For Sale: STM Pied Piper "Portable Computer"

2017-03-22 Thread Sellam Ismail via cctalk
I have for sale this fine STM Pied Piper, Z80 CP/M machine from Canada circa 1983. Please see details here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56872-STM-Pied-Piper-Portable-Computer=453120#post453120 Thanks! Sellam

Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/22/2017 08:39 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote: > Chuck, in the highly likely event of the formats NOT being common > CP/M or DOS ones (i.e. ones I could probably manage), I'll give these > guys your email (-: Tez, Here's what I would do in your situation. If the disks are

Re: Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Terry Stewart via cctalk
Thanks Guys, Now I'm intimidated (-: Just kiddingthat's useful stuff Fred. Thanks for taking the time to type all that out. I'll give it a go...and see what I can see. If anything it's a good excuse for me to wire the drive up. I'd like to image those Panasonic disks one day for

Re: Z-8000 something on eBay

2017-03-22 Thread dwight via cctalk
Its not an Olivetti M20 but might be a M30 or M40. These were Mini class machines. It would be towards the last of the Z8000 with a MMU. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Ken Seefried via cctalk Sent:

Re: Sun E10000 Historical Enquiry

2017-03-22 Thread Ken Seefried via cctalk
> Heck, I'd be fascinated to talk to anyone who purchased > the machines during their lifespan (1997-2001) and could tell me what you > used them for. Not the e10k, but Cingular Wireless used clustered e15k's as Oracle database engines. Dozens of them. Very impressive performance. KJ

Re: Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Once you've got sectors, speak up, and we'll give you more things to look at. On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: Fred, how about the image of a Compugraphic typesetter floppy I have? It uses Hebrew for its code set. Feel up to it? Nope. You're much better at it than I am. I

Z-8000 something on eBay

2017-03-22 Thread Ken Seefried via cctalk
I don't have any idea what this is but it appears to have Z-8000 CPU+MMU chips. Perhaps an Onyx or S8000 CPU card? I know some folks here are in to that sort of thing. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Vintage-DSC-MP-4-EPC-Rev-D-K-Expansion-Board-Card-PCB-for-Mini-Computer/152475939021 KJ

Re: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread Don North via cctalk
On 3/22/2017 5:03 PM, Don North wrote: On 3/22/2017 4:25 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: Look here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/blog.php?12663-AK6DN for info on my Arduino based RX02 emulator using a microSD card. Works on RX11/RXV11/RX8E as RX01, RX211/RXV21/RX28 as RX02. Passes DEC hardware

Re: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread Don North via cctalk
On 3/22/2017 4:25 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: Look here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/blog.php?12663-AK6DN for info on my Arduino based RX02 emulator using a microSD card. Works on RX11/RXV11/RX8E as RX01, RX211/RXV21/RX28 as RX02. Passes DEC hardware diagnostics. Reinhard has done an FPGA

Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/22/2017 04:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Once you've got sectors, speak up, and we'll give you more things to > look at. Fred, how about the image of a Compugraphic typesetter floppy I have? It uses Hebrew for its code set. Feel up to it? --Chuck

Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote: Guys in the building next door to me (a Science lab) have found some 8 inch floppy disks. They want to see what???s on them, or at least to archive them. They have no idea what machine these disks were used with, or the software was used to

RE: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Don North via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 5:30 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: booting os/8 On 3/22/2017 10:47 AM, Bill

Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/22/2017 03:49 PM, Terry Stewart via cctalk wrote: > Anyway, has anyone else faced this kind of challenge and what are > your thoughts? I don’t want to start unless I at least have some > chance of success. I’m not hopeful. The more I read the more you > seem to need real forensic skills

Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

2017-03-22 Thread Terry Stewart via cctalk
Hi, I’ve posted this to the VCF too…apologies for cross-posting. I’d be grateful for any guidance or comments anyone could give me on this problem. Guys in the building next door to me (a Science lab) have found some 8 inch floppy disks. They want to see what’s on them, or at least to

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 3/22/2017 9:23 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: I'm following this thread because I too want a decent terminal emulator that works with a variety of vintage text editors (that seems to be the torture test) but for Linux or OS X. Putty seems to be a repeat suggestion but it's not for my

Re: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread Don North via cctalk
On 3/22/2017 10:47 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of W2HX via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:49 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts

RE: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Jay West via cctalk
Ethan wrote... - I'm following this thread because I too want a decent terminal emulator that works with a variety of vintage text editors (that seems to be the torture test) but for Linux or OS X. Putty seems to be a repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms. -- The most

RE: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread william degnan via cctalk
> > Well, I am sure glad someone posted this. I had never heard of the work done by AK6DN and have considered > looking into such a project in the past. > > So, has anyone looked at someting sililar for RL drives? > > bill > > > > I only know how to boot RK05 drives off an pdp8e. Do you have a

RE: booting os/8

2017-03-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of W2HX via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 11:49 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts (cctalk@classiccmp.org) Subject: booting os/8 Hi folks, I have

RE: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Paul Koning via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:09 AM To: Liam Proven; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Pair of Twiggys > On Mar 22,

Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 22, 2017, at 10:04 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk > wrote: > ... > I'm not aware of any significant amount of GPL code in either. Linux > has a regrettable history of nicking BSD-licensed code and slapping > the GPL on it, but not the other way round, AFAIK. I think

Re: Pair of Twiggys

2017-03-22 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On 21 March 2017 at 18:32, Ray Arachelian via cctalk wrote: > (And meanwhile AAPL is busy, or was, getting rid of all GPL stuff in its > OS.) Darwin is mostly BSD-licensed and includes significant quantities of code from FreeBSD, which is why Apple hired Jordan Hubbard.

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread John Wilson via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: >Putty seems to be a >repeat suggestion but it's not for my platforms. PuTTY interprets ESC [?7l in a weirdly wrong way -- instead of disabling autowrap (which is already a half-documented feature that's implemented

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Ethan Dicks wrote: >> Somewhere around 2004, I was setting up klh10. I found that xterm did >> not allow me to run emacs successfully. > > I have successfullyl run xterm in VT52 mode with ITS Emacs. I must confess I did

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Ethan Dicks wrote: > Somewhere around 2004, I was setting up klh10. I found that xterm did > not allow me to run emacs successfully. I have successfullyl run xterm in VT52 mode with ITS Emacs.

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Tor Arntsen via cctalk wrote: > xterm never gives me any problems. But the default terminal emulators > of Gnome or KDE have some issues in my experience... Somewhere around 2004, I was setting up klh10. I found that xterm did not allow me

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On 22 March 2017 at 02:02, Warren Toomey via cctalk wrote: > Which raises the question, are there any _good_ VT100 terminal > emulators, especially for Linux? For any other platforms? xterm never gives me any problems. But the default terminal emulators of Gnome or KDE

Re: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 22, 2017, at 7:11 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk > wrote: > ... > I've used Putty to connect to a VMS system to run TPU (which I think LSE is > a thinly disguised variant of) and I have regularly come across an irritating > bug which messes up full screen editing

RE: Any faithful VT100 Emulators?

2017-03-22 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > > From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Warren Toomey via > cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:02 PM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Any faithful VT100 Emulators? > > OK, so I don't have a real