Hi folks,
I am seeking an Apollo Keyboard and Mouse to get my DN/3000 all kitted out.
There is a set on ebay which I can use as a last resort, but the asking
price is a bit steep from recycledgoods.
If anyone has a pair available, please let me know. Not opposed to paying
or trading for them, but I've grown to dislike dealing with ebay.
If anyone has any cool ideas for software to run on it, that would also be
appreciated! :)
Thanks,
- Ian
-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Taylor <dj.taylor4 at verizon.net>
>Sent: Feb 24, 2015 12:03 PM
>To: General at classiccmp.org, Discussion at classiccmp.org, On-Topic Posts <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>Subject: Removing OpenVMS license paks
>
>I want to sell a couple of MicroVaxes that I had installed the hobbyist
>OpenVMS software on quite some time ago.
>
>The OpenVMS Hobbyist website says I must delete the license PAKS before
>I transfer the hardware to someone else.
>
>How do you actually do this?
$ LICENSE DELETE * /ALL
Whilst digging through the detritus of the last 20+ years, I realized
that I had copies of Dave McGlone's Z-Letter, issues 1-40 (which is
pretty close, IIRC to the lot).
Does anyone scan and archive these things for public access? If so,
I'll gladly send them along for such treatment.
I've also got a dozen issues or so of the TCJ (The Computer Journal)
>from 1994-95. Useful or recycle fodder?
--Chuck
> From: Tothwolf
> I've seen pushback from some people in the vintage computing community
> to wholesale replacement of aluminum electrolytics which are long past
> their life expectancy and I just don't get it.
Well, notice you didn't cause a big debate on the topic to break out here, as
we often get on some of these things (e.g. crimping versus soldering, etc).
My _guess_ is that vintage computer people aren't very 'religious' about it,
and to the extent that they _don't_ do it, it's as much because they don't
have the parts on hand (or the ability to find them easily), plus the work
involved, as anything else.
For those of us who are basically software people (or even pure digital),
this stuff can be a little daunting - not necessarily because it's actually
hard, it's just out of our comfort zone. I myself am certainly daunted by the
concept of replacing every electrolytic in all the power supplies of all the
vintage -11's I've got... (And I don't want to even think about all the filter
caps on all the boards! :-)
Maybe you (or someone) should offer a service... I'd sign up! :-)
Noel
Here's something you do not see every day.
There are four people interested in bringing a variant of PDP-8 to VCF
East next spring (April 17-19).
On the PDP-8 front, so far only David Gesswein is registered; others
will be soon.
It would be very cool if there were LOTS of PDP-8 computers at the show,
in honor of the original Straight-8's 50th anniversary. (We invited
Gordon Bell, who said he's unable to attend that weekend. Darn.)
So: if you've got a PDP-8 of any flavor, and you've always dreamed of
showing it off and/or attending a VCF, now's your chance. Paging all the
California and Boston people!!!! :)
Overall exhibits so far are here:
http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/exhibit.php -- we're expecting 30 or so
by April.
There will also be a dozen or more technical classes on Friday, April
17. So far only one is posted, but we've got most of the others almost
determined, and those will be posted soon.
Keynoters for the weekend are Ted Nelson (Saturday) and Bob Frankston
(Sunday).
I would be grateful for advice on files generated by RS/1, an old BBN software product, about a dozen years ago on a Sun system running Unix.
I don't need to use the software, just to read the contents of a few files. It doesn't matter if the format's a mess. If I can see the numbers, I can work out how to extract the information.
While digging through more old detritus, I came across an Archie-McPhee
catalog and three still in shrinkwrap, "Computer Voodoo" soft
sculptures. Anyone know what the value of such stuff is?
--Chuck
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 12:52:24PM -0600, John Foust wrote:
> At 09:21 AM 8/12/2014, Al Kossow wrote:
[...]
>> That would be a good thing. Early Walnut Creek CDROMs aren't very common. It
>> looks like I only have ten from 1992 to 1994.
I've got a few knocking about in storage which contain early Linux
distributions. I'm not sure they're particularly rare or unusual, which is why
I haven't bothered to dig them out and make images yet.
> For the record, I found my Walnut Creek AB20 CD and sent an ISO to Jacob and
> Al. I'm cleaning and hunting, so I might find Aminet, too.
archive.org contains a full set of Aminet CDs from 1 through 52 (the first two
being Walnut Creek) and also Aminet Sets 1-3 and 9, and Aminet Games. The first
Aminet CD also seems to contain a mirror of AB20 and can be downloaded via
https://archive.org/details/aminet-walnut-creek-1.
https://archive.org/details/aminet-2 actually contains Aminet 12, and so you'll
be wanting https://archive.org/details/aminet-walnut-creek-2 for Aminet 2. My
physical CD of Aminet 3 has different contents to the version on archive.org,
and although I can see *what* the differences are, I'm unclear on the *why*. My
other handful of Aminet CDs are bitwise identical.
At some point I really should figure out how to provide errata and new uploads
for archive.org.
These do not have a Sun "Type" number on them. Definitely older style.
249-8909 or 370-0109, qty 1, missing 2 switches plus 3 more caps. Has
mouse, 370-1091, which has definitely seen better days!
370-1095, qty 1 complete. No mouse with this one.
Pictures are here:
https://plus.google.com/photos/106111250846948401252/albums/6119126719677329
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Cindy Croxton
