Great to hear! EK2 should make it a successfully revival.?
Sellam, you helping for fun too or happily still basking in the glory of making your goal of VCF X?
Glad its back though. The more the merrier for all regions to enjoy.
- John
<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Evan Koblentz <cctalk at snarc.net> </div><div>Date:02/05/2016 4:21 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> </div><div>Subject: VCF West is BACK ... woohoo! </div><div>
</div>Mark your calendars: Vintage Computer Festival West is back! August 6-7
this year at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, Calif., just
like before).
We * just * signed the contract today. I'll email again when we have the
web site ready and stuff.
Primary organizer out there will be Erik Klein.
Mark your calendars: Vintage Computer Festival West is back! August 6-7
this year at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, Calif., just
like before).
We * just * signed the contract today. I'll email again when we have the
web site ready and stuff.
Primary organizer out there will be Erik Klein.
Hello all - I have uploaded some new documents related to an employee
club at Hewlett Packard that sought to explore these new
"micro-computers" and, given the evidence at hand, design their own
(apparently a Z80-based CPU card of their own design, an S-100
backplane and an HP case.) The story as I know it is incomplete and
I'm sure more details will be filled in soon by those who were there.
The documents were lent to me for scanning by the daughter of an HP
employee. I'll be returning them to her soon; I believe she will be
offering them to CHM as a donation.
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing%2FHP/HPMCIG
The docs are divided into directories as follows:
Micro Minutes: 30 issues of the newsletter of the Hewlett-Packard
Micro-Computer Interest Group, various dates between 1979 and 1983.
Some issues undated.
Non-HP_Docs: Documents from other vendors that were likely used by
the club. I'll place them in their own vendor directories also but I
thought leaving copies here help give us an idea of what the club was
working with or discussing at the time
Club_Notes: Emails, memos, handwritten notes, receipts and other
club-related ephemera
I thought it spoke well of HP as a company at that time that they
supported an employee hobbyist organization. Enjoy digging through a
unique bit of early Silicon Valley history.
-j
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silent700.blogspot.com
Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
http://chiclassiccomp.org
Does anyone out there have access to an HP-UX 11.x system? I am
looking for a ROM image file for the FX-e video card to help me write
an OpenBSD frame buffer driver for this platform.
Thanks,
Bryan
All ?
Does anyone know of an on-line archive of Heathkit manuals pertaining to the H11 (LSI-11) Heathkit computer? I haven?t been able to produce much that?s useful from Googling, so I thought I?d ask.
Let me know.
Thanks!
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.classiccmp.org/cinihttp://www.classiccmp.org/altair32
Hi
I'm trying to boot a Bull DPX/2 and got stuck waiting for NFS to do
something, at least that is what I believe.
Is there anyone on the list with B.O.S experience that could help me
bring the sytem up under some kind of single user environment without
network.
I have a OS install kit with bootable floppies and I managed to get a
prompt using the "boot_unix" floppy and following the manuals that I
have.
However, not even "ls" would work from this prompt, only "cat". (You are
supposed to enter "os_install", but I don't want to mess up the existing
installtion.
/P
The "PDP-11/04 and floppy disk" I posted already was claimed by a
listmember. But after the fact, the owner sent me a picture. The listmember
who is getting it is getting a pretty nice system. One of the dec mid-height
cabinets that has the sloped front at the top. RX02 at the top, 11/04 under
that, and dec filler panels. Nice DEC magenta insignia on the slope at the
top front. Very nice.
Also - the dual 11/73 rack system has been claimed by another list member.
Best,
J
I received the following this morning....
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I recently acquired a pdp11/73 with dual CPUs and am looking to sell it.
Would you know anyone interested.
I would like this to survive and wish to find it a good home. I live In
Massachusetts.
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The person also gave me a picture, which I posted (temporarily) at
http://www.ezwind.net/pdp1173/
This particular machine is too new for my tastes, but the dual cpu (and
status panel) is rather unusual.
If anyone is interested, please email me off-list and I'll forward the
contact details.
Best,
J
