> outstring (1, "Make multiple copies!\n");
about 700mb (~200 sheets) are on bitsavers after about 2.5 hours. they are
in a hidden directory that the ftp mirrors will pick up.
i'm guessing it will be some time in the early morning when the transfer
finishes.
the good news is the diagnostic listings look OK. the bad news is they were
scanned with an effective resolution of 200dpi, which is going to make it
very iffy to OCR. bundling the diagnostic listings into pdfs combining multiple
sheets and adding page numbers should be fairly easy to automate.
I am forwarding this from the Boston Craigslist in case anybody is interested.
Reply to: anon-48640258(a)craigslist.org
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I have a 5x10ft storage locker with 24 years worth of computing,
but now I am moving and have to get rid of it. You can keep this
in your own collection or sell it on eBay. Help me clean it out
within the next few weeks by taking all of it.
To keep it serious I'll accept offers for one week. If no offers,
not even token offers, I'll take it all to the dump myself. I
have a pickup truck and can help transport if you pay gas.
Located and available to be seen in Londonderry, NH, at exit 5 off
Interstate 93.
Little of this stuff is usable in a modern environment, but it
all worked when taken out of service.
Apple //e. Monochrome and 13-in digital color monitors,
5MB Corvus hard drive, Imagewriter 1 printer. Many cards and
accessories. Complete Apple Pascal and Modula-2 system. A
whole bunch of software and manuals.
Macintosh Plus. 20MB hard drive. Many accessories. Software
and manuals.
Compaq II 80286 portable computer with 20MB hard drive. Canon
8086 computer and monitor. 80286 IBM AT clone with monitor.
All these would make good Minix systems to toy with.
8088 computer and monitor with floppy drives. 80386 DOS
laptop. HP Omnibook 300 ultraportable Windows notebook.
Sun IPX Solaris UNIX workstation with disk array, 19-inch
color monitor, keyboard, mouse.
HP Laserjet 3P (needs board). A couple of Epson inkjet
printers. A couple of Microtek SCSI flatbed optical scanners.
Hundreds of manuals and books, especially on Pascal and Unix,
will sell separately or keep but won't give away.
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I'd be very happy to flood someone's connection for a weekend to
transfer the files over with the promise to organize and host the files
for the general vintage computing public.
--
I can take care of this on bitsavers.
>
>
> This is really cool:
>
> http://www.xat.nl/enigma-e/
>
> Sellam Ismail
> Vintage Computer Festival
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>>What's the point? If you want an Enigma copy, then build a real
>>mechanical one (not at all impossible in a good home workshop). If you
>>want an encryption system, then use one of the many more secure ones that
>>are available now, If for some reason you want to be able to
>>encode/decode enigma messages, it's not hard to write a suitable program
>>for a good handheld computer/calculator.
>>This seems to be as pointless as those fake 'old radios' that look like
>>pre-war sets but which have ICs inside (or the UK 'copies' of 1960's
>>transistor portables with the FM band and ICs inside). If you want a
>>valve radio, then get one...
>>-tony
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OK, naysayers. Fine, be that way... But I commend anyone who takes the time
to make such a kit. I think it's incredibly cool--just like the various
emulations from the paper versions to the simulator versions to the real
copies. They all took a great deal of thought and planning. "Dissing"
something like this reminds me of when I still had a shot at flying for my
once great company. One of the chief pilots in charge of (pilot) hiring had
_nothing_ good to say about simulators at all. He especially _hated_ any PC
version of a fltsim. In point of fact, ual had one of the best pilot
training programs on the planet, and guess what(?), like all airlines, they
train in the sim (full motion, awesomely realistic). The final checkride is
in the real thing (to my knowledge, the final checkouts were done on
revenue flights). Sims must not be all that bad, eh? Not everyone has
access to full motion sims--in fact, almost no one does...
I fell in love with the first sim I ever saw. It was a "terrain modeling
board" based T-37 full motion sim. Later, we got to fly the cgi versions
(which were nightime only, due to the limited graphics capabilities
available when they were made). T-38 sims were all cgi based (No mechinal
stuff to break down, and it was the instrumentation that they were
interested in). In 1980, this stuff seemed "spaced-aged" (esp. the cgi
sims, which were crude by today's standards). I've been following PC based
fltsims since the early days (and they really were crude by today's
standards). There are those who still have nothing good to say about
PC-based sims, but I can't say enough good about them. Apparently, a
difference in perception...
(And, yes, I acknowledge that there is no substitute for the real thing,
but they truly are one of the most efficient ways ever devised to turn gold
into thin air, and they take up a lot of space and need lots of care and
attention! It's definitely a trade-off...)
Regards,
Bob Greenstreet
> I was going to suggest Retroarchive
You're certainly welcome to mirror bitsavers content, if you
have a way to do mirroring via ftp. It is currently around
37gb.
I took a brief trip out to one of my scrap^H^H^H^H^H er, treasure sources today. I didn't expect to find much and I wasn't disappointed if you catch my meaning. However I did find a loose board that looks suspiously like a SGI Indigo board which surprised me because I've never seen any Indigo stuff at this place. I brought home the board and checked on the net and found that it's fairly rare card for the Indigos. It's Real Time Video Capture Card, pn 030-8095-003. But unfortunately it's in really bad condition, something heavy was dropped on it and the board is cracked and at least one surface mount IC is broken in half :-( But the good news is that I also found a floppy disk drive in a SGI sled and it appears to be the right one for the Indigo. The one in my R4400 Indigo is flaky so the trip was worth it after all.
Joe
(Unrelated to Micheal's post, just the bearer of bad content from the list.)
The message from Michael re: fiche has malformed To:
data. Someone's not handling quotes properly!
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:59:31 -0500
From: Michael <vaxlion(a)postal.lionsden.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
To: General(a)apocalypse.org,
"Discussion(a)apocalypse.org"@fiche.wps.com:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Hold the scanners! (was DEC Docs, Diagrams,
and Diags. on Microfische)
> Otherwise, the way this is handled is to shear the binding off the book.
Sewn book bindings can be disassembled without shearing. Take the journals
apart then scan the left and right pages sequentially. Most glued bindings
and be peeled apart in a similar manner. In fact, it's difficult to keep
a glued binding from falling apart if it's older than 20 years.
The problem with shearing a binding is you have to make absolutely, positively
sure that all of the pages are aligned, or you take a 'C' shaped cut out of
the bound edge of the book. By the time you get a book down to the size where
you can make sure the stacks are straight, you may as well have taken them
all apart by hand.
Where are they?
Original Message:
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From: Marvin Johnston marvin(a)rain.org
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:00:39 -0800
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Needs Rescuing - Tektronics Terminal
A friend of mine has two Tektronics T-4109 terminals w/ keyboards and
graphics tablet that need to go away today or tomorrow. Does anyone want
these? I can pick them up and hold for a short while if necessary.
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