On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 08:13:24AM +0100, shad via cctalk wrote:
>was anyone some documentation about board sets VT30-H and VTV30-J?
>They should be graphic systems as well, the former Unibus, the latter Qbus.
>Definitely I think they aren't "regular" DEC products, maybe they were
>developed by
Hello,
given recent posts about Unibus graphic systems, I'm coming back with a
request:
was anyone some documentation about board sets VT30-H and VTV30-J?
They should be graphic systems as well, the former Unibus, the latter Qbus.
Definitely I think they aren't "regular" DEC products, maybe they w
On 3/1/2017 10:04 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
Well, I remember the /50 at Rolla, they ran very little locally while
I was there, mostly used it as an RJE terminal.
Cards and 1402 printer. So, the 1050 was not real busy.
It ran MVT21 thru 1975. The MVT version of the workstation was one o
On 03/01/2017 10:52 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
On 3/1/2017 8:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
That's one area where CRTs are sooo much better. The
S/360 machines
just pounded the hell out of the SYSLOG device. I guess
the Selectrics
were better than the Model B-based console typ
On 3/1/2017 8:36 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
That's one area where CRTs are sooo much better. The S/360 machines
just pounded the hell out of the SYSLOG device. I guess the Selectrics
were better than the Model B-based console typewriters, which always
seemed as if they were going to fl
On 03/01/2017 07:21 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> Well, we still had a Selectric (1050) on our 360/65 at Washington
> University up until the end. I'm pretty sure it was the most
> unreliable part of the machine. It seems about every two weeks it
> would break the timing belt, which meant t
On 03/01/2017 02:54 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
On 2017-03-01 3:14 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room
sounds; for early
Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of
the Selectric
operator's console.
I/O Selectrics a
On 3/1/2017 11:56 AM, dwight via cctalk wrote:
I'm not sure how something as simple as a cassette interface could be causing
so much issues.
Can you post a schematic of what you have now and what the signal amplitude is?
Hmm, It's currently a jumble of wires and clips and such on the bench.
I
On 2017-03-01 7:55 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 3/1/2017 4:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 03/01/2017 11:46 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
But presumably on an emulator there will be some kind of volume
control. Or even unplug the speaker(s) if you want silence...
But then, what of the "real
On 3/1/2017 4:22 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 03/01/2017 11:46 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
But presumably on an emulator there will be some kind of volume
control. Or even unplug the speaker(s) if you want silence...
But then, what of the "realism"? Is the sound of a half-ton of
dynamite
On 03/01/2017 11:46 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> But presumably on an emulator there will be some kind of volume
> control. Or even unplug the speaker(s) if you want silence...
But then, what of the "realism"? Is the sound of a half-ton of
dynamite going off realistic at 50 dB? Many aspects of "th
ons 2017-03-01 klockan 16:29 -0400 skrev Paul Berger via cctalk:
>
> On 2017-03-01 3:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
> >> Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
> >> Multics installations (and o
actually when it all shows up as cc talk as the sender it is of value
as we can clear the group of mail faster after I have picked out the
topics relative to what we are working on.
Ed#
In a message dated 3/1/2017 2:47:11 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.o
I'm replying to the "top level" original message just to put some
other comments in on "full immersion" emulation, without trampling
over the discussions that are going on about the sound experience.
On 1 March 2017 at 14:14, Charles Anthony via cctalk
wrote:
> Part of the iconic mainframe exper
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 01/03/17 21:13, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
>
>> On 3/1/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
>>
>>> So I am fishing for any existing audio clips with clean sounds, or
>>> someone
>>>
What about the chilling sound of a head crash?
Ziiiggg kluk kluk kluk...
On 1 March 2017 at 23:22, Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
> All this talk of the sounds hammering away and the console reminded me.
>
> There's another part of the experience: when a system crashed...
>
> There was a dis
All this talk of the sounds hammering away and the console reminded me.
There's another part of the experience: when a system crashed...
There was a distinctive pattern of sounds when the register dump was
printed, some beeps from the console and often the groans of the
people that were affected
On 2017-03-01 3:14 PM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
operator's console.
I/O Selectrics are rare, expensive and unreliable.
They are all mechanica
On 2017-03-01 3:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
operator's console.
There is no way th
On 01/03/17 21:13, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
On 3/1/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
So I am fishing for any existing audio clips with clean sounds, or
someone
with a Selectric that is willing to make some recordings, or a
pointer to
somewhere where all of this has been do
1 mars 2017 kl. 20.39 skrev Fred via cctalk :
>
> I have a VT525 in my home office that I use to read the mail (including
> this and other mailing lists) when I don't want to fire up a workstation.
> (It's quick, simple, and I get check/send a message without much fuss).
> Would results from that
On 3/1/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
So I am fishing for any existing audio clips with clean sounds, or someone
with a Selectric that is willing to make some recordings, or a pointer to
somewhere where all of this has been done already.
-- Charles
Golfball typewriter group
[ stupid gmail ]
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
>
> Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for
> early
>>>
>>>
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>>> On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for
early
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
>>>
>>> There is no way
On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
There is no way that I'd wish anyone would have to put up with the 80+
dB "white noise" of fans and vacuum
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 12:17:10PM -0500, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>
> > On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/01/2017 05:27 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
> >> I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not ve
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
>> Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
>> Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
>> operator's console.
>
>
On 03/01/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote:
> Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
> Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
> operator's console.
There is no way that I'd wish anyone would have to put up with the 80+
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 cctalk-requ...@classiccmp.org wrote:
> Message: 17
> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 20:10:33 +0100
> From: Lars Brinkhoff
> To: Mattias Engdeg?rd
> Subject: Re: DEC VT100/220 line wrapping semantics sought
> Mattias Engdeg?rd wrote:
> > Data for VT100, VT220 and VT510 have been coll
Ersatz-11 V7.3 is finished. CDs have been mailed to users with current
update subscriptions, and the free Demo version may be downloaded from
www.dbit.com/demo.html as usual.
E11 V7.3 has the following new features:
- My favorite one: a BREAKPOINT command which accepts arbitrary boolean
test
Part of the iconic mainframe experience is the cold room sounds; for early
Multics installations (and other systems) the sound of the Selectric
operator's console.
I/O Selectrics are rare, expensive and unreliable.
If some good quality audio clips of a Selectric were available, it should
be possi
I'm not sure how something as simple as a cassette interface could be causing
so much issues.
Can you post a schematic of what you have now and what the signal amplitude is?
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of allison via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 3
> On Mar 1, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 03/01/2017 05:27 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
>> I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very
>> common.
>> But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 mic
On 03/01/2017 05:27 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very common.
But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 microcode
for the 11/60 is lost ☹
But it could be rewritten!
I have heard that story to. _IF_ you have WCS for the 11/60 ... not very common.
But even with WCS installed, there is a “small” problem: the PDP-8 microcode
for the 11/60 is lost ☹
From my website:
The only other PDP-11 that has a WCS option (KUV11, M8018) is the PDP-11/03,
KD11-F processor. Ri
On 11/13/2016 05:09 AM, John Labovitz wrote:
A few years back, while photographing letterpress printers (see
http://johnlabovitz.com/projects/letterpress), I met a fellow (Rob
Barnes) in Denver who specializes in die-cutting. Like most die-cut
operators, he uses mid-20th century Heidelberg let
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/11/2016 05:53 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> No stock, or no cards? I would think that one of the paper manufacturers
>>> would be putting out postcard stock of the right specifications.
>>>
>> Thi
On 11/11/2016 05:53 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
No stock, or no cards? I would think that one of the paper manufacturers would
be putting out postcard stock of the right specifications.
This has been discussed for several years here. No one is making paper stock to
IBM card stock specifications.
On 11/11/2016 04:32 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
There are no suppliers, and the NOS stuff is all gone.
No one is making new 80 column punched card stock either.
Really? I thought there is still some card stock to buy.
On 11/10/16 5:36 PM, Charles Dickman wrote:
And where can I get new fan-fold pape
All,
am I just being paranoid, or does this seem like a bad idea?
> Passwords for mtap...@swri.edu:
>
> List Password // URL
>
> cctalk@classiccmp.org …..
. Presumably that
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 06:50:53PM -0800, Ian S. King via cctalk wrote:
>
> PDP-11/60 - the fastest PDP-8 ever built! :-)
>
I believe that work is lost though or could the microcode be floating
around somewhere?
/P
(I think I've asked before.. sorry for the noise in that case)
On 03/01/2017 01:40 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
> On 2/28/2017 2:34 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
snippage
> Obviously, given the LM339 issues, this is unworkable in the end, but
> it did get me to realizing some outputs on the LM339, so thanks to
> both of you.
>
> I can plainly see the oscillation
1 mars 2017 kl. 07.14 skrev Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk :
> I have a VT220 too, but it's in storage. I can dig it out if necessary,
> but I'm hoping someone else can contribute those results.
Thank you, I already got results for a VT220 from another contributor.
> Note that the setup probably can
On 28 February 2017 at 21:23, Rich Alderson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> OK, it's official. I rarely criticize mail interfaces, because they're
> usually
> mostly innocuous. However, today's change makes life a lot more difficult.
>
> In the past, it was simple to direct a reply
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