Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk
William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: AIX was ported in very cut down manner and used on the f960 and h960 routing cards used on the early T3 based NSFnet. F960 was FDDI and H960 was HSSI. Come think of it, I think the v.25 and ether net cards also used i960, just a smaller version. -- Will So,

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files. Bill Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek produced. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The

Seeking User Manual for DEC M1710 Unibus Interface Foundation

2018-10-30 Thread Ether Brat via cctalk
Seeking User Manual for DEC M1710 Unibus Interface Foundation: I have been looking everywhere, without success. The closest I have come is a 3-page description in a DEC Logic Handbook from bitsavers. Thanks in advance for any leads. Neil

behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Klemens Krause via cctalk
Is there anybody out with a working classic PDP-8? For a long time we had the problem, that starting a program on our 8 by pressing keys, this program crashed. Examining the memory contents showed, that typically one or two words short behind the starting adress after such a crash had

Books available ACM CALGO Vols I, II, III, loosleaf+microfice

2018-10-30 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Anyone interested in three hardbound volumes of ACM CALGO, starting with Algorithm 1, plus a large looseleaf binder and assorted microfiche (assuming that I can still find them)? Drop me a line if so. --Chuck

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread dwight via cctalk
My Nicolet did the same thing it would load 0 into the intended start location ( on my machine it was a jump to 0 ). The front panel worked fine otherwise. It turned out to be some missing clocks because of a bad 7474. Strange that a common problem on different machine created by completely

RE: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > I guess someone has been looking at the site > > Their inventory search broke. > > I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are > outrageous. > They are definitely not aimed at the hobbyist. More of one of those operations were they are looking to cash in on desperate

If you archive old data for the public...

2018-10-30 Thread Ethan via cctalk
If any of you are archiving old data for the public, like CD-ROMs or whatever, and you are low on disk space A friend gives me surplus data center hardware often, and I have some SATA disks. They have 4 years or so on them so backup / redundancy is important, but I can offer some to

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 30, 2018, at 11:07 AM, Klemens Krause via cctalk > wrote: > > Is there anybody out with a working classic PDP-8? > > For a long time we had the problem, that starting a program on our 8 by > pressing keys, this program crashed. Examining the memory > contents showed, that

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 30, 2018, at 1:14 PM, dwight wrote: > > My Nicolet did the same thing it would load 0 into the intended start > location ( on my machine it was a jump to 0 ). > The front panel worked fine otherwise. It turned out to be some missing > clocks because of a bad 7474. Strange that a

Re: Updates at retroarchive.org...

2018-10-30 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:09 AM geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > > > I have a file called November 1994 Walnut Creek CPM cdrom.iso > > is this it? ~635 Mb - 46860 files. > > Bill > > > Bill, that's one disc out of the hundred-plus that Walnut Creek

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Oct 30, 2018, at 1:14 PM, dwight wrote: > > > > My Nicolet did the same thing it would load 0 into the intended start > location ( on my machine it was a jump to 0 ). > > The front panel worked

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Oct-30, at 8:07 AM, Klemens Krause via cctalk wrote: > Is there anybody out with a working classic PDP-8? > > For a long time we had the problem, that starting a program on our 8 by > pressing keys, this program crashed. Examining the memory > contents showed, that typically one or

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:04:53PM -0600, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > Yes, their business model is to sell a once common $10 part for $500 > because it's an exact replacement and the cost to warehouse it is dwarfed > by the huge profit margin... Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is

Re: behaviour of classic PDP-8 frontpanel

2018-10-30 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 8:07 AM Klemens Krause via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Is there anybody out with a working classic PDP-8? > > > Now my question to other classic-8 users: What does your machine do, if a > program is running and you press one of the front keys, which shouldn't

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/30/18 4:22 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > So, I'm curious - what's the 'most important missing thing' at the > CHM full-time processing staff

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:29 AM Ali via cctalk wrote: > > > I guess someone has been looking at the site > > > Their inventory search broke. > > > > I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are > > outrageous. > > > > They are definitely not aimed at the hobbyist. More of one

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 10/29/2018 06:36 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: I managed to do a search for Apollo stuff and their prices are outrageous. I have heard through the grapevine that the prices shown are MSRP and meant for businesses. Purportedly they will provide much more reasonable pricing if you

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Jim Stefanik via cctalk
These guys are fairly local to me...20 minute drive or so. I might take a hike out there and see if they're any good or a joke. Jim From: Grant Taylor via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, 30 October 2018 17:22 To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: 2 huge warehouses

Re: Books available ACM CALGO Vols I, II, III, loosleaf+microfice

2018-10-30 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
Hi Chuck, On 10/30/2018 09:15, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Anyone interested in three hardbound volumes of ACM CALGO, starting with Algorithm 1, plus a large looseleaf binder and assorted microfiche (assuming that I can still find them)? Drop me a line if so. Sure, I'm curious. When you

Re: i860: Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk
> > From: Ken Seefried > Subject: i860: Re: modern stuff > >the i860 found at least a little niche on graphics boards, so somehow > >not a complete failure ;-) > > I have a Quad-i860 VME board in one of my Sun systems. Michael Thompson

Re: MSDN CD disposition

2018-10-30 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 04:29 PM 10/29/2018, geneb via cctalk wrote: >There's a ton of them on the IA already. I would /love/ to get the early >ones. My collection begins at 1997 so I would *eagerly* take anything >previous to that. Oh, I'd guess I have them all from '94 to 97 at least, including the non-Intel

Looking for HP Laserjet IIp+ power supply

2018-10-30 Thread Charles via cctalk
The main power supply for my ancient Laserjet IIp+ printer has given up. Fuse is not blown. Power switch has continuity... don't feel like trying to debug and repair the "brick". There are two Sony labels: One says Model RG1-1782 (I think that's the HP part number) and the other Model CD-91A,

Re: Looking for HP Laserjet IIp+ power supply

2018-10-30 Thread Alexandre Souza via cctalk
I miss the old IIp / IIIp printers :'( <3 They were small bricks, but they were so cute ---8<---Corte aqui---8<--- http://www.tabajara-labs.blogspot.com http://www.tabalabs.com.br ---8<---Corte aqui---8<--- Em ter, 30 de out de 2018 às 23:01, Charles via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>

The Andromeda Disk Controller again

2018-10-30 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
When we talked about this little bit ago I thought there were a couple other people who had them.  Any chance someone has a copy of the utilities disk they could rip and email to me? I just tried to read  mine and it appears to have a bad spot right on the oct.sav file which is the program

Re: 2 huge warehouses full of old computers

2018-10-30 Thread Ethan via cctalk
Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is expensive. It drove the company I was last working for to move out of Austin. Their business Depends when it was bought. Pre-bubble or after the largest real estate bubble in the history of mankind.

Re: i860, was : Re: modern stuff

2018-10-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > CHM has a rather large Intel Paragon system. > I just recently snagged the software and manuals for it on eBay > which we didn't have Excellent! Congratulations! So, I'm curious - what's the 'most important missing thing' at the CHM - either am important