Re: ISO: PDP-11/05 top cover

2015-11-05 Thread Joseph Lang
I've got one. Just pay shipping and it's yours. I don't expect to ever get the 11/05 to go with it ;-) Joe > On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:48 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > Subject line says it all -- I'm looking for the top/side cover for the "slim" > PDP-11/05. Probably not infeasible to build one, bu

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
From: Rich Alderson: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:18 AM 4 rows of lights, but do not match: RP10C disk controller DF10C DA28-C RC10 Since they're narrow, they're probably something from a KA-10 system, but I have no idea what. A higher resolution picture: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/

Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 4 November 2015 at 22:34, Anke Stüber wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Anke Stüber wrote: >> […] Classic Computing 2015 […] > > btw, there are more vintage computing events in and around Germany that > I don't recall being mentioned on the list, like Classic Computing[

Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 November 2015 at 15:03, Liam Proven wrote: > On 4 November 2015 at 22:34, Anke Stüber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 09:24:04PM +0100, Anke Stüber wrote: >>> […] Classic Computing 2015 […] >> >> btw, there are more vintage computing events in and around Germany that >> I don't r

RE: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Rik Bos
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Liam Proven > Verzonden: donderdag 5 november 2015 15:05 > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Onderwerp: Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, > 2015] > > O

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 4:51 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: The tags say DEC PDP-10 - tape controller, 1973 retrocmp.com, c-c-g.de They are both disk controller panels. The one marked tape controller has "sector word count" in the upper right

Re: ISO: PDP-11/05 top cover

2015-11-05 Thread Jay Jaeger
You wouldn't happen to have the side panel (the left side - that covers the boards)? I have a GT40 that would like to have one. ;) On 11/5/2015 4:19 AM, Joseph Lang wrote: > I've got one. Just pay shipping and it's yours. I don't expect to ever get > the 11/05 to go with it ;-) > > Joe > >> O

RE: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Dave Wade
Me too On Nov 5, 2015 5:12 PM, "Rik Bos" wrote: > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens Liam Proven > > Verzonden: donderdag 5 november 2015 15:05 > > Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Onderwerp: Re: Vintage co

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Johnny Billquist > They could be from a PDP-11 or PDP-8 as well. Not _impossible_ (since the RP11 does have one row of 36 lights - no doubt because it can be used to read packs written by PDP-10's - it's the shift register for reading the bit stream off the drive) but I'd say less

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Noel Chiappa
> now that I have the better picture, let me see what I can turn up. Got it! It's the _bottom_ indicator panel from an RP15 disk controller - from a PDP-15. I think that's the only DEC controller I've ever seen with _two_ indictor panels on it! And no, the one in the back is not the other RP1

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 8:46 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > now that I have the better picture, let me see what I can turn up. Got it! It's the _bottom_ indicator panel from an RP15 disk controller - from a PDP-15. I think that's the only DEC controller I've ever seen with _two_ indictor panels on it! And n

Front Panels - Pricing

2015-11-05 Thread rod
Hi Guys Ok I now have the pricing for the current run of panels. Featuring all new silk screens. PDP-8/e Type A or B £65.00 UKP + Ship to US at £15 UK = £80.00 = USD $121.00 PDP-8/f or /m £70.00 UKP + Ship to US at £15 UK = £85.00 = USD $1

Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread John Ball
I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am running into is I have nothing to easily dial into. Everyone I know off hand either don't have a modem anymore or theirs is a Winmodem which won't work.

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, John Ball wrote: I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am running into is I have nothing to easily dial into. Everyone I know off hand either don't have a modem anymore or

Re: ISO: PDP-11/05 top cover

2015-11-05 Thread Joseph Lang
Sorry top cover is all I got. I pulled it from a scrap bin when I saw a dec sticker on it. Side cover would not be hard to make. No weird fasteners. Joe > On Nov 5, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > > You wouldn't happen to have the side panel (the left side - that covers > the boards)?

RE: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread tony duell
> > I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype > > machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am [...] > Is yours ASCII or "Baudot"? (there are some issues of the correct name for > that) If it's a model 33 it has to be ASCII. The 'Baudot

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 01:59 PM 11/5/2015, John Ball wrote: >... those bluetooth to cellular POTS bridges are too lossy to make do and >connect to a machine here. There is strong possibility that one of those bridges might not work. As a rule the bit-reduction used by cellular phones, VOIP phones, and cable-modem

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Osborn
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote: > > There is strong possibility that one of those bridges might not work. As a > rule the bit-reduction used by cellular phones, VOIP phones, and cable-modem > phones renders dialup modems useless, unless you are using something like a > fax-

WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Jos Dreesen
Those interested can download schematics for the ACI90 / WD9000 PascalMicroengine from my FTP site : ftp.dreesen.ch/WD9000 You might notice sheet 5 missing, that is just the pinout of the PCB edge connector. AFAIK these are not available elsewhere. More to follow whenever I get around to i

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Jerry Kemp
The Baudot thing sure brings back some memories. I still recall hooking teletype's up thru KW-7 boxes, and performing ryryryryryryryryr test. I don't recall enough of the specifics, but it was either Y = 10101 R = 01010 or reversed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code Jerry On 11/

RE: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread tony duell
> > I am developing (it is under construction to add additional features that I > need) an > Arduino-based central office simulator that will allow two devices to connect > to each > other as though connected by POTS lines. I began developing it to simplify > work in the > shop on a variety of

RE: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread tony duell
> The Baudot thing sure brings back some memories. I still recall hooking > teletype's up thru KW-7 boxes, and performing ryryryryryryryryr test. > > I don't recall enough of the specifics, but it was either > > Y = 10101 > R = 01010 > > or reversed. Ah yes... One of the classic tests for pr

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-11-05 Thread shadoooo
Hello, I'm curious to know if you managed to find some hard sectored floppies to be used with your DG machine... When you wanna have some fun to try, I could send you the current version of the tool to transfer data between DG nova and PC. Unfortunately I have no bootable media yet, but maybe an

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
A new user on the Vintage Computer Forums is posting about what appears to be this machine in random, unrelated threads. In one of them, he shared a System/32 picture which came from the Corestore site. He doesn't have enough posts yet to enable the private message feature, so I don't know how t

RE: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Richard Loken
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, tony duell wrote: > Telegraph Alphabet). Is ITA1 Morse? What were/are ITA3 and ITA4? Which Morse? American Morse of International Morse? The North American railroad telegraphers and Great Lakes radio operators used American Morse and all the rest of us use Continental Morse

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 2:47 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: A new user on the Vintage Computer Forums is posting about what appears to be this machine in random, unrelated threads. In one of them, he shared a System/32 picture which came from the Corestore site. He doesn't have enough posts yet to enable the pri

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Mike Ross
That's the guy I've been talking to. Pissed he's stealing pics from my site. Can someone post the URL or thread where he's using them? Thanks On Nov 5, 2015 3:06 PM, "Al Kossow" wrote: > On 11/5/15 2:47 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > >> A new user on the Vintage Computer Forums is posting about what

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 3:19 PM, Mike Ross wrote: That's the guy I've been talking to. Pissed he's stealing pics from my site. Can someone post the URL or thread where he's using them? http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?36875-Molecular-Computers-board/page3 http://www.vintage-computer.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 10:40 AM, Jos Dreesen wrote: And then around 100 / 150 8" floppies to image when it rains it pours.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/311470113149 Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time. They are BASF floppies, though.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 3:55 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 11/5/15 10:40 AM, Jos Dreesen wrote: And then around 100 / 150 8" floppies to image when it rains it pours.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/311470113149 Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time. They are BASF floppies, though. an

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Nov-05, at 10:59 AM, John Ball wrote: > I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype > machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am > running into is I have nothing to easily dial into. Everyone I know off hand > either don't have a mo

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Thursday (11/05/2015 at 10:59AM -0800), John Ball wrote: > I've been trying for the past week to verify that telephony on my teletype > machine (model 33) is functioning properly but the biggest hurdle I am > running into is I have nothing to easily dial into. Everyone I know off hand > either d

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Thursday (11/05/2015 at 04:03PM -0800), Brent Hilpert wrote: > > Curious as to the setup you are attempting this with, i.e. exactly what modem > are you using? > One in the base of the 33 or some common external one? > > I'm not familiar with all the possible modem variations one might find i

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 15:19, Mike Ross wrote: > > That's the guy I've been talking to. Are you near Riverside? If not, maybe I can help you out with this machine somehow. It is local to me, and I happen to have a couple weeks of free time between jobs.

RE: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Jay West
Anke wrote > If there is any interest, I can post announcements for those events in > advance. Anke - please feel free to post any classic computer related events on this list!! J

Re: Vintage computing events in Germany [Was: Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015]

2015-11-05 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal
tor 2015-11-05 klockan 07:33 + skrev rod: > Hi Anke (I'll use English for the benefit of rest of the list) >    I would love to hear about any vintage computer shows > anywhere in Western Europe. >    Please add my name to your mailing list. >    Whilst a lot of us are

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-11-05 Thread Jay West
Yep, I purchased a couple boxes of 8" HS floppies, I think you were going to contact me off-list. In any case... send me the current version and I'll give it a whirl. J -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of shad Sent: Thursday, November

usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread dave
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily work with Linux? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: > > Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily > work with Linux? FT245?? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841 Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other settings are igno

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
Incidentally, I have an IBM System/23 for which I have not yet procured any software. In particular, I could use whatever utility software that's necessary to format data disks. I haven't found any online sources of disk images for this system yet. http://www.nf6x.net/2014/08/ibm-system23-data

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Guy Sotomayor
On 11/5/15 6:39 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: Incidentally, I have an IBM System/23 for which I have not yet procured any software. In particular, I could use whatever utility software that's necessary to format data disks. I haven't found any online sources of disk images for this system yet.

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread jwsmobile
He is tonight going thru LAX Mike is in New Zealand. I'm in Orange, Ca and can help out with things in this area too. Thanks Jim On 11/5/2015 4:52 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: On Nov 5, 2015, at 15:19, Mike Ross wrote: That's the guy I've been talking to. Are you near Riverside? If not, mayb

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 20:00 , jwsmobile wrote: > > He is tonight going thru LAX Mike is in New Zealand. He lives in NZ, or is just traveling there? I can't even guess how much it would cost to ship a System/23 from California to NZ! I think I found Mike's Youtube videos of one of his other Sy

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Jos Dreesen
Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time. They are BASF floppies, though. As are mine... ( some 3M and CDC disk also part of the haul ) Does that mean they will need baking ? Jos

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Michael Brutman
The posts look like spam to me. If you'd like they can be deleted and I'll warn the user about using pictures without permission. On 11/5/15 3:19 PM, Mike Ross wrote: > That's the guy I've been talking to. Pissed he's stealing pics from my > site. Can someone post the URL or thread where he's usi

Re: ISO: PDP-11/05 top cover

2015-11-05 Thread Josh Dersch
On 11/5/15 2:19 AM, Joseph Lang wrote: I've got one. Just pay shipping and it's yours. I don't expect to ever get the 11/05 to go with it ;-) Joe Thanks! I've sent an offlist reply... - Josh On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:48 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: Subject line says it all -- I'm looking for t

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread drlegendre .
@Chris For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00 each. Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows. Is that helpful? On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-05 Thread dave
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, drlegendre . wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote: On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +), d...@661.org wrote: Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily work with Linux? FT245?? https://www.sparkfun.com/produc

Front Panels - Location Check

2015-11-05 Thread rod
Hi Guys If you had one of the first batch of panels back in the Summer. Please can you confirm it for my records. Regards Rod