Re: Firing up the pdt11

2020-10-14 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:29 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > I do have a card around here called an RXV21 from Plessy or something > like that, maybe it could talk to an RX01 drive and format the disks? > Several of the 3rd party controllers could low level format disks. For example:

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 10/14/20 8:07 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Last Mon, Oct 12th. The last message I received from the mailing list was on Oct 1st. The last message I see (prior to mine) from geeks@sunhelp was last Thursday, October 8th. so I take it the original domain went down on Oct 11th at ~7am; OTOH

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail > > queue. > > When did you send your message? I'm trying to judge when the problem started. Last Mon, Oct 12th. The last message I received from the mailing list was on Oct 1st.

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 10/14/20 4:08 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: Hi, Hi, I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail queue. When did you send your message? I'm trying to judge when the problem started. Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along with

HP1000 A990, A900, & A600 systems, parts, pieces, cable, panels, connectors... etc for sale

2020-10-14 Thread Jesse Dougherty via cctalk
I'm getting in a lot of the HP1000 systems and parts in next week. If anyone needs any 1k A990, A900, & A600 systems, CPU, memory & interface cards, cables, panels, connectors or anything else associated with those lines, let me know as I probably have them. Just note that I'm a re-seller and

Re: Maynard MaynStream

2020-10-14 Thread Sean Ellis via cctalk
That'd be a pretty cool accessory to have as part of my retro homelab. I don't think it's really ever been documented, either from a quick search online. On 10/13/20, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote: > I have a Maynard MaynStream tape backup unit from the 1980's. > > It uses audio-format cassettes

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread Sean Ellis via cctalk
Thanks Al. For those of you not on LisaList I've uploaded the ZIP to OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXzHz2ZC305hscHvjo3mOu8loaSxw?e=uOFV9G The one downside is that while the disks seem to read error-free, it needs an activation key which I don't have. I have to wonder if the info on OS/2 Museum

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread John Klos via cctalk
There is no content on any other those sites, and some goto malware it seems.. So .. Having known bill for 15+ years.. yeah hard break for him.. rip..respect. Well, I'm happy to host any of Bill's content forever. If you visit the sites as they are, you'll see content based on the current

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 73, Issue 13

2020-10-14 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
I agree that whether a student learns has much more to do with the student than what in particular they're studying. I quit my undergraduate physics degree when I had a moment of clarity that even if I managed to squeak through my Partial Differential Equations class with a C (I did) I'd still be

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Kevin Lee via cctalk
There is no content on any other those sites, and some goto malware it seems.. So .. Having known bill for 15+ years.. yeah hard break for him.. rip..respect. > On 14 Oct 2020, at 22:08, John Klos via cctalk wrote: > >> I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail >> queue. Upon

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread John Klos via cctalk
I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail queue. Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'. I can still reach Bill

Re: Searching for (DOS?) Backup Software

2020-10-14 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
maybe there is an OEM version or driver that can read a tape formatted by Genoa without need for the software but yah, does not ring a bell. At that time I used Colorado something or another. Bill On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 12:25 PM Patrik Schindler via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >

Searching for (DOS?) Backup Software

2020-10-14 Thread Patrik Schindler via cctalk
Hello, anyone heard of Genoa GenWare Backup Software and probably has a copy floating around? Someone was asking me to restore tapes, and the original diskettes aren't readable anymore. https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Books/Business/IDX/1987-04-OCR-Page-0107.pdf :wq! PoC

Re: Looking For Computer Automation LSI-3/05 Documentation

2020-10-14 Thread TangentDelta via cctalk
I actually just found those documents the other day. There's a lot of stuff there that isn't anywhere else! They've been extremely helpful in identifying and working with a pair of LSI 4/30 systems that were previously unidentified. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 13,

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/14/20 8:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested? please get these to

Re: Maynard MaynStream

2020-10-14 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 01:08, Van Snyder wrote: > I'll send it for a PDF of a shipping label for a 20" x 10" x 10" 10lb box, > your choice of carrier. That is a very kind offer and I appreciate your generosity, but I think perhaps you mistake what I was trying to say. It's too old to be of

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/14/20 8:09 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested? please get these to ray arachelian

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/13/20 6:53 PM, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested? please get these to ray arachelian https://lisalist2.com/index.php/board,1.0.html

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
Would be interesting to see, as I am stuck working with Informix on a daily basis. (: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 13:39, geneb via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: > > > Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix > > 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-14 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Sean Ellis via cctalk wrote: Just wanted to let you all know that I've found a copy of Informix 3.11 for SCO XENIX on the Lisa 2... anyone interested? YES! :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Diane Bruce wrote: > He was an old friend of mine he died August 15 2019 of cancer. :-( > https://www.gray329.org/bro-william-c-bradford-1974-2019/ So sorry to hear that. :( Maciej

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Diane Bruce via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:08:00AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail > queue. Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along > with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been

Re: FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
Umm, Bill passed away a bit over a year ago. May he rest in peace. He had said that there was some sort of plan to hand off Sunhelp, but I'm not sure what happened. Patrick Finnegan On Wed, Oct 14, 2020, 06:08 Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I posted to

FYI sunhelp.org down

2020-10-14 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk
Hi, I posted to and saw my message got stuck in the mail queue. Upon a further inspection I saw that the domain has expired along with `mrbill.net' where the nameservers used to reside and both have been taken by someone else, taking the name service down for `sunhelp.org'. I can still