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

by pcoghlan+cctech＠vms.eurokom.ie

> >I am trying to run the ftp command on Windows (7) against an FTP server on >VMS 7.3 (the UCX version of TCP/IP). I am sure this has worked in the past, >but now when I try it connects successfully but VMS never sends back the >login prompt. I tried running FTP on the VMS system back to itself and the >prompt came straight back. > >Sniffing the packets I see a SYN from Windows, SYN-ACK from VMS and then ACK >back to VMS. 60 seconds later Windows resets the connection. > Are you sure the windows firewall is not fouling things up? Can you FTP >from the same windows machine to any other FTP server? I vaguely remember a problem with the VMS TCPIP wanting to do a reverse dns lookup of the client making the connection and this holding things up for a while if it did not complete due to lack of access to dns servers etc. However, I don't recall it causing the connection to fail. > > ISTR, isn't there an option for command line FTP to disable/enable >local echo, or something to that effect? Have you tried a GUI FTP client? > I would stick with the command line FTP client. Many of the GUI FTP clients for windows assume a unix or windows filesystem on the server and completely fail to cope with the syntax of VMS filenames. Even the ones that claim to understand VMS can still run into difficulties. I think part of the problem is that the RFC describing FTP says that filenames should be in the servers format rather than in a platform independant format and the GUI FTP client producers tend to do what they think should work rather than follow the RFCs to the letter. Regards, Peter Coghlan

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FTP from Windows to VMS

by spectre＠floodgap.com

> Regrettably that did not help either, I think it is something more > fundamental than that. Does the following tell you anything? > > TCPIP> sh service ftp /fu > > Service: FTP > State: Enabled > Port: 21 Protocol: TCP Address: 0.0.0.0 > Inactivity: 5 User_name: TCPIP$FTP Process: TCPIP$FTP > Limit: 10 Active: 1 Peak: 3 > > File: TCPIP$SYSTEM:TCPIP$FTP_RUN.COM > Flags: None > > Socket Opts: Rcheck Scheck > Receive: 0 Send: 0 > > Log Opts: Acpt Actv Dactv Conn Error Exit Logi Logo Mdfy Rjct TimO Addr > File: SYS$SYSDEVICE:[TCPIP$FTP]TCPIP$FTP_RUN.LOG > > Security > Reject msg: not defined > Accept host: 0.0.0.0 > Accept netw: 0.0.0.0 My VMSfu is rusty, but that looks reasonable. What happens when you telnet to port 21 from another host? You should get a message like 220 blah.foo.invalid FTP server ready -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn? -- Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"

16 years, 2 months

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difficulty trying to locate CP/M files XLT80.COM, XLT80.ASM

by ragooman＠comcast.net

I'm having difficulty trying to locate this CP/M files, XLT80.COM and XLT80.ASM , this is a Z80/8080 translator. I found the file listed on this archive index http://ftp.gaby.de/pub/cpm/znode51/fog/ I did a site search for this without any luck on www.bitsavers.org/bits/Users_Groups/FOG/ It seems most of the files on there are disk images only. Also did a site search for this without any luck on this Walnut Creek archive http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/ Would somebody know of more archives that have original files instead of disk images ? thanks ! =Dan

16 years, 2 months

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Found digital catalog

by jthecman＠netscape.net

Today as I was looking through the warehouse in one of the boxes were several digital manuals. One was a 1990 October-December Systems and Options Catalog on Vax Systems/Decsystems. It's a great read full of lots detail about each system. JK

16 years, 2 months

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FTP from Windows to VMS

by spectre＠floodgap.com

> REPLY/ENA did not show me any messages (I already had the console open in > any case). > > Tried using Internet Explorer ftp://blah, after a while this comes up on the > console: > > %%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 21-APR-2010 20:03:59.18 %%%%%%%%%%% > Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on VAX3 > Security alarm (SECURITY) and security audit (SECURITY) on VAX3, system id: > 1031 > Auditable event: Network login failure > Event time: 21-APR-2010 20:03:59.14 > PID: 2020021B > Process name: TCPIP$FTPC00005 > Username: anonymous > Remote nodename: 192.168.0.15 > Remote node id: 3232235535 (0.15) > Remote username: FTP_C0A8000F > Status: %LOGIN-F-NOSUCHUSER, no such user Sounds like you don't have anonymous access configured on your server. Try ftp://user:pass at blah -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- FORTUNE: Travel is important today. The IRS will arrive tomorrow. ----------

16 years, 2 months

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FTP from Windows to VMS

by woyciesjes＠sbcglobal.net

ISTR, isn't there an option for command line FTP to disable/enable local echo, or something to that effect? Have you tried a GUI FTP client? Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600] Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>ftp /? Transfers files to and from a computer running an FTP server service (sometimes called a daemon). Ftp can be used interactively. FTP [-v] [-d] [-i] [-n] [-g] [-s:filename] [-a] [-A] [-x:sendbuffer] [-r:recvbuf fer] [-b:asyncbuffers] [-w:windowsize] [host] -v Suppresses display of remote server responses. -n Suppresses auto-login upon initial connection. -i Turns off interactive prompting during multiple file transfers. -d Enables debugging. -g Disables filename globbing (see GLOB command). -s:filename Specifies a text file containing FTP commands; the commands will automatically run after FTP starts. -a Use any local interface when binding data connection. -A login as anonymous. -x:send sockbuf Overrides the default SO_SNDBUF size of 8192. -r:recv sockbuf Overrides the default SO_RCVBUF size of 8192. -b:async count Overrides the default async count of 3 -w:windowsize Overrides the default transfer buffer size of 65535. host Specifies the host name or IP address of the remote host to connect to. Notes: - mget and mput commands take y/n/q for yes/no/quit. - Use Control-C to abort commands. C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools> Message: 11 Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:39:43 -0400 From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb1 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: FTP from Windows to VMS To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Message-ID: <j2h5f7d1b0e1004210639pb6087183z688f9a2e47d900d4 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Wild guess - try passive mode? Run FTP, type LITERAL PASV, then OPEN ftp.vaxy.whatever On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>wrote: > > I am trying to run the ftp command on Windows (7) against an FTP server on > > VMS 7.3 (the UCX version of TCP/IP). I am sure this has worked in the past, > > but now when I try it connects successfully but VMS never sends back the > > login prompt. I tried running FTP on the VMS system back to itself and the > > prompt came straight back. > > > > Sniffing the packets I see a SYN from Windows, SYN-ACK from VMS and then > > ACK > > back to VMS. 60 seconds later Windows resets the connection. > > > > Has anyone else seen this and know the solution? > > > > Thanks > > > > Rob > > -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- AIM - woyciesjes --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech - http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst - http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "From there to here, From here to there, Funny things are everywhere." --- Dr. Seuss

16 years, 2 months

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DEC DMP-11 SYNC SERIAL INTERFACE MANUALS???

by hoelscher-kirchbrak＠freenet.de

> On 4/20/10 10:47 AM, H?lscher wrote: >> Has anyone got manuals for the DEC DMP-11 synchronous serial interface? >> It was a common interface for multipoint DDCMP DECnet connections in the >> era before Ethernet became well-established. >> > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:03:45, Al Kossow wrote: > The documents for the DMR-11, which uses the same board set, is on bitsavers > under pdp11/unibus. > I don't know what the difference is between the DMP and DMR AA-H803C-TE DECnet-VAX System Manager's Guide says on page 2-45: "DECnet-VAX supports four DDCMP line devices: the DMC-11, the DMR-11, the DMP-11, and the DMF-32 synchronous line. The DMC-11 and the DMR-11 are point-to-point line devices and are considered identical. The DMP-11 is either a multipoint control, or multipoint tributary line device. The DMF-32 synchronous line is a point-to-point or multipoint tributary line device." The boards are identical at the module number level seemingly, but there are most probably different subtypes of the M8207 DMx microprocessor and/or M8203 line units I think the M8207-RA is for the DMR11 and the M8207-YA/YB/YC is for the DMP11. Anyone to confirm or doubt that? Regards, Ulli

16 years, 2 months

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FTP from Windows to VMS

by jbmcb1＠gmail.com

Wild guess - try passive mode? Run FTP, type LITERAL PASV, then OPEN ftp.vaxy.whatever On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>wrote: > I am trying to run the ftp command on Windows (7) against an FTP server on > VMS 7.3 (the UCX version of TCP/IP). I am sure this has worked in the past, > but now when I try it connects successfully but VMS never sends back the > login prompt. I tried running FTP on the VMS system back to itself and the > prompt came straight back. > > Sniffing the packets I see a SYN from Windows, SYN-ACK from VMS and then > ACK > back to VMS. 60 seconds later Windows resets the connection. > > Has anyone else seen this and know the solution? > > Thanks > > Rob >

16 years, 2 months

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Bushnell rejoins Atari

by evan＠snarc.net

Atari S.A. announced today that Nolan Bushnell joined its board. Anyone think that will matter?

16 years, 2 months

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DEC DMP-11 SYNC SERIAL INTERFACE MANUALS???

by hoelscher-kirchbrak＠freenet.de

Has anyone got manuals for the DEC DMP-11 synchronous serial interface? It was a common interface for multipoint DDCMP DECnet connections in the era before Ethernet became well-established. Any hints welcome! Regards, Ulli

16 years, 2 months

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HP-IB, Amigo/cs80, again, connectors

by emu＠e-bbes.com

OK, another question : a cheap source for the hp-ib, gpib connectors ? What I found so far is in the $ 20 range. (through hole, right angle, receptacle, ...) Cheers & Thanks

16 years, 2 months

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More stuff to get rid of - Seattle, WA

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Time for some early spring cleaning. I've got a pile of stuff I'm never going to use again (I've decided to give up on my SparcStation collection, for example :))... Here goes. This is all located in the Seattle area, the smaller stuff I can ship but I'd of course prefer local pickup. Make me an offer... Anything not claimed will be put on Craigslist at the end of the week and the remainder goes to RE-PC after that. - DEC RL02 : not working, but is complete (minus front panel bulbs). Very beat up looking, but clean inside. - Acorn A5000 : works, but faceplate is beat up (got mangled in the mail due to bad packing). Needs new battery (removed old leaky one before it could do any serious damage). No keyboard/mouse -- not PS/2 compatible. - IBM PS/2 Model 70 (386). 4mb ram, no hard drive but sled is present. Boots just fine. - Blue & White G3 Mac with 450Mhz G4 upgrade. Runs fine, no hard drive, somewhere around 256mb of RAM. - HP Apollo Series 700. Small pizzabox. Worked the last time I powered it up. - Amstrad PC1640 SD : just the main unit, no monitor (which supplies the power). Missing one of the drives. - Beehive "Super Bee" terminal : No keyboard, needs repair. In solid shape. Heavy. - 2x IBM PC Convertibles : One has a backlit screen, one without. Two carrying cases. One AC adapter. Serial and Printer expansions. - Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 : Dual UltraSparc IIi, 512mb ram. No drives, but I have sleds somewhere. - SparcStation 2 - 2x SparcStation IPX - SparcStation IPC - 2x Macintosh Portables - good for parts, no working hard drives between the two, alas. (None of the SparcStations have working NVRAM batteries.) - Piles of old IDE disks (500mb or less). Unknown condition, many were working at one point but time and stiction make fools of us all. Inquire if you want details, I'm too lazy to list them all here right now :). - IBM P260 21" CRT monitor. Nice flat trinitron CRT, works pretty well. Large, as these monitors tend to be. Does SOG. Thanks, Josh

16 years, 2 months

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Hackers

by evan＠snarc.net

Steven Levy revisits his book "Hackers" with some new perspective. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/04/ff_hackers

16 years, 2 months

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Monarch/Dynabyte 6600 in Albany, NY

by tosteve＠yahoo.com

Gerry Fassett writes that he wants to sell his Monarch/DynaByte 6600. It is from the mid-80's, maybe. Please contact him if interested at <gfassett at nycap.rr.com> Photos here: http://popbottlecaps.com/temp/dynabyte-1.jpg http://popbottlecaps.com/temp/dynabyte-2.jpg http://popbottlecaps.com/temp/dynabyte-3.jpg http://popbottlecaps.com/temp/dynabyte-4.jpg <gfassett at nycap.rr.com>

16 years, 2 months

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FTP from Windows to VMS

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I am trying to run the ftp command on Windows (7) against an FTP server on VMS 7.3 (the UCX version of TCP/IP). I am sure this has worked in the past, but now when I try it connects successfully but VMS never sends back the login prompt. I tried running FTP on the VMS system back to itself and the prompt came straight back. Sniffing the packets I see a SYN from Windows, SYN-ACK from VMS and then ACK back to VMS. 60 seconds later Windows resets the connection. Has anyone else seen this and know the solution? Thanks Rob

16 years, 2 months

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Stuff to dispense with pt 1.

by pat＠computer-refuge.org

This is what I'm attempting to get rid of from my warehouse. I would like to get something for the machines, but mostly want to make sure that the stuff doesn't get scrapped. Everything is assumed to work, but I have no guarantees that it does, and it hasn't been turned on in quite a while, but it has been stored in a climate-controlled warehouse. I'm open to some trades, and negotiable on prices for most stuff. I'm not willing to ship anything myself, but may be willing to drop it off somewhere to be shipped - I mostly don't have time to pack this stuff. Email me for more info on any of this stuff. For the most part, this stuff needs to be gone by May 14th- when I leave for Dayton Hamvention. I may be able to bring smaller (desktop box) stuff with me, but larger stuff I won't be able to transport to the show with everything else I'm bringing. Some of the stuff will start disappearing at the end of next week via scrap or eBay if I don't hear anything by then. + VAX 8700 w/ TU-81+ and SA482. Haven't had a chance to power up, and will keep this if I don't get a good offer. Want around $500 for it. + DG Nova 2 w/ PERTEC 9-track tape drive and dual 8" floppy. Asking $750, this will go to eBay if I don't get any takers. + DG Nova 4. Have 3 or 4, some missing the front-panel. 3rd party Disk/QIC tape rackmount box that goes with them. + BA-11 10.5" tall UNIBUS expansion boxes. $25 each + SGI Onyx prototype machine. The same size and chassis as a Challenge XL. $100 + PDP-11/23 w/RL02s in corporate cab. $200 + RM-02 drives. I have 4, want to keep at least one. Never had much luck getting them to work with my RH-11 on my 11/84, but I don't think there's anything wrong with the drives themselves. $200 each + VAX 4000/200. I have two or 3 of these. $100 each + DEC CMR53. 2 of these. A pdp-11/53 system with some special communications cards in them. $100 each + AlphaServer 4100. $20 + Various VAXstation 3100s for whatever I can get for them + 4 tape drives from IBM 3480-B22 tape units. I've considered saving this for spares, but I'm not sure I care enough. + IBM S/390 G5 coupling facility. I'd really like to find the replacement software for the SE to make it into a "standard" CPU, so that I can at least run Linux on it, but I'm not sure that's likely. $200. + Encore Mulitmax UNIX box. 32 x NS32332 processors and 128MB ram, and a 2nd rack with a 9-track tape drive and some 8" hard disks. $250. + General Automation SPC16/40 and 16/45. Missing the front panel for one of the two, have an I/O box, and PSUs. needs some repair work. One of the PSUs needs new capacitors. Will keep unless I can get $500 or so for the both of them. + HP 1000 E-series, I think. Two of these. $200 each? + IBM RS/6000 SP. I've got one frame with quad-375MHz POWER3-II thin nodes, and one high node (16GB ram, 16 x 375MHz). $200 + DEC VT240 terminals. Probably 10. $5 each + IBM 9343-C02 DASD box. I have someone interested, but haven't heard >from them in a while, and am not sure how interested they really are ... I'd like to get $100 for it. + Two Amiga 2000 Video Toaster boxes. I may end up keeping one. $100. + Various IBM UNIX desktop systems, desktop VAXes, etc. $5 each. + Altos 8000 and 8600 systems. $10 each. + Tektronix 4010 terminal. $100. + Tullamore/Victoreen SCIPP 1600 1600-channel pulse-height analyzer. Powers up, but not tested much more than that. Looks cool, and has CORE memory inside. $50. Some pics I took a while ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vax-o-matic/sets/72157622536984302/ That's all I can recall for now. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

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classic computers at notacon7

by keithvz＠verizon.net

So I got back from Notacon7 in Cleveland, OH, yesterday, and wanted to mention that there was a classic computer presence there. Robert & Jim from Fresno Commodore User Group were there and had setup a variety of old machines including 64's, VIC-20's, 1541's, and even an A500(Yay!) with a couple boxes of disks. There was also a demo in the BlockParty demo competition from a guy who used the Coleco as his platform of choice. His demo was mostly written in Z80 assembly with help from some FORTH tools. There was a preference for running these demos on the old hardware. Plenty of Amiga "trackers" used during the music-only portion of the competition. http://www.demoparty.us/ and http://www.notacon.org/ has more info if you are interested. Keith

16 years, 2 months

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Stuff to dispense with pt 1.

by pat＠computer-refuge.org

It appears that there has been a lot of interest in the Tek 4010 terminal. As I don't want to pick anyone myself, I think that I'll end up putting it up for sale on eBay and let everyone settle who gets it that way. I'll see if I can get it listed early this week. Pat -- Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org

16 years, 2 months

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OT: ACM insurance

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience buying health insurance through the ACM. My career has taken some very interesting twists and turns and it looks like I'll be running a consulting firm for a while. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 2 months

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HP Integral questions

by ard＠p850ug1.demon.co.uk

I've been reading the HP Integral service manual that Al kindly put on Bitsavers [1], It's a strange manual in that it includes schematics of the main logic boards. Why, I don't know, other comtemporary HP computer service manuals didn't. Not that I'm complaining... Anyway, various thoughts occured to me as I remember some thignn about that machine 1) Did HP ever produce the CS/80, SS/80 or Amigo drive exerciser software to run on the Integral? It seems it would be the ideal machine for use as a drive tester since it's so easily portable. 2) The later version of the OS ROM module has a space for an option ROM PCB. It seems like this would be trivial to recreate (schematics of the ROM Mmodule, inclding the pinouts of the option board connectors are certainly in 'my' Integral schematics). If enough people are interesd, it might be worth laying out a PCB... 3) The manual mentions that the Integral expansion bus was an implementation of some other HP standard bus, but only rows A and C. What other machine(s) used a similar bus? I can't think of any. [1] I've also been reading the HP9000/200 Pascal 3.0 system docuementation. A wonderful mine of information, but oh so annoying to read on a screen... -tony

16 years, 2 months

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UCSD p-System hoard to disperse

by paulrsm＠buckeye-express.com

I, too, have not heard back from John. I am interested in the Atari ST and one of the Pinnacle systems. If the Pinnacle can run both UCSD Pascal and CP/M-68K then that would be a bonus. -- Paul R. Santa-Maria Maumee, Ohio USA

16 years, 2 months

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PDP-11 CAD System on Craigslist (Boston)

by stephane.tsacas＠gmail.com

http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/zip/1696634349.html <http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/zip/1696634349.html> * OFFER- working DEC PDP-11 CAD System w/accessories (Quincy) ------------------------------ Date: 2010-04-17, 12:11PM EDT Reply to: sale-kxyzt-1696634349 at craigslist.org<sale-kxyzt-1696634349 at craigslist.org?subject=OFFER-%20working%20DEC%20PDP-11%20CAD%20System%20w%2Faccessories%20(Quincy)&body=%0A%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fboston.craigslist.org%2Fsob%2Fzip%2F1696634349.html%0A> ------------------------------ This is a working PDP-11/23+, in a BA-11 box. This is a fuly functional PDP-11 running RT-11, has bootable floppies and hard drive. The reason I have this is this system is the hardware basis for a CAD software package called Pro-Draft / Producer. by what became Baush & Lomb. Comes w/~40 8" floppies (yes, really!), detailed schematics of BA-11 box, and all Pro-Draft software and documentation. You can fire this up and do C, FORTRAN, and assembly programming, or CAD development, or have a very unusually shaped space heater. Please give this machine a new lease on life! *-- Stephane http://DECpicted.blogspot.com

16 years, 2 months

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IMS Pyxis Board

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I have 3x5" circuit board from IMS International marked "PYXIS BD". On a narrow edge is a 50-pin header. On the rear are two edge slots that appear to mate with the connectors of an MFM drive. It's in an apparently unopened bag and visible at http://frotz.homeunix.org/images/pyxis/. Does anyone here know what it might be for? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 2 months

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FFS: vintage cardboard boxes

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

Does anyone here have an interest in carboard boxes that once held S100 cards? I have a banker's box full of them free for shipping. One of them has "Cables for Golem" written on it by Jerry Pournelle. The cables were recently sold. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

16 years, 2 months

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Looking for a Tally model 420 paper tape punch.

by wlsilva＠sbcglobal.net

If anyone can help me obtain a Tally model 420 paper tape punch I would be immensely grateful ! I am restoring a old telemetry console and the Tally puncher is missing. Once again, many thanks for any help/leads. Walter Silva wlsilva at sbcglobal.net

16 years, 3 months

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UCSD p-System hoard to disperse

by jfoust＠threedee.com

I've been contacted by a former software developer with extensive experience with the UCSD p-System on several platforms. He'd like to dispose of most of his equipment and documentation. I'd like to help him find a new home for it all. I'm not quite sure how to do that, but it might depend on who else is interested. Please contact me if you are. He is located in southern Illinois, USA. I am located in southern Wisconsin, about six hours away. I'd like his spare Terak 8510 system and a Cipher 9 track. There are two PDQ-3 systems. I am tempted to take one, as it is closely related to the Terak. These are LSI-11 with Western Digital microcode to run the p-System directly. They include 10 or 20 meg hard drives. They are circa 1982. I think they're rare. The only mention I find is on a UC-Irvine web page, although I've emailed with someone who worked at the company that made them (Advanced Computer Design?). One of the hard drives might contain some source code from ACD. He used these for software development. I've found references that say these systems were used to develop in Modula 2 and FORTRAN. They competed with the Sage. There's an Atari 1040 ST running the p-System. There are four or five 68000-based multitasking multiuser Pinnacle Systems (later Logic Process) systems. These drove 8 to 16 users on Wyse 50 terminals. They are circa 1983. One is the bigger unit with more horsepower and an internal tape drive. There's two Corvus Omninet drives, with various junction boxes, cabling and interface cards - perhaps for PC, Apple II and maybe Q-bus. There's a bunch of p-System books, newsletters, etc. as well as software. He was a USUS member. There's a VT 220 and several Wyse 50 terminals. I might want the 220. It sounds like there's lots of software going all the way back to a copy of Wirth's CDC compiler. - John

16 years, 3 months

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SGI ONYX Protoytpy

by robert.herget＠gmail.com

Hi, I saw your add of things you are looking to get rid of. I am very interested in your ONXY prototype. Can you tell me what the specs are? Do you have any photos of it? Robert Herget

16 years, 3 months

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Use mini CDR for equipment info?

by cclist＠sydex.com

Dear List, Some bits of equpment that I have get hauled out only rarely and I often waste a lot of time identifying them then trying to remember where the heck I put the paper that describes their operation--and then locating the disk with the related driver information. I've been considering archiving the information on mini (200MB) CD-R and taping said CD-R somewhere nside the equipment. Mini, mostly because their physical size is convenient and I rarely have more than 200MB of information on any peripheral. Does anyone else do something like this? I have little experience with mini CDR--are they reliable? Best reagards, Chuck

16 years, 3 months

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Anyone want some free LEDs?

by lproven＠gmail.com

Anyone need a handful? I have several sets of dead bicycle lights that I want to get rid of, which have something like half a dozen to a dozen each of greens, reds and whites. Happy to post anywhere for cost of postage alone, if anyone has any use for them... -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508

16 years, 3 months

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Dec RV20 docs

by quapla＠xs4all.nl

For the cost of shipping, a set of docs for the Dec RV20 Optical subsystem. Included is EK-ORV20-IN-002 : Installation Guide (stapled spine) EK-ORV20-OM-002 : Owners Manual (stapled spine) EK-ORV20-SV-002 : Service Guide (spiral bound, but now loose leaf) Item in in the Netherlands, weight is approx 0,6 Kg Ed -- Dit is een HTML vrije email / This is an HTML free email.

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New old products :)

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Alexandre Souza - > Listas > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:50 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: New old products :) > > >> Next time, use kicad, diptrace or something useful. Eagle sux. > > I'm not going to defend Eagle, but I'm unfamiliar with diptrace - what > > makes it better? > > Ethan, it is a matter of using the tool, I could say wonders about > diptrace, but I do believe nothing will be compared with you getting the > > tool and taking a look. > > > I use Eagle because it works on any computer I'm likely to be sitting > > and and because there are lots of examples and user-contributed parts. > > I'm not opposed to switching tools, but I'd rather not switch tools > > just to spend all my time creating libraries for classic computer > > components. If another tool has better libraries and is easier to > > use, then I'm all for it. > > I use Altium Designer, but I admit it is too expensive for (legal) > hobby > use :o) > > I do believe in Diptrace. But KICAD is getting better and better > everyday. More libraries and a very active development. Maybe you'll > want to > take a look at it :) [AJL>] Hi! I use KiCAD quite a bit and have designed several PCBs with it. It works fine and is completely unrestricted. I think it is a fine product and recommend it whole heartedly. It has improved dramatically over the last couple years. Also, all of the N8VEM PCBs are posted on the wiki in the KiCAD format. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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Xedex Baby Blue CPU Plus ISA card

by lynchaj＠yahoo.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Shawn Rutledge > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 1:26 AM > To: cctalk at classiccmp.org > Subject: Xedex Baby Blue CPU Plus ISA card > > I just found one of these in my pile if anyone wants it. [AJL>] Hi! I just obtained one of these boards and would like to get some documentation for it. Does anyone have documentation available they can scan, mail, or post somewhere? Any help much appreciated. Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

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DEC RK05F videos and pictures - running it naked!

by bqt＠softjar.se

ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: >> Oh, that bad RK8E controller just confronts me with "Data break error" :-( > > IIRC a ;'data break' is a bit like DMA. I do haev the prints and some > technical desription, so I could help you debug this sometime... Just for reference: databreak is exactly just DMA. It's just another name for it. The "fun" part of the PDP-8 is that you have 1-cycle data break and 3-cycle data break devices... :-) You never see the 3-cycle version on any modern DMA devices... Johnny

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Long shot: Burroughs C3360 schematic?

by derschjo＠mail.msu.edu

Hey all - Picked up a Burroughs C3360 calculator this week. It's a programmable 4-function+square root and 10-register memory with a nice 16-nixie display. (See http://oldcalculatormuseum.com/bc3660.html) I cleaned it out, and it's working fine in calculator mode, but in programming mode the program step counter is usually (but not always) stuck at zero. Sometimes it increments properly for a few seconds after power-up. Seems like a fairly simple fault to trace down, if I had any idea where to begin... anyone have a schematic for this thing (or the Sharp Compet 363P, which this machine is a rebranded version of)? Hopefully the fault isn't in one of the LSI chips in this thing, I'm guessing those are going to be hard to find. Thanks as always, Josh

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Classic computer brochures on eBay (UK)

by coredump＠gifford.co.uk

A friend of mine is selling a number of computer brochures and sales leaflets from the 1960s and 1970s. Looks like they'd be of interest to some collectors here. They're on eBay as follows: http://shop.ebay.co.uk/kate_elliott/m.html -- John Honniball coredump at gifford.co.uk

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MAINDEC-08-D5FA? original tape and/or scan of listing?

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Hi Does any have the original paper tape of MAINDEC-08-D5FA and/or a scan of it's source listing? It's an RF08 diagnostic for the PDP-8 The archived copies of the paper tape have a checksum error. I could reconstruct it, but I'd rather have a pdf of the source listing. I've looked and didn't find one anywhere. I'd also like to see a scan of the source to MAINDEC-08-D5EB if anyone has one. -brad ----------- Brad Parker Heeltoe Consulting http://www.heeltoe.com 781-483-3101

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DEC RK05F videos and pictures - running it naked!

by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi folks, here are some videos and pictures I took when operating an RK05f completely open with the exposed. Hope you like it! http://pdp8.hachti.de/?gallery/rk05f And keep in mind: I did this for curiosity and the whole thing only lasted a few minutes. The disk is back in the plastic shroud and nothing has been ruined. In fact the drive was still not 100% perfectly adjusted while I shot the stuff on the page. In the clips the drive performs part of the DEC maindec drive control test. I had a lot of trouble finding out the servo system's weakest part.... Now I managed the drive to run reliable and to be able to retract the heads properly (seems to be not so uncommon problem!). Best wishes, Philipp -- http://www.hachti.de

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Terak disk update

by cclist＠sydex.com

List, Just for the "FYI" file, Terak (UCSD Pascal) floppies appear to be either SSSD 3740 format (FM 77 tracks * 26 sectors * 128 bytes) or SSDD (Track 0, FM 26 sectors * 128 bytes, not used) 76 tracks * MFM 15 sectors * 512 bytes. The double-density format is definitely standard MFM, not DEC RX02 (FM headers, "tweaked MFM data). The MFM format is interleaved 2 to 1 with a one-sector skew per cylinder. The FM format is also interleaved 2 to 1 with a 6 sector skew per cylinder. For whatever it's worth, Chuck (P.S. I wouldn't mind owning a Terak, judging from some of the program code I've seen).

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New old products :)

by geoffr＠zipcon.net

I?ve gotten back into my Atari systems again and since I had a couple Indus GT drives, I found a schematic for the RAM upgrade board for the drives, and had PCB?s made :) my first professionally produced PCB?s in 20+ years. I?m quite pleased since it was a first effort with new software when I hadn?t touched EDA software in 20 years or so. Lessons learned were: Increase PAD size :) these are solderable, but are just a touch too small by the software default. Validate that pin one indicators REALLY render out to the gerbers. I have to refer back to my PCB design for pin one since it didn?t render. Quadruple check that all wires and nets are present. I discovered that a trace between 2 pins on the connector(s) disappeared on me at some point during editing, it is entirely possible I deleted it like an ID10T. So for this run of boards, wire-wrap wire will be my friend to jumper the 2 pins at the PCB.

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Searching Sage-IV ROM 2.0/2.1 dump

by holger.veit＠iais.fraunhofer.de

Hi, I already asked this in thesimh mailinglist, without replies, so maybe this list is more appropriate to get a response. I am working on a SIMH emulator for the Sage&Stride 68k machines (Sage-II/IV). There is a lot of docs available at sageandstride.org, which is the base for the development. One thing I haven't found yet is a more recent boot ROM than the available 1.2 version; docs mention 2.0 and 2.1. These versions have, besides presumably a number of bug fixes, support for the winchester disk card. Does anyone have a rom dump (any format) of such a BIOS (16k)? I already tried to contact David Erhart, the owner of the above site, but twice didn't get any response. Thanks in advance Holger P.S. The code is not yet ready to release (still some bugs in the FDC part, some missing instructions, and the HDC support), but I'll report in the simh developers list when it is.

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Electric Dreams (UK'ers only)

by aliensrcooluk＠yahoo.co.uk

Hi, I happened to catch the last 20 minutes or so of the programme Electric Dreams, which appears to be on for the next few days on BBC2, starting at 7pm. A family have volunteered to see what life was like in the previous decades (70's, 80's, 90's). That is to say old modern tech in the house and home has been replaced by old tech - so no X360 or PS3 for the kids! Tonight's episode was about the 70's and included a short scene with Sir Clive Sinclair, a Sinclair calculator, an old Sinclair TV advert and a Commodore PET - the father was trying (and failing) to do his day-to-day work on the PET! Here's a link to the BBC site for those that can access it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/electricdreams/ Tomorrows episode is going to be about the 80's, and will include a BBC Micro among the 80's tech. Regards, Andrew B aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk

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Did someone have a hack for 8" or 5-1/4" drives using a Flash drive ?

by ragooman＠comcast.net

Did someone have a hack for 8" or 5-1/4" drives using a Flash drive ? I like to build one to troubleshoot floppy controllers without risking damage to the original drive. There's one from Germany for about $300 but it's too big for my wallet. http://www.ipcas.com/products/usb-floppy-emulator-fdd-to-udd.html I'm trying to fiddle with my google search terms but nothing points to a homebrew version yet. =Dan

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OT: Weller WTCPT owners

by cclist＠sydex.com

A little tidbit for you owners of Weller WTCPT irons with TC201 handsets that take the EC234 heaters. If your old heater was made before 2002, be sure to also buy a new BA60 sleeve and nut. The newer EC234 is slightly wider and won't fit the old BA60. Just something I discovered to file away for a rainy day. Cheers, Chuck

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multiplatform EDA tools (was Re: New old products :)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 4/13/10, Alexandre Souza - Listas <pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Next time, use kicad, diptrace or something useful. Eagle sux. >> I'm not going to defend Eagle, but I'm unfamiliar with diptrace - what >> makes it better? > > Ethan, it is a matter of using the tool, I could say wonders about > diptrace, but I do believe nothing will be compared with you getting the > tool and taking a look. I don't see a Linux or Mac version, so it's a non-starter. I'm not going to dork around with Wine to use an EDA tool; I'll just stick with tools that work natively. >> I use Eagle because it works on any computer I'm likely to be sitting... I stand by that - Eagle works on Macs, Linux boxes and Windows boxes. I don't have to worry about the platform in front of me - there's an Eagle for each one. > I do believe in Diptrace. But KICAD is getting better and better > everyday. More libraries and a very active development. Maybe you'll want to > take a look at it :) I've heard of KICAD, but the last time I looked at it, it didn't look polished enough for me to spend much time on it. Perhaps it's advanced enough for a second look. -ethan

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Memorex 102 20MB Hard disk

by thomas.gardner＠sbcglobal.net

> Message: 27 > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:01:07 -0400 (EDT) > From: Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Memorex 102 20MB Hard disk > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org> > Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1004122154580.3802 at duo> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Tony Duell wrote: > > >> > >> Has anyone on the list seen or work with one of these? I received a > >> Morrow M-20 8-inch hard disk along with my N* Horizon and found the > >> Memorex 102 disk mechanism inside (what a beast!). <snip> > The drive is not particularly small, BTW. This is a beast of an 8" drive > mechanism with five platters and a voice-coil positioned. The Memorex 102 had four platters and a stepper motor. A 10 ohm resistor would limit the inrush to 2.4 Amps with zero spindle motor resistance. Given the 112 has an inrush of 4.5 Amps, this further suggests this is not a 102. I have a disassembled 101 in my garage if that would help and I can find it Tom

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worn edge fingers

by dgriffi＠cs.csubak.edu

I was examining some old Vectrex cartridges and I noticed on one that the gold on the edge fingers has worn down to the copper below. What's the proper way to rehab things like this? Wipe with some solder and blow off the excess with an air compressor? -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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Cross-platform EDA tools (was Re: New old products :)

by ethan.dicks＠gmail.com

On 4/13/10, Ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: > Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote: > >> I do believe in Diptrace.... > > I have the older version of diptrace. I am not so happy with it. > No PLCC sockets of any kind. No support for TUBES of any kind. > All the new libraries have more surface mount junk. Manual routing > is a pain. Auto routing does work no more than 3 chips for a two > layer board. Hmm... that would have killed my last project - a PLCC-44 89C52 (that we later swapped out for an ATmega8515 with no board changes required) and 5 ICs total ('541, 2x ULN2003, '14, MCU). Went fine with Eagle except for the holes for the power jack and my goof on the Port D bus. Autorouting worked for 75% of the project, and manual routing is not tricky. The first test program ever loaded into the board ran the first time (blink LEDs on two port bits). I'd call that a success. -ethan

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pdp-11/35 on Ebay UK

by julianskidmore＠yahoo.com

Hi folks, Looks like cctech's missed this one, but there's still several hours to go! There's a pdp-11/35 being auctioned on Ebay uk: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DEC-PDP-11-35-with-EIS-and-Core-Memory-PDP-11-PDP11_W… It's in Halifax; a mere 50Km from where I live! Unfortunately, I can't afford it :-( But I thought you might like to see what's going down oop North ;-) -cheers from Julz @P

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WTB: SGI Professional IRIS CPU / Help Needed

by mailinglists＠lenerz.org

Hi there, I'm owner of a Professional IRIS 4D/50G made by Silicon Graphics some time around 1987. The machine has apparently some kind of trouble related to the CPU board. I'll include some details further below, I'm open to any good idea. Because of that problem I'm in search for a suitable CPU board. The failing board is a IP4 CPU board (part nr. 030-0121-001 Rev A). I presume that any kind of CPU board from a Professional IRIS line machine would help (mainly IP4 and IP4.5). Please drop me a note if you have a spare or can point me in a promising direction. As promised some details. The machine used to work fine once I had set it up quite a while ago. Recently it refused to boot and upon inspection I got the following error: ---- snip ---- EXCEPTION: <vector=NORMAL> Exception pc: 0xbfc108a0 Cause register: 0x30001008<CE=3,IP5,EXC=RMISS> Status register: 0x80000<CM,IPL=8> Bad Vaddress: 0xc0000000 Error Addr register: 0x17b40 Local I/O interrupt register: 0xff <> Parity error register: 0x0 Registers (in hex): arg: c98cf600 ffffffff 15180 0 tmp: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 sve: a0017b93 bfc268c8 bfc268ca 1 54 0 1 800 t8 ff00 t9 502e8000 at 1 v0 c0000000 v1 f65da k1 bfc04234 gp 0 fp bfc04bd0 sp a0017b64 ra bfc10744 exit(-1) called ---- snip ---- This happens just after POST (I think) when the machine is either about to start IRIX or to show the PROM menu. Of course nothing further happens except that the error is repeated without end. I did strip the machine down to a bare minimum of boards (IP4 and Ethernet) and I also swapped the memory sticks. The only things I could reasonably pull in a last attempt would be the VME Ethernet board and the system disk. Regards, Gerhard -- http://www,sgistuff.net/

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128k Plessey Data General Nova 3 Memory Board

by tommie＠fox.se

Hello, I have a 128k Plessey Data General Nova 3 Memory Board exhibiting errors. If you have the schematics for this board, a copy would be much appreciated. Regards, Tommie Mademark My Data General blog http://www.foxdata.com/blog/

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