Thanks for putting it up. First time I've logged
onto old Unix in decades (should try getting my copy of V6 up on simh).
Have a couple of RasberryPi's kicking around that
just fired up once to play with. Only part that
simulation doesn't let you do is to connect up
all sorts of lab hardware t
>
> The same is true for the HP 7970B tape drives, I even have a 9-track 7970B
> that can be switched between 200, 556 and 800 bpi. I only need a 7-track
> head...
>
> Christian
>
The DEC TU20 tape drive is an HP 7975A 200, 556, and 800 BPI transport with
additional electronics to to connect it to
Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Aug 8, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk
wrote:
On Aug 7, 2019, at 22:18, Adam Thornton wrote:
https://mvsevm.fsf.net
Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
no passwords.
Please treat the dmr account respectf
On Aug 8, 2019, at 16:52, Zane Healy wrote:
>
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk
> wrote:
>> One of the things I have found with the Pi is, the low end micro SD cards
>> (P*tr**t and K*ngst*n would match the ones that did this) are lossy storage.
>> It’s not that they we
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 10:18 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
> no passwords.
>
> Please treat the dmr account respectfully.
>
> I will get to account requests…eventually, probab
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 4:29 PM, Frank McConnell via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 22:18, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>
>> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>>
>> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr
>> have no passwords.
>>
>> Please treat the dmr account respectf
On Aug 7, 2019, at 22:18, Adam Thornton wrote:
>
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
> no passwords.
>
> Please treat the dmr account respectfully.
>
> I will get to account requests…eventually, probably. TImeliness is not
At 10:18 PM 7/08/2019 -0700, you wrote:
>https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>Adam
WELCOME TO THE ANCIENT COMPUTER MVSEVM
All systems are emulated, on Raspberry Pi and Linux.
1: Multics MR 12.6f (Honeywell 6800 DPS-8/M)
2: TOPS-20 7.1 (PDP-10 KL-10)
3: TOPS-10 7.03 (PDP-10 KA-10)
4: ITS (PDP-10 KA-10)
5: Open
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On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:51 PM ben wrote:
> On 8/8/2019 12:26 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
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> > Even the crappiest of crap SD cards these days aren't that fragile.
> > You'd need to swap on the order of GB/s to wear it out that fast. Most
> > of the SD cards can handle hundreds of full drive writes.
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 2:33 PM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> wrote:
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>
>
>> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, you might be able to DOS my Raspberry Pi. Maybe you could break out
>> of simh and start using the Pi itself to mine bitcoins.
>
> I k
On 8/8/2019 12:26 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
Even the crappiest of crap SD cards these days aren't that fragile.
You'd need to swap on the order of GB/s to wear it out that fast. Most
of the SD cards can handle hundreds of full drive writes. At 128GB,
you're looking at needing to generate about ~2
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Yeah, you might be able to DOS my Raspberry Pi. Maybe you could break out
> of simh and start using the Pi itself to mine bitcoins.
I know you’re joking around, but IoT gadgets and other small devices are being
exploited
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:26 PM Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:20 PM ben via cctalk
> wrote:
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>> On 8/8/2019 7:59 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 8 Aug 2019, at 15:18, Adam Thornton via cctalk <
>> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> https://mvsevm.
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 12:20 PM ben via cctalk
wrote:
> On 8/8/2019 7:59 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 8 Aug 2019, at 15:18, Adam Thornton via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
> >>
> >> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and th
On 8/8/2019 7:59 AM, Huw Davies via cctalk wrote:
On 8 Aug 2019, at 15:18, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote:
https://mvsevm.fsf.net
Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
no passwords.
Just logged into TOPS-10 for the first time in many years! Far too
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 1:56 PM, cctalk via cctalk wrote:
>
> The Computer Museum of America in Roswell GA (400 miles) has 2 working 029s.
> Don’t know the condition of the ribbons. Contact Lonnie Simms via
> i...@computermuseumofamerica.org. Tell him his CA IBM benefactor sent you.
> I hop
The Computer Museum of America in Roswell GA (400 miles) has 2 working 029s.
Don’t know the condition of the ribbons. Contact Lonnie Simms via
i...@computermuseumofamerica.org. Tell him his CA IBM benefactor sent you. I
hope you have black cards. If not, let me know.
Otherwise you could try
The same is true with the TU20.
> On Aug 7, 2019, at 10:06 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
>
> I think you could change heads in a TU10 and add or take out a few boards.
> I've worked on 7 and 9 track versions in the day.
>
>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:43 PM Michael Thompson via cctech
>> wrote:
>>
On 8/8/2019 12:21 PM, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote:
Yeah, you might be able to DOS my Raspberry Pi. Maybe you could break out
of simh and start using the Pi itself to mine bitcoins.
That could cost me like literally dozens of cents worth of power.
I suppose I should be a little concerned tha
Yeah, you might be able to DOS my Raspberry Pi. Maybe you could break out
of simh and start using the Pi itself to mine bitcoins.
That could cost me like literally dozens of cents worth of power.
I suppose I should be a little concerned that once you've broken out of the
simulation into the Pi,
On 8/8/19 12:25 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Michael Thompson wrote:
>> can be connected to both 7-track and 9-track drives. The TU20 drive on
>> the
>> PDP-9 at the RICM is a 7-track drive. The only difference between the
>> 7-track and 9-track versions of the TU20 i
This wound up in my junk mail folder
Sent from my iPad
> On Jul 15, 2019, at 11:29 PM, Kevin Parker via cctalk
> wrote:
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> May be of interest to some list members
>
>
>
> https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48962557
>
>
>
>
>
> Kevin Parker
>
> 0418 815 527
>
>
>
>From the layout and text font, I'd guess Sundstrand (CNC machine company)
but usually they put their logo/name on boards. I only have Unibus
Sundstrand boards in the shop at the moment, but none of them have that B
logo. Wouldn't be surprised if the B logo is from whoever made the boards,
as in th
Hey all --
Got a PDP-8/A at VCFW this past weekend. It's an OEM model sans programmer
panel and was apparently used in a CNC application. It contains a board
I'm trying to ID. It says "PDP-8/A CONSOLE ROM" on it and has no other
identifying marks other than a logo on the back. See the pictures
Be careful eh about posting credentials right to a public mailing list like eh
Sent from my iPad
> On Aug 8, 2019, at 12:18 AM, Adam Thornton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
> no passwords.
>
>
> On 8 Aug 2019, at 15:18, Adam Thornton via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr have
> no passwords.
Just logged into TOPS-10 for the first time in many years! Far too much brain
bit rot but it will encou
Den tors 8 aug. 2019 kl 13:01 skrev Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org>:
> On 8/7/19 3:07 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> > > From: Paul Anderson
> >
> > > $325??
> >
>
>
I have some KL8A with the 4 DSUB BC08W cable in case someone want to trade
for something interes
On 8/7/19 3:07 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> > From: Paul Anderson
>
> > $325??
>
> Well, they did list it with a 'Best Offer'. I figure the third time they get
> an offer of US$100 (or whatever the thing is actually worth, I don't track
> PDP-8 board values), it might become cle
for example how many can be on the tops 10 system at a time?
this is neat! #
In a message dated 8/7/2019 11:30:35 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
> https://mvsevm.fsf.net
>
> Currently, the TOPS-10 guest account (42,42) and the Unix v7 account dmr
> have no password
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Michael Thompson wrote:
can be connected to both 7-track and 9-track drives. The TU20 drive on the
PDP-9 at the RICM is a 7-track drive. The only difference between the
7-track and 9-track versions of the TU20 is the tape head. All of the tape
drive electronics is the same for
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