test-drb November 2003

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 27, 23:05, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I'd love some of the programs off of David Ahl's DECtapes... I have my > SBC6120 with me, but the games image only has a handful of programs. > > For starters, how about Chemist, Chief and Hammurabi? I don't have my > copy of "BASIC Computer Games" with me, so I'm hard pressed to remember > titles. CHIEF I certainly have. "I AM CHIEF NUMBERS FREEK, THE GREAT INDIAN MATH GOD." HMRABI is on my website; I'll mail you the original if you want it (the differences are RANDOMIZE, and removal of LET, mostly). CHEMIST I don't know. Could it possibly have another title? > Long ago, I used to convert EDUsystem BASIC programs to PET BASIC. I had > more success with some than others. I did manage to port the 72-column > Star Trek game (with three-character wide ships in the short-range display) > to the PET. I played that one for hours and hours. :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 5 months

Powers Tabulating equip brochures and info and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

by esharpe＠uswest.net

http://smecc.org/powers_tabulating_equipment.htm Powers Tabulating equip brochures and info and HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We want some of this stuff for the museum Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301

20 years, 5 months

DG Eclipse MV/7800C on ePay

by classiccmp＠crash.com

No affiliation, just noticed this DG Eclipse MV/7800 system, still intact, on ePay for $495. Located in Ames, Iowa; still has almost 7 days to run. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3059903661&category=1479 Share and Enjoy, --Steve.

20 years, 5 months

Server question

by jpl15＠panix.com

This is more-or-less on-topic, I theenk... I wanna set up a small, dedicated server at home... to do several things, not the least of which is allow a private gateway so L33T folks can play with my 11/44 on-line. I also have a weather station whose data I wish to collect and make available (for the Ham radio SkyWarn group here in NV). As well.. there are some files to make available for FTP.... I'm thinking of a Webcam on top of my antenna tower... etc etc. I intend to buy older computers to do the WX stuff, another for a dedicated Webcam, and maybe a radio VHF packet and RTTY gateway. All this would be stitched together via ethernet / cat 5 / etc. I have pretty decent cable-modem service right now - if they ever get around to pulling DSL in I'll switch to that... so that would be the 'outside world' connection. So the question is: cheap used PC with X-GB drives for the server - what software would be also simple to get up and running w/out needing to go to a year's worth of school... preferrably something in the Linux world... what is the minimum platform specs that would run this server software: proc speed, RAM size - HD space? Cheerz John

20 years, 5 months

for trade: PDP-8 Programming Handbooks

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

These are left over from my grad school days (doing image analysis on an 11/45)- a two volume set of paperbacks printed in 1972. Partial contents: Volume 1: Computer Programming Fundamentals - computer, programming, techniques Online Operations - system description and ops (pdp8e), loading, editing, debugging Advanced Programming Techniques - i/o, DECtape, FPP Programming Systems - OS/8, educational systems Volume 2: Interactive Languages - FOCAL-8, 8K BASIC Compiler Language - FORTRAN Machine Language - 4K and 8K assemblers Covers are scuffed and creased but bindings are tight and contents are clean and intact. Pages are yellowing - DEC did not spend a lot of money printing these - but not (yet) brittle. These things should be really be .pdf'd but it would require destroying the bindings and I'm not ready to do that with this set. Will trade for original Compupro/Godbout CPU-Z, Disk1A, Disk3, or Morrow or ? docs. Jack Rubin

20 years, 5 months

vax/750 diagnostics

by emu＠ecubics.com

Hi all, Anybody has the /750 diagnostics ? Have a "flaky" machine here ... cheers

20 years, 5 months

On Topic? Looking for opinions...

by john_boffemmyer_iv＠boff-net.dhs.org

Now I know this falls under the 10 year category except for the video card and SCSI card: I'm slapping together (finally) a P200 (not even MMX) Linux box with a classic AMD 10Mbit PCI NIC (Sridhar got me hooked on 'em and they certainly are tanks), an old AT motherboard with most likely a serial mouse to keep it as classic as possible and a 250 watt p/s. Running the beast will be an old 2GB IDE Maxtor I dug up, an old 4x IDE CD-ROM (Toshiba?) and then 2 Seagate 4/4.5GB half-height drives I have laying around, attached to a Diamond Fireport 20/40 (non-ultra). For video, it'll have a PCI Jaton TNT2m64 32MB so I can at least get decent color when I'm messing with some of the graphical stuff. I'll be using a 14 year old (still works fine) clickity Ultra 2000 AT keyboard with the beast. Oh, sound will be one of the original full length Creative Sound Blaster 16's with Daughter Card (dated 1990?). The big question is: should I go with Slackware or GenToo Linux as my OS? This unit will be doing a little web serving and will become my email server since friend's server is unreliable lately (Win2k on a college dorm network - obviously off when it goes home with the guy at breaks). I know some are suggesting NetBSD, but I'm looking to make this thing easy enough so my gf can tinker with it and get converted from her eeewh, XP OS, while making it not so much of a chore to do a basic config and get serving up and running. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, also, I may be tossing in dual PCI 16/4 Madge/IBM Token Ring NICs to a Bay Networks 504 unit with Fiber ports and NMM just for ha-ha's and something to hobby with in the future. I also have a 3COM 12 port RJ45 Token unit, a DCA Microchannel/ISA Token card? (unable to find details on) and the old IBM 8228 MAU with a lot of 6ft Vampire to DB9's if anyone's looking for one, shipping and it's yours (I remember someone on the list was looking a few months back, but I forget who) -John Boffemmyer IV PS: "A Linux box isn't a Linux box until you get it serving to the Internet >from something that is barely big enough to have the Ethernet line plugged into it." - I rather like that quote, you'll never see Windoze doing that. Whoever had recently said that should suggest it to Linus T. =) ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------

20 years, 5 months

Some cool finds and info needed

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Yeah, what you have there is a Motorola R-1801 prom programmer for moto's older PROM based radio products. I don't think that thing is even supported anymore, but I do have a manual you can borrow. . . . On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:50:24 -0600 "Keys" <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> writes: > At a thrift I got a very heavy black case with a Motorola > Reader/Programmer in the top half and a Digital Analyzer/Controller in the bottom > half. Mounted on the top cover is a Motorola RTL-5820A PROM socket and > there is a spare one store in the cover RTL-5821, There are also several cables > in this storage area. I got no manuals with it and would like more > information if someone has worked with one of these before? > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

20 years, 5 months

PDP-11/73 boots!

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 26, 22:26, Ian Primus wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 08:11 PM, John Lawson wrote: > > > It's asking you to type in one of the devices (whose designators are > > the > > left-most column) - ie. DB, SP or NS > > I tried typing in DB, and the others that it said were "Present", but > just got a Syntax Error. It will want the unit number as well (most of those controlers will handle 2 or 4 disks), so it wants you to type "DB0" or possibly "DB0:". > > DB should be the main disk. > What does DB stand for? Is it the type of controller, a representation > of where it's mapped, the type of drive, or is it just a designation, > and nothing else? D is for disk, B is the disk (or sometimes, controller) type. 176700 is the address for an RP04 controller. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

20 years, 5 months

Clasiccmp Wiki

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

This died out, Do we want to do our own Wiki? The last suggestion was that we make entries at WikiPedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/ ] I think we would be better served with our own Wiki, we would be able to arrange the data in a way that would mean something to us. Otherwise would have to have our machines peppered about in between other subjects. I suggest this arrangement: Introduction Year : Manufacturer : Model : User : Individual machine Some Wiki's also allow for a user's home page. There I sugest each user tell us about their collection / machine (with a link to the machine page)

20 years, 5 months

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