test-drb April 2011

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276 discussions

by tingox＠gmail.com

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Now that we have more details I'd say that the best solution is either this, > or else a dedicated low-end x86 PC running OpenBSD. ?In either case the > 'fun' part could very well be wiring the two together. ?Honestly I'd > recommend a PC with OpenBSD over a Serial Port ethernet server. Yeah, and running conserver: http://www.conserver.com/ or something like it. Depending on how many serial ports you have, you can have a real multi-user setup with this. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen

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Serial Port Web Server

by technobug＠comcast.net

On hu, 21 Apr 2011 21:33:22 -0700: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > At 9:13 PM -0700 4/21/11, CRC wrote: >> A friend desires to leave the hot desert this summer and move to the >> cool mountain and yet maintain contact with his PDP11 with which he >> still runs his business. He has a rotten phone connection, but good >> internet. He runs a highly modified version of RTST 5x and cannot >> reasonably move his stable 30 y/o applications to later/other OS's. >> I would appreciate knowing what the listers use to accomplish same. >> >> -> CRC > > I would recommend running the E11 PDP-11 emulator on a laptop. > Though based on what you describe, I think SIMH could work just as > well. Honestly I'd recommend moving it over to an emulator anyway if > he's running his business off of it. It's one thing for those of us > here to run PDP-11 hardware of that vintage as a hobby, it's another > thing to depend on it for your livelihood. What type of drives is he > using? > > The following webpage desperately needs updated, but should point you > in the right direction. > http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp11emu.html E11 has been seriously looked at in the past, but the required additions and money constraints nixed going in that direction. Whenever time permits he has been looking at alternates to the current hardware. However, this system which has a rack of Fuji Eagles and a number of tape decks, has been running without much repair maintenance for the last several decades. We recently had to work on one of the Fujis and now are in the process of shot-gunning all the caps. We were totally amazed when one of the drives became flakey and found that nearly all the caps were bad - luckily Earl W. Muntz didn't work for Fuji... However, the current problem is not transporting the applications, but contacting the current system. Remember that RSTS is multiuser and he has no intention of also transporting his drones that also access the computer to the cool mountains with him :) There are also a number of customers that dial in to get access to data. Has anyone used any of the serial port ethernet servers (aka port directors) and how well did they work? -> CRC

14 years, 1 month

new subscriptions?

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Hey folks. Who is handling new subscriptions here nowadays? An acquaintance from another list is interested in joining but has been having trouble. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port Charlotte, FL

14 years, 1 month

OT: Re: internships

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 12:00 -0500 4/22/11, Chuck wrote: >Would you fly as a passenger on a jet whose pilots pulled 30 hour >shifts routinely? I wouldn't--hell, I wouldn't ride on a bus whose >driver was pulling a 3-day no-sleep shift. ... Chuck, you are right on the money. Cameron, you know I like you, but the way interns are abused is pure simple insanity. Heck, pick almost any "operator error" disaster you care to name - Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, whatever - and odds are >> 80% that you will find someone either operating outside normal work hours or who had been recently doing so. On the last full mission I participated in, we made 4 critical errors during integration and test, any one of which could have damaged the spacecraft or terminated the mission - and *every one* of which was made outside normal working hours. Your own post that started this thread contained the phrase "Hope my overnight admission orders didn't kill anyone." Would you say that about any other part of your work? Would you want your loved ones admitted or treated by someone under those conditions? I admit there are conditions where doctors have to work long hours; I watched M*A*S*H just like everyone else. But *training* doctors to do that at the expense of patients' safety during normal times is dangerously bad policy, particularly considering the tiny percentage of doctors who will ever consent to work that way anytime during their professional lives. It's also educationally counterproductive, as anyone who has ever crammed overnight knows. Why and how the medical community, who has the best knowledge available of what physiological effects result from long-term sleep deprivation, ever allowed this practice, to say nothing of institutionalizing it, is beyond mystery and into mysterious evil as far as I'm concerned. I don't guess hospitals should be shut down but I think it would be a really good idea to take a few administrators and schedulers each month, ceremonially break legs or induce other disorders, and then admit them on the 36th hour of a new intern's first overnight shift. -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

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Serial Port Web Server

by tiggerlasv＠aim.com

>> A friend desires to leave the hot desert this summer and move to the >> cool mountain and yet maintain contact with his PDP11 with which he >> still runs his business. He has a rotten phone connection, but good >> internet. He runs a highly modified version of RTST 5x and cannot >> reasonably move his stable 30 y/o applications to later/other OS's. I >> would appreciate knowing what the listers use to accomplish same. > A relatively lightweight PC at his business, with internet access and a > serial port, running linux and kermit, should get him access. For > certain values of soldering in the missing serial port, even one of the > linux-based linksys routers could probably be made to work. > SSH from the mountain to the PC/linksys, kermit to PDP. I use a hardware TELNET <> LAT gateway, so I don't have to deal with power hungry multiplexors, serial cables, and baud rate limitations. Of course, since he's probably running V5A, he couldn't get that fancy. However, a plain ol' terminal server would be much easier to implement. Set the router to direct TELNET traffic to the terminal server, and voila ! T

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Vintage Computer Festival East Teletype Workshop Update

by billdeg＠degnanco.com

The workshop will have persons of all skill levels, including individuals with 40+ years experience in attendance. The "Teletype 101" is expanding into a workshop for all experience levels. Whatever your skill level there should be someone who can help you. I will be bringing an SWTPc 6800 or a PDP 11 as a demo unit, depends on space, etc. If you buy a teletype, you can work on it/get help on the spot - a good deal! Here is the official email about the teletypes. Please read this over carefully. PLEASE SEND INQUIRIES TO ME DIRECTLY (if the below does not answer your questions). Bill Degnan billdeg-at-aol.com A Vice Pres. M.A.R.C.H. -------------------------------------------------------------- THERE IS NO SHIPPING - PICKUP ONLY 1. If you have not done so already pick a teletype from the photos here <http://www.midatlanticretro.org/teletypes/>http://www.midatlanticretro.org/teletypes/ 2. The prices are labeled on the photos: Selling prices: $100 TTY (best cond. has stand, chad paper catch, sheet holder, rare ) $75 TTY (complete/good cond no stand) $75 TTY (fair condition but has stand) $50 TTY (poor cond. / incomplete / parts) 3. There are two ways to get your choice of teletype a. Register for the workshop/Pick up at VCF <http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=149>http://www.vintage.org/2011/east/workshop.php?action=select&id=149 In addition to the workshop itself, your $40 also gets you: - Entry into the drawing to win a free "serviceable" teletype. - $40 applied to the purchase of a teletype, "dibs" in the order of registration (first to register = first to pick from what's available, second, etc.). - If you do not show up for the workshop you lose your place in line but the $40 can be applied to a purchase from what's available. - The $40 deposit is non-refundable. NOTE: You have to make the remaining balance due payment in order to take possession of your teletype. b. Purchase outright/Pick up any time - If you don't want to wait until the workshop, you can buy a teletype outright by paying full price in advance of the VCF. First come first served. - I will mark the photos with the names of the purchaser after payment has been received. - Visit the link below and click on the "donate" button to enter the Mid-Atlantic Retro web site PayPal account to make payment. <http://marchclub.org/>http://marchclub.org/ 4. How to take posession of your TTY: The teletypes are located in the Mid Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists' Computer Museum which is located in the InfoAge Science Center of Wall, NJ. For directions see <http://infoage.org/html/visit.html#directions>http://infoage.org/html/visit.html#directions Payment (see 3 above) Pickup Before VCF Weekend InfoAge Sundays when MARCH has someone there at the museum pick teletype assuming they have paid the full price (paypal). Pickup on VCF Weekend: Persons can pay $40 in advance to reserve a TTY, and it's their choice whether they attend the workshop. The $40 goes towards the purchase price of a TTY. One must pay the balance due to take possession of their TTY. Pickup After VCF Weekend Persons can visit InfoAge Sundays when MARCH has someone there at the museum to buy and take home a teletype assuming they have paid the full price (paypal). There is no shipping available. -end-

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F&*#ing chicklet keyboards (was Re: Retro Atari 400 looking Keyboard)

by dm561＠torfree.net

----- Original Message ----- Message: 13 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:49:52 -0400 From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> Subject: Re: F&*#ing chicklet keyboards (was Re: Retro Atari 400 looking Keyboard) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <BANLkTi=-0VR2fJMZKd-xyO66CLDr2ScRCw at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Some folks didn't even wait. Some paid over $100 for an external "full-sized" keyboard. I bought a blue-bezel chiclet PET with the internal cable from Skyles Electric Works for the external keyboard (probably long since separated). <snip> Now (largely because issues of practicality are irrelevant), the price of a 1977/1978 chiclet-keyboard PET is several times that of a 1978 Graphic or Business-keyboard PET. -ethan ----- Reply ----- There was an upgrade kit available from Commodore, consisting of a replacement upper case half with the new Graphic keyboard, a new black decal and matching black monitor bezel, and an optional new external cassette deck to replace the internal missing-the-corner unit. I upgraded mine and also replaced the white screen with a green tube; glad now I kept the original parts for the day I sell it... m

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Free Stuff in Albany/Richmond, CA, Wednesday Only

by trag＠io.com

I saw this posting over on the Apple 2 Marketplace. <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2.marketplace/browse_thread/th…> It looks like Albany Microcomputer Services is cleaning out their shop. Jeff Walther

14 years, 1 month

Unisys "Micro A"

by dfaultersack＠cox.net

This is from an old thread. >From one of the Micro-A engineers. Write back if you want to know more about this system. Cheers.

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Reproducing Printed Circuit Board Artwork

by mardy＠voysys.com

A few years ago I came to poses an original unassembled Altair 8800 kit. I have since decided to donate it to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. But before I send it off, I would like to capture the printed circuit board artwork and make available to others wishing to reproduce bare boards. Can anyone recommend a service bureau, preferably somewhere on the east coast (US), that can do the work? -Mardy

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test-drb April 2011