Re: AlphaServers

On 14 March 2018 at 12:54, Michael-John Turner wrote: > > I'm guessing the lack of interest from Theo may have been because the VAX > port was dropped after OpenBSD 5.9[1]. Was rather sad when that happened as > NetBSD's VAX support isn't in a great state these days. > > [1]

Re: AlphaServers

On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > > I'm in the process of giving > some of them away though because they take up too much room. The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end VAXstations. I offered them a VAXstation 4000/60

"The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files"

The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files To save bygone software, files, and more, researchers are working to emulate decades-old technology in the cloud. by Jessica Leigh Hester March 08, 2018 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-open-old-computer-files

Re: AlphaServers

On 13 March 2018 at 05:25, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote: > > Anyone out there do Alphas anymore? I never got my hands on one, although there was a time when I coveted one. (Now as I am -- well, not homeless, but I don't have a house any more, or indeed an apartment

Re: XT/370 microcode

On 12 March 2018 at 18:41, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote: > I am not at liberty to post the document. This? http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5387781/?reload=true Also: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224102395_System370_capability_in_a_desktop_computer If

Re: Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

On 9 March 2018 at 01:48, wrote: > > Someone needs to make the Amiga 3000 motherboard replica. +1 As this wonderful lady says in her interview... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDfIkXf3uzA (81Y old Amiga-using artist.) -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

This turned up on Fess Bouc yesterday and it was news to me. It's a DIY replica of an original IBM PC motherboard: http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com

Re: Canon BX-1 (1977) Manuals

On 22 February 2018 at 22:56, Thomas B via cctech wrote: > Recently, I’ve started working on a Canon BX-1 machine dated 1977. Some info in French: http://mo5.com/musee-machines-bx1.html Might be worth asking them...? -- Liam Proven • Profile:

Re: Why don't you respect the mail threads?!

On 21 February 2018 at 23:50, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > After going through I've-forgotten-how-many editors (starting with TECO, then > 'ed'), text formatting systems, operating systems, email readers, etc, etc I > have a _very_ simple rule about switching

Re: VMS 8.4 Alpha Hobbyist disk images

On 2 February 2018 at 22:16, Wayne S via cctech wrote: > Notice: Downloaded this from the link and Norton says it is a virus. > PUA.InstallCore Please bottom-quote on mailing lists. Are you running an ad-blocker? If not, you should. I recommend UBlock Origin.

Computer Museum in Brno, CZ

I was at a small technical conference last weekend (www.devconf.cz) at the Faculty of Informatics, Brno Masaryk University. https://www.fi.muni.cz/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaryk_University What I didn't know is that it has its own small museum of computing. I enjoyed it a lot. There's

Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts"

On 24 January 2018 at 16:32, Toby Thain wrote: > > We joke that they have no qualms about Dremeling them out and sticking > Raspberry Pis inside, making them worthless for the original systems. I hate that. I have told at least 1 friend to think about WTF he was doing

Re: Keyboard "enthusiasts"

On 24 January 2018 at 16:05, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote: > Well, if it's universally held to be desirable then there's a chance of > seeing one on a secondary market. But it probably therefore also be > overpriced. There's that. The flipside is that there is considerable

Re: Google, Wikipedia directly on ASCII terminal?

On 16 January 2018 at 09:19, Martin Meiner via cctech wrote: > > It has always been my aim to be able toconnect a modem or an acoustic coupler > directly to one of my ASCII terminals,dial a number and be connected…with > Google! > > Something like Google-interface but

Re: DL10 documentation

On 11 January 2018 at 19:03, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Liam Proven > > > I had a major WTF moment at that. The actress had a prior or parallel > > career as an engineer? > > Why not? Hedy Lamarr: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr > >

Re: DL10 documentation

On 10 January 2018 at 01:56, Phil Budne via cctalk wrote: > > DECnet Phase V encompassed ISO, and might have included IS-IS, > which Rhea Perlman had a hand in (while at DEC?). I had a major WTF moment at that. The actress had a prior or parallel career as an engineer?

Re: Need keyboard for IBM 528x

On 6 January 2018 at 16:17, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech wrote: > (it came with an 8² disk JFYI: your email client is sending a superscript 2 character instead of double quotes. This is often due to Apple OSes configured to use smart quotes. You might wish to turn that

SGI Onyx 2 going begging (in South Africa, AFAICT)

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Re: ZX Spectrum Z80 Keeps Resetting

On 4 January 2018 at 08:21, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: > > I am still hoping someone will know if I can try swapping the ULA with a > newer one from a later model I have. I may also look at getting a NebULA as > they are not expensive. Possibly helpful...

Re: FFA: Amstrad Joyce (USA)

On 1 January 2018 at 20:55, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > There probably aren't that many 120V versions of the Amstrad Joyce Word > processor, but I've got one here. I replaced the 3" CF floppy drive > with a 720K 3.5" drive and modified some boot disks. > > The system

Re: Picked up beige Mac G3

On 12 December 2017 at 12:29, Alexandre Souza via cctalk wrote: I'd only disagree with 1 bit of this. > - Use MacOS 9. They run 10.2 fine and can be coaxed into 10.3 quite readily with XPostFacto. They will take any standard ATA hard disk. Stick in one of up to 128GB

Re: DR-DOS

Latest updates... I've taken the downloads for Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01-6 and 7.01-7, trimmed the boot disk image to work with Virtualbox, added the actual files to make the boot images bootable, and also added in the other updated commands -- SYS.COM, XCOPY, TASKMGR, SHARE, and their README files

Re: NeXT hardware about to be recycled in Texas

On 6 December 2017 at 00:28, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > > Also on one of the Facebook groups. I expect the owner is completely > drowning in "give me your cool stuff!" messages by now and about ready to > pitch the whole lot into a river. That'd be me, I'm

Re: DR-DOS

On 17 November 2017 at 14:30, Liam Proven wrote: > I hope this is vintage enough. > > I've been playing around some more with my projects to create VMs / > bootable USB keys with PC DOS 7.1 and DR-DOS. Status update: I now have a working VirtualBox VM with DR-DOS 7.01-06, the

NeXT hardware about to be recycled in Texas

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Re: Nova 50 year celebration...

On 2 December 2017 at 17:58, Bruce Ray via cctalk wrote: > Yup (again) - a personal invitation has been sent to Mr. Kidder. > > Note that his book was about the MV, 10 years and 2 DG computer generations > after the Nova. Aha, fair enough. My apologies -- I can only blame

Re: offering: computer, A/V and optical equipment, plus books and more, to be cleared out around mid-December

On 2 December 2017 at 14:20, em gee via cctalk wrote: > Is anyone perhaps interested in any of the following? > > It's essentially the remainder of some of my earlier offerings. > I took the time to provide some details (that previously may > have been missing) > > I intend

Re: Nova 50 year celebration...

On 2 December 2017 at 02:48, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > Did you invite Ed de Castro? He's still around. What about Tracy Kidder? :-) -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com

Re: DR-DOS

On 23 November 2017 at 21:31, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: > > When your are talking about editors and DOS, the only answer is BRIEF! Now that I _have_ heard of, yes. Never used it, though. Never really was a programmer. The tiny bit of coding I did on the PC was

Re: DR-DOS

On 23 November 2017 at 21:28, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > This must be a uSloth TCP/IP you are speaking of. There's the one from FTP > software which was based on the one done at MIT which was freeware. That one > was definitely DOS-era - it ran on DOS 1 and DOS 2. I

Re: Editor [was: Re: DR-DOS]

On 23 November 2017 at 21:01, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > [...] >> But only someone who thinks that Emacs or Vi are usable editors could >> think this was an appealing virtualisation solutio

Re: DR-DOS

On 22 November 2017 at 11:25, Peter Corlett via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:15:00PM +0100, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > [...] >> A file-based virus could escape _if_ the VM had access to the host >> filesystem. But mine do

Re: DR-DOS

On 21 November 2017 at 19:16, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > As of "things" mentioned above, my current understanding is, those may > be both active code (virri, worrmms etc), as well as Darth Vader's > hand reaching out from the inside of VM and manipulating bits of > memory on hosting

Re: DR-DOS

On 20 November 2017 at 18:57, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > The archive.org snapshots may have had the blank images, but they also seem > to have grabbed the archived downloads as well. > > This is an arbitrary link to the 3/26/2016 snapshot. There are quite a few >

Re: DR-DOS

On 17 November 2017 at 19:02, Tomasz Rola wrote: > > Please excuse me if my remark is unnecessary, but if I read you right, > you have: > > 1. Downloaded "empty" disk image - which apparently boots enough to > display two dots No. The original DR-DOS Enhancement Project website

Re: DR-DOS

On 17 November 2017 at 16:44, geneb via cctalk wrote: > > Liam, if you need me to I can build a full distro of OpenDOS 7 - I've got a > machine that I can build the original sources on. Thanks! For now, I'm trying to avoid building anything. I believe that the build

Re: DR-DOS

On 17 November 2017 at 16:12, william degnan wrote: > I have a few original Dr dos disks. Versions 5, 6, 7. Would these help if > I am imaged and uploaded to my site? What I'd suggest is checking what's there first. :-) I have DR-DOS 6, from VetusWare. There's a copy on

Re: DR-DOS

It is *not* my day. I don't know how a copy-and-paste of some plain text magically acquired attachments; that was not intentional. My apologies. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr:

Re: DR-DOS

Might be more helpful to include downloads! I'm still working on VMs, but I know have bootable diskette images of both. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time either has been made available. DR-DOS 7.08 is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cz8nrdv7h4sgr6o/drdep7018.zip?dl=0 You'll

DR-DOS

I hope this is vintage enough. I've been playing around some more with my projects to create VMs / bootable USB keys with PC DOS 7.1 and DR-DOS. Right now I'm focusing on DR-DOS 7.1 and the DR OpenDOS Enhancement Project, because that's FOSS and AFAICS it can be redistributed, which I can't with

Re: Drive capacity names (Was: WTB: HP-85 16k RAM Module and HPIB Floppy Drive

On 16 November 2017 at 21:30, Geoffrey Reed via cctalk wrote: > > ³Floptical² disks 720 rpm 1.6 Mb/s transfer 1250 TPI and 25MB unformatted > capacity Just FYI, your quote marks render on Linux as superscript 2s. Using an Apple device? You might want to turn off smart

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 4 November 2017 at 00:47, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > > OK I’ll bite. Toolkit Without An Indicated Name. > > (my early noughties scanners proclaimed this proudly) Close, but not quite. 3/5. :-D -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email:

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 3 November 2017 at 22:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Exactly! > > But, they sometimes try to convince us that it means "Personal Computer > Memory Card Instustry Association", which is far less credible OK, next, for 2 points. What does TWAIN stand for? No

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 3 November 2017 at 01:03, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > > BS. > > I've been a professional full-time journalist for 20 years. No one in their > right mind is using anything older than a last-gen laptop. Maybe two > generations if they're poor like me. Not full-time,

Re: BBS software was Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 31 October 2017 at 23:02, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: > I am looking for BBS software to run on my linux computer that i can use to > down/up-load stuff for my psion 5mx The 5MX can talk IRDA, you know, which might be easier but is line-of-sight only. This may be

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 30 October 2017 at 00:57, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: > > cant find the Gateway HandBook on ebay :( > if wanted the GPD Pocket i could buy these > or GDP Win > Toshiba Libretto size issues Your quoting is broken. It

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 29 October 2017 at 16:53, Lawrence Woodman via cctalk wrote: > > I was also thinking of something a little bit bigger, such as the M100. The > Cambridge Z88 is an excellent machine and they are still being sold new in > box. > >

Re: looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA

On 28 October 2017 at 12:03, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: > I am looking at buying a pocket PC / PDA, so I can write idea/notes when I > am away from my computer > > the [Psion 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3) and [Psion >

Re: PDP8.org

On 28 October 2017 at 13:04, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: > > Why? > It works from here (Oslo, Norway) now. Not from Prague... « This site can’t be reached pdp8.org’s server DNS address could not be found. Did you mean http://www.pdp8.net/? Search Google for pdp

Re: QEMM

On 26 October 2017 at 21:29, wrote: > > I remember it! It was useful. > > Here is the manual: > https://www.jumpjet.info/Application-Software/DOS/QEMM/Manual.pdf Oh, excellent! Thank you! -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google

QEMM

The old extended/expanded memory manager for DOS. Anyone remember? I'm playing with bootable USB keys with PC DOS 7 (and DR-DOS 7 to follow). I have it working and booting now, but I'd like to disable QEMM's memory check on startup. I'm sure there was a switch, but I can't remember it. Even with

Re: Acorn, Apple, IBM old computers up for auction (via Proxibid)

On 25 October 2017 at 03:31, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: > There are a few lots that may be of interest to people on this list. > > Disclaimer: I have no connection to any of this. I just browse proxibid.com > once in a while. > > The overall link: > > >

Re: Visicalc Addendum

On 18 October 2017 at 01:33, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > "Entry in my journal: First complete VisiCalc in a package was October 19, > 1979. I received a copy the next day as I recall." > > http://www.bricklin.com/history/saiproduct1.htm > > So, Murray gave us a few extra

Re: Visicalc

On 17 October 2017 at 22:51, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > Today marks the 36 anniversary of Visicalc a seminal program in the > world of classic computing. > > Happy computing! > > Murray :) I just had a dig through Dan Bricklin's website. There's no date I can

Re: More videos of VCF's Univac

On 10 October 2017 at 07:00, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > Here it is loading/running memory tests and Wumpus. :) > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_e5fSxflvrzeovlnioDfQR86zJOLPQ-D Wonderful -- but I do wish the camera operator had held their phone on its

Re: The origin of SCSI [WAS:RE: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE ]

On 9 October 2017 at 19:52, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > I'm not entirely sure about that--the PC Megastore contained both a disk > and a tape drive. So more than a single device. Did they have separately-settable IDs? Otherwise, LUNs, I'd think, but I'd also expect

Re: The origin of SCSI [WAS:RE: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE ]

On 6 October 2017 at 06:11, r.stricklin via cctalk wrote: > > Notwithstanding the first Macintosh models lacked SCSI entirely. The first > Macintosh with SCSI was the Plus, in 1986. Well, this is true, but then again, there weren't many models of Mac before the Mac Plus,

Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

On 2 October 2017 at 14:22, Jules Richardson via cctech wrote: > > Does anyone know why IDE/ATA even came about? I mean, why SCSI wasn't used? Sure, yes. It was cheap. SCSI was expensive, and that was aside from any licensing issues. A working SCSI bus effectively means

Re: The origin of the phrases ATA and IDE [WAS:RE: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC]

On 1 October 2017 at 22:22, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > Q: Is "SATA": "Serial ATA" or "Serial AT Attachment"? Serial ATA, to the best of my recollection. > (Did they reference > an acronym without referencing the terms of the acronym, again?) Yes. > I am going

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

On 27 September 2017 at 20:25, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> ... as usual, lots of high-quality info. Can't disagree with any of it. > > > thanks. many errors, due to inadequately refreshed dynamic wet-ware RAM > Chuck will

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

On 27 September 2017 at 18:29, allison via cctalk wrote: >> > Everyone forgets Norton Utilities... Well, no! Still use it, in fact. I have a copy of the last DOS version. A low-priority project of mine is that I am trying to make a running VirtualBox VM with PC-DOS

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

On 26 September 2017 at 21:33, Phil Blundell via cctalk wrote: > > Low-level formatting (which, at the time, was just called "formatting") > used to be quite a routine operation on ST-506 MFM and RLL hard disks. > They usually came completely blank from the factory and you

Re: formatting MFM drives on a IBM PC

On 26 September 2017 at 20:53, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: ... as usual, lots of high-quality info. Can't disagree with any of it. > There were several additional programs, that were sometimes needed, such as > if you wanted to have a partition larger than 32MB on DOS

Re: HP 2108A key

On 21 September 2017 at 19:59, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > We can sit on the front porch, waving our canes, and yelling at the kids to > get off of the lawn. Well quite. > And continue to rant about the decline in education, software quality, and > users, such as

Re: HP 2108A key

On 21 September 2017 at 18:35, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > We all do it. > I have my share of random keys from random unknown sources. Sure, me too. > There are plenty of things that I have no clue about. > Some of which I would like to learn, and might or might not

Re: HP 2108A key

On 21 September 2017 at 18:02, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote: >> >> I dunno what all thathe means > > > Q: Do you WANT to know what all thathe means? > >> I am offering to >> .look thru shoe box of keys I Ave one if the

Re: Free Acorn RISC OS kit offer (California, USA)

On 18 September 2017 at 16:51, Zane Healy wrote: > I can’t help but think that in the US, this belongs in a museum. I agree and that is Peter's thought as well. > > For those wanting to give RISC OS a try, it’s available for the Raspberry Pi > (and yes, that’s why I bought

Free Acorn RISC OS kit offer (California, USA)

Peter Naulls is the creator of the Unix Porting Project, which successfully created Acorn RISC OS versions of some FOSS Unix apps such as Firefox: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/Unix_Porting_Project Alas it never really caught on as Acorn users tend to be very insular and did not understand

Re: determing date on TI 99/4 computers.

On 7 September 2017 at 04:07, Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: > I don't know if it was my newb brain/false memory but i thought I saw someone > post a ti-99/2 prototype before It was a thing: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=267 Never made it onto

Re: Scavenging higher-end models (Was: Re: determing date on TI 99/4 computers.)

On 6 September 2017 at 20:46, Tapley, Mark <mtap...@swri.edu> wrote: > On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> It shows what the machine could have been, if TI hadn't crippled it >> for fear of competing with its

Re: determing date on TI 99/4 computers.

On 6 September 2017 at 16:55, Geoffrey Oltmans via cctalk wrote: > There's a pretty good article about TI's home computers that I've been > trying to find that lays out a pretty convincing argument for why the 4A > was not successful in the market despite early success.

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 23 July 2017 at 20:20, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Well, they are obviously not public if you have to have an account to see > them. :-) Just in case anyone is interested, I have listed one disk-pack cover on eBay. Starting bid GBP 0.01 -- one penny. No

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 23 July 2017 at 15:17, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > It wants me to create an account. I am certainly not going to give them > a bunch of personal information just to see a picture. As you wish. It's a Yahoo site -- any Yahoo account will work, but as I said,

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 21 July 2017 at 18:32, Liam Proven wrote: > On 24 May 2017 at 10:25, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: >> I think so. It would at least be nice to see a picture. >> >> If it's smallish I might even pay postage for it :D > > OK, I've taken some photos and listed

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 24 May 2017 at 10:25, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > I think so. It would at least be nice to see a picture. > > If it's smallish I might even pay postage for it :D OK, I've taken some photos and listed it. Mine is a UK eBay account so prices are in GBP. Opening bid is one

Re: Diskette size (was: Repurposed Art (ahem...)

On 21 July 2017 at 07:03, Sam O'nella via cctalk wrote: > Extremely interesting Fred. I hadn't heard of half of those experimental disk > sizes. Are those stories from your experience or from that article? (Yes > I'll rtfm shortly). > The only odd one i have is a backup

Re: Repurposed Art (ahem...)

On 18 July 2017 at 20:27, Ian Finder via cctalk wrote: > Keyboard collectors are a great evil in this world. I liken them to ivory > poachers. I appreciate that bottom-posting just got a bit harder on Gmail, but it still works. I confess to much trepidation at the hate

Re: Solaris 8 & Oracle 8i for Intel

On 18 July 2017 at 10:52, Richard Smith via cctalk wrote: > Hello, > > My clear-out has just revealed a complete install pack on CD for Solaris 8 > for Intel platform, and a boxed set of Oracle 8i installation CDs for > Solaris on Intel. > > Are these of interest to anyone

Re: Mailuefterl Emulator in JavaScript

On 9 July 2017 at 21:45, Norbert Kehrer via cctalk wrote: > The Mailuefterl (German for "may breeze", an allusion to much bigger US > computers like "Whirlwind" or "Typhoon") was the first fully > transistorized computer in (continental) Europe. It was built at the >

Re: DEC LK201 Keyboards for VT220 terminals etc.

On 30 June 2017 at 19:12, Aaron Jackson wrote: > Just saw this - All good here. I have an LK401 and LK201 :) > > Thanks Liam, No worries. I have a box of the things myself, waiting for me to try to fix up my 3 VAXstation 4000VLCs. Any spares -- including 2 of the

Re: DEC LK201 Keyboards for VT220 terminals etc.

-- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Jackson Date: 17 May 2016 at 11:28 Subject: LK401 Keyboard To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Hi all, Bought a VT420 off eBay last night which should be arriving sometime this week. Unfortunately it doesn't come with a

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 28 June 2017 at 18:05, Tapley, Mark wrote: > I did spend some time running a USB stick upstairs and down. The > self-mounting image (.smi) firmware update I found (4.1.9) is 1.3 MB on my > MacBook Pro before it goes onto the stick, but only 1 MB on the G3 when it > comes

Re: iMac ethernet connection quit - help?

On 26 June 2017 at 16:44, Tapley, Mark via cctech wrote: > All, > having problems with my iMac G3. Ethernet stopped working, but still > shows some signs of life. Any suggestions welcome! Some superficially odd questions... What OS is it running? Is the

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

On 23 June 2017 at 17:40, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > That was a rhetorical question. Don't you hate rhetorical questions? Oh very good. *Slow handclap* -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus:

Re: Where to send scans for publishing and preservation - Re: DEC archives

On 17 June 2017 at 02:54, Jason Scott via cctalk wrote: > Archive.org will take all your scans no questions asked. Mail me if you > need assistance. Thanks for that -- it's good to know. But please can you bottom-post? -- Liam Proven • Profile:

Re: DEC archives

On 16 June 2017 at 16:17, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > that it was in an inappropriate format and that I was "wasting everybody's > time". That's not good. What format did you use, JOOI? -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk •

Re: Atari ST SCSI hard drive question

On 25 May 2017 at 02:12, Win Heagy via cctech wrote: > The adapter on top is a male to female adapter. Not sure what that was > for. The SCSI terminator is plugged in the back below the DMA/SCSI adapter. Just a standard Amphenol terminator, I think. -- Liam Proven •

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 24 May 2017 at 21:45, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > Cool, how might it have ended up in the UK (I assume it is there) Er, no. It, like me, is in Brno in the Czech Republic. -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google

Re: Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

On 24 May 2017 at 10:25, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > I think so. It would at least be nice to see a picture. > > If it's smallish I might even pay postage for it :D Working on it. My flatmate's mother tidied it away and we thought it had been thrown out, but I have rediscovered

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On 19 May 2017 at 21:39, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > I have news for you. (maybe) From 1976 until it petered out, the phone time > cost a lot too. $200 or more a month at times. What does "phone time" mean in this context? I mean, POTS billing, for me, was always

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On 19 May 2017 at 13:36, Bill Gunshannon wrote: > Nope. Take a trip to Amazon and look at just how much power this stuff > actually consumes. And, if you go back to the days when we started > running this stuff in our homes, compare the draw of a QBUS PDP-11 to > a

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On 19 May 2017 at 00:22, Ed via cctalk wrote: > we ran ours first on a hp-2000 then migrated to a hp-3000 > > final version had 100 boards on it email , multi user chat, poll and > voting and much more. > yep it kicked ass! You'd think if you'd been online that

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On 18 May 2017 at 22:06, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > The plate on the back of my 11/93 says 345 Watts. That's about a fifth what > your > wifes hair dryer draws. Or slightly more than 3 100 watt light bulbs Jesus wept. Are you certain that this alleged "hair

Re: BBS software for the PDP 11

On 18 May 2017 at 17:16, allison via cctalk wrote: > All a DOS BBS was was a user interface that provided security by requiring > user/password > and limiting the commands usable. The easy was to do that was a version of > the CMD module > rewritten to not have things

Locust 1-2-3

This came up recently due to a small coincidence. Does anyone remember this early MS-DOS game for PC compatibles? It was designed to look exactly like the spreadsheet, so you could play in the office, but you had to "shoot" falling numbers by doing arithmetic... It looked just like a mockup of

Re: Beautifully-posed photos of various kinds of retro kit

On 3 May 2017 at 21:03, wrote: > great to see things displayed in a 'setting' rather than just > computers on shelves! :-) I was just relaying the link -- it's not my work. I sold or gave away most of my Macs before I switched countries 3y ago, and the rest of my

The inventor of the ARM chip donates first computer he ever built (40min video)

https://youtu.be/8_33Yv5LsSs Professor Steve Thurber -- co-inventor of the ARM processor, the BBC Micro and much more -- donates his first ever computer, and arguably the first prototype of the BBC Micro, to The Centre for Computing History in this fascinating (& very cute) video.

Beautifully-posed photos of various kinds of retro kit

>From the Apple ][ up to PowerMac G4s. So, possibly a bit new for many of you folk, but I enjoyed them and thought others might too. http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • Google Mail/Talk/Plus:

Run/Stop switch from a Soviet S/370 clone

My flatmate has one of these. Just the small subassembly with the 2 push-buttons and a red light between them. Is this something that would be of interest to anyone? I'm trying to persuade him to eBay it instead of throwing it away. We've also got the plastic covers from a few disk packs, an

Re: Bitsavers size

On 23 April 2017 at 16:53, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk wrote: > Or a single LTO3 cartridge, with room to spare ;-) So what we need to do is calculate the bandwidth of a truck full of LTO-3 tapes hurtling down a highway, surely? -- Liam Proven • Profile:

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