On 13 Feb, 2007, at 18:02, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a box or two of bog-standard 5081 punch cards.
> Besides
> Cardamation, is there anyone else who still has these?
I have some in the UK, so probably no good to you, and they are not
QUITE
the same as 5081, they are the same width and height but very
slightly thinner,
and marked up as 40 column mark sense cards, but my mainframe reads
and punches them fine, and my IBM keypunch used to punch them before
its drive belt broke. They are marked Kent County Council CDC 6998 & A.
I bought 110,000 of them back in the 70s, put them in my father's
Daimler
car and drove home. Next day my father backed the car out of the garage
and found I had broken the Panhard rod. Not noticeable going forwards
but going backwards the axle waggled from side to side and the rear
tyres
rubbed on the wheel spats (the Daimler V8-250 is a Jaguar Mk2 with a
2.5 Litre V8 Daimler engine in it).
By the way you didn't say if you wanted inner boxes of 2000 or outer
boxes of 10,000.
Roger Holmes, England.
> Once something winds up in a museum or someone's
> collection, you can consider it lost essentially.
With a few notable exceptions.
> I commented to him about something in the past, and
> got back a hate filled response from him and would never buy
> anything from this guy.
There is a VERY special place in Hell reserved for
"New Beginnings Antiques"
I would be very surprised if CHM doesn't have a copy
of this. I'll see what I can do about getting it scanned.
There's actually a few really nice looking older plotters on ebay at the
moment, two search examples will yield some really nice results....
HP X-Y
X-Y Plotter
The first will get some nice HP units including a pretty vintage one. The
second will get you some other interesting hits from Roland and Bausch &
Lomb.
Jay
> From: Grant Stockly <grant at stockly.com>format=flowed
>
> Has anyone here read this book by Edwin Black?
> http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust-Edwin-Black/dp/0751531995/sr=8-1/qid=11…
Yes, I too read the book and found it interesting. However judging by quite a
few comments from a google search, it appears that there might be a bias and
some inaccuracies in the book. Regardless, it does make for a rather interesting
read.
Hello cctalk at classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>
I am insterested in an answer to the following questions:
What is the dollar value of a HP 9845S Desktop Computer in good condition ? Also, the value of a 9895A Flexible Disc Memory unit with two 8 inch drives and a Controller POD with HPIB cable.
Send replies to: amaxwell800 at msn.com<mailto:amaxwell800 at msn.com>
If you would like to own one as well, then send me an email with your direct contact information.
Thank's . . . amaxwell800
>I'm sure that there's service documentation or schematics online somewhere.
>
ftp://ftp.pdp8.net/misc/4010/
Tiff and PDF are identical so you only need to download one.
In a quick look I didn't see an adjustment in section 4 stated for the
problem. 6-48 says how it's supposed to work.
I did find out with mine that if you have some faint ghost image from
previous drawing that leaving it at the bright screen you get on power
on for a minute seems to get rid of it.
I've finally decided to go ahead and start making MMJ cables again
after all.
The seller who has been giving me trouble has given me several reasons to
go ahead and compete. First off, his last email to me was this:
> Ha Ha I didn't copy YOUR idea. You're so vain.
>
> Anyway, it doesn't matter what you say or think about me. I used to
> like Texans before this experience. Well, I like Bush.
>
> Well, good luck I wish you the best.
...he then bid on one of my adapter kits to try scare away other bidders.
I did cancel his bid and added his username to my BBL. Another bidder
bought the kit, so I didn't even lose a sale over that. I also suspect he
wanted to see how I had them wired, though I flat out old him to look up
the DEC pinout.
He bought a 1000ft spool of genuine decconnect cable off of eBay a month
or so back, and after he started emailing me and then bid on my adapter
kit, I've decided I'd like to compete with this guy head on. If someone
has a spool of such cable laying around and wants to part with it, please
let me know. I tried going after a lot of 10 50ft cables a few weeks ago
so I could use their cable to make shorter/more useful cables, but a DEC
reseller nabbed them ;P
Most recently the guy who started copying my adapter kits has changed his
listings for the MMJ cables he is making after my initial post/rant here
on classiccmp:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130075722308
> Digital Equipment Corporation DEC BC16E 10 feet long DECconnect Office
> Cable. Made from a spool of genuine, authentic, high quality DECconnect
> Office Cable and MMJ offset style plugs. The MMJ plugs are high quality
> and commercially available.
>
> The crimps are carefully made and thoroughly tested. I would never sell
> a cable that did not work.
>
> Note that once I purchased a crimping tool from an eBayer. That tool
> did not work properly and that eBayer later admitted that he sold me a
> cheap tool. That particular tool has not been used in making any of my
> cables sold on eBay. I now use a high quality crimping tool purchased
> from a reputable supplier!
>
> This cable has never been used before other than to test it to make sure
> it works. Tested on a DEC Alpha and VAX. Will work the same for any DEC
> machine.
>
> This is a high quality cable that is tested and working. It is made
> from DEC branded cable, not from a third party cable such as Graybar, etc.
Not like I believe him, especially as this only appeared after my posts...
-Toth
>
>Subject: Re: Humpty Dumpty
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:50:16 -0500
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 2/8/07, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
>> As near as I can tell, there are like 3 people who care about
>> terminals: myself, Paul Shuford (who is the only source of online
>> information about many kinds of terminals) and Paul Williams (who runs
>> and maintains vt100.net).
>
>4. I have a collection of terminals, 90% of which are various DEC
>models (VT-50 through about VT-320), but a couple of Tektronix, couple
>of Planar, Heathkit, CiTOH, etc.
I have VT100 series and VT320 and VT340 along with a VT1200.
>> Most terminals do not have graphics capability, just character
>> capability. Color graphics terminals are even scarcer.
>
>I'd have to check the stack, but the Tektronix terminals are color
>graphics + text (local printer port, etc.), and of course, the VT241
>is color graphics + text, as is the DEC GIGI. I agree - they are
>rare. Rarer are the applications to drive them. I don't know of many
>color Tek apps, but there were quite a few for the GIGI under TOPS-20.
Error! VT100 had sixel graphics as did VT220, 320 and 340 added color,
VT1200 as full graphics (xterm).
>> Terminals that have 3D graphics builtin are even scarcer than that.
>
>Indeed. I don't know if I've ever seen one.
>
>> The Visual
>> 500 therefore is of interest to me because it is older and has
>> graphics. (Not all Visual terminals have graphics, but the 500 does.)
>
>Interesting. Shame the seller was too cheap/ignorant to package
>things properly. I have to wonder how he got them to accept it - I've
>been to the UPS depot and seen them turn away customers with boxes
>that had heavy, shifting loads (improperly packaged computer bits).
The V500 and others postdate the VT220 and it was the VT100 and VT220
that were a strong influence on the high end ANSI compatable terminal
market. Even the Heath H19 has VT52/ANSI(VT100 subset) compatable modes.
Allison
First off, I'm new to cctalk so please be easy on me. :)
Anyways, I ahve always been facinated by those older pieces of history that
IBM made and distrubuted. About six months ago I got the idea to start
searching and find one to add to my collection of computers. After some hard
searching I found this one:
http://www.vintagecomputermarketplace.com/view.cfm?ad=2372
An IBM 5360 with quite a few extras and best of all, it was free!
The corestore also has one but it's less than complete.
http://www.corestore.org/36.htm
I thought it was perfect for a person who was starting in this new realm of
computing until I spotted something:
Location: Heartford, CT
Shipping: Pickup only
Great! the thing is all the way across the country. By the looks of it I am
going to have to give it up (I doubt anyone would hold it for me, you would
have to be crazy to even mention it to the wife). I'm just giving a heads up
that it's in existance and if anyone wants it (or help me) they can feel
free to get it.
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