test-drb October 2012

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by barythrin＠gmail.com

The list does have a searchable feature open to the public via classiccmp.org. Ironically it seems to just do a google search using the site:classiccmp.org argument which I think means google does crawl the site already and is meant to.

12 years, 2 months

RACAL RNX 6500

by mokuba＠gmail.com

Any information on this machin? Can't find anything on google other than "Racal-Datacom RNX 6500 Bridge/Router" -- Gary G. Sparkes Jr. KB3HAG

12 years, 2 months

Old UNIX utils

by alexeyt＠freeshell.org

I saw a lightning talk on Tursday by one of the maintainers of SmartOS, a fork of Illumos, itself a fork of OpenSolaris. He recently discovered that there were some interesting things in /usr/bin that most people don't realize are there, that had stowed away unnoticed over the years: bfs and ta. He demoed them for us, and I have to say I'm sort-of shocked that they never got rm(1)ed. Does anyone here remember using these when they were new/actually useful? And speaking of ta, the presenter wasn't sure how you're supposed to drive it - it is supposedly 'like troff -a' but no matter what input he gave it (man page sources mostly), all he ever got out of it is 'unknown input character blah'. Alexey

12 years, 2 months

anyone got a Wombat?

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

speaking of Apple clones...did any make it to the US or Canada?

12 years, 2 months

cctalk being indexed (again)

by aek＠bitsavers.org

FYI Google stopped doing it, but now someone else has started. http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?3908394-Tektronix%20CT8500%20terminal%2…

12 years, 2 months

Tektronix CT8500 terminal -- is it an OEM'ed Tek 4024?

by legalize＠xmission.com

One of the items I pulled out of the Black Hole this weekend was a Tektronix CT8500 terminal. It goes with their 85x0 microprocessor development systems that we've talked about here over the past year. I also snarfed the operator's manual for it, so that will appear on bitsavers soon. Bitsavers has the user's guide for the CT8100 terminal which is really a 4023 as is blatantly obvious from reading the manual. However, the operator's guide to the CT8500 doesn't make mention of any other Tektronix terminal model. On Wednesday, I'll open the cabinet and inspect the board set inside, but until then I thought someone here might be able to shed more light on this. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

12 years, 2 months

cctalk being indexed (again)

by barythrin＠gmail.com

I don't consider anything on the net private but I'm used to knowing that the lists I'm a part of are public (usually). I also think its a good reference for folks just like forums which I appreciate when I can search for already solved issues without having to sign up on their site for potentially 1 use. Could just me be though and I'm not sure what (Jay?)'s intent is with this list which is really where the authority lies. ------Original Message------ From: Al Kossow Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org To: cctalk at classiccmp.org ReplyTo: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: cctalk being indexed (again) Sent: Oct 1, 2012 1:12 PM On 10/1/12 11:04 AM, barythrin at gmail.com wrote: > That's not a good thing? > Do you consider cctlk to be a private mailing list? I do.

12 years, 2 months

EISA Configuration Utility and .CFG files

by nigel.d.williams＠gmail.com

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:06 AM, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Hirsch" <snhirsch at gmail.com> > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 5:35 PM > Subject: Re: Anyone want some free EISA cards? The challenge with EISA is finding the .CFG files that work with the EISA Configuration Utility so you can get the mainboard to work with the boards. The floppy-based sets I have come across are a superset of those needed for a specific board so it is usually worth digging around in manufacturer "driver"/mainboard diskettes to check if they also shipped .CFG files for boards other than their own. The .CFG files (they are text files sometimes with comments) can be a useful source of information about what the board does and how it is intended to work (like slot-specific assignment, IRQ conflicts etc).

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test-drb October 2012