test-drb February 2018

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Seeking one or two Xerox daybreak mice, preferably 3 button

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

Trying to get a leg up on a project and keep a ratio of peripherals to machines, please let me know if you have one to sell. Sent from my toaster oven.

6 years, 10 months

Looking for a home

by pete＠petelancashire.com

Need to start cleaning aut, will have more/better pictures soon The Alphas have full True64 feature certificates, at least one ran before going into storage and has 2 72 GBs and at least 3 new 300 GB drives. One of the Suns is a Sun1 pre-production https://photos.app.goo.gl/c8dHa89KUaUGVn9n1 The IBM RS6000 has been spoken for -pete

6 years, 10 months

FS: Various boards of all kinds from Sellam's collection

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

Hello Folks! I have accumulated a large assortment of random boards that I need to move along. There's a bunch of PC stuff and then a bunch of random. It's best to just view the list and see the accompanying photos and then ask me any questions you might have. The list is here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?58709-New-Items-For-Sale-Check-th… For fastest response please inquire directly via e-mail to < sellam.ismail at gmail.com>. Thanks! Sellam

6 years, 10 months

OS for a Paragon XP/E

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

Does anyone have leads on an operating system for such a beast? TIA, - Ian

6 years, 10 months

How to enable USB drives in both Windows 98SE AND MS-DOS 7.1.

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Grant Taylor cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net > Sorry if this comes across wrong. ... I'm replying in an attempt to > provide a counter point for a discussion of reality. So please don't > take this as an attack on you, or your laudable appeal. No problem! > When I write things for my personal site, I want them first and > foremost to be on my personal site. Right, but my question is 'why are you writing them?' Is it just because you enjoy writing, or do you do it in an attempt to convey information to others? (Or perhaps some motivation I haven't guessed?) Because if it's the latter, my point is that people are more likely to find it, when they're looking for info on a topic, if it's part of something like the CHWiki, than they are on individual Web sites. Not only can it be included in an organized way (so that one can start with the home page, and hopefully click on a few links to get to the topic one's interested in), but Google et al (the _only_ way people are likely to find a writeup in a personal Web-site) are likely to show the CHWiki page on a topic fairly high in their search output. (I just tried a few samples to verify that claim, so it's not just a supposition on my part! :-) I'm not sure how their display selection algorithm works (and I gather they are always tweaking it, both in attempt to make the results more useful, but also to prevent people from gaming it), but it does seem to like sites that have a mass of content. So if you're going to put all that work into writing something up, _and_ the goal is for people to use it... > Since I'm going to write for my site first, and I'm having to make time > to do so ... I think it's more important to get things recorded > somewhere, even if it's not the ideal location, than it is to delay > getting them recorded elsewhere, if ever. I agree it's better to have stuff online in a private site, than not at all. I have done this quite a bit myself, e.g.: http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/multics/MulticsPanels.html http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html so I do understand going that way. (The last two could easily be moved to the CHWiki, if I had the time/energy...) But speaking of the time to write things, that's another advantage of using the CHWiki - if you want to mention some technical term/concept, on the CHWiki you can just link to it with '[[xxx']]', and if some novice reading the article needs to know more about that topic, they just click on the link; no need to write explanatory text yourself. E.g. my 'Bringing up V6 Unix on the Ersatz-11 PDP-11 Emulator' page would probably have benefitted from that, and been a bit less long-winded as a result... Noel

6 years, 10 months

HP 9816 CP/M-68K

by aek＠bitsavers.org

floppies recovered and uploaded to http://bitsavers.org/bits/HP/HP_9000/cpm-68k I'm pretty sure this will only work in a 9121 single-sided drive but I'll be trying to boot it soon

6 years, 10 months

Microfiches on Ebay

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Mattis Lind > Many are already available online but some I cannot find. Which ones are you missing? I'm curious to see if my set has them. Noel

6 years, 10 months

PDP 11/05 - looking for help

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Dave Wade > Or pick up the signals from the wire wrap I think the OP's approach - disable the on-board console - is probably best: that port is limited to 2400 baud, and with DL11's being a dime a dozen (OK, I exaggerate a bit, but only slightly - they're available for about $25)... And that way you get RS-232 too, and don't have to deal with 20mA - you can plug straight into a PC. Noel

6 years, 10 months

Available : 2 Sun caddies / disk brackets

by ed＠groenenberg.net

For the cost of postage: 2 Sun brackets, part no 330-1806 One is made of clear plastic, the other is purple. They are located in the Netherlands. Regards, Ed -- Ik email, dus ik besta.

6 years, 10 months

PDP 11/05 - looking for help - looking for Jorg Hoppe?

by sop00000h＠scotnet.co.uk

Jorg Hoppe: I am the proud owner of an old pdp11/05. I does not have a M9970 (nor can I find one). So I cant do 20ma/rs232 output. I read in somebodies note about jumpers @W1 and W2 on the M7261F that I have. Apparently cutting one of these disables the onboard uart and will allow me to put in a serial card. I cant find the jumpers. Nor can I find a print set. Any suggestions?

6 years, 10 months

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test-drb February 2018