On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Randy Dawson wrote:
> The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank
> Christensen.
This?
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DataGeneral/nova/movie_byu.tap
Fragment of text found inside the TAP, looks to be FORTRAN source and
doc file
Ohhmygosh!
I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff
messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places.
You have wrecked my weekend.
This gets me started with trying to build the thing.
I had so much fun with it a long time ago, and I hav
So I have a friend who is originally from the U.K. He has his old BBC micro
from when he was a kid and wants to be able to use it here in the states. His
parents threw out his old TV in the U.K.
Is there a way to use a BBC Micro PAL version with a modern US LCD TV? Do some
brands of moder
> On 13 Jan 2017, at 9:23 pm, Randy Dawson wrote:
> I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff
> messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places.
Wasn't sure how to interpret your statement, but just in case you overlooked
it, TAP is a specia
We've talked about the most expensive, the most rare, the less usual...
Now lets talk about what you love most <3
For me is the Apple IIe signed by Woz :D
What is your most prized and loved possession? :)
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 05:47 -0500, Corey Cohen wrote:
> So I have a friend who is originally from the U.K. He has his old
> BBC micro from when he was a kid and wants to be able to use it here
> in the states. His parents threw out his old TV in the U.K.
>
> Is there a way to use a BBC Micro
Greetings all,
I always figured I'd order one of the compilations of Dr. Dobb's Journal
on CD/DVD One Of These Days... Then they went and stopped publication.
While a lot of DDJ content is still online at drdobbs.com, I'd still
like to pick up that DVD.
So like the Subject says, I'm looking to ac
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Corey Cohen wrote:
> So I have a friend who is originally from the U.K. He has his old BBC micro
> from when
> he was a kid and wants to be able to use it here in the states. His parents
> threw out his old TV in the U.K.
There was actually an NTSC version o
On 13 January 2017 at 11:27, Phil Blundell wrote:
> I imagine more or less any modern TV should be able to cope with the
> 576i timings. If you plug the "composite" output (BNC connector) into
> the CVBS input on your TV then you'd probably get a decent monochrome
> image. The BBC doesn't provi
> From: Lars Brinkhoff
> Is there a list? What's on it?
I think he meant the mailing list.
> I guess the PDP-11 operating system TRANTOR ... I recently found a copy
> and sent it to the original authors.
Oh, wow, neat. Where did you find it, if I may ask - I'm curious! Did a co
I used to have a little 13 in tv that could handle about anything I
plugged into it, some are made to handle both pal and ntsc automatically.
Ebay comes to mind, I am talking in the crt days, not sure if they still do
all that for LCD tv's but why not?
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer
> From: William Degnan
> some are made to handle both pal and ntsc automatically. ... not sure
> if they still do all that for LCD tv's but why not?
Well, one thing most LCD's don't handle is interlaced video, so that could be
an issue.
Noel
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 08:38 -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: William Degnan
>
> > some are made to handle both pal and ntsc automatically. ...
> not sure
> > if they still do all that for LCD tv's but why not?
>
> Well, one thing most LCD's don't handle is interlaced video, so tha
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 08:38 -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > > From: William Degnan
> >
> > > some are made to handle both pal and ntsc automatically. ...
> > not sure
> > > if they still do all that for LCD tv's but why not?
> >
>
I have a number of systems that require PAL and I was looking on Ebay for dual
NTSC / PAL monitors, and if necessary I can handle the power conversion
requirements. Any recommendations for a monitor that can work with
Amstrad/Sinclair, BBC's, the Archimedes, and the like. I figure more than on
> On Jan 12, 2017, at 6:45 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> ...Paul Koning
>> A listing of RSTS-11 V0
>
> If that's not already online in machine-readable form, we should get it
> scanned and OCR'd.
It's been scanned; the person who did the scanning has not yet posted it. I
haven't try to OCR it, b
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Kurt K wrote:
> I have a number of systems that require PAL and I was looking on Ebay for dual
> NTSC / PAL monitors, and if necessary I can handle the power conversion
> requirements.
> Any recommendations for a monitor that can work with Amstrad/Sinclair, BBC's,
We've talked about the most expensive, the most rare, the less usual...
Now lets talk about what you love most <3
For me is the Apple IIe signed by Woz :D
What is your most prized and loved possession? :)
For me it's similar, IIGS signed by Woz!
--
Ethan O'Toole
On 2017-01-13 03:23, Randy Dawson wrote:
Ohhmygosh!
I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff
messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places.
You have wrecked my weekend.
This gets me started with trying to build the thing.
please let us kn
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:02 AM, Alexandre Souza <
alexandre.tabaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We've talked about the most expensive, the most rare, the less usual...
>
> Now lets talk about what you love most <3
>
>
Two emails.
While getting Multics up and running, I discovered a few bugs in Multics
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:49 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Kurt K wrote:
>> I have a number of systems that require PAL and I was looking on Ebay for
>> dual
>> NTSC / PAL monitors, and if necessary I can handle the power conversion
>> requirements.
>> Any recommen
On 13 January 2017 at 15:49, Tony Duell wrote:
> On my workbench I have a little (9") Sony Trinitron monitor. It's the sort
> of
> thing that was used for moniitoring signals in a TV studio. It's a model
> PVM9044QM. It can handle just about any TV rate video (US or UK
> rates), PAL, NTSC, Secam,
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make
> a DVD (in the USA) that my sister in Holland would be able to use. The
> impression I got is that PAL DVD players will usually accept NTSC DVDs, and
> modern PAL T
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Charles Anthony
> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>>
>> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make
>> a DVD (in the USA) that my sister in Holland would be able to use. The
>> impression I got i
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Charles Anthony wrote:
(The second reply was received in June 2014. On Jan 6 of this year, the ad
hoc MCRB (Multics Change Request Board) approved MCR10021 fixing the bug.)
I think this one is the most awesome yet. :)
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim
On 01/13/2017 12:46 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank
Christensen.
I am looking for the fortran source, it should be 7 files:
OH MY! I definitely had that at one time - a LONG time
ago. I think it was on one of the DECUS tapes.
I to
On 01/13/2017 04:47 AM, Corey Cohen wrote:
So I have a friend who is originally from the U.K. He has his old BBC micro
from when he was a kid and wants to be able to use it here in the states. His
parents threw out his old TV in the U.K.
Is there a way to use a BBC Micro PAL version with a
On 01/13/2017 05:02 AM, Alexandre Souza wrote:
We've talked about the most expensive, the most rare, the less usual...
Now lets talk about what you love most <3
For me is the Apple IIe signed by Woz :D
What is your most prized and loved possession? :)
Well, the Honeywell Alert is rather speci
On 01/13/2017 07:38 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: William Degnan
> some are made to handle both pal and ntsc automatically. ... not sure
> if they still do all that for LCD tv's but why not?
Well, one thing most LCD's don't handle is interlaced video, so that could be
an issue.
tor 2017-01-12 klockan 20:35 + skrev Andy Cloud:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I know this is a bit of a personal question, so please feel free to ignore
> this email!
>
> If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove
> you to spend as much as you did on that particular co
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Adrian Graham
wrote:
> On 13 January 2017 at 15:49, Tony Duell wrote:
[Sony PVM9044QM]
> I bought one of those recently ostensibly as a monitor for my Apple ][s but
> like you say it's capable of pretty much anything you can throw at it.
> ukp25 too, bargain.
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>
> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make a
> DVD (in the USA)
> that my sister in Holland would be able to use. The impression I got is that
> PAL DVD players wil
> l usually accept NTSC DVDs, and modern
On 2017-01-12 5:35 PM, Andy Cloud wrote:
Hi Everyone!
I know this is a bit of a personal question, so please feel free to ignore
this email!
If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove
you to spend as much as you did on that particular computer?
For me, the most
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
> AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
>
> Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or
> AppleTalk.
>
> One of the first high resolution PostScript imagesetters. Put a lot of feet
> of bromide pape
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
> ...
> AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
>
> Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or
> AppleTalk.
>
> One of the first high resolution PostScript imagesetters. Put a lot of feet
>
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make a
>> DVD (in the USA)
>> that my sister in Holland would be able to use. The impression I got is
>> t
On 01/13/2017 07:49 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
Back in the day, a friend from the UK sent me a collection of VHS tapes
and a PAL video player. I ordered a PAL-to-RGB demodulator kit from a
small supplier and took the (analog) RGB output to my Mitsubishi
Diamondscan CRT monitor. Worked just fine.
--C
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 11:18 -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> >
> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to
> make a DVD (in the USA) that my sister in Holland would be able to
> use. The impression I got is that PAL DVD players will usually
> accept NTSC DVDs, and modern PA
On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
...
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or
AppleTalk.
One of the first high resolution PostScript images
On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
...
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or
AppleTalk.
One of the first high resolution PostScript images
I use a TV tuner/video capture card (Hauppauge WinTV-D) and DScaler to
display output from my PAL Commodore 128D either composite or Y/C. It works
quite well actually. I did try a cheapy PAL/NTSC converter from eBay but
any horizontal movement is terrible since it doesn't do any
framebuffering/pull
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>
> On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>>> ...
>>> AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
>>>
>>> Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication v
On 13/01/2017 18:02, "Tony Duell" wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Adrian Graham
> wrote:
>> On 13 January 2017 at 15:49, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>
> [Sony PVM9044QM]
>
>> I bought one of those recently ostensibly as a monitor for my Apple ][s but
>> like you say it's capable of pretty
Mine is the HP-2000 ... it was a game changer for me in the used
computer business as it gave me a one company direction... from dealing in
parts to keep it alive to having HP-3000 systems being an indy new HP
dealer on PC products in the 80s into the 90s.
On a more person
I don't have any pre-80ies stuff at all, but some cool/rare/obscure 32bit
machines. If I'd have to pick a single one, I'd say it's the Motorola
PowerStack E100 running Solaris 2.5.1 for powerpc. Still looking for the
sun compiler for that (one of these days I'll try to resurrect the gcc
port, but I
>> [Sony PVM9044QM]
>>
>>> I bought one of those recently ostensibly as a monitor for my Apple ][s but
>>> like you say it's capable of pretty much anything you can throw at it.
>>> ukp25 too, bargain.
>>
>> You can get the service manual from elektrotanya, and believe me you
>> need it!
>
> Just l
On 2017-01-13 5:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
...
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROM
On 2017-01-13 5:19 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-01-13 3:17 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Jan 13, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
...
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROM
On 13/01/2017 20:51, "Tony Duell" wrote:
>> Just looked at the pics of someone servicing one, I'll go looking for the
>> manual :)
>
> It's actually not too bad to work on. The 2 main PCBs (deflection one side,
> video processing on the other) are on fold-out frames. And in fact the whole
> thin
From: "Rick Bensene"
>
> - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a
> 4.2bsd port called UTek
Those seem quite rare now, especially if it works. You should
preserve an image of UTek if possible. Any chance you have the
install media?
KJ
On 01/13/2017 12:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
I have a laser photoplotter I built a long time ago to make
circuit board artwork. It does 1000 x 1000 DPI via a raster
process, wrapping the film
On 2017-01-13 7:24 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 01/13/2017 12:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used).
I have a laser photoplotter I built a long time ago to make circuit
board artwork. It does 1000 x 1000 DPI
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:24 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
>
>>> I have a laser photoplotter I built a long time ago to make circuit
> board artwork. It does 1000 x 1000 DPI via a raster process, wrapping the
> film around a drum. After moving all the conversion software over to
> Linux, it occurred to
From: "Rick Bensene"
- A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a
4.2bsd port called UTek
Gee, how does it perform? I built a clone of a Logical
Microcomputer Co. 32016 Multibus system and got it working.
But, it was glacially slow! I did have some memory that w
On 01/13/2017 04:52 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2017-01-13 7:24 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 01/13/2017 12:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter
(used).
I have a laser photoplotter I built a long time ago to
make cir
On 01/13/2017 05:14 PM, Kyle Owen wrote:
I'd be interested in seeing some pictures of your
photoplotter, if you have a chance. Now with the idea of
direct toner transfer with modern laser printers, I can
see bringing a darkroom into it as being a bit of a hassle.
See http://pico-systems.com/ph
On 14/01/17 00:06, Jon Elson wrote:
I eventually got a MicroVAX-II to replace it, and, yes, that DID have
a cache to speed up the memory, but it was quite a difference.
I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory cache. It did
have a translation lookaside buffer and some (small)
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
> I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory cache. It did
> have a translation lookaside buffer and some (small) amount
> of instruction pre-fetch though.
>
Digital Technical Journal, Number 2 March 1986
http://www.dtjcd.v
On 01/13/2017 06:42 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
On 14/01/17 00:06, Jon Elson wrote:
I eventually got a MicroVAX-II to replace it, and, yes,
that DID have a cache to speed up the memory, but it was
quite a difference.
I'm reasonably sure that the uVAX II did not have a memory
cache. It did hav
This looks like a very nice system. I'm not sure I ever heard of it,
but today's Sharktank (computerworld) has a fun story about it.
Even better extra points if you have the said system in your collection.
System (from link in article):
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/qdp-300-the-peace-of-mind-
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