[cctalk] Re: After more than three years, U of Iowa's PDP-8 project active again

Nice! Years back I gave Dr. Jones my PDP-8/L, prior to moving out of Iowa. I wonder if he still has it, and put it to use. -mike -Original Message- From: William Sudbrink via cctalk Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 3:29 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Cc:

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (was: Re: Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man)

I must have missed your offer for 8" floppies! Please let me know if you still have any. I was looking for some a while back, and mostly found them in the $5.00/piece range, which is just ridiculous. I finally just happened across someone in a facebook group with about a hundred to sell,

[cctalk] Re: Computer of Thesus (was: Re: Re: Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man)

In a lot of ways it's entirely contextual, or a matter of practicality. If the goal is to just get the original operator/software experience, then emulators should do the trick. If it's about the original feel of the hardware, with all its limitations and warts, then stock hardware is the way

[cctalk] Re: Downsizing "feeler"

A friend of a friend helped someone out a few years ago who was in a similar situation, but with high-end audiophile stuff. Same general deal, tho - had a collection build with love and detail over decades but for practical reasons had to make it gone. The solution was to find someone also in

[cctalk] 8" floppy diskettes themselves (was: 8" floppy diskette storage cases)

With all the talk about 8" floppy diskette storage cases, I was wondering if anyone had any 8" floppy disks themselves they would be willing to sell? This winter I am hoping to start restoring an IMSAI 8080 I recently acquired, and while it came with one external 5.25" drive, it would be

[cctalk] Re: Bendix G-15 Restoration

The folks at the Living Computer Museum + Labs in Seattle were working on a restoration of one of these, or another, similar Bendix machine. They remain closed (who knows if they will ever reopen), but there might be a way to find some of the people who were doing the work. -mike

[cctalk] Seeking Atari ANALOG magazine issue #3

I spent much of the pandemic focusing on filling out my 8-bit Atari documentation & ephemera collection, and have come pretty close to a milestone. I am only missing one issue of ANALOG magazine. Number 3 still eludes me. I've been on AtariAge and ebay and all the usual places. I know I can

[cctalk] Re: [cctalk]Can someone explain...

Yes, but yours wouldn't come with the oily grime of authenticity. Some people have too much ebay, and too little common sense. -mike -Original Message- From: William Sudbrink via cctalk Sent: Monday, July 18, 2022 7:56 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Cc:

RE: Women of Computing

Ugggh, as soon as I saw this conversation I new it was going to be a race to the bottom. Actually, it was far less worse than I expected, so progress, perhaps? I've been frustrated by the lack of women in the industry, because there's no rational reason for it and it feels like we're wasting

RE: Vt131 4 sale in St.Louis

I just put in a bid on a few of the items. I've confirmed someone in St Louis can pick up and get anything I win to me in Seattle in the next six months or so. -mike -Original Message- From: cctech On Behalf Of geneb via cctech Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 6:26 AM To: General

IBM 534 data entry (Keypunch) machine for sale near Spokane, WA

Just saw this on CraigsList - not my ad. It might be worth someone grabbing before it goes to a scraper. https://spokane.craigslist.org/sop/d/spokane-ibm-card-punch-machine/7331662699.html -mike

Interesting photos of a computer graphics lab from 1968

A friend of mine collects old photos, and sent me a link to this set he just recovered from film. He doesn't know much about the provenance, but it might be interesting to figure out what we can about them. The link is here: https://www.espressobuzz.net/Found/GeorgeClark/GraphicsLab/ The

RE: Exploring early GUIs

There's also the windowing system used on the AT 3B1 (AKA Unix PC, AK PC7300), which I think was called MGR. It may have also been ported to other systems as well. When I had one of these machines it was adequate, although terribly slow on a 512K system. There's a writeup, with images, here:

RE: Network gear that supported StarLAN 1 (not 10)

Wow. I ran StarLan 1 around my apartment in college, using an AT 3b1 as the hub and a collection of 8088 PCs with 8-bit ISA cards scattered around. I could rlogin (not telnet, from my recollection) from any of the PCs to the 3B1, and dial out through a 14.4 modem into the university network.

RE: Any interest in "newer" hardware, software?

A lot of the younger collectors are spending ridiculous amounts of money on 486 & Pentium class machines on assorted facebook vintage and retro groups. I don't get it either, but everyone has their fetishes and I try not to judge. Parted out you can possibly get a couple hundred bucks out of

Heathkit H8 and other items on Minneapolis craigslist

Hey, all. I was browsing various craigslist places around the US and found someone selling off a substantial collection of classic micros outside Minneapolis His ad is here: https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/csw/sys/d/silver-lake-vintage-computer-collection/7100922754.html Through our email

RE: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive

Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in

RE: HP 9000 Series 360 Thin LAN

>> I am using an HP 9000 Series 360 with a "Thin LAN" coax card to run a piece >> of equipment. [...] > Assuming it's standard 10Base2 Ethernet, you need either a 2 to T adapter, a > repeater with BNC > as well as RJ45 connectors, or a repeater with an AUI connector plus a > 10Base2 AUI. I

RE: HP 9000 Series 360 Thin LAN

>> I am using an HP 9000 Series 360 with a "Thin LAN" coax card to run a piece >> of equipment. [...] > Assuming it's standard 10Base2 Ethernet, you need either a 2 to T adapter, a > repeater with BNC > as well as RJ45 connectors, or a repeater with an AUI connector plus a > 10Base2 AUI. I

RE: One of Bay Area's last Fry's Electronics stores closes

>> >> Palo Alto Fry’s closing >> > . Sad, but not the end of an era – apparently the loss of lease > > When I last visited a couple months ago, the one in Wilsonville, Oregon > hadn’t done any

New Member Introduction

ated VAX cluster using Raspberry Pis and SIMH, since original hardware is pretty much impossible to find anymore (and fragile when you can find it). It's frustrating to be hunting for things I had three or four of at one point... Happy to be here, -mike begley s...@hell.org

[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for suggestions for a toaster cam

We have a kitchen at work that is not easily monitored by any of us -- so we often forget things in the toaster / microwave. I'm working on a similar project to watch my laundry, and send an alert when the washer or dryer has stopped. That's not a very hard problem, and will be an amusing

[saturdayhouse] Re: ToorCamp

I will be there. -Original Message- From: saturdayhouse@googlegroups.com [mailto:saturdayho...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Derek Gaw Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:31 AM To: saturdayhouse@googlegroups.com Subject: [saturdayhouse] ToorCamp Is anybody else from Saturday

[saturdayhouse] EL Wire workshop (was: Seattle source for Electroluminescent wire (was: Re: ideas for new projects))

Hey folks, I've been AWOL lately because I've been following a fairly relentless schedule. But I have a couple weekends coming up to do a SatHouse session on EL wire. For those of you not familiar with EL wire, it's a wire that can glow brightly, in a variety of colors, when powered. Here's

[saturdayhouse] Re: Clearing Giraffe Labs

! Myk O'Leary http://www.blueneedle.com Blue Needle - Bringing arcane Internet processes to the masses. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:49 AM, mike begley s...@hell.org wrote: I may

[saturdayhouse] Re: Action Community

One problem with grand pronouncements is that it requires a often ruthless ideological leader, something most hackers and folks in general shy away from. Better to treat it as a garden. You want a tomato plant, you plant tomato seeds. You don't try and convince a cabbage it really

[saturdayhouse] Re: hosting recommendatations?

y'all 10% off on any purchases. -mike I had no Linux experience and got myself a Linode slice last month. Was forced to, actually, because my shared host complained about high CPU usage and shut down my site. On Mar 12, 3:11 pm, mike begley s...@hell.org wrote: Awesome.  I just signed up

[saturdayhouse] Re: Looking for interested hardware hackers.. (Fwd: Tweaking a pitch generator)

Electronically it's probably not very hard. Almost certainly the volume dial is a variable resistor, so it would be just a matter of removing that component and replacing it with a switch that has (essentially) 0 resistance. I've done somewhat similar projects before, and it's not hard.

[saturdayhouse] Re: Meme reiterator

a couple of years ago I read in mind performance hacks the idea about creating an exo-self. Currently I use twitter to store ideas I come up with that are important for my development. Over time I forget these ideas. I though it would be good to have twitter randomly text message one

Yet Another Can't get IPNAT to work... question.

with short block in log quick on ep0 from any to any with ipopts Ideas? I'm stumped. I've had no problem getting ipnat working before, but this one machine is being difficult. Thanks... -mike begley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Disabling email delivery.

OK, I just took over administration of our Cyrus mail server. The person I took over for no longer works for the company. How do I disable his account so that he no longer receives email. Depending on what MTA you are using, you can just remove the user. Exim will lookup the user to see

need some basic handholding help getting cyrus working with LDAP

me understand it, then please respond to me privately (so to not clog the list with basic config information). I would have no problem compensating someone for this help. thanks. -mike begley [EMAIL PROTECTED]