[cctalk] Re: NRAO Data tapes

bit computer) to the OS running PAVE PAWS initially. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

I lucked out in that there was nothing wrong with the laptop. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

[cctalk] Re: LCM news?

something many other hobbyists could duplicate. Do you remember if the DtCyber they run for the 6500 has dual-CPU capability? -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronn

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

I can't believe that anyone never gets a clean read from any of their tapes; most of mine have been clean.  But not all of them... -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

ls encountered. +++ 73 EOF1/EOV1 labels encountered. +++ 29 single-padded blocks +++. 406 double-padded blocks +++. 24 triple-padded blocks +++. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

it to detect/report otherwise).  The 0s might be extraneous EOF1/EOV1 labels.  The negatives might be extraneous tapemarks.  Or stuff past EOI. It would be nice if it printed the name of the TAP file in its report. Built from source (edited Makefile to add $(CC) ).    I didn't try vtapecp. -- Jeff W

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

ading and writing a bunch of blocks that were one frame longer or shorter than the last.  Loud rising or falling tone in the noisy computer room. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! O

Re: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage

IW, I also have a small rack that holds, uh, 2x4x25 8mm data tapes in their cases.  Said "dish rack" won't fit on top, though. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -

Re: %20 nonsense

oftware again. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

Re:%20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

've always wanted to make an Olympics logo out of write wrings, but never could find all the right colors. I have a couple black ones around the gearshift in my car (like horseshoes). -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and em

Re: Storage for 1/2" open reel tape

tapes a while, so the earlier ones may yield to re-examining. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

sun 88780 on ebay

bpi option.  Not by inspection, but by operation. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

Re: ISO: Tape Seal Belts

Ahh, someone crazier than myself, who just moved about five miles with only 100 tapes and 1 tape drive, and no tape racks.  Some are auto-load, some are the hanger-seals (belts) you mention, some are in cannisters. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors

Re: Line printer art: (was Re: tape baking)

://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/asciitopgm.html . Coals to Newcastle, anyone? -- Jeff Woolsey j...@jlw.com

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

work tables though... > Mine's just holding stuff off the ground for now. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

On 1/15/17 8:58 PM, Jeff Woolsey wrote: > Burroughts E1400 deskside unit for the accounting machine. It's 1966 > vintage, and has a couple core planes. I have the printset, too. It > makes a dandy table, and hasn't seen any moving electrons (or holes) for > 30 years. The local mu

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

years. The local museum refused it, though. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors straight antennas, clean lenses, and empty storage. "Delete! Delete! OK!" -Dr. Bronner on disk space management Card-sorting, Joel. -Crow on solitaire

Re: Sign magnitude, one's complement, two's complement

(emulated), the instruction was limited to data in the first 262K; in particular CPUMTR couldn't use it for storage moves unless it played games with RA/FL in program mode (and it would still have to drag the instruction around into each segment). Too much of a kludge, I expect. -- Jeff Woolsey j...@jlw.com

Re: Need help: Reading 800 bpi NRZI 9 track tapes

I have an HP 88780 with the 800 option (confirmed empirically...) I'm in the silicon valley neighborhood. -- Jeff Woolsey j...@jlw.com