test-drb November 2006

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by alhartman＠yahoo.com

Harris Semiconductor made licensed 80286 CPU's. They made them in 16 and 20mhz versions. I used to sell systems made with them, and at the time the 386sx came out, a 286-20 was MUCH faster than a 386 20mhz... Al

18 years, 1 month

Sphere system owned by Larry Pazzolo (was: VCF 9.0)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I also have a large quantity of Sphere docs and a big pile of hardware, but it was part of a deal with Jim Willing that went bad. I have tried to get the stuff back, but he is not responding. -- It's probably sitting next to the Tektronix 405x documentation I never received. I don't think short of you driving to Kansas and watching him go through everything that he still has that you will ever see the Sphere stuff again.

18 years, 1 month

VCF 9 (Jay West) & (Jules Richardson) (Murray McCullough)

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

My 'excuse' was that I just got back from VCF 9...and a visit to the Digibarn in Snata Cruz - with apologies to Buce Damer. It should be Santa Cruz. A brilliant creation, the Digibarn of Bruce Damer, CEO of DigitalSpace. And VCF Midwest. "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org> <jwest at classiccmp.org> How could I forget! :) Happy computing! Murray-- ------------------

18 years, 1 month

Sphere system owned by Larry Pazzolo (was: VCF 9.0)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> [...] Larry Pazzolo had a Spere( sp? ) system but > has not been able to find much docs. I aquired the collection of the last Sphere User's group president a couple of years ago. It is part of a donation I'm making to CHM. I talked to Larry a bit about it over the weekend, since it includes about 50 cassette tapes and system documentation. Before it is donated the docs will be scanned and the tapes digitized.

18 years, 1 month

OT Monitor glass question

by trixter＠oldskool.org

I found what I thought would make a nice spare Trinitron monitor, but there is a tiny pinhole chunk of the glass chipped out on the surface, about maybe 1.5 mm deep with a diameter of 4mm. Against better judgement, I switched it on (from a safe distance) and it appears to function properly. My question is, how stable is it? Other than the visual defect, is it safe to operate the monitor, or should I be worried that it will swiftly implode at any moment? -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/

18 years, 1 month

Tales of Ancient E-Mail

by sdc695＠yahoo.com

<<<much deletia about early "first" email systems>>> OK, The first liar doesn't get a chance. Back in the 60's, Tymshare (the company) had a bunch of SDS (later XDS) 940 boxes and they DID have a "mail" command. The problem was that they only could mail between accounts on the same machine. Yes, it was an early form of email, but not routed between machines, only local use. While I don't know about other machines of the era (mostly time sharing boxes) and their "mail" commands, this machine DID have one. I found out (the hard way) that the messages were limited to a few characters (around 300 or so), but since you could share files between "accounts" (file systems were limited in the day), it could be useful to supply pointers to larger things. Thankfully this was before SPAM existed, as we only used mail for "proper" things. Other examples of machines of the day: pdp-6/10, IBM360, GE 235/635. I don't know about what was used on the pdp-6/10 (I have a bit of contact, but not much), but I don't remember any mail commands for IBM360's or the GE machines. (Claim to fame: I've used email in 5 different decades!) -- Tom Watson tsw at johana.com __________________________________________________________________________________________ Check out the New Yahoo! Mail - Fire up a more powerful email and get things done faster. (http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta)

18 years, 1 month

Edinburgh Computer History site

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> PS To anyone who happened to notice that the Edinburgh Computer > History site was down for a month - we had a hard drive failure, > but all (well, mostly all) has now been restored. I noticed :-) Thank you for restoring it! Has anything more been found in the last year or two?

18 years, 1 month

Pascal in production environments (was Re: lisadraw)

by gtoal＠gtoal.com

>Brad Parker said: > >> I would be interested to hear about other languages people used on >> pdp-11's however :-) > >I've been playing with FIG-Forth on my 11/73. I've been able to >resurrect some code which originally ran on my TRS-80 circa 1979. >Good fun. And of course I have more Imp for the pdp-11 than you can shake a stick at. We also programmed ours in POP2 and LOGO but don't have any of that code remaining. Maybe some Fortran that was used for graphics but not very interesting. But on the Imp side we have compilers, editors, and entire operating systems... Graham PS To anyone who happened to notice that the Edinburgh Computer History site was down for a month - we had a hard drive failure, but all (well, mostly all) has now been restored.

18 years, 1 month

VAX 4000-200

by RodSmallwood＠mail.ediconsulting.co.uk

Hi I'm now the lucky owner of a Vax 4000-200. Apart from a bad TK70 drive (which I can get repaired in the UK ) Its fully working with 3 x RF 500Mb Drives (Two in a separate BA215 box) It boots VMS 3.2 and loads the network software. I even have all the license numbers for VMS 3.2, DW-MOTIF,TCPWARE, VAX CLUSTER & VOLSHAD What I don't have is the System password. The system was made in 1991 and had been out of use since 1998.00 I would like to preserve it as is, adding a contempory set of periperals (VT-100, LA-36 and so on) I don't want to replace the VMS or any of the other software. I have no option but to try and recover the system password. I'm not a hacker and have no idea how to go about breaking in. Anybody out there have any suggestions as to how to get in and recover the System password? Rod Smallwood

18 years, 1 month

imaging XENIX disks

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

>from some poor twisted up soul at the opposite end of the globe: > Hi, Can u please tell me how I can make images of > the Xenix disks? Because I > can't read them with DOS since they have a different > format. I've tried > Winimage and ImageDisk but they didn't work. > > I have a lot of these disks, and they are labeled > as: > > Games, Development, Updates, Utilities, > Installation. > > Well, any kind of advice u could give me will be > very much appreciated > because I'm afraid that if I leave them without > making backup they will get > corrupted in the future. Bye! I believe he is using the correct drive (he already booted with these), it crossed my mind. Can't understand why ID or TD wouldn't work. Please help. Please... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $420k for $1,399/mo. Calculate new payment! http://www.LowerMyBills.com/lre

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test-drb November 2006