With luck like that I think you shoud start doing the lottery~~
On 14/03/2016 05:43, CuriousMarc wrote:
Awesome!
Marc
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I just saw this, We're still working on getting the equipment from the guy.
So far folks haven't really casted their requests due to the concern about
equipment pickup so I may make a quick site to do first-come-first-serve or
something once we have all the equip and can review it.
I'm not sure w
Have you gotten any takers yet?
I have a special soft spot for those Printros.
mcl
Awesome!
Marc
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Hi all,
I informed the list when I left the Living Comp
Hey Ryan,
Sounds good! I appreciate you reaching out.
Once we have a better idea of how this is going to happen and if, I'm sure
I'll be in touch.
As always, once I have more information from the guy I'll pass it along.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 11:07 PM, Ryan Eisworth
wrote:
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> > On Mar 12, 20
> On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:25 PM, James Vess wrote:
>
> I'm in Houston and could make the trip, Anyone here interested in the
> systems listed?
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Ali wrote:
>
>>> Unfortunately, I'm nowhere near Austin! But here is a great gold mine
>>> for somebody local http
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, dwight wrote:
I don't recall how many heads a ST506 had. I have one on my NC4000,
home brew, machine. I recall picking the drives up at garage sales because
DOS no longer supported them, only being 5Meg.
ftp://ftp.seagate.com/pub/techsuppt/mfm/st506.txt
ftp://ftp.seagate.co
Fortunately or unfortunately I am away from Austin right
now or I would go take a look.
mcl
I don't recall how many heads a ST506 had. I have one on my NC4000,
home brew, machine. I recall picking the drives up at garage sales because
DOS no longer supported them, only being 5Meg.
Next time I at my storage, I can being my machine home and power it up.
I suspect it has the setup informatio
On 03/13/2016 03:02 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On the other hand, I'm told that in mass production it is extremely
uncommon for a side of a disk platter to have more than the
allowable number of defects, so it seems more likely that a downspec
hard drive would simply have fewer platters (and heads, e
Probably true, but it's a weekend and I have time to deal with it so we
will just see how it goes, I have some hope but low expectations.
On Sunday, March 13, 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
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> Chances are, you'll waste a lot of your time dealing with nothing but
> trepidation, and get nowhere wi
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> Subject: Re: A gold mine for anybody in Austin...
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> Chanc
Chances are, you'll waste a lot of your time dealing with nothing but
trepidation, and get nowhere with what is probably NOT a gold mine.. but a
hoarder junk mine. Seriously, who writes meandering, confused ads like that,
that don't even state what they have and prices?
You'll very often see
I'm leery of picking up any boards until I have a unit because I don't want
them just gathering dust at my place, however let me know the situation if
it's a good idea to wait or not.
I'm in Houston by the 610/290 split.
On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> Were are you located.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:16 PM, Lawrence Wilkinson
wrote:
> I haven't gone through your code in great detail. In particular I'm
> not sure what your rounding algorithm is (towards zero, round to
> nearest, etc.) I don't see what you're using the guard bit for, I
> would expect it to be appended
Haha! Thanks man!
On Sunday, March 13, 2016, geneb wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, James Vess wrote:
>
> I honestly am a bit surprised, as other dealings I've had with groups that
>> focus on technology typically are not as welcoming or responsive.
>>
>> You caught us on a good day. I'm sure you'
Good call!
He responded to me and I could hear his trepidation, so this is spot on.
I let him know it would be going to folks who would be taking care of them
or they'd be in storage at my place.
So, we'll see if he'll let them go and if not that's cool.
I completely understand as I did something
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> They may effectively have a "sticky" bit, similar to that used in IEEE
> 754 FP. A sticky bit is used when shifting an operand right; if any
> one bits are shifted into the stick bit position, the sticky bit
> becomes 1, but shifting a zero in
They may effectively have a "sticky" bit, similar to that used in IEEE
754 FP. A sticky bit is used when shifting an operand right; if any
one bits are shifted into the stick bit position, the sticky bit
becomes 1, but shifting a zero into it does not clear it to zero. IEEE
754 uses the sticky bit
I haven't gone through your code in great detail. In particular I'm
not sure what your rounding algorithm is (towards zero, round to
nearest, etc.) I don't see what you're using the guard bit for, I
would expect it to be appended to the mantissa prior to addition
and rounding. Whether that's signi
Is that "3MB" FORMATTED, or UNFORMATTED capacity?
"10MB" (ST412) was 12MB unformatted, with 306 cylinders and 4 heads.
"5MB" (ST406) was 6MB unformatted, with 306 cylinders and 2 heads. or was
it (St506?) 153 cylinders with 4 heads?
In any case, using half as many heads/surfaces would create
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Jules Richardson
wrote:
> Assuming for the moment that there were completely disabled surfaces
> involved due to too many defects (i.e. that this was a 2-platter drive with
> only one or maybe two active surfaces and the rest mapped out by the drive
> firmware), do
In the previous episode, I was trying to get my M8013 and M8014 RL02
controller pair to pass the diskless controller test, and discovered it had
some sort of stuck bit. Repairing that seemed a little out of my scope, so
I recently found an M8061, and I tried to give it another go today.
However, m
On 03/13/2016 03:12 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 03/13/2016 12:38 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
These 3MB ones were definitely Olivetti - this was from an ex-Acorn
employee who worked on the drive project. 3MB to 20MB seems a big
jump - but it makes me wonder if they were working with drives that
ha
The Multics distribution includes ISOLTS, a surprisingly complete and
pedantic processor test program.
It is unhappy with our emulated floating point.
This should be the floating point used by the GE 6xx series and the
Honeywell DPS8 and 6000 series.
There is one particular failure that I am dri
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Michael Thompson <
michael.99.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:27:18 -0800
> > From: Charles Anthony
> > Subject: Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this
> > message folks -smecc
> >
> > The panels labeled
On 13/03/2016 15:00, Michael Thompson wrote:
The NiCad batteries for emergency head retract are toast. These look like
standard 1.2V 2/3AA 400mAh cells. It looks like some cordless phones use
the same batteries so I can buy an assembled 4.8V battery pack.
That's what I've always done.
Any ot
Scruffy Millennials covet old record players because they dig the format;
the National Archives and Records Administration keeps old file players
around because legacy digital data demand them.
"I am preserving every file format that has ever existed on the web, or
that any of you have ev
>
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 07:27:18 -0800
> From: Charles Anthony
> Subject: Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this
> message folks -smecc
>
> The panels labeled IOM are Input Output Managers; they connected the SCUs
> to peripheral devices; also sometimes 'IOP' (Inp
Were are you located. I may still have the VME boards from the 260 that
where saved from a 260 that had been scrapped
-pete
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 12:56 AM, James Vess
wrote:
> Howdy there folks,
>
> I've been kicking myself for giving away a dying Sun4/260 due to space
> issues and moving abo
We started working on the RK05 drive that is part of the PDP-12 at the RICM.
The drve is very clean and in good condition. It will need new seals
between the blower and the card cage, and between the plenum and the disk
pack. I think that 1/2" and 1/4" weatherstrip from Home Depot will work
fine.
Michael Thompson wrote:
>
> The NiCad batteries for emergency head retract are toast. These look like
> standard 1.2V 2/3AA 400mAh cells. It looks like some cordless phones use the
> same batteries so I can buy an assembled 4.8V battery pack.
>
> Any other suggestions for replacement batteries fo
On 03/13/2016 12:38 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
These 3MB ones were definitely Olivetti - this was from an ex-Acorn
employee who worked on the drive project. 3MB to 20MB seems a big
jump - but it makes me wonder if they were working with drives that
had three surfaces masked out due to manufactu
On 03/13/2016 01:15 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Hard drives smaller than 5MB were not unusual. For example, the Rodime
RO-101 was only 3MB.
Interesting... I've had 'real' ST506's before, but I don't think I've ever
seen or heard of anything less than that (in a 5.25" f/f)
My list shows Olivetti
On 13/03/2016 18:11, Richard Cini wrote:
To close this out, I want to report that with Malcolm’s and Mattis’
help, I was able to get RT-11 v4 and v5.03 running on the H-11 using
the TU58 emulator.
Thanks to all who helped push me along on this. I did create a
separate Heath page on my Web sit
On 03/13/2016 10:28 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
Does anyone recall an Olivetti ST506-interface drive with a colossal
3MB capacity? Apparently a full-height 5.25" unit with 4 heads and
two platters.
I'm just curious; I always thought that capacities either equaled or
surpassed the 5MB of Seagat
All —
To close this out, I want to report that with Malcolm’s and Mattis’
help, I was able to get RT-11 v4 and v5.03 running on the H-11 using the TU58
emulator.
Avoiding the gory details, the upshot is that there was a bus interrupt
issue relating to how the cards were instal
Does anyone recall an Olivetti ST506-interface drive with a colossal 3MB
capacity? Apparently a full-height 5.25" unit with 4 heads and two platters.
I'm just curious; I always thought that capacities either equaled or
surpassed the 5MB of Seagate's ST506 after they introduced it, so I was a
Ross;
Welcome aboard, glad to have you here.
Additional datapoints for you - In a previous life I owned a Pick-based
consulting firm. Our focus was on our in-house written software packages but we
always sold pick-based hardware as well. Over many years of operation as the
personal relationsh
On Mar 12, 2016 10:25 PM, "James Vess" wrote:
>
> I'm in Houston and could make the trip, Anyone here interested in the
> systems listed?
>
> I would need to see enough interest to go do it though, as even though I'd
> love to get these and just play with them, but I wouldn't be able to keep
> the
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, James Vess wrote:
I honestly am a bit surprised, as other dealings I've had with groups that
focus on technology typically are not as welcoming or responsive.
You caught us on a good day. I'm sure you'll get yelled at next week.
Welcome to the zoo. :)
g.
--
Proud owne
That's an awesome find Don, thanks!
Rich
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> On Mar 13, 2016, at 3:23 AM, Don North wrote:
>
> Ok, filed as: https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/285
>
>> On 3/12/2016 11:14 PM, Don North wrote:
>> Fixed!
>>
>> sim> set cpu 11/34 256K fpp
>> sim> set tdc enable
>> sim> attac
2016-03-13 8:23 GMT+01:00 Don North :
> Ok, filed as: https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/285
>
>
> On 3/12/2016 11:14 PM, Don North wrote:
>
>> Fixed!
>>
>> sim> set cpu 11/34 256K fpp
>> sim> set tdc enable
>> sim> attach tdc0 tu58.dsk
>> sim> b tdc0
>>
>> BOOTING UP XXDP-XM EXTENDED MONITOR
>>
£25 to £35, which is pretty much the same as the sale price.
> On 13 Mar 2016, at 09:25, James Vess wrote:
>
> Hey Peter,
>
> Out of curiosity, How much is it coming from the US to your location?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Peter Chatt wrote:
>>
>> Hi, Dose any
Hey Peter,
Out of curiosity, How much is it coming from the US to your location?
Thanks,
James
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Peter Chatt wrote:
> Hi, Dose anybody have a reasonably priced Apple Disk II drive and
> controller card in the uk? The shipping costs from the US are a too much.
>
Hi, Dose anybody have a reasonably priced Apple Disk II drive and controller
card in the uk? The shipping costs from the US are a too much.
Thanks
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