On 08/24/2019 04:06 PM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
What use is insurance? If the unique machine that you have been searching for
for so long it destroyed in shipping, the insurance company pays you less
than it's value
It seems shippers have some label or something that
identifies high-va
Today I got home and my Mouser order had arrived. I soldered in the new
6-position DIP switch and popped a new 1488 in the socket. Nice RS232 data
coming out... for about 10 seconds, then the transmit data line went to
around +2 volts and stayed there. WTF. Tried another one, same thing. Went
b
On 2019-08-24 5:09 p.m., Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 8/24/19 10:45 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
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>> By the way, what's your position on scanning two-colour printed manuals
>> like the DTR ones? Not worth keeping the colour for Bitsavers?
>
> I'd like to do it for all the multi-color text manuals, but I
On 8/24/2019 3:56 PM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
I have done some test scans tonight. If anyone has any feedback, now
would be a good time to give it, before I spend many more hours
scanning.
http://aaronsplace.co.uk/private/myscans/
Thanks,
Aaron
I looked at the Error Log Utility Manual
On 8/24/2019 4:11 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 8/24/19 1:38 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
On 8/24/2019 3:30 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
I'll have to double check, but from the looks of this list I don't need the
VAX/VMS Grey Wall that I acquired a couple
months ago
John Herron wrote:
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> With all of the stories. I don't know if it exists internationally but I
> think the moral is get insurance with shipper.
>
What use is insurance? If the unique machine that you have been searching for
for so long it destroyed in shipping, the insurance company pays you l
On 8/24/19 1:38 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
> On 8/24/2019 3:30 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
>> I'll have to double check, but from the looks of this list I don't need the
>> VAX/VMS Grey Wall that I acquired a couple
>> months ago. It's a nearly pristine set of the V5.0
On 8/24/19 10:45 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
> By the way, what's your position on scanning two-colour printed manuals
> like the DTR ones? Not worth keeping the colour for Bitsavers?
I'd like to do it for all the multi-color text manuals, but I never came up
with a way
to map to single shades per
I have done some test scans tonight. If anyone has any feedback, now
would be a good time to give it, before I spend many more hours
scanning.
http://aaronsplace.co.uk/private/myscans/
Thanks,
Aaron
Aaron Jackson writes:
> Many thanks to Matt Burke and Al Kassow, I have reduced my list of "need
On 8/24/2019 2:16 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote:
Zane Healy wrote:
I use RPi3’s for PDP-10 and DPS-8 emulation, I haven’t tried them for
VAX emulation. I would like to try a RPi4 for VAX emulation.
I have an RPi4 running ITS. I attached a fast USB3 memory rather than
running off the SD
On 8/24/2019 3:30 PM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
I'll have to double check, but from the looks of this list I don't need the
VAX/VMS Grey Wall that I acquired a couple months ago. It's a nearly pristine
set of the V5.0 VAX/VMS documentation set. Some volumes are still sealed in
plast
I'll have to double check, but from the looks of this list I don't need the
VAX/VMS Grey Wall that I acquired a couple months ago. It's a nearly pristine
set of the V5.0 VAX/VMS documentation set. Some volumes are still sealed in
plastic.
On 8/24/2019 12:03 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
h
On 8/24/2019 1:25 PM, John Herron via cctalk wrote:
With all of the stories. I don't know if it exists internationally but I
think the moral is get insurance with shipper.
I thought it was DRIVE your own FORKLIFT.
So how did the orginal companies like DEC ship thier products?
Ben.
With all of the stories. I don't know if it exists internationally but I
think the moral is get insurance with shipper.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 12:31 PM Steven Stengel via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> How do I ship a 50 pound computer from Europe to the United States? Who
> has good rat
Many thanks to Matt Burke and Al Kassow, I have reduced my list of "need
to scan" to 24 manuals. If anyone has any of these, please let me know
so I can avoid scanning them.
AA-Y510B-TEGuide to VAX / VMS System Security
AI-Y517A-TEVAX / VMS User's Manual
AA-Z501C-TEVAX / VMS System
> On 8/24/19 12:18 AM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
>> I have a full book case of DEC binders, each containing one or more
>> manuals. I went through the lot of it this evening and checked to see
>> what was on bitsavers. It seems an awful lot of it is not available.
>
> here is a list of the ma
On 2019-08-24 1:03 p.m., Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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> On 8/24/19 12:18 AM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
>> I have a full book case of DEC binders, each containing one or more
>> manuals. I went through the lot of it this evening and checked to see
>> what was on bitsavers. It seems an awf
On 8/24/19 12:18 AM, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> I have a full book case of DEC binders, each containing one or more
> manuals. I went through the lot of it this evening and checked to see
> what was on bitsavers. It seems an awful lot of it is not available.
here is a list of the manuals
> On 24/08/2019 08:18, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
>> I'm going to try to scan as much as I can. The full list of what I have
>> is available at the link below. It is mostly mid 1980's VAX/VMS
>> stuff.. If anyone would like one of the manuals for the cost of
>> shipping, I'd gladly send it ove
On 24/08/2019 08:18, Aaron Jackson via cctalk wrote:
> I'm going to try to scan as much as I can. The full list of what I have
> is available at the link below. It is mostly mid 1980's VAX/VMS
> stuff.. If anyone would like one of the manuals for the cost of
> shipping, I'd gladly send it over to y
I had a Siemens Nixdorf MIPS system shipped from Germany using their post
office. It took forever and was fairly banged up but made it to the US.
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 1:19 AM steven stengel via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Well, I knew the computer, just not the city.
>
> It's Zell
I have a full book case of DEC binders, each containing one or more
manuals. I went through the lot of it this evening and checked to see
what was on bitsavers. It seems an awful lot of it is not available. I
cannot bring myself to dispose of any of it until it is digitised, but
keeping hold of thi
Zane Healy wrote:
> I use RPi3’s for PDP-10 and DPS-8 emulation, I haven’t tried them for
> VAX emulation. I would like to try a RPi4 for VAX emulation.
I have an RPi4 running ITS. I attached a fast USB3 memory rather than
running off the SD card. For the full ITS rebuild from scratch it takes
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