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Separating a Vax 11/780 from it's peripheral cabinet...

by ian_primus＠yahoo.com

Anyone happen to know how the Vax 11/780 and the single-wide corporate peripheral cabinet are joined together? The Vax has good casters, the peripheral cabinet has stupid casters, and they're joined at the hip. Are there hidden bolts or latches, or some kind of joiner panel like on the 11/750? -Ian

16 years, 2 months

Docs found: Some docs scanned

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, I arranged to get one of those office machines that do everything. And scanned a box of documents. This is how it looks when I use it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70m0ZdcFOuE If anybody has some money to help me funding my copy machine - please let me know..... It cost me most of what I could spend at the moment. I uploaded the documents to: http://pdp8.hachti.de/newscan/box1 Feel free to take what's needed and archive it. My files will not stay there for forever! Here's a list of the box1 directory: ************************************ > hachti at sumpf64:~/scanner/ready/box1$ ls * > ampex: > 5104036-10 TM-2 Technical Manual for Siemens+Halske April 1965 .pdf > > cdc: > 41247200 Rev. B 9465 Disk Storage Drive Maintenance Manual.pdf 41248800 Rev. D 9465 Disk Storage Drive Schematics.pdf > > dartmouth_dtss: > 20100212100751305.pdf 20100212101335486.pdf > > emulex: > CD1151007 Rev. B CS11_F1 Technical Manual.pdf > > facit: > PE1000 Technical Description, German.pdf UP631001 FACIT PE 1000 Paper Tape Reader Spare Parts.pdf > UP630201 FACIT PE 1000 Paper Tape Reader Manual.pdf > > honeywell: > BJ67A Rev. 1 Series 600_6000 FORTRAN Addendum A.pdf > BJ67 Rev. 1 Series 600_6000 FORTRAN Manual.pdf > BP82 Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Biomedical (BMD) Statistical Programs Reference Manual.pdf > BS06 Rev. 1 Series 600_6000 Jovial Language Manual.pdf > BS11A Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Algol Addendum A.pdf > BS11 Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Algol Manual.pdf > D43A Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applicatons Library Guide I - Mathematics, Addendum A.pdf > D43 Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applicatons Library Guide I - Mathematics.pdf > DA44A Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide II - Statistics, Addendum A.pdf > DA44 Rev. 0 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide II - Statistics.pdf > DA45A Rev. 2 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide III - Industry, Addendum A.pdf > DA45B Rev. 2 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide III - Industry, Addendum B.pdf > DA45 Rev. 2 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide III - Industry.pdf > DA64 Rev. 1 Series 600_6000 Time-Sharing Applications Library Guide IV - Business+Finance.pdf > > plessey: > PM-TC11 Drawing Package.pdf > > xerox: > 190572C Rank Xerox extended Algol-60 Language and Operations Reference Manual.pdf > 191692A Xerox Universal Time-Sharing System (UTS) Users Guide.pdf > 900907E Xerox Control-Program-Five (CP-V) Time-Sharing Reference Manual.pdf > 901677A-1(9-71) Xerox FORTRAN Debug Package (FDP) Revision Package.pdf > 901677A Xerox FORTRAN Debug Package (FDP) Reference Manual.pdf > 901733C Sigma 9 Computer Reference Manual.pdf > 901765A Xerox Operating System (XOS) Batch Processing Reference Manual.pdf > hachti at sumpf64:~/scanner/ready/box1$ du -h > 41M ./facit > 396M ./xerox > 511M ./honeywell > 123M ./plessey > 124M ./ampex > 32M ./emulex > 146M ./cdc > 110M ./dartmouth_dtss > 1,5G . ****************************** Best wishes, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de

16 years, 2 months

Docs found: Some docs scanned

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> > From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> > Subject: Re: Docs found: Some docs scanned > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: <4B7842F7.5080001 at bitsavers.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed > > On 2/14/10 10:04 AM, Philipp Hachtmann wrote: > >> ampex: 5104036-10 TM-2 >>> Technical Manual for Siemens+Halske April 1965 .pdf > > > That will make the B-205 fans happy. > The TM-2 manual has been difficult to find. When it eventually appears on BitSavers it will be interesting to compare with the half inch (TM4) version I have. Could you please tell me (or the list) when it goes up. Roger Holmes.

16 years, 2 months

OT Pioneer Video disc equipment

by tpeters＠mixcom.com

At 05:19 PM 2/15/2010 -0500, you wrote: >On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> wrote: > > A friend is selling her laser disc stuff as she's moving out of state soon. > > Info is below; please pass this along to others and contact Carol directly > > if you are interested. > >Could you at least say out of which state? > >-ethan I do apologize. The posting was originally to a much smaller audience who could safely assume Southeastern Wisconsin. When owner asked me to post it, I should have edited it more carefully. This equipment is in the Milwaukee metro area. ----- 324. [Philosophy] If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. --"Thoreau's Law" --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB: http://www.mixcom.com/tpeters 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531

16 years, 2 months

OT Pioneer Video disc equipment

by tpeters＠mixcom.com

A friend is selling her laser disc stuff as she's moving out of state soon. Info is below; please pass this along to others and contact Carol directly if you are interested. LASER DISC PLAYER AND DISC COLLECTION FOR SALE I have a Pioneer Compact Disc/Laservision Player, CLD-909 w/Digital Sound which plays compact disc (cd) and both 8" and 12" laser discs. I have about 50 laser discs - Disney (Snow White, Bambi, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty), allot of Monty Python series & movies, classics like Cassablanca, African Queen, The Marx Brothers, Terminator 2, ET, Unforgiven, Prizi's Honor, Battle of the Bulge, TWO Looney Tunes anthologies/sets, Airplane, Jewel of the Nile, Back to the Future, Goonies, Labrynth, Naked Gun 2 1/2, A Fish Called Wanda, Last of the Mohicans, Cocoon, Untouchables, Moonraker, Wayne's World, Neighbors, Hunt for the Red October, The Pink Panther; Planes, Trains & Automobiles; Return of the Jedi, ... I would like $250 cash for the entire collection & the player. Everything is in good order, has always been stored properly, so that's a great price/value. I am packing for a move so I need to sell this by Feb. 21st/Feb. 22nd. Thank you! Carol A. Roen carol.roen at att.net ----- 177. [Commentary] "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done." --Fred Friendly, former head of CBS News --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters at nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB: http://www.mixcom.com/tpeters 43? 7' 17.2" N by 88? 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531

16 years, 2 months

What's the point? [was RE: Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?]

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Rich wrote: > Tim wrote: >> PDF's are fundamentally a VECTOR format. A vector format designed around >> typography where the most natural unit since long before computers has been >> the point (=1/72 inch). > Technically, 100/7227 inch, which is to say, there are 72.27 points per inch > in typography prior to the creation of the Macintosh. (I don't believe that > Postscript originally used a 1/72 measure, and TeX certainly didn't, so I can't > just say "non-computerized typography".) I'm pretty sure when I learned typography the numbers I was taught was that Cicero was 6 lines to the inch, and that it was a 12 point font. Maybe neither of those numbers are actually correct. That was all before I had used computers although I think it's possible that Postscript was a glimmer in someone's eye by that point. I briefly used an IBM Composer and I'm pretty sure that defined a point = 1/72 inch before postscript ever did, although it seems likely that it didn't originate the 1/72 measure either. Most computer line printers were six lines to the inch, 66 lines to 11 inch page. This was set by geartrain if nothing else :-). I think the Model 33 is the same. > If you think *this* mailing list goes off-topic from time to time, you should > check out the Letpress mailing list, for metal type and ink folks. Knuth's Metafont book closely brought together for me, for the first time, computers and typography, and they've been closely linked for me ever since. I could've sword that I read that a point = 1/72 inch in there but despite some desparate scouring he uses "point" as base unit with absolutely no attempt to map it into inches. Tim.

16 years, 2 months

Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

> Thanks for the lesson, but I am quite aware of those points already and > I was pretty clear when I posted and said that my source documentation > was a raster image. I'm using PDF for ease of distribution. > Also, I object to the redefinition of "100% zoom" in Acrobat Reader, > which was the source of my confusion last night. I was looking for > confirmation that this is indeed the behavior that PDF viewers have. I wasn't really trying to be pedantic. If you really want tools that natively and in the user interface constantly refer back to pixels in the original scan, then you really have to stick to formats that are innately raster based. TIFF, PNG, etc. I maintain my scanned images as PNG's. I used to have a real hatred for PDF's as a way of showing raster bitmaps but have learned to respect my enemy in this case :-). (Incidentally I am still a big fan of SVG despite Adobe's abandonment of it.) I think at least some of the TIFF formats can contain tags for how large each pixel was in the original source. Don't know how standard vs proprietary these tags are. Good multi-page PDF viewers are freely available. The free, distributed with the OS, TIFF viewers by contrast are perhaps even suckier than they were a decade ago. Tim.

16 years, 2 months

Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

> When I say 'Zoom 100%', I expect each bit of my image to be displayed > with no scaling. Well, Acrobat Reader doesn't work that way. AR > assumes screen resolution, so what was a 400 dpi bitmap at 100% zoom on > AR gets downsampled to 72dpi for display purposes. To get back to see > individual pixels you have to zoom to 555% or something nutty like that. > > I tried it and it looks like all of my pixels are there. Can anybody > else confirm this (bad) behavior? Bad? PDF's are fundamentally a VECTOR format. A vector format designed around typography where the most natural unit since long before computers has been the point (=1/72 inch). PDF documents, it so happens, can include bitmap images at arbitrary scalings. Vector formats natively have NO KNOWLEDGE of a pixel and in fact when you include a bitmap image in a PDF (which is kinda bastardized because it does have some actually quite thorough bitmap support) it can be scaled so that a pixel in the bitmap is any arbitrary size in number of points. If there was any "bad behavior" it may have been... Adobe putting support in PDF's for bitmaps? Most current display devices just happen to be raster formats showing bitmaps, but my gut feeling is that this shortcoming will be corrected and we will go back to vector display devices Real Soon Now. How soon? In fact I'm going to go use my Tek 4014 right now :-) Tim.

16 years, 2 months

HP DraftMaster MX Plotter User's Guide and SX,RX & MX Plus version

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

I can't remember who wanted them but I have the HP DraftMaster MX Plotter User's Guide and theHP DraftMaster Plotter SX Plus, ,RX Plus and MX Plus User's Guide if you still need them. Covers everything from loading paper through serial communications setup to command set and even 8 types of power cords.

16 years, 2 months

Manual scanning: TIFF-to-PDF software with greyscale support?

by classiccmp＠philpem.me.uk

Hi guys, I'm after a program that can convert TIFF files into PDFs. I've seen Eric Smith's "Tumble" app, which works great... but only for B&W TIFFs. While I can use Imagemagick to convert the images to B&W, that defeats the point: there are photos on the scanned pages, and I'd rather like to keep them as photos, not black splodges. Also, has anyone come up with a "best practice guide" for manual scanning? At the moment I'm scanning like this: B&W text only: 600dpi, black and white, threshold=50%. Text + photos: 600dpi, greyscale, then despeckle and scale down to 300dpi. Obviously if there are better ways (in terms of quality and/or speed) I'd like to know before I scan a ton of testgear manuals... Also, does anyone know of an app that can take the PDF file, OCR it and then insert the text as a background layer while leaving the image alone? I'm pretty sure Acrobat can do this, but like most Adobe software, the price tag is somewhat... eye-watering. "If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it." Thanks, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

16 years, 2 months

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