Re: Original HP 2116A is running again!

2016-04-02 Thread Curious Marc
Just in time for her 50th birthday in November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kko526UpHsM&feature=youtu.be www.hpmuseum.net Awesome! Your museum site is such an incredible resource when it comes to restoring HP equipment! I hope I can pay you a visit the next time I am in Melbourne (that w

Re: AT&T 3B2 floppy format

2016-04-02 Thread Curious Marc
* On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:41:01PM -0700, Curious Marc wrote: It looks like you did everything right. However I thought one specifies interleave directly in the BIN2IMD command using the DM=3 option. I see you have DM=4 on your command line. But since you can load the kernel that might no

Re: Mac SE/30 pincushioning and flicker

2016-04-02 Thread drlegendre .
It's been years since I've had to do any board-level work on the compact Macs. But in virtually every one I opened up, there was an issue with that dang multi-pin power connector, as it leaves the analog board. In almost all cases, there were cracked solder joints on the board-side of the connector

Re: C & undefined behaviour - was Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Tomasz Konojacki
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 18:58:10 -0400 (EDT) Mouse wrote: > He's assuming the "the entire address space is a single > array of bytes (perhaps with holes)" memory model is the only possible > one. He needs to talk with someone who wrote large-model 8086 code - > or someone who's used the Lisp Machine

3B2 C compiler and Assembler

2016-04-02 Thread Seth Morabito
Now that I have my 3B2/300 up and running, I'd like to get developer tools installed. Unfortunately, I can't find any of them on the web anywhere. Apparently what I'm looking for are the following packages: * "C Programming Language Utilities" * "Software Generation Utilities" * "Extended S

Re: C & undefined behaviour - was Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-04-02 6:58 PM, Mouse wrote: Anyone interested in C and UB will want to read most of John Regehr's http://blog.regehr.org/ - it hosts some of the best material on UB. Unfortunately Mr. (I'm assuing this is appropriate given "John") Regehr There's a lot more on the topic; he wrote these

Re: Original HP 2116A is running again!

2016-04-02 Thread COURYHOUSE
hardware or software manuals Bill? Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 4/2/2016 3:23:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, billdeg...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Jon Johnston wrote: > Just in time for her 50th birthday in November: > > h

Re: AT&T 3B2 floppy format

2016-04-02 Thread Fred Cisin
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016, Seth Morabito wrote: After doing more experimentation this morning, I've discovered that the data mode I should have been using was 250kbps MFM, NOT 300kbps! After changing ImageDisk to write 250kbps (and ensuring that the 300RPM "I" jumper was strapped on the FD55-GV), the im

Re: C & undefined behaviour - was Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Mouse
> Anyone interested in C and UB will want to read most of John Regehr's > http://blog.regehr.org/ - it hosts some of the best material on UB. Unfortunately Mr. (I'm assuing this is appropriate given "John") Regehr is falling into the same trap he's trying to warn against: basically, assuming that

Re: Original HP 2116A is running again!

2016-04-02 Thread william degnan
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Jon Johnston wrote: > Just in time for her 50th birthday in November: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kko526UpHsM&feature=youtu.be > > www.hpmuseum.net > > > Thanks for that. I could not find much about the 2116A (2114/15) software on Bitsavers or the HP museu

Re: Original HP 2116A is running again!

2016-04-02 Thread COURYHOUSE
Yahoo! congrats! In a message dated 4/2/2016 1:29:56 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jondjohns...@hotmail.com writes: Just in time for her 50th birthday in November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kko526UpHsM&feature=youtu.be www.hpmuseum.net

C & undefined behaviour - was Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-04-02 5:22 PM, Paul Koning wrote: On Apr 2, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Mouse wrote: It appears that the stdio that I'm linking against on OS X 10.9.5 does not keep the file pointers synchronized between the system and stdio. Actually, I would say that any supposedly-portable software that d

Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Paul Koning
> On Apr 2, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Mouse wrote: > >> It appears that the stdio that I'm linking against on OS X 10.9.5 >> does not keep the file pointers synchronized between the system and >> stdio. > > Actually, I would say that any supposedly-portable software that > depends on either behaviour i

Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Mouse
> It appears that the stdio that I'm linking against on OS X 10.9.5 > does not keep the file pointers synchronized between the system and > stdio. Actually, I would say that any supposedly-portable software that depends on either behaviour is broken; AFAICT stdio has never promised either way. >

Re: AT&T 3B2 floppy format

2016-04-02 Thread Seth Morabito
* On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 11:41:01PM -0700, Curious Marc wrote: > It looks like you did everything right. However I thought one > specifies interleave directly in the BIN2IMD command using the DM=3 > option. I see you have DM=4 on your command line. But since you can > load the kernel that might

Original HP 2116A is running again!

2016-04-02 Thread Jon Johnston
Just in time for her 50th birthday in November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kko526UpHsM&feature=youtu.be www.hpmuseum.net

RE: DECmate II Questions

2016-04-02 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Jarratt [mailto:robert.jarr...@ntlworld.com] > Sent: 02 April 2016 19:50 > To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' > > Subject: RE: DECmate II Questions > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@clas

RE: DECmate II Questions

2016-04-02 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul > Koning > Sent: 02 April 2016 18:49 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: DECmate II Questions > > > > On Apr 2, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Robert Jarratt > wrote: >

Re: DECmate II Questions

2016-04-02 Thread Paul Koning
> On Apr 2, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Robert Jarratt > wrote: > > I have been looking at my DECmate II recently. I got an Italian version of > WPS 1.0 for it and that works fine, except that I don't have an Italian > keyboard so finding some of the characters is a bit tricky. :) > ... > Any recommendat

DECmate II Questions

2016-04-02 Thread Robert Jarratt
I have been looking at my DECmate II recently. I got an Italian version of WPS 1.0 for it and that works fine, except that I don't have an Italian keyboard so finding some of the characters is a bit tricky. :) The machine came with an RD51 hard disk. I can't many references to MFM disks in DECm

Re: Mac SE/30 pincushioning and flicker

2016-04-02 Thread Ian Finder
The flicker is gonna likely be aging capacitors on the analog board. Ideally you'd replace these. For the pincushion I believe there are magnets on the yoke that can be adjusted... Sent from Outlook for iPhone On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 2:51 AM -0700, "David Griffith" wrote: I recapp

Re: tumble under BSD

2016-04-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/1/16 12:21 PM, Diane Bruce wrote: It's in ports /usr/ports/graphics/tumble Not sure if it is up to date or not. Thanks. It appears that the stdio that I'm linking against on OS X 10.9.5 does not keep the file pointers synchronized between the system and stdio. Tumble opens a file, a

Re: VMS Software

2016-04-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/1/16 10:59 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: Bitsavers.org for example. I have a large collection of VAX condists at the museum. The issue is making them available. Since a few of the current VMS owners are on the list, opinions would be appreciated. They will be imaged at some point and the

RE: RSX-11M trouble

2016-04-02 Thread supervinx
Thanks for your clear explanation. I use simh regularly, VAX based emulation, to transfer and backup data from my real VAXes. I also have a cluster of simh VAXes, so it won't be difficult to get a PDP-11 up and running with simh. I have putr and I've noticed it handles Files-11 read-only: I didn't

Mac SE/30 pincushioning and flicker

2016-04-02 Thread David Griffith
I recapped a Mac SE/30 a few months back and only just now put it back together. After a false start with dirty contacts on the ROM simm and resulting irregular vertical bars, the machine is working again. There are no more zipping sounds coming out of the speaker. Two problems remain: 1