I got a call from someone who's got a bunch of S/36 8" floppies who want to
import the data to their AS/400. They want to be there for the process
(sensitive data). Anyone in the NY/NJ area who wants to tackle this? Drop
me a private email if so.
We could do it but we're on the other side of the continent.
Cheers,
Chuck
Tony Duell wrote:
The place I was thinking of is Cricklewood Electronics. Easy to reach by
pnblic transport from central London, and they do have a fair stock of
components (but watch the prices -- \pounds 25.00 for a 6522? I don't
think so!)
I think Grandata are still going (behind the Wembley Stadium). They're a
TV/VCR spares place, and don't stock many general components (I don't
think they stock resistors, for example). But they do have a lot of
Japanese transistors, etc.
> two or three like you said. But that is still more than we have here. =
> Nuts
> and Volts is it and it is pretty basic.
What about Circuit Cellar? We get that in Borders in the UK -- I used to
buy it, but ratehr gave up when it turned into a thinly disguised advert
for the lasted microcontorllers (many of which didn't seem to be the most
suitable devices for the application).
-tony
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Billy:
Thanks for the advice on Cricklewood. I have been in there but not
recently. They used to have a nice line of surplus test equipment. And
didn't there used to be great place down on the South Coast, Rye or Wye,
that had a huge warehouse full of test equipment? I remember I had to hire
a car just to get home, there was so much good stuff.
Circuit Celler is pretty much as you said - article/ads for small company
development boards. Since Steve Ciarca left, it hasn't done much that is
fun.
Billy
Joe R. wrote:
Interesting, The chain printers that I worked on all had the exact same
number of different characters. Depending on the number of characters in
the character set that was used on that partticular printer they usually
had 2 or 3 COMPLETE character sets. IIRC there were 196 positions per belt
and the characters sets that we normalled used were either 64 char/set or
96 char/set. Burroughs had a number of different character sets available
for the printers but in 2+ years that I worked for them I don't recall ever
seeing any used except those two.
Joe
I also recall a numeric-only version, which could do up
>to 2000 lpm, and I've heard about (but never seen) a Braille version
>
>Nico
>
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Billy:
Most of the trains and even some of the drums CDC supplied had an uneven
distribution of characters based on their frequency in normal use. Part of
this analysis is not intuitive; for example more 1's than any of the other
numbers. The main reason for this was performance. But almost as important
was reliability. Frequently used characters wore out faster. Adding extras
and distributing them evenly extended the life of the train.
I still remember my first experience trying to troubleshoot a train printer
that printed only Greek. A week later, I was sent to work on one that only
printed Hebrew. This time I was smart enough to have an English train flown
in before I arrived. There were finally more than 50 trains in the catalog.
One was even all numbers and special characters for one of the AEC sites. I
saw one in a publisher's site that had been modified to print multiple
characters in one space, so they could include proof reading characters on
the galleys they sent to the printer.
I never saw it but always wanted to get the one that had a full range of
mathematical symbols.
Now we take for granted any special font and mix them freely. Some things
DO get better.
Billy
I sent the following note to the two individuals who asked for copies.
Anybody else? Send me an eMail next week or tonight. (I won't have access
for the next five days. Which means I'll be behind by 1000+ messages. Some
stuff will be lost or ignored. I'll start at the top so if you send next
week, I'll definitely see it.)
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Billy:
I found my copy of the calculator articles down here in OC. So I can xerox
and post to you. Please send your snail mail address.
2 caveats: This is a 33 year copy made on a poor copier. None of the
photographs are going to be very legible. I have the original magazines in
the garage, but it could be 1-2 years before I dig them out.
And second, I'm flying up to Oregon in the morning. Won't be able to get to
this until next week.
Billy
Still housecleaning and the ASR-33 has got to go.
Any ideas what it may be worth? I have to decide
if it's worth the trouble to epay it -- or, if I
should just systematically disassemble it for
documentation purposes.
Thanks!
--don
> chain printer speed?
The last mini-computer I used was a GEC 4080, it had a chain
printer which was rated at 600 lines per minute, I remember this
because it was the identical speed to the printer on my own
mainframe which was built 15 years earlier.
Mind you the chain printer had a 64 character set whereas
the drum printer could only manage 50 - no parentheses
or brackets which are handy for high level language
programming. Characters for 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 are little
compensation.
Roger Holmes
1962 ICT1301
2006 MacBook Pro
I have a brand new (well, new in box) KeyTronic KB 3270 Plus keyboard.
This is a programmable keyboard with an old XT style round din plug. I
think there is software, but it's probably DOS only.
I think it was designed for people using 3270 emulators and gave them
the feel of a real 3270 keyboard (and key placement). It comes with
extra key caps.
I ment to use it long ago but never did, and now I have no need. I
don't think it has much value (to me anyway) so all I ask is the cost of
shipping. Contact me via email.
-brad
Greetings folks;
I'm trying to do my first VMS install, my machine of choice is a VAX
4000-300. Alas the VAX lacks any devices barring the DSSI disk I picked up
>from our own Pat Finnegan.
So far I think the "easiest" way to get VMS onto the machine is by a
network install. I'm fairly certain that I've seen list members
pontificating on how easy VAX makes these sorts of things, so I'm hoping
I'm right on the "easy" part.
My plan is to get VMS installed on a SIMH VAX (actually, I've got this
bit sorted already, SIMH rocks) and then get the VAX 4k to pull VMS off
the SIMH VAX.
The problem?
I have absolutely no idea how to do this. This -is- my first experience
with VMS, and my Googling for network install documentation is finding
very little. Could someone help me out?
Thanks all;
JP
Hi,
Is there an "accepted norm" for correspondence, here,
with respect to top posting and message trimming?
Or, am I just being a grumpy olde farte? :>
Thanks!
--don
