and a 6096 Micro Products quad density
floppy (as opposed to the 6097, which was also quad density, but
unspecified manufacturer).
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PGP fingerprint: 4E9
On 8/29/24 18:21, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
[snip]
We have our own non-theological religious wars, such as vi vs emacs.
Now you've done it ;)
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f the bookkeeping.
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PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
r
it was "Personal", would require the convertible model, with the top
down.
Not sure about that. We stuck a Nova 840, a couple of Diablo 30's, and
assorted other bits and bobs in a 1960's Mustang, and I once dragged an
Eclipse S/130, Diablo model 30, and a Ha
the end of the '50s:
https://www.earlytelevision.org/philco_safari.html
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PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKit
of their sound system, I have always asked them why their
rarefied equipment incorporates power supplies that are so crappy that
they can hear the effects of things on the line side of the switch.
[1] I'm just bitter because I don't have the balls to ask $30K for a
line cord...
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Ch
h hardware
assist a la Quickturn .
It's also a lot like watching paint dry.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKit
, which was developed for the
CIA. The 1360 was a commercial offering, for which they sold one each
to LBL and LLL, then two to the NSA and one to LANL.
I had heard that some instances remained in service until 1980, being
retired only when IBM refused to maintain them.
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360
photostore cells was something that would have defied the imagination of
Rube Goldberg, and chips routinely ended up in places where they didn't
belong (although they did make pretty cool bookmarks for my teenage self).
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everywhere.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
be moving back into
radio as his time-and-resource sink at the time.
I have a couple of other leads to chase up. I'll let the list know if I
learn anything.
Cheers,
Chris
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http://www.mainecoon.com
775 230 8242
775 241 0546
j...@nnevllc.com
Note that the domain appears to be semi-parked, so I don't know if the
address is still good.
Cheers,
Chris
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doom and gloom people associate with high altitude EMP, and
Carrington events in particular, are generally overblown.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685
a keyboard with a metal shield that covered all but two or three keys.
In this case it wasn't the application, it was a desire by the company
in question to restrict their traders from using other than very
specific functionality associated with the application.
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Christi
ntenance on our Novas and 16 bit
Eclipses. After the purchase the quality of the work took a nosedive,
which led to one of my coworkers observing "Well, it kinda makes sense
when you consider that they also make the garbage cans in the parking lot".
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ch..
On 7/20/23 04:49, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
[snip]
Chuck's only saying that because he wasn't invited to "work out."
Those of us who received such invites should form a club or somethin'.
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ch...@mainecoon.com AF6AP | DB0
On 6/1/23 16:37, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I'm sorry but Audi does not make a lowly station wagon😲
I don't know about that. My wife's Q7 sure looks like a station wagon
to me.
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http://ww
ou
typically tell that a sensor has failed is when the stick shaker on one
side starts going nuts while the other one doesn't.
Honestly, the biggest blame here probably belongs on the doorstep of
Southwest.
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an lead to that happening beyond MCAS.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
ently I'm old. Jeez.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
On 2/8/23 11:45, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
Specifically it looks like a SC-40.
https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080
<https://twitter.com/sdf_pubnix/status/1623127551542702080>
So it claims when you talk to it :) That makes it a 1993-ish machine.
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Chr
entical
length binary strings, a pop count on the result tells you how "far
apart" they are.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3
of lights, but they show up on
the channel controllers. Hardware diagnostics weren't through the
lights, but rather through the nine-zillion test points
I recall one FE unwedging a channel by applying a shorting plug to a
TP. Fun times, fun times.
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ch...@mai
term, start to wail (it would occasionally do that on reset as well).
Interesting piece of kit; IIRC it arrived as an encapsulated brick with
wires hanging out...
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID
inding, so an OCXO makes
perfect sense.
My offhand guess would be oil and gas exploration.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
&q
found. Otherwise I
suppose I number in the "If it needs to move, groups.io seems the least
horrible place to go" camp.
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 668
?
Does it have a DG logo on it? If so, BitSavers may have the component
guide (and if not, I have a copy around here somewhere).
Good luck!
Cheers,
Chris
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PG
the AOS/VS code base, until it was
pointed out that the damn thing was executed on every context switch...)
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A
On 1/17/18 12:24 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> It seems to be a core memory stack? But of what type? CDC?
Almost certainly a 6000-series core memory "block" from a PP. They
measured 6.75 by 6.75 by 3.625 inches tall, so you might check to see if
the dimensions match...
e CPU card itself.
Is there a DB-9 connector somewhere on the rear bulkhead of the machine?
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
ystem but I have a nine track tape TU81 + connected to a VAX
> 4000-605A under OpenVMS 6.2, and I can put this computer on my network.
> Do you think there's a way to make a bootable tape for my NOVA 2 clone
> with the Pertec 8840A from a VAX 4000 with a TU81+ ?
Probably. There's nothing magic about DG tape images.
Nice job on getting the machine to boot!
Cheers,
Chris
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PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
ronment tests for surface ships and the
large-excursion vibration (aka "depth charge") tests for submarine
service was a bitch -- as was coming up with something that could be
both EMP-survivable and TEMPEST-worthy.
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patibility with the DG Eclipse
> series...
IIRC we sold a bunch of 1666Bs to the US Navy in YUK/something
nomenclature).
Cheers,
Chris
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http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 1
On 5/1/16 04:10, Erik Baigar wrote:
> sorry, but there emerged more questions from my side ;-)
It's a trip down memory lane ;)
>
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016, Christian Kennedy wrote:
>
>> Hawk, but not the odd S/140 and MV/8000 punches) and software (ARTS,
>> ARTS/
jmp .-1
>
> Yes that is indeed a very common sequence of commands ;-)
>
>> The micro would be busy trying to make sense of the doas and be out
>> to lunch
>
> ;-) That really is a design flaw. Together with two colleagues I
> built a harddisk simulator for the R
On 4/29/16 01:08, Erik Baigar wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Christian Kennedy wrote:
>
>> I was a staff engineer at ROLM MSC between '82 - '86. By that time by
>> any reasonable measure MSC and telecomm were two utterly different
>> companie
t us without reliable phones for a day
or two. One of the more interesting was when the switch refused to
honor extension status changes and instead entertained itself by ringing
each extension *once* in ascending order, then repeating.
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least very close) switches. I just can't
> remember which one for sure. Maybe it was something other than
> dec
The DCC Nova clones have a very similar paddle design; those I *have*
broken...
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http://
The funny thing is that I *really* prefer the switches on the
Nova/Nova 8xx/Nova 12xx family -- when you needed to clear the switch
register you could just swipe left to right with the back of your
index finger. Didn't take long to learn not to do that with the
switches on the Eclipses :P
On 10/23/15 12:27, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> Do the DG handles have the same problems as DEC switch handles?
> (fragile pivots that break off)
Only the 16-bit Eclipse family, and they're really not that fragile --
you sort of have to work to break them.
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Christian Kenned
17.ccr21.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.0.237) 64.145 ms
83.689 ms 89.958 ms
Which seems consistent with what others are observing. FWIW, my ISP is
a hole-in-the-wall outfit that provides wireless "broadband" to the
rural mountainous portions of Northeaster California.
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Chr
notch in my hearing from the HV supplies in them.
When you figure out what's surplus to your needs I'd be happy to take
the excess off your hands for appropriate consideration :)
Cheers,
Chris
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http://w
n Philadelphia; in
particular the city center has a lot of buildings that are fed 90-degree
two-phase from PECO. I suspect (but do not actually know) that PECO
derives two-phase from three-phase using Scott-T transformers.
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eue.
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ch...@mainecoon.com AF6AP | DB0692 | PG00029419
http://www.mainecoon.comPGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration…"
ginal NCSS packet stuff was
PDP-11 based.
Anyone have a photo of an Interdata model 50 or 55 communications processor?
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PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B04
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