On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:50 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Tothwolf wrote:
I have to disagree strongly with Will on this. There are quite a few
"PDF manual dealers" who honestly deserve to go out of business. Those
"dealers" tend to f
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
At what point should historic preservationists be concerned with preserving
someone else's obsolescent business model?
At the point when those "obsolescent" businesses have lawyers that can put
you in prison and/or take away everything you've ever work
Dear Group,
My name is Sue Skonetski I am a vintage Digital, Compaq and HP person and now
with VMS Software.
It is not a typo I am really looking for a VAX 9000.
Thanks,
Sue
Sue Skonetski
VP of Customer Advocacy
sue.skonet...@vmssoftware.com
Office: +1 (978) 451-0116
Mobile: +1 (603) 494-9
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 3:33 PM, d...@mitton.com wrote:
>
> From: Paul Koning
>
>>> ...
>
>> Ok. RSTS does indeed check for duplicate vectors. It also checks for devices
>> interrupting at too high a priority.
>
>> It’s pretty neat code. Back in 1977 or so when that came out, it may have
>> b
I guess if philistines want to pillage themselves, that is their sad
perogative ... but if releasing the entirety of Manuals Plus to the public
domain will break them, maybe they don't really have anything all that
unique after all?
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:50 PM, William Donzelli
From: Paul Koning
...
Ok. RSTS does indeed check for duplicate vectors. It also checks for
devices interrupting at too high a priority.
It?s pretty neat code. Back in 1977 or so when that came out, it may
have been one of the first autoconfig systems, at least in DEC. It
could probe almo
FYI, 2 double-beds only. No King beds.
Randy
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Jason T silent...@gmail.com [chiclassiccomp]
> wrote:
>
> Hello all - I thought they did this weeks ago but the VCFMW hotel has
> informed me that they still have the special rooms pricing block open.
> It will close
At what point should historic preservationists be concerned with preserving
someone else's obsolescent business model? Selling Xerox copies and burned
CDs ... and that's hard cash out of the pocket of every hobbyist that could
undoubtedly be better spent say, preserving actual equipment, than payin
On 2015-Aug-19, at 8:08 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>> Not to disagree or contradict you, but I have to mention what may be an
>> exception to that in the case of one HP instrument:
>
> There are always exceptions.
>
> Anyway,
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Agilent-HP-Keysight-05480-90013-5480A-5
>> "Press Release April 2015 Data Professionals of Pleasanton California has
>> been acquired by Heath Company and will focus on supporting vintage kits by
>> providing parts, modification, and even 'Certified Pre-Owned' Heathkits for
>> sale. Please watch our site for future developments."
>
>
On 08/19/2015 09:10 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
We also had some fun when the purchasing department gave us HD disks!
(for use in TRS80 model 1 SD) They would sometimes FORMAT, WRITE,
READ, and then minutes later, be blank again. The purchasing agent
was in bed with somebody peddling RoyType, and kep
>
> Thanks, that was a question I had been intending to ask, but to confirm:
> If one obtained (as appropriate) bare RX01/2 floppy drive(s), it would just
> be a
> matter of power supply for the floppies, and passive cabling to interface the
> drives
> to the CPU/display?
Depends on what you me
>
> Alternatively, does anyone know if there is any degree of signalling
> compatibility
> between the VT100 and VT220/320 keyboards?
I am sure there is no compatibility. The VT220, etc keyboard (LK201) interface
is a 9600 baud
asynchronous serial port. The VT100 keyboard has a single bidirect
Just in case anybody was unaware, . . .
VERIFY is NOT a suitable test in this situation.
Most beginners assume that VERIFY will re-read the track, and determine
whether the write wrote the correct content. IT DOES NOT.
VERIFY checks the sector headers and CRCs, and determines whether there is
On 08/19/2015 08:40 PM, dwight wrote:
I think the main issue is that TTL is usually a weak pullup and a
hard pulldown. RS 232 levels are equal up and down. Putting it on the
RS232 lines could even improve signal quality because the signal is
usually poorly terminated, causing reflections. The rec
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Tothwolf wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
Yes, let the guys keep selling the higher demand documents - HP, Tek,
Heathkit. Nearly all of those are super common anyway (and plus, you will
run into problems posting Heath material). Focus on the weirder stuf
I think the main issue is that TTL is usually a weak pullup and a hard
pulldown.
RS 232 levels are equal up and down.
Putting it on the RS232 lines could even improve signal quality because
the signal is usually poorly terminated, causing reflections.
The recommended lengths and Baud rates are inte
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Reminds me of a guy who sold US military aircraft flight manual scans,
with his "copyright" notice on every page. Never mind that such things
are in the public domain by law.
The ORIGINAL is in the public domain, and he would have no rights to
restrict
As a general rule, you should not write to a DD disk with a HD drive.
It does not erase the full width of the track.
You should only write to DD from a 360K type drive.
If you must write using an HD drive, it is recommended that you
first completely erase the disk with an external magnetic media
er
> Not to disagree or contradict you, but I have to mention what may be an
> exception to that in the case of one HP instrument:
There are always exceptions.
Anyway,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Agilent-HP-Keysight-05480-90013-5480A-5480B-Service-Manual-/361296424349
Is that a different instrument?
On 2015-Aug-19, at 3:58 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
> Yes, let the guys keep selling the higher demand documents - HP, Tek,
> Heathkit. Nearly all of those are super common anyway
> . . .
> In fact, due to your time constraints, I would not bother with the HP,
> Tek, or Heathkit manuals at all
> .
Years ago I needed a HP service manual for a plotter I was trying to
repair that I owned. HP of course wouldn't let me have it, so I had to buy
a PDF copy from someone on eBay. I ended up removing the password and
posting it on my website. I think it's been up there for 10+ years now
with tons
> On Aug 19, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
>
> ...
> Second, those that threaten others when they find a PDF manual online which
> competes with their offerings. Some of them will file bogus DMCA takedowns
> even though they are not the copyright holder. Some of these "dealers" try to
> a
I just heard from Becky this afternoon (I've been in regular contact with
her) and she has said that anything left is now up for grabs. This is part
of what she wrote me today:
"If you know of anyone that wants to come here & help themselves over the
next two days they are welcome. (Only if yo
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
That is a most interesting metric. I honestly hadn't considered that
issue. The key, I think, will be communication with them to understand
which manuals have sales going on, and which ones it would be
advant
On 20 August 2015 at 01:50, William Donzelli wrote:
> It does not matter. You can not scan ashes.
Not yet. But the tech is getting closer... From automatically
reassembling the Stasi's shredded files:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19344978
http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/magazine
On 08/19/2015 06:50 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
I have to disagree strongly with Will on this. There are quite a few "PDF
manual dealers" who honestly deserve to go out of business. Those "dealers"
tend to fall into two categories:
It does not matter. You can not scan ashes.
Well, you can, bu
> I have to disagree strongly with Will on this. There are quite a few "PDF
> manual dealers" who honestly deserve to go out of business. Those "dealers"
> tend to fall into two categories:
It does not matter. You can not scan ashes.
--
Will
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Jason Scott wrote:
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
In closing, I might ask you to consider taking your sweet time getting
this stuff online. There are still some manual dealers out there. Let
them handle the decline of their business in whatever way they see f
The cable for the RX01/02 to the various interfaces is the BC05L-15. Either
cable will work on them.
Paul
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2015-Aug-19, at 2:17 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Brent Hilpert
> wrote:
> >> Would anyone have a
> That is a most interesting metric. I honestly hadn't considered that issue.
> The key, I think, will be communication with them to understand which
> manuals have sales going on, and which ones it would be advantageous to get
> online because they have long dropped into historical myths. Thank yo
Hello all - I thought they did this weeks ago but the VCFMW hotel has
informed me that they still have the special rooms pricing block open.
It will close "for real this time" at the end of the day this Friday
the 21st. A rather humbling number of rooms have been reserved so far
- well beyond our
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Thanks, that was a question I had been intending to ask, but to confirm:
> If one obtained (as appropriate) bare RX01/2 floppy drive(s), it would
> just be a matter of power supply for the floppies, and passive cabling
> to interface the driv
On 2015-Aug-19, at 2:17 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> Would anyone have a surplus-to-needs, or know of a source for, a VT100
>> keyboard?
>
> I have terminals and keyboards, but I don't know that I have more
> working keyboards than working ter
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> Would anyone have a surplus-to-needs, or know of a source for, a VT100
> keyboard?
I have terminals and keyboards, but I don't know that I have more
working keyboards than working terminals.
> This would actually be for the DECmateI/VT278
Would anyone have a surplus-to-needs, or know of a source for, a VT100 keyboard?
This would actually be for the DECmateI/VT278 I mentioned on the list a couple
weeks ago, Rob and I are looking into doing something with it.
Alternatively, does anyone know if there is any degree of signalling
com
On 8/19/2015 11:52 AM, Jason Scott wrote:
In closing, I might ask you to consider taking your sweet time getting
this stuff online. There are still some manual dealers out there. Let
them handle the decline of their business in whatever way they see
fit. All of them know it is just a matter of
On 8/18/2015 7:01 PM, dwight wrote:
Reading the note made me think of something else.
If it is an SAR, and you read to soon, the LSBs of the incomplete
conversion will always be the same. All ones or all zeros.
If it is a Sigma-Delta, and the input has noise
on it that is above the same rate, the
Thanks everyone! It's running right now, and seems to be passing,
however the parity error LED on the board is lit.
The docs mentioned that ZKMA's messages (plus the source) would lead
me to a potential bad module, but it doesn't seem to be failing.
VMJAB0 doesn't run at all on my system. It turn
> In closing, I might ask you to consider taking your sweet time getting
> this stuff online. There are still some manual dealers out there. Let
> them handle the decline of their business in whatever way they see
> fit. All of them know it is just a matter of time - probably five
> years or less.
> Actually, their collection was unique and contained a lot of material which
> others' libraries (either dead tree or digital) do not contain. This year, I
> purchased many one of a kind manuals from Manuals Plus for equipment ranging
> from the 1940s to 1980s that I've had sitting around for 10-1
> My being involved in this Manuals Plus project came as a result of a large
> number of people telling me that Manuals Plus was going out of business and
> that there were a number of documents and manuals that were, if not rare or
> unique, definitely hard to find in good condition.
Welcome to t
On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
Are you serious? Jason is currently sweating his balls off trying to
save at least a portion of a huge warehouse of unique documentation
under an incredibly tight deadline.
Just for the record, the Manuals Plus hoard is not, in any way, a bunch
of
On 2015-08-19 04:36, Ben Sinclair wrote:
I'm again trying to debug my PDP-11/23, and I believe I'm having
trouble with my M8067-LB/MSV-11 memory.
According to the manual, there is a diagnostic program called CZKMA
(for my 18-bit system), but I can't seem to find it.
I have all of the xxdp image
On 2015-08-19 04:27, Jon Elson wrote:
On 08/18/2015 01:00 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
The floating address space was pretty much there from the start for
the Unibus, even before you had "large" systems. For most controllers,
only the first one has a fixed address, and all others were assigned
f
Combining both of your posts in a response, William.
My being involved in this Manuals Plus project came as a result of a large
number of people telling me that Manuals Plus was going out of business and
that there were a number of documents and manuals that were, if not rare or
unique, definitely
On Aug 18, 2015 11:54 PM, "Brent Hilpert" wrote:
>
> On 2015-Aug-18, at 6:58 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> > On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
> >>> IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to
redirect all search
> >>> traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly
There is currently a design and programming team looking to improve and
redo the search interface. I've been seeing their design approaches go by
on the internal channels as they revise it. I'm not sure when it all goes
live, but an improved and more directed search is absolutely in the plans.
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