tis 2022-01-04 klockan 08:40 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 1/4/22 12:14 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > Seymour Cray, along with Bill Norris and Jim Thornton and others
> > left Remington Rand/UNIVAC after Rand bought the near-bankrupt ERA.
> > Apparently, the work environment at
fre 2022-09-23 klockan 10:30 -0400 skrev emanuel stiebler via cctalk:
> Hi all,
> anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above?
> Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain
> which
> supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days
> tools/OS's
fre 2022-09-23 klockan 22:27 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> > I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like
> > i386 to i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems
> > as if the i960 actually came first and although a RISC chip it was
> > in no way in t
tor 2017-04-06 klockan 19:59 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> A late follow up on this topic.
>
> I got my IBM 1627 running. Actually it is not mine, it belong to my father
> that got it used for his home built computer somewhere around 1977. It
> became a project that never was finished...
ons 2017-04-12 klockan 10:57 -0400 skrev Noel Chiappa via cctalk:
> > From: Alfred M. Szmidt
>
> > No even the following program:
> > int main (void) { return 0; }
> > is guaranteed to work
>
> I'm missing something: why not?
>
> Noel
>
If the compiler doesn't have ANS
Anyone with access to a distribution of SDT (Telelogik's SDL programming
system) for old era SunOS 4 ?
I have a SS10 which is a beggar for SDT (or KEE or Frame.)
lör 2017-04-22 klockan 10:13 -0700 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
>
> internet V Fedex
>
> Unfortunately, their 2040 number is based on an assumption that bandwidth
> will continue to increase, but that media capacity won't.
Andrew Tanenbaum makes another of those
ons 2017-05-24 klockan 11:16 +0200 skrev Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk:
> I'm surprised to see a swedish keyboard there :)
>
> What is a PCM-12 ?
>
> And I think that Datability VCP-1000 can do LAT to TCP/IP translation.
>
> /P
I think (the Viking kb) is a console for something like a computer
c
ons 2017-09-27 klockan 16:03 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> >> In a closed Facebook group in Sweden there is someone that want to sell a
> >>> number of ICL1501 terminals.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> There doesn't seem to be any information about ICL terminals at the
> >> Terminals wiki http://termina
ons 2017-09-27 klockan 19:54 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> 2017-09-27 17:33 GMT+02:00 Stefan Skoglund via cctalk >:
>
> > ons 2017-09-27 klockan 16:03 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> > > >> In a closed Facebook group in Sweden there is s
fre 2017-09-29 klockan 12:52 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Sep 29, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 09/29/2017 10:56 AM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On a related note my plan is to make a USB-based, Pertec-compatible
> >> contr
sön 2017-10-29 klockan 23:49 +0100 skrev Tomasz Rola via cctalk:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 08:43:36PM -, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony
> > > Duell
> > > via cctalk
> [...]
> >
lör 2017-12-23 klockan 11:39 -0800 skrev Fritz Mueller via cctalk:
> The most documentation I’ve seen re. the PROMs is pages A-1 and A-2 of the
> VT52 maintenance manual here:
>
> http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-vt52-mm-002.pdf
>
> I think you’ve probably seen th
The main problem with that lorry hurtling down the freeway is
latency.
I need to move 1 PB . how long will it take filling and packing
enough IBM LTO-9 tapes to send 1 PB ?
How long does it takes to fill 1 tape with 18 TB ?
Liam, TriPOS ?
If i'm not wrong it was a OS developed in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire).
Did someone port it to other arch than ARM ?
mån 2018-02-05 klockan 10:31 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 01/18/2018 12:23 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> > You all talk about Proxy ARP in the past tense for some reason. :)
>
> You might find it entertaining to know that I was just talking with
> colleagues that are currently
lör 2018-12-01 klockan 22:08 -0500 skrev ED SHARPE via cctalk:
> Hi Alan - The hard drive is same size cabinetwith I
> guess a SCSSI cable. I will have to look at it further...
> wonder if starting it out on a variac would help the
> capacitors like I do with the
fre 2018-12-07 klockan 08:07 -0600 skrev Kyle Owen via cctalk:
> Upon closer inspection, it appears as though I have no frame buffer.
> Drats.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/ariFxb8xggERExkU9
>
> Anyone have a spare that would work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
You have one the ECL one ie (i think) bwt
lör 2018-12-08 klockan 13:56 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
>
>
> CeBIT (Hanover Germany) was the largest. Started in 1970; ended? in
> 2018.
> Sorry, I have little or no information about it; I never got a chance
> to go.
Heinz Nixdorf died (heart failure) on the showroom floor in 1986.
tis 2018-12-18 klockan 14:41 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 12/18/2018 02:08 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> > Cindy, I’m curious, is there really a market for 8086/88, 286, and
> > 386 computers? What are folks using them for?
>
> I know that there is an active IBM PS/2 collectors
ons 2019-05-22 klockan 01:42 -0600 skrev Jim Manley via cctalk:
> No firefighter in their right mind is going to knowingly pump a drop
> of
> water anywhere near or in the direction of a data center, let alone
> into
> it. That's why they're equipped with Halon or other oxygen
> displacement,
> co
ons 2019-05-22 klockan 08:45 + skrev Wayne S via cctalk:
> All true. Just sayin' that water can get into the DC even when it's
> not intended.
> When fighting a fire in another part of a structure, the water may
> find it's way into the DC.
>
> Not sure about not allowing water to get near
fre 2019-05-24 klockan 23:38 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 5/24/19 9:12 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Sulfuric acid is hard to wash off; the amount that made it to the
> > room
> > must have been pretty small, otherwise people couldn't be allowed
> > in.
> > And,
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space
> to
> do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it
> to work.
>
HPUX 8 has smit, doesn't it ?
I did some works with HPUX almost 30
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space
> to
> do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it
> to work.
>
> However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a
> popul
mån 2019-05-27 klockan 12:47 -0500 skrev Mister PDP via cctalk:
> I took a look at all the lines you mentioned. BDAL3-13, BDIN, BSYNC,
> and
> BBS7 are all active and jump around in some manner. BRPLY is still
> the only
> line that does not have any activity on it. None of the BDAL lines
> seem
>
tor 2019-06-06 klockan 13:43 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
>
> Result of the eventual convergence on the American model:
>
> We have amazingly sophisticated, high-spec smartphones and tablets,
> but they have a battery life of a single day, replacing European
> phones that lasted a week and
tor 2019-06-06 klockan 13:43 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 20:06, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
> > I don't think that my Fossil (Palm-OS WATCH) does IRDA.
> > I should find somebody who will pay me money for such a piece of
> > crap^H^H^H^H NEAT technology.
>
I al
ons 2019-06-12 klockan 14:35 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 6/12/19 1:47 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> > I especially appreciated he not only offered an opinion - his
> > specific
> > ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then
> > provided
> > an analysis of a bunch
tor 2019-07-25 klockan 05:52 + skrev dwight via cctalk:
> Failure of the POKEY chip were likely bonding wire failures. Voltage
> stress failures are not likely to self repair.
> I would agree, the fix is likely temporary.
If chip inside consumer stuff is so prone to this failure,
what is the d
mån 2017-03-06 klockan 20:52 -0800 skrev Zane Healy via cctalk:
> > On Mar 5, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > I picked these up as part of an estate liquidation, but I don't have a
> > Unibus setup to run them off, and they are large and taking up space. They
> >
fre 2019-08-30 klockan 10:37 +0200 skrev Angelo Papenhoff via cctalk:
> So many VCFs happening in the US but we have them in Europe too!
> VCF Berlin is not even two months away (Oct 12th and 13th) and
> you can still register as an exhibitor till Sept 8th.
> Our special topic this year will be Com
ons 2019-08-21 klockan 18:30 +0100 skrev Antonio Carlini via cctalk:
> On 21/08/2019 15:46, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> > I have mixed reactions to it. I use it some, often to see if
> > something is
> > online at all. (If I buy a manual, I usually check, to see if I
> > need to
> > scan it, a
fre 2019-08-30 klockan 11:05 -0700 skrev Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk:
> I’m actively working on SMD and ESDI emulators. However, given my
> work schedule this is a long term project. :-(
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
> > On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk <
> > cctalk@classiccmp.org> w
lör 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
> El sáb., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> escribió:
>
> > On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's guide (3.8 something)
lör 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
> El sáb., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> escribió:
>
> > On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's guide (3.8 something)
mån 2019-09-16 klockan 11:17 -0700 skrev Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk:
>
> And that’s just the HW. Hydra (the OS that ran on C.MMP) was a
> capability based system (so you needed the proper capability to do
> anything). I recall at one point the grad student who was doing work
> on the file syste
sön 2019-09-22 klockan 16:25 -0400 skrev Patrick Finnegan via cctalk:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 16:21 William Donzelli via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > > Keep in mind, this is a Classic Computing list, not all of us
> > > have a way
> > to send Texts. :-) Hopefully you’re monitori
sön 2019-09-29 klockan 23:46 -0500 skrev Jason T via cctalk:
> Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep
> finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out of a basement, along
> with a few boxes of docs, 9-track tapes and random odd and ends:
>
> https://photos.app.goo.g
ons 2019-10-02 klockan 19:02 + skrev Rich Alderson via cctalk:
> From: Mark Kahrs
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 7:24 PM
>
> > The first implementation was done for the 7090 by McCarthy (hence
> > CAR and
> > CDR --- Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement
> > Register).
>
>
tor 2019-10-03 klockan 09:45 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:25 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki > > wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >
> > > > You need an extremely high resolution timer to detect slight
> > > > differences in
> > > > execution tim
ons 2019-10-16 klockan 09:16 -0700 skrev Al Kossow via cctalk:
> anyone know what happened to this?
>
> the last sign of the web site was in 2010
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20100314165117/http://www.sdu.se:80/computer-automation-museum/
>
> someone just asked about some floppies that I had
tis 2019-10-29 klockan 17:48 + skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
> I know next to nothing about PostScript and fonts, is it possible to
> convert this to a font that can be installed on Windows? I found a
> site that says it converts it (convertio.co), but I am suspicious of
> free sites like that.
ons 2019-10-30 klockan 13:17 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> >
> In some countries, at least in the early 1980s (Sweden?) the law said
> that private organizations could run communication wires on a floor
> of a building, but to wire from one floor to another was the monopoly
> of the govern
ons 2019-10-30 klockan 16:01 -0700 skrev Zane Healy via cctalk:
> >
> I rebuilt the system recently, and now the error seems
> intermittent. I will say, that backing up my directory of files, and
> restoring it to the new system was a lot easier than fighting with
> the tape drives we had on the
fre 2019-11-15 klockan 14:07 +0100 skrev Jörg Hoppe via cctalk:
> Its been a long time since last public post about UniBone, time for
> a
> bragging broadcast.
>
> *What it is:*
> In case you forgot: UniBone is a plugin board to DEC PDP-11 UNIBUS
> systems containing a BeagleBone Black.
>
> See
sön 2019-12-15 klockan 08:40 -0800 skrev Guy N. via cctalk:
> Is it classic enough to ask about on this list?
>
> A friend of mine finds himself in the awkward position of being asked
> to
> take on some RPG programming, but knows nothing about it.
>
> Can anyone here suggest some good resources
fre 2019-12-20 klockan 14:53 -0600 skrev Adrian Stoness via cctalk:
> weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered
> lime
> plants around north america for what became greymont
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:42 PM Roland via cctech <
> cct...@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
He
tis 2019-11-26 klockan 19:16 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> Good point.
>
> Some companies that COULD HAVE been the leaders made great
> inventions
> and/or engineering, and then fumbled the marketing.
>
> I'm thinking that Xerox Parc could be said to have "invented" the
> next
> generati
tor 2019-12-26 klockan 17:09 -0500 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Dec 26, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
> > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > And, a Happy Humbug to you, too!
> > Fleas Navy Dad and Yo new huevo!spellling?
> >
> >
> > > I^@^Ym not familiar with U.S. law
tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> >
>
> It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes
> really only
> run OS/MP. My affection for them is largely nostalgia; as SPARC
> systems they
> are quite finicky and the later SPARCstations surpassed even
sön 2020-01-05 klockan 21:54 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
> wrote:
> > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original
> > 6
> > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2
> > for
> > PPC. The
mån 2020-01-06 klockan 13:42 + skrev Salik Rafiq via cctalk:
> Hello all, a new member here.
>
>
>
> I’m in the UK where I’ve lived for 17 years now. Before that I lived
> in
> Canada.
>
Peter Stokes (Ashlyn Computer Services) have machines to sell
including some fairly recent eq at a goo
sön 2020-01-12 klockan 21:10 + skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
> The PSU in my VAXmate failed recently and I think I have found a
> problem
> with one of the windings on the transformer not ringing when I test
> it with
> a ringing tester. The technical description of the VAXmate says that
> one
tis 2020-02-18 klockan 02:50 -0700 skrev Jim Manley via cctalk:
> Not everyone on this list was even alive when much of this happened,
> and
> others of us were busy dealing with other very important things going
> on in
> The Real World then, so this is a very interesting story for many.
>
> Anyo
someone is selling a Sun 3/60 labeled as Nokia Data AB.
I think that it is a 3/60.
https://www.tradera.com/item/340854/363918390/nokia-data-system-20-4mb
350 $ (2495 Sek) or so.
It is a re-seller.
someone is selling a Sun 3/60 labeled as Nokia Data AB.
I think that it is a 3/60.
https://www.tradera.com/item/340854/363918390/nokia-data-system-20-4mb
350 $ (2495 Sek) or so.
It is a re-seller.
fre 2020-02-21 klockan 14:17 +0100 skrev Christian Corti via cctalk:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for information about Westward graphics workstations,
> especially for the 2019 (from about 1983) and the 2220 (about 1987).
>
> Christian
I believe that is the type of terminals that my school (Skövde Swede
lör 2020-03-21 klockan 14:44 + skrev Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
> > > Not a question for me, but for the record I have used a WTI
> > > remote site
> > > manager, essentially a combined power distribution and terminal
> > > server
> > > u
lör 2020-04-04 klockan 21:47 -0700 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote:
> >
> https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/
>
> In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL prog
sön 2020-04-26 klockan 19:33 -0400 skrev Chris Zach via cctalk:
> Ok, so this evening I went back to the house to do a quick evacuation
> of
> the most critical stuff and take some better pictures. This time I
> brought a massive xeon flashlight which helps to get quicker
> pictures
> with less
sön 2020-04-26 klockan 19:33 -0400 skrev Chris Zach via cctalk:
> Ok, so this evening I went back to the house to do a quick evacuation
> of
> the most critical stuff and take some better pictures. This time I
> brought a massive xeon flashlight which helps to get quicker
> pictures
> with less
sön 2020-05-03 klockan 16:22 +0100 skrev silvercreekvalley via cctalk:
> Hi,
>
> Every now and again I have a bit of time to mess with old computers -
> and usually for whatever reason - its Sun machines for me.
>
> I’ve had loads over the years, played with them and passed them on.
>
> Does an
tor 2020-04-30 klockan 13:49 +0100 skrev Tony Duell via cctalk:
> From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper
> tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a
> tape reader on the front (in fact the punch mechanism is much the
> same
> as that in the 4070
tor 2020-04-30 klockan 13:49 +0100 skrev Tony Duell via cctalk:
> From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper
> tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a
> tape reader on the front (in fact the punch mechanism is much the
> same
> as that in the 4070
tis 2020-05-05 klockan 15:39 +0200 skrev Johan Helsingius via cctalk:
> I have a bunch of the pizza box SPARC ones that need to find a proper
> home, but they are somewhat special as they were the ones from one of
> the first pan-European Internet service providers (EUnet).
>
> Julf
>
Are
sön 2020-05-31 klockan 10:04 -0500 skrev Jon Elson via cctalk:
> On 05/31/2020 02:06 AM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > On 5/30/2020 11:15 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
> > > On 05/29/2020 02:38 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Low-level machines did not even hav
mån 2020-06-15 klockan 09:25 -0400 skrev Ethan O'Toole via cctalk:
> >
>
> That is wild! That would have been an interesting product.
>
> > The justification for the Cray was to experiment with what could be
> > done
> > if you had a Macintosh with the power of a Cray. It had a pretty
> > fancy
ons 2020-07-08 klockan 20:41 +0200 skrev Johan Helsingius via cctalk:
> On 08-07-2020 12:41, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
>
> > As a guideline, PostNL quote €18.20 (≈USD20.50) fo
>
> Indeed. I too am wondering if i can be bothered. Just don't want to
> recycle
> something someone might use/nee
tis 2020-08-18 klockan 16:00 +0100 skrev Antonio Carlini via cctalk:
> On 18/08/2020 06:25, Plamen Mihaylov via cctalk wrote:
> > I’ve attached different AUI transceivers to Sun3/E SCSI/Ethernet at
> > least
> > 100 times while running and nothing happened. The Sun 3/E prom has
> > on board
> > dia
ons 2020-09-02 klockan 13:46 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 9/2/20 12:02 PM, Rico Pajarola via cctalk wrote:
> > I have a friend who is a Materials Science Technologist and
> > specializes in
> > injection molded plastics. So... basically the same thing that's in
> > computer cases (even
mån 2020-09-07 klockan 11:43 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson via cctalk:
> On Sep 7, 2020, at 6:24 AM, dst...@execulink.com wrote:
> > The description I have for AUIS (6.3.1) is:
> >
> > "AUIS (Andrew User Interface System) - compound document
> > environment offering a word processor, mail/bulletin boar
mån 2020-09-07 klockan 15:29 -0400 skrev Michael Kerpan via cctalk:
> Has anybody even been able to get the X-based version to build? I
> remember
> finding it on some Unix/Linux source code CD-ROM like 20 years ago,
> thinking it sounded useful and cool, and trying to build it on
> whatever
> Linu
tis 2020-09-08 klockan 06:09 + skrev Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk:
> Michael Kerpan wrote:
> > AFS is also cool, but it's a separate project that's still actively
> > maintained and (presumably) used.
>
> MIT uses it, as does the student organization Stacken.
So does Chalmers, at least two years
ons 2020-09-09 klockan 13:08 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
>
> Oh dear...
>
> TBH I have a suspicion nobody may have kept stuff like that, even
> inside Novell... :(
>
I will have to check where i read this just recently but
well the industry is such that repeatibility and possibility to
lör 2017-12-23 klockan 20:12 -0800 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 12/23/2017 07:24 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> > I’m not sure you can smell the difference between failed selenium
> > rectifiers and lutefisk...
>
> It probably doesn't get interesting until you toss in a can of
> surströmmi
ons 2018-01-10 klockan 11:30 -0800 skrev Pete Lancashire via cctalk:
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/qqEF53fVbpNhYoTX2
>
> In storage, if any interest will find out what's in it and the
> condition.
>
> Location Portland Oregon
>
> Price cheap/trade
>
> -pete
Is that related to IBM Xstation of the
ons 2018-01-10 klockan 18:10 -0800 skrev Glen Slick via cctalk:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk
> wrote:
> > https://photos.app.goo.gl/qqEF53fVbpNhYoTX2
> >
>
> Looks like it might be this system from the 1993 timeframe?
>
> The IBM RISC System/6000 7011 Model 250
tor 2018-06-28 klockan 20:37 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
>
>
> Sounds very sensible, but the Isle of Man isn't part of the USA, nor
> even part of the UK. It's its own little country and this was the
> late
> 1980s. I suspect the Manx Electrical Code or equivalent had no
> mention
> of da
tor 2018-07-26 klockan 12:15 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 07/26/2018 11:51 AM, Ed Sharpe wrote:
> >
> > smecc has stashed a huge mother gen set115 60cy in 115
> > 400 cy out. was used to runrca avq 10 raradr
> > we have
> > but could run many many things
ons 2018-10-31 klockan 14:27 -0700 skrev Eric Korpela via cctalk:
> The i860 did find some use in the radio astronomy world.
>
> Here's an excerpt from the 1998 annual report for the Arecibo
> Observatory...
> --
> Telescope pointing and realtime data acquisition are controlled using
>
tor 2018-11-01 klockan 14:36 -0700 skrev Al Kossow via cctalk:
> Wondering if this is an IBM Xstation 140 with token ring
>
> Wonder what processor it uses..
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/273538296972
>
The seller has a seagate 4038 (ST-412) disk for sale.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-SEAGA
ons 2020-10-07 klockan 14:08 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
>
> Not flags, that's an HDLC concept. Bisync uses sync characters (as
> DDCMP does) but instead of doing framing by byte counts it does it by
> a frame terminator, and for transparency if that occurs inside the
> data it has to be
mån 2020-10-19 klockan 20:13 -0500 skrev Will Cooke via cctalk:
> Since I'm a bit short of change I thought I'd pass this along.
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-1-Original-1976-Computer-System-1st-Steve-Wozniak-designed-computer-and/174195921349?hash=item288ee2d1c5:g:UNoAAOSwWqtdrkDz
>
>
> Wi
mån 2021-01-04 klockan 16:38 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
>
> The Sinclair QL was arguably the first affordable mass-market 68K
> box,
> and it used the somewhat crippled 68008 and 8-bit RAM to keep costs
> down.
>
The veird machine is the Luxor ABC 1600 computer.
It was a test from them
tor 2021-04-01 klockan 12:15 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 4/1/21 11:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> > what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows?
>
> I run Linux, so I don't have first hand experience with news readers
> on
> Windows. But I do know that people use the
ons 2021-04-14 klockan 17:39 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 18:44, Kevin Bowling
> wrote:
> >
> > Linux tends to churn that amount of code in a release. I find it
> > interesting how large systemd has become as well:
> > https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/06/lin
mån 2021-08-02 klockan 20:00 -0500 skrev Gavin Scott via cctalk:
>
>
> Another interesting question is whether the currently shipping
> version
> of a language written in itself was compiled using the same version
> of
> itself or the previous version. I recall HP compilers generally being
> buil
tis 2021-11-23 klockan 18:06 -0800 skrev s shumaker via cctalk:
> In fact, it's standard language in most DOD contracts that ALL
> materials
> related to a contract must be destroyed at contract closure unless
> the
> contractor receives specific permission from the gov't to retain it
> -
> usu
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