does anyone want a collection of 40 CDROMs with PC games on from around the Windows 95 and 98 era? All I want is to cover postage and save these from the bin. A paypal gift of $4.99 will cover Collect+ shipping. Please email me direct - first come first served! Regards, Mark.

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, devin davison wrote: > >> I know it is not really practical to turn it into a dos machine, but it >> would be a nice setup to me. If i can find a 286 and a vga card I am all >> set then. >> > > Try for a

Re: mc68010+mc68451 Unix source?

On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > So... short form - I'd love to read over some 68K UNIX code to see > what it would take to make it run on orphan hardware from 30 years > ago. If that’s your goal, I think NetBSD will run on 68000 & 68010 hardware with an

Re: Unexpected Apple Lisa display - this is what it is

A Macintosh XL without the square-pixels modification! (The Lisa had a non-square aspect ratio.) Is the system actually badged as a Macintosh XL anywhere? -- Chris > On Oct 4, 2016, at 7:25 PM, steven stengel wrote: > > This Lisa is a MacXL. > > It first asks where to

Re: late-night insane request

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:46:32AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > Is that a late-night typo? oh, absolutely. for VMEBus. mcl

Re: equipment in NH

I forgot to post. the PDP/VAX/Altos stuff in NH has been claimed... J

Re: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in

On 10/4/2016 7:47 AM, Ian S. King wrote: Jon > >Sorry for the delay in responding, Jon - I'm launching a spaceship this week.:-) (Seewww.blueorigin.com.) I'll reply privately. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School Dissertation: "Why

Re: Blue Origin launch (Was: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in)

On 10/5/2016 3:34 PM, jim stephens wrote: On 10/4/2016 7:47 AM, Ian S. King wrote: Jon > >Sorry for the delay in responding, Jon - I'm launching a spaceship this week.:-) (Seewww.blueorigin.com.) I'll reply privately. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School

Re: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in (Off Topic)

On 10/5/2016 12:34 PM, jim stephens wrote: On 10/4/2016 7:47 AM, Ian S. King wrote: Jon > >Sorry for the delay in responding, Jon - I'm launching a spaceship this week.:-) (Seewww.blueorigin.com.) I'll reply privately. -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School

Re: Blue Origin launch (Was: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in)

On 10/5/2016 1:38 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote: I imagine the G-forces were pretty high for a few seconds. But I'm no rocket scientist so I could be wrong. Overall a pretty specatcular thing. John H. Reinhardt It's Shake' N Bake, and I like it! -- Note change in email address. Please

Re: Blue Origin launch (Was: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in)

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 1:38 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote: > > On 10/5/2016 3:34 PM, jim stephens wrote: > >> >> >> On 10/4/2016 7:47 AM, Ian S. King wrote: >> >>> Jon > >Sorry for the delay in responding, Jon - I'm launching a spaceship this >>> week.:-)

Re: Picked up Commodore Amiga 2000

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:29 AM, wrote: > All you Amiga heads watch out for those motherboard batteries! Especially on > the A3000! A3000s are probably going to be very rare due to all the > destroyed motherboards (Someone should reproduce one with sockets for the > original

Re: Blue Origin launch (Was: uVAX system (mostly) that Ian King was interested in)

As off-topic threads go, this is absolutely the best :-) mcl