[cctalk] Re: Valuable floppy archiving: seeking current best practice

2024-10-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> MSX-DOS was created by Tim Paterson as a port to Z80 of MS-DOS 1.25.  The > rest, > and hardware, was primarily Japanese, but later marketed everywhere except > USA. I remember a handful of MSX-type systems in the USA, though, and some were widely advertised, like the pre-/almost-MSX Spectra

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

2024-10-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> A Data General MV/8000 emulator beta release is now available from my DG >>> legacy preservation web site: >>> >>> www.NovasAreForever.org >> >> Very good. Will there be source code, for those of us not on x86 or ARM? >> > > This is a new emulator that uses parts of our commercial product stuf

[cctalk] Re: Data General MV/8000 emulator announcement

2024-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> A Data General MV/8000 emulator beta release is now available from my DG > legacy preservation web site: > > www.NovasAreForever.org Very good. Will there be source code, for those of us not on x86 or ARM? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --

[cctalk] Re: LCM auction

2024-08-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Any ideas on how to become a billionaire? > > The joke doesn't work as well this way, but the old Texas joke > was "how do you become a Texas oil millionaire? Start by being > a Texas oil billionaire." Insert Ross Perot joke here. -- personal: http://ww

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-08-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> It's 8P8C with a little offset snag >>> reminiscent of a DEC MMJ, but it's the width of an RJ-11: while an "RJ-45" >>> Ethernet cable is too wide, a phone handset cord is the right width even >>> though >>> it obviously doesn't have enough connectors. I messed around with filing >>> down

[cctalk] Re: MS-DOS

2024-07-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Ironically, one of the colleges that I taught at was "Vista College". while > Windows Vista was still "in bloom", they went about changing the name of the > college to "Berkeley City College", in spite of my pleas to keep the name > "Vista" for a while longer, at least in parallel, to cash in o

[cctalk] Re: Old vintage computing magazine/newsletters

2024-07-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> But yeah, I just wondered if you guys think generally this stuff *should& be > considered valuable - given most/all is archived online. It's nice for browsing, and sometimes scanning if the online copy wasn't so good, but online is better for searching, of course. That said, I have a good por

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Patch cords…for banjos?? Telco service line sets, often called buttsets or banjos. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> It's 8P8C with a little offset snag >> reminiscent of a DEC MMJ, but it's the width of an RJ-11: while an >"RJ-45" >> Ethernet cable is too wide, a phone handset cord is the right width >even >> though >> it obviously doesn't have enough connectors. I messed around with >filing >> down a

[cctalk] Re: 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > I'm trying to source a new I/O cable for a Convergent WorkSlate (this > > one is grody from degenerating plasticizers). It's 8P8C with a little > > offset snag reminiscent of a DEC MMJ, but it's the width of an RJ-11: > > while an "RJ-45" Ethernet cable is too wide, a phone handset cord i

[cctalk] 8P8C but width of an RJ-11

2024-07-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I'm trying to source a new I/O cable for a Convergent WorkSlate (this one is grody from degenerating plasticizers). It's 8P8C with a little offset snag reminiscent of a DEC MMJ, but it's the width of an RJ-11: while an "RJ-45" Ethernet cable is too wide, a phone handset cord is the right width even

[cctalk] Re: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)

2024-06-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> I used 1620s, and 360/30s, a 360/40, and others as a personal >> computer at times, for things like writing a Tim Conway game of life, >> keeping track of my vinyl records, etc. > > It's like John Conway's "game of life," but more prone to cause > uncontrollable fits of laughter. You owe me a n

[cctalk] Re: terminology [was: First Personal Computer]

2024-05-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> You rap the drive to get it unstuck, but if you rap it too hard > the machine would reset. I think I had a co-worker like that once. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.co

[cctalk] Re: Random items on Pascal #4

2024-05-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> At NCC - Anaheim, I bought John Draper lunch (I never exercised with him) So what you're saying is, you increased his energy level. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com

[cctalk] Re: Z80 vs other microprocessors of the time.

2024-04-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I shared an office with a lady who got a computer from Ohio Scientific > that had both a Z80 and a 6502. The Commodore 128 says hi. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -

[cctalk] Someone with ExpressPCB: can you convert these to Gerbers?

2024-03-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I'm trying to build some prototype Tomy Tutor cartridges of my own but I'm all thumbs in KiCad, and while prefab ones exist that I can just add an EPROM to, they're in ExpressPCB and PCBWay wants Gerbers. This Mac won't run ExpressPCB, or at least not in a way that wouldn't involve a significant ex

[cctalk] Re: How to shutdown RT11?

2024-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> You say that like fsck is reliable now... There's a reason it's only one letter off. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- Premature optimization is the root of all e

[cctalk] Allied Telesyn stuff was Re: Cleanup time again

2024-03-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Here's something operators of older systems might find useful. >> >> Allied Telesis CentreCOM 210TS Twisted Pair Transciever >>     IEE 802.3 10 BASE-T (MAU) >> >> I have 14 used and another 14 still in the box, never been opened. >> > > > Wow!!!   Maybe I should try eBay again.  I was g

[cctalk] CommonPoint for AIX

2024-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Just a ping out there to see if anyone's sitting on installation media for CommonPoint (the last gasp of Taligent). Seems appropriate to try to coerce it to run on an Apple Network Server. Let me know on or off list as appropriate. -- personal: http://www.came

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

2023-09-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Interesting. So you still have got the hostid and the MAC address which might > indicate, that the contents are not completely lost yet. Maybe just a few > bits flipped leading to a wrong checksum (and the diag-switch? being set to > true, leading to lng POST times)? Maybe, but it also sa

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole/RDI UltraBooks - UNIX notebooks - species needs rescue...

2023-09-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Do anyone out there have got UltraBooks or UltraBooks IIi up and running? > Would > highly be interested in a dump of the NVRAM/Timekeeper!!! > > The failed first generation UltraBook are (DS1643 NVRAM): > (*) U20-14-9-512P with three (!!) hard drives, no battery port > (*) U20-14-3-128B two h

[cctalk] Re: Silly question about S-100 and video monitors

2023-09-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I did manage to get one of those stickers off in one piece. I stored > it on the backing paper of some rub-down letter transfers (remember > those?) and never put it back after I completed the > modifications/repairs. My idea was I'd put it on a unit I'd been > inside if I did want to claim on th

[cctalk] Re: Apple 1

2023-08-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Personally I use my IMSAI somewhat regularly, thats my favorite computer > from the mid 70s. I have an IMSAI as well, but for me my favourite computer of that era is the KIM-1, and that's such a simple design there are tons of reimplementations (though I prefer the original since some of them

[cctalk] Re: 50 pins in three rows

2023-08-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Anyone seen those before, and is it actually SCSI, or is it something else? > Common on old Sun SCSI stuff, it's a DD-50. Could be something else, but they > were indeed used for SCSI termination. Given what else was in there, this makes sense, and they look exactly like a SCSI terminator s

[cctalk] 50 pins in three rows

2023-08-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
In a shipment today I got several AMP-labeled dongles that look like SCSI terminators ... except the 50 pins are arranged in three rows (17-16-17), not the Centronics-style 50-pin connector nor the usual 2-pin configuration. Anyone seen those before, and is it actually SCSI, or is it something els

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 debug board RAM test: *zero* flashes

2023-07-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Answering my own question for posterity: > However, test 1, the RAM test, should show long flashes of the green LED if > RAM > is bad. I was prepared to see all long flashes which might implicate the > buffers or address decoder, but instead it won't blink the LED at all in that > or any of the o

[cctalk] KIM-1 debug board RAM test: *zero* flashes

2023-07-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I assembled Dwight Elvey's KIM-1 debug board (thank you, Gary!) and have now certified two of my KIMs with it, so I'm very confident the harness operates properly. Unfortunately, the one I *want* to repair, my original KIM-1, won't start up at all after replacing the 2102 RAM I was pretty sure was

[cctalk] Re: Need AUI cable

2023-06-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Anyone in MD got an AUI cable (few feet long) I can steal so I don't have to > remove the bolts from the Pro/380's Ethernet socket or the pins on my 10bt > ethernet MAU? I just cheat and use a straight through DB-15 (waiting for someone to tell me it's a DQ-15 or something instead ;), like a PC

[cctalk] Dwight Elvey's KIM diagnostics board

2023-06-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Does anyone have one of Dwight Elvey's KIM-1 diagnostics boards out there who would be willing to let me borrow it (I'm in southern California)? I would be happy to pay shipping and a rental cost, provide a deposit, etc. Please contact me off list if you're willing and the arrangements you'd prefer

[cctalk] Re: Bob Applegate passed away

2023-06-18 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Just letting everyone know that Bob Applegate passed away a few days ago. > He had been battling cancer for some time. He was involved with vintage > computing for some time. Here is his website: http://www.corshamtech.com/ > > This is the website for his memorial: > https://everloved.com/life-o

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> If the failure affects the EPROM monitor,then any results you get from the > monitor are suspect. No, what I mean is, the appearance of the upper six bits being dead was because of how the monitor shifts in data from the keypad. Since bit 2 was always zero, it would look like everything above it

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-12 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. This board has NEC D2102AL-4 SRAMs on it, so I ordered a couple MM2102AN-4s which look equivalent. I'll swap one in when it arrives and see if that's the problem. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kai

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I thought about this, but the KIM is a pretty simple system. The only memory > mapped device in that range (really, on the entire unit) are the RIOTs, and > their RAM at $1780 is fine and does not echo. > > The KIM only does address decoding for 8K and echoes the rest, so the same > fault is map

[cctalk] Re: KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Odd fault on my Rev D KIM-1 popped up while writing code this afternoon >> (initially I thought I had a bug in my paper tape transmitter) - between >> $0280 >> and $029f, the upper 5 bits are stuck at zero. The rest of the address range >> seems fine. In particular, $0080-$009f, $0180-$019f and

[cctalk] KIM-1 stuck bits from $280 to $29f

2023-05-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Odd fault on my Rev D KIM-1 popped up while writing code this afternoon (initially I thought I had a bug in my paper tape transmitter) - between $0280 and $029f, the upper 5 bits are stuck at zero. The rest of the address range seems fine. In particular, $0080-$009f, $0180-$019f and $0380-$039f wor

[cctalk] Atari PLATO was Re: Re: Age of Tape Formats?

2023-03-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Was there any PLATO/NovaNet arrangements with Atari like > there was for Texas Instruments computers? Yes, though not exactly. The TI implementation was a true, full Micro-TUTOR runtime that ran Off-Line System lessons directly. Atari had a PLATO cartridge that could connect to a server via mode

[cctalk] Re: mainframe vs mini

2023-03-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
This has been around the block: You can lose a screw in a micro. You can lose a screwdriver in a mini. You can get lost in a mainframe. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com

[cctalk] WTB: Accutech Gobi (Gobi7 or Gobi8)

2023-02-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Well, the weekend of hardware sudden death continues. The reason for getting the UltraBook IIi out was to do some more work on kOpenRay, the free Sun Ray server software I very occasionally maintain. Among other devices I use(d) two Accutech Gobi laptops to talk to it since they have an oddball VPN

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> I don't think it's the connector, but it's junk if it isn't anyway, so I >> might >> see. These things screw in place and the fit was tight getting it out so it >> would boot again, so I don't think it wiggled. Still, would be nice to know a >> source for spares because it seems like others

[cctalk] Re: Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Well, this is the second Tadpole laptop RAM module I've had go bad on me (one >> in my PA-RISC PrecisionBook and now one in my SPARC UltraBook IIi). These are >> the maroon-red 256MB or 512MB screw-in modules marked "Huxley Only" using a >> custom friction fit connector, not regular SO-DIMMs.

[cctalk] Tadpole RISC laptop RAM modules

2023-02-26 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Well, this is the second Tadpole laptop RAM module I've had go bad on me (one in my PA-RISC PrecisionBook and now one in my SPARC UltraBook IIi). These are the maroon-red 256MB or 512MB screw-in modules marked "Huxley Only" using a custom friction fit connector, not regular SO-DIMMs. I can't find a

[cctalk] Re: DLOAD BASIC command for Color Computer 1/2 heritage

2023-01-31 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> I think (I might have mentioned it at the thread start) it was part of a >> plan for a school network. Tandy offered a similar setup for schools >> for the Model 1/3/4 systems, where the "host" could send programs, and >> the clients would load from the common host system. > IIRC there was the

[cctalk] Re: Mac System 7.1 or 7.5 question

2023-01-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would >> contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root >> \RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop >> folder. > Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and sou

[cctalk] Re: Mac System 7.1 or 7.5 question

2023-01-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about 1995, so probably about the time > I got my first Mac. > Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork > data? MacOS 12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-) > A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones

[cctalk] Re: Replacing NiCd with NiMH in a pro way.

2022-12-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > dumb charger. Might be worth a watch, but the tl;dr seems to be that trickle >     ^ > The what ??? Too long; didn't read -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * w

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > Something like the HP LX series or even the portable ZEOS DOS palmtops would probably be on-topic. The OmniGo 100LX behind me has a Vadem equivalent of an 80186. > Vadem made 186 clones? They made dense glue for V40 based Ampro sbc's. Never > knew they made cpus. Not saying they didn't, but i

[cctalk] BSD 2.11 on the DEC PRO

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
My PRO 380 runs Venix/PRO. Which is cool, but someone sent me this: https://www.frijid.net/blog/index.php/2015/06/07/182/ Allegedly this gets BSD 2.9 on, at least, the PRO 350. I'm particularly interested because it supports networking. Anyone tried this on their PRO? Or better still, an actual 3

[cctalk] Re: what is on topic?

2022-12-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I agree that we should probably use the intent of a specific era. > > I believe that the world certainly dropped out of my personal definition of > 'Classic' when the 386 came in. > > I have an interest in things up to and including 80186, and they certainly > are not run of the mill. Somethin

[cctalk] Apple AWACS register documentation

2022-11-17 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Any Apple alumni (Al?) with documentation on AWACS registers? I'm trying to figure out why the BeOS AWACS sound driver works on some Power Mac 6500s and TAMs but not others (but works fine on 6400s and everything previously). Yes, I'm aware that Be considered the 6500 "Unsupported but Compatible"

[cctalk] Re: Inline Serial Device?

2022-11-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> AI, not so clear. In my view, AI is a catch-all term for "software whose > properties are unknown and probably unknowable". Someone recently on Hacker News talked about the possibility of neural net models to translate code for other architectures. The best response to this idea described it a

[cctalk] Re: Inline Serial Device?

2022-11-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> I am looking for a device that sits transparently in an RS-232 serial line >>> and upon seeing a particular code go over the serial line ((or sequence of >>> codes) will actual a relay (or a transistor). Something with two DB25s or >>> DE9s and is configurable to what code will trigger the outp

[cctalk] GLACIER-01 in the DataRover 840

2022-11-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Cracked open my General Magic DataRover 840 to find out what specific MIPS R3000 variant is in it. However, the only chips that are large enough to be CPUs are *two* with Bowser logos marked (C)GMI JAPAN GLACIER-01 F840276. The other chips of notable size are easily identified as RAM, a sound/modem

[cctalk] Re: HP Computer Museum update

2022-11-09 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
David, > With only a few exceptions, the museum's entire collection of HP hardware, > software and manuals has now been shipped from Melbourne, Australia, to > HPCA's archival company - Heritage Werks Inc, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The > equipment will be catalogued and preserved as a record of H

[cctalk] Re: IBM 4863 monitor sync problem (PCjr display)

2022-11-07 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I had a problem like this on a VT52, and the problem turned out to be one the > power supplies (the -12v one) had died. Wired in a 7812 (or whatever it is for > - voltage) and the monitor came back. > > May want to look inside and see if a supply rail is dead. A good suggestion. This morning it

[cctalk] IBM 4863 monitor sync problem (PCjr display)

2022-11-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Got the Peanuts out today for a shakedown. They work well, or at least they did until about 5 minutes into playing Kings Quest when the h-sync on the monitor suddenly went out. Colours show and match what should be on screen but the horizontal display is scrambled. It does it on both Peanuts, so I

[cctalk] Re: RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Is there any kind of brightness control? Does it work at all when the screen > goes white? There are brightness and contrast controls, but they don't seem to do anything even when the screen is working properly. (Note that this could simply be an issue with the physical controls themselves rath

[cctalk] Re: RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> This usually means the timer of the pulse width modulation circuit is > changing. > If it’s an RC type circuit, probably the resistor is heating up and changing > value. If it’s a ic that controls the PWM then check out the IC and the > components that connect to the control pin. That's an i

[cctalk] RDI BriteLite IPX keeps going to white screen

2022-10-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I've been trying to do a little work on the RDI BriteLite IPX I have here, but when it runs more than a few minutes the LCD just blanks out white. The machine seems to still respond to commands, so it seems like it's something with the display hardware. Even powered off and back on it won't go back

[cctalk] Re: Apple G5 Rebuild

2022-10-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> TenFourFox is essentially a current web-browser. It's kind of you to say that, but at its core it's still just a hopped-up Firefox 45. Many things work, many things work but look funny, and an increasing proportion of things don't work at all. I myself just use it for basic tasks now that I'm on

[cctalk] Re: bubble memory stable?

2022-10-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I suppose it's the computer as well but I was surprised by how relatively > slow they are, considering that they're 'solid state'. It's largely the fact that bubble memory is inherently serial. You have to cycle through all the bits in a line until you get to the right location. -- ---

[cctalk] Re: bubble memory stable?

2022-10-02 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> How "stable" is bubble memory, over decades? > > There is a Sharp PC-5000 that may be available, I believe from 1983-1985 > era, which is said to have bubble memory. But the owner can't find a power > cable, to verify if anything still works. > > I have older systems with ICs that are still wo

[cctalk] Re: i860 vs. i960 WAS Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like i386 to > i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems as if the i960 > actually came first and although a RISC chip it was in no way in the same > league as the i860. Anyone can clarify or verify this? I'm not ev

[cctalk] Re: Intel's i860, Cray-On-A-Chip

2022-09-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I think there was a unix/unix-like OS for them, but I imagine context > switching > was slow... There were a couple *nix workstations based on it. The Oki 7300 series comes to mind. I think someone exhibited at that VCF pre-COVID. -- personal: http://www.c

[cctalk] Re: 9-pin mini-DIN serial?

2022-09-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Trying to identify two cables I ended up with, one to DE-9 and one to Mac >> 8-pin >> mini-DIN. The other end on both is a male 9-pin mini-DIN. These clearly look >> like serial cables, but to what? A cursory Google didn't come up with >> anything >> obvious. They don't fit the Mac GeoPort or

[cctalk] 9-pin mini-DIN serial?

2022-09-15 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Trying to identify two cables I ended up with, one to DE-9 and one to Mac 8-pin mini-DIN. The other end on both is a male 9-pin mini-DIN. These clearly look like serial cables, but to what? A cursory Google didn't come up with anything obvious. They don't fit the Mac GeoPort or Sun SPARC serial por

[cctalk] Agenda VR3 MIPS cross-gcc

2022-07-24 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
There used to be a cross-compiling gcc for MIPS specifically for the VR4121 in the Agenda VR3 PDA, but it doesn't seem to be on any of the remaining sites. Anyone out there got it or, he asked hopefully, the entire SDK? Binaries OK, source better. -- personal:

OT: foreign language away messages was Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 94, Issue 20

2022-07-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> Dziękuję za twoją wiadomość. Przepraszam, jestem na wczasach i odpowiem >> później. > > For those not conversant in Polish, he said he's on vacation/holiday and > will answer later. See, this is why watching Borat is educational: I actually knew what the first word meant. And I also knew why

Re: List migration

2022-07-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> The new hosting is provided by the Chicago Classic Computing group. > > Many thanks to Jay West for hosting the lists for 20 years! Thanks, Jay, CCC and Dennis! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodga

Re: OT: mail provider recommendation

2022-06-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Gmail has ceased to provide classic authorization for smtp, pop3 or IMAP > access; they want users to employ their new authorization mechanisms. So, > which email service do you guys recommend? I'd like to be able to access it > in the old classic way, from different clients. Ideally it would b

Looking for Silent 700 Model 765 lower board

2022-05-07 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
These things must be cursed by G-d. I've landed three. Two had bad lower boards (the ones with the bubble memory and the main 9980 MCU) already. The third had a bad print mechanism. I replaced the printer mechanism, but the printhead on that was bad, so I powered it down and replaced the print head

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC" which was supposedly OSF/1 based? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Now with electronics records (EMRs) we just get legible but junk notes - copy > and paste for a week straight Yeah, I consider that lazy. I always rewrite my notes, even if I saw them myself the last time. It forces me to check the history and make sure nothing's changed (and that I didn't m

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> Cameron, do they teach indecipherable handwriting in med school? Seems to be > universal! It's probably the hand cramping after writing clinic notes all day. Unexpectedly, electronic medical records have made my handwriting worse, not better. -- personal: h

Re: Not just slashed zeroes/ohs

2022-04-27 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I still cross my zeds and sevens.  And I propose that more people should do s > as handwriting continues to deteriorate into un-favomable scribble! So do I, but as a physician, my handwriting is already indecipherable. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> I still have 10 Mb Ethernet at home (on my Pro, and while it's not in use I >>> have a few 10Base2 bits). >> Please expand "my Pro". There's not much to go on. >> #LivingRetroVicariouslyThoughOthers > DEC Professional 380 (and a caseless 350) -- PDP-11s with a screwball bus and > their own

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> I find myself interested in (at least) the following and would like to >> find others with similar (dis)interests to chat about things. >> >> - 10Base5 / 10Base2 / 10BaseT >> - ISDN >> - DSL / ADSL / SDSL / HDSL >> - T1 / E1 >> - ATM >> - Frame Relay >> - ARCnet >> - PSTN / PBX / PABX >

Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

2022-04-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I don't have a 10Base2 switch, Were there ever actual true 10b2 switches? I've only ever seen them as hubs, and I haven't seen a 10bT switch that had a 10b2 port (all the 10bT devices I have with 10b2 ports are hubs). I just have one 10b2 system now, the VAXstation 3100 M76 (previously the HP 90

Dialcom, Telenet and The Source was Re: restoring a Silent 700 Model 765

2022-04-10 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> 301 24 CONNECTED >>> DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10 >>> >> Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source >> and also on Dialcom! > > Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some > copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still

Re: restoring a Silent 700 Model 765

2022-03-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> 301 24 CONNECTED >> DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10 >> > Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source > and also on Dialcom! Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still include all

Re: restoring a Silent 700 Model 765

2022-03-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I understand  many Bubble memoryTi's were used by press. Does anyone have > adverts or articles on this?  Need some backup material for our tools of the > journalist section  weave one of the units to put in the display I'm not sure if the prior owner was a writer or just an interested subscribe

restoring a Silent 700 Model 765

2022-03-19 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I found my old Model 745 in storage and other than needing a print head clean and adjusting the printer contrast, it works splendidly. It has the manual and I've got some plugs to build it an RS-232 connector when I find some more round tuits. This whetted my appetite for other 700s, including the

Re: Commodore vic 20 poweroff

2022-03-16 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I suspect none of this applies to the VIC-20 - the power switch just > disconnects the 120VAC from the wall in the same way that pulling the wall > plug out of its socket (or flipping the switch on a power-strip) would do - > but I don’t know this at all. Is that the case? Yes, it's just a

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-02-01 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>> There's several advantages to doing it that way, including balancing wear on >> a disk (especially today, with SSDs), as a dedicated swap partition could put >> undue wear on certain areas of disk. > > I thought avoiding this very problem was the purpose of the wear leveling > functions in SSD

Re: AOL diskettes

2022-01-18 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
>>> I can only conclude you needed something to save the surface on one of >>> these... >>> https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/floppy-disk-table/ >> >> I just love that table > > Although the ad says "1.44 megabytes", it is a 720K. > The write enable notch is not openable to write protect it, >

mirror of ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk

2022-01-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Looking for some tools (guide_reader, others) that were apparently only on unix.hensa.ac.uk's FTP. This hostname still exists, but directs to University of Kent's mirror service, and there is no trace of the old archive. Anybody happen to have saved any pieces of it? -- -

Samsung Ubigate iBG-1000 router

2021-12-21 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Well, DSL Extreme is getting out of the T1 business, leaving me high and dry (they've really gone to hell since GTT bought them out) since they don't offer a static IP option on any of their lines anymore. I'll be working around that problem for the next couple months while we move ... Anyway, I h

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > For my kids and their friends I used to set up several (up to like 5) > > bare motherboards first with lantastic 2MB cards and then NE2000 10mB > > compatible cards and play Doom over IPX back in the 90's. > > Yes. Thank you. IPX. That was the network layer. Mac Doom even plays over Apple

Re: Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-apple-network-server.html > > http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/esb/ > > "Were you a Shiner designer? " > > That would be Dennis Yarak. Dennis went to portables from the server group > and was project lead on the G4 powerbooks. Is he around

Shiner ESB Apple Network Server prototype

2021-10-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Finally took some pictures of the (sadly non-working) Apple Network Server prototype I landed and also got around to analysing the hard disk it came with. Spoiler alert: this Shiner HE was at Netscape doing "real work" for several years at least. https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2021/10/shiner-esb-appl

Re: Found my favorite DOS editor

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > > "I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't > > > figure out how to exit it." > > > > :q > > > > you're welcome > > Or having to power cycle the machine to get out of EMACS. I think people missed the part where I said I typed the reply (and, for that matter, this reply)

Re: Found my favorite DOS editor

2021-09-28 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> 'course, then there are the MAJOR religious battles. Such as VI VS EMACS. "I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't figure out how to exit it." (written in vi) -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap

Re: Speaking of emulators... I have a userland Venix/86 executive...

2021-08-28 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I've written a Venix/86 userland emulator. It uses FreeBSD's vm86 to run > binaries natively and intercepts traps for things like system calls. I > finally have it to the point where it can run the compiler via cc (which > forks and execs c0, copt, cpp, as, ld, etc). My plans to try to recreate >

Tektronix XpressWare 8.1

2021-08-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Bitsavers has 6.3 (thank you Al) but I'm trying to push my luck and find 8.1 for this XP421CH Xterm. Anyone know of where it can be found? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.c

Re: Atari 800 to C64

2021-08-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> I wonder what it would take to go the other way. I have plenty of C-64's > and no 8-bit Atari computers. Maybe I'll finally get one at the next PRGE. A lot more, I should think. This is just Commodore BASIC v2.0, which has just about zero special hardware support and was ported almost verbatim

FTGH for pickup in So Cal v3: Power Macs, DuoDock, Compaq 486, ...

2021-08-03 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
A number of the prior systems were picked up or other arrangements made, and a couple more pulled from storage to make room. As before, these are FREE TO A GOOD HOME but you have to come PICK UP from various locations in the Riverside-San Bernardino, CA region. Contact me privately if interested. T

FTGH for pickup in So Cal v2: Macs, Atari ST, various hardware

2021-07-25 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
The PDP-11, VT100, Flyer/Video Toaster and some of the Macs have found homes, but there are still some items left and a couple more I added. These will be going to the recycler soon unless they are spoken for (all free to good homes). I may be adding some others, too. As before items are at various

Re: What's left of the Houston Museum stuff

2021-07-21 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > "Houston Computer Museum" ... I wouldn't call this a "museum". The > > condition of the stuff is fitting for a garbage tip. It is a disgrace. > > Isn't this the place in Texas that flooded last year? Houston and floods ... -- personal: http://www.cameron

Re: FTGH for pickup in So Cal: PDP-11/44, Macs, Atari ST, RiscPC, ...

2021-07-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > There is also a big Kennedy disk next to it but I don't know if they > > originally went together. > > Just to satisfy my curiosity, is that SMD or something else? I *think* so but I'm not an expert on these things by any means. This was an attempt to gain expertise. Oh well. > re. Acorn RPC

Re: FTGH for pickup in So Cal: PDP-11/44, Macs, Atari ST, RiscPC, ...

2021-07-06 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
I'm now four reservations deep on the DEC stuff, so I think we can consider that to have a home, and a couple for the S-100 and CoCo, and the STacy is going to someone who might be able to restore it. However, the other systems are still available! List reposted below minus reserved items. Also, a

FTGH for pickup in So Cal: PDP-11/44, Macs, Atari ST, RiscPC, ...

2021-07-05 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
Well, the pandemic turns everything upside down and we're looking at new employment, a new place and probably having to slash a few things. First on the chopping block is to consolidate and downsize storage. These systems and peripherals are all free to a good home; all you have to do is pick them

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