On 7/22/20 8:35 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody
did ask, and there was no response I could see.
I asked @bmoshix what the system was. I've not gotten a reply yet.
The error messages suggest it's some sort of Linux system u
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 05:12:10PM -0400, Chris Zach wrote:
> Working on it. Question: Was the 67mb drive in a 7300/3B1 a miniscribe 6085?
>
Yes it was. http://www.pdp8online.com/3b1/drive.shtml
Hm. Then I have a dillema. When I popped in the Miniscribe and tried
booting it started reading the disk then popped out a boot error.
Possibly a bad sector, but how can I read this disk to find the rest of
the data?
Hm Anyone got one of those Beaglebone/RPI to MFM readers I could
borrow
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:58:01AM -0700, Ian Finder wrote:
> I may be able to track down floppies for 7300 TCP, if we can confirm it is
> extinct in the wild...
>
It may exist but is wounded.
https://archives.loomcom.com/retrocomputing/UnixPC/Install/standardized/ethernet/
All the 10S disks see
On 7/22/20 7:52 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> Just put up a big pdp11 and be done with it.
A PDP11 might be a "mainframe" (personally, I'd call it a minicomputer),
but in the world of mainframes, it's hardly "big".
FWIW,
Chuck
Just put up a big pdp11 and be done with it. Hm. Running on Simh a fully
loaded 11 should handle just about anything the internet could toss at it...
C
On 7/22/2020 10:35 PM, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did
ask, and there w
Sadly, the original tweet doesn't mention what mainframe - Somebody did
ask, and there was no response I could see.
The error messages suggest it's some sort of Linux system using Docker
containers, so it's not OS/360 :-)
I suspect given that it's running out of memory, that it's yet another
linu
If written on a Series 64, 68 or 70, or on the Series 37 or it's successors,
the first file on a SYSDUMP (Backup) tape may include the Microcode from the
WCS (Writeable Control Store). Please collect such files if you have tapes
available that you can read.
Note that the first file includes a con
Well I suppose the important thing is that they have been spoken for. Hopefully
I will get to see Dave's in action.
> -Original Message-
> From: Antonio Carlini
> Sent: 22 July 2020 20:24
> To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; 'Dave Wade' ; 'General
> Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' ;
> ant
Ask the tweet included in the initial posting..
I have nothing to do with it .. cheers
> On 22 Jul 2020, at 23:15, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 09:52:14PM +0200, 821--- via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainfra
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 09:52:14PM +0200, 821--- via cctalk wrote:
> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe!
> Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure games
> on a mainframe
>
> https://twitter.com/bmoshix/status/1285905078373814273/photo
> Well still glad its getting used :)
> cheers
So am I except I want to use it as well LOL!
Well still glad its getting used :)
cheers
> On 22 Jul 2020, at 22:37, Ali via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe!
>> Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure
>> games on a mainframe
>>
>> https://twitter.com/bmo
> Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe!
> Telnet to 35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure
> games on a mainframe
>
> https://twitter.com/bmoshix/status/1285905078373814273/photo/1
Too popular for its own good. Currently failing due to a lack o
Recently, I obtained a HP 3396B Integrator II.
This is a device for the chemical analysis laboratory. I had hoped that this
device contained a BASIC interpreter, but this was not the case.
Through the serial interface I can connect a terminal program. Pressing
CTRL+BREAK outputs the sign-on mes
Almost all InfoCom adventure games now online running on a mainframe! Telnet to
35.209.67.107 (guest/guest1) and play text mode adventure games on a mainframe
https://twitter.com/bmoshix/status/1285905078373814273/photo/1
On 22/07/2020 19:40, Rob Jarratt wrote:
I would like to come to see it when you get it Dave. I wish I could take one
too, I wonder if I could make room as the dimensions don't seem *that* huge.
Regards
Smaller than a VAX-11/780 or a VAX 6000 or a VAX 7000. So yes, pretty
small :-)
The s
I would like to come to see it when you get it Dave. I wish I could take one
too, I wonder if I could make room as the dimensions don't seem *that* huge.
Regards
Rob
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk On Behalf Of Dave Wade via
> cctalk
> Sent: 21 July 2020 22:16
> To: anto...@acarlin
Just found the specs. "Typical" installed weight 75kg, max 100kg. Minus power
supplies and drives I think two fairly strong people could lift into a car as
long as the tailgate is fairly low.
-Original Message-
From: cctalk On Behalf Of Martin Reilly via
cctalk
Sent: 22 July 2020 15:4
I'd be very interested in one of these. Depending where in Oxfordshire I'm
probably within 90 minutes drive.
-Original Message-
From: cctalk On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini via
cctalk
Sent: 21 July 2020 20:58
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: AlphaServer 2100s
The following Ebay listing seems nice:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/252576335317
It shows the advance in technology from core to transistor to SRAM wafer.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:52 PM Gary Sparkes via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I was looking for confirmed broken, not just "this i
I'd like to buy a Sun 3/80 machine. I'm not too interested in other models.
I'm willing to pay a fair price plus shipping, but not a L@@K RARE price.
22 matches
Mail list logo
