At 10:19 PM 2/12/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> > You know what would be *really* cool (and expensive, and useless...) is
> > to interface a punch card read/writer so you can punch a google request
> > card, run it, and have it punch the URLS back out on cards, or print on
> > paper.
When my father was writing software at IBM (he programmed on the 650) he
tells me that coding involved:
1. Punching in your program on cards.
2. Loading the compiler/assembler program into the machine off punched cards.
3. Running the compiler/assembler.
4. The compiler/assembler reads in your program card deck as data.
5. The compiler outputs your object code as a deck of punched cards.
6. You load in the punched cards (the object deck) to test your program.
This cycle is repeated, churning out a new deck of object cards, for each
iteration of your program.
We sure have it easy these days. He speaks of the drum memory as having
been a big improvement at the time, when it could be used.
These days Dad will dabble once in awhile in Lotus 123 but mostly Mom has
the Thinkpad (their only computer) to herself. Her heritage is the years
she spent before computers, typing right and left justified text on
memeograph stencils for church bulletins. I'm sure she can still center
text of arbitrary length on a typed page with a Selectric.
Hi
I visited a customer in Sweden today. In the corner was a packed-up PDP
11/34. I dont know beans about PDP, but that is what they told me. There
seemed to be a CPU, a disk drive and a few disc packs
Would that be interesting for anyone ? If so, I can ask the customer if we
can have it
Nico
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From: "John Allain" <allain(a)panix.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:05 AM
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> > That is exactly why I *still* run critical or security-sensitive
> > stuff on such platforms. It leaves those kiddies with a severe
> > headache. :)
>
> At last! A motivation behind all this. I was beginning to wonder.
>
> I saw a digital animation festival last night and was thinking of
> getting a new compute server. By my calculations a midsized
> PC passed even the CRAY-1 in compute speed sometime in 2002,
> give or take a year. It probably would require a stripped down O/S
> to do the computing. MS must take out at least 3/4 of the machine
> power.
>
> John A.
>
>
>
I have a Sound Blaster CT1600 with an odd daughterboard attached by a
40-pin ribbon cable. The daughterboard, labelled CT1331, actually plugs
into an adjacent slot and just has a socket for the ribbon cable, a bunch
of diodes (17 to be exact) which I assume are some sort of protection for
the signals coming off the card, and a DC-37 connector on the outside.
Nothing googles up.
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I'm proud to present two new pieces that have been added to my web site
today:
First, after getting my VAX-11/750 just two days ago, I've now got a
decent sized summary page from information I've found via various
internet sites, and have a large collection of picture I've take of
various parts of mine. Now I just have to con^Wget someone to give me
a UNIBUS disk adaptor or reasonably small Massbus disk and maybe a
DEUNA/DELUA, so I can try to get NetBSD and/or 4.xBSD up and running on
it. For once, I've got a VAX that I don't really care to try to put
VMS on. :)
Second, after talking to one of the authors (whom I work for ;), I got
permission to put the Mike Marsh and George Goble Dual-Processor VAX
(11/780) paper online.
Both are reachable from the front page of my web site:
http://computer-refuge.org/
Or via these links:
http://computer-refuge.org/compcollect/dec/vax/11750http://computer-refuge.org/classiccmp/dp_vax/dual-vax11-780.pdf
Pat
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Hi
He only has one feedback and that was as a buyer.
Bad email + no feed back + overpriced item. You add
them up.
Dwight
>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>
> It's over-priced even with the docs. And FWIW I tried to contact the
>seller and ask some questions but his E-mail bounced. Not a good sign.
>
> Joe
>
>At 10:21 AM 2/12/04 -0800, you wrote:
>>
>>Those Intel boards have been selling in the $35.00 or so range. As such,
>>it is overpriced unless it comes with all the docs.
>>
>>John Lawson wrote:
>>>
>>> Intel SBC 80/10
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4193&item=2786604189
>>
>
> There's a AT&T/Pixel Machines model 964d 'video thing' down at university
> salvage, and I was wondering if anyone had any information on them. It
> appears to have been produced in 1989 by an offshoot of AT&T called "Pixel
> Machines". Using google, the only result I can get that matches "Pixel
> Machines" and 964 or 964d is a thesis of some sort, which doesn't have a
> whole lot of useful information on the beast. As far as I can tell, it's
> some sort of redering/raytracing 'thing', and from its outputs, it appears
> like it might output NTSC video.
>
> I'm not sure yet if I want to bother lugging it up here - it's about
> 2ft x 2ft x 1ft in size, and looks like it might weigh as much as a small
> car.
>
> Thanks for any information you guys can turn up,
>
I just did a search on "AT&T Pixel Machines" and came up with this thread. I
don't know if this reply will end up anywhere or not!
I used to work for AT&T Pixel Machines.
The Pixel Machine is a programmable graphics system. It used AT&T DSP32 signal
processing chips, which featured impressive (for the time) floating-point
performance.
Each system had a 9 or 18 stage systolic array that was normally used as a
graphics transformation pipeline. Each system also had between 16 and 64
processing nodes. Each node contained an interleaved portion of the frame buffer.
The DSP32 ran at 5 MHZ and could do a floating-point multiple/accumulate each
cycle, for 10 MFLOPS per processor. The system had up to 82 processors, for a
maximum theoretical throughput of 820 MFLOPS.
It did some pretty impressive graphics. Particularly high-end rendering,
ray-tracing, and image processing.
It operated as an attached processor to a VME bus based Sun system.
It output video in 1280x1024 and also NTSC.
Nowadays, of course, a single Pentium would run circles around it.
John Spicer
Edison Design Group
Im looking into buying a 2430 tek scope but was wondering if you found out
what was wrong with your scope. the one I with to buy fails trigs ccd and
pa. I was just wonder if you would know what that ment for the scope. and my
other question is that the scope says it is 50 ohm 5v and 1 Mohm 400vp is that
switchable at the scope or do you have to get a fet probe to use the scope at
1Mohm 400vp ?
Hi All,
Just a thought. Did anyone ever try to connect DVD drives,
or CDROM changers, to VAX-class machines, such as 3100's or
InfoServers?
I *would* assume InfoServer cant handle the DVD data format,
although newer VMS systems might. How do they deal with
multiple-LUN devices such as changers?
Cheers,
Fred
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