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Noel idea you were into raddar so much too cool!

by couryhouse＠aol.com

all in the ?title

8 years, 5 months

radar history

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Steven Malikoff > I also have a book 'RADAR How it all began' by Jim Brown ... > incredibly precise recollection of the engineering Wow, thanks for that incredibly valuable pointer. My copy just arrived, and it's fabulous; it documents in great detail a part of the story that's little-known, which is the industrialization of the early radar work. There are a number of books from people on the research side (Watson-Watt, Bowen, etc), but not much on the industrial side. There is an obscure book: Frank Rowlinson, "Contribution to Victory: An Account of Some of the Special Work of the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company Limited in the Second World War", Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Manshester, 1947 (which covers a lot of stuff, not just the radar work), but it doesn't have a lot of technical detail. What it _does_ have a lot of large, excellent B+W photos of the early CH, CHL etc transmitters (which MetroVick built), but not much technical detail of them. That book, and Brown's book, are a marvellous pairing, since he has the detailed description, but no images! A very complementary pairing. Noel

8 years, 5 months

Various Software and Documentation for shipping + donations (round 10)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

All, More of the stack. if any of this interests you please contact me via Private (not list) email at mtapley at swri.edu. If you do want something, send me your shipping address and exactly what you want. I'll get back to you with estimated shipping costs (USPS media rate where possible) as soon as I can. You send me payment (any method is acceptable; USPS does not recommend cash in the mail) and I will ship when payment arrives. If you want Fed-Ex or something different from USPS media let me know at your first contact and I will price that for you. If you can afford to send slightly more than costs, I'll collect up the surplus for Cindy and get it to her. If more than one person wants the same thing, it goes to the person sending me the earliest time-tagged email. If Al K. wants anything for Bitsavers, he gets priority (even if his is not the first email) up until it leaves my hands. There will be multiple sets of email from me, each with a short list of things, unless/until someone asks me to quit. Thanks for your attention! - Mark This list is all Books (down to and including pamphlets), no software included. ????????? Adobe Photoshop for Macintosh, Version 3 (Classroom in a Book), 1994. American Heritage Dictionary: 3rd edition for Mac. 32 pages. Communicator 4 quick-study guide. Laminated folder. DeltaGraph Pro 3 Users Guide, 2nd edition. 1993. Excel 5.0 Advanced, Macintosh, student manual. Logical Operations. 1994. Excel: Mastering Excel 5 for the Mac (An Insiders Guide). Thomas Chester and Julia Kelly. 1995. Eudora Mail Pro, educational use. V. 3.0 user manual & quick reference guide. FrameMaker. Using Framemaker release 5, Windows and Macintosh. 1995. Inspiration user manuals. Getting Started manual. Idea book. Netscape: Official Netscape Communicator 4 Book. Macintosh edition. Pi? James. 1997. Now Up-to-date and Now Contact (user manuals). (Two different versions, to match the two different versions on disk we have, I imagine.) Office: Getting Started. The On-line Research Handbook. Hayden Mead and Andy Clark. 1997. Port Replicator: Users Guide. Micronpc.com 1999 PowerPoint: Using PowerPoint 4 for Macintosh. Que, 1994. Quicken version 5.: Users Guide for Macintosh Perform Users. Quicken 5 for Macs for Dummies. Stephen L. Nelson. 1994. The Student?s Guide to Doing Research on the Internet. Dave and Mary Campbell, Addison-Wesley. 1995. vi: Learning the vi editor. Linda Lamb, O?Reilly & Associates, Ltd. 1990. Word: The Macintosh Bible Guide to Word 6. Maria Langer. ?Includes Power Macs.? 1995.

8 years, 5 months

Anyone have a Fujitsu M2451E 130mb tape drive manual?

by aek＠bitsavers.org

I have a couple of carts I'd like to read, found a drive today, talks SCSI but not common command set. It seems to act more like a disk than a tape (read block makes the tape move), but mode sense doesn't return anything sensible. The only thing I've ever been able to turn up on these drives is a mention in a Fuji product brochure

8 years, 5 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 42, Issue 14

by fred＠MISER.MISERNET.NET

> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:28:11 -0600 > From: Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net> > Subject: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 42, Issue 13 > Message-ID: > <6a172546-d8f1-13b9-f843-8fdba5799f09 at spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> > > If power / cooling / noise wasn't an issue, I'd also be interested in an > Multiprise 3000. > But, I'm happily married and I would like to keep it that way. The power requirements aren't that bad, are they? I think Guy Sotomayor (spelling, apologies if I'm butchering ...) has a MP3K that I believe I bid against him on eBay once, and he ended up getting it (which made me feel a bit better). It's what I call a 1/4 fridge size. There were/are multi MP3K's on eBay currently that I've been watching, and one didn't know if there was an OS on it (Not sure I'd want to fight that battle with IBM, although a corner of the Internet lengthy forum post (yes, anecdotes are not evidence) leads me to believe they at least are "sympathetic" to hobbyists, but they won't publically admit it. ... but I still didn't want to chance getting a paperweight. The other one is way too much for me $ wise. I have a basement and 220V available. For an IBM Mainframe of my own, damn the power bill. :) As long as it doesn't have the awful whine of an Alpha DS10-L I don't think my wife would mind. I will admit to myself that at some point there will be a limit to how many systems I can have at the house though running 24/7.... :) Fred

8 years, 5 months

3100/90?

by ftg888＠elbonia.org

I am looking into getting a VMS Machines up and running and or Open/netbsd you mentioned you had a few to donate or sale thanks. Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Mar 2018, at 11:55, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 14 March 2018 at 11:06, Adrian Graham via cctalk > <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> I'm in the process of giving >> some of them away though because they take up too much room. > > The OpenBSD project are, or were, looking for donations of high-end > VAXstations. I offered them a VAXstation 4000/60 (Red Hat offered to > sponsor shipping from London to Canada) but after some > toing-and-froing, Theo DeRaadt turned it down. > > Unfortunately, I believe RH has now lost my machine. :-( > > But if anyone is willing to donate a /90 or similar, he might be interested. > > -- > Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lproven at gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven ? Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053

8 years, 5 months

800 and 1600bpi 9 track test data

by aek＠bitsavers.org

There are two gzip'ed files up now of analog digitized 9 track data under http://bitsavers.org/projects/9track containing two files of 16 bit incrementing data patterns blocked 512 bytes/blk and the tach signal from a Qualstar 1260 running at 50 ips. The data can be viewed using Salea's Logic app in simulation mode if anyone has burning curiosity what a 1/2" tape block looks like. I made these as test data today for Len Shustek's 9 track readtape project https://github.com/LenShustek/readtape

8 years, 5 months

a bit off topic - looking for someone w/7 track 1/2" analog

by pete＠petelancashire.com

comp for 1 - 7/8 IPS like to get all tracks digitized https://photos.app.goo.gl/IMcgjxugzKMuIvKv2 will put on open file server then sell the tape -pete

8 years, 5 months

FS: Commodore items from Sellam's collection

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

Hi Folks. It's time for the Commodore collectors to get their turn. I've created a separate thread for Commodore and related items for sale from my collection. I will be continuing to add Commodore stuff to this thread as I come across it. The list is here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?62641-Sellam-s-Commodore-Sales-Th… If you are interested in anything then as usual for fastest response please do reply to me by e-mail via <sellam.ismail at gmail.com>. Thanks! Sellam

8 years, 5 months

Speaking of tapes and good ideas, but...

by cclist＠sydex.com

During my browsing, I've run across mention of the Emerson "Tape Pac" 2000 series, a half-inch cartridge tape system targeted at minicomputers, and it seems, the PDP-11. Here's a mention in IEEE Computer, about the new products at the 1976 NCC: https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/1976/06/01647391.pdf (That was about the same time as "The Milpitas Monster") I can't find of photos of the thing. Has anyone run into one of these? --Chuck

8 years, 5 months

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