Original DEC logo in PostScript

Sun Nov 3 16:32:15 CST 2019

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>     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?
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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>
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> 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.....
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 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: <03de01d59268$ab603240$022096c0$@ntlworld.com>
> 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
>
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