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by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Rich Alderson > I'm going to disagree with the history Al posted, because Dick himself > told me the story. What was the history according to Dick, if you recall? Would he still be available, to write it as he saw it down himself? Noel

8 years, 6 months

where to find ZCPR2, ZCPR3, ZCPR33, ZCPR34?

by spacewar＠gmail.com

I've become interested in ZCPR2, 3, 33, and 34, and am surprised at how difficult it is to locate them online. Or maybe I'm just an idiot. Are they out there somewhere? It looks like ZCPR3 was on SIG/M volumes 184 to 192, but those specific volumes seem to be missing from the SIG/M archives I can find. I'm specifically NOT looking for NZ-COM or Z3PLUS. Thanks! Eric

8 years, 6 months

MACSYMA classic

by lars＠nocrew.org

Eric Swenson got the original-ish MACSYMA built and running in ITS. It's frankensteined together from a mix of source and FASL files from ITS, Lisp machine Macsyma sources, etc.

8 years, 6 months

Sneak peak: this year's VCF PNW/East/West shirt design

by cctalk＠snarc.net

Here's a sneak preview of the shirt design for all of the 2018 Vintage Computer Federation events. As usual, each event will have a different shirt color. Dan Roganti aka Ragooman used to design the VCF East shirts. Any similarity to him or his interests in the current design is purely coincidental. :) https://vcfed.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/pnw-shirt-front-1.png

8 years, 6 months

Foonlies

by Wayne.Sudol＠hotmail.com

Yes, they merged @ 1996 with the new company being named AII ("A" eye-eye). Then the combined company was bought by AGFA @2001. All the big daily newspapers used their photo typesetters, the Autologic model APS6 and/or the III 3850. They were fast and didn't break much and used Harlequin Rips so publications could have any front end systems that spoke postscript. The Mac was coming into it's own as a relatively inexpensive non-proprietary publishing platform and the publishers and print houses liked that. Right before the year 2000 scare, all the newspapers bought new ones with the result that Autologic/III made a bundle in 1999, then didn't really have any big orders for the following few years. I know that the LA Times bought 18 of them alone at @ $75K each. As the newspapers transitioned from film to computer-to-plate in the following years, AII couldn't keep up and was ultimately bought by AGFA. There was a lot of competition in the CTP arena back then. I think AGFA moved the company to Cambridge, MA, from Thousand Oaks, California. <http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 4:23 PM To: Wayne S Subject: Re: Foonlies Triple I / Autologic? Interesting. I remember (from around 1978) III and Autologic as two separate manufacturers of phototypesetting machines, with III rather obscure, very large physically (a small room) and very fast. Did they merge? paul > On Jan 31, 2018, at 2:52 PM, Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Was this the machine that Triple I/Autologic created to digitize old color film movies? > AFIK, it used lasers to scan the film and create digital color seps that were recombined later in the process. It was used in the Kate Winslett / Leonardo DiCaprio remake of "Titanic". Autologic even got a mention in the movie credits. > > Autologic donated that machine to UCLA for their film preservation archive project. > > Wayne

8 years, 6 months

where to find ZCPR2, ZCPR3, ZCPR33, ZCPR34?

by spacewar＠gmail.com

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:29 PM, <wrcooke at wrcooke.net> wrote: > On January 30, 2018 at 3:21 PM Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > Now I'm still looking for ZCPR2, ZCPR33, and ZCPR34. > > I believe you will find this site: > > http://www.znode51.de/indexe.htm > > useful. I could be wrong, but I think it has the most up to date zcpr > software. > That site has NZ-COM and Z3PLUS, but I've dug through it and cannot find ZCPR2, ZCPR33, or ZCPR34. It's possible that they are there somewhere and I just didn't find them. Apparently NZ-COM and Z3PLUS are based on ZCPR34, but are fancy auto-installing things with no source code, whereas what I'm looking for is the original ZCPR2, 33, and/or 34 distributions that included source code. Best regards, Eric

8 years, 6 months

A couple of RL02 questions

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Marc Howard > All the unit has is a thin rail on both sides that is riveted to the > unit. It looks like chassis slides were there originally. Does anyone > have either the DEC part # for the slides I sent these to the list a while back, and never added them to the CHWiki once we gained access to it; I have now added them there: http://gunkies.org/wiki/RL0x_disk_drive#Installation Note that i) they are handed, so one needs an L and a R (I have extra lefts, and would like to trade some for rights), and ii) the same slides are used on other DEC drives, e.g. the RA81. Noel

8 years, 6 months

NCR7510 Bootmedia (Tape)

by harten＠injectstar.de

Hi to all! I'm looking for a boot medium for my NCR 7500. It is the model with one cassette drive (standard MCs) and the monitor in vertical position. I think this model is called 7510 and there should have been at least an OS "BASIC +6". Regards Rolf

8 years, 6 months

Bluebox boards, anyone?

by dave＠661.org

Would anyone like a bluebox PCB or two? This project was inspired by Don Froula's ProjectMF[1] in which he presents a PIC-based bluebox[2] and PCB (handed out at HOPE in 2008). A big reason I like AVRs more than PICs is because the development software is OSS and free. So I reimplemented Don's bluebox in C for an AVR ATtiny85. The PCB started off an a drop-in replacement, but evolved into something designed to fit into a Hammond 1591XXM box instead of functioning as a lid for a Radio Shack 230-1801 box. The Hammond box also comes in transluscent blue! The firmware code[3] is done. I just have to do some tweaks once some test PCBs[4] are made because on the prototype, I wired up the keypad a bit strangely. The code implements a 13-key bluebox, a DTMF keypad, a redbox for US, Canada, and UK, greenbox, and 2600 dial pulse. The PCB needs work to correct some early design decisions that turned out to be non-optimal. [1] http://projectmf.org/ [2] http://projectmf.org/bluebox.html [3] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-avr [4] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/bluebox-esquire -- David Griffith dave at 661.org 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?

8 years, 6 months

who is in this picture? (VCF 199x)

by billdegnan＠gmail.com

https://retropopplanet.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/vintage-computer.jpg I was not at this particular VCF out in California in the later 90's when this photo of a DEC exhibit was taken; the original picture from vintage.org is no longer hosted. Does anyone have a copy of the old vintage.org exhibit/photo archive? Bill

8 years, 6 months

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