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by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

I get hit by that every couple of weeks. ?I still have no idea what a 'bounce' is or what I'm doing or not doing to cause it to drop me. ?Kind of frustrating because it just drops me and then I miss chunks of conversations I'm watching. Sent from my Samsung device -------- Original message -------- From: Curious Marc <curiousmarc3 at gmail.com> Date: 2016-10-22 2:42 PM (GMT-08:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: OT: Excessive bounce notices? Got the excess bounce warning and membership disabled too. Just clicked the link on the message to re-enable myself. Hopefully it worked, since I'm still here... Marc > On Oct 22, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 22 October 2016 at 17:27, Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote: >> Ditto, and ditto. I also thought it was due to the dyndns attack so just >> resubbed after emailing Jay, but if everyone did that who got an excessive >> bounce message the poor chap will have quite a full inbox. > > Yes, me too. > > -- > Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven > Skype/MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven > Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) ? +420 702 829 053 (?R)

9 years, 3 months

The original Sun-1 workstation one more time

by rlloken＠telus.net

I made some silly noise about a Sun-1 owner's manual recently (and I still haven't sent it out). Today, while browsing in the morgue I found an apparantly unused CDC Lark cartridge with a factory label declaring it to be Unix 1.1 boot media. Is there a functional CDC Lark surviving some place? Sure isn't one here. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

9 years, 3 months

RE: Various Software and Documentation for shipping + donations (round 2, much delayed)

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Cindy as in electronic plus? -------- Original message --------From: "Tapley, Mark" <mtapley at swri.edu> I'm trying to help Cindy find homes for some of what's left from her warehouse. I can hold them only temporarily ( :-) )

9 years, 3 months

MACRO11

by j_hoppe＠t-online.de

Hi, my version of the MACRO11 cross-assembler for PDP-11 is now on https://github.com/j-hoppe/MACRO11 . Among others it fixes the "JMP Rn is illegal" error on "jmp (rx)" opcode. Also I added the option "listhex" to produce a binary listing in hex notation instead of octal. I found this really necessary when analyzing test programs with a modern logic analyzer. Joerg

9 years, 3 months

General TC11 DECtape diagnostic/formatter questions

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Josh Dersch > If I run them on SIMH configured as an 11/44, I see the same behavior. > If I run them on SIMH configured as an 11/20, then I get the printout > described in the documentation and listings. ... I haven't yet dug in > to see what accounts for the difference -- any ideas? The fact that the simulator produces identical results to the real hardware would argue that it's not a bug in that particular hardware. So it must be some real difference between the two. There are subtle differences between the 11/20, and other 11's - e.g. on the /20 SWAB does't clear the V bit - maybe it's one of them? It might be worth trying setting the CPU type to other values, and see if it works on any other machine type. > 2) I'm looking for means to format DECtapes on the TC11. ... The > maintenance manual only indicates "a special program supplied with the > TC11 system," and I haven't managed to find it. The UNIX V6 distro includes a standalone program, tcf.s, to format DECtapes. I don't know if you have a running V6 system (real or emulated) to assemble it one; if you want me to assemble it and provide it as binary (in a variety of formats, e.g. .LDA format), let me know. Noel

9 years, 3 months

ISO Telenex/Atlantic Research protocol analyzer tech manuals

by aek＠bitsavers.org

another rathole :-( picked up some ST125 mfm drives and a multibus-ish floppy/mfm controller on ebay that came from a AR/Telenex 8600 Autoscope, which is a high-level protocol analyzer because it used an example of a hard disk controller chip I had never seen used before (Signetics 68454) http://www.ebay.com/itm/282236398895 found the manual for the 7000 series on line, and just bought a whole 8600 Turbo http://www.ebay.com/itm/331829268184 so now I'm looking for software and manuals for that. fortunately, it looks like the software is still on the hard disk in the one I bought.

9 years, 3 months

AS400 9406-170 available.

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

Weirdstuff Warehouse has recently acquired a clean AS400 9406-170. It was taken out of service where it was running. The lot includes manuals, terminals, printers, cables, etc. I took a bunch of pictures of the unit which are available via the link below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7RetVDiFv-qS0FtVzdSNmZxV0k?usp=sha… If you are interested in acquiring the lot, contact "Jim" at Weirdstuff. DISCLAIMER: I am posting this as a client of Weirdstuff Warehouse and have no monetary interest in any transaction related to this unit. Cheers, Lyle -- 73 AF6WS Bickley Consulting West Inc. http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

9 years, 3 months

Wang 2243 drive enclosure

by jason＠smbfc.net

Are there any Wang people on this list? I came across a Wang 2243, which is an enclosure w/ 3 8-inch floppy drives in it for $75 in the local surplus shop. Is there a demand for something like this whole or is the value in the drives? I've been wanting to mess around with some 8-inch drives, but it seems a crime to break this unit apart. There's also a smaller Wang enclosure with dual 5-inch floppies in it, but I wasn't able to get a model number off it. Also $75 There big to store, and cut into my retro computing budget a bit -- but I'm tempted to grab them.. Is there any potential interest here in these units before I go back for them? --Jason

9 years, 3 months

HP 9826A on Epay

by hp-fix＠xs4all.nl

I was jusy crawling ePay and found this one. For who is interested, about one hour left, 1 bid $100,- at this moment. I'm not the seller or affiliated with him or her. http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-9826-Hewlett-Packard-With-Catalog-parts-Or-Repair -Only-/172369586516 <http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-9826-Hewlett-Packard-With-Catalog-parts-Or-Repai r-Only-/172369586516?hash=item2822072954:g:NPMAAOSwmLlX8XkP> -Rik

9 years, 3 months

PDP 11/20 sold (ebay warning)

by jwsmail＠jwsss.com

Looks like someone put in a high enough bid to hold onto the 11/20 that went today. I guessed an amount around what it went for would be what I'd pay, so don't know if I'd have gotten it or not, but didn't try since that was around the 3500 dollar level. (it sold for $2961). The fun thing is the buyer is also buying vintage clothing and the like according to Epay's useless buyer history it gives out now. There were three other bidders that doubled the price in the last 8 seconds. It was a nice machine, though the seller said it had developed a problem in the memory. thanks jim http://www.ebay.com/itm/222300550527

9 years, 3 months

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