Hi all,
I know it is a long shot, but anybody out here has the original 167Bug
EPROMS for the MVME167 Boards ?
(not twenty years old yet, but getting there ;-))
Thanks
Two things spring to mind:
1) Did he ever stab himself with the screwdriver while running?
2) Did he think of getting a portable gas cooker/handheld? gas torch? Or weren't they available back then? (Sorry, I don't know when 'then' was)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
--- On Fri, 29/5/09, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
Subject: Re: when soldering irons go bad
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, 29 May, 2009, 2:13 AM
? I once knew a guy who soldered kits together by running back and forth between his kitchen stove and the table with a flat-blade screwdriver.? I don't know if he ever actually completed anything.
? ? ? ? ???-Dave
--Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
While reading :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
I found "Sometimes computer printers with a typewriter-like
moving type head print boustrophedon if set up wrongly."
Which old printers might've done that?
- John
Hey, all,
I picked up a neat StorageWorks tower on ePay a while back, and decided to hook it up to my VAX-4000/300 through a HSD05. I went to install the HSD05 and realized that the front (and rear) bezel locks to the body of the tower, precluding removal of the drives. <sigh> I don't have that key....
Is this another one of those keys like the XX2247 that fits every PDP-11 front panel lock? If so, is there anyone who can (a) suggest a source or (b) perhaps offer up such a thing? Thanks - Ian
PS: this is for a system in my personal collection.
UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
Ian S. King, Sr. Vintage Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
http://www.pdpplanet.com<http://www.pdpplanet.org>
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Seth Morabito <sethm at loomcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The cheapest solution at
>> the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
>> That's what I did.
>
> Oh if only I could find a $50 VT52 in this day and age! :^)
This was nearly 25 years ago, FWIW (and, yes, I still have it)... the
VT220 was out, and those that bought new, bought that. Those that
didn't, bought VT100s or some functional clone (CiTOH 101, Wyse-50,
etc). It was the nadir of the VT52. Nobody wanted them, nobody
wanted to support them (software or hardware).
It was a function of exactly how old they were - old enough, but not too old.
> Actually, I've never seen one for sale in all the time I've been
> interested in old computers (starting in 1993). ?How common are they
> these days? ?On a scale from "Hen's teeth" to ?"unobtanium"?
Dunno. I got one in a rescue a few years back, but I haven't tried to
buy one since about 1985 or so. I don't need lots of them, but the
one I got looks really nice on my Datasystems Desk (the model on the
cover of the 1978/1979 Small Computer Handbook).
-ethan
"Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
>> >bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>> >...
>>> >> Just curious... What is the VT-6 kit ?
>> > ... low cost dumb terminal ....
>
> Dumb !!??!?! Who are you calling dumb ??? :-)
>
> Not so dumb, really - the software team did a great job and the current
> firmware does pretty much everything a real VT220 can do.
Wanna try it on some special cases that I know most emulators fail? :-)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Hello Charles
I was google searching for Tally 420 information, and saw a post you did on the 420 you were working with.
Do you still have this 420 puncher?
Thanks for any reply.
Walter Silva
