Re: PDP-8/S

On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:27:57 -0400 Michael Thompson michael.99.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 12:26:07 -0700 From: couryhouse couryho...@aol.com Subject: Re: Front Panel Update 8s is rare?? ? We have one. ?Is there a an registry? ? Ed# ?smecc.org Ben. I

Re: PDP-8/S

restoration. Has a second one. I think that one or both of these may have new homes. Both do have new homes. I have one of them: Lyle Bickley S/N 203, Desktop, Restored, Runs, Passes all DEC PDP-8/S Diagnostics, runs Focal, etc. Vincent Slyngstad v.slyngs...@frontier.com S/N 381

Re: PDP-8/S

. Has a second one. I think that one or both of these may have new homes. Both do have new homes. I have one of them: Lyle Bickley S/N 203, Desktop, Restored, Runs, Passes all DEC PDP-8/S Diagnostics, runs Focal, etc. Vincent Slyngstad v.slyngs...@frontier.com S/N 381, Table top, needs

Storage Replicator/Volume Replicator Software

Hi All, I'm looking for an old (before 3/2000) copy of Veritas* Systems Storage Replicator for Windows or Volume Replicator for Solaris. This is for business purposes - so there's a bounty available :) Cheers, Lyle * Later sold to Symantec -- Bickley Consulting West Inc.

Solstice (or Solaris) Disk Suite 4.0 software

I'm looking for a copy of Solstice (or Solaris) Disk Suite 4.0 software. A bounty is available... Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com Black holes are where God is dividing by zero

MIPS systems available...

Weirdstuff recently received the following: (2) Magnum 4000SC-50 mips systems (2) RS 2030 mips systems Look clean (from the outside)... Contact Jim if you're interested in them. Usual disclaimer: I have no relationship with Weirdstuff other than as a client. I receive no remuneration for

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:14:36 -0600 Eric Smith space...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Rich Alderson ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org wrote: industry white papers with tables of decay rates for the aluminum electrolytics that indicate that, *no matter what*, they lose

Re: WTB: Unix/Solaris Adobe FrameMaker 8

Kevin, On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 17:38:23 -0800 Al Kossow wrote: > On 11/7/15 4:45 PM, Kevin Parker wrote: > > > Try contacting Weird Stuff > > Most of the boxed software goes out on the floor or in the 'free' box outside > the store. > > Lyle might see it when it comes in,

Re: new message

On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 21:25:58 -0600 "Jay West" wrote: > Apologies, not sure how that got through. > > Maybe a listmember got address-book-malware. Will see if the headers reveal > anything that is easy to spot. I'm a member of spamcop and submitted all of the spam posts to

Nice blog post on fixing a 1401 memory bug...

I'm forwarding a blog post written by a member of the CHM 1401 Restoration Team. Excellent description (with pictures) of how 1401 memory is addressed, etc.: http://www.righto.com/2015/10/repairing-50-year-old-mainframe-inside.html Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc.

Re: Z system pics

On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 14:34:50 -0500 "Cindy Croxton" <sa...@elecplus.com> wrote: > More pictures have been uploaded. > > > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxqLDyoLYuCKZmNsZlo1U0JyVkE pictures work for me... Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc

Re: IBM 1620

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:28:30 -0500 Ben Sinclair b...@bensinclair.com wrote: The CHM has a bit of information, and links to three other 1620's that they know about: http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/ibm_1620/ibm1620/ From what I've been reading, there may be only one operational 1620

Re: IBM 1620

was literally falling apart and was not repairable. Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com Black holes are where God is dividing by zero

Sales of unearthed Atari games total more than $100,000

I was surprised to see the average cart price to be over $120! http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/29/sales-unearthed-atari-games-total-more-than-10/?intcmp=hpbt4 Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com Black holes are where God is dividing by zero

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 Jon Elson wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really > weird problem has turned up. The guy who administers the > ring, David Brooks, is in Australia, and uses iinet.net.au > as his ISP. All

Re: This is sad...

On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 20:31:53 +0200 Mattis Lind wrote: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/111410385883 > > 10 left 27 sold. > > Once they could have been used by someone. Now they can only be used as a > conversation piece hanged on the wall. I know the seller. He is very

Re: Floppy recovery

On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 12:27:31 -0800 jwsmobile wrote: > I wonder how it could take them three months to figure something out. > Maybe Chuck can comment. > > But over a year after they spent the 3 months. Hmmm. It will be > interesting to hear what was recovered, though from

Re: KY11-LB prints, and versions

On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:08:55 -0400 (EDT) j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: --snip-- > Anyway, the version in the -11/34A prints didn't include the actual > front console, plus to which the prints there had been heavily marked > up by someone at some point. So I have produced a new

Re: PDP-8/E-F-M OEM price list on eBay

meone would notice and grab > it, but I guess not... > > Noel Thanks, I bought it :) Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 12:22:11 -0500 "Jay West" <jw...@classiccmp.org> wrote: --snip-- > We all owe a big "Thanks!" to Harry Sanders at S Computer Systems > and his Board of Directors for making this release a reality for all > vintage computer folks! Also,

Re: Lyle scores a WIN for our hobby!

Hi All, Hopefully you all read in the "Notes" (and Jay's and my comments) that TSX-Plus requires RT-11 as a prerequisite. RT-11 is readily available all over the Internet. It is also available at on the classiccmp server at http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/ Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS

Release Notes for version 6.5 of TSX-Plus...

I just received from S a PDF copy of the TSX 6.50 Release Notes - and Jay has posted it to the http://tsxplus.classiccmp.org website. Lots of interesting/helpful information for all you TSX-Plus buffs... Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black

Re: HP 2100A Restoration

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:44:48 -0700 Curious Marc <curiousma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lyle, > I didn't know you had such a collection of 2100's and 21MX and E's > and F's! I need to come and visit! Marc I have way too much of a lot of stuff ;) Lyle > > On Aug 1, 2016, at

Re: RX02 Debugging

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 21:43:03 -0700 Kirk Davis wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I’m in Sunnyvale, CA. > > I actually got the rx02 from another hobbyist that > used it with the 44 in 2008 so I suspect it is configured correctly. > The other drive doesn’t have a belt so I’m

Re: HP 2100A Restoration

On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:11:17 -0700 Bob Rosenbloom wrote: --snip-- > There's a bunch of small electrolytic capacitors on the Inhibit > Driver Load Card, A106, that needed to be reformed before my memory > would work reliably. > They reformed themselves in one of my units.

Re: HP 2100A Restoration

Hi Hayden, On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:29:05 -0600 Hayden Kroepfl wrote: --snip-- > With regards to the power supply, I'm thinking my best bet would be > to do a power on with no cards in the system. Though I'm not sure if > all the power rails would even come up without a load

Re: kryoflux

I think Al did something like that years ago, but an off the shelf > product for ½ tape would be spiffy. That would be terrific :) Cheers, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

Re: kryoflux

m file. That's exactly what I've used... Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

Data Genera MPT/100

I have a nice, clean DG MPT/100 I'm in the process of restoring. As you might expect, I contacted Bruce at "Wild Hare" to see what documentation and software he had for the critter. He was able provide some helpful PDF documentation - but NO schematic or software. Without software, the MPT/100

Re: Need info on obscure Flip Chip

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 17:41:16 -0400 (EDT) j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for information on a semi-obscure Flip Chip; an M826 > (sort sort of combination clock/counter). I can't find out anything > about it. Apparently the M8xx Flip Chips were generally custom >

AS400 Model 170 potentially available...

Weirdstuff has been offered an AS400 Model 170 located in a data center. If anyone is interested in purchasing it, let me know off list - please include the approximate price you'd be willing to pay for the critter. I'll pass your info on to Weirdstuff so they can decide whether to make a bid on

Free manuals...

I'm cleaning out my library of manuals and books I no longer need and before I recycle these particular IBM manuals, I thought someone on cctalk might find them useful. They are free for the shipping and packaging cost - local pickup gets priority ;) 1) "RS/6000 Diagnostic Information for

Re: Meaning of "architecture width" - Re: 68K Macs with MacOS 7.5 still in production use...

On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 11:38:13 -0700 Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > > > On 09/17/2016 09:23 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > > > >> I don't know what the width of the TMS9900 ALU is, but I'm pretty > >> sure it's

Re: Components available

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 22:43:05 -0700 Bob Rosenbloom wrote: > . > > > On Sep 6, 2016, at 6:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 9/6/16 4:18 PM, Tom Gardner wrote: > >> > >> A friend of mine died recently; he was amongst many things an > >>

Re: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:07:34 -0700 curiousma...@gmail.com wrote: > And it finally boots on session 8! > https://youtu.be/9OQMhvArI9g Excellent :) Lyle > > On Sep 10, 2016, at 7:46 PM, CuriousMarc > > wrote: > > > > Video of session 6 is up: > >

AS400 9406-170 available.

Weirdstuff Warehouse has recently acquired a clean AS400 9406-170. It was taken out of service where it was running. The lot includes manuals, terminals, printers, cables, etc. I took a bunch of pictures of the unit which are available via the link below:

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 09:33:37 -0800 Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Paul Koning > > wrote: > > > > > >> On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr > >> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> On Nov 8, 2016, at

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 17:34:51 -0800 Al Kossow wrote: > On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: > > I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread > > You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? > http://www.livingcomputers.org/ > > They just changed their name. Thanks -

Re: GMAIL accounts suspended.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:43:51 +0100 Tor Arntsen wrote: > On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan > wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Liam Proven > > wrote: > >> On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:22:05 -0500 (EST) j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: > > From: Klemens Krause > > > We clean our RK05 disks in a very robust way: with cheap > > burning spirit and paper towels. ... We rubbed away thick black > > traces from occasional head

Re: RX01 and RL01 on same UNIBUS system

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:48:47 -0400 william degnan via cctech wrote: > Just curious, > Is there anyone out there with a combo RX01 and RL01 on the same > UNIBUS system, today? Are there any known issues? I have an 11/34C (cache and floating point options) with (1) RX02,

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On Thu, 18 May 2017 09:14:24 -0400 Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote: > > BSD 2.11 should run fine on a 34 or 23 > > You need split I for 2.11BSD, that rules out the 11/23 and IIRC the > 11/34 as well. I want to say 2.9BSD will run though. > > Thanks, > Jonathan I run

Re: Directory of old computer collectors

On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:29:22 -0400 william degnan via cctalk wrote: > can you send a link to the people who are on the list so they can see > their listing? I personally don't mind as long as any record that > includes me personally does not include my email address or

Re: DEC Archives

On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 11:42:18 -0700 Lyle Bickley <lbick...@bickleywest.com> wrote: Note: This is a re-post - as my last post didn't seem to make it to cctalk... --snip-- > I have personally reviewed several boxes of the DEC archives - and > they are a terrific asset in understandin

Re: DEC archives

On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:45:37 -0500 Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: > Ok revising my overly simple thought of vounteers showing up.  What > about a class on document archival at VCFw (or other) and then an > archive party? Not trying to push a non-issue, but if that gets past

"What the DEC?!? Records of Minicomputer Giant Digital Equipment Corporation Open for Research at CHM"

The CHM has posted this on their blog: I thought you all (especially DEC buffs) would appreciate this: https://goo.gl/BV6MXH I have personally reviewed several boxes of the DEC archives - and they are a terrific asset in understanding both DEC's business successes and failures, engineering

Re: Univac

On Tue, 3 Oct 2017 01:20:40 -0400 Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > Here's a phone video from a recent repair workshop at the VCFed > museum in New Jersey. Bill Dromgoole is demonstrating progress on one > of the tape drives for our Sperry-Rand Univac 1219B mainframe

Re: More videos of VCF's Univac

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 01:00:34 -0400 Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > Here it is loading/running memory tests and Wumpus. :) > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrzeovlnioDfQR86zJOLPQ-D Terrific!!! Passing this on the the PDP-1 and 1401 Restoration and

Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:00:30 -0700 steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > >> found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem > >> Computers cartridge

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:45:12 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > Well, this is the stupidest thing I've read today. > > "Do Not Feed The Troll" should go without

Re: Sync on Green RGB video

s "Sync-on-Green". Many *NIX and DEC systems that have RGB output do NOT use a Hsync signal - but rather sync is placed on the "Green" channel. If you use any monitor capable of "sync-on-green", and it should work. Best, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley AF6WS'73 http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

Re: PDP8.org

ccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Why? > > It works from here (Oslo, Norway) now. > > Not from Prague... > > « > This site can’t be reached > > pdp8.org’s server DNS address could not be found. > > Did you mean http://www.pdp8.net/? > Search Google for pdp

Re: PDP8.org

he domain DNS record points to DNS Servers that are no longer in service or whose name has been changed. Lyle --- On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 10:38:39 -0700 Lyle Bickley via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > pdp8.org is NO

Lot of DEC QBus gear available...

With the demise of Weirdstuff, I decided to visit Outback Equipment in Gilroy this week. Jim Schuetz, formerly a partner at Weirdstuff is now the Business Development Manager at Outback. While there, I looked over the following DEC gear (includes several non-DEC QBus cards that I'm not listing -

Re: SGI stuff in the UK

Totally legit and Ian (the owner) knows more about SGI gear than anyone I know. My company's server is the U.S. mirror for his tech site: http://www.vintagecomputers.info/sgi.html Cheers, Lyle On Thu, 3 May 2018 13:51:48 -0500 Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: >

Re: non-PC Floppy imaging

Hi Guy, I just copied several IBM 8" Maintenance Device (MD) Diskettes - and verified that the copies work on the IBM MD. They seem to be in an IBM 3x0 format (with a standard IBM VTOC). Track 0 on the diskettes is 128 byte sectors, Tracks 1 through 76 are 256 byte sectors. The diskettes are

Re: who is in this picture? (VCF 199x)

On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:55:47 -0500 Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > https://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/vintage-computer.jpg > > I was not at this particular VCF out in California in the later 90's > when this photo of a DEC exhibit was taken; the original

Re: Anyone have a HALstation 300 install CD?

On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 09:21:28 -0700 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I'm evaluating two that came in as a donation, and the donor didn't > have any passwords They are crackable (I did it for my two HAL's - a 350 and a 375). Hint: Use Solaris running on SPARC. I also created a forensic copy of the

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:35:28 -0400 Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 4/5/2018 8:21 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > Last Day is this Sunday > > > > http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?63045-WeirdStuff-is-going-out-of-buisiness-( > > > > since I can't attach a

Re: Four Unibus boards from radiation dose measurement system.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:15:23 +0100 Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Hello! > > I have four unibus boards that came in a 11/34 which was used for > radiation dose measurement at a hospital. > > Three of them are made by Computer Design & Application inc and is a > three

Re: UCSD p-system manuals and disks?

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:50:12 +0100 Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > So I have imaged the three disks I found using ImageDisk: > http://storage.datormuseum.se/u/96935524/Datormusuem/TEXAS.zip > > Then I scanned one of the manuals. UCSD Pascal : >

Re: R.I.P. Robert T. "Doc" Suding

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:27:35 + Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > I just learned from the April 2018 issue of QST that Robert T. "Doc" > Suding, W0LMD, has died. Suding cofounded and was chief design > engineer of The Digital Group, an early microcomputer company in >

Re: A very sad PDP-8/S

On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 15:13:16 +1100 Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > This is rather sad. > I've received a PDP-8/S. It turns out to be missing so much, that > it's probably beyond restoration. Anyone who can think of potential > ways to find the missing parts, please speak up. > >

Re: DECUS PDP-11 SPACE WAR?

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:04:52 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > On 12/7/18 1:25 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > Anyone has old DECUS distributions? > > For all intents and purposes, no > > DECUS threw them out. Not true for PDP-8 and PDP-12 DECUS. I was the last PDP-12 Coordinator for

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:22:16 -0500 Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:44 PM > Subject: Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals > > > > > > > > On 11/20/18 12:33 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk

Re: PDP-11 disk image question

Bill, On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 13:55:10 + Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > So, I used SIMH to do an install of a complete OS on > an RA81 disk. I would like to move this to a real disk > and try it on a real PDP-11. Is there a way to do this > using dd on a BSD machine? I tried but it

Re: sun 88780 on ebay

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:04:42 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/132933407806 > > this is interesting because of the price and that all of the Sun > drives I've ever come across had the 800bpi option in them That's been my experience, too. The 88780 I use is a Sun

Looking for a Intel multibus 88/45... (minor corrections...)

I'm in the process of restoring an Intel 310 system. I had it working to the point where it was trying to boot - when the 88/45 processor began to fail intermittently and then solidly. My debugging seems to indicate that the problem is in a PLD - which is a serious bummer. I have preserved the

looking for a Intel multibus 88/45...

I'm in the process of restoring an Intel 310 system. I had it working to the point where it was trying to boot - when the 88/45 processor began to fail intermittently and then solidly. My debugging seems to indicate that the problem is in a PLA - which is a serious bummer. I have preserved the

Re: Looking for a Intel multibus 88/30...

stem to make sure it wasn't DMA... Repeating the CORRECTION: I NEED AN iSBC 88/30!!! Thanks again, Dwight!!! Cheers, Lyle __ > From: cctalk on behalf of Lyle > Bickley via cctalk Sent: Monday, June 17, > 2019 1:39 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subj

Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question

bably right (in this case ;) Lyle ______ > From: Lyle Bickley > Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2019 6:08 PM > To: cct...@classiccmp.org > Cc: W2HX > Subject: Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 21:11:39 + > W2HX via cctech wrote: > > >

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

Hi Kyle, On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 18:42:06 -0500 Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > Has anyone replaced the capacitor in a ferroresonant power supply with much > success? My current understanding is that the capacitor and transformer are > mated as a pair, so replacing just one of them would require

Re: DEC MS630/M7609 Question

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 21:11:39 + W2HX via cctech wrote: > Hi there. > > > I just acquired a board with the number M7609. It was advertised as an > M630-CA which my research tells me is supposed to be 16MB. How do I tell on > the board if this is 8MB or 16MB? There does not seem to be a suffix

Re: Modcomp Minicomputers Related - Preservation and Repair

for permission to make the manuals available online - and they (ultimately) agreed. Al and I can workout how best to make them available. Best, Lyle -- On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 09:07:20 -0800 Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > You should also check with Lyle Bickley about what has already been > archived. >

Re: Discord

d friends stay in touch. But it is there if peeps want to > use it. > > > > I’d rather not turn this into a long debate of whether discord is > good or bad or anything like that. I’m just saying it’s there, and > it’s quicker to get ahold of me that way at times. > > > >

Re: swtpc.com expired???

On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 17:15:01 -0500 William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote: > Domain has been down for 7 days now. No reply to emails. Does anyone know > anything? I looked it up and got this from "GoDaddy": --- NOTICE: This domain name expired on 10/30/2019 and is pending renewal or deletion. ---

Re: TSS/8 on RK05

Josh, THANK YOU (!) for the conversion of TSS from RF08 to RK05! I have a PDP-8/E with and RK05 and it will be fun to get TSS/8 running again. I had TSS/8 running years ago - on my PDP-12 and RF08 (w/2-disks!). Unfortunately, I donated both to the CHM in the mid-90's - and they've been sitting

Re: General Automation SPC 16 on eBay

Bob, It went for $130 on eBay... Somebody got a very good deal ;) Was it you??? Lyle -- On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 09:28:12 -0700 Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk wrote: > There's a cheap General Automation SPC 16/45 on eBay that someone needs > to get. It's for pickup only > in Royal Oak, MI otherwise

Re: IBM Type 31 Alphabetical Duplicating Keypunch available, Seattle area

I forwarded your email to the 1401 Restoration Team at the Computer History Museum... Cheers, Lyle -- On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:34:36 -0800 Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > (resending as this appears to have gotten eaten last time...) > > Hi all -- > > As the subject line says I've got an IBM

Vintage HP test gear and other stuff at Anchor Electronics...

I was browsing around in the back of Anchor Electronics a couple of days ago and came across some clean (but dusty) vintage HP test gear - and several very cool large variable resistors. I've attached some pictures of both. BTW: Those of us in Silicon Valley are fans of Anchor - because they

Re: Vintage HP test gear and other stuff at Anchor Electronics...

here were no attached > photographs. > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > > On 1/28/2020 7:02 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > I was browsing around in the back of Anchor Electronics a couple of days > > ago and came across some clean (but dusty) vintage HP test

Re: Portlock Storage Manager?

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:15:33 + Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote: > Anyone on here remember NetWare? :P I started and ran a network VAR company which was both Novell (Netware) Certified and IBM Business Partners. We sold a LOT of Netware, associated network cards, cabling and services. Both

Re: HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

To see if HP is still issuing VAX hobby licenses, a few days ago I applied for same directly online. Today I received the following in a similar manner as others have described: Hello dear OpenVMS Hobbyist,   Please see

Re: Charles Lasner [Was: Re: LINC-8]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:58:59 -0400 Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > NL7776 /SETUP -2 > TAD (-7776) /COMPARE TO EXPECTED VALUE > SZA CLA /SKIP IF OK > JMP IMA8S /JUMP IF RETARDED BROTHER > > / IF WE GET HERE,

Re: Computer stores

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:52:19 -0400 Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > 45 yrs. ago last month, mid-July, Dick Heiser started a new industry, the > retail computer store. It opened in West L.A. under the name Arrow Head > COmputer Company. aka, The Computer Store. This began the direct

Re: BYTE Magazines

On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 11:04:33 -0700 Donald via cctalk wrote: > Computer Museum of America might be interested. They have a Byte wall. > > http://www.myimagecollection.com/webpics/cmoabyte.jpg Almost all of my vintage computer collection went to the CMoA (Computer Museum of America - two 26'

Re: The best hard drives??

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:27:45 -0600 Richard Pope via cctalk wrote: > Hello all, > In the opinions of you experts out there considering reliability > being number one on the list with speed be number two on the list what > would you folks consider to be the best SATA drives on the market? >

Restorations...

Jim, I sent you an email to your jwsm...@jwsss.com mail account and haven't heard back from you, so thought I'd better try to reach you on cctalk! It's about potential restoration work needed in the LA area. Please get back to me privately. Sorry for the interruption of posting this to the

Re: DEC PDP-8/e Omnibus backplane lubrication

I've been successfully using Deoxit and related products for many years, after I learned of them from government projects where I was a consultant. In a specific case: My PDP-8/E has 32K of core memory in four banks (original DEC). Several years ago, it developed random memory errors. I did all

Re: IBM PC Network

Hi Grant, On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Q: Does anyone have any IBM PC Network hardware and / or software that > they would be willing to part with? My company installed a several hundred IBM PC Network equipped workstations "back in the day" ;) It was

Re: IBM PC Network

rrific. Oh yes, that and we used to charge about $250-$350 a node for network cards with a 40% margin. Ah, those were the days ;) Cheers, Lyle -- > On Sat, May 22, 2021, 4:34 PM Lyle Bickley via cctalk > wrote: > > > Hi Grant, > > > > On Sat, 22 May 2021 13:34:05 -0600

Re: IBM PC Network

On Sat, 22 May 2021 23:00:31 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 5/22/21 6:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;) > > Nor have I. > > > BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"

Re: IBM PC Network

On Sat, 22 May 2021 23:00:31 -0600 Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > On 5/22/21 6:50 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > Wow, never heard of "Tokenray" ;) > > Nor have I. > > > BTW: 16 Mbit Token Ring was much more reliable (especially in "noisy"

Re: Lisa Source Code

Al is right. AFAIK, the CHM has never made an official announcement regarding the release of the LISA OS. Perhaps the confusion comes from this email from Al to the LisaList: -- Al Kossow Dec 24, 2017, 7:49:23 AM to lisa...@googlegroups.com Just wanted to let everyone know the sources to the OS

Re: Systems Concepts SC-4 computer

On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:03:47 -0500 (EST) Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Lars Brinkhoff > > > Anyone ever heard of the Systems Concepts SC-4 computer? > > Given the SF address, and Peter Samson's signature, this is the _the_ Systems > Concepts. Never heard of the SC-4,

Re: Systems Concepts SC-4 computer

ly forgot about the SC-4, whatever it was supposed to be." Cheers, Lyle -- On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:13:26 + Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Phil Budne wrote: > > From: Lyle Bickley via cctalk > >> > >> I contacted Peter Samson regarding a "SC-4" and this was h

Re: HP1000 A series servers, interface card, cables, and accessories.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:52:33 -0400 Jesse Dougherty via cctalk wrote: > I have A series servers, parts, interface cards, and probably any > accessory that you might need. If anyone is looking for any HP 1000 A > series hardware, let me know. I still have a few of these loaded A990 > boxes that

Re: HP1000 A series servers, interface card, cables, and accessories.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 14:52:33 -0400 Jesse Dougherty via cctalk wrote: > I have A series servers, parts, interface cards, and probably any > accessory that you might need. If anyone is looking for any HP 1000 A > series hardware, let me know. I still have a few of these loaded A990 > boxes that

Re: scanning a ton of documentation

AFAIK, I have an entire library of MODCOMP documentation - consisting of over one thousand manuals as PDF's. I will check with the person who had the original manuals scanned and check to see if it is O.K. to zip them up and give them to AL to post on bitsavers. (I expect them to say "O.K.").

Re: Short PDP-8 Memory Test...

, 9-Trk tape, PTR/PTP which I donated to the CHM. It'll probably never see the light of day :( Best, Lyle -- On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 20:31:41 -0500 Mike Katz wrote: > Another PDP-8E?  You are very lucky :) > > On 4/6/2022 1:06 PM, Lyle Bickley via cctalk wrote: > > I recently a

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