Hi,
Some 20 years ago I briefly had some NCD16's and found some of the
tarred images and software from those days. Hopefully it survived the
various media transfers.
Fred Jan
Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
> Interesting. From around 1975 or so (...) A few years later (...)
> Not long after, Lippold Haken created a keyboard that's continuous rather than discrete (think of a keyboard like the fingerboard of a violin); a successor of that is still sold today.
This thing here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_Fingerboard ? Seems a bit like a digital successor to, or at least inspired by, the analogue 1930s "Trautonium" device (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium) developed by Trautwein and Sala in Berlin, which used a length of resistance wire suspended over a metal rail. Both position (pitch) and pressure (volume)sensitive according to the description.
Arno, DO4NAK
> From: Fred Cisin
> Who has some time to go clean up Wikipedia?
I'll get right on it ... as soon as I finish bailing out the ocean with a
spoon.
Wikipedia - proof that if you give a million monkeys keyboards, they can
create something that vaguely resembles an encyclopaedia.
Noel (who was an early Wikipediast, until the Marching Morons arrived)
> From: Ethan Dicks
> I haven't even made an inventory of it. What would I look for to know?
Check out the module utilization chart, either in the RK11-C Engineering
Drawings, or here:
http://gunkies.org/wiki/RK11_disk_controller
(at the top of the section "RK11-C Board chart/count tables"). On a stock
RK11-C, slots 1-8, rows C-D (the bottom two rows) are empty. In the "Double
Buffer" variant, they are full of Flip Chips.
(I'll be documenting the added Flip Chips in the Double-Buffered variant
'soon'.)
Noel
> Subject: Does anyone actually have a KT11-B?
> Date: Fri Sep 30 19:04:47 CDT 2016
> the ones shown in the images show it to be (mostly) an RK11-C.
> ...
> I say "mostly" because there appear to be extra cards on the right hand
> end; whether those are some sort of upgrade to the RK11-C, or whether
> someone just stored spare Flip Chips out there, I have no idea.
So this mystery has been solved (sort of). According to some drawings I have,
there is apparently something called a "Double Buffer Disk Control" variant of
the RK11-C. I looked online, but there was nothing about it there, and the
RK11-C Engineering Drawings at BitSavers don't cover this variant. Does anyone
out there have one of these?
Noel
Today in the age of pointer-graphics, ie., using a mouse, is a very
important day: Nov. 17, 1970, Doug Engelbart, of SRI, Menlo Park, CA,
invented the mouse or granted a patent for "X-Yposition indictator for
a grahics display." BTW he doesn't know who coined the word 'mouse'.
Happy computing!
Murray :)
I just picked one of these up the 1991 catalog describes
HP 6954A Features
A Rugged Rack-mountable Test System in a Single Unit Built-in
HP 9000 Series 310 or Series 332 Computer. and 20 Megabyte
Hard Disc Includes BASIC and HP 14753A CAT Programming
Package HP-IB, HP-HIL, RS-232, Audio and Video Interfaces ....
Anyone have a manual on this guy ?
So far I can't find where the hard drive goes, was it internal or
external via GPIB ?
BTW mine is older, the CPU is a 310 (98561-66515)
-pete
From: Mattis Lind <mattislind at gmail.com>
Subject: SPRAGUE capacitor for Tektronix 4051.
> One of the DC filter capacitors has gone open circuit in my Tektronix
> 4051.
> It is a SPRAGUE 9600 uF - 30VDC with a little bit unusual foot print.
Check out www.cedist.com - they have a pretty good assortment of these
old-style capacitors available.
~~
Mark Moulding
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever gotten Eric Smith's tumble pdf
creation program running under any version of BSD?
I ran into a problem porting it to OS X, in the way it used rewind()
and was wondering if anyone else ran into that on other BSDs
Could ?be a number of things. Usually the seller has setup the wrong email address in eBay. I.e. they put in an email address for their PayPal account that does not match the actual PP account. If he is real a quick call to eBay will get it fixed.?
-------- Original message --------
From: Jay West <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Date: 11/16/16 12:30 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: eBay: 1982 Prime Computer
So I took a chance.....
Seller hasn't responded to any of the previous emails, nor have they acknowledged the purchase in any way.
Something I have never seen before in all my ebay transactions... when I go? into ebay instead of a greyed out $ symbol (unpaid) or black $ symbol (paid)... it has an hourglass. Hovering the mouse said "your payment is being processed". Kinda odd since the payment was from paypal funds already on account. So I logged into paypal....
Paypal says "eBay - fishslayer40 at XXXXXXXX (redacted) hasn't accepted yet." Google shows no trace of that email address and while not a red flag, usually something is in the search results for someone's email address.
I have never seen where paying someone on ebay via paypal required them to "accept the funds". They just "get them" I thought.
Crossing my fingers....
J
