test-drb December 2012

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by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > Thank you for all your effort in this! Honestly this is an area I'm not > that interested in, BUT, I really wanted to see Don's work preserved. Years > ago, he helped me with info for my IMSAI-8080, which I always appreciated. Agreed. Don helped me with my Kaypro when I first got it. Very happy to see all of his work preserved. Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl files? I thought they might be disk labels, but the first one I looked at was a single line of digits, repeating in fistfuls. Is it metadata for the .td0 file? -ethan

11 years, 9 months

More DEC keyboards

by kurt.m.nowak＠gmail.com

All - I have 3 more DEC keyboards available: 1) DEC LK401-AA with a hairline cracked bezel - probably easily glued 2) DEC LK401-AA with "gooified" feet 3) DEC LK201 No keys are missing and they seem mechanically sound, but they are a little dirty. I have no means of testing them, sorry. Asking $10 (plus shipping) for box/gas/driving hassle. Higher offers will jump to the front of the line. Take 1 or 2 or all three... I just want to get rid of them.

11 years, 9 months

MTST Was: ibm mag card 2

by fjkraan＠xs4all.nl

On 2012-12-10 08:21, Fred Cisin wrote: > It was usually called "MTST", pronounced "empty ST", which Raymond Scott once made a futuristic radio commercial for the MTST. While listening you never got the impression it was about a word processor. Only that it was a great solution. "Machines should work, People should think." Fred Jan

11 years, 9 months

Small joke

by lproven＠gmail.com

Happy DEC-10! (Bemused? Check the date...) -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884

11 years, 9 months

Data General AV4300

by HDevogelaere＠toshibatec-eu.be

Does somebody have a Data General AV4300 (G70421-7)? I have one, still running, and I would like to make a clone, in case this one fails. Hendrik Devogelaere NOTICE: This mail is intended for the named recipient only. It may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. You must not copy, distribute, or take action in reliance upon it. Whilst all efforts are made to safeguard e-mails, TOSHIBA TEC Europe Retail Information Systems S.A. cannot guarantee that attachments are virus free or compatible with your systems and does not accept liability in respect of viruses or computer problems experienced. TOSHIBA TEC Europe Retail Information Systems S.A. reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks.

11 years, 9 months

XXDP AND E11 HELP NEEDED.

by g-wright＠att.net

I'm trying to make up some TU-58 images with the needed XXDP files. I'm new to both, so be kind. I would think that i need to do the basic assign and mount with e11 for the TU-58 assign TT1: DDA Mount DDA0: 'file name'.dsk E11 comes back with can't open file. It will let me just mount it with out a file. but if I'm going to write to it, I would guess there needs to be a container file. Thanks, Jerry

11 years, 9 months

In the market for hard disk drive for a PDP-8/m

by steve＠tronola.com

Hi Paul, Thanks so much for the reply. I'm very interested. Will be in touch off-list. Hope that you will be feeling better soon. Steve steve at tronola.com http://www.tronola.com/ >From: Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com> >Hi Steve, > >I have all 3 items here, but I'm on the mend. I'll see if i can talk >my son into finding them. I also have a plessey controller for the >rk05, but can't remember it it's omni-bus or unibus (or both). Ship >from 61853, Illinois. > >Thanks, Paul > >On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Steve Lafferty <steve at tronola.com> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> I have been making good progress restoring a PDP-8/m and would like to buy a vintage hard drive and controller for it. Anyone know where I might find those? An RK05 or Diablo-31 drive would be nice. Will also need an RK8E controller board set...Please let me know if you know of any possibilities. >> >> Thanks, Steve

11 years, 9 months

Need help with installing PDP-8 4k Disk Monitor

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

For some reason the misbehaving TC01 controller on the PDP-8/I at the RICM decide work yesterday. Possibly due to the low temperature in the RICM warehouse. We took advantage of the situation and formatted and tested five DECtapes. Following the procedure in Appendix-A of the 4k Disk System Monitor System Disk System manual, we ran the DEC-D8-SBAF-PB 4k Disk System Monitor System Disk System Builder. We told it that the 8/I system does not have any disks or a high-speed paper tape reader. The System Builder wrote the Monitor, Loader, Command Decoder, Directory, and Storage Allocation Block Maps to the DECtape. We were able to enter the DECtape bootstrap program and boot the 4k monitor. The next installation step is to add programs to the DECtape. We continued with the procedure in Appendix-A.4. When the console displayed an ^ we entered a CTRL-P and then told the terminal emulator to send DEC-D8-PDAD-PB Disk System PIP-DF32 tape image. After sending about 1,500 characters the 8/I started echoing the characters from the tape image on the console and the command processor tried to use the input as commands. Somehow, after receiving 1,500 characters the 4k monitor switched from paper tape input mode to command mode. I am not sure if this configuration can be duplicated on one of the emulators. If someone could try the monitor installation and subsequent loading of programs from a real "Teletype" it would be interesting to see if it works. If it does work, then maybe we need to add the reader control circuitry to the 20mA/RS-232 converter that we are using to connect a PC to the PDP-8/I. Any advice would be appreciated. -- Michael Thompson

11 years, 9 months

Scanning sheet film

by tdk.knight＠gmail.com

the epson 4490 does a nice job and has inserts.. i shoot medium frormat btw... On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > At 3:11 PM -0500 12/9/12, steve shumaker wrote: > >> On 12/9/2012 1:34 PM, Joost van de Griek wrote: >> >>> On 9 dec. 2012, at 18:14, steve shumaker<shumaker at att.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> please explain what you mean by "scanning them wet".... >>>> >>>> >>> <http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=**sMnxWknF4SM<http://youtube.com/#/watch?v=sMnxWknF4SM> >>> > >>> >>> .tsooJ >>> >>> the link didn't help (doesn't link to anything specific) but it did >> prod me into doing a google. interesting! Been scanning stuff at fairly >> high res for years but never heard of that technique before. makes sense >> though. >> >> >> steve >> > > Rather than wet, here is the route I plan to get once I finally upgrade my > Epson 2450. It's also part of why I'm waiting for Epson to release what I > really want. When you factor in the price of both the scanner and the > mounts I need, it will be an expensive setup. > > 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/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/> | > | My Photography Website | > | http://www.zanesphotography.**com<http://www.zanesphotography.com> | > >

11 years, 9 months

Help identifying ICs?

by snhirsch＠gmail.com

I have a sizeable number of Intersil 0.3" 14-pin DIP ICs (plastic package) with a part number "3-200-5" and a 1978 date code. Google turns up about 500 hits - all of them those obnoxious Chinese sites none of who have the chip or any data about them. How do folks work around all the "we find you chip fast, enter RFQ here" web sites? Steve --

11 years, 9 months

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test-drb December 2012