Re: Ardent Titan

Hi Camiel, First let me say you are one lucky guy. I had one of these in my office for a few months, after their demo in Houston we were in constant contact to promote and sell them. Ardent, later Stardent supplied the hardware and we ported an application to show at the Offshore Technology

Re: Old manuals (Univac, IBM, Burroughs, Teletype)

Hi Todd, I have a Model 33, what do you want for those manuals? Thanks, Randy From: cctech on behalf of Todd Pisek via cctech Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 2:00 PM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject:

Re: SimH PDP-8 simulator plays music

Kudos! That is awesome Kyle, and sounds great. Have you had a look at Max B. Mathews MUSIC4BF? Old FORTRAN dusty deck I want to bring up, it is not realtime like yours, but calcs wavetable (or DAC) output for later processes. Anybody found the source for this? Randy

MOVIE.BYU - progress

Thanks group for the links to the source. These have passed thru many copies, and somehow have embedded control characters and such, but I am successful so far at the cleanup: I pull the source into a fortran knowledgeable editor, I am using "blocks" When the editor stops in the file, I

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

xterm will do your Tek 4014 emulation. There should be lots of Tek stuff in X11, they were one of the original consortium members. While you are fishing around for software to run, I have MOVIE.BYU from one of the guys here. ISSCO's DISPLA should be around, but I have not found it. Look

IBM Scientific Subroutine Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?)

Hi Chuck, Maybe you can answer a related question to the conversion of IBM 360 .tap files. I see the IBM FORTRAN Scientific Subroutine Package on Bitsavers in .tap format: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/IBM/360/360A_CM-03X_Scientific_Subr_Pkg.zip How do I read/convert this back

Re: IBM Scientific Subroutine Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?)

M To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: IBM Scientific Subroutine Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?) On 7/11/17 3:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 7/11/17 3:31 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: >> Hi Chuck, >> >> >> Maybe you can answer a related

Re: Re: Directory of old computer collectors

Hi Jim, Anybody that is paranoid about telling their location and the computer dinosaurs running in their basement needs a head alignment. Another case of some guy over-estimating the worth of the junk we hold on to. It is zero, of value to only us that play with it. And our numbers are

Re: Directory of old computer collectors

Hi Jim, add me to your list. I am in Thousand Oaks, CA (Los Angeles area). I have a Tektronix 4051 vector graphics computer running, just BASIC games at the moment. I have a Compaq Model 1 with the PC-IDE flash setup, running Autocad, Versacad, Dr. Halo, Turbo-C, MS-Fortran. I am in

Re: Convex C220 lives

Hi Carmiel, What did you do with the Ardent (Stardent). That's where all your great benchmark demos are. The Dore' system, the 'Flag' demo. If you want Fortran, I have been working on MOVIE.BYU, a dusty deck, but I have almost got there. It is wireframe and rendered poly animation. It

Re: Convex C220 lives

martin.heppe...@dlr.de Thanks to Martin, Where should we post, it the last copy I know of, movie.byu From: Randy Dawson Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:30 PM To: Peter Allan; General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Convex

Re: Tek 4051 semi-repaired

I will be glad to open mine up, and 'PhotoFact' it for you. I can take scope shots of the critical signals, voltage rails. I suppose the first, would be if you hit the HOME PAGE key it should clear the screen, I can follow that signal path, and take some scope shots... Even with the screen

Re: EBAY - DEC RX01/02 floppy disks - Andromeda Systems and AED utilities

I saw one of the disk labels in the pictures, - VERSATEC VERSAPLOT I have that, its fortran source, a pretty nice plotting package, plus it does a nice job of vector to raster (to support their electrostatic plotters). I was a customer, and did build this on the PC, I think it was lahey or

Re: Tektronix 4050E01

Hi Bob, I have a 4051, in perfect working order. I would like to buy one of these 'Toasters' from you. I could also take your schematic and make more copies of it for others. What ROMPACKS do you have? Randy From: cctalk

Tek 4051 users and replacement for the 405x QIC Tape

One of the Ex-Tek's, Micheal Cranford has designed a modern FLASH based RAMPACK for the tape drive, and filled it with most of the known BASIC games. More significant, Micheal has written FASTGRAPHICS, a replacement for the BASIC vector draw functions; 100x increase in performance, in

Re: Ebay listings from potomacstore

I considered the Tektronix 4051 hardcopy unit, but my search turned up zilch for the paper (3M Dry Silver type) Price is right, the printer looks great, but no source for the paper that I can find. randy From: cctalk on

Original CAD code in the wild?

For a while I have collected bits of legacy CAD, most recently Martin Hepperle sent me what I believe is the last version of Hank Christianson's MOVIE.BYU, a FORTRAN based 3D modeling and animation system. I also have experimented with the original Berkley SPICE, also written in FORTRAN.

Re: New Listings for Sellam's Collection Sales

Inspired by ebay for all the items there that never sell for the asking price. C'mon Sellam, you want to get out, how about lowering the prices a bit to move things along? From: cctalk on behalf of Ed Sharpe via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 7:50 PM

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

Hi Gary, Well its been a year. Some news from here: Micheal Cranford finished his MAXIPACK and FASTGRAPHICS PACK, and the results are awesome. 50-100% increase in the graphics speed, and he put all the demos and games on the MAXIPACK. I 3D printed the plastic case for the PACKs and they

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

This was for Mike Hass, he was not in the email chain, and I do not have his address. But it' s a general shout out to the other Tek 40xx users out there... Randy From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Randy Dawson via cctalk &

Re: 4051 communications PACK

on behalf of Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2018 9:37 AM To: Randy Dawson via cctalk Subject: 4051 communications PACK Hi Randy. I'm sure I have an extra com pack. I'll check storage today. Bob -- Vintage computers and electronics www.dvq.com<

To the 2901 bit slicers out there

Since I know there's tons of PDP/11 geniuses here, and other gurus with a NOVA 4, and a Tektronix 4052 guy (I have the 4051): What have you done, with microprogramming this part? In your architecture, have you changed the microcode, create an instruction to enhance your machine? I would be

Re: More tapes - This time all Tektronix 405x series

Wow, good job Marty. Now there are three of us. Brad Sebrink has a 4051, and also written an emulator. The Tek guys in Beaverton have another, VintageTek. I will contact one of the guys there, he may have a RAMPACK and MAXIPACK for you, his software speeds up the graphics incredibly, and

Re: More tapes - This time all Tektronix 405x series

Hi Pete, Send them to Monty - my 4051 is crippled with no serial port. I currently have no way to get data in and out of this, except via Micheal's RAMSTORE modules. Monty, I also looked at emulating the tape drive, or the floppy disk over GPIB, that would be great, have the PC with a NI

Microsoft DOS Fortran 5.1 graphics

I am looking for a sort of 'hello world' example and/or samples to use the graphics library in this compiler, some sample code. My target is DOS and the Compaq luggable mono display. It looks like its all there, the library and include files for display adapters and modes, but I cant find an

Re: Looking for Tektronix 4052 R12 Graphics Enhancement ROM Pack and Tektronix 4014 demo files

My 4051 is down at the moment, it seems to be just a minor supply issue but I will get you the demo files. I really think the 4051 users are a really lose knit group out here. Since I bought mine a few years back at that auction site for divorce prices, I have met maybe half a dozen

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

Zane, The Country Store is still going, and while you are there check the museum, VintageTek next door. Surplus Gizmos in Hillsboro looks to still be in business: http://www.surplusgizmos.com/ Welcome to SurplusGizmos.com, LLC - We sell the Gizmos ...

Re: Kaypro II keyboard fault / keyswitches wanted

Here you go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victor-9000-SIRIUS-1-Keyboard-repair-Foam-Pads-for-KeyTronic-Keyboards/121266887970?hash=item1c3c11dd22:g:HRYAAOSw91NTtPPK

Re: modern stuff - i860

Two design wins I remember: TrueVision, the AT computer graphics people that did the TARGA video boards had software to back the board sales up, a 3D animation package TOPAS. Beautiful, but dog slow even on the fastest 25MHz PCs at the time, so they had ported it to the i860 as an add in card.

Re: Teletype cheap

There are 4 tie down bolts that you insert in the bottom to secure the printer carriage. this is pretty critical From: cctalk on behalf of steve shumaker via cctalk Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 7:39 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts

Re: Looking for optical grid mouse pad

Carmiel you lucky dog! How come you get TWO Titan's, all I want is ONE. I had one for about a year after it came out. I convinced their sales to park it in my office next to NASA JSC while we both were entertaining customers. I did some visualization work using Dore' and AVS. recently, I

Re: Source code listings from REDAC PDP-based PCB layout system.

I think this is Racal-Readac, one of the early PCB software vendors (from the UK). Later bought up by Zunken (the big three are Cadence, Mentor, Zunken). Is the source straight PDP-15 assembly, or a mix with another high level language? It would be great to look at this, I hope it makes it to

Re: ISO - 386 or 486 system or cplt mobo

We use a website called 'nextdoor' which is a neighborhood community exchange. I posted a message asking for the same, old PC's. In a coupe of days I picked up 5 of them for free. Two were VERY unique, belonging to a LA area movie editor. They came with high end Matrox frame grabber/video

Re: AMD Am8177 Datasheet

Let us know of any bipolar AMD am2900, anything in the am2900 Bipolar Microprocessor Family. 2900 demo board: http://www.donnamaie.com/AMD_Vintage/EVAL_Board_cropped_reduced.pdf www.donnamaie.com Created Date: 1/15/2009 12:09:39

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

Zane, your comments are appreciated. I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are OK for text, but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom or increase the resolution. I also follow you on your purchase experience with out of print and search. I

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

turday, December 15, 2018 12:27 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine On 12/15/2018 12:54 AM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: > Zane, your comments are appreciated. > > I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, an

Re: Researching IBM rare equipment from 50s to 80s

I worked with an ex-IBMer who told me about this thing. It was nick-named "The Noodle Snatcher" - with a puff of air it wiggled the mag tape and wrapped it around a drum for read/write. It had a nasty habit of mis-handling the tape. He told me that during a sales presentation to a customer,

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

Hi John, If you have not gotten any takers, I will step up. I am in Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks). I see most if not all is online at internet achive an here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm I would rather have the physical magazine. Let me know what others you want to

Re: Tektronix 6800 Board Bucket and 4051 Working Together Video

Thats amazing Brad! Good job. The amazing is that you have working board bucket, that has to be the rarest thing out there in 4051 hardware. I need to follow vcfed and you guys more, you are definitely on top of the hardware. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of

Re: Looking for Byte Jan 78 missing page

The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your missing pages: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf From: cctalk on behalf of Peter Cetinski via cctalk Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:40 PM To:

Re: PDP-8: count number of set bits in a word

Hi Kyle, hat's a really interesting problem, and the government (NSA) wanted this badly and done FAST. they asked Seymour Cray to create a specific instruction for this and they called it 'population count' Anybody know the why and how it is useful? I am deep in matrix math books and

a timer for the PC - screen tme for the kids

Before I develop this, I thought it may already exist, and the classiccmp mail list might be the place to ask. What we have, is the screen time problem with the kids. If we are not there hounding and policing them, they will be on for hours. All the medical community says, we need to limit

Re: Another dealer going under

I an next door, give us the address please... Thanks, Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Ali via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:07 AM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Cc: 'Electronics Plus' Subject: RE: Another dealer going

Re: PDP 11/15

Paul, That is so cool! How much space would it take? That is my first computer (outside of timesharing and Z-80 homebrew). My first job was on the PDP-15 to transcribe the APOLLO analog range tapes of the lunar experiments, primarily the seismometer moonquake data for the University of Texas

Re: Latest Additions to the Virtual Warehouse of Computing Wonders Sale Inventory

Anybody try business with this guy? His prices are 10X off the chart From: cctalk on behalf of Sellam Ismail via cctalk Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 9:59 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Latest Additions to the Virtual Warehouse

Your Heatkkit EC-1 analog computer

Hi Jeff, I have hundreds of crystals here for you, and built a crystal tester (Jim Williams app note) https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/application-notes/an12fa.pdf AN12 - Circuit Techniques for Clock

Re: Anyone have any Datapoint software on floppy?

Anyone interested in Datapoint should get this book: Datapoint The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution ISBN 978-1-936449-36-1 Quite a story, I could not put it down. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of jos via cctalk Sent:

Re: Looking for older Motorola pagers (UHF, POCSAG)

I do not have the pagers themselves, but 2 large boxes of NEW Motorola RF components. ICs, RF transistors, etc. From: cctalk on behalf of Ethan O'Toole via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:27 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Looking for older

Re: First Internet message and ...

No, this was the first personal computer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4050#/media/File:Tektronix_4051_ad_April_1976.jpg From: cctalk on behalf of Mike Stein via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:15 PM To: Fred Cisin ; General Discussion:

Re: Wanted: Scan of RF modulator article in Sept. 1978 Radio Electronics

The next issue is here (as well as all pop tronics and radio electronics, Byte and more) https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/70s/1978/Radio-Electronics-1978-09.pdf '' 1' -

Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?

A couple other ccmp guys, Emanuel Steibler and Doug Taylor and I have been passing around what I have. Doug got it working under linux. Where is the best place to put this? I also have BYU's follow up CQUEL, greatly expanded, with X11 GUI. Randy From: cctalk

Re: Old FORTRAN programs, libraries, graphics

Emanuel, I have you covered with FORTRAN graphics. I have your 3d wireframe, and rendering too with MOVIE.BYU. The greatest 3D and animation package in its day, say late 70's early 80s. Martin Hepler gave me the latest, I got most of it working, but aaa well something took me away. Let

Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration

I can't be the only one who would like to see the FORTRAN source of some of those editors, linkers, macro processors. As a medical electronics guy, I had to deal with a fortran monster of a database engine, manman. It was legacy in with the FDA, but woa, what a suck piece of crap it is. Hi

Re: Grinnell Systems

Hi Emanuel, I remember them well, I was their manufacturer's rep in Houston, and sold several to petrochem, NASA and universities. It was a big ticket item, selling for upwards of 40K when loaded up with all the options. NASA was using it for animation, the petrochem guys for geology

IBM professional graphics adapter and monitor

Before I ebay buy a monitor, original IBM 5135, will it match the scan rates of the IBM of the IBM Professional Graphics Controller? I wanted to keep this system looking all original IBM. Will I need a different monitor, Princeton or something like that? Your recommendations appreciated.

Herbert Schildt C code from books

A wild guess that maybe some on the group may have these files. I bought the books from abe books, a few dollar's each. They are (vintage 80-90's) but of course the code floppy disks are not there. Did anybody keep these files? The Art of C The Craft of C C Power Users Guide I hope you say

Re: Tektronix PDP-11 Signal Processing System BASIC 1980

Hi Al, Fantastic! Your work here has always been the best, and the Tektronix graphics documents, as a subject was on target. I have a Tek 4051, and, its gathering dust. I need to fix a broken trace blanking, but this thing is hard to get into. Its going to be lay it out on the bench for

Re: Computer History

fix your links. CC yourself and see if you can click on them. From: cctalk on behalf of Murray McCullough via cctalk Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 5:25 PM To: cctalk Subject: Computer History I've recently reread *Fire In The Valley, Ed. 1,2 &3.* They

CHM software

Follow up to the Living Computer Museum discussion... I can understand why CHM does not allow access to the hardware, But what about the software? It should all be downloadable. Randy

evil thing to ask but I need keystroke logger

I have kids that after corona are in lockdown, so they are on computers all the time. Supposed to be doing schoolwork, but no, feedback from the school is negative. Can I trap some traffic from these PC's and what software would you recommend? Randy

interesting manual find - usermanual.wiki

Ran across this, give it a try. There are tons of old (and new) manuals in there. Randy

Microsoft fortran and c manuals

Hi Thomas, Did you ever the pdf copies of these? I also would like to get a set. Thanks, Randy

COMPAQ ISA PC to ethernent

If anyone has ideas about boards or software to connect this original Compaq to the net let me know! Browsing the ebay, I do not find a PC 8 bit ethernet board but still looking. Then, the rest, a net set of tools in source would be great.

Original Intel 8085 training briefcase with tapes

Just on a chance, would anybody have the paper workbook that goes with this kit? It is a 8085 SDK board in a briefcase, power supply and tape player that was probably part of a class they presented. Mine works fine, including the Sony Walkman in the case, I am listening to the 10 or more

Re: Early '80s Motorola Semiconductor Reference - anyone?

I found a few of the databooks here: https://usermanual.wiki/search.php?q=motorola%20semiconductor%20reference Randy From: cctech on behalf of r.stricklin via cctech Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2021 5:50 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Early

Ian Hirschsohn - DISSPLA, Superset Inc. and sad news

As some here know, I collect some dusty deck fortran graphics. We have MOVIE.BYU up and running! (Thanks Douglas Taylor and Emanuel Steibler). Ian built AMD 2901 bit slice hardware to run his graphics, it was called SuperSet, and was very quick for the 1980s. Architecture was 48 bit, A=B op C,

Re: Pro-Log M980 Programmer

I had a Data I/O 29B with a serial interface and I assume your Pro-Log is similar. Cabled up and baud correct you should get a menu on a CR with your host. Mine took an Intel or Motorala ASCI HEX string on power up without any commands or prompts. Randy From:

Re: Distribution floppies (Was: Microsoft OSs (was: Install Floppies)

LOT'S OF GOOD INFORMATION HERE! I am keeping this one Fred, and thank you. From: cctalk on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 3:27 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Distribution floppies (Was:

[cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel.

OK, the web is your friend. Looks like it has applications in cryptography, or searching thru text: https://cryptome.org/jya/sadd.htm From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:28 AM To: Randy Dawson via cctalk Cc: Chuck Guzis Subject

[cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel.

On the top secret number cruching The Cray had an instruction called 'population count' asked for by the NSA. The number of bits on in a word, not sure what this was used for. From: ben via cctalk Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 10:52 AM To:

[cctalk] Re: Alacron i860 boards

Wow Tony, thats a really cool board. I hope you get the support software, compilers and all that. I had an i860 fromAT Truevision, for their TOPAS 3D modeling SW, but they dropped it. The i860 was also in a desktop, Kubota bought the Ardent graphics supercomputer and moving the software to