Re: A gold mine for anybody in Austin...

Hey Ali, No response yet and I followed up again with him. There was an initial response about getting photos then nada. On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Ali wrote: > James, > > Just wondering if you had any luck with the CL guy? Thanks. > > -Ali > >

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

On 03/18/2016 09:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote: I've been asked about doing this for an exhibition. From some cursory Googling, it seems that the Z88 has a terminal emulator, and equipped with a suitable serial cable, you could just run a cable to a host device with an Internet connection and have

RE: A gold mine for anybody in Austin...

James, Just wondering if you had any luck with the CL guy? Thanks. -Ali

Re: DEC RK05 Emergency Retract Batteries

> On Mar 16, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Jos Dreesen wrote: > ... > Additionally the NiCd never keep charge, if , like me, the drives are only > fired up once a year... > > I am thinking of just adding some wiring to an external battery. I wonder if it might make sense to

Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks -smecc

> From: Mouse >> simulating a segmented machine on a non-segmented machine, i.e. one >> with large unidirectional addresses (segmented being a >> bi-directionally addressed machine) - [...] > Hm, "unidirectional" and "bidirectional" are terms I'm having trouble > figuring

Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks -smecc

On 03/16/2016 10:29 AM, Mouse wrote: > That doesn't help [...] You're right. I was thinking of stack overruns, not general buffer overruns. Just need to stop programming in C for that last one.

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Mar 2016, at 14:20, Liam Proven wrote: > > I'd be fascinated to hear of any gotchas if you were curious enough to > give it a go. My skills at things like making serial cables are very > minimal indeed. I have the original Z88 serial cable for

Re: NetBSD TK70 question (solved)

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016, Christian Corti wrote: simple read(). All I get is mt0: unknown opcode 0x80 status 0xc01 ignored [...] Ok, I was fishing deep in the TMSCP protocol manual, and after fiddling with the MSCP driver I found out that Opcode 0x80 (OP.END) alone (page A-2) means MSCP protocol

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

On 3/20/16 12:05 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Not a working setup, but if you need spares. They are not mine but I think you could have them for free for the good cause. /P thanks!

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

On 3/20/16 4:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 3/20/16 12:05 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Not a working setup, but if you need spares. They are not mine but I think you could have them for free for the good cause. /P thanks! btw, this would be to recover the CAD design data for the VAX 9000

Re: PDP-11/05-NC with M9301?

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > I was thinking of using a M9301 board to get a console emulator and some > different bootstraps with the 11/05. But can I just put the M9301 in the > slot where the M930 normally goes? Slot 4 AB. > > From looking in the

Re: NetBSD TK70 question

Hi Christian, Have you asked this question on the port-vax netbsd mailing list? Also you're on on Rel3, which is pretty old - I assume you have a good reason to be at that release level, Have you tried booting a newer release and see if the behavior is the same? I know, not exactly a

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 10:01:40AM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > On 3/18/16 9:15 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > >I have a RV20 somewhere. Are you in a big hurry? > > > >On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > >>we have a bunch of optical packs at CHM that we'd like to