>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
>
> Found this today. I opened the case and immediately recognized the
>AIM-65 even though it was under the panel. Bought it, brought home, opened
>it up and sure enough it IS an AIM-65. It powers up and appears to work.
>BTW the machine appears to be a magnetic card encoder/reader. Paperwork
>with it indicates that it came from a nuclear weapons plant that's operated
>by GE and located here in Florida.
>
> <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/AIM-65/>. No text or links but the picture
>titles should clearly indicate what each picture is.
>
> Joe
Hi Joe
Two of the ROMs look like Rockwell code while the others look
like custom ROMs. Also, are the wheels on the card reader
driven or just to hold tension to the heads? Does it take a
standard credit card or a cut down version?
It does look like fun although missing the printer :(
Dwight
---------------Original Message:
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 14:21:03 -0500
From: "Randy McLaughlin" <cctalk at randy482.com>
Subject: Re: Disk archival techniques
<snip>
Using one manufacturer as an example - Cromemco used bipolar PROMs and made
their own numbers - 749XX. This makes it confusing but easy to spot when
seen. They would use the chips on multiple boards keeping the same
programming by chipnumber i.e. 74901 could be used on a floppy controller or
memory card and still be interchangeable (I just made up an example but I've
seen common 749XX across different types of cards).
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
-------------Reply:
As a matter of fact, I just dumped several Cromemco PROMs a while ago for archival use;
what's the recommendation for 4 bit PROMs? 8 bits with hex F's in the upper nibble, or?
And are we going to be able to find blank bipolar PROMS or PALs in 10 or 20 years?
mike
Hello,
May I point you to http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/index.php?newlang=eng,
a German project how to preserve digital resources for the next centuries...
As I know from the project guys, keeping the data stored is easy (you can
move them from disk to disk, from image to image), but how to use the data
in the future is really a big problem...
Just my 10cc
--Thomas
P.S. I'm new on this list. It's common to introduce oneself?
> "Dick Dick"? What sort of alias is that?
I know a gentleman who has met the guy (Dennis)
and tells me his initials are "DK" Strings
like dkdkk are also the sort of thing you get
when you mindlessly twiddle a few keys --
type "dkdkk" into Google and see how many hits
of this sort you get. I think his eBay name
is actually a little bit clever and amusing.
--Bill
Hi,
I have been in correspondence with Marvin Jones (not a list member), and he
has an ASR-35 he needs to give away pronto. You'd need to pick it up in
Gunnison, CO before the 10th.
Is there anyone here who can help him? Or should I head over to Greenkeys
and see if anyone there can help him?
Vince
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin L. Jones" <jonz at config.com>
To: "Vince Slyngstad" <v.slyngstad at verizon.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: "a taker for the ASR-35?"
> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Vince Slyngstad wrote:
>
> >> >So, did you find a taker for the ASR-35? I'd love to take that, but I
> >> >can't get to you before July, so I hope someone else can take it. I'd
> >> >hate to hear that it got recycled!
> >>
> >> Nope, no takers. Next week I pay Waste Management approx $25 to haul
> >> it to the dump. True, it's too bad -- but, I gotta get on with my
> >> life (and this %$#@&! move 'cross state.)
> >
> >Maybe you'd let me post a note to the classic computer miling list, or
even
> >the TTY (Greenkeys) mailing list? Surely someone wants it!
>
> Sure. Go ahead. I do not know those lists, myself. (Tho', I felt
> there had to be some.) But, I need a guaranteed pick up of no later
> than Friday, June 10 here in Gunnison, Colo. And, I need to hear
> from someone, Real Soon Now,
>
> As you may remember: It's free, and I have KSR-35 maint./wiring doc's.
> The case of 24" spools of oiled paper tape are gone. But, I have some
> smaller rolls that haven't been heaved over the side, yet.
>
> Regards,
> Jonesy
> --
> | Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux
> | Gunnison, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | OS/2 __
> | 7,703' -- 2,345m | config.com | DM68mn SK
This is sort of off-topic but it's for a Computer History Museum project
that involves old computer brochures.
We have a bunch of PDF's that have scanned brochure images contained
within including the OCR'd text. Unfortunately, the PDF's were created
with images files that are much too large. The images need to be
extracted, re-sized, then re-inserted into the PDF. They can't use the
original photos because the ones inside the PDF have been cropped and
edited (independent of the originals...don't ask).
Is there a combination of utilities (i.e. ImageMagick, tumble, etc.) that
can automate this instead of having to re-create each PDF from scratch?
There are hundreds.
Thanks!
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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I have a couple HP DC100 tapes that I'm going to attempt a dump from. I'm
told they were written on a 9845. I don't have a 9845 (still regret the
one I missed years ago). Can these be read on a 9830B? What about an HP
85?
Any info appreciated.
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Found this today. I opened the case and immediately recognized the
AIM-65 even though it was under the panel. Bought it, brought home, opened
it up and sure enough it IS an AIM-65. It powers up and appears to work.
BTW the machine appears to be a magnetic card encoder/reader. Paperwork
with it indicates that it came from a nuclear weapons plant that's operated
by GE and located here in Florida.
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/AIM-65/>. No text or links but the picture
titles should clearly indicate what each picture is.
Joe
On May 24 2005, 18:48, Jim Beacon wrote:
> I will try to get the machine to run the existing RL02 boot, as this
was
> intended to allow you to run XXDP, and also RSX11 (there are some
specialist
> diagnostics written to run under RSX11, so if I can find the right
disks, I
> should have a ready built operating system!). If not, I believe there
are
> copies of the original boot ROMs available on the net.
Yes, for example my collection at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/DECROMs/
The originals would have been 23-339E2 and 23-340E2.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
