12 May
2009
12 May
'09
1:04 p.m.
If someone would forward this to CC-talk and elsewhere, I'd appreciate it.
I am preparing to move soon. I don't know how soon, but it's likely going
to be the case that I find something in a neighborhood I want, that I can
afford, and that I need to pounce on quickly, so I'm trying to be rid of
anything I don't have any hope of ever using.
I have a huge cabinet (I think it holds either 300 or 500 reels) of full
of 2400ft nine track tapes. I no-longer have a working nine-track drive.
This cabinet is about four feet wide, seven feet tall, and two feet deep.
This pile o' tapes, the cabinet in which they hang so uselessly, and the
non-working DEC SCSI tape drive[0] need to go. I don't want any cash for
it or the tapes, just please come and get them. If you only want the
drive, I'll deliver it anywhere in Austin, but preference will go to
someone who'll pick up the cabinet full of tapes.
I also have a Sun StorEdge L3500 tape library with six DLT7000 drives. It
is mechanically sound, and the drives work, but there's a defective
optointerruptor that determines the X position of the carriage; it's a
cheap part to replace and shouldn't take a lot of labor, but I'm backing
up to disk now. You may either pick this up, or help me load it and
unload it, and I'll drive it to your central Texas location with my truck.
Photos of the library are here:
http://jonathan.celestrion.net/photos/library/
I also have a Compaq Storageworks BA370 24-slot enclosure with dual
controllers. This takes SCSI Storageworks "storage building blocks", and
I may actually have enough of them to fill the unit (not necessarily with
disks in the blocks). I have spare batteries, controllers, and other
bits. Need a fiber switch? I have gigabit Brocade Silkworm and possibly
enough GBICs to fill it.
Feel free to make an offer on the BA370 or the switch. I'll mail the
switch or deliver the BA370 in central Texas, but I won't ship the BA370
anywhere; it's just too hard to crate reasonably.
[0] I don't recall the model, but it's vacuum-loading, SCSI, and 5 or 6
rack units tall. The failure mode is that it fails to load the tape
(or loads, fails to notice, and then unloads), so hopefully it's just
a sticky sensor.
--
Jonathan Patschke ( "They don't have the right to read a book out loud."
Elgin, TX ( --Paul Aiken
USA ( Executive Director, Authors Guild
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9 Aug
9 Aug
12:12 a.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
Hi Al
I was digging though my basement doing the 15 year cleanup.
I found a book, "Programming the IBM 1620", second edition.
I checked on the web and see that the CHM already has a
couple copies.
Still, it was a fun find.
I still have to compile a list of the Intel manuals and
ap notes I have. I suspect that most are common books but
you never know. I found manuals for such strange things
as 8089s and 8022s.
On the Canon Cat, I love the color versions. It is
great. I'd still like to see some of the smaller application
manuals.
Dwight
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12:57 p.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
what color versions??? What in tarnation! Are you saying there was a color Cat?
--- On Sun, 8/9/09, dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi Al
I was digging though my basement doing the 15 year
cleanup.
I found a book, "Programming the IBM 1620", second
edition.
I checked on the web and see that the CHM already has a
couple copies.
Still, it was a fun find.
I still have to compile a list of the Intel manuals and
ap notes I have. I suspect that most are common books but
you never know. I found manuals for such strange things
as 8089s and 8022s.
On the Canon Cat, I love the color versions. It is
great. I'd still like to see some of the smaller
application
manuals.
Dwight
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1:35 p.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
On 9 Aug 2009 at 0:12, dwight elvey wrote:
I was digging though my basement doing the 15 year
cleanup.
I found a book, "Programming the IBM 1620", second edition.
I checked on the web and see that the CHM already has a
couple copies.
Just curious, Dwight--which "Programming the IBM 1620" book do you
have? There was the "hands on" Weiss book and another by Clarence
Germain (Prentice Hall). Both had virtually the same title.
I mention this because I thought I remembered that title, but the
cover art didn't match my recollection. A little more digging and it
seems I must have had the Germain book.
--Chuck
1:51 p.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9 Aug 2009 at 0:12, dwight elvey wrote:
I have 'Basic Programing Concepts and the IBM 1620 computer'
by Leeson/Dimitry.
Ben.
PS If anybody is doing something with 1620 hardware, you can have
the dog eared book.
I was digging though my basement doing the 15
year cleanup.
I found a book, "Programming the IBM 1620", second edition.
I checked on the web and see that the CHM already has a
couple copies.
Just curious, Dwight--which "Programming the IBM 1620" book do you
have? There was the "hands on" Weiss book and another by Clarence
Germain (Prentice Hall). Both had virtually the same title.
I mention this because I thought I remembered that title, but the
cover art didn't match my recollection. A little more digging and it
seems I must have had the Germain book.
--Chuck
8:38 p.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
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On 9 Aug 2009 at 0:12, dwight elvey wrote:
Hi Chuck
It is the one by Germain. Not as much meat as the stuff
on Al's bitsavers. Still a fun find.
I also found some interesting stuff on the 2900 bitslice
and a book on the Fairchild F8.
Dwight
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I was digging though my basement doing the 15
year cleanup.
I found a book, "Programming the IBM 1620", second edition.
I checked on the web and see that the CHM already has a
couple copies.
Just curious, Dwight--which "Programming the IBM 1620" book do you
have? There was the "hands on" Weiss book and another by Clarence
Germain (Prentice Hall). Both had virtually the same title.
I mention this because I thought I remembered that title, but the
cover art didn't match my recollection. A little more digging and it
seems I must have had the Germain book.
--Chuck
11:12 p.m.
New subject: IBM 1620
On 9 Aug 2009 at 20:38, dwight elvey wrote:
It is the one by Germain. Not as much meat as the
stuff
on Al's bitsavers. Still a fun find.
It's interesting that there were a number of books written for 1620
programming, probably because there were quite a number of them
installed in schools.
I still have fond memories of that machine--and still can remember a
fair number of the opcodes (that system was very friendly toward
programming in machine language--you could enter code right on the
console typewriter) IBM even produced coding forms for the "1620
Absolute Coding System"--the other side of the form, ISTR, was for
SPS. You had to be careful not to overwrite the addition tables in
memory or things would quickly get very strange.
--Chuck
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