On Dec 7, 3:53, vrs wrote:
> FWIW, I also got unreadable cruft when I used WinZip to extract
std39.txt.
Then WinZip is broken :-) Or perhaps it only does zip, not gzip (which
is not the same thing).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hi,
Does anyone have the June 1977 issue of Byte Magazine
(vol 2 issue 6)? There are two articles in there that I'd like to get a scan
or copy of: "Interfacing the IBM Selectric Keyboard Printer" and
"A 6800 Selectric IO Printer Program". If anyone has this issue and can
scan or copy and mail the articles, I'd really appreciate it. Contact me on-
or off list.
Thanks,
Brian
I am trying to get Central Point software's Deluxe option board to work
on reading and writing tracks on floppies. It has been 10 years since I
wanted to do this. I have version 5.4 and the book only has a little
info on errors.
When TCM copies from the one track and "R" is for read then it is to
qualify the track read, "Q", I can do this to hard disk. When I do this
>from the temp copy on hard disk to another floppy it does not come back
"Q" but "2" or once "3" and message box had message about destination
directory. I think there was an error writing to floppy but I can't be
sure. I tried all 4 port postitions for the 2 jumpers.
Anyone out there still familliar with the "Deluxe Option Board" and all
of its errors etc. I may have more questions.
All the 'good' stuff I was looking for aparently is in archives of this
discussion group that is presently unavailble. 1997-1999 era.
Rich Sias
> It is on my list of things to look for.
> BBN 1822 describes the host to IMP protocol
>
> I'm hoping there is a copy in the SRI archives at the Computer
> History Museum.
Good luck. I only located something remotely similar to one copy,
but in one unreadable format, in:
ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
This file is 3.3k long, instead of the 187 bytes of the official STD39.txt
The rest of documents involved in the creation of ARPANET are
availables in more or less form in diverse websites. I made one
recollection of links if someone is interested.
My interest in all these items is diverse. Like a History Student
with the focus put in Contemporary History. Same about an important
lack of Classic Computing information in our country (Spain) even
in Public, Private and Universitary libraries. And finally, with the
intention
to recreate a simulated Network of IMPs, beginning with the four first
installed. It would be curious to see, for example, one PDP10 simulator
running TOPS10, one Hercules simulator running OS360, and even one
SDS simulator (software ?) with simulated IMPs attached. Don't you think
so ?
Thanks and Greetings
Sergio
<RANT FRUSTRATION=HIGH>
Who's the asshole that decided an UPDATE command in SQL without a WHERE
clause defaults to ALL?
</RANT>
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org
[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]
Sometime around 3am this morning, the classiccmp server tossed cookies. Not
sure exactly what happend, I tried powering it off and back on remotely - no
joy. So, this afternoon (sorry, but I was busy gutting (refurbing) another
HP 7906 drive and for once I decided my collection comes first!). I went
down to the datacenter and hooked up a console. Got this wonderful message:
"HDD S.M.A.R.T. monitoring has determined that a hard drive failure is
imminent. Back up your data immediately. Press F1 to continue"
*sigh*
So I hit F1, made sure it came back up. All disks were present and accounted
for. Tonight I'm sending copies of the filesystems over to a different
server... just in case. Not sure how much I trust S.M.A.R.T., so I may let
it ride for a while and just keep a closer eye on it. We'll see.
On the bright side, my 2nd 7906 is now mechanically sound, servo/positioning
tested ok too. On to the diags tomorrow for some read/write tests. What *IS*
it with me and hard drives these days anyways? If it's not vintage ones,
it's modern ones!
Also I thought I'd try throwing this hook out - Does anyone have any 7906
drives that they are sure are junk and not worth keeping? If so, I would
like to scavenge them for a spare set of cards from the card cage, the PMR
board, and all the heads - especially the servo head. But only if it's
pretty certain the drive isn't worth keeping and refurbing.
Regards,
Jay West
On Dec 6, 17:22, Mike Ford wrote:
> At 02:08 AM 12/6/03 -0600, Erik Vollbrecht wrote:
> >Hi Jim,
> >
> >Are you the Jim Arnott that posted knowledge on how to use Dayna
> >Etherprint box? I found the thread in a mail list. If so, would you
be
> >willing to try and help me out with trying to set one up for my home
network?
>
>
> Etherprint should just work, only catch I have run across is that
many
> switches don't pass ethertalk packets, and thats what Appletalk uses
over
> ethernet, not standard TCP/IP. Hubs work fine, but only some
switches.
Any normal Layer-2 switch should pass Ethertalk packets. Some Layer-3
switches can do protocol filtering, and might not (or might be
configured that way) but any self-respecting ordinary Layer-2 switch
shouldn't care whether the next protocol up is Appletalk, DECNET, IPX,
IP, ARP, ...
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Hi,
I have a backup and a hib tape for the HP2100A.
I live in eastern Iowa, USA. (Iowa City to be very exact).
Does anyone in reasonable driving distance have
a reel tape drive that can read these old proprietary(?) tapes?
(I'll start reasonable and then expand my begging circle :).
(oh, and please do not hold aol against me, it is due to finances).
Thankyou for your attention,
Greg
On Dec 6, 2:06, SP wrote:
> I am doing a hobbyist research about the origins of Arpanet, and for
my
> surprise the original Arpanet protocol (represented in the STD39
> document) was declared historic in 2001, retired from the STD
> list and substituted for one reference to BBN to obtain the document.
> I've contacted them and... they can't provide me the document, named
> BBN Report 1822 inside the company.
>
> Can someone helps me, please ? I should agree too other providings
> of Internet RFCs or STDs retired of the official list.
You may have some trouble finding that, as it was one of the very few
RFCs/STDs that wasn't ever online. You'd have to find a library that
has an old copy, or find someone who has scanned a copy.
Old RFCs aren't normally taken offline, so my "dump" of RFCs from
around 1998 should be complete -- apart from ones that were never
online in the first place, like RFC0007:
0007 Host-IMP interface. G. Deloche. May-01-1969. (Not online)
(Status: UNKNOWN)
which is a discussion about the software part for the interface This
particular one *is* now online, with the following Editor's comment:
[The original of RFC 7 was hand-written, and only partially
illegible copies exist. RFC 7 was later typed int NLS by the
Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at SRI. The following is
the best reconstruction we could do. RFC Editor.]
and the text is at http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc7.txt
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
