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emergency moderation mode RE: Virtualizing AIX 1.3 - WAS::::Re: AIX for IBM PS/2

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I had already turned on emergency moderation mode to try and stem the tide of this escalating further. I had also already emailed a few people off-list about this, which is primarily how it should be handled. Those who should have been corrected... were. Quietly. I'm rather tired of (a very few) people commenting "oh, this list is so much smaller than other forums" or "there's such a low SNRatio here" or "Everyone here is unfriendly (or things like that)". Screw all of that. I submit that while this list may be small, it has the best content and expertise, far better than others (I've looked). I submit that while the SNRatio gets off track once in a great while, I've seen that happen elsewhere, and at least as often if not more. Perhaps some should use their technical expertise to study the function of the "delete" key. Quite frankly I don't think it happens here all that often. Unfriendly? Perhaps there are a few that are brisque at times. On the one hand - Guess what... that's life. In any crowd there's always a few grumpy old men (of which I am one - especially at the moment), and socially well-adjusted people should learn how to deal with it and get along. On the other hand - That doesn't mean I don't correct those that need correcting (and I did) .. but I really don't need to hear the whining. It seems that there are one or two people that state they don't want to participate because of one or more of the above... yet they stay here solely to voice that opinion. Odd. J

10 years

IBM 5100 - APL Only Version on Ebay

by wayne.smith＠charter.net

There is an APL-only IBM 5100 up on Ebay. Had known that these were supposedly made, but have never seen one before. Looks a bit rough, but based on the pictures boots to the "CLEAR WS" screen. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-5100-Portable-Computer-Powers-On-/ 321999141713

10 years

VCF West is BACK ... woohoo!

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Great to hear! EK2 should make it a successfully revival.? Sellam, you helping for fun too or happily still basking in the glory of making your goal of VCF X? Glad its back though. The more the merrier for all regions to enjoy. - John <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Evan Koblentz <cctalk at snarc.net> </div><div>Date:02/05/2016 4:21 PM (GMT-06:00) </div><div>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> </div><div>Subject: VCF West is BACK ... woohoo! </div><div> </div>Mark your calendars: Vintage Computer Festival West is back! August 6-7 this year at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, Calif., just like before). We * just * signed the contract today. I'll email again when we have the web site ready and stuff. Primary organizer out there will be Erik Klein.

10 years

VCF West is BACK ... woohoo!

by cctalk＠snarc.net

Mark your calendars: Vintage Computer Festival West is back! August 6-7 this year at the Computer History Museum (Mountain View, Calif., just like before). We * just * signed the contract today. I'll email again when we have the web site ready and stuff. Primary organizer out there will be Erik Klein.

10 years

New Scans: HP Micro-Computer Interest Group

by silent700＠gmail.com

Hello all - I have uploaded some new documents related to an employee club at Hewlett Packard that sought to explore these new "micro-computers" and, given the evidence at hand, design their own (apparently a Z80-based CPU card of their own design, an S-100 backplane and an HP case.) The story as I know it is incomplete and I'm sure more details will be filled in soon by those who were there. The documents were lent to me for scanning by the daughter of an HP employee. I'll be returning them to her soon; I believe she will be offering them to CHM as a donation. http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing%2FHP/HPMCIG The docs are divided into directories as follows: Micro Minutes: 30 issues of the newsletter of the Hewlett-Packard Micro-Computer Interest Group, various dates between 1979 and 1983. Some issues undated. Non-HP_Docs: Documents from other vendors that were likely used by the club. I'll place them in their own vendor directories also but I thought leaving copies here help give us an idea of what the club was working with or discussing at the time Club_Notes: Emails, memos, handwritten notes, receipts and other club-related ephemera I thought it spoke well of HP as a company at that time that they supported an employee hobbyist organization. Enjoy digging through a unique bit of early Silicon Valley history. -j -- silent700.blogspot.com Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area: http://chiclassiccomp.org

10 years

Looking for a file

by bryan＠bceassociates.com

Does anyone out there have access to an HP-UX 11.x system? I am looking for a ROM image file for the FX-e video card to help me write an OpenBSD frame buffer driver for this platform. Thanks, Bryan

10 years

Looking for Heathkit H11 manuals

by rich.cini＠verizon.net

All ? Does anyone know of an on-line archive of Heathkit manuals pertaining to the H11 (LSI-11) Heathkit computer? I haven?t been able to produce much that?s useful from Googling, so I thought I?d ask. Let me know. Thanks! Rich -- Rich Cini Collector of Classic Computers Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator http://www.classiccmp.org/cini http://www.classiccmp.org/altair32

10 years

Bull DPX/2 and B.O.S. help wanted.

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi I'm trying to boot a Bull DPX/2 and got stuck waiting for NFS to do something, at least that is what I believe. Is there anyone on the list with B.O.S experience that could help me bring the sytem up under some kind of single user environment without network. I have a OS install kit with bootable floppies and I managed to get a prompt using the "boot_unix" floppy and following the manuals that I have. However, not even "ls" would work from this prompt, only "cat". (You are supposed to enter "os_install", but I don't want to mess up the existing installtion. /P

10 years

Virtualizing AIX 1.3 - WAS::::Re: AIX for IBM PS/2

by cruff＠ruffspot.net

>> https://sites.google.com/site/rhdisk0/unix/aix/aixps2 <https://sites.google.com/site/rhdisk0/unix/aix/aixps2> > > Is anyone else having issues with that URL? I get a quick flash of a > legitimate web page before the browser fills up with ASCII garbage. No, it loaded fine on my browser.

10 years

Mystery system

by mloewen＠cpumagic.scol.pa.us

I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-6.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-9.png The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top, labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some sort of IBM 370, perhaps? Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/

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