John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote ..
> At 09:39 AM 9/12/2002 -0700, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> >But I think that the 1989 Flight Simulator is the FIRST reference to
> >planes with the WTC.
>
> When they built the WTC, the builders and planners were quite aware of
> its potential as a terrorist target.
>
> - John
I promised myself I would not contribute to any off-topic threads again on this list, but I have to at least say that your comment is going to have to qualify as one of the great masterpieces of understatement, or maybe caustic irony, of not just this decade or century, but of the millenium.
'nuff sed.
jbdigriz
There's a hamfest this Saturday in Melbourne Florida at the civic auditorium. This is one of the best one hamfests in the state and definitely worth visiting if you're in the area. While you're there visit Astro II <http://www.astrotoo.com>. They're located a few miles away and I always find GOOD stuff there. That's where I found the RCA Cosmac VIP. E-mail if you need directions or anything.
Joe
> 80 Floppies:
> http://users.bestweb.net/~toober/images/Univac04.jpg
This looks quite like the SSP (System Support Processor ?)
of the A-series (again ? , it is over 7 years ago).
That was also a small table with a few 8" floppy disk
drives and to the right a white table surface.
I worked on an 1163 and a 1172 Sperry / UNISYS machine.
Was one of the happy few allowed to program in assembler.
HAd some "odd" things like no stack and some, I still
think IMHO, nice instructions, like EX, execute remote.
The EX instruction was sort of the execution of one
instruction "somewhere else". Compare it to a JSR to a
subroutine of one instruction (besides the RTS of course).
BTW the 1163 is a main frame, so not likely found "at home".
Pity.
- Henk.
Qstieee(a)aol.com said:
> I believe it stood for Massachusetts Parallel processing, or perhaps
> Massively Parallel processing. It was for real-time high performance use.
MasPar was a company out of Milpitas, CA founded (I understand) by
ex-DECcies. They built a SIMD massively parallel machine. The unit
was controlled by a front-end computer, originally a VAXstation 3520
running Ultrix, later some flavor of DECstation 5000 also running
Ultrix.
They used the VAXstation 3520 because they got a real good deal on them
>from DEC, who was anxious to sell the thing. I designed the interface
between the 3520 and the MasPar which, AFAIK, was the only 3rd party
interface done for the 3520's proprietary MBUS.
They claimed to have licked the problem of compiling for and debugging
SIMD machines using standard languages; IIRC they supported FORTRAN and
C. Seems to me they were more proud of their debugger than their
compilers.
I debugged the front-end interface hardware by poking hand-assembled
code into the console using CP/M KERMIT's TRANSMIT command on my (then)
trusty Kaypro 10. When I arrived with the prototype and my Kaypro, they
said "How quaint; he hand-assembles code". After a while it was "Wow!
Scope loops you can see on a scope!" (they were using a high-level
interpreted thingy called hdb for hardware debugging; their scope loops
were too slow to see on a scope) By the time I left, it was "show us
how you did that." Sometimes being an old fart pays off.
--
Roger Ivie
ivie(a)cc.usu.edu
>That would be the trickiest part... I think that I should
>try wiring the DE9 directly to a 4wire phone cable; it is easier
>to find a phone cable than a female DIN8.
This won't work as there are electronics in that box. A TeleNet connector
doesn't just re-pin from a din 8 to a phone wire. Besides, it only uses 2
of the four wires (the yellow/black pair aka "line 2").
You will need to build an adaptor to go from Din 8 to DE 9, or just check
eBay and see if you can find telenet connectors with the DE9 already on
it.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Well, it'a a touch short of the 10 year rule, but I know there are
DEC collectors running around here...
I found a Digital VRT17-HA monitor just now. It has 5 BNC
connectors, R, G, B, HD, and VD sync. It has a switch, for choosing either
75 ohm or 2k Ohm. It's currently on the 2k Ohm setting. It also has a
DIN-8 connector, which appears to be for servicing it.
After some quick tests (swapping around the R G and B lines) it
appears to work fine, except for the Blue line in the cable itself.
Woo-hoo! Now at least I don't have to mess around inside with the
high-voltage stuff...
Does anyone have a spare cable they're willing to part with?
Digital part # 17-04340-01. Next line on it is BC13L-10.
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In a message dated 9/11/2002 1:39:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mythtech(a)mac.com writes:
<< This is on eBay right now, anyone in the Raleigh North Carolina area that
wants these things?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2051689106 >>
hmmm, I'll check it out. I guess the SE30 would be worth it.
--
Antique Computer Virtual Museum
www.nothingtodo.org
I want to bring an exhibit. Taking things on the plane is even more
of a nuisance than usual these days, shipping could be expensive,
the train may not be very practical, and I can't drive. So a ride would
be the logical way to go. I'm in downtown Seattle.
Thanks,
-- Derek
