RE: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Paul Birkel via cctalk
-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa via cctalk Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 5:00 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Computing Pioneer Dies > From: Brent Hilpert > What about that

Re: ModComp II on Ebay

2017-11-13 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 11/13/2017 7:52 PM, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote: That's an incredibly bad set of pictures. The system gave me the impression it was built up with transistors. Any possibility of that?  I don't know the history of the Modcomps to speculate, but that might put it out of the range of what

RE: Teletype's for Auction

2017-11-13 Thread Ed Sharpe via cctalk
first one looks like a lot of Frieden flexowriters... not teletype gear. Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Monday, November 13, 2017 Wayne Sudol via cctalk wrote: For those who want/collect Teletype's, Here's 2 links to auctions. One is a pallet of pretty old stuff just

Teletype's for Auction

2017-11-13 Thread Wayne Sudol via cctalk
For those who want/collect Teletype's, Here's 2 links to auctions. One is a pallet of pretty old stuff just labeled 'Teletype Machines' located in Dayton, Ohio

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/13/2017 09:32 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Please, everyone, I do actually know of BitSavers; you don't need to point me at it. When I said: >> I could look at the engineering manuals, but I was hoping for something >> in between them and Bashe et al. I assumed everyone

Re: ModComp II on Ebay

2017-11-13 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:06 PM, william degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Ebay item 272914490265 > > This is a ModComp IIC I think. It's all broken up in parts and half > assembled. > That's an incredibly bad set of pictures. I can't tell if it is really disassembled or if

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Please, everyone, I do actually know of BitSavers; you don't need to point me at it. When I said: >> I could look at the engineering manuals, but I was hoping for something >> in between them and Bashe et al. I assumed everyone would understand that by "engineering manuals", I was

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/13/2017 01:23 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: So, I was trying to find info about the early IBM 709/7090/7094 computers, but when I went to what is supposedly the authoritative work on these computers (among others): Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W.

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Evan Koblentz > That's the dumbest thing I read today. And that helped... how? Noel

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
It's just another attempt to make an historical claim for the ENIAC, this time trying to steal the light away from the Manchester Baby. That's the dumbest thing I read today.

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Pete Lancashire via cctalk
What are you looking for ? Have you checked bitsavers http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/ and the subdirectory http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7090/ce/ for the 7094 there is even more detail http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/7094/ce/ -pete On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:23 AM, Noel

Re: DS12887 pcb substitute with battery

2017-11-13 Thread systems_glitch via cctalk
Good stuff! I recently designed a module to build new DS1287 and DS12887 modules from the bare DS1285 and DS12885 ICs: https://imgur.com/a/cgKm5 Just did a small run of 100 boards with the GW-12887-1 part number (they of course work with the DS1285, though the number would be misleading). It

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > What about that little issue of writeable program storage? Just to clarify my understanding of your position, is a system with a CPU chip (say one of the 68K models) with only ROM not a 'stored program machine'? Noel PS: You really should look at the

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2017-Nov-10, at 12:37 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote: > https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/nov/08/geoff-tootill-obituary >>> >>> I should point out there is a technical error in the Guardian. The Baby was >>> the first Electronically Stored Program in what today we would call RAM. >>>

Re: Need VT-100 switch

2017-11-13 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
I know that this an old thread, but I had another VT100 with broken power switch and so I dug up what I used to buy. This has quick connect tabs so it is needs no modifications to fit. It has a metal handle and feels quite sturdy.

Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I was trying to find info about the early IBM 709/7090/7094 computers, but when I went to what is supposedly the authoritative work on these computers (among others): Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh, "IBM's Early Computers", MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986

ModComp II on Ebay

2017-11-13 Thread william degnan via cctalk
Ebay item 272914490265 This is a ModComp IIC I think. It's all broken up in parts and half assembled. I don't think new it was barely $18,000 though, but some day, maybe the seller will give up and put up a realistic price. Who knows what's in it exactly but generally it looks like a