A friend sent me a list today of documents he has, wondering if they are of
interest to classic computer folk. Most of these categories are outside my
expertise, so I'm asking here if these should get archived, and if so who
volunteers to do it :-).
Here's the list:
Control Data 6000 Series manuals
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Kronos 2.1 Instant Manual
Control Data Cyber 70 Series Models 72/73/74 6000 Series Computer
Systems
Kronos 2.1 Terminal User's Instant Manual
Control Data Cyber 70 Series Models 72/73/74 6000 Series Computer
Systems
Small (6.5" x 4") "pocket" manuals for operating the Kronos OS
original printing dated 10/1973
Algol Generic Reference Manual
Control Data 3000/6000
Revision A, 5/31/1968
Modify Reference Manual
Control Data Cyber 170, Cyber 70, 6000 Series and 7600 computer systems
Card based version control
Revision E, 10/1/1974
APL*Cyber Reference Manual
Control Data Cyber 170, Cyber 70, 6000 Series and 7600 computer systems
Revision C, August 1974
Oregon State Open Shop Operating System (OS3)
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Assembly listing of OS3 operating system dated September 1974
Assembly language listing of core operating system.
OS3 was a demand-paged, virtual memory, multi-user operating system
that used a PDP8 as a front end to multiplex many teletypes scattered
around the Oregon State campus.
OS-3 Reference Manual for OS-3 Version 4.3
July 1973
OSU: Grope User's Manual
January 1972
"Grope" (Graphical Representation of Parameterized Expressions) was an
input and graphing system running on OS-3 and a Tektronix 4002A
terminal.
Grafit User Notes
February 1973
Jeff Ballance, Jo Ann Baughman, Larry Hubble
"The GRAFIT system is an interactive program for displaying data on the
Tektronix terminal and/or the Calcomp plotter or on a Hewlett-Packard
teletype compatible X-Y plotter and/or the Calcomp plotter."
Various OSU computer center manual on editing tools
Useful Features of OS-3
James S. Sasser
August 1974
Primer for Users of Oregon State's Open Shop Operating System (OS-3)
September 1972
A Brief Description of OSCAR (Third Revision)(Describes Version 56)
Joel Davis, Gilbert A. Bachelor
September 1969
"OSCAR" (Oregon State Conversational Aid to Research) is an
arithmetical interpreter for use at remote teletype or CRT connections
to the CDC 3300."
OSCAR: A User's Manual with Examples (revised September 1969)
Jo Ann Baughman, Mary Lynn Berryman, Joel Davis
September, 1969
MISC
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Concurrent Pascal - Introduction
Per Brinch Hansen
Concurrent Pascal Machine
Per Brinch Hansen
Concurrent Pascal Report
Per Brinch Hansen
Sequential Pascal Report
Per Brinch Hansen
Alfred C. Hartmann
Information Science California Institute of Technology
7"x10" manuals published in July 1975
Laural Manual
Douglas K. Brotz
Palo Alto Research Center
"Laural is an Alto-based, display-oriented, computer mail system
interface."
published May 1981
Sail
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Memo AIM-289, Report STAN-CS-76-578
edited by John F. Reiser
August 1976
"Sail is a high-level programming language for the PDP-10 computer. It
includes
an extended ALGOL 60 compiler and a companion set of execution-time
routines. In
addition to ALGOL, the language features: (1) flexible linking to
hard-coded machine
language algorithms, (2) complete access to the PDP-10 I/O facilities,
(3) a complete
system of compile-time arithmetic and logic as well as a flexible macro
system, (4) a
high-level debugger, (5) records and references, (6) sets and lists,
(7) an associative
data structure, (8) independent processes, (0) procedure
varaiables(sic), (10) user
modifiable error handling, (11) backtracking, and (12) interrupt
facilities."
various UNIX 'man' printouts and misc manuals.
Things like:
Berkeley Font Catalog (October 1980)
Typesetting Mathematics -- User's Guide (Second Edition)
Brian W. Kerninghan and Lorinda L. Cherry
Bell Laboratories, August 1978
Typing Documents on the UNIX System: Using the -ms Macros with Troff
and Nroff
M.E. Lesk
Bell Laboratories, May 1982
... many more UNIX Nroff and Troff manuals
ba.uuYumYum (March 1986)
a dining guide compiled from reviews public in group ba.general
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> UPS will ship fairly large items in their cardboard boxes, but it's
> *expensive*. I recently received some DECmates with their RX02s
> (which were still in their furniture/carts). Each 3x3x3 box weighed
> nearly 150 pounds.
>
I've had bad experiences shipping heavy stuff with UPS. I've had great
luck with FedEx, and FedEx ground is quite reasonable. The UPS
store is not operated by by UPS, and their insurance is VERY expensive,
probably 4 times more than FedEx. UPS admits the way they unload their
semis is to push everything out onto the ground.
Also, the UPS store charges $16 to 25 for each box, at FedEx, they are more
like $5.
Jon
Message: 10
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:32:26 -0500
From: "Craig Solomonson" <craig at solomonson.net>
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Subject: Resurrecting a Bendix G-15
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I was going through some boxes of old documents as I prepare to thin out
my computer collection and ran across a couple leads that I had 30+
years
ago on a couple early vacuum tube era computers--one was a Bendix
G-15 and
the other was a Royal Precision LGP-30. Thought it would be fun to
see if
either computer was still there and turns out that the Bendix G-15 is
buried in a storage unit yet! I haven't heard back on the LGP-30
yet. When
the weather warms up, I will get a chance to help dig out the Bendix and
hopefully make a deal on it.
Apparently, the Bendix was operational before going into storage in the
mid-1970's. So, what are the chances that after sitting for almost 40
years that it would still be operational? I know that vaccum tubes can
deteriorate but those are easy to replace. What about the capacitors,
resistors, and diodes? I do not know if the storage unit was climate
controlled, but if not, I assume corrosion could be a problem with
all the
contacts. What other issues might one expect with an old system like
this?
Unfortunately, I am not an electronics expert but always like a
challenge.
I now regret selling my Bendix Diode tester a few years ago on eBay!
Maybe
I will have to rent in some day if I make the deal!
Wow, that would be a real antique, and there are VERY few G-15's
running. Testing the diode cards would not be that big a problem
even without the tester. Major capacitors in the power supply
would be best replaced before they exploded.
Our G-15 had a scored drum, where dirt packed against the
heads and burned a groove through the oxide coating.
The other thing that didn't work well was the typewriter. I
don't know if it was the typewriter itself or the huge
box of relays that encoded/decoded the character codes that
was flaky.
Jon
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:36:51 -0600, Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
> OK, I've got an HP X-Y display with the older power cord connector,
> where the three pins are round instead of two being blades and the
> only the ground pin being round. The entire plug socket is also
> rounded instead of angled.
> [?]
I believe what you are looking for is a PH-163 connector. AFAIK the last (current) manufacturer was/is Volex part number 17280 <http://www.datasheets.com/search/Preview.admin?v=0&flag=detail&comId=43188B…>.
->CRC
Hi folks,
there's an interesting complete core memory system on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190813695638
And yes: I'm the seller. But it does not come from my personal collection: I'm
selling it for someone else.
Perhaps someone on the list likes it. Personal offers by E-mail, not E-Bay...
Kind regards,
Philipp :-)
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----- Original Message -----
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:14:10 -0700
From: Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com>
On 3/13/2013 1:41 PM, TeoZ wrote:
>> -<snip>
>> Pretty much every collection has that happen when the owner dies or fall
>> on hard times. At least some of it will go on in another persons
>> collection.
>This was not either of those circumstances, unless you call unethical and
>possibly illegal behavior toward the individual "hard times".
>I am hopeful most can own the place they store their collections or can at
>least have some real control. renting can result in what happened in this
>case.
...
----- Reply:
No, there are laws in pretty well every jurisdiction that protect a
*responsible* renter from this sort of thing and are in fact generally even
biased in the renter's favour.
But repeatedly not paying the rent on time (or at all), jerking the landlord
around with excuses, broken promises and missed deadlines, taking him to
court to fight a justified eviction and no doubt costing him considerable
money in legal fees etc., and, finally, not clearing out the contents when
given the opportunity to do so, *THAT'S* what usually predictably results
in what happened in this case.
You're right, this is not a case of the owner dying or falling on hard times
with no way of coming up with the rent (like selling off a duplicate piece
or two or asking for help); it's irresponsibility and negligence and if I'd
donated something in good faith I'd be pretty pissed when I saw it being
flogged on eBay as a result...
m
Can some kind soul point me to the technical documentation for the Q-Bus
DLV11 M7940 Serial Line Unit? It has a 2x20 pin-out connector of unknown.
I gather that it's a pretty common card, so I'd expect the documentation to
still be "out there" ... like the truth :->.
Not the DLV11-J, which is the 4-line card.
The only good news is that the MC1488 and MC1489 are nearby, which will
help a little. But documentation is *much* better! Probably any of its
variants will do just fine (e.g., M7940-YA "M7940 W EXTRA WIRES TO BRING
OUT CLOCK & 110/300 SPEED CHG").
Attached is what I've thus-far been able to find, which is jumper-info dug
out of a paper-tape reader manual!
Thank you,
paul
