>
> From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
> It's certainly nothing new.
>
> My father was upset at "like" v "as"
> One of his friends was upset at "utilize" v "use"
> A friend gets very upset with traffic reports at "to upright" v "to
> right"
>
> I'm still tilting at 1,024,000 as a "megabyte".
>
> I don't mind the creation of new words. For example, "hassle" is
> fairly
> recent. But, let's try to avoid misuse of the words that we have.
Without new words how could we have progress?
My pet hate is billion, which England in the 1950 meant 1000000^2 and
trillion 1000000^3 and quadrillion 1000000^4 etc. Which all made
mathematical sense. In the modern sense, billion has only a very
contrived relation to 2 and likewise trillion and 3. When that US
journalist first misused the word back in the 1930, his editor should
have been stamped on it and pointed out there is a perfectly good word
milliard which means 1,000,000,000.
As to hacker, isn't an even older meaning, someone who rides a horse
in a casual way? There is also the chiefly Somerset (UK) surname
'Hacker' which according to the Oxford book or names means butcher or
woodcutter.
Hi
I'm looking for an eurocard rack that takes
the 2 row DIN41612 connectors (eg the ones
used in the old Acorn racks). Anything
considered, even just a backplane.
Please contact me off list.
Thanks
Ian
I just brought home my spiffy new MicroPDP-11, hooked it up to my
laptop (couldn't find cables to go to any real terminals) and tried
booting. Right now, all I see at power-on is:
173000
@
I can type things after the @, but it seems that pretty much any
keypress results in a '?' and a new prompt.
I'm a total PDP-11 newb, but the users manual implied that I should be
seeing some sort of post-ish procedure similar to what you get on a
VAX. Any ideas?
John
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 4:15 PM -0400 3/24/09, Paul Koning wrote:
>>
>> RSTS on an 11/73 driving an TU50 would stream quite well (with
>> Backup). ?Is a MicroVAX-I slower than that? ?Or does RSTS do streaming
>> I/O better than VMS? ?(I suppose that's possible...) ?Interrupt
>> latency shouldn't be much of an issue; the thing is that you have to
>> queue up multiple buffers.
>
> Isn't the PDP-11/73 about twice as fast as a MicroVAX I? ?Remember the
> MicroVAX I is only 0.3 VUPS.
I never got to play with an 11/73 back in the day (we stopped buying
PDP-11 gear around the days of the F-11 chip), but I would not be
shocked to learn that the J-11 is twice as fast as a MicroVAX-I. It
really is dog slow. It's a good thing the MicroVAX-II was much, much
faster or DEC would have been in trouble long before they eventually
got into trouble.
-ethan
As the second part of the BBC Technology news coverage of the
UK Maker Faire, we have a video from Newcastle:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7962647.stm
The clip begins with the classic Lunar Lander game implemented
as a physical model with Plaster-of-Paris lunar surface. My
own Compukit UK101 30th Anniversary comes up next, with the
three machines that I took along to the Faire. Someone asked
about memory sizes, and we realised that the 8Gb memory
card in his camera was one million times the size of the
memory in the UK101. And that was a fully expanded 8k
machine!
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk
I (and several others here, by the looks of the address list) received a
note from an individual in Illinois about a keypunch machine for sale a
while back. A second note arrived today stating it's on ebay. If
anyone cares, no affiliation, fold spindle and mutilate, blah blah.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290305495283
De
300301506206
Looks like a nice HP 9836C ..... working. Looks like three extra
memory cards in the back.
Ends today...no connection with the post or poster. Wish I could bid
but shipping is expensive as it is not local.
Paxton
Astoria Oregon
> I found a few Emulex boards, and 2 of them doen not ring a bell.
> One is a CU2310402 and it has 4 50 pin connector headers,
> the other one is a SU2110401, and this looks like it is an SMD
> interface, but which one?
One can usually reason-out the model number,
>from the part number stenciled on the board.
However, the best place to find the model number is
on the Emulex stickers on the larger (40-pin) chips.
If I had to guess, I'd say the CU2310402 is probably an CS23
multiplexor,
and the SU2110401 is probably an SC21.
I could be wrong, though. The (main) sticker numbers will tell you
for sure.
T
Anyone want? Free postage from London.
1 x DCA 8-bit full-length IRMA (?) adaptor
003796
M0006 B
1 x EIZO display card
Huge 16-bit very packed card with a VGA port on the back and a VGA
feature connector ribbon cable dangling from it. Covered in RAMs and
ROMs, a few big ICs and 5 30-pin SIMM slots, 2 populated.
MD-B12
5C08016C1
Main IC: TMS 34010FNL-50
Plus a big Bt RAMDAC
1 x Madge Token Ring 16/4 adaptor
Blue+ 16/4 ISA
I also have a Colorgraphics dual-VGA controller here somewhere if
anyone wants that too. Never seen a dual screen controller on an ISA
card before.
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These look to me like the RAM expansions for the planar of the Model
80 or possibly Model 60 - the tower-case PS/2s
They're about 10cm x 11cm, covered in silver cubical packages like
nothing I've seen before.
2 are:
72X7475 A49954 V0011 - 18 devices
1 is:
90X8670 55Q
A79395 5991
Also 18 devices
1 is:
4098539 A58606 V0011
This is just 12 devices
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