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
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.
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
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
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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
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.comhttp://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
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
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
>
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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
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