On 21 April 2016 at 08:07, Raymond Wiker wrote:
> I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a date code of 1985 -
> the 2901 was introduced 10 years before.
>
> In the late 1970s, Norsk Data implemented the ND10 architecture with the
> 2901. It was thought that this would give a modest
[I'm sending this around to several mailing lists]
Most of you have heard of the Large Scale Systems Museum, a public
museum in the Pittsburgh area that is focused on minicomputers,
mainframes, and supercomputers. LSSM opened its doors to the public
for the first time in October of 2015, coi
>
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:12:36 +0200
> From: Jonathan Katz
> Subject: Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near
> Northbrook, IL
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> > Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
> > the name
On 2016-04-20 8:02 PM, Michael Thompson wrote:
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:12:36 +0200
From: Jonathan Katz
Subject: Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near
Northbrook, IL
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 6:46 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Kyle Owen wrote:
> > I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system.
>
> 74S00s, they were going for speed.
>
> The 2900s are the well-known bit-slice chips.
>
> All definitely the
On 04/20/2016 04:25 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>> Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through,
>> just for fun:
Just sent myself a brief message using my Kobo eReader (e-ink type).
Took about 15 minutes and was like cutting a 2x4 with a scalpel. Hard,
frustrating.
--Chuck
While I’d used several computers before the Harris H550 (I think that’s the
right model, we called it “SNAP II” in the Navy), the Harris was the first that
I worked on professionally. Even though I was an Electrician at the time, I
ended up as one of the people working on the Harris, and somewh
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:21:03PM -0500, Kyle Owen wrote:
> I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system.
74S00s, they were going for speed.
The 2900s are the well-known bit-slice chips.
All definitely the level of technology I cut my teeth on.
mcl
I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system. Don't
know what I'll do with these for now, other than maybe hang them up for
display purposes...unless someone has one, what else can one do?
http://imgur.com/a/NAThh
This is the only picture I have of this particular installatio
On 21 April 2016 at 05:10, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Ok, this one's from the 70s, and it's a large, external unit rather than a
> single board, but I have a Floating Point Systems AP-120B, essentially an
> array processor for fast floating point operations. There's a bit of
> information here:
>
> http
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> Back when I spent a couple of years at UNLV in the late 80s, I had a
> class in which I was forced to use an account on a Harris H800
> computer, if my memory serves me correctly. Being a BSD snob, I felt
> that was a terrible imposition, much like being
Back when I spent a couple of years at UNLV in the late 80s, I had a class in
which I was forced to use an account on a Harris H800 computer, if my memory
serves me correctly. Being a BSD snob, I felt that was a terrible imposition,
much like being forced to calculate compound interest on a ston
On 2016-04-20 11:10 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
...
Ok, this one's from the 70s, and it's a large, external unit rather than
a single board, but I have a Floating Point Systems AP-120B, essentially
an array processor for fast floating point operations. There's a bit of
information here:
https://en.wi
On 4/20/16 6:57 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-04-20 5:12 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
then-new OS.
The i860
The RTX-2000 was an of shoot of the NC4000. Even at 10MHz, they could
out compute a 40MHz 80386.
One execution per clock cycle plus possibly using 3 16 bit busses in a single
cycle.
A 4MHz NC4000 could sort 1K 16 bit values in 19.7 milliseconds.
Dwight
Fro
> Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through, just
> for fun:
Dunno if any of it is weird, but:
Vintage: A Teletype 43. Did use a Sharp organizer as a terminal a few
times, and did send a few messages through a Palm in the modern era.
(Shut up, Palm's are _too_ modern.)
De
My first experiences with internet mail would have to qualify as the
weirdest.
My family gained access to the internet in 1988. We'd dial into the NMSU
terminal server (my mother was a professor there) and connect from the
terminal server to an S/390 running VM/ESA and do an IPL CMS to get to a
re
>
> On 19 April 2016 at 19:29 Laurens Vets wrote:
>
>
> On 2016-04-16 18:07, Glen Slick wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Robert Jarratt
> > wrote:
> >> Anyone got the following document: DIGITAL Personal Workstation
> >> System
> >> Reference and Mainten
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> Once, while our boss was away on vacation [...]
Interesting, well written, and funny story, Mark. Thanks for that!
I especially liked the part about curling up in a fetal position behind
the Vax. Classic. Reminds me of the time when the neighbor sh
On 4/18/16 11:25 AM, Earl Baugh wrote:
Another weekend acquisition is a Fujitsu M2284 SMD drive (14" platters
under a transparent cover, what's not to love?). It's in good shape and
was properly locked down for shipping so there's a good chance it'll
still work with some coaxing. I'm missing th
Well a online site or a fest no.matter what size requires legal advice.. set
things up right from the start to protect yourself... anything that involves
buying and selling invites fraud.. build it and they will come but... they
are not all honest. Ed#
Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4
I don't think this is particularly strange, but back in college I had UUCP
running on my Amiga 1000, and I set it up to dial in to the Sun SPARCstation
IPC (IIRC) sitting on the computer support help desk at UCI. I was one of the
help desk staff, and had permission from the bosses to do it. I ha
Mark J. Blair nf6x at nf6x.net
I would happily donate that kind of money to create something of
value to us. I don't think it would work out well, though, for one
reason: The thing that makes eBay the venue of choice is that it is
well-known as the place to sell oddball stuff that you might fin
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Ali wrote:
time I see one of those threads I simply reply "FREE + actual cost of S&H".
Most of our crap^H^H^H^H valuables actually would call for the seller
paying a chunk or all of the S&H.
Reduction of that is part of what makes a flea market venue nice for
getting r
I have spent over 100 hours looking for viable alternatives to selling
computer stuff. Vintage does not have its own place. Bonanza.com is gaining
popularity, but it is not really IT or electronics oriented. Pricewatch.com
and similar sites only deal in reasonably current equipment. VCF does have
On 2016-04-20 1:28 PM, dwight wrote:
There was a Harris RTX-2000 based accelerator card around
the 80386 time period.
I hadn't even heard of that chip :/
Interestingly: "The RTX 2000 is specifically designed to execute the
Forth language"
(https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/stack_computers/
There was a Harris RTX-2000 based accelerator card around
the 80386 time period.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Ali
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 10:04 AM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: High performance coprocess
I have spent over 100 hours looking for viable alternatives to selling
computer stuff. Vintage does not have its own place. Bonanza.com is gaining
popularity, but it is not really IT or electronics oriented. Pricewatch.com
and similar sites only deal in reasonably current equipment. VCF does have a
> >> I'm changing the subject because the subject of RISC coprocessor
> >> boards has already been interesting to me; I owned the NuBus Levco
> >> Translink II (for Mac II family) with four TRAM slots for
> transputers.
> >>
I never had much run in with these kinds of boards as they were geared
to
> Well, we already have this list and the marketplace sub-forums over at
> VCF. I don't necessarily see the need for yet another venue unless
> we're going to make a real effort to bring in buyers and sellers who
> are not already well-connected in our hobby, like random non-computer-
> interested
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> For remote mailing I prefer i vt terminal and a microwave link:
> https://youtu.be/r6NuDcemRsM
Uhhh brother. If this was a contest, you just won. :-)
-Swift
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:52, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
>
> That situation is indeed nuts. But, on the bright side, if you only use
> eBay rarely, just have a relative or friend allow you to borrow their account
> when needed.
I could probably ask my dad to buy individual things for me. I'm jus
On 4/20/2016 11:04 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:09, Ali wrote:
Well, eBay is killing itself slowly. Every year they make more and more
onerous and anti-buyer rules and policies.
Warning: Longish anti-eBay tale inbound!
... While I am disappointed that I can apparently nev
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:48, Ali wrote:
>
> Honestly, I don't think we need anything fancy to sell. We could simply
> start another mailing list and people could post items for sale w/ asking
> prices and negotiations can be done privately over email. Easy peasy. What
> do you think?
Well, we a
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:44, Paul Koning wrote:
> That sounds right. Then again, eBay seems to be going out of its way to
> alienate large numbers of people. In the case discussed here, it may be a
> one-off change. But in other areas it's deliberate broad policy. Ask gun
> collectors/owne
> A private special-interest eBay-clone might still be worth
> investigation as a convenient venue for those of us who are already
> part of the club to swap our toys, but I don't think it'll replace eBay
> as a place for new items to find their way back into the hands of
> dedicated collectors any
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:32:01PM +0200, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Rod Smallwood <
> rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Extreme Mailing
> >
> > What is the most unusual place you have sent mail from?
> >
>
> I think we need to restrict this to specific dat
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:32, Electronics Plus wrote:
>> If Jay would host the eBay clone on his servers, I would fork over the $57.
>> We don't really need a huge following, but it would grow very quickly, once
>> people from the variou
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 09:32, Electronics Plus wrote:
> If Jay would host the eBay clone on his servers, I would fork over the $57.
> We don't really need a huge following, but it would grow very quickly, once
> people from the various forums and lists started telling their members about
> it.
I
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark J.
Blair
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 11:04 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: [OT] eBay tale (Was: Re: flea markets (was Re: Vintage Computer
Festivals???))
> On Ap
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Mark J. Blair wrote:
accounts. I did that, and was vocal about it (not that many people heard
me, though, as I'm hardly an influential person online).
PayPal very quickly amended their TOS based on the very loud backlash
online,
Sounds as though you are more influential tha
On 2016-04-20 11:32 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 20/04/2016 16:00, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-04-20 10:27 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
It did indeed - I have one. Also a couple of 6502 CoPros, a 65C102, a
32016 and a pair of Z80s, which were nice in their day.
Nice collection. I'd forgotten about
On 4/20/16 5:25 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Josh Dersch
> I have an Imlac PDS-1D ...
> There's precious little software out there for this thing
Did a copy of Mazewar for the Imlac survive?
There are partal file system dumps of some of the MIT machines, but IIRC
Mazewar was
> On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:09, Ali wrote:
>
> Well, eBay is killing itself slowly. Every year they make more and more
> onerous and anti-buyer rules and policies.
Warning: Longish anti-eBay tale inbound!
Just under a year ago, both eBay and PayPal amended their Terms Of Service
(TOS) to state t
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jason Scott wrote:
> It would be nice if you linked to where you saw him in the video,
> time-wise. Here's what Bryan Cranston looked like in 1984, the time this
> video came out.
> http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bryancranston.jpg
>
> He was defin
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> I also need some of the larger main leveling feet, but I haven't been
>> able (yet) to find any. The threaded part is 7/16"-14
>
> So I goofed. They are actually 1/2"-13. (I have no idea how I blew that one.
> I _thought_ I tried them with
On 20/04/2016 16:00, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-04-20 10:27 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
It did indeed - I have one. Also a couple of 6502 CoPros, a 65C102, a
32016 and a pair of Z80s, which were nice in their day.
Nice collection. I'd forgotten about the 32016! What software ran on
these respecti
It would be nice if you linked to where you saw him in the video,
time-wise. Here's what Bryan Cranston looked like in 1984, the time this
video came out.
http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bryancranston.jpg
He was definitely working in ads and plays at the time.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016
On 04/20/2016 10:00 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-04-20 10:27 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 20/04/2016 14:57, Toby Thain wrote:
I'm changing the subject because the subject of RISC
coprocessor boards
has already been interesting to me; I owned the NuBus
Levco Translink II
(for Mac II family) w
On 2016-04-20 10:27 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 20/04/2016 14:57, Toby Thain wrote:
I'm changing the subject because the subject of RISC coprocessor boards
has already been interesting to me; I owned the NuBus Levco Translink II
(for Mac II family) with four TRAM slots for transputers.
Also go
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Ditto. I do like mine. Extra TRAM option, 384MB of RAM, 2x4GB disks. It
> gets a little toasty (but it's got the feet for standing it up on its
> side, and I think that helps a little with the heat dissipation - plus it
> looks a lot nicer! :-)
I
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:37 AM, geneb wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1IYdjOpYE
>
> The video is an hour long, but you can skip around. It includes ads for
> machines like the ITT Xtra, IBM PC Jr, etc. The Hayes Smartmodem ad is
> just atrocious. :) There's even ads for IOMega driv
On 20/04/2016 14:57, Toby Thain wrote:
I'm changing the subject because the subject of RISC coprocessor boards
has already been interesting to me; I owned the NuBus Levco Translink II
(for Mac II family) with four TRAM slots for transputers.
Also going to mention the BBC Tube coprocessor here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1IYdjOpYE
The video is an hour long, but you can skip around. It includes ads for
machines like the ITT Xtra, IBM PC Jr, etc. The Hayes Smartmodem ad is
just atrocious. :) There's even ads for IOMega drives and the Promethus
Pro Modem...
g.
--
Proud own
On 2016-04-20 5:12 AM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
then-new OS.
The i860 was a neat little bugger. There was an
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 01:37:55PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through, just for fun:
>
Back in my college days, I witnessed a friend use a TI-92 with a crude
terminal emulator and a TI-Link cable wired to the serial port on the
campus Rol
> I also need some of the larger main leveling feet, but I haven't been
> able (yet) to find any. The threaded part is 7/16"-14
So I goofed. They are actually 1/2"-13. (I have no idea how I blew that one.
I _thought_ I tried them with a known nut, but clearly something went wrong.)
Anyway
> From: Josh Dersch
> I have an Imlac PDS-1D ...
> There's precious little software out there for this thing
Did a copy of Mazewar for the Imlac survive?
There are partal file system dumps of some of the MIT machines, but IIRC
Mazewar was only on MIT-DM, and I'm not sure its files ar
> Does anyone happen to have any manuals kicking around for Microscience
> MFM hard disk drives?
I'd love to see documentation for any model of drive from Microscience —
technical documentation definitely being better.
These drives appear fairly obscure and quite high-tech for their time. I dug
I would like a copy of the scan.
Best,
Tom Uban
On 4/19/16 2:25 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
> While arranging some shelves, I came across an Imlac PDS-1 printset
> that I rescued from somewhere (I don't remember where)
>
> What I didn't realize was that in the back of the printset was some
> ass
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Rod Smallwood <
rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Extreme Mailing
>
> What is the most unusual place you have sent mail from?
>
I think we need to restrict this to specific dates/eras/times -- these days
we have wi-fi enabled jet airliners and cruise ships
On 20/04/2016 10:02, Liam Proven wrote:
On 19 April 2016 at 21:37, Swift Griggs wrote:
Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through, just for fun:
1. The AlphaSmart "Dana" which was a strange laptop-like device which ran
PalmOS. The email client was Eudora for PalmOS.
Hi Guys
With all of my PDP-8 range (8/e A + B, /f /m /i and /L either in or
about to be in production.
Its time to turn to that other collectors favorite the PDP-11.
As in the past I like to let the list know how its going.
Its just the same as somebody restoring a system and sharing the pr
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
> the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the
> then-new OS.
>
The i860 was a neat little bugger. There was an iPSC/860 done by Intel
which would be a
On 19 April 2016 at 20:58, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
>> 12 i860s to run the graphics! How absurd!
>
> Those processors showed up in the weirdest places. I remember seeing them
> on DEC SCSI controllers quite a bit, too.
Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire
the name of
On 19 April 2016 at 21:37, Swift Griggs wrote:
> Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through, just for fun:
>
> 1. The AlphaSmart "Dana" which was a strange laptop-like device which ran
>PalmOS. The email client was Eudora for PalmOS.
I sort of wanted one of them. Interesti
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