On 01/08/2017 06:25 PM, allison wrote:
> I haven't ground on what it may be but there are four likely
> directory/catalog cases.
I've certainly seen my share of various filesystems. In fact, I can
laboriously reconstruct the original files, there being only 70 1200
byte blocks on the disk. I
On 01/08/2017 01:46 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>> Tony Duell wrote:
>> R80 the lines are outputs from the drive giving the coding of the ready lamp
>> cap
> I was always thought that the R80 had to be unit #0 to function, but I
> admit that I've never tried anything
On 01/08/2017 09:09 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 01/08/2017 04:42 PM, william degnan wrote:
>> Inverse 8085?
> I don't think so. If it helps, here's the first few lines of the
> "directory":
>
> 000: 00 a1 7a c1 c0 00 00
> 0007: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 02 38 00
> 0013: a1 7a c1 c0 00 00 00
On 1/8/2017 9:10 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
OK, what was the standard (if there was one) number-base syntax for PDP-11
assembler?
Despite all the PDP-11 assembly info on web sites, this seems to be a buried
bit of info.
One assembler doc uses a prefix of "", another specifies octal as default
On 01/08/2017 08:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> I sent this out to some friends at the end of December
I've got a few large (not the torque-handle thing) from the late 60's
Xcelite nutdrivers. They don't smell and they're in fine condition.
Must have been a formula change at some point.
Reminds
OK, what was the standard (if there was one) number-base syntax for PDP-11
assembler?
Despite all the PDP-11 assembly info on web sites, this seems to be a buried
bit of info.
One assembler doc uses a prefix of "", another specifies octal as default and
prefix of zero for decimal (opposite of
On 1/8/2017 8:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Sadly, it looks like the good USA made hand tools will all have their plastic
handles crumble eventually
though I have two Craftsmen nut drivers I bought in 1975 that are still perfect.
How many perished in liquid N2 back in the day. So sad.
thanks
jim
Jim, that occurred to me right off the bat, but the disk has only 35
cylinders and is single-sided.
No file names in the body text. The text itself isn't proprietary, but
merely an early cut of an already-published public report, so I have no
problem sharing any part of the disk image.
--Chuck
Yep - -Al I need to separate my Burroughs Xcelite tools somehow
form some of the other things.
Acetic acid will eat stuff... the Enigma had a green acitate filter in
the lid... with the case closed it ate all the metal keytops rings up. It
was ghastly! Ed#
In a
I sent this out to some friends at the end of December
Forwarded Message
Subject: Stinky screwdrivers
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 08:51:02 -0800
From: Al Kossow
To: Eric Schlaepfer , Kenneth Sumrall
CC: Hedley Rainnie
> I found this interesting wondering why some tool handles smelled odd.
Xcelite is notorious for this
Don't put certain tool handles in with artifacts... acetic acid and
butyric acid EATS!
I found this interesting wondering why some tool handles smelled odd. -
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
"Tool handles made of Cellulose Acetate Butyrate. A thermoplastic, it
offers excellent UV and
I don't know the names, but the use of extents might be something going on.
I highlighted the c4a3 extent. The last two columns maybe cylinder and
sector number.
There may be a free count going on with the next to the last two bytes
0xff85 for instance in the first stick.
Since line 0x000
Kyle Owen writes:
> Does anyone have an idea what this keyboard went to? The "here is" key
> tells me it's likely a terminal, but the hex key pad is throwing me off.
> Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/zTgR2
On 2017-Jan-08, at 6:17 PM, Brian Walenz wrote:
> I've got one in
I've got one in the metal case. On the back is a property tag:
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
E.T. "028400a" [<- the 'a' in pen]
Gov't I.D. "MDA9729530013"
Prop. of "USAF"
R-5051-2-REV.5-93
Where the stuff in quotes is from a typewriter, the rest is form
boilerplate. There are also some inventory
On 01/08/2017 04:42 PM, william degnan wrote:
> Inverse 8085?
I don't think so. If it helps, here's the first few lines of the
"directory":
000: 00 a1 7a c1 c0 00 00
0007: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 02 38 00
0013: a1 7a c1 c0 00 00 00 00 1b ff 00 00
001f: 5c 25 15 1b 4c 40 00 00 ff ff 37 05
Inverse 8085?
Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Jan 8, 2017 7:38 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote:
> On 01/08/2017 04:24 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
> > On 01/08/2017 10:03 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> >> I'm looking at a sample of what I see as a directory of sorts and
>
On 01/08/2017 04:24 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On 01/08/2017 10:03 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> I'm looking at a sample of what I see as a directory of sorts and
>> am attempting to decode the file names from it. They're not
>> anything as elegant as Rad50, but the encoding has escaped my weary
On 01/08/2017 10:03 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm looking at a sample of what I see as a directory of sorts and am
attempting to decode the file names from it. They're not anything as
elegant as Rad50, but the encoding has escaped my weary brain.
Hmm, do you have any clues to go on? Knowledge of
>Tony Duell wrote:
>Well, actually I think you own an R80 but don't know it :-)
>As I understand it, the R80 had the sort-of SMD interface. 2 cables
>(60 and 26 wires). It's not SMD, there are significant differences, but anyway.
Can't speak for it being an SMD
>Tony Duell wrote:
>R80 the lines are outputs from the drive giving the coding of the ready lamp
>cap
I was always thought that the R80 had to be unit #0 to function, but I admit
that I've never tried anything else. I wonder if that's not true?? The RL02
drive(s) on
On 08/01/2017 18:20, "Tony Duell" wrote:
>> However, two of us bought units at the same time and the other one has a
>> little bridgeboard containing a 74LS244 that sends the RGB signals to a DIN
>> socket on the back of the case for an external monitor. I also can't see a
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>Tony Duell wrote:
>>R80 the lines are outputs from the drive giving the coding of the ready lamp
>>cap
>
> I was always thought that the R80 had to be unit #0 to function, but I admit
> that I've
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>>Tony Duell wrote:
>>Well, actually I think you own an R80 but don't know it :-)
>>As I understand it, the R80 had the sort-of SMD interface. 2 cables
>>(60 and 26 wires). It's not SMD, there are
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Adrian Graham
wrote:
> On 08/01/2017 17:21, "Tony Duell" wrote:
>
>>> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to
>>> make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the
On 08/01/2017 17:21, "Tony Duell" wrote:
>> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to
>> make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the 3 diodes
>> links together on the back of the board and doesn't go anywhere else. The
>>
> I photographed both sides of the board and merged the pictures together to
> make a front/back composite. The trace for the cathodes of the 3 diodes
> links together on the back of the board and doesn't go anywhere else. The
> front trace from V302 cathode goes straight to R312. The anodes DO
On 08/01/2017 16:18, "Mouse" wrote:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelSyncCircuit.jpg
>>> I don't believe it's correct as drawn. For one thing you have V333,
>>> an NPN transistor, with the collector grounded (and no -ve supplies
>>> on the circuit.
>
On 08/01/2017 14:06, "Tony Duell" wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Adrian Graham
> wrote:
>
>> You were right, I'd drawn out R335 wrongly and flipped V333. All the anodes
>> go via R312 to the collector of V333 along with R309-R311.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Mouse wrote:
> I also question the way R311/R310/R309 are all different. I would
> expect the red, green, and blue circuits to be electrically more or
> less identical, and different pulldown values does not fit with that.
Well, I
>>> http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/STCExecutelSyncCircuit.jpg
>> I don't believe it's correct as drawn. For one thing you have V333,
>> an NPN transistor, with the collector grounded (and no -ve supplies
>> on the circuit.
Bipolar transistors are to some extent symmetric under interchange of
I'm looking at a sample of what I see as a directory of sorts and am
attempting to decode the file names from it. They're not anything as
elegant as Rad50, but the encoding has escaped my weary brain.
The system in question is a Lanier 103 word processor.
Here are some samples. Can anyone come
On 01/08/2017 03:02 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> - One time a contractor came in to paint the building and despite
> instructions, painted the computer room as well. Of course the paint
> got in to the Bryant. The folks who worked on it said, well, what
> have we got to lose. They pulled the
On Sat, Jan 07, 2017 at 04:26:25PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I'm sure that Paul remembers the CDC 6603 disk drive, made by Bryant
> (the big horizontal spindle one with the hydraulic "leak collectors").
I didn't see the Bryant that Rice University had in operation on the
R1 Research Computer; I
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Adrian Graham
wrote:
> You were right, I'd drawn out R335 wrongly and flipped V333. All the anodes
> go via R312 to the collector of V333 along with R309-R311. Base for V333 is
> the inverted sync output of the MR9735. R322 is 6.8k
>
On 08/01/2017 07:31, "Tony Duell" wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Adrian Graham
> wrote:
>> Evening all,
>>
>> I wish I had the ability to take a board layout and turn it into a logically
>> laid out schematic but as yet I don't.
On 08/01/2017 07:31, "Tony Duell" wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 11:37 PM, Adrian Graham
> wrote:
>> Evening all,
>>
>> I wish I had the ability to take a board layout and turn it into a logically
>> laid out schematic but as yet I don't.
Hey, I saw your message to the ClassicCmp making list. I believe I have a
KIM-1 to sell you but I'd have to dig it out. Also, most of the machines
mentioned in this posting are still available:
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?51781-Mulitple-and-divers-computers-for-sale
Let me know if
On 01/07/2017 08:44 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Not a drum computer but another example of a company not known for
> computers that nevertheless built one: Goodyear. A supercomputer
> called STARAN, a very odd architecture. Actually based on an earlier
> one built at Sanders Associates (a defense
On 2017-01-07 8:26 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 01/07/2017 08:44 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Not a drum computer but another example of a company not known for
computers that nevertheless built one: Goodyear. A supercomputer
called STARAN, a very odd architecture. Actually based on an earlier
one
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