On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 09:33:31PM +0100, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
> UNIX might have been unobtainium in your home, but a lot of BBS's
> used UUCP to get email and USENET connectivity, and a huge amount
> of students had modem access to an UNIX computer at their university.
Sure. I ran a
Another reference: Randy Cassingham's "Honorary UnSubscribe" page
https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/ward-christensen/
-mm-(folding it into this thread even though it's not related
to the NY Times)
needlessly hold multiple items when I only need one of
something.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2024, 11:37 PM Mark Huffstutter via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> I would sure like to find something for My Shugart 851s!
>
> Mark
>
> -Original Message--
Hi Bill,
I would sure like to find something for My Shugart 851s!
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Bill Degnan via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2024 8:24 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Bill Degnan
Subject: [cctalk] Dysan Alignment and Performance
.
The LCM was working on rebuilding a 360/30 they did locate, a
considerably smaller entry level 360.
When I last saw it they had considerable power supply rebuilding to accomplish.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Fred Cisin via cctalk
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2024 7:43 PM
To: David C
"CuriousMarc" Verdiell visited that museum a bit ago and made a YouTube
on channel.
Very impressive looking museum... if LCM Stuff has to go somewhere, it looks
like a good location.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNekvIxjTo
Quite a drive from Seattle, though
> 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
Slow, code bloat, ate resources.
There is no measurable or even reasonably-arguable way that Vista was superior
to 10.
Actually, I can’t think of any way that it was superior to 7, or to 8 once you
turned the touch-enabled Start Menu off.
other people could enjoy
destroyed. I perfectly understand not wanting to subject her to the hassle of
selling everything, especially while she’s mourning, but there are other ways
than sending them to the grinder.
—mark
>> , I've informed her that it's
>> perfectly acce
> 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
> A 'banjo' in this context is a device that breaks out the conductors of a
> modular jack to test points.
Thanks for this clarification!
Patch cords…for banjos??
Show us a photo.
> 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
Yeah, something’s missing here, teletype paper is for sure not good as a dummy
load.
minutes, Only three of these systems were ever built, two of
which were used outside of Firestone (one by the Air Force).
U.S. Patent 3,560,725 from 1968 provides some background as it covered an
early version of the later more highly developed system.
Mark
> From: Paul Kon
How much did you know about tub files or Telex exchanges at their age? Same
deal.
You know about it because you were there, and you’re confusing knowledge of a
specific era with knowledge of the era immediately prior to one’s own.
Will people who weren’t alive for the computers of the 80s fee
OS to allow it to soon after process pending RA+1 requests.
I hope this all makes sense.
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM Mark GREEN via cctalk
wrote:
> I worked on the run time support for the early versions of Pascal on the
> CDC 6000 series. Depending upon the character set determini
I worked on the run time support for the early versions of Pascal on the CDC
6000 series. Depending upon the character set determining the end of line was
a major pain. There was a loop hole in the Pascal type system that allowed you
to call any PPU program directly from Pascal. It was not w
Free trade agreement doesn’t mean it’s free to send things, man. It means you
don’t pay import/export tariffs.
> On Mar 22, 2024, at 21:29, jim stephens via cctalk
> wrote:
> (free trade agreement Us <--> Canada, nope).
Why are you paying for postage as an eBay seller? Buyer paying postage is the
standard.
> At sub $20 they aren't worth the effort. It would
> cost more than that in postage.
> 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
The LSSM is getting into the Modcomp world, so we are very interested in
the disposition of this media.
The OS tapes would be particularly valuable.
I suppose I should’ve specified “of the versions of BASIC I’ve ever heard
anyone talk about still using this century.” :P
BBC BASIC is the best BASIC there ever was, and I feel sad for those who have
never used it to see how powerful BASIC can be with proper structured
programming. It’s honestly like a different language.
> On Jan 31, 2024, at 12:05, Sellam Abraham via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> right now I'm on a BB
> 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 remember circa 1977 CMU had a PDP-11 compiler for '68 with an extensive
runtime component.
I presume the sources are lost.
Peter Hibbard was the guy responsible if I recall.
How does one access the Classic Computer discord?
> On Dec 31, 2023, at 18:03, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> Maybe ask in the Classic Computer discord? Very knowledgeable people there.
Thanks Rich
Hope everything is well with you.
Mark
Sent from my iPhone
> On 20 Dec 2023, at 18:32, Rich Alderson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Happy DEC-20 Day!
>
> My late friend Mark always noted that TOPS-20 (and the DECSYSTEM-20 on which
> i
Hey Steve I know this is a year later but I have the Nortronic Read Write heads
you were looking for. They are currently on eBay. The listing is below. Just do
a search and they will come up.
Nortronics Magnetic Head Assembly. NOS Part 9164-0068. Radio Cart Machines.
Hope this helps.
Mark
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
I did find a reference on the UK Concorde Heritage site from a
Guy who mentioned that He had been involved with rehabilitating
The Marilake in their aircraft, although it was 2011. I may try to ping
Him and see what he knows.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Bob Rosenbloom via
s
LCD.
You can see that here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050207053216/http://www.marilake.com/
Select "Products" then "Concorde Displays"
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk
Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2023 11:12 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp
y retained the earlier LED type display.
The other article is referring to a different display that replaced the
Marilakes.
Most of the references I have found indicate the Marilakes were Plasma displays.
Nothing definitive, however.
www.marilake.com/
Mark
-Original Message-
Hi Sellam
What are you shipping I might be able to help, DM me
Regards
Mark
On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 8:19 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for someone near Glasnevin near Dublin, Ireland who would be
> willing to pick up an item for me
email and we can work something out.
Best,
Mark
ed in continuing the legacy of the LCM will
appear, re-open the LCM, start
Hosting VCF PNW again.. OK, a guy can Dream :>)
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
Sent: Saturday, September 2, 2023 9:25 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
> 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.
TLDR:
“your computer can be infected by clicking on a single link … please click on
this single link.”
Is this an IQ test?
Did I pass?
On Jul 9, 2023, at 2:51 PM, Todd Pisek via cctalk wrote:
[EXTERNAL EMAIL]
Be aware that clicking on a malicious url can result on malware or spyware
being
Chris,
I would be interested in getting a copy of the SSPS/X software for POS. I
have a manual for SPSS/11 and would love to try to get the software running
under RSX11M+ if possible.
Thanks,
Mark
> On Jul 26, 2023, at 12:00 PM, cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> From: C
Hi,
I am curious if anyone here might be planning on attending.
https://museum.syssrc.com/artifact/events/3000/
The Vintage Computer Federation and the System Source Computer Museum are
hosting a vintage computer repair workshop on Saturday July 22nd and
Sunday July 23rd 2023
...
Mark
Wow..!!
Very nice collection there, Christian!
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Christian Corti via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 12:52 AM
To: Mark Huffstutter via cctalk
Cc: Christian Corti
Subject: [cctalk] Re: VCF Southwest 2023 some highlights
On Mon, 26 Jun
Control Program in the original TRON, in
1982. My best memory is seeing it in a big theater, now gone, with
A big crowd of fellow Nerds. The first time got quite a humorous
Response from the crowd...
Thank You!
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Steve Lewis via cctalk
Sent: Monday, June 26,
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
Hi Devin,
Do you happen to have any brochures/catalogs/Sgi Magazines newsletter by
any chance, I would love to add them to our online collection.
Regards
Mark
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 8:12 AM Geoff Reed via cctalk
wrote:
> Quoting devin davison via cctalk :
>
> > I have a sgi tezro
> 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
but not be relevant
to floating-point tasks.
- Mark
On Mar 3, 2023, at 4:21 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
[EXTERNAL EMAIL]
As part of fixing the Pro/380 I dug out and decided to get running my two Intel
systems. The
Ah, I missed the physical copy part, You might have already found this one
online.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Mark Huffstutter
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 8:45 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: [cctalk] 80 Micro Aug 1980 page scan
Steve
Steve,
There is a pretty good copy on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1980-08
Regards,
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Steve Lewis via cctalk
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2023 8:40 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Steve
Well, I don't know what to tell you. I am looking at the sdf.org page right
now, and
When I click on the welcome tab at the top of the page I see the same message I
did
When I posted the first email. Maybe it's a local problem.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Christian Corti
Where can I buy that bumper sticker?
- Mark
210-522-6025 office
210-379-4635 cell
On Feb 7, 2023, at 1:05 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>>
Short story on the welcome page.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Christian Corti via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:20 AM
To: Zane Healy via cctalk
Cc: Christian Corti
Subject: [cctalk] Re: SDF had put a PDP-10 on the Internet
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023, Zane Healy wrote
Hi Paul,
We have posted over 9000 items online at the following URL:
https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/brochures.asp
regards
Mark
On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 11:32 PM Paul Flo Williams via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 22:22:32 +0000
> Mark Brennan via c
Hi Chris,
Would you know if there were any DEC/HP brochure or product guides as I
would be interested in adding them to our online collection
Kind regards
Mark
On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM Chris Bryant via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Through a mutual friend I'v
See here: https://vt100.net/dec/vt320/fonts
You simply type the files from the command prompt and the escape sequences
in the file tell the terminal to load the font data rather than display it
on the screen.
Mark.
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 07:28, Wayne S via cctalk
wrote:
> You want to look
d the manual are long gone!
>
> I downloaded some RX02 images posted by Mark Matlock, but the disks appear to
> be all zeroes where I expect the directory to be.
>
> Does anybody know of a source?
>
> cheers,
>
> Nigel
Nigel,
I’ve been trying to find a working di
stem in such a manner as to
be tolerant of decision-making faults, or 3) Not doing the dangerous activity
because it’s not monitorable.
I would say our current road and automobile system doesn’t satisfy any
of those criteria, FWIW.
For problems simple enough to write closed-form, formally-verifiable
software to handle, I *definitely* agree that is the way to go.
- Mark
ed pick-up truck with room
to spare.) I'd like to see $2000, but will cheerfully entertain offers
(cheerfully if they're reasonable, or met with hysterical laughter if not).
Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd like more details and/or pictures.
Thanks!
~~
Mark Moulding
Chuck,
They did close to the public for a while, in around June of 2020,
But they re-opened a while back now, and are back on their standard
Sunday open to public day sched.
Mark
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2022 4:47 PM
To: Rich
Let me add that Howard Sturgis' dissertation "Post-mortem for a
Time-sharing System" is great reading. It's unusual that failures are
documented but this case study is worthy.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 1:00 PM wrote:
> Send cctalk mailing list submissions to
> cctalk@classiccmp.org
>
>
reasonable thing, I don’t know.
Let me know if you are interested, and I think I can get photos of it tomorrow
or today.
- Mark
210-522-6025 office
On Oct 11, 2022, at 5:24 PM, æstrid smith via cctalk
mailto:cctalk
lpful, though.
- Mark
On Oct 10, 2022, at 11:33 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
[EXTERNAL EMAIL]
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 08:20, Kevin Parker via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Problem is my GoogleF
The DEC Legacy Event is running this year from November 12th-13th 2022 in
Windermere, UK.
Head over to http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/ for more information.
Hope to see you there.
Regards, MArk.
On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 17:15, Steve Lewis via cctalk
wrote:
> Greetings, we've e
text-only email.
It's: https://www.ebay.com/itm/325286539219
~~
Mark Moulding
of these ($56.90) would provide 16 ports.
Zero power requirements, no software configuration. If it were me, I might
consider buying a two-pole rotary switch with enough positions and solder
one up, but for less than 12 bucks, it's hard to beat this...
~~
Mark Moulding
ail with an offer and we'll see what can
be worked out...
~~
Mark Moulding
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
Anyone have one of these haunting their Q bus board pile? The LSSM would
deadly like one.
How fortunate that I'm halfway across the continent :-)
mcl
enhancement for sharpening the pix. Right up
To a ringing edge, if You liked that sort of thing...
Mark
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent Hilpert
via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 11:47 PM
To: Anders Nelson; General Discussion:
Here is some pretty good information.
https://archive.org/details/TNM_Glass_computer_memories_-_Corning_Electronics_20171206_0185
Mark
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent Hilpert
via cctalk
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 11:53 PM
To
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.
licker
in the lights at power-on, so it makes sense to me to get that transient over
with before turning on the computer’s power supply.
- Mark
e answer is different for almost any computer, so it’s pretty
tough to answer generically, but it would be kind of interesting to explore all
of the variations on this.
- Mark
The LSSM is very interested in this machine for public display. It would
complement the museum's collection of PDP-11s and other 16 bit machines.
I heard Butler Lampson once exclaim that ECL design was in some ways easier
than TTL. If you terminated every line, you get controlled impedances with
controlled edges. This was the design philosophy for the Dorado.
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
I realize this a rare bird indeed, but would anyone just happen to have a
Varian 620/L backplane netlist hanging around?
Unless I missed it, the schematics on bitsavers do *not* have it.
No, OCR totally fails on olde line printer listing. At least the ones I've
tried (tesseract, online, ...)
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 8:06 PM Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>
> Can the listings be OCR'ed?
>
> - Ethan
>
>
> > Has anyone ever used Amazon Mechanical Turk to employ typi
Has anyone ever used Amazon Mechanical Turk to employ typists to type in
old listings of lost code?
Asking for a friend.
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 4:20 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 1/2/2022 6:21 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
>> I am seriously lusting after that VAX-11/780 system on eBay
> I keep thinking about it, but no. The 780 was neat from a historical
> perspect
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