"Key" to open an HP 264X terminal

Questions for our HP specialists. I can't open the case of the HP 264x terminals I just got. I see from the manual there is a small slot on the side in which you have to insert a "key". Is the key just a small blade tool or does it have to be more special shape than that? Marc

Re: "Key" to open an HP 264X terminal

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, CuriousMarc wrote: side in which you have to insert a "key". Is the key just a small blade tool or does it have to be more special shape than that? Yepp, it's just a small blade; you could use a strong paper clip or a small blade screwdriver instead. Christian

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

Okay, so I scoped the serial line, and the EIA line drivers seemed to be acting funny, mark voltage was way to high, etc. So checked power, and looks like I have a -15V distribution issue to the SPC slots on my backplane. Moved the DL11 over to my DD11 expansion where I already debugged -15V

Re: pdp 11?

> From: Adrian Stoness > friend found this now opening channels to rescue it > its an 11 of some sort not sure witch one ??? Both URL's are the same picture - an envelope on the floor? Noel

Re: pdp 11?

woops here https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13528563_10154158749825056_5125938316429319662_o.jpg On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Adrian Stoness > > > friend found this now opening channels to rescue it > > its an 11 of some sort not sure wi

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

> On Jun 27, 2016, at 4:14 AM, Fritz Mueller wrote: > > Okay, so I scoped the serial line, and the EIA line drivers seemed to be > acting funny, mark voltage was way to high, etc > Somehow the VT52 could still make sense out of the wacky transmit voltages, > but my MacBook certainly could

Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse

On 24 June 2016 at 19:30, Swift Griggs wrote: > It's amazing how much stuff UPS had managed to destroy "for" me, also. > It's like them drop the boxes off a crane or something. Sounds to me -- as a foreigner, mind -- that there's the basis for a small business here: continental-North-America gua

Re: pdp 11?

where is this?

RE: "Key" to open an HP 264X terminal

At least for all of mine, a paperclip wouldn't do it - not strong enough. Small flat blade screwdriver will work. As I recall, it's just to slide a metal catch one direction or the other. J

RE: "Key" to open an HP 264X terminal

Lock pick kits are only 20 bucks... On Jun 27, 2016 7:58 AM, "Jay West" wrote: > At least for all of mine, a paperclip wouldn't do it - not strong enough. > Small flat blade screwdriver will work. As I recall, it's just to slide a > metal catch one direction or the other. > > J > > >

Re: "Key" to open an HP 264X terminal

A knife will also work; I've still got my 'key' from when I used to work with HP1000 systems, and it's simply a flat piece of metal. - Original Message - From: "Adrian Stoness" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 5:59:40 AM Subject: RE:

Re: Dual Head Rainbow Video

Cool, what is required for that setup? /P On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 07:51:51PM +0100, Rob Jarratt wrote: > Just in case anyone is interested, I have just posted a video on YouTube of > my Rainbow 100+ (not the one I am selling) running in a dual head > configuration. The quality of the video isn't

Re: pdp 11?

> From: Adrian Stoness >> its an 11 of some sort not sure witch one Ah, OK. That's either an -11/04 or -11/34 in the top left corner, with either an RX01 or RX02 above it. (Not enought detail in the image to say.) The rest of it seems to all be some sort of custom medical or other special

Re: Dual Head Rainbow Video

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > > Cool, what is required for that setup? > > /P > > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 07:51:51PM +0100, Rob Jarratt wrote: > > Just in case anyone is interested, I have just posted a video on YouTube > of > > my Rainbow 100+ (not the one I am sellin

AW: pdp 11?

Look at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vincent-photography/ He signs his fotographs like https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/13528563_10154158749825056_5125938316429319662_o.jpg -Original-Nachricht- Betreff: Re: pdp 11? Datum: 2016-06-27T14:52:35+0200 Von: "william degnan" An

Re: pdp 11?

Mothballed cement plant On Jun 27, 2016 7:52 AM, "william degnan" wrote: > where is this? >

Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Liam Proven wrote: Sounds to me -- as a foreigner, mind -- that there's the basis for a small business here: continental-North-America guaranteed custom fragile item delivery. . . . and your ads should have a picture of a trebuchet with a red circle around it and diagonal

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

>> Mostly PDP11GUI does not care, either 7b or 8b. > I'm kind of surprised to hear that; I assumed that PDP11GUI can > download binaries, and for that, 8-bit is kind of necessary? Depends on the protocol. While it's not a PDP-11, my own Dreamcast serial-line code sends binaries over a serial line

CiTOH terminals (was Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse)

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > Rather have a C Itoh CT-101e .. I can probably help with that. I'm in Ohio and I get out to Chicago and NJ a couple of times a year. I have a cabinet of CiTOH terminals I bought from my employer "some years ago". ;-) We used an assort

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

On 06/27/2016 05:34 AM, Paul Koning wrote: How high was "too high"? The RS232 standard rules for allowed output voltages are surprisingly lenient (3 to 15 volts, positive or negative for space and mark respectively). Mark (not space) was around +3V, ha :-) I have no idea how the VT52 was mak

Re: CiTOH terminals (was Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse)

We used C Itoh terminals on our VAX back in the day. I think they were the CIT 102s--at any rate, they had a 14" screen rather than a 12" one. IIRC, they worked just fine; well-constructed units. --Chuck

Re: CiTOH terminals (was Re: old friend is slimming down the warehouse)

Pity you don't go West as well, I'm in Portland Oregon but maybe something could be worked out. When not in a rush I've been able to arrange back seat/trunk shipments. Sounds like the same. I was at company called Tektronix and I was the one to introduce the CIT-101. We bought a lot of DEC gear, a

Re: wanted: TI Silent 700 Model 763 & 765 Maintenance Manual

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > Does anyone have that? > > The manual for Model 743 & 745 is on Bitsavers, but I'm specifically > looking for model 763 & 765. > I checked, I have the 70x era manuals only. -- @ BillDeg: Web: vintagecomputer.net Twitter: @billdeg

Re: wanted: TI Silent 700 Model 763 & 765 Maintenance Manual

the later manuals are tough to find. I've been looking since the last time someone asked about them a year or two ago On 6/27/16 10:21 AM, william degnan wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > >> Does anyone have that? >> >> The manual for Model 743 & 745 is on Bitsavers

RE: wanted: TI Silent 700 Model 763 & 765 Maintenance Manual

I believe mine is a 785... Oh the blasphemy. -> http://tinyurl.com/gqs6adg (that's actually my HP 7906 cabinet, HP 2000 IOP rack, Silent 700, HP 2648 and CE handbook. Not my Commodore phone) J

Re: wanted: TI Silent 700 Model 763 & 765 Maintenance Manual

On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Al Kossow wrote: > the later manuals are tough to find. I've been looking since the last > time someone asked about them a year or two ago Those things are neat. They appear to be a paper terminal using thermal paper and an acoustic coupler. Wargames comes to mind of course.

Re: Power cable identification

- Original Message - From: "Brent Hilpert" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Power cable identification On 2016-Jun-26, at 1:47 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Brent Hilpert" > ... >

Re: Power cable identification

> Is it a Cromemco? Inexplicable is right. The Cromemco Z2 S100 chassis > from 1978 used them, I don't know what they were thinking using it > that late, unless they got a deal on a mass clearout. Are the inlet connectors in question simple connectors, or are they part of an RFI filter assembly

More things that we are considering offloading.

DECprinter I, GE TermiNET30, C Itoh CIT-101e, PDP-11 manuals, PDP-8 diagnostic duplicates, TI SilentWriters etc etc. http://www.datormuseum.se/available /Mattis

Re: More things that we are considering offloading.

So far away(Pacific Northwest, United States) On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > DECprinter I, GE TermiNET30, C Itoh CIT-101e, PDP-11 manuals, PDP-8 > diagnostic duplicates, TI SilentWriters etc etc. > > http://www.datormuseum.se/available > > /Mattis > -- Ian S.

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

- Original Message - From: "Mouse" To: Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 3:30 PM Subject: Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui > >> Mostly PDP11GUI does not care, either 7b or 8b. > > I'm kind of surprised to hear that; I assumed that PDP11GUI can > > download binaries, and for that, 8-bit i

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

>> [...] my own Dreamcast serial-line code [...] > I have to ask, being a Sega fan, but what have you been using your > Dreamcast for? Not much, yet. Aside from assorted poking at it to learn how to use the hardware, the only thing I really feel I can be said to have used it for was when I built

Re: Power cable identification

On 2016-Jun-27, at 12:12 PM, Dennis Boone wrote: >> Is it a Cromemco? Inexplicable is right. The Cromemco Z2 S100 chassis >> from 1978 used them, I don't know what they were thinking using it >> that late, unless they got a deal on a mass clearout. > > Are the inlet connectors in question simple c

Re: Dual Head Rainbow Video

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: > Just in case anyone is interested, I have just posted a video on YouTube of > my Rainbow 100+ (not the one I am selling) running in a dual head > configuration. The quality of the video isn't great, but it might interest a > few people. > Som

Re: More things that we are considering offloading.

2016-06-27 21:41 GMT+02:00 Ian S. King : > So far away(Pacific Northwest, United States) > That is right. Forgot to mention that everything is outside Strängnäs in Sweden. /Mattis > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Mattis Lind > wrote: > > > DECprinter I, GE TermiNET30, C Itoh CIT-

PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux -- extra backslash?

So, I am trying to run PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux, and I am having problems loading a machine description file. It seems when PDP11GUI tries to kick off M4, it is expanding an extra backslash into the command. So you get this sort of error message (note extra backslash before m4.bat): Can

Re: PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux -- extra backslash?

Oh, the quoting in the error message also looks suspicious. Hmm... On 06/27/2016 01:47 PM, Fritz Mueller wrote: So, I am trying to run PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux, and I am having problems loading a machine description file. It seems when PDP11GUI tries to kick off M4, it is expanding an ext

Re: More things that we are considering offloading.

if it was close I would jump on that terminet 30! Ed# In a message dated 6/27/2016 1:38:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, mattisl...@gmail.com writes: 2016-06-27 21:41 GMT+02:00 Ian S. King : > So far away (Pacific Northwest, United States) > That is right. Forgot to

RE: Dual Head Rainbow Video

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pontus > Pihlgren > Sent: 27 June 2016 14:24 > To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Dual Head Rainbow Video > > > Cool, what is required for that

Re: More things that we are considering offloading.

Oh I have a huge weakness for printing terminals. Absent an IBM 1052 I'd definitely be interested in TermiNET and SilentWriters. Oh and the Informer 213! Contact me off-list please. Mike On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > DECprinter I, GE TermiNET30, C Itoh CIT-101e, PDP-11 ma

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

> >> [...] my own Dreamcast serial-line code [...] > > I have to ask, being a Sega fan, but what have you been using your > > Dreamcast for? > > Not much, yet. I've been resurrecting the old Dreamcast Linux. It's still an appallingly old kernel but it boots happily and does things that, depending

Re: PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux -- extra backslash?

On 06/27/2016 01:47 PM, Fritz Mueller wrote: I am trying to run PDP11GUI under Wine on Linux, and I am having problems... So, I gave up, bought a copy of Windows, installed it on a VM and now it works fine. Between this and various CAD tools, etc, tired of fighting with endless fiddly Wine c

Re: Power cable identification

- Original Message - From: "Brent Hilpert" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Power cable identification On 2016-Jun-27, at 12:12 PM, Dennis Boone wrote: >> Is it a Cromemco? Inexplicable is right. The Cromemco Z2 S1

Some questions about the MC6839

(My original message to cctech has yet to appear. I thought I might try the cctalk list). While Motorola never shipped the MC6839 [1] the binary is available [2] and I've been playing around with it [3]. While it's not producing the exact same results as I get on a more modern machine, it appe

Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

>>> [W]hat have you been using your Dreamcast for? >> Not much, yet. > I've been resurrecting the old Dreamcast Linux. [...] Oh, I have NetBSD/dreamcast. It boots and runs. But it doesn't provide any glue to the rendering hardware, making it pretty useless (or, at best, irrelevant) for games.

Dreamcast Un*ces was Re: DL11 configuration for pdp11gui

> >>> [W]hat have you been using your Dreamcast for? > >> Not much, yet. > > I've been resurrecting the old Dreamcast Linux. [...] > > Oh, I have NetBSD/dreamcast. It boots and runs. But it doesn't > provide any glue to the rendering hardware, making it pretty useless > (or, at best, irrelevant

Some questions about the MC6839

So Motorola apparently never produced the MC6839, a ROM containing position independent 6809 code for implementing (as far as I can see) IEEE 754 Draft 8. Motorola *did* however, release the resulting binary into (from what I understand) the Public Domain [1] but I've yet to find the actual sou

Re: Wanted: VT5x roll-around stand

It appears that I do have one of these stands (3 actually). What measurements do you need? --barrym On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Fritz Mueller wrote: > On 06/24/2016 05:05 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > >> ...I know where there might be one or too, but they are currently >> burried. I'll call h

Re: Wanted: VT5x roll-around stand

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:21 PM, B M wrote: > It appears that I do have one of these stands (3 actually). What > measurements do you need? We know from the sales brochure jpg that it's 26" tall (the VT52 is thick, so it needs to be that short to put the keyboard at "typing height", but could you

IBM 6360 8 inch floppy drive

Hi I collect vintage IBM laptops, have just joined the community, and wonder if anyone can help with the following: 1. Can write a Teledisk image of concurrent CP/M for Displaywriter to two 8 inch floppy disks which I can supply? 2. Can solder a cable fie me which will interface an ibm 6360 8

Re: Wanted: VT5x roll-around stand

On 06/27/2016 10:06 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: ...could you measure, and/or photograph the part that the VT52 sits on? Yes please, pictures appreciated, thanks! --FritzM.