test-drb July 2013

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by js＠cimmeri.com

[located in Washington, D.C. area or Harpers Ferry, WV (near Frederick, MD)] For sale, DEC Professional 350, 512KB. Machine has been restored (email me for what that means) and tested with RT-11, POS, and Venix. currently configured and tested as: M000401 -- RD 5 1/4" Winchester disk controller (rev 0, MFM) M002004 -- RX 5 1/4" floppy diskette controller M001002 -- Video bit map controller M000034 -- option RAM (256 KBytes). also included: M000401 -- rev 1 M001403 -- extended bit map (EBO - color option)

10 years, 10 months

PDP-11/44 Sun 3/160 MicroVAX II and More in MA on ebay

by mc68010＠gmail.com

This is a cool lot for someone a lot closer than I am. It's in Gloucester, MA. It is only a 3 day auction and it could end up being a rescue by the sound of it. Hopefully someone can save it from landfill. http://www.ebay.com/itm/231018428749

10 years, 10 months

Circuit Cellar site...

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi! Thanks to everyone for all the great work you've been doing in my partial absence. Still trying to sort things out and making some progress but slow and very intermittent. Would someone please take another whack at the Wikipedia Gods (aka editors) to reinstate the N8VEM article based on the great work that Oscar has done? He has singled-handedly done a huge amount of work getting the Circuit Cellar article published. That may be enough to spur them to reinstate. Always open for discussion and new ideas. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch From: Wayne Warthen [mailto:wwarthen at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:01 AM To: Oscar Vermeulen Cc: Tothwolf; Andrew Lynch Subject: Re: Circuit Cellar site... Indeed. Regardless, great to see this progress. Thanks again for making it happen! --Wayne On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Oscar Vermeulen <o.vermeulen at altis.ch> wrote: Wayne, On 24/06/2013 15:52, Wayne Warthen wrote: Makes sense. Sorry if I caused any grief by bringing this up. No, not at all - the idea of getting these articles published was exactly to get justification for a Wikipedia article. It's also a nice demonstration about the difference between Old Print Media and the internet age... getting the darn thing in the magazine costs 10 months. Some people develop two generations of a computer + operating system in less time than that :) Regards, Oscar.

10 years, 10 months

VCF Midwest 8.0!

by silent700＠gmail.com

Greetings ccmp'ers across the globe! I have so far been remiss in my planning and advertising duties for the upcoming eighth installment of the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. But worry not, the show *will* go on! What: A fun, friendly, open and FREE exhibition of vintage and classic computers of every type and era. We like obscure, (formerly) expensive, exotic and interesting electronics but (almost!) anything goes. Bring stuff to show, trade or sell or just come and enjoy the exhibitions and the camaraderie of your fellow hobbyists. And once again VCFMW will be sharing the convention center with ECCC, the USA's premiere Commodore exhibition When: September 28-29, 2013. That's two days of fun - plan to stay over night! Where: Heron Point Convention Center/Fairfield Inn and Suites, Lombard, IL Who: YOU! And your friends from across the Midwest and beyond. WWW: http://vcfmw.org Please feel free to post this message and/or the show's URL on all relevant lists, fora and permitted public places. We at Chicago Classic Computing and our friends in the Chicagoland area are looking forward to another great show - hope to see you there! -jht -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

10 years, 10 months

Help with a .MACRO in MACRO-11

by jhfinedp3k＠compsys.to

I have a program in MACRO-11 and I have retained just the essential aspects related to my question. That portion of the program is at the bottom. I have unsuccessfully attempted to isolate the first 5 characters of STRING in the MACRO ABC, but I have been unsuccessful. Concatenation is possible along with checking individual characters of the argument, but there does not seem to be support for changing the last character from "T" to "2" as in my example. If that were possible, I could always use "ABC WRKTXT" and check to determine if "WRKTX2" was a defined STRING name at which point the MACRO ABC would automatically use: : Mov #WRKTX2,-(SP) without the necessity of providing the explicit STRING name of WRKTX2 to be used WITHIN the conditional A$. It is essential that the address of the STRING be placed on the stack when the text is in the .PSect TX2. Sometimes, the text must remain in .PSect TXT, so that is why ABC has the additional code to detect the last character of STRING. As I have shown, it is possible to determine if the 6th character of the STRING name is a :"2", but I don't seem to be able to strip off the 6th character of the name from STRING and replace it with a "2". At that point, it would be possible, still within the MACRO ABC, to test to see if the STRING name for which the 6th character has been replaced by a "2" exists and use the second form of ABC. Thank you in advance for any suggestions? Jerome Fine ============================= .IIf NDF A$,A$ = 0 .IIf NDF A$,A$ = 1 .MACRO ABC STRING ..STRI = 0 ...STR = 0 .IRPC ..STR.,<STRING> ...STR = ...STR+1 .If EQ ...STR-6 .If IDN ..STR.,<2> ..STRI = 1 .EndC;IDN ..STR.,<2> .EndC;EQ ...STR-6 .EndR;.IRPC .If EQ ..STRI Mov #STRING,R0 .IfF;EQ ..STRI Mov #STRING,-(SP) .EndC;EQ ..STRI .ENDM ABC .If EQ A$ .PSect TXT RW,D WRKTXT: .Ascii /Work/ .IfF;EQ A$ .PSect TX2 RW,D WRKTX2: .Ascii /Work/ .EndC;EQ A$ .PSect Code RW,I .If EQ A$ ABC WRKTXT .IfF;EQ A$ ABC WRKTX2 .EndC;EQ A$ .End

10 years, 10 months

Solvents for removing very old masking tape from front panels?

by derschjo＠gmail.com

My PDP-8/L arrived this afternoon (in one piece and without any damage) and I'll be going over it and cleaning it up over the next few days. Looks like it won't take much more than elbow grease to make most of it look nice again,but there's a big piece of masking tape stuck right above the switches. Age has more or less permanently affixed this to the front panel -- any recommendations as to how to remove this without damaging the front panel? Thanks, Josh

10 years, 10 months

OT: puppet questions

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I'm having a hairtearing time with some basic Puppet configuration involving getting RabbitMQ to provide a stomp listener/server thingy. If you can help me, please send me a private email. We can do this as a professional gig. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

10 years, 10 months

Dec stuff in Scotland....

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

Just saw this on the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23330157 Lots of interesting tech stuff to be scrapped, including a decwriter.... Too far away, and really no clue on to how to get this stuff... Jos

10 years, 11 months

Circuit Cellar site...

by marvin＠west.net

In case anyone is not aware, a lot of the Circuit Cellar magazines are posted online in digitized format at: http://archive.org/details/magazine_rack Also of interest is 73 Magazine back in the late 70's and early 80's as there are a number of good articles on the early computers (Kim1, etc.) The only unfortunate thing is they are scans so you can't cut and paste >from the articles except as images.

10 years, 11 months

Xebec S1410 wanted

by roelof_klaas＠gmx.com

Hello David, That's wonderful, Ive sent you an offlist message. Regards Roland ----- Original Message ----- From: David Griffith Sent: 07/13/13 11:56 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Xebec S1410 wanted On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Roland Huisman wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? > > http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… I might have one. I sold something similar a couple months ago. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

10 years, 11 months

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test-drb July 2013