Check out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/70-22786-01_W0QQitemZ230064962734QQihZ013QQcategoryZ582…
I 'asked' a question on where he gets that kind of price, and that when
he comes down
off his drug induced high I might be interested....
This has to be the most unbelievable case of 'seller things he has
platinum' that I've
ever seen !
If anyone has one of these... I'd like to get one for my PDP-11/83.
Since mine
came with an expansion box, the panel I have is the height of the two
units and is
meant for mounting in a DEC rack... so finding one or two of the ones
like in the
auction link above would be ideal.
Thanks,
-- Curt
On 18 Dec 2006 at 0:14, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
> Anyone had success importing Vax WPS files into a modern
> wordprocessor? I had heard that older Wordperfect's could read in Vax
> WPS files, anyone know for a fact?
Are you talking about WPS I files a la DECStation?
Cheers,
Chuck
Hey All.
I'm looking to buy:
Moviesetter by Gold Disk
MainActor by MainConcept
Both of these are Amiga applications, and the versions I need must be
prior to 1995.
I'm interested in buying these outright, so if you've got them, please
contact me directly (I won't see replies to the list) and let's make a
deal.
Thanks!
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> On 11 Dec 2006 at 11:59, 9000 VAX wrote:
>
> > It surely worth selling. The 3 gang air capacitor worths $10 at least.
> > I noticed another two air capacitors and numerous coils too.
More of the eBay mystery at work. It sold for $76.75--I almost
tossed it out as junk.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320061196753
Cheers,
Chuck
--- Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wr
ote:
> On 18/12/06 16:49, "Richard" <legalize at xmission.co
m>
> wrote:
>
> > :-). The problem is that the rubber tends to
> break down with age and
> > turns to goo no matter what. Sometimes on old
> equipment the part has
> > completely turned to a puddle of goo without eve
n
> attempting to use
> > it.
>
> Ya, the transport rollers in the tape drive for my
> Sharp MZ80B have wept all
> over the metalwork. 'Tis a bit of a mess and will
> take some undoing......
>
> --
> Adrian/Witchy
> Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
> Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest priva
te
> home computer
> collection?
>
Going slightly OT, I assume the same thing
would happen to any rubber rollers in VHS
players, and be the main (only?) reason why
VHS players start chewing VHS tapes?
(I have a DVD player and am considering
getting a cheap DVD recorder)
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
I've got a KRQ50 (M7552) and a RRD40-DC (the 15 pin LMSI version, not the
SCSI version!) drive in a MicroVAX-III, but I can't seem to get them
working. VMS sees the KRQ50 as PUB0, but it doesn't see any drives on the
controller. Any attempt to access DUB0 just gives device offline errors.
I read somewhere that the KRB50 had to have a particular firmware version
before it would work with the RRD40 - does anybody know the correct ROMs
that I should have on my board?
I didn't have a cable to connect the drive and controller, so I made one.
Is the cable just supposed to be a DB15M <-> DB15F with all pins wired
straight thru? Is there anything special about the cable?
Is there any significance to the A and B ports on the KRQ50 (i.e. does it
matter which one you use)?
Unfortunately this seems to be a really rare device, and online docs are
pretty much non-existent.
Thanks,
Bob Armstrong
I've got a pair of Diamond HomeFree wireless networking cards (one is
PCI, the other is ISA) as well as a pair of PCI "HomeFree Phoneline"
cards for anyone interested in paying UPS Ground or USPS Priority
shipping for them.
IIRC, they'll work on Win 9x, but not NT/2K/XP (no drivers). I don't
know if Linux drivers were ever produced for them. The Homefree uses
a 2.4GHz (?) link to get 1Mbps (if you're lucky) and the HomeFree
uses a telephone pair to get 10 Mbps. Neither scheme represented a
glowing success for DMMC.
Cheers,
Chuck
Ohhh - nice big power hungry ECL based Classic 3000! Really slow
compared to later PA-RISC cousins, but a nice machine. Pair this with a
2680 laser printer, a roomful of 793x washing machine size disc drives,
and some 7980 reel tape drives and you had a nice 1980s HP data center.
On a historic note one could argue that this was the machine that saved
HP from the same fate as DEC. In the late 1970s and early 1980s HP had
several competing 32-bit architectures(Wide Word, Bridge, Vision... All
pre-PA-RISC), none of which won out and made it to market. When HP Labs
pushed Spectrum (aka PA-RISC) we were waaaay behind DEC/VAX and
IBM/S38/AS400/mainframe, and in a very difficult market position. There
was talk about the lights going out for business computing line
(HP3000), which was a big profit center for HP. The HP3000-64 had been
released, then -68, and -70. If we had not had the -68 and -especially
the -70 to give us breathing room and keep many big customers needing
higher performance happy, HP could have found itself in a very
unpleasant business bind.
Spectrum was very successful and we made a good transition, and along
with help from printers and PCs HP vaulted from a minor player to a real
player in the server market.
Stan Seiler might have some additional color. I was working in the RTE
Lab then moved to MPE Lab on Spectrum, so never worked on MPE for
Classic.
My $0.02...
Cheers,
Lee Courtney
Product Line Manager - Linux for Consumer Devices
Wind River
500 Wind River Way
Alameda, California 94501
Office: 510-749-2763
Cell: 650-704-3934
Yahoo IM: charlesleecourtney
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
> [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of sp
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 10:03 AM
> To: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: HP3000 model 70 in Australia
>
> Well, someone asked for one 3000 some days ago. Yourself...
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=19006244343
2&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%>
3Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D190062443432%2509%26fvi%3D1
>
>
> Greetings
> Sergio
>
>
Hello eveyone. I am new to the list and looking for info
for an old prom burner I have come across. It appears
to have been manufactured by B&C Microsystems,
and is a model 1409. Looking for any info regarding
this beast. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Berlen
Hi List,
I have an R3000 Indigo with GR2-Elan graphics and a system disk with a
working copy of IRIX 4.0.5. The provenance of these 2 items is different,
which explains why the GR2-Elan doesn't seem to be supported by the
4.0.5kernel that's on the disk.
Does anyone know if any rev or patch of 4.0.5 ever supported GR2-Elan?
The hardware is definitely working as I have a 5.3 install working nicely.
Was 4.0.5 ever shipped on CD? I don't remember ever seeing it on anything
other than QIC tape.
64K ?/$/E question - does anyone have 4.0.5 in a form that can be made
available?
Cheers,
Pete
--
Pete Edwards
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" - Niels
Bohr
Is anyone aware of any video available on DVD/VHS of historic mini
computers? IMSAI, MITS, those types? What about larger
machines? Training or promotional videos? I'm looking for any video of
any older computers really, so if there are some good mainframe videos out
there I'd love to get those too. : )
I bought a video from ebay from seller vintech-history. It is great. I
wish it were longer. :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180064876755
Grant
The thought occurred to me that it might be nice to have the
floating-point option in my PDP-11/73. Since I haven't got one, and
don't fancy paying the $500 or so that some online sellers seem to be
asking (do they really expect to sell *any*, never mind at that price?),
I was wondering how easy it would be to implement in an FPGA as was
discussed at length earlier in the week.
Feasible, or a complete waste of time? Presumably I'd need software
written to make use of the floating-point hardware anyway...
Gordon.
Ken Rother wrote:
> I am
> also looking for a cost effective printing solution but I might just buy a
> HPIB printer for that.
If you have a computer with a GPIB card you can make screenshots with
gpib-utils (http://gpib-utils.sourceforge.net/) and print those.
-- Adam
I'm getting double posts SOMETIMES from the list. Does anyone have any
idea why this would be happening? I was wondering if I was subscribed to
the list twice, but it doesn't occur to all messages. Does anyone else
experience this? I've included the headers from an example message up
until they differ. They are the same line for line except one has a blank
CC field.
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From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
>
> What concerns me is that 99% of the new spam making it through is vaguely
> sensible english phrases (apparently automatically pulled from online books,
> or from usenet post archives, etc.).
>
Yup...you're seeing what I suppose can be described as an technological
escalation in the spam war. The spammers have evolved, as we will have to
wait for the good guys to adapt.
I'm more of a dspam guy personally, but it's the same issue with
Spamassassin. That, and I've been working through the issues with
commercial spam removal vendors serving my Very Large Telco client. Bottom
line is that the spammers have found a weak point in the current
state-of-the-art spam detection technology and are beating on it for all
it's worth. They're not st00pid, alas.
Perhaps more insidious is I've noticed an increasing amount of non-sense
spam with no discernible (to me) purpose (no links or dead links, no message
or hook) other than to poison Bayesian corpus (corpi?). This does not bode
well.
Ken
No problem; I've got the burner, manual & software.
Contact me off-list, pls
mike
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:08:29 -0500
From: Kevin Berlen <kberlen at ticz.com>
Subject: B&C Microsystems 1409 Prom Burner
Hello eveyone. I am new to the list and looking for info
for an old prom burner I have come across. It appears
to have been manufactured by B&C Microsystems,
and is a model 1409. Looking for any info regarding
this beast. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Berlen
--- Christian Corti <cc at corti-net.de> wrote:
> [
> Note to those who don't understand all the terms:
> FAB: Firmware Accessory Board
> FEM: Firmware Expansion Module
> DCPC: Dual Channel Port Controller
> TBG: Time Base Generator
> WCS: Writable Control Store
> SIS: Scientific Instruction Set
> VIS: Vector Instruction Set
> DMI: Dynamic Mapping Instuctions
> FFP: Fast Fortran Processor
> FPP: Floating Point Processor
> ]
>
Thanks.
There are a few terms from other discussions
that i don't know either, such as:
BOG (no, not the toilet!)
FGPA (I think that's right)
If there isn't already a definitions/terms list
on classiccmp.org could one be added?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
I've been in contact on a fairly regular basis with the owners of the new
kits. Howard is waiting for Christmas, Mark (US) is working on his, John
is sick at the moment, and Mark (Netherlands) is still waiting for the mail
to come in.
I have uploaded the pictures he has sent me. They aren't too much
different than what I have on my web site, but they are from a kit
builder. :) I thought this might be interesting. Other than myself, I
doubt there has been too many Altairs constructed in the past 30 years. :)
http://www.stockly.com/forums/showthread.php?p=206
Mark mailed me a few pictures of his vintage computer collection, including
his Mark-8 kit provided by Steve Gabaly of Obtronix.
http://www.stockly.com/forums/showthread.php?p=207
Right now I am working on the silk screen and solder mask layer for the
88-PMC (2k 1702A PROM Board), ACR (Cassette Tape Board), 2SIO (Serial
Terminal Board), 88-4MCS (4k Static Ram board). With these items its
possible to have a completely vintage basic development environment.
I am beginning to work on other vintage computer equipment too! Expect
some interesting new things to come your way. :)
Grant
On 15 Dec 2006 at 19:18, Chris M wrote:
> Is it a *recent* development of compilers that as an
> intermediate step the source code will first be
> reduced to assembler mnemonics, before being reduced
> to object code?
Those mnemonics aren't used by the compiler in many cases--they're
for the compiler writers and maintainers (and curious users who'd
like to take a peek). While I suppose looking at a binary dump of
the object code might reveal something, it's the hard way to answer
the question "Am I really generating the right code?"
There are many compilers that will generate code that can be
assembled by the same assembler that the programmers use, but if you
have a single target, why parse ASCII text if you don't have to? It
just slows the compilation process down. On the other hand, if
you're writing a compiler to generate native code on multiple
platforms, then using the standard assembler makes some sense. Saves
you from having to know about object file layout and such.
Every compiler needs some sort of assembly pass, if for nothing more
than to satisfy forward references. Because the code being generated
is fairly restricted as to form, a pass-and-a-half assembly phase is
often more than enough.
As to mnemonics, it's interesting that even in P-code
implementations, the instruction mnemonics are often one of the first
things specified in the design process. After all, you have to have
some way to talk about the instructions you're making up. If it's
native code you're compiling to, well, those are already made up for
you.
Cheers,
Chuck
--- Kelly Leavitt <kelly at catcorner.org> wrote:
> > > Andrew wrote...
> > > > BOG (no, not the toilet!)
> > > Absolutely no clue.
> >
> >
> Isn't there an expression: Bog standard
>
> Which just means ordinary or stock configuration?
>
> Kelly
>
Yes, something like that.
Thanks to whoever posted the
www.acronymfinder.com link.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Has anyone purchased from this guy?
He has a lot of weird stuff, but the pricing seems like he took the
high number form suggested range in "Collectible Microcomputers" and
multiplied it by 10 or 20.
You'll also note that every item is marked "rare" even things like
Atari 800!
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