Hi everyone. All but four booths are sold, so if you're planning to exhibit
and haven't signed up yet, get your binary butt in gear. :)
All the details are at Sellam's http://www.vintage.org site.
Email me privately with any questions.
- Evan
What is the model number of the HP XY display that goes with the 1351A
graphics generator?
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I have got a laserjet 4/MV which produces really grainy printouts. I
have put a new Toner in and it seems the same. Anyone know where I can
go from here ?
Am I expecting too much from it, should a pure black picture print black ?
thanks
Dan
I sent the seller a message wishing him luck selling it at that
price. And asked him why he thought that price was justified.
Here is is snide and rude answer:
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Hey PDPTIM, you do this all the time, just because you really need these parts and books to go with the PDP-8 systems that you sell. The truth is you are a bottom dweller who has been unable to win a single PDP item on ebay. you keep trying but your bids are always way too low and you've tried this trick on me before and you probably do it to others as well. Get a life.
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As far as I know I have never had any dealings with him either
via eBay or e-mail. What an ass.
--- On Wed 03/08, Joe R. < rigdonj at cfl.rr.com > wrote:
From: Joe R. [mailto: rigdonj at cfl.rr.com]
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:59:41
Subject: Re: Such a deal, let the bidding begin ... :-)
At 02:52 PM 3/8/06 -0800, you wrote:>> I have one. Is it THAT rare??? >>Define rare. Worth $199 (starting price!!!) I have several, from different years, and even with different>bindings. But then my collection of DEC handbooks definitely isn't the>norm.>> Zane>
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Re: archival cd-r - really true?
Here are some studies that may provide references.
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/StabilityStudy.pdfhttp://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/Public%20SP%20500-263%20November%2
02005.pdf
***** An aside ****
I have been scanning 50 year old slides and they are coming out great
except for some dust particles. I have been saving both huge TIFF
images and reduced versions that are JPEG's. I have created multiple
copies on DVD and CD for all the kids, aunts and uncles. I also have 85
year old negatives of family pictures to eventually scan. I also still
keep the originals, the digital copies are easier to display.
Mike
> Pardon my ignorance but, is it possible to interface the IBM 8"
> floppy model 9331-011 to any DEC PDPs? Specifically, can it be used
> to replace the RX01/02 floppies?
Nowhere in the interfaces does the IBM unit have the same interface
as the DEC RX01/02 unit. Well, maybe at the 120VAC plug :-).
If you want to replace a DEC RX01/02 with something else, there
were a bazillion RX01/RX02 clones made with their own Q-bus/
Unibus/Omnibus interfaces. Again, not the same as the serial
bus between the bus interface and the DEC drives, but actually
far more generic.
Usually the clones use very standard Shugart 801 type interfaces
somewhere along the way. Some have a Q-bus or Unibus card
that has the 50-pin floppy bus on a header connector. Others
have their own serial-type bus and a "formatter" card at the
drive that turns that into the Shugart floppy bus.
There were probably 20 different manufacturers of 8" floppy drives
using the 50-pin Shugart bus.
Maybe, just maybe, the head load pads in the IBM drive
will work in a DEC RX02 :-).
Tim.
Pardon my ignorance but, is it possible to interface the IBM 8"
floppy model 9331-011 to any DEC PDPs? Specifically, can it be used
to replace the RX01/02 floppies?
Or must there be major hardware reconstructive surgery performed?
> My primary concern is the next 5-10 years. Maybe 20 at the outside.
I
> just want media that won't degrade in *my* lifetime.
The biggest risks you're looking at are losing the CD or getting the top
scratched. Be careful labeling it (realistically get a good box and
label the box instead, this also helps with "don't lose it" and "don't
scratch it"). Check readability after you write.
The Mitsui/MAM-A gold's are just fine. As are (probably) the cheap
things you buy at the corner drugstore.
Tim.
Long shot, but does anyone have system install media for one? Have been
talking to someone who may have unearthed one of the machines (multi-processor
Natsemi 32016's - 'rah!) but it sounds like the OS install tapes were
vapourised years ago...
(although in theory it still has intact disks - no idea if they'll be any good
or not)
cheers
Jules
