Antonio,
Happy to take one. Can collect. Be a nice companion for VAX and IBM P390. Keep
hearing of Alphas but nothing has appeared.
Dave
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I have three AlphaServer 2100 systems in storage in the UK
(Oxfordshire). The storage, however, is due to be demolished (soon, but
no fixed date).
I won't have room to store these three systems, so if anyone would be
interested in offering them a home, then please get in touch!
I can proba
I (via Purdue surplus) had some NCR Worldmark 5500's (5 refrigerator sized
cabinets each with two MCA bus mulit-processor Pentium Pro systems, and a
total of 4TB of storage, back when that was about 1000 disks). I still have
the mutli-cpu Pentium box that was the management system for that, but it
That was it: MP-RAS. It was neat, kind of good, but to be honest Windows
NT 3.51 and 4.0 ran very well on it.
Just weighed a literal ton. For all I know it's still in the basement of
their Dupont Center office (now long closed)
C
On 7/21/2020 11:50 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
Wow, would love to
I was looking for confirmed broken, not just "this is from X system
untested" - I have a real aversion to wasting potentially usable hardware
for restorations myself.
I might recommend the russian UAV ones that seem to be up on ebay if
there's nothing else around
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:05 AM
Wow, would love to have a machine like that. The “weird unix” was probably
MP-RAS which was NCR’s SysVr4. NCR was selling massive x86 MCA systems for
Terradata setups in the early ‘90s.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 8:54 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> Now in terms of the most MANLY system I worke
In theory console can be set to anything but its usually 9600/8/n/1 as I’m
sure you’ve tried.
Progress last night.
Pulled the NVRAM (STM M48Y59 or something) and threw it in the Needham
EMP-100. Read contents, nothing that looked like any sort of config
really. I noticed on the mainboard th
Text tapes for my Nicolet always set bit 8. The binary is mixed. Some text the
extra bit is used for parity checking. It varies It is good to read everything.
you can always post process whatever you get. You can't process what you don't
read.
Dwight
From: cctal
As I think about it, I guess capturing an unknown ASCII 1" tape using 8-bit
(not 7 bit) makes the most sense as this will ensure I get everything.
WHen I compare and contrast I see the 8bit grabs the same data as the 7bit
capture, plus the extra 1 bit tacked on.
I am learning as I go, that's the f
At 01:18 PM 7/20/2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>>>Bela Lubkin
>>Waait. Is this somehow related to the Armory?
>
>I know Bela, and will be picking it up from him tonight
I knew him back in the Amiga days, and just a few years ago
I was looking at my class roster from Shorewood (WI) Intermed
At 04:35 AM 7/21/2020, Gary Sparkes via cctalk wrote:
>Anyone? even if it's physically broken
You don't like the ones on eBay?
- John
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 01:41:53PM -0700, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote:
> I have never had Windows stop working despite not activating it and have
> gone at least 6 months without doing so. Despite now working for MS, I
> don't know the ins and outs of Windows activation. (I work on embedded
>
What I want to do is take an unknown nm own tape and read it correctly.
Bill
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020, 3:14 AM Mike Douglas via cctalk
wrote:
> I’ve used Teraterm to receive and save binary paper tapes and ASCII paper
> tapes to files using the log function without any problem. When you say
> receiv
fixed version at
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/t11/EK-DCTEM-UG-001_DCT-EM_Users_Guide_Sep1983.pdf
name changed to differentiate it from other copies on the web
Anyone? even if it's physically broken
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From: Gary Sparkes
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 7:00 PM
Subject: Looking for BAD / Faulty core memory for a display piece
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Unrepairable preferred
It'll be going into
I’ve used Teraterm to receive and save binary paper tapes and ASCII paper tapes
to files using the log function without any problem. When you say receive “into
an ASCII file,” what is the ASCII requirement you’re trying to satisfy? What is
on the tape - text or binary data?
Mike
Awesome. Sounds like it's in good hands.
Thanx, all!
RJL
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 10:18 AM Bob Smith wrote:
> Bela Lubkin
>
> We have a winner! Al Kossow does want it -- he didn't say whether for
> Bitsavers or Computer History Museum...
> 2 · Like · React · Reply · More · Yesterday at 4:53 AM
> W
I don't use a windows machine for either serial of parallel. I use a machine
that can boot to DOS directly, not a dos window in windows.
I use my own programs written in Forth to transfer them to files. Some need
other things like headers and such.
I put the files on a 3.5 floppy and then use a U
https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/papertape
Python scripts for working with papertape, including tapein.py. Pass it the
COM port and baud rate as arguments. I have not run it on windows but
should work, I have digitized a significant number of tapes with this
software.
As far as flow control
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