test-drb April 2003

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PDP-11 Freeware CDs for RSX-11 and RT-11 (Originally Produced by Tim Shoppa)

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

The last two times I posted this, another person contacted me either for help or to request the CDs. This will be the last time for about 6 months unless more people reply. In regard to the Freeware CDs for RSX-11 and RT-11 that Tim Shoppa originally produced: I am in the middle of finishing a second (very small) batch of CDs and could easily add a few additional copies. I will be making all copies of the CD images from: ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/cd-images/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/ http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RSX-11/ Since not everyone has both a high speed internet connection and a CD burner, I thought it would be helpful to make them available. If you have both requirements and are using Windows 98 SE / Nero Burning, I can help with the details if you don't know how to burn a CD from an "Image File". I have even been able to produce a label for each CD that is close to the original label from Tim Shoppa, although since they were scanned (THANK YOU FOR THE HELP), they are not perfect. They are available at $ 5 / $ 9 / $ 12 for 1 / 2 / 3 CDs. In addition, I understand that Memorex Black CD-Rs have a longer shelf life and are available at Business Depot. If anyone wants those instead, add $ 1 for each CD that you are requesting. Thus those amounts are $ 6 / $ 11 / $ 15 Please contact me directly for my snail mail address. I picked up some Memorex Black CD-R blanks and started on the copies for those who have already requested that a Black CD-R be used. Please include your mailing address!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In general, I will regard any funds you send as a gift so that if anyone really can't afford the CDs, please state why that is so. Outside of the US, probably about $ 2 should be sufficient for extra postage. All amounts are in US dollars. Please ask if you are not in the US. No point in converting twice. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

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paging dan veeneman

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Sent a few emails to Dan Veeneman, no replies - was wondering if I had the right email address. Regards, Jay West

21 years, 8 months

DEC disk packs.

by tim.myers＠sunplan.com

I have 29 RLO1/RLO2 cartridges, 11 RL07 cartridges, and 3 RM03 cartdridges. If anyone wants to collect them from The Wirral, UK, contact me off list. The need to be collected by the end of this week, they'll be skipped otherwise. Tim.

21 years, 8 months

Help! Facit 4042 PT Reader/Punch

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Pulled this out of deep storage this past week but it seems to be dead. Does anyone have any info on these? Specs, pinouts, general info, service info, anything? Joe

21 years, 8 months

Looking for : schematics and technical manual for LA30 or DECwriter I

by hansp＠aconit.org

Subject line says it all, we have an LA30 that we would like to get working. It operates in local mode but we cannot get it to talk current loop to our PDP-9. Any help would be appreciated. -- hbp

21 years, 8 months

Mac LCII in San Antonio, Texas

by vcf＠siconic.com

If interested in a Mac LCII, contact original sender. If I was interested I wouldn't pay more than $5. Reply-to: texcritsit(a)devtex.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 19:34:19 -0500 From: texcritsit <texcritsit(a)devtex.net> Subject: I have an Apple I have an Apple Macintosh LC II system. Includes keyboard, mouse, monitor, and printer. Need more specs? How much are you willing to pay? I live in San Antonio, Texas. If you're interested contact me at gabehack(a)hotmail.com ~Gabe Hackebeil~ -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

21 years, 8 months

Where can one find 2.5 inch floppy disks, and other odd sizes

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > >On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Kurtk7 wrote: >> The 8" disks are not so much a problem, but from what I can tell, there were >> 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, 3.25, and 4.0 inch formats and finding even one example I don't know that 8 inch were all that regular. You have 16 hard sectored and 32 hard sectored. You even have a hard sectored with the holes around the outside of the disk instead of the center. Now, add single/double density and single/double sided. Dwight > >Also: >2.9" >3.9" > >and, of course, >5.25" (soft-sector, hard-sector (10 and 16), twiggy) >3.5" (early ones without shutter, manual shutter, one-way shutter, >floptical)

21 years, 8 months

Commodore 16 Power Supply

by h.ahonen＠shaw.ca

Hi, Can someone please help me. I have a Commodore 16 computer without Power Supply. I understan it requires 9VDC source at 1A. What is the polarity of the connector? Is plus (+) on the center pin or on the sleeve? Thanks Hank Ahonen email: hank.ahonen(a)shaw.ca

21 years, 8 months

Now tape drive was Re: Cranking up a HP 7914.

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Joe <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Anybody know if these use the same tapes as the HP > 9144/7942/7946? Also if the 9144/7942/7946s can read the 7914 tapes? Yes and yes, up to a point. They do use HP 88140 tapes (and may take 3M DC6xxHC tapes too). I don't think you can easily use the 791x/4x standalone disk->tape backups to restore the image to another model of drive. For that matter, I'm not sure what the drive writes on them in the course of a standalone backup or whether the drive will permit user-level read access to the standalone backup media. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't, except for notions about security, but then I'm pretty sure these drives will write to some regions of the tape even if you've set the write-protect knob to "protect" -- so I think they're too smart for their own good. -Frank McConnell

21 years, 8 months

message from comp.sys.cdc

by aek＠spies.com

Just saw this on comp.sys.cdc Unfortunately, they may have waited too long for help :-< Greetings: Our computer museum, The Cybertheque Museum, has been preserving important CDC computers and their software, manuals and spare parts since 1971; we are currently in a major funding crisis and there is jeopardy of the irretrievable loss (lien sale) of the following machines (and more): 1. CDC 160 S/N 18 (handwired at Chippewa, overhanging desktop, rising punch) 2. CDC 160A S/N 270 3. CDC 606A S/N 9 (non-corporate switches) 4. CDC 8092 Teleprogrammer S/N 24 5. Librascope General Precision LGP-30 vacuum tube computer S/N 254 6. Various IBM card unit record peripherals for the 160. 7. CDC 1604 Console (with typewriter and punch) 8. CDC 3200 Console and Typewriter Console and various 3200 frames. 9. CDC 6400 cabinet 10. large amount of 1604, 3000, 6000, 7000, Control Corp, DDI, and peripheral logic cards 11. The entire FOCUS program library for the 160/160A 12. Much of the software library for the 1604 13. Much object and source for 6000 SCOPE 14. Experimental Operating Systems from Roseville and Rochester for the 160A/8090 15. 1700 Software 16. The entire software library for the Roseville TFC/MTC 32bit mini- computer. And much much more. Since a crisis precipitated by the unreasonable real-estate tax and redevelopment policies of Anoka County, MN in 1991, we were denied our musuem building and forced to store the above systems in storage unit warehousing in the Twin Cities area. The rental agreement was reasonable at the time but in the ensuing years the warehouse company decided to breach the agreement and forced us to pay ever increasing rent until it has become a major burden. The intent was to ready new facilities in Northern Minnesota and move the collection; the high rent at the warehouses and the high cost of transportation has delayed the relocation effort. We must pay $900.00 per month for the storage; we are attempting to raise money to cover some past rent to avoid a lien sale on April 23. We are open to discussions to salvage the collection before the sale and/or to partner with others and receive donations to support the ongoing rental until relocation is possible. Please help us avoid the sad loss of such important artifacts. Michael Grigoni founder and president Cybertheque Museum

21 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2003