On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 21:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
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> > The one I haven't found yet is:
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> f29bdg00.boo
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>
> The Google suggests:
> http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access
> which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers
Well spotted.
If I was uncle
>
> Someone in IBM must know, I suppose.
More likely, someone in IBM must have known.
But I would hazard a guess that almost everyone who had direct internal
knowledge of DCF, GML/Bookmaster, and the BOO format has already retired.
Charles Goldfarb was born in 1939
brian
> On 14 Dec 2023, at 08:18, brian--- via cctalk wrote:
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> I've done a lot of work converting technical documentation archives from
> DCF and Bookmaster to Word and XML, but always worked from source, never
> .BOO.
A quick search suggests both Bookmaster and DCF use a library called GDDM
>
> The one I haven't found yet is:
f29bdg00.boo
The Google suggests:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access
which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers
I've done a lot of work converting technical documentation archives from
DCF and Bookmaster to Word and
> Back in the bad old days of the 5160 PC, some DTC controllers allowed for
> partitioning a drive (using witch settings)
I think "witch settings" is my new preferred term for this. They're
certainly mysterious and arcane enough.
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> From: Peter Van Peborgh
> From: Antonio Carlini
> From: Jim Stephens
Everyone: please DO NOT send messsages to CCTalk/CCTech with no Subject: line
in the header: that results in un-linked, and thus un-clickable, entries in
the archive (which some of, like me, use to read
Guys,
Anyone interested in my eBay posted punched card selection?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/mys/active
Thanks,
Peter vp
Looking for a DECMATE (VT-278 model) RX278 Floppy Drive Interface Connector
cable, part number is RC26N-2L It's a 37 male-25 pin male cable.
Here is photo I took of one (not mine)
https://www.vintagecomputer.net/digital/DECmate/DECMATE_VT278_PortsDriveCable.jpg
I have the pinouts for the 37-pin
the same time they weren't in the other, but maybe my memory is
faulty.
> From: Eric Christopherson
> the reply to the message headed "No subject" .. actually seems to
> have a blank subject, as a result of which it doesn't seem to be
> possible to even v
Noel said
> I'm not sure what happened, but I note the next post had no Subject: line,
> and I'm wondering if that caused it. So best to make sure your posts have
> Subject: lines.
>
> Noel
When I posted the bit about the 360 + car photo the other day, I had a sub
mail/cctalk/2019-June/048095.html
> http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-June/048097.html
>
> I'm not sure what happened, but I note the next post had no Subject: line,
> and I'm wondering if that caused it. So best to make sure your posts have
> Subject: lines.
>
On 6/17/2019 1:18 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
So, a couple of posts yesterday did not show up in the date archive:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-June/date.html
which is how I read the list. They are:
And now I know why your posts always break the threading in Thund
l
>
> I'm not sure what happened, but I note the next post had no Subject: line,
> and I'm wondering if that caused it. So best to make sure your posts have
> Subject: lines.
>
> Noel
This is a function of the way the two lists work, I think. The posts you
mentioned were s
://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-June/048096.html
DEC KA650 VAX memory troubleshooting (video)
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-June/048095.html
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2019-June/048097.html
I'm not sure what happened, but I note the next post h
> From: Lawrence Wilkinson
> Nothing to report other than what's at https://ibms360.co.uk
Any partial results in trying to figure out a way to get all the
stuff back from Nuremberg?
You all may wind up having to rent a large truck yourselves, alas...
Noel
Looks like the recent recovery in Germany had a precedent. These two happy guys
have lugged their 360 out of the
building BUT look at the extra they snagged with theirs, and in great condition
too!
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1965-TORINO-Prototipo-auto-GIULIA-SPORT-Speciale-monitorato-da-IBM-Syst
Tom - Thanks much for filling in some of the blanks on the history! Ed#
In a message dated 4/23/2019 2:36:37 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
t.gard...@computer.org writes:
ISS was an independent company in the era (late 60s) of the 714 (IBM 2314
compatible). It was later acquired by Itel
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The IPA is heated to 60C before the ultrasound is able to remove the oxide
remnants, FWIW.
While we can often get the entire smooth surface of the head clean with
swabs and IPA, it is very difficult to clean all the material that forms in
the cruciform trench recessed into the head (where the read
My first FPGA-Elf (2009) used an FPGA board that is long-since obsolete,
and while I updated it last year, it used an FPGA board that was not
commercially available, and would have been frighteningly expensive if it
was. For the most recent RetroChallenge, I updated the FPGA-Elf to work on
a readil
Gj
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Geoffrey G Rochat has finally gott
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