test-drb September 2013

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Tektronix Smalltalk (was Re: Making perfect Keytronic replacement keypads)

by spacewar＠gmail.com

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, Tony Duell wrote: > > I once repaired some kind of Tektronix workstation (I believe it was > originally intended to run Smalltalk) Perhaps one of the 4404/5/6 line, which were variously marketed as Smalltalk workstations or AI workstations. Though Tek had other workstations that might have run Smalltalk, such as the 4300 series. The 4404 family originally ran a Unix clone whose name escapes me, but switched to UTek, derived from BSD 4.2. My hazy memory suggests that UTek 1.x might have been the clone, and UTek 2.x and later BSD.

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replacement Keytronics keypads

by sales＠elecplus.com

I called Keytronics, and they said they have not made these since 1992 or 1993. They gave the name and phone of Mil-Key in WA, 509-891-6425. They said they MIGHT still have some available there. They also said Cherry capacitive keyboards use the same technology, and are still in production. Last tidbit of info, she said these foil and foam pads are also known as "deccofelt pads". Cindy Croxton

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Old FTGH post? NoVA Equipment?

by jon＠jonworld.com

All, I was talking with someone a month or two ago about picking up some old Sun gear. They were in NOVA and I was planning on swinging by, since I'm in DC for work (and I drove out fro IN.) .... who was I talking to? I can't find the person's contact info or even a list of what was available. I know they posted here about the stuff. My brain has turned to swiss cheese. I want to say it was like a SB2000 or 280R or V240 or something along those lines. Thank you! -- -Jon Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.

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cctalk Digest, Vol 121, Issue 26

by elson＠pico-systems.com

Message: 3 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:51:40 -0500 From: Garrett Meiers <me at GarrettMeiers.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: DEC TSZ07-CA 9-track Drive Message-ID: <CAGX+B9sYQM=QBEQwPMxgjCSoRUBWUpVaXHr0i8saiW3wtf_8pA at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I have a DEC TSZ07-CA 9-track drive, in a desktop cabinet, that I got a couple of years ago. It was one of those situations where I had to have it, but had no use for it! Dug it out to play with, but it doesn't seem to power on. Anything special to get this thing to turn on? I'm assuming the PSU doesn't work, or has issues, but I've not tried to figure it out yet. Just wondering if it won't turn on because there is no tape loaded, etc. There is probably something wrong with it, but thought I'd ask. Whose drive is it? DEC didn't make any 9-track drives themselves. I looked it up, and it looks like a Cipher. We had one of those direct from Cipher, and it was a total piece of crap. You had to open up the top and manually help it to thread, and as the drive powered the NCR SCSI adapter hung on the back, you had to leave it powered on all the time to not hang the SCSI bus. About every month or two, a read channel chip would die. We got a bunch of the custom chips from Cipher, but it became too much hassle to replace these chips constantly. The Cipher would definitely turn on without a tape, but I guess there's just a power LED. The only way it knows there is a tape is to try to load it. Jon Jon

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Making perfect Keytronic replacement keypads

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Right but naturally who would have thought that a bunch of fanatics would be trying to use the hardware after 30 years or that the foam would even do that. I would have never expected that black tar to show up if i hadnt had to clean it up or hear others experience it as well.

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IBM 8" Floppy Cartridges?

by me＠GarrettMeiers.com

Does anyone know what systems these types of cartridges were used in? I have 10 of these, and they are all filled with IBM 8" Floppies as shown. I am curious, because they don't go to anything that came in the large lot of items I got last year, and have been a mystery since. I doubt they are useful for anything, but are pretty neat. Garrett Meiers www.linkedin.com/in/theunixguy

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Wanted: NeXT Hardware

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Looking for the following NeXT hardware NeXT Laser Printer NeXT Cube NeXTstation, can be mono, color, turbo or whatever And any and all related NeXT items Thanks

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Unnoobing my noobness (TECO on RT-11)

by sander.reiche＠gmail.com

Hi all, I'm finally starting to learn using a PDP-11 OS and one thing I'd like to (continue to) do is working on some text. So I've starting to learn (or cope?) with TECO. Found a TECO.SAV on some RT-11 Sigtape to run on RT-11XM. But as the SimH console running the RT-11 is happy typing in lowercase letters, it all goes uppercase inside of TECO. Is there something I need to do to get lowercase working for TECO? .SET TT: LC doesn't seem to work and doesn't seem to be needed as the RT-11 prompt happily accepts (and shows) lowercase. It's just that TECO seems to be flipping the console or input to uppercase. Any ideas or standard tips&tricks/hacks on using TECO on RT-11? With kind regards, Reiche

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New S-100 Parallel IO board

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi The S-100 Parallel IO PCBs have arrived! I have a small stash of extra boards available now that the pre-orders are all shipped. It is the S-100 Parallel IO board which provides four input parallel ports, four output parallel ports, and a PC compatible Centronics port. It has debugging LEDs and other features to help get your S-100 system working in top shape. The board is designed to be reliable and easy to assemble. The schematic and PCB layout files are on the N8VEM wiki here http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=S-100%20Paralle lIO There is an article on S100computers.com here which describes the prototype board. http://www.s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Parallel%20Ports%20IO%20Boa rd/Parallel%20Ports%20IO%20Board.htm The PCBs will be $20 each as per the usual arrangement. Shipping in the US is $3 for a single PCB and $2 for each additional PCB. Shipping internationally is $10 for a single PCB and $3 for each additional PCB. This is for the bare basics USPS first class postage with no tracking or insurance. The builder assumes all risk of delivery as per usual arrangement. Please send a PayPal to LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM with "S-100 Parallel IO board" to receive your board. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch PS, alternatively you can order your S-100 Parallel IO PCB from eBay. Please see my auctions here http://shop.ebay.com/lynchkl/m.html

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DEC Rainbow / DECmate help needed (UK)

by lproven＠gmail.com

Computing History @computermuseum 3:55 PM - 17 Sep 13 Are there any #DEC peeps out there who would be willing to come and get our DEC Rainbow and DECmate going? pic.twitter.com/3dCBjwhL0d https://twitter.com/computermuseum/status/379982063132499968 -- 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

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test-drb September 2013