Re: IBM RS/6000 Model 320 (7012-320) and AIX 3.2.5
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > > I have an IBM RS/6000 POWERstation 320 (original 7012-320) with plenty of RAM > and SCSI storage. I’d like to install AIX 3.2.5 on it. > > The CD images appear to be ISO-9660 format, containing piles of “AIX > backup/restore format file” archives; the floppy images are also identified > as being that format (no filesystems, just archive content). I’ve seen some > stuff online that talks about installing from tape using DAT, so it seems > like in theory I should be able to just push the CD contents to a tape and go. > > Can I use the 3.2.0 boot floppy images with a couple of DDS-1 tapes > containing the files from the 3.2.5 CDs to directly install AIX 3.2.5? In > what order should the files be put on the tapes? Or do I really need to do a > complete install of 3.2.0 first? > > Another important question: Will I need some sort of key to use the included > AIXwindows and xlc, or should this stuff just work? > > Finally, is there a complete set of post-release patches for AIX 3.2.5 online > somewhere? I know 3.2.5 itself was primarily a patch roll-up release, I > assume that with Y2K remediation and other bug fixes in the mid- and > late-2000s there were a few additional patches released over time. > When I had 7012-320 systems over 10 years ago I installed AIX 3.2.5 from a set of 6 DC6150 QIC tape images that I got from R. Stricklin ( http://www.typewritten.org/Software/ ). I don't remember needing to use any boot floppies. As far as I can remember I just booted directly from the first AIX 3.2.5 installation tape in an external QIC drive. I vaguely remember getting a bunch of update patches for AIX 3.2.5. Not sure whether I ever bothered trying to install them. I also don't remember if I got those patches directly from R. Stricklin, or if he pointed me to some archive site, maybe somewhere at MIT, where I downloaded them at the time. I had some form of X11 running at the time without any issues that I can remember to get it going. Don't remember if that was the native AIXwindows. Pretty sure I got to experience everyone's favorite the SMIT "Running Man". All too long ago now for systems that I never really used much between the time I collected them and the time I recycled them.
Re: IBM RS/6000 Model 320 (7012-320) SCSI cabling
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 8:39 PM Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > > Does anyone have a spare internal or external SCSI cable for the IBM RS/6000 > Model 320 with the IBM MCA SCSI-1 card (3-1)? For those who don’t > know/remember, this card uses a pair of edge connectors (like MFM/ESDI) > rather than an IDC connector to connect to its internal two-drop cable, and > its external connector is a **sixty-pin** higher-density Centronics connector. > I had (2x) 7012-320 20MHz and (1x) 7012-320H 25MHz desktop systems over 10 years ago that I couldn't give away locally. I ended up taking them to a local PC recycler. I don't have any internal SCSI cables left from those systems. I do still have a 70F9733 5-foot external SCSI cable that has the weird 60-pin connector on the system end, and the weird pass-thru normal 50-pin connector on the device end. I haven't had any use for that 70F9733 SCSI cable since I got rid of those systems. The device end is weird because it could plug into the deep recessed connector on the external SCSI tape or CD-ROM drive, which only had a single connector, and then either a terminator or another cable could be chained onto the second pass-thru connector on the cable device end plug.
IBM RS/6000 Model 320 (7012-320) SCSI cabling
Does anyone have a spare internal or external SCSI cable for the IBM RS/6000 Model 320 with the IBM MCA SCSI-1 card (3-1)? For those who don’t know/remember, this card uses a pair of edge connectors (like MFM/ESDI) rather than an IDC connector to connect to its internal two-drop cable, and its external connector is a **sixty-pin** higher-density Centronics connector. I can make an IDC cable adapter pretty easily but if anyone knows where to acquire working original cables, that’d be preferable to my relative lack of mechanical skill. -- Chris
IBM RS/6000 Model 320 (7012-320) and AIX 3.2.5
I have an IBM RS/6000 POWERstation 320 (original 7012-320) with plenty of RAM and SCSI storage. I’d like to install AIX 3.2.5 on it. Here’s the hardware setup: - POWERstation 320 - 8MB RAM currently, soon to be 72MB - Serial port adapter so I can use a terminal - Correct IBM keyboard (not working at the moment, hence the terminal) - Correct IBM mouse - MCA Color Display Adapter (1-1) - MCA Ethernet Adapter (2-1) - MCA SCSI-1 Adapter (4-1) - AIX 3.2.0 floppy images, including boot floppy images - AIX 3.2.5 CD-ROM images - External SCSI DAT (DDS-1) and CD-ROM drives The CD images appear to be ISO-9660 format, containing piles of “AIX backup/restore format file” archives; the floppy images are also identified as being that format (no filesystems, just archive content). I’ve seen some stuff online that talks about installing from tape using DAT, so it seems like in theory I should be able to just push the CD contents to a tape and go. Can I use the 3.2.0 boot floppy images with a couple of DDS-1 tapes containing the files from the 3.2.5 CDs to directly install AIX 3.2.5? In what order should the files be put on the tapes? Or do I really need to do a complete install of 3.2.0 first? Another important question: Will I need some sort of key to use the included AIXwindows and xlc, or should this stuff just work? Finally, is there a complete set of post-release patches for AIX 3.2.5 online somewhere? I know 3.2.5 itself was primarily a patch roll-up release, I assume that with Y2K remediation and other bug fixes in the mid- and late-2000s there were a few additional patches released over time. -- Chris
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 7:07 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 1/3/20 4:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: >> >>> I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone >>> needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet >>> to move the head across track-to-track. Wonder if you could build an >>> 80-column card reader out of one... ;-) >>> >> >> Is the on-card format documented anywhere? >> >> > > Turns out there is a bit of info in the office system 6 CE manual I just got > They have 50 tracks and have a dummy character to align the card when loaded > > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/5520/GC23-0702-3_IBM_5520_Administrative_System_Introduction_Nov81.pdf page 3-17 5321 mag card unit 50 tracks, 100 characters / track
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 4:13 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > >> I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone >> needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet >> to move the head across track-to-track. Wonder if you could build an >> 80-column card reader out of one... ;-) >> > > Is the on-card format documented anywhere? > > Turns out there is a bit of info in the office system 6 CE manual I just got They have 50 tracks and have a dummy character to align the card when loaded
Re: Corvus Concept
On 1/3/20 3:34 PM, Curt Vendel via cctalk wrote: > Anyone on the list have one that they might consider selling/trading for? I have a couple now, make me an offer. I tried emailing directly, but the atarimuseum.com adr bounced.
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 1:39 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone > needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet > to move the head across track-to-track. Wonder if you could build an > 80-column card reader out of one... ;-) > Is the on-card format documented anywhere?
Corvus Concept
Hi everyone, Happy New Years... Got into a convo with a local friend regarding Concepts. I sold mine nearly 15 years ago to Al Kossow and regretted it ever since. (Nothing to do with Al, he’s a great guy... just regret selling it) Anyone on the list have one that they might consider selling/trading for? Thanks, Curt
Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
- Original Message - From: "Chuck Guzis via cctalk" To: "Paul Berger via cctalk" Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 11:41 AM Subject: Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie > On 1/3/20 5:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > >> >> Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the >> people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. >> We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that >> was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it >> was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a >> community box. > > That's no different from where I live (US), though my mailbox is only > about 250 ft. from my house. Packages are delivered to the front door. > > Not a big deal. > > --Chuck > - Canada Post has a little-publicised service called "FlexDelivery", very useful for foiling 'Porch Pirates' who follow the trucks and steal those packages left at your front door. Regardless of whether you have your mail delivered to your door or a community mailbox you can register for a special free 'virtual' post box address where they will email you when a *parcel* arrives and hold it for two weeks for you to pick up. m
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
- Original Message - From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" To: Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 1:15 PM Subject: Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?) > > > On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: >> I think these are pretty rare. > > They were sold by many office supply companies as consumables for the MCST > I bought a box a while ago on eBay, don't see any right now though. > --- I've got a couple of the drives for those cards somewhere in case someone needs/wants one; rollers to feed the card in and out and a solenoid ratchet to move the head across track-to-track. Wonder if you could build an 80-column card reader out of one... ;-) Only have one card though ;-) m
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
I used a Model B Executive for a few years as my office typewriter. Superb text quality; good enough for publication. They were available in several type styles and sizes. Can easily be distinguished by the split space bar. There also was a version of the tape station for the MT/ST that could be used as a S/370 peripheral. Probably not very common. --Chuck Probably the oddest machine I ever saw with a typewriter on it was a machine with a card reader and I think a model A connected to it and it would type out what was punched into the cards. I was told there was a companion machine that would punch cards with what you typed on the typewriter. The flexowriter have a common ancestor to the IBM typebar electrics, IBM sold what became flexowriter because of antitrust concerns. Paul.
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 12:50 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > The magcard selectric was capable of a lot of basic word processing > functions as could the MT/ST before it. One function it was really > useful for was creating personalized form letters. The body of the > letter could be stored and personalizations filled in as it printed. > The MT/ST and magcard also had a model with a composer version of the > selectric connected. The composer version had an escapement mechanism > that could do proportional spacing, this mechanism was complicated and > from what OP technician told me tricky to adjust, and it didn't help > that customer using composers where very picky about the print quality > as composers where often use to prepare copy for printing. I have also > seen selectric mechanisms that used a lead screw to move the print head > which would be an easier way to implement proportional spacing. Watching > a video of an electronic composer typing suggests it may have used this > mechanism as the carriage motion looks smoother that what you get with > an escapement rack. There was also a version of magcard machine that > had a IBM Executive type bar typewriter attached, the Executive also did > proportional spacing. There was also a selectric called the "Memory > Typewriter" that could store documents on a wide loop of tape the was > inside a slightly enlarged selectic. The last version of the magcard > machines where equipped with a daisy wheel printer in place of a selectric. I used a Model B Executive for a few years as my office typewriter. Superb text quality; good enough for publication. They were available in several type styles and sizes. Can easily be distinguished by the split space bar. There also was a version of the tape station for the MT/ST that could be used as a S/370 peripheral. Probably not very common. --Chuck
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 2020-01-03 12:46 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) The English-language name was "Composer". This was preceded by the very similar-looking MT/ST, which used a small magnetic tape cartridge in an external unit that looked very much like the card reader on the Composer. --Chuck The composer was a special version of selectric that did proportional spacing, often used for producing copy for printing. The original composer was all mechanical including the variable spacing later ones where electronic. Paul.
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
The magcard selectric was capable of a lot of basic word processing functions as could the MT/ST before it. One function it was really useful for was creating personalized form letters. The body of the letter could be stored and personalizations filled in as it printed. The MT/ST and magcard also had a model with a composer version of the selectric connected. The composer version had an escapement mechanism that could do proportional spacing, this mechanism was complicated and from what OP technician told me tricky to adjust, and it didn't help that customer using composers where very picky about the print quality as composers where often use to prepare copy for printing. I have also seen selectric mechanisms that used a lead screw to move the print head which would be an easier way to implement proportional spacing. Watching a video of an electronic composer typing suggests it may have used this mechanism as the carriage motion looks smoother that what you get with an escapement rack. There was also a version of magcard machine that had a IBM Executive type bar typewriter attached, the Executive also did proportional spacing. There was also a selectric called the "Memory Typewriter" that could store documents on a wide loop of tape the was inside a slightly enlarged selectic. The last version of the magcard machines where equipped with a daisy wheel printer in place of a selectric. Paul. On 2020-01-03 7:51 a.m., Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: Huh, that's a coincidence. Going through a recent bequeathment to the Australian Computer Museum Society, I'd just yesterday opened a box with manuals, some cards, and other bits for the same system. See pic, with manual cover illustration of the system. It was IBM trying to produce a word processor and email, before the technology was really up to it. You typed onto paper, with backspacing and overtyping to get it right, then saved to the mag card. That could be read back and printed out, to get a clean copy. Then you could snail mail the mag card to someone with another machine. Or just post the printed letter I suppose, but how old fashioned! A lease document with the set shows that in 1981 the price was $5000 (AU). Or leased over 48 months, total rent of $6682. My job now is to find out what happened to the actual machine, since the contents list says it's present, but it isn't. Fun fact: according to the listing the modified selectric typewriter (heavy) and the magcard 82 processor (cabinet in the photo, supposedly about 50 Kg) are linked by a "non-plugged cable". Brilliant. Guy At 10:46 AM 3/01/2020 +0100, you wrote: A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) They seems in medium state, at least, but I think these are pretty rare. So, if somebody is interested . https://www.ebay.fr/itm/gro%C3%9Frechner-wechseldatentr%C3%A4ger-magnetkarten/184107517064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
VCF PNW 2020: Exhibitors, volunteers and speakers needed!
What: Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020 When: Saturday March 21st and Sunday March 22nd Where: Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle, Washington. Web site: http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw Why … So you can share your favorite old computers and projects in person with like-minded others for two full days at a great venue. This is one of the many ways we celebrate computing history while reaching out to a larger audience, and hopefully inspiring others. As of this writing we have seven exhibitors, three speakers, and a handful of volunteers signed up. We are looking for 20 to 25 exhibitors in total, another speaker or two, and a few more volunteers. While returning exhibits are welcome, we want to encourage first-timers to step up and try it out. (It is fun and rewarding!) If you know that you can bring an exhibit please look at http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw/exhibitor-registration and then fill in the registration form. (Potential volunteers and speakers - send me an email instead, as there is no form.) If you are “on the fence” or just have questions please send me an email and I will get things sorted out for you. The registration deadline is January 31st but if you know you can commit now it will make project planning easier. A description of the event can be found at http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw . General information for exhibitors including links to pictures from last year, a link to the registration form, and a FAQ can be found at http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw/exhibitor-registration . Feel free to email me with questions. Thanks, Mike mbbrut...@brutman.com or mich...@vcfed.org PS: Not exhibiting at the event but interested in unloading some tonnage? We're doing a consignment area again and that is open to everybody. Now is a good time to start cleaning and testing things that you might want to sell. You bring your treasures and we’ll bring the buyers. Check http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw/consignment/ for details.
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: > I think these are pretty rare. They were sold by many office supply companies as consumables for the MCST I bought a box a while ago on eBay, don't see any right now though.
Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
On Fri, 2020-01-03 at 09:22 -0400, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: > >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years > ago. > I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. > --Chuck > Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the > people have to travel from their house to said road to get their > mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and > for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, > for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, > maybe, to a community box. > > > Yea, our bank of mailboxes is 2.5 miles from our house. We got intoheated arguments with the Post Office because we didn't go down and emptyour box every day. We finally got a P.O Box at a different (more convenient)Post Office. Now we have to deal with folks who don't understand that ourmailing address and physical address are different. :-/ It also infuriates me that *every* other shipper (UPS, FedEx) can deliverright to our door but USPS can't be bothered. -- TTFN - Guy
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
On 1/3/20 1:46 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote: > A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM > "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) > The English-language name was "Composer". This was preceded by the very similar-looking MT/ST, which used a small magnetic tape cartridge in an external unit that looked very much like the card reader on the Composer. --Chuck
Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
On 1/3/20 5:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > > Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the > people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. > We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that > was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it > was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a > community box. That's no different from where I live (US), though my mailbox is only about 250 ft. from my house. Packages are delivered to the front door. Not a big deal. --Chuck
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
Bah, attached photos don't work. OK, the pic is here: http://everist.org/pics/misc/20200103_5346_IBM_mag_cards.jpg Guy At 10:51 PM 3/01/2020 +1100, you wrote: >Huh, that's a coincidence. Going through a recent bequeathment to the >Australian Computer Museum Society, >I'd just yesterday opened a box with manuals, some cards, and other bits for >the same system. >See pic, with manual cover illustration of the system. > >It was IBM trying to produce a word processor and email, before the technology >was really up to it. >You typed onto paper, with backspacing and overtyping to get it right, then >saved to the mag card. >That could be read back and printed out, to get a clean copy. Then you could >snail mail the mag card >to someone with another machine. Or just post the printed letter I suppose, >but how old fashioned! >A lease document with the set shows that in 1981 the price was $5000 (AU). Or >leased over 48 months, >total rent of $6682. > >My job now is to find out what happened to the actual machine, since the >contents list says it's >present, but it isn't. > >Fun fact: according to the listing the modified selectric typewriter (heavy) >and the magcard 82 processor >(cabinet in the photo, supposedly about 50 Kg) are linked by a "non-plugged >cable". Brilliant. > >Guy > > > >At 10:46 AM 3/01/2020 +0100, you wrote: >>A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM >>"Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) >> >>They seems in medium state, at least, but I think these are pretty >>rare. So, if somebody is interested . >> >>https://www.ebay.fr/itm/gro%C3%9Frechner-wechseldatentr%C3%A4ger-magnetkarten/184107517064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 >> >
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
Huh, that's a coincidence. Going through a recent bequeathment to the Australian Computer Museum Society, I'd just yesterday opened a box with manuals, some cards, and other bits for the same system. See pic, with manual cover illustration of the system. It was IBM trying to produce a word processor and email, before the technology was really up to it. You typed onto paper, with backspacing and overtyping to get it right, then saved to the mag card. That could be read back and printed out, to get a clean copy. Then you could snail mail the mag card to someone with another machine. Or just post the printed letter I suppose, but how old fashioned! A lease document with the set shows that in 1981 the price was $5000 (AU). Or leased over 48 months, total rent of $6682. My job now is to find out what happened to the actual machine, since the contents list says it's present, but it isn't. Fun fact: according to the listing the modified selectric typewriter (heavy) and the magcard 82 processor (cabinet in the photo, supposedly about 50 Kg) are linked by a "non-plugged cable". Brilliant. Guy At 10:46 AM 3/01/2020 +0100, you wrote: >A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM >"Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) > >They seems in medium state, at least, but I think these are pretty >rare. So, if somebody is interested . > >https://www.ebay.fr/itm/gro%C3%9Frechner-wechseldatentr%C3%A4ger-magnetkarten/184107517064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 >
Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
Well, it sounds like Amazon is trying to fix this with there "lockers" everywhere. Expect prime shipments to only be to lockers soon, with the rest to follow. (gazing into my crystel ball...) On 1/3/2020 8:22 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a community box. Paul.
Re: Ordering parts onesie twosie
On 2020-01-03 2:51 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: >Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. I assume that rural delivery still goes house-to-house. --Chuck Rural delivery is done to mail boxes along the roads, which means the people have to travel from their house to said road to get their mail. We lived on a farm for part of the time I was growing up and for us that was 3/4 of a mile, and that was not uncommon in the area, for some it was even further. Quite different from walking a block, maybe, to a community box. Paul.
Re: OT post delivery / Re: Ordering parts onesie twos
On 2020-01-03 12:11 a.m., Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: On 2020-Jan-02, at 6:11 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: On 2020-01-02 9:58 p.m., Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 01/02/20 17:22, Ali wrote: Well, Canada Post stopped delivering to individual >houses years ago. How does that work? Community mailboxes that serve a neighbourhood. You need to trek to one to pick up your mail. (https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/personal/receiving/manage-mail/community-mailbox.page) N. A good part of the city where I live still has door to door delivery from Canada Post, but on the other hand the community where I grew up never did. Resistance because people whined about having to walk a block to get their mail, while in many small communities the residents never had door to door delivery and always picked up their mail at the box lobby at the local post office. Even though these where small communities, the majority of the residents travel further to get their mail than the vast majority of people who get their mail from a community box, knowing this I have little sympathy for the people now whining about having to pick up their mail from a community box. Yes Canada Post did stop door to door delivery in parts of my city but did back off for now. Paul. At-property delivery is still present in neighbourhoods whose development predates the change in delivery policy. The change, IIRC, was sometime in the late-70s. Neighbourhoods developed (subdivision/rezoning) after the policy change get community boxes, even if immediately adjacent to a neighbourhood with at-property. A new house built in an old (pre-change) neighbourhood will still get at-property. At least that's the general rule as I've observed it. Canada Post has tried to get rid of at-property delivery a few times and met with resistance.
Re: FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
GerardCJAT via cctech wrote: > A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM > "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) > > They seems in medium state, at least, but I think these are pretty > rare. So, if somebody is interested . > > https://www.ebay.fr/itm/gro%C3%9Frechner-wechseldatentr%C3%A4ger-magnetkarten/184107517064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 > > > The guy is in Germany and sells a few other IBM related items. He is also auctioning an DEC RK07 : https://www.ebay.de/itm/grosrechner-laufwerk/184010127536?hash=item2ad7dbb8b0:g:4DkAAOSwmK1dtI~8 Ed -- Ik email, dus ik besta 😆
FS : IBM Magnetic cards for IBM selectric "compocarte" (?)
A guy, in Europ, sells a box of IBM magnetic cards, used on IBM "Compcarte" ( sorry, french "name" ) They seems in medium state, at least, but I think these are pretty rare. So, if somebody is interested . https://www.ebay.fr/itm/gro%C3%9Frechner-wechseldatentr%C3%A4ger-magnetkarten/184107517064?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
