test-drb July 2012

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by jws＠jwsss.com

link here http://www.beinamovie.com/movie.php?mtitleid=115 for Monday and Tuesday 7/16 and 7/17 in Pasadena. I didn't send earlier notes for this movie, but figured that this note would be of slight interest to anyone who could make it. The scenes we're part of will be the 1983 PC Conference (Monday the 16th) and the 1977 Computer Jobs Faire (Tuesday the 17th) Maybe some here were at those conferences, and won't barf at the thought of being in a movie about Jobs. Jim

12 years, 5 months

For Sale: DEC W021B cables and RS11 Disk Drive Write Lockout Panel

by rickb＠bensene.com

Hello, all, I have four DEC W021B cables with FlipChip paddles at both ends. The cables are roughly 8 feet long including the paddle boards at both ends. The cables are nine coaxial (signal and ground) cables bonded together into a single flat black cable. The paddle fingers are gold plated, have light surface corrosion on them, and have light signs of insertion/removal from backplane sockets. Each W021B cable has nine signal lines, each with a separate ground. These cables were originally used to connect and RF11 Unibus Disk Controller chassis to an RS11 disk drive based on labels on the paddle boards. The same cables were used to connect peripherals (such as DF32 or RF08/RS08 disk) to the original Flip-Chip based PDP-8 processors (Straight 8, 8I and 8L). The cables are untested. I also have a single RS11 disk drive "Write Lockout" switch panel with cable and paddle connector for connecting it to an RS11 disk drive backplane. This panel provides sixteen toggle switches that can be set to provide write protection for sixteen separate blocks of 16K words on the disk. The panel has a flexible ribbon cable that is about 12 inches long that connects to a Flip Chip paddle connector with a white handle with designation of W033. The switch panel itself is in very good condition, with very clear legends with no dings or dents. The ribbon cable has some slight delamination in some areas, and one trace may not have electrical continuity based on a visual observation. The W033 paddle connector is in very good condition, with virtually no sign that it has ever been plugged into a Flip Chip slot. All of the very high quality switches move freely, and are original switches from the era, with no sign of replacement. The unit is untested. I would like to sell these items. Please read carefully below the "rules" before bidding. Sorry they are so detailed, but I want to make sure that the rules are clearly understood by all. I am accepting offers for each individual item on a per unit basis. For example, bids will be accepted for each of the W021B cables and the RS11 Write Lockout panel assembly separately. Bids must be sent in individual Emails, e.g., do not send a bid giving an offer for all four W021B cables, or one cable and the RS11 write lockout panel. Such bids will be dismissed without notice. Bidders need to send separate Emails with bids for each of the individual items of interest. The items will sell to the highest offer received via Email to me (i-t-e-m-s *at* b-e-n-s-e-n-e *dot* c-o-m [no dashes and substitute correct symbols for *at* and *dot*]) for each item by 11:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday 22-July. Bids received at Email addresses other than that listed above will be dismissed without notice. Duplicate bid amounts for an item will be arbitrated by the first Email received in my inbox prior to the deadline. A flat rate charge of $15 will be paid by the winning bidder for packing/shipping unless arranged otherwise. Once the high bidder is determined, they will be notified by return Email on Monday 23-July. Payment shall only be accepted by PayPal, and must be paid in full including shipping within two business days once final costs notification is sent to the winner. If a winner does not respond to notification Emails within the deadline, backs out or fails to pay, the sale is considered to have failed, and the item will not be awarded to lower bidders. If an individual provides the high bid on multiple items, packing/shipping can be combined to minimize costs. Shipping will be done by USPS Flat Rate Priority Mail unless arranged otherwise. Items will ONLY be shipped to continental US locations. I will not ship overseas, or to Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, or Canada. If you are not from the continental US, please do not bid. Photos of items can be Emailed upon request. Sales shall be final with no returns. If no high bids are received, the items will be auctioned on eBay. I wanted to give the Classic Computer mailing list members first opportunity to acquire these unusual vintage items. Please don't hesitate to write if you have questions about the items. I will do my best to respond promptly. Rick Bensene

12 years, 5 months

totally free - Sperry Portable MS-DOS 2.11 + GW BASIC manual and slipcover

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

Good shape. Send me your address.

12 years, 5 months

need specifics on Siemens HB2183L monitor

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

scan rates primarily. Donkashane!

12 years, 5 months

URL for original EMACS macros in TECO?

by legalize＠xmission.com

Anyone got one? I'm curious to look at it. According to <http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/internals_3.html>, it was a merger of TECMACS and TMACS. -- "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, 5 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 107, Issue 35

by bqt＠update.uu.se

On 2012-07-14 16:04, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > Message: 26 > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:31:41 -0400 > From: Rick Murphy<rick at rickmurphy.net> > To:cctalk at classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: OS/8 dates (was TECO ^B on OS/8 and RT-11) > Message-ID:<201207141331.q6EDVgHs011761 at rickmurphy.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 05:17 AM 7/13/2012, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> >Ooo. So TECO-8 actually lie in their documentation... Even worse. >> >A year in the range 1986-1994 would just have looked like 1970-1977. >> >That's ugly of them. > You're quite correct. Clearly this*is* a TECO-8 bug - I thought it was > at least following the docs but they're just ignoring the high-order > date bit. Unfortunately, fixing this (as in making it compliant with > the documentation) isn't easy as that page is full. And "fixing" it > would just give different wrong values since you can't squash 14 bits > into 13. > > Mea culpa. TECO Fail, indeed. Yeah... I tried to figure out a fix to atleast do what the doc says, but I end up using one more word than the current code. :-( Hmm, possibly I can get away with it, if there is a free location, or a constant 0060 on the current page, or page zero already, and the link is already clear at entrance of the routine... But it's hacky. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

12 years, 5 months

who is the resident Burroughs terminal expert??

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

I have a guy wanting to sell me an old airport terminal. Oi. Anyone want to peruse the pictures? I'll send them out if you're interested.

12 years, 5 months

A few 85xx uploads

by aek＠bitsavers.org

under http://bitsavers.org/bits/Tektronix Changed 856x to 8560 and created 8550 and 8562 directories There is an untested DOS/50 boot disk image under 8550 It's probably OK. The files extracted correctly on the 8562 Under 8562: The boot block for the 8562 (which appears to be different from the one on the V2 update floppy from the 8560) and a small program to create an IMD file with a payload >from stdin, so you can, for example, make a floppy with a tarball that can be read on /dev/rfd0 on the 8562. Curiously, Tek didn't include dd with Tnix, so I'm going to tar over the source and stock V7 dd binary to see if an unmodified binary will run, and if not, compile it over there. I'm a little nervous that the 8562 stanalone utilities disk may be needed to restore the disk instead of the one from the 8560, since the boot doesn't work quite the same way (the 8562 reads /boot from the disk, while the 8560 just loads 'tnix')

12 years, 5 months

Altair 8800 Kit - Paging Grant Stockly

by lists＠loomcom.com

Has anyone heard from Grant Stockly recently? The Altair Kit forums have fallen into the hands of spammers, and I haven't been able to reach him through email. He announced a new sale of kits in early June, but I didn't find out about it until last week. I was hoping to get in on it. -Seth

12 years, 5 months

Sync on something other than green for the sake of all that is holy

by spectre＠floodgap.com

Over the weekend, having gotten a beautiful, perfectly circular round tuit, I cracked the root password on my SGI Indy (tip of the hat to Doc Shipley) and got the system fully operational. It's a little poky, so I suppose the next thing is to upgrade the CPU module and get a 24-bit video card in it (8-bit is yugly). However, in the meantime, I'm using a cheapo 13w3 to VGA converter that works okay with my NEC monitor, but there is still a sync signal on the green line, leaving me with a persistent green tint. Reducing green gamma in IRIX helps some, but I'd like to get my black back (because once you go black, well, you know). What are people using to turn SOG into a more conventional sync signal an off-the-shelf multisync monitor like my NEC XV15+ VGA display will accept? -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- Diamonds are forever. ------------------------------------------------------

12 years, 5 months

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