RE: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-23 Thread Alan Frisbie via cctalk
Guy Dunphy wrote: > Ditto for a service/schematics manual for the Documation > TM200 punch card reader. No copy can be found. I don't know about the TM200, but I have the technical manual for the Documation M-200 card reader. If that will help you, I would be happy to scan it for you. It is a

PDP stuff in MA--attn collectors

2019-07-23 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
Charlie at Qei Inc in MA is an old-time DEC dealer from back in the day. I asked him if he has any PDP stuff left, and he said yes. He much prefers emails. He works from pictures and lists of PN or model numbers. Send your requests to qei...@verizon.net. Large items will need to be picked up.

wanted: scan of Rockwell R6500 Programming Manual, Rev 2, January 1983

2019-07-23 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
I'm looking for a scan (or hard copy) of the later revision of the Rockwell R6500 Programmming Manual which includes coverage of the additional R65C02 instructions. I believe this is Rev 2 dated January 1983. There are several different scans of the original revision that did not cover the R65C02,

Sgi crimson for sale

2019-07-23 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Hello, Havent posted here for a while. I usually post about pdp11 and vax stuff. I am big into sgi equipment, I have many deskside coputers and a full onyx 1000 rack. I have just about every machine in the sgi linup and I need to clear out most of my big sgi stuff. I was big into the nekochan foru

Old test equip for sale

2019-07-23 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
https://www.elecshopper.com/tools/b-k-1077b-television-analyst.html https://www.elecshopper.com/tools/heathkit-it-18-transistor-checker.html https://www.elecshopper.com/tools/home-brew-dc-milliamp-box.html https://www.elecshopper.com/tools/micronta-digital-multimeter.html Cindy Croxton Elec

Re: Sgi crimson for sale

2019-07-23 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 12:32 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: > I am big into sgi equipment, I have many deskside coputers and a full onyx > 1000 rack. I have just about every machine in the sgi linup and I need to > clear out most of my big sgi stuff. I was big into the nekochan forums, but >

Re: Sgi crimson for sale

2019-07-23 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Located in melbourne florida. Willing to crate and ship if needed. Most of the big stuff was shipped here from california and saint augustine fl. Only what i listed in the previous email is for sale. Sadly no personal iris, challenge, etc systems. Oh , there is a 4 node sgi altix system with numa

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-23 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 21, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 07/21/2019 05:16 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote: >> What dpi qualifies as not "crappy"? 300dpi? 400? 600? >> >> > Most of the text of these documents don't need super high resolution. But, > some contain hand

Re: DEC Pro380 problems

2019-07-23 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 19, 2019, at 10:52 PM, Eric Dittman via cctalk > wrote: > > I pulled my Pro380 out of storage after getting a replacement > VR201 monitor. I connected it all together and on powerup I > get the following display: > > http://www.dittman.net/pro380/screen.jpg > > The tech manual say

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-23 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Paul etc said >> On Jul 21, 2019, at 12:16 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> On 07/21/2019 05:16 AM, Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote: >>> What dpi qualifies as not "crappy"? 300dpi? 400? 600? >>> >>> >> Most of the text of these documents don't need super high resolution. But, >>

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-23 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Jul 20, 2019, at 8:00 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: >> While I agree that making a non-optimal digital copy in such cases, is, >> well, non-optimal (because for _many uses_, the basic information is still >> available, wheras for many important documents, not even that remains), >> there's

Re: Scanning question (Is destruction of old tech docs a moral crime?)

2019-07-23 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 07:07 PM 23/07/2019 -0700, you wrote: >Nonetheless, comparing some small amount of lost information It's not a 'small amount of lost information', because destroying rare technical works in order to scan them, or afterwards because "now they are scanned there's no need to keep the paper copy