test-drb July 2004

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The Future of Bletchley Park & the computer museum - comments wanted!

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

All, English Heritage spent a great deal of time recently surveying Bletchley Park (in particular buildings for which there was little information in the public domain, either due to the original information being lost or still classified) Said report and survey has now been published on the English Heritage website - see: http://tinyurl.com/45avu Importantly, comments are invited by English Heritage. Recently a response to this turned up in a newspaper local to the Park: http://tinyurl.com/4aqgo Some would say that currently the most "significant parts" of the site as projected to the public revolve solely around the Enigma, at the expense of everything else for which the Park has been known over the years. Lots of exhibits have already been scaled down and squeezed into much smaller premises; the military vehicles section is being demolished despite the part which such vehicles played in the war. The future of the Computer Museum and the rebuilt Colossus within H Block (and indeed the storage area within D Block) are very much uncertain, and a move to smaller premises is certainly not out of the question. Nobody seems to know the exact future of H Block but as it currently houses the museum and Colossus, and was the site of the world's first purpose-built computer room, to my mind it seems both the ideal location for its current occupants (with great scope for expansion!), plus a valuable bit of the UK's heritage which should not be lost, and also of great historical importance to the information age. (Note that as the whole site expanded during the war, D Block took on a lot of the work of the smaller Huts and so played a vital role, and C Block held an enormous Hollerith punched card section, so they are not without merit either; both currently lay almost derelict though) Realistically I'm not sure what anyone can do other than leave suitable comments for English Heritage about the importance which the Park played within the computing scene in order to ensure the survival of the huge amount of artifacts which we have. (Given the central location within the country my feeling is that it's also an ideal site for some form of national computer museum, but I don't know if that's relevant or not :-) I'm sure this will be of interest to UK residents on this list anyway, and quite possibly many of you further afield. (the less said about the way in which our current Government treats the heritage of this country the better, of course!) cheers, Jules

20 years, 2 months

FS/FT : Fluke 9010A

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

Hi all, I recently bought several Fluke 9010A. Some are running version 2, some are running version 3A which I beleive is the latest one. Is it easy to upgrade from v2 to v3 ? All I need is to copy the eproms ? They came without the "logic probe" can I build one myself ? Anything special about it ? I have something like 6 units, if someone is interested, drop me a mail. I'm looking for some pods: z80 at least. I'm in Paris, France, so the shipping cost can be an issue if you're not in Europe (except for the pods which are not so heavy). Thanks Stephane ps; I'm looking for someone on a 10 Mbit/s or faster internet access in Europe or US for a simple ftp throughput test.

20 years, 2 months

Pegasus (was: Re: Computer history -- visiting the UK)

by Adrian＠beovax.co.uk

> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jules Richardson > Sent: 26 July 2004 16:26 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Pegasus (was: Re: Computer history -- visiting the UK) > > was generally occupying my brain the last few weeks (I'm sure > Witchy will be making images available; a great time was had I wondered if my message yesterday hadn't got out! Typical, you spend ages trying to post an update and it vanishes into that there ether. An initial page is up at http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/cge-uk2004/cge.php with more pix to come later if the DSL is actually active in my cottage like they say it is! Cheers w

20 years, 2 months

RE 4205

by BIDDR7＠aol.com

SIR YOU STILL GOT THIS TERMINAL. I WILL BE INTERESTED BUYING IN ONE THANKS Mj cctalk(a)classiccmp.org

20 years, 2 months

Curt Vendel on TV!

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

Maybe I missed when this was mentioned before, but Curt was just on TV on "That 70's Home" on HGTV showing off his collection of PONG games. Looking at the HGTV web site, there's no telling when it will be repeated. Try to keep an eye for it. Bill

20 years, 2 months

Motherboards

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Hi Chris > >I will pay all shipping costs to the UK for the motherboards, please advise >if this is possible. > >Brgds > >Steve I'm guessing maybe this is directed at me (hard to tell when it is sent to a mailing list). If it is to me, the 386 and 486 motherboards I had available are all long since gone. None left. Sorry. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

20 years, 2 months

Just scored a CDI-1030

by cmcnabb＠gmail.com

The guy who surpluses old equipment in our warehouse gave me a call this morning. He had a CDI-1030 APL/ASCII portable acoustic thermal "teletypewriter" that someone had found in a closet, and wanted to know if I had a use for it. Upon physical inspection, the terminal is in great shape - no dents, dings, scratches, missing keys, etc. It is built into a very rugged (and heavy) samsonite suitcase and even had an unopened case of thermal paper with it. The Property ID numbers were no longer in the database, so it could not be surplussed through the normal channels (auction) since it could not be tracked. I could either take it or the surplus property guy would have to send it to the scrap yard. The decision was a no brainer, and I now have this old heavy thing sitting here in my cube. Now, how to explain this latest acquisition to a spouse who is already complaining about the amount of "junk" in the basement....

20 years, 2 months

IBM 029 punch in Colorado

by vcf＠siconic.com

I've been speaking with Louis, the fellow who posted a message recently about an 029 punch in Colorado. He's a very terrific guy. Anyway, as much as I'd like to get an 029 punch for my archive, I don't have the space or the funds right now to acquire it. So that being said, is there anyone else in the Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Longmont, etc. area that can at least rescue this thing and hold it for someone (possibly me) for the short term? Louis said it was sitting in the rain but this thing ought to be able to take that just fine. Some parts will probably rust a little but that can be cleaned up with a little bit of labor on a nice Saturday afternoon. Please come forward if you can rescue this thing and/or want it. Louis can't promise that he can get the owner of the recycling facility to hold onto it for very long. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 2 months

vax 11/750 help

by bert＠brothom.nl

Hi All, Today I was trying to get my VAX-11/750 to work. I figured out how the baudrate for the console terminal is set (and what it is set to), but I cannot find any of the other parameters, such as the number of databits, parity, and number of stopbits. Can anyone here tell how these are configured or, if they are hard-wired, to what value they are set? Also, are the schematics for this machine available online somewhere? I did search for it a few times, but never found it. If not, is there someone who can make them available? TIA, Bert

20 years, 2 months

PR-68 schematics posted

by root＠parse.com

Hand reverse-engineered PR-68 paper tape reader schematics, and suggested PC parallel port interface design, are now available: http://www.parse.com/~museum/pdp-common/peripherals.html It's 1.5MB and PDF format. Cheers, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!

20 years, 2 months

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