22 Dec
2014
22 Dec
'14
12:23 a.m.
I've digitized several early PDP-8 related printsets and placed them online in a
public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow direct scanning of the documents - they
were photographed and then post-processed to produce .pdf files. Conditions were less than
optimal and the resultant files are quite large but hopefully these files will be of use
to those who need them.
The files are:
779 Power Supply
832 Power Controller
PDP-8/I Printset
DM01 Printset
KW8I Printset
TC01 Printset
TU55 Printset
The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
Best,
Jack
22 Dec
22 Dec
6:46 p.m.
Jack
How did you set up the dropbox? cost? size limits?
I'm looking at posting a large spreadsheet for the list to use and am
looking at options
Steve
On 12/22/2014 12:23 AM, Jack Rubin wrote:
I've digitized several early PDP-8 related
printsets and placed them online in a public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow
direct scanning of the documents - they were photographed and then post-processed to
produce .pdf files. Conditions were less than optimal and the resultant files are quite
large but hopefully these files will be of use to those who need them.
The files are:
779 Power Supply
832 Power Controller
PDP-8/I Printset
DM01 Printset
KW8I Printset
TC01 Printset
TU55 Printset
The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
Best,
Jack
7:03 p.m.
Dropbox is just another cloud storage provider, you can sign up for free
and you get some number of gigs to start with... you can pay more for extra
space but the default allocation is fairly generous. There's a client for
most OS platforms that will allow you to mount the DropBox share and have
it look like local storage... probably WebDAV or something. Just go to
www.dropbox.com and you can set up an account. Some of the folks that I
support at U-M use it for casual data transfers. It's been around for a
while now.
If you wanted to have the spreadsheet up as like a group-edit kind of
thing, maybe better to use Google Docs?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:46 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
Jack
How did you set up the dropbox? cost? size limits?
I'm looking at posting a large spreadsheet for the list to use and am
looking at options
Steve
On 12/22/2014 12:23 AM, Jack Rubin wrote:
I've digitized several early PDP-8 related
printsets and placed them
online in a public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow direct
scanning of the documents - they were photographed and then post-processed
to produce .pdf files. Conditions were less than optimal and the resultant
files are quite large but hopefully these files will be of use to those who
need them.
The files are:
779 Power Supply
832 Power Controller
PDP-8/I Printset
DM01 Printset
KW8I Printset
TC01 Printset
TU55 Printset
The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
Best,
Jack
7:16 p.m.
New subject: spreadsheet file access was: Re: DEC printsets on line
It's not really a "group edit." Rather, I've been working on an
inventory of a large ephemera collection (over 3000 listed items) that
will shortly be posted here as "free for shipping to the first
requestor" on an item by item basis.
This is the ephemera collection that Barry Dobbyns posted last fall as
desperately needing a new home. Al and CHM have already pulled what
they want. The rest will be up for grabs in a week or so.. Thus,
I'm looking for an easily and universally accessible place to post the
file without putting the traffic on here. I've not used drop box but
it sounds like it will work.
Steve
On 12/22/2014 7:03 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
Dropbox is just another cloud storage provider, you
can sign up for free
and you get some number of gigs to start with... you can pay more for extra
space but the default allocation is fairly generous. There's a client for
most OS platforms that will allow you to mount the DropBox share and have
it look like local storage... probably WebDAV or something. Just go to
www.dropbox.com and you can set up an account. Some of the folks that I
support at U-M use it for casual data transfers. It's been around for a
while now.
If you wanted to have the spreadsheet up as like a group-edit kind of
thing, maybe better to use Google Docs?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:46 PM, steve shumaker<shumaker at att.net> wrote:
Jack
How did you set up the dropbox? cost? size limits?
I'm looking at posting a large spreadsheet for the list to use and am
looking at options
Steve
On 12/22/2014 12:23 AM, Jack Rubin wrote:
I've digitized several early PDP-8 related
printsets and placed them
online in a public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow direct
scanning of the documents - they were photographed and then post-processed
to produce .pdf files. Conditions were less than optimal and the resultant
files are quite large but hopefully these files will be of use to those who
need them.
The files are:
779 Power Supply
832 Power Controller
PDP-8/I Printset
DM01 Printset
KW8I Printset
TC01 Printset
TU55 Printset
The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
Best,
Jack
23 Dec
23 Dec
9:51 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
m?n 2014-12-22 klockan 22:03 -0500 skrev Sean Caron:
Dropbox is just another cloud storage provider, you
can sign up for free
and you get some number of gigs to start with... you can pay more for extra
space but the default allocation is fairly generous. There's a client for
most OS platforms that will allow you to mount the DropBox share and have
it look like local storage... probably WebDAV or something. Just go to
www.dropbox.com and you can set up an account. Some of the folks that I
support at U-M use it for casual data transfers. It's been around for a
while now.
If you wanted to have the spreadsheet up as like a group-edit kind of
thing, maybe better to use Google Docs?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:46 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net> wrote:
> Jack
>
> How did you set up the dropbox? cost? size limits?
>
> I'm looking at posting a large spreadsheet for the list to use and am
> looking at options
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 12/22/2014 12:23 AM, Jack Rubin wrote:
>
>> I've digitized several early PDP-8 related printsets and placed them
>> online in a public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow direct
>> scanning of the documents - they were photographed and then post-processed
>> to produce .pdf files. Conditions were less than optimal and the resultant
>> files are quite large but hopefully these files will be of use to those who
>> need them.
>>
>> The files are:
>> 779 Power Supply
>> 832 Power Controller
>> PDP-8/I Printset
>> DM01 Printset
>> KW8I Printset
>> TC01 Printset
>> TU55 Printset
>>
>> The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
>>
>> Best,
>> Jack
>>
AFS ?
Agreed, it is not universally accessible on Windows for example or
Solaris (i don't know how well the AFS clients works in Windows.)
I think most Linux dists has a working OpenAFS.
But, i think that most of the people on this list is fully able to
configure one or two computers for AFS client access.
10:07 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
I used to administer an AFS cell at U-M and I know it well... I have a
strong appreciation for the sophistication of some of the features, but
it's probably not the most practical distribution mechanism...
Yes, you can pull it directly out of apt on Debian-style Linux (and I
assume similar for RHEL derived distributions) and getting the client up on
Windows or Mac OS X these days is pretty easy too, esp. if the volume and
file is just globally readable and you don't need to configure Kerberos...
but I imagine most people already have a browser or at least an FTP client
already installed and casually available... who wants to install OpenAFS to
get to one file?
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net>
wrote:
m?n 2014-12-22 klockan 22:03 -0500 skrev Sean Caron:
Dropbox is just another cloud storage provider,
you can sign up for free
and you get some number of gigs to start with... you can pay more for
extra
space but the default allocation is fairly
generous. There's a client for
most OS platforms that will allow you to mount the DropBox share and have
it look like local storage... probably WebDAV or something. Just go to
www.dropbox.com and you can set up an account. Some of the folks that I
support at U-M use it for casual data transfers. It's been around for a
while now.
If you wanted to have the spreadsheet up as like a group-edit kind of
thing, maybe better to use Google Docs?
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:46 PM, steve shumaker <shumaker at att.net>
wrote:
> Jack
>
> How did you set up the dropbox? cost? size limits?
>
> I'm looking at posting a large spreadsheet for the list to use and am
> looking at options
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 12/22/2014 12:23 AM, Jack Rubin wrote:
>
>> I've digitized several early PDP-8 related printsets and placed them
>> online in a public Dropbox folder. Circumstances did not allow direct
>> scanning of the documents - they were photographed and then
post-processed
>> to produce .pdf files. Conditions were
less than optimal and the
resultant
>> files are quite large but hopefully
these files will be of use to
those who
>> need them.
>>
>> The files are:
>> 779 Power Supply
>> 832 Power Controller
>> PDP-8/I Printset
>> DM01 Printset
>> KW8I Printset
>> TC01 Printset
>> TU55 Printset
>>
>> The files are located at: http://tinyurl.com/PDP8I-docs
>>
>> Best,
>> Jack
>>
AFS ?
Agreed, it is not universally accessible on Windows for example or
Solaris (i don't know how well the AFS clients works in Windows.)
I think most Linux dists has a working OpenAFS.
But, i think that most of the people on this list is fully able to
configure one or two computers for AFS client access.
26 Dec
26 Dec
8:27 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
tis 2014-12-23 klockan 13:07 -0500 skrev Sean Caron:
I used to administer an AFS cell at U-M and I know it
well... I have a
strong appreciation for the sophistication of some of the features, but
it's probably not the most practical distribution mechanism...
Yes, you can pull it directly out of apt on Debian-style Linux (and I
assume similar for RHEL derived distributions) and getting the client up on
Windows or Mac OS X these days is pretty easy too, esp. if the volume and
file is just globally readable and you don't need to configure Kerberos...
but I imagine most people already have a browser or at least an FTP client
already installed and casually available... who wants to install OpenAFS to
get to one file?
One file only ? Why only one file.
Agreed, configuring AFS then the reason is distributing one single file
nd which is non-changing, is a bit of over-kill (hmm, in this audience
is a number of people who likes to fix old junk for example Tony with
his HP calculator fixation.) I think he likes to do it, and i do think
that it exists people who enjoys configuring and supporting AFS. :-)
Silly critter.
AFS as a distribution mechanism when that single file changes often ,
that is something else.
Yes, i'm thinking about bitsavers (as an example.)
8:36 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 05:27:35PM +0100, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
Agreed, configuring AFS then the reason is
distributing one single file
nd which is non-changing, is a bit of over-kill (hmm, in this audience
is a number of people who likes to fix old junk for example Tony with
his HP calculator fixation.) I think he likes to do it, and i do think
that it exists people who enjoys configuring and supporting AFS. :-)
Silly critter.
Not only do I enjoy it, it's essential to my home environment. I freely
admit I'm silly; then again, most of us here are.
--
Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/
8:48 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
No, sure, sure, not knocking people who want to run AFS for fun or personal
interest... far from me to do that... just pointing out that, if the goal
is to make some file or set of files conveniently available to the largest
possible group, since AFS requires a dedicated client and a teensy bit of
clueful configuration, I'm not sure how many takers you'll get. If you want
to toss some files in your cell and anyone else on the list who has AFS can
grab then, that's cool, but putting that file up on the Web or FTP is going
to really broaden that set of people who can just grab the file quickly.
Why not DECnet? Why not put it up on a dial-up BBS and we can download it
via Xmodem? :) No technology hate here, just speaking from a practical
point of view. I really loved being an AFS admin but I did a lot a lot of
end user support with the client, too, LOL.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Kula <kula at tproa.net> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 05:27:35PM +0100, Stefan
Skoglund wrote:
Agreed, configuring AFS then the reason is
distributing one single file
nd which is non-changing, is a bit of over-kill (hmm, in this audience
is a number of people who likes to fix old junk for example Tony with
his HP calculator fixation.) I think he likes to do it, and i do think
that it exists people who enjoys configuring and supporting AFS. :-)
Silly critter.
Not only do I enjoy it, it's essential to my home environment. I freely
admit I'm silly; then again, most of us here are.
--
Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/
9:58 a.m.
New subject: DEC printsets on line why not AFS
On 12/26/14 8:27 AM, Stefan Skoglund wrote:
AFS as a distribution mechanism when that single file
changes often ,
that is something else.
Yes, i'm thinking about bitsavers (as an example.)
That is the purpose of bin/IndexByDate.txt and pdf/IndexByDate.txt if you
don't have rsync access to the main bitsavers sites. It is regenerated several
times a day as I upload content.
A few sites offer ftp access. Unfortunately, that's not currently an option on
the main site.
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