On Thu, 18 May 2017, Lyle Bickley wrote:
I run BSD 2.9 on my 11/34C (w/max. mem.) & DZ using (2) RL02s with up to
three TTY sessions. It's a bit "sluggish" (by today's standards). TSX
I have a similar setup with our 11/34. 2.9BSD on one RL01 as root/swap,
the rest (/usr etc.) on a RA80 (with t
When I got my first system running, S100, I had an Imsai 8080 with a
Hayes 103 modem. I used it to log into multics and some BBS's at the
time and record sessions and files and the like. I only had the usual
8" floppies, with eventually 1mb x 2 for storage.
However, reason for mentioning was
On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk wrote:
> All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided security by requiring
> user/password
> and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of
> the CMD module
> rewritten to not have things like RMDIR and DEL.
I was
On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
> The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what
> your
> wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs
Jesus wept.
Are you certain that this alleged "hair dryer" is not in fact a
h
On 19 May 2017 at 00:22, Ed via cctalk wrote:
> we ran ours first on a hp-2000 then migrated to a hp-3000
>
> final version had 100 boards on it email , multi user chat, poll and
> voting and much more.
> yep it kicked ass!
You'd think if you'd been online that long, you'd have worked out
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:25:44PM +0200, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>> The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what
>> your
>> wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs
> Jesus wept.
> Are you ce
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On Fri, May 19, 201
On 19 May 2017 at 13:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Nope. Take a trip to Amazon and look at just how much power this stuff
> actually consumes. And, if you go back to the days when we started
> running this stuff in our homes, compare the draw of a QBUS PDP-11 to
> a TV with a picture tube, standar
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:39:27AM +, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> But, seriously, just how many households do you think have made the move to
> LED lighting? The amount of energy wasted in the average house, especially
> those with wives and children (your wife never forget to tur
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
8250 is a VAX, not a PDP-11. I doubt it even ran off of 120v single phase.
Um, yeah. It did. I bought the machine for $500 from Mannesmann Tally in
Kent, WA. A friend and I removed the 8250 from their machine room and
transported it
On Fri, 19 May 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what
your
wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs
Jesus wept.
Are you certain
Another BBS obscurity —
I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who
couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’ This was
a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem.
The idea was that if you wanted to dial up to the BBS, you’d c
On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Labovitz via cctalk wrote:
Another BBS obscurity —
I ran a BBS in the early 80s called The Bethesda RCP/M. Those of us who
couldn’t afford dedicated lines often used a method called ‘ringback.’
This was a clever way to share a regular home phone with a modem.
The i
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On Fri, May 19, 201
> From: Christian Corti
> I have a similar setup with our 11/34. .. It's not the fastest system,
> and the kernel uses overlays like crazy ;-) ... I still have to add the
> cache and FPP boards and see how that improves the performance.
The cache should help some, but the FPP, pro
On 2017-05-19 9:10 AM, geneb via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, 19 May 2017, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a
fifth what your
wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 w
On 05/19/2017 07:49 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On 19 May 2017 at 13:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> Nope. Take a trip to Amazon and look at just how much power this stuff
>> actually consumes. And, if you go back to the days when we started
>> running this stuff in our homes, compare the d
On 5/19/2017 3:23 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk wrote:
All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided security by requiring
user/password
and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of
the CMD module
rewritten
So, if it's authenticity you want, you'll have to incorporate some sort
of noise generator on the lines. Telco quality is much better today
than 40 years ago (although you may not think so). I recall that
calling Sunnyvale from Los Gatos (or vice-versa) was a real adventure in
connectivity. Lo
On 5/19/2017 5:13 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
Anyway, for those of us in Amsterdam who can actually be bothered to find and
hold down a job, go out and do the shopping, etc, we're replacing blown
incandescents with LED bulbs because that's what they sell in the shops.
Incandescent bulbs
On 5/19/2017 10:07 AM, allison via cctalk wrote:
Remember a BBS with 1 modem is ruing at less (back then) than
1200 baud (120CPS!). Name one CPU that can't grab one byte and
act on it in 8.333mS? The rest is enough storage to do a useful library
(download and upload programs, and some for
I have here a shipping box, a shrink-wrapped TK50 tape and various
docs for Wollongong Group's "EUNICE BSD," which I take to be a BSD
Unix-like environment for VMS. I can't find a copy of either the docs
nor the bits online.
I will take care of scanning the docs. I would like to send this tape
t
On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Jason T wrote:
> I have here a shipping box, a shrink-wrapped TK50 tape and various
> docs for Wollongong Group's "EUNICE BSD," which I take to be a BSD
And for your entertainment, a very early Usenet post on the software:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/
> At some point a version of BYE was created for the IBM PC, but as far
> as I know, there was only a single release of it.
>
Any idea if the IBM version is available in an archive somewhere online?
-Ali
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On 5/19/2017 5:13 AM
On 5/19/2017 7:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
And if you break one you have to call HAZMAT. You did realize that,
didn't you? They contain mercury and any breakage requires professional
remediation by law!!
I bag and take to the disposal all fluorescent discard, including CFL.
ht
My dad had some bills of 5 grand he told me but he was dialing out from a
remote location in northern Manitoba that had only microwave said made huge
difference when he went from 500 baud to 5000
On May 19, 2017 2:40 PM, "jim stephens via cctalk"
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>
> On 5/19/2017 3:23 AM, Liam Proven vi
I don't believe the AIM-65 normally does color??
Dwight
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Any idea what thi
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> The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth
> what your wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt
> light bulbs (which your kids leave on all over the house all the
> time!!) bill
>
> I run a similar PDP-11/83 syst
As for power, if you have a wife and/or kids, a PDP-11's power
> consumption is not even above the noise floor in your electric bill.
> (Unless your trying to do it with RA disks!!)
>
> bill
Out of curiosity how much power do these wee beasties consume?
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