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by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I find myself in need of a new desoldering pump. I found a number on the Farnell site, anyone have any recommendations for a good one that does not cost more than ?25ish (about $40) and for which I can get spare nozzles? Here is the page: http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+204695&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt= desolder+pump&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial Regards Rob

13 years, 6 months

UCSD-P for the WD-900 ?

by jdr_use＠bluewin.ch

Are images of UCSD-P for the Pascal Microengine available somewhere ? That would be version III of the UCSD-P system. Jos

13 years, 6 months

The Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers of All Time

by elson＠pico-systems.com

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: The Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers of All Time http://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.html?f=50 Weird analysis about the VAX 780 in Seven - I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that a police department would still be using one in the mid-90's. The college I went to was still chugging along on an old Amdahl 370-clone in the same time period - as the primary mail server and host for various licensed apps (mainly SPSS) I have NO difficulty believing municipal departments would hang on to old gear as long as it would stay reasonably reliable. And, there is even STILL no shortage of VAX-11/780 parts at the brokers, if you know how to run the diags and swap boards. You could even repair the machine at the chip level with a soldering iron, solder sucker and dikes. There are pretty much NO custom parts in the entire machine except the fixed microcode fuseible PROMS, the LSI-11 and the inductors in the power supply modules. Given IT wasn't the hot cost center it is today, I'd imagine most police departments would be loathe to shell out for an upgrade to something that still probably worked just fine. Now, why the director put that thing the precinct room is another question. Artistic license? Now, that is VERY funny! Anyone who has ever walked behind a running 780 with a handful of papers at mid-thigh level knows what those cooling blowers will do! I can imagine the whole room being filled with whirling sheaves of paper! For those who don't know the 780 as well as I do (I was sysadmin on two of them, and also did a lot of hardware hacking and interfacing on them) they had 3 one-half Hp (I think) centrifugal blowers that sucked air down through the card cage and blew it out the back of the cabinet through 3 fairly small vents. The air shot out at at least 50 MPH, probably more. The 780 has a card cage that ran the entire length of the ~5' long cabinet, CPU at the left, memory in the middle and I/O sections at the right, IIRC. (Hmmm, have a vague recollection maybe the memory was at the left....) Power supply boxes were below the logic cards, blowers below that, and LSI-11 and it's floppy drive at the bottom left. Jon

13 years, 6 months

PCS CADMUS 9700 System power-up difficulties

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Hello list, ? some years ago, I got a CADMUS 9700 computer, a rather heavy system of the 80's from a german manufacturer called PCS. The system is built around the DEC QBUS, but uses a Motorolla 68000 type CPU. Finally, I found some time to have a look at it. Unfortunately, I didn't went far with my exploration. After having taken an hour to find out how to open this thing (plastic covers without screws are NOT fun, when they seem stuck), I cleaned it as it was horribly dusty und rusty. It must have spent some time in an humid environment. Deconnecting the drives and?applying power to?the switching supply turned on?the blinkening?kight of the ?green "RUN" button, but pressing it did not do anything. Afterwards, I deconnected the supply, checked that power connectors within the chassis were correctly seated and reconnected the power plug to the power-supply. Now, the green light did not blink anymore. In fact, since then, nothing ever happended again. The system just seems dead. I guess that the supply has a problem. It's difficult to check it, though, without schematics. It has a small ribbon cable which connects to a small PCB with several ICs on which can be found the "RUN"-button. I have no idea, which signals that supply needs in order to enter a state at which it should be on. The small PCB with the buttons and ICs could also be defective. ?There is also a key-switch, but I played with both positions and it does not influence anything on my system. The systems seem rare. At least, I could find only little information on the net and not documentation at all.Has anybody a clue on how to power-up this thing?Are there other owners of PCS systems, who can tell me who the system behaves upon applying power to the PSU and if it is sufficient to press the RUN-button to turn it on? ? Kind regards, Pierre ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

13 years, 6 months

Altos OASIS

by cc＠informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Hi, I'd like to play with the OASIS operating system for the Altos 5-15 (downloaded from Dave's site). After logging in I get the '>' prompt. Apparently, they use some kind of stack within their CLI as I can use it as an RPN calculator (just like FORTH in OpenBoot environments). The usual candidates like DIR, CAT etc. aren't recognized, LIST gives 'File name missing', LIST * gives 'File extenstion missing', and LIST *.* gives, well, nothing. So, does anybody have (preferrably a scan of) the OASIS user's manual? Christian

13 years, 6 months

The Most Wonderfully Ridiculous Movie Computers of All Time

by mloewen＠cpumagic.scol.pa.us

My AN/FSQ-7 computer tribute site received a bit of publicity in Wired Magazine: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/movie-computers/ My web server is heating up. :-) Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/

13 years, 6 months

Central Point Option Boards available

by cesarla＠yahoo.com

Hi, have you a Central Point Option Deluxe Board with the software copy II PC??? Thanx ? C?sar L?pez A. "Hasta que gozamos de la oportunidad de amar a alg?n animal, una parte del alma permanece dormida"

13 years, 6 months

PDP1 Music / Record sold

by jws＠jwsss.com

The fellow who posted the record some time back which was titled to be PDP1 music reposted the record for $299 and sold it. the reason to note anything about it is that I had emailed him about taking a capture of it and passing it along before selling the record The ebay listing up right now has a track you can download as long as it stays up. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170923504018 Here is the link to the song as well. http://ampnoise.com/mp3/MusicOnThePDP-1X_Pinafore.mp3 I thought it was nice of him to do that, as many people who list things on ebay would have bothered. I would say that it was just to sell the record, but I think the rarity of it to record collectors and a lower price is why it sold. Jim

13 years, 6 months

Discrete Transistor Laptop (Was: unibus to modern disk interface?)

by rickb＠bensene.com

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, Rick Bensene wrote: > > A Pentium 166 MMX chip, which was a common chip with mobility > >features used in some early Pentium-based laptops uses roughly 4.5M transistors. And Fred replied: > Is it supported by current software? Kind of. It'd probably run Windows 98(it would definitely run Window 95) OK, but nothing newer from Microsoft as far as I can tell. Memory limitations within the confines of a P166MMX laptop of the day wouldn't allow anything newer to run. However, it would run various flavors of Linux or BSD without much fuss. I picked the 166MMX for my example as I have an old Dell laptop with a 166MMX, 640x480x256 color LCD, CDROM drive, 64MB of RAM, serial & parallel ports, as well as an early Soundblaster-compatible sound system in it that I use as a console for my PDP 8/e and PDP 11/34A systems. It is rock-solid reliable, and runs an older (late-90's) Red Hat Linux just fine. Don't know how it'd do on a current *BSD or Linux, though...if stripped down to eliminate all the GUI stuff, it just might be able to run something current, though it'd be pretty stripped. I think that if we never developed large-scale MOS and CMOS devices, and were stuck tech-wise with either small discrete transistor, or small-scale bipolar IC technology, we'd probably be lugging around "backpack" computers that have the rough computing power of a mid-1970's minicomputer, that'd run batteries that could be carried around for a few minutes -- enough time to perhaps to move between power outlets without shutting down. You'd end up having pretty well-developed leg, lower back, and shoulder musculature carrying such a beast around. TCP/IP Networking (not to mention wireless) not included. Of course, without the tech that came from LSI, we wouldn't have high-resolution LCD displays, either. Nothing like lugging a CRT around. The display would probably be a CRT or some kind of character-oriented plasma panel (Burroughs Self-Scan?) -- both big power hogs. Maybe the world would be better this way :-) At least we wouldn't have people trying to read their Email and TXTs on a cell phone while driving.

13 years, 6 months

ValueWord & ValueNotes

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Do you remember what type of system it was or what operating system? ------Original Message------ From: MG Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org To: cctalk at classiccmp.org ReplyTo: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: ValueWord & ValueNotes Sent: Oct 9, 2012 7:44 PM This was software me my parents used in the 1980s on our family computer. Does anyone know how and where to obtain this, for old time's sake? Thanks in advance. - MG

13 years, 6 months

IDE Disk Test Stand?

by dj.taylor4＠verizon.net

Does anyone know the story behind this device listed currently on ebay? I've never seen anything like this... Item number 290668689315 , under the title "Miniature Hard Disk Drive IDE Spinstand for Testing/Development/Data Recovery" Just curious, I'm not the seller. Doug

13 years, 6 months

HP calculator R->

by rdawson16＠hotmail.com

Hey HP gurus, trying to read printouts from HP 67 programs and run them on my new HP35s Does this R-> in the printout mean an enter keypress? In general is there an interpretation of HP 65 program printouts to the associated keys? Randy

13 years, 6 months

Apollo Monitors Free, Kent. Wa. USA

by g-wright＠att.net

I have 3 Apollo Monitors with cables -8398 low res. color 19" -8399 Hi res. black and white 19" -01070 Hi res color 19" All did work a few years ago. All off DN3xxx, DN4XXX and DN5XXX work stations No shipping. very heavy - Jerry

13 years, 6 months

Epson QX-10 question

by rampaginggreenhulk＠yahoo.com

you put in a disk, you get a cursor, but that`s it. Puter won`t give disk back. Do I have to take it apart?

13 years, 6 months

Seeking Xylogics/Bay/Nortel fanout cables

by drb＠msu.edu

Folks, Thought I had this covered, but I can't find 'em. Looking for either of the following cables, which are the serial port fanouts for Annex terminal servers. 50-pin centronics at one end, 6 DB25 at the other. Anybody have one or two they'd part with? AX3-CBL-DCE-100 or CM0018008 (DCE variety) AX3-CBL-DTE-100 or CM0018009 (DTE variety, quelle surprise) Thanks, De

13 years, 6 months

A petition to Apple's Leadership Team - Create a public venue / visitor’s center

by david＠classiccomputing.com

Hi everyone, Please have a look and consider signing. http://www.change.org/petitions/apple-inc-create-a-public-venue-visitor-s-c… Best, David Greelish - Computer Historian, Author, Speaker, Blogger & Podcaster - Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society Producer of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 - 2/9/13 http://about.me/davidgreelish

13 years, 6 months

Apple petition

by david＠classiccomputing.com

Thanks, and Disney's CEO Bob Iger now sits on the Apple board, after Steve Jobs died. Best, David Greelish - Computer Historian, Author, Speaker, Blogger & Podcaster - Founder of the Atlanta Historical Computing Society Producer of the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 1.0 - 2/9/13 http://about.me/davidgreelish On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:17 AM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > Good idea. Signed. > > Interesting bit about partnering with Disney. Disney occasionally offers > help in designing museums and theme parks. Whatever your opinion on the > company, they know how to run an attraction. They helped with a really nice > renovation of Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI a few years ago - Henry > Ford's outdoor museum of trains, boats and buildings. In fact, Disneyland > was somewhat inspired by Greenfield Village.

13 years, 6 months

Paging Andreas Holz

by p.gebhardt＠ymail.com

Andreas, I don't have your mail address. Plesase contact me offline. Somebody gave me a binder of documentation for the "Modularer Experimentier-Computer" MEC-8, I'd like to forward to you,as it shall belong to the system, you collected from CMA-remainings in Dortmund. Kind regards, Pierre ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre's collection of classic computers : http://classic-computing.dyndns.org/

13 years, 6 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 110, Issue 38

by saquinn624＠aol.com

>> When you throw something out, when does ownership of it pass from you? >> When you drop it in the trashcan? When you empty the trash into a >> dustbin? When the collectors pick up the dustbin's contents? When >> it's dumped into landfill (or whatever)? Never? > > It probably varies according to location. In the UK, ownership of trash > passes to the local council when you put the trash in a designated bin, > box or bag on the street for collection. My understanding is that, in most jurisdictions in the USA, trash is "abandoned property" when you bring it to the curb, even in a designated trash container owned by your trash hauler. This is the result of court decisions allowing police authorities to search the trash without bothering to obtain a warrant. That seems to be the general take in the US. There have been instances of dumpster divers prosecuted, but it's for trespass.

13 years, 6 months

HP Apollo 715t

by spectre＠floodgap.com

I'd forgotten I had this and where I got it from, but I was cleaning out one of my storage units today and found an HP Apollo 715t/33 (425t) (picture: http://www.floodgap.com/iv/1695 ). AIUI, this unit can boot both Domain/OS and HP-UX. I have a crate of HP-HIL keyboards from my 9000/350, but the manual indicates they won't work with Domain/OS (and a Domain/OS keyboard won't work with HP-UX). Ostensibly there is a switch on this unit which says what it's configured for, but I can't find it in the manual or obviously on the exterior of the unit. Any suggestions? I haven't fired it up yet. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright ----------------------

13 years, 6 months

Oh, also, 5.25" PC floppy drives

by fraveydank＠gmail.com

I have a number of 5.25" PC floppy drives that have sat in boxes in my parents' basement for years (reasonably well climate controlled, drives never got flooded, etc.) Media preservation isn't really my thing, since I don't have or come across a lot of media to preserve, but I figure four or five 5.25" drives could find a good home through this list. They worked last time they were tested, and I might be persuaded to test them again if necessary. I even have a 5.25"/3.5" dual drive, though its cosmetic components are beginning to wear a bit. Same deal, free for price of shipping. - Dave

13 years, 6 months

Manchester Baby

by robert＠irrelevant.com

I've been meaning to try and scan this for ages ... Mention of this in the article linked to from the love letter post made me remember it. Here's a news article about the Manchester Baby, from 1978. ("30 years ago today..") http://www.irrelevant.com/manchesterbaby/ Apologies for the poor formatting; original was almost unreadable in places. (Not helped by lots of brown sellotape holding it into my old scrapbook!) At some point I'll find the time to tidy it up. Rob

13 years, 6 months

cctalk Digest, Vol 110, Issue 35

by saquinn624＠aol.com

>> I am not trying to be confusing. That's legitimately the unit I have. On >> the front it says, HP Apollo with a sticker "Model 715t/33." On the back >> side it says A1630 425t. It has an Domain keyboard port and an HP-HIL port. >> >> So what do I have here? > >I think that only opening it up will tell you that for sure. You don't have to do that. Only Series 400 HP "Apollos" had both HIL and Domain keyboard connectors, and all Series 400s will run Domain/OS. Even though they're post-buy, it seems as though HP did put some work into them - my 425s is well-built and has pretty much everything you'd need to get a good system running without looking for parts (SCSI and Ethernet onboard). The downside is no ATR if you need to have it talk with older boxes.

13 years, 6 months

Burroughs System/V Series emulator

by spedraja＠gmail.com

I've received an advice from ClassicMainframe about this emulator (thanks Peter). Great shape. http://vseries.lurndal.org/doku.php?id=simulator:installation Enjoy. SPc.

13 years, 6 months

Love Letters from a 1951 Ferranti wins first Tony Sale Award

by lproven＠gmail.com

Summary: Dr David Link has won the Computer Conservation Society's first Tony Sale Award for an art project that runs a program written to generate love letters on one of the first commercial computers http://www.zdnet.com/love-letters-from-a-1951-ferranti-wins-first-tony-sale… Other projects nominated for the first Tony Sale Award, sponsored by Google, were a DEC PDP1 restoration at the Computer History Museum in California; the Time-Line Computer Archive being developed by Michael Armstrong and Sandra Hodson, in Wigton, West Cumbria; and a reconstruction of Konrad Zuse?s Z3 Computer (PDF) in Hunsfeld, Germany. -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884

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