test-drb March 2018

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Reading a PDP-11 RL02: Anyone Around the U.S. West Coast?

by unifoundry＠gmail.com

Greetings, I have an old PDP-11 RL02 that I would like to read, to preserve its data for archival purposes. Ideally I would like to extract and store every block on the disk. I am in southern California but would be willing to drive a day or so to anyone who still has an RL02 disk drive on a PDP-11 or VAX and can read it. I can bring a computer with X/Y/Zmodem/Kermit and RS-232 cables if that helps. Thanks, Paul Hardy

8 years, 1 month

AlphaServers

by rlloken＠telus.net

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk wrote: > Anyone out there do Alphas anymore? Well my AS4100 is running OpenVMS even as we speak. I have an Alphastation 500 here doing nothing. I arranged for somebody to get two free DS20Es last year so, yes, I still do alphas. Intel? Don't need no stinkin' intel around here. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

8 years, 1 month

GRI 771 Keyboard Info

by systems.glitch＠gmail.com

All, I'm looking for info on a George Risk 771 parallel ASCII keyboard. I've got one but no documentation or existing cabling. I'd like to interface it to my Poly-88. Thanks, Jonathan

8 years, 1 month

XT/370 microcode

by spacewar＠gmail.com

As the most obvious example of the impedance mismatch between 370 architecture and 68000 microarchitecture, the 68000 is hardwired to have eight each data and address registers, not sixteen GPRs, and microcode can't easily paper over that. Similarly, the 8087 microarchitecture has hardwired support for binary floating point normalization, and microcode can't efficiently force that to do radix 16 normalization. Both problems could be surmounted (inefficiently) with enough microcode, but the chips were designed with no significant extra microcode ROM and PLA capacity.

8 years, 1 month

Texas Instruments Silent 703/707 print head anyone?

by Martin.Hepperle＠MH-AeroTools.de

Hi, last weekend I cleaned and restored a TI Silent 703 printing terminal. A rather common type with its whopping 300 baud transfer rate - nevertheless a piece of history. It was easy to fix a broken trace on the keyboard PCB (corrosion) and to roughen the idler roller for better grip on the paper. Now there is one issue left: The print head is missing one dot (infinite resistance: burnt out) and one dot prints weak (resistor seems to have twice the resistance of the others, which are all around 95 Ohms). As these terminals were produced in large numbers and the printhead/ribbon cable combo was a user serviceable part someone might have some spare parts... So: if you have a new or used part #2310472-0001 printhead, thermal I would be interested. It is a 10 wire ribbon cable with the print head. It was used in the 703 and 707 and probably also in other devices of the TI 700 Silent family. Martin

8 years, 1 month

are there scanned copies of Honeywell computer journal in pdf or? have several bound volumes 68-69 and also 73... tightly bound... if scanned already somewhere will just put on shelf her and consider no further action

by couryhouse＠aol.com

are there scanned ? copies of Honeywell?computer journal in pdf or? ?have several bound? volumes 68-69 ?and??also ?73... ?tightly bound... ?if ?scanned ?already? somewhere will just put on shelf her and consider?no further action ? ed# www.smecc.org

8 years, 1 month

Various Software and Documentation for shipping + donations (round 10B)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, More of the stack. if any of this interests you please contact me via Private (not list) email at mtapley at swri.edu. If you do want something, send me your shipping address and exactly what you want. I'll get back to you with estimated shipping costs (USPS media rate where possible) as soon as I can. You send me payment (any method is acceptable; USPS does not recommend cash in the mail) and I will ship when payment arrives. If you want Fed-Ex or something different from USPS media let me know at your first contact and I will price that for you. If you can afford to send slightly more than costs, I'll collect up the surplus for Cindy and get it to her. If more than one person wants the same thing, it goes to the person sending me the earliest time-tagged email. If Al K. wants anything for Bitsavers, he gets priority (even if his is not the first email) up until it leaves my hands. There will be multiple sets of email from me, each with a short list of things, unless/until someone asks me to quit. Thanks for your attention! - Mark This list is all Software. Some of it appears to match the books in the previous list, which is why this is titled round 10B - if you are interested in one of these, let me know to look for the matching manual (if I have it). ????????? Adobe Acrobat 4.0, education version Adobe Photoshop 3.0, 8 disks DeltaGraph Professional for Macintosh. 3 disks. 1991. DeltaGraph Pro 3. 1994. 4 disks. EarthLink Sprint Internet Access Software: Total Access 2.0, Mac or Windows, with a book called ?Getting the Most out of the Internet,? third edition, for new users of the EarthLink network, including such information as how to use email. Framemaker release 5 (for Macintosh). CD-ROM disk, quick reference, Introducing Frame Maker, Installing FrameMaker Inspiration for Macintosh. V. 4.1a Two disks. 1988-1994. Also 4.1c Updater. Kensington Mouseworks QuickStart, plus disk, v. 5.04. MacWorld present Click art disk Norton Utilities v. 4.0, education Now Synchronize. 2 disks. For Palm Pilot and Mac. Now Up-To-Date, and Contact. V. 3.5 for Macintosh. 3 disks. Now Up-to-Date. 1993. (probably later than the other one? Looks more sophisticated) Now Contact, 1993. Ohio Distinctive Software: Executive Diet Helper, Weight Loss Planner, Menu Planner (Macintosh), 1994 Sad macs Utilities, the official companion disk for Ted Landau?s book, Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. 1996.

8 years, 1 month

Quad density Pertec

by cclist＠sydex.com

On 03/11/2018 08:19 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > I've scrapped six of those already. They aren't worth anything. > > > On 3/11/18 1:23 AM, jim stephens wrote: >> I think this is actually a quad density half inch.? If the guy didn't burn it up (says probably 12v fault) it would be >> handy. >> Isn't that a Kennedy streamer? Sure looks like one. I note that the Kennedy incremental 7 inch reel drive in the NASA flight case hasn't attracted a lot of interest. That sample tape that I got, however does verify that the parity track on this telemetry stuff is unused. So that explains the 8 data inputs with no parity on the NASA model. --Chuck

8 years, 1 month

Cray Origin 2000 From Indiana University Scaamp Project- Rescued

by phreakshowtelco＠gmail.com

I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI Origin 2000 System and 19 racks. Trip was an adventure. Rented a 26ft Penske Truck which was a junkheap in itself. Off we went. My gf and her best friend went along and had a blast. 7 Hour drive down from Michigan to Bloomington Indiana. In a rainstorm at dark. Waffle House outside of Indianapolis made for a very nice night. Got loaded up 9am yesterday morning. And headed home. Here are pics of the SGIs. And my gf's find an IBM Selectric II. Shes a typewriter lover. https://imgur.com/a/XzDXg Plan now is to start rounding up parts to fix it. It seems mostly cosmetic. Goal is to have it fully operational by VCFMW. I also found some historical info on it too https://www.hpcwire.com/1997/05/16/indiana-u-installs-64-node-origin2000/ Eventually this belongs on display somewhere. I plan to get an inventory of everything this week. and Im looking for any extra parts that anyone has for this. Thanks

8 years, 1 month

Replica IBM 5150 PC motherboard

by lproven＠gmail.com

This turned up on Fess Bouc yesterday and it was news to me. It's a DIY replica of an original IBM PC motherboard: http://www.mtmscientific.com/pc-retro.html -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven ? Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

8 years, 1 month

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