test-drb September 2004

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by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote: > A big reason for the techies and nerds was so they could do > programming without being constrained by time limits. And what did they > programs? GAMES! Well, to give just one data point, not me: when I first learned how to program at the age of 7, in PDP-11 assembly on my first home computer, Soviet BK0010, I did NOT write any games. My first program, although it was not on the BK0010 but on its successor, BK0011, was an operating system. So I guess I was destined from the very beginning to be an OS guy. (What am I doing now, 18 years later? Maintaining 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, an operating system. And it's for VAX, which is not that far away from PDP-11, my first instruction set.) MS

20 years, 3 months

MicroVAX3100 boot disk limited to 1GB - which ones?

by classiccomp-tech＠bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk

Which models of the MicroVAX3100 were limited to <1GB boot disks? I've a stack of MicroVAX3100 model 30s that I'm tarting up & I'm trying to acquire HDDs for and couldn't find if they were affected by the limitation? ta greg (ps : anyone UK want a 3100? Just ask. shed is full of the things rescued from Witchy / Jules Richardson :)

20 years, 3 months

4.3bsd/quasijarus w/ts11 (I have a fix)

by brad＠heeltoe.com

I know that many of you out there are running 4.3bsd-quasijarus on your vax 11/780's, 750's and 730's. And you've probably been wondering why the probe of the TS11 controller in your unibus is failing and you can't get your tape drive to work. Go ahead, admit it. You've been wondering. If you see messages like this when booting: zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 didn't interrupt The you have the problem. Well, I found a fix. Well, actually, Chris Torek, who made the change which broke the TS11 probe code also offered a 'quick fix', and it's here: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ts11+interrupt&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=12… (I'm sending this more as an archive so the next luser like me who can't figure out why his ts11 won't work may be lucky enough to get a google hit :-) -brad

20 years, 3 months

free autorouting...

by pkoning＠equallogic.com

Saw an ad in EE Times that might be of interest to some on this list: www.freeautorouting.com -- do the placement with the ratsnet (netlist) and send it to them; they run the Specctra autorouter over it. That's a pretty expensive piece of software. You get back an email that tells you where to retrieve the output. The ad says "you don't have to be our customer to use this free service". Neat. I don't know anything further -- haven't tried it, haven't dealt with that company (PCBnet) before. But if some of you have a PCB layout to be done that's big enough to be a pain to do manually, you might want to check this out. paul

20 years, 3 months

Snopes on Ken Olsen

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

> >>> >>>> Well, it's much harder to fill out paper forms using a >>>> computer and printer (getting spacing right, measuring the >>>> form to figure out where fields are, etc). And, I prefer >>>> using my Selectric on forms to using a pen and writing it >>>> out; my handwriting isn't always that readable. >>>> >>>> Pat > >If you are running Windows and have a Scanner, check of FillMagik. >Reasonable to use for single-use forms, GREAT for forms you have to fill out >on a regular basis. Not much good if you have to use the old multisheet carbon forms. Of course these days at work basically all of our forms are filled out on the web. Zane -- -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

20 years, 3 months

HP Printers

by mmcfadden＠cmh.edu

Inkjet ink is actually more expensive than champagne. Although I prefer bourbon and water but the printer may rust. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3035500.stm Mike

20 years, 3 months

Site Privacy issues

by jpl15＠panix.com

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:42:52 +0100 From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon(a)gjcp.net> Subject: Re: Site Privacy issues John Lawson wrote: >> I do understand perfectly that your's is an innocuous, semi-private site, >> and making the info available to the Legacy Computing community is quite <gordon(a)gjcp.net> replies: > I just can't understand the thinking behind that. Do you take all the > back-up > batteries out of your PCs, so you can set up the BIOS from scratch every > time? [snip] Gordon, either you're very used to reasoning with young teenagers, or perhaps you are quite young yourself - no matter. There is a term: reductio ad absurdam, and I shall not dignify your post any further than to refer you to that term, it's definition, meaning, and how it might apply to the above.. Cheers John

20 years, 3 months

Snopes on Ken Olsen

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote: > > Soviet BK0010, > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ----> COOL! :-) Are you familiar with it? I never thought its very existence was known anywhere outside the former USSR! I mean it wasn't secret or anything, just something I can't imagine anyone else knowing about (USSR wasn't exactly a computer exporter :-). Well, OK, there was some Eastern Bloc computer technology that was significant enough to be at least known in the West (Robotron for example), but I can't imagine something as little as BK0010 being known anywhere in the West. Its CPU chip, K1801VM1, was really cool though: it was a complete single-chip implementation of an LSI-11 CPU with Q-bus on its pins. DEC never had that. MS

20 years, 3 months

FW: cctech Digest, Vol 13, Issue 27 - Re: HP Laserjet

by Watzman＠neo.rr.com

Barry Watzman wrote: "I have an actual factory service manual for the Laserjet II, I may scan it and make it into a PDF for the classic computer documentation effort." Seth Lewin wrote: "I wonder if anyone on the list has any kind of teardown instructions or lubrication instructions for these machines - mine sounds as if it can use a greasing when it's feeding paper - not a screeching sound but is sounds as if something's running dry in there. It's never been taken apart and Apple's hardbound book on the LW II doesn't give this kind of information." ********** Ok, I did scan the manual. Although it's an HP Laserjet Series II service manual, it's essentially a service manual for any device using the Canon "SX" print mechanism. The bad news, it' 8 megabytes (I scanned it in color, it's a color manual). I can't easily E-Mail it, anyone know an FTP site where I can make it available? A bit of concern here, it's a copyrighted manual, and unlike IMSAI, Altair, etc., HP is very much still in business and might object. [Although I have an HP LaserJet 4 service manual in PDF format that I found on another web site.]

20 years, 3 months

Big IBM vacuum-column tapes drives on Ebay

by wmaddox＠pacbell.net

Two 3420 drives and 3803 controller, in Maine USA. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=74946&item=512531949… --Bill

20 years, 3 months

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test-drb September 2004