Re: ISIS-II disks with PLM80 and ICE80 software.

2016-02-02 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Hi Mattis, all I can contribute here are german IS/M Manuals of my P8000 which state, that this IS/M is compatible to ISIS II 4.1. Most likely, this IS/M is just a copy of IS/M + modifications to the specific hardware. No idea how helpful german text is to you though But that is all I have

Re: USPS: Shipping

2016-02-02 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 22:22 -0600 skrev Tothwolf: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried wrote: > >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Tothwolf wrote: > >>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote: > >>> > Spend the extra few dollars (or what your cur

Re: HP Manuals - where's your sense of humor?

2016-02-02 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 14:07 +0100 skrev martin.heppe...@mh-aerotools.de: > While I was reading through the HP 200/300 BASIC Manual I came across some > interesting points I hadn't considered in the past. > > I thought HP manuals were dry and hard to read, but I was wrong. See for > yourself... >

Re: ISIS-II disks with PLM80 and ICE80 software.

2016-02-02 Thread Chuck Guzis
If these are 52-sector 8" ISIS disks, I can probably help with a bit of C code to extract files from the images. Drop me a note and I'll pass it along. Hasn't Al K already cataloged a lot of this stuff on bitsavers? Cheers, --Chuck

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-02 Thread Stefan Skoglund (lokal
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 20:37 -0800 skrev Guy Sotomayor: > > On 2/1/16 8:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:09 PM, devin davison wrote: > >> I really wanted to take a look at the AIX version of unix. > >> I don't have any of the original hardware, I assume there was a straight

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-02 Thread Tapley, Mark
On Feb 2, 2016, at 12:21 AM, Phil Budne wrote: > Configuration was stored in a "Object Database" (so forget anything > you ever knew about the /etc directory). System administration for > mortals was done with a GUI called "SMIT". It showed an animation of > a person running. If the command fa

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-02-02 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Dale H. Cook > I have spare IDE drives for my 98SE laptops. Might want to drag them out once a year and run them, to prevent anything sticking over time. (I should take my own advice, here :-) Noel

Re: Win98SE Update/Patches WAS: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-02-02 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 10:37 AM 2/2/2016, Noel Chiappa wrote: >Might want to drag them out once a year and run them, to prevent anything >sticking over time. (I should take my own advice, here :-) I exercise all of my spare hard and floppy drives periodically. Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA Osborne 1 / Ka

Re: ISIS-II disks with PLM80 and ICE80 software.

2016-02-02 Thread Mattis Lind
tisdag 2 februari 2016 skrev Chuck Guzis : > If these are 52-sector 8" ISIS disks, > Yes. Double sided. 26 sector per track. Double Density. 256 byte per sector. > I can probably help with a bit of C code to extract files from the > images. Drop me a note and I'll pass it along. Not really

Re: USPS: Shipping

2016-02-02 Thread Norman Jaffe
I was once given a tour of a USPS facility and told to not make eye contact with the workers, as this was considered a threatening move by management. I don't know if it's gotten any better, but it was definitely a weird experience. - Original Message - From: "Stefan Skoglund (lokal an

Re: USPS: Shipping

2016-02-02 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-02-02 12:40 PM, Norman Jaffe wrote: I was once given a tour of a USPS facility and told to not make eye contact with the workers, as this was considered a threatening move by management. I don't know if it's gotten any better, but it was definitely a weird experience. https://twitter

Re: ISIS-II disks with PLM80 and ICE80 software.

2016-02-02 Thread Eric Smith
On Feb 2, 2016 11:35 AM, "Mattis Lind" wrote: > I now have concluded that the second disk is infact a disk for a > Tandberg TDV21xx machine. The TOS operating system is supposed to have > similarities to ISIS. The disk structure and the presence of files like > ISIS.DIR, ISIS.MAP etc among othes.

PDP-8 chase the lights

2016-02-02 Thread Evan Koblentz
Our group here in NJ + surroundings now has monthly-ish repair workshops (vs. a few times per year before). At the workshop this past weekend, David Gesswein continued restoring our PDP-8. David summarized: "I fixed the known fault of accumulator bit going to zero when it was rotated left. This

Re: ISIS-II disks with PLM80 and ICE80 software.

2016-02-02 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 02/02/2016 10:35 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: I have seen a lot of ISIS disks archived. But I didn't immediately find a disk with PL/M 80 and ICE80. Maybe there is. I don't know about disks, but I've got the following self-extracting archives: PLM80.ZIP F77-86.ZIP CB86TOYS.ZIP PLI86.ZIP PLM80

Re: PDP-8 chase the lights

2016-02-02 Thread COURYHOUSE
THAT IS WHAT WE USED TO CALL THE CYLON EYE PROGRAM! eD# _WWW.SMECC.ORG_ (http://www.SMECC.ORG) In a message dated 2/2/2016 1:27:02 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cct...@snarc.net writes: Our group here in NJ + surroundings now has monthly-ish repair workshops (vs. a few times p

RE: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-02 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Guy > Sotomayor > Sent: 02 February 2016 04:28 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: AIX for IBM system 370 > > > > On 2/1/16 7:58 PM, devin davison wrote: > > What

Pascal Microengine software images

2016-02-02 Thread Al Kossow
I successfully imaged OS revs E0, F0, F1, G0 and H0 of the Pascal Microengine from the original distribution media this morning with the application of cyclomethicone as Chuck suggested. I was worried since they were 79'ish vintage BASF media, but the lubrication did the trick and they read wit

Re: PDP-11/84 (KDJ11-B) and Error 61

2016-02-02 Thread Ulrich Tagge
Hi Glen, many thanks. Problem was, that I had no clue, how to bypass the error to enter the setup mode. As Ctrl C was not working. I have in the meantime found in the KDJ11-D/S dokumentation, that (CTRL + O) (4) Enter" do it. Now I have set all setup parameters to the same as on the working

Re: PDP-8 chase the lights

2016-02-02 Thread Mike Ross
Nicely done! I don't think I've seen that one before; can you supply a quick toggle in? Mike On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Evan Koblentz wrote: > Our group here in NJ + surroundings now has monthly-ish repair workshops > (vs. a few times per year before). At the workshop this past weekend, Dav

Lot of 34 Transputers sold on ebay

2016-02-02 Thread Toby Thain
http://www.ebay.com/itm/151966095000 Did anyone we know buy them? Would be good to know they went to a good home. --Toby

Re: PDP-8 chase the lights

2016-02-02 Thread Evan Koblentz
Nicely done! I don't think I've seen that one before; can you supply a quick toggle in? Mike I can't take any credit. Here is what DG sent me. Look to him for any elaboration. :) --- *0 Page 1 set switches

Tymnet Node processor

2016-02-02 Thread Jim Stephens
I was talking to a former co-worker who worked for McDonnell Douglas Network Systems Company who owned Tymshare at one point, and he had a picture of a 1mb memory from one of the nodes. He passed along this link to the manual for the node processor. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/tymsh

Re: Tymnet Node processor

2016-02-02 Thread COURYHOUSE
McDonnell Douglas dec 10 SPACELAB list? In a message dated 2/2/2016 10:47:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, j...@jwsss.com writes: I was talking to a former co-worker who worked for McDonnell Douglas Network Systems Company who owned Tymshare at one point, and he had a picture of

Re: PDP-11/84 (KDJ11-B) and Error 61

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Ulrich Tagge wrote:Hi Glen, [Snip] List/change parameters in the Setup table A - ANSI Video terminal (1) 0=No, 1=Yes = 1 B - Power up 0=Dialog, (1)=Automatic, 2=ODT, 3=24 = 1 C - Restart 0=Dialog, (1)=Automatic, 2=ODT, 3=24 = 1 D - Ignore battery

Re: PDP-11/84 (KDJ11-B) and Error 61

2016-02-02 Thread Mike Ross
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >>Ulrich Tagge wrote:Hi Glen, > >> [Snip] >> >> List/change parameters in the Setup table >> >> A - ANSI Video terminal (1) 0=No, 1=Yes = 1 >> B - Power up 0=Dialog, (1)=Automatic, 2=ODT, 3=24 = 1 >> C - Restart 0=Di

Re: AIX for IBM system 370

2016-02-02 Thread Jerry Kemp
I can confirm much of Guy's comments. I want to keep this as short as possible and not get booted from the mailing list. The Intel/CISC version of AIX is easily available out on the Internet via floppy disc images. Along with AIX's predecessor, RT. The IBM RT software was developed for IBM