test-drb December 2001

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by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: William Donzelli [mailto:aw288@osfn.org] > > workstations. Clipper based, and pre-clipper (were they > VAX?) Intergraph > > systems. > The early big servers were VAX based. In fact, they were mostly just > rebadged. RCS/RI has an Intergraph VAX 8550. It has some > really strange > custom hardware in the disk controllers - something about > these things > could do searches thru files on the disks for specific > graphics entities > (for CAD) without bothering the processor. Odd. "Really-strange-custom-hardware" was Intergraph's middle name for the longest time. That's what makes their systems so interesting. > > There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged Indigo, that's > > relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale. > CDC was rebadging IRIS 3000 machines as Cyber 910s. *Really*? What are my chances of finding one? I'd love to have an IRIS 3000, if I found that I could fit it in the house. :) Did they run the early versions of IRIX? Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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OS/2

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] > I'm pretty sure I have a copy of Warp 4 Server, if I can find it. I'll > look this weekend. ISTR, though, hearing that the OS/2 CDs don't image > well. Does anybody know whether that's true? I maintain that a > byte-for-byte dd will work on *anything*. Very Slowly. :) Well, I've never met a standard CD that it wouldn't work on. I was told third-hand by somebody who worked for SGI that their media was somehow "copy protected" and couldn't be reproduced well. I've successfully imaged my IRIX 6.2 media and booted/installed my system >from the backup. Works fine. Also have done VMS, Solaris, and one of the "extras" disks that goes with AIX. All of them worked fine. Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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was "how to clean".. How did they

by gehrich＠tampabay.rr.com

At 04:28 AM 12/18/01 -0500, you wrote: >Actually, for manufacturing operators, in IBM, women on average make more >than men. I don't know if it has changed but when I was with IBM they paid for performance in manufacturing. Those who contributed the most were paid the most. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- gene(a)ehrich.com gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com P.O. Box 3365 Spring Hill Florida 34611-3365 http://www.voicenet.com/~generic Computer & Video Game Garage Sale I accept PayPal To subscribe to automatic updates send a blank e-mail to: online-garage-sale-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com

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OS/2

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

More office cleanout finds: I salvaged a new, shrink-wrapped copy of OS/2 Warp Version 3, Red label (needs a separated copy of DOS/Windows), 3.5" disks. I'm offering it free for postage (5 pounds) or pickup in the Chicago Loop. Email me at robert_feldman(a)jdedwards.com. I will decide among multiple requests next week (after Christmas holidays). Bob

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Troll got me (was Re: Is there no end)

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I based my statement upon information gleaned from conversations with my > customers, 80% of which are black. Most of them think that Kwanzaa was > "made up" by retailers in order to get their money. Some have told me that > they resent the "social engineering" aspect of Kwanzaa. Here in the South, > there seems to be very little support of or identification with this event > among African-Americans. Doubtlessly true; I've heard some people say the same thing about Christmas. > > January 1 was "made up" into New Years Day by an act of > > fiat; New Years Day used to be April 1. > > When and how did this happen? Actually, there was no "act", that was hyperbole. The earliest reference to a Januray 1 New Year I can find is the Roman Civil Year. Later, the Catholic Church, which liked to line up the calendar with its Holy Events, wanted sto see Christmas become the start of the new year. But some later winter/early spring feasts were a popular time for the people, so through much of the dark ages, April 1 was the start of the New year. When the establishment of the Gregorian Calnedar began to take hold (which moved New Year's Day officially to Jan 1), people foolish enought to still celebrate it on April 1 became known as "April's Fools". The Gregorian Calendar was adopted tt different times in different countries; I think Russia held out until the early 20th Centurt. See http://www.genfair.com/dates.htm for more info. Regards, -dq

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Paper Tape Fun

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> I recently acquired (out of desperation) a DSI paper > tape punch/reader on ePay (at a reasonable price, but > not guaranteed to work). I cleaned it up, oiled it > here and there, and after puzzling out the RS-232, got > it running punching Mylar fine. To test it, I wrote a > Windows program to test it out with; the program lets > you type in a phrase, looks up the ASCII, and prints > the letters out on the tape in a 7x5 matrix format, > upper and lower case. I'm pretty sure that there were > programs that ran on mainframes to do this sort of > thing. Useless, but kind of fun - I made a banner for > my museum with it. If anyone on this list has a > punch, and admits to using Windows, ha ha, I can make > this available. On the CDC 6600, we had a Model 415 High-Speed Paper Tape Reader/Punch. We had a locally-created control card we'd use to control the disposition of output. In the standard KRONOS system, it was DISPOSE, but we had so many devices spread out over so many campuses that we wrote a card we called ROUTE. Among other tasks, ROUTE provided the banner pages for print jobs. A standard feature of the banner was the job name, usually, your three initials plus a job ordinal. When you'd sent output to the tape punch, it would punch the job name at the start of the tape, in the manner you describe. Regards, -dq

22 years, 9 months

Hardest to Find Classic Computers

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> On another note, CDC hardware that wasn't OEM'd from SGI seems relatively > uncommon. There's one CDC workstation that was a re-badged Indigo, that's > relatively common. It's the only CDC system I've seen for sale. Fascinating... and of the CDC hardware I've seen for sale, I've never seen anything that CDC didn't build themselves. But then, all I've seen was 60s & 70s era stuff... -dq

22 years, 9 months

Flashing Light Indicators un Simple Front Panels

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> Why on earth would Sun put a cool set of leds UNDERNEATH the cover? I mean, > you might as well put it out there. Apollo did this, too, but had cute little hinged doors covering the LEDs' most everyone leaves them open, because one LED is flashed by the system once per second, and is called "The Heartbeat". The Prime 2455 has four LEDs on its virtual control panel board, three red and one green. No one I can find has a clue what they all indicate... -dq

22 years, 9 months

Static was Re: [PDP8-Lovers] Re: how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

by mranalog＠attbi.com

Matthew Sell <msell(a)ontimesupport.com> wrote: > Vacuum cleaning is much more "dangerous" for a PCB than washing it. > Pete made a very good point, one I had forgotten, the static charge created > by dust moving through an insulated (plastic) pipe can generate some > obscene voltages. This is not a problem with a little bit of planning. One of my other hobbies is woodworking. Breathing in the sawdust from many hardwoods is very unhealthy, so most well financed wood shops have some kind of dust collection systems. With flow rates of 200-1100 cfm and long runs of plastic hose, a dust collector plus sawdust can be an explosive situation. Thats why grounding kit are sold separatly or included with most dust collectors. These kits consist of a lenth of wire that runs down the hose and metal clamps to clamp the wire to the hose at regular intervals. These kits are available in most woodworking stores. Of course my favorite way to protect a circuit board from static is to cover the solder side with aluminum foil, lay it on conductive foam or a conductive plastic bag. On a different subject: I've also used aluminum foil to create a ground plane to cut down on noise on some extender boards. I take two pieces of cardboard the size of the PCB and wrap one with aluminum foil. After making sure that none of the solder joints will poke through the bare piece of cardboard, I make a sandwich of the solder side of the PCB, the bare piece of cardboard, and then the aluminum wrapped cardboard. With this taped to the PCB, I solder a wire >from the aluminum foil to ground on the PCB. Regards, --Doug ========================================= Doug Coward @ home in Poulsbo, WA Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog =========================================

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Hardest to Find Classic Computers

by Adrian.Graham＠corporatemicrosystems.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com] > Sent: 17 December 2001 21:43 > To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Hardest to Find Classic Computers > > > The Digital Group systems get my vote. I've only *heard* of about 3, > > since being on this list, which is a while. Maybe because no-one is > > looking? I can't even imagine finding a full-up system, with several > > CPU boards, Phi-deck tape drives, and matching cabinets for the > > monitor, system unit, and tape drives, not to mention all > the OS's and > > other software... well, maybe I can imagine it... > > Yep, I'd agree here too. I have one complete system, and > aside from that, > the only other one I've ever seen was a kit sold at VCF 2.0 (or was it > 3.0)? > Dammit - I was offered a Digital Group machine earlier this year and the only thing that stopped me was the horrendous shipping cost from the US. This thing had the (in)famous tape unit attached that contained either 4 or 6 drives; can't remember. I've still got the pix of it somewhere, and it also spurred me on to do some digging with the result of finding Gus Calabrese who was the founder (or one of them) of TDG in the first place...... -- Adrian Graham, Corporate Microsystems Ltd e: adrian.graham(a)corporatemicrosystems.com w: www.corporatemicrosystems.com w2: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk (Online Computer Museum)

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test-drb December 2001