test-drb April 2020

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tape baking

by aek＠bitsavers.org

https://www.morressier.com/article/towards-understanding-thermal-remediatio…

5 years, 1 month

In search of Three Rivers PERQ 1 Keyboard

by ian.finder＠gmail.com

Title says it. It saddens me that in this day and age I have to call this out but: ? This is for use with an actual real PERQ 1, not a Raspberry Pi running an emulator, nor something I?m looking for because I like to collect only the steering wheels off vintage Porsches because they ?feel nice? or ?look cool? or will ?make me a better programmer.? Actually perhaps a better analogy involves elephants and ivory... but I?m now off topic. Anyway- cruelty free, no-poach, free-range use intended. Thanks in advance for any leads or on-topic discussion of the keyboard protocol to tide me over in the meantime... With all the time on my hands from the shutdown it?d be great to make this system whole and start down the long path toward restoration.

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Game Of Life, John H. Conway

by emu＠e-bbes.com

Not really on Classic Hardware, but we lost John Conway to corona :( And I think, most of us tried it on a terminal before ;-) Enjoyu in full HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaBm4etcYFQ&feature=emb_logo RIP!

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Wanted: Amiga 600 motherboard, NTSC

by ethan＠757.org

Looking for a working Amiga 600 NTSC motherboard. Would be interested in a was-working-before-cap-damage donor one as well. - Ethan

5 years, 1 month

Re: ODD I DID NOT SEND THIS? Blog: RetroRetrospective – Fun today with yesterday's gear…

by couryhouse＠aol.com

In a message dated 4/26/2020 3:37:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time, Michael at jongleur.co.uk writes: On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 at 8:32 am, ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:-- Blog: RetroRetrospective ? Fun today with yesterday's gear??..Podcast:?Retro Computing Roundtable?(Co-Host)

5 years, 1 month

CRT from IBM terminal available

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello list, I was contacted regarding the availability of a CRT from the terminal shown in this picture: http://www.robotrontechnik.de/bilder/Galerien/Computersammlung/Computersamm… Location is Germany. Please contact me offlist and I will establish the contact to the owner with you in case of interest. Best regards, Pierre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.digitalheritage.de

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Did anybody ever came across the DEC CI750 User Guide?

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello all, the headline says it all. DEC document number is EK-CI750-UG I've been looking for that one for years but never came across a paper copy or scanned document. Does anybody know where to get one? The technical description and the schematics are available, though. Thanks for any feedback on this. Best regards, Pierre ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.digitalheritage.de

5 years, 1 month

Emergency help needed

by sales＠elecplus.com

My warehouse got flooded. Is there anyone from Austin or SA that can help rescue kbds and old computers? Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-370-3239 cell sales at elecplus.com -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

5 years, 1 month

Got the RX01's running and TSX

by cz＠alembic.crystel.com

So I got the RX02 drive up and going with the RXV11 controller. Man it's interesting to hear those old disks *click*. Both work (which is good) and now I'm starting to look through my old disks. Interesting issue: Many of my disks are formatted RX02. So I need to dig out my RXV21 controller from some box around here and see if that works. I never liked the RXV21: It's only 18 bits, does DMA, and is quite weird in a 4mb pdp11. But I would like to get this data off. I also uncovered my old TSX disks. I have TSX+ 6.5, 6.4, and TSX 5.something here on double sided RX02 disks. Looks like my support contract ran out in 1991, I'll have to see about renewing that.... Anyone here still running TSX, or did everyone go to RSX11M+? C

5 years, 1 month

IBM DCS/DCOS--how common?

by cclist＠sydex.com

This talk of old tape brings up a question that I wanted to ask the list. I've run into some tapes that say they were prepared on the IBM DCS setup (7044-coupled-to-7094) running DCOS. I confess to never having run into the 7044 in real life--it always seemed like an odd machine--basically, a 7094 Jr. There couldn't have been very many DCS setups, am I correct? --Chuck

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