Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 7, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctech > wrote: > > On 06/07/2017 10:47 AM, Paul Koning via cctech wrote: > >> 6600 core memory is documented in great detail in the training manual >> which is on Bitsavers. It has conventional diagonal sense lines. It >> does have some interest

Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/07/2017 05:02 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > I'd love to know. I never saw the insides of ECS. There are some > documents on Bitsavers but none that I have seen show the ECS memory > subsystem itself, certainly not at the circuit level. I found a paper from SJCC 1967 that does a pretty good job

Re: RX01 drive anyone?

2017-06-07 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
I'll take 3, maybe more. On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 7:19 AM, william degnan via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I still have an RX01 drive or two available. Contact me privately if > interested. > Bill >

Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/07/2017 10:47 AM, Paul Koning via cctech wrote: > 6600 core memory is documented in great detail in the training manual > which is on Bitsavers. It has conventional diagonal sense lines. It > does have some interesting design attributes, though. For one thing, > it has pairs of inhibit wi

Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2017-Jun-07, at 7:12 AM, william degnan via cctalk wrote: > Where there any computers that used a "rectangular sense" core RAM? > Whirlwind core is diagonal. This page describes the differences/evolution > of the sense line. > > More: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Byte/76jul.html > > Were r

Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 7, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Jon Elson via cctech > wrote: > > On 06/07/2017 09:12 AM, william degnan via cctech wrote: >> Where there any computers that used a "rectangular sense" core RAM? >> Whirlwind core is diagonal. This page describes the differences/evolution >> of the sense line. >>

Re: rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 06/07/2017 09:12 AM, william degnan via cctech wrote: Where there any computers that used a "rectangular sense" core RAM? Whirlwind core is diagonal. This page describes the differences/evolution of the sense line. More: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Byte/76jul.html Were rectangular core

Re: Serial keyboards

2017-06-07 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
> On Jun 6, 2017, at 11:51 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > Yes, I’ve been dealing with the morons who strip the keyboards off of (now > rare) IBM 327x terminals, > cut the connectors off and wire th

Re: Serial keyboards

2017-06-07 Thread Alexandre Souza via cctalk
Btw...I need a vt-340 keyboard with people willing to send it to Brazil. I got a (uber rare here) vt-340 in nice condition, but keyboardless :( And I still hope I'll find someday a complete vt-100 here :) Enviado do meu Tele-Movel On Jun 7, 2017 11:26 AM, "Pete Lancashire via cctalk" wrote: I'

rectangular sense core vs. diagonal

2017-06-07 Thread william degnan via cctalk
Where there any computers that used a "rectangular sense" core RAM? Whirlwind core is diagonal. This page describes the differences/evolution of the sense line. More: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Byte/76jul.html Were rectangular core planes used in any commercial/government computer that saw

Re: Serial keyboards

2017-06-07 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
I'm a Teletype collector. I was told of someone who got two machines from an estate. After tracking down and getting a hold of said person, he had behind his garage a pile of the Teletypes and typewriters, on all of them the keytops were ripped off and the machines left for scrap rusting away whil

RX01 drive anyone?

2017-06-07 Thread william degnan via cctalk
I still have an RX01 drive or two available. Contact me privately if interested. Bill

Re: Recovered a .bas file from my old Mac Plus

2017-06-07 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 08:32:14PM -0700, Michael Hunter via cctalk wrote: [] > Anyway, the .bas file is not plaintext, but I can see strings in it. Here > are the first few bytes: That text looks like length-prefixed records: : f900 0002: 1b00 3aaf e84f 6e65 2046 7275 636b

Re: Recovered a .bas file from my old Mac Plus

2017-06-07 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk
Also, emulators exist that allow you to emulate a Mac Plus on a current computer. Example: http://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/ HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen