Here is what I use:
For mild/moderate cleaning Simple Green works great.
For heavy yellowing I use Purple Power which removes a lot of, but not all,
of the yellowing (careful this can discolor metal).
I use both with the Black and Decker Versa Pac rotary scrub brush with the
soft brush attachment, if the case is removable, in the sink or driveway
with a hose.
Simple Green diluted 1:1 with water with a rag and Q-tips for cleaning the
keyboard and parts of the computer near elecrical components that can't be
hosed down or put in the sink as in step one.
Goo-Be-Gone for spot cleaning of residue from stickers etcetera.
Meguiar's Protectant as a last step.
You left out
HCF - Halt and Catch Fire
Larry
JGL - Jump and Get Lost
BFN - Branch for No Reason
SIT - Shift if Tuesday
RUB - Rotate Until Barf
SFR - Set Flags at Random
NMO - Non Maskable Overrun
DAC - Divide and Conquer
LMB - Logical Maybe
EBS - Emit Burning Smell
LCM - Loop Clear all Memory
and one of my all-time favorites
POF - Power On Fail
Cheers
John
I am working for some time now to get RTE-6/VM to run on simh.
Note that this software is meanwhile available for free from HP,
see image
Z00701
RTE_6 Z007
RTE-6 RELEASE 6.2 FROM HP
in Interex RTE/CSL archive 4030 at
http://www.interex.org/tech/csl/RTE/submits4030.html (last contribution in list)
What I need is a 1:1 disk dump of a bootable RTE-6/VM system (should be LU 2)
to further debug the simulator. This might be produced by dumping the raw disk
image into a HP1000 record (FMGR) file and then transferring this file via
kermit to another host. This might result in a file that still has the common
HP record separators in it, but I can remove such markup.
A so-called grandfather system might be useful, but a working RTE where the above
upgrade may by installed is probably usable as well.
Anyone to help me with this?
Thanks in advance
Holger
I have a couple questions about ebay/paypal, and figured some folks on the
list here might know the "straight scoop".
1) If some seller sets up an auction as private (yet it still shows up on
the listings) - the deal is that no one can see who bid on it, or who is
currently the high bidder. In this set up, how can I be sure the seller
isn't bidding on his own auction to drive up the price? He's taunting me I
bet demmit! heh
2) Hypothetically, say I sell an item on Ebay for... oh... $2500.00. The guy
could pay me via paypal, or he could send me a cashiers check. Does Paypal
report transactions to the IRS? Or more importantly, if I sell items on ebay
all year... do I have to track all that and report to IRS? Never really
thought of it cause it probably isn't much money anyways. But I am curious
if ebay and/or paypal reports to the IRS.
Jay West
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On Nov 13, 0:29, Eric Smith wrote:
> > Notice to all: I'm claiming an extra geek point because this entire
> > message
> > makes perfect sense to me. --Patrick
>
> OK, then I claim two extra geek points for having written it.
Then I get three because I understood it, and can think of processors
that do it -- and a few more because I've not only got some (MIPS
R4600, R5K and R10K) but I know how to tell them what the best guess is
(they have forms of branch instruction that can be tagged in assembler
as "likely" or "not likely", to modify the internal branch prediction
mechanism).
The Pentium can do speculative execution as well, and one version even
did a fetch of both branches, but only a pre-fetch, not execution.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> On a more serious note, many state-of-the-art processors do sort of
> implement "branch both ways" in the sense that they do speculative
> execution of both paths then discard the results on one path once the
> condition is resolved. A limited form of speculative execution was
> used by the IBM 7030 Data Processing System (AKA "Stretch"), introduced
> in 1961. I'm not aware of any other production systems with speculative
> execution that are on-charter for this list (e.g., introduced before
> 12-nov-1993).
>
> Eric
Eric,
If I'm not mistaken - this approach was used in later Burroughs hardware, like
the B6800, B6900, B4900 series machines (late 70's early 80's.) I would
imagine the IBM 360/91 also did this.
Steve Wilson
(Burroughs Alum)
I just saw TRON again last night... Very cool movie IMHO. In the
beginning of the movie it looks like Flynn is using an Apple computer to
hack into ENCOM.
There is also a scene where the heros are running through a huge room filled
with mainframes. Does anyone know if these were real mainframes and if so,
what kind are they?
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
While scouring the web for leads on classic computers,
I came across a VERY interesing listing of items for
sale, to wit:
MINUTEMAN DIGITAL COMPUTER.
General purpose synchronous, serial, digital computer
originally used to solve inertial guidance problems.
Mag disc memory 2688 words of 27 bits each. Clock
speed 345.6K/sec. Pwr: 28V DC, and 115V, 3 Ph, 400 Hz.
Mfr: Autonetics.
DATA PROCESSOR.
Includes tape reader, punch, and display.
Mfr: Control Data 8090.
DIGITAL COMPUTER.
Cabinet mounted with memory core, and operating panel.
Pwr: 115V, 60 Hz. Mfr: Digital Equipment.
PDP-5.
What I wanted was the PDP-5. I called these guys up,
identified myself as a vintage PC collector, and
and spoke to a gentleman named Doyle. Unfortunately,
the PDP-5 has been sold. I inquired about the 8090,
but Doyle didn't know immediately whether they still
had it, and I wasn't prepared to make a serious offer
for it. The 8090 is a variant or derivative of the
CDC 160A, but that is all I know about it.
Anyhow, here is the info for anyone who is interested:
Radio Research Instrument Co., Inc.
584 N. Main St.
Waterbury, CT 06704
USA
Tel: 203-753-5840
Fax: 203-754-2567
http://www.radioresearch.thomasregister.com
Look under "Test Equipment/Computers".
Their primary line of business is secondary-market
sales and service of military-grade radar equipment.
Some of the stuff listed on their website is wild,
and I'm sure you've got to have the approval of a few
federal agencies to buy it...
--Bill
