test-drb November 2011

test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

178 participants
177 discussions

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Dammit. I've been trolled once again. I have very little tolerance for (what I perceive as) cluelessness backed up by arrogance, and something in my personal makeup just can't let misinformation stand. I try very hard to know the difference between facts and opinions, and I think I do that much better than many people, so I tend to be (and try very hard to be) pretty certain of my facts. That part isn't the problem...feeling the overwhelming urge to "correct" people is. I don't do this out of arrogance. I hate to see people laboring under bad information or false assumptions that may bite them in the future, so I try to help. I've done this stuff, and nothing else, all my life and I've been fortunate to have learned a lot from some very smart people and a whole lot of varied experience. There are people here with both a lot less and a lot more experience than I have; I like to get information from the latter and give information to the former. This backfires when people with too much time on their hands and a desire to push buttons decide they want to rile me up. I don't have time for this. I'm a busy guy, and this is a distraction that just ends up with me in a bad mood and falling behind on my work. So...Once again, I Have Been Trolled, and I apologize. I promise to try to be better about it in the future, for my own sake as well as the sake of others. -Dave -- Dave McGuire New Kensington, PA

13 years, 1 month

NEC FD1157C jumper doco

by drb＠msu.edu

Anyone have jumper setting documentation for an NEC FD1157C? The internet does not deign to provide. Thanks, De

13 years, 1 month

All the VAX talk has me wanting my VAXen back :(

by hexsane＠gmail.com

In the early 2ks I had gotten my hands on several VAXen (VAX Stations, MicroVAXen and QBUS Rack and Pedestals). Lacking the space and having a money crisis I had to give up all of them. Now I want another one so I can fire up NetBSD :) Anyone have a spare VAX Station or other small VAX sitting around they want to part with? Or even a larger one if you're close to Omaha. ;) -Matt

13 years, 1 month

Things I should have learned in school

by fraveydank＠gmail.com

I never really dealt with Fortran in university, and if I had, it probably would have been in a Unix context. Anyone have some pointers to me on how to process command-line switches in VMS from Fortran (I'm specifically tinkering with f77, but I suppose f90 should do; it's a matter of environment)? I guess it would be good to point out that I'm essentially a total neophyte when it comes to working with systems that are not UNIX (or bare metal, or classic Mac OS). Best I can tell is that I need to call either a SYS$ or CLI$ library function, but I'm a bit lost in the giant manual and Google doesn't seem to be helping me find sample code. The "standard" (which probably means UNIX-standard) iargc() and getarg() functions don't seem to work, at least not without some external library linked in, so I assume those aren't the way to go. - Dave

13 years, 1 month

Looking for some parts help with an old computer (or two).

by mnealey＠gmail.com

Hi, I am breaking out some old computers I have and need a couple parts to get them working. The computers in question are an Alpha ES40 and an HP ZX6000 workstation. Anyone out in list land happen to have any spare memory for an ES40? Any size will do, just need at least 4 pieces to work. I want to run some OpenVMS on this guy so any help would be great. Also, I need some Itanium 2 processors for the zx6000. Not worried about speed but the faster the better I guess. And would love to get two if possible. If ya have anything like the stuff I'm looking for laying around, let me know what you want for it. Thanks!

13 years, 1 month

John McCarthy

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

The editor/IDE that comes with FreePascal that Gene B pointed me to has a very MSDOS/TurboPascal look and feel.

13 years, 1 month

Looking for a copy of MicroPDP-11 Systems Maintenance Guide

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I am looking for ek-mic11-sg-001, it is listed on Manx, but the link there does not work since the original site disappeared. I have the archive tar of Manx but it isn't in there either. Does anyone have a copy? Thanks Rob

13 years, 1 month

MacSSH source

by spectre＠floodgap.com

A couple weeks ago people expressed interest in my salvaged MacSSH source and I finally got a round tuit. It's very pretty, all symmetric and frilly, and perfectly circular. I make no guarantees. If you get it working, I want your changes. :) However, I have salvaged as many of the resource forks as I can and manually massaged the files. I have not tried to build it. CW6 or better strongly advised. I threw the .sit into gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/by-request/source-code -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- You're only as good as the last problem someone had. -- Ballmer on security

13 years, 1 month

various S-100 PCBs for home brew projects

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

ben bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote: > Does one have to go with ebay? Can I just send you the $$$? Yes that would be fine. You don't need to use eBay but for some reason many builders seem to prefer it even though it is more expensive. I don't understand why but I guess that's their choice. It is one of life's many mysteries. Thanks! Andrew Lynch

13 years, 1 month

KryoFlux - imaging of vintage floppy disks via USB

by kieron.wilkinson＠gmail.com

Mouse wrote: > I sent them mail saying "I would want documentatino on how to talk to > the hardware, because your GUI will not be suitable for me" (any UI > that's suitable to most of pretty much any market has an excellent > chance of being somewhere between unpleasant and unsable for me). Well, since I wrote the user interface for KryoFlux, I'd be very interested in what would work for you, even if you don't intend to use whatever changes we might make. The GUI was designed to be extremely easy to use, even for non-technical people such as those in libraries and archives. There are advanced features, but they are mostly hidden unless specifically wanted. I think it turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. Some examples: http://www.softpres.org/kryoflux:ui:stream-plot http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=262 As it happens, even though I wrote the graphical user interface, I didn't need to know anything about how to talk to the hardware. The GUI just uses the existing software supplied. Anyone could have done it really. > Document it enough I can write my own software to drive it, and I might > be interested in the hardware. I will not be interested in > undocumented hardware and, as mentioned above, I will not be interested > in the software (unless it's open sourced, and then only insofar as it > forms documentation on how to talk to the hardware). That is fair enough. If it is not suitable for you, it's just not. We do have the stream file/protocol documented, which is the main complicated part: http://www.softpres.org/kryoflux:stream It would be nice to document completely as you want, but we have very limited resources, and unless there is much demand for something, we would find it hard to prioritise it. I think you might agree that your requirement is a little unusual... :) Kieron

13 years, 1 month

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test-drb November 2011