RE: Unidentified peripheral in Tektronix PDP-11/20 system

2020-01-25 Thread jwest--- via cctalk
Looks like some type of chart recorder perhaps.

Unidentified peripheral in Tektronix PDP-11/20 system

2020-01-25 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
I was idly browsing some old electronics magazines on archive.org and saw this Tektronix testing system from 1972 that clearly has an 11/20 and TU-56. Just curious as to what the piece of gear is sandwiched between the two. It sort of looks like a paper tape reader, but for the two white buttons

Re: recovering data from old hard drive

2020-01-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/25/20 11:57 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Does anybody have any suggestions on what to try? not really, beyond checking termination. you should see the select light flash during boot if the OS can see it at all

recovering data from old hard drive

2020-01-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
I have dug out an old SCSI hard drive from 1997 that may have some interesting stuff, most especially the source code for the SGI Iris flight sim demo. I have a Linux system with an Adaptec 2940 (aic7880) that has two connectors on it. It SEEMS from some probing that the 50-pin IDC connector o

Re: from Discord

2020-01-25 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 03:50:05AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > 9:10 PM jwest > > and now the image of the classiccmp mailing list server should be > back to where it was the day of the failure. > As per above, no data lost except a handfull asking if the server > was up. Many thanks...

Re: test test

2020-01-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 01/25/2020 10:48 AM, jwest--- via cctalk wrote: test Glad to see you got it back running! Thanks, Jon

test test

2020-01-25 Thread jwest--- via cctalk
test

from Discord

2020-01-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
9:10 PM jwest and now the image of the classiccmp mailing list server should be back to where it was the day of the failure. As per above, no data lost except a handfull asking if the server was up.