> Next week there will be 50 of them o. Ebay for this price.
(looks around the room)
Make that 52.
mcl
OK kids, let's save these things from the scrapyard! :-)
mcl
Feel free not to buy anything from him, then, but please leave
the list out of it.
mcl
> Ed's dead baby. Ed's dead.
Dave?
Dave's not here, man.
mcl
> Any ideas on how to become a billionaire?
The joke doesn't work as well this way, but the old Texas joke
was "how do you become a Texas oil millionaire? Start by being
a Texas oil billionaire."
mcl
I am absolutely delighted to be wrong in this case.
mcl
> I dare to bet it's the last one. Anywhere.
Well. Now that my *rage* has settled down a bit ...
... a least the "expected amount" on these items will probably mean
they won't go to scrap.
The machines are probably going to go for less than a million. There
are _thousands_ of people in this c
> one is an LGP-30. I can't tell how complete it is, but it doesn't look too
> beat up.
I dare to bet it's the last one. Anywhere.
mcl
> I miss the HP Journal (started publication in 1949).
"raise".
I have held in my hands the BSTJ issue with "the" Shannon Paper.
I hope Rice University still has its copy.
Per wikipedia:
"In 1948, the promised memorandum appeared as "A Mathematical Theory of
Communication", an article in two
> If you think I've libeled you, go right ahead.
IMHO it's time the two of you take this mini-discussion offline.
mcl
> On 06/27/2024 9:36 AM CDT Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> To date, I have sold nothing. I once went back to the list that
> suggested I use ebay to report my failure only to be greeted with,
> "Well, what did you expect. You are not an established seller."
I also have a whole pile of stuff that n
> were just DEC employees that caught somebody's eye when they were
> planning the shots.
"Planning" may assume facts not in evidence :-)
Some photographers wandered around my employer of the time, Recognition
Equipment. (Like my Canadian girlfriend, you haven't heard of it.)
I was near enough t
> On 02/27/2024 12:29 PM CST paul.kimpel--- via cctalk
> wrote:
> Bitsavers has a collection of G-15 manuals.
Rob Kolstad (formerly of BSDI) and I sat down last August to categorize
his online scans. AFAICT he has the largest collection. (Of course
I forgot to bring my copy of the technical ma
> On 02/27/2024 9:05 AM CST Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>
> I think the Bendix G-15 had cassettes for the 5-level tape
> they used.
I can confirm this from personal experience.
mcl
> On 01/30/2024 9:35 PM CST Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
> I have a couple of PA-RISC based HP/Agilent V743/64 (E1497A) and
> V743/100 (E1498A) single-slot, C-size VXI embedded computers.
OMFG I thought *my* co-design of a Sparc VMEbus board was rare/obscure.
mcl
> On 01/30/2024 5:48 PM CST Chris Hanson via cctalk
> wrote:
> VMEbus was widely used as a successor to MultiBus in the workstation market
Or, in the case of Mizar, Inc., their STDBus line of cards.
> The biggest uses of VMEbus though were in laboratory automation, process
> control, and rob
I sincerely doubt I could afford a PDP-11/20 but I still have nostalgia for the
first machine I used at university. So I have to ask.
mcl
> On 08/28/2023 5:07 PM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> wrote:
> I think I've come up with a nice way to get that accomplished through good
> old market dynamics (i.e. voluntarily) with a subtle twist.
Well at some point in the next N years I need to sell off my S-100 stuff. If I
croak first
> Some 20 years ago, I led the Computer History Museum's restoration of an
> IBM 1620 Model 1 computer.
We all owe you thanks for this.
mcl
> (I'd normally sell one of mine for 6k working with Focal loaded up.
Man, I hadn't thought of Focal in years.
Never could beat that lunar lander someone wrote in it.
mcl
"not tested" and "mice have been inside of it".
sheesh ** 2.
mcl
> On 08/27/2023 3:30 PM CDT Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> wrote:
> found them a joy to work with. But then, I went into it with a positive
> attitude because, of
> course, it was my first vintage computer love.
By that time I was well-experienced with my high school machine (a Bendix G-15,
whic
> I guess not many have survived but I want to ask if someone/some place has
> software (papertapes, ...) for the Texas Instruments 960 minicomputers.
If any survive, please be sure to keep me at least ten feet away from them :-)
The 960B is the only computer I ever walked away from and said "I
> Kees Stravers, owner of the website about the Evoluon, reports that they were
> scrapped when the museum closed in 1989.
boo.
mcl
> there aren't a lot of places to encounter massive PMOS shift registers.
I someone had told me around 1975 that these would become Valuable Collectibles
I would have laughed my ass off.
Maybe I should get around to doing something with those ceramic 1702s.
Probably equally "collectible" now.
I wonder if those date to the first time I visited, where the PDP-11s
were still installed :-)
Are there still T-shirts available? Mine from that trip is trash :-)
mcl
> On 04/17/2023 9:40 PM GMT Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> wrote:
> 3am? If that was happening around here then the shotgun would get
> involved. Must be mating season.
The next-to-last time I was in Canada, they let me sleep in all the way to 5am.
Also note that they were *right* outside the
> On 03/27/2023 5:38 PM GMT rescue via cctalk wrote:
> have a number of 2764, 27256, have some 27128 I think too
Myself as well, probably down to 1702s. Right now with some current money
trouble they are looking like assets :-/
mcl
Closing this Friday the 15th (sorry for noticing this late). At the
University of Texas in downtown Austin.
I have no association with the University, etc.
https://swicoauctions.com/online/26/item/110345
https://swicoauctions.com/online/26/item/110400
https://swicoauctions.com/online/26/it
How fortunate that I'm halfway across the continent :-)
mcl
On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 04:22:27PM -0400, Dave McGuire via cctalk wrote:
> I would posit that he does not have a museum; he has a collection
> and a wish. When and if that wish pans out, and I hope it does,
> then he will have a museum. But not before.
+1. That's a positive way to look at it.
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 05:25:26PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan via cctalk wrote:
> Yours will be a lot cheaper to run.
Custom ECL chips?
I think I can go with "relatively cheaper".
Make sure you have a bazillion BTU of air conditioning ...
(Yes, I have had experience with ECL, albeit 1970s low-scal
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 10:42:29AM -0500, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
> But have you considered, maybe it's an NFT of a photo of a
> Datapoint. That should make it worth 10 x $48,000 at least.
Thanks. I needed a laugh today.
mcl
On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 08:20:44PM -0700, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
> Wifey has phone numbers and knows about several of these lists.
;-)
What a complete fiasco. How sad.
mcl
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:46:13PM -0700, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
> Is there a G-15 emulator?
I wrote a simulator yers ago. I don't think it is online ATM,
I will have to check.
Rob Kolstad is apparently also working on one. We keep meaning to
cross-check each others' work but then
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:07:28PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote:
> "Power for the basic computer consists of one 250 kva, 400 Hz motor
> generator set. The motor-generator set has the capability of providing
> power for the CPU, MCS, I/O and the MCU. The optional memory requires
> the addit
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 08:15:50PM -0800, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> I picked this up a number of years ago for reasons that entirely
> escape me.
Those are the best reasons!!!1
:-)
mcl
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:00:05PM -0700, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> I noticed someone named Richard Thompson just donated. If you are that
> person, used to live in the Jemez mountains and hacked on Rainbow stuff
> back in the day, please contact me...
Or, if you are the Richard Thompson, gu
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:10:14PM -0800, Christopher Zach wrote:
> I've had 30+ years to acquire this "stuff". :-)
I turned 65 last year ...
mcl
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:57:27PM -0500, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Probably a lot more.
"Probably" ???
Sheesh. I thought *I* had too many projects.
mcl
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 07:55:52PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, I suppose that somebody of sufficient skill COULD write
> accounting software with it, . . .
> But why?
When I was living outside Dallas around 1988 or so, I knew a woman who
had a job-for-life with an insurance company
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 06:42:34PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> APL was terse.
That's a nice way of saying "It was a write-only language".
Even back when my brain still worked 100% I could only remember what
the code I had just written actually _did_ for 24-48 hours. After
that it was e
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 08:52:51AM +, Ed Groenenberg via cctalk wrote:
> It can be debated of the price for the Bendix is high or not, but it
> is truly a nice and rare machine. And by the looks of it, it seems to
> be complete too.
This was the machine I learned to program on. (What was then
On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:54:23AM -0600, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> The G-15 was obsolete within a year after it was introduced, but it
stayed in production, especially in highway departments, for many years
afterwards.
mcl
I think I can speak for a lot of people here on the list that I am sorry
to hear this news. I really don't have the words, other than that.
mcl
Please tell me someone is going to save this stuff so I don't have to annoy any
of my Canadian friends :-)
mcl
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 04:44:26PM -0400, Diane Bruce via cctalk wrote:
> mutt!
+1
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:14:11PM +, Mark Linimon via cctech wrote:
> These were a higher-spec version of ... some really common tube which I
> no longer remember.
And which was mentioned in the original post -- oops!
mcl
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 07:58:14AM -0700, Guy N. via cctech wrote:
> the part number (5965 or 5963)
Ah, good ol' 5965s.
These were a higher-spec version of ... some really common tube which I
no longer remember. The Bendix G-15 was wholly based on them. I probably
have one or two around the hou
On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 07:50:18PM -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctech wrote:
> Which is even funnier when you realize that the PL/M compiler
> was written in Fortran.
When all you have is a hammer ...
mcl
Side note that has been lost to history.
>From 1987-1990 I worked at Mizar Digital Systems, which built STD bus
boards and VMEbus boards. Its new president who came in in 1988 I think,
Joe Rammunni, decided that the STD bus was a dying technology, and looked
into NuBus. As I understood at the ti
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 07:23:48AM -0400, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> I'm recovering from a moderate case of Covid19
Please get well.
mcl
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:13:24PM -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Well, it's dark, dirty, and a mess. Also stressful as hell to be
> down there in a respirator, bandana, and long sleeve clothes.
And a bit heartbreaking :-(
I'm a long ways away so can't help. Good luck.
mcl
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:35:09AM +0100, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> "If a DSORT6 job fails try running in a larger partition. If it still
> fails try it a smaller partition"
I love the old tales like this. Folks, please keep 'em coming!
mcl
On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:33:45AM -0400, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> Like any other language, APL is only obfuscated to those who never
> learned to understand it.
I was required to take it at Rice University circa 1974. I got quite
good at it.
A week later, I had *no* idea what the cod
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 12:41:33AM +0100, Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote:
> What about the International Court of Justice?
Hi, can we please not go down this route on this list?
I'm drowning in such things on social media as it is. I like to
hang out on this last as a refuge from all that.
Thanks.
On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 01:02:50PM -0600, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
> I hope you can weather the storm without too much personal hurt. As
> much time and effort as you have put into the event and the pride we
> are have for such events
+1
mcl
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 11:25:20AM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> That's interesting. I remember seeing a SUE at the university, but
> that was not a PDP-11 clone at all.
The one at Rice University circa 1978 also had 6? 8? processors in
the cabinet.
mcl
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 11:12:50AM -0600, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> Well, without the rest of the machine, it is just an ornament.
ITYM "boat anchor" :-) It's pretty heavy for an "ornament". (Not that
I have ever fiddled with one outside a machine.)
> I know there are some people who are st
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 01:57:24PM -0800, Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk wrote:
> I hope I can get this one running.
Good find! Good luck!
mcl
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 08:28:36AM -0600, sales--- via cctalk wrote:
> This has been a bad 3 months (health-wise) for my family.
Best wishes. Let me know if someone from Austin can come be of help.
mcl
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:34:00AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Goose step to the monoculture
Apparently you don't understand that "maintaining software requires
effort".
If you want to make changes to e.g. a kernel then there are things that
have to get changed to keep in sync. Someone
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 05:27:27PM -0500, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> I am glad you are recovering my well wishes to you from me and my family.
Hear, hear.
mcl
Any hints about where in the world this is?
mcl
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 03:41:51PM -0600, ben via cctalk wrote:
> where as back then you made notes and paper printouts of your code
> that got archived in a back room.
Until the University decided to throw it all out to use the space
for their new Department of Basket Weaving.
fwiw, at one time
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 02:56:36PM -0700, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> fsck off
While we appreciate your efforts, you're only one guy, and I think
you would have to agree that bits are vanishing faster than any one
person can keep up.
mcl
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:58:58AM -0500, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> Oh, and by the way, that is an UNWRAPPING tool in the picture, not a
> wire-wrap tool. (I have both.)
The one I have has wrap on one end, unwrap on the other end, and a
stripper in the middle.
mcl
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 03:17:38PM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
> But I do still have the tool bag identical to the one in the foreground,
> in the same russet brown colour but the zipper canvas has dry rotted.
Oh wow, what a great resource page :-)
What I kind of meant to imply was "b
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:16:34AM +1000, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
> That wire wrap tool is identical to one my dad had in his CE toolkit
I ... should take it from this that people don't just *own* these anymore?
This was an "essntial device" in my younger engineering days. Sigh.
Yes, I
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:24:23AM +, null via cctalk wrote:
> This list is really going down the tubes.
ITYM "Integrated Circuits". Tubes is before the time of most of the
folks on this list, I think.
(ok folks, it's a joke ...)
mcl
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 06:43:43AM -0500, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification - they're not too far
Not too far???
I take it you've never driven Interstate 45 :-)
What it lacks in miles it makes up in aggressive driving ...
mcl
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 09:36:20PM +, steven stengel via cctalk wrote:
> First, I have to rewire it from 220vac to 110vac.
I bought one of the 110-220 converters off ePay ("Superite"). It has
performed well for me for several years.
(IBM Power5s *really* want 220 if you have both power suppl
I'm local. OTOH I have $ problems right now so I can't promise
to go over there, pick up stuff, and pack and ship it for free.
I do have a bid in on the biological sample cases.
(OK, it's a joke, but I do have one in on a rack)
mcl
On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:27:16PM -0700, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote:
> Between work and preparing for potential fire evacuations (they're
> expecting ~300 wild fires in my area this fire season: we've only had
> about 6 so far so I expect *a lot* more soon)
Yikes! Please stay safe.
mcl
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> Athabasca, Alberta is about 1.000km North of the US Montana border
> and 10,000km from nowhere
And 2,248 miles from my house, according to Google Maps :-)
I'll bet it would be a pretty road trip but I think I'll have to p
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:12:22AM -0500, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
> So, to deal with my own hoarding / collecting, I'll strive to make
> a list of stuff I haven't touched in 10, 20, 30 years, and I'll
> post here to see if anyone is interested.
Same here -- but life keeps getting in the way
> On Jul 9, 2019, at 10:00 AM,Tomasz Rola wrote:
> BTW, you would like a ride to the past? I would like a ride to the
> future. Although from what I have seen so far, maybe not...
I absolutely believe in the future of 2505 as shown to us by Mike Judge.
Please let me stay in this century. Thanks.
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 02:06:12PM +0200, Peter Corlett via cctech wrote:
> they've closed the West London Line this weekend, ostensibly for
> maintenance, but possibly just spite.
Thanks. I needed a laugh today.
mcl
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 01:09:08PM -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> This class machine (for example)
> http://vintagecomputer.net/Tricord/
Heh. That's a name I hadn't heard in a while.
Your Tricord system was probably designed by a guy named Rick Nicholson
who I later worked with.
mcl
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:54:58PM -0700, Ali via cctalk wrote:
> As I understand it DynDNS is still being offered as a service. Is it
> because there is no longer a free option?
There has not been a free option for seveal years. I switched to the
paid version.
But now it seems that having been
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 09:36:30PM -0400, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote:
> Now that Dyn has been absorbed by Oracle I need a new DNS service for my
> vanity domain. I welcome suggestions for a replacement provider.
I was just investigating free alternatives myself earlier today. (I
have not ye
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 03:01:50PM -0400, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
> You know, one of the reasons I'm still on here is for the anecdotes
Agreed!
mcl
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 09:52:19AM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctech wrote:
> I think Google and their YAWNs
Definition, please? Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary are no help. A Google
search itself is nothing but false positives.
mcl
On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 09:28:03PM +0200, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote:
> Maybe of interest to someone?
Oh cool! I remember it as being a neat industrial design.
mcl
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 02:26:41PM -0500, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
> Original DEC things that have orange flippy switches-WARNING! Smells like
> dead rats and rat poop. Nasty condition! Looks something like this
> https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
I'd love to help dri
On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 10:13:51AM -0400, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> And looking again, some of a System/370 pile (model 125)?
I hope all of this equipment can be saved, even if only for display value.
mcl
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:23:32PM -0800, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> Although I would love to get an oversized cheap print reproduction
> of it, and cut out the faces to make a carnival picture taking set
> for Humane Society fund raisers. (few know that that idea of a
> picture with cutouts fo
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:45:14PM -0600, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
> Terminals included Harris, a huge Televideo,
Check the "huge Televideo" for actually being a CP/M machine. I was
involved with those for a while (sigh).
mcl
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:49:33AM -0600, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye
That looks like a job for many, many, people.
mcl
I'm in Austin but am due for a road trip to Houston I suppose. If no
one else in Houston can go check it out ...
mcl
Well as it turns out I have several boxes of databooks that I need to
get catalogued and listed. (My decluttering task was supposed to be
finished *last* year ...)
Here we have:
MC88100 RISC Microprocessor User's Manual
MC88200 Cache/Memory Management Unit User's Manual
Please pay shipping
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 05:48:22PM -0500, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> Soon to be picked up and brought home. Lots of documentation with it as
> well. Christmas came early, eager to get it home and set up.
Nice!
mcl
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 02:04:53PM -0600, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, their business model is to sell a once common $10 part for $500
> because it's an exact replacement and the cost to warehouse it is dwarfed
> by the huge profit margin...
Before anyone scoffs, warehouse space is expensi
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:37:59PM -0400, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> oops sorry I mean I did not get it.
dang, and I already had my samurai sword nearly sharpened.
mcl
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 11:42:52PM -0700, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
> Last call is there any interest ?
Would love to if you can change your mind on shipping?
Austin, TX, is kind of a far drive.
mcl
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 03:42:11PM -0700, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote:
> I would have had to add a new circuit to the room.
So who hasn't? :-)
mcl
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 11:45:07PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Looks pretty much like standard C until you get into the minutiae, such
> as "A character constant is 1 to 4 characters" and page 4-4 "Data Types"
> (9 bit characters and 36 bit ints and 18 bit short ints).
>
> So, it should
On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 08:16:35PM -0700, Eric Korpela via cctalk wrote:
> I'm not religious, but I consider this a sign of the apocalypse.
Agreed.
I am glad I am far out of driving distance.
mcl
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 04:05:10PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> And yet, productive work was performed on it. Indeed the industrial
> variant, the 1710 was used for early process control.
There were a lot of highway improvements made in the US in the 1950s/
1960s using Bendix G-15s. Th
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