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by jplist2008＠kiwigeek.com

Gary's pulling up a BBS pushed me onto a wave of nostalgia so I've been digging through my old DOS archives of BBS software and the like that I picked up years ago and I came to a question. How did people set up multi-node BBS' back in the day? I know you could run something like Desqview and run multiple copies on a single system, and some BBS' (like TBBS) had built-in multitasking so it handled multiple modems. And, of course, you could get fancy and run a Novell network. Were there other ways of doing this? I also saw a random mention of multi-node Commodore BBS'. Given Commodores didn't network or multi-task, I'm curious if the author of the note was mistaken, or if such things existed -- and then how did they work? My thanks for helping with my flashback; - JP

11 years, 5 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by mhs.stein＠gmail.com

Indeed; given the choice I think I'd much rather modify an old file-handling report-printing business program written in COBOL than most other languages... I mean, what could be simpler and more self-documenting: http://www.google.com/doodles/grace-hoppers-107th-birthday m ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Foust" <jfoust at threedee.com> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 4:29 PM Subject: Re: Rich kids are into COBOL > At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>What I read horrified me. How could anything be >>that mind-crushingly >>verbose? > > As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? > :-) > > - John > >

11 years, 5 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:29 PM, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote: > At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>What I read horrified me. How could anything be that mind-crushingly >>verbose? > > As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? :-) Life is more than [0-9A-Z.,:;/#$%!*<>()_-+] -ethan

11 years, 5 months

Rich kids are into COBOL

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 01:02 PM 2/17/2015, Ethan Dicks wrote: >What I read horrified me. How could anything be that mind-crushingly >verbose? As compared to purposefully terse C one-liners? :-) - John

11 years, 5 months

11/23+ Console cables

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Roe Peterson > I've got a couple of kdf11s, but I have never been able to find the > bulkhead panel for one. Same here: that's why I posted that data; I figured people probably had 11/23+ boards that were 'unusable' because they didn't have the console cabkit. "Not any more", in the immortal words of Inspector Clouseau! :-) Noel

11 years, 5 months

Possible error in "Microcomputers and Memories" (1982 edition)

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

So the description of the SSR3 register in "Microcomputers and Memories" (1982), on pg. 284, apparently has an error. It describes bit 5 as "enables I/O mapping", but.... the QBUS 11's don't have any kind of I/O mapping that I know of. Or am I confused? Noel

11 years, 5 months

Non-512-byte sector drive cloning?

by b4＠gewt.net

All, I have the SC-40 home safe and sound. Before I go ANY further...I want to image the boot/microcode drives which aren't 512-byte sectors. What's the best approach? My options are a VAX netbooting VMS or netbooting NetBSD (install doable for that one.) Thanks! -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

11 years, 5 months

11/23+ Console cables

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Roe Peterson > Really? Really! :-) I can see a crystal on the cabkit, and if you look at the interface spec ('Microcomputers and Memories', 1982, pg. 628), it's clear it must use the External Clock for the baud rate to be switch selectable on the cabkit. > I always assumed the rotary switches just replaced the 4 bits from the > dipswitch. That is the case for the KDJ11-B, which is why I assumed the same thing was the situation with the 11/23+. But it's not... > Where can I find a schematic? Good question. I would assume in the 11/23+ print set, but I looked there, and couldn't find it. Maybe that print set (MP01236) is just for the CPU board itself, and there's some other print set for the larger system, including the cables, but I can't immediately think what I should look for. FWIW, the part number for the cabkit is 54-15422-01. (I think the 54- prefix means 'assembly', but I'm not sure. I should collect a list of all the DEC part prefixes - I looked, but there doesn't seem to be one.) Noel

11 years, 5 months

PDP-5 & PDP-8s on display

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

Googleing for something else, I came across the museum of the Dutch 'Hoogovens' steel melting & manufacturing plant (now called Tata steel). Apparently they have a PDP-5, a PDP-8s, a PDP-8e and a PDP-11/34 in their collection & display. Pictures can be seen at http://www.hoogovensmuseum.nl/collecties/computermuseum/ text is only in Dutch. Apparently the PDP-5 was the first process-computer in the Netherlands at that time (1965) and was used in the oxysteel division to analyse the steel for quality & contamination using spectral analysis. Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email. Zeg NEE tegen de 'slimme' meter.

11 years, 5 months

Tadpole Sparcbook 2 OS media...

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Kind of a long shot, but hey. I've had this trusty old Sparcbook 2 for awhile now and I never did manage to track down any OS media for it. It's currently running a variant of SunOS 4.1.2 and the old 2.5" SCSI drives (plural) are still holding out, but I'd like to be able to revive it when they finally do go to silicon heaven. Anyone have anything for these machines? These are significantly different from the later Sparcbooks (which are considerably more Sun-compatible, hardware wise)... Thanks! Josh

11 years, 5 months

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