Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

> On Feb 12, 2019, at 11:56 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2/12/19 8:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> On 02/11/2019 06:25 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: >>> What is the gold value? >>> >>> >> ARRgh! Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP sockets. Likely >>

Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

> ARRgh! Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP > sockets. Likely not worth the trouble of grinding them up to > extract the gold from all that base metal. A lot of precious metal scrappers have wildly differing opinions on that. -- Will

Re: sun 88780 on ebay

On 11/02/2019, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote (in part): > I haven't yet unboxed it. I took photos of the outside of the destroyed box > to send to the shipper. The front bottom left corner of the 88780 is > visible through a hole in the box, and is visibly mangled. Who was the seller? (The ebay

Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

On 02/11/2019 06:25 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: What is the gold value? ARRgh! Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP sockets. Likely not worth the trouble of grinding them up to extract the gold from all that base metal. Jon

Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

On 2/12/19 8:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 02/11/2019 06:25 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: >> What is the gold value? >> >> > ARRgh!  Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP sockets. Likely > not worth the trouble of grinding them up to extract the gold from all > that base

Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

On 2/12/19 8:43 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > A lot of precious metal scrappers have wildly differing opinions on that. > And there are a lot of dreamers out there too I had 1.8 lbs of 1970's bell labs wire wrap pins up on ebay for a while, someone in texas assayed a few and

Re: Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

So I received many requests for WW sockets - more than I thought I would - so I am going to pick two people at random to deal with. If you do not hear from me, do not despair - if either of the two I originally picked flakes out or something, you may get reselected! Anyway, the sockets are likely

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

On 2/12/19 4:06 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk wrote: > I remember moving Lattice C v2 from IBM PC diskettes to an HP 150. It was > MS-DOS applications and compiler and linker worked on the 150. No copy > protection. Lattice C was recommended by Microsoft to OEMs in the DOS 1.-2. days.

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Lattice C was recommended by Microsoft to OEMs in the DOS 1.-2. days. Two-step compilation process LC1, LC2, then link for executable. Microsoft didn't yet have their own C. Microsoft C 1.0 WAS Lattice C. 1983? (so, after recommending it,

Re: Mounting HP7970e 9-Trk 1/2" Tape Drive

j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: > > From: Alan Frisbie > > > Harbor Freight sells a nice hydraulic lift table for under $200 that I > > have found very useful for that sort of thing. It doesn't go up very > high > > (like for the top of a rack), but I used it with

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

> > > Likely some disk controllers did NOT SUPPORT crossing 64K boundaries! > > > > No; the RK11 spec says "[the two extended memory bits] make up a two-bit > > counter that increments each time the RKBA overflows". > > > > The actual error turns out to be slightly different to my guess;

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

On Feb 12, 2019, at 14:16, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:55 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:08 AM Phil Pemberton via cctalk >> wrote: >>> Does anyone have copies of any of the following -- or any other C

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:55 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:08 AM Phil Pemberton via cctalk > wrote: > > Does anyone have copies of any of the following -- or any other C > > compilers for the 68K which were around at that time? > > > >*

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

Is Lattice C 2.whatever for 8086 uncommon? I have a copy on a couple of floppies. --Chuck

Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers

On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 10:08 AM Phil Pemberton via cctalk wrote: > Does anyone have copies of any of the following -- or any other C > compilers for the 68K which were around at that time? > >* Lattice C Entirely randomly, I just opened a box I received today. Expected in the box was the

DEC Rainbow software (was Re: Looking for: 68000 C compilers)

On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 5:16 PM Warner Losh wrote: >> > Does anyone have copies of any of the following... >> >* Lattice C >> >> Entirely randomly, I just opened a box I received today. Expected in >> the box was the DEC Rainbow. Unexpected was an original box of >> Lattice C 2.15 for 8086

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

SUCCESS!! Put the M795 out on an extender, loaded 16 in RKBAR, and had a look around with a logic probe. Narrowed it down to E34 (a 7430 8-input NAND). Pulled, socketed, replaced, and off she goes! I can now successfully boot and run both V6 Unix and RSTS/E V06C from disk. *THAT* was a

sun 88780 on ebay

*Eric Smith *writes: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:18 AM Al Kossow > wrote: > > >/Does it have the 800 bpi option board? />// > I haven't yet unboxed it. I took photos of the outside of the destroyed box > to send to the shipper. The front bottom