With only a single line patch, I've started the installation of
Ultrix 4.4 under simH/VAX!!!!
I wonder if anyone would notice if I called in sick tommorrow :)
Clint
Ok, here's another one....what did you have to do to direct output from your terminal to the system line printer? Also...where would be a good place to look to get an old ASR33 Teletype?
>> Want some 8600's? I can get you a few. Where are you located?
>
> Yes! I'm in Austin, Texas. You mean, like, free? ;)
Hey... if 8600's are up for grabs... I could use one (or two, or more if
I can be greedy)... I'm in NJ (and willing to drive)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
On Jan 4, 18:33, Hans Franke wrote:
> > When I was in the 8th grade, one of the courses we were required to
take was
> > in typing. I've never gotten particularly good at it, but I did learn
that
> > a period at the end of a sentence is followed by two spaces, for
example.
>
> Thank you very much. So it seams there is a 'school' forcing this in
> the US .... and I always wondered why some people add two spaces after
> a period.
It's a recognised standard in English. The idea is to make sentence spaces
larger than word spaces. Curiously, it's not common in the printing
profession, and not at all in other languages. I imagine Hans was taught
that it's "wrong", since I imagine he learned to type in German.
--
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Network Manager
University of York
>All three of those places have the right part. You might want to double
>check that the pinout is the same, but I imagine it is fairly standard.
>Jameco has a 6 pin mini-din that is pc mount for around $0.60 in single
>quantity, I think.
Cool... thanks (and based on that price, looks to be cheaper than MCM...
IIRC, I paid about $2 each for the mini-din 8 females that I bought)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Does anybody know anything about this thing? The local thrift shop
has one that they claim works (but they don't know how to work it), with
everything but an AC power supply. It comes with a very broken box, or
pieces of it, instruction manual and a Basic tutorial. The sticker on
the back says 1985. The console itself is cosmetically perfect.
I didn't get it yet, because there is a compartment at the back that
appears to take some kind of cartridge. Is that part necessary for use?
It also has a narrow male card-edge connector at the back, maybe 18 or
20 pins. What's that?
Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of information about it on the
web. Mostly Google turns up old posts to classiccmp mailing list....
Doc
>> Not that it will matter, as you don't plan to build it anyway... but for
>> reference... MCM Electronics (www.mcm-electronics.com) sells Female Din-8
>> (although, isn't that size really a mini-din?). Mini-Din, Din, either
>> way, I know they sell them, as I bought a few a while back to replace the
>> broken off serial ports on a PowerBook 160. The ones I bought were solder
>> type, and meant to be used with a cable (so now my Powerbook has two
>> short cables sticking out the back for the serial ports... no matter, it
>> sits on a shelf acting as a nat router and backup mail server these days)
>
>If you ever decide to replace these with the right connector, Mouser
>Electronics http://www.mouser.com/ or Digi-Key http://www.digikey.com/
>should have the correct part. You might also want to check Jameco
>Electronics http://www.jameco.com/
They have the part that solders directly to a board? As far as the right
SIZE, the ones I have are the correct part... I was just unable to find
ones that connected directly to the logic board, so I put short pigtails
on the ones I found, and connected that to the logic board.
It doesn't really matter much to me for the Powerbook 160, as I am never
going to bother replacing them (it is no longer used as a portable
computer, so the pig tails don't matter to me)... but if they have the
correct part, I will keep them in mind for future purchases (I am bound
to have to replace another one some day... I can guarentee that my boss
will break the serial port on his current powerbook... just as he did
with the 160 that I already fixed... I swear that guy kicks connectors
into place!)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>1) A Wyse-50 terminal, green CRT IIRC. NIB - only removed for viewing. No
>keyboard. Pre-packed in original box, so only shipping costs apply.
DANG! I need a Wyse-60 on the cheap... SO close :-(
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi William,
> What kind of window are we dealing with? A week? A month?
I think I need a commitment this week or next at the latest. Our HQ is in a hurry to get this stuff taken care of. I found out this morning that they are sending maintenance people here tomorrow (tuesday) to pick some stuff up. I am in the process of stripping three "spare" ZS machines so they can take the chassis and power supplies. I know these three would never be viable as complete systems, so I want to get all the usable stuff out of them.
> Quite interested, by the way. I think I know people that worked at
> Astronautics.
There were a bunch of them. When I started here in 1989, there were over 150 people in this facility. Two weeks after I started they shut down the computer group and most everyone left for new challenges. :(
Are you in the Madison area? Do you want to come take a look at what we are dealing with?
> William Donzelli
> aw288(a)osfn.org
Later,
Jon
Jon Auringer
auringer(a)tds.net
