IBM System/32 and System/3 Manuals available

2017-04-07 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Jay Herde, a viewer of my YouTube channel, contacted me to say that he has the following available that he would like to get rid of: IBM System/3 Disk Concepts and Planning Guide. IBM System/3 RPG II Disk File Processing Programmer's Guide. IBM System/3 Models 8 and 10 Disk System Control Program

Re: New Jonathan Coulton text adventure/classic terminal music video

2017-04-07 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
On April 6, 2017 10:32:34 AM PDT, "Shoppa, Tim via cctalk" wrote: >Yes, I know the video was made by using “retro-terminal” software >http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ >on modern hardware, but the spirit of the Infocom games is still there >

Re: How to refurbish plotter pens? (roller-ball pens)

2017-04-07 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
tor 2017-04-06 klockan 19:59 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk: > A late follow up on this topic. > > I got my IBM 1627 running. Actually it is not mine, it belong to my father > that got it used for his home built computer somewhere around 1977. It > became a project that never was finished...

Looking for PDP-8 G603 "Memory Selector Matrix" boards (or dec T-2052 transformers)

2017-04-07 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
Hi all -- I recently got insanely lucky and scored a Straight-8 (S/N 14). It made it in nearly one piece from Ohio, but during transit, all of the G603 Memory Selector Matrix boards fell out. It looks like on early revisions, there was no bar in place to hold the boards in (or someone removed th