It dates back to the early 1980s and seems to run on VMS. It was
specialised software for law enforcement used to manage casework, but
could also do some pattern matching. Almost like a "prehistoric
Palantir" based upon what the documentary said. There was a large
scandal involving the software, in
Awesome! I figured I'd know someone involved. Did you actually get a
vintage version of PROMIS running? They talk about it being so
"revolutionary" in the documentary, but it just seems like any other
database?
On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 6:25 PM Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> My museum is in the credits
Hey everyone,
My better half recently turned this on and also a podcast with the
creator/director. They mentioned they visited "someone" with a working
VAX 11/780 to get b-roll footage for the movie. Which one of us was
it? :D
In all seriousness, it would be fun to try and get a vintage copy of
t
A bit of an odd one….
I’m trying to figure out what type of computers ran Mexico’s infamous SNIPE
electoral vote system in 1988. I have an LA Times article from 1994 talking
about how the NEW system was RS/6000-based. But this was a system built in
1987-1988. Narcos Mexico had a pretty re-creation
> In the UK context, where there is on-line documentation of the ICL 2900
> series is a question I don't know the answer to
> There is of course an operational ICL 2966 at TNMoC, Bletchley Park
Given the whole Post Office/Horizon scandal and that it was ICL that
had the contract as they were abso
We have a lot of ICL expertise at TNMOC. I can ask there. I know we
have a lot of stuff.
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 8:11 AM Christian Corti via cctalk
wrote:
>
> So, I was trying to contact "Pete" at vintage-icl-computers.com several
> times during the last years. Obiously, the site and/or the perso
Hi everyone!
I'm having a horrible time trying to find ntpdate pre-compiled for
Irix 5.3 anywhere. Does anyone have a package/tardist?
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-Jon
+44 7792 149029
Hey folks,
Now that I'm done moving house I have time to wrench on the 6150.
Before moving it worked; you'd power it on, the LCD status countdown
would get to an OK value, but the CRT wasn't legible. I figured I'd be
wrenching on the CRT.
Instead, now when I power it on, it powers on for a second
Hello!
I have an IBM 6152 aka IBM RT system I rescued. (It may be a 6151?)
I'm 90% sure it has colour graphics. The system does seem to POST
correctly (according to the LED on the front) but the CRT is dead. I'm
wondering if anyone has built an adapter to hook this to a VGA
monitor.
I'm a bit con
Hi everyone!
I'm working on a project where I need to build an RS-232 to Current
Loop adapter. I've seen some schematics on-line and the parts list
seems pretty small, but does anyone have a specific set of
instructions and schematics that they trust? Or does anyone in the UK
have a spare adapter
Hi everyone!
Does anyone have documentation for a Vermont Research K2 Solid State
Storage device? Looks like it emulates a CDC Lark. But it may also be
configurable for other devices?
Thanks!
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+44 7792 149029
I know of people who've already done a CLI setup, so this next step
isn't that far off.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 10:52 AM Cedric Amand via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I had a dream ; that someone makes a small telnet to chatgpt gateway (using
> azure chatgpt API possibly ?) So that we could telnet our retro
*waves frantically*
What do you need?
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 6:02 PM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>I have looked at vintage UK computers on Facebook Marketplace and the
> like. The people usually will not post, especially to me in the USA. They
> are normally looking for loca
Fry's also used to publish these maps, if this is what I think it is.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 2:56 PM Richard Cini via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I think this is pretty cool map; I've seen different versions too in
> publications like Computerworld and EE Times (long ago of course). I wonder
> if an inte
Hi everyone!
I'm curious; other than Wikipedia what do we know about Whitechapel
workstations? Do any of us have some working in our collections, with
software, disk dumps, etc?
Cheers!
Have you checked the PROM versions between the broken system and
known-good system? I'm wondering if the broken system has a buggy PROM
that just can't handle there are no fans?
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 6:39 PM Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got Sun Fire V100 that I'm prett
>
> IIRC the Intel IPSC (Inter Personal Super Computer) put a ton of these in
parallel. It ran some kind of Unix and there has to have been a gcc port.
https://www.vaxbarn.com/42-repair/756-ipsc-860-repair
>
> I believe (I'll have to check) that in the Osborne-McGraw-Hill/Intel
> i860 book ther
All,
I have a TVI-921C at the museum. I power it on and it beeps
continuously. One long, solid tone that does not stop until I power it
off. How do I start diagnosing this?
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-Jon
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This is a query which came into TNMOC, but I'm wondering if there are
people here who can assist.
From:
Date: Thu, 1 Sept 2022 at 22:05
Subject: Comal 80 in Great Britain
Hey there, my name is Mikkel, I am working on a book about a series of
danish micro computers where the history of the progra
Hello everyone!
I managed to snag a Tadpole 3000XT Sparcbook! However, it is missing
the battery and power adapter. Does anyone have these spare?
Thanks!
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+44 7792 149029
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2018/11/102740473-05-01-acc.pdf
??
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:08 AM ED SHARPE via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Were did you find that reference. Gavin?
>
> Sent from the all new AOL app for Android
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:02 PM, Gavin Scott w
Heartbleed?
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 at 20:00, Hauke Fath via cctalk
wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2022 22:04:33 -0800, Stan Sieler via cctalk wrote:
> > It may have been that either the routine wasn't getting called when it
> > should, or that the programmer misinterpreted what the return value
> meant.
I'm not an official volunteer there, yet, but we do have 9-track
equipment. Right now most of it is on ICL-based hardware.
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:43 AM Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Chuck,
> I think TNMOC can read these tapes.
>
> https://www.tnmoc.org/
>
>
> Dave
>
> > -Original Me
Hey everyone!
Has anyone been able to use a SCSI2SD setup where HVD is required? I
know by default that isn't supported, but given we can get custom kits
to solder, we could just change out one of the controller chips
(optimistically?)
Cheers!
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+44 7792 149029
Hi everyone!
My wife found some interesting VME-looking boards for sale on a surplus
auction website. This is what we scored. Is there any interest for these
here?
1x Main CPU SKP-220-3
4x Sub CPU SKP-221-3 (2 look good, one has a battery that exploded all over
it, one labelled bad CMOS but had a
I actually had a dream last night about a wide-format dot-matrix printer
coming into my life.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:59 PM Dave Wade via cctalk
wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
>
> Any one got any interest in any dot-matrix printers. Got a Panasonic wide
> carriage, DEC narrow carriage, and a Tandy DMP200
Hi!
I saw this crop up on twitter and now I’m curious. Anyone familiar with
these? Any idea what the backend was?
https://twitter.com/newsfedora/status/1154813199054712833?s=21
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+44 7792 149029
Some google shows BCL=Business Computers Limited (potentially)
Or maybe one of these:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mBGDWqY-bzkJ:www.tnmoc.org/special-projects/lost-systems/bcl-molecular-computer+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:13 AM Liam Proven via cc
I spy some Sun CRTs and that ATEX cabinet looks interesting.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:49 PM Electronics Plus via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye
>
>
>
> This is the pic I was sent. Original msg should have said PS/1 and
IIRC +7 is Russian country code. Anything after that is probably a city or
exchange.
On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 at 14:04, Jay West via cctalk
wrote:
> Sorry, all I got was two sentences, a .ru email address and a +79 phone
> number :)
>
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 1:37 PM Jay West via cctalk
wrote:
> Someone has contacted me about a pdp-11 that controls a "measuring machine
> dea epsilon".
>
Russia is a pretty big place. Any idea where? If we have list members in
Ukraine versus Finland versus Romania it could make a huge difference
At that point in time SUNW was silk-screening all kinds of code-name
animals on their boards. The SS20 was code-named Kodiak and had a bear in
the middle of the motherboard. Various sbus cards had the names of the QA
people on them who QAd the card.
Here, this page on the IPX shows your cat on the
All,
A buddy on twitter is trying to find out info on the following NT ICs. Info
here:
"Northern Telecom QMV271BY1 / NTOOR66C3A : Unknown device. Ceramic Pin Grid
Array package with gold cap. Manufactured Week 33 of 1990. No further
information known."
https://twitter.com/Neko_Ed/status/10290348
This may have the answer. AIX was certainly in version 4 at that
point, so this should work.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1000366
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctech
wrote:
> All,
> I’m trying to resurrect an AIX workstation that may well contain
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Before I do anything rash, has anyone seriously tried to track down what
> happened to the F1 and/or its software?
When I asked about Flight of the Navigator many, many moons ago, I
remember the F1 did the special effects for
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 7:54 AM, Rico Pajarola via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I assume it's just the screen staying blank. Note that using an SGI monitor
> on a sun using a 13W3 to 13W3 cable will not work. There's 2 ways around
> it: you can either use a 13W3 to BNC cable connected
SGIs did sync on green. Sun uses a dedicated signal. SGI trinitron-based
(Sony OEM) monitors should handle both. If you boot your SS10 to the point
where you think it is dead and then unplug/replug the keyboard it should
bring you back to the “ok” prompt. Shows the system is still running OK
withou
Totally on the wrong continent but this needs to be saved!!!
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> https://twitter.com/tapbot_paul/status/937465839888093184/photo/1
>
> I don't know if anyone is in the area to rescue this...
>
> --
> Liam Proven
I should post to Nekochan but I'm going here 1st.
600Mhz R14K SGI Fuel, 1G of RAM. 16G HDD. I threw in a soundcard that
*should* work with IRIX but I'm not 100% sure. IRIX 6.5.30 seems to be
loaded. I tried to build/load some of the Nekoware stuff at one point
but ran out of time. Size and weight
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 4:53 PM, JP Hindin wrote:
> All this talk of favourite machines and getting into the hobby has gotten me
> amped up to work on my E10k. The E10k was always the "coolest" machine for
> me - largely due to the timing of my entry into the industry.
It started as a Cray system
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Some of you might like the photos here ...
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_duell/albums/72157677925921112
Better than Coronation Street Omnibus, that's for sure.
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-Jon
+44 7465 605833
>> I assume you can just register and set up shop there. I don't think
>> the overhead is too bad. You just upload some photos of your panels,
>> price them, set the quantity (or build to order) and you're done.
>>
>>
> Good grief a old typewriter with a display!!!
People with too much time on the
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 3:15 PM, Rod Smallwood
wrote:
> Whats an Etsy?
>
on-line storefront for artisan stuff, low-volume stuff.
This is my friend's store for homemade portraits and the link:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/cordialkitten
Here's something that is kind of interesting:
https://www.etsy.
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Rod Smallwood
wrote:
>
>
>> Other information and addenda is welcome, but not necessary (re: Ian's
>> point about necessity), and I wouldn't postpone posting in favor of
>> fancier distribution. LCD is the most survivable (broadly), and easiest
>> to archive.
>>
>
All,
I was surfing our local website which is essentially "Belgian Craigslist"
and found some vintage ads. I'm curious about this and too lazy to google
on my own. It looks like these are Sony PCs with robot arms which can be
controlled?
http://www.2ememain.be/informatique-jeux-vid%C3%A9o/bureaut
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 7:26 AM, wrote:
> So in short i have six identical drives. Same manufacture, model, and
> firmware. Three of them work fine, the other three also work fine but they
> always show up as the wrong target.
Is there a jumper on the drives that is overriding the address
assigne
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> I understand that, but isn't there something type of licensing built into the
> ssp software which is paired to a specific ssp?
>
Not quite -- the E10K has no real EEPROM, it's delivered by the SSP.
The EEPROM is a in-part generated on an S
On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 4:31 AM, wrote:
> but all the units i ever come across are missing SSP's. Pretty much my only
> requirement is a working SSP, the rest i can sort through.
Unlike the CS6400, the SSP can be any Sparc system with the packages
installed. The control boards for the E10Ks went
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> Hello.
>
> to a good home. Preference for local pickup. Shipping can be quite
> expensive. The location is Sweden.
How expensive do you think the shipping from Sweden to Belgium would
be? I would be interested in the UE2.
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+32 0 486 2
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> https://sherwin.taleo.net/careersection/10/jobdetail.ftl
Try this, instead:
https://sherwin.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=160008I1&lang=en#.V0_ZDUScGCQ.mailto
I assume that's what Pete wanted to post, because every thing else i
> >> Thanks for the links. I'll take a look. I probably stand more chance
> > looking at
> >> my University. I was in the server room the other day clearing some
> space.
> >> On one of the shelves they had a VT220 connected up to an old Solaris
> box.
> >> Very stylish!
>
I may be interested in t
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Hey all --
>
> I can't seem to track down a copy of this TU58 on the 'net -- anyone have
> one squirreled away somewhere, or know where I should be looking?
>
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/4BSD/Distributions/4.2BSD/Per_Andersson/
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Rod Smallwood <
rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Extreme Mailing
>
> What is the most unusual place you have sent mail from?
>
I think we need to restrict this to specific dates/eras/times -- these days
we have wi-fi enabled jet airliners and cruise ships
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
> the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
> then-new OS.
>
The i860 was a neat little bugger. There was an iPSC/860 done by Intel
which would be a
When I moved from the US to Belgium we used http://upakweship.com/
You can ship a single pallet worth of stuff; the fees are done by
cubic volume, so you may want to load up that rack.
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Mike Ross wrote:
> If you're in no hurry best bet is an international mover on
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> All this AIX 1.x on Intel talk has me wanting to look at it deeper.
>
> Does anyone have AIX 1.3 running on VirtualBox ?
>
> Thanks,
This was talked about a while back. The PS/2 (x86) version of AIX
required some specific hardware with an MCA bu
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
> Yeah, the versions > 6.5.22 can be nice for a variety of reasons if you've
> got the later hardware. [I think the last one even had an
> almost-totally-working default DHCP config out-of-box. ;) ]
>
> I run it on systems where I can.
The only t
My guess would be good 'ol John Lasseter.
On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This recent Quora answer contained a little gap - the name of the person
> who designed the original logo on the case.
>
> Quick Googling didn't help. Anyone have the trivia answer?
>
> http:/
@#%!^
Why is all this posted a full year after I leave Indianapolis and move
to Belgium!? :D
LOLOL
I will ask my local contacts.
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Maxx Wood wrote:
> Anyone who's passing through, or lives near Indianapolis, feel free to give
> me a shout to set up a time to per
Yes, the post certainly looks like NVRAM fail. Good luck on the chip.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:23 PM, IMAP List Administration wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I just assembled an Ultra-10 (replaced memory, CPU, NVRAM chip, IDE hard disk,
> IDE CDROM) and it seems to be hanging somewhere. I don't get a
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Paul Birkel wrote:
> I wonder to what Soviet equipment they would have upgraded?
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:06 PM, william degnan
>> http://millennialmainframer.com/2014/12/ibm-still-waiting-cuba-pay-mainframes/
I wonder what kind of intelligence the Soviets
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
wrote:
> That article is quite neat, I must say. I always thought that the logo was
> only Helvetica, but it's interesting to see what it really is.
The only reason I know about the article was due to Google, but that
was because I used t
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove
wrote:
> The Chalet font family is very similar to "the DEC font". <
>
> PS. One might find said fonts in a certain torrent...
There is a Postscript doc out there with the DEC "D I G I T A L" logo
in blocks. That may be a start.
http://n
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