hello
i just bought a very low time atc 510 in canada the sim does not have any manuals with it i wonder if i can buy some copies of the manuals from you or any kind of training programs i got your email from the internet
thanks
j singh
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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:25:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: Things to do in SF before VCF
> > Will, the only guy here NOT attending VCF.
>
> Nope. I ain't going either, dang it!
>My work schedule sucks, also.
Not just you guys, I won't be near the place. Wrong coast, plus my wife is VERY preg and could just possibly go 'pop' at an inconvenient time!
Not too sad tho - just had a major coup, see:
http://www.corestore.org/3.htm
:-)
Cheers
Mike
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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:00:39 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:
>Defective, or bulk-erased, which amounts to the same thing.
>RL01 were long behind it by 1983, which would make me initially expect
>that it probably was some other cause than RL01 vs RL02 issues,
>leaving "blank media" or "non-DEC media" as likely issues.
>
>-ethan
I saw Al Kossow's response too - thanks, Al... I had no idea that
there were different (low-level) formatting on the same physical
media!
So I emailed the seller and got the following (excerpted)
response:
>It was in a rack with other discs that had been used on a pdp11/23 PLUS system,
>having two RL02 drives, and was presumably used to archive obsolete
>paper-plant simulation programs, written in FORTRAN 77. The disc
>cartridges in this set were of multiple manufacturers, and seemed to
>have been bought from the lowest bidder. I have CDC's, Memorex's, and
>even some DEC's.
No idea as to whether it was bulk-erased, but that is starting to
sound more likely, given the above history. He has volunteered to
mail me a "real" (DEC) pack, at no additional cost - that's superb
fleabay service and definitely exceeded my expectations.
Meanwhile, anyone got one or two more packs I can purchase?
-Charles
I bought an RL disk pack on Ebay, supposedly for an RL02 drive. It
is a Memorex "Mark III T" with a small label "Made in USA CI
04050" and various previous-owner stickers/scribbles showing first
use in 1983 up through 1985. The shock indicator is not red.
But it won't load in any of my four RL02 drives (the Ready light
never comes on, so track 0 is not being found)!
Since the drive has embedded servo info, so head alignment between
drives is not an issue, there are only two remaining possibilities
that I can think of:
1) the pack is defective (factory servo tracks are trashed), or
2) it is an RL01 (5 Mb) pack, which looks physically identical but
will not work in an RL02 drive.
Any thoughts... Would this be the likely result (no Ready light)
of putting an RL01 pack in an RL02 drive? If so, anyone want to
buy it (or preferably trade for the proper pack)?
thanks
Charles
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>
> I always get really poor text quality with MacPalette II though, so if
> anyone else is using it and knows what I'm doing wrong, let me know.
> IIRC, MacPalette II only prints in Tall Adjusted, so many the poor
> text is
> just an artifact of that, or maybe one is meant to use different
> fonts.
Er, no. It was designed primarily for C.A.D. and simple pictures, so
text quality was not a high priority.
Its too long ago, but when I wrote MacPalette 1, it was based on the
ImageWriter 1 driver. MacPalette 2 was in turn based on MacPalette 1.
The text is just imaged into the off screen pixmap by QuickDraw so
MacPalette does not have much control on what it looks like. I think
there were some Apple magic font adjustment tables in there, maybe
they were in a resource where you could edit them. They controlled
things like how many pixels to offset the images of the characters by
when making bold text and maybe things I never got into, which might
be useful to you. I just had a look on my hard drive and I have a
floppy disk image of MacPalette II, but on my Intel Mac, double
clicking it says the application to open it is not supported on this
system.
I found the paragraph below on the web when I Googled "Apple font
characterisation table", unfortunately at the time, Apple had not
documented it, and it seems like they never got around to it.
"For certain types of devices, such as a screen or the ImageWriter
printer, the Font Manager uses the font characterization table from
the device driver to determine any additional information that
QuickDraw may need. The font characterization table contains
information about the dots per vertical inch and dots per horizontal
inch for that device, along with information about the different
styles that the device can produce. Non-QuickDraw devices, such as
the LaserWriter printer, return an error when the Font Manager
requests their font characterization table."
Roger Holmes,
Technical Director, Microspot Ltd.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COMPUTER HISTORY PIONEERS CONGREGATE ON NOVEMBER 3-4 AT VINTAGE EVENT
Vintage Computer Festival Celebrates History of Computing with
live antique computers and living legends from the computer industry
LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA (PRWEB) October 26, 2007 -- The Vintage Computer
Festival, a yearly event that celebrates computers and their history, is
being held on November 3-4 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View,
California.
Anticipation is building for what is expected to be the biggest and most
well-attended event since the Festival's founding ten years ago. Celebrated
once a year in Silicon Valley, as well as three other locations worldwide,
the Vintage Computer Festival is the largest and most prestigious event of
its kind, featuring a lecture series, an exhibition of working vintage and
antique computers, and a marketplace for traders to buy and sell vintage
computers. Collectors from around the world attend this event, which was
founded in 1997. The Festival also recognizes its own history this year as
it marks its tenth anniversary.
This year, attendees will be treated to several historical figures in the
computer industry, including Lee Felsenstein (designer of the classic
Osborne 1, one of the first portable computers, and the SOL-20, one of the
first personal computers), Al Hoagland (designer of the first commercial
disk drive), legendary MIT proto-hackers Bill Gosper Steve Russell (author
of the first videogame, Spacewar!), Wesley Clark (not the general, but the
inventor of the first transistorized computer in the US) and prolific
computer book author Lance Leventhal, who wrote dozens of computer self-help
books throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
One of the keynote sessions at the Festival this year is a panel featuring
the engineers who in the early 1960s designed the LINC (Laboratory
INstrumentation Computer), which was a revolutionar computer design that
some consider to be the first "personal computer".
The Festival also features a marketplace for collectors to buy, sell and
trade vintage computers. There is also a screening of documentaries and
films on both days of the event that have vintage computing or vintage
technology themes. Some of the filmmakers will be present to talk about
their work and give introductions to their films. There will also be an
abstract artist (Christine Finn) on site throughout the event constructing
a collaborative artwork based on discarded technology, culminating at a talk
she will give on the piece at 3:00pm on Sunday.
The Computer History Museum is an ideal location for the Festival as it
allows attendees the opportunity to tour the Museum's collection while also
attending the lectures and exhibits organized by the VCF. Tours of the
Museum's collection will be given throughout the afternoon on each day of
the Festival. Special theme tours during the weekend will include "A Brief
History of the Internet" and "The History of Video Games", which are both
guided by Museum docents. There will also be live demonstrations of ancient
mainframe computers that have been painstakingly restored to working
condition, including an IBM 1401 mainframe circa 1960 and a Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 minicomputer circa 1961 running Spacewar!,
the first ever videogame, written in 1962. The game's author, Steve
Russell, will also be speaking at the Festival.
The Computer History Museum is located at 1401 North Shoreline Blvd. in
Mountain View, California, just off highway 101. The Vintage Computer
Festival opens at 9:30am each day, with first sessions beginning at 10:00am
and the exhibition and marketplace opening at 2:00pm each day. The film
festival runs from 11:00am to 6:00pm each day. The Festival officially ends
at 6:00pm on Sunday.
Complete event information including admission, directions to the venue and
the event schedule can be found on the VCF website:
http://www.vintage.org/2007/main/
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Does anyone know of a web site that lists the TOC (article titles and
authors) for all the issues of BYTE?
I know there's lots of computer graphics goodness hiding in the run of
BYTE magazine, but I don't know which issues to look for...
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OK, for a pile of stuff I got from dovebid, I used a new freight
shipper -- adcom worldwide. This time, the bill turned out to be
about $1/lb. I just wondered if that seemed reasonable, overpriced,
etc., or if anyone had any stories about adcom.
The packaging of the items was a little sloppy, but otherwise they
seemed OK. Better than CTS, but still not up to the level of
excellent service I've gotten with Craters & Freighters. (I would
have used C&F, but they don't have a location near Reading, PA.)
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