Re: Which Operating System for my DCC-116 E / Entrex 480 / Nixdorf 620 / Data General Nova 1200 clone ?

2018-01-14 Thread AJ Palmgren via cctalk
Dominique, Just checking in with you on this, and to thank you for posting your interest in this system here. Do you have any updates, or perhaps new videos of it operating? Thank you! -AJ On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Dominique Carlier via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi all > >

Re: Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation

2018-01-14 Thread AJ Palmgren via cctalk
Todd, thanks so much for sharing, and I'm thrilled to know that a member of this community is where it's going. May I ask, what are your plans for archival of the included disks and manuals, if any? I'd also be quite curious to see if there are any internal circuit differences between that machin

Even old accounting software needs love and rescuing from oblivion

2018-01-14 Thread Terry Stewart via cctalk
Hi folks, On the weekend I rescued some old software. It gave me an excuse to get my first micro out of its box and stretch its legs. Accounting packages hardly set the world alight but being a Dick Smith release for the System 80, it does have its place in Australasian computer history. Anyway

Re: Spectre & Meltdown

2018-01-14 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 01/13/2018 06:38 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: And even worse, if he took too long, a fun feature of MVT and not corrected in MVS was if a console channel went unavailable for too long, the system would crash. Luckily the game would print out a line, and a blob of console messages

Re: Sold on eBay: Convergent Technologies S/50 a.k.a. Unix PC, AT&T 3B1 Unix Workstation

2018-01-14 Thread Todd Goodman via cctalk
Hi AJ (and list), I got that one. Todd On 1/13/2018 10:02 PM, AJ Palmgren via cctalk wrote: I'm just wondering if anybody here did (or knows who) bought this one. http://ebay.to/2DaRr13 Even though these were all manufactured by Convergent Technologies, this one is actually BRANDED by Conve