test-drb July 2013

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Looking for a 5-bit ITA2 terminal emulator

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

Before I write my own and reinvent the wheel(?), does anyone know of a 5-bit terminal emualtor using ITA2 (often mis-called 'Baudot' or 'Murray' code) at 50 baud that runs on some classic computer (as that's all I have?). Something that runs on an origianl IBM PC under MS-DOS would be fine... -tony

11 years, 5 months

TRS80s

by jblair1948＠cox.net

At 12:30 PM 7/8/2013, you wrote: >Would you send some to brazil? Sorry, no. I don't want to get hung up with the hassle of packing and shipping and then not having them work, etc. John John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948 at cox.net Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229 48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1106) 75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III 65 Rambler Classic Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan Bricklin: www.bricklin.org If you can read this - Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English - Thank a Vet!! From Dennis Prager - The American Trilogy: e pluribus Unum, "from many, one." In God We Trust Liberty - the power of choosing, thinking, and acting for oneself; freedom from control or restriction

11 years, 5 months

Viking Moniterm screen

by lproven＠gmail.com

Remember this conversation from last year? On 7 November 2012 13:26, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: > On 7 November 2012 01:57, Schindler Patrik <poc at pocnet.net> wrote: >> >> >> I started my use of Macs in 1988, a Mac II with a 1-bit Viking Moniterm TTL >> 19", 1024x768 display with anti-glare. > > I think I have one of those in the garage, if you would like it...? > > Not sure how I can get it from London to Germany, but I have a friend > who drives from London to Hannover 1 or 2 times a year to visit her > parents... and some others who sometimes drive to/from Luneberg... Well, yesterday, Patrik emailed me to tell me that he received the screen and NuBus graphics card and has them up and working. :-D So once again, a ClassicCmper-to-ClassicCmper long-distance exchange has resulted in a piece of vintage kit being rescued and working again. This pleases me very much indeed. -- 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, 5 months

Free Stuff - Manchester UK

by julian_smith＠btinternet.com

I've been starting to trawlthrough my various big piles of miscellaneous / less interesting stuff that I haven't got round to doing anything with (or am ever likely to...) and have an Osborne 1a that did work ~6 years ago before it was consigned to a dark corner of the attic after an earlier clear out. From memory the monitor took ~20 seconds to warm up and work and there's also a missing key cap so it's far from a pristine, museum quality example. From my rather narrow perspective it isn't the most interesting or exciting of machines either. But it is free... Is anyone interested in it? If so, I'd prefer someone to come and pick it up rather than go through the effort of packing / shipping etc as I'm basically lazy and don't want to do much more than drag it downstairs and throw a disk in it to see if it still works. Collection may be possible from Bath / Swansea via one of my relatives if you can wait a month or two. Julian

11 years, 5 months

FPUIB: old books to go

by jbdigriz＠crucible.dragonsweb.org

Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote .. > I need to clear out my office at the college (I AM NOW RETIRED!) > I want to get rid of most of 75 boxes. > > If anybody resells this crap for megabucks, then I would like an informal > promise of 1% of any amount over $1000, AND that you then come visit > (BRING A TRUCK!) > > These items are free with pickup in Berkeley - I don't want to get into > running a shippiong operation, so if you won't pick them up in Berkeley, > I'll send Priority Mail Flat Rate boxes, with the shipping rounded UP to > the nearest multiple of $10 > Yes, I tried hiring a college kid to do some shipping. SO, now I no > longer even know which items ever went out. > In the event that multiple people want the same item(s), I'll do a lousy > job of prioritizing. > > Here's a few items: > > Author > Title > Publisher edition date ISBN-10 pages Binding Condition > comments > > Note that "Perfect" is a binding type, not a condition. > Even the "New" books will have some handling > > > > Box R6 > Microsoft > OS/2 Programmer's Reference : Volume 1 > Microsoft 1.1 1989 1-55615-220-5 740 Perfect New > warp from not lying flat > Microsoft > OS/2 Programmer's Reference : Volume 2 > Microsoft 1.1 1989 1-55615-221-3 564 Perfect New > warp from not lying flat > Microsoft > OS/2 Programmer's Reference : Volume 3 > Microsoft 1.1 1989 1-55615-222-1 430 Perfect New > warp from not lying flat > Microsoft > OS/2 Programmer's Reference : Volume 4 > Microsoft 1.1 1989 1-55615-256-0 414 Perfect New > warp from not lying flat > > Iacobucci > OS/2 Programmer's Guide > Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1988 0-07-881300-X 1100 Perfect > New > Fred, I just saw on /. that Ed Iacobucci has died of pancreatic cancer at 59. There was considerable side discussion of OS/2 2.0 and such there. If only I had a van or a truck. I've been considering rebuilding my library, even though going strictly electronic has saved a lot of uh...space. Yeah, that's it, space. jbdigriz

11 years, 5 months

Talking to ASR33 Over DECserver 90M Using Reverse Telnet

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I am trying to get communication going from SIMH to my ASR33 connected to a DECserver 90M. It works except for the Line Feed character. It seems the DECserver is not passing the Line Feed through to the ASR33. I have looked at the Telnet RFCs and I think I need option NAOLFD (http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc658.txt) but the DECserver responds with a WONT when I modify SIMH to send this option. Have I got the right option or is there another option I should be sending? I also tried looking at the port options on the DECserver, and there doesn't seem to be anything there that controls this. I had a go with a RAW telnet listener on the DECserver but it didn't work at all. Thanks Rob

11 years, 5 months

IEEE article

by aek＠bitsavers.org

Does someone have access to this article? http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1061252

11 years, 5 months

More XT Keyboard fun... (and success!)

by brain＠jbrain.com

Thanks to dabone, who sent me a clone XT and a Model M KB, I am testing my XT KB code. As expected, it did not work initially. So, I thought I'd hook up the Model M KB and see what it is sending. That's when I found out I had mapped all of the PS/2 keycodes to the XT keyboard key numbers, not scan codes. To close out the thread, that was where I was getting the 0x2a/0x2b issue. INT2 (which is \ on some international KBs), is key number 42, but sends scan code 43. So, fixed the mappings, and now the KB is working well. I still have an issue where the cursor keys send numerics to the XT when num lock is on. Just a bit more debugging to do and I think it'll be done. Anyone know of a DOS util that would report what key is being pressed (for the esoteric ones, like print screen and pause break) or some other way to test the tougher ones? Jim -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com

11 years, 5 months

Looking for: HP 9000/216 (9816) keyboard

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Just picked one of these up, sans keyboard. This may be the only HP computer I'd dare to call "cute." I thought I had a keyboard that would be compatible with it, but it turns out I do not -- anyone have one going spare? Thanks, Josh

11 years, 5 months

VMS Disk Status: HostUnavailable

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I have just popped an ST225 disk into my MicroVAX II to see if it works and I get this status: Device Device Error Volume Free Trans Mnt Name Status Count Label Blocks Count Cnt MICRO1$DUA0: HostUnavailable 0 MICRO1$ sh dev micro1$dua0:/fu Disk MICRO1$DUA0:, device type RD51, is online, host not available, file- oriented device, shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled. Error count 0 Operations completed 0 Owner process "" Owner UIC [0,0] Owner process ID 00000000 Dev Prot S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED Reference count 0 Default buffer size 512 I have done a quick search on the web and all I can see is that it may be somehow related to clustering. Well, I netbooted the machine specifically because I wanted to check out the disk. I have done this many times before without issue. What does this status mean? Regards Rob

11 years, 5 months

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test-drb July 2013