Re: MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
From: Guy Sotomayor: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:27 PM These 3 wires were *really* short. Nothing I did found them until I came across a “trick” which is to zoom out so the board is tiny and then with the route tool active, just “click” on spot on the board. In short order I found all 3 remaining

Re: MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Pete Lancashire
I've never used EagleCAD but some CAD packages let you turn off all routed lines On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > > > I just finished laying out the board for the MEM11A. The last roadblock > was figuring out > >

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Seth Morabito
Zane Healy writes: > It reminded me of getting a PDP-11/44 & drives in a couple racks, from > Paxton in the late 90’s when he still had the Warehouse in Portland, > with the help of my Dad, and then installing it in my folks garage. My > Mom was quite happy when my wife and I bought a house, and

Re: Old PC Boards and some Books to go

2016-03-29 Thread Norman Jaffe
Hi: I'm interested in the Intel 3000 and bit-slice books - would you be able to / willing to ship to Canada? - Original Message - From: "Pontus Pihlgren" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:40:11 PM Subject: Re: Old PC Boards and some Books to

Re: MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Mar 29, 2016, at 5:50 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote: >>> On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: >>> ...autorouter on Eagle 7.5, so I did this all by “hand” >>> (at just under 2000 wires it took a while). >> >> I can imagine. Han

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Jim Brain
On 3/29/2016 9:54 PM, Mike Ross wrote: Jim you mean the P/390? I have a couple of those yes. First ones were Microchannel; later ones were PCI. S/390 CPU & memory on a card; all other devices emulated under OS/2 or AIX. Could only run the earlier versions of z/OS; they were strictly 31-bit only.

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Ross
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Jim Brain wrote: > OK, I have to admit, that video is impressive, he held the audience > attention better than people twice his age, and the sheer audacity has to be > commended. > > Sadly, my zOS days are long over, I don't even remember how to configure LU2 > or

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Jim Brain
OK, I have to admit, that video is impressive, he held the audience attention better than people twice his age, and the sheer audacity has to be commended. Sadly, my zOS days are long over, I don't even remember how to configure LU2 or LU6.2 anymore, and I got paid to do that. That said, I

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Brian Marstella
I'm still kicking myself for passing up an IBM mainframe and a Sun 2000 that my previous employer no longer needed. I reasoned that I didn't have space or power for them; never let logic and good sense dictate your actions :) Connor picked a great learning experience... EE, CS, and other disciplin

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread COURYHOUSE
reminds me of myself dragging him big racks of military comm surplus gear when I was in HD Keep it up Connor! we are proud of ya! Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 3/29/2016 4:28:17 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jw...@classic

Re: MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Paul Koning wrote: >> On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: >> ...autorouter on Eagle 7.5, so I did this all by “hand” >> (at just under 2000 wires it took a while). > > I can imagine. Hand-routing tends to produce much better results; Yep. > the au

Re: MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Paul Koning
> On Mar 29, 2016, at 8:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > I just finished laying out the board for the MEM11A. The last roadblock was > figuring out > where the last 3 unrouted wires were. EagleCAD didn’t make it easy to find > them and I > haven’t quite figured out how to use the autorouter o

MEM11A update

2016-03-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor
I just finished laying out the board for the MEM11A. The last roadblock was figuring out where the last 3 unrouted wires were. EagleCAD didn’t make it easy to find them and I haven’t quite figured out how to use the autorouter on Eagle 7.5, so I did this all by “hand” (at just under 2000 wires

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Matt Patoray
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 29, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Jay West wrote: > > Evan wrote... >> Connor is a member of our user group here in the Mid-Atlantic. He's >> been learning at an astonishingly quick rate! > > He's been a member on this list for quite some time, and is a regular on the > eve

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Jan Adelsbach
I got my two (Full-Rack) SGI Origin 2000's when I was around 16-17 years old. By comparison it wasn't much of an adventure, it was quite boring actually. Jan On 03/29/2016 09:34 PM, geneb wrote: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk > > It's pretty entertaining. :) > > g. > >

RE: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Jay West
Evan wrote... > Connor is a member of our user group here in the Mid-Atlantic. He's > been learning at an astonishingly quick rate! > He's been a member on this list for quite some time, and is a regular on the evening crew of the #classiccmp irc channel as well. He was working on a DG Nova 3 b

Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-29 Thread william degnan
On Mar 29, 2016 6:37 PM, "Peter Coghlan" wrote: > > > > > One other thing to add, when I wrote down the info from the license > > originally I made a little note on a scrap of paper, with the values I saw > > at a point before I deleted the key originally > > > > MULTINET > > TGV > > 1 > > A-10-09

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Mike Whalen
Wonderful video. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk >> >> It's pretty entertaining. :) >> > > Connor is a member of our user group here in the Mid-Atlantic. He's been > learning at an astonishingly quick rate! >

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Evan Koblentz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk It's pretty entertaining. :) Connor is a member of our user group here in the Mid-Atlantic. He's been learning at an astonishingly quick rate!

Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-29 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > One other thing to add, when I wrote down the info from the license > originally I made a little note on a scrap of paper, with the values I saw > at a point before I deleted the key originally > > MULTINET > TGV > 1 > A-10-098-116512 (authorization?) > G (?) > H (?) > AA-10098-116512 (product

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Zane Healy
It reminded me of getting a PDP-11/44 & drives in a couple racks, from Paxton in the late 90’s when he still had the Warehouse in Portland, with the help of my Dad, and then installing it in my folks garage. My Mom was quite happy when my wife and I bought a house, and could move it into our ow

Old PC Boards and some Books to go

2016-03-29 Thread Dave Mitton
Guys, still trying to clean out my basement... recently I've gathered a bunch of PC cards from over the years. and some of my old text and data books. Still working on listing some more and some various kits of PC software. I'm not assuming this is worth much, just rather pass it on, than

Seiko Wrist Terminal RC-1000 software ??

2016-03-29 Thread Dave Mitton
Another old thing I've been interested in selling, is my SEIKO RC-1000 Wrist Terminal. This watch has a two line 12 character display, where you could also load text and alarm/reminder data. I used it for phone lists and meeting reminders. It comes with a DB25 cable that connects to the wat

Re: Old PC Boards and some Books to go

2016-03-29 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi Some gems in there. Will you ship? How much do you want for the DECsystem-10 books? /P On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:08:28PM -0400, Dave Mitton wrote: > Guys, > still trying to clean out my basement... recently I've gathered a bunch > of PC cards from over the years. > and some of my old te

Re: Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
I watched it earlier today and it reminded me a bit about myself. At least that one time I, with help of friends, rescued a PDP-11/34, eclipse in two racks and VAX-11/750 with peripherals from a house with a collapsed floor. /P On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:34:09PM -0700, geneb wrote: > > https:/

Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

2016-03-29 Thread geneb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45X4VP8CGtk It's pretty entertaining. :) g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDM

RE: RSX-11 trouble

2016-03-29 Thread supervinx
Il giorno sab, 26/03/2016 alle 11.54 +, Veit, Holger ha scritto: > Looks as if the @ task, the indirect command processor, is either defective, > or was not linked correctly for this system. Check the system generation > manual; there are hints on how to replace it. This is for instance neces

Re: PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Luckily, having that cable in backwards doesn't harm anything... DEC was really good about things not being damaged from backwards cables. Much better than most vendors. I'm sure someone can come up with a horror story, but mostly, it's goo

Re: PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Josh Dersch
Consider yourself lucky -- when I hit this issue about this time last year (maybe it's seasonal?) I got excoriated off-list by a particularly irate listmember for not having the foresight to just try reversing the cable before asking on the list... :) - Josh On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Camie

RE: PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven
It's done on purpose, sort of an initiation rite. All traces of this conversation will be wiped out so future /34 owners won't miss out on this! ;-) Camiel. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jörg Hoppe Sent: dinsdag 29 maart 2016 13:28 To:

Re: PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Jörg Hoppe > this is something every '34 owner must go through. Urrr, hadn't thought of that! Sigh. I wonder if it'd been mentioned here before, and I'd missed it because it was before I joined? Luckily, having that cable in backwards doesn't harm anything... Well, hopefully this

Re: PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Jörg Hoppe
Noel, this is something every '34 owner must go through. Welcome to the club ;-) Joerg Am 29.03.2016 um 13:19 schrieb Noel Chiappa: So, something I just found out the hard way, while debugging another 'situation' with a PDP-11/04: The KY11-LB Programmer's Console maintainence manual contains

PDP-11/04-34 Programmer's Console manual error

2016-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa
So, something I just found out the hard way, while debugging another 'situation' with a PDP-11/04: The KY11-LB Programmer's Console maintainence manual contains a major error, in describing the configuration of the 20-conductor flat cable that connectors the front panel and the UNIBUS interface mo