test-drb April 2002

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DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)

by CordaAJ＠nswc.navy.mil

I'd be interested on an occasional basis... I live in Virginia, but I grew up (and most of my family lives in) New Haven, so it would be simply another visit home for me. -al- -acorda(a)1bigred.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Linc Fessenden [mailto:linc@thelinuxlink.net] > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 10:03 AM > To: David Woyciesjes > Cc: port-vax(a)netbsd.org; classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org (E-mail) > Subject: Re: DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's) > > > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, David Woyciesjes wrote: > > > (cc'd to ClassicCmp list, I'm sure there's interest there...) > > > > > From: Brian Hechinger > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Lyle Bickley wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > May I make another suggestion? A bunch of us here in > the Silicon Valley > > > are > > > > fans of old DEC equipment. We get 'em and restore 'em. > Some favor PDPs > > > (one > > > > guy even has two DEC 10's), some favor the smaller 11's > and others of us > > > like > > > > old VAXes. At any rate, we meet once a month for lunch and swap > > > stories, > > > > tell what stuff we've picked up, etc. All of us are > willing to trade > > > > equipment or donate books and equipment to each other. > We studiously > > > avoid > > > > EBAY. > > > > > > so who's on the east coast that would like to do this? > i'm in philly, and > > > i > > > know isildur is in pittsburg. don't know where we would > want to meet > > > though, > > > since some people would have to travel far for that. > thoughts? ideas? > > > -- > > > > > I'd be up for it. A flea-market swap-meet kinda thing, > right? Maybe > > we can get something going up here in New Haven, CT? > > I am in as well.. Problem is I live in between Isildur and > Brian so PA is > looking better and better :-) > > -Linc Fessenden > > In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right... > >

22 years, 3 months

Computers Manufactured in 1986^H^H56

by blacklord＠telstra.com

----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> Date: Thursday, April 4, 2002 5:04 am Subject: Re: Computers Manufactured in 1986^H^H56 > Stan Barr wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > jpero(a)sympatico.ca said: > > > > > > I suppose to commemorate my birth, I'll need to get an S- > 100 box Ok, so what would I need for 1965 ? cheers, Lance ---------------- Powered by telstra.com

22 years, 3 months

CP/M and Imsai

by caprio＠dcms.com

Thanks to all for you comments on the S-100 and Imsai. The reason I got intersted in this was back in the late 70's I worked for an OEM and we rolled out data Entry/Retrieval system on Datapoint, Then moved to the Imsai, and then the Intel SBC 8086 running RMX/86. This was my first programming job. Everything was written in assembler and progressed to PL/I then finally forth. I loved this job. Back then programmers appreciated tight code and knew how to save a few bytes of code. It was amazing what we did with the Imsai. I think we had 30+ serial connections to data entry terminals with keypunch operators banging away at 100 WPM! The terminals were also used for data base retrieval over a dedicated line connected to our mainframe, a Xerox Sigma 9. Our mainframe application was written in assembler as welll (MetaSymbol). I also ported a few 8080/z80 applications to 8086. When I left the company ten years later we had piles of Imsai's on pallets and didn't know what to do with them. I bet they ended up in a landfill somewhere! Wish I had just a pallet of them today! It's been twenty years since I worked on the Imsai. Most of my knowledge on these and other S-100 systems is burried in my brian somewhere problem is I can't seem to fetch it :^) At any rate I'm up for the challange and am looking forward to putting my Imsai system together. Any ex employee's of Science Dynamics (Torrance, Ca) out there? Jeff, Neil, Ralph, Dave, and Less are you there? and then

22 years, 3 months

The Future End of Classic Computing

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Bryan Pope > > And thusly Dan Wright spake: > > > > Tony Duell said: > > > > > > And as for restricting knowledge that could be used to commit crimes, > > > well, you'd better remove the brains of most of the population right > now... > > > > Has everyone read _1984_? I just finished it and it's quite good ;) > anyway, > > very instructive, and frightening, on this point... > > > > Ooooh.... And what about Farenheit 451?! This was required reading at my > high school. Ray Bradbury was just honored with some award a few days > ago. > > Cheers, > > Bryan > Another very excellent book, that I read (what feels like) ages ago... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 3 months

"When programming is outlawed, only outlaws will program"

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Doc wrote: > > > You may as well put Fred in jail for Xenocopy, in fact ;) > > They probably will, very soon. :( > > Did John Draper write "Easy Writer" WHILE he was in jail? Hmmm... He stayed with my family during a 3-day stop in September 1978... I gave him a 23-channel CB radio to ease the trip out, and he gave me a copy of a Nektar album (it wasn't "Remember the Future"). White and olive drab VW Microbus. >From what I've pieced together, EasyWriter must have gotten started when he got back to the Left Coast. He *might* have started formulating the ideas while in Harrisburg (Harrisville?) State Prison. We corresponded for a while before he went in; I was an early user on WRBBS (Ward and Randy's BBS), and if it wasn't that BBS, it might have been The Well or one of the other Kalifornia BBSs... I contacted Adam Osborne, and asked if he could use his clout to help John out. His reply was that while he didn't necessarily accept the Government's version of what happened, that John was indeed in deep doodoo and anyone that tried to help would get sh*t on their shoes. Now John's doing fine, tho work comes to him slowly, and poor Adam Osborne is slowly dying in a village in India, from Parkinson's Disease. BTW, I'm told that one of Adam's expressed wishes is that he be left to go in peace... Let's all thank him for his efforts and achievements, and wish him a Happy Journey into the hereafter. And please don't take that the wrong way. He was right- my brief association with John led to my departure from my position at the University where I'd hoped to get on full-time... but I bear absolutely no grudge for that. The system just plain sucks. -dq -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits

22 years, 3 months

Computers Manufactured in 1986

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: blacklord [mailto:blacklord@telstra.com] > But the Miggy had more & in better quality :-) (And they're > still being > written for too.....) For a 1000 -- are you sure? :) I have a much easier time finding software for my 520ST. Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 3 months

Seeking Old Wirth-Jensen Pascal Book

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote: > > > > PASCAL User Manual and Report > > Authors: Jensen & Wirth > > Pub: Springer-Verlag > > bookfinder.com throws up multiple copies.... Cool... do you think I can trade some S-100 boards for one? What? Bookfinder.com won't do ClassicCmp trades? :( -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits

22 years, 3 months

The Future End of Classic Computing

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Dan Wright > > > Tony Duell said: > > > > And as for restricting knowledge that could be used to commit crimes, > > well, you'd better remove the brains of most of the population right > now... > > Has everyone read _1984_? I just finished it and it's quite good ;) > anyway, > very instructive, and frightening, on this point... > > - Dan Wright > Read that ages ago. Excellent book.... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 3 months

DEC swap meet?(RE: Off Topic? PDP 11 1134/1145's)

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

> From: Brian Hechinger > > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:02:47AM -0500, Lord Isildur wrote: > > > > PA would definitely be a plus to me. If its an hour or two drive, i > would > > have a high chance of getting there, but if its more than that i > probably > > wouldnt. > > what halfway not-shitty town east of you is withing reason? pick > something, > let's see if it's an ok place to meet. > > close to pittsburg means we might convince Rob S. to stop out as well, but > damn pittsburg is a haul from here. > > -brian > -- Personally, I'd probably make a weekend of it, or something, if I can... --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Fri Dec 7 21:39:35 PST 2001 Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash

22 years, 3 months

Computers Manufactured in 1986^H^H56"

by dquebbeman＠acm.org

> PDP-8e of various forms, Cincinattai Millichron CM2000/2100/2200 to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Cincinnati Milacron ;) -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixsnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits

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