Re: Fairly Extensive Singer/Friden "System Ten" Computer System for Rescue

2018-08-09 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
Hi Rick, I'm 2 or 3 hours from there, have have had too mary back surgeries and replacement parts to help a lot, but depending on timing i might be able to help some. It's possible I could even drive a truckload out east. We are thinking of going out in Oct if you find a home out there. Keep me

Re: Fairly Extensive Singer/Friden "System Ten" Computer System for Rescue

2018-08-09 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
I've made a temporary mirror here: http://www.update.uu.se/~pontus/slask/Singer10/ I even tried to rotate some of the photos. I believe this is the system that Singer sued DEC over the name DECsystem-10. Perhaps LCM wants it for that reason :) /P On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 07:13:31PM -0700,

Re: Fairly Extensive Singer/Friden "System Ten" Computer System for Rescue

2018-08-09 Thread Shoppa, Tim via cctalk
I had been told for decades that there was a flight simulator that used a Singer System Ten and that United Airlines operated it outside Chicago for some unreasonably long time. This was "Urban Legend you wouldn't believe it but that's what the bosses wanted" stuff back in the 1990's. Using a

Re: German Translation, Serial Port?

2018-08-09 Thread Rico Pajarola via cctalk
Sperrschritt is the stop bit, for the rest Google translate did quite well ;) Operations mode: Asynchronous 16 Character length: 7 bit (with stop bit) Parity: even stop bit length: 1 bit I have no idea what Asynchronous 16 could be, maybe a hint at the higher level protocol? On Thu, Aug 9,

ssh to tweenex.org

2018-08-09 Thread Stéphane Tsacas via cctalk
Hi, Did anyone manage to connect to tweenex,org through ssh now that telnet port is closed ? I received an mail that says : TELNET access to twenex.org has been changed to only support SSH via the SSH passthru user twe...@sdf.org. without saying which password should be used ... Thanks --

German Translation, Serial Port?

2018-08-09 Thread W2HX via cctalk
Hello friends. I need a translation from a German manual describing serial port parameters. I used google translate but it doesn't quite give me the warm and fuzzy. Anyone here speak German? Here is what it says: Betriebsart: Asynchron 16 Zeichenlänge: 7 bit (mit Sperrschritt) Parity: gerade

Re: German Translation, Serial Port?

2018-08-09 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 08/09/2018 09:39 PM, W2HX via cctalk wrote: > Hello friends. I need a translation from a German manual describing serial > port parameters. I used google translate but it doesn't quite give me the > warm and fuzzy. Anyone here speak German? Here is what it says: > > Betriebsart: Asynchron

Re: Clock batteries...

2018-08-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
Thank you for the very detailed reply Greg. I greatly appreciate it and will be re-reading it to assimilate the information you shared. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: Fairly Extensive Singer/Friden "System Ten" Computer System for Rescue

2018-08-09 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 8/8/18 11:39 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: While I'm not claiming the system, I've let Rick know that I'm close to it and willing to help facilitate a rescue of at least some of the lot. Hi, I don't have a personal interest in the system, but if you need another hand to help with the