On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 6:01 PM Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> But, I'm sad because no one either has one nor can help me test this
> one. So, I cannot enjoy the thrill of making it say inappropriate stuff :-(
I have several vintage speech ICs, but not that one.
-ethan
On 2/11/2021 6:02 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Most challanging was to figure out to make it say naughty things... and once
you did how it almost caused havoc in AZ
Sounds like a story to add detail around...
But, I'm sad because no one either has one nor can help me test this
one. So,
Well my little TK70 here has been squeaking and it looks like the
capstans are frozen/bad. They don't move up and down and they don't spin
well.
Fortunately I have a dead TK70 with good capstans so I figured I would
swap them. Unfortunately I don't have a maintenance manual (does anyone
have
On 2/12/21 2:10 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> The company I'm thinking of had 5 1/4" drive, and appropriate media
> size. I think your 400 or 500mb size rings familiar.
There were several; the one I'm working with is 470/470MB double-sided
5.25" Very similar in size and looks to a PMC
Jules said
> Personally I like seeing terminals like this though because it seems that
> so few have survived - people will preserve the DEC / HP / Tektronix
> hardware and much of everything else from that very late '60s to mid-70's
> period is long gone.
I can't help either, but one place where
On 2/12/2021 1:30 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 2/12/21 12:21 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Feb 12, 2021, at 3:12 PM, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
There was a company who made a drive with glass media that a friend of ours
repped for.
It used a repurposed CD head
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 21:12, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
>
> My partner passed away about 2 weeks ago and would possibly have
> recalled who it was, but can't ask now. I'll try a scan of our contact
> files and see if "opti" anything shows up.
Oh, I am sorry to hear that. My condolences.
On 2/12/21 12:21 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
>
>> On Feb 12, 2021, at 3:12 PM, jim stephens via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> There was a company who made a drive with glass media that a friend of ours
>> repped for.
>>
>> It used a repurposed CD head which was driven hard enough to write
> On Feb 12, 2021, at 3:12 PM, jim stephens via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
> There was a company who made a drive with glass media that a friend of ours
> repped for.
>
> It used a repurposed CD head which was driven hard enough to write their
> media. it was sold as being able to be written
On 2/12/2021 11:46 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 2/11/21 9:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I have a bunch of Panasonic/Matsushita 470/940 MB phase-change WORM
discs here--and the appropriate drive (Panasonic LF-5010 SCSI-2) to read
them.
After some digging, I did find that
On 2/12/21 1:08 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
Between google and the browser I'm using, the photos didn't display
properly, so I downloaded them (upper right corner), which unzipped to
high-res versions.
I had issues myself, zoom would work, but there seemed to be no obvious
method for
On 2/11/21 9:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> I have a bunch of Panasonic/Matsushita 470/940 MB phase-change WORM
> discs here--and the appropriate drive (Panasonic LF-5010 SCSI-2) to read
> them.
After some digging, I did find that Optisys offered a driver for DOS as
late as 2008, called
and I probably have spare carts.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 2:06 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> I have the controller for this if anyone needs one.
>
> C
>
> On 2/12/2021 11:19 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > This is a mystery.
> > What DEC system used a CDC Sentinel DC300 cartridge
About all I can contribute is that Conrac made TV monitors--I rigged one
up to a system for classroom instruction in the 1970s. I remember that
it was a B 21" model.
--Chuck
On 2021-Feb-12, at 6:08 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> On Feb 12, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hopefully the following link works, but someone over on one of the Facebook
>> vintage groups has this oddball terminal from 1973 that they've been looking
>>
I have the controller for this if anyone needs one.
C
On 2/12/2021 11:19 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
This is a mystery.
What DEC system used a CDC Sentinel DC300 cartridge tape drive?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computer-DEC-BY5A5-E-Tape-Drive-77-014320/313416738022
On 2/12/21 8:08 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
The photos are not particularly helpful; they show parts of the device
but not close enough to tell the details, while much of the case is not
shown. Is there any manufacturer label or serial number tag on the
case?
I'll see if I can get him to share
On 2/12/21 10:05 AM, William Sudbrink wrote:
Sort of reminds me of a DataPoint 2200. Clone maybe?
I see what you're saying, but I don't think there's much in the way of
brains to this thing, though (unlike the 2200, which I believe was an
"actual computer") - it's just a terminal. From what
Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
On 2021-02-11 10:55 p.m., Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
This decade seems to have increased the number of failing things in
such a way that the "to be repaired" backlog is growing much faster
than I can get to diminish it. Argh. A month ago my trusty
there is a nice table in this to show the differences between ST506 and ESDI
https://www.ardent-tool.com/misc/Evolution_of_ESDI.html
The TK25 IIRC
Nigel
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept!
Skype: TILBURY2591 nw.john...@ieee.org
On 2021-02-12 11:19 a.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> This is a mystery.
> What DEC system used a CDC Sentinel DC300
This is a mystery.
What DEC system used a CDC Sentinel DC300 cartridge tape drive?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Computer-DEC-BY5A5-E-Tape-Drive-77-014320/313416738022
On 2/12/21 8:12 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 2/12/21 7:04 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
I am pretty sure that my controller is the IBM Enhanced ESDI board and
having support for it in Linux is probably unlikely. But perhaps it is the
WD1007
It is not WD. It is IBM's own design using
On 02/12/2021 09:04 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
I am a bit confused about the READ GATE. It has to be deasserted
in the PLO SYNC interval. Why is that? I am clearly missing something.
ESDI has a clock separator built into the drive, with logic
to decode the data format and convert
to
On 2/12/21 7:04 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
I am pretty sure that my controller is the IBM Enhanced ESDI board and
having support for it in Linux is probably unlikely. But perhaps it is the
WD1007
It is not WD. It is IBM's own design using an Adaptec controller
and a 8031
Sort of reminds me of a DataPoint 2200. Clone maybe?
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules
Richardson via cctalk
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2021 7:50 AM
To: xx Classiccmp mailing list
Subject: Mystery (unusual) 1973 terminal
Hi all,
On 2/12/21 4:50 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-2uEFbi3OKBYr06y6yHnygDiLMtw2Qkj
Bumping up a level and looking at the other computers in the collection should
give you
a good idea who it is, in particular the Tek board bucket and the build of
I am pretty sure that my controller is the IBM Enhanced ESDI board and
having support for it in Linux is probably unlikely. But perhaps it is the
WD1007, I am not sure until I checked and it is 100 km away right now.
Anyway I did some reading of the ESDI spec. There are things that I really
like
> On Feb 12, 2021, at 7:50 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully the following link works, but someone over on one of the Facebook
> vintage groups has this oddball terminal from 1973 that they've been looking
> for any information on:
>
>
Hi all,
Hopefully the following link works, but someone over on one of the Facebook
vintage groups has this oddball terminal from 1973 that they've been
looking for any information on:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-2uEFbi3OKBYr06y6yHnygDiLMtw2Qkj
... it's somewhat
On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, carlos_muri...@ieee.org wrote:
to diminish it. Argh. A month ago my trusty HP9000/380 ran just fine and I
[...]
on; the power supply is dead. So I unracked the pile of drives and the
computer, checked for obvious things (the fuse is fine, and nothing in the
power supply
31 matches
Mail list logo
