On 15 June 2015 at 22:55, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>> On Jun 15, 2015, at 13:46 , Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 04:55:57PM +, tony duell wrote:
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I believe you. Use at least a thousand times more components
>>> than
>>> you need to.
>>
>> Actually it'
On 24 November 2015 at 22:42, Mouse wrote:
> What I was really interested in was whether the FPGA itself was open.
> If so, I definitely would have wanted to pick up the hardware, because
> I would love to experiment with an FPGA - but I am _not_ going to put
> up with running a vendor binary blo
On 15 December 2015 at 01:31, Mike wrote:
>
> On 12/14/2015 08:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> Personally, I think the world is GUI-addicted.
>>
>> --Chuck
>>
> Chuck If I may ask...
>
>
> What would you do with a home no screen computer? I mean what could be
> done with one that would benefit you
On 20 December 2015 at 07:25, Eric Smith wrote:
>> Is this it? (1983)
>> http://www.pestingers.net/PDFs/Other_computers/IEEE%20696%20S-100%20Bus%20Specs.pdf
>
> That's the one that's been screwed up by OCR.
What about this one? Except for the front page and possibly the very
beginning, it seems t
On 22 February 2016 at 20:08, wrote:
>
>
> Then there is this information.
>
> PDP-11/15
>
>
> (http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/15#column-one)
> (http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/15#searchInput)
>
>
> This is the OEM version of the _PDP-11/20_
> (http://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/20) .
As gunk
The problem with lifetime warranties is that they're not about the
lifetime of the owner, and they're not about the lifetime of the
product. What it means is "as long as it's a product we're still
selling" (except for those cases where it *really* is the lifetime of
the product.. in which case it m
On 14 April 2016 at 09:45, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> Whats the matter with Vintage Computer Forum ?
> Its got walls like Mordor
>
> I thought I might register. I filled out their form (tedious) and hit
> submit.
> It tells me my email address is already in use !
[..]
The forum was moved to http://ww
On 14 April 2016 at 16:04, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
> I have no idea what you are talking about.
> I have no user name no password or anything else to search with.
> Please repeat your message in understandable English
>
> Rod Smallwood
>
Sorry. I simply assumed everyone would be familiar with the
On 21 April 2016 at 05:10, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Ok, this one's from the 70s, and it's a large, external unit rather than a
> single board, but I have a Floating Point Systems AP-120B, essentially an
> array processor for fast floating point operations. There's a bit of
> information here:
>
> http
On 21 April 2016 at 08:07, Raymond Wiker wrote:
> I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a date code of 1985 -
> the 2901 was introduced 10 years before.
>
> In the late 1970s, Norsk Data implemented the ND10 architecture with the
> 2901. It was thought that this would give a modest
On 21 April 2016 at 13:22, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of NORD-10 I put some scanned documents here:
>> http://www.datormuseum.se/documentation-software/norsk-data-documentation
>> and also a few diskettes that I have imaged:
>> h
On 21 April 2016 at 14:43, Mattis Lind wrote:
> PED2.DMK and DISK8.IMD is the same disk, but different ways of reading it
> off the disk. I used both the standard PC-floppy and then also the
> catweasel card. I tried the catweasel for some floppies that I had reading
> trouble with.
>
> I am real
On 25 April 2016 at 23:46, Swift Griggs wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, ben wrote:
>> PS: I hate OS's for upgrading the screen resolution to get more crappy
>> dancing toasters. BRING BACK 640x480. I can READ the SCREEN.
>
> Amen to that. I have macular degeneration in my retinae. It's not reall
On 28 April 2016 at 09:16, Alexandre Souza wrote:
> And hpmuseum seems to be offline right now :(
It's online, but you may have tried the link in Rik's post, which has a typo.
On 29 April 2016 at 15:09, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Liam Proven
>
>> C is popular because C is popular.
>
> Yes, but that had to start somewhere.
>
> I think it _became_ popular for two reasons: i) it was 'the' language of
> Unix, and Unix was so much better than 99% of the alternati
On 4 May 2016 at 01:25, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Update on NDwiki:
>
> I've been in contact with the persons responsible for NDwiki.
> Unfortunately, the Swedish gentleman who ran ndwiki.org got very busy
> with real life just after his server died, and still hasn't found time
> to get a new se
On 5 May 2016 at 10:41, Mattis Lind wrote:
> What about the Norsk Data series of machines, NORD-1, NORD-10 etc.
>
> The NORD-10 had memory protection and paging. Circa 1973. According to the
> wiki page the NORD-1 had an option to provide virtual memory. The wiki page
> claim the NORD-1 to be the
On 10 May 2016 at 03:12, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Gmail always tells me COURYHOUSE's messages would have been treated as
> spam, if I hadn't specifically exempted the messages of this list from ever
> being blocked. I wonder if Google has a prejudice against aol.com
> addresses? :)
No, it's
On 14 May 2016 at 00:20, William Donzelli wrote:
> Do not blame the computer companies, blame the customers. Beige and
> gray were the colors they wanted.
When companies buy, someone will have to approve (that is, provide the
money). That's often the company's own beancounters.. Engineer:
"We'll
On 14 May 2016 at 03:16, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2016, at 6:11 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>
>> Ever see one of those black computers from Hell and Bowel, that seem just
>> like an Apple?
>
> I sold them in the early 80s. My memory is very fuzzy, but ISTR they were a
> licensed clon
On 14 May 2016 at 04:20, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2016, at 6:46 PM, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>>
>> They weren't even clones, they were the real deal. Apple II Plus
>> computers produced by Apple for B&H for a time.
>
> Apple manufactured an O
On 14 May 2016 at 04:34, Jason T wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> Apple manufactured an OEM Apple ][+ ? Really? I was pretty sure the B&H's
>> were an independent product. Apple licensed them to try to step on the
>> clone market. I can't fathom Apple let
On 21 May 2016 at 18:38, Mattis Lind wrote:
> I have now added some 80 more floppies to download if you would like to
> check.
>
> http://www.datormuseum.se/documentation-software/norsk-data-floppy-disks
Thanks Mattis!
Downloaded. I will go through them soon.
Chuck, the problem with IMDU is tha
On 3 June 2016 at 22:21, Swift Griggs wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Mike Stein wrote:
>> How many station wagons full of 9-track tapes would fit into a (20)
>> cigarette box filled with microSD cards?
>
> Station wagon full of tapes = 51 GB
> Pack of stogies full of SD = 2816 GB
>
> It's not fair
On 9 June 2016 at 16:54, Chris Osborn wrote:
> Alternately, is the source code for Ward Christensen's LASM available
> anywhere? The best I could find was a note from a Kermit developer from 27
> years ago asking for the source. I suppose I could use a disassembler, but
> then I don't have pro
On 29 June 2016 at 22:11, Al Kossow wrote:
> there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now. it
> turns
> out I have several other versions, and the manual for the formatter
I noticed there's now both an stc directory (with the 2920 manual) and
a storagetek directory (wi
On 10 August 2016 at 15:22, wrote:
> I successfully took a (factory new) DEC TSZ07 SCSI tape drive into operation
> using a Sun SS20 and a Linux box.
>
> Now I do have a big pile of CDC, DEC, HP, Convex and IBM tapes and I'd like
> to create tape images to file to save the tapes content.
>
> Wh
> On 08/10/2016 07:42 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> congratulations, you reinvented .tap format.. badly.
>>
>> how did you handle unreadable blocks.
I didn't. I didn't have any unreadable blocks. I have CCTs that I made
(and sometimes got elsewhere) going back to the eighties. No read
errors. I simply
On 23 August 2016 at 15:24, jim stephens wrote:
>
>
> On 8/23/2016 5:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> This one?
>>
>> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2866044_UNIX_implementation
> Also google barfed up this @ Archive.org
>
> https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-1931
> [..]
Guys,
He's look
On 14 September 2016 at 15:50, Liam Proven wrote:
> To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
A typo, I presume? NFS, as in Network File System?
Used, for example, everywhere where Sun boxes were installed, for our
(European) company that would be from around 1
On 14 September 2016 at 16:51, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 14 September 2016 at 15:59, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>> On 14 September 2016 at 15:50, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>>> To this day, I have never once used any form of NFS or ever seen it in use.
>>
>> A typo, I pre
On 15 September 2016 at 11:43, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 15 September 2016 at 09:30, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>> A bit like not noticing
>> that the USB stick runs Linux.. which happens.
>
> Er. Explain? How can a dumb storage device run any OS?
>
> I have various bootable
On 30 June 2016 at 14:33, Al Kossow wrote:
> On 6/30/16 12:23 AM, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>>
>> On 29 June 2016 at 22:11, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>>> there is one version of the maint manual up under stc on bitsavers now.
>>> it turns
>>> out I hav
On 21 October 2016 at 16:37, Liam Proven wrote:
> A friend of mine is working on an emulator for this Burroughs Large
> Systems beast.
[..]
> I have suggested to him that it might be easier to work under an
> existing mini/mainframe emulator, such as SimH or maybe even
> MESS/MAME, but he is highl
On 22 October 2016 at 04:07, Sam O'nella wrote:
> Just curious, I probably could have just asked Jay but incase this was wider
> spread I received a message that my subscription at my Gmail was suspended
> due to bounces. I was wondering if that may have been only today and more
> widespread fr
On 22 October 2016 at 17:27, Adrian Graham wrote:
[..]
>> Same story from me, and I also wondered about the excessive bounces -
>> because of gmail.
>
> Ditto, and ditto. I also thought it was due to the dyndns attack so just
> resubbed after emailing Jay, but if everyone did that who got an exces
Sigh. Again. Lost two days of messages this time.
'Excessive bounces'. I have a gmail address. It's not like google will
disappear, what's the point of disabling list members on a gmail
address? Presumably there was another general network-wide ddos attack
which affected the network as a whole (it'
On 23 December 2016 at 05:45, drlegendre . wrote:
urs was no exception, and I thank you for it.
>
> For one, I hadn't known that CP/M was written originally to the 8080.. I'd
> always assumed it originated on the Z80.
There are only 8080 instructions in CP/M, not a single Z80-specific
instruction
On 9 January 2017 at 14:37, william degnan wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> On 9 January 2017 at 10:06, Dave Wade wrote:
>> > Why does this keep on happening? What is google doing to cause this to
>> > happen?
>>
>>
>> Damned if I know, but it's happening to me f
On 16 January 2017 at 00:51, Jon Elson wrote:
> Also, flux smoke gets all over the lenses. That is one downside on my
> Olympus, the bottom is not sealed. I made up some card stock and glued it
> in place to try to prevent the smoke getting inside. But, it still gets on
> the lenses requiring
On 4 March 2017 at 17:40, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'm OK with it too. It correctly shows that this is a
> message relayed by a list sent from a person. I can easily choose whether I
> want to respond to the list or to the person or both, I had to make that
> choice
On 7 March 2017 at 01:18, Adrian Graham via cctalk
wrote:
> Test again, None of my posts seem to be getting through...
Saw it. And also what you sent a day ago(?), about using the 79L05
On 7 March 2017 at 15:57, Pete Turnbull via cctalk
wrote:
> On 07/03/2017 13:47, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Mar 2017, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>>>
>>> No, Mouse is right, it's broken:
>>
>>
>> Works for me (also from different networks outside the university
>> network):
>
>
> I
On 8 March 2017 at 19:46, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> Notice that - unlike normal whois servers - this one apparently requires
> some other stuff, possibly including the text "whois", as part of the query.
> That may explain why a normal whois client gets an error, because the
> standard way to make a
On 9 March 2017 at 10:50, Christian Corti via cctalk
wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2017, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>>
>> I did an strace and I can confirm that the Linux 'whois' client that I
>> used from those various sites sends '-T dn' (or actually -T dn,ace)
>>
On 17 March 2017 at 14:43, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> On 03/16/2017 10:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> I'm pretty confident that every member of the list appreciates the
>> time, effort and whatever else you and certain others have
>> contributed to keep this list humming
On 22 March 2017 at 02:02, Warren Toomey via cctalk
wrote:
> Which raises the question, are there any _good_ VT100 terminal
> emulators, especially for Linux? For any other platforms?
xterm never gives me any problems. But the default terminal emulators
of Gnome or KDE have some issues in my exp
On 24 March 2017 at 16:34, Alexandre Souza via cctalk
wrote:
> Well...there is some description in english, google translate is a very
> useful tool and the post has a pertinent video. I cannot view it as spam.
> Anyway...sorry for bothering :)
>
> Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
>
> On Mar 24, 2017 12:
On 24 March 2017 at 22:13, jim stephens wrote:
>
>
> On 3/24/2017 8:43 AM, Tor Arntsen via cctalk wrote:
No, I did not!
> It sure has the signature of spam. A link to some random place, without
> explanation of what it is, text in Portuguese when the list uses English...
Please
On 24 March 2017 at 18:40, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech
wrote:
> Does anyone have schematics for an STC (StorageTek) 2920 reel-to-reel
> tapedrive?[..]
That drive was discussed on the list some time ago. All the docs
should be available on bitsavers by now, although I don't remember if
it's und
> C is like sports cars: A lot of people want them, some can afford them
> but very few can actually drive them.
I completely disagree. That is just a made-up comparision. E.g.: C
compilers are for the most part free (as in 'gratis') these days. And
there a probably more competent C programmers ar
Please do not try to spread medical advice on a mailing list.
FYI, what you're saying does *not* match proper advice from medical sources.
On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 07:58, Richard Pope via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> The Covid-19 threat is being over sold. Children don't seem to be
> at risk
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 00:14, Eric Korpela via cctalk
wrote:
> C
> C CHANGE THE VALUE OF 4
> C
>
> CALL INC(4)
> WRITE (*, 30) 4
> 30FORMAT ('2+2=',I4)
> END
>
> SUBROUTINE INC(I)
> I = I + 1
> END
>
> OUTPUT
> 2+2= 5
I had no idea, and I wro
> https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/198610_Byte_Magazine_Vol_11-11_Inside_the_IBM_PC.pdf
That one, plus
198806_Byte_Magazine_Vol_13-06_New_Benchmarks_Ultra_High-speed_Modems.pdf
and 198905_Byte_Magazine_Vol_14-05_Unix_CAD_and_Technology_Breakthroughs.pdf
are corrupted on the vintageapple.org web
> > > There is also groups.io, and it has some very nice features compared to
Please please, no groups of any kinds. They're all horrible to use. A
genuine mailing list like this is infinitively easier to keep track of
and read at leisure. Can't stand groups.io. Despise google groups
(always overl
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 01:37, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://xkcd.com/2324/
>
>
> As accurate as most other versions of history.
Finally I know where "pull request" comes from
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 04:20, Kevin Lee via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html
MAME is a beast. Sometimes it kind of works (for other stuff), here it
just hits me with an "Abort" with no indication as to why.
> > Ultimate Zip is showing that the file is empty. Hum! I have been
> > using Ultimate Zip for decades. Hum! I wounder what is going on!
*Nix 'unzip' shows it as perfectly fine. Could it be that Ultimate Zip
is so old that it only supports zip files where the directory is at
the beginning of
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-07-03T15:46:18Z
Anyone in touch with Tore? Noel?
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 03:27, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> If we'd thought about it we could count to 1023 on our fingers.
> Dwight
Some sheep herders in (IIRC) the Caucasus do, or did at least. I
learned about that some decades ago. Counting sheep on their fingers.
I use the system sometimes.
-To
I have a Greaseweazle F7+, and I have an fdadap as well (and a Shugart
8" drive), a 5 1/4" drive (my main target, the 8" follows), and 3.5"
drives (not really a target - the 3.5" HD floppies are mostly
unreadable anyway).
So, I'm ready to go.. except that due to sleep deprivation I managed
to dump
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 15:41, John Foust via cctalk
wrote:
>
>
> After thinking about disk imaging tools like Greaseweasel,
> I started thinking about tools that would grab and examine the unused
> portions of disks.
>
> It's obviously file-system dependent. At one level we know of
> "undelete" to
On 6 February 2018 at 06:09, Zane Healy via cctalk
> And obviously I meant to ask, is anyone able to get email from this list via
> either gmail or an email account hosted by RackSpace?
I've always used gmail with the list. There used to be a problem with
automatic de-subscription due to 'excessiv
On 5 February 2018 at 20:06, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> I have a similar gripe with barrel connectors,
> which don't seem to enforce any standard at all regarding polarity or AC
> vs. DC.
.. which led me to accidentally power a USB hub with 12V instead of 5V
- the power supplies looked the s
On 6 July 2018 at 05:29, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On 7/5/18 8:20 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I don't see any chip info update at that #Technical_information page.
>
> The gunkies wiki is broken, none of his changes are getting out to the world.
Yes, that's very strange.. if I'm
On 6 July 2018 at 09:48, Tor Arntsen wrote:
> On 6 July 2018 at 05:29, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 7/5/18 8:20 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> I don't see any chip info update at that #Technical_information page.
>>
>>
> On 12/12/18 6:58 AM, David Griffith via cctalk wrote:
>
> > That's got me thinking... Suppose I redesign the P112 board to take a
> > Z280 CPU. Would you guys 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 greate
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 01:41, Randy Dawson via cctalk
wrote:
>
> The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your missing
> pages:
>
> https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf
That copy has page 97/98 missing as well - it's the same scan as can
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 10:29, Tor Arntsen wrote:
>
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 01:41, Randy Dawson via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> > The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your
> > missing pages:
> >
> > https://www.americanradiohistor
On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 10:34, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
wrote:
> Halon should be completely and fully illegal in civilian installations.
In 1990 or 1991 I was inside a computer room when somebody
accidentally pushed an elbow into the fire emergency button.. and the
halon went off. Big room, many
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 09:55, emanuel stiebler via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
[..]
> > I'd like to compile a set of IEEE-754 tests on the 3B2. Unfortunately, the
> > only compiler I have ready access to on the 3B2 is AT&T's pre-ANSI C
> > compiler, so
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 18:19, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> What matters to me is [b]documentation[/b], however it's preserved. I'm
> often faced with a bit of old data and I need to know the details upon
> which it was fabricated. That has value to me. Al K has been
> invaluable in this res
On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 at 07:50, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know what colors a VT100 is? Most photos online has it
> looking yellowish, but I expect that's from aging. Some people I have
> asked claim it was a light cream color. This bitsavers picture has it
> look
On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk
wrote:
> The TI people were selling their chip as a simple four operation
> calculator. Here is what the Sinclair people did with it:
>
> http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html
And that's where the "world
On Mon, 27 Sept 2021 at 23:31, Zane Healy via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:15 PM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-09-27 10:07, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote (in part):
> >>
> >> However, much of the "Linux" software is in fact POSIX software, and can
> >> quite easily
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 03:34, Steve Malikoff via cctalk
wrote:
> Whenever some new vintage computing page appears I go to archive.org and
> submit the
> URL to them for the wayback machine. Often they've crawled it already, but
> not always
> so I think it does help.
When you submit a URL to a
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