test-drb March 2005

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by tpeters＠mixcom.com

I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3 terminal on the front- only $11 (and up) http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/ [Computing] You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting. --Michael Meissner, meissner at osf.org --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB ADDRESS http//www.mixweb.com/tpeters 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, Cisco Certified CCNA

21 years

Looking for Layered Documentation for DEC APL V4.0 circa VMS 5.4/5.5

by m.wickens＠rhodium-consulting.com

Hi, I managed to get DEC APL V4.0 working and am now looking for the associated layered documentation. It would correspond to OpenVMS Release 5.4/5.5. If anyone knows if DEC did supply layered documentation on CD for these releases at least this would be a start. Alternatively, if someone has access to the paper documentation :) The volumes I'm after are: "VAX APL Reference Manual" "VAX APL User's Guide" "VAX APL Language Summary" Many thanks to everyone who has offered their support and help so far. I can confirm that the product uses downloadable fonts for various terminals such as VT220, these work on my VT520. I'd bet there aren't many terminal emulators that can handle downloadable fonts! Regards, Mark. -- Mark Wickens Rhodium Consulting Ltd

21 years

Data General Nova 4/X, photos

by tomj＠wps.com

A few photos at http://wps.com/NOVA4/pitchas.html I didn't want to take the machine to pieces just for photos, but next time I have cards out I'll photo most of them. I'm going to clean the heads on the disk again soon (tonight or tomorrow) so I'll photograph that apart. I'll drag out the photoflood lamp if I didn't bang its filament to death. My digital camera seems to be losing focus, it bother me, because I absolutely love this camera. It's a FujiFilm M2700. A "pocket" camera, 2.3Mpixel, but it was quite popular with pros as a "spotting" camera. I honestly don't know what battery life is; it's weeks-to-months (only good for a couple of weeks now; still the original battery). Bought it in 1998 for nearly $700. Always took great photos, but it's deteriorating, boo hoo. Scratched up, missing screws, etc. I know SLRs are better, but I'll never carry them, they become asshole magnets, get stolen, banged up, left at home, etc. I far prefer a high-quality "pocket" style, I carry it with my literally every day and use it all the time. Or maybe it's just the low light in my lab; http://wps.com/NOVA4/images/6070-cartridge3.jpg taken outside seems OK. It bothers me.

21 years

DG board ID?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I just picked up a board at the local scrap dealer from his junque bin, as I recognized it as a DG board of roughly the right size & shape for my Eclipse machines. It's designated "107-000261-10". Any idea what this may be? Two small ribbon connectors and a pile of 8K roms make me thing part of a cpu cardset. Jay West

21 years

cctalk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 6

by aek＠spies.com

On Mar 1, 2005, at 9:00 PM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: >> http://www.bitsavers.org/ > so what about www.spies.com ? Lots of stuff on > the net give the same original link and the main > site is down The person who owns spies.com decided to shut down web service. With the exception of my personal pages, including the minicomputer orphanage, it should all still be at bitsavers. This happened abruptly in January, and I didn't have time to do much other than pull the disc that had all my stuff on it, which now doesn't spin up.

21 years

Michael's Holley got Boing Boinged

by vcf＠siconic.com

Getting Boing Boinged is like getting slashdotted but much more hip and cool: http://www.boingboing.net/ Scroll down until you get to the TV Typewriter posting, which then links to Mike's SWTPC website. -- 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 ]

21 years

Ebay items

by jwstephens＠msm.umr.edu

This guy has a couple of pdp 11/53's and other stuff in a CNC case in the Chicago area. He probably didn't post anything here, but someone in the area might find some interesting stuff to grab. Looks like a part of a larger machine either upgraded or decomissioned. Jim Ebay Item , description 5169944715 Digital DEC VAX PDP11 pdp 11 MicroVAX II Cold War

21 years

Want IBM 400-series account machine

by vcf＠siconic.com

Can I fantasize? I'm reading some literature on IBM accounting machines and finding them incredibly sexy. It would be a blast to actually program one and run calculations through it. So I'd love to someday get my hands on a 402, 407, etc. I'm also now more interested than ever in getting more unit record equipment. I've got a 557 interpreter and an 026 punch. It'd be nice to have a sorter (082) but what I'd really like is some sort of accounting machine or even a calculator (fat chance of that). So, that being said, if anyone every comes across anything like this, I'm buying :) Worst case, I'll build some punch card equipment from scratch. That would be even more fun. -- 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 ]

21 years

The future of computing/technology

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> wrote: > About eight years ago, when I was at the big Downers Grove, IL POP (MCI), > the front desk got a call from an MCI telemarketer trying to get them to > switch their long distance sevice. About 3 years ago I was in a Cingular Wireless store in California resolving some issues with my cell service. There was some waiting involved, so I just hung out and chatted with the staff, whom I had gotten to know as a regular customer (I had multiple lines and had to change phones sometimes, etc). They got a call from a telemarketer offering them cellular service for their business. The guy had to politely explain to the caller that their business was a cell store... MS

21 years

Amiga Video - (was: Looks neat -- Fairchild movie on DVD)

by dvcorbin＠optonline.net

> I have a pretty good Vid capture card in my system, I can save as > NTSC or PAL, save as a raw AVI, Mpeg-2, VideoCD or DVD, > so if somebody wants to send the tape to me, I can make short > work of it and post the file up onto one of my servers to D/L to > anyone who wants to burn a ton of DVD's or I can just burn > it to a master DVD and send it to whomever will make all of the DVD's Has anyone looked at the Copyright??? (if any....)

21 years

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test-drb March 2005