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dec (digital) wirewrap module sockets (greenblocks)

by pjhurst46＠hotmail.com

Are DEC Greenblocks (wirewrap module sockets H803 or similar) available from any source -- Besides the obvious route of unwrapping an existing backplane which is tedious and destroys the device. _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn ?10 hidden secrets? from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!5…

17 years, 8 months

Seeking SunOS 4.1.4

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

This is my periodic query for original install media for SunOS 4.1.4. I have a special affinity for the Sun IPX and I'd like to get mine working with SunOS. By the way, has anyone here successfully attached an LCD monitor to an older Sun? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

17 years, 8 months

Looking for WD2010 chip

by rescue＠hawkmountain.net

Anyone have one available ? -- Curt

17 years, 8 months

USENET via TV broadcast

by jeffj＠panix.com

> In the early 80s, I think there were some very low-speed data stream > systems via teletext ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext ) > that could send the stream out RS-232. Is my memory correct? Perhaps. In the mid 80s, many technologies were attempted with similar (and often re-used) names 1) Reading the wiki entry, I was confusing Teletext with "Teletex" and perhaps something else http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletex I remember entering a contest, suggesting how a computer interface to the TV subtitles could allow linking things together (such as capturing phone numbers, URL, etc). My TV /still/ has no PC interface: USB or otherwise. (I think Sega's Dreamcast system received games via the cable TV channel). I remember attending trade shows in the late 80s where "smart phones" (desk sets with tiny terminals) and Teletex were touted as "the next big thing". Compared to Sears/IBM Prodigy, perhaps, but nothing compared to the Internet with hypertext browsing, multimedia and other new formats. In a way, today's cellular phones have replaced the landline "smart phones" since they allow texting and internet access. But here in the USA, teletext was just a terminal standard for low-res graphics, and it still used a modem via phone lines. The surplus terminals were often from France (obvious from the keyboard) since it was wildly popular there. 2) I'm unsure if it used the same technology as today's DSL, but AT&T used to offer employees "CO-LAN": piggybacking a dedicated serial line over the existing phone line. 3) Google finds nothing, but I remember project "Stargate" where USENET newsgroups were transmitted during the vertical blanking interval of the TV broadcast. I forgot if that was via satellite or cable.

17 years, 8 months

Did anyone archive the old Everex FTP before it went down?

by teoz＠neo.rr.com

In one of the forums I belong to someone is looking for the EISA configuration files and drivers for a Everex Step VL/E type 18210 EISA motherboard (EISA config. utility !EVX1698.CFG). I figured that company was popular in the early 90's and somebody might have mirrored the FTP here (we are all packrats I would think). Thanks TZ P.S. I wish archive.org would do FTP sites as well as HTTP.

17 years, 8 months

Anyone know of a 1970s-style dot matrix "computer photo" generator/converter?

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/

17 years, 8 months

form feed tapes on printers (was Re: Mona Lisa)

by tsw-cc＠johana.com

On 08 Oct 2008 22:28:12, Chuck Guzis wrote: >On 9 Oct 2008 at 1:12, Dennis Boone wrote: > >> > Some funny words just came into my head in >connection with printers: >> > SPIM, SKIP, SKAP, SPAP. Can't remember the system >or language they >> > were associated with--although I'm certain it wasn't >CDC. > >No, I don't think so. Probably IBM--maybe 1620 SPS II >printer >mnemonics? > >Cheers, >Chuck > Why right you are. For those of you who aren't reading at home, these mnemonics mean: SPIM: Space immediate (1-3 lines) SKIP: Skip immediate (to carriage control channel) SKAP: Skip after printing (carriage control) SPAP: Space after printing (1-3 lines) All of these were control instructions that referenced the printer (unit #9). The carriage control tape was a standard 12 channel one (IBM used them on LOTS of printers like 407's and 1403's). You could access any one of the 12 channels. The 1620 had two indicators for "summary line" (channel 9) and "end of printable page" (channel 12), which if you have a hard copy impact printer are probably still there. Yes, if you skipped to a channel that WASN'T punched, you fed lots of paper, which is why (if you were smart) you punched the unused channels on the same line as the "end of paper" channel (12). Oh, standard Fortran: blank, single space; 1, top of form; 0, double space; +, overprint (not supported everywhere). Feel free to consult your friendly Unix man page for the program 'asa' for further reference. One of these days I'll dig out the computer pic I made back in the late 60's using a video camera connected to an 1130. 16 levels of gray, and 200x160 or so resolution. Cool for the day!

17 years, 8 months

Mona Lisa

by roger.holmes＠microspot.co.uk

> From: Mike Loewen <mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us> > > > Does anyone here have the source code for the program (FORTRAN?) > which > produced the large Mona Lisa printout on the 1403? The one I > remember had > 3 or 4 printouts taped together. Have any of the card decks survived? I don't have it in Fortran nor for IBM but I think I have a deck of cards for my ICT 1301 which produces a two or three page printout, printing across the perforations. At the moment, I don't have a 100% working card reader and I'm in the process of selling my spare 1301 so all my 'spare' time is used up trying to put back together a 5 ton jig- saw I dismantled over 30 years ago. At least I have an assembled one for reference but I keep finding differences between the two machines, one being the first one to leave the factory and the other probably being one of the last. I hope to make all my 1301 software, including the Mona Lisa, Snoopy, the lady on a stool etc available online sometime together with some of my many manuals and a simulator which will run on a Mac. Will need to find someone to host the archive in perpituity, maybe BitSavers would be willing to do it, but I haven't got the data off the Ampex ten track tapes yet. Roger Holmes ICT 1301 S/N 006 and a cut and shut of 075 and 159.

17 years, 8 months

NEC SX-4B on Ebay

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 8:50 -0500 10/9/08, Chris M wrote: >But what are the practical applications that this thing could be set >to use from the get-go? 1.) Wrong group to ask that question. 1.5 tonne paperweights are OK here, if the kewl factor is high enough. One that says "supercomputer" on the side is OK on kewl factor. (But it sounds like Dave actually has an answer, which is even better.) 2.) http://www.distributed.net/ Drool! (I still want to get a Mac OS 6.0.8 client going so I can put my Mac Plus on the stats chart...then on to the Color Computer and NitrOS9! :-) ) -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

17 years, 8 months

Stuff I need rid of, ASAP...

by gordonjcp＠gjcp.net

DEC LA-36 and some spare ribbons Tektronix Phaser 560 colour laser printer Two not-entirely-working Superbrains a Sanyo CP/M-86 machine (MBC-4050? possibly) In Glasgow I can hang onto them for a couple of days, but not much more than that. Gordon

17 years, 8 months

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