Re: TOP POSTING

2015-12-12 Thread simon
not my problem! Strongly agree. Adrian, if your email client doesn't let you bottom-quote properly, it's broken. The only desktop client I've seen that is so completely broken is MS Outlook. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Bye for now... was:

2015-12-12 Thread simon
could refrain from "biting the troll". I am truly not interested in top, bottom posting, and other non classic computer blabla. Bye -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

2015-12-10 Thread simon
sudo mv thread /dev/null On 09-12-15 22:58, Jay West wrote: Please make an effort not to top-post :| J -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: papertape repair tape or kit wanted

2015-11-30 Thread simon
located in Landenberg, PA USAContact me privately if you can help. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: DEC Papertape Readers

2015-11-28 Thread simon
atever) equivalent of a lace card. I'm amazed it held together enough to play, and I suspect it's not going to survive more than a handful of plays at best. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-21 Thread simon
I am very curious as what you are talking about. Is it something with html in mail? I configured thunderbird to only show me plain text so I can focus on the content and not some graphic noise. simon On 20-11-15 23:06, Peter Coghlan wrote: Just a hit . . scanning/printing without having

[cctalk]Re: Could someone make the list do the thing in the subject line?

2015-11-18 Thread simon
USING CAPITALS ONLY PROVES TO BE A MAIL NOOB ;-) Or is using a Model 33 ASR (or KSR) :-) -tony MY INFOTON TERMINAL IS UPPERCASE ONLY! -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Nextstep: Visions in black

2015-11-16 Thread simon
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Re: Distilled water (was re: Model 152 PSU dummy loads)

2015-10-28 Thread simon
associated into H+ and OH- ions. However, as others have stated, the effective value of the water resistor, compared to the load resistor(s), will be negligible. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Caps. Was: Mac IIsi - SoG?

2015-10-27 Thread simon
did you replace the caps on the motherboard. those machines are in the suspect zone, like the IIci, IIcx and the like. On most of them the aluminium caps have gone bad and are leaking on the board, inflicting all kinds of damage. simon On 27-10-15 06:54, Sean Caron wrote: AFAIK there's

Re: testing...

2015-10-26 Thread simon
hmm. strange.. this seems to work. thanks for ignoring this. simon On 26-10-15 08:47, simon wrote: Please ignore. it seems my mail does not get through the last couple of times. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

testing...

2015-10-26 Thread simon
Please ignore. it seems my mail does not get through the last couple of times. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US

2015-10-26 Thread simon
T100 in the usa. they need the parts for a movie. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

filtering?

2015-10-26 Thread simon
Hi All, it seems that some of my messages do not get through to the list. Is there a filter on this list of some sort? -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: filtering?

2015-10-26 Thread simon
"imagine traveling beyond time, you entering the cctalk-zone!" OOooOOOoohhh ;-) On 26-10-15 22:06, Lawrence Wilkinson wrote: On 26/10/15 21:58, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, simon wrote: Hi All, it seems that some of my messages do not g

Re: Siemens T100?

2015-10-26 Thread simon
to be found and no filters are active on any of this. I Apologize for these multiple posts. simon On 26-10-15 09:31, Rik Bos wrote: -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Namens simon Verzonden: maandag 26 oktober 2015 9:18 Aan: On-Topic and Off-Topic

Re: Model 152 PSU dummy loads - Re: NeXT Cube - powers on briefly then off again

2015-10-26 Thread simon
, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA http://plymouthcolony.net/starcityeng/index.html -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US

2015-10-24 Thread simon
willing to part of their broken or otherwise non/half functional T100 in the usa. they need the machines for a movie in the New York area. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

looking for Siemens T100 telexes in the US

2015-10-22 Thread simon
. -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-10-13 Thread simon
Hmm, that may com handy... first I need a little time to build a 2114 tester from a sanguino (arduino clone at hand) On 12-10-15 20:30, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, just came accross, what might be helpful for you: I found some pages with my spare 906 controller (unfortunatley not working

Re: MFM Emulator

2015-10-08 Thread simon
with those machines. :-) ) simon On 08-10-15 20:38, Ian Finder wrote: That's my pet project at this point. We are having some issues with the space so it will probably (hopefully) open as appointment-only early next year. The idea is to find trustworthy people who we can give access

Re: Writing SCSI 9-Track Mag Tapes from Windows/DOS

2015-10-05 Thread simon
well, we at hack42 are discussing a pertec to usb converter based on a microcontroller. pertec seems straightforward, now how to present the drive to the os... Simon On 03-10-15 10:20, Mike Ross wrote: Question: will this kind of hookup work with a USB-SCSI converter? If so, are there any

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-10-05 Thread simon
Hey this is interesting. we have a different controller, indicating that a change from a 1038 to a 1039 involved changing the controller as well. see my pics. https://hack42.nl/gallery/v/Museum/2015-09-18-138.jpg unfortunately i cannot find a picture of the back of the controller. simon

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-10-04 Thread simon
. on ours there seems to be two missing. I'm thinking about a setup to test the socketed 2114 RAM chips based on a microcontroller with just a simple good or fault indicator. On 03-10-15 20:18, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi Simon, Hello to the group, this weekend I went digging for the Calcomp 1038/1039

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-09-22 Thread simon
now... -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-09-21 Thread simon
it? If so, check and/or replace them. I've foudn such RAM in printers/plotters from many manufacturers and perhaps 90%+ of electronic problems are caused by them. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-09-21 Thread simon
Sounds good. Docs are much appriciated. Our printer has three boards inside, one processor, one pen driver and i forgot what the thirdt was. Next time i will take photo's of that card as well. simon On 21-09-15 08:45, Erik Baigar wrote: Hi All, the 1039 is an interesting plotter I have

Calcomp 1039 plotter docs?

2015-09-20 Thread simon
as per the user guide. anyone with documentation on this thing? -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Cryptolocker (was RE: Is tape dead?

2015-09-16 Thread simon
m was put in place immediately thereafter. I've also talked to a few of my associates who own IT consulting firms, and any of them that decided to pay the ransom did in fact get a working decryption key. ZFS is a good solution :) Best, J -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-12 Thread simon
iel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-11 Thread simon
I changed the format to svg for portability. in translation, the dot matrix font was lost (or it did'nt exist in the first place. I could have made the font with separate dots) simon On 11-09-15 00:39, Marc Howard wrote: Question: Is there a way to edit the SVG file to produce a custom message? Tha

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-10 Thread simon
. It is a specialized stock that is extremely difficult to make. What is different about it? Thickness? Weight/square metre? Density? Impregnated with something? -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-10 Thread simon
A nice guy at greenkeys spotted an error in the printed characters. the c cedille should actually be a cent char. I fixed it. Simon On 10-09-15 17:54, Simon Claessen wrote: Hi Lee. Thanks. feel free to rename the file to anything you like. :-) I decided to ignore rude yelling people

Re: DEC 8235 IC? (repost)

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Claessen
To answer my own question, DEC 82xx type IC's are actually Signetics N82xx IC's. On 07-09-15 11:10, simon wrote: As something went wrong in posting this question, I try to repost it here. please don't be offended

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-10 Thread Simon Claessen
one box of fresh cards and one box of used cards with our IBM 029. Of course the unused cards stay in the depot until we can do something usefull with them. That is why I made this file. As soon as I find a good local supply of the right type of paper, the cards can be reproduced. :-) Simon

list troubles. was: DEC 8235 IC? (repost)

2015-09-08 Thread simon
On 07-09-15 19:29, David Gesswein wrote: On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:10:26AM +0200, simon wrote: As something went wrong in posting this question, I try to repost it here. please don't be offended by this. - Hi all

Re: BBC Model B with Raspberry Pi Internals

2015-09-08 Thread simon
with a traditional interface? I don't even know if there is a word for these kind of projects? Thanks, Mark. That is called a hack and that is what hacking is about: http://hackaday.com/blog It't fun! -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

DEC 8235 IC? (repost)

2015-09-07 Thread simon
, resulting in 4 burned chips, but other boards could well be affected. --- -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: Front Panels Sample layout.

2015-07-19 Thread simon
ours is visible on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/simski/15171396948/ On 19-07-15 00:00, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi I am working on an 8/f version. Its not far along enough to send out just yet . Rod On 18/07/2015 12:34, simon wrote: Hi Rod, that sounds like a good idea. we have a 8

Re: Front Panels Sample layout.

2015-07-19 Thread simon
Oh, they are merely scratches from the key. We decided to keep the labels for history's sake and yes the printset is in good condition, but not better than te scans available on bitsavers. On 19-07-15 12:38, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Simon Yes thats what I am working on right now. I can see

what IBM system is this?

2015-07-04 Thread simon
found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM system is this. https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692 -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

Re: DEC Logo

2015-07-01 Thread simon
On 30-06-15 15:10, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-30 4:44 AM, simon wrote: On 29-06-15 14:56, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-29 3:54 AM, simon wrote: the front of the internal bus options maintenance manual in front of me. But looking at the f in 8/f gives me the impression they mixed some

Re: DEC Logo

2015-06-30 Thread simon
On 29-06-15 14:56, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-29 3:54 AM, simon wrote: the front of the internal bus options maintenance manual in front of me. But looking at the f in 8/f gives me the impression they mixed some fonts for the logo and taking a closer look at the line: digital equipment

Re: DEC Logo

2015-06-29 Thread simon
letter t On 29-06-15 04:50, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-28 10:12 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 2015-06-28 6:34 PM, simon wrote: It seems to me that pdp8 is written in futura bold ITC Avant Garde would probably be closer. (released circa 1970) Oops, I was looking at the vertical d e c when I said

using new technology on old machines. Was: PDP-12 Restoration at the RICM

2015-06-15 Thread Simon Claessen
available at the time. It's not as if a programmable buad rate generator is hard to make from TTL either. In fact given the Arduino thing needed 'some debugging' it might well have taken less time to do it in hardware. -tony -- Met vriendelijke Groet, Simon Claessen drukknop.nl

pdp8/e /f /m Omnibus legenda available

2015-06-05 Thread Simon Claessen
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