Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-06 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Nov 6, 2015, at 17:10, Jay Jaeger wrote: > > Or tipped on end such that it would fit, similar to moving a sofa. Please don't help... I bought a small CNC mill today, and my wallet is empty. :-) -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X http://www.nf6x.net/

Re: RSX-11M-PLUS SYSGEN printouts

2015-11-06 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-11-07 00:00, Noel Chiappa wrote: An 11/84 I bought came with a couple of RSX-11M-PLUS V4.3 SYSGEN printouts; I don't intend to run RSX on the machine, so is there any use to this printout, or should I recycle it? If someone has a use for it, I'd be happy to send it to them. I'd seriousl

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-06 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 11/5/2015 10:55 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > >> 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

Re: WTB: Unix/Solaris Adobe FrameMaker 8

2015-11-06 Thread Jerry Kemp
Nothing this year, not even an odd comment. :( Thanks for looking anyway. I'll try again fall 2016. Jerry On 11/ 3/15 02:13 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: I am looking to purchase/acquire a copy of Adobe FrameMaker 8 for Unix/Solaris. Straight from Adobe, FrameMaker had always been a pretty pricy

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-06 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 11:10AM -0500), Douglas Taylor wrote: > On 11/5/2015 9:08 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://

RSX-11M-PLUS SYSGEN printouts

2015-11-06 Thread Noel Chiappa
An 11/84 I bought came with a couple of RSX-11M-PLUS V4.3 SYSGEN printouts; I don't intend to run RSX on the machine, so is there any use to this printout, or should I recycle it? If someone has a use for it, I'd be happy to send it to them. Noel

Re: ID-ing a PC backup format

2015-11-06 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 11/06/2015 07:14 AM, Alexander Schreiber wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:35:51PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: That sounds like the pcbackup program from the PC Tools suite from Central Point. Thanks, but I've been there already. Unless this is a very early version (pre PCTools 4), it's n

RE: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread Jay West
Jim wrote (re: Omen) -- Thanks, Jay. Really appreciate your help. Thanks Jim - I don't want to publicly post too much that was in private email, but will try to provide some general info and there's not much more I can say: There are both (mostly) hardware and (some) password issues as t

Re: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread jwsmobile
On 11/6/2015 6:10 AM, Jay West wrote: Because it may be timesensitive, I contacted her and offered to pay for data recovery of the drive, and other items. Will post whatever I hear. J Thanks, Jay. Really appreciate your help. Thanks JIm -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctal

Re: usb-to-parallel port solutions

2015-11-06 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 11/5/2015 9:08 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/products/7841 Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-06 Thread Alexander Schreiber
On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:56:39AM +0100, Christian Corti wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Jos Dreesen wrote: > >>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

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-06 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:03 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > 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 d

Re: ID-ing a PC backup format

2015-11-06 Thread Alexander Schreiber
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 05:35:51PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote: > I've got a set of mystery 5.25" DD floppies that appear to be a > backup of some sort. 10 x 512 byte sectors per track, 40 cylinders, > double-sided. Normal sector IDs (Side 0: 0/ Side 1: 1), 1-10. > > No, it's not FASTBACK nor does i

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 9:06 PM, Jos Dreesen wrote: As are mine... ( some 3M and CDC disk also part of the haul ) Does that mean they will need baking ? Yes. I was going to try what I use on one, white board cleaner. Chuck has not had good luck with BASF recovery.

RE: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread Jay West
Because it may be timesensitive, I contacted her and offered to pay for data recovery of the drive, and other items. Will post whatever I hear. J -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ali Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 8:04 AM To: 'General Di

RE: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread Ali
> Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty and explain that the > FTP server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he > had that is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache > server. > > I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.

RE: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread Jay West
Jim; I'd be happy to host the entire site on the classiccmp, both website and ftp site - gratis. I was going to contact them and also discuss sale - depending on price I'd be willing to pick it up. In any case, please contact me off-list to arrange a game plan. J -Original Message- Fro

RE: Teletype services

2015-11-06 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 04:12 PM 11/5/2015, Tony Duell wrote: >... it's things like the power supplies, ringing generator, etc that are the >major part of the work. Those are actually pretty simple for someone with sufficient analog experience. The reasons why I designed and built my own system are: 1) I am semi-r

Re: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread jwsmobile
On 11/6/2015 12:34 AM, Ali wrote: It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a for sale sign by Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However, anonymous access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end or can anyone mirror it? -Ali Perhaps someone who knew C

Re: Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread jwsmobile
On 11/6/2015 12:34 AM, Ali wrote: It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a for sale sign by Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However, anonymous access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end or can anyone mirror it? -Ali Looks like someone is on,

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-06 Thread Christian Corti
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Jos Dreesen wrote: 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 ? Never had any problems with 8" BASF floppies (and 5ΒΌ" BTW).

Re: Teletype services

2015-11-06 Thread Christian Corti
On Thu, 5 Nov 2015, Chris Elmquist wrote: 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 in

Omen site and FTP server

2015-11-06 Thread Ali
It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a for sale sign by Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However, anonymous access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end or can anyone mirror it? -Ali