Re: %20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
whats with the weird tag on this thread? %20 is an escaped form of the space character. Some mail programs escape all control characters, or even anything like {} ~. On Tue, 9 Apr 2019, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: Yes but "%20" is the form of escape intended for use with http, not for

Re: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage

2019-04-09 Thread Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
> While on the subject of tape storage anyone know if it is still possible to > get desktop/table top wire bins to hold tapes in canisters and/or reels? Not > that I have that many tapes or anything like that. This would be more for > display purposes than anything else. > > Something akin to

RE: Not DEC related but still hoping for some help: Problems w/ LJ 4+ Printer

2019-04-09 Thread Ali via cctalk
> > It sounds like the caps have not (yet) completely failed. > > I'd bet $10 on the HV supply being your problem. And you would be $10 richer now :D I just replaced the caps on the HV board ($5 worth of parts $7.99 for S :facepalm:) and it fired right up and started printing. None of the

Re: %20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread ben via cctalk
On 4/9/2019 4:40 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: This particular sort of mess often occurs when somebody uses a character that isn't part of the basic set. The subject line mentioned half inch.  SOME program "did a favor" for its user, and changed "1 / 2" to a single character for one half.

Re: Not DEC related but still hoping for some help: Problems w/ LJ 4+ Printer

2019-04-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 4/9/19 9:23 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: And you would be $10 richer now :D I just replaced the caps on the HV board ($5 worth of parts $7.99 for S :facepalm:) and it fired right up and started printing. None of the caps looked "bad". I don't have an ESR meter but when I tested the caps w/

Re: Storage for 1/2" open reel tape

2019-04-09 Thread Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
> I've noted earlier that the vinyl "hanger strips" for 1/2" magnetic tape > have been degrading, becoming brittle and simply breaking away, > sometimes in small particles. I have about a hundred tapes from various contributors, and have noticed no age-related [1] deterioration of the seals,

Re: %20 nonsense

2019-04-09 Thread Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
> whats with the weird tag on this thread? Oops, sorry. Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2019-April tries to fire up MacOS X Mail, which I don't want because I use Thunderbird.  So I "Copy Email Address" and paste it

Re:  Storage for 1/2" open reel tape

2019-04-09 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 4/8/19 9:06 PM, Jeff Woolsey via cctech wrote: >> I've noted earlier that the vinyl "hanger strips" for 1/2" magnetic tape >> have been degrading, becoming brittle and simply breaking away, >> sometimes in small particles. > > I have about a hundred tapes from various contributors, and have

Re: Storage for 1/2" open reel tape

2019-04-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 4/8/19 9:26 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctech wrote: whats with the weird tag on this thread? It looks like the spaces got encoded as %20 for some reason. -- Grant. . . . unix || die

Re: %20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
whats with the weird tag on this thread? On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 10:25 PM Fred Cisin via cctech wrote: > >>> /My small 16mm collection is stored on an open reel tape cart. / > >> I wonder how tape rings would do on 16mm reels? > > You mean the write rings? They're fixed at the hub size > >

Re:%20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
/My small 16mm collection is stored on an open reel tape cart. / I wonder how tape rings would do on 16mm reels? You mean the write rings?  They're fixed at the hub size No, I meant the circumferential hangers. Since I occasionally processed my own movie film, I usually had plenty of

Re:%20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Jeff Woolsey via cctalk
> >>/I hit on the idea of using 16mm move film plastic "cans". Much to my > >>/>>/surprise, I found that there is still an active market for these > >>things. / > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote: > >/My small 16mm collection is stored on an open reel tape cart. / > I wonder

Re: %20 nonsense

2019-04-09 Thread Jim Manley via cctalk
To those of us who develop AI in the real world, it stands for "Artificial Incompetence". We're not talking about just the software, but the practitioners.who should know better than to allow anyone (especially themselves) to overpromise and shamelessly promote AI being able to do things that are

Re: %20 nonsense

2019-04-09 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
u mean the inteligence of bloated software On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:13 PM Jeff Woolsey via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > whats with the weird tag on this thread? > > Oops, sorry. > > Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via >

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-09 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 8, 2019, at 9:40 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 04/08/2019 06:10 PM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote: >> FWIW the tape drive is an IBM 2315 announced April 16, 1965 >> for >> use on low end S/360s.

Re: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-04-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 04/08/2019 11:34 PM, Ali via cctalk wrote: While on the subject of tape storage anyone know if it is still possible to get desktop/table top wire bins to hold tapes in canisters and/or reels? Not that I have that many tapes or anything like that. This would be more for display purposes

RE: Tektronix Keyboard

2019-04-09 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2019 11:43 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Tektronix Keyboard On 4/3/19 8:53 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > What I didn't understand

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Adrian Stoness > someones bid on them eh hopefully not a scraper Well, a scrapper would want to pay as little as possible, so anyone who wanted to actually save the system should be able to get it. There are a couple of bids on it, but the amounts are derisory. I hope

Re: %20 nonsense

2019-04-09 Thread Nemo via cctalk
On 09/04/2019, Jeff Woolsey via cctech wrote: >> whats with the weird tag on this thread? > > Oops, sorry. > > Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via > http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2019-April tries to fire up > MacOS X Mail, which I don't want because I

Re: %20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 04/08/2019 10:26 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: whats with the weird tag on this thread? %20 is an escaped form of the space character. Some mail programs escape all control characters, or even anything like {} ~. Jon

Re: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-04-09 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> Yikes, I doubt anybody has manufactured these in the last 30 > years. I have one, but don't want to get rid of it until I > scrap all my old tapes. They are not 100 percent authentic, but there are desktop wire file organizing racks that can hold tapes. -- Will

Re: %20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

2019-04-09 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
Jon Elson wrote: > On 04/08/2019 10:26 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > > whats with the weird tag on this thread? > > > > > %20 is an escaped form of the space character. Some mail > programs escape all control characters, or even anything > like {} ~. > Yes but "%20" is the form of

RE: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-04-09 Thread Jay West via cctalk
I have two of the authentic tape racks, the ones that held tapes by the snap closure on the flexible plastic ring. Both are about 65 to 70 inches tall. One is about 2 feet wide and I will be keeping that. The other is about 5 or 6 feet wide and should go to a good home. Both are in good

RE: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-04-09 Thread Ali via cctalk
> I have two of the authentic tape racks, the ones that held tapes by the > snap closure on the flexible plastic ring. Both are about 65 to 70 > inches tall. One is about 2 feet wide and I will be keeping that. The > other is about 5 or 6 feet wide and should go to a good home. Both are > in good