- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by Sharp51482＠aol.com

Just to add a little more info, When I returned to work today I got the exact model of my printer, its a 5218 A02. And it does not have any connection on the back for the feeder or tractor unit as described in the service manuals. It would appear that you would have to add some sort of wire harness assm.??? Any help is appreciated. I am having no luck tracking down a cut sheet feeder. Thanks! Blu

22 years, 4 months

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Infortek AD200.

by mark.morse＠kodak.com

Joe, I ran across a discussion string you had earlier this year about an Infotek AD200 board in an HP9000/300.? We are looking for one of these boards.? Do you know where we could find one?? Thanks. Mark Morse X-ray Spectroscopy / Neutron Activation Laboratories Analytical Technology Division Kodak Research Labs phone: 585-722-3353 e-mail: mark.morse(a)kodak.com

22 years, 4 months

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Decserver 200/MC as console switch?

by bdwheele＠indiana.edu

I've got a decserver 200/mc and I've managed to get the terminal server software to load. What I'd like to do is set it up so I can hang my various unix boxes off of it and use the console port on the terminal server to switch between them. [think: serial kvm] I know I'm going to need a pile of null-modems, but I have no idea how to configure the server to do what I want. The documentation I've come across seems to indicate that this is possible. Anyone have any documentation on how I'd set this up? I don't need LAT, so that's not really an issue. [of course, if anyone has a newer terminal server that'll do this that they're willing to part with for postage, I'd not turn it down :) ] Brian Wheeler bdwheele(a)indiana.edu

22 years, 4 months

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IEZ11 driver source

by kahrs＠caip.rutgers.edu

Does anyone have the source for the IEZ11 (that's the IOTech 488/D interface) driver??? I'd like to figure out the SCSI commands for this beast and even the manufacturer (Iotech) doesn't have any documentation on it. Thanks for any help, commiseration, etc.

22 years, 4 months

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finds from TRW Swapmeet (AKA Northrup Grumman swap meet) today

by jwstephens＠msm.umr.edu

I found a device called a Micro Lab I. It camed with a TI 9900 card and a 6802 card. It is dated 1979 from looking at the date codes on the parts. It fired up and ran perfectly. Anyone have any experience on this unit? I found a 2 high VME board with a TRW RH32 processor on it. A quick search ofGoogle showed that this has a redhat port and is a Raiation hardened 32 bit RISC processor made by TRW and Honeywell. The chipset has a CPU-1 CPU-2 MPU-1 MPU-2 and SCU-2 plus two ORCA asics. I don't know if it is dual cpu, fault tolarant (dual cpus for redundant function), or a single cpu set with two large cpu LSI chips making up a single processor. Jim

22 years, 4 months

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Why one should never give an interview

by vcf＠siconic.com

Ok, more fuel to add to the discussion about reporters being complete idiots. I did an interview recently for a local paper. The writer seemed very bright and asked good questions. The article came out today. I was impressed with the technical accuracy. However, there was one MAJOR problem: the article said that I sold recycled computers to the Alameda County Computer Resource Center. Now, this may at first seem like a minor error, but it's huge. First of all, under agreement with the ACCRC, I act as a drop-off center for computer and electronic recycling. All items dropped off at my facility are in fact donations to the ACCRC, and donation receipts are given for income tax deductions. Second, the computers and electronics collected are then delivered to the ACCRC where they then refurbish and distribute the computers they receive as an officially registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. To say that I sell computers to the ACCRC makes it seem like I am engaged in fraud. So now people who read this article and have or were considering donating items through my service to the ACCRC will think I am in fact fraudulently collecting computers to resell to a non-profit. Nice. In short, I have been libeled is a seriously egregious fashion. So much for the free publicity I was hoping for. I'll have to wait until tomorrow (Monday) to see what the paper intends to do to rectify the situation. If they don't play by my rules then I'm getting an attorney. This incident may well be the final straw. From now on I'm now considering telling any reporter that comes within 10 feet of me to fuck off. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 4 months

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Mel the Programmer (aka Mel Kaye)

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Dec 1, 8:05, Joe Stevenson wrote: > > I am unfamiliar with "Mel the Programmer" > > What is he best known for (besides this recent information you cited)? If you look at the page given below, and follow the first link, you'd find the story. It's very well known. > On 11/30/2003 at 8:54 PM Tom Jennings wrote: > > >You may have read about the apocryphal Mel the Programmer on the net... > > > >Well it appears that Mel Kaye was a real person, was a master programmer > >for the Royal McBee Corp, and wrote little things like boot code for the > >LGP-30. Here's some substantiating factoids. > > > >http://wps.com/projects/LGP-21/mel-the-programmer.html -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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NEW! Multiple Currency Support on the Vintage Computer Marketplace

by vcf＠siconic.com

The Vintage Computer Marketplace is pleased to offer sellers the option of conducting transactions in six new national currencies: Euros, Pounds (Great Britain), Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Japanese Yen, and Hong Kong Dollars. If you are a non-US member, you may click on the "My Profile" link to modify your member preferences and set your default currency. You will also see a new option to set your language/locale, which will allow VCM to perform some specific formatting changes appropriate to your national language. If you're not a member yet, join today (it's free!) http://marketplace.vintage.org -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 4 months

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One That Got Away (was: Woohoo! Another DEC score!)

by mross666＠hotmail.com

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:28:30 -0500 Subject: Re: One That Got Away (was: Woohoo! Another DEC score!) >>...There. That's my True Confession(tm). I've got a couple of those... a Connection Machine CM-200, and a pdp-12 :-( The CM-200: In the early 1990s, I was in Edinburgh, trying to track down some pdps. I ended up at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where I found a pdp-11/45, just decommisioned, which had been running as a communications front end. I also found the most impressive computer I had (and have) ever seen: a Connection Machine CM-200, flashing all its lights at me in a very beguiling fashion! I determined there and then that I would try, in a few years when such machines were being retired, to secure one for the Corestore. I let around five years go by, not realising just how long a period that is in high-performance computing, before I spoke to the people in Edinburgh again: 'oh I'm sorry, we finished with that machine six months ago - it was carted off for scrap. We kept a few of the boards as souvenirs...'!!! The pdp-12: In 1993 I collected a pdp-12 from a medical research place. At the time I removed it, there were still two other pdp-12s on site there, one complete and in use, the other dismantled for spares. One machine remained in intermittant use until at least 2001! I had been promised the remaining equipment when it was finally surplus to requirements, and telephoned the place every few months, always getting the reply ' it will be a few more months at least'... then came the fatefull day in early 2002 when I called and heard 'oh sorry we forgot about you - we got rid of it all a couple of months ago, it all went to an old computer enthusiast who asked us for it!' Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. At least the -12 *did* get saved... Mike http://www.corestore.org _________________________________________________________________ Share holiday photos without swamping your Inbox. Get MSN Extra Storage now! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es

22 years, 4 months

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One That Got Away (was: Woohoo! Another DEC score!)

by ken＠fraserhouse.com

Eric Paulos, a researcher at Intel's Berkley Lab, owns a CM2. There's a page on his website that talks a little about it: http://www.paulos.net/other/cm2.html Ken At 11:02 AM 12/1/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I helped build the CM-1. > >Does anyone know what happened to the few CM-1's that were made? > >William Donzelli wrote: > >>>I've got a couple of those... a Connection Machine CM-200, and a pdp-12 :-( >> >>The "one" that got away from me were *most* of the Connection Machines. >>CM-5s and a few CM-2s. >> >>William Donzelli >>aw288(a)osfn.org

22 years, 4 months

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List of systems...

by lbickley＠bickleywest.com

We are in the process of revamping our website - and we've added our collection of vintage computers. We intend to add pictures, links, etc. over time - but, hey, this is a first cut... Be sure to click the "Systems 2" button at the bottom of the "Systems 1" page http://bickleywest.com/system1.html Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA 94040 "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

22 years, 4 months

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Documentation for AppleSoft & command hook?

by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm looking for documentation that explains how to actually use the & (ampersand) command hook in AppleSoft BASIC. Apparently this was documented in 1980 by some documentation Apple released at that time. BTW, here's a nice disassembly of AppleSoft BASIC: http://cosmicwolf.com/AppleII/AppleSoft_Commented.htm -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

22 years, 4 months

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Looking for info on ' Datashiled at-800'

by va3rzs＠rac.ca

Hello to the group ! I have a pair of data shield at-800's I was wondering if there is a voltage adjust on them .. the batts get down to about 19 volts then the UPS dies I am only getting a run time of aprox 20 min . off this unit .. I had a 'good ole' ups and she would run under full load for 45 min with smaller batts .. Looking for any and all info .. Thanks Rick Szajkowski VA3 RZS Charlotte Darby VA3 CMR Node Owners of IRLP Node 2120 Lakefield Ont Canada

22 years, 4 months

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BASIC games -- was Re: HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 27, 22:12, Kelly Fergason wrote: > Pete Turnbull wrote: > >Did you find it? Yes, it's two programs, which I found on Al Kossow's > >image of the HP library tape. I've been putting together a web page > >about BASIC games I've found interesting -- I ran out of time so > >there's not much there yet, but I extracted TRADER and TRADES (thanks > >to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode programs I adapted). > Those are it... Cool. I see some time-wasting ahead for me, as if I > had that much time to waste... > > Ok, next one. Another trek game, but more interactive. I believe it > was basically a battle, ie. a Klingon > showed up, and you talked until someone started shooting. It was more > like the adventure games that > came later, 'fire phasers', etc. The source was protected, so you could > not list it, and figure out how to win. > > Anyone remember that one? Not offhand, though it sounds vaguely like a few other games. Was it written in BASIC? What system(s) did it run on? -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 4 months

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Interesting Find

by marvin＠rain.org

Today at TRW turned out to be rather interesting. A friend of mine was selling some stuff that included a funny module that didn't sell and I ended up with it. Turns out that it is an Amplifier Module (red/green front) for the Electronic Associates TR-10 Desktop Analog computer. Doug Coward has a picture of the computer on his site at http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog/eai.htm.

22 years, 4 months

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On Topic? Looking for opinions...

by john＠boff-net.dhs.org

Let's see if this goes through, last two didn't... Now I know this falls under the 10 year category except for the video card and SCSI card: I'm slapping together (finally) a P200 (not even MMX) Linux box with a classic AMD 10Mbit PCI NIC (Sridhar got me hooked on 'em and they certainly are tanks), an old AT motherboard with most likely a serial mouse to keep it as classic as possible and a 250 watt p/s. Running the beast will be an old 2GB IDE Maxtor I dug up, an old 4x IDE CD-ROM (Toshiba?) and then 2 Seagate 4/4.5GB half-height drives I have laying around, attached to a Diamond Fireport 20/40 (non-ultra). For video, it'll have a PCI Jaton TNT2m64 32MB so I can at least get decent color when I'm messing with some of the graphical stuff. I'll be using a 14 year old (still works fine) clickity Ultra 2000 AT keyboard with the beast. Oh, sound will be one of the original full length Creative Sound Blaster 16's with Daughter Card (dated 1990?). The big question is: should I go with Slackware or GenToo Linux as my OS? This unit will be doing a little web serving and will become my email server since friend's server is unreliable lately (Win2k on a college dorm network - obviously off when it goes home with the guy at breaks). I know some are suggesting NetBSD, but I'm looking to make this thing easy enough so my gf can tinker with it and get converted from her eeewh, XP OS, while making it not so much of a chore to do a basic config and get serving up and running. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, also, I may be tossing in dual PCI 16/4 Madge/IBM Token Ring NICs to a Bay Networks 504 unit with Fiber ports and NMM just for ha-ha's and something to hobby with in the future. I also have a 3COM 12 port RJ45 Token unit, a DCA Microchannel/ISA Token card? (unable to find details on) and the old IBM 8228 MAU with a lot of 6ft Vampire to DB9's if anyone's looking for one, shipping and it's yours (I remember someone on the list was looking a few months back, but I forget who) -John Boffemmyer IV PS: "A Linux box isn't a Linux box until you get it serving to the Internet >from something that is barely big enough to have the Ethernet line plugged into it." - I rather like that quote, you'll never see Windoze doing that. Whoever had recently said that should suggest it to Linus T. =)

22 years, 4 months

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Formatting and verifying MFM hard disks

by ian_primus＠yahoo.com

As I have been sorting and cleaning over Thanksgiving, I decided that I would build up an extra PC clone for the sole purpose of formatting and verifying various types of media, such as SCSI, IDE, and MFM hard drives and 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppies. I originally planned on just tossing an MFM card and SCSI card into an older AMD K6-2 233, and installing two floppy drives. But, as I got started, I remembered how the old MFM drive controllers worked, and how they kinda take over the boot process. Also, since MFM drives need to be low level formatted for a specific controller before they can be high level formatted, I can't really just format them from Linux. I found a Seagate card that has a nice boot screen with a drive formatting utility, but it only handles eight different Seagate drives. I've got a couple of other old controllers, none of which have such a nice utility, and all of which prevent me from booting from CDROM (they intervene before the BIOS boots from a disk, and when the MFM card can't boot a hard drive, it tries floppy drives, but it doesn't see the CDROM, and won't return control of the boot process back to the PC's built in controllers) Also, in this process, I realized that I can't find my DOS disks! It's been a long time since I booted DOS, and an even longer time since I've messed with DOS on XT's, so I don't know where the disks are. What I think I need is a disk with DOS 3.x and debug. I remember having to use debug to invoke the built in formatting program on most hard drive controllers. Anyway, what I really want to do, is have a computer that would have an MFM card in it, and be able to work with any MFM drive. I'd also like to still be able to boot off an IDE hard drive or a CDROM, since I want to install Linux on an IDE drive on the motherboard's controller, and use that for high level formatting. I can probably work around that by having a Lilo bootdisk, and booting that first, then the system could continue booting from an IDE drive. But, if I did this, what is the best way to do low level formatting on MFM drives? Is there a way to invoke the card's internal formatter from Linux? It's been a while since I worked with this stuff, can anyone refresh my memory? Thanks! Ian Primus ian_primus(a)yahoo.com

22 years, 4 months

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VMS .iso image for SimH?

by gtoal＠gtoal.com

After a long wait I have finally got membership of Encompass and have requested and received an OpenVMS licence for SimH (I entered serial no #1, hope that'll work! - leaving the field blank was rejected) I thought that once I had the licence, and simh built and installed on a dedicated machine, that it would be easy to download a .iso image and get started. No such luck! From what I can tell the only way to get the VMS code is to buy the $30 CD? Is it permissible to get a copy of the .iso from someone who has it, since I'm now licensed, or is an original CD a requirement (legally I mean, not technically). If it's OK to download a .iso from someone, could anyone here who has one online and a suitably high bandwidth connection please point me at a copy? I'm desperate to get started! :-) By the way, to the person who asked about where to get online to a real VMS - the Deathrow Cluster has both an Alpha and a Vax and they're real nice & helpful guys: http://deathrow.vistech.net/ About a month ago I installed Edinburgh's Imp77 compiler on their Vax, which is the first time that compiler has been run in many years! - it wasn't possible to 'vest' the binary on the University's Alpha which was the only VMS I had access to initially... Graham

22 years, 4 months

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Woohoo! Another DEC score!

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

I'm the proud new owner of a PDP-11/45! Woohoo! It's even purported to be working. Comes in a DEC rack with power supplies, and a whole bunch of what looks to be DEC A/D stuff (which I have no interest in and is already spoken for by another listmember). God I love the look of those triangular front panel switches! Just have to arrange going and picking the thing up. It is in central eastern TN. In the event I can't make it down there before the pickup deadline (roughly 30 days), is there a listmember in that area that might pick it up for me and hold it a bit longer if that becomes necessary? There's no drives, the rack is mostly empty cept for the cpu. The A/D stuff is very light, mostly just a couple panels and wires. I really never thought I'd find one of these "in the wild" these days :) Jay West --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

22 years, 4 months

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Hummer / Asteroids TV commercial

by kd7bcy＠teleport.com

>>Just how will we get the young people into older stuff, be they cars or computers? Hey, I'm one of them. I'm 23 now, I've been heavy into computers since I was about 14, been going after classics since I was about 17, worked in the computer lab of the local science museum(www.omsi.edu) for a year and a half around that time, got my ham license at 18... And the whole time I've been mostly surrounded by old farts. Rather depressing sometimes. There's a big problem getting younger people into ham radio, too... Hell, getting ANYONE. The old people just get grouchier and rarely teach the others(I'm glad I know a few exceptions to that), then they die and no one knows anything that isn't spelled out to them in 3rd grade(and we all know no one learns anything after that). -JR

22 years, 4 months

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LGP-21 (and LGP-30) software

by tomj＠wps.com

[oops, mail lost in a Draft folder for a week or so... my apologies if this is duplicated.] I just added a bunch of LGP-30 software to my website (http://wps.com/LGP-21) including the Subroutine Manual I got >from Bob Lilley, as well as the Notes from a college programming course he taught in the early 1960's. The Subroutine Manual for the '30 is a goldmine, as it contains the bootstrap and all the input routines. -- INFORMATION GLADLY GIVEN BUT SAFETY REQUIRES AVOIDING UNNECESSARY CONVERSATION

22 years, 4 months

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test - pse ignore

by waltje＠pdp11.nl

please dont read this. --fred -- Fred N. van Kempen, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) Collector/Archivist Visit the VAXlab Project at http://www.pdp11.nl/VAXlab/ Visit the Archives at http://www.pdp11.nl/ Email: waltje(a)pdp11.nl BUSSUM, THE NETHERLANDS / Sunnyvale, CA, USA

22 years, 4 months

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My Displaywriter

by Sharp51482＠aol.com

Hi, First off, I'd like to say that I am very happy to have found this group. It has been interesting to ready past posts on topics that I enjoy. I am most interested with IBM System/3x's and the Displaywriter System. I direct the Audio / Visual Department of a High School, and the first thing I did when I got there 3 years ago was to put my old IBM Displaywriter back to work. It is used daily, and some people think I am nuts for using it to deal with crucial data; However I sit back and laugh when there PCs are crashing, hanging, and causing them all kinds of problems! Anyway I am in desperate need of 2 things for my Displaywriter. First I really need ReportPack software. If anyone knows where I could get a copy that would be great. Secondly, I need the groups advice on my printer. I currently have the daisywheel printer with no sheet feeders or tractor feed. I use standard greenbar paper for most things, and it is a real pain to have to keep hitting the start button after each sheet is done printing, plus I have to realign the paper correctly. This will especially be a problem if I even find the ReportPack software. I would like to find the cut-sheet feeder or the tractor feed attachment. According to the books I have it seems that these connect to a small connector on the back of the printer. My printer has a blank plug in that space, yet the books reference the same printer I have. Was there some kit of parts that one would install in the printer?? Thanks so much for taking the time to read this, any assistance would be great! Blu

22 years, 4 months

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Cromemco C-10 Question

by eric＠emmaonesock.com

Hello Ed, About 15 years I used a C10 as a "portable" computer to log my mother's memories of family photos from Nazi Germany. She was bedridden with cancer at the time. Unfortunately I left the company that was using the C10's and now I have C10 disks but no way of getting the info off of them. Do you know of any utility that runs on MSDOS which can ready these 5.25 disks? Or a service that converts them? Thanks much for any advice... Fyi, here is the URL where I got your email address: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-November/021725.html Regards, Eric Podietz eric(a)emmaonesock.com Philadelphia, PA

22 years, 4 months

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TRS Mod 4 on eBay

by jpl15＠panix.com

And what would the URL be? Funny you should ask - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4193&item=2768408976 currently $9.99 bid - 20 hours left as of this writing. Powered up to "Diskette?" prompt but no disks with it... Guy also has a [%large_amount] of newish computer-recycling type Stuff. $10.00 laptops, etc. Has a DEC drive carrier of some kind... Go and check it out. Cheers John

22 years, 4 months

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just in case it wasn't clear...(PDP-8 programming manuals)

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

I'd like to trade my PDP8 Intro to Programming/Programming Languages manuals for _manuals_ for Godbout CPU-Z, Disk1A, Disk3 or ??. Jack Rubin

22 years, 4 months

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OT: Searching Source Code

by spedraja＠ono.com

Hello. I am searching the source code for Veronica Gopher Search System and Archie System. The places where these code could be obtained in some moment are closed. Someone has some of these available in some place ? I should agree to obtain one copy. This is involved in some work I'm doing to put alive one machine with some deprecated Inet services up and running. I was success with gopher and wais, but I should like to put these other too. The final goal would be to translate all the code to modern platforms. Thanks and Greetings ----- Sergio Pedraja Santander Cantabria - Spain

22 years, 4 months

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Fwd: searching for old, used computer punch tape/cards

by MTPro＠aol.com

Can someone help this woman out, she needs to buy some punch cards and paper tape. In a message dated 11/29/2003 9:42:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, sharon(a)becksolutions.net writes: I came across a link to your website while searching for old computer punch paper tape. My father was part of the group that analyzed the data from Vanguard satellites at the Naval Research Lab back in the late 50's. The data was punched on old computer punch paper tape then later the punch cards. I'm trying desperately to find some used tape/cards to include as part of a special gift I'm putting together for him. Wouldn't matter what data was on the tape/cards. Would you have any idea where I might find some? Many thanks for any assistance you can provide. Sharon Beck Plano, Texas

22 years, 4 months

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LF: DEC MicroVAX 3300 or 3800

by ken＠fraserhouse.com

Anybody have a DEC MicroVAX 3300 or 3800 they'd like to part with? ;) Thanks, Ken C. ken(a)fraserhouse.com

22 years, 4 months

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Do you still have your MMD1?

by preddittsprint＠earthlink.net

If yes, let me know if I can help, as I have some of the original educational material. Cheers

22 years, 4 months

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LP:DEC MicroVAX 3300 or 3800

by aek＠spies.com

> Anybody have a DEC MicroVAX 3300 or 3800 they'd like to part with? ;) I have three 3800's in San Carlos, CA if you can arrange to pick one up, and can make a reasonable offer for one.

22 years, 4 months

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VMS boxen on the net?

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

Anyone have a VMS system attached/accessable from the internet? Willing to allow telnet in? Non priv account? :^)

22 years, 4 months

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Storage Works

by David.Stafford＠cddah.nhs.uk

Pete, I noticed you posting here regarding StorageWorks kit. I am very interested if you do have a PDF manual on the HSD10-AA DSSI controller. I have a system here that uses a great many of them and I am having trouble getting a terminal to connect to the RJ11 connector in order to configure it. Regards David David Stafford Senior Clinical Analyst County Durham and Darlington Health Care NHS Trust University Hospital Durham, Durham City United Kingdom Telephone +44 (0)1207 584302 Fax +44(0)1207584320 e-mail david.stafford(a)cddah.nhs.uk This communication contains information which is confidential, and is for the exclusive use of the addressee(s). If you are not a named addressee, please contact the sender immediately, and also delete the communication from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of North Durham Health Care NHS Trust unless otherwise specifically stated.

22 years, 4 months

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eBay stuff for DECheads

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

FYI - DEC PDP 8/I Documentation and More Item number: 2769259626 Intersil IM6100/IM6101 PDP-8 on a Chip!! Item number: 2769259688 Jack Rubin

22 years, 4 months

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VMS boxen on the net?

by jba＠sdf.lonestar.org

Go to: http://deathrow.vistech.net/ The website gives info about the Deathrow OpenVMS cluster. I've tried them before, although I know very little about VMS. They allow guest access via telnet and ssh. jba(a)sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

22 years, 4 months

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Source for disk & head cleaning?

by dwight.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> > >I think I posted a query about this before, but don't recall any answers.... > >HP recommends cleaning the heads on the 14" drives with a flat wand, and a >cleaning sleeve that fits over it. They also recommend the same device for Hi Jay Even if you don't find these, you can still use Q-tips with a little care to not over stress the spring mounting. It is important to keep the heads clean. It doesn't take long to damage a disk with a little something stuck to the heads. Later Dwight

22 years, 4 months

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Is MECC still around?

by Sharp51482＠aol.com

I don't believe so but could be wrong, we used to have 1000s of MECC programs at the school where I work, all for the Apple II series. At one time we even had them all on a DigiCard server. The system would track student progress and run the various programs automatically based on a students progress. Our last DigiCard controller dies about 3 years ago. We still have some of the 5.25" disks but 1000s of the software binders went into the dumpster about 2 years ago. I would have given them a good home but I didn't have the space, and sometimes I just have to say "NO".

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 11, 9:47, Kelly Fergason wrote: > > All the trek's are cool, of course... but if someone knew where the > Trader game was, that would be very cool. > > I remember it being 2 basic programs, trader was the front-end, which > chained to trades. Standard economic galactic trader game, starting > at the Sol system. Did you find it? Yes, it's two programs, which I found on Al Kossow's image of the HP library tape. I've been putting together a web page about BASIC games I've found interesting -- I ran out of time so there's not much there yet, but I extracted TRADER and TRADES (thanks to Eric Smith, whose tsbextract and tsbdecode programs I adapted). If anyone else is looking for something particular, I could easily be persuaded to add it when I have time, assuming it's something I can find. I've got images of David Ahl's DECtapes, as well as the HP tape, and a few other sources. http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/index.html -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Is MECC still around?

by FidoNetDan＠aol.com

Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium was bought up a few years back by The Learning Company. Which I believe is a division of Broderbund, but don't quote me on that. Dan

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Happy Turkeyday!

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

Moderation?

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Thurlby LA160 Logic analyser

by Lee.Davison＠merlincommunications.com

Anyone got a manual for one of these? So far all I've managed to do is find about a hundred different ways to make it light up "Error". Electronic version is preferred but if anyone in the UK has one I can beg/steal/borrow I'd be grateful. Cheers, Lee. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 27, 23:05, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I'd love some of the programs off of David Ahl's DECtapes... I have my > SBC6120 with me, but the games image only has a handful of programs. > > For starters, how about Chemist, Chief and Hammurabi? I don't have my > copy of "BASIC Computer Games" with me, so I'm hard pressed to remember > titles. CHIEF I certainly have. "I AM CHIEF NUMBERS FREEK, THE GREAT INDIAN MATH GOD." HMRABI is on my website; I'll mail you the original if you want it (the differences are RANDOMIZE, and removal of LET, mostly). CHEMIST I don't know. Could it possibly have another title? > Long ago, I used to convert EDUsystem BASIC programs to PET BASIC. I had > more success with some than others. I did manage to port the 72-column > Star Trek game (with three-character wide ships in the short-range display) > to the PET. I played that one for hours and hours. :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Powers Tabulating equip brochures and info and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

by esharpe＠uswest.net

http://smecc.org/powers_tabulating_equipment.htm Powers Tabulating equip brochures and info and HAPPY THANKSGIVING! We want some of this stuff for the museum Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301

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DG Eclipse MV/7800C on ePay

by classiccmp＠crash.com

No affiliation, just noticed this DG Eclipse MV/7800 system, still intact, on ePay for $495. Located in Ames, Iowa; still has almost 7 days to run. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3059903661&category=1479 Share and Enjoy, --Steve.

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Server question

by jpl15＠panix.com

This is more-or-less on-topic, I theenk... I wanna set up a small, dedicated server at home... to do several things, not the least of which is allow a private gateway so L33T folks can play with my 11/44 on-line. I also have a weather station whose data I wish to collect and make available (for the Ham radio SkyWarn group here in NV). As well.. there are some files to make available for FTP.... I'm thinking of a Webcam on top of my antenna tower... etc etc. I intend to buy older computers to do the WX stuff, another for a dedicated Webcam, and maybe a radio VHF packet and RTTY gateway. All this would be stitched together via ethernet / cat 5 / etc. I have pretty decent cable-modem service right now - if they ever get around to pulling DSL in I'll switch to that... so that would be the 'outside world' connection. So the question is: cheap used PC with X-GB drives for the server - what software would be also simple to get up and running w/out needing to go to a year's worth of school... preferrably something in the Linux world... what is the minimum platform specs that would run this server software: proc speed, RAM size - HD space? Cheerz John

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for trade: PDP-8 Programming Handbooks

by jack.rubin＠ameritech.net

These are left over from my grad school days (doing image analysis on an 11/45)- a two volume set of paperbacks printed in 1972. Partial contents: Volume 1: Computer Programming Fundamentals - computer, programming, techniques Online Operations - system description and ops (pdp8e), loading, editing, debugging Advanced Programming Techniques - i/o, DECtape, FPP Programming Systems - OS/8, educational systems Volume 2: Interactive Languages - FOCAL-8, 8K BASIC Compiler Language - FORTRAN Machine Language - 4K and 8K assemblers Covers are scuffed and creased but bindings are tight and contents are clean and intact. Pages are yellowing - DEC did not spend a lot of money printing these - but not (yet) brittle. These things should be really be .pdf'd but it would require destroying the bindings and I'm not ready to do that with this set. Will trade for original Compupro/Godbout CPU-Z, Disk1A, Disk3, or Morrow or ? docs. Jack Rubin

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vax/750 diagnostics

by emu＠ecubics.com

Hi all, Anybody has the /750 diagnostics ? Have a "flaky" machine here ... cheers

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On Topic? Looking for opinions...

by john_boffemmyer_iv＠boff-net.dhs.org

Now I know this falls under the 10 year category except for the video card and SCSI card: I'm slapping together (finally) a P200 (not even MMX) Linux box with a classic AMD 10Mbit PCI NIC (Sridhar got me hooked on 'em and they certainly are tanks), an old AT motherboard with most likely a serial mouse to keep it as classic as possible and a 250 watt p/s. Running the beast will be an old 2GB IDE Maxtor I dug up, an old 4x IDE CD-ROM (Toshiba?) and then 2 Seagate 4/4.5GB half-height drives I have laying around, attached to a Diamond Fireport 20/40 (non-ultra). For video, it'll have a PCI Jaton TNT2m64 32MB so I can at least get decent color when I'm messing with some of the graphical stuff. I'll be using a 14 year old (still works fine) clickity Ultra 2000 AT keyboard with the beast. Oh, sound will be one of the original full length Creative Sound Blaster 16's with Daughter Card (dated 1990?). The big question is: should I go with Slackware or GenToo Linux as my OS? This unit will be doing a little web serving and will become my email server since friend's server is unreliable lately (Win2k on a college dorm network - obviously off when it goes home with the guy at breaks). I know some are suggesting NetBSD, but I'm looking to make this thing easy enough so my gf can tinker with it and get converted from her eeewh, XP OS, while making it not so much of a chore to do a basic config and get serving up and running. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Oh, also, I may be tossing in dual PCI 16/4 Madge/IBM Token Ring NICs to a Bay Networks 504 unit with Fiber ports and NMM just for ha-ha's and something to hobby with in the future. I also have a 3COM 12 port RJ45 Token unit, a DCA Microchannel/ISA Token card? (unable to find details on) and the old IBM 8228 MAU with a lot of 6ft Vampire to DB9's if anyone's looking for one, shipping and it's yours (I remember someone on the list was looking a few months back, but I forget who) -John Boffemmyer IV PS: "A Linux box isn't a Linux box until you get it serving to the Internet >from something that is barely big enough to have the Ethernet line plugged into it." - I rather like that quote, you'll never see Windoze doing that. Whoever had recently said that should suggest it to Linus T. =) ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------

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Some cool finds and info needed

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Yeah, what you have there is a Motorola R-1801 prom programmer for moto's older PROM based radio products. I don't think that thing is even supported anymore, but I do have a manual you can borrow. . . . On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:50:24 -0600 "Keys" <jrkeys(a)concentric.net> writes: > At a thrift I got a very heavy black case with a Motorola > Reader/Programmer in the top half and a Digital Analyzer/Controller in the bottom > half. Mounted on the top cover is a Motorola RTL-5820A PROM socket and > there is a spare one store in the cover RTL-5821, There are also several cables > in this storage area. I got no manuals with it and would like more > information if someone has worked with one of these before? > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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PDP-11/73 boots!

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Nov 26, 22:26, Ian Primus wrote: > > On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 08:11 PM, John Lawson wrote: > > > It's asking you to type in one of the devices (whose designators are > > the > > left-most column) - ie. DB, SP or NS > > I tried typing in DB, and the others that it said were "Present", but > just got a Syntax Error. It will want the unit number as well (most of those controlers will handle 2 or 4 disks), so it wants you to type "DB0" or possibly "DB0:". > > DB should be the main disk. > What does DB stand for? Is it the type of controller, a representation > of where it's mapped, the type of drive, or is it just a designation, > and nothing else? D is for disk, B is the disk (or sometimes, controller) type. 176700 is the address for an RP04 controller. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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