On 11/10/2016 08:55 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> Really an ideal experience, on my end. So who were BMC, and where are
> they now?
BMC International is a Japanese company, based in Osaka.
http://www.bmcinc.co.jp/our-company/
I remember them mostly for their display monitors, which seemed to be
ub
(Of the BMC BX-80) "It was also my first printer."
And that was down in AU, event? Interesting, I guess they made their way
all over the place (mine was bought in Minnesota, USA).
What were your experiences with it? I found mine to be utterly
un-flappable, with only the occasional paper jam if I
On 11/10/2016 12:22 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Nov 4, 2016 8:03 AM, "Glen Slick" wrote:
The listing seems to have vanished now. (Probably just as well).
Maybe the listing was reported and removed. It was listed again exactly
the same.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272436936862
Sold for $202.50 th
And where can I get new fan-fold paper tape to put in the trays?
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> There has to be a better solution than either the vaccum or all-plex cases
> for paper tape. Neither one is very good for
> anything other than what the slots were set up for (li
> On 10 Nov 2016, at 3:14 pm, drlegendre . wrote:
>
> So would the BMC BX-80 be a clone of the MX-80 or FX-80? Anyone have a
> sense of it?
It was also my first printer. I pretty sure it was a clone of the MX-80 with
graphics option. I bought it (well actually my parents) from a shop that sold
At least VAX LISP docs can be found on this site:
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/common_lisp_family
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Betreff: Re: more on lisp compilers
Datum: 2016-11-10T20:31:13+0100
Von: "Ian S. King"
An: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
On
On 11/10/2016 11:05 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Strangest thing I have seen on a Diablo 630 chassis. A Sanders 700.
> That's a 7 pin dot matrix printer with the printhead in place of the
> daisywheel of the 630. Same carriage/paper feed mechanism. It takes
> plug-in ROM cartridges for the fonts, and
There has to be a better solution than either the vaccum or all-plex cases for
paper tape. Neither one is very good for
anything other than what the slots were set up for (like 1") Short ones get
bunched together in a slot, and long ones
bridge slots. Either way, you end up not being able to see
I don't know if anyone here has the interest or capability to do it, but
creating a replica of the blue tape trays with the clear overlay that
one could sell for a few bucks with some random fanfold copies of DEC or
other diagnostics would be nice.
Perhaps if there were a ready source of repli
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> So last week there was some conversation about lisp compilers and an
> expressed interest in old VAX lisp comilers. Co-incidently, I was rooting
> through the morgue at work on semi legitimate business and found
> VAXlisp 2.2 copyright 1987.
On 11/10/2016 10:20 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
> On 11/10/16 10:13 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
>
>> Which was the one that used that rectangular connector often
>> mis-called the V.35 connector?
>>
>
> Data Products uses a 50 pin Winchester Electronics connector. dbit
> makes a converter http://www.db
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Yup--my first daisywheel was the original Hitype--the one with the
> external (3 fan noisy) power supply. It had the OEM interface and I
I think I have one somewhere. Don't have the PSU for it, it came with
a word processor system, and the P
>I suspect that Mr. 434 didn't know
> what he / she was dealing with and was lucky not to lose > 202.50 worth
> of their money and a lot of time.
>
> thanks
> Jim
Time maybe, money no. This is the one reason eBay stays in business and people
spend money there. You are basically guaranteed not to
The way you know it was a shill bit is that
the bidder will get a notice that the top bidder dropped
out.
With the newer rules that ebay came up with the second
bidder may be required to take it at their high bid if the
seller is willing to take that much for it.
It is really scummy.
The rul
On 11/10/2016 10:13 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Some of the old Daisywheel printers, both Diablo and Qume had an
> interface with over 20 data lines. You specified print wheel
> position, amount to advance the carriage, etc on separate lines.
Yup--my first daisywheel was the original Hitype--the one
I do watch the auctions for this Helios drive but won't bid. Too much BS
going on with this seller, it seems. I suspect the private seller is an
alter ego of his.
I did manage to find a Cromemco PFD Persci dual drive this morning on eBay
for $250. I have every confidence this will come. I woul
On 11/10/2016 10:22 AM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Nov 4, 2016 8:03 AM, "Glen Slick" wrote:
The listing seems to have vanished now. (Probably just as well).
Maybe the listing was reported and removed. It was listed again exactly
the same.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272436936862
Sold for $202.50
On Nov 4, 2016 8:03 AM, "Glen Slick" wrote:
>
> > The listing seems to have vanished now. (Probably just as well).
> >
>
> Maybe the listing was reported and removed. It was listed again exactly
the same.
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/272436936862
Sold for $202.50 this time around. Anyone here tak
On 11/10/16 10:13 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Which was the one that used that rectangular connector often mis-called
> the V.35 connector?
>
Data Products uses a 50 pin Winchester Electronics connector.
dbit makes a converter
http://www.dbit.com/wilson/dplpc/
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
[Dataproducts interface]
> Yes--and IIRC, it used a 50-conductor connection as well. We had some
Which was the one that used that rectangular connector often mis-called
the V.35 connector?
I have a thing called a Ferret here. It's a combined
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WTS the following items:
3
Used
DEC
DSP3107L
1.07GB 3.5IN 3H SCSI 50PIN
4
Used
DEC
RH20E-DB
510 Meg SCSI Drive -DSP 3201L RH31K-AW
_
Jim Firlik
Excess Enterprises
(817) 267-9700
email: j...@4excess.com
_
I have no idea what he wants for them. Not affilia
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
BTW, I noticed a couple of places in DTF.MAC where error checking code was
commented out, e.g.:
;EHLT4:XX ;HALT WITH BLK#IN LIGHTS, CONTINUE
; MOV #257.,R0;TO FIND DATA WORD POSITION
; ADD TOG1,R0
> From: Christian Corti
> Seems the original must have been the XXDP TC11 DECtape formatter
> program by Robert J. Collins. I have no clue where I found the RT11
> version of this
So that made me wonder if the V6 Unix version of tcf.s really was related to
DTF.MAC. I checked out t
On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Having just looked at the original :-), it did have two messages:
"ready drive 0 and type y"
and
"tcf: error"
Seems the original must have been the XXDP TC11 DECtape formatter program
by Robert J. Collins. I have no clue where I found the RT11 versi
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