test-drb September 2006

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by aek＠bitsavers.org

> he happened to drop that he had a A/UX tape that he could not read as his tape > drive had "gone goo" It turns out to be A/UX 1.1 (!) I really hope he didn't discover this by attempting to read the tape. If so, he now has goo on the tape, and it will be extremely difficult to recover. FWIW, I have an image of A/UX 1.0, made in the days when the only way to get a copy was to go over to Bubb Road with a disc and have the original A/UX group clone it for you.

17 years, 7 months

Sipke de Wal, xgistor.ath.cx, and SC/MP emulators

by ajwills＠paradise.net.nz

Hi everyone, I have been looking for Sipke de Wal's SC/MP emulator and of course found the note about his death in 2004 (http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2004-May/041480.html). Looking at the fragments of his website still available in the internet archive and on Google, I see he had a lot of interesting pages and downloads many relating to old computers and processors. There are still many sites on the internet that link to his website that hasn't existed for 2 years now. It seems a pity that all that work has now disappeared when the storage requirements and bandwidth, to maintain such a site, are quite modest. I would be happy to host a copy of his site if it could be reconstructed. I've reconstructed his SC/MP webpage (but still don't have a copy of his emulator). So a number of questions: - Did anyone here download anything from his site that they've still got (webpages or files) ? - Does anyone have contact with his familiy ? - Did anyone know Sipke well enough to know whether he would approve of the resurection of his website? Any help appreciated. Tony.

17 years, 7 months

New to the list

by segin2005＠gmail.com

Hello all. I am new to this list, and while I've posted comments before, that was without formal introduction, so here goes. I am a 16 year old high school student who works with computer daily. I perfer to work with older systems (386s are fun!) because they are just so damned reliable. Mainly, I do software development, but when I have time, I uhh... can't remember. Ahh, what the hell... You can just call me segin. -- The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks. -- Linus Torvalds

17 years, 7 months

Looking for a BA-356 jumper

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

I got a BA-356 with 6 drives ad it came with a dual channel personality module. I want to use it as a single channel tray, and according to the user guide it needs a jumper connector. Anybody have one left over by any chance?? Thanks, Ed

17 years, 7 months

Free OS CD-ROMs

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

A friend of mine (in the UK) has some OS/utility CD-ROMs that he has no use for, and I don't either. AFAIK he'll give them away for the cost of postage, etc. Here's a list : > >> IRIX 5.3 for indy > >> IRIX C++ 4.0 > >> IRIX F77 4.0.2 > >> IRIX 5.3 for R4400 > >> IRIS development 5.3 > >> IRIS exec env 4.0 > >> SunOS 4.1.1 > >> Solaris 2.3 Please contact : alanb at chiark.greenend.org.uk if you're interested. -tony

17 years, 7 months

HP50960A HP server

by jimgeneva＠earthlink.net

Hello: I saw a post you made on the HP SRM server did you ever do anything with it? Jim

17 years, 7 months

KIM-1 7-segment font?

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

I'm prototyping an LED display thingie and was trying to find a representation of how folks used to do letters on a 7-segment display. The two historical examples I came up with were the KIM-1 and a Byte magazine article between about 1977 and 1981. I know there are several modern Windows fonts out there, but as they differ somewhat, I was hoping to be compatible with what was commonly done in the late 1970s. To that end, does anyone have some representation of the KIM's 7-segment renderings or does anyone have a pointer to that old Byte article about displaying ASCII on 7-segment displays? Thanks, -ethan

17 years, 7 months

Datasheets wanted

by jbdigriz990＠yahoo.com

Looking for datasheets, user guides, dev tools, etc. for the SMJ68689 and TMS9996 processors. All the 68689's were supposedly bought up by Uncle Sam some years ago when they went out of production, as a critical spare for missiles or whatever, but some do turn up on the remarket from time to time, and there seems to be a (very relative) glut of them right now. The 9996 seems to have been a part TI used strictly internally and never marketed, to my knowledge. It would appear to be basically a 9995 with an non-multiplexed data bus, ie. full 16 bit data path, but I haven't been able to confirm this yet. It's not where I can get at it easily at the moment, but I have an XDS emulator system (non-working at the moment) for the TMS320C30 DSP that uses a 9996 for the host processor. IIRC, it's a 64-pin DIP like the 9900. Any help greatly appreciated. jbdigriz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

17 years, 7 months

Anyone have the LCD for an Apple //c?

by evan＠snarc.net

I'm looking to borrow the rare LCD for an Apple //c as part of my VCF 9.0 exhibition. If anybody has one, please contact me off-list. - Evan

17 years, 7 months

FW: Third round of Diskette Experiments completed (results)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: RE: FW: Third round of Diskette Experiments completed (results) > From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:23:34 -0700 (PDT) > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote: >> There were some really terrible 5.25" DSDD (360K) disks marketed. One type >> was sold by Control Data (StorageMaster). If I see one of those in a >> . . . >> "Elephant" brand 360Ks can be problematical in the same way, as can the >> "Precision" brand. > >Just about every brand produced some bad batches. >The Verbatims right before "Datalife" were pretty bad. Was the trademark >"Datalife" created just to try to reassure us that they were no longer >going to jopardize the life of our data? > >The worst 360Ks that I encountered was Roytype (Royal Typewriter). >Within a few minutes after writing and verifying, they would be blank >again. Hmmmm. could also get something like that from the wrong >coercivity, ... > It all started back when with the 3M Blackwatch audotape.. Great stuff until it was around afew years then it shed binder like mad. It takes a bit of majik to get the oxide coating to stick to the mylar base. the other factor was that of all the brands I think the base material only came from three or five makers like 3M, BASF, Nashua, Dupont maybe others. The key is if a maker lost the receipe that could show up as their brand and five others or maybe only the others! Allison

17 years, 7 months

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test-drb September 2006