Re: Maybe interesting toy in junk shop...

Bill, I hope that you can snap a few pictures with your phone to show us. This is quite the mystery device. On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Bill Sudbrink wrote: > No, I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that the paper > tape on this thing is for output, probably printed

Re: Early PDP-11/45 backplane SPC power

Just a follow-up here: Marty over at vcfed.org took a look at his 11/45, and he does have +15 (+12 in his case) to CU1 on slots 26-28. His notes indicate a wire from slot 15 (because of his setup he can't conveniently inspect his backplane). It's not clear whether this is from factory, and ECO,

Re: StorageTek 2920 9-track manual or instructions wanted (And a bit about rescuing a Nord-1)

Hi and thanks for all the help I got! Both on the list and via email directly. A couple of days ago I did a quick test of the drive and I was able to load tapes, both manually and with automatic tape loading. It's a really nice drive. BPI were detected automatically so the drive seems to be

Re: kryoflux

The STC scanning project timing is interesting, since the 3400 manual I just did describes a pretty sophisticated read channel for NRZI and PE data recovery. On 7/3/16 9:12 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > I have a huge backlog of tape at CHM, so this is pretty high on my list to > get done > this year.

Re: kryoflux

On 7/2/16 11:54 AM, Jay West wrote: > Kryoflux’s next project should be the same thing but for ½ mag tape. What tape drive? You'd either have to pick one old enough that they still had separate formatters, or have mods to pick off the data before the decoders. There is also the problem of

Re: Actually we want this Packard Bell http://www.smecc.org/itemsklkljl; _3.jpg

On Sun, 3 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: On 3 July 2016 at 05:00, Tothwolf wrote: I think the same could probably be said for something like that 6-processor Pentium Pro that was sold in the late 90s which had a black cube style case and a stand which allowed it to sit

Re: Disc Imaging / Kryoflux - Acorn ADFS 800KB

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Peter Coghlan wrote: > >> Is the capacity of the diskette 800K? or is that merely the name of the >> type of the diskette, with an actual capacity of somewhere between 640K and >> 800K? >> >> If the actual capacity is 800K, with MFM, then

Re: Actually we want this Packard Bell http://www.smecc.org/itemsklkljl; _3.jpg

On 3 July 2016 at 05:00, Tothwolf wrote: > I think the same could probably be said for something like that 6-processor > Pentium Pro that was sold in the late 90s which had a black cube style case > and a stand which allowed it to sit on its corner. Very unusual design

Re: Maybe interesting toy in junk shop...

I remember ours has 4 pin connector too but not as robust as a ma bell one.. ours comes in a orig box even. I was mixed as to if I wanted to display it with ttys or with sci-tech kids toys and devices display we have in a huge walk in display case. ... it is sitting up in

Re: The infinitely profitable program

> On 03 Jul 2016, at 01:00 , Eric Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Eric Christopherson > wrote: >> Genius. But I would have thought CP/M would at least require a .com file to >> have a header. >> http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55 > >

Re: Maybe interesting toy in junk shop...

On 07/02/2016 09:54 PM, couryhouse wrote: > > > No it gets printed to... there are TTYS in real world and print on > strip then western union would oade each strip onto sheet of > paperwhat did they want for it? > Yes, I know--I once owned a model 14 TTY, complete with a pile of