Has anyone got a pen for the Dauphin DTR-1 they are willing to sell?
Please reply to me directly if you do.
Thanks!
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Not in CA at all, but I have a working CDC Keystone drive
and an interface to a PC. I recently hacked up a program
to read any 1600 (PE) or 6250 (GCR) tape to a binary file.
There is a c program that will then read VMS Backup
tapes, and I have it running here and have read in a
couple of my old backups. I can also unpack some
standard tape formats such as ANSI-D.
I'd be willing to try this. But, I have had problems with
old tapes that have been stored in bad conditions like
attics or something. The oxide just peels off the tape
like it was a Scotch tape or something, making a horrible
sound.
I'm in the St. Louis, MO area.
Jon
>
> From: Pat Fitzpatrick <pjfitzpatrick207 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:15:54 -0600
> Subject: 10K ECL
> Hi Folks,
>
> As part of my ongoing attempt to de-clutter my life, I am purging my
> antique IC collection. I have a whole pile of 10K ECL chips left over from
> a project a number of years back and am wondering if anyone has any use for
> such. If so, let me know and I'll make a list. I KNOW I'll never use them
> again.
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
>
Depending on the part numbers, the Living Computer Museum might be able use
some to keep their KL10 systems running.
--
Michael Thompson
I have a customer in southern California who needs a 9-track tape from a
VAX read and transcribed to something readable by modern equipment. I
could do it, but it's not worth the hassle for a single tape for me.
Anyone in the area want to give it a try? This is a paying job, not
charity.
If so, contact me with your details and I'll put you in touch.
--Chuck
The whole file is now available at:
http://www.retroarchive.org/maslin/maslin_archive.zip
When time allows I'll break the disk and ROM image collections down by
vendor and get new pages created for them.
Many thanks to Al for recovering this!
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home.
Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies.
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
Folks,
Forgive me, I do not follow the CC list so I didn't realize some comments
and questions had arisen from my recent announcement of a fund raiser
sale.
First, as some bright fellows have already made clear, this is simply an
offer to sell certain select items from what I have referred to as the
"VCF Archives" unofficially since about the beginning (of the VCF). I am
offering only duplicate machines for which I don't have an obvious need
and that would be better off in someone else's hands in exchange for funds
to secure the rest of the collection. There are only so many Altairs,
Sol-20s and Cromemcos that a collection needs.
As to the circumstances that have brought me to this point, that telling
will have to wait for another day. It's a long story that would explain
why I have been hibernating from the VCF for several years now (something
I didn't initially intend to do but that became necessary over time).
Most people wouldn't be prepared for it anyway, as it represents a
departure from the person I was in this community for so long. Note, I
did not say I am departing the community (not that I haven't had only a
peripheral participation for the last several years) but that the person
you all once knew has moved on. My interest in vintage computers remains,
but it is an interest that has necessarily had to be put on the back
burner while the universe imposes its will on me and I faithfully abide.
This current operation is a winding down of Phase I of a life's work that
will resume at the proper temporal markers.
I will address some comments made in the original thread that are
deserving of an answer.
I invented the Vintage Computer Festival as a result of a discussion that
I initiated on this list in the spring of 1997. Since then it has
sprouted several sister events, including VCF East (presently the largest
VCF event), VCF Midwest, VCF Southwest, VCF Southeast (just formed,
produced by David Greelish of Historically Brewed fame), VCF Europa
(Munich), and VCF UK. All of these events (except for the European
events, which operate autonomously) can be accessed through the VCF
portal (http://vintage.org) (historical note: remember when everyone was
trying to create a "portal" to the internet in the early days? :)
The main VCF held 10 regular events from 1997-2007 (skipping 2001, where
the event was scheduled the week of 9/11). At the peak of the series we
had about 600 attendees, and attendance for the last 3 shows was in excess
of 500 visitors each.
Ten is a good number. It is completion, and a new beginning. I had
intended to take a hiatus from the VCF for a year. I was talked out of it
on the condition that those who did the talking would be around the
following year to contribute to the production of the event, as I no
longer was willing to carry the full load of producing it (which is a
failure of mine to properly delegate). No serious effort was mounted, as
this was 2008, a financial collapse was imminent, and I had my hands full
with other matters. I took my hiatus as intended. One year turned into
2, then 3, and now 5. The VCF is not done, but I believe I just may be
with it, at least for now, other than a cursory hand in maintaining the
website to support the sister events, and the main event, in the event
someone finally comes forward to pick up and run with it.
Quite frankly I became bored with the format. Don't get me wrong, the VCF
is still a fun event no matter which one you attend, because it's all
about old computers and old friends, and whenever those two combine then
Good Times are had. But I wanted to do something fresh, something new,
something absolutely mind-blowing. I was hoping to startup again in 2011,
but it was not to be. Now, I'm looking to pass on the mantle to some
sucker^H^H^H^H^H^Hambitious devotee who doesn't mind losing up to 3 months
out of their life every year to continue producing the event.
To clear up some misconceptions about the "Vintage Computer Festival" as
an entity:
- the VCF is not a corporate non-profit entity;
- the VCF has never been a corporate non-profit entity;
- I once considered attaining corporate "non profit" status for the VCF
but instinctively decided against it, a decision that has proven its
wisdom over time;
- the VCF will likely never be a corporate non-profit entity;
- if you consider the finances (revenue/expenses) of the VCF event in
total, it probably did run as a "not for profit" all those years; it can
be a profitable event, but it cetainly wasn't for the first 4 years;
- while the "VCF Archives" is the unofficial name for my collection, it is
in fact my personal collection, in the same way that the VCF is my event;
it is all just my property that I offer to others for use through the VCF
events and private arrangements; the fact is the collection has always
been open to hobbyists at little or no charge throughout the years, and I
have done well renting my services and pieces from the collection to
various commercial interests over the past dozen years, including law
firms and film production companies;
- any improprieties suggested as a result of any of this are ignorant
speculation.
I believe that covers everything.
Thanks to all those who have responded to my initial inquiry. Forgive me
for not responding until today but I will be addressing each inquiry this
morning. New inquiries are still welcome. I will also be posting
specific items for sale to the list (I don't use eBay) and will eventually
be relaunching the Vintage Computer Marketplace to conduct regular
auctions of both my and others' vintage computer items.
Lastly, I am not soliciting donations, but if someone feels compelled then
I will not refuse it right now. I would consider any amount to be a
blessing. Please contact me privately.
I will follow this thread in case any further response is required. As
always, I can be reached directly through private e-mail.
Thanks!
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Sellam Ismail VintageTech
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Spot on. The video in question is part of a bulk donation from an HP training centre. Its one of approximately 150 such titles in the TNMOC archive. They were distributed on U-matic and later VHS. Nearly all, even our UK-based set, are NTSC encoded. We have a little side project to dub them down to digital as a good 50% or more of this stock suffer from sticky tape syndrome. Even with periodic baking, the material is under threat of decay.
I should note here, the TNMOC material was not donated with broadcast rights attached, but simply as a research resource. We don't have blanket coverage to YouTube the lot at present. All access will therefore have to treated as a normal research request. I'll happily relay all research requests back to the museum, though, and facilitate.
Meanwhile, if any of you have the right contacts with HP to provide blanket YouTube publication rights please put them onto me and I'll try and get something sorted with our trustees.
--Colin
Steve Lafferty <steve at tronola.com> wrote:
>At 05:53 PM 12/10/2012, you wrote:
>>> I find that last statement farily hard ot beleive. The HP9880 awas
>>> introduced in 1974, video tape recording, while possible, was not common
>>> then. Are we talking about the same machine?
>
>--- HP had an early and innovative television operation. They used it to offer an extensive library of training programs to customers, as well as their own personnel. If I recall correctly, it helped communicate the "HP Way" to their far-flung divisions, around the World. In the 1972 catalog, they already had a whole library of video tape training programs. A photo there shows what looks like a Sony 1/2" reel-to-reel video recorder, like the ones which I remember seeing in my college days. Of course, the original Hewlett Packard company was very different from the modern day HP computer company. Much of the original operation was spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999. No doubt, that is where the ghosts of Bill and Dave prefer to hang out, these days :)
>
>Sorry to go on about this side-topic but their innovative commitment to television content production is one of the (many) things which always struck me as making HP special.
>
>Steve L.
>
>
No connection with this listing. Looks like an interesting item.
Symbolics 3640 Artificial Intelligence Work Station Complete and Functional
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221152106364
End time: Nov 17, 2012 7:03:55 PM
After a long delay (it's hard to make big release-worthy improvements after
19 years of development), Ersatz-11 V6.1 is done.
The free demo/hobby version is at:
http://www.dbit.com/demo.html
This release's additions are mostly about weird LSI-11-based microcomputers:
- Terak 8510/a. This is a desktop machine with a standard LSI-11 CPU card
and non-standard everything else. The highlight is the 320x240 graphics
display. Runs RT-11/85 and UCSD p-System. Works in the DOS, Win32, OS/2,
and stand-alone versions of E11, but not Linux (due to linker problems).
Probably has plenty of rough edges since I've never even seen a Terak
machine in real life. For one thing it only works with QX:-bootable disks
(no QB: FDC emulation yet).
- DEC PDT-11/130. LSI-11 chipset in a busless machine built into a modified
VT100, with two TU58 tape units below the monitor. Runs RT11 SJ or FB,
with more free memory than other MMU-less machines since it has a reduced
I/O page (so 60 KB of main memory instead of 56 KB), and the guts of the
TU58 driver are in ROM. DEC's PD.SYS driver is very small since it's just
a shim. A reimplementation of the ROM code is supplied (since the original
is copyrighted by DEC).
- DEC PDT-11/150. As above but in a big desktop cube with two RX01s for
storage. Again, comes with replacement ROM code to make PD.SYS work.
The manual has an appendix that shows how to write "E11.INI" config files
for all three of these micros.
There's also a new built-in text editor; see the EDIT command in the
manual. This was kind of an insane amount of work for just one new page
of documentation! You already know how to use it (press PF2 for the keypad
help screen if there isn't already a hardcopy scotch-taped to your monitor).
It's mainly for editing your E11.INI w/o having to leave the emulation
(or boot an OS in stand-alone E11), but it's an adequate basic text editor
(it's a VT100ified 32-bit port of the DOS editor I've used for everything
since 1983, including writing E11 itself).
Another new feature that's just a rough cut is that the SET THROTTLE
DELAY=d INTERVAL=i command can now take FILE=foo[.TIM] instead of DELAY=d.
This way you can feed it a file (e.g. foo.tim) which contains 65536
little-endian 32-bit longwords, each of which is the average execution
time of the corresponding PDP-11 opcode in nanoseconds. So now instead
of adding a fixed d-microsecond delay every i instructions, E11 maintains
a running total of execution time, and every i instructions it checks
the actual current time and delays as needed to match. There's a lot
of overhead in banging on the timer chip so often though, so for now the
execution speed comes out slower than it should. The main fetch/dispatch
loop is recompiled at runtime when the SET THROTTLE command is issued,
so at least the overhead from this code vanishes when it's not enabled.
Other new stuff: ASSIGN xxx /MAC:aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff works for *all*
Ethernet devices (was just UDP:) so you can override the real port's default
MAC address. And there's a new keyscript command that should have been
there eons ago: "LASTSIMILARYEARBEFORE 2000" (you can use other years but
why would you?) converts the current year captured by GETTIME to the last
one before 2000 that had all the same days of the week, so you can kludge
your way around non-Y2K-compliant PDP-11 OSes (this is for entering the
current time/date with one keystroke at boot time if that's not obvious).
John Wilson
D Bit
Hi Folks,
As part of my ongoing attempt to de-clutter my life, I am purging my
antique IC collection. I have a whole pile of 10K ECL chips left over from
a project a number of years back and am wondering if anyone has any use for
such. If so, let me know and I'll make a list. I KNOW I'll never use them
again.
Thanks,
Pat
I wanted to buy an equipment cart to house the huge HP 16700A logic
analyzer I bought, and I couldn't find one that would suit my needs.
So I built it:
http://www.techtravels.org/new_la_cart.jpg
Specs were roughly
* 2x2 solid wood Poplar frame construction
* (3) 2'x2' shelves
* Birch-Veneered 3/4" plywood
* 2" casters
* Monitor on left is floating above the top project area on flexible arm
* anti-static mat
* Surge protector for connecting equipment
* sliding keyboard shelf
* Ergonomically designed heights for keyboard/monitor
It's far from perfect and weighs a ton, but it's pretty solid and I'm
happy with it.
Thought I'd share.....
Thanks,
Keith
At 05:53 PM 12/10/2012, you wrote:
>> I find that last statement farily hard ot beleive. The HP9880 awas
>> introduced in 1974, video tape recording, while possible, was not common
>> then. Are we talking about the same machine?
--- HP had an early and innovative television operation. They used it to offer an extensive library of training programs to customers, as well as their own personnel. If I recall correctly, it helped communicate the "HP Way" to their far-flung divisions, around the World. In the 1972 catalog, they already had a whole library of video tape training programs. A photo there shows what looks like a Sony 1/2" reel-to-reel video recorder, like the ones which I remember seeing in my college days. Of course, the original Hewlett Packard company was very different from the modern day HP computer company. Much of the original operation was spun off as Agilent Technologies in 1999. No doubt, that is where the ghosts of Bill and Dave prefer to hang out, these days :)
Sorry to go on about this side-topic but their innovative commitment to television content production is one of the (many) things which always struck me as making HP special.
Steve L.
-------------- Original Message:
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 00:59:51 -0600
From: Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com>
> got this thing kicking around picked it up in the spring for 20 bucks
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7250/7547228432_e981da5a28_b.jpg
> curious if theres a way to hook it up?
-------------- Reply:
I've still got a couple of those drives from a Redactron WP, a dual-drive
version of IBM's MC/ST; have never tried to do anything with them and
certainly don't know anything about the IBM interface or protocol, but the
drive itself is kind of like a floppy, only linear.
The usual read/write heads, a solenoid (12V IIRC) to step from track to
track, and a motor drive to actually move the card in and out to read/write
it. Should make an interesting project; you could even put in some
photocells and turn it into a punched or mark sense card reader...
m
interesting indeed i'm guna have to look into this
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> At 5:24 PM -0500 12/10/12, steve shumaker wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/2012 3:24 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, Youtube's mobile site gave me a convoluted link on the iPhone, my
>>> manual cleanup must've mangled it. I meant this:
>>>
>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=svdsXGqjWEg<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svdsXGqjWEg>
>>> >
>>>
>>> Point is, I wet scan directly on the flatbed, no (flimsy) film holders.
>>> Excellent results. Not drum-scanning level results, but good enough for
>>> home scanning.
>>>
>>> There is some experimentation involved with getting the best focus.
>>> Flipping the film and adding or subtracting mylar sheets until the image
>>> plane is in near-perfect focus.
>>>
>>> .tsooJ
>>>
>>> cool! Now I see what you meant.
>>
>> steve
>>
>
> That is pretty cool, while I'm familiar with wet scanning, I've not heard
> of adjusting the focus via mylar sheets.
>
>
> Zane
>
>
>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
> Thank you for all your effort in this! Honestly this is an area I'm not
> that interested in, BUT, I really wanted to see Don's work preserved. Years
> ago, he helped me with info for my IMSAI-8080, which I always appreciated.
Agreed. Don helped me with my Kaypro when I first got it. Very happy
to see all of his work preserved.
Having inspected the zip file, what are the .lbl files? I thought
they might be disk labels, but the first one I looked at was a single
line of digits, repeating in fistfuls. Is it metadata for the .td0
file?
-ethan
All -
I have 3 more DEC keyboards available:
1) DEC LK401-AA with a hairline cracked bezel - probably easily glued
2) DEC LK401-AA with "gooified" feet
3) DEC LK201
No keys are missing and they seem mechanically sound, but they are a
little dirty. I have no means of testing them, sorry.
Asking $10 (plus shipping) for box/gas/driving hassle. Higher offers
will jump to the front of the line. Take 1 or 2 or all three... I just
want to get rid of them.
On 2012-12-10 08:21, Fred Cisin wrote:
> It was usually called "MTST", pronounced "empty ST", which
Raymond Scott once made a futuristic radio commercial for the MTST.
While listening you never got the impression it was about a word
processor. Only that it was a great solution.
"Machines should work, People should think."
Fred Jan
Does somebody have a Data General AV4300 (G70421-7)?
I have one, still running, and I would like to make a clone, in case this
one fails.
Hendrik Devogelaere
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I'm trying to make up some TU-58 images with the needed
XXDP files. I'm new to both, so be kind.
I would think that i need to do the basic assign and mount
with e11 for the TU-58
assign TT1: DDA
Mount DDA0: 'file name'.dsk
E11 comes back with can't open file.
It will let me just mount it with out a file. but if
I'm going to write to it, I would guess there needs to
be a container file.
Thanks, Jerry
Hi Paul,
Thanks so much for the reply. I'm very interested. Will be in touch off-list.
Hope that you will be feeling better soon.
Steve
steve at tronola.comhttp://www.tronola.com/
>From: Paul Anderson <useddec at gmail.com>
>Hi Steve,
>
>I have all 3 items here, but I'm on the mend. I'll see if i can talk
>my son into finding them. I also have a plessey controller for the
>rk05, but can't remember it it's omni-bus or unibus (or both). Ship
>from 61853, Illinois.
>
>Thanks, Paul
>
>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Steve Lafferty <steve at tronola.com> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> I have been making good progress restoring a PDP-8/m and would like to buy a vintage hard drive and controller for it. Anyone know where I might find those? An RK05 or Diablo-31 drive would be nice. Will also need an RK8E controller board set...Please let me know if you know of any possibilities.
>>
>> Thanks, Steve