Come see our computer museum here in New Jersey! We're about a brief train or rental car trip from the city. Ping me for details and I'll arrange a tour for you.
- Evan
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From: b4 at gewt.net
Subject: Re: Sights in NYC?
Sent: Apr 19, 2013 1:59 PM
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013, Jason McBrien wrote:
>
> I forgot about the math museum, we're definitely going to check that out.
> Also not computer related but somewhat geeky - I'm going on a free
> forgotten-ny tour. They show the history of various neighborhoods, focusing
> more on infrastructure, showing where roads have been diverted, rivers
> buried, buildings re-purposed - that kind of trainspotter-ish stuff.
>
That sounds rather interesting!
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Tony Aiuto <tony.aiuto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The Museum of math is not quite computing but is supposed to be great.
>> On Apr 18, 2013 12:33 PM, "Jason McBrien" <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'll be taking an extended trip to NYC next week - are there any
>>> retrocomputing related sights to see? Museum installations or whatnot?
>>>
>>
>
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Tom's Hardware - a popular site for PC hardware tweakers and
overclockers - has done an ambitious article on the development of the
mainframe:
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html
It's a little American-centric but it's not at all bad.
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On 2013-04-19, at 10:00 AM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Thomas Dzubin <dzubint at vcn.bc.ca>
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: PDP-11 software designer job. yes, in 2013!
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1304181456420.17466 at vcn.bc.ca>
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> I had to check my calendar to make sure I didn't go back in time
>
> Here's a job advertisement for a "Senior PDP-11 Software Designer"
>
> http://jobs.itworldcanada.com/Jobs/Ggnt_nt-yM0A2pqNiGCgnQ==/Senior-PDP-11-S…
>
> This would be my dream job if I was single and unattached... I'd move
> to Peterborough in a heartbeat.
>
> ...sigh...
> ----------------------
> Thomas PDP-11 Dzubin
> Calgary, Saskatoon, or Vancouver CANADA
>
Well, give it some consideration anyway. Talk to your spouse/partner. I live in Vancouver BC, but took a job in Halifax, Nova Scotia because it was a real opportunity and a "dream job" for me. These opportunities don't come up often.
I was able to work out a generally-achievable "two weeks on; two weeks off" schedule, and commute to Vancouver to see my wife. The distance is tough, but there's Vonage/Skype for free calls, and I get home every 2 - 3 weeks, or at worst once a month for a week.
Kevin
"Cory Smelosky" <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 03:45 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
> > The only thing I 'own' thet I don't fix myself is my cat :-)
>
> Yeah, manufacturers don't exactly release schematics for those. :)
But they've been around for so long that others have traced them
out and released in book form. Heck, they're even giving lessons
about them. It's called "anatomy" though :)
OTOH, they require quite a different set of tools and skills to
work on than what we usually have and do.
Arno
PS: Condolences to Tony from me as well. I'm dreading the day I'll
be losing one of my parents.
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone on the list was lamenting the rarity of 8" floppies - anyone
> still sell those NIB?
Here I have two boxes of unused '3M 740-32 SS, SD single side, single
density, write protect, 32 hard sector' 8" floppy disks, One box is
still shrink wrapped. Not much use to me as all my 8" floppy systems are
soft sectored.
Trading them for soft sectored disk might be a better option than taping
over 32 holes per disk or adding a sector hole masking circuit to all
the drives...
Fred Jan
I have some boxes of Tektronix paper rolls and I have no idea where
they were used. The rolls are 8.5-inches wide and have a diameter of
3.25-inches. They are packed 6 to a box and I have around six boxes
of these which are all sealed except for one. I can't find any
obvious part numbers anywhere. The boxes say Made in Japan and have
JAL Cargo stickers on them and were shipped to PDX. These might date
back to somewhere in the 1980's. They came along with some Tektronix
4170 systems I picked up a while back.
Anyone know what equipment would have used these rolls? Are they most
likely thermal, or something else? Anyone have a use for these? Would
they still be suitable for the original application after 25 years?
The boxes are a bit heavy if someone has a use for these and wants
them.
-Glen
These machines need to find homes ASAP before my move, otherwise they
will be headed to goodwill
IBM PC 5150, Nice original machine with Sysdyne Color RGB Display
Original Boxes, Has a 20MB Hardcard installed, along with an ethernet card
$200
Nice original Apple II Plus System
Monitor ///
z80 Card
ThunderClock Plus Clock Card
Monitor /// Stand
Kensington SystemSaver
$200
Apple IIGS System
Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse
AE GSRam Plus Ram Upgrade with 1MB RAM, Expandable to 6MB
SCSI Card and 80MB External HDD
$200
Apple //e System
CFFA 3000
Z80 CPM Card
Super Serial Card
Apple UniDisk 3.5 Drive card with 2 Unidisk 3.5 Drives
DuoDisk 5.25 Drive
Apple II Appletalk Card- Connects your Apple II to your localtalk network
Apple RGB Monitor Card
Apple Color Monitor 100- Digital RGB Monitor for //e
$300 dollars
Bell & Howell Apple II
1 Matching Bell & Howell Drive
Hayes Micromodem II with Microcoupler
z80 Card
Super Serial Card
Matching black 9inch CRT Monitor
$300
Atari ST520FM
TOS 2.0 ROMs included not installed
Monitor and Mouse
52MB SCSI HDD with ICD ACSI to SCSI Adapter Card
$100
Osborne 1 System- Bad caps
$40
Compaq Portable ///
Works $40
To the Administrator
I have given the equipment, tapes and paper documentation to Scott Kevill ( scott at kevill.com ) because he lives in Perth and was able to come pick it up.
he has told me he plans to scan the paper material and put it on the web somewhere so others can see it.
I was amazed to have 4 people contact me with a couple of days.
thank you for spreading the word thru your mailing list - can you now notify all that the machine has gone to a better place :) ,
with an enthusiast.
Cheers...
Keith
>>>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>>>>> Btw, anyone have any blank 5.25" floppies kicking around? ;)
For another source of diskettes, I've had good luck recently (end of
last year) ordering from http://floppydisk.com/. It was a test buy of
ten 5.25-inch hubless diskettes for $10 + s&h to format for use with
DECmates by using a mix of old software, PCs, & TEAC drives. Health
issues put that project on hold unfortunately. :(
Floppydisk.com has 3.5-, 5.25-, and (at the time and maybe still)
8-inch diskettes with all of the standard storage capacities. Bulk
purchases, obviously, reduce the cost per diskette.
[I have no business relationship with them -- I'm just a happy customer.]
Bob
I figured I'd share the progress I've made so far with my bus interface
project. I've got the Arduino able to program the cartridge EEPROM.
I'm going to start sorting out the Coco to Arduino communications next.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3vHKKITAlk.
If you have any suggestions, let me know...
-Matt
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:33:58 -0700
From: Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: What are these Tektronix paper rolls? (8.5-inch wide,
3.25-inch diameter)
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I have some boxes of Tektronix paper rolls and I have no idea where
they were used. The rolls are 8.5-inches wide and have a diameter of
3.25-inches. They are packed 6 to a box and I have around six boxes
of these which are all sealed except for one. I can't find any
obvious part numbers anywhere. The boxes say Made in Japan and have
JAL Cargo stickers on them and were shipped to PDX. These might date
back to somewhere in the 1980's. They came along with some Tektronix
4170 systems I picked up a while back.
Tektronix made a fiber-faceplate optical printer for the
4010-series storage tube graphics terminals. They were hideous,
and made horrible brown copies that smelled bad, and the
printer would sometimes give off ammonia fumes so bad that
your eyes would tear. This sounds exactly like the paper
for that.
Jon
Hi, an update on available S-100 board PCBs
Good news!? There are several new and reordered S-100 PCBs available!
The S-100 68K CPU boards finally came in so there are about 5 available.
There are 25 of the S-100 IDE V2 reorder PCBs and 6 of the new S-100 bus
terminator/prototyping board PCBs.
There are 4 of the S-100 LAVA PCBs available.
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/68000%20Board/68K%20CPU%20Board
.htm
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/IDE%20Board/My%20IDE%20Card.htmhttp://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder¶m=S-100%20bus%20t
erminator
http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/Lava-10%20Board/LAVA-10%20Board
.htm
The S-100 PCBs cost the same as before ($20 each).? However due to
unforeseen extreme price increases in shipping by USPS I am forced to change
shipping costs.
Shipping in the US will be $3 for a single PCB and $2 for each additional
PCB.? Shipping internationally will be $10 for a single PCB and $3 for each
additional PCB.? This is for the bare basics USPS first class postage with
no tracking or insurance.? The builder assumes all risk of delivery as per
usual arrangement.
I apologize for the large price increase on shipping but this is out of my
hands.? The USPS is in dire financial trouble and is raising prices on
shipping.? It affects us all and is most unfortunate.? These boards are
provided "at cost" so there is no margin to absorb any shipping price
increases.? I have to pass them along.
If you would like one or more S-100 PCBs please send a PayPal to
LYNCHAJ at YAHOO.COM
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
PS, if you would like to help out this all-volunteer project please get one
or more of the S-100 LAVA PCBs. These PCBs are the oldest ones and them
sitting around on a shelf does no one any good. I?d like these to go to a
hobbyist who would get some enjoyment from these fun to build and use
boards. Thanks in advance. I truly appreciate everyone's support in moving
these remaining boards. You make this hobbyist home brew project possible.
I just sold a gent an old combo card, and he needed me to send him
DOS/Novell drivers. I found this page, and thought it might be of interest
to some.
http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/
Cindy Croxton
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I had to check my calendar to make sure I didn't go back in time
Here's a job advertisement for a "Senior PDP-11 Software Designer"
http://jobs.itworldcanada.com/Jobs/Ggnt_nt-yM0A2pqNiGCgnQ==/Senior-PDP-11-S…
This would be my dream job if I was single and unattached... I'd move
to Peterborough in a heartbeat.
...sigh...
----------------------
Thomas PDP-11 Dzubin
Calgary, Saskatoon, or Vancouver CANADA
For anybody within driving distance of Atlanta this weekend, we have the
first VCF Southeast this weekend.
You can get info via http://vintage.org/2013/southeast/ or via the Atlanta
Historic Computing Society site (http://atlhcs.org/) Directions, etc. are
all there.
We have a pretty impressive Apple Pop-Up Museum that you begin with (Pop-Up
doesn't mean it's made of paper and pops up when you turn the page, but
rather that it's here for this weekend, and may "Pop-Up" somewhere else
later on..)
A chance to see some fairly historic pieces of computer history and hear
some interesting speakers...
Earl Baugh (AHCS member)
In this modern day of pushing for everything to be web based, I am SO
frustrated by my hosting company being down for the last 9.5 hours due to a
DNS resolving issue. The old methods would never have had these problems..
Cindy Croxton
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I have a couple of shelves of old IDE and a few SCSI internal tape drives,
mostly 40-120mb in capacity. I no longer have the tapes, nor the
inclination to test. If you want a list and will pay $10 plus shipping for
a drive, please email me a for a list of models and pn. NO GUARANTEES on
these old guys! Shipping should be $8-10.
Cindy Croxton
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I am looking for a print shop / Print On Demand service that can do pen plotter, Dot-matrix work
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At 2:28 -0500 4/18/13, <Fred> wrote:
>Vets would love a CAT-scan device.
A couple of years ago my mother-in-law had a recurring problem with
foot fungus. About 24 hours before any other sign indicated that it
was time to medicate, her dogs and my sister-in-law's cats would
start sniffing around her feet.
She decided medical technology was really advancing - she was getting
early notice either from the "Cat scan" or from the "lab test"
(although the dogs were actually schnauzers, not labradors).
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- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
Should we be surprised at how and why classic-computing, this site in
particular, is so popular amongst the hobbyist/experimenter community
today? There is a modicum of control that?s lacking in today?s
computing, or computing-like, technology. Granted it?s ?easier? to
use/employ, nearly by all; everything, or almost, done without
consumer input but turning the infernal beast on. Or, maybe not with
the ?intelligence agents? been employed today! And even our computers
I dare say going this route. Automatic updates, etc., etc.,
happen?Making a computer or otherwise do what you want it to do,
rather than say an Apple or something akin, is fast becoming a thing
of the past. Freedom. Let?s hope it?s not pass? either!
Murray--
Symptom: A QX-10 keeps shutting down, but at random and in an erratic way.
By erratic it will sometimes shutdown--Start---Shutdown--start---within a
1/2 second of each sequence.
It sounds like there is a short somewhere or at least some component
failing. But where? Its hard to diagnose because (1) It's intermittent
and (2) I don't want to run the machine when it's flip flopping on and off.
That's definitely not good for the components.
I've determined that it's either the PSU or mainboard at fault. Both are
for sale on e-Bay. However, I don't whant to buy both when only one is the
problem.
Any ideas how I might determine which? The PSU doesn't not fire at all if
there is no load on it.
Terry (Tez)
Started tearing into the 11/780 and pulled the 11/03 and the RX01 out to clean and test. Looks like the PS is bad in the 11/03. It powers on and the fans run because they are AC but I am getting sometimes 4.5 volts on the 5v line and 0 volts on the 12v. I have 34 volts coming out of the diode rectifier. I suspect switching transistors.
Anyone have experience with these?
Brian.