Wired is running an article that might be of interest to SGI enthusiasts.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65834,00.html
They even had a couple links in there that I'm pretty I've never seen before.
Zane
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Perhaps even cooler than a CADR emulator, a PDP-1 emulator which runs
the original PDP-1 spacewar code:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/
Very cool. Apparently the java code is an PDP-1 emulator. They wrote a
PDP-1 assembler in perl. You have to smile.
I think the screen should be round, however :-)
-brad
Dear Sir,
Hello, i recently saw an online post of an email list you signed up
for, and was wondering if you could send me scans of the book, "How to
build a working digital computer", images are fine, but a pdf file
would be awesome! i really would like to reconstruct my very own
paperclip computer, so i hope you will help,
Thank you,
Daniel Collotte
In a box of keyboards I bought today there was a Televideo terminal
keyboard. There are no model markings on it, it has a phone-cord
sized RJ-style connector. I don't know what model of terminal it came
from. First person to reply who will pay shipping can have it. I can
'crack it open' to see if there are model # markings on the circuit
board if need be. Shipping will be from central Indiana.
Scott
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this site for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
The website does not (yet) give full details.
Please note that the project is not mine, we are just looking how much
interest there is, therefore raise hands if interested in a PCB.
Jos Dreesen
Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
> Wow. Did I just go through some sort of time warp?
>
> In my mail box are about 15 messages which are old. They start out on
> 12/3 but then there are about 15 'repeats' and then 12/3 again.
I had this happen to me (as the sender) when I restored a system from
backup. The machine had a single disk drive which failed, so when the
new disk drive arrived, I restored everything from a two month old
backup. It was a piece of cake and the system was back to normal.
Or so I thought! ... After a couple of days I started receiving
messages like Brad's asking whether I had gone senile and started
emailing people about deadlines that had already past etc.
What happened was that when the backup was made, there were a bunch of
emails in the mail queue and they were backed up along with everything
else. Two months later when the backup was restored, sendmail found
them in the mail queue and sent them along (again).
**vp
Natalia <nataliac(a)uvigo.es> wrote:
> I have a Dual Disk Drive HP 9121 that is cabled to an HP 9816 whith
> operative system HP Basic 2.0. When I copy or save file or program put
> the message "error 88: read data error". Can you help me? What is the
> Problem?
You can get the manual for the 9121 at
http://www.series80.org/Manuals/index.html#HP9121
But I suspect that the problem is a dirty R/W head on the drive.
You do not mention whether you have the 2 drive model (9121D) and
whether you have the same error message when you try accessing the
second drive. If you only have the prob with the first drive, then
its almost certainly a dirty R/W head inside the drive.
Have you tried cleaning the heads? The easiest way is to try to
find a cleaning diskette (usu available for PCs). Such diskettes
usually have an extra hole across from the WRITE-PROTECT tab.
You have to cover this (extra) hole with some tape (black
electrician's tape will do) and then the cleaning diskette will
be usable with the 9121.
Best Regards
**vp
On Dec 4 2004, 13:57, Seth Morabito wrote:
> I've just re-joined the lists after a... uh, something like a four
> year absense, I guess! It's good to be back, even if it is a little
> more verbose than I remember.
Welcome back :-)
> I looked through the recent archives and didn't see this covered
> already, forgive me if I missed it -- I've been unable to contact
> www.trailing-edge.com or simh.trailing-edge.com for the last week
> or so.
Tim posted a note on alt.folklore.computers about a week ago, to say:
The web-accessible archives at trailing-edge.com, namely
simh.trailing-edge.compdp-10.trailing-edge.compdp-11.trailing-edge.com
etc. are down due to windstorm activity yesterday. With a little
luck things may be back up early next week (week of Nov 29 - Dec 3).
Realistically there are a lot of trees and wires down and hooking
back up to the interweb may take a while.
The SIMH and pdp-11 stuff as of July 2004 is mirrored at
http://bitsavers.org/simh.trailing-edge.com/http://bitsavers.org/pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/
Unfortunately bitsavers is also down, but Jay has a mirror at
classiccmp:
http://www.classiccmp.org/bitsavers/simh.trailing-edge.com/http://www.classiccmp.org/bitsavers/pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/
I'm not surprised you couldn't find anything, it's just taken me 15
minutes, and I knew what I was looking for!
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Are there any cards which should never be used as the target for the basic
I/O pretest (P=2) of the Diagnostic Configurator?
I seem to recall there was one... but I'm finding several different cards
which give trap cell halts but otherwise seem to work fine (passing
diagnostics).
Would this indicate a problem with the priority chain?
Thanks in advance!
Jay
