Re: KIM-1 Debugging tool

2016-11-16 Thread dwight
Hi Santo Nucifora and Cameron Kaiser Your email addresses have bounced. Please send a private mail to me with a useful email address. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of dwight Sent: Wednesday, November 16,

RE: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Jay West wrote: I have never seen where paying someone on ebay via paypal required them to "accept the funds". They just "get them" I thought. If they do not HAVE a Paypal account (or CLOSED one??), then a payment to them would consist of Paypal sending them an email

Re: OT- PBS tonight...Watch TV along with Ed# Recording studio history... This is

2016-11-16 Thread ethan
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Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 11/16/2016 3:30 PM, Jay West wrote: So I took a chance. ... Seller hasn't responded to any of the previous emails, nor have they acknowledged the purchase in any way. ... Crossing my fingers Give it a few weeks. He could be out on the Tundra somewhere. (Is there a Tundra

Re: General TC11 DECtape diagnostic/formatter questions

2016-11-16 Thread Paul Koning
> On Nov 15, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > ... > I noticed the following commented-out line at the beginning of the program: > > START: > ; RESET ;CLEAR THE WORLD > ; MOV #P7,PS ;LOCKOUT P1 BY RAISING CPU PRIORITY <<

RE: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Jay West
So I took a chance. Seller hasn't responded to any of the previous emails, nor have they acknowledged the purchase in any way. Something I have never seen before in all my ebay transactions... when I go into ebay instead of a greyed out $ symbol (unpaid) or black $ symbol (paid)... it

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Fred Cisin
Seller hasn't responded to any of the previous emails, nor have they acknowledged the purchase in any way. Crossing my fingers On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: Give it a few weeks. He could be out on the Tundra somewhere. (Is there a Tundra in Alaska?!) IF he has a valid

RE: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Ali
Could  be a number of things. Usually the seller has setup the wrong email address in eBay. I.e. they put in an email address for their PayPal account that does not match the actual PP account. If he is real a quick call to eBay will get it fixed.  Original message From: Jay

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > > > This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait. > > > > > > If he put down the wrong email address, that would explain why no replies > > > to inquiries > > > > Possibly, but not entirely since eBay has its own webmail system. I > > presume any seller > > would

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Pete Lancashire
Give PP a call, not had this problem before but they have been very helpful each time -pete On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Jay West wrote: > >> I have never seen where paying someone on ebay via paypal required them >> to "accept

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait. - J. On 11/16/2016 3:58 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: Give PP a call, not had this problem before but they have been very helpful each time -pete On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait. Meanwhile, the seller is impatiently waiting, while closely monitoring the wrong account, waiting for it; eventually giving up and relisting the item?

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Ian Finder
Bruh, fishslayer40 is obviously out slayin' fishes. On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:27 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: > > Possibly, but not entirely since eBay has its own webmail system. I > presume any seller > would occasionally log in to check for activity on one's listed items.

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Al Kossow
If he put down the wrong email address, that would explain why no replies to inquiries On 11/16/16 2:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: >> This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait. > > Meanwhile, the seller is impatiently waiting,

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 11/16/2016 5:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait. Meanwhile, the seller is impatiently waiting, while closely monitoring the wrong account, waiting for it; eventually giving up and

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
Possibly, but not entirely since eBay has its own webmail system. I presume any seller would occasionally log in to check for activity on one's listed items. - J. On 11/16/2016 5:20 PM, Al Kossow wrote: If he put down the wrong email address, that would explain why no replies to

Re: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer

2016-11-16 Thread Wayne Sudol
Had the same problem with a seller. I always got the "seller hasn't accepted the payment. It was trying because ebay didn't give them the correct info when they cheked into it. Finally, the seller checked the account details and said the account was linked to an "email" address that they hadn't

Re: NCD19 / Xncd19

2016-11-16 Thread Ken Seefried
> Is the 701 based on the RacerX from LSI? Good question...nice shout-out for an obscure MIPS variant. The Explora 700 is, however, not a RacerX, but an R4700. With up to 256MB of RAM. Which is nice. KJ

Re: SPRAGUE capacitor for Tektronix 4051.

2016-11-16 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2016-Nov-16, at 8:44 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 11/16/2016 10:10 PM, drlegendre . wrote: >> "Note the "tube audio" folks gravitate to that stuff and tend to cause >> seriously sick prices, because tubes." >> >> >> FYI - I've installed dozens of the new-production CE / Mallory caps, all of >>

Re: SPRAGUE capacitor for Tektronix 4051.

2016-11-16 Thread drlegendre .
"The mains-side filter caps for switching supplies tend to be large in capacitance (100-200 and > uF), and typically are not suitable for replacing the ~ 8-40uF B+ filter caps in vintage tube electronics that have tube rectifiers." This is true. All of the common vacuum diode rectifiers have

TI 990/189 debugging

2016-11-16 Thread Josh Dersch
Hi all -- Got myself a TI-990/189 single-board computer based around the TMS9980 microprocessor (actually, a variant of it, the MP9529, which apparently differs only in that it has a lower maximum clock and only requires Vdd of 9.3V or so...) It was advertised as "it looks like it's

Re: A computer collection in NL

2016-11-16 Thread Ian S. King
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote: > I realize that I have not done much (any) "advertisement" ... > > I have my collection in a "room" of some 2250 sq. feet (200 m2). > Almost all PDP-11 models (UNIBUS and QBUS), a few VAX4000's, VLC4000, > and a

Re: Perq 1 troubles

2016-11-16 Thread Tony Duell
> Tony that would be great; mine is a VMI monitor too. I'm sure Bitsavers > would appreciate a copy! I think all PERQ 1 (and 1A) monitors were VMI. 2T1's have KME portrait monitors (at least in the UK) 2T2's (and 2T4's) have either Three Rivers portrait or Moniterm landscape monitors (I have

Re: PDP-11 RL02 disk emulation

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Ross
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Scott Baker wrote: > Hi* > >>> Any chance it could be put into 'production'? > > *I placed an order today for 3 RL02 emulator interface boards from OshPark. > I expect it will take 2 weeks to get the boards back from OshPark. > I am

Re: HP Draftmaster RX pen plotter needs love

2016-11-16 Thread Pete Lancashire
Are you saying there is a -12V test point and there is nothing there ? If +5 is 400mV high, that's not dangerous but it is something I'd take care of first. -pete On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Michael Newton wrote: > Thanks for the encouragement. I'm going in. > >

Re: Looking for terminals again

2016-11-16 Thread Mouse
>> Anybody have extra DEC or IBM terminals in Toronto (Canada) ? > Is Ottawa too far away? While we're speaking of Ottawa and terminals...it's neither DEC nor IBM, but I do have a Hazeltine in Ottawa I would like to get rid of, but I do not like the idea of just chucking it. Anyone interested?

PDP-11 RL02 disk emulation

2016-11-16 Thread Scott Baker
Hi* >> Any chance it could be put into 'production'? *I placed an order today for 3 RL02 emulator interface boards from OshPark. I expect it will take 2 weeks to get the boards back from OshPark. I am leveraging RL02 emulator work from Reinhard Heuberger, but I am using a newer FPGA board than

Re: SPRAGUE capacitor for Tektronix 4051.

2016-11-16 Thread Pete Lancashire
If you can't find a replacement that is "NEW" and by that I mean made in the past couple years ... It has been > 30 years since I've been inside a 4051 your best bet might bt to take an axle (wires out both ends) leaded cap and doing things like standing it on end and use a wire that runs down

Re: ISO Xebec S1410A fw #104792 or 104793

2016-11-16 Thread Plamen Mihaylov
Here you go - http://m88k.com/XEBEC_104788G.BIN On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > I just started cataloging and dumping firmware my SASI/SCSI disk and tape > boards > starting with Xebec. It would be nice to find images for the two alternate > fw > proms

Re: Looking for terminals again

2016-11-16 Thread Brian Adams
Yeah, unfortunately Ottawa is a bit too far for me. But if it wasn¹t I¹d be looking at that AS/400. -brian On 2016-11-11, 11:37 AM, "cctech on behalf of Mike" wrote: >On Monday, November 07, 2016 17:22:22 Brian Adams wrote: >> The

Perq 1 troubles

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Ross
Just on the off-chance... does anyone have schematics for the Perq 1 portrait monitor? Mine is sick... and there are none on bitsavers. On first power-up there was a faint raster pattern but that quickly vanished and now there's no sign of life from the tube heaters... Thanks Mike

Re: KIM-1 Debugging tool

2016-11-16 Thread allison
On 11/13/2016 12:10 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote: > On 13/11/2016 15:52, dwight wrote: > >> I've created a simple debugging board that one can plug onto the >> KIM's expansion buss that has debug code on it. It allows one to find >> out what is failing on the KIM so they know what to replace. >> >>

Re: SPRAGUE capacitor for Tektronix 4051.

2016-11-16 Thread allison
On 11/15/16 2:37 PM, Curious Marc wrote: Great link! That's a great middle ground - preserves the look without having to find the original cap. Marc On Nov 15, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: One of the DC filter capacitors has gone open circuit in my Tektronix

Re: Paper tape carriers and paper tape

2016-11-16 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 02:03:36PM -0800, Ian S. King wrote: > > Somewhere I have a photo of the machine that IBM used to make punch cards. > It's in a small museum in Endicott, NY. It did indeed take a roll of paper > made to IBM specs and produce the flat punch cards many of us know and some >

Re: ISO Xebec S1410A fw #104792 or 104793

2016-11-16 Thread Al Kossow
As far as creating text files in firmware directories, yes There probably should be something on github if a bunch of people are going to be editing files that could be pulled. I'm NOT going to put up any sort of Wiki though. Bitsavers stays a collection of files that can be easily mirrored

Re: KIM-1 Debugging tool

2016-11-16 Thread dwight
Actually it'll use a EEPROM for the 6530 emulator. I've located some small 28C64s. The advantage is that these can be programmed with the debug board while on the KIM board. It should look good as well because it will be tucked under the 6532. The registers are slightly different on the 6530

Re: NCD19 / Xncd19

2016-11-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/15/16 3:34 PM, Rico Pajarola wrote: > Unfortunately, no new > manuals that are not already on bitsavers (except for the Explora 400 > brochure). > I scanned a NCD16 users manual and uploaded it to bitsavers yesterday and created a list of the part numbers of the manuals I know about.

RE: ISO Xebec S1410A fw #104792 or 104793

2016-11-16 Thread Dave Wade
Would Al catalogue these for us ? Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre > Souza > Sent: 16 November 2016 00:38 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: ISO Xebec S1410A