21 Jul
2012
21 Jul
'12
8:35 p.m.
My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316 for process
control. I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track one down. What are they
worth the days? How common are they?
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21 Jul
21 Jul
10 p.m.
w mine?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was
using a Honeywell 316 for
process control. I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track
one down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
Sent from my iPad
10:19 p.m.
I *think* it was Sheritt-Gordon. I'll have to check with him in the morning to make
sure.
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On 2012-07-22, at 1:00 AM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
w mine?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
> My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316 for
> process control. I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track
> one down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
11:38 p.m.
Dad says it was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf Rapids, Manitoba.
In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
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On 2012-07-22, at 1:00 AM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
w mine?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
> My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316 for
> process control. I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track
> one down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
12:22 a.m.
Tomorrow I will see what more he remembers. He mentions they preferred the PDP-11 because
it had a keypad instead of toggle switches, and a disk drive with removable platters. His
recollection is that they were about 18" across.
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On 2012-07-22, at 3:05 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Dad says it
was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf
Rapids, Manitoba. In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
Would be interesting to know more about it's software, hardware config,
etc.
De 
12:28 a.m.
On 07/22/2012 03:22 AM, Paul Anderson wrote:
Tomorrow I will see what more he remembers. He
mentions they
preferred the PDP-11 because it had a keypad instead of toggle
switches, and a disk drive with removable platters. His recollection
is that they were about 18" across.
PDP-11/04, PDP-11/34, or PDP-11/60 were the only PDP-11s I'm aware of
with keypads. If it was about 18" across, it couldn't have been an 11/60.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
9:49 a.m.
ratan had a 23 as did the mine in lynn lake. they were still in one peac
till 2009 when the province bulldozed all that stuff into the ground. i
missed the boat on the big rescue by couple yrs if i had gotten into this
stuff sooner i would have one of those units
i have also spoken to mike botton (spelling) who did the maintinace on the
macheans he had all the software manuals and such for them spare till he
tossed it all in 06 the :( i was talking to him couple months back when i
was working at the mine in wabowden
adrian stoness,
son of john stoness
grandson of darrol stoness
1:04 p.m.
Dad mentions John Stoness bought himself a personal PDP-11. He was using it as his
personal computer in about 1980.
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On 2012-07-22, at 12:49 PM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
ratan had a 23 as did the mine in lynn lake. they were
still in one peac
till 2009 when the province bulldozed all that stuff into the ground. i
missed the boat on the big rescue by couple yrs if i had gotten into this
stuff sooner i would have one of those units
i have also spoken to mike botton (spelling) who did the maintinace on the
macheans he had all the software manuals and such for them spare till he
tossed it all in 06 the :( i was talking to him couple months back when i
was working at the mine in wabowden
adrian stoness,
son of john stoness
grandson of darrol stoness
1:03 p.m.
Dad says it had core memory, he believes it was 16k. It was used to operate a outokompu
x-ray spectrometer. Data I/O was via teletype and paper tape reader. They usually used
pre-punched paper tape. They had a pile of spare parts for it. Dad thinks it was left in
the control room, in the computer and analyzer interface area.
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On 2012-07-22, at 3:05 AM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
Dad says it
was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf
Rapids, Manitoba. In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
Would be interesting to know more about it's software, hardware config,
etc.
De
9:49 a.m.
seriously?
i've got the rsx11 m+ manuals from ratan..
anyhow my grandfather found ratan doing the airial survaying for sherrit
theres a lake near there named after him
ask him if he knows the name stoness
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
Dad says it was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by
Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf
Rapids, Manitoba. In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
Sent from my iPad
On 2012-07-22, at 1:00 AM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
w mine?
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
wrote:
> My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316
for
> process control. I was thinking it might be
neat to see if I could track
> one down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
12:56 p.m.
Stoness! My dads mentioned the name Stoness many, many times. Dad knew a John Stoness.
Says he was nothing short of brilliant(very high praise from my father).
Sent from my iPad
On 2012-07-22, at 12:49 PM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
seriously?
i've got the rsx11 m+ manuals from ratan..
anyhow my grandfather found ratan doing the airial survaying for sherrit
theres a lake near there named after him
ask him if he knows the name stoness
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
> Dad says it was in 1976, at Ruttan mine owned by Sheritt-Gordon in Leaf
> Rapids, Manitoba. In '78 they replaced it with a PDP-11.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 2012-07-22, at 1:00 AM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> w mine?
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316
> for
>>> process control. I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track
>>> one down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>
1:10 p.m.
sounds like my father for sure
hes up in wabowden these days (near thompson) going back and forth from the
mine there and the cabin out by lynn
1:20 p.m.
I was born in Thompson. Small world. How did you get into the old computers?
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On 2012-07-22, at 4:10 PM, Adrian Stoness <tdk.knight at gmail.com> wrote:
sounds like my father for sure
hes up in wabowden these days (near thompson) going back and forth from the
mine there and the cabin out by lynn
9:41 p.m.
show ur dad this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/1ajs/6105564950/in/set-72157626588529217/light…
i've since aquired a rl02 drive or 3 and a controller for it with cables
how did i? because of the curiosity of the heathkit h89 that sat in the
basement and the ge workmaster and the osborne's we had laying around when
i was growing up and not knowing what the h11 that sat in the closset up
stairs did
21 Jul
21 Jul
10:40 p.m.
Not very common at all. Wish I could find one too but doubt I could afford it. Pretty
neat but marketed as a kitchen computer so I'd be surprised that he used one but I
suppose they were sold here and there.
Best of luck. I'm sure a few folks have one. I've seen a few folks via the
old-computers.com woozgotwat http://www.old-computers.com/club/collectors/woozgotwat.asp
site.
--- On Sat, 7/21/12, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
Honeywell 316 for process control. I
was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track one
down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
Sent from my iPad
11:33 p.m.
It was in a different chassis from the kitchen computer. Same model number, though.
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On 2012-07-22, at 1:40 AM, Sam Onella <barythrin at yahoo.com> wrote:
Not very common at all. Wish I could find one too but
doubt I could afford it. Pretty neat but marketed as a kitchen computer so I'd be
surprised that he used one but I suppose they were sold here and there.
Best of luck. I'm sure a few folks have one. I've seen a few folks via the
old-computers.com woozgotwat http://www.old-computers.com/club/collectors/woozgotwat.asp
site.
--- On Sat, 7/21/12, Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com> wrote:
> From: Paul Anderson <wackyvorlon at me.com>
> Honeywell 316 for process control. I
> was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track one
> down. What are they worth the days? How common are they?
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
4 Aug
4 Aug
8:43 p.m.
Hi Paul,
nice to read someone mentioning a H316!
Am 22.07.2012 05:35, schrieb Paul Anderson:
My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was
using a Honeywell 316 for
process control.
Interesting. I'd love to get some sort of working process
control for the x16
I/O bus...
I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could
track one
down.
I *know* about a handfull (or two) machines around the world. I don't
know much
about those systems' conditions. But they should mostly work when powered on.
The stuff seems to be very reliable.
I have a working H316. And another sitting there unused - but the second one is
not my unit. Both are working perfectly except for one bad sense amplifier in
the second unit.
What are they worth the days?
No idea.
They're too rare to know. I assume that a working unit would cost at
least USD 500 on eBay.
How common are they?
Not very common. But good
vintage computers.
Kind regards,
Philipp
--
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Philipp Hachtmann
Buchdruck, Bleisatz, Spezialit?ten
10:20 p.m.
New subject: Repairing a Laserjet (from II to 4000)
http://youtu.be/S9pYLeo0svs
Here you have, yours truly showing the binding problem on the paper
pickup solenoid that lives in ALL laserjets I know, since Laserjet II :o)
---
Enviado do meu Motorola PT550
Meu site: http://www.tabalabs.com.br
11:14 p.m.
glad to hear theres some still out there allot of the industrial stuff is
forgoten and lost witch is real sad
On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Philipp Hachtmann <hachti at hachti.de> wrote:
Hi Paul,
nice to read someone mentioning a H316!
Am 22.07.2012 05:35, schrieb Paul Anderson:
My father worked in a mine in the '70s that was using a Honeywell 316 for
No idea. They're too rare to know. I
assume that a working unit would cost
at least USD 500 on eBay.
How common are they?
Not very common. But good vintage
computers.
Kind regards,
Philipp
--
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Philipp Hachtmann
Buchdruck, Bleisatz, Spezialit?ten
process control.
Interesting. I'd love to get some sort of working process control for the
x16 I/O bus...
I was thinking it might be neat to see if I could track one
down.
I *know* about a handfull (or two) machines around the world. I don't know
much about those systems' conditions. But they should mostly work when
powered on. The stuff seems to be very reliable.
I have a working H316. And another sitting there unused - but the second
one is not my unit. Both are working perfectly except for one bad sense
amplifier in the second unit.
What are they worth the days?
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