On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> If you want raw data from an IMD file in some order other than the physical
> ordering on the original media, my Python package that I linked to previously
> may be helpful. It may also require some coding, but the supplied classes
> make
If you want raw data from an IMD file in some order other than the physical
ordering on the original media, my Python package that I linked to previously
may be helpful. It may also require some coding, but the supplied classes make
it pretty easy for somebody with Python familiarity to access t
On 2/4/2016 9:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
I was there on a tour, a few years earlier. I think they still had
the model 195 at the time.
A vast facility filled with big blue boxes.
They had two 195's at McAuto in STL. We may have gone on the same tour,
probably in 72 or so. I am not sure if it
On 2/4/2016 6:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer
Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of
terminals:
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2
On 02/03/2016 09:35 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I have a OS install kit with bootable floppies and I managed to get a
prompt using the "boot_unix" floppy and following the manuals that I
have.
However, not even "ls" would work fr
Hey yeah, there it is.. and here I hadn't even bothered to try it.
Don't know if it contains what the OP needs, but at least the site is still
there..
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 4:16 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behal
On 2016-Feb-04, at 5:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
> I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite"
> (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals:
>
> http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png
> http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png
> http://q7.neurotica.com/ki
On 02/04/2016 11:22 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/04/2016 08:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Some models of 3420s were 7 track.
Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to
handle old,
archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw one. Most
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Jay West wrote:
> I received the following this morning
>
> --
> I recently acquired a pdp11/73 with dual CPUs and am looking to sell it.
> Would you know anyone interested.
> I would like this to survive and wish to find it a good home.I live In
> Mass
On 02/04/2016 08:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Some models of 3420s were 7 track.
Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to handle old,
archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw one. Most sites got rid
of their 7-tk stuff as soon as
On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Some models of 3420s were 7 track.
Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to
handle old, archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw
one. Most sites got rid of their 7-tk stuff as soon as they
could.
Jon
Some models of 3420s were 7 track.
--
Will
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
>>
>>
>>I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite"
>> (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals:
>>
>>
On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The
Killer Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and
a couple of terminals:
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-6.png
I recently picked up an HP 9815s ( was originally an 'a' model but was
upgraded with an 's' cpu board and the option 002 i/o long before me), that
displays the "---" when turned on. I've scrounged through
Google and learned that this particular display is generated by the display
board
I received the following this morning
--
I recently acquired a pdp11/73 with dual CPUs and am looking to sell it.
Would you know anyone interested.
I would like this to survive and wish to find it a good home.I live In
Massachusetts.
--
The person also gave me a picture, which I p
I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite"
(1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals:
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-6.png
http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-9.png
The
On Jan 25, 2016, at 7:28 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> Yesterday I dug out my NexTstation (68040 25MHz slab with 32MB of 100ns
> SIMMs) which has OpenStep 4.2 for Mach installed. The lithium battery was
> flat and it wouldn't boot so I've ordered a replacement and temporarily
> kludged a pair
Delayed response, work has been busy. That deal was passed off to the first
responder so it has likely been claimed. If that deal doesn't work out, I'll
email the next person on the list :)
But do not fret... I just see another user sent me an email today about
wanting to get rid of a machine... w
This comes up often and usually with a lot of people that have no idea what
they are talking about chiming in that you are stupid for asking. They are
wrong, HW emulation is not that difficult:
https://sites.google.com/site/rhdisk0/unix/aix/aixps2
Regards,
Kevin
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 1:15 AM, J
Yes, Fred is right, I assumed from your question that you wanted the raw binary
data without the .imd sectoring info. To get the files back, you then need a
way to mount that binary image on your target machine or emulator so it can
read the file system. What is the target machine? What file sys
[Please excuse the lack of threading - I read cctalk in digest form.]
On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Jim Simpson wrote:
> Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and recover
> the data? I've found a wealth of BigBoard & BigBoard II data (and lots of
> other stuff too) on many differen
It looks like this, this is not ours:
http://www.1000bit.it/lista/dpx2.jpg
On 02/04/2016 01:17 AM, Kevin Bowling wrote:
Can you take some pictures of that system? Sounds interesting. I had a
DPX/20 at one time which was basically an IBM RS/6000.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Pontus Pihlgre
> Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files and
> recover the data?
"Data"??!?
Well, you already have the DATA, every last bit.
Maybe what you want is the INFORMATION, in the form of the FILES.
All too often, people will use "data" to describe the contents, which
could be a
just for grins I took on of the SMECC e-machines out of back room and
fired it up... yea Win 98 SE running just great! last time I used
this particular old office system was '07! heh it has a 4 gig
hardrive
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a messag
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:06 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The only place the "Compaq" logo appears is for the funny cover pages
> > which
> >> are very thick paper with a window to allow the manual name to show
> >> through. Those very t
At 11:08 AM 2/4/2016, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>If you're trying to bitbang the RS232 port to decode POCSAG or something
>perhaps.
Not quite - this is not an asynchronous protocol, this is single-purpose
software written decades ago to communicate with highly specialized hardware
that is still in
At 09:57 AM 2/4/2016, J. wrote:
>I still use WinXP for all my primary, workhorse machines.
So do I. I am fully capable of keeping those machines secure online, something
which M$ cannot do.
>Win 98, though... I don't see the point of using it any more. It can't do
>anything that XP can't do f
At 09:25 AM 2/4/2016, Liam Proven wrote:
>A fair point, but then, one is not going to use MS-DOS to browse the Web in
>2016, right?
In my world it is impossible for any one computer to do everything that I need
to do with a computer, thus my five active PCs and many spares, plus old stuff
like
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:32 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> From: Guy Sotomayor
>
>> When I have some time .. I'll fire up my 11/40 .. and then re-cable it
>> using cables with a pair of BC11A-T ends and some ribbon cable. I'll
>> run memory diagnostics on it for a while (I have 128KW of memory on i
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 12:18 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> All this AIX 1.x on Intel talk has me wanting to look at it deeper.
>>
>> Does anyone have AIX 1.3 running on VirtualBox ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> This was talked about a while back. The PS
Yes, if you download the original imd, in the package there is a simple to use
command line utility to do just that. Writing from memory, IMD2BIN.EXE or
something like that.
Marc
> On Feb 3, 2016, at 4:56 PM, Jim Simpson wrote:
>
> Is there a utility that will read .IMD diskette archive files
Eheheh,
except that solaris had a good installed base of workstations too, and Hp-ux
tended to have the same (to make some examples). Technically clients
-Messaggio originale-
Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Liam Proven
Inviato: giovedì 4 febbraio 2016 15:
ports. For my purposes (setting up a variety of vintage specialized
hardware over RS-232) NT-based operating systems are sometimes unusable
because they present the application program with a virtual serial port,
and MS-DOS programs running under those operating systems cannot read
from or writ
On 2/4/16 10:12, Liam Proven wrote:
Win7 is ok but annoyingly
over-user-friendly.
Agreed. I don't like the ribbons, the new fake-folders in Explorer --
but it works, it's supported and updated.
Yes, provided you're willing to sift through the available updates and
hide all the Microsoft
Josh,
Where are you located? I might have a Vax-11/750 up for sale.
Unfortunately, I did have to pay real money for it, so I am looking for
$500. I am located near Calgary Alberta Canada. I can let you know
additional details if you are interested.
--barrym
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:41 PM, Jos
On 4 February 2016 at 15:57, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
> Well, my 2 cents: I still use WinXP for all my primary, workhorse machines.
> Rarely have any issues with it.
I *really* hope you've applied the registry hack to get EposReady
updates for it, then!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/26/ger
On 2/4/2016 8:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Nothing older than Win7 on any Windows
PC that accesses the Internet. This
includes email.
Well, my 2 cents: I still use WinXP for
all my primary, workhorse machines.
Rarely have any issues with it.Win7
is ok but annoyingly
over-user-friendly.
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:06 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
>
>>
>> The only place the "Compaq" logo appears is for the funny cover pages
> which
>> are very thick paper with a window to allow the manual name to show
>> through. Those very thick cover pages also used to have the DEC logo
> before
>> Mentec
On 4 February 2016 at 15:17, Dale H. Cook wrote:
> It is unusable in one important way. This thread began as a discussion of
> running serial port terminal emulators on a PC. At work I still use some
> MS-DOS programs (admittedly not terminal emulators) over serial ports. For my
> purposes (set
On Feb 4, 2016 01:30, "Mark J. Blair" wrote:
>
>
> > On Feb 3, 2016, at 20:37, Lee Courtney wrote:
> >
> > Date on the 730 notice is Aug 2009 - I suspect it is long gone by now.
:-(
>
> Where do you see that? The listing states:
>
> "Status: Open 2/1/16 - 02/07/16 23:59:00"
>
Lee must have quick
At 08:08 AM 2/4/2016, Liam Proven wrote:
>But NT is a better OS in every important or material way.
It is unusable in one important way. This thread began as a discussion of
running serial port terminal emulators on a PC. At work I still use some MS-DOS
programs (admittedly not terminal emulato
At 09:07 AM 2/4/2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>... so I would not consider them as safe ...
The closest thing to a "safe" computer is one that is disconnected from all
communications links, powered down, and locked in a vault.
Dale H. Cook, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
Osborne 1 / Kaypro 4-84 / Kayp
On 4 February 2016 at 15:07, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>
> I would disagree on this point. Unix and linux, in all its flavours, had
> plenty of security fixes in the same timeframe mentioned, so I would not
> consider them as safe as etc
>
> That they are less obvious to attack, in comparison, i
>Retro computing is a great hobby, even a way of life, but whereas a
>decades-old copy of anything from Linux to Multics is as >safe today as it
>ever was, OSes of the Internet era *cannot* be used safely once they're well
>out of date. Old viruses are still >out there, waiting to pounce.
I wou
> From: Guy Sotomayor
> When I have some time .. I'll fire up my 11/40 .. and then re-cable it
> using cables with a pair of BC11A-T ends and some ribbon cable. I'll
> run memory diagnostics on it for a while (I have 128KW of memory on it
> split between two racks, so this shou
On 31 January 2016 at 17:19, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> BTW, are you indicating that Win 98SE _in general_ should only be used for
> retro-computing, or only Win 98SE _in the particular configration you
> described_ should only be used that way?
AFAICS:
At all. Ever.
It's a nearly 20y old piece of
> -Original Message-
> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
> drlegendre .
> Sent: 04 February 2016 00:13
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: OS help needed please
>
> From the dim hazy past..
>
> Didn't HP (USA) maintain a public FTP site
>
> The only place the "Compaq" logo appears is for the funny cover pages
which
> are very thick paper with a window to allow the manual name to show
> through. Those very thick cover pages also used to have the DEC logo
before
> Mentec was involved.
Any thing that says "DEC" passed to "Compaq"
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> All this AIX 1.x on Intel talk has me wanting to look at it deeper.
>
> Does anyone have AIX 1.3 running on VirtualBox ?
>
> Thanks,
This was talked about a while back. The PS/2 (x86) version of AIX
required some specific hardware with an MCA bu
All this AIX 1.x on Intel talk has me wanting to look at it deeper.
Does anyone have AIX 1.3 running on VirtualBox ?
Thanks,
Jerry
On 02/ 3/16 11:24 AM, supervinx wrote:
This is a dual booting PS/2 (OS/2 and AiX), configured using kev009
floppy images and instructions...
http://www.superv
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