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Compaq Security Enhancements for Microsoft Windows 2000

by dave.g4ugm＠gmail.com

Whilst sifting through the loft I came across this brochure https://1drv.ms/b/s!Ag4BJfE5B3onmNYe9v2yiv2abf2Afg?e=0EjFbM for the Compaq Security Enhancements for Microsoft Windows 2000, which evolved from the Digital product "Secure NT" I wonder if any one actually used these products and can talk about them? Dave Wade (Al feel free to take a copy for Bitsavers)

5 years, 7 months

Basement Haul

by dave.g4ugm＠gmail.com

At the risk of upsetting people who are perhaps hoping for a bargain can I send a link to this thread.. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?76560-Basement-full-of-DEC-parts-P DP-5-PDP-8-DEC-55-and-more/page2 I notice that there are card desks and an 029 that might interest folks. He says he "must sell" but may be amenable to donating such things. Dave Wade G4UGM & EA7KAE

5 years, 7 months

IBM 3270 compatible terminal connected to Hercules IBM mainframe emulator.

by mattislind＠gmail.com

I have been working on a project for some time to connect a IBM3270 compatible Alfaskop terminal with its IBM 3274 compatible cluster controller to the Hercules mainframe emulator. Yesterday I eventually succeeded. I was able to login to TSO on my Hercules system that ran MVS 3.8j. Here are a couple quick video clips: https://youtu.be/H1Sxt7xjn4Y https://youtu.be/CFfB3yCN9OI To achieve this I created a small piece of hardware I called SyncDongle, essentially it's just a few level converters, connectors and a STM32F103 blue pill. On the hardware I run a small piece of firmware, BSCBridge. It bridges between the sync serial BSC used by the Alfaskop cluster controller and the BSC variant that the 2703 emulation inside Hercules is using. More information here: https://github.com/MattisLind/alfaskop_emu and here http://www.datormuseum.se/peripherals/terminals/alfaskop There are good chances that the SyncDongle/BSCBridge combo could work with a 3274 or 3174 controller as well but I haven't tested since I don't have one. But no guarantees given, though. If someone has a spare 3174-51R, -61R, -81R or -91R I would be very interested in it. Actually there is a good chance that it could work with general BSC use. Maybe for NJE between Hercules and a real IBM machine? Or 2780/3780 RJE terminals? Or other third party 3270 terminals using BSC. The BSCBridge firmware only supports non transparent mode at this point, it works fine with Alfaskop since it does not support anything else. Maybe a showstopper for 3174 with 3279 terminals? SHouldn't be that difficult to add transparent mode if needed. /Mattis

5 years, 7 months

SunBlade 100 keyboard issues

by technoid6502＠gmail.com

I have a Sunblade 100, got it on ebay for $103.00, landed on my doorstep. I hacked the nvram chip with a pair of AA batteries, which should keep the thing going for a hundred years. I really wanted a STOP key, and found an ad on Ebay for new Type 7 usb keyboard/mouse, bought the set. I used a plain jane USB keyboard to install OPENBSD and that works just fine. The type 7 keyboard works great on a pea sea, and, if the Sun is booted, running an operating system, it works fine there too. If the type 7 keyboard is plugged in at any time prior to booting from media, any time the OpenBoot prom is in charge, the prom reports no keyboard detected and defaults to a serial console. This happens even if the type 7 keyboard is plugged in ALONG WITH the generic USB keyboard I am using successfully with the machine right now. An advertisement for the type 7 keyboard gave me a clue that this is a known problem with some early SunBlade machines and that I would need a Firmware upgrade. I've looked on Oraclle's site for Sunblade 100 firmware upgrades and not found them. Can someone link me to the latest firmware for the SunBlade 100 so I can get it to recognize this keyboard? At present I've got OpenBSD 6.7 running with X and a light window manager. Got Dillo running as well, so I can surf. Woot woot! I miss my SParcstation 4/330 though. Thanks! Jeff The OpenBoot Prom utility however, does not see this keyboard at all. I

5 years, 7 months

Curt Vendel

by technoid6502＠gmail.com

It is apparently true. He had heart troubles, but this was unexpected and certainly a shock to his family. I met Curt here, on Classiccmp, about twenty years ago. We are both hardcore Atari 8-bit computer geeks, but we met in this forum. He is missed by many as he touched many. Please pray for his soul and for peace for his wife and children. Jeff

5 years, 7 months

Spam

by cctalk＠beyondthepale.ie

Anybody else on cctech/cctalk receive a blatant spam today from an outfit called "SparkPost" with "OptIn Live" in the subject? Regards, Peter Coghlan.

5 years, 7 months

Curt Vendel

by binarydinosaurs＠gmail.com

Folks, I first heard this last night (UK time) but from an unconfirmed source so I waited until this morning and woke to find a tweet from AtariAge confirming it. Seems that Curt Vendel of the Atari History Museum amongst others passed away unexpectedly yesterday. Sending condolences to his family and everyone who knew him. Taken far too soon. RIP Curt. https://twitter.com/AtariAge/status/1300547070034620417 -- Adrian Graham Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk

5 years, 7 months

Zork from ITS tapes

by lars＠nocrew.org

Hello, Early Zork source and binary files have been found on ITS backup tapes. MIT previously released some December 1977 files here: https://github.com/MITDDC/zork Recently discovered files from January 1978 will appear soon.

5 years, 7 months

Fwd: Factory Rodent Urine, was Re: Sun SPARCstation LX boot from CDROM?

by ccth6600＠gmail.com

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tom Hunter <ccth6600 at gmail.com> Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 2:17 PM Subject: Re: Factory Rodent Urine, was Re: Sun SPARCstation LX boot from CDROM? To: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> Thanks Chuck, Unfortunately it is well past cleaning. The lead/tin alloy has corroded into a hard oxide with very high melting temperature. Lead oxide melts at 800+ degrees C and tin oxide at 1300+ degrees C. This is well past the 300 degrees C a soldering iron produces. Most importantly the copper pads below and some of the tracks are gone completely. About 70% of the board is pristine. Only the section which has been exposed to the liquid is corroded. I can't say for sure that it is rodent urine, but when I tried to reflow the corroded solder joints it faintly smelled like my firewood where rats nested one winter. Of course there is no chance for a rat or even the tiniest mouse to get into a fully assembled Sun/Sony CDROM with the affected PCB side facing down and somehow urinate upwards towards the PCB. As the drive was never before disassembled it could only have happened during manufacturing. 20 years ago when I put the drive and other SPARX LX gear into my display cabinet I could have easily found a replacement. Now it won't be easy. The sad thing about it is that everything was pristine when I put it in my cabinet. Cheers Tom Hunter On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 1:41 PM Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote: > On 8/31/20 7:25 PM, Tom Hunter wrote: > > Not funny if your prized treasures fall victim to it. > > > > I found that oven cleaner can loosen layers of the stuff without too > much damage to the electronics underneath. Soap and water won't cut it. > > --Chuck > >

5 years, 7 months

Looking for an IDE simulator

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

After having a run of almost half a dozen IDE hard drive failures recently in a short period of time (on my older desktops which use them, I've decided that I should see if there's an IDE emulator (using SD cards) available I could switch to. (I'm not sure why I had so many failures in such a short period; I can only conclude that they're too old now, and reaching the end of their service lives. So soes anyone have one (or more) they can recommend? (IDE simulators only; I don't want to have to mess around changing anything more than I _absolutely_ have to)? I did find these guys: http://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=74_64 in an online search - the CFADPTHD seems like it's close to what I'd want, except it's Compact Flash; I'd have preferred SD but I guess converting their interface to IDE is more work. Noel

5 years, 7 months

michael Holley?

by deramp5113＠yahoo.com

?I archived the entire website in the summer of 2019, shortly before it went offline in the Fall of 2019. When it became clear that SWTPC.COM was not coming back on line, I chose to host the content at https://deramp.com/swtpc.com/ so hobbyists could still have access to the excellent material Michael pulled together. Mike Evenson also hosts a copy of the website at http://www.swtpcemu.com/mholley/. Anything you can do to preserve and host the material at swtpc.* is much appreciated! Mike

5 years, 7 months

Bitsavers down?

by ccth6600＠gmail.com

What happened to www.bitsavers.org? It has been down for at least the past 24 hours. I can still ping the website, but http requests time out. The bitsaver domain name here in Australia resolves to 208.77.18.144. Thanks Tom Hunter

5 years, 7 months

michael Holley?

by deramp5113＠yahoo.com

Sorry, I did not see your post that there was no concern of losing Michael?s SWTPC content. I simply did not want to see more great material disappear from the internet as our peers age and become unable to maintain their web presence. I?ve seen that happen over and over now. I?ll remove my mirror of Michael?s SWTPC content. You can contact Michael Evenson and let him know his assistance in preserving the content for the benefit of the hobby community is also ?unauthorized.? I presently pay for 150Gb of bandwidth on deramp.com to host material for vintage computing hobbyists. I?m surprised the swtpc.org bandwidth requirements are high enough to be an issue that requires your ?grace? to allow us to view its content. Mike

5 years, 7 months

IBM professional graphics adapter and monitor

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

Before I ebay buy a monitor, original IBM 5135, will it match the scan rates of the IBM of the IBM Professional Graphics Controller? I wanted to keep this system looking all original IBM. Will I need a different monitor, Princeton or something like that? Your recommendations appreciated. Thanks, Randy

5 years, 7 months

swtpc, mikeholley, early computer stores

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Contacts have been made to secure disposition of Bill Dawson and Mike Holley's site/contents. As part of that effort, I pointed swtpc.org to what used to be swtpc.com (and also swtpc.org). So if you go to swtpc.org you can traverse both sites. But that is not why I'm posting.. So in doing this and fixing a few links, I noticed there was a lot of pictures and info on "first computer store in..." information, apparently written by Mike Holley and we were just talking about that topic here. Some may want to go hunting for the computer store that was an adult movie place heh J

5 years, 7 months

Looking for MIPS Magnum R4000 or compatible

by seanellis9＠gmail.com

Hello all, apparently I've been in this group now for weeks but my spam filter thinks it's all spam. Fixed that, I hope. Does anyone have any leads on a MIPS Magnum R4000 or Jazz-compatible machine? I've been working for a while on trying to round out my collection of alt-arch WinNT machines, and the Magnum has proven to be the most elusive. Thanks

5 years, 7 months

michael Holley?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I need advice on a path forward then. From emails I got from Michael, Bill Dawson gave him authority over both swtpc.com and swtpc.org. Originally, Bill Dawson had swtpc.com but Michael was managing/uploading much of the content there under the mholley subdirectory (www.swtpc.com/mholley). Michael registered swtpc.org and I set that as a redirect to the subdirectory on swtpc.com. Michael stated that at some point the sites would be merged and he would be the sole site maintainer. So now I am hosting swtpc.com and swtpc.org, and ownership of the site is up in the air. Whoever owns swtpc.com doesn't have an A record, which effectively kills off swtpc.org (redirect fails) as well. All that good content (and there's a fair amount) is no longer accessible. I see herb johnson ripped the site and has a copy over at deramp, but no clue if that is a complete copy that descended from Bill or Mikes wishes. My initial plan - since I have no registrar access to swtpc.com and it doesn't point to my name servers, nothing I can do. But swtpc.org at least still, is pointing to my nameservers. I will change the apache config from a redirect to the real contents (but not sure if it should bring up the content that was swtpc.com or swtpc.org). At least a real site will be up. That being said, I am moving the sites I host free from one server to another. That project is ongoing the past few days. I would like to move swtpc.* as well, but see above. If someone has a reasonably cogent claim to the content I would hand the site (both) to them. If it's long been gone and other copies are complete and commonly used, then I could just delete it but hesitant to do so. I would like to decommission the old server but this should be resolved first. Feel free to send me advice/thoughts/claims/rants off-list. J

5 years, 7 months

Herbert Schildt C code from books

by commodorejohn＠gmail.com

He shoulda stuck to being the keyboardist for Starcastle; he was actually good at that!

5 years, 8 months

michael Holley?

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Anyone have good contact info for Michael Holley?

5 years, 8 months

CYCLOID faceplate for Altair computer...

by wh.sudbrink＠verizon.net

Finally found it: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1977/Poptronics-1977-03 .pdf Bottom of page 116 (PDF page 108) From: William Sudbrink [mailto:wh.sudbrink at verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 5:53 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: CYCLOID faceplate for Altair computer... I seem to remember this being discussed many years ago, but I can't find it. Anyway, there's an Altair on epay right now with a CYCLOID faceplate. If I remember correctly, this is just a replacement plastic insert that was sold simply to "freshen up" an Altair where the original had worn badly, as so many did. I've done a fair amount of searching but I can't find an ad or other reference to the product. Does anyone recall the time period? I would assume it was at least a couple of years after the introduction of the Altair. 78 or 79? A pointer to an advertisement or one of those "new product" paragraphs that many of the magazines did back then would be most helpful. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

5 years, 8 months

More interesting stuff

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

Found a few other items that might be of interest to someone. Two DEC Mice VS10X-EA Rev A3 DEC Joystick Model H3060 bill

5 years, 8 months

Scientific Micro Systems driver

by dj.taylor4＠comcast.net

All; SMS made disk controller systems that used their own device driver, seemed to be an enhanced DY (RX02) driver.? Does anyone have the driver/formatting software? The model I have is FWD 0106 and is described in bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sms/brochures/SMS_FWD0106,1106_Flyer_Aug82.pdf Doug

5 years, 8 months

Buying and running an IBM PC-XT in 2020

by technoid6502＠gmail.com

I decided to get a tvga8900 for mine, as fiddling with 15khz ttl is just too flaky and problemmatic. Having a real cga/ega monitor would be cool if I could justify the cost and the space, but a native fix is an isa vga card so that's my solution. I'm refurbing a 5170 for use as an imaging tool, ISA tester, etc. Best, Jeff Message: 23 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:20:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757.org> To: Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com>, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Buying and running an IBM PC-XT in 2020 Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2008261019540.26445 at users.757.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > I delivered in a truck to the set up in Quebec the 20 IBM XTs that you see > in the movie Xmen the Apocalypse. I retrieved them after the filming. I > could set up an office or classroom of XTs. A funny if not impractical > practical joke > B That is awesome! -- : Ethan O'Toole

5 years, 8 months

Herbert Schildt C code from books

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

A wild guess that maybe some on the group may have these files. I bought the books from abe books, a few dollar's each. They are (vintage 80-90's) but of course the code floppy disks are not there. Did anybody keep these files? The Art of C The Craft of C C Power Users Guide I hope you say no, because I will probably learn more by keying in the code in the text, and finding my errors. Randy

5 years, 8 months

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by billdegnan＠gmail.com

5 years, 8 months

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