Hi folks - there used to be a web site where you could register and list
your "classic/old computer(s)". I'm not looking to do that but am trying to
find something from years gone by that I think was on that site.
I thought it was https://www.old-computers.com/ or http://oldcomputers.net/
but it's neither of those.
My googlefoo has been unable to track it down assuming it still exists. I
know at one stage the owner was thinking of closing it down because of hacks
or spamming of forms or something like that.
Does this ring a bell with anyone?
Thank you!!
Kevin Parker
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Sent out a request via multiple channels to you WRT a local STL system.?
can you give me a call or ping back.
sent to your emails, discord and other channels.
thanks
Jim
Gavin Scott wrote:
> We all had a love/hate relationship with Fry's, but they were an
> institution and will be missed.
Sometime after his story, Gavin moved to the Bay Area to work for my
company.
One day, I started to buy something at Fry's and they asked for my phone
number.
So, I gave the the office number.
The salesman entered it, and said "thank you, Mr. Scott".
I was still "Gavin Scott" to them 15 years later :)
Oh, the "seal of quality". Not only did it scream "do not buy this item",
but it was a very useful thing ... although not for reasons Fry's
expected. Many times, I'd be looking at some newer tech item (e.g., a
4-bay RAID enclosure), and see that over half of them had the "seal of
quality". I quickly developed a rule: two more seals meant: stay away from
this product!
Stan
I'm making some replacement cables and paddle cards so I'm on the lookout
for these connectors on cable assemblies.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/dasd/21ED/chabin_4.jpg
You'd think there would be piles of them around since they were used as
the interplanar connecting cables in lots of IBM products.
Just on a chance, would anybody have the paper workbook that goes with this kit?
It is a 8085 SDK board in a briefcase, power supply and tape player that was probably part of a class they presented.
Mine works fine, including the Sony Walkman in the case, I am listening to the 10 or more training tapes.
The whole kit is pristine, but no paper - the workbook from the kit.
Anybody help me on this, or want it?
I revisit things now and then, and this is one of them. It may need a new home.
Randy
Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site:
http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/
The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes"
(kind of their equivalent of UseNet).
It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was
possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used
for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired.
I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd
especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and
ricks::decschips.
The PDP-10 KL10 at the RCS/RI was used to control a real-time flight
simulator at Sikorski. It had one of the RH20 Massbus controllers connected
to a DTR01 cabinet holding a DR01 chassis. The DR01 was, I think, connected
to a DR11 chassis that had A/D and D/A converters boards inside. You could
use the same DTR01 subsystem to connect two PDP-10s together with Massbus,
or connect a PDP-10 to a PDP-11 with Massbus.
--
Michael Thompson
Hm, just adding that my venerable SUN SPARC UII runs WEB server, ssh, web
proxy, sub-version, and is my "cloud" via rsync and of course serves email.
Over the last 7 years it got rebooted only twice, because the provider needed
to relocate it in the server farm and during one of these reboots we replaced
a failed disc in the array. I am pretty sure it would have ran without reboot
the full 7 years with one good disc left...
Hi!
Just stumbled over https://www.ebay.de/itm/265064917329 . Is it a
system somebody of you is offering? Given that it would need to be
shipped through Europe and is in unknown condition, I'd probably
bid a few Euros on it.
MfG, JBG
--
On 2/25/21 2:05 AM, Peter Coghlan wrote:
> Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I don't think so. My Raspberry Pi running Linux becomes choked by memory leaks
> when I leave it running more than a few months. No amount of killing processes
> or other fiddling with the operating system tools available allows it to
> recover and the only alternative I can find is to reboot it. My VAX/ALPHA
> machines/clusters just keep on trucking until the next power failure.
I suppose it depends on what's being done. I've got an OrangePi PC
running headless that's nothing more than an email relay and an Internet
radio server. Until we had power cuts because of the summer wildfires,
it ran more than a year. It's been running since power returned.
I've got a OPi Zero hooked to a stereo system (headless again) running
nothing more than mplayer.
Various modems/routers and other appliances have been running BusyBox as
an embedded OS. They pretty much escape notice.
--Chuck
