Looking for PDF files of The Computer Journal

Hi Everyone, I am looking for pdf files for the Computer Journal. There is a series of articles on designing microprocessors I'd like to someday read about. Any ideas where they may be located? Kip Koon computer...@sc.rr.com

Re: Need Dos bootable 5 1/4" floppy with binary or hex editor

On 6/6/2015 6:23 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: I have no pick experience - I'd be interested in poking at it and seeing if I can find anything at all. Sent from my iPhone I'll be able to fix it, once I get the way to get to the disk. frame 127, base of system dictionary, look for sysprog, and a

Re: Need Dos bootable 5 1/4" floppy with binary or hex editor

I have no pick experience - I'd be interested in poking at it and seeing if I can find anything at all. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 6, 2015, at 21:20, jwsmobile wrote: > > I just got a Compaq Portable 3 (286). > > I need to edit the contents of what will be the C drive when dos boots, > tho

Need Dos bootable 5 1/4" floppy with binary or hex editor

I just got a Compaq Portable 3 (286). I need to edit the contents of what will be the C drive when dos boots, though it probably doesn't have a file system on it. Anyway i'll need to boot up from a floppy because it has a pick r83 system on the C drive. Not sure what the system is, so fdisk

Re: Troubleshooting a N* Advantage

On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Steven Hirsch wrote: My Advantage decided to stop booting from floppy disks (the only media it is capable of booting). At first it threw random disk errors, then progressed to the point where I get an immediate "Hardware Failure" diagnostic on screen at power up. If I res

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

To use the DEC internal additions to RUNOFF (aka DSR) type: RUNOFF/DEC_INTERNAL (Another in a series of undocumented commands/switches in VMS.) Regards, Mike > On Jun 6, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Robert Jarratt > wrote: > > I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encountered some > pro

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote: > Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 05:36:40 > From: Robert Jarratt > To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" > > Subject: RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO > > I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encou

Re: PDP-8/e front panels.

Hi, Rob.  I'll definitely take one of the panels.  If you make another lot, or your capacity is not otherwise oversubscribed, I'll take two of them.Thanks, --Bill From: Rod Smallwood To: gene...@classiccmp.org Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 3:41 PM Subject: PDP-8/e front panels. Hi G

RE: PDP-8/e front panels.

If you attached a photo it didn't come through. I think the list does not allow attachments. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Rod > Smallwood > Sent: 06 June 2015 23:42 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

On 06/06/2015 11:13, Rod Smallwood wrote: I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e front panels. They are full size reproductions of the original. The panel fits the bezel and the switches on the key + lamps board line up. I have a few to sell and can do more if

PDP-8/e front panels.

Hi Guys Thanks for all of the enquiries for panels. I have ten in total. One I have here (as in photo) and the other nine are in the drying rack at the silk screeners. My photo does not do them justice. The screening is a lot sharper and clearer. On Monday I'll go and get the rest of them (1

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

I've run the converter too that was in the DECUS collection and there are plenty of errors/warnings but you do get output - I've put the resulting doc files here (they are terminal formatted so you can open them in a text editor to view): http://wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/mscp/ Regards,

RE: PDP8/e front panels.

Yes, I might be interested too, keen to see a picture, and I am not entirely clear if the panel includes switches or not. Not that I have such a machine, but with a thought to hooking it up to the SIMH emulation someday. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bo

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Johnny > Billquist > Sent: 06 June 2015 21:53 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO > > On 2015-06-06 14:36, Robert Jarratt wrote: > > I hav

Re: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

On 2015-06-06 14:36, Robert Jarratt wrote: I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encountered some problems. It seems the files have some commands in them that are not recognised by any of the versions of runoff that I have. I have tried on VMS 5.5-2, 7.3 and 8.4. The commands that

RE: PDP8/e front panels.

Rob, How much in the UK Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian > Stoness > Sent: 06 June 2015 14:39 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: PDP8/e front panels. > > pic? > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:28, William Donzelli wrote: > The main IBM keypunches (026, 029, and 129) are sort of like Teletypes > - yes, they have respectable value, but there are still a whole lot of > chances to get into a "right place, right time" situation and get them > for nothing. At this poi

Troubleshooting a N* Advantage

My Advantage decided to stop booting from floppy disks (the only media it is capable of booting). At first it threw random disk errors, then progressed to the point where I get an immediate "Hardware Failure" diagnostic on screen at power up. If I reset and hit 'Enter' it starts the disk driv

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

> On the one hand the 25K is ridiculously excessive; on the other I'm surprised > you were able to obtain one for so little, even in poor condition, and there > was so little bidding. > > Replacing the missing keycaps may be difficult, but it otherwise looks quite > recoverable. The main IBM ke

what happened to the atrificial 8 E panel with the 6100 built to it?

what happened to the artificial 8 E panel with the 6100 microprocessor board built to it? are these still being made? Thanks Ed# _www.smnecc.org_ (http://www.smnecc.org)

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

I know that as late as the mid-1970s 026's were refurbished and upgraded by a third-party (SORBUS?) as cheaper 029s and with the 029 character set. We had many of these 026-->029s where I went to school. Lee C. On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Cory Heisterkamp wrote: > I use to watch for these o

Re: X11 expertise on ancient HW sought... (4-plane visual (overlay) via X-server on MS-WIndows)

Mouse, thanks very much for taking the time to comment. On 06/06/2015 02:35 PM, Mouse wrote: >> Am I correct to assume that the GPU must support 4bpp in order for it >> even to be possible for the X-server to propagate a 4-plane visual to >> a client? > No. However, it is substantially more diffi

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

I use to watch for these on ebay and it seems one would pop up every 12-16 months or so, usually on the opposite side of the country, and sell for $500-$1000 depending on condition. I recall when a certain 129 was up for bid back in 2005; info preserved by the 'IBM Collectibles' webpage. http:

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

Oh I'll take two or three of those if they're any good. Might be interested in commissioning your young ladies to do pdp-15 and pdp-12 panels too. Mike On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > Hi All > I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e > fr

Re: PDP8/e front panels.

pic? On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > Hi All > I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e > front panels. > They are full size reproductions of the original. The production methods > are exactly as used in circa 1971. > They are not photograph

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

* Robert Jarratt [150606 02:16]: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J. > > Blair > > Sent: 06 June 2015 03:06 > > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

RE: DEC Runoff to any modern format conversion - MORE INFO

I have had a go with some of Tom's files but I have encountered some problems. It seems the files have some commands in them that are not recognised by any of the versions of runoff that I have. I have tried on VMS 5.5-2, 7.3 and 8.4. The commands that are not recognised include (not a full list):

Re: X11 expertise on ancient HW sought... (4-plane visual (overlay) via X-server on MS-WIndows)

> I'm trying to get an application that currently uses a local display > on an ancient DEC Alpha workstation with a (for the time) > mid-to-high-end graphics controller (ZLX-E2) to instead use an > X-server running under MS-Windows. > The application is complaining that it cannot find a "4/5-bit >

PDP8/e front panels.

Hi All I have recently produced a number of high quality custom PDP8/e front panels. They are full size reproductions of the original. The production methods are exactly as used in circa 1971. They are not photographs. The front has the two colours plus the white each done with its ow

Re: Holy mother of pearl. 25000 for an 026

The two bids where actually me pushing my bid up worrying that there would be a snipe at the end but there was not... No-one else wanted it, it was luckily only about and hour from me. I have been slowly working on it, it now feeds and registers a card correctly but my main problem is dirty rela

Re: pdp8/e /f /m Omnibus legenda available

+1 Marco Am 05.06.2015 um 23:47 schrieb Mark J. Blair: On Jun 5, 2015, at 14:31 , Simon Claessen wrote: link: https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Omnibus_legenda.pdf Nice work!