[cctalk] loading vt220 fonts

0 Tests" menu. But I get the error message "You did not specify a font-file with the -f option". Where can I find examples of that file? Putting these together, I'm guessing what vttest wants is a file containing sequences described in those two documents. So, where do I go

Re: List migration

or missing an X-BeenThere: header. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

RE: Compaq Portable brightness knob

the full range of brightness. I found a few knobs on Ebay for the IBM 5151 monitor that seem like they might work. They have a similar sun icon too. I might get one just to see. If it doesn't work, I can probably adapt something without a pointer that comes close and cobble something to m

RE: Compaq Portable brightness knob

c knob? Out of curiosity does your brightness adjustment work at all?  I'm looking for the actual plastic knob. The pot itself seems to work fine. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: To

Compaq Portable brightness knob

Would someone please suggest a replacement for the Compaq Portable's brightness knob? This was missing on mine when I got it. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

Screws for a Compaq Portable keyboard

Would someone please suggest a suitable screw specification for the Compaq Portable keyboard? My restoration project was interrupted and I managed to lose the screws. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

RP/M2 by Micro Methods Inc

anything interesting about this? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Make behavior on TOPS20 Panda distribution

) $(DFROTZ): $(OBJ) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(DFROTZ) $(OBJ) .c.rel: $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@ clean: delete *.rel delete *.exe .SUFFIXES: .exe .rel .c *.h This whole thing can be found at https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz/ in the tops20 branch.

Panda TOPS20 networking trouble

I'm having loads of trouble getting networking going with the Panda Distribution of TOPS20 and KLH10. Could someone point me to a step-by-step guide on doing this? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Making use of Panda dist TOPS20

? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

KCC and parenthesis in preprocessor lines

ypedef unsigned long uint32; #endif What's a better way of accomplishing this? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Converting C for KCC on TOPS20

[1] https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz [2] https://github.com/athornton/gnusto-frotz-tops20 [3] Change an objects shape. [4] Infocom's Z-machine emulators paged zcode from disk, but Frotz simply sucks the whole zcode file into memory. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the orde

Re: P112 [Don Maslin Archive]

I went down to San Diego and both ended up with >heat exhaustion >recovering it from a storage unit in the middle of summer. > >you're welcome.. Thanks. I remember that summer when I sold several of Don's machines for his niece. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: P112 [Don Maslin Archive]

ng so. I'm out of boards again and probably won't be doing any more runs with surface-mounts preinstalled on account of the difficulty of finding large quantities of new and pristine super-IO chips. I might do a new run of naked boards. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

QEMU sparc with networking that works

Does anyone here have any sort of guide on how to get QEMU working emulating a sparc or sparc64 machine WITH networking that actually works? I've been banging my head against zillions of guides that are dreadfully outdated or just don't work. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because

Need Fileware twiggy diskette picture for Wikipedia

Someone informed me that the Fileware diskette image I uploaded to Wikipedia has unclear copyright status. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fileware-floppy.jpg. Would someone with a good specimen please scan it and upload to Wikipedia or send it to me? -- David Griffith d...@661

Origins of nameless semaphores and Apple's non-support thereof

? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: Infocom mystery binary

My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:58 PM David Griffith via cctalk wrote: In one of the repositories of Infocom game source code recently uploaded to Github, there's an executable that appears to have

Infocom mystery binary

Adobe Systems Incorporated, 1983-87 AT, 1985-87 Motorola Inc., 1980-87 Sun Microsystems Inc., 1980-87 The Regents of the University of California, 1985-87 Unisoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved. [1] https://intfiction.org/t/infocom-source-code-posted/41156/23 -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Old terminal photos with Frotz running

I was wondering if I could get some photos of assorted old terminals displaying Frotz running Infocom games. I'm particularly interested in seeing the VT52, VT100, LA36 / LA120, ASR33, and TVI-910 like this. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Bluebox AVR boards still available

I still have Bluebox AVR boards ready to ship out. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: SunOS 2.4 Exploit

hash and put that in. Since you've managed to guess the password of a regular user account, you can use that hash. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most

P112 redesigned for Z280?

go for it? I'd like to come up with a way to use a socketed CPU or put a surface-mounted chip on a carrier board to allow greater versatility with playing with different Zilog chips. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why

Re: Another p112 Query

ers have reported success doing so. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: p112

or more P112 boards? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

P112 runs RSX-11

I don't know who did it, but here's a video of a P112 running RSX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s6IOCCk3Uw If the creator of this thing is reading, I'd very much like to get my hands on RSX-180 and put it up on the P112 page at Sourceforge, Gitlab, et al. -- David Griffith d...@661

Re: Bluebox AVR boards available

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: I've finished my work on designing and debugging a PCB to go with my AVR-based bluebox program. Read about it and buy one at https://661.org/proj/bluebox/. This project implements a bluebox in C on AVR microcontrollers. This project

Re: VCFMW DEC VTs, LAs

ng else? If asked, I will try to bring. > >Thanks, Paul I'm looking for a "1" key and a "data" key for an LA-12 "Correspondent" -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: WTB: 64K cache SIMM (72-pin)

t. The manual describes this as COAST for Cache On A Stick. The actual SIMM has gold fingers that are much longer than the ones found on regular DRAM SIMMs. I curiously tried putting a regular SIMM into a COAST slot and vice versa. It didn't work because of this length difference. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

DEC LA-12 (Correspondent) keycaps?

I was wondering if anyone had any spare keys for a DEC LA-12 (aka Correspondent) printing terminal. I need the '1' key and the "DATA/TALK" key. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thi

PT210 rs232 interface module

ready for sale in a month or two. If the other bidder is here, please email me with a screenshot showing that you bid. I'll send you a blank board free of charge when I get boards made. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why

RE: SCO Skunkware?

On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, james via cctech wrote: On 7/25/18 6:53 PM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have any Skunkware ISOs from around 1995 to 1998? I have Skunkware 7 (1997) and Skunkware 98 (1998) if they will do. What is your desire? I'm trying to track down anything on Deth

SCO Skunkware?

Does anyone have any Skunkware ISOs from around 1995 to 1998? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: SDL and SunOS

On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: On 7/20/18 4:30 PM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: How feasable is it to compile and run SDL for SunOS?  My main reason for doing this is to play Z-machine games on Sparcstations using Frotz (https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz) using

Re: Courier Modems (Was: Landfill?

gain. As such, a pair of Courier's is on my list to acquire when it's convenient. I'd also be interested in a pair of Couriers, preferably of the V-Everything variety. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A:

SDL and SunOS

How feasable is it to compile and run SDL for SunOS? My main reason for doing this is to play Z-machine games on Sparcstations using Frotz (https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/frotz) using the SDL interface to play V6 games. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order

Catches and stubs from a Thinkpad optical drive

. To do this, I'd like to get another catch and stub. The problem though, I don't know what these things are actually called, nor do I know of any sort of part number to look for. Does anyone here know anything useful on tracking down these things? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because

USB Panda Display for klh10 help

ASH 1,-1 JRST TRALR0 END HACK [1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/panda-display [2] http://sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/Panda.htm) [3] https://github.com/PDP-10/klh10/ -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why

Intel HEX formats

o support the I16HEX and I32HEX formats too. Based on what I find in format83.c, this shouldn't be too much trouble, but I really want to know what "Intel HEX 83" is supposed to mean. [1] https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro/ -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the

motorola's chip page

Does anyone know where Motorola's current production chips are described? http://www.motorola.com/General/prodport.html only partially works and search is entirely broken because http://search.motorola.com no longer exists. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order

CMOS for NMOS

drop in CMOS, change out the crystal/oscillator and have things work as expected? Here's what are fitted to my TNC. Z84C00BB6 Z80BCPU 29125 Z8440BB1 Z80BSIO-O 29014 -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Re: P112

that most P112 discussion happens here or on comp.os.cpm. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: P112

skew 0 boottrk 0 # Start of second partition offset 1000trk os 3 end -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: P112

ngest time. Terry and I thought it would be best though to just leave those quirks alone when it came time to update the firmware. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is

wonky eproms

out the hammer? At least I know the programmer is capable of programming a TI-branded 27c256 and 29c256 flash chips. Might there be a bug in the programming software? FWIW, I'm using a Minipro TL855. Linux software is available at Github: https://github.com/vdudouyt/minipro -- David

Bluebox boards, anyone?

design decisions that turned out to be non-optimal. [1] http://projectmf.org/ [2] http://projectmf.org/bluebox.html [3] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-avr [4] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-esquire -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people

data cassette and robotic arms

This looks like fun. http://www.avrfreaks.net/forum/decoding-old-data-casette-format I'm not associated in any way with this. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What

Seeking correct EuroCard dimensions

would be spaced slightly more than the card width. What's going on here? What am I missing? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

P112 supplies are exhausted

I've sold the last of my P112 boards. Is there still any interest in P112 kits or boards? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

What happened to PacComm?

Does anyone know what happened to PacComm? The company was known mainly for ham radio TNCs. All of a sudden, their website was gone. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q

Re: xv and VMS

to loosen the license. I believe that I have the most up-to-date codebase of xv available at the moment. [1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/xv -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q

xv and VMS

Is anyone out there using X11 on VMS and the xv image viewer? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

remember xvscan?

Does anyone remember using xvscan? Does anyone know how to get a hold of it anymore? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: New Jonathan Coulton text adventure/classic terminal music video

t scrolling but that may be mis-remembering things. > >Tim. The z-machine can do timed events, but not the kind of text timing shown in the video. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: New HP42s clone almost available

On Sun, 2 Apr 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: That is an undertaking indeed! I had not seen this Ed# Someone said the 12c was still being made? The 12c never went out of production. It has been continuously updated. A lot of bankers, insurance people, etc still rely on them. -- David

Re: Stuffing boards with pulled QFP chips

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, Paul Koning via cctech wrote: On Mar 31, 2017, at 1:51 PM, allison via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: On 03/31/2017 06:32 AM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: I'm down to the last few P112 boards for sale and am pondering another run of them because

Stuffing boards with pulled QFP chips

and not screw up? [1] The now-obsolete super-io chips -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

sourcing Atmel 29Cxxx series flash roms

chips? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: New HP42s clone almost available

esn't feel particularly nice in hand. I'm very glad that he has full-sized ones now. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

New HP42s clone almost available

the DM42. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LK7JotR728 -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Morrow and Kaypro newsletters

I found some BAMDUA / BAKUP newsletters (Bay Area Micro Decision Users Association and Bay Area Kaypro Users and Programmers). Does anyone know anything about these user groups? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top

Re: Actually we want this Packard Bell http://www.smecc.org/itemsklkljl; _3.jpg

here else in collecting, but not >here? Otherwise, someone (the list >owner?) has to pontificate over a list >of acceptable computers. Good luck with >that. > >- J. It seems that museums have traditionaly sought the best artifacts. I feel they should also exhibit crap from time to time to remind visitors of history's wrong turns. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

FSOT: 9-slot VME backplane

I have a 9-slot VME backplane for sale or trade. It weighs about 3 pounds when packed. Pictures at https://www.flickr.com/photos/32548582@N02/albums/72157670027920776 -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

Deth Specula and SCO

Once upon a time there was a band made up mostly of SCO employees called "Deth Specula". Their heyday was in the early to mid 1990s. Does anyone remember them? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is t

Seeking Deth Specula's stuff

Does anyone know where and how one can obtain copies of Deth Specula's work? It seems that all that's available is what I find at bandcamp.com and some weird hiphop website, about six songs in all. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read

Re: Ohio company with opening in Portland OR

lot of their implementation via POST instead of GET so job site >aggregators can't mirror content. Makes it a PITA to share job links. I don't like the place because it usually wants you to retype your resume for each job you apply for. Pasting the whole thing won't work -- all those little fields to populate. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Xerox Star install floppies

8010 Star somewhere? The floppies I have left are these: ViewPoint 1.1 (file check) ViewPoint 1.1 (essential applications) ViewPoint 1.1.6 Common Software ViewPoint 1.1.2 Local RS232C Communications Access -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally

Using flashable Macintosh ROM SIMM

of the Mac SE/30, IIsi, IIci, or IIfx? It's composed of four 39SF010A 32-pin PLCC chips the special 64-pin SIMM. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying

Mac SE/30 analogue board and PS caps

Does anyone have a list of the capacitors on the analogue board and power supply for a Mac SE/30? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e

Re: Xerox 8010 Star software on Ebay.

something out with Frotz to get it. Frotz661 is me. Private email follows. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Mac SE/30 pincushioning and flicker

and recapping the analogue board would remedy the flicker. Can I get some thoughts, commentary, and suggestions on this? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most

Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks...

advance arrangement and good will on the part of the CHM when they have time to arrange access to the storage to which  it was moved to see actual installed panels.  I agree, the black panel has about the only interesting display. +David Griffith I might also suggest that once David Griffith

RE: tops20 assembly tutorials

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Rich Alderson wrote: From: David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 4:14 PM On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Rich Alderson wrote: From: David Griffith Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 11:53 PM Specifically I'm trying to build and run this: CIRC 2,-^D18 Where did

RE: tops20 assembly tutorials

On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Rich Alderson wrote: From: David Griffith Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 11:53 PM Specifically I'm trying to build and run this: TITLE HACK SEARCH MONSYM HACK: SKIPA 4,[^D4] HACK0: SOJL 4,TRAILL SETZB 1,3 HACK1: TLNE 1,77

tops20 assembly tutorials

Would someone please point me towards a tutorial of some sort on running the assembler on TOPS20 as presented in Mark Crispin's Panda distribution? -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top

Vince Briel?

Has anyone heard from Vince Briel lately? I've bene trying to get in touch with him for some Micro-Altair artwork. The forum at brielcomputers.com is stangnant. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting

RE: Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

On February 23, 2016 10:41:08 AM PST, Rich Alderson wrote: >From: Ethan Dicks >Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:23 AM > >> Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine) > >Ethan, > >You should know better. Zork originated on a PDP-10 running ITS. I >first

seeking Briel micro-altair logo

that way. [1] The process, I gather, appears to involve applying a sheet containing resin or something akin to powder coat which is then melted by the laser and sticks to the metal substrate. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text

Panda Display USB prototype boards are in

to get it working with the board). https://www.flickr.com/photos/32548582@N02/24861506310/in/dateposted-public/ -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing

seeking test program for klh10 and panda display

: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_LcQ5apODg -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

P112 CP/M computer kits still available

FYI, I still have lots of P112 CP/M computer kits for sale. Please buy one or several. See http://661.org/p112/ -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most

Re: Panda Display USB support in klh10 working

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Mike Ross wrote: On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:43 PM, David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote: I've managed to edit klh10 to talk to my new USB Panda Display *blinks* There's a USB Panda display? I bought two of the original parallel port Panda displays years ago. Re

Panda Display USB support in klh10 working

lay around with this and let me know what you think. Again, please tell me how I can get a predictable pattern going so I can get the LEDs lit correctly. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

On December 9, 2015 1:58:00 PM PST, Jay West <jw...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Please make an effort not to top-post :| > > J Hear! Hear! For you Android users, K9-Mail makes bottom-posting easy. -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: PDP-11/70 console panel for SimH

> panels on VCFB in Berlin, > october 3rd and 4th. http://www.vcfb.de/2015/index.html.en > > Have fun! > Joerg Might anyone have a bezel for the real thing available? -- David Griffith d...@661.org

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

the backplane. By the way, can the backplane of a straight-eight be realized as a PCB? Replicating that component without that will suck. -- David Griffith d...@661.org