I get them too Jay is this because it is AOL mailbox?
thanks Ed#
In a message dated 7/3/2015 11:40:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dj.tayl...@comcast.net writes:
I've been getting those unsubscribe messages on a regular basis, they
appeared after I changed my mail from verizon
I've been getting those unsubscribe messages on a regular basis, they
appeared after I changed my mail from verizon to comcast. I was blaming
it on comcast, gave them holy hell! But the email does get thru.
On 7/3/2015 2:41 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: John Willis: Friday, July 03, 201
Wasn't it Apollo, that used a pair of 68000s in their very early systems?
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-07-04 01:54, m...@markesystems.com wrote:
>
>> In the late 80’s, I bought from a surplus/junk shop a (by then somewhat
>> obsolete) Unix compu
I was going to write almost exactly this ... although the Wiki page
mentions that AT&T was one of the primary customers of the System/7, AFAIK,
the common control on the 1/2/3/4ESS switches was a proprietary WECo design
that was highly integrated into the design of the switch itself ... in the
5E,
It's a 32 page pamphlet, in good condition. "Revised 10-46", but does not
appear to have a proper copyright. I found it recently at a used book store.
I don't see it online anywhere. I am willing to scan it and/or send the
physical copy to someone who needs it. $5 plus shipping to a private
On 07/03/2015 08:13 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
With regard to the 68000 not being restartable after a trap for some
instructions such as MOVEM, didn't the Lisa guidelines avoid the problem
by avoiding the problem instructions?
I'm trying hard to remember--it's been a long time.
--Chuck
On 3 July 2015 at 21:50, Rick Bensene wrote:
> Hello, all,
>
> Today I received a very nice, (mostly) operational Teletype ASR-33. It is in
> really stunning condition...no cracks, very little discoloring, everything is
> there, and the best part is that it is very clean inside, and it works gr
On 07/03/2015 09:11 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-07-03 8:09 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Apollo is the classic example of using plain 68K (two).
I always associate it with Tandem:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.2.pdf
Not sure what you are referring to, here. Tandem did not
use 6
On 2015-07-03 8:09 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Jul 3, 2015 4:59 PM, "Johnny Billquist" wrote:
I find it hard to believe it was a plain 68K in there. That CPU have some
serious issues that makes it close to impossible to implement virtual
memory or proper usermode protection.
(Yes, it can be don
Transmac will read read Mac files off 1.44 floppies if you have one of
those USB 3,5 inch drives.
Terry (Tez)
On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Joe Giliberti wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>> I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a US
Sometimes holding the reader clip down with a bit of pressure will help.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:59 PM, william degnan wrote:
> It may be the that the reader clip is not in the correct position. What
> happens when you push down the blick relay switch in the back that moves
> the reader. It'
It may be the that the reader clip is not in the correct position. What
happens when you push down the blick relay switch in the back that moves
the reader. It's the flat, oddly-shaped piece of metal next to the where
the yellow and blown wires attach from the UCC-6
http://vintagecomputer.net/t
Hello, all,
Today I received a very nice, (mostly) operational Teletype ASR-33. It is in
really stunning condition...no cracks, very little discoloring, everything is
there, and the best part is that it is very clean inside, and it works great as
far as I can test it in local mode, except for
On 7/3/2015 4:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I can't imagine using NS 4 as my ONLY browser--I've tried, but there
will always be a web site using more modern elements that won't render
correctly.
So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as their ONLY browsers?
Wow--I'm surprised that your em
Thanks for the great job you do Jay!
++
Kevin Parker
++
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2015 4:36 AM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: list consolidation
FYI - in the fairly near t
On Jul 3, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> Last December I picked up an AMT DAP 600 (64x64 distributed array processor)
> which came with a set of manuals and QIC tapes; the manuals are on Bitsavers,
> the tapes were just recently (carefully) recovered by Bear and I though
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Robert Ferguson wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I know that the KA640 was more commonly used in the larger BA213 cabinets,
> but is it reasonable to put it in the BA23?
>
> Is there a cab kit for that combination? What would it include — just the
> rear panel, or was there
Hi folks,
I’ve got an empty BA23 (originally used for a 11/23 system), and a KA640 with
the appropriate memory.
I know that the KA640 was more commonly used in the larger BA213 cabinets, but
is it reasonable to put it in the BA23?
Is there a cab kit for that combination? What would it includ
On Fri, 3 Jul 2015, Joe Giliberti wrote:
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Hardware, yes.
Sof
On 07/03/2015 05:04 PM, Mouse wrote:
What's my (putative) employer got to do with it? My employer does not
get to tell me what I may or may not use for what little Web browsing I
do on my own time on my own machines.
At work, on work time, on work machines, that's another story. But I
don't d
On 3 July 2015 at 16:48, Mike Ross wrote:
> I do difficult propositions, including prying pdps away from the cold
> dead hands of the British ministry of defence! So tell more? You can
> reach me off-list at this address.
>
My information was slightly incorrect. It appears that there is more
than
On 2015-07-04 02:09, Glen Slick wrote:
On Jul 3, 2015 4:59 PM, "Johnny Billquist" wrote:
I find it hard to believe it was a plain 68K in there. That CPU have some
serious issues that makes it close to impossible to implement virtual
memory or proper usermode protection.
(Yes, it can be done,
Greetings,
I know this may be OT, but can someone tell me if a modern PC (with a USB
floppy drive) could read 1.44MB floppies from a 68k Mac? I want to use a
Powerbook 190 for some word processing and need a means of transferring
data.
Thanks
Joe
On Jul 3, 2015 4:59 PM, "Johnny Billquist" wrote:
>
> I find it hard to believe it was a plain 68K in there. That CPU have some
serious issues that makes it close to impossible to implement virtual
memory or proper usermode protection.
> (Yes, it can be done, but the amount of hardware required me
Hi all --
Last December I picked up an AMT DAP 600 (64x64 distributed array
processor) which came with a set of manuals and QIC tapes; the manuals
are on Bitsavers, the tapes were just recently (carefully) recovered by
Bear and I thought I'd make them available in case anyone out there has
a
> So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as their ONLY
> browsers? Wow--I'm surprised that your employer allows that.
What's my (putative) employer got to do with it? My employer does not
get to tell me what I may or may not use for what little Web browsing I
do on my own time on my own
On 2015-07-04 01:54, m...@markesystems.com wrote:
In the late 80’s, I bought from a surplus/junk shop a (by then somewhat
obsolete) Unix computer, branded UniSys, I think. It had 10 serial ports; one
was the primary console, one was intended for a printer, and the other 8 were
regular user TT
In the late 80’s, I bought from a surplus/junk shop a (by then somewhat
obsolete) Unix computer, branded UniSys, I think. It had 10 serial ports; one
was the primary console, one was intended for a printer, and the other 8 were
regular user TTYs. The processor was a 68000 (not 010, 020, or any
On 7/3/15 9:39 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: tony duell
> OK, I've done it many times, but ... I had the drives out in under 5
> minutes. It is not that hard...
With a previously un-seen rack, it is _not_ guaranteed to be that easy, as
Bill D and I can attest!
So I will ech
John Willis wrote...
Why it or its moderators decide to unceremoniously unsubscribe me every few
months without warning is beyond me. [snip] It would be _really_ nice to do a
warning message to people who haven't broken any list rules and haven't asked
to be removed before dumping them,
I can't imagine using NS 4 as my ONLY browser--I've tried, but there
will always be a web site using more modern elements that won't render
correctly.
So people use IE6 on their Windows 7/8 machines as their ONLY browsers?
Wow--I'm surprised that your employer allows that.
I'm always resear
>It loads up fine using Mozilla/5.0 or SWB V1.1-12 based on Seamonkey
1.1.12 (or
>..
>Looks grand in Lynx too. Highlighting "IBM XT" and pressing enter
downloads
>the picture and displays it using XV as expected.
Great, thanks Peter.
--
>Well, def
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Ross
> Sent: 03 July 2015 21:48
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: out-of-mainstream minis
>
> I do difficult propositions, including prying pdps away from the
I do difficult propositions, including prying pdps away from the cold
dead hands of the British ministry of defence! So tell more? You can
reach me off-list at this address.
I had been told that the System/7s were part of the billing system,
rather than the switch itself. My info may be defective,
Rod, I received the panel, and thought I'd share with anyone on the fence, it's
stunning! It fit's my 8/m perfectly. I think the rotary switch is has the
smaller angles of the 'B' style panel, and I'm looking forward to checking
those out as well.
Since this one doesn't have holes for the keys
From: John Willis: Friday, July 03, 2015 8:52 AM
Well, I am once again re-subscribed to this list. Why it or its moderators
decide to unceremoniously unsubscribe me every few months without warning
is beyond me. Especially annoying when subscription requests always take
2-3 days to process. It wo
On 07/03/2015 11:22 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I understand that Netscape has been replaced by Mozilla.
HOWEVER,
since CHROME seems to be the most widely used, would CHROME
be able to support the retention of ALL of my old e-mails
and posts
from usenet? Over the past 15 years, I probably hav
>Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>Terry Stewart wrote:
I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my
classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile
platforms. I
want to modernise the code as well, making it as close to HTML5
standard as
I can
T
> From: tony duell
> OK, I've done it many times, but ... I had the drives out in under 5
> minutes. It is not that hard...
With a previously un-seen rack, it is _not_ guaranteed to be that easy, as
Bill D and I can attest!
Twice I've been up to get racks with stuff in them from him,
>Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>Terry Stewart wrote:
I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my
classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile
platforms. I
want to modernise the code as well, making it as close to HTML5
standard as
I can
The RetroChallenge blog si
Well, I am once again re-subscribed to this list. Why it or its moderators
decide to unceremoniously unsubscribe me every few months without warning
is beyond me. Especially annoying when subscription requests always take
2-3 days to process. It would be _really_ nice to do a warning message to
peo
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, william degnan wrote:
> I have been using Mosaic on my OpenVMS system, almost unusable, but fun.
I have Mozilla Seamonkey on my OpenVMS Alpha 8.3 box and it is only slightly
more usable than Mosaic in this the 21st century. I would like to port
firefox to VMS but that would t
>Terry Stewart wrote:
Hi,
I'm engaged in a Retrochallenge project where I'm recoding my
classic-computers.org.nz site to make it suitable for mobile platforms. I
want to modernise the code as well, making it as close to HTML5 standard as
I can
The RetroChallenge blog site is here.
http://www.
> Im uncertain of how tall the racks are, from what was described on the
> phone I should be able to lay the two racks down in the trailer. I have 2
> friends coming to help for certain and may possibly be bringing a third
> friend.
>From the hardware you describe (CPU, a couple of RLs and a coup
> From: Sean Caron
> Anyone got a spare set of rails?
It turns out the company that built rails for the 11's BITD is still in
business, and still selling rails. I don't think they still make the exact
model used on various -11's, but they have almost identical units.
(Now, whether they
> From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
> The other 1ESS/1AESS switch is a complete and functional unit, still in
> service, last I heard. But there are plans to scrap it and put in a
> modern switch in its place. Saving it would be a difficult proposition,
> to say the least.
I'd t
>> On a related note, I'd be interested if anyone on the list CAN'T
>> read this page properly:
>> http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/temp.html
Well, define "properly". Lynx gives me ("| " prefix added manually for
email purposes)
| Just a test page - p
Here is a simple example that replaces tables with div tags. I am in the
process of migrating this site to html5
http://dev.matlackflorist.com/test.html
Bill
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Terry Stewart
wrote:
> Thanks for all those replies, and feedback on what the test page looked
> like o
>
> The website does have a few articles and resources of interest to vintage
> computer hobbyists, which I wouldn't want to make inaccessible. The
> question is, how many guys like us, those who dabble with old tech, are
> likely to use ancient browsers as their ONLY source of web content. I
> su
On 2015-07-02 02:36 PM, tony duell wrote:
>> > I share your favourite(s). In the danish IT-museum-to-be
>> > (www.datamuseum.dk) we have two
>> > P857-based systems running. We have lots of spare parts and nearly all
>> > documentation, so
>> > if you need something, you are welcome to ask.
>
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