test-drb April 2005

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by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

I got a message today from someone who is looking to find a new home for his Kaypro2 with the trimmings... Hissam509 at aol.com writes... > I have a 1983 Kaypro 2 PN. 81-014 Computer that is in 98% > Mint condition with the original printer in mint condition. I have > all the Kaypro manuals that came with the computer when it > was bought new. The manuals are in wonderfull condition. Would > you be interested in this? Even if your not could you please tell > me how much something like this would be worth? This machine is in Kennewick, WA... please contact the owner directly if you are interested (I already have more than one Kaypro). -ethan

19 years, 8 months

New box of 8" disks for $9

by vcf＠siconic.com

On eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3666&item=5181237890… -- 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 ]

19 years, 8 months

program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?

by gtoal＠gtoal.com

and/or papertape?~p I've been out of town and am catching up on a backlog, but a quick grep of my mailbox seems to indicate that no-one has posted this link yet: http://www.facade.com/legacy/punchcard/ G PS Unfortunately there's a small bug caused by him mishandling protection against data injection attacks: you can't enter Algol60 code or anything else with single quotes in it :-( ... e.g. http://www.facade.com/legacy/punchcard/?val='BEGIN'

19 years, 8 months

hp2114 basic

by Tim＠rikers.org

From what I hear, the system I used was not one of the TSB series. I'm still interested in trying it out. I don't see binaries online anywhere. Can someone point me to them? I never did any admin on the systems as a student. I only had access using BASIC. I have booted up SIMH with the hp basic stand alone, and it's similar but lacks some features our system had like string variables. http://oscar.taurus.com/~jeff/2100/hpbasic/basic1.abs I see on jeffs site the source tapes for 22255 "Four user BASIC". Perhaps this is the system we were running? 2 CRTs, one ASR-33 and a card reader would mean 4 users, correct? http://oscar.taurus.com/~jeff/2100/hpbasic/index.html Anyone willing to give be instructions on how to get the files assembled? I would think I'd load something like the "extended assember" via PTR: http://oscar.taurus.com/~jeff/2100/siotapes/extasmb.abs jump someplace? and then feed in each of the basic tapes on the same PTR? My experience has been with Linux on all kinds of hardware, from x86 servers and desktops to alpha, sparc, ia64, mips, ppc, sh3, and many arm systems. Most recent work is with ARM boxes. I was deeply involved with the SHarp Zaurus release while working at Lineo (or Embedix, or Metroworks, or whatever they call themselves now). I have simh up and running. Not the same without the blinking lights. Perhaps Jay's emulator will have blinking lights? We did a version of VNC for the Zaurus that had a "skin" which was a scanned image of the device. I envision the same interface on an emulator. click the buttons with the mouse, turn the key to lock/unlock, Would be nice to have a tape reader with audio and perhaps a mag tape too. ;-) There used to be some internet accessable simh access systems running. Are they still? I notice that simh just loops like the actual machine would. This means it eats up 100% cpu all the time. Seems to me that should get hacked somehow to detect "idle" states, and select() someplace for a short ammount of time instead of looping all the time. If I ran the simulator on my Zaurus it would suck the battery dry in no time. We can't have that can we? ;-) Well, thanx in advance for the help. I look forward to trying out the 4 user basic environment and see if it's what I recall. -- Tim Riker - http://rikers.org/ - TimR at Debian.org Embedded Linux Technologist BZFlag maintainer - http://BZFlag.org/ - for fun!

19 years, 8 months

what is this Qbus board "EMULEX H70A" ?

by vax9000＠gmail.com

Ebay auction #5765010603 the picture is at http://i9.ebayimg.com/01/i/03/c4/1b/ab_1_b.JPG

19 years, 8 months

Tools for arching standard floppies

by birs23＠zeelandnet.nl

Hi, I was wondering if any of you know any good free tools for archiving floppy's on a standard IBM compatible PC ? Dont have a catweasel yet but do want to archive some standard floppy disks already. So if anyone has any good idea's, please let me know. Thanks! Stefan. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.mansier.net

19 years, 8 months

Tools for arching standard floppies

by rimmer＠xs4all.nl

19 years, 8 months

TCPSER4J Modem Emulator development

by brain＠jbrain.com

To address some limitations in my tcpser modem emulator (http://www.jbrain.com/pub/linux/serial), I've been working on a new version that is Java based. Firstly, comments about any hate of Java should be directed to /dev/null or similar :-) tcpser4j is a piece of software that runs on a PC/Mac/Workstation and turns a regular rs232 port into an emulated Hayes compatible modem. Instead of dialing out over phone lines, this modem uses TCP/IP for the connection. tcpser4j can handle both incoming and outgoing calls. It is most useful to place vintage BBS systems online as telnet BBSes. The original version of tcpser was a single 'C' codebase, but to get Win32 support I needed cygwin1.dll. That is a problem at times, and there are a number of older versions of the DLL out there that do not work with the app. As well, baud rates less than 300 seem to be non-functional in the DLL. I can't legally redistribute the DLL in my archive either. Moving to Java addressed those issues, and it also allowed the codebase to become more dynamically loadable, or reloadable. The new version contains the following features found in the original: o Multi-platform support o Support for all normal and extended Hayes AT commands, including multi-command strings o Proper S register support, including changing line terminator, linefeed char, guard time, etc. o Correct AT command response codes, including abbreviated numeric codes and Hayes Smartmodem limited response code emulation. o Tracing abilities (see what is being sent on the wire) o Phone book aliases (alias 555-1212 to servername:portnumber) o Multi-line support (multiple "modems" listen on one IP port, like modem pool) o Proper DCD support (with modified null modem cable) o Very good Hayes modem emulation o Inbound and outbound call support o Support for sending text files or raw text to local and remote sides for events like BUSY, ANSWER, TIMEOUT, NO_ANSWER, etc. o Support for inverting the DCD line o Proper support for +++ Hayes escape sequence o Support for handling NVT sequence negotiation when "dialing" telnet servers The new version hopes to better the original in a number of ways: o Java codebase, can be run on any platform with a 1.2+ JRE o Uses the RXTX Comm Library, available for most platforms. o Extensive logging flexibility. Users should be able to cater logging to their heart's desire o Better support for AT command set. Default S register setting and querying now supported, for example. o Multi-modem bank support (configure 2 modems on 1 port, 3 on another, etc.) o XML based configuration file easier to use than command line switches o Phone book aliases now loaded from file. o Multiple Phone books, with phone book delegation. Modem has a modem book, which checks pool book if no results. pool book checks master book if no match found in pool book. o Support for remote administration GUI o TCP232 option. Connect to the server via TCP/IP port and issue AT modem commands. This is best used with an emulator like VICE that emulates a rs232 interface by conecting to a TCP/IP port. It can also be used to test modem operation. DCD operation is not supported in this mode. o Remote232 option. This allows one to use RS232 ports on on the local machine. If your BBS or vintage PC is by another PC, but you want tcpser4j to run on a server, use this option. the RS232 port need only be on a machine reachable via TCP/IP, so it could be across the house, the state, the country, or the world. All control lines are preserved in this mode. o captive modem support. If configured, soft-modem will listen to IP port and real modem. This will allow existing dialup BBS systems to add telnet option while preserving dialup user support. In this mode, if telnet access is active, captive modem will be placed off-hook, and will be placed on-hook when telnet user logs off. Outbound calls will also be routed, so atdtjbrain.com will go out over IP, while atdt431-7754 will use modem. (this is still under development) o Better support for +++ sequence timing. o Support for extended error code reporting (i.e.: "NO CARRIER (Server Refused Connection)") o Support for adding new modem commands to better emulate specific modem variants I'm pretty much done with the base code, and am looking for some folks who would be interested in helping to test this codebase in some situations with different vintage platforms and send bug reports. As it's an all-new codebase, I need to do a shakedown. Initial testing has been good, but I only have so many test scenarios here. I'm also interested in ideas folks might have. Some have asked for hooks to add a chat room in the unit for folks who get busy signals when dialing in. I'm looking into that option, and some others. Most will be support via dynamic classes. Finally, I'm looking for someone to help with the Remote GUI Administration component. The codebase is available at: http://www.jbrain.com/pub/xplatform/serial/tcpser4j-2.0alpha.zip. Windows users need only unzip and execute run.bat. Other platforms need to install the appropriate RXTXComm JNI library (http://users.frii.com/jarvi/rxtx/) for that platform and tweak the run script to suit. Since I can redistribute the RXTX codebase, I may add the various libraries in a later release. Please send run scripts for other platforms. Notes: I preloaded all of the telnet BBS systems I know of into the master phone book. Please help me add to the list. As well, I created my own protocol for encapsulating serial line status into a TCP/IP datastream with the serial data. I had once saw another application that provided remote serial ports, but was unsuccessful in finding a current reference. If someone has a link and the existing protocol will work for this project, I will change my code to use the existing protocol. I have not prepared a proper README file for tcpser4j as yet. Please use information from the current tcpser project archive, or email me if you have trouble. I have tested the IP232 port option with the WinVICE emulator configured to send serial data to a remote IP port. VICE 1.16 has bugs with TCP/IP serial option, but 1.15 works. However, I have not yet been able to test the ACIA IP emulation in 1.15, and the user port emulation fails if custom RS232 routines (the George Hug routines, for example) are used. Normal KERNAL RS232 works fine. Jim Brain -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations brain at jbrain.com http://www.jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times!

19 years, 8 months

program to print out ASCII renderings of punch cards and/or papertape?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

I've been wracking my brains and googling for most of an hour... ISTR there _used_ to be a program that shipped with UNIX (at least BSD-flavors, if nothing else) that could take a string as a command line arg, and print either a punch card image or papertape renderings to stdout. Does anyone remember the _name_ of this program? Thanks, -ethan

19 years, 8 months

[Milsurplus] e-mail address harvesters of QTH.net

by kyrrin＠bluefeathertech.com

Hold on a moment here! *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 01-Apr-05 at 23:20 WA5CAB at cs.com wrote: <snippety> >eBay, PayPal or on-line banks. Those are all recognizable out of hand, >and can be treated as wolves are. Picking a nit... You could have picked a better analogy. Wolves are sociable critters. I would greatly prefer their company to that of any spammer. Contrary to popular belief, wolves are not the mindless "man eaters" that they are often made out to be. They are, in fact, pretty timid where humans are concerned. Unfortunately, "timid" does not make for sensational headlines or even more sensationalistic movies, so wolves are often made out to be 102% opposite what they are in reality. If I may... The phishing schemes (and spam in general) come from people (and I use the term loosely) who have all the redeeming social characteristics of toxic slime mold. I'll shut up now and stop causing topic-drift. Keep the peace(es). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy, Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech do/t c=o=m "If Salvador Dali had owned a computer, would it have been equipped with surreal ports?"

19 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2005