test-drb June 2001

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by brian＠quarterbyte.com

Are there any IBM 1130 aficionados out there? Anyone who has one (besides bruce(a)bigoakhill.com, whose 1130 I'll be inheriting)? Anyone with software archives perhaps? Emulators, or interest in developing one? Oh -- and where this day and age does one go to find an 029 keypunch? These aren't showing up on ebay in any great quantity, for some reason. Brian Knittel Albany, CA

23 years, 1 month

MicroVax 3300

by Fritz_Chwolka＠t-online.de

Hi... I own an MiceoVax 3300 its a B125/KA640 and a R215F modul. Sadly I have no manual which describe the hardware and so no knowledge howto connect to a terminal. Is there anyone who can help or am I the loneliest creature of the word ? Greetings from Fritz Chwolka - Duisburg / collecting old computers just for fun at www.alterechner.de \

23 years, 1 month

Seeking: Piiceon 65 terminal info

by red＠bears.org

Hi. I've got a Piiceon 65 serial terminal here which I could use some information on. Specifically, how one can access the setup routines. Anybody know this or have docs? ok r.

23 years, 1 month

Paper Tape & Accessories For Sale

by ken＠seefried.com

This seems unusual enough and relevant enough to this list to give people a heads up. At least, I've never seen paper tape stuff like this for sale. No, I'm not the seller, nor do I know them. Keep your anti-eBay histrionics to yourself; there's enough of that childish rubbish on the list already. ----- Folded 1 inch wide paper tape printed with arrow, quantity of ten (10) packs each 1000 foot length. Color is buff, in good condition. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1247504535 Folded 1 inch wide paper tape, quantity of eighteen (18) packs each 1000 foot length. Color is pink, in new condition, original box. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1247504983 Folded 1 inch wide paper tape, quantity of eighteen (18) packs each 1000 foot length. Color is pink, in good condition. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1607661636 Vertical Forms Control Tape & Punch for Line Printers You are bidding on a punch/splicer and a box of 25 tapes, Brand new in the original box, never used. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1245720712 You are bidding on 15 boxes (100/box) total of 1500 one inch wide by 1.25 long 13 code, feed holes punched out, splicing patches, clear, new in boxes, and very sticky (when applied to paper the paper comes off before the adhesion fails). Retail value is $15.00/100 ($150.00). I do not use these any more. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1606276471

23 years, 1 month

New find - Franklin ACE 100 (not 1000)

by r.stek＠snet.net

Now I am not much of an Apple collector (though I'd pick up an Apple I if I saw it cheap!), but I did find a Franklin ACE 100. This is the machine which Apple sued Franklin over regarding their directly copying the Apple ROMs (changing only the power on message). IIRC, Franklin admitted the copying, saying that Apple's ROMs were too difficult to reverse-engineer easily! It looks like a bigger, uglier Franklin ACE 1000. Does anyone else have one of these beasties? Bob Stek Saver of Lost Sols

23 years, 1 month

IBM Infowindow

by mbbrutman＠bresnanlink.net

I don't know much about the construction of the Infowindow terminals, but I do know that they are useful for connecting to AS/400s. (Or at least there is a model of them that is used for AS/400s.) The twinax cable is probably for direct connection to an AS/400, as a terminal or as the primary console. If you need more information, let me know - I can dig it up. (I work for IBM, at the home of the AS/400.) Mike

23 years, 1 month

UUCP -- uucpd (for those interested in the source code)

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp1633.monmouth.com> wrote (after Cameron Kaiser): > > I haven't even figured out how to configure uucpd! :-) > Ask and you shall receive. [...] > The rest of uucp can be picked up from the gnu sites. > I'm willing to help with the mapping project and to act > as a resource to help people get uucp up. OK, I'm having trouble finding the desired documentation (O'Reilly's _Managing UUCP and Usenet_ book) and remembering how to configure the HDB-like UUCP that I think stockholm is running. So please check me on this.... UUCP over dialup works by logging into the remote system, with the user on the remote system set up with uucico as its shell. So uucp would dial up and log in, and login would exec uucico (as the shell) so that the caller would have something to which it could speak uucp. uucpd continues to follow this model, only it issues the login: and Password: prompts, checks to make sure the supplied user name has uucico as its shell, and execs uucico after successful authentication. Cameron has (privately?) expressed an interest in not having to set up a user and password for each of his UUCP peers. To the best of my knowledge, the only UUCP implementation that permits this (by way of supporting its own user/password table that is independent of /etc/passwd) is Taylor UUCP. Or is it possible (and safe) to set up HDB UUCP such that all UUCP peer login names map to the same uid/gid? Taylor UUCP is GPL'd open source, is used on FreeBSD and probably other free Unixes, and will probably build for other Unixes (I used to run it on a Sun 3/60 with SunOS 4.1.1) but I can understand the desire to use the vendor-provided UUCP implementation on classic iron. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 1 month

IBM 1130's

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Brian Knittel" <brian(a)quarterbyte.com> wrote: > Are there any IBM 1130 aficionados out there? Sort of. CHAC has one, and someone not-on-the-list and I were ogling it a couple or three months ago before we got sidetracked by our day jobs. Summary: 1131 processor w/8KW, 1442 card read/punch, 1132 printer, several disc cartridges, several drawers full of card decks, about three boxes of manuals. Among other things, this got me interested enough to track down and read parts of _Programming the IBM 1130 and 1800_ by Robert K. Louden, which goes into enough detail about the 1130/1800 instruction set(s) that I think a simulation of the CPU would not be very hard. No idea where to go to find an 029. They felt antiquated to some of us in college in 1981, and the ones I knew about then appeared to be leased so vanished promptly when no longer needed. Then the college found some 026s for the EE students to use. On the other hand, I think that in 1990 I saw some things that looked like 029s, but were controlled and used as punches by an attached computer. These were in a GE plant in Fort Wayne, IN. -Frank McConnell

23 years, 1 month

IBM 1130's & keypunches

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 6/17/01 1:59:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time, brian(a)quarterbyte.com writes: > Are there any IBM 1130 aficionados out there? Anyone who has one (besides > bruce(a)bigoakhill.com, whose 1130 I'll be inheriting)? Anyone with software > archives perhaps? Emulators, or interest in developing one? Oh -- and where > this day and age does one go to find an 029 keypunch? These aren't > showing up on ebay in any great quantity, for some reason. > Paul Pierce has an IBM 1130. He is planning on using it in his Museum project when he retires. Here is a link to his computer collection. <A HREF="http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/index.html">Paul Pierce's Computer Collection http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/index.html</A> It came from Clatsop Community College and he outbid me when it was put up for bid in 1979? IIRC. I have a scrap friend who has about 4 or 5 punch card units in Portland, Oregon. I believe he has a couple that are complete. I don't think any are 029s, I think at least one is a 129 and three others may be from compatible manufactures. I can find more information out if you are interested. They would have to be shipped freight but he is equipped to do that. Please contact me off list at Whoagiii(a)aol.com if you are interested. This time of the year is rather busy and I don't read all of the list and may miss a reply. Paxton Astoria, Oregon

23 years, 1 month

Intergraph 2430 video output format

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Jun 17, 19:31, Hans H?bner wrote: > I've recently acquired an Intergraph 2430, a Workstation based on the > Fairchild Clipper processor. Mmm.. nice find! > Does anyone have detailed information on the pinout of the 13W3 connector of > Intergraph workstations, on the video parameters used or any other helpful > information which could help me use this machine? Not specifically Intergraph, I'm afraid, but I can tell you about two common pinouts used for 13W3 connectors: that used by Sun, and that used by SGI. They both put R,G,B on the same coax connections, but they differ in the use of the other ten pins for monitor type sense and separate sync. Here are the pinouts: Pin-Layout of a 13W3 (female end): () denotes 75-ohm mini-coax () 1 2 3 4 5 () () 6 7 8 9 10 13W3-SGI ================ pin A1 - Red/R-Gnd pin A2 - Green/G-Gnd pin A3 - Blue/B-Gnd pin 1 - monitor type 3 pin 2 - monitor type 0 pin 3 - Composite Sync pin 4 - H Drive pin 5 - V Drive pin 6 - monitor type 1 pin 7 - monitor type 2 pin 8 - digital gnd pin 9 - digital gnd pin 10 - sync 2 Pin 10 is groound on some SGI machines. 13W3-SUN ================ pin A1 - Red/R-Gnd pin A2 - Green/G-Gnd pin A3 - Blue/B-Gnd pin 1 - n/c pin 2 - n/c pin 3 - sense 2 pin 4 - sense ret pin 5 - Composite Sync pin 6 - n/c pin 7 - n/c pin 8 - sense 1 pin 9 - sense 0 pin 10 - C-Sync ret Suns most often use composite sync (if not sync-on-green) whereas SGIs most often use separate H and V sync (if not sync-on-green). SGI cables tend to have only as many pins as are needed for the machine the cable was sold for; Sun cables usually have all pins wired. For those few Suns that do use separate syncs, H is pin 6 and V is pin 7. I believe some VAXstations use 13W3 connectors -- anybody got the pinout for those? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

23 years, 1 month

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test-drb June 2001