Re: Apollo Date Bug

Well actually I didn't rescue them - they belonged to my father so i guess you can say I inherited them. He was a physicist and did quite a bit of Fortran development on them years ago. I worked with Suns at the time and so our worlds kind of merged and I ended up helping him with some problems he

Re: Lisa Source Code

I believe the original Amiga file system also used a linked-list approach. That way you could, theoretically, reconstruct a file from any one of it’s data blocks. Richard Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

> From: Jerry Weiss > I always wondered why the RKV11-D was only 16 bit addressable. The manual (EK-RKV11-OP-001) says: "Since the 11/03 BUS structure has no provision for extended addressing, no connection is made to the bus from these [XM] bits on the RKVII-D." (pg. 3-5). > The

Re: Lisa Source Code

On 4/8/21 12:43 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote: > At 02:27 PM 4/8/2021, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> By the way, does anyone know the structure of an ".ITI" file > > The context is a WORM file system, or a particular OS, or an app environment? > Files extracted from a WORM file system; OS

Re: Lisa Source Code

At 02:27 PM 4/8/2021, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >By the way, does anyone know the structure of an ".ITI" file The context is a WORM file system, or a particular OS, or an app environment? - John

Re: Lisa Source Code

On 4/8/21 11:38 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > But (afaict) a sector that has never been written is just that: > unwritten. How does it convey any information (other than "I'm still > blank")? Let me try... Because you can't rewrite or update tables without copying them, a WORM file

Re: Lisa Source Code

On 08/04/2021 17:29, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 4/8/21 8:40 AM, Eric Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 09:34 Chuck Guzis mailto:ccl...@sydex.com>> wrote: There's a big difference--in a WORM, unwritten sectors *mean* something. For archival purposes, in what way does an unwritten

Re: Lisa Source Code

On 4/8/21 8:40 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > On Thu, Apr 8, 2021, 09:34 Chuck Guzis > wrote: > > There's a big difference--in a WORM, unwritten sectors *mean* something. > > > For archival purposes, in what way does an unwritten sector on a WORM > mean more than an

Re: Lisa Source Code

On 4/8/21 12:23 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:33 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > Okay, I've got a WORM disc here--how do they propose to archive that? > (recall that unwritten sectors can't be read). There's a big difference--in a

Re: DEC H8575-A DB25 to MMJ

On 4/7/2021 10:37 PM, Ron Pool via cctalk wrote: I found some more DEC MMJ crimpers that look pretty decent out there on eBay, but they're not well labelled. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ideal-30-558-Crimp-Die-for-RJ-11-MJ-Modular-Plug-Crimpmaster-Tool-Frame-30-506/333697351548 $15 plus shipping

Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

Dear all, I am looking for a version of the VAXSET Software Engineering Tools to run on (Micro)VMS 4.7. The oldest version I have found so far is VAXSET010 which requires VMS 5.3 to run (this was on CSD 1991/05.) VAXSET is a bundle of the following components (and more in newer versions): -

Re: Apollo Date Bug

On 4/7/21 1:16 AM, Kurt Nowak via cctalk wrote: Hi All, Back after a long time away from this list... I happen to have a small herd of Apollo DN3500/4500 boxen which i pulled out the other day to see if they still run. I can't help with the date issue, but just wanted to say how nice it is

Re: Lisa Source Code

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 2:33 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Okay, I've got a WORM disc here--how do they propose to archive that? > (recall that unwritten sectors can't be read). > Same for Apple DOS 3.1, 3.2, and 3.2.1 (13-sector format). The formatter only writes the address fields, but no