Re: Nuke Redmond!
On 10/6/19 10:40 PM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote: This list is really going down the tubes. ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the folks on this list, I think. (ok folks, it's a joke ...) But I thought that the Internet was a "series of tubes", so, yesy, this list really is going down the tubes. alan mcl
Re: Nuke Redmond!
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote: > This list is really going down the tubes. ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the folks on this list, I think. (ok folks, it's a joke ...) mcl
Re: Nuke Redmond!
*sigh* This list is really going down the tubes. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2019, at 03:24, Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk > wrote: > > A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to > prison. Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is > not free. You can download the air and install the air and use the > air, but noone can help you do it or they will spend 15months in > federal prison and pay 3/4 of a million beans in damages for helping > you and charging nothing for it but a quarter for the electricity it > cost to put the air in. > > https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright-20180426-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3v6MDIUWtqyUxcupT7YQOaX5a7bzrKZKAZWKQFYkdzbg9xvWhvRVkSuq4 > > Jeff >
Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch
I did find a candidate switch, at Surplus Sales of Nebraska for $5.00 http://www.surplussales.com/switches/SWToggle-1.html (SWT) 8V10128 Microswitch SPDT toggle switch. 25 ma @ 20vDC. PC mount. ON-ON. 0.5" x 0.9"L Blue Paddle. Microswitch Co. was started by Burgess Battery (Freeport, IL) in 1930s. It has been owned by Honeywell Sensing and Control since 1950. https://sensing.honeywell.com/honeywell-sensing-basic-toggle-rocker-range-guide-001032-13-en.pdf Greg
Computer Automation Alpha LSI minicomputer
Hi, I am restoring a Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and need some help with software documentation. I have a Computer Automation Alpha LSI/2 minicomputer and cards, and I have binary images of the paper tapes, but I don't have the manual for using the software library tools. By any chance does anyone have any of the documentation for the standard software library that came with the machine? BLD, OMEGA, LAMBDA, STP, etc? There was a standard paper tape that had all the basic software for assembly language coding and for loading and linking. The tape images are on bitsavers.org, but the manuals don't seem to be available. The manual was called the Software Documentation Manual. Thanks for your help. David Carroll
Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch
Electronic Surplus Cleveland https://www.electronicsurplus.com/ Honeywell switch, might work with your actuator https://www.electronicsurplus.com/honeywell-microswitch-8v1012b-m-switch-rocker-spdt-25ma-20vdc gb Sent from iPad Air
Re: Mystery chip SCM44506L
> From a friend's estate I have a Motorola 24-pin 0.6" purple ceramic DIP. > > SCM44506L > 7610 B > > Any idea what this can be? Very likely a semi custom or custom memory device, due to the prefix. -- Will
Re: [cctalk] Looking for front panel switch
Many of the classic Rocker & Lever Actuator switches from the 1960s & 1970s were discontinued, due to industry consolidation (M&A) in 1990s and the convert or obsolete decisions (RoHS compliance), a decade later. This likely means you will need to “adopt” to current offerings == OR == plow through remaining discontinued surplus parts. For example, Mendelsons only lists about 5% of their Dayton warehouse inventory. https://meci.com/electronics/parts/switches/rocker.html == These Large Actuators are sometimes referred to as Wide Paddles. C&K refers to this PC board mounting as the V3 Style, VERTICAL MOUNT, V-BRACKET It is still offered for the C&K “T-series” Subminiature Toggle Switches. https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/60/ttoggle-1324393.pdf C&K Selector Guide (current production models) http://www1.futureelectronics.com/doc/C%20-%20K%20COMPONENTS/D102J12S115DQA.pdf NKK (Japan) refers to this mounting style as Bracket & Reinforced Bracket for their “M-series” Miniature Rocker Switches. You purchase the Actuators separately, for the pivot — like your example. https://www.mouser.com/datasheet/2/295/MrockersSnapin-29723.pdf gb === From: "Charles" To: "cctalk digest" Subject: Looking for front panel switch At some earlier time, I'd either lost (or cannibalized for a PDP-8) one of the switches. Subminiature SPDT toggle switches are readily available from C&K and Mountain, but I cannot find one with the four-pin mounting bracket and the "ears" to hold the paddle lever pivots. Attached is a picture showing part of the front panel. https://imgur.com/bIrmZt7 Does anyone have a matching switch they're not using? I have a spare black lever, but it's supposed to be blue for that nibble which would be even better ;) Thanks for any help. ==
Nuke Redmond!
A fellow who was putting the air in "Microsoft Tire" (c) is going to prison. Microsoft claims that the air they give free with the tire is not free. You can download the air and install the air and use the air, but noone can help you do it or they will spend 15months in federal prison and pay 3/4 of a million beans in damages for helping you and charging nothing for it but a quarter for the electricity it cost to put the air in. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-microsoft-copyright-20180426-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3v6MDIUWtqyUxcupT7YQOaX5a7bzrKZKAZWKQFYkdzbg9xvWhvRVkSuq4 Jeff
Re: Able document at VCF Midwest
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 12:05 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > There was an Able Computer document at VCF Midwest, and through a > miscommunication, it wound up on the 'free' pile. Did anyone here get it? > If so, I'd like to try and get it scanned in, and made available. Do we know where the docs were before they hit the Free Pile? I took home a few boxes of Will D's DECdocs, which I can double-check to make sure yours didn't intermix. Otherwise, stuff flew off the Pile as fast as it was placed there. Also, didn't know you were at the show. Thanks for coming out! j
Re: Looking for front panel switch
https://www.tedss.com/MT-SPDT-7101 Thanks :) It's only slightly different (the mounting pins look to be a bit closer together than my switches dated 1975, but I can drill a couple holes in the PC board, and swap my matching lever onto it.) Certainly a lot closer than the totally non-matching chrome bat handle unit I stuck in there for now! -Charles -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Vintage Computer Warehouse Liquidation
Update on the vintage computer warehouse: I have found some very rare and interesting items inside the warehouse. These include a Systems Engineering Laboratories SEL-810 mainframe from about 1967, along with its Teletype model 33 ASR. I have also identified some of the IBM punch-card machines. There are two IBM 552 Interpreters, manufactured between 1937 and 1957, as well as an IBM 083 Card Sorter. Additionally, there is a complete Alpha Micro system with the disk drive. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thomas Raguso On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 2:40 PM Thomas Raguso wrote: > This is my first of many posts that I will make about this sale. > > I am liquidating a large warehouse filled with vintage computers including > Apple, DEC, IBM, Commodore, Tandy/Radio Shack, HP, and more. Many items are > currently inaccessible due to large piles of junk and video games. > > So far, I have found: > > Apple Lisa 2 > Tandy 6000 HD > IBM 5251 Keyboard > MicroVAX 3900 (currently inaccessible) > MicroVAX II (currently inaccessible) > Cromemco System One > Ohio Scientific Challenger 2p > Lots of Apple II series > IBM 5110 > Piles of VT100s > Even more VT220, VT320 > Northstar Advantage > Osborne 1 > Various Kaypros > PC clones > Commodore B-Series > Just about every kind of TRS-80 > IBM XT with monitor in box > NeXT cube > Almost every type of Macintosh > Amigas > IBM PS/2 P70 > HP 3000 (inaccessible) > 1970s HP computers > Boxes filled with Cromemco and Northstar manuals > A pallet of 1980s PC clones (inaccessible) > > Heaps of CRT monitors > > Mechanical Keyboards > At least 20 Apple Extended Keyboard II's > > I have barely scratched the surface of the warehouse, and will keep you > updated when I find more items, or am able to move the large systems. > > The DEC terminals are not yet for sale, since I have not yet found the > keyboards. > > I am not taking offers on the entire warehouse at this time. > > Please feel free to text me with questions > > > Thomas Raguso > > (832) 374-2803 > > > >
Re: Able document at VCF Midwest
> From: Christian Corti >> we only have those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER > And what about the stuff on bitsavers? That's where I got my copies of the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER docs. I guess I missed grabbing a few; and I see a few more have been added since I last looked: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/able/ So we also have the Quadrasync, DH/DM, MICROVERTER and UNIMAP. There are still quite a few missing, though... Noel
Mystery chip SCM44506L
Hi all From a friend's estate I have a Motorola 24-pin 0.6" purple ceramic DIP. SCM44506L 7610 B Any idea what this can be? W
Re: Able document at VCF Midwest
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, Noel Chiappa wrote: The thing is that documentation for Able products is hyper-rare; we only have those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER, and some preliminary notes for the ENABLE. So if this can somehow be located... And what about the stuff on bitsavers? I personally have the documentation for the Quadrasync/E and I think that I have that scanned, but I need to look. Christian
