Original DEC logo in PostScript - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

3 Nov 2019

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 Today's Topics:

     1. Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
        Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit? (Chris Zach)
     2. Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
        Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit? (Guy Dunphy)
     3. Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
        Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit? (ED SHARPE)
     4. Re: Original DEC logo in PostScript (Stefan Skoglund)
     5. Re: 50 yrs. ago today (Stefan Skoglund)
     6. Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD (Stefan Skoglund)
     7. RE: Original DEC logo in PostScript (Rob Jarratt)

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 Message: 1
 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 13:37:02 -0400
 From: Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com>
 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
 	Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
 Message-ID: <892fa3cb-ce81-1a92-f165-0c90c8f3f4e7 at alembic.crystel.com>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

 Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus but 18 bit switches
 that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting.

 On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
  On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk
wrote:
  Has anyone seen this?? It looks like an 18-bit
machine.

 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/  At least at one time,
these things contained PDP-11's.? The CPU at the
 bottom sure looks like a PDP-11,
 I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a
 custom logo.

 Jon

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 Message: 2
 Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:39:47 +1100
 From: Guy Dunphy <guykd at optusnet.com.au>
 To: Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com>, "General Discussion: On-Topic
 	and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
 Subject: Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
 	Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
 Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20191103083947.00e56608 at mail.optusnet.com.au>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

 Well, it's sold. I hope someone here hought it, and will post some better pics and
details.

 If it had been near to me I'd have bought it instantly. A rack, a Tektronix XY
display,
 a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy
drives,
 and a probable PDP-something all for $45?
 Bet the various items are on slide rails too. How rare is it to get both parts of
 workable slide rails? Here in Oz, virtually unheard of. Separating slide halves and
losing
 one half seems to be a near universal syndrome with people who part out test equipment.

 Guy (Australia)

 At 01:37 PM 2/11/2019 -0400, you wrote:
  Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus
but 18 bit switches
 that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting.

 On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this??? It looks like an 18-bit machine.
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/
> At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's.?? The CPU at the
> bottom sure looks like a PDP-11,
> I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a
> custom logo.
>
> Jon
> 
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 Message: 3
 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2019 22:56:01 +0000 (UTC)
 From: ED SHARPE <couryhouse at aol.com>
 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: Cheap minicomputer (Tracor-Northern 1610) on Facebook
 	Markeplace (Allentown, PA) 18 bit?
 Message-ID: <2032848827.223085.1572735361572 at mail.yahoo.com>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

 heck just the empty? rack? with? drawer is? worth that - -Yes Guy I know about the
anguish of half sets of rack? rails - we have that in Arizona also!? ?Ed#? ?SMECC
 In a message dated 11/2/2019 2:40:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:

 Well, it's sold. I hope someone here hought it, and will post some better pics and
details.

 If it had been near to me I'd have bought it instantly. A rack, a Tektronix XY
display,
 a rack drawer, blanking panels, some neat mysterious instruments, two 8" floppy
drives,
 and a probable PDP-something all for $45?
 Bet the various items are on slide rails too. How rare is it to get both parts of
 workable slide rails? Here in Oz, virtually unheard of. Separating slide halves and
losing
 one half seems to be a near universal syndrome with people who part out test equipment.

 Guy (Australia)

 At 01:37 PM 2/11/2019 -0400, you wrote:
  Indeed. I was thinking since it was a 16 bit bus
but 18 bit switches
 that it might be an 11/35 or 11/40 inside there. Interesting.

 On 11/2/2019 11:35 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 11/02/2019 03:32 AM, cctalk--- via cctalk wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this??? It looks like an 18-bit machine.
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/736222363558907/
> At least at one time, these things contained PDP-11's.?? The CPU at the
> bottom sure looks like a PDP-11,
> I'm thinking it might actually be a Cal-Data CPU (PDP-11 clone) with a
> custom logo.
>
> Jon
> 
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 Message: 4
 Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 14:37:21 +0100
 From: Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
 To: rob at jarratt.me.uk, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>,
 	"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
 	<cctalk at classiccmp.org>, 'Jason T' <silent700 at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: Original DEC logo in PostScript
 Message-ID: <c93899d01b98e3360d49e7f99745000a3fdfb0a6.camel at agj.net>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

 tis 2019-10-29 klockan 17:48 +0000 skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
  I know next to nothing about PostScript and
fonts, is it possible to
 convert this to a font that can be installed on Windows? I found a
 site that says it converts it (convertio.co), but I am suspicious of
 free sites like that.

 Regards

 Rob
  did you solve your problem ?

 Either way doing RTFM - .pfm is binary encoded .afm.

 I did a simple drawing with the font in a ps and exported to pdf.

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 Message: 5
 Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:01:12 +0100
 From: Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
 To: Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>, "General Discussion:
 	On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, allison
 	<allisonportable at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: 50 yrs. ago today
 Message-ID: <2fe0ef07b99716c46cc8a853035b4b41db526052.camel at agj.net>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

 ons 2019-10-30 klockan 13:17 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
  In some countries, at least in the early 1980s
(Sweden?) the law said
 that private organizations could run communication wires on a floor
 of a building, but to wire from one floor to another was the monopoly
 of the government PTT.  So DEC Ethernet bridges had PTT approval
 stickers on them from those countries, indicating those PTTs would be
 willing to build you a bridged Ethernet from floor 1 to floor 2.
  I remember stickers on modems and telephones (ie not televerket
 provided equipment) which said that this equipment is certified
 to be directly connected to televerket's telephone lines.

 But computer network equipment owned by the organization and used
 on the organization's premises ?? That i don't remember.

 PS
 Televerket : Sweden's state owned telephone monopoly, today
 known by the public as Telia company. Ellemtel the development
 organization was co-owned by Ericsson/LME/Three-bars and Televerket.
 DS

 PPS
 LME still exist in name basically as a holding company for Ericsson.
 DSS

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 Message: 6
 Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:14:29 +0100
 From: Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
 To: Zane Healy <healyzh at avanthar.com>, "General Discussion: On-Topic
 	and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>, Charles Anthony
 	<charles.unix.pro at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: OT(?): Emulation XKCD
 Message-ID: <c9c11fb4bbbd89a0067ad8d763da5fd085b7ed21.camel at agj.net>
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

 ons 2019-10-30 klockan 16:01 -0700 skrev Zane Healy via cctalk:
  I rebuilt the system recently, and now the error
seems
 intermittent.  I will say, that backing up my directory of files, and
 restoring it to the new system was a lot easier than fighting with
 the tape drives we had on the DPS-8 Mainframes I worked with nearly
 30 years ago (we ran GCOS-8).
  My old university had an Pyramid with a normal tape drive - either
 way one of my teacher had as his own last year student job being a
 system administrator for said machine.

 One day he had to restore from backup but finds out that the tape drive
 is cranky.

 One of his terse comments in the report was:
 It is good to fix things immediately when the fault is found - not
 waiting until you one day finds out that it is preferable to have said
 thing in order.

 He had to help the drive start (the drive was sluggish in startup) the
 whole evening that day.....

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 Message: 7
 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 17:03:51 -0000
 From: "Rob Jarratt" <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>
 To: "'Stefan Skoglund'" <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>,
 	<rob at jarratt.me.uk>, "'General	Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
 	Posts'" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>,  "'Jason T'"
<silent700 at gmail.com>
 Subject: RE: Original DEC logo in PostScript
 Message-ID: &lt;03de01d59268$ab603240$022096c0$(a)ntlworld.com&gt;
 Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="utf-8"

  -----Original Message-----
 From: Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
 Sent: 03 November 2019 13:37
 To: rob at jarratt.me.uk; Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com>; General
 Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>; 'Jason
T'
 <silent700 at gmail.com>
 Subject: Re: Original DEC logo in PostScript

 tis 2019-10-29 klockan 17:48 +0000 skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
  I know next to nothing about PostScript and
fonts, is it possible to
 convert this to a font that can be installed on Windows? I found a
 site that says it converts it (convertio.co), but I am suspicious of
 free sites like that.

 Regards

 Rob
  did you solve your problem ?

 Either way doing RTFM - .pfm is binary encoded .afm.

 I did a simple drawing with the font in a ps and exported to pdf.

  No I didn't. I did a little bit of searching but didn't find anything
except the convertio.co site, which I am reluctant to try unless someone knows it to be
safe. If anyone knows of a way to get this to a TrueType font that would be nice. I know
so little about fonts, I wonder if there is a way to manually convert it to TrueType, are
there any free tools for creating fonts?

 Regards

 Rob

https://fontforge.github.io/en-US/