New batch of items from the Virtual Warehouse of Computing Wonders

2018-12-28 Thread Sellam Ismail via cctalk
Hello Folks! Here is another batch of goodies from the Warehouse: Micropolis MicroDisk Maintenance Manual Catalog of Public Domain Software for CP/M Book 1 & 2 Wabash 8" Floppy Disk 10-pack (shrinkwrapped) Sony MD-2D 5.25" Floppy Diskette 10-pack (shrinkwrapped) Kraft 3-button Mouse PDP-11 BASIC-

Re: straight 8 tape on ebay

2018-12-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
In particular, these are for a Teradyne IC tester "mjeffs" has been selling trays of tapes for a while, I bought this one https://www.ebay.com/itm/283247926027 because it has the source for Brooklyn Poly BASIC, something Richie Lary worked on On 12/27/18 9:40 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrot

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-28 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 12/27/2018 1:53 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 12/27/18 10:32 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: If you want something that can easily be shipped and moved around one option is a Qualstar 1052. I wasn't impressed with the quality and performance of those. I gave away the ones I had. They

Harris Mini's (was: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11)

2018-12-28 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Dec 27, 2018, at 11:30 AM, Kyle Owen via cctalk > wrote: > > I have a bunch of tapes from some Harris minicomputer that I'd like to > digitize at some point. I finally got around to digitizing the paper tapes. > > Thanks! > > Kyle Any clues on what? In the late 80’s I used a Harris Mi

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-28 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/28/18 10:46 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > I have a Qualstar 1260 (Pertec Interface) and connected it to a > PDP-11/23 with an Emulex TC02.  It was fun to see it spin the tape and > read/write data.  I could just imagine what torture it was to collect > data or install operating syst

Re: Harris Mini's (was: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11)

2018-12-28 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
I almost remembered, had to look it up to confirm 81, the 48bit system they carried on when they bought the original company that had made them and the Vulcan OS. Not a bad scientific and instrumentation machine. What was the original company Datacraft or something? bob On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 3:4

Re: Harris Mini's (was: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11)

2018-12-28 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
I didn’t realize they were 48-bit, though I seem to remember them being 24-bit. The system I used was more “logistics” and general purpose ADP. I spent a *LOT* of time using the MUSE word processor. Zane > On Dec 28, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Bob Smith wrote: > > I almost remembered, had to look

Re: Harris Mini's

2018-12-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 12/28/18 1:19 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote: > What was the original company Datacraft or something? > bob correct

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-28 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: I can remember hopping the "noon balloon" out of San Jose with a large Samsonite briefcase full of tapes (you could carry 6 reels in it; I still have the case. It was often the best and least expensive way to get a mass of sensitive data cross-

Re: straight 8 tape on ebay

2018-12-28 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
txs for posting ur link had another tray with tapes for 34$ buy it now On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 1:47 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > In particular, these are for a Teradyne IC tester > > "mjeffs" has been selling trays of tapes for a while, I bought this one > https://www.ebay.com/itm/2832479260

CDC transistor boards

2018-12-28 Thread Peter Van Peborgh via cctalk
Gentlemen of advanced years who can remember CDC, cradle of Cray. Can you tell me which CDC computer type these three boards belonged to? It is for labeling purposes in my personal museum. https://postimg.cc/crJHv3Lt https://postimg.cc/Z0HnYH4h https://postimg.cc/6TtTNgs0 I am sure this will b

Re: CDC transistor boards

2018-12-28 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
The second one is a 6000 mainframe "cordwood" module. It should have a two-letter module type code on the front. The third looks like small bits cut from such a cordwood module (my wife has some earrings made that way) but it may be they are actually complete items. If so, I don't recognize t

Re: SCSI for HP 9000/380

2018-12-28 Thread Dennis Grevenstein via cctalk
Hi, I do remember that when installing HP-UX 9 and earlier, you could not mix and match SCSI and HP-IB. If you boot from HP-IB you can install on HP-IB, if you boot from SCSI, you can install on a SCSI disk. That may be a limitation in the installer. Once you have everything installed, you can use

Re: CDC transistor boards

2018-12-28 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/28/18 12:42 PM, Peter Van Peborgh via cctech wrote: > Gentlemen of advanced years who can remember CDC, cradle of Cray. > > Can you tell me which CDC computer type these three boards belonged to? It > is for labeling purposes in my personal museum. > > https://postimg.cc/crJHv3Lt > https:

Re: WTD: 9 track open reel for PDP-11

2018-12-28 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 12/28/18 2:57 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > But, not quite as much bandwidth as a station wagon full of tapes > hurtling down the highway. I once rode on an USAF general's jet with a load of 844 packs. That probably was pretty good bandwidth for the time... One thing that escapes many w

Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-28 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Being the 50th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 8, I was watching a newly-uploaded informational film of the mission on Youtube: https://youtu.be/83cGclY9OZk?t=1092 At 18:02 and 18:13 there are what appeasr to be small blue/green tabletop printers on trolleys positioned next to the consoles.

Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-28 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
have u seen the agc being fired up videos On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 6:37 PM Steve Malikoff via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Being the 50th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 8, I was watching a > newly-uploaded informational film of the mission on Youtube: > https://youtu.be/83cGclY9OZ

Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-28 Thread Cory Heisterkamp via cctalk
Reminds me of a few years ago when I bought some odds and ends out of a NASA engineer's estate on the space coast. In the mix was a Selectric I/O service manual (with NASA Prop stamps). What struck me as unusual was that it was for the keyboard-less version. Yes, even though it was output-only,

TEK 512 scope

2018-12-28 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
A few weeks ago Devon had a 555, which I've had years ago. I have never seen a 512 before, so I picked it up. Anyone here need one, or links to TEK lists? Feel free to repost. AS is, where is, zip 61853. Thanks, Paul

Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-28 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2018-Dec-28, at 4:43 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > have u seen the agc being fired up videos Yes, videos from list member curiousMarc : Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KSahAoOLdU He's up to Episode 5, the others should show up in subsequent links from the 1st.

Re: Original AGC restoration / was Re: Apollo 8 Mission Control printers, or not?

2018-12-28 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
amazing how well they built that stuff though On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:00 PM Brent Hilpert via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2018-Dec-28, at 4:43 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > > have u seen the agc being fired up videos > > > Yes, videos from list member curiousMarc : >

Re: OCR old software listing.

2018-12-28 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2018-12-26 4:29 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Finally I got hold of the sources for the PDP-11 SPACE WAR that was > submitted to DECUS by Bill Seiler. > > The format is scans of the PAL-11S listing output. It is easy to crop the > image to only contain actual source. Then running OCR on i

RE: TEK 512 scope

2018-12-28 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
does it have rca number and plate on back paul? Sent from AOL Mobile Mail On Friday, December 28, 2018 Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote: A few weeks ago Devon had a 555, which I've had years ago.  I have never seen a 512 before, so I picked it up. Anyone here need one, or links to TEK lists? Feel

Re: OCR old software listing.

2018-12-28 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2018-12-29 12:47 AM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > On 2018-12-26 4:29 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: >> Finally I got hold of the sources for the PDP-11 SPACE WAR that was >> submitted to DECUS by Bill Seiler. >> >> The format is scans of the PAL-11S listing output. It is easy to crop the >>