Re: punchcard svg file available

shure. go ahead. the svg has layers. top to bottom: demo (with the dot matrix text) holes (all the holes, but not with a solid fill print (the numbers) card (the card itself) As I made the original card in illustrator on a mac three years ago and I'm a "switcher" to linux, I changed the

Re: punchcard svg file available

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, William Donzelli wrote: Five years ago the paper stock was still available in the US, and you could get cards from Cardamation as well. A lot of bad things have happened in the last five years.

Re: internet blocking problem ?

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > >> On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: >> >> On 9/10/2015 8:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >> >>> >>> So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in the US, to >>> check if

Re: internet blocking problem ?

Works fine, save for the individual web-ring pages not being able to populate the buttons correctly. Going directly to a members... page does work from this proxy. -Gary On 09/11/2015 09:40 AM, Gary Oliver wrote: I fired up a proxy on amazon ec2 virginia this morning and it works fine from

Re: KDJ11-A/M8192 identified as PDT11/50 from resorc /a?

Jerome H. Fine wrote: > >Holm Tiffe wrote: > > >..have repaired a HH725 Harddisk /TA7245BP was bad since a tantal Elko had > >a short) and booted now RT11 V5.07 with the new now repaired 1/73 CPU. > > > >Resorc /A give the following informations: > > > >.resorc /a > > > >RT-11XB (S) V05.07 > >

Re: IBM 026

2015-09-11 17:06 GMT+02:00 Paul Koning : > > > On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Noel Chiappa > wrote: > > > >> From: Ed Sharpe > > > >> well SMECC needs one hopefully to make work so we can show the youn'ins > >> how cards were punched! > > > >

Re: IBM 026

Yeah, about those... Warning! Warning! -- Will On Sep 11, 2015 11:06 AM, "Paul Koning" wrote: > > > On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Noel Chiappa > wrote: > > > >> From: Ed Sharpe > > > >> well SMECC needs one hopefully to make work so we can

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

On 9/11/15 8:28 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: I do have some R1 documentation which I intend to scan and then send to either CHM or Rice University Fondren Library. A volunteer at CHM (Paul McJones) is scanning R1 documentation currently.

RE: internet blocking problem ?

> "There is no such thing as 'the cloud', it's just someone else's > computer." > > Love that quote... so true... and I sell cloud services ;) Jay, I am going to have to use that quote with my friends who like having their life on the cloud... -Ali

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

Are there any operational G-15's out there? Seems like this would be a good model to restore/demonstrate that doesn't come with all the usual baggage of a first gen machine (exotic power, A/C requirements, thousands of tubes, etc). -C On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Al Kossow

Re: IBM 026

who could be lucky enough to own 2 link 8s? Ed@ In a message dated 9/11/2015 10:22:34 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, wdonze...@gmail.com writes: Yeah, about those... Warning! Warning! -- Will On Sep 11, 2015 11:06 AM, "Paul Koning" wrote: > > > On Sep 11,

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 9/11/2015 11:58 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Jon Elson > > > so MANY others who could not access the members.iinet page were finding > > they got stopped at cogentco. >^^^ > > Well, to be precise 'Cogentco was the last node on the route which

Re: punchcard svg file available

Could not find anything on their web site... On Sep 11, 2015 8:51 AM, "Christian Corti" wrote: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Simon Claessen wrote: > >> btw. in the Netherlands where I live, they are called ponskaarten and are >> nowhere to be find also. We only have

RE: punchcard svg file available

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Christian > Corti > Sent: 11 September 2015 09:12 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: punchcard svg file available > > On Fri, 11 Sep 2015,

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 11/09/2015 02:32, Jon Elson wrote: So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in the US, to check if they can view this page: http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html Yes, I can (from York, UK, my ISP is Plusnet). Here's a traceroute: 1 cisco877 (x.x.x.x)

RE: punchcard svg file available

I have asked and will report back. Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Christian > Corti > Sent: 11 September 2015 09:12 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: punchcard svg

Re: punchcard svg file available

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Dave Wade wrote: Could not find anything on their web site... You have to ask them directly, they should still have all the means because they also do ATB stuff. That's what we did a few years ago, but our "project" stalled because they wanted some obscure file format

Re: punchcard svg file available

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Simon Claessen wrote: btw. in the Netherlands where I live, they are called ponskaarten and are nowhere to be find also. We only have one box of fresh cards and one box of used cards with our IBM 029. Of course the unused cards stay in the depot until we can do something

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On 9/11/2015 8:39 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-09-11 16:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Jon Elson elson > I actually LIKED the PDP-11 architecture quite a LOT, but the limited > memory was a big killer. The good thing about the PDP-11 was the 16-bit word size. (It

Re: Spelling reforms [was RE: punchcard svg file available]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 09/11/2015 12:03 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: However, it was far earlier than the Victorians. Noah Webster (1758-1843) only overlaps the Victorian era by 6 years; he was reacting against the aristocratic spelling norms of the 17th and 18th centuries,

Re: internet blocking problem ?

Me too, especially as a working sys admin ... the business model is not really original ... just the old time "service bureau" or "timesharing company" but we have to have a hip new marketing catchname for it, LOL... Well, if I've learned one thing, the computer industry is kind of like the

RE: 21MX proms (per request

Gerard wrote HOW OFTEN theses old PROM fail ?? Who had been through this problem and does it "really" worth to have some blanks "just in case" ?? 1) Once is enough, if it is the only known copy of that particular rom. But in general they are very reliable. More often than not -

bendix GE-15?

I think someone on one of the lists was inquring about this. Some items that might be of interest http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Bendix-G-15-Mainframe-Computer-Circuit-Board-Tester-/262042248871?hash=item3d02ef66a7

Re: Spelling reforms [was RE: punchcard svg file available]

On 9/11/2015 12:03 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: From: Dave G4UGM Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 12:06 PM From: Liam Proven Sent: 10 September 2015 16:17 On 10 September 2015 at 15:42, Fred Cisin wrote: He also said that the colored pencils that I manually did graphs

Re: Spelling reforms [was RE: punchcard svg file available]

On 09/11/2015 12:03 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: However, it was far earlier than the Victorians. Noah Webster (1758-1843) only overlaps the Victorian era by 6 years; he was reacting against the aristocratic spelling norms of the 17th and 18th centuries, when Latin and Greek were held to be more

Re: bendix GE-15?

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 3:59 PM, W2HX wrote: > > I think someone on one of the lists was inquring about this. Some items that > might be of interest > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-Bendix-G-15-Mainframe-Computer-Circuit-Board-Tester-/262042248871?hash=item3d02ef66a7 >

Control Data 160

I have a CDC "160 Computer Programming Manual" that I obtained many years ago when I was working with CDC equipment. This manual caught my eye and I squirreled it away since we were using the 160-A computers not the 160s. This manual has a publication number of 023a and a date of 1960. The

Re: internet blocking problem ?

* Jon Elson [150910 21:32]: [..SNIP..] > So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in > the US, to check if they can view this page: > http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html > > This is David Brooks' homebuilt 16-bit CPU. > > Please send

Re: internet blocking problem ?

I fired up a proxy on amazon ec2 virginia this morning and it works fine from there. Strange geographic filtering... -Gary On 09/10/2015 09:11 PM, Gary Oliver wrote: The amazon instance is in the US West region (north-central Oregon I presume.) Tomorrow I'll fire up a proxy on the east

Re: internet blocking problem ?

> From: Jon Elson > so MANY others who could not access the members.iinet page were finding > they got stopped at cogentco. ^^^ Well, to be precise 'Cogentco was the last node on the route which responded'. It's impossible to say whether i) that node

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

> From: Johnny Billquist > it really is a few bits short of perfect ... > .. when you look at the EIS and FPP extensions, which could not > retain the general instruction layout format because of a lack of bits. Well, if they'd tried to keep the same general layout, I don't think

FS: three PDP-11 boards

I was going through my board collection and found three PDP-11 boards I've never used in years and don't see a foreseeable need. No idea of condition, but they're visually clean and neat, stored in antistatic bags. The serial cards came out of (my) working 11/23+ but I've not tested them (since

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:24:47AM -0700, Randy Dawson wrote: > There was a 'slice' of the R1 floating about with some friends of mine > in Houston. Were they the owners of a small office building off of Post Oak in Houston in the 1970s-1980s? That's the only one I know about that survived. mcl

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

On 09/11/2015 11:31 AM, Cory Heisterkamp wrote: Are there any operational G-15's out there? Seems like this would be a good model to restore/demonstrate that doesn't come with all the usual baggage of a first gen machine (exotic power, A/C requirements, thousands of tubes, etc). -C Supposedly

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 09/11/2015 10:27 AM, Paul Koning wrote: FWIW: when I run into a web site issue due to filtering (or suspicion of same), I got to TOR. Apart from the confidentiality benefits it offers, you also get access from a completely different part of the world. An unpredictable place, admittedly.

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:27:47AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > A volunteer at CHM (Paul McJones) is scanning R1 documentation currently. Yes, I've already been talking to Paul. mcl

Re: bendix GE-15?

His prices are pretty off the wall in general but he's got some neat ephemera if you browse through his other items. Lots of Univac boards, miscellaneous parts, old documentation, bits and pieces of several old computer lines... Best, Sean On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Paul Koning

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:38:00PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > Supposedly one in Australia is at least close to operational. The references to it are on one of the members.iinet.net.au sites. Currently only reachable through the Wayback Machine (see one of my other posts):

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

> From: Jon Elson elson > I actually LIKED the PDP-11 architecture quite a LOT, but the limited > memory was a big killer. The good thing about the PDP-11 was the 16-bit word size. (It resulted in what's probably the most elegant architecture, in bang/buck terms, of all time.) The

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 Jon Elson wrote: > Hello, all, > > I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really > weird problem has turned up. The guy who administers the > ring, David Brooks, is in Australia, and uses iinet.net.au > as his ISP. All

Re: IBM 026

> From: Ed Sharpe > well SMECC needs one hopefully to make work so we can show the youn'ins > how cards were punched! Well, here's an 029 (not quite what the OP was looking for, but good enough for you all, I expect) for a not insane amount of money:

Re: internet blocking problem ?

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Lyle Bickley wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 > Jon Elson wrote: > >> Hello, all, >> >> I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really >> weird problem has turned up. The guy who

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > ... > I loved the PDP-11 architecture, until I wanted to run programs on it that > relied on the overlay manager and the overlays got to be 8 or 9 deep. Then > it was... painful. Perhaps the program was too large. But it

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2015-09-11 16:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >> > From: Jon Elson elson >> >> > I actually LIKED the PDP-11 architecture quite a LOT, but the >> limited >> > memory was a big killer. >> >> The good thing

Re: KDJ11-A/M8192 identified as PDT11/50 from resorc /a?

>Holm Tiffe wrote: ..have repaired a HH725 Harddisk /TA7245BP was bad since a tantal Elko had a short) and booted now RT11 V5.07 with the new now repaired 1/73 CPU. Resorc /A give the following informations: .resorc /a RT-11XB (S) V05.07 Booted from DL0:RT11XB Resident Monitor base is

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On 2015-09-11 16:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Jon Elson elson > I actually LIKED the PDP-11 architecture quite a LOT, but the limited > memory was a big killer. The good thing about the PDP-11 was the 16-bit word size. (It resulted in what's probably the most elegant

Re: IBM 026

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:58 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > >> From: Ed Sharpe > >> well SMECC needs one hopefully to make work so we can show the youn'ins >> how cards were punched! > > Well, here's an 029 (not quite what the OP was looking for, but good enough > for you

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 09/11/2015 09:42 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Don North > Basically see no problems accessing any of the pages on sites. > ... > 12: be2019.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com 22.400ms asymm 8 > 13: no reply > 14: no reply > 15: ae0.cr1.mel4.on.ii.net

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > ... > > I loved the PDP-11 architecture, until I wanted to run programs on it > that > > relied on the overlay manager and the overlays got

information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

So I have finally been prodded by some people to put together a web page for the G-15 computer. As well, I am going to put up information about the Rice Research Computer (later known as the R1), and its intended succesor, the R2. Right now my web pages are pretty skeletal and mostly consist of

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2015-09-11 16:49, Warner Losh wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Johnny Billquist >> wrote: >> >> On 2015-09-11 16:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: >>> >>> > From: Jon Elson elson

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 9/11/2015 7:46 AM, Lyle Bickley wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 Jon Elson wrote: Hello, all, I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really weird problem has turned up. The guy who administers the ring, David Brooks, is in Australia, and uses

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:32:11PM -0500, Jon Elson wrote: > So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in the US, to check > if they can view this page: > http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html The other day I was trying to access David Green's pages there. I

Re: internet blocking problem ?

>> >> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 20:32:11 -0500 >> Jon Elson wrote: >> >>> Hello, all, >>> >>> I am a member of the Homebuilt CPU web-ring, and a really >>> weird problem has turned up. The guy who administers the >>> ring, David Brooks, is in Australia, and uses

Re: internet blocking problem ?

On 9/10/2015 8:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in the US, to > check if they can view this page: > http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html > > I cannot make a connection. My DNS is able to resolve the address. ISP is

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On 2015-09-11 17:28, Paul Koning wrote: On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:23 AM, Warner Losh wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Paul Koning wrote: ... For efficient overlays, RT-11 with Link tends to be better. It's less flexible but that reduced

Re: PDP-11 architecture Was: internet blocking problem ?

On 2015-09-11 17:33, Warner Losh wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-09-11 16:49, Warner Losh wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-09-11 16:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From:

Re: internet blocking problem ?

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 11:40 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > > On 9/10/2015 8:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > >> >> So, I wonder if I can ask classiccmp members, especially in the US, to >> check if they can view this page: >> http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/simplex.html >> >>

RE: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

There was a 'slice' of the R1 floating about with some friends of mine in Houston. It was about the size and shape of the 2001 monolith. From what I was told, it represented one register, probably a byte, and constructed of about 100 vacuum tubes. It served as a conversation piece and a