Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Tothwolf
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: drlegendre > I'm not sure what you're describing. Can you link to a pic of one of > these caps? http://www.electrical4u.com/images/glass-capacitor.jpg These are hermetically sealed ceramic and are non-polarized. The glass encapsulation made

RE: retro computers in your browser

2015-09-28 Thread Jay West
The H89 emulator is pretty fun :) Thanks for the link! J

Re: retro computers in your browser

2015-09-28 Thread Armin Diehl
a PDP11 implemented in javascript running UNIX Sixth Edition, really nice. and the PC running IBM DOS 2.0 Thanks for the link On 09/28/2015 03:59 PM, wulfman wrote: http://hackaday.com/2015/09/28/roundup-retro-computers-in-your-browser/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3

Re: Robotron K1840 .. (11/780 alike..)

2015-09-28 Thread Eric Smith
The 11/780 used a normal RX11 interface to a single-drive RX01 in nonstandard packaging. I don't know any reason to think that an 11/23 CPU wouldn't work, but I'm not aware of anyone having done it.

Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Mark J. Blair
Here's a picture that I found online: http://s7.photobucket.com/user/earthman606/media/glasscapacitor.jpg.html -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X http://www.nf6x.net/

Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Mark J. Blair
I've seen these caps. They look like a typical surface mount ceramic cap, installed inside a glass housing with wire leads. They almost look like glass-cased small signal diodes at first glance, until you look more closely and see the small multilayer capacitor inside the glass housing. -- Mar

Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/28/2015 10:36 AM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: These are the small 0.01uF or smaller capacitors with transparent edges and you can see foil in the innards? If so, I think you are talking about "polystyrene capacitors". Yes, they were extremely popular in UK/EU for at-chip decoupling capacitors in the

Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Paul Koning
> On Sep 28, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: > ... > There are real glass capacitors used where zero leakage and zero soakage are > uber-concerns. There's no such thing as zero leakage, since all insulators have finite resistance. Glass is a pretty good insulator, but in fact not the bes

Re: Small glass capacitors polarized?

2015-09-28 Thread Shoppa, Tim
These are the small 0.01uF or smaller capacitors with transparent edges and you can see foil in the innards? If so, I think you are talking about "polystyrene capacitors". Yes, they were extremely popular in UK/EU for at-chip decoupling capacitors in the 1970's and 80's. They are not polarized.

Re: Video tour of 1985 home automation system

2015-09-28 Thread Chris Osborn
On Sep 28, 2015, at 8:41 AM, John Ball wrote: > The IR grid for simulating a touchscreen wasn't really HP exclusive. It’s not just the IR grid that makes it look like an HP 150. The green screen is the same size and the way that it draws the screen looks exactly like what I would expect from

Re: Video tour of 1985 home automation system

2015-09-28 Thread Paul Koning
> On Sep 28, 2015, at 11:41 AM, John Ball wrote: > >>> I wanted to share this because it's pretty neat: >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg >>> >>> It's a ~6 minute tour of a home automation system from the 1980s that >>> features graphical floor layouts and touch screen progra

Re: Video tour of 1985 home automation system

2015-09-28 Thread John Ball
>> I wanted to share this because it's pretty neat: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg >> >> It's a ~6 minute tour of a home automation system from the 1980s that >> features graphical floor layouts and touch screen programming. The system >> is built into the house. > >That screen

retro computers in your browser

2015-09-28 Thread wulfman
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Re: Resetting/bypassing P/OS password on DEC Pro 3xx series?

2015-09-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-09-28 14:15, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-09-28 05:39, Josh Dersch wrote: Anyone recall what the procedure is for resetting or bypassing the password on P/OS? I *know* I was able to find this out before (in 2008 or so) because I did it on another Pro 350 I have, but I cannot for the

Re: Resetting/bypassing P/OS password on DEC Pro 3xx series?

2015-09-28 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-09-28 05:39, Josh Dersch wrote: Anyone recall what the procedure is for resetting or bypassing the password on P/OS? I *know* I was able to find this out before (in 2008 or so) because I did it on another Pro 350 I have, but I cannot for the life of me find anyplace that documents the pr