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by Cameron Kelly

Hello, I have a QIC tape of an interesting piece of software that doesn’t seem to be archived anywhere. I don’t have experience using QIC tape so I’m inquiring if anyone here would be willing to offer the service. The software in question is “CorelDraw For Unix”. Thanks, Cameron

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IEEE Spectrum: When IBM Built a War Room for Executives A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

by Christian Liendo

As time goes on new things are found. When IBM Built a War Room for Executives A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal https://spectrum.ieee.org/ibm-demo

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Re: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch

by Malcolm Clark

Hi Martin, I am looking for a manual for the above tape reader and found your details from a discussion on cctalk from July 2022. I am a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing and an ex Ferranti engineer. I am currently restoring an Argus 500 computer and trying to get it back to its original configuration. I have recently restored 2 Trend HSR 500 readers and now have acquired 2 UDR 700 readers that need to be fixed and set up. My latest video on YouTube https://youtu.be/8HtRqe6jzc8?si=MmRL4qbh_7PZjVff In the email you said you had scanned the document into a file. Would it be possible to upload it to Google Drive and send me the link so I can download it? Ultimately I would like to upload it to the Museum archive and make it available for everyone to view. I am assuming that there are no copyright issues as Trend was finally wound up as a company in December 2022. Hope to hear from you soon Kind Regards Malcolm Clark

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Old mainframe humor

by Donald Whittemore

NEAT/3 instructions www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/neat3.pdf Misc instructions www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/pl-o.pdf Misc Assembler www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/miscassembler.pdf IBM beginnings www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/beginning.pdf New IBM OS www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/newibmos.pdf

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Re: VT-100 Text Windows library

by Henry Bent

If this were my project, I would start by getting newlib going and then seeing if I could use that to run an older (presumably more simple, with fewer requirements) version of screen. -Henry On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 22:04 Mike Katz <bitwiz(a)12bitsbest.com> wrote: > Overlapping would be amazing, different screen quadrants at a minimum. I > am going to try to port Txwindows as that is the only package I could find > > On Dec 9, 2024 8:40 PM, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 at 20:26, Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Thank you. > > Screen is a linux utility. I am writing this on a bare metal (no > operating system) ESP32 dev board. > > Right now the program is text menu driven. I would like to enhance it > with textual windows. > > The Txwindows package is perfect but over kill and will need some > hacking to work in my environment and it doesn't support the VT-100's > region scrolling so screen updates might be slow. > > > What might be helpful is if you could be more specific about what it is > you're trying to achieve. Do you want arbitrarily sized, overlapping > windows or do you just want the screen divided up into discrete segments? > > -Henry > > >

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Sequent RAM identification help

by Aaron Taylor

Hello, While cleaning my garage I ran across 100+ sticks of RAM that I can't identify. Does anyone recognize these? Are they of use to anyone? https://imgur.com/a/xUnBuEg Note that there are two types of RAM in the photos and they have different keying notches in the middle of the connector. One has a PCB copyright of 1997 and the other is 1999. Both are marked "Sequent Computer Systems", and are buffered, ECC, 256 MB, 50 ns, EDO RAM. Aaron

1 year, 2 months

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Philips P2000C disk format

by Tony Duell

The quick version : Does anyone know the exact physical and logical disk format used by CP/M on the Philips P2000C portable computer? The long version with explanations : I am having reasonable success transfering files to/from disk images for my Osborne 1A (using cpmtools) and IBM5155 (MS-DOS, of course using editdisk). And I've even got the Greaseweazle to transfer those images to/from real floppies. The Greaseweazle still annoys me in that I know it's capable of a lot more if only I could work out how to do it, but at least it does something useful [The less said about floppy disks shedding oxide and/or suffering from 'sticky shed' the better. I'm spending far too much time dismantling and cleaning drives....] Any, I'd like to do the same for another of my machines, a Philips P2000C cp/m 'portable'. My machine is the version with 2 internal 40 cylinder single head drives (about 160K each, MFM) but I can also plug in an external 80 cylinder double head drive to handle this machine's other native format (about 640K). Unfortunately, this machine is not common, and neither cpmtools nor the greaseweazle software has the formats predefined. I could add them myself -- if I knew what they were. Things like #sectors/track, sector size, #system tracks, skew, etc. It's not obviously given in any of the manuals I have, so does anyone know it before I try to work it out. Alternatively there are rumours that the P2000C could read/write at least one more common cp/m disk type. The hardware should be capable of it, sure. Doe anyone know if software to do something like this exists anywhere for the P2000C. I can't find it on any of the obvious sites -tony

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A bit of humor to test the list

by Fred Cisin

They seem to have upgraded the video output! > I found the picture on the front page of this web site humorous. It's a > place that sells old Jeep parts. Note the computer surfing the web. > https://www.kaiserwillys.com/

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Cleaning Card Punch

by David Wade

Folks, I have been trying to restore a manual card punch. The type with 12 "Buttons" or "Plungers" that operate a lever which pushes a punch "pin" through a die to create a hole in a card. Its almost identical to this one:- https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/38019/ICL-Hand-Key-Punch-Card-Machi… so despite lots of cleaning some of the pins stick down. Does any one have any suggestions how to clean the small square slots? Any idea how the holes were made? Dave G4UGM

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European wire size (slightly off topic)

by Charles Dickman

How are small wire sizes specified in Europe? I have seen that EN 60228 defines wire cross sections down to 0.5mm2. What about smaller than that? Does the standard go smaller? Stranded wire must consist of smaller solid strands. -chuck Off topic, but perhaps edifying for all.

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