On 05/07/2025 01:08, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-07-04 4:15 p.m., Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
Yeah, this was 1978.
What we used to spend on IT stuff back then is really amazing.
So much!
True, but you got field service,
not some AI telling you read web page xxx, with a dead computer.
But I
On 03/07/2025 20:52, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jul 3, 2025, at 2:26 PM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
That’s a good business practice anyway. You want your high price system up and
running as fast as possible, so not having to do more than cursory diagnostics
is a good thing I think d
On 03/07/2025 19:00, cz via cctalk wrote:
Same here. The FE came prepared with a replacement board. Never
repaired the board.
In and out!
Well the Honeywell 6000 & Level 66 series machines
https://gunkies.org/wiki/Honeywell_6000_series
came with a board tester which was supposed to iden
On 20/06/2025 21:52, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
I'm always puzzled by "local only" offers. It's expected that shipping costs get added,
but why would a seller make a decision that shipping is "too expensive"? Logically the
buyer should decide that, and if the buyer will pay the shipping
On 20/06/2025 23:34, jake utley via cctalk wrote:
:Do we ever have one in the UK ?
I think the nearest thing I've seen recently is the retro festival at
the Cambridge CCH museum.
TNMoC of course has excellent fixed exhibits but I don't think it's
had guests for a long while.
VCF UK 2026 has
On 20/06/2025 18:44, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
People can ask what ever they want on ebay, if you want to see what
people are actually paying search completed auctions.
Yes, but E-Bay suggests a price...
I can ask $10,000 for a penny but that doesn't mean that anyone will
pay it.
On 6
On 13/05/2025 17:01, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
So many won't miss it, but for those of us who used it to call real numbers,
there is nothing comparable to replace it.
With the gradual demise of the POTS and mobile/cell handsets switching to
VoIP that won't be an issue soon (or rather
On 13/05/2025 00:58, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
It's just another case of how long should a company maintain older
infrastructure in the face of new technologies and systems.
The conversion to Teams was relatively painless so it's not much of a
big deal for many.
There are also many alte
On 09/05/2025 02:47, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
On 9/05/2025 10:48 am, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
I will soon receive an ASR-33 and I will need roll paper, 1" rolled
(preferably oiled) paper tape and a ribbon or two.
Please DM me if you have any to spare.
Paper is easy enough - its
On 05/05/2025 14:47, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Sun, 4 May 2025, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Various earlier systems used microprogram-like techniques, but I don't
know how many were earlier than PB in their use of the word.
I think "Microprogramming" as a technique has been around as long
On 16/02/2025 20:51, paul.kimpel--- via cctalk wrote:
I don't understand -- ASCII had only two versions, 1963 and 1967, and both had
square brackets. The IBM PC used ASCII, but had nothing to do with its
standardization.
I can't find the context for this, but it was early EBCDIC devices whic
On 03/02/2025 23:54, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-02-03 3:52 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
You miss my tongue-in-cheek observation. iPhone software isn't, to bhe
best of my knowledge, open-source. How does one know or determine that
there's not malware in vendor-supplied software?
On 02/02/2025 07:29, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
IBM used a DB25 socket for their printer port at the computer end,
(male on the card for serial, female on the card for parallel "Centronics")
THAT, of course caused some idiots t
On 31/01/2025 11:56, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-31 4:25 a.m., Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
A couple of points you might like to consider, which you may already
know but stuff you've said above doesn't spell it out:
RS232 is not serial - make yourself clear. Before RS232 the same
On 31/01/2025 08:20, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Hey all! So, I've found myself studying up on RS-232 this year for a few
reasons.
I'm mulling over doing an RS232 themed talk at June VCF. Not a super
exciting topic, but I do think that RS232 has an interesting history: In
the SAGE relati
On 21/01/2025 22:59, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
On 01/21/2025 5:52 PM EST Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
An increase in acceleration (third derivative positive) would account for
increased gravity.
:-)
Geez! All this pseudo science! All ya gotta do is follow the REAL science!
Of cours
More pics of other bits added to my one drive
Dave
(Sorry if this is a bit of a mess. Some messages got lost in my spam
folder)
Forwarded Message
Subject:Re: [cctalk] Fwd: SBC6128
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:32:33 +
From: David Wade
To: Doug Jackson via cc
On 14/01/2025 22:13, Doug Jackson wrote:
Hi Dave,
That's exactly what I remembered - *infinite* storage across many
volumes :-)
That enclosure looks practical as well. - Whats the PSU? Fortunately
the UK and Aus have the same power 230V (ish).
Given the level of completeness, I would be
On 14/01/2025 20:54, Frank Leonhardt via cctalk wrote:
On 14/01/2025 16:28, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 1/14/25 03:50, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-13 6:55 p.m., Joseph S. Barrera III via cctalk wrote:
I would expect universal condemnation for anyone who would ask if
FLACC
were des
Doug,
Well I fished out the SBC + IOB and tested it. It actually boots from
both IDE disk and CF card.
I made a few pictures and video and stuck them on my one drive...
https://1drv.ms/f/s!Ag4BJfE5B3onoNli9TZ4C4GMmhTJbg?e=wUThV9
I need to dig a little deeper for the board and bits, but I only
Doug,
it did indeed drop into Spam. Let me take some pics first.
Dave
On 14/01/2025 12:26, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Hi Dave,
I'll send this to the group, I suspect my email made it into your spam.
Doug
-- Forwarded message -
From: Doug Jackson
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 6:
On 13/01/2025 23:29, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-13 4:00 p.m., David Wade via cctalk wrote:
More like not enough actual memory. You can fit an acceptable basic
into a 4K ROM so it will work without a disk drive.
Its an interpreter so can do checks as you type it in.
Its far easier
On 13/01/2025 22:19, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 1/13/2025 3:57 PM, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2025-01-13 12:18 p.m., Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
Funny when the 8 and 16 bit micros hit the market, Algol seemed to
vanish off the face of the earth. Was 64KB too small a address
On 13/01/2025 07:01, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Hi everybody,
I used to own a SBC6128 which I built from Spare Time Gizmo's.
It was a PDP8 on a chip, using a Harris 6128 PDP8 on a chip. It featured a
serial port and an IDE disk interface. It was a heap of fun to use and
recreated quite
On 11/12/2024 07:04, Doug Jackson via cctalk wrote:
Haven't the really big machines been virtualise under a specialised version
of Linux. I recall Andrew Tridgal working for IBM 15 years ago porting it
to their Z series.
Whilst Linux runs on Z its either in a virtual machine created by zVM o
On 10/12/2024 07:13, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
If this were my project, I would read the VT100 manual and design and
implement a serial driver and basic text window library from scratch
running on the bare hardware. It wouldn't be more than 1000 lines of C,
more likely something like 500 li
On 10/12/2024 23:59, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
NEAT/3 instructions
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/neat3.pdf
Misc instructions
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/pl-o.pdf
Misc Assembler
www.myimagecollection.com/webdocs/miscassembler.pdf
IBM beginnings
www.myimagecollection.com/w
t 1:01 PM, David Wade via cctalk wrote:
On 04/12/2024 18:49, Tony Duell wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM David Wade via cctalk
wrote:
Folks,
I have been trying to restore a manual card punch. The type with 12
"Buttons" or "Plungers" that operate a lever which pushes a pu
On 04/12/2024 18:49, Tony Duell wrote:
On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 6:41 PM David Wade via cctalk
wrote:
Folks,
I have been trying to restore a manual card punch. The type with 12
"Buttons" or "Plungers" that operate a lever which pushes a punch "pin"
through a die t
Folks,
I have been trying to restore a manual card punch. The type with 12
"Buttons" or "Plungers" that operate a lever which pushes a punch "pin"
through a die to create a hole in a card.
Its almost identical to this one:-
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/38019/ICL-Hand-Key-Punch-Card-
On 02/10/2024 16:01, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/2/24 09:11, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Oct 1, 2024, at 8:06 PM, donald donaldwhittemore.com via cctalk
wrote:
I rue the day I lost an eBay auction. It was a PR photo with a good
looking model mounting a disk in an open drawer o
On 17/07/2024 20:15, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
The number of UK museums seem to be growing. Perhaps some of the newer ones
are not yet full. I think the large Science Museums are pretty well off but
the smaller ones may be more flexible. Of course, they are also in greater
danger of fadin
On 16/07/2024 18:49, Joshua Rice via cctalk wrote:
I think the key to preservation is assuring next of kin that the items
in our possession have value, and are worth seeking out future
custodians. There's a lot of stuff in private collections that can
bring in great sums of money if only thos
On 01/05/2024 00:27, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
Thank you.
My goal is not to use HD floppies on a drive not designed for them. I
saw some on ebay and amazon but I thought I would try here to see if
anybody had some they don't need. I would help keep them out of the
trash.
I have lots, b
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2024 3:24 PM
> To: Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> Cc: Bill Gunshannon
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Cleanup time again
>
>
>
> On 3/23/2024 11:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > Here's somet
Are they really Punch cards? Could the be for a Selectric Mag Card device
They use a mylar card the same size a a punch card.
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Norris via cctalk
> Sent: 13 August 2022 12:55
> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
> Cc: Mike Norris
> Subject: [cctalk] Unused Pun
I have had to switch from gmail to outlook. Gmail won't send because its on the
SORBS list
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Ali via cctalk
> Sent: 02 August 2022 18:40
> To: CCTalk Mailing List
> Cc: Ali
> Subject: [cctalk] Posts Blocked
>
> Hello All,
>
> Since the new hosting has
> -Original Message-
> From: Ali via cctalk
> Sent: 31 July 2022 06:51
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
> Cc: Ali
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Connecting a physical terminal via LAN to Serial Port
>
> > I feel like a Raspberry Pi or similar would fit the bill for th
Folks,
Rod has spurred me on to pay a visit to VCF Europe. I wonder if any one else
on the list is going. If so any thoughts on Hotels? I will probably only manage
the Saturday!
Dave
39 matches
Mail list logo
