test-drb March 2009

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by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> > 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.

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Looking for a eurocard rack

by silvercreekvalley＠yahoo.com

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

15 years, 1 month

PDP-11 bootup

by slawmaster＠gmail.com

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 -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba

15 years, 1 month

Looking for early versions of MicroVMS & VWS

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

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

15 years, 1 month

Compukit UK101 on BBC news

by coredump＠gifford.co.uk

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

15 years, 1 month

keypunch on ebay

by drb＠msu.edu

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

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HP 9836C on ebay

by innfoclassics＠gmail.com

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

15 years, 1 month

cctalk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 45

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

> 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

15 years, 1 month

OFFERED: Free unusual ISA cards

by lproven＠gmail.com

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. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508

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OFFERED: Free IBM PS/2 memory expansion daughterboards (?)

by lproven＠gmail.com

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 -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508

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