Re: Malfunctioning VT240 - help please

2020-06-20 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
I confirmed the bad one by removing the piggyback and the failure returned. Now I need to desolder the bad one without ruining the board. I may just cut the leads off close to the bad chip, and solder the replacement to the stumps. (Normally I remove the legs and install a machine-pin DIP

Re: Malfunctioning VT240 - help please

2020-06-20 Thread Charles via cctalk
On 06/11/2020 02:29 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: >/If that would be the case I think the system would fail />/quite soon rather than on test 5. A guess is that this is />/a memory problem. / That was a good guess, everyone ;) I got some new 4116's and piggybacked (dry, no solder) two of

Re: Ancient transistor ?computer board (Peter Van Peborgh)

2020-06-20 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/20/2020 04:20 AM, Peter Van Peborgh via cctech wrote: Guys, I now know it is an early CDC board. IT had C*NT*OLDATA on the reverse - how I missed that must be attributed to old age. (Thanks Doug) Here are shots of the back: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UPozyBB3zp7XYcP79 Ah, the missing

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 6/19/20 9:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: We need, or at least want, to handle BOTH. Agreed. Long-term, "permanent" content, as well as the casual "What is this? here's what it looks like" I think that short term can sort of ride the coat tales of the long term solution. I have

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech - text encoding

2020-06-20 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 6/18/20 7:34 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behind a SSL VPN and mandate the use of Outlook, then force all messages to be in quoted-printable encoding. I see your quoted-printable and raise you TNEF. This way nobody “wins” and

Re: Future of cctalk/cctech

2020-06-20 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2020-06-19 23:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >>> Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via links. > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> Which rot over time. >> If you're going to create a permanent archive, you need to archive any >> attachments as well. >>

Re: Someone's confused

2020-06-20 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2020-06-19 20:37, Chris Zach wrote: > Yes, there was D and F, and F and G versions. Everything else was > emulated slowly. Putt putt it was Right! I have at least one of them. You know how one would see, which one it is? Different board numbers? > On 6/8/2020 3:26 PM, emanuel stiebler

Ancient transistor ?computer board (Peter Van Peborgh)

2020-06-20 Thread Peter Van Peborgh via cctalk
Guys, I now know it is an early CDC board. IT had C*NT*OLDATA on the reverse - how I missed that must be attributed to old age. (Thanks Doug) Here are shots of the back: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UPozyBB3zp7XYcP79 Any idea what the row of hole opposite the contacts were? Testing points? But

Re: Fixing an RK8E ....

2020-06-20 Thread Todd Goodman via cctalk
I have some of these connectors (from ECS) for $10 each Shipping in the US is a flat rate $8.30 (Poor) pictures at http://bonedaddy.net/tgoodman/photos/tgoodman/ECS-Connector/ Todd On 6/19/2020 5:19 PM, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote: On 6/19/2020 12:24 PM, Robert Armstrong via cctalk

Re: Hercules SDLC/BSC interfacing project - want 3174-x1R

2020-06-20 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
lördag 20 juni 2020 skrev Al Kossow via cctalk : > On 6/20/20 2:36 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > If anyone has a type 1 3174 that does BSC and SDLC so I could test my stuff >> I would be very interested. >> > > Dave Wade just posted that he had some in the UK he was interested in >

Re: Hercules SDLC/BSC interfacing project - want 3174-x1R

2020-06-20 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/20/20 2:36 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: If anyone has a type 1 3174 that does BSC and SDLC so I could test my stuff I would be very interested. Dave Wade just posted that he had some in the UK he was interested in getting rid of.

Hercules SDLC/BSC interfacing project - want 3174-x1R

2020-06-20 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Hello! I have been working on interfacing the Hercules emulator with various real terminals for some time. First project was an Alfaskop terminal cluster which I connected using a small STM32 controller handling BSC. Next is an Informer 213, portable 3178/3174 compatible terminal. It it using

RE: Fixing an RK8E ....

2020-06-20 Thread Robert Armstrong via cctalk
>Josh Dersch > one half-height (used upside down). Thanks, Josh - I hadn’t thought about using an extender card "backwards". That's a good idea. Next question is "how many extender cards do I have?"... Better go start digging. In the meantime I did some more fooling around with