Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Nov-19, at 3:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP > emulating terminal. > I had bought this a while ago, and never dumped the firmware. Unfortunately > there is a large > NiCd battery right in the middle of the

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
Just had a closer look at the TS-2624 and it does indeed have the battery on the board; looks like that's one of the differences from the TS-1x. Looks like I or someone had enough foresight to remove it from this board before it caused any damage. m

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- Original Message - From: "Al Kossow via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 6:29 PM Subject: Battery warning in Falco terminals > I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP > emulating termi

Re: IND$FILE

2018-11-19 Thread Kevin McQuiggin via cctalk
Ah, fond memories! IEFBR14... Sent from my iPad > On Nov 19, 2018, at 19:00, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > >> On 11/19/2018 03:11 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> I believe the package internal to mvs / OS has the preface of IND for the >> modules. Similar to IFBR14 is part of t

Re: IND$FILE

2018-11-19 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 11/19/2018 03:11 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: I believe the package internal to mvs / OS has the preface of IND for the modules. Similar to IFBR14 is part of the IFB suite of programs. Shouldn't that be IEFBR14? Jon

Missing FORRTL

2018-11-19 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
I'm trying to use the Compaq/HP Extended Math Library  (CXML) on a DEC Alpha under AXP Openvms 8.4 - Hobbyist License. Fortran 8.2 and CXML were part of the Hobbyist distribution I downloaded. CXML complains that FORRTL is not present or the version is too low, (it is not present - $Product sh

Re: IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread ben via cctalk
On 11/19/2018 5:27 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first came across it by this quote: Every program has at least one bug and can b

Re: IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:24 PM Sean Conner via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I've always been amused by IEFBR14 ever since I heard about it. I first > came across it by this quote: > Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least > one instruction-

Re: Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The later model 500/5000 have a small NiCd as well. On 11/19/18 3:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP > emulating terminal. > I had bought this a while ago, and never dumped the firmware. Unfortunately > there is a lar

Battery warning in Falco terminals

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I've been helping the MAME guys simulate a TS-2624, which is a block mode HP emulating terminal. I had bought this a while ago, and never dumped the firmware. Unfortunately there is a large NiCd battery right in the middle of the board that leaked all over. I've taken some pictures which are up

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread dwight via cctalk
Actually, I do use it almost exclusively with classic machines. I use the RS232 to load and talk to my Nicolet 1080 ( a late 1960s to early 1970 ) machine. I just got done using it to repair a North * Horizon. If I'm leaving trails behind me that I can't get rid of, each time I use it as a termi

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread dwight via cctalk
Hi Ethan That is entirely possible. I do think about it when I plug and unplug the USB floppy drive but not usually for the serial. Is there a way to finish them or maybe stick things in so that I can "safely remove" things? Most of the time for serial, I use a FTDI but I do have some older USB

Re: IND$FILE

2018-11-19 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> IFBR14 if you all are not familiar with MVS / MVT batch programming > is a program which immediately terminates w/o any return codes by > doing an assembly language return to the caller of the job step via > the contents of R14 of the processor, which is also the return > address. Actually,

Re: HP-Apollo 9000/425t RAM

2018-11-19 Thread Sven Schnelle via cctalk
On 11/06/2018 07:16 AM, Chris Hanson via cctalk wrote: > All that said I’m quite surprised MAME doesn’t include HP-Apollo 9000/400 > series emulation. The hardware is very similar to the 9000/380, which is > supported, and several Apollo DN series systems are also supported… > It's just a matter

IEFBR14 (was Re: IND$FILE)

2018-11-19 Thread Sean Conner via cctalk
It was thus said that the Great jim stephens via cctalk once stated: > > IFBR14 if you all are not familiar with MVS / MVT batch programming is a > program which immediately terminates w/o any return codes by doing an > assembly language return to the caller of the job step via the contents > o

Re: IND$FILE

2018-11-19 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 11/19/2018 7:49 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: I know it's a minor nit, but as someone who has used IND$FILE on OS/390 (zOS), I always wondered why it was called IND$FILE. Wikipedia has just a stub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IND$FILE FILE I tend to understand, but I was never very

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a > fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) > tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com > ports but recently another (in use) showed up, requiring me to modif

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Every time you unplug and re-plug a USB serial cable you cause the system to create a new IRQ address for it, called COM5, 6,7,8,9 etc. If you do the thing where you "remove usb devices safely" routine you can avoid this. b On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 12:13 PM geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Mon, 19 N

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Ethan via cctalk wrote: I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com ports but recently another (

Re: What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread Ethan via cctalk
I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com ports but recently another (in use) showed up, requiring me to modify my p

What is windoes doing?

2018-11-19 Thread dwight via cctalk
I have a question. I use the USB port for serial. In my program, I use a fixed com port. When going to the control panel, I find that I see (in use) tags on some of the com ports. I'm the only one currently using the com ports but recently another (in use) showed up, requiring me to modify my pr

Re: IBM 3270 Emulation Adapter (ISA)

2018-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/18/18 11:46 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/18/2018 11:00 PM, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote: >> I'm wondering if anyone knows where to find a copy of some software to >> make an IBM 3270 Emulation Adapter (the short ISA one) useful. It would be helpful to know which 3

IND$FILE

2018-11-19 Thread Jim Brain via cctalk
I know it's a minor nit, but as someone who has used IND$FILE on OS/390 (zOS), I always wondered why it was called IND$FILE. Wikipedia has just a stub: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IND$FILE FILE I tend to understand, but I was never very knowledgeable of MVS, so I'm not sure where IND comes