Re: BIG ol tektronix scope 555 - need it gone - make an offer

2018-12-10 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
display as in an artifact display. any really early system of large stature especally tube logic... had a se or ce living there and scope on cart was always seen... Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Monday, December 10, 2018 devin davison wrote: The line about being used with an early computer

Re: BIG ol tektronix scope 555 - need it gone - make an offer

2018-12-10 Thread devin davison via cctalk
The line about being used with an early computer as a display caught my eye. How would it be used as a display, what kind of graphics capability would it have? is there an interface for the thing for the pdp 11 or a modcomp? Those are the old systems i have on hand that i might be able to

RE: BIG ol tektronix scope 555 - need it gone - make an offer

2018-12-10 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
so many of these older scopes,are getting scrapped we have a few.. there was one made by tek. for example to be sold with TV broadcast gear we cherish here...gave a few others too.. but they do take up roomearly scopes are good to display with early computers... in reality it was needed

Re: Documation card readers for sale

2018-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:23 PM William Donzelli wrote: > > I would love to read Cardamation docs, especially anything relating to > > setting up a modem or a local computer with the serial port > > requirements. Anyone have any? > > You have forgotten that I am the one that cleaned out

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-10 Thread Sam O'nella via cctalk
That's pretty awesome in a desk unit. Always wanted to get a trs or altair desk unit. Hadn't realized there were many more. Unfortunately distance and wife would be prohibitive for my collection. :-( Sent from my Apple /c > On Dec 10, 2018, at 6:10 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: >

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 10

2018-12-10 Thread Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
Yes. Sunos 5.4, Solaris 2.4. I got and installed Solaris 2.6 to replace that, iirc. I also ran Netbsd and OpenBsd on that machine, preferring OpenBSD, iirc the video drivers worked best on the frambuffer I had which was the base model color board. This all happened in the year 2000 or

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-10 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
I'm about an hour drive away and somewhat interested, but I don't have space for the desk unfortunately. -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 9:33 PM Tony Aiuto wrote: > It is close enough to me to rescue, but I really don't have the space to > store

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-10 Thread Tony Aiuto via cctalk
It is close enough to me to rescue, but I really don't have the space to store it. Will anyone take it if I hold it a while? On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 9:24 PM Anders Nelson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Would this system fit in a standard 19" wide equipment rack? > > =] > -- >

Re: DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-10 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Would this system fit in a standard 19" wide equipment rack? =] -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 6:10 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Cribbed from VCF: > > >

Re: Documation card readers for sale

2018-12-10 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
You have forgotten that I am the one that cleaned out Cardamation... -- Will On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 1:02 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:20 AM Ethan Dicks wrote: > > The interesting thing about my M-200 is it has a factory mod... > > A little clarification of

Seeking info for Cardamation parallel-serial board for card reader

2018-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
I have finally begun working with the card reader I picked up at a VCF some years back. Mechanically, it's sound, and the rollers are adequate for short term use (on the top, one is firm and in good shape, the other is starting the slide to goo but is working well enough for short-term testing).

DG Nova 4 for pickup on Lon Gisland

2018-12-10 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Cribbed from VCF: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Data-General-NOVA4-Nova-4-nova-desktop-computer-minicomputer-8-floppy-vintage/332940164292?hash=item4d84c7bcc4:g:2skAAOSwqIhcDrmI:rk:39:razz:f:0 Chuck

Re: GCC for pdp11

2018-12-10 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Hello Paul! When I read this once upon during the summer I saw that the problems I once had reported was solved and it was great news. Really thankful that you did so much work with this! However I know tried to turn on optimizations and then it fails in a strange way. If you have some spare

BIG ol tektronix scope 555 - need it gone - make an offer

2018-12-10 Thread devin davison via cctalk
More of a computer list I know, but I need to clean out and this needs to go soon. Big ol tektronix scope on a cart. Was part of a community workshop, i cleared out all their equipment and have not had the time to repair it. I was planning to go over it and put it to work at my desk, but i decided

Re: Documation card readers for sale

2018-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 10:20 AM Ethan Dicks wrote: > The interesting thing about my M-200 is it has a factory mod... A little clarification of this after more reading. My card reader appears to be an M-600, with an internal Cardamation serial interface ("Feature 92"). I haven't found much in

Re: Documation TM200 card reader - pinch roller restoration

2018-12-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/10/18 7:00 AM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: > I'd rather find a > solution in the $50 range. The CHM 1401 team replaced the rollers on their M1000 and I thought they got them from some source in LA I asked someone on the team about it, and never got a reply.

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/10/18 6:52 AM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Al, why not offer $5 or $10 I made a higher offer than that, still no reply. I've had very little luck making offers on auction items. BIN is a different story. I think eBay changed something so that making an offer on auctions became a

Re: Documation card readers for sale

2018-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:24 PM Kyle Owen wrote: > If anyone here does get one, I've got a simple Arduino UNO program that > interfaces to the parallel output and sends fully decoded information over > USB at quite high speeds. I'm interested in that! I was designing one in my head this

Re: Documation TM200 card reader - pinch roller restoration

2018-12-10 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:40 PM Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Derived from those the correct pinch roller diameter is 27.20 mm. > Notes here: http://everist.org/NobLog/20180922_data_in_holes.htm#rub > > It seems there's a few people who need new M200 rollers. > Once/if I perfect a successful

Re: CDC floppy disks on Ebay.

2018-12-10 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 04:11 PM 9/12/2018 -0800, you wrote: >On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: >> theres a make an offer thing on it why not just use that > >Because a "make an offer" can carry some risks of OFFENDING the seller, if >they had thought that the value was not in the same general

Re: SunOS 2.4 Exploit

2018-12-10 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Ken Seefried wrote: I believe SunOS 2.4 is old enough all you need to do is delete the password hash from /etc/passwd to log in without a password. Please tell me more: what is SunOS 2.4? I know of SunOS (1.x, 2.0, 3.x, 4.x) and Solaris (1.x and 2.x). Or do you mean Solaris