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Someone pays $399 for IBM Dos 1.0

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Here's the url http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=62054&item=5119316334 Uses mainecomputermuseum ?

20 years, 3 months

MI8E Schematics anyone?

by bkotaska＠charter.net

Hi all, Does anyone have a printset for the PDP8 MI8E bootloader module (M847)? Checked all the usual sources and came up dry. Thanks, Bill

20 years, 3 months

Completely and totally off-topic and without any merit whatsoever

by Innfogra＠aol.com

Yes, a coarse coffe filter will do for glass shards. Hg will sit on top of the filter unless vacuum is applied. You can use a vacuum cleaner as a source. I think that would provide enough vacuum but you need an airtight path. A lab flask with a vacuum tap, cork and a funnel is best. Paxton Astoria, Oregon

20 years, 3 months

Classic typesetting machine - UK

by m.wickens＠rhodium-consulting.com

Fancy one of these? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=162&item=512026860… Mark. -- Mark Wickens Rhodium Consulting Ltd

20 years, 3 months

WANTED: DEC MXV11-BF (M7195)

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

Hi all, For a project I need one of the above beasties. If you have one (or several ;-) and could be coerced into parting with them, contact me off-list and we'll agree on terms .. Thankee, Fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://VAXlab.pdp11.nl/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Mountain View, CA, USA

20 years, 3 months

LTC Spec question

by jpl15＠panix.com

W/out having the docs to hand, I would like to know the actual electrical specification for the LTC line as implemented in LSI-11 -type systems... what is the backplane (and hence the CPU, etc) expecting? Waveform type? Freq range? Levels? If pulses, TTL? CMOS? Duty cycle? Rep rate? I need to simulate the incoming LTC signal for a system that will not be mains powered.... in the older 11/xx systems, this was derived from one of the windings of the power supply transformer, then made into line-freq-rate pulses by the using module. I'm planning on using a small naptha-burning steam engine driving a modified Wimshurst static generator, and then using a calibrated spark-gap with an RF pick-off. If I adjust the mechanical governor very precisely, and calibrate the gap length based on humidity and barometric pressure, it should be possible to get reasonably stable 50/60 Htz signals... Cheers John PS: Please ignore the silly bits.

20 years, 3 months

The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses - I love you [rev.eng] (fwd)

by vcf＠siconic.com

I thought this might be interesting to some... -- 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 ] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:17:47 +0200 From: Alessandro Ludovico <a.ludovico(a)neural.it> To: a.ludovico(a)agora.it Subject: The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses - I love you [rev.eng] I love you [rev.eng] The Aesthetics of Computer Viruses. German Exhibition on International Tour Providence (USA) / Copenhagen: The return of "Made in Germany" - "I love you [rev.eng]" (rev.eng = reverse engineering), the extension of the successful exhibition in Frankfurt devoted to the phenomenon of computer viruses, is going on an international tour. It can be seen from September 11th to October 4th at the renowned private Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and then from October 7th to November 14th in the Museum for Communication in Copenhagen, Denmark. Nowadays computer viruses are an integral part of our computerised everyday life. The damage to national economies caused by the more than 90,000 viruses that have already appeared worldwide runs into many billions. The independent US research institute Computer Economics puts the damage in the case of "I love you" in 2001 alone at 8.75 billion US $. But not all computer viruses are harmful. Computer viruses can also result from experimentation with (programming) language. "I love you [rev.eng]" is the first exhibition worldwide dedicated to the phenomena of computer security and computer viruses, and takes up both these aspects to carry out a controversial experiment with contemporary culture that goes far beyond current vehement debates on hacking. "I love you [rev.eng]" is divided into political, technical and historical areas of investigation and focuses on the controversial positions of security experts and hackers, of net artists and programmers, of literature experts and code poets. What actually is a computer virus? Who creates them, and why? What sort of world is hiding behind these everyday phenomena? The exhibition provides background information, presents artworks, and reveals the role of computer viruses as a destructive force and economic threat as well as an inspiration for creative art. "I love you [rev.eng]" is conceived and presented by the cultural organisation digitalcraft.org based in Frankfurt, Germany. "digitalcraft.org sees itself as a future oriented model for a changing understanding of cultural communication," says Franziska Nori, the leader of the digitalcraft.org team. "The big question being raised by the exhibition as to what digital culture is today and will become in the age of the information society doesn't only determine contemporary artistic and cultural production, but is also intended to motivate cultural institutions to rethink their practice and their own role." What can visitors to the "I love you [rev.eng]" exhibition expect? - Computer viruses in close-up. At isolated terminals ("in the zoo"), visitors can activate infected data with viruses like "Sasser" or "Suicide" and force computers to close down. A presentation of the 30 year history of computer viruses and their technical development offers background information on the development of this phenomenon right up to the present day. - Virus outbreaks in real time. An interactive 3D game world has been developed specially for the exhibition to allow visitors, by operating a joystick, to experience in real time the otherwise invisible processes involved in a global virus outbreak. Visitors can also click together their own viruses using a computer with so called virus construction kits like the ones often used by budding hackers to flood the Internet with evernew viruses. - The web artists 0100101110101101.ORG and epidemiC present the computer virus "biennale.py", which, over and above being a self-reproducing program, has been declared as a social work of art. The work "The Lovers" by the British artist Sneha Solankis creates, using two mutually-infected computers, an analogy between the distorted communication between the computers and that between lovers. '"I love you" [?but do you know what love really means?]' by the artist Caleb Waldorf is an installation video montage reflecting how media represents the phenomenon of viruses and how governments and corporate entities react to the increasing threat of cyber terrorism. - Insights into the heterogeneous culture of hackers with a broad spectrum of film material created in the scene itself, including "Freedom Downtime" by the New York hacker community 2600, and "Hippies from Hell". Historical and current material provide insights into the development of the scene from its origins in the late 50s, when the term "hacker" was a neutral word for students at the MIT who lived out their fascination for logical tasks and enthusiasm for understanding the new computers, to the criminalisation of what is now known as the VX Scene, to the commercialisation of the phenomenon, supplemented by a wealth of interviews in which various virus authors talk about their motives. - The aesthetics of the source code. Apart from its pure functionality, a program code (which computer viruses are based on, just like any other computer program) can also be an aesthetic and artistic creation. "Obfuscated C Codes" are examples of such highly virtuoso programming. The exhibition presents two exceptional contributions >from the "International Obfuscated C Code Contest" that has been held regularly since 1984, the three-dimensional flight simulator by C. Banks (1998) and the Saitou.c Code by Don Yang (2000), a program with a graphic layout that generates a set of mutually reproducing programs. - Program code as language. Here, comparisons are drawn between traditional poetry and contemporary code poetry. The unbroken line from the Carmina Figurata of antiquity and the Middle Ages via the concrete poetry of the 19th Century to modern poets and contemporary code poets show a coherence of form that reveals the source code as a new material for contemporary poetry. - Internet security. Security concepts and current methods for preventing global attacks on the network are presented for an interested audience. Through a collaboration with experts at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies and researchers from Symantec - the market leader in internet security - digitalcraft.org further delved into the political, economic and social actuality of this subject. At both locations, the exhibition will be complemented by symposiums, in the USA with the theme "The Power and Pathology of Networks". The cultural organisation digitalcraft.org is taking up with this project the challenge of exploring complex virtual phenomena and presenting them in a visual way. "I love you [rev.eng]" (rev.eng = reverse engineering) is the revamped and expanded version of the initial exhibition which was successfully shown in June 2002 in the Museum for Applied Art in Frankfurt and in February 2003 at the "transmediale.03" in Berlin. Further information on all exhibits, the digital version of the exhibition catalogue and extensive pictorial material can be found on the project's website www.digitalcraft.org/Iloveyou (+ press section) or direct from: Dr. Gabriele Reinartz PR and communication Phone: +49 (0)171 / 8 34 56 48 Fax: +49 (0)69 / 48 00 61 32 E-Mail: gabriele.reinartz(a)digitalcraft.org http://www.digitalcraft.org http://www.infopeace.org http://www.watsoninstitute.org http://www.ptt-museum.dk http://www.symantec.com Brief profile of digitalcraft.org digitalcraft.org was founded in 2003 as a spin-off of the "digitalcraft" section of the Museum for Applied Art in Frankfurt am Main (2000-2003). Its mission is to research and document fast-moving trends in everyday digital culture and to present them to the public. Since 2003, digitalcraft.org has been an independent cultural organization under the direction of Franziska Nori. Its work includes interdisciplinary exhibition projects such as "adonnaM.mp3" (2003) on the phenomenon of file sharing, "Origami Digital" (2003) on the digital demo scene, public lectures and publications, and consultancies for public institutions and museums. The subjects it explores reflect the rapid development in communications technologies and methods and their significance for modern society. Brief profile of the Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University in Rhode Island is one of the most renowned private Universities in the USA. One of its associated institutes is the Watson Institute for International Studies, named after its founder, which is dedicated to interdisciplinary studies. Under the direction of Prof. James Der Derian, the "Information Technology, War and Peace Project" has been started up to make a targeted analysis of the potential impacts of network structures in the globalised society. In September, "InfoTechWarPeace", a new, one-year research project, is starting up with the heading, "The Power and Pathology of Net-works". The central matters it will be dealing with involve analysis of the questions: What new forms of global security and governance are needed to manage the potential, allocate the resources, and reduce the risks of networks? How do we assess the dangers of global interconnectivity (networked terrorism, computer viruses, pandemics) against the vaunted benefits (increased transparency, higher productivity, global interdependence)? The research project will be inaugurated with a symposium and the "I love you [rev.eng]" exhibition. -- Alessandro Ludovico Neural.it - http://neural.it/ daily updated news + reviews English.Neural.it - http://english.neural.it/ Neural printed magazine - http://neural.it/n/nultimoe.htm

20 years, 3 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 10

by mtapley＠swri.edu

ard wrote: >I always prefered the catostatic. > >[OK, a joke. I have a book on making electrostatic generators and one of >them is called the catostatic. As you may have guessed by now, this >involves stroking your cat and collecting the accumulated charge in a >Leyden jar... Knowing my cat, he'd probably get rather fed up with the >whole idea...] > >-tony I can't resist. If he's fed up, get a cat wrestler to teach you a good hode to put on him so he won't escape. (Get it? cat-hode?) Of course, that only works on a young cat - never anode one. -- - Mark 210-522-6025, page 888-733-0967

20 years, 3 months

[rescue] VAX 11/780 on Ebay

by waisun.chia＠hp.com

Forwarding in the hopes of saving the 11/780.. Jeff Workman wrote: > I hardly ever have time to read this list anymore, but I that somebody > here might be interested in this: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1247&item=5121408138… > > > -- > Jeff Workman | jworkman(a)pimpworks.org | http://www.pimpworks.org > _______________________________________________ > rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue >

20 years, 3 months

Vintage hardware in Los Alamos NM

by tomj＠wps.com

Whew! I'm in Santa Fe typing this at a wifi hotspot, and now that Ive retrieved my Objects, after protracted years of wangling, I feel safe to post more about the vintage gear at Los Alamos Sales Co (aka "the black hole") in Los Alamos NM. I'll post photos, black hole info, etc when I get home next week, but here's a quick rundown: It's not a vintage computer place; it's LANL/LASL surplus. Some of it dates back to the 1950's, but most is more recent. THere is a wad of Beige Era junk, I step over it, I'd say a cubic cubit (CC). Bazillion IBM typewriters of all sorts, including wide-carriage types. A CC of cards, paper tape (unused) including DEC factory fanfold. Big stack of RCA CDP1802xxx boards mounted in custom rack mount chassis. Full complement of RAM and monitor EPROMs. About 10. I have documentation on the RCA board at home. SOme missing 1802's, BFD. Random piles of some DEC modules. I cannot ID these; two plstic handles on human end, cardedge on the buss end. 80s. RAM boards. Some new-in-boxes (but those could of course be "return for repair" after module swap.) Grey Era IBM card equipment. CDC Cyber terminals. Nukeular Data Corp (that's a joke son, a joke) ND-811 computer(s?), with dual-floppy, and a bunch of other similar vintage junk. The ND811 (I think it is, photos will tell) is all wirewrapped, so likely it's NFG. CCs of HP, TI calculators. We earlier found complete sets of working HP25's with card readers complete with bomb-crater calc software on magstrips (utterly non-classified; it's a standard physics calc). Lots of odd peripherals. Tape drives. Floppies. Tek stuff. Old fiber stuff. IBM manual, schematic and listing sets back to the 360 days (some in the church, access limited). Vacuum column drives. (There is a secret cache of multiple CC's of paper tape gear. Access is extremely limited to this particular room, even finding it is hard... as me personally if you are UP THERE and SERIOUS. No peeing in the pool!) Keep in mind this stuff is scattered ALL OVER THE PLACE on towering shelves in a 50,000 sq ft ex-supermarket. It's out of the weather, but it gets COLD UP THERE in the winter, so things like wirewrap are suspect at best. Some things are in the church (yes one of those denominational praying peripherals) which !@#%% kids busted some windows, so there's a little rain on one edge, but worse, the birds and bats nest in the Nelson bubble lamps and SHIT all over everything, it's a terrible shame. The church is largely off-limits, and Ed has a strange relationship to its contents, and it is extremely hard to extract objects from it. Ask Me How I Know... and I've been going there for 10+ years. There's also some Wang calculators rotting up there, plus a Friden or Wang desktop computer (!) in seemingly-operable condition (I moved key items out of the range of rain and aerial poopers, at least.) I can assure you you won't find an undiscovered cache of working minis up there, but there's a LOT OF MISCELLANY. Pricing is extremely erratic, and if you get him mad, he won't sell it to you. Standard surplus/junkyard rules apply, plus Ed's peculiarities (a relatively minor item I've worked on getting out of the church, for >> 5 years, "oh no, that goes in the museum..."... he has dreams of building a big museum to the bomb up on the hill, if an item becomes museumized it becomes irretreivable. Oh yeah, there's 100K CC's of extraordinary surplus and exotics, plus office furniture, electronic parts, lab-made test gear (increasingly, anything clearly labelled "AEC" becomes museumized), racks, machine tools, granite tool slabs, ad nauseum. (Our kitchen is completely outfit with putty-green lab benchware and glass-fronted, sliding-door shelving, all ball bearing 18-gauge quality). Please drop my name when you go -- it's no ego for me, but Ed knows me and I told him I'd refer people up there, and you're likely to get a better deal. Plan on spending a day there, or better yet, two days. Seriously, I've been going there since 1994 and never get to see it all; it grows monthly and his assistant Frank, an ex-lab nerd and artist, has done an amazing job of organizing and extracting crap.

20 years, 3 months

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