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

by nbreeden2＠comcast.net

All, I have a MMD-2 which is missing the 4 ROMs. I'm looking for either the HEX files for the ROMs or if someone has an MMD-2 and could copy them that would work also. Thanks -Neil

22 years, 8 months

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Roland LAPC-1 Cards

by xboxer＠roadrunner.nf.net

Hi, I found this old message of yours, any chance your friend still has one of these LAPC-1 cards? Please let me know. Thanks. - - - - MPU-401/LAPC-1 Hans Franke cctech(a)classiccmp.org Thu Jan 9 12:52:45 2003 Previous message: MPU-401 Next message: H89, REMark, Sextant Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] I just taked to my friend. The cards are LAPC-1s. He still has two new units, and he'd be willing to part for 40 Euro each (~42 USD), plus shipping. So if someone still wants to build a early 90s game PC, just drop me a note. Gruss H.

22 years, 8 months

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8008 emulator

by terif.young＠us.army.mil

Steve, I built a working 8008 computer in ''73 from circuit boards from a bankrupt canadian company. I still have the computer and I have a number of books >from Scelbi Computers on 8008 source for basic as well as debuggers, etc . I would really like an 8008 emulator that I could run the source on my modern PC. The roughest beta would be fine. I ran across a blurb about your emulator in cassictechpub/jan9-02. It had a link to your website but I was not able to get in due to lack of login. Would you be willing to send me the emulator? Not necessarily for free either. It does not have to be perfect and I will not require any support. Thanks. Terry Young youngt(a)isecfdeo-emh1.army.mil

22 years, 8 months

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TI silent 700

by pamelabarnard＠ameritech.net

Hi, I also just found my portable TI Silent 700 data terminal. Also in very good condition. I used it to access various systems after hours on the job. I curious, what kind of information did you learn? Would you share any with me? Thanking you in advance! Sincerely, Pamela Barnard

22 years, 8 months

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RLV12/RL02 issue solved... thanks

by cvendel＠att.net

Hi Everyone, I solved the issue with mounting the RL02 on my Vax4000-200 last night. I took the advice of one of the people who responded back about what the settings and vectors are, compared to what the system expects. Turned out: a. I had a bad RLV12 card b. My 2nd card was setup for 22bit addressing So I reset it back to factory 18bit settings, plugged it on, did a mount/automatic dla3: and viloa! Up is came, I set sef to it and did a directory listing and there were the files all sitting patiently waiting to be read once again. I have a backup across 3 rl02's as bak files, now I am going to work on doing a restore to a dia1: drive that I have in my system as a scratch disk... Thanks again to everyone who has helped out on this, now does anyone have a spare rk05 decpack and a qbus controller they want to sell or loan me??? Curt

22 years, 8 months

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TIL308 readout

by lectromech＠worldnet.att.net

I happened upn your message about Til 308 chips. Do you still have any available? If you do let me know. Bruce Brandl lectromech(a)worldnet.att.net

22 years, 8 months

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IBM History site

by jpl15＠panix.com

Whilst Browsing - ran across this fascinating - and well designed! - group of pages on IBM's site. Includes a whole section on "IBM Dress" rather tongue-in-cheekingly called 'The Way We Wore'... http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/ Enjoy. There are many sections that go into great detail about historical IBM gear and systems, many fine pix, etc. Cheers John

22 years, 8 months

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Will trade my AIM-65 for a nice Sinclair ZX-80, or maybe a ...

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Hi, Looking for a nice trade for my Rockwell AIM-65 computer system. Would like a: - Sinclair ZX-80 - KIM-1 - HP-85 (maybe) Thanks! Steve.

22 years, 8 months

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HP Integral questions

by vp＠mcs.drexel.edu

ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote: > 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the also floppies, the side of the compartment near the printer is deaper to accommodate 2 (maybe 3) floppies on their side. **vp

22 years, 8 months

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OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 6, 9:54, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Patrick Rigney wrote: > > James Sissel wrote" > > > > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and > > > > you're. > > > > Mine is "utilize" and all its forms. What is wrong with "use"? > Mine is Architected. It always makes me think of someone bludgeoning > people by swinging an architect around by his/her ankles... Mine is "burglarized" (or "-ised"). The noun is "burglar", the verb is "burgle", and the past tense is "burgled". "To burglarize" would be to turn someone into a burglar. On Aug 6, 13:00, John Lawson wrote: > "Verbing nouns wierds language" Indeed :-) -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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Your old PC jr.

by stgeorge＠myhome.net

Hi, I ran across a reference to your webpage; searching for a power supply for my 386-25 . If you haven't given away your computer, I'd like to suggest that you hook it up, as an X-10 box, for home automation . The freeware that comes with X-10; probably won't run on a machine that old; but I'm told that the device works off a serial port; and that there is software out there; that was written specifically to use this standard on "older" machines . Also, take a look at the big manufacturers of home/industrial electrical contracting equipment . There are clock boards, eprom cards, your old box, is still valuable, TO YOU . Hava-goodun, Ken .

22 years, 8 months

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ECMA 46 tape standard

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 5, 21:43, Tony Duell wrote: > > I've been asked about a quarter-inch tape standard from 1976, called > > ECMA-46. > I have here the manuals (user and technical) for a Penny and Giles 'Data > Logger' -- actually a QIC drive with a RS232 or current loop interface. > The user manuals says > > Recording Media : DC300A, DC300XL or equivalent 1/4in. data cartridge > conforming to ISO4057 (ECMA 46) > > Recording Format : 1600 bpi phase encoded data to ISO 4057 [...] > What I don't know is wherte ISO 4057 and ECMA 46 are essentially the same > thing, or whether the latter just specifies the physical form of the > cartridge (The manual could be interpretted either way). Neither do I, offhand, but virtually all the ECMA standards are available online. Unlike some standards bodies, the ECMA believe they should be accessible if people are to adhere to them. Anyway, ECMA 46 is at http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-TR/TR-046.PDF BTW, many ECMA standards were adopted verbatim by ISO, so if you need a copy of an ISO standard, and you know there's a corresponding ECMA one, just download the ECMA version. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 8 months

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Primate Programming

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

Speaking of former Soviet (ne Russian) programmers -- When was the last time one of *US* developed a tetris, or programmed a rotating Rubik's cube to be both defeatable and indefeatable? They got some pretty sharp cookies over there... Cheers... Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> -----Original Message----- From: Joe [mailto:rigdonj@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:20 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Primate Programming At 10:05 PM 8/5/03 -0400, R. D. Davis wrote: >Quothe Tillman, Edward, from writings of Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:06:20PM -0500: >> And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates too... > >The interesting thing about this is that a large percentage of >management and users are much closer to primates, intellectually >speaking, than we are. > >> From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] >> This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the US >> right now ;) > >Do you mean that an IT job market still exists in the U.S.? That is, >aside from the H1 visa employees imported for cheap labor along with >the cheap outsourced overseas labor. > I saw a funny article the other day. In it the Indians were whining about all the programming jobs that THEY were losing to the Asian and former Soviet countries. Joe

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Testing a video card resolutions

by cb＠mythtech.net

>Check out http://www.simtel.iif.hu/pub/pd/3758.html Thanks! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 8 months

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Testing a video card resolutions

by cb＠mythtech.net

Anyone know of software that will test a VGA cards available resolutions? I have a stack of old VGA cards here, and any that don't support at least 800x600 at 8 bits are no good to me. I was thinking of just plugging them in turn into a Windows machine and letting windows tell me what resolutions it can use, but that's slow and clunky. I'm looking for some kind of a DOS utility that I can run that will test the card at different settings. Something that I can put only a bootable floppy so I don't have to wait thru the long windows boot, change, reboot cycle. Any suggestions? -chris <http://www.mythtech.net>

22 years, 8 months

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Data Systems Design DSD-880 8" floppy and Hard Drive

by heck＠NEU.EDU

Hi there, Read with great curiosity the thread about the above. I own 3 DSD880D30s and 1 DSD880S8. All are Q-bus. I have the original manuals, and probably the floppies that came with them. Also have the RT-11 v4 and v5 modified drivers. We used them at one of my old jobs for quite some time. If you have any questions about them, feel free to email me. On another note, the 880S8 seems to be dead, but I don't know if it is the drive or the electronics. The Q-bus controller is fine, as is the cable, as they run the D30 just fine. So I am looking for either a good drive or a good S8 box to test with. Anything like that in the group of units you were talking about? Thanks Joe Heck trash4(a)splab.cas.neu.edu

22 years, 8 months

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Retro printer ribbons still up for grabs

by elec37＠york.ac.uk

Hi all, Re-posted with picture in case anyone is interested: I have a couple of new boxed ribbons as shown at http://www.comprec.org.uk/ribbons.jpg The box indicates that they're suitable for the following printer list... Binder 1550, 8510, 8510A C.Itoh 1550, 8510, 8510A, Prowriter 7500 DEC CLA 45-14602, LA50 HP 85 Leading Edge Prowriter 2-1550 8150AP NCR 6411 NEC PC 8023A/B/C Toshiba P1150, PA7251, PA7252 These are FREE (via an SAE to the UK, or a small PayPal donation). If you have any of the above equipment and are interested, please email me directly at elec37(a)york.ac.uk. Cheers now, Ben ~~~ Computer Recycling Project University of York, UK www.comprec.org.uk

22 years, 8 months

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hi,do you have bios?

by lucas_jedi＠263.net

hi, i find the following lines incidentally ------------------------------------ Hi all, I don't know if anyone is doing anything with the original PC, but when I had mine I converted it to an XT with a 15meg hard drive. I ended up typing in the PC monitor and modifying it so the bios had a drive entry for the hard drive I had purchased (actually I bought a 10meg and they gave me a 15meg instead). I have a zip file that has both the orginal source and my modified copy if anyone is interested. Just email my privately and I will pass the ZIP on. best regards, Steve Thatcher ------------------------------------ i am trying to write a system and cant find bios source code. could you email me your copy? sorry to bother you.^_^ jedi

22 years, 8 months

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ATW800

by rene.de.bie＠xs4all.nl

Hi, Is this ATW800 still for sale? I would like to contact this person and ask him a few questions about it. Rene

22 years, 8 months

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hard card 40

by nashafi＠yahoo.com

Hi, I am interested in buying the hard card 40 you have. Let me know how to go about it ? One more thing. I currently have a hardcard in an old system which is not showing any display. so i took out the hard card and plugged in a 486 system but now the system wants to use it as a start up disk any idea how can i prevent system to do that so i be able to retrieve data from hard card. because if i let hard card be start up disk then i get a bios address error. Any help will be appreciated. infact i dont need a hardcard any more but if your suggested solution works i 'll buy it :) Cheers Thanks, Nauman

22 years, 8 months

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STR LINK IIa

by jgershon＠steelindustriesinc.com

I saw a post of yours from last year. I have a manual for this item if you still require it. I am actually looking for a replacement for our STR LINK IIa, or at the very least, the belt for the tape drive on it. Jack

22 years, 8 months

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Northgate

by jopower＠poetworld.net

Hi David, Still got that Northgate? I'm interested. -Jopower(a)poetworld.net

22 years, 8 months

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Primate Programming

by Edward.Tillman＠valero.com

And both management and users treat/pay us like lower-level primates too... Cheers... Ed Tillman Store Automation Tech Support Specialist Valero Energy Corporation San Antonio, Texas, USA Office: (210)592-3110, Fax (210)592-2048 Email: edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com> -----Original Message----- From: Vintage Computer Festival [mailto:vcf@siconic.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 7:33 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Primate Programming On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Joe wrote: > Everyone should read this! <http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp> This pretty much sums up the current state of the IT job market in the US right now ;) -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

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MANUAL

by jbraver＠rogers.com

Saw your post about DEC manuals you've collected. I just inherited two DEC LN-03 printers. Would appreciate copy of anything you've got for this unit. Thanks.

22 years, 8 months

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Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by larry＠laurelnet.com

The word "prolly" in written communication is like fingernails on the blackboard of my mind. I prolly shouldn't get so upset about it. Larry "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue it the most vital asset of a competent programmer." - Edsger W. Dijkstra -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of ghldbrd(a)ccp.com Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:59 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area? The lastest ones are "have gotten" and "enthused", which have become commonplace in our English. May Edwin Neumann have mercy on our fractured words. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO > My pet peeve is the use of "I've got..", "You've got...", "They've got..", > etc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel@labone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:19 AM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: RE: Work In KC Area? > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and > you're. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:42 PM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: Re: Work In KC Area? > > > "Steven Elling" <ellings(a)kcnet.com> wrote: > >> I wish I would of known that before I went to DeVRY. I would of just >> went >> to Goodland VoTech and saved a bunch of money in tuition and living >> expenses. Plus, I would of been better off. > > I suggest that a bit broader education, which includes some English to > go > along with the technical classes, would _have_ served you better yet. > You used the word 'of' four times above, and three of (heh) them should be > 'have': > > 'would have known' > 'would have just gone' (not 'went') > 'would have been' > > > > There. I'm the freaking Grammar Nazi.

22 years, 8 months

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Keyboard

by RToyota756＠aol.com

Hi David; I just found this old link; to your ad for a Northgate Ultra keyboard. Is it still for sale? Thanks, Roddy

22 years, 8 months

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uVAX Sigma Cage...

by TDMINTERNATIONAL＠aol.com

I recently purchased one of these old sigma cages with DEC and other hardware inside. Anyone out there have information on how to "strap" the I/O cards so that the 9 pin serial port for the console is active? According to the DIP switches it is set to 9600 Baud. I know there is more to it than that. Thanks Ken

22 years, 8 months

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LSI-11 and other goodies available cheap/free in Silicon Valley

by ran＠netgate.net

My apologies for the tackiness of posting a "for sale" ad to a list where I'm not a regular, but this seems to be the best hope of finding a good home for this stuff. I'm about to become another of those "Silicon Valley refugees", so I need to get rid of a bunch of "formerly useful" and "maybe someday" items so I can spruce up the house and put it up for sale. Many of them will be of interest to classic computer fans. These are the ones that I think are "on-topic" here: 1. A lot of LSI-11 parts. One DEC chassis (BA-11N, I *think*) with a minimal front panel and about 8 hex slots. Enough boards to build 2 or 3 working systems. CPUs: an 11/03, an 11/23, an 11/73, and a fourth one whose model I forget (I think it's a different flavor of 11/73, but I'm not sure). Multiple dual-wide RAM boards (and a 128KW quad-wide one in the garage, somewhere, I hope). Various DEC and non-DEC serial cards. An MTI MLV-11 MFM controller, with two Syquest drives and about 10 10-megabyte cartridges. A prototype of a UDA50 clone with a couple of ESDI drives (I think they're 760Meg, but don't hold me to that. They were "pretty big" 10 years ago, when I was working on it ;-). I'm pretty sure there's a QDA-50 to run it, too Assorted cables and other parts. All of the boards should be good: they came out of systems that were working back in my DEC-peripheral-consultant days, and were properly stored in anti-static bags. The Syquest drives were never especially wonderful as a family, but these seemed to work fine while I used them, and I think the odds are better than 75% that at least one of them will work. And the odds are better than 90% on the UDA clone. My preference is to have someone come by and pick up the whole lot for $100 (trade offers will be considered: there are a few small items, like hard drives to revive a couple of old PCs, that I need). If that doesn't happen, I'll recycle the drives, and sell the boards by mail. The other items are "free to good home", but I'd appreciate it if you offered something in exchange (like an IDE hard drive or CD-ROM for the PCs I'm fixing). 2. A Mac II, with MMU (so you can run Linux on it ;-), 8-bit color card, and one of the drives with a bad case of the infamous stiction problem. I have a couple of possibly-good replacement drives, but never got around to trying them. 3. An "OS/2 starter kit", including Warp 3, Warp 3 Connect, some aftermarket books with CDs, a few Hobbes archives on CD, etc. If nobody local claims this, I'll mail it to someone willing to pay the postage. 4. DC-600 tapes: an assortment of a couple or three dozen. Nearly all used (though generally not heavily: most were distribution tapes that I used once or twice for backups), but a few still shrink-wrapped. If nobody claims the lot, I'll sell the new ones by mail. 5. A Tandon 1/2-height 8" floppy in a Corvus enclosure (model FLP-1). I'm about 90% certain this was working when it went into storage 10 years ago. 6. A Voterm II. Condition unknown: somewhere on its journey through the surplus food chain, it got whacked in a way that smashed its fuseholder, and I never got around to trying to fix it. From what little I was able to find on the web, I gather that this is something of a rarity, so I'll entertain requests to ship it if nobody claims it locally. I'll check the list archives for replies, but it's probably better to contact me directly at netgate.net (userid "ran") to save bandwidth. I have a pretty fascist set of procmail filters in place, but putting the word "zaurus" at the beginning of your response will get you past them. Thanks, Ran

22 years, 8 months

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Wanted: WPS-PC v3.1 or higher

by rogersda＠cox.net

Hi All, I've been searching for some evidence of what happened to the company that produced WPS-80 and WPS-PC, and come up dry. I need at least the license and binaries, but the hard-copy documentation would be nice, too. ADVthanksANCE, Dale

22 years, 8 months

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Interesting Burroughs Photo Site

by aek＠spies.com

can be found here: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/IMAGES/index -- out of curiosity, I did a search for "magnetic tape" in CBI's search engine. While there were several hits on documents describing various aspects of magnetic tape, there were no indices for any tapes themselves. Unfortunately, the companies whose archives are being turned over to CBI, The Computer History Museum, etc. saved the manuals and the photographs, but none of the software. :-< The only exception I've found so far was in the DEC archives at CHM, which has one storage box of PDP-15 diagnostics on paper tape.

22 years, 8 months

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OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 7, 19:11, Fred N. van Kempen wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: > > > The proper usage is to speak of "myriad OT threads" (as in "many OT > Wrong, it's "a myriad *of* <something>" , defined as "a great number > of things", "many things" and so on. Not wrong at all. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as "myriad, a & n, ten thousand (of); an indefinitely large number". The original usage was "myriad things"; "myriad of ..." is recent usage. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

22 years, 8 months

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Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by ghldbrd＠ccp.com

The lastest ones are "have gotten" and "enthused", which have become commonplace in our English. May Edwin Neumann have mercy on our fractured words. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO > My pet peeve is the use of "I've got..", "You've got...", "They've got..", > etc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sissel [mailto:James.Sissel@labone.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:19 AM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: RE: Work In KC Area? > > > My pet peeve is people who don't know the difference between your and > you're. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monty J. Harder [mailto:lists@kc.rr.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 8:42 PM > To: kclug(a)kclug.org > Subject: Re: Work In KC Area? > > > "Steven Elling" <ellings(a)kcnet.com> wrote: > >> I wish I would of known that before I went to DeVRY. I would of just >> went >> to Goodland VoTech and saved a bunch of money in tuition and living >> expenses. Plus, I would of been better off. > > I suggest that a bit broader education, which includes some English to > go > along with the technical classes, would _have_ served you better yet. > You used the word 'of' four times above, and three of (heh) them should be > 'have': > > 'would have known' > 'would have just gone' (not 'went') > 'would have been' > > > > There. I'm the freaking Grammar Nazi.

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Old IBM machines

by SPEDRAJA＠ono.com

Perhaps somebody can have some interest in these items: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=1247&item=2746220303 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=1247&item=2746223305 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&category=1247&item=2746236697 Of course, if I should have sufficient money I should have no doubt ! Greetings Sergio

22 years, 8 months

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hard card 40 II not working

by nashafi＠mail.com

I currently have a hardcard in an old system which is not showing any display. so i took out the hard card and plugged in a 486 system but now the system wants to use it as a start up disk any idea how can i prevent system to do that so i be able to retrieve data from hard card. because if i let hard card be start up disk then i get a bios address error. Any help will be appreciated. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers

22 years, 8 months

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HP Integral questions

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned I'd obtained an HP Integral. I've now had time to test the PSU, etc, and it seems to be fine. However, I have a few questions about it. 1) What's the space on top, under the printer cover, for? I've found the HP-HIL mouse (and cable) is an almost perfect fit there, and as a mouse is a useful accessory for this machine, that's where I store it. But is there a more official use? 2) One of the cards I have in the machine is the interface for the 82904 expansion unit. Alas I don't have the expansion unit itself :-(. The card has a 64 pin Blue Ribbon connector on the bracket, which seems to mostly carry a buffered version of the Integral's expansion bus. My first problem, though, is that 64 pin Blue Ribbon plugs are not listed in any catalogue I've looked in so far -- 50 is the largest we seem to get in the UK. Anyone know a source? 3) Also, has anyone any information on designing I/O cards for this machine? 4) A really long shot, but that expansion unit card is taking up a slot that could be better used for something else. So does anyone know where I might find a serial card (either RS232 or current loop, preferably the former) or a GPIO card? I also think I need a hard disk. I have whichever version of the 9133 is around 20Mbytes here, which I believe should work. However, I have questions about that too 1) Inside there's a set of 4 links called the 'Ident Sea'. It appears these tell the controller the geometry of the ST506 hard disk that's connected. Anyone know what all 16 possible settings are for? 2) Is it possible to low-level format a 'new' hard disk on this unit? If I found a replacement drive that matched one of the expected geometries, how could I use it? -tony

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media question (MO and tape)

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

My father was emptying his office and broght home a box full of back ups. I have readers for most, except the following 2 : Sony 5 1/4 Magneto Optical Disk EDM-1DA1s Rewritable Maxell HS-8/112 Helical-Scan 8mm Data Cartridge I've googled around a bit and disovered very little about these medias beyond the fact the MO disks can contain 600mb. Question : what drives would be able to read these media? Would they be easily procurable for cheap? -Philip

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Interesting Burroughs Photo Site

by jpl15＠panix.com

can be found here: http://www.cbi.umn.edu/IMAGES/index I haven't had time to see all 500, but the first few pages are worth the look... Cheers John

22 years, 8 months

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OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area?

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

The last post prompted a trip to the dictionary (Websters New Universal Unabridged [1983]), where "myriad of ..." (any indefinitely large number) is indeed listed. Looking at adjacent entries, I did pick up a new, related word, the metric prefix "myria" (10,000) as in myriagram (10,000 grams), myrialiter (10,000 liters) and myriameter (10,000 meters). -----Original Message----- From: steve [mailto:gkicomputers@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:22 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: OT: RE: Grammar, was RE: Work In KC Area? --- Nick Steel <nick(a)tcns.co.uk> wrote: > As long as we're bitching, the hairs on the back of > my neck stand up > (all too frequently, as it's currently in vogue) > when people try to be > erudite (but prove the reverse) by referring to: "A > myriad of...". > "A myriad of ..." is correct usage(although maybe not preferred), myriad can be used as a noun, like " A herd of cattle".

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24pin Printer looking for a home

by liste＠artware.qc.ca

I was just given a Panasonic KX-P1123 24 pin Multi-Mode Printer. I have zero use for it. Generally I refuse dot-matrix printers, but it was 24 pin, which I haven't seem many of. Anyone want it? Free to a good home! Pick-up or you pay shipping from southern Qu?bec (J0B 2C0). -Philip

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Genuine IBM ISA cards/EPROMS available

by SUPRDAVE＠aol.com

Ive got a bunch of IBM 8bit ISA cards available. I've got floppy controllers ASYNC card full length prototype cards host and extender cards for the expansion chassis parallel card a '32kb mem cd.' <?> keyboard interface card for a 3270pc something called a keyboard mux interface MAXIMIZER multifunction card from sigma designs rev 3.0 dozens of 64-256k memory exp cards Toshiba 2756d-20 EPROMS labeled with BIOS-related notes AMD EPROMS 6231572 a33289 8720fp labeled with IBM MACH PN11F5062 AMD EPROMS AM27c256 TI 2764jl-25 tmm23256p-5879 copyright IBM intel d27256-25 AMD 6212424 some labeled with IBM PN 25F9523 1990 Some more labeled IBM MACH PN 11F6368 Intel 6833145 8425 L4289089S AMD 27256DC I was told some of these chips are BIOSes for the XT, or AT or the XT/286 model although I have no way of telling. Any interest in this stuff? I only want enough to cover shipping and maybe the cost of a soda on the way to the post office. -- Antique Computer Virtual Museum www.nothingtodo.org

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Please help - misbehavin' HP-71b

by vespasale＠dsl.pipex.com

I hope someone can quickly let me know the answer. Is it normal for an HP-71b that has been without batteries or use for a while to refuse to start up once you put batteries in _until_ the PSU is plugged-in? Once it's been started with the PSU plugged-in, it works fine with only batteries. Is this normal and, if not, any idea how to fix it? Thanks in advance. nk =================================== Nick Koleszar vespasale(a)dsl.pipex.com

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ECMA 46 tape standard

by aek＠spies.com

I am pretty sure, though that this drive is not QIC11 (I did wonder about coverting it to that format once many years ago as I needed a QIC11 drive for the PERQ). -- Archive developed the movable head serpentine recording techinique that begat QIC11 (and the 9 and 15 track formats) MANY years after 3M developed the 1/4" DC300 series tape cartridge. Quantex and other vendors were using this mechanism in the mid 70's (Tek 405x's, IBM 51xx's) with multi-track fixed position head stacks, and many different recording formats. This appears to be yet another area where there is a lack of documentation for someone trying to recover old data from decaying magnetic media.

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OT: remembering old thread from about a year ago: Tek scope

by ghldbrd＠ccp.com

I picked up a Tek 321 scope, and I remembered a thread about a year or so ago about someone with a Tek 3" scope looking for help getting it going. Point me in the right direction, and I'll hold my peace. Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

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Saw a post on Classic CMP.org

by bradyd＠earthlink.net

Are you still looking for copies of the TAM disks? I have a complete set, and will complete whatever you're missing. Let me know what you can trade, or send me the number of blanks and a postage paid mailer... David

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Looking for manuals

by jrkeys＠concentric.net

Does anyone on the list have any written material on the IBM Mag Card/A? Email me off list. Thanks

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Any Procomm experts out there?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

Hi, I need some help with Procomm. I've been trying to log onto an Intel 320 computer that runs iRMX. I have a terminal connected to the Intel and I've been able run the diagnostics and to load the OS and boot up but didn't have the correct account names or passwors to log into the system. I searched the net last night and found some iRMX manuals. Read them and found a couple of default account names and passwords. Today I tried them on the 320. The Superuser password didn't work but one of the regular account names and password did work so I was able to get into the system. :-) But once it logged in it executed the user profile and that changed the terminal setting so that all I got was garbage. :-( (I'll go back to reading and see if there's a way to stop it from executing the user profile.) I also tried using a PC with Procomm as a terminal. Procomm will emulate a lot of terminals and I thought that maybe one of them would display properly. But I could never get Procomm to work. It always said "Off-line" and I could never get anything to display on the screen. Data was going out to the computer and data was coming back from it but none of it showed up on the screen or in the log file. Any ideas? I'm guessing some kind of handshaking problem. I connected up my data display boxs with about six LEDs connected to the most important signal lines and everything looked fine so it must be one of the less common signals. I used the same cable and connected it to a terminal and set it for the same baud rate, # of data and stop bits, parity etc and it worked fine. Also tried another cable and it worked for the terminal but not for the PC with Procomm. I have used this same PC with Procomm and the same cable to successfully connect to other older Intel boxs with no trouble. Anyone have any idea why Procomm doesn't recognize this system? Joe

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UK: tape winder? Atlas Autocode charset (flexowriter)

by aek＠spies.com

A better solution would be to write a program that does a simple array-based look-up. Assuming the Flex-o-writer uses EBCIDC, here's a chart that might be handy -- you mean, like the one I posted here yesterday? does ANYONE bother to read my posts here? FWIW, it is NOT EBCIDC, and has upper/lower case state which has to be remembered.

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Reading a VMS CD-ROM for SIMH under Windows?

by david＠bitsolve.com

Guys, it gets better... I've got a working ISO and can boot to the SYSBOOT> prompt (b/10000001 dua3) from sys1 on the CD but the system Fails to boot further reporting DUA3 (CD/ISO) has been write locked And mount verification is in progress.. I have seen this reported elsewhere for the 7.2 hobbyist kit.. So what's the fix?? How do I boot a vax without a vax (simh) Installation? Do I need to beg a dummy (minimal) system disk file from someone?(DUA0) David David at bitsolve dot com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- My RRD43 reads CDR's fine. BTW, I know it was asked, but not sure if it was answered. I have read VMS install CD's into PC ISO files using Nero, then used them with SIMH to create a VMS system from scratch. I've also read the same discs with Easy CD Creator (don't remember which version) and although the files were slightly different sizes, they still worked fine. I know I gave someone on this forum (was it you, Ethan?) some ISO's... They were made with Easy CD Creator. - Bob -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:38 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Reading a VMS CD-ROM for SIMH under Windows? --- Antonio Carlini <arcarlini(a)iee.org> wrote: > I've not actually attempted to use the results with SIMH, so all I'm > reporting is that CDRWin is reading *something* from the CD! I'd burn > the result to a CDRW if I thought any of my RRD4x devices could cope. I already have verified that my RRD42 does _not_ like CD-R media. :-( -ethan

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v20

by alexsan＠go.ro

hi eric!my name is alex and i am olso looking for documantation about nec\'s v20 controller.i search on their site but i found nothing.can you please send my what you could find about it?i am interested in anything about v20!thank you! ---- Home, no matter how far... http://www.home.ro

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ECMA 46 tape standard

by pete＠dunnington.u-net.com

On Aug 5, 23:48, Paul Williams wrote: > No, that's ECMA Technical Report TR/46, "Security in Open Systems - A > Security Framework". Oops, sorry. However, you might like to look round the site -- there used to be a way to order a free copy of most reports that weren't online. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Network Manager University of York

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