test-drb March 2011

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225 discussions

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> From:?Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> > All I can add about operating systems related to the original question is that unless I remember wrong, CTS-300 and CTS-500 were based on RSTS/E (basically RSTS/E and hardware bundled together as a complete solution). I think that CTS-300 ran on RT-11, and CTS-500 ran on RSTS/E. You could not compile a Dibol program on CTS-300 without shutting down the main application. On CTS-500 it was easy to compile and debug online. -- Michael Thompson

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Digital archiving tools

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

> From:?Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann at gmail.com> > By curious coincidence, one of my labmates just asked me for some > original data from my Master's thesis, and luckily I have that data > backed up on CD-R - from 1999 (Maxell gold-coloured CD-R74, if that > makes a difference). ?Tar.gz files, and still reads fine 12 years > later on a modern machine (Mac mini) without special hardware or > software. My wife's Master's thesis is on RX01 floppies made with WPS-8. Someday I will get the files converted to something more modern. -- Michael Thompson

13 years, 9 months

OT: Can someone help me pick out a desktop machine?

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

A lot of you seem to be missing that he has a store credit with a particular store. He doesn't have the ability to buy a refurbed Leonovo or to build a system from scratch. He has to choose from within the store's available inventory. So, none of the suggestions that don't take into account what the store has in stock, isn't all that helpful it seems to me. Al

13 years, 9 months

Help to format diskettes for At&t 3b1 or Altos systems in a PC

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:31:07 +0100 > Subject: Help to format diskettes for At&t 3b1 or Altos systems in a > PC > > I need and be happy to receive some help to format diskettes for At&t 3b1 or > Altos ACS/586/686 systems in a PC. I tried to do it in one 286 PC with one > TEAC HD unit with bad results. > > I've encountered some documents in the Net about the matter but nothing > definitive. > AT&T 3B1 - Use the Office program that hopefully will be installed in your system to format a disk. If you log in with the user "install" and blank password, it should put you in the office program. If it's not present, then you need to load the system disks onto the system. Altos - This is a CP/M and or MP/M system depending on your needs; Dave Dunfield's 22disk should work to make a boot disk. If you need more help, contact me directly and I will try to assist, I have both systems. Bill

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USB typewriter

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

On Friday, March 11th, at 13:04, SPC wrote: > I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I didn't hear about it. > http://www.usbtypewriter.com/ . . . but. . . where is the "Gold" key? ;-) T

13 years, 9 months

Usb typewriter

by spedraja＠gmail.com

I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I didn't hear about it. http://www.usbtypewriter.com/ -- Saludos - Greetings - Freundliche Gr??e - Salutations Sergio ----- "No creas todo lo que ves, ni creas que estas viendolo todo"

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Usb typewriter (RS-232)

by swtpc6800＠comcast.net

Someone was asking for a RS-232 typewriter. I had one in 1978. I recently found the negatives for photos of my SWTPC 6800 computer complete with an IBM 2741 style Selectric printing terminal. It was used for letter quality printing but it did have two way communication with my computer. I had to write I/O drivers that converted ASCII to IBM Correspondence Code. I could also use it over a 134.5 baud modem connection to a PDP11/70 timeshare system. I uploaded a picture to the Wikipedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Holley_Computer_1978_NWCN.jpg Here is a write up I did for the Northwest Computer News in July 1978. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northwest_Computer_News_July_1978.jpg Michael Holley

13 years, 9 months

SUN Ultra 5 NVRAM

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

I fired up my Sun Ultra 5 the other day to install a bigger SCSI HD and noticed its NVRAM is dead (FF for ethernet address, serial number changes each reboot). Anybody know a source of cheap replacement NVRAM chips (can they be reworked like a Dallas RTC chip?), and how do you reprogram them?

13 years, 9 months

Digital archiving tools

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

> On 3/9/11 10:19 AM, Richard wrote: >> In article<4D77C151.90005 at bitsavers.org>, >> Al Kossow<aek at bitsavers.org> writes: >> >>> I made a decision a long time ago that the primary mode of storage would >>> either be media images or uncompressed archive files (tar, or uncompressed >>> zip, mostly). >> >> Just out of curiosity: why uncompressed? >> >> Is it so that localized corruption of the archives doesn't preclude >> extraction of the remaining contents? > exactly. OTOH I keep all of my images compressed, precisely because I want to know if any copy has been corrupted. (And I md5sum them as well out of FUD). If I find out that any storage media or storage bus is silently corrupting my data without error messages... I would rather know that sooner than later. Tim.

13 years, 9 months

Strange Versatec Plotter question

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

A very long time ago, I used to support three Versatec plotters. We'd have to use a clear liquid to clean them up. It wasn't Isopropyl Alcohol. Does anyone happen to know what it might have been? Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

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test-drb March 2011