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

by sbolton＠bfree.on.ca

Anybody recognize what kind of terminal this is? I am assuming it is a terminal rather than a personal computer. Thoughts?

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IBM 3420 x2 + 3803 for sale

by vpresher＠ddci.net

I am interested in your tape drives if you still have them.. Can you send photos of all components? Victor Presher 214-905-4447

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ISO Matrox Multibus SX-900 graphics card manual

by aek＠bitsavers.org

on a whim I bought http://www.ebay.com/itm/142363021266 640x480x8 Multibus graphics board with 80286 and NEC 7220 apparently they were commonly used in process control, a fair number turn up at absurd prices

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Attaching DEC Handles, the Right Way

by systems.glitch＠gmail.com

I'm sure most of you DEC hackers have replaced a broken DEC handle or put handles on a protoboard, and did what I've done in the past: use 4-40 screws and nuts, or pop rivets. Well, I finally came across the right tool for the job, an Indestro tubular rivet set! I cut the head off of a rivet on an old Sundstrand CNC control board that was getting scrapped anyway and discovered they're 1/8" hollow brass rivets, but that a M3 x 5mm is close enough. You can buy the M3 rivets online for cheap, I paid $6 USD for 200 rivets, shipped. Here's the writeup: http://www.glitchwrks.com/2017/04/25/installing-dec-handles Thanks, Jonathan

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Does anyone know what kind of terminal/computer this is?

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

OK here is a photo! Can you get a shot of the back of it~!? or a shot downwards at the keys? could be a terminal... could be a computer... with no further info .. a terminal would be my first guess... Ed# In a message dated 4/26/2017 12:37:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: Just wondering if anyone has any idea what this is: http://imgur.com/qqYlg1k I am not sure if it is a terminal or a computer as I don't recognize the logo. (I apologize if this appears as a duplicate post)

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Help identifying this old terminal

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

If we concentrate reeeeaalyyy hard .... Nope.. not working... Send us a link to photo! In a message dated 4/26/2017 2:32:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Syd Bolton via cctalk wrote: > Anybody recognize what kind of terminal this is? I am assuming it is > a terminal rather than a personal computer. Do you have a link, or a picture, or a description? > Thoughts? Without seeing it?

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Large Sale of Vintage hardware in Paradise, CA

by emailjrc＠gmail.com

So I bought an abandoned storage unit in Paradise CA, and I think some of you guys will want to stop by and check some the stuff out. I did post this on VCFed (where I am a regular) but I figured I'd send it to this mailing list for visibility. Here is a large picture dump: http://imgur.com/a/g81WQ, and here is a list to go with it (to help ID the stuff in the pictures): https://airtable.com/shrkO3Xeu4WwYHsYK There will also be a ton of part and what not on sale too, they are listed here: https://airtable.com/shraX3xyq3qjiGRVr and here: https://airtable.com/shrA7cS5ApaOun6gd and the original Imgur album is here: http://imgur.com/a/0rEIv There are a few very nice complete setups there, including some TRS-80 setups, an Amiga 1000 setup, a Leading Edge Setup and a Franklin ACE-100 setup. There are also some thing not pictured, such as a bunch of Commodore Vic-20s, Radio Shack accessories, Commodore software and accessories. The list just sort of goes on and on. Okay, so here are the deets for the sale: *Where*: 7856 Skyway, Paradise CA *When*: Saturday April 29th, 11a till 6pm and Sunday April 30, 10a till 2p. *Cash only*, any reasonable offer will be considered! Jarrod Coombes

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Does anyone know what kind of terminal/computer this is?

by sbolton＠bfree.on.ca

Just wondering if anyone has any idea what this is: http://imgur.com/qqYlg1k I am not sure if it is a terminal or a computer as I don't recognize the logo. (I apologize if this appears as a duplicate post)

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RA82 HDA

by kirkbdavis＠me.com

I know it's a little bit early for mothers day but I have a RA82 HDA available for the cost of shipping (sorry but prepay - I've been stiffed by someone on this group). It needs a good home or it goes to the dumpster next week. Kirk

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Ford-Higgins Powerframe QBUS Docs

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Wow, I thought I had seen every obscure third-party Q-bus and Unibus chassis and backplane through the 70's/80's/90's but I had never heard of "Ford Higgins Power Frame" until today. It's a very stylized case obviously built around that disk drive but otherwise reminds me a lot of the DEC grey office-side boxes of the 80's. The only thing is that the ribs on the Ford-Higgins run up and down but the plastic ribs on the DEC stuff usually ran left to right so it's not obvious they were copying anything from DEC at the time, it seems likely the "Power Frame" predated the BA23/BA123/vaxstation styling. A little corporate research shows that Ford/Higgins was a division of Century Data Systems. It must've been a last gasp, everything I've ever seen from Century Data was from the 70's. Tim N3QE

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Looking to thin out -- Mac SE/30s

by pete＠petelancashire.com

I've got a few too many oldies. Ran across these guys last week https://goo.gl/photos/xjiS5CuMUUF5rKtd9 About 15 SE/30s *** But I don't have a lot of time to pack for shipping. *** Anyone near Portland Oregon who has the time for trade ? Suggestions/Ideas ? Would like to keep just one w/Ethernet. -pete

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PDP-8/a cleaning

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi My PDP-8/A is up for restoration. More specifically and 8A100 according to it's ID plate. It is in overall "ok" shape but oh so dusty. I'd like to give it a good cleaning so I'm tearing it down. And I'm looking for suggestion to cleaning the backplane and regulator board. I'm considering putting the Omnibus part under warm water and perhaps a bit of mild detergent. Should I get distilled water or will tap do? The water here is not very "hard" The regulator backplane has a relay and a button which will never dry out if I soak it... Thanks in advance, Pontus.

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TRS-80 Model 12 versus 16B

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

In a message dated 4/25/2017 10:24:42 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: On 4/25/17, 7:28 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Jim Brain via cctalk" <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: >Been trying to Google things, but not having a lot of luck. I >understand both are white case, both have slimline drives, 12 had no >card cage, I think I read somewhere that the 16 came with 68K std (no >Z80?), and 12 had KB conn on case, 16B had KB conn on KB. Beyond that, >though, would love more information. > >Lots of info on 2 and 6000, but not so much on the intermediate machines. > >Jim > > > Some 12?s came with the card cage in it, it depended on luck mostly. So what I never really looked at closely and warehoused could be 12 or 16... I know not an model 2 as it was not silver like the trs-80 model 1 in the collected here on display. Ed#

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Ford-Higgins Powerframe QBUS Docs

by silent700＠gmail.com

I have scanned the manuals that came with my Ford-Higgins Powerframe machine. It is a QBUS PDP-11/73 machine in what looks a whole lot like a DEC BA23 enclosure. Not sure if it's a clone or a licensed rebadge. The CPU board is DEC, the memory is a Clearpoint P/N 3325/300 (size unknown) and the disk controller is a Dilog DQ215 P/N 33214701 (SMD?). It has a combo fixed-disk/cart drive that their docs call an RC40. That looks like a DEC part # but doesn't seem to be anything they made. There's very little out there about them (I found a 1992 Usenet post >from someone asking "what is this thing??") so I wanted to fast-track these docs online. http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/FordHiggins And some photos: https://goo.gl/photos/DiXaiiMKXNorGqzVA The machine has been given to a friend in search of a QBUS project, so I don't have any more pics at the moment. -j

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Current catalog of items for sale

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

Here is a master list of the items I currently have listed for sale (asking price in parenthesis). Please inquire directly to me via e-mail for more information. Fulcrum IMSAI 8080 clone system ($1,200) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?51883-Fulcrum-IMSAI-8080-clone-sy… Commodore PET 8032 Brand New in Original Box w/manuals and accessories ($250) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55679-Commodore-PET-8032-Brand-Ne… Computer & Electronics Magazines: Byte, Creative Computing, Pop. Electronics, More... http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56035-Computer-amp-Electronics-Ma… Franklin ACE 100 ($650) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56187-Franklin-ACE-100&p=447060&h… SouthWest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) 6800 ($950) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56190-SouthWest-Technical-Product… Ampro Little Board/P5x and chassis ($350) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56809-Ampro-Little-Board-P5x-and-… Documation D150 punched card reader ($100) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56810-Documation-D150-punched-car… Microsoft Windows 1.0 in original retail packaging, complete ($600) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56814-Microsoft-Windows-1-0-in-or… STM Pied Piper Portable Computer ($250) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56872-STM-Pied-Piper-Portable-Com… Apple //c Prototype ($5,000) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55676-Apple-c-Prototype-for-sale&… Sphere 1 - earliest(?) Personal Computer with integrated keyboard and display ($8,000) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55677-Sphere-1-early-Personal-Com… Unicom 141p - First commercial product with Intel 4004 microprocessor ($7,500) http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55678-Unicom-141p-First-commercia… All prices are negotiable. I'm listing new items weekly and post them to the Vintage Computer Federation Forum. Feel free to inquire directly about specific items I may have, including hardware, software, documentation, books, magazines, etc. Thanks! Sellam

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SWP ATR8000 CP/M Co-processor and Percom Data AT-88 Disk Drive for Atari 8-bit

by sellam.ismail＠gmail.com

I am selling a ATR8000 and Percom Data AT-88 disk drive for Atari 8-bit systems. Please see full details here: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?57382-SWP-ATR8000-and-PerCom-Data… Thanks! Sellam

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Remex Tape Reader - Pre-power up advice?

by anders.k.nelson＠gmail.com

Hi guys, I recently impulse-bought a paper tape reader from eBay, a Remex RRS6500BE1/660/DRB/U901 Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/292050475397 Pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/Wa3W7mtTwwuTczUV7 It has several enormous capacitors in it and I want to do my due diligence before powering it up. Does anyone have advice in this regard? I'm competent in soldering and rework of all sorts but definitely more in digital than analog. Also the spindles squeak very slightly - are they oilable? In general it looks to be in pristine condition; no dust and no magic-smoke smell. The only repair item I can find is a sticking tape roller and gentle bending oughta solve that. I await your thoughts! -- Anders Nelson +1 (517) 775-6129 www.erogear.com

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Bitsavers size

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

Ben asks: > Just how big is the server? > As a wish list, I've always wanted that as a offline set of DVD's for the common stuff. The bitsavers archive is 267 Gbytes. So at 4.7G per DVD, it comes out to almost 60 DVD's. I remember a PDQ Bach radio quiz show where the prize was The Wagner Ring Cycle on convenient 45 RPM records. Tim N3QE

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What would cause a regular pattern of bad sectors?

by terry＠webweavers.co.nz

Hi guys, Ive been extracting data off a 3.5 inch windows XP-formatted floppy disk with many bad sectors. The odd thing is it's always the same bad sectors on every track. Such a 3, 8, 12 and 17. Once or twice it might be just 3, 8 and 17. Or occasionally 3, 8, 9 12, 17. This patten is the same for every track. It's (more or less) always the same sectors that are bad. Why? I can't believe natural degredation would be so consistent. Anyone have any thoughts? Terry (tez)

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Tektronix 8560 floppies

by chris＠groessler.org

Hi, I've imaged (with ImageDisk) some floppies I've got with my "new" 8560 system. You can find them at ftp://ftp.groessler.org/pub/chris/tektronix/8560/diskimages . Among other things there are cross-assemblers for 68000, 6809, and 6800. From the TNIX installation disk set one is missing (disk 5 of 5). I'm looking for the Z8000 cross-assembler for TNIX. Does anyone have it? regards, chris

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Genuine KM11 board (and plea for RX01 Front Bezel)

by rickb＠bensene.com

Tony D. wrote: > Are any DEC enthusiasts here jealous of this : >https://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_duell/33427116663/in/dateposted-public/ Interesting coincidence. I was digging through some boxes of stuff yesterday, and I came across two sets of these in really nice condition. Haven't tested 'em yet (had /no/ idea that they could be used for diagnosis of an RX01 control board) but looks like they should be pretty simple to check out. I had didn't know of the existence of these before yesterday. I did a little searching and found that they are useful for debugging 11/35 and 11/40 systems, as well as RK05 drives...but didn't see anything about the RX01 drive electronics. Speaking of RX01's, does anyone out there have a spare front bezel for the RX01 that they'd be willing to part with? I have a working RX01 on my 8/e system (both drives good, amazingly) but the bezel was missing when I got it. It'd be nice to have, as it looks rather dumpy in the rack with the rest of the system. Best wishes to all, -Rick -- Rick Bensene The Old Calculator Museum http://oldcalculatormuseum.com Beavercreek, Oregon USA

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Genuine KM11 board

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Tony Duell > Are any DEC enthusiasts here jealous of this Actually, not me! I'm an old enough campaigner that I recall when real light bulbs were standard, and they were a total PITA! So when LED's arrived, we all though they were the greatest thing since sliced bread. So I'm now very happy with my LED-equipped KM11 clones - I still have that anti-bulb bias! :-) Noel

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Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

by pete＠pski.net

> On Apr 24, 2017, at 11:36 AM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote: > > For now, since the KB is most needed and somewhat hard to find, and since I design HW for classic machines, I think a small uC and some wire might tide me over until I can find a reasonably priced KB. I did a quick check, but have not seen any writeup of the protocol and keyscan matrix. Does such a thing exist? I haven't seen such although I know a few folks with ambitions of such project. I can put you in touch if they're not actively listening to this list and want to chime in.

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Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

by pete＠pski.net

> On Apr 24, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote: > > I'll email off-list about disks, as I truly know so little about the unit, I'm not sure what to ask for. Certainly. > > Are you considering going to Assembly? If so, I'd defer to your exhibit, as you know much more about these units. Yes, I'm one of the founders. :) > > I'd like to at least try out the XENIX side, if I can. Linux on a 386 is nice, but it's just not the same. > Agree completely. There's nothing like running a true Unix descendent on legacy hardware. > I suspect all of the drives will need attention, but I could be surprised. More likely than not especially give the condition you mention. The TM-848s are not the most hearty of drives.

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Computer pickup

by gilcarrick＠gmail.com

Cindy Croxton I am interested in the stuff. Please contact me. Gil -- A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director Museum of Information Technology at Arlington 1012 Portofino Drive Arlington, TX 76012 817-994-9213 (cell) - gil.carrick (Skype) http://MIT-A.com

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Genuine KM11 board

by ard.p850ug1＠gmail.com

Are any DEC enthusiasts here jealous of this : https://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_duell/33427116663/in/dateposted-public/ -tony

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Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

very good radioengr give Jim a hand with it It is going to take a pretty big box to ship it for Jim.. I am trying to remember how big the think is I have not seen ours in eons. We have some large boxes we have saved but will have to see what it would take to get at them. The one thing I would recommend is some sort of internal support against crushing.. almost an inner reinforcing frame that would prevent collapse of the box and thus shattering the plastic. Used to run into stuff like this when shipping hp 2624 terminals etc. Then the other way is one huge ass box and that injectable foam stuff in 2 molded sections... with some wood stakes that keep top from crushing. Ed# In a message dated 4/23/2017 11:25:43 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: I'm in the Phoenix area - Peoria specifically. Let me know if I an help. On 4/23/2017 8:14 PM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote: > Found a seller of a model 12 with these items, but local pickup > only.

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Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

by brain＠jbrain.com

Just picked up a TRS-80 Model 12, and it boot to the "insert disk prompt" ... Yay! But, no card cage, and no KB (and no disks, but those might be easier to find) Found a seller of a model 12 with these items, but local pickup only. I'd like to get this unit up to the Model 16 specs, with Xenix on it. I see the cards are available, but without the cage, no joy. Jim -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com

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SWTPC Tape files

by unclefalter＠yahoo.ca

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone knew of a repository that had SWTPC tape files archived (as .WAV, .TAP, etc). The 6800 system I am presently using is wired according to original SWTPC specs and does not have a DB25.. so I cannot simply switch cables from CT1024 to PC terminal like I could with my other unit. I'd really like to make use of the AC30 also for a more authentic experience and was hoping someone had wavs archived somewhere so I could play them into the AC30 with my phone or something and then record to actual tape. For the last couple of evenings I have been manually entering in the data for TSC BASIC from a txt file Bill Degnan was kind enough to post.. just doing as much as I can stand to and then saving progress to tape. Eventually when it's finished I'll make a wav archive and just use tape to load it. Obviously I wouldn't want to do that for every program though. Anyway, I know someone on vcfed at one point was talking of setting up an archive and even had made copies of Tic Tac Toe and 680 BASIC. Hoping someone out there knows where those and/or more might be found, or if there's another way (say using two MP-C/S cards) to pull in S19 files and then record via AC-30 to tape. Thanks muchly! B

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Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

Well ... they are packed away at present.. I do know there are several systems and a printer. Do not remember if there was software with them or not. stashed many years ago... I always had wished it was a model II and I suppose was holding this it in reserve in case a 2 does not show. In a message dated 4/23/2017 8:40:37 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Ed via cctalk wrote: > is the 12 the thing that looks like a trs 80 mod 2 in size? if so i > have some > what is the history behind your unit!?!?!?!?!?!? > Yes--- I am in Phx! Ed# Yes, the 2, the 12, and the 16 look similar. There are Z80 and 68000 CPU boards. Which of the variant versions of CP/M do you have for it?

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HP-UX 11.11 patches

by jzatar2＠illinois.edu

I think this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have patches for HP-UX 11.11 for PA-RISC? I can't exactly buy an HP support contract just to download patches, which is apparently my only other option since google doesn't turn up anything. I'm specifically looking to get PHSS_24304 installed because that fixes a linker issue that prevents building anything with GNU G++. I think I might be able to get around the issue if I use GNU ld, but that has it's own issues as I understand it. I'm new to HP-UX, so if you need more info just ask. Joe

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Bitsavers size

by jzatar2＠illinois.edu

>Just how big is the server? >As a wish list, I've always wanted that as a offline set of DVD's >for the common stuff. >Ben. But wouldn't a nice tape be a much more appropriate distribution medium? I've got an LTO-3 drive here, and that's 400GB/tape. It'd only take one tape to hold bitsavers. :)

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SWTPC WAV or TAP files?

by vintagecomputer＠bettercomputing.net

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone knew of a repository that had SWTPC tape files archived (as .WAV, .TAP, etc). The 6800 system I am presently using is wired according to original SWTPC specs and does not have a DB25.. so I cannot simply switch cables from CT1024 to PC terminal like I could with my other unit. I'd really like to make use of the AC30 also for a more authentic experience and was hoping someone had wavs archived somewhere so I could play them into the AC30 with my phone or something and then record to actual tape. For the last couple of evenings I have been manually entering in the data for TSC BASIC from a txt file Bill Degnan was kind enough to post.. just doing as much as I can stand to and then saving progress to tape. Eventually when it's finished I'll make a wav archive and just use tape to load it. Obviously I wouldn't want to do that for every program though. Anyway, I know someone on vcfed at one point was talking of setting up an archive and even had made copies of Tic Tac Toe and 680 BASIC. Hoping someone out there knows where those and/or more might be found, or if there's another way (say using two MP-C/S cards) to pull in S19 files and then record via AC-30 to tape. Thanks muchly! B

9 years, 1 month

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Bitsavers size

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Lol that quote. I guess i can google it but was this from one of his books? "Never?underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."?Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981 -------- Original message --------From: Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Date: 4/22/17 12:13 PM (GMT-06:00) To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Bitsavers size https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/ internet V Fedex Unfortunately, their 2040 number is based on an assumption that bandwidth will continue to increase, but that media capacity won't.

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TU-58 in simh

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

I've seen suggestion that TU-58s are emulated in simh on PDP-11s. However, I'm not seeing it in a show dev and my google-fu is failing me to find any info on how to use it. Any pointers on how to boot from a TU-58 image? TIA, BLS

9 years, 1 month

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LambdaDelta 0.98.1 released!

by dseagrav＠lunar-tokyo.net

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages - I present to you LambdaDelta, my decidedly average LMI Lambda emulator. See https://github.com/dseagrav/ld for the source repository and release tarball. So far we have been able to run full-speed on a 2.3 GHz i7 and a 2.5 GHz i5, but the i5 was pushing it. The i7 gets a bit warm. Bitsavers now has the LMI software, so there's no reason to hold off on a release other than I would have liked to get fetch working properly at least. I'm going to keep working at it in the meantime.

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A treasure trove in Dallas

by sales＠elecplus.com

If you live in the DFW area, and have a truck and a strong back, there are some VERY interesting items. A DEC cabinet taller than I am, with a front panel of switches. I asked him if the panel was rust or orange, but he said he thought it was dark, like brown. The cabinet was backwards, and there was too much stuff in the way to turn it around. 3 Sun cabinets full of stuff, and a SparcStation 20. Several (at least 4) IBM server cabinets. Not the blue 6 foot kind; these are abt waist high. A cabinet about waist high the said Computer Control (I think) with switches and LEDs. Too heavy to move into the light to take pics. A complete Data Products B300 line printer. If you are interested in these, send me an email, and I will give you the contact info. The warehouse is very dirty, and the aisles are very small. A large person will not fit. Cindy Croxton

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USA vintage computing trip

by evan＠vcfed.org

Hi, I'm going to Kfest for the first time this year, cannot wait!!! Anyway: if you decide to visit here, then give me a few weeks' notice so you can visit the VCF museum in New Jersey. We are in a small town about 60 minutes south of NYC and 90 minutes northeast of Philadelphia. ________________________________ Evan Koblentz, director Vintage Computer Federation a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit evan at vcfed.org (646) 546-9999 www.vcfed.org facebook.com/vcfederation twitter.com/vcfederation instagram.com/vcfederation

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Large Scale Systems Museum announcement

by mcguire＠neurotica.com

Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers, mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM has been closed for renovations and expansion for the past several months; we've added nearly a thousand square feet of new exhibit space and many new exhibits. On May 6th, there will be a large block party (actually, several blocks) here in town, called "New Kensington Better Block", with street vendors and other standard block party fare. LSSM will be participating in that event with our post-renovation reopening; we will be open to the public all day with docents on duty. Many of our systems will be running and demonstrated throughout the day. In even bigger news, LSSM is pleased to announce the opening of a brand new wing, the Large Scale Integration Museum, or LSIM. As the name suggests, the LSIM wing is dedicated to computer systems based on Large Scale Integration CPUs, from the earliest four-bit 4004 processors through the desktop computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Thanks to a partnership with Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organization Tristate Technology Museum Consortium, and a generous donation from the private collection of Corey Little and C/PMuseum, LSIM will add more than one hundred new exhibits in four thousand square feet of newly-renovated space located in the same building as the recently-expanded Large Scale Systems Museum. Everyone is welcome. LSSM is located at 924 4th Avenue, New Kensington, PA 15068. For more information, directions, or hotel recommendations, contact the LSSM via email at info at lssmuseum.org or on Facebook (search for "Large Scale Systems Museum"). You can also see some photos of our facilities on the Facebook page. Please feel free to forward this message to anyone whom you think might be interested. Thanks, -Dave McGuire President/Curator, LSSM -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA

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TU-58 in simh

by blstuart＠bellsouth.net

On Fri, 4/21/17, Don North via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 4/21/2017 4:25 PM, Brian L. Stuart via cctalk wrote: >> I've seen suggestion that TU-58s are emulated in simh on >> PDP-11s.? However, I'm not seeing it in a show dev and my >> google-fu is failing me to find any info on how to use it.? Any >> pointers on how to boot from a TU-58 image? > > Using simh v4.0 from github, in the PDP11 simh ini file: Thanks much. I was using v3.9 which is why I couldn't find it. Not everything is working yet, but at least it's loading and running the boot block. BLS

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Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

by wkt＠tuhs.org

The "old Unix" mailing list has been running since October 1995: http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/ Cheers, Warren

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Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

by tshoppa＠wmata.com

A FAQ in my old emails show the founding of the Classiccmp mailing list as being 20 years and 1 month ago. March 13 1997 was when Bill Whitson first set up the classiccmp list at the University of Washington. Tim N3QE Sent from my VAX-11/780

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Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Bill Gunshannon > Surely there were Mailing Lists prior to the existence of the Internet, > yes? Absolutely. They started on the ARPANet, fairly early on. E.g. SF-Lovers (one of the first 'non-mission related' mailing lists) started in September, 1979, and MsgGroup (an 'official-busines-related' one) considerably earlier, in June 1975. Header-People started at about the same time, but alas, we have lost the first two volumes of the archives, so I don't know exactly when. I maintain archives of these lists on my page: http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/archives.html if anyone wants a look. The variety of header formats is kind of amusing. > Do any Lists that started on UUCP still exist today? Perhaps. Do you count newgroups? (Of course, UUCP considerably post-date the ARPANet.) Noel

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Bitsavers size

by Flash688＠flying-disk.com

"Shoppa, Tim"<tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote: > The bitsavers archive is 267 Gbytes. And growing. I just sent Al a CD with 450 MB of scans of old obscure IBM manuals from the late 1960s and early 1970s. One example: 225-3360-1 2030 Processing Unit Field Engineering Theory of Operation (It describes all the internal operations of the S/360 Model 30.) So far I have sent him 15 CDs of manual and print set scans, many of which have not yet appeared online. This is probably because he lacks time and resources to do the necessary post processing of them. If there is any interest, I can post (or send) a list of the manuals. The next batch will be from SEL, GE, Tymshare, and a few other miscellaneous companies. After that, it will be all DEC. If anyone else is scanning DEC manuals, please contact me so we can coordinate our efforts and avoid duplication. Alan Frisbie

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Copy of UNIBUS Interface Manual available for trade

by Flash688＠flying-disk.com

jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: > One DEC book I really crave, but _cannot_ find, is the "PDP-11 Systems > Handbook" ("Featuring: MicroPDP-11/83 MicroPDP-11/73 MicroPDP-11/53 > PDP-11/84"). If anyone has an extra copy of this they're willing to part > with, please let me know, I have an extra copy I would be happy to send to you. Just send me your mailing address. Alan Frisbie

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IMS and other interesting S100 cards (Ebay sale alert, pass if you don't want such)

by jwsmail＠jwsss.com

If this link works for you, this is to an auction someone has for a bunch of IMS and other S100 cards. http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBS-Slavenet-P-N-710525-128B-Rev-D-1984-S-100-CPU-C… I linked off something called IBS Slavenet, but it also has a number of IMS boards IMS-Z-80B-Master-Slave-Board-A1270-Rev-F-1984-S-100-CPU-Card-Board-66-/ http://www.ebay.com/itm/192142950358 I used to buy the IMS 16K static boards as they were golden back when I ran S100, and had one of their Z80 boards, but stuck with mostly Tarbell and 8080 for my time with S100 and never graduated to this sort of system. Might interest those still doing S-100 thanks Jim

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Decmate II

by lovesw＠verizon.net

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Hi,I have a friend who has a Decmate II. ?Her family purchased it new for their business in the early 80s. ?Tested it with her last night and it is in perfect condition. ?Boots from the floppy and also from the hard drive. ?It is in a tower enclosure and has a working keyboard and terminal, all in perfect working and cosmetic condition. ?She has all of the manuals and software in their original boxes and they look brand new. ?She has a stack of brochures and promotional items several inches thick. ?She even has the original sales receipt. ?I have no way to know for sure but from what I can see, everything that came with this machine is there. ?She lives in pennsylvania. ?I'm planning to list it on eBay but wanted to reach out to the collector community first. ?Anyone interested can contact me at lovesw at verizon.net. Thanks,Shawn Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone

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Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist? I don't have access to my _old_ email (i.e. from the 80's) to confirm this, and I don't think they still have copies of the very oldest mail, but the IETF list has got to be pretty old (first meeting was early '86, but they may not have had a mailing list for a while, yet). Risks started in the summer of '85, so that one's older. Noel

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Copy of UNIBUS Interface Manual available for trade

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

Hi, all, continuing the process of getting rid of duplicate DEC documentation: I have an extra copy of the the UNIBUS Interface Manual, Second Edition (DEC-11-HIAB-D); I'm interested in trading it for any interesting PDP-11 documentation or stuff you'd like to part with which I don't have. One DEC book I really crave, but _cannot_ find, is the "PDP-11 Systems Handbook" ("Featuring: MicroPDP-11/83 MicroPDP-11/73 MicroPDP-11/53 PDP-11/84"). If anyone has an extra copy of this they're willing to part with, please let me know, I have a lot of odds and ends I can trade (or plain $$$ if that works). Noel

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bitsavers rsync server down

by barythrin＠gmail.com

Tape backup lto would do it easily, at this point probably incremental backups to an external drive would be a cheap alternative too. On 4/20/2017 12:15 PM, Jay West wrote: > Ben wrote... > ---- > Just how big is the server? > ---- > Bitsavers that is publicly visible is around 275gb? How does one back up a system like that? (That could be the shortage of of oiled paper tape). Ben.

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