test-drb February 2015

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by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

Anyone has the DEC font, as used to mark their papertapes, ready in machine readable format ? ( C include file preferred ) The 8x6 format I use now just does not have the right look to it. Yep, I am recreating some of those papertapes... Jos

9 years, 8 months

von Neumann documentary clip

by kspt.tor＠gmail.com

On 26 February 2015 at 06:11, Jon Elson <elson at pico-systems.com> wrote: > On 02/25/2015 08:33 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: >> >> Brief clip from a 1966 documentary about von Neumann: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3vwMq_2xA >> >> Goldstine presenting while standing in front of the IAS machine, which >> appears to be decommissioned and in storage. >> >> Fuel for the eternal fire: Goldstine seems to be pretty definite in >> attributing the stored-program concept to Johnny. >> >> > Well, I'm not sure the stored program concept was unique to von Neumann, it > was one of those concepts that was entirely ripe at that time. Well, that IBM guy was pretty insistent that it was von Neumann's idea, but that it's one of those ideas that seems so completely obvious when you hear about it that you can't imagine that it hasn't been around all the time. And nevertheless someone had to come up with the thought first. And afterwards it can never be unthought. The "meme" concept actually. BTW the full 55 minutes documentary is on Youtube too.

9 years, 8 months

FS: 42U IBM Rack- Located in Farwell Michigan

by slandon110＠gmail.com

I bought this rack to use to do some telco work, but its almost too big for my needs. Id like to get $150 out of it. Its in really nice shape. Needs cage nuts. Other then that everything is perfect on it. Casters and everything. Has some rails installed as well. Someone come pick it up out of my basement please. A picture of it is here https://www.flickr.com/photos/67970316 at N08/16220812147/

9 years, 8 months

Michigan Regional Show- TimmyNet Telephone Company Swap & Show. w/ vintage computer display

by slandon110＠gmail.com

Cross Posting from the VOIP list. For all you telecom lovers and telephone lovers. Be Sure and Come on out to the Michigan Regional Show, The TimmyNet Telephone Company Swap & Show April 11th in beautiful Clare Michigan. Registration is open so get your registration in. We need all the people we can get to make this show happen. Event is located at the Doherty Hotel in Clare. We will also be having a small vintage computer display as well. So bring some machines with modems and make some noise. TimmyNet Telco will be providing 16 lines of Dialtone for you to play with. Here is a link to the website and show registration link is on the page https://timmynetphoneshow.wordpress.com/

9 years, 8 months

OMSI and UW FOCAL help

by j＠ckrubin.us

DEC released FOCAL-8 (FOrmula CALculator) in 1969 as a tool for numeric problem solving on the PDP "Family of 8" machines. The language allowed extension and at least two additional versions were made available to the public. OMSI-P/S8 FOCAL is available of Dave Gesswein's site along with an HTML version of the online help as documentation. The manual for Jim van Zee's University of Washington Focal (UWF) is on bitsavers and also as FOCAL8-301 from DECUS. I'm trying to find the missing pieces - an OMSI manual and UWF source and binaries. Can anybody help? Thanks, Jack

9 years, 8 months

Removing OpenVMS license paks (fwd)

by richardlo＠admin.athabascau.ca

I said: $ license delete /all but it should be: $ license delete vms-user /all because you cannot delete them all so easily. There is also an interactive utility: sys$update:vmslicense.com -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston

9 years, 8 months

Seeking Apollo keyboard and mouse (DN3000)

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

Hi folks, I am seeking an Apollo Keyboard and Mouse to get my DN/3000 all kitted out. There is a set on ebay which I can use as a last resort, but the asking price is a bit steep from recycledgoods. If anyone has a pair available, please let me know. Not opposed to paying or trading for them, but I've grown to dislike dealing with ebay. If anyone has any cool ideas for software to run on it, that would also be appreciated! :) Thanks, - Ian

9 years, 8 months

Removing OpenVMS license paks

by ak6dn＠mindspring.com

-----Original Message----- >From: Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at verizon.net> >Sent: Feb 24, 2015 12:03 PM >To: General at classiccmp.org, Discussion at classiccmp.org, On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org> >Subject: Removing OpenVMS license paks > >I want to sell a couple of MicroVaxes that I had installed the hobbyist >OpenVMS software on quite some time ago. > >The OpenVMS Hobbyist website says I must delete the license PAKS before >I transfer the hardware to someone else. > >How do you actually do this? $ LICENSE DELETE * /ALL

9 years, 8 months

Z-letter collection

by cclist＠sydex.com

Whilst digging through the detritus of the last 20+ years, I realized that I had copies of Dave McGlone's Z-Letter, issues 1-40 (which is pretty close, IIRC to the lot). Does anyone scan and archive these things for public access? If so, I'll gladly send them along for such treatment. I've also got a dozen issues or so of the TCJ (The Computer Journal) >from 1994-95. Useful or recycle fodder? --Chuck

9 years, 8 months

VT101 8085 CPU Fault

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Tothwolf > I've seen pushback from some people in the vintage computing community > to wholesale replacement of aluminum electrolytics which are long past > their life expectancy and I just don't get it. Well, notice you didn't cause a big debate on the topic to break out here, as we often get on some of these things (e.g. crimping versus soldering, etc). My _guess_ is that vintage computer people aren't very 'religious' about it, and to the extent that they _don't_ do it, it's as much because they don't have the parts on hand (or the ability to find them easily), plus the work involved, as anything else. For those of us who are basically software people (or even pure digital), this stuff can be a little daunting - not necessarily because it's actually hard, it's just out of our comfort zone. I myself am certainly daunted by the concept of replacing every electrolytic in all the power supplies of all the vintage -11's I've got... (And I don't want to even think about all the filter caps on all the boards! :-) Maybe you (or someone) should offer a service... I'd sign up! :-) Noel

9 years, 8 months

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