Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-06 Thread Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to prison. Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is not free. You can download the air and install the air and use the air, but noone can help you do it or they will spend 15months in federal prison and pay

Re: Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-06 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote: > This list is really going down the tubes. ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the folks on this list, I think. (ok folks, it's a joke ...) mcl

Re: Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-06 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 12:05 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > There was an Able Computer document at VCF Midwest, and through a > miscommunication, it wound up on the 'free' pile. Did anyone here get it? > If so, I'd like to try and get it scanned in, and made available. Do we know where the

Re: Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-06 Thread null via cctalk
*sigh* This list is really going down the tubes. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2019, at 03:24, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk > wrote: > > A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to > prison. Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is > not

Re: Nuke Redmond!

2019-10-06 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 10/6/19 10:40 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote: This list is really going down the tubes. ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the folks on this list, I think. (ok folks, it's a joke ...)

Computer Automation Alpha LSI minicomputer

2019-10-06 Thread David Carroll via cctalk
Hi, I am restoring a Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and need some help with software documentation. I have a Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and cards, and I have binary images of the paper tapes, but I don't have the manual for using the software library tools. By

Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Electronic Surplus Cleveland https://www.electronicsurplus.com/ Honeywell switch, might work with your actuator https://www.electronicsurplus.com/honeywell-microswitch-8v1012b-m-switch-rocker-spdt-25ma-20vdc gb Sent from iPad Air

Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
I did find a candidate switch, at Surplus Sales of Nebraska for $5.00 http://www.surplussales.com/switches/SWToggle-1.html (SWT) 8V10128 Microswitch SPDT toggle switch. 25 ma @ 20vDC. PC mount. ON-ON. 0.5" x 0.9"L Blue Paddle. Microswitch Co. was started by Burgess Battery (Freeport, IL) in

Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-06 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> From a friend's estate I have a Motorola 24-pin 0.6" purple ceramic DIP. > > SCM44506L > 7610 B > > Any idea what this can be? Very likely a semi custom or custom memory device, due to the prefix. -- Will

Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Many of the classic Rocker & Lever Actuator switches from the 1960s & 1970s were discontinued, due to industry consolidation (M) in 1990s and the convert or obsolete decisions (RoHS compliance), a decade later. This likely means you will need to “adopt” to current offerings == OR == plow

Re: Looking for front panel switch-- front panels

2019-10-06 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/5/2019 7:28 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have a matching switch they're not using? I have a spare black lever, but it's supposed to be blue for that nibble which would be even better ;) Thanks for any help. Surplus is not what it was 40 years ago. Several people are

Re: Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-06 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: The thing is that documentation for Able products is hyper-rare; we only have those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER, and some preliminary notes for the ENABLE. So if this can somehow be located... And what about the stuff on bitsavers? I personally have

Re: Vintage Computer Warehouse Liquidation

2019-10-06 Thread Thomas Raguso via cctalk
Update on the vintage computer warehouse: I have found some very rare and interesting items inside the warehouse. These include a Systems Engineering Laboratories SEL-810 mainframe from about 1967, along with its Teletype model 33 ASR. I have also identified some of the IBM punch-card machines.

Re: Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Christian Corti >> we only have those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER > And what about the stuff on bitsavers? That's where I got my copies of the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER docs. I guess I missed grabbing a few; and I see a few more have been added since I last looked:

Mystery chip SCM44506L

2019-10-06 Thread Wouter de Waal via cctalk
Hi all From a friend's estate I have a Motorola 24-pin 0.6" purple ceramic DIP. SCM44506L 7610 B Any idea what this can be? W

Re: Looking for front panel switch

2019-10-06 Thread Charles via cctalk
https://www.tedss.com/MT-SPDT-7101 Thanks :) It's only slightly different (the mounting pins look to be a bit closer together than my switches dated 1975, but I can drill a couple holes in the PC board, and swap my matching lever onto it.) Certainly a lot closer than the totally non-matching