[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Milo Velimirović via cctalk
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 11:52 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 14, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: >> >> On 8/14/23 06:07, Paul Koning wrote: >>

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I would also appreciate any recommendations for database software. In addition to GCstar, which is an application you run on your workstation, there are some open source collection management tools aimed at museums and the like. Most of the latter probably require some server side support. A

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 4:32 PM Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: > I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of > my PDP-8 stuff. > > I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision, > board modification revision, bus type, where used, etc. > > If you

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Richard via cctalk
In article <20230814235627.9b9f64ab...@yagi.h-net.msu.edu> you write: > > I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of > > my PDP-8 stuff. > > > I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision, > > board modification revision, bus type, where

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
What do you find lacking in the spreadsheet? Which one, BTW? On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 7:32 PM Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: > I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of > my PDP-8 stuff. > > I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision, > board

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 8/14/23 15:42, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2023, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: It's been a while, but I think that RAID originated in academia, though Cray may well have been one of the earlier commercial users. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1993/6306.html

[cctalk] Re: Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of > my PDP-8 stuff. > I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision, > board modification revision, bus type, where used, etc. If you're using a unix-like operating system, GCstar seems

[cctalk] Good Inventory Program for keeping track of my DEC boards, parts, computers, etc?

2023-08-14 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
I'm looking for a good inventory program to help me keep track of all of my PDP-8 stuff. I would like to keep track of physical location, board etch revision, board modification revision, bus type, where used, etc. If you have any good ideas, please let me know. I'm using a simple

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 14 Aug 2023, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: It's been a while, but I think that RAID originated in academia, though Cray may well have been one of the earlier commercial users. https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1993/6306.html

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 1:48 PM, Milo Velimirović > wrote: > > > >> On Aug 14, 2023, at 11:52 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Aug 14, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: >>> >>> On 8/14/23 06:07, Paul Koning wrote: >>> >

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 14, 2023, at 12:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > On 8/14/23 06:07, Paul Koning wrote: > >>> https://ia800809.us.archive.org/30/items/TNM_Control_Data_807-808_Disk_Files_-_Control_Dat_20170826_0047/TNM_Control_Data_807-808_Disk_Files_-_Control_Dat_20170826_0047.pdf >> >> That drive was

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/14/23 06:07, Paul Koning wrote: >> https://ia800809.us.archive.org/30/items/TNM_Control_Data_807-808_Disk_Files_-_Control_Dat_20170826_0047/TNM_Control_Data_807-808_Disk_Files_-_Control_Dat_20170826_0047.pdf > > That drive was the fastest transferring disk, by a large margin, for quite a >

[cctalk] Re: Connecting MFM emulator as both 1st and 2nd drive in Microvax 2000?

2023-08-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Aug 13, 2023, at 5:55 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 8/13/23 12:48, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: >> Yup; I think I've got a couple of each type somewhere; don't recall who the >> other ones were, but two are definitely Canon. > > Just a late imitation of the CDC 808 hard