Subject line covers it; the M2372K manual isn't on Bitsavers (the 2382K
is, but it's significantly different) and all I've found is this
covering the basics, and I'm not 100% sure it's correct:
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/fujitsu/M2372K-824MB-8-0-FH-HSMD.html#.VhyRlbTFsls
Anyon
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Nigel Williams
wrote:
> Has anyone ever seen one? I had an idea it used a silvered-paper and
> burned it off? or am I mis-remembering.
I used one in the early 1980s but I never had to repair it. It was,
as Tony and others have mentioned, electrolytic, not therma
> Do they have to be 3M? i.e., Do you see anything close here?
>
> https://www.westfloridacomponents.com/RubberFeet.html
Chuck,
If I skip the 3M portion requirement the I and have found replacements for
reasonable price and quantity here: http://www.bumperspecialties.com/.
I am not sure if it
On 10/12/2015 10:13 PM, Ali wrote:
I was only able to find them by the box at Digikey. Do they sell them
in lower quantities? Thanks.
Do they have to be 3M? i.e., Do you see anything close here?
https://www.westfloridacomponents.com/RubberFeet.html
--Chuck
Hi Mouse - Yes we know that 545 scope and have one in storage to be
refurbished
If you can get it to we guarantee it will be loved and perch in the
display with the display of the scope.
Many Thanks in advance -
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.sme
On 10/12/2015 10:24 PM, Brad wrote:
My understanding is these were custom keytops ordered as part of the
'low cost keyboard' article that appeared in RE. According to RE,
the keyboard on the cover unit was built using the method Don
described, including hand made (and very laboriously made) swit
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 22:13, Ali wrote:
>
>> www.digikey.com
>
> Mark,
>
> I was only able to find them by the box at Digikey. Do they sell them in
> lower quantities? Thanks.
Ah, I think I see the problem. They sell the ones they stock in small
quantities. The ones with the huge minimum ord
My understanding is these were custom keytops ordered as part of the 'low cost
keyboard' article that appeared in RE. According to RE, the keyboard on the
cover unit was built using the method Don described, including hand made (and
very laboriously made) switches. Definitely not microswitch a
Thanks Jos, Tony and Rod - you've neatly highlighted why I found the
screen printer so curious and fascinating, an oddball feature in the
terminal world and seemingly a simple mechanism to render the screen.
If anyone with access to one has the interest and time I'd appreciate
pictures and any add
> www.digikey.com
Mark,
I was only able to find them by the box at Digikey. Do they sell them in
lower quantities? Thanks.
-Ali
The VT52 printer used a very odd system. A spiral wire on a drum sat on
one side of the paper and the other a sraight edge.
So you could scan a line at a time. The paper must have been treated
with something or other.
A great project for somebody to try and make. Very simple mechanics, One
tur
http://www.channelcomp.com/SJ5780-3MTM-BumponTM-Protective-Products-SJ5780-Black_p_104186.html
http://www.tgoldkamp.com/3m-153-bumpon-153-protective-products-sj5780-black.html
http://www.tgoldkamp.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=sj5023
On 10/12/15, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
> www.digikey.com
>
> --
>
> Paul, if you come across any VT52s that have the built-in screen
> printer could you take some pictures please.
>
> Has anyone ever seen one? I had an idea it used a silvered-paper and
> burned it off? or am I mis-remembering.
I have one. Well, in a VT55, but that is a VT52 with a graph-plot
On 13.10.2015 05:32, Nigel Williams wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
I picked up a few of the VT52s today and they looked pretty good.
Paul, if you come across any VT52s that have the built-in screen
printer could you take some pictures please.
Has anyone ever see
www.digikey.com
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X
http://www.nf6x.net/
On 10/12/2015 09:04 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Looks like (but not exactely) Sinclair QL keys :)
These can be easily done in 3d printing
These are late 60s Micro Switch modular keys. I believe that the tops
attach to the keys using a short tubular shaft. So pretty simple to
duplicate even w
Hello all,
I am trying to replace some rubber feet on a couple of items and it appears
the OEM used 3M Bumpons. I've been trying to find a source that will sell
small quantities but all I can find is one box minimum (which is a couple of
thousand!). I am willing to buy as much as a whole sheet bu
Looks like (but not exactely) Sinclair QL keys :)
These can be easily done in 3d printing
2015-10-12 21:31 GMT-03:00 Sean Caron :
> That keyboard does indeed look pretty far out ... it must have been ...
> "interesting" ... to type on :O
>
> Best,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:12 PM, B
On 10/12/2015 10:32 PM, Nigel Williams wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
I picked up a few of the VT52s today and they looked pretty good.
Paul, if you come across any VT52s that have the built-in screen
printer could you take some pictures please.
Has anyone ever s
Oh, sorry, normally I prune it when that happens but it must have slipped
by ... they have us using GMail here at U-M and it's not my favorite mail
client ... I will also lay the blame for my lack of inline quoting at the
feet of same; GMail makes a total hash of it.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12,
That keyboard does indeed look pretty far out ... it must have been ...
"interesting" ... to type on :O
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Brad wrote:
> Hey there,
>
>
>
> I'm currently working on a replica of Don Lancaster's prototype TV
> Typewriter (pic here:
>
> http://s1381.phot
From: tony duell
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 11:29 AM
>> We swapped the TU56 and TU55 drives between the PDP-12 and the PDP-8/I. We
> Does the TU55 work correctly on the 8/I ?
>> The TU55 behaved a little better than the TU56, and sometimes would actually
>> boot OS/8. We continued chasing t
no, sounds like your memory is working better than mine.
He thinks he has one with a printer and I will try to grab it.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Nigel Williams <
n...@retrocomputingtasmania.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> > I picked up a few of the
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I picked up a few of the VT52s today and they looked pretty good.
Paul, if you come across any VT52s that have the built-in screen
printer could you take some pictures please.
Has anyone ever seen one? I had an idea it used a silvered-paper
I picked up a few of the VT52s today and they looked pretty good. A little
yellow, no burns on screen, nice keyboards. I'll be picking up more later
this week.\\
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I'll be picking up a huge lot of DEC and some DG keyboards( no part
> number
If he needs any parts, let me know.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
> I was just speaking with a guy who works in the physics department at work
> (A large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card for some
> purpose, which I was able to find for him in my pile
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Please don't CC: both cctalk and cctech.
Mike Loewen
Hey there,
I'm currently working on a replica of Don Lancaster's prototype TV
Typewriter (pic here:
http://s1381.photobucket.com/user/unclefalter/media/20151011_125748_zpssu7yy
ujf.jpg.html?o=0 ) and I was wondering - does anyone know where the unit
that appeared on the cover (with the more re
Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
> I was just speaking with a guy who works in the ph
I have a Tektronix "OPERATORS' MANUAL" for "CATHODE-RAY OSCILLOSCOPES
TYPE 535 AND 545" (those are quotes from the front cover) which says it
"applies to standard Type 535 Oscilloscopes having serial numbers
between 6045 and 7552, to rack-mounted Type 535 Oscilloscopes having
serial numbers 4048 an
On 2015-10-12 2:51 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
Paul Koning wrote on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:44:58 -0400:
On Oct 9, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
[noticed voter ID terminal had cable to voting machines!]
That's not the real problem.
Indeed, not *the* problem but just *a* problem
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
>
> Paul Koning wrote on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:44:58 -0400:
> ...
>> The real problem is that you had no way to be sure, no way to verify,
>> that the machine was recording your vote and would accurately report
>> it later. It might just a
I have a good idea who this is would you please tell him Sue says hi!
thanks,
> On Oct 12, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
>
> I was just speaking with a guy who works in the physics department at work (A
> large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card for some
> purpos
On 10/12/2015 12:40 PM, Michael Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:44:54 -0500
>> From: Jay Jaeger
>> Subject: Re: PDP-12 Restoration at the RICM
>>
>> Don't forget about the other more remote possibilities: cables,
>> backplane, bad wrap, supply voltages at the actual card(s) for th
> We swapped the TU56 and TU55 drives between the PDP-12 and the PDP-8/I. We
Does the TU55 work correctly on the 8/I ?
> The TU55 behaved a little better than the TU56, and sometimes would
> actually boot OS/8. We continued chasing the issue and found glitches on
> data channel 3. We have swappe
I was just speaking with a guy who works in the physics department at
work (A large State University) . He was looking for a 68pin SCSI card
for some purpose, which I was able to find for him in my pile-o-stuff.
It turns out he's trying to revive one of their VMS machines which
didn't come ba
>
> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:44:54 -0500
> From: Jay Jaeger
> Subject: Re: PDP-12 Restoration at the RICM
>
> Don't forget about the other more remote possibilities: cables,
> backplane, bad wrap, supply voltages at the actual card(s) for the
> mis-behaving channel, etc.
>
> JRJ
>
We used diffe
>
> This may be forgotten knowledge - or perhaps more likely, something that
> was never known in the first place - but are there any typical failure
> modes of ST506/412-type drives (beyond the obvious mechanical damage
> between heads and platters)?
For the genuine original ST506 ST412, etc the
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jules Richardson
wrote:
> Afternoon all,
>
> This may be forgotten knowledge - or perhaps more likely, something that was
> never known in the first place - but are there any typical failure modes of
> ST506/412-type drives (beyond the obvious mechanical damage bet
Afternoon all,
This may be forgotten knowledge - or perhaps more likely, something that
was never known in the first place - but are there any typical failure
modes of ST506/412-type drives (beyond the obvious mechanical damage
between heads and platters)?
I've seen quite a few dead drives o
Paul Koning wrote on Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:44:58 -0400:
> > On Oct 9, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote:
> > [noticed voter ID terminal had cable to voting machines!]
>
> That's not the real problem.
Indeed, not *the* problem but just *a* problem I noticed while still in
line to get into
Hi Simon,
just came accross, what might be helpful for you: I found
some pages with my spare 906 controller (unfortunatley not
working), listing the functions of the DIP switches. I scanned
them and you find them on my server in the specials section:
http://www.baigar.de/electronics/Calcomp103X
I could use the H960 its attached to!!!
Rod
On 12/10/2015 17:58, Henk Gooijen wrote:
The "Galway" panel is much more common in Europe than the
"Massachusettes" one. That one is more r@re over here :-)
@Noell: yes, please take a nice picture of it! You can email
it directly to me, file size do
The "Galway" panel is much more common in Europe than the
"Massachusettes" one. That one is more r@re over here :-)
@Noell: yes, please take a nice picture of it! You can email
it directly to me, file size does not matter. The higher the
resolution the better! Or store at a repository, more gu
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
We do and the firmware revision is 1.0. I'm sorry for feeding this
information out in drabs - I thought it was asked in the original mail and
apparently not.
Please post any and all numbers on the 1410A board ROM. That's the only
way to understand what
We do and the firmware revision is 1.0. I'm sorry for feeding this
information out in drabs - I thought it was asked in the original mail and
apparently not.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
>
> We are looking for a 1410. The 1402a
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
We are looking for a 1410. The 1402a was a miscommunication on the part of
the original person.
The machine is an original IBM PC, correct? Do you have the requisite
host adapter to interface with the 1410A bridge controller?
The 1410A was shipped wi
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:30:39AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
>> ... but I'd rather go RoHS.
>
>I would recommend against that. Not unless you are trying to create a
>commercial product where you *must* be RoHS to conform to the requirements
>of the bureaucrats. Use real solder -- the job will be
On 10/12/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:53 AM, John Wilson wrote:
... but I'd rather go RoHS.
I would recommend against that. Not unless you are trying to create a
commercial product where you *must* be RoHS to conform to the requirements of
the bureaucrats. Use r
That would have been from the Kanata factory.
The Irish (Galway) factory did same thing as they were both building to
client order.
Rod
On 12/10/2015 16:14, Noel Chiappa wrote:
So, I recently acquired a machine which has an unusual "digital equipment of
canada, ltd." pdp11 logo panel at the
> On Oct 11, 2015, at 12:53 AM, John Wilson wrote:
>
> ... but I'd rather go RoHS.
I would recommend against that. Not unless you are trying to create a
commercial product where you *must* be RoHS to conform to the requirements of
the bureaucrats. Use real solder -- the job will be much eas
So, I recently acquired a machine which has an unusual "digital equipment of
canada, ltd." pdp11 logo panel at the top of the H960 it's in.
Is there anyone who would really have a connection to a panel with that on it?
(Let me hasten to add that I have nothing _against_ it, and would be happy to
l
Ok, correction to previous message. It's a Xebec 1410A with 1.0 Firmware.
Should be MUCH easier to find now that we have the correct model number!
Was curious if anyone here has - or knows someone who does - a Xebec 1402A
> Seagate HDD controller. The drive is in an IBM 5150. Note that this MUST b
On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Devin Monnens wrote:
Ok, correction to previous message. It's a Xebec 1410A with 1.0
Firmware. Should be MUCH easier to find now that we have the correct
model number!
This was in an IBM 5150 (original PC)? I'm still confused. The 1410A is
a bridge board that presents
> From: Mattis Lind
> Very nice and clear description on what is required to have relay to
> activate!
Indeed! Thanks, Brent, for that wonderful writeup - I'm sure I'll find it
immensely useful when the time comes to work on my 11/44.
I'll have to carefully save a personal copy in a
We are looking for a 1410. The 1402a was a miscommunication on the part of
the original person.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, Devin Monnens wrote:
>
> Was curious if anyone here has - or knows someone who does - a Xebec 1402A
>> Seagate HDD controll
On Sun, 11 Oct 2015, Devin Monnens wrote:
Was curious if anyone here has - or knows someone who does - a Xebec
1402A Seagate HDD controller. The drive is in an IBM 5150. Note that
this MUST be the 1402A, NOT the more common 1402. There is some
important historical data we are trying to recover
(BCC to Spare Time Gizmos and Rich A. - both of whom may have a clue!)
Folks,
I've finally dug out my Panda Panel and got it going - after having to
deal with various strangeness in a dodgy parallel port connector, and
figuring out I really DID have to be root to get it to initialize!
It all wor
> On Oct 11, 2015, at 18:40 , David Ryskalczyk wrote:
>
> The 1402A was in error — it's a 1410A with version 1.0 firmware.
I have an as yet untested CoCo hard drive system from eBay with a 1410 in it.
Sadly, not the 1410A that Jason says he needs. The 1410A manual at Bitsavers
notes some inco
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