Hello
The museum has been donated a complete ATEX system with all of it's
supporting parts. I will be flying into Salt Lake City either late June
23rd or early June 24th to rent a truck move everything to a storage
unit there and we can move it to Houston yet (low funds). If anyone
living in the area can help it would be really great. Contact me off
list if you can help.
Thanks,
John
I'm trying to recondition a metal front panel which is white with black lettering.
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Some of the controls have boxes drawn around them in black, and on one of
the boxes, the black line has faded away.
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I'd like to repair this, and wondered if anyone has any suggestions. The line is
about 1mm, possibly 2mm?wide.
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I've tried a quality marker pen, but the ink doesnt 'stick' to the panel, also its
not a clean enough edge on the line.
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I'm thinking that something like lettreset might work - the line is only about 5cm
long (or 2" in old money).
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I havent managed to find anyone selling 'lines' though, just letters.
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Any ideas?
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Thanks
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Ian
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At 12:00 -0500 6/8/11, Dave wrote:
> So, I rewrote the assembler assists for MVS, wrote the small pile of
>JCL required to compile it all, and got it working today. I'm now
>happily running SPICE simulations under MVS 3.8J on an emulated (via
>Hercules) IBM 370.
At 12:00 -0500 6/8/11, Randy wrote:
>I built this too a couple months ago, using gcc in fortran mode.
Geek meter: pegged!
Pretty cool ...
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HI,
A couple of months ago there was somebody looking for a replacement core
board. I apologise for sending to the list, but I have lost the email.
I have one - condition completely unknown, but at least the cores appear
intact - and still covered by the perspex shield.
It is available for shipping - I am in Australia.
It is identified as a 8K x 18 array.
Doug
Appeared on :"alt.sys.pdp11". I know neither Jim Bostwick nor
Bruce Mitchell. I have never had any contact with them.
Jerome Fine
>Dr. Klahn wrote:
>Jim Bostwick's computer collection is going for rescue
>or recycling. The following items are up for grabs:
>
>11/44, 11/40, TU80, Pertec rack mount 9 channel tape,
>Fuji J11 board for 11/24, considerable DEC documents,
>RK07 drives and packs, RL01/RL02 drives and packs, Fuji
>Double Eagle SMDs, CDC 9730/160 SMDs, numerous ST506
>drives. I'm sorry, but I don't have a detailed list of
>everything available.
>
>Any of the above that anyone wants, they can have free.
>Pick it up or arrange for pickup in Dayton, MN before June
>20, 2011, the sooner the better.
>
>Bruce Mitchell
>Editor Emeritus, "The Multi-Tasker"
>Contact me through: http://www.miim.com/consult.html#conts
>
On 6/7/11 5:43 PM, Dave wrote:
> I hope to eventually be able to run this on my real System/370 at the
> new building in PA.
>
> Be very interested in seeing the results from this on real hardware.
> When I ran Spice II under VM/370R6 I got slightly different results to
> the sample print outs provided. I know it was one digit in the last
> place so could just be normal floating point jitter, on the other hand
> it could be something in the Hercules floating point code not adding
> enough guard bytes. Any comment
It's easily many months off, but when I do bring up that machine, I'm
sure I'll inform (i.e., "brag to" ;)) everyone here.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
[cross-posted to the hercules-os360 and midatlanticretro lists due to
relevant references]
Due to all the stuff going on lately, there have been times over the
past few weeks when I've needed some therapeutic hack time. I dug up
the source code for the Berkeley SPICE 2 analog circuit simulator, plus
the assembler assists for IBM 360/370 mainframes. SPICE 2 is written in
FORTRAN IV, but it requires assembler assists for a few things, and they
must be provided for whatever architecture and operating system you're
porting it to. (well, C under UNIX, but assembler on most everything else)
The 360/370 assembler assists were written for the VM/370 operating
system; they use the DIAGNOSE interface to CP for TOD clock access.
While I do run VM/370 from time to time, most recently I've been pretty
deeply into MVS.
So, I rewrote the assembler assists for MVS, wrote the small pile of
JCL required to compile it all, and got it working today. I'm now
happily running SPICE simulations under MVS 3.8J on an emulated (via
Hercules) IBM 370. This required learning lots of new stuff, which of
course is the best part. Now I know a lot more about 360/370 assembler,
how to call assembler routines from FORTRAN and pass data back and
forth, and how to compile/assemble and link multiple modules into a
single executable via JCL.
I've not yet tried it under OS/360 MVT, but I will soon.
I hope to eventually be able to run this on my real System/370 at the
new building in PA.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:19:24 +0100, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> On 04/06/11 23:00, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>> Doh! We've all been there and done that :(
>
> I also managed to lean over a powered up CDC Wren-II/HH 5.25in
> half-height drive while I was probing the DiscFerret's STEP line with my
> scope.
>
> For those of you who have never seen a Wren-II/HH, they have a pair of
> small-ish HDA interface PCBs on the back of the 'drive enclosure'. There
> are a dozen or so metal pins joining these two boards.
>
> I wear a metal watch.
>
> No points for guessing what happened.
Back in my high school days, a friend working on his relay computer science project laid his metal watch band across a selenium rectifier and managed to cauterize all the veins and such in his wrist - taught me to never wear jewelry and the like.
While on my military stint, a gentleman jumped from a truck catching his wedding ring on the deck and completely deboning that finger - taught me to never get married.
-> CRC
The local high school physics teacher was told to clean out the lab of
all the "old junk." She has a bunch of meters that she is supposed to
dump, but she wanted to know if there was any market for "antique"
meters. I have not seen them, but the way she describes them they are
single function meters (galvanometers, AC voltmeter, DC voltmeter,
etc.) in slope from cases with binding screw terminals on top. She
thought the cases were Bakelite.
Is there any value to such things? Is there an on-line market that
might let me determine a value, if any? I know she is thinking that if
it is worth anything she can use the proceeds to buy supplies.
-chuck
