Re: Displaywriters in Chicago

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jason T via cctalk wrote: > Did anyone win this and/or make a deal with the seller? I'm curious too, seemed like fairly complete systems and we now have most of the software that was released for these systems and nearly a complete

Re: RTX-2000 processor PC/AT add-in card (any takers?)

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote: > About the original question, since the Burroughs architecture was > eventually implemented as a microprocessor you can say that this was > designed to run Algol: > >

Re: Extra chips in PDP11/23 plus cpu board

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > There is a CPU board for sale on ebay, M8189, and it has the usual 3 chips > CPU, MMU, FPU. However, there are 2 extra chips and I've never seen that > before.

Re: DEC RSX-11D and its COBOL compiler?

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I have 11D on bitsavers. this is actually RSX-11D? http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/magtapes/ias/

DEC RSX-11D and its COBOL compiler?

I’m looking for a circa 1974 copy of RSX-11D distribution and the COBOL compiler that was shipped as an add-on product. I’ve looked through trailing-edge but maybe I am missing the obvious, anyone have any ideas or has a copy? thanks

Re: Computing from 1976

On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 9:57 AM, william degnan via cctalk wrote: > what magazine? https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7wAAMBAJ=PA82 Popular Science Dec-1976

Re: ID some core memory

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > wires by 1965 or earlier. it does appear to have 40 bit planes, however, Elliott 503 and 803 were 40-bit machines, 39 data bits + one parity bit and from the early 1960s.

Re: Did anyone on the list get these tapes?

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/LCM_Early_PDP-11 Thanks everyone for preserving these items. In the unpacked file dectapes-extracted.zip, folder 118655.tu56 has within it BASIC.P11.txt, the

Re: seeking punched-card reader in Boston area

> On 18 Jan 2019, at 6:02 am, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk > wrote: > Does anyone in the Boston area know of a working 80-column > punched-card reader? > I'm working with a researcher at Harvard who's come across some very > interesting election polling data from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race,

various scans

Been catching up on a backlog of scanning, grab what you like. Manuals indicated with an asterisk are available for cost of packing+shipping if you want something printed. This offer will expire in about a week so please indicate interest early. Burroughs [1] * B2000_B3000_B4000 Work Flow

Re: 11/70 - original or 570 model more desirable?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:49 PM Bill Degnan via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Random question > would you prefer having, if you had to pick only one, the original PDP > 11/70 or the newer "blue cabinets" PDP 11/70, ... > I think the decdatasystem 570 is pretty, but coloured like an

Re: How were 32-bit minis built in the 70s/80?

Marketing at the time even had a catchy name for the 32-bit minicomputer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superminicomputer

DEC PDP-11/70 cabinet setup

I'm hoping to (partially) recreate an 11/70 setup, at least as close as I can get with what I have on hand (see the first pic in this gallery that shows the 11/70 advert): https://imgur.com/a/pvgUVmg I don't have the right masthead but I'm wondering if on a real 11/70 there is a 5mm gap between

Re: DEC PDP-11/70 cabinet setup

On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:56 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > If by "masthead" you mean the thing DEC calls a "Logo Panel" (see 11/70 > Engineering Drawings, 'Unit Assembly', pg 1 of 5), it's the same as all the > other PDP-11 etc logo panels,... when you say "same", as in the same text as

Re: NASA Ames (Moffet Field) Computation Division?

On 2 Jul 2019, at 1:34 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've got > some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing. Well excitingly it was home to the Illiac IV supercomputer! supported by a Burroughs B6700 and DEC PDP-10,

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ; login:)

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 5:40 PM Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/ This links to archive.org that has login; back to Volume 8 (1983), but I don't see prior volumes.

Re: PDP-11/05 Fault?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:49 AM Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > I see that the PDP-11 architecture handbook doesn't seem to be on Bitsavers... Do you mean this handbook? http://wwcm.synology.me/pdf/EB-23657-18%20PDP-11%20Architecture%20Handbook.pdf ORDER CODE: EB-23657-18 (from here:

[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

Thanks David for taking this on. I think there are many who would welcome Apple releasing Newton as they did for the early Macintosh implementations.

[cctalk] Re: Old Professional/350 software, any of this out there

On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 10:16 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Which version of RSTS is MicroRSTS V2.1 equivalent to? > From here: https://groups.google.com/g/net.micro/c/_HXPyIyrSwo/m/MuWDLNE8P48J "Micro-RSTS comes with RSTS/E V8.0". This means that while buying

[cctalk] Re: Burroughs TD700

On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:36 AM Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: > ... including the > technical manual with schematics of the cards, so at least > documentation is out there somewhere (Tasmania, IIRC ;-) Shared from here since 2019...for those that missed it :-)