[cctalk] Re: request for 5.25 floppies

2024-09-24 Thread Steve Lewis via cctalk
Actually - in the Sharp advertisement, they "name drop" Microsoft explicitly - so perhaps I misspoke in mentioning IBM's PC-DOS (but if we're making disks, I'd just try to have both ready just in case).I've not yet opened the external drive enclosure to investigate specific model/parts (I'm ver

[cctalk] Re: request for 5.25 floppies

2024-09-24 Thread Travis Pierce via cctalk
Hey Steve! I have quite a few DSDD 5.25" disks in inventory right now. I bought a bunch from a military surplus store online a few years back and those disks have proven to be very reliable. I'd be glad to make any disk that you need. I do quite a bit of disk archiving and I have quite a few

[cctalk] Does anyone have a VT52, TU56 controller, or Apple II rev 0 available for sale?

2024-09-24 Thread Ryan de Laplante (Personal) via cctalk
If you or someone you know might be willing to sell, please contact me off-list.  I'm in Canada, near Toronto. The TU56 controller is for a PDP 11/45. I know about the VT52 in Australia on eBay right now. Shipping something that large and heavy from Australia is too much, and we have different

[cctalk] Re: Back-plane wrap (was Re: Re: Antonio's call for donations (was LCM auction))

2024-09-24 Thread Ryan de Laplante (Personal) via cctalk
Hey Mike, Did the wire wrap tool sell?   Is it any good for DEC backplanes? Thanks, Ryan On 2024-08-31 10:29 a.m., Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: If I can find it, is anyone interested in a battery-powered wire wrap tool? Not sure of the diameter but it's larger than an IC socket, so I suspec

[cctalk] Re: request for 5.25 floppies

2024-09-24 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote: But does anyone here in the States happen to have a stack of known-good 5.25 disks they don't want anymore? Sorry, not right now have a drive for an old system that currently uses bubble memory cartridges to boot to PC-DOS 2.0, and so we'd l

[cctalk] request for 5.25 floppies

2024-09-24 Thread Steve Lewis via cctalk
I feel a little silly asking this, I hope it is not an overly inappropriate request for this mailing list. But does anyone here in the States happen to have a stack of known-good 5.25 disks they don't want anymore?And more specifically, would it be possible for anyone to image such a disk with

[cctalk] Re: Free computing books, SF bay area

2024-09-24 Thread Devin via cctalk
Hello, i am interested! Located in the melbourne florida area. Is local pickup or shipping an option , if i were to pay? I would love to have a 1st edition copy of the minix book, and have lots of dec systems applicable to the books. Where are you located at exactly? --Devin D. On September 2

[cctalk] Free computing books, SF bay area

2024-09-24 Thread John Floren via cctalk
I'm trying to tidy the absolute dragon's hoard I call an office, so I'm looking to give away some books I haven't touched in years. These are free for the taking for anybody who wants to drive to SF and get them. I'd really prefer for somebody to take them all at once, of course. - DEC PDP11/70 Pr

[cctalk] Re: Siemens 4004 mainframe pictures on bitsavers

2024-09-24 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
it was being talked about on one of the discords voice chats the other day. the guy is looking for manuals for it so if u got them upload them On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 1:17 AM P Gebhardt via cctalk wrote: > Hello list, > > out of curiosity: Does anybody know where the two pictures of the Siemens

[cctalk] Re: Siemens 4004 mainframe pictures on bitsavers

2024-09-24 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Sep 24, 2024, at 2:16 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk > wrote: > > Hello list, > > out of curiosity: Does anybody know where the two pictures of the Siemens > 4004 CPU uploaded on > http://bitsavers.org/pdf/siemens/4004/Model_15/pictures/ > > where taken? Are these from the unit being par

[cctalk] Re: CPM Disk Image Tools (was Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure))

2024-09-24 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
Corrected the Subject: line... On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 4:13 PM Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 2:19 AM Tony Duell via cctalk > wrote: > > > Is there are program available that will take an image of a CP/M disk > > in .IMD format (say) and let me view the directory, extract