test-drb January 2014

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by doc＠vaxen.net

Yes, it's a bit off topic, but I've beat my brains out trying to get HP to even talk about providing media. We are licensed for HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) TCOE on several C8000 PA-RISC boxes but we don't have install media. The original media kit p/n is B6821AA, and the C8000 requires Dec 2004 or later media to boot. Concurrent 11i v1 application media (p/n 5014-1459) would be nice, but not a necessity. This is for my employer, so it's not a freebie. Please contact me off-list if you can help. Doc

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SCSI2SD

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 02:49 PM 1/30/2014, Jonathan Katz wrote: >Volume economics. Let's broker a mass deal? If we (cctech/cctalk >population) order like 100 among all of us, there has to be some kind >of volume discount. I can think of at least 4-5 machines of my own >that I can use this tech in. There's a far larger market for this than this mailing list. I don't know why more hardware hackers don't give away their designs. Let the far east build 'em for you. - John

10 years, 11 months

A New Year and a large cleanup - 2

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

As the collection of stuff I'm letting go seems a bit too much for people to take in one go, I have divided the whole into lots. A lot will be marked 'reserved' only if it is a firm reservation. Lot's do not have to be collected immediately, if needed, it can be set aside for a few months. However, in such case, 10% of the accepted offer is required as a security. Stuff can be shipped, local pickup is preferred and the stuff is located in the Netherlands. The lot list can be found at www.groenenberg.net/download/1170/ Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email. Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.

10 years, 11 months

"Deciphering dissent" at Bletchley Park. TNMOC trustees' statement. | The National Museum of Computing

by dave.g4ugm＠gmail.com

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/deciphering-discontent-statement-tn… Dave G4UGM

10 years, 11 months

Programming the Newton

by evan＠snarc.net

Anyone here ever program for the original Apple Newton? If so, then I'd like to interview you for an article. Must be tonight or tomorrow morning/afternoon. Send me a private email... evan at snarc.net ... thanks.

10 years, 11 months

ASR33 parity (was: Re: "stop bits")

by bqt＠update.uu.se

On 2014-01-29 10:00, Kyle Owen<kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >I don't remember ever seeing a Model 33 with parity. And weren't >> >telegrams sent in 5 level code? If not at the end, then surely before >> >ASCII appeared. And of course before either, there was Morse code, which >> >doesn't come with parity either. >> > >> >All parity can do is convert garbled characters into missing characters. >> > Neither is good. Telegraph operators probably relied on having good >> >signal quality, ensuring adequate bit error rate values, at which point >> >parity is not particularly needed. And with Morse, you're probably relying >> >on skilled operators -- ECC performed by trained brain cells. > > Wikipedia seems to indicate that the Model 33 ASR sent 7-bit ASCII with > even parity. I've found that in many of the programs on my PDP-8/E, even > parity is required, which I presume stems from the Model 33 ASR days. Eh? What? There was an option for 8-bit clean communication in the ASR33, as well as other parity choices. But by default an ASR33 have *MARK* parity. And all older PDP-8 software that I've ever seen also assumes MARK parity. If you try running older PDP-8 software with your terminal set to even parity, it will not work. If you are ever near an ASR33 with a paper punch, you can easily verify that it is doing mark parity by just enabling the punch, and check what codes you get there as you type, with the ASR33 in local mode. Johnny

10 years, 11 months

Pentium I boards

by elson＠pico-systems.com

On 01/27/2014 07:52 PM, Derrick wrote: >> i wonder if anyone out there might have an old pentium 1 board since i >> have a few pentium 1 processors and even an amd k6-2 but i want to be >> able to use the processors and maybe build up a nice old windows 95 box >> or something nice. if anyone might have any just let me know I have a Pentium Classic 100 MHz board that was working last time I fired it up, which was quite some time ago. But, other than replacing the CMOS battery, it ought to be OK. It is an Intel brand motherboard. Jon

10 years, 11 months

DEC Data Retrieval

by bqt＠update.uu.se

On 2014-01-28 18:59, Zane Healy<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Paul Koning<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote: > >> >But BRU produces something structurally different from VMS save sets, doesn?t it? > It's been so long since I've looked at any of this, I honestly don't remember. I was thinking that RSX-11 backups would be readable by at least some versions of VMS. No. VMS BACKUP cannot read RSX BRU format savesets. But you can (could) run BRU on VMS... >> >RSTS Backup actually generates VMS save sets, the same format. > That's good to know. Right. Different PDP-11 OSes use different formats, so it's not really meaningful to ask about "PDP-11 backup". You need to specify which backup format you are talking about. I think I know of at least four. RSX used to use something called DSC (which stood for Disc Save and Compress), which was eventually replaced by BRU. I assume RSTS/E had some backup format in the older days. With RSTS/E V9 (I think it was), a new backup utility was created, which is the VMS compatible one. I'm not aware if RT-11 also had some backup tool, but I would assume so. Johnny

10 years, 11 months

1541 Alignment disk

by n2dvm＠arrl.net

>Message: 6 >Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:39:21 -0800 >From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> >To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> >Subject: Re: 1541 Alignment disk >Message-ID: <52DC5419.7020309 at sydex.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >On 01/19/2014 12:45 PM, geneb wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure Dan is after an analog alignment disk. There was a > > vendor mentioned here a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall their name. > >Accurite: > >http://www.accurite.com/AAD.html > >--Chuck Ok, which disk would I purchase then?

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Fax (was Re: Nine technologies that have faded into history)

by spacewar＠gmail.com

On Jan 29, 2014 9:36 AM, "Paul Koning" <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 10:55 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> ... > > Legal - In some parts of the world documents faxed are considered legal, as if the had been hand delivered. > > The USA is such a place. I don't recall the exact wording, but basically any setup that scans a physical document, transfers a representation over a telecommunication system, and recreates it as s physical document again meets the US legal definition of facsimile. There doesn't have to be a "fax machine" as you would normally consider it, and Internet email should qualify for the telecommunication, but if the document doesn't start and end in physical form, it isn't a fax. In other words, if I sign a paper contract, scan it, email it to someone, and they print it, it has been faxed. But if I start with a PDF file, sign it in a graphics program, and email that, it has not been faxed because it did not originate as a physical document. If the PDF was originally a scan of a paper document, but I fill it in digitally, then email it, that's not a fax because the electronic document is not an accurate, unaltered representation of a physical document. [I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a suitably large grain of salt.]

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