On Tuesday, April 5, 2022 at 17:52, Daniel Moniz via cctech wrote:
> This is a long shot, but on the off chance anyone else on the list
> shares some of my particular weirdnesses, anyone got a line on the
> *patches* for Embarcadero (nee Borland (nee Starbase (nee Premia)
> CodeWright?
>
> I
On Saturday, September 11, 2021 at 21:31, Chris Zach via cctech wrote:
> Ok, thanks!
You're welcome.
> I just tried mine again, it's a dud so I am going to have to figure it
> out. First step was to see if the rectifier had any voltage so I
> disconnected the + side and checked it with a
On Thursday, September 9, 2021 at 21:30, Chris Zach via cctech wrote:
> Quick question: I've been cleaning out and repairing an HP5061 supply
> for a 1000 computer. However I didn't take a picture of the 4 boards
> when I pulled them and I want to make sure they go in the right places.
>
>
On Thursday, September 2, 2021 at 8:16, Gavin Scott via cctech wrote:
> P.S. The HP Museum has the CE handbook for the 37 and Micro 3000, but
> it's in the 3000 Micro XE section. You can find it by searching within
> the Documents page linked at the bottom of the left side navigation
> bar.
>
>
On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 22:46, Wayne S wrote:
> I asked because i was curious if what you wanted to do could not be
> done in Acrobat.
Never having used Acrobat, I cannot say.
-- Dave
On Monday, August 16, 2021 at 14:20, Wayne Sudol wrote:
> Out of curiosity, is there a reason you do not use Acrobat for
> creating pdfs?
Primarily because I have not purchased a license for Acrobat. Also, when I
started scanning manuals ten years ago, Al Kossow recommended tumble, which
On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 1:20, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> My current toolchain for that:
Thanks; that was quite helpful.
One aspect that I find of great assistance in navigating large PDF manuals
is original page numbers. Often a manual will contain references, e.g., to
"page 4-13" or
On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 12:55, Kevin Parker wrote:
> I think it used to be called Byte Range Serving i.e. it would only
> serve up the page requested so URL's like
> somewebsite.com/myfile.pdf#page=4 would only send page 4 to the browser
> - I think this is what you are talking about
On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 12:22, ben via cctech wrote:
> I tend to have my PDF's on portable device, so PDF's need to be easy
> to use on those devices.
Linearizing keeps PDFs as complete files but rearranges (and expands) them
internally so that individual pages can be rendered from a
On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 11:04, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
> Jay Jager is trying to deal with scanning manuals with colored text
> and backgrounds. Is your workflow for dealing with this around
> somewhere?
I'm still using the same set of programs that I sent to you in April 2016
(as
On Friday, August 13, 2021 at 17:23, Alexandre Souza wrote:
> Is any kind of standard, recomendation, group, mail list, to discuss
> the subject?
I am not aware of any. I started with Al Kossow's basic recommendations,
modified slightly:
- scan at 600 dpi
- use TIFF G4 where feasible
-
Is it still useful to linearize PDFs?
I've been scanning and PDFing manuals for 16 years, and I've been
linearizing them regularly. My understanding is that this made them
accessible on a page-by-page basis in Web browsers without requiring a
complete file download first. But given the
On Wednesday, February 3, 2021 at 9:25, ED SHARPE via cctech wrote:
> Indeed this site is great for reference but alas are too lo-res for good
> museum display images.
They appear to be scanned at 150 dpi.
The ones here are scanned at 300 dpi:
http://hparchive.com/hp_journals
On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 8:25, Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote:
> So increasing the mask for block length wouldn't seem to be a problem,
> assuming that SIMH could support it.
SIMH could be written to support it (I'm the maintainer-by-default of the
tape handling portion of SIMH). I don't
On Sunday, October 4, 2020 at 16:00, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> A 16MB tape block is impossibly large in any case.
The HP 3000 mag tape diagnostic attempts to write a single record from BOT
to EOT, which unfortunately fails under simulation due to the 16 MB
limitation. In hindsight, it
On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 13:51, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
> Those would already be broken with Bob's use of large negative numbers
> for physical end of tape and 'bad block is here' (you don't get to know
> how big that bad block was, so that is hell with tapes with
> variable-length
On Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 8:19, Lee Courtney via cctech wrote:
> Al - it would be a Very Good Thing to get those APL ROMS dumped when
> possible.
It would be good as well to dump the Series III main instruction set ROMs,
assuming they're socketed. Bitsavers has a Series II microcode
On Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 11:06, Curious Marc wrote:
> Thanks a lot.
You're welcome.
> Anyone wants me to dump the DS/1000 rev 1826 ROMs or are these already
> available?
To my knowledge, they are not available.
> What´s the CBL ROM? The one that´s on the cable interface card?
No, it's
On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 22:20, CuriousMarc via cctech wrote:
> I also have a 91740-80033/34/35 set which I don't know what it is. Does
> anyone know?
Those are DS/1000 revision 1826.
Page 3-130 of the HP "Communicator/1000 for Software Update 6.0"
(5951-6201, December 1992) has a full
On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 14:48, grant--- via cctech wrote:
> 12992-80011
> 91740-80070
> 91740-80071
> 91740-80072
>
> there is a set of 91740 on bit savers but with a suffix of 67-69 ?
These are the original DS/1000 ROMs (date code 2003) without the 7974
loader extension. That was
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 17:56, Tony Duell via cctech wrote:
> The HP2748 is a common-ish example of this type of un[i]t.
David Collins of the HP Computer Museum and I just recently completed
reading some 200+ paper tapes from the museum collection. He used a 2748
coupled with a custom
On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 9:02, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
> But the really interesting thing is that the copyright date on the
> "primary" document is AFTER the date in the footers of the "inserted"
> pages.
Sometimes an update contains a replacement title page (containing the
update
On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 18:06, Antonio Carlini via cctech wrote:
> pdftk works well for managing pages and PDFs.
I'll second that. It's been invaluable for combining PDFs (such as when a
supplier insists on delivering its general catalog in individual sections),
as well as extracting
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:53, Frank McConnell wrote:
> The folks who did the 3000 manuals didn´t do that very often. What we
> got were almost always update packets that simply replaced pages in
> their manuals.
To be fair, the 1000 (DSD) manuals were updated by replacement pages also.
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:18, Frank McConnell wrote:
> Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals and later updates,
> and scanned them as found. I wouldn´t want to deny other people the
> opportunity to apply updates to manuals, you know?
Oh yes, especially the ones that would
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 8:52, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
> 1. One document is a software installation manual in a loose leaf
> binder with other documents. It has a title page, tables of contents,
> etc., several chapters, and then it gets interesting. It has several
> appendix sections
On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 13:19, David Williams via cctech wrote:
> First I want to say again how much I appreciate your assistance.
You're very welcome.
> Up until now my only experience with this system was as a HS student
> first learning to program and never had any access to the system
On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 13:47, David Williams via cctech wrote:
> The first few tries I didn't see any messages, it just went on to the
> enter date and time and start up but when I'd check the account's
> directory there was nothing there.
As I noted, I'm not that familiar with TSB (I'm an
On Monday, April 6, 2020 at 9:20, ED SHARPE via cctech wrote:
> For some reason I do not remember having to enter each and every
> file name to load it in to a real 2000f but then again it has
> been 40 years!
You can enter just the account names, which will restore all of the
On Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 21:54, David Williams via cctech wrote:
> I've been able set up Simh with 2000F TSB and everything is working
> fine. Using the latest release I can find out there, HP2100 release
> 29. Now I'd like to be able to install some of the Contributed
> Software Library but
On 2/16/19 7:55 AM, 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.
Note that SIMH always writes disc images in little-endian format,
regardless of host platform. If
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 16:51, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/163039837440
This card also functions as the Privileged Interrupt Fence in RTE operating
systems to permit the use of privileged I/O drivers, such as the one for
the 12920A terminal multiplexer.
On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 0:36, Mike Loewen via cctech wrote:
> Does anyone know if a non-HP terminal will work as the console for
> a HP 3000 Series 37?
Page 3-7 ("Minimum Requirements for Terminals") of the "Series 37 System
Processing Unit Self-Paced Hardware Training Guide"
On Monday, April 30, 2018 at 10:22, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
> If it doesn't turn up in what I have, I'll check with Jeff to see if he
> still has it.
If I'm not imposing, could you also please ask him for:
OPERATING AND SERVICE MANUAL
12653A LINE PRINTER INTERFACE KIT
FOR 2767A LINE
Marc,
On Sunday, October 8, 2017 at 11:48, CuriousMarc wrote:
> Thanks, I wasn't aware of this subtlety.
You're welcome.
> But this is for the 7970E only, right?
Right.
> Can you boot a 21MX from a 7970B tape with the standard boot ROM?
Yes.
The boot ROM data transfer loop is just a
On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 20:58, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
> Wasn't there some deal where a M/E/F could drive it at 45ips but a 2100
> couldn't (next lower speed)??
You might be thinking of the limitation regarding the use of the 12992D
Magnetic Tape Loader ROM with a 1000 M-Series and a
Marc,
On Monday, July 10, 2017 at 22:24, CuriousMarc wrote:
> I thought I did, but what I have is the HP 12845B Line Printer interface
> card, for which I could find the documentation.
Thanks for checking. Yes, that does seem to be the more common card. As
far as I know, the 12653A was used
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