Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread william degnan
P. Coghlan logged into my server and found the problem was due to a logical assigned to SYSTEM. If I had created a new user, inbound mail to the other user would have worked fine, the issue was with sending mail to the SYSTEM user specifically. That's why nothing wrong was found with multinet mai

Re: Best name for PDP-11/05-10

2016-02-25 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Paul Koning > FWIW, I have always heard 11/05 and 11/40 respectively. Good to know that others have the same vibe that I do. > From: Bill Degnan > putting all of that original 11/10 stuff aside :-) :-) > There is a version of the processor handbook with all 4, and

Re: Best name for PDP-11/05-10

2016-02-25 Thread Mattis Lind
2016-02-25 14:55 GMT+01:00 Noel Chiappa : > > From: Paul Koning > > > FWIW, I have always heard 11/05 and 11/40 respectively. > > Good to know that others have the same vibe that I do. > > > > From: Bill Degnan > > > putting all of that original 11/10 stuff aside :-) > > :-) > >

Re: Helpful Features in a Debugger

2016-02-25 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>On Monday, February 22nd, 2016 at 15:22:55 +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:08:56AM -0500, Jerome H. Fine wrote: A number of other ideas are as follows: (a) During a multi-step sequence, stop the sequence when the stack has more then a specified number of words

Re: Best name for PDP-11/05-10

2016-02-25 Thread william degnan
> > > > > > I always treated the 11/05 and 11/10 as separate machines, just as > > much > > > as the 11/05 S and 11/05 NC. > > > > Can you please remind me again what the differences with the 11/05NC > are? I > > remembered we discussed it, but I'm too lazy to dig through the list > > archi

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

2016-02-25 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Ethan Dicks wrote: I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up terminals this year... what are some favorites? Some of the obvious classics are: Adventure Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine) Scott Adams Adventures Wumpus Anything in Dave Ahl's "101 BASIC Computing Ga

Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
A friend asked me if I had heard of a company called Xenosoft Now why does that sound familiar, in regards to this bunch here? Her daughter was contacted by a headhunter about a clerk position in New Haven CT -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech -htt

Re: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: A friend asked me if I had heard of a company called Xenosoft Now why does that sound familiar, in regards to this bunch here? Her daughter was contacted by a headhunter about a clerk position in New Haven CT A lot of people have infringed up

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/24/2016 10:48 PM, Richard Loken wrote: the gods have decreed that we will be on Office365 by the end of March They moved us to this at work last year, it is so awful I can't believe it! The web portal takes minutes to bring up a page, and the interface is so ghastly, I could not learn ho

RE: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Ali
> A lot of people have infringed upon my trademark. > Speaking of Xenosoft (the real one) the website states: "Unfortunately, due to some major projects, we are temporarily suspending retail sales. Please be patient if we are slower than usual in response to inquiries during these projects. We

Re: OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

2016-02-25 Thread william degnan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/24/2016 10:48 PM, Richard Loken wrote: > >> the gods have decreed that we will be on Office365 >> by the end of March >> > They moved us to this at work last year, it is so awful I can't believe it! > The web portal takes minutes to brin

Re: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 2/25/2016 12:12 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: A friend asked me if I had heard of a company called Xenosoft Now why does that sound familiar, in regards to this bunch here? Her daughter was contacted by a headhunter about a clerk position in New Haven C

Searching a sparepart 82c42pc

2016-02-25 Thread Marco Rauhut
Hello list I am trying to restore an Wandel and Golterman Spectrum Analyzer. In the Analyzer is a 486DX2 Computer. This Computer did not save some bios settings. So i think that the CMOS ram has a failure. Did some one have a 82c42pc in dil40 package as spare part? If yes, please contact me o

ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Jay West
The decoding of the DEC PDP XX2247 keys has been discussed, but I have not yet seen decoding for others. To repeat the data for XX2247, that is 5173757 assuming 7-1 with a center offset To add to that knowledge, I'm checking other keys I have. Note - I'm sure of the XX values of course but

RE: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Fred Cisin
A lot of people have infringed upon my trademark. "Unfortunately, due to some major projects, we are temporarily suspending retail sales. Please be patient if we are slower than usual in response to inquiries during these projects. We expect to resume retail sales soon." On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Al

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Glen Slick
On Feb 25, 2016 12:28 PM, "Jay West" wrote: > > While I'm testing/confirming the codes for XX2065 and XX2946, can anyone > with stamped DG Nova/Eclipse keys or stamped HP2100 keys confirm if their XX > numbers are all the same? I've got enough of each that I'm fairly sure those > keys fit all of t

Re: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Gary Oliver
On 02/25/2016 09:12 AM, Fred Cisin wrote: ... 95% of the enormous volume of spam that I receive is for them. For years, I assumed honest stupid mistake and I forwarded misaddressed mail to them, and notified senders (mostly "current hotlist of candidates"), until those headhunters started addi

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Henk Gooijen
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Jay West Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 9:28 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.) To add to that knowledge, I'm checking other keys I have. Note - I'm sure of the XX values of course but the codes have not been tested/confirm

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

2016-02-25 Thread Pete Lancashire
I use to play a version of Star Trek on an HP2000. Not a dumb terminal but a Teletype 35. Having the paper roll came in very handy. -pete On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > >Ethan Dicks wrote: > > I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up >> termin

RE: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Ali
Fred, > "they will not be"??!? Of course I intend to reopen. > Calling it temporary was honest at one time, but then seemed necessary > to discourage "abandonware" vultures. Glad to hear it as I have tried a couple of times contacting you through the website (info@xeno..) to see if you would be

Re: AIX Dev CD

2016-02-25 Thread Plamen Mihaylov
I have the fifth edition set, send me a PM. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Benjamin Huntsman < bhunts...@mail2.cu-portland.edu> wrote: > By any strange chance, does anyone have a really old 2-CD set called > "Software Development Solutions for AIX Version 4", Fifth Edition? I guess > they were

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Jay West" To: Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:28 PM Subject: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.) > The decoding of the DEC PDP XX2247 keys has been discussed, but I have not > yet seen decoding for others. ... > Are there other common systems that used Ace key

Re: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Mouse
> [...ao.com...] > At the point where we finally sold the domain to be rid of this issue > (and make a few $) we were processing in excess of *30* messages > a day. This is for a 7 person company. It was more than 50% of the > email processed by our ISP. Our DSL router throttled the SMTP >

RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Jay West
Mike wrote... -- Cromemco: XX4306 -- Thanks for chiming in Mike, could use all the datapoints we can get. Can you elucidate which models of cromemco XX4306 works on? I'm not familiar with those machines other than I know there was a 2 and a 3... something about Z comes to mind... And on a s

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 20, Issue 24

2016-02-25 Thread mark
From: "GerardCJAT" Subject: Who, on this list, Owns / Collects / Plays with an HP1000 A or L series ?? Just curious. It seems ( at first ) that most collections stops at 21MX ( M/E/F ) era. Am I correct in my view ? Except for the time I spent as a system manager on a couple of 2000/Access

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 25/02/2016 23:42, Jay West wrote: Mike wrote... -- Cromemco: XX4306 -- Thanks for chiming in Mike, could use all the datapoints we can get. Can you elucidate which models of cromemco XX4306 works on? I can only increase the sample size by one for the moment, but my System Three does

Re: Xenosoft in New Haven CT?

2016-02-25 Thread Gary Oliver
On 02/25/2016 03:41 PM, Mouse wrote: [...ao.com...] At the point where we finally sold the domain to be rid of this issue (and make a few $) we were processing in excess of *30* messages a day. This is for a 7 person company. It was more than 50% of the email processed by our ISP. Our DSL

SIM4-01 and MP7 programmer cards

2016-02-25 Thread dwight
I know this is kind of obscure but I thought I'd see if anyone was interested in the program I wrote. It is for the SIM4-01 and MP7 boards. Normally these two boards would plug into a mother board called the MCB4 but I've seen a few cases on the web that they'd been wired from socket to socket

Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Jay West
I'll put the list of ACE keys (and codes, as we get them) on a website on the classiccmp server for posterity. Actually, this whole thing came up in my brain due to tracking down keys for a Pr1me machine (non-ace). But I did find there is apparently a service http://key.me where you take a pictu

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread dwight
I have one of those dang round keys on my Nicolt 1080. I just took the lock out to a real lock smith and he made two keys for it in a day for $25. I regret to say his shop has moved or he quite the business. I took another lock to another shop an they said they didn't have anyone that could make a

Re: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Jay West" To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:42 PM Subject: RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.) > Mike wrote... > -- > Cromemco: XX4306 > -- > Thanks for chiming in Mike, could use all the datapoi

Re: Searching a sparepart 82c42pc

2016-02-25 Thread dwight
There are a number of these on ebay for a reasonable price. I'd think you could just by one for under $6 and not worry about it. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Marco Rauhut Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:07 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic an

RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Jay West
Mike wrote... - 0.375", 7 positions. If I can find my micrometer I'll measure them; wasn't there an old thread about Ace key codes? - Great info Mike, thanks! Micrometer measurement is step 1. Step 2 is verification, meaning give the resulting code to a locksmith and have them make a key f

Re: Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Jay West wrote: They must have some "internal representation" of a key such that a key (any key, any size, including car keys that are those "grooves") can be stored "digitally" and downloaded. I wonder if similar art exists such that we could store "whatever is necessary" to

RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Fred Cisin
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016, Jay West wrote: Old thread - I know that there was lots of talk about the DEC PDP XX2247 key. I don't think I've ever seen/heard any discussion of memorializing others (non-dec) and we should :) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:22:32 -0400 From: Ethan Dicks Subject: Re:

RE: Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Jay West
Fred wrote... - Some municipalities have restrictions on it, ranging from no restrictions to outright ban, or requiring the locksmith to keep on file the identity of who requested a key, and/or "proof" of ownership of the lock (physically bringing it in, letter on company letterhead, etc.)

RE: Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Fred Cisin
Some municipalities have restrictions on it, ranging from no restrictions to outright ban, or requiring the locksmith to keep on file the identity of who requested a key, and/or "proof" of ownership of the lock (physically bringing it in, letter on company letterhead, etc.) On Thu, 25 Feb 2016,

QI Series M, episode 16, Misconceptions...

2016-02-25 Thread Bill Sudbrink
To start with, I guess I should warn those who are not familiar with this program that the humor is not for everyone. It goes from very interesting and intellectual (the title "QI" stands for Quite Interesting) to the scatological and rather crass. Anyway, that said, in the episode referenced in

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

2016-02-25 Thread Mouse
> X.org has gone modular at some point and that does help -- compared > to monolithic X servers as they used to be -- with computers which > are not the richest in resources, [...] I don't quite see how; I'd rather have a non-modular server for my hardware than a modular server plus modules for my

Re: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

2016-02-25 Thread Chuck Guzis
A few more (I have source): Hockey Fleet (sort of battleship game) Football Lunar Lander (of course!) Blackjack Lots and lots of printer art --Chuck

Re: Keys - Non-Ace was RE: ACE Key codes (xx2247 etc.)

2016-02-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Feb 25, 2016, at 5:01 PM, Jay West wrote: > > But I did find there is apparently a service http://key.me where you take a > picture of your key with their app, and they mail you a copy (or if there is > a kiosk of theirs in your area, you can do it real time there). Ooh! I can't wait to ge

Re: PDP-11/20 vd one that just says pdp 11 what are the date differences?? OEM?

2016-02-25 Thread Michael Thompson
> > > Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:47:37 -0500 > From: william degnan > Subject: Re: PDP-11/20 vd one that just says pdp 11 what are the date > differences?? OEM? > > are you sure its not H720 rather than 4720? H720 would be the type of > power supply from an original 11. M11 15 would seem