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by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

On Tue, 1/31/17, geneb <geneb at deltasoft.com> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >> Can someone please fix the mailing list software? This has been >> reported every once in a while by a bunch of people for over ten >> years. > > Bounces aren't caused by the mailing list, they're caused by the > destination mail server. What I've been wondering for a while is the span of time over which the bounces are counted. I can understand shutting a subscriber off for getting 10 bounces in as many minutes. On the other hand if those 10 bounces are spread over two months, it seems rather severe. BLS

9 years

Pac-Man (Alfred M. Szmidt)

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

As Alfred wrote: "How about some credit where credit is due, and not rewriting history willynilly. Toru Iwatani was the designer (not Nakamura) of Pac-Man, Shigeo Funaki did the code and Toshio Kai the music. Nakamura was simply the man behind the company, not the father of Pac-Man." I agree that his company created Pac-Man and in a corporatized world, then as is now, the owner(s) get the credit; i.e., Jobs of Apple, etc. And "rewriting history willynilly"; as an historian I definately try not doing that. Happy computing. Murray :)

9 years

For Sale: Computer & Electronics Magazines: Byte, Creative Computing, Pop. Electronics, More...

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

I have several pallets of many boxes containing oodles of computer and electronics magazines that need to go. I'm not sure what all is exactly there but I'm going to be digging through them over the course of the next several months, so I'll probably just continue to update this thread with new material. There may well be lots of complete runs of certain magazines, and probably some frustrating discontinuities from boxes that didn't make it over. In any event, there is a lot of good stuff. Here's what I have pulled so far: Popular Electronics, nearly a complete run from 1974 through 1984; also 1950s-1970s issues (uninventoried) Electronics Magazine, 3 bound volumes, April - December 1959 (see photo) - I plan to sell these in a complete set once I uncover all of them that I still have. It's possible I still have a complete run from the 1920s through the 1980s or so. PC World, Vol 1. #3 on upwards, incomplete (see photo). Dr. Dobbs, Volume 1, #2, photocopy of V1#1, many early issues from inception in mid-1970s thru... (again, this is just what I've pulled so far) Softalk, November 1982 onwards (incomplete, please see photos) Byte, January 1977 (Vol. 2, #1) through March 1983 (again, just what's been pulled so far, at one point I had maybe 5 complete runs of Byte) All photos can be seen here: http://s350.photobucket.com/user/Sel...ines/Batch%201 <http://s350.photobucket.com/user/Sellam_Abraham/library/Vintage%20Computer%…> I'll try to answer any questions as best I can. As a preliminary FAQ of sorts: 1. Yes, I will assemble bundles of magazines for different individuals upon request and ship them all at once. I will probably want some for of payment in advance though to secure the deal. 2. Yes, I will most likely ship via USPS media mail rate for the common stuff (this is how I received most of my magazines over the years) as this will be the cheapest method. For more valuable issues we can discuss more secure modes of shipping. 3. Yes, I have complete runs of a lot of magazines, but it will take time to dig them all out. I once had a complete run of nearly every (US) computer and electronics magazine ever published. What I now have is anywhere from a large to a substantial portion of that library. I don't know, this is the first time I'll be going through everything to see what's left. 4. These magazines have been stored in file boxes standing on their edges for years, packed very tightly. In not so tightly packed boxes some issues have curled up. In almost all cases, the magazines were kept in a cool, dry, dark environment so they will all be in about the condition I got them. In some cases I expect water damage. 5. I will charge more for the more sought after issues and peanuts for the long run schlock. My desire is to sell in bulk. The more you buy, the better your price. That should cover things for now. Happy shopping. Sellam FYI FWIW I cross-posted this from http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56035-Computer-amp-Electronics-Ma…

9 years

Visible LINCtape Tracks

by michael.99.thompson＠gmail.com

We applied some Magnetic Developer to a piece of LINCtape and can see the tracks. You can clearly see the extra space between the Mark and Data tracks. When we can get access to a microscope with an attached camera we should be able to see the bits. -- Michael Thompson

9 years

LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

by chd＠chdickman.com

I am looking for schematics or any documentation for the LA180 interface for the PDP8/e. A scan would be great. I want to see if I can use it to interface to a Centronics interface printer. -chuck

9 years

RT-11 Basic source available

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> I _do_ have working binaries (I think) for the MACRO-11, BCPL compiler, > and linker.. but they may or may not run under vanilla V6 ... > Let me try them and see if they run under vanilla V6 ... and if so, then > I can hand out the whole package. OK, I have verified that all the tools to run and re-build MACRO-11 do in fact run under vanilla V6. (Which is no big surprise - I'm very familiar with the changes to MIT-V6+, and most of them were in area like the terminal driver, etc; there was no reason to change any of the file-handling primitives. Here: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/macro.tar is a tar file with the whole works, along with the MACRO-11 source. Just download and explode, and read the 'README' file to start with. It does not yet include the source for the 'bind' linker (used with the .REL files that MACRO-11 puts out), because that's in BCPL, and there's no point in adding the source for that until I've put the BCPL compiler itself out, which I will do once I can confirm that it can correctly compile itself (it's written in BCPL) and re-create itself. If the first person to try MACRO could send me feedback, to see if the whole process works, I'd be grateful. Noel

9 years

Pac-Man

by c.murray.mccullough＠gmail.com

A sad day: The father of Pac-Man, Masaya Nakamura, passed away. I remember playing this on very early microcomputers. Happy computing! Murray :)

9 years

nice looking Series/1

by aek＠bitsavers.org

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Mainframe-Series-1-/172507912099 hopefully someone out there can grab it

9 years

RT-11 Basic source available

by Flash688＠flying-disk.com

jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: > Hi, I don't know if this is of any use/interest at all, but I have retrieved > an old/early copy of RT-11 Basic (V01-05 18-JUL-73, DEC-11-LBACA-A-LA1) > modified to run under V6 Unix, if anyone has any use for such a thing. > > I also have a DEC MACRO-11 which runs under V6 Unix, which generates .rel > files; there is a 'bind' (written in BCPL) which is a linker which reads .rel > files. (There is a BCPL compiler, written in BCPL, to compile it.) Then there > are two command 'relld' and 'ldrel' to convert back and forth from .rel to > a.out. I would also be very interested in getting a copy of all your BASIC and MACRO-11 sources. I can handle most of the usual media, but pulling it off an FTP site might be best. Thank you very much for thinking of us. Alan Frisbie

9 years

Need manual for a floppy drive...

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

I've got a Panasonic JU-455-5 AAG (5.25, 360K) that I'd like to use in a Kaypro 4. I've worked out the configuration of the drive based on a snippet of info on the net that had some jumper settings, but I can't get the activity light to operate. I've set the configuration to use the light when either motor on is detected, or the drive select, but neither seem to work. I figure a "real" manual on the drive would help. Note that the drive seems to operate without issue other than the drive light. Boots, etc. g. Tnx! -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

9 years

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