Those who know me, for example, will know I have little interest in
physical exercise. But I bought a mat intended for such activities
because it was a suitable material for lininng a carrying case for a
piece of photographic equipment.
On Mon, 13 May 2019, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
A dec
Those who know me, for example, will know I have little interest in
physical exercise. But I bought a mat intended for such activities
because it was a suitable material for lininng a carrying case for a
piece of photographic equipment.
A deceased friend lined some airtight camera cases with foa
On 5/4/19 10:29 AM, Dennis Grevenstein via cctech wrote:
> I have the same problem with a cloned MIPS machine, a Sumitomo
> Sumistation SP300. The biggest problem with my machine is that the
> NVRAM holds the ethernet address. If it goes flat, there seems to be
> no way to reprogram the NVRAM.
On 5/13/19 9:10 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/13/19 10:04 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
>> Those who know me, for example, will know I have little interest in
>> physical exercise. But I bought a mat intended for such activities
>> because it was a suitable material for lininng a ca
On 5/13/19 10:04 PM, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On the other hand I do not object to buyng something because the
_intended_ use is of no interest to me.
I hoist my drink to you.
If you have a use for it, great. If not, then pass. Oh, that's not the
intended use? Pft.
Those who know me,
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:57 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > The last game that I recall playing with any frequency was Chess 3.0 on
> > a Cyber 74. Other games over the years have held my interest for only
> > a couple of hours, tops.
On 5/13/19 9:48 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
"RPG" today doesn't mean a computer language anymore.
In the circles that I travel in, Report Program Generator is quite common.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
I just discovered a binder with 2 IBM 1620 manuals. A quick
check shows bitsavers has these and newer editions of them.
So, does anybody want :
IBM 1620 Central Processing Unit, Model 2 (Form A26-5781-1)
and
IBM 1620 Monitor II System Reference Manual (Form C26-5774-0)
Jon
On 5/13/19 7:50 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 5/13/19 5:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> So which term came first, "gaming adapter" or "network bridging"?
>
> Without a doubt, "network bridging". But good luck going into the
> average box store (or possibly even online etailers)
On 5/13/19 7:52 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
I had to google "gaming adapter" because I had never heard the term
before, and I've been working with 802.11 since 2001 when all we had
was 2mbps.
Maybe it's a regional term. I've heard other people use it in multiple
states here in the U.S.
On 5/13/19 5:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
So which term came first, "gaming adapter" or "network bridging"?
Without a doubt, "network bridging". But good luck going into the
average box store (or possibly even online etailers) and getting someone
to know what a "network bridging" dev
where is this located? I might be able to help with moving/storage.
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 11:54 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 May 2019, ED SHATTNER wrote:
> > JUST DOWN THE ROAD A FEW HOURS FROM US HERE!
> > ED#
>
> You should go check it out.
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:47 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
> On 5/13/19 3:58 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > I don't want to get into a long discussion; I merely wanted to point
> > out that you're unlikely to find the term "gaming adapter" in Linux
> > tech docs as they're not written f
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 17:41:24 -0500
> From: "Charles"
> To: "cctalk digest"
> Subject: Network cards and Win98SE
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> I h
On Mon, 13 May 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
The last game that I recall playing with any frequency was Chess 3.0 on
a Cyber 74. Other games over the years have held my interest for only
a couple of hours, tops. For the last 30 years, I haven't even bothered
to look.
Fred, how about you
On 5/13/19 4:21 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> "gaming adapter" is a broad category like "vacuum / hoover" or "copier /
> Xerox" or "tissue / Kleenex" or "automobile". All of which have many
> names that can be used equally across many different broad categories.
>
> "Gaming adapters" take
On 5/13/19 4:05 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote:
>> You could have installed a gaming adapter, opened the web page,
>> connected it to the wireless and been done.
>
> Sure, but you assume I know anything about online gaming (I don't); it
> would require purchasing one, *and* I already had the Linksys
On 5/13/19 5:05 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote:
Sure, but you assume I know anything about online gaming (I don't);
No, I do not.
"gaming adapter" is a broad category like "vacuum / hoover" or "copier /
Xerox" or "tissue / Kleenex" or "automobile". All of which have many
names that can be use
You could have installed a gaming adapter, opened the web page,
connected it to the wireless and been done.
Sure, but you assume I know anything about online gaming (I don't); it would
require purchasing one, *and* I already had the Linksys router and card,
just gathering dust for years!
I lik
I use 3 com stuff I think the other brands I toss in a box in the
warehouse.
later 3 com stuff auto finds etc works fine... lats a long time!
( paint it grey and It will not rust )
Ed#
In a message dated 5/13/2019 3:39:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk@classiccmp.
On 5/13/19 3:58 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I don't want to get into a long discussion; I merely wanted to point
out that you're unlikely to find the term "gaming adapter" in Linux
tech docs as they're not written for that audience. And it's very
likely that something with the Debian kern
On 5/13/19 3:56 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote:
Thanks for the tips. The reason I’m not using Ethernet cable is because
the Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor
around a couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone
line are in the 1st floor study. W
On 5/13/19 11:58 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On May 12, 2019, at 10:17 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>> Don't know a thing about gaming and never wanted to--wrong generation, I
>> guess.
>
> Perhaps “gaming adapter” is the wrong term for this audience.
>
> Let me describe it as a type of s
Thanks for the tips. The reason I’m not using Ethernet cable is because the
Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor around a
couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone line are in
the 1st floor study. Would take a long run and some drilling, or duct
So, I've been porting Frotz to TOPS-20.
https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz
It's been going fine, except that I have something going on with the linker
I don't have enough expertise to understand.
On Mark Crispin's panda distribution, "cc -o frotz *.c" does the trick.
But on TOPS-20 on the
On 5/13/19 9:47 AM, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> Thanks! I'd completely missed that directory on Bitsavers (thrown off by
> "dsa" I guess) and nothing turned up in my various searches.
I had hoped to find more on the HSC-x0 controllers but tech details haven't
surfaced.
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:52 AM Matt Burke via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 13/05/2019 00:05, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> > I've been working on an MSCP controller implemented on top of Joerg
> Hoppe's
> > Unibone and that's been going fairly well, modulo a few oddities here an
> On May 13, 2019, at 11:31 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:20 AM Paul Koning via cctalk
> wrote:
> ...
>> On the subject of custom chips: DEC used gate arrays a lot. For example
>> there is the Pro 380 in which much of the discrete chip logic from the Pro
>> 350 has
> Prime used 74181 chips for some of their CPUs. I have a 150 CPU
> board (1980, though it was likely a relatively minor rehash of an
> older board), for example.
To extend this comment, I found 74S181 chips in the schematics for
Prime's first machines, the P100/P200/P300, with dates of 1972-7
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:20 AM Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> > There were also the AMD2901, 2903, 29203 family of bit-slice components,
> > with the 2910 sequencer.
>
> The VAX 730 was built with 2901s.
Yep. I pulled some 2901s from a VAX 11/730 CPU board in the early 90s
to repair a Tempest
Anybody knows what happened with the German IBM 360? Was it ever picked up?
Will photos or details about the lot ever surface? Regards.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:47 PM Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 16/04/2019 22:22, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> > Clea
> On May 11, 2019, at 11:26 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 05/11/2019 06:14 PM, Warren Toomey via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm building my own 8-bit CPU from TTL chips, and this caused me to think:
>> how were 32-bit minis built in the late 70s and early 80s? In particular,
>> how was the A
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Liam Proven via
> cctalk
> Sent: 13 May 2019 12:18
> To: John Many Jars ; General Discussion:
> On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Network cards and Win98SE
>
> On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 12:02, John Many Jars via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 12:02, John Many Jars via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I just run PUTR under DosBox on a modern PC. A pain but... easier.
Can that read/write physical media?
--
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Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.co
I just run PUTR under DosBox on a modern PC. A pain but... easier.
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 23:41, Charles via cctalk
wrote:
> I have tried for two days to get wireless networking running on my old PC
> under Win 98SE, so I can use PUTR without a separate partition or boot. XP
> is on an 8.4 GB d
On 13/05/2019 08:51, Matt Burke via cctalk wrote:
The protocol specification for MSCP and TMSCP is available here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/dsa/mscp/
You might also want to look at the implementation of MSCP and TMSCP in Simh:
https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/PDP11/pdp11_rq.c
On 13/05/2019 00:05, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote:
> I've been working on an MSCP controller implemented on top of Joerg Hoppe's
> Unibone and that's been going fairly well, modulo a few oddities here and
> there (if you have a Unibone and want to beta-test it, it's up at
> https://github.com/livin
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