On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Evan Koblentz wrote:
"What do an Apple 1, Commodore 65, Enigma Machine, and the inventor of C++
all have in common?"
They're just overestimated pieces of junk ;-) (and C++, not its inventor)
[duck...]
Christian
On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Systems Glitch wrote:
Looks similar to a Mentec KDJ11-B workalike, I don't remember their
designation. Onboard RAM and DLV11-J from what I remember...
The board says SBC J11-8, so that should give a hint.
Christian
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, dwight wrote:
The Olivetti used a piece of wire for the delay line. I forget what the
Dielh Combitron used but I know it used a two delay lines. One was for
registers and the other was for lookup tables that loaded at turn on
time from a metal tape ( as I recall ).
I can
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Ed wrote:
Looking for windows 1.x for HP-150 touchscreen Also looking for
Look at the obvious hpmuseum.net site, it's there.
Christian
Hi,
I have another frontpanel, this one is from Plessey Peripheral Systems and
must come from a 16 bit system. It's only the board with LEDs and
switches. Does anyone know the system this panel comes from?
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pics/temp/plessey_fp.jpg
Christian
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017, Peter Corlett wrote:
Both USB 2.0 and PCI are orders of magnitude faster than real-world
wifi. Even ISA will give wifi a run for its money. I recommend you not
bother with wifi if you care about network performance.
No, USB 2.0 is way too slow for 802.11ac that outperforms
On Fri, 3 Mar 2017, Jules Richardson wrote:
Thanks to both of you. I came back to cctalk after not checking it for a few
days, and wondered what the %$#^ was going on, with every message showing
with cctalk as the "from" field.
I'm another one who dislikes the new system. It would be much
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)
write(3, "-T dn,ace uni-stuttgart.de\r\n", 28) = 28
I can't see where this whois originates from, it has version
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Mouse wrote:
Only if you don't bother editing it down to whichever address you want
to reply to (as I did for this message). If your user agent doesn't
let you do that, well, your choice of a crippled user agent (and an
inability to edit the list of recipients is a pretty
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Mouse wrote:
Yes, and it must not be in the Reply-To: field because in normal
cases, this field is the one used for replying, and I want to reply
to the list, and only to the list.
...that's sure what this sounds like. If so, I have little sympathy
for your position.
So
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Mouse wrote:
[...]
And BTW, what you are doing is not clever at all:
mo...@rodents-montreal.org
SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection:
host MX-4.rodents-montreal.org [98.124.61.89]:
550-.de's whois server, whois.denic.de, is completely
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):
# whois uni-stuttgart.de
% Copyright (c) 2010 by DENIC
% Version: 2.0
%
% Restricted rights.
%
% Terms and Conditions of Use
%
% The data in
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
The whole "foo via cctalk" is *really* annoying... What is wrong with
a half default mailman setup? There is no Reply-To header there, From
is set to the person actually sending the message (as it should be).
Yes, that is most annoying. My
On Mon, 3 Apr 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm probably showing my age (again), but "QIC" and "Supercomputers" just
seems to be about as related as "Chateau Margaux" and "Cheez Whiz".
If one is spending millions on a supercomputer, why would anyone want to
put software for it on a QIC cart?
Well,
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017, Rod Smallwood wrote:
There are what appear to be 1976 date codes on some caps.
If its that old then replace all and any electrolytic capacitors plus any
paper based caps.
If they aint bad now they soon will be.
*shaking head*
Sorry, this is just a plain dumb answer.
Hi,
for those who wonder why our mirror at
bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
is outdated:
The reason is that the main rsync server is down/unavailable since March,
11. I've already contacted Al several days ago but haven't got any
response yet.
Christian
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Alexandre Souza wrote:
Light green? Was it battery electrolyte? Wash it with vinegar (yes,
vinegar) and after, wash with a good detergent and warm water.
No, *not* vinegar. Use citric acid. You don't want to force the formation
of copper acetate.
Christian
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Al Kossow wrote:
They canceled my order as well, just after sending me a message
wondering if I wanted the keyboard
And this is not illegal in the US? It is here.
Christian
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2017-08-03 11:12, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
It would be nice, though if someone just finished a MSCP controller with a
CF or SD on it.
I don't think there is enough demand for it. So to finish it would take some
effort, and the boards wouldn't
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, camiel.vanderhoeven--- via cctalk wrote:
My workhorse 8" drives are some Ye-Data half-height ones. I still have about
a dozen of them as NOS. I believe they were made in 1993.
If you mean the Y-E DATA YD-180, well, they are QumeTrack 242 ;-)
Christian
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'll try again--it doesn't matter if the Qume 242 (I've got one) is a
DSDD drive if you're using SS media. Peek inside the drive and you'll
see that there are *two* index sensors--one for single-sided and the
other for double-sided media. Unless you've
On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Richard Cini wrote:
Will do. These 242 drives are NOS and I have several. I'll swap them too.
One more note about QumeTrack 242 drives:
I have the problem that the head load is very sticky (on both of my
drives). I had to clean and oil it to make it working again. But
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Santo Nucifora wrote:
I might have some better documentation that I just haven't had a chance to
scan yet.
[...]
5110 System Library Binder 1
SY31-0550-2 IBM 5110 Computer Maintenance Information Manual
SY31-0551-0 IBM 5114 Diskette Unit Maintenance Information Manual
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Robert wrote:
So, faulty support logic, rather than a faulty ROS. That's encouraging.
I hope this is also true in your case. According to your picture, the last
column of each character is missing. It could be an issue around the shift
register (e.g. the Display Data
On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Christian Corti wrote:
The scans I made are quite old; I do have a much better scanner now so I
could just rescan the manuals for better quality.
Ok, I've added the 5114 MIM, and also added some pages of the System Logic
Manual, including the Display Adapter and the 5114
On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Robert wrote:
It's always the same characters that are mangled and it's independent
of their position on the screen, so I suspect possible corruption in
the character set, wherever in ROS or the display card it is held.
The characters are stored on the display interface
On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Robert wrote:
maintenance manual and that for the 5103. No luck on the 5114, yet,
but I'll keep looking.
Ok, I will scan that manual the next days. But in general the contents of
the 5114 MIM is contained withing the 5120 MIM.
Christian
I have an NCR labelled ADDS 2020 terminal that emulates the NCR 7930 and
7901. Has anyone a manual for those NCR terminals that describes the
control sequences? OTOH a firmware dump of the ANSI firmware for the 2020
would be fine, too.
Christian
Hi,
I want to share the latest result of a bachelor thesis in our museum. We
are now able to program and load arbitrary machine programs and run them
on the Combitron. As a proof-of-concept, the student wrote an hommage to
Stanley Frankel, the designer of the CPU, by writing a boot tape that
On Mon, 3 Jul 2017, Rob Jarratt wrote:
All I could do was prop open the tape door with a paper clip. 45C in my
fan oven worked for me. 55C in my oven seemed to mostly demagnetise the
tape. Other ovens may be different, so it is best to experiment with
something that doesn't matter.
You can
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
Unfortunately PATA drives are becoming difficult to find and designing a
SATA interface (not to mention layout issues) is not for the faint of
heart.
That's why I suggest using dirt cheap external PATA<-->SATA bridges.
Christian
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Sam O'nella wrote:
What are the 4 games?
SPIEL1: Vier in einer Reihe
SPIEL2: Lebenserwartung
SPIEL3: Roulette
SPIEL4: Kopfnuss (Superhirn)
Christian
On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Adrian Graham wrote:
of the whole ftp site but it?s 220gb and I?m not sure my little 150mb/s
web connection will download that in less than a month :)
You should think about the proper usage of units...
If "gb" is gigabytes, then "mb" is megabytes. With a 150 megabytes/s
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, jim stephens wrote:
Legal / illegal and ebay in the same sentence doesn't make sense. They only
want to make money, and don't care about either sellers or buyers.
Thanks god that I am not in the US, because here, even eBay has to follow
local legislation. Or in other
On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Al Kossow wrote:
There is no way to low-level format disks on a DEC RX01 or RX02. The
hardware doesn't support it in the controller inside the DEC disk drive.
DEC expected you to buy media from them.
Not really. You can use any standard 3740 formatted disk (i.e. 26
So, we've got an IBM 5285 (5280 series) programmable data station. This is
a *heavy* and nice beast ;-) Its architecture is a bit unusual but
interesting. Problem is, I don't have any software for it expect one disk
that IPLs and that contains four more or less crappy games.
(can be found at
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Al Kossow wrote:
Can you actually buy SATA PHYs in small quantities now
or even SATA to PATA bridges?
I would go for a cheap external bridge, something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008X8NK0I
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Noel Chiappa wrote:
But are SD cards really that unreliable? If they were, I'd have thought I'd
Yes they are. Just have look around in the world of cameras and
smartphones where people suffer from losing their photos just because an
SD card decides to fail. I have several
On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
On Aug 4, 2017, at 4:14 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: I don't like the idea of CF or SD at
all. I'd pretty much prefer PATA or SATA, because ...
CF is PATA, just a different connector.
If the board provides
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
How is ECS constructed? I fooled with a lot of it back in the day, but
never got a good look at the core planes.
I'd love to know. I never saw the insides of ECS. There are some
documents on Bitsavers but none that I have seen show the ECS memory
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
would preclude this. I did it on a SYS III Xenix clone). BSD 2.11
should run fine on a 34 or 23 and there is always Ultrix-11 which I have
No, it doesn't. 2.9BSD, yes, but not 2.11BSD as it requires split I/D and
more than 128 kwords of memory.
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 6/1/2017 12:12 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk
wrote:
I can. I use a DR11 parallel port on an 11/24 to transfer the files.
Interesting. I'd like to see how you tackled that (I can
On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Yes, I am doing the drawings at 600DPI, including the drawings that
reside inside a couple of the maintenance manuals (but 400DPI for the
text, etc.)
Please do *everything* at 600dpi, disk space and file sizes for such
documents don't matter these days,
On Thu, 18 May 2017, Lyle Bickley wrote:
I run BSD 2.9 on my 11/34C (w/max. mem.) & DZ using (2) RL02s with up to
three TTY sessions. It's a bit "sluggish" (by today's standards). TSX
I have a similar setup with our 11/34. 2.9BSD on one RL01 as root/swap,
the rest (/usr etc.) on a RA80 (with
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Warner Losh wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On the IBM PC/AT (5170) with 1.2M, admittedly the only one that is easily
readily available, there is trivial software tweaking required to
format/write "720K"/"quad" density, instead
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, Sam O'nella wrote:
Should be easy but my mobile google fu is failing. Didn't Jay and a few
others know if a vintage computer key database/site somewhere? Would
that possibly have or benefit from getting afterwards? null
Ok, I went into our storage and made some pics:
On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
Also, the early desktop PS/2 (model 50 and such) had the controller
integrated on the drive and those were Maxtor as I recall. The PS/2
shipped in 1987 and we had the drives in labs at least 12-18 months
prior (memory is dim on this right now).
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Al Kossow wrote:
As far as I know, no one has successfully made a copy of a Tek cartridge
tape in an image format. The tapes use two tracks, one for clock and one
for data. Encoding beyond that has not been determined. I still have
I can backup Tek405x tapes. Our 4051 has
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Tony Duell wrote:
The Diablo positioner is strange. For one thing it is a permanent magnet
motor and rack-and-pinion mechanism (!). But the important thing here is
that the heads are loaded to the platter by a solenoid. Not by loading
ramps like in an RK05. So even if the
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017, Mattis Lind wrote:
[...]
Does anyone have more info about this (dusty) board:
[...]
It says IECU. I wonder if that is some kind of product name? The copyright
in the etch is 1984 but the chips are mostly from 1985 or 1986.
Hmm, we have several Bridge CS/1 terminal
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
Speaking of I've got a couple of old MFM drives (10 and 20 MB of a
variety whose name and model #'s escape me, I wanna say Tandon, but not
sure). They seem to work fine when I initially format and partition, but as
they run for a while, they get
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Chuck Guzis wrote:
"Low level format" is pretty much a relic of the old non-servo MFM
drives. I recall that early Maxtor IDE drives implemented a LLF
Lowlevel formatting has to be done for *all* ST-506 interface drives (e.g.
"MFM" and "RLL" drives). It is the disk
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, Dominique Carlier wrote:
I have temporarily replaced the 2N6471 by an approaching equivalent, I makes
the settings to get very exactly + 5V on both outputs and the machine
restarted, finally! YES !! :-)
[...]
then 02, 03 !! 04 !!! 05 !! And then ... nothing, and since
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, emanuel stiebler wrote:
So, what is the best(?) or easiest piece of software,
to format the drives, check for bad blocks, etc.?
I like the "CMS Fixed Disk Diagnostics" very much, the file is FDIAG.COM
It can be found here:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I have a couple of hard disks I want to make dd copies of. I have Ultrix
running on my DECstation 5000/240 with the disk I want to clone attached to
it. The trouble is that I don't have enough disk space on the machine to
clone the disk and then grab the
On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Richard Loken wrote:
By gum! Alpine does indeed translate the 'A' into a '?' and I never
noticed.
I'm using Alpine, too, and have no problems with the à or any other
foreign character. I'm not even using UTF-8 but plain ISO-8859-1 in my
terminal.
But it's important to
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
No, the 9122C model has two 1.44M drives. HP made several earlier 3.5"
No, the 9122C has two high-density, two-sided 80 cylinder drives. A drive
has no capacity, this is the function of the on-disk format.
;-)
Christian
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, jim stephens wrote:
and the like that are included in the current system as installed, and there
are problems now with the tumble_pbm.c code parameters (line 237
specifically).
Huh?
# wc -l tumble_pbm.c
231 tumble_pbm.c
This is the last known version (part of tumble 0.33
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Christian Corti wrote:
Huh?
# wc -l tumble_pbm.c
231 tumble_pbm.c
This is the last known version (part of tumble 0.33 from 2003):
* $Id: tumble_pbm.c,v 1.1 2003/04/10 00:47:30 eric Exp $
Ok, I see, whoever changed tumble as found on github forgot to
change all version
On Thu, 16 Nov 2017, CuriousMarc wrote:
What did you do for the screen mold? Hot wire method to separate CRT
from implosion window? Put the CRT in a hot water bath? Chip at the
glue? Marc
What we did on one of our 2645 terminals was the hot wire method. We then
attached the "implosion"
On Fri, 17 Nov 2017, David Collins wrote:
Christian do you know the gauge of the wire you used ? And the current?
It was a wire for cutting polystyrene blocks. The current was a fews
amperes, I think, driven off a bench power supply.
Christian
Hi,
do hardware manuals for the TWIN exist? And does any other TWIN system
exist? It seems it is a completely forgotten and lost development system.
Christian
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 15 Nov 2017, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
No, the 9122C has two high-density, two-sided 80 cylinder drives. A drive
has no capacity, this is the function of the on-disk format.
;-)
"high-density" is even more meaningless than
On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, CuriousMarc wrote:
The link below is from the computer museum in Cambridge, UK, which seems to
have a copy of an HP 2640 terminal manual I am looking for. Is anyone from
that museum on the list? Does any of the UK members know them?
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, CuriousMarc wrote:
Awesome! The microcode listings would be fantastic too, as I also have a
2749 (which you are supposed to be able to program in assembly)! Let us know
The firmware is already on bitsavers, IIRC. But you can program every 264x
terminal in assembly. There
The manual has been scanned and is on our FTP server:
ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/hp/hp2648/13245-90001_2640SeriesCharacterSetGeneration_Oct1975.pdf
Enjoy :-)
@Al: you may push it to bitsavers
Christian
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017, Mattis Lind wrote:
Very interesting! I have a 2640 which I recently refurbished the screen on
and it runs happily and then a 2645 that still needs treatment for the
screen rot. Is the binaries for pong and space invaders downloadable
somewhere? I searched the usual places,
On Thu, 17 May 2018, jos wrote:
( this is not related to the General Automation SPC16 family)
... wherefore I still seek for print sets, software and so on ...
Christian
On Wed, 16 May 2018, geneb wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ed Sharpe via cctalk wrote:
OK I see there is a mix of photos in this directory!
some tape reader some drum 2 separate topics.
Ed, I don't know if you (or anyone else) can see this, but there's two junk
characters at the
On Thu, 7 Jun 2018, Aaron Jackson wrote:
The VAX turns on and the status LED stays on F. The DC lamp does not
illuminate on the PSU. 5V rail appears fine but there is nothing from
the 12V rail. There were some *very* dodgy looking caps which I have
replaced, and some *very* exploded MOSFETs,
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
So 200 and 800 are nice decimal multiples of 10. But 556 doesn't fit
that pattern--it's not a "nice' number, being the product of 4 and 139
and doesn't correspond to any computer-related characteristics that I
know of. It's not metric. So why 556 and not
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
And we're talking bits/chars per inch, so I don't see the connection,
particularly on a 75 ips drive.
Ehm, yes, I was thinking too fast and too simple... it's a hot day here.
Christian
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, "j...@cimmeri.com" wrote:
Seriously! Liam, don't you know that handling paper with your hands
transfers oils to it and hastens its decay? This is why gloves are worn to
handle old paper artifacts.
*lol*
Especially with oiled paper tape that is exposed to daylight and
On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
For a time, cassette decks were used as a substitute for punched paper
tape in the commercial embroidery business They were supplanted by
floppy drive boxes, eventually (e.g. Barudan).
And paper tape is still used in that business (all kind of NC
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've had some decent results with P4 and Socket 939 motherboards but
after that, not so much. I don't know if that's a bright-line rule, but
it seems to hold with my gear.
My quite current Socket AM3+ board with six-core CPU and 16GB of RAM (to
be
On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, TeoZ wrote:
Didn?t early SUN gear have SCSI floppy drives?
No, SUN always used standard floppy controllers. But HP and DEC used them,
although it was not very common. The floppy drives are standard TEAC
FD-235HF with an additional SCSI floppy controller board.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018, Grant Taylor wrote:
I'm wondering if it might be possible to use an old NetWare 4.x / 5.x box as
a router to convert from one Ethernet frame type to another Ethernet frame
type. I.e. from IP over Ethernet II frames to IP over 802.3 frames.
Why do you want to convert
On Mon, 22 Jan 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
Not that anyone seems to collect printers, but the LBP1 and the Canon
engine were some of the first 'inexpensive mass-produced' laser
printers.
I still have the Kyocera F-1010 that my father bought 30 years ago. It
still works well, but the foam strips
On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, william degnan wrote:
Not sure, I have a bunch of items that need to be investigated including
that one.
http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2017/Objects/
b
Well, two objects are obvious ;-)
P1010070.JPG is the program drum for an IBM 29 card punch (and similar
models)
... and this is the reason why the "new" list mail system that alters
the headers and puts the private from address into the Reply-To header is
crap.
Christian
On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, Lionel Johnson wrote:
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 09:48:05 +1100
From: Lionel Johnson
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Grant Taylor wrote:
Watching Curious Marc's HP 264x Terminals - Part 3: Living the ASCII Life
video made me think of this thread.
Check out Marc's did video about 17 minutes into the video. The video shows
Ken using the HP 264x terminal to run Lynx on a Linux box to
What is a "Lisa Source Code" ?
The schematics? The source code for the Lisa firmware and/or Lisa OS?
Christian
Where do you patch the ZRQCH0 binary to use different geometries
for non-DEC drives with a RQDX3?
As it seems it should be possible, but noone has told how to do this ;-)
Christian
On Sat, 28 Jul 2018, GerardCJAT wrote:
Christian,
I absolutly agree with David s post.
Back in the ' '70 when I was maintaining 3 x HP 2116 B running 24/24 7/7
FOR around 10 YEARS, the ONLY memory related problem that I got was
traced to a faulty transistor !!
Then I have a new fault ;-)
Ok, so I've got the computer almost running now. I now need to fix both
sense amplifier cards. One (0..4k) sometimes reads a one for bit 3 after
the machine has warmed up. The other (4..8k) has a stuck one for bit 7.
Swapping these cards make the errors move to the other core bank
respectively.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, it was written
I've buy these lamps from Oshino Lamps, the original supplier for a good
price. Minimun quantity 100 pcs
Speaking of Oshino Lamps, I had a phone call yesterday with their German
branch after I had inquired them for a distributor; I saw the OL-345 on
their
Hi,
I need to replace several broken lamps from our HP-2116B front panel. The
old/original ones are CM-345 or OL-345. This makes sense, they are rated
6V 40mA 1 hours.
BUT:
The maintenance manual says something different and is even wrong and
inconsistent.
HP part number is 2140-0035,
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, it was written
Christian, when I was restoring the HP Computer Museum's 2116A I ordered a
bunch of these 345 bulbs from 1000bulbs.com - but it seems they no longer
stock them.
I did find this listing though which looks current...
On Wed, 25 Jul 2018, GerardCJAT wrote:
When I was "doing sort of " C.E. for 2116 ( 1971 _ 1981 ), we were using
CM 380 as replacement. Even longer life !!
Good info! Don't know how I could miss this one, it is even cheaper than
the 345. I think I wanted to stick to the same type as the ones
On Sat, 18 Aug 2018, Curious Marc wrote:
On Aug 17, 2018, at 3:14 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
wrote:
On 2018-08-17 12:40 AM, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote:
+1 on the hp_agilent Yahoo group
Which at this very moment is MOVING to groups.io:
https://groups.io/g/HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment
On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, carlos_muri...@ieee.org wrote:
Under SunOS 4.1.4, the last gcc version that is supported is 3.3.6, but I
haven't been able to build it on an IPX; it gets to the point where it
Not quite true:
# uname -a
SunOS azu 4.1.1 10 sun4 unknown unknown SunOS
# gcc -v
Reading
On Wed, 18 Jul 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/292646012304
local pickup only
the reserve is >$1500
ROTFL
A very big and expensive door stopper without OS tapes.
But most importantly: the CPU board is missing!
The card in slot 2 appears to be an additional SIO card.
This is
On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, Paul Koning wrote:
The work of a VT100 is quite a lot more complex than that of a VT52
(many more screen operations, and more complex control sequence
parsing). With the hardware technology available at the time, it was a
pretty tough job. Does the VT100 have a
On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Jim Brain wrote:
But, I have pulled my hacked reader out from mothballs to read a CPU someone
is sending, so I thought I would inquire if others have 6500/1 units that
want read.
Hint: Seagate ST-225
Christian
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, dwight wrote:
I've had the goo from the adhesive of 5.25 inch 360k disk come through
the nice liner and make gobs on the disk. I tried several thing but
found that isopropanol worked without removing any of the magnetic
material ( maybe s tiny amount that was likely loose
On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Al Kossow wrote:
On 7/11/18 2:21 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
I use Screen 99 for cleaning floppies
MSDS
https://store.comet.bg/download-file.php?id=16956
first ingredient listed; isopropyl alcohol
Of course, somehow you need some "magic" in
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
I wouldn't mind a couple of FC-1 but I bet the price would be much more
than I can afford.
Speaking of the FC-1 boards: it appears that they support different sector
sizes, as well as MFM and FM encoding. How do you program this?
Christian
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Marlene Klein wrote:
We have an HP 9845A computer (1977) in working condition.
Can we post it on your site?
That sounds illogical. How do you want to electronically post a physical
object? ;-) And what site anyway? This is a mailing list.
Christian
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Mattis Lind wrote:
Then there is some kind of serial com board with four UARTs on it.
https://i.imgur.com/YvnTlxq.jpg
That one is easy to name: That's an Able Quadrasync/E, I have that board,
too.
Christian
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018, Christian Corti wrote:
The EF50 has a Loctal base with eight pins. 5xx is Magnoval. 8x is Noval.
Correction: Loctal with nine pins ;-) How crazy...
Christian
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