Spotted a DecWriter LA 30 at the local surplus computer shop. Appears to
be in good condition, though the plastic cowling is slightly yellowed. Includes
original manual. Sticker price is $75 CDN (approx. $60 USD).
If anyone is interested in the unit, I can take some photos this weekend, and
give you their telephone number . Location is in Eastern Canada.
Ken C.
I have a friend who is a total Microsoft zealot. We repeatedly get into
annoyingly incredibly pointless arguments over the virtues of Linux
vs. Windows. I mean, I know people have religious OS wars all the time
but he's so ignorant of the Linux world that it's stunning. I mean, the
guy is the smartest person I know, but when it comes to this argument, he
seems to argue for the sake of arguing because he has no real statistics
to go off of and talks completely out of his ass, or he'll quote one
article he read somewhere that said one thing (probably not even what he's
arguing) to justify his position.
For instance, he says PHP is full of holes and is not professional
software because it's written by hobbyists on the side, the language is
not clearly defined, and there's no support for it. He says the same
about MySQL. In fact, this is where the argument tonight started. He had
a web service that crashed because one of his MySQL tables got hosed, so
he blamed all his woes on MySQL (he claims he had to use it because the
programmer he had do the site only new PHP and not ASP which he would've
preferred, claiming that ASP is much more robust, is much better defined,
is way more powerful than PHP, etc., which may all be true but his
criticisms about PHP and MySQL are so unfounded as to be obnoxious). When
I mentioned that MySQL DOES have support (you pay for it just like you do
when you buy MSSQL) he finds some other nit to pick, which I then shoot
down, so he moves on to another, and another, and another, then starts
throwing out dubious statistics, etc.
So I know it's completely pointless, but I just want to throw some
statistics from neutral quarters (i.e. not Linux Journal, but like Forbes,
Fortune, Network Magazine, etc.) showing how many deployments of:
1) Apache running on Linux versus Apache on Windows
2) PHP on Apache vs. ASP on ISS
3) Linux servers vs. Windows servers
4) Growth rates, industry trends, etc.
No matter what I tell him he thinks that there's no way that Linux is
beating MS in any way, shape or form.
As an aside, the extent to which he is completely lost is evident in this
anecdote. He's complaining how people can't code in 64K anymore, and when
I point out that this trend of bloat is pretty much directly attributable
to MS with its programming paradigms and overall bloatiness, he shoots
that down like I was Satan for even suggesting it.
So anyway, I want charts, graphs, hard numbers, quotes, trends, etc. Any
articles that can show the actual numbers of what's going on in the
industry with regards to Linux vs. Windows.
Simple URLs will do.
Thanks for indulging this stupidity.
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You may have read about the apocryphal Mel the Programmer on the net...
Well it appears that Mel Kaye was a real person, was a master programmer
for the Royal McBee Corp, and wrote little things like boot code for the
LGP-30. Here's some substantiating factoids.
http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/mel-the-programmer.html
Thanks again to Bob Lilley for the pointers.
I'm looking for several sets (5 in each set) of PDP-8 NEGIBUS cables.
The cable # is BC08D.
Can anyone tell me the difference between a BC08D and a BC08B (POSIBUS
cable)?
I'd hate to do it (lots-o-work) but if I could get a hold of one cable I
could replicate as many as I need.
Thanks.
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TTFN - Guy
Hi Pete
I'm not sure exactly what was happening. I looked
at the line this time and it included your address as
well as cctalk( removed your so you don't get twice as
much). The other time I didn't look at the reply line
so I'm not sure why it posted double but I suspect
that it had cctalk twice.
Dwight
>From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
>
>On Dec 1, 16:03, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>>
>> > For a little while, I've been mildly surprised to see that when I
>reply
>> > to posts, I end up generating a reply to both the list and the
>original
>> > poster.
>
>> I've noticed some messages I've replied to are like this as well,
>though
>> not all. For instance, this one wasn't. Whenever I reply to one of
>> Witchy's messages then it behaves as you describe. Witchy, what are
>you
>> doing to your headers, young man?
>
>:-) Dwight's are like that too. I've set a Reply-To: in this message
>to see if that's what's doing it...
>
>--
>Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
woot! I just got my associate ID from encompass... does this mean I can
legally run VMS for fun? yay!
What's next. The message said "in a few days I would have access to the
license"
I suppose I ought to get downloading simh/VAX huh?
Ron.
Hi,
Peter (see below) is looking for an Infotek AD 200 board for an HP 9000/300.
Reply to him, not me, if you can help.
thanks!
Forwarded message:
> From peter.hagberg(a)kodak.com Mon Dec 1 11:06:44 2003
> From: peter.hagberg(a)kodak.com
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 14:06:34 -0500
>
> I am looking for an Infotek AD 200 board for an HP 9000/300. Can you help ?
>
>
> Peter T. Hagberg
> Ag XRF/HPLC Bld.59
> Analytical Technology Division
> Eastman Kodak Research Labs
> Phone 585-477-3649
> Email (Work)- Peter.Hagberg(a)Kodak.com
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www.allegro.com/sieler/wanted/index.htmlwww.sieler.com
>
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
> > > gives out the adress fopr the SDI-Controller, if I type in
> > > KLESI, KFQSA and KDA50. I installed the controller directly
> > > behind the KFQSA-Board with the address given by config.
> >
> > It's been a while now but I'm pretty sure that the KFQSA
> > pretends to be an MSCP device for each disk it has been
> > configured to recognise. So if you have configured your
> > KFQSA for two disks, it behaves as two KDA50s. The
> > exact addresses of these depend on how the KFQSA was
> > configured.
> Yes, a KFQSA controller creates up to three MSCP controllers;
> one for each device connected (in my VAX 4705A, which only HAS
> three drives.. it may support the full 7 drives..)
>
> So, if you have a KDA50 as well, that could create up to 4
> of em. Make sure the one you want to *boot* from is the one
> at the MSCP default (17772150 comes to mind?) address.
>
> > Yes, definitely. With the post-MicroVAX II systems, it's
> > one of the quick ways to see if the KDA50 works at all.
> > It's probably being masked by the KFQSA.
> The KDA probably sits at the default address, with the KFQSA
> also using that address, indeed. Most KFQSA's are configured
> to allocate as many controllers as needed, with the first one
> sitting at the MSCP-default address, soo..
>
Thanks for your answers !
I'm also convinced sure that the KDA is masked by the KFQSA.
The adress on the KDA has been changed by myself to the adress given by the "config" - command,
1ut unfortunately, the KDA hasn't been detected by "show device".
Tonight, i'll remove the KFQSA and the KLESI and make a new try with the default addess (172150).
Pierre
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I will probably make a run up to Los ALamos, New Mexico this winter, and
will fetch items I think I can unload on classiccmp fools like me, for
cost only of course. I want to pre-inquire on a few though.
Ed's got a bunch of Nuclear Data branded items, some CRT terminals I
don't recognize, and at least one mini. I thought I recorded the model #
etc in my Palm but I can't find it. I was of course gonna take it home
regardless, but it's wirewrapped -- and the last mini I had died of
creeping bad wraps (a Varian 622/I) so I assume this ND machine is
non-operating.
The mini will run about 50 lbs and shipping won't be too cheap
accordingly. It's been stored for years, out of the weather and dry, but
large temperature extremes, and it gets cooooold in LA NM.
The ND terminals are heavy, and some have NIM slots in the front
(Nuclear Instrumentation Module standard 5V/12V etc buss). Obviously
they have fat glass tubes both heavy and delicate. Id' say they have a
good chance of operating, otherwise.
The COSMAC jobs mentioned previously I will take all of, they'll ship
cheap.
He's also got a DG Dasher terminal, but it's junk, the side is open and
missing, wires pulled off the big card, junk and trash in the print head
galley.
If there's more I'll err on the side of taking it, inversely
proportional to its bulk & weight. I'll at least photo anything else.
This trip is still somewhat conjecture, but I've gone up there every
winter for the last decade, don't see why I won't this year.
I have only a station wagon and I may have a Flexowriter and Tally
reader/punch to haul home (ugh, I really don't want to) so space may be
limited. Consider this an inducement to get me that flexo timing data so
I'll ahve more room in the 'wagon :-)
I asked before, but I figured annoying an entire mailing list with
repeat queries can't hurt THAT much ... ahem
I'm working on a flexowriter simulator (hardware adapter, everything
else on the host side), I think I have the PRINT side down, but the
input side timing I'm missing some detailed info.
Two signals, JL11, and JL12, ingeniously named after their connector pin
assignments, begin and end the data-valid phase of a key-press or
tape-read. Most Flexo signals are determined by cams on a rotating
shaft, but these two I believe are determined by a stack of contacts;
one of them, SC7, is required to make last and break first (eg. data
strobe). I just can't determine how this switch stack is set up, or
approximately how long their periods are, etc.
I have no idea if all flexo's adhere to this same protocol.
I really would rather not drag home 0.1T of drippy/dusty iron just to
figure this out...
I have a Friden maintenance manual lent to me by a friend but it's not
so revealing of timing, mainly just repair-oriented adjustments.
(The whole project will be open source, as is the underlying PIC-based
controller I use http://wps.com/products/Model-01/index.html)
