Everyone,
Please have a listen when you can. I'm working on part 2 this evening.
Let me know what you think of the interview, and hope you'll check out the whole thing!
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Best,
David Greelish, Computer Historian
President, Atlanta Historical Computing Society
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> > These are general purpose core that can be used in more than just the
> > Burroughs minis they came from. ?I know for example that a rack like this
> > could be used with an S-100 computer or 8008 system.
>
>What Burroughs minis?
6000 series I assume, specifically I was told these came from a
prototype system (?) from the early 1970's, and were then surplused
after light use. I don't have confirmation on that. They could be
used in a PDP 11/45 (?), IBM 3179, and I know first-hand that they
can be adapted for use in a microprocessor system as others of this
same model were used in a 8008 system (I think) homebrew project or
two that I have seen. Late core-era adaptable memory. If I get more
info I will let you know.
I still have at least one partial rack available if anyone is
interested contact me directly.
Bill
> Way back in 1980, Infocom posted an ad in the September 1980 issue of
> the DECUS Mini-Tasker (the DECUS RT-11 SIG newsletter). This was the
> first ad the Infocom ever produced and I'd like to get a scan of it
> for the book.
> Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anyone who kept this
> newsletter. I've contacted a number of people in the DEC community
> but still no luck. Someone pointed me to this forum and said there
> might be someone here who could help.
John Dundas has this up on the web at:
http://dundas-mac.caltech.edu/~dundas/retro/DEC%20Docs/DECUS/mini-tasker/mt…
You want the bottom of page 47.
Tim.
Hi All,
In light of the wonderful cache of HP1000 software available now, and not
having any way to load it onto the machine I have to put my request in
again. I need a 13181B interface set for the tape drive. I'm happy to pay
and cover shipping to South Africa. I also have a 13183 set to swap if
someone is interested.
Etienne Vermeulen
Well I got around to setting up another computer with a
Buslogic Bt-542B SCSI controller. It uses a DP 8473 floppy
controller. Using Image Disk, it reads the Altos disk with out
errors, but chokes on writing one. I get write Error No Sector on
every sector. Drive is a Tandon TM848 E, tried another
of the same drives with the same results. Of coarse I tried
a few new floppies. The SD test program says the controller
can work with SD disks.
Any Ideas ??
- Jerry
Jerry Wright
g-wright @att.net
4x16K Datacraft core memory rack units available (the 5th slot in the
rack is for the controller) with Datacraft DC-38 Core and associated
power supply, contact me privately if interested.
Photos: http://www.vintagecomputer.net/datacraft/
(I believe I have it right that they're 4 x16K cores.)
These are general purpose core that can be used in more than just the
Burroughs minis they came from. I know for example that a rack like
this could be used with an S-100 computer or 8008 system.
The photo of the individual core card with the cover removed is an
extra, not part of the populated racks.
I am located in Landenberg, PA USA roughly between Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Bill
Hi All -
I'm writing a book about Infocom and I'm looking for your help finding
something.
Way back in 1980, Infocom posted an ad in the September 1980 issue of
the DECUS Mini-Tasker (the DECUS RT-11 SIG newsletter). This was the
first ad the Infocom ever produced and I'd like to get a scan of it
for the book.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find anyone who kept this
newsletter. I've contacted a number of people in the DEC community
but still no luck. Someone pointed me to this forum and said there
might be someone here who could help.
Does anyone here have this newsletter? If not, do you know of someone
who might? If anyone could help me out with this I'd very much
appreciate it.
Thanks!
- Rick Thornquist
Over Yule dinner, a friend offered me a free computer. Not really
vintage by CCtalk standards, I guess. A dual-core 2GHz G5 Mac Pro.
The thing is, I am considering getting rid of my PowerPC OS X Macs. I
like OS X very much, but despite Cameron's valiant efforts with the
very nifty TenFourFox, it's running out of current browsers and it
only runs a version of Mac OS X that's now 2 releases out of date. As
a writing tool, a G3 with MacOS 9.2 on it would almost be more use, as
it makes no pretence of being a current machine and one wouldn't
expect most modern websites to work...
I am torn. I'd love it, but I'm not sure I really have any use for it,
and I'm short on space and already paring back the collection... :?(
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Hi all
>From: Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com>
>
>Steve, it wasn't too much work. Not as bad as scanning the SDK-51 manuals
>with my manual feed flatbed scanner.
I have here the SDK-51 Assembly Manual, which I was planning to scan since
http://manx.classiccmp.org/details.php/47,13105
says it's not online.
If it is actually online, save me the trouble?
Also, the actual document is available for postage (from South Africa).
W
> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:07:11 -0800
> From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: A Yuletide dilemma
> Message-ID: <p06240807cb1ffde2b64a(a)[192.168.1.199]>
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--- 8< ---
> Right now it's running Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, Lightroom, InDesign,
> and Acrobat as well as Phase One's Capture One, and a few other
> things. My performance issues are strictly related to RAM and Disk
> I/O. Actually the main performance problem is these **** HD's that
> go to sleep on their own when not being used, and there doesn't seem
> to be a way to turn off that behavior!
>
> Zane
--- 8< ---
Presumably un-checking 'Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible' in the
'Energy Saver' control panel doesn't have the desire effect?
Jim
