On 6/2/25 10:27, Sean Kelly via cctalk wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a SCSI to Pertec interface for my Qualstar 3400 drive or the
Qualstar SCSI PCB for the same.
Does anyone have anything suitable they would like to sell?
Thanks
Sean
This hack project may be useful.
https://hackaday.io/
I entered a lot of history with the Pick system and Microdata directly
to Wikipedia of which quite a bit were events and situations I
personally was involved in.
Having that thrown out really pissed me off, and I've not bothered
putting much in since. Mostly typos and minor edits.
But it's
I got challenged by an idiot editor for my three letter login who put
some sort of hold on it.
After a plea on the discussion for my ID a guy came in with privileges
near as I can tell 4 levels higher and asked why that had any justification.
Near as I can tell 24 hours later the ID had no ed
On 2/16/25 23:12, ben via cctalk wrote:
Did any classic computers have a subroutine call as (S++)=PC, PC=(EFA)
as well as the standard call (--S)=PC,PC=(EFA) ?
One could have a virtual stack machine, using helper functions
without having to deal with return addresses on the stack.
Ben.
Th
original board github
https://github.com/SpareTimeGizmos/SBC6120
manual
https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/sbc/sbc6120_users_manual.pdf
this forum had some people building and selling some boards
https://www.retrobrewcomputers.org/doku.php?id=boards:sbc:sbc6120-rbc-edition:start
the 6120s are the fun pa
On 12/23/24 17:29, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 2024-12-23 at 18:21 -0500, Rod Bartlett via cctalk wrote:
One site I used to service (USGS in Reston, VA) had a split computer
room. The left side was for IBM gear while the right side held a
Honeywell Multics machine
Stuart Feldman, f
On 12/23/24 17:21, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 2024-12-23 at 20:42 +, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
For the people who worked at IBM, what was the difference between an
“FE” and “CE” ?
When my employer had a 7094/7044 Direct Couple, all the IBM guys who
worked on it were called "CE"
On 12/23/24 07:16, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
I thought the whole idea of the middle pocket on the 2540 was to allow a master
deck to be read in and fed to the middle pocket. A total card in the deck could
be selected into read pocket 1 and a new total card punched and fed to the
m
There was a fellow from one of the research buildings who had an xray
crystalography project ongoing, and some of his research is still
textbook for the subject.
Anyway he had been running for years in 72 on, and was generating
massive amount of data. He had two full handtrucks of 2000 card d
On 12/20/24 18:36, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
The IBM 1403 printer had interchangeable print chains. I know of only
four 1403 printers still working — two at the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, CA, one at the IBM Technology Center in Böblingen,
Germany, and one near Endicott, NY.
On 11/11/24 14:13, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Dear list denizens,
I've got a mental itch that needs to be scratched. Before me sits a
yellow 3-hole reel of IBM 556 bpi 1/2" tape. Fortunately, the leader is
intact and carries the number H241032488. Does this perchance give any
clue as to
On 10/31/24 07:06, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 at 20:24, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
They had a lot of local numbers so you didn’t have to pay Toll charges.
Only in the USA, or maybe N America.
Most of the world, AFAIK, we all paid for all calls, local and
long-distanc
On 10/31/24 19:02, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/31/24 09:35, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote:
If I remember right I was told back in the early 70s by our IBM CE
that physical damage could be done to our model 30 or 40 if we ran a
program that did an Assembler instruction, B * For
On 10/1/24 12:31, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 10/1/24 11:45, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
I should note that my local store's primary business at this point is
installing AV systems into peoples homes and repairing old stereo
equipment, which means they are likely the largest consumer of
On 9/2/24 21:27, Richard via cctalk wrote:
In article
you write:
I think most people here would disagree with you. How many people would
scrap a KI10, 11/20, PDP8 or any piece of classic computer equipment if it
was not "working in proper order"?
I usually discuss this with the potential b
I know a lot about Ultimate systems, worked there as a developer, and
have a system.
I've contacted the fellow about helping with the system.
It's got apparently 2 66mb Priam drives, and an F880 Cipher tape, a nice
system.
If anyone here rescues it, I'm glad to help. I am in Kansas City now
All but the processor board is built by Sigma System in Anaheim, CA. I
think it's an 11/23 clone system.
The owner said all of the boards were not dec, but the processor.
They built a Qbus system very much like the DEC one but w/o some of the
hard to find things DEC only built.
thanks
Jim
O
On 6/8/24 12:33, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 6/8/24 11:56, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote:
On 6/8/2024 7:43 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 6/7/24 20:42, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote:
On 6/7/2024 6:19 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
OK, I have to chime in here. I worked for
On 5/24/24 11:49, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
The problem with this debate is that the definition of Personal
Computer is totally fluid
A friend worked with an IBM 4361 at UMSL in St. Louis. It was very
little used as the print and other unit record had a separate unit to
handle that traff
... [was: Double Density 3.5" Floppy Disks]
On 5/7/24 12:15, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
my ears would never be good enough to notice any difference
Off on another tangent years ago when the first eproms showed up, where
I worked had nothing but programmable proms (as in Data I/O).
I ha
On 5/3/24 09:35, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
Fairly sure you could find something to run Doom that uses less than 1.7MW
I saw that someone posted on Twitter that they repurposed a disposable
home pregnancy test stick display and parts to run it.
Apparently it wasn't enough (isn't?) to h
I did run a hackintosh on one very long ago. IIRC it was a core I 2 not
very bright bulb.
That's not on topic either, but worth knowing.
thanks
Jim
On 4/5/24 19:41, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
I find them to be painfully slow
Actually I think it got a lot better once I installed debian i
On 3/26/24 20:47, CAREY SCHUG via cctalk wrote:
if you ever get a request to forense a raid for Solaris, take whatever
$$ they offer you. just plug 'em in anywhere, diff controllers,
different sequence, no matter. they have fingerprints, the os will
figure out and mount the raid, including re
On 3/21/24 19:28, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
And if the cost of shipping is more than the cost of the item
I stop at that point.
I recently paid $5 for a Visara terminal box, paid 45 to have it shipped
from Canada. (free trade agreement Us <--> Canada, nope). Anyway,
won't second
On 2/8/24 00:59, Nico de Jong via cctalk wrote:
Maybe you dont know, but all the Qualstars I've met, are basically
Pertec. I've run some 1052's on Overland software.
The 34xx series has a SCSI - Pertec interface, so if you remove this
board, you have a Pertec drive.
Thanks'
Nico
Thank
On 2/7/24 21:51, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote:
Greetings!
Based on the comment in a message posted last fall, I downloaded and
installed the Overland Data Depot4 software that was mentioned during
a discussion of SCSI tape tools. But so far I've been stumped in
getting it to work. Ba
Just saw on Twitter that the parts (main ones being front panel
castings) arrived, he's going to start kitting and sending to a
fulfifllment center in Florida.
I'm sure the audience here knows this, but this puts as marker in the
record here, since it's been ongoing for 3 years (according to O
1000 feet from where I lived in Anaheim. needed this a few years ago, I
would have helped any way I could. Have fun.
If you find the prices at the former Doubletree a bit much, there are
probably lots of cheap deals near Mouse Central, just 1 1/2 miles
north. I recommend it if you haven't b
On 1/25/24 15:44, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 1:37 PM Michael Mulhern via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
As a denizen of the antipodes I’ve heard about VCFSoCal, but maybe I’m more
into the socials.
Maybe VCF(etal) should be also sending notifications th
On 10/16/23 04:14, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
I'm here (voidstar) 😄 I think at the time I wasn't aware of cctalk, or it
wasn't working for me at the time.
The fellow who did this got into a lot of trouble, as they also did the
XT/370 and PC/370, and later the 390 PCI and MC boards.
I ha
On 10/3/23 21:23, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
There was a PDP-8 (rack straight 8 with asr33) that was on ebay that
disappeared..anyone know if it was sold? I can't find it, maybe the seller
pulled the auction to sell privately.
Bill
I trolled thru VCF forum and I think this is the one you r
Overland data Pertec controllers, ISA, AT and PCI interfaces with
utilities for the Pertec interface drives.
As Chuck mentioned, the 1260S is the SCSI version.
I use one of a stack of DL360 systems for the SCSI / Linux combo. has
worked well, and is less fuss than building up a system and addi
On 8/3/23 20:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Once again, the first that I am hearing about it is too late to pack
up stuff to take!
In the future, would everybody who knows about it mention it at least
once a week for the month preceding?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
On 8/3/23 13:21, KenUnix via cctalk wrote:
My efforts have failed. My host is Ubuntu 22.04 with Virtualbox 7.0.10.
I'd be curious given the nature of SCO if anyone has posted the goods to
install any of them, and what versions.
That aside, as mentioned by Grant, the system then was broken d
On 7/28/23 20:19, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Well, then it wanted it write unlocked (no way on a install disk), so
I used Imagedisk to write a copy, popped it in and with a quick
"access" it started the program and now it doesn't need the disk.
This sounds suspiciously like something I thi
On 7/28/23 17:36, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote:
TLDR:
“your computer can be infected by clicking on a single link … please click on
this single link.”
Is this an IQ test?
Did I pass?
Yes. A three letter company I worked for and another large company in
San Diego would send out less
On 7/19/23 22:35, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/19/23 19:58, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
A quick google turned this up.
https://www.securityweek.com/famed-hacker-kevin-mitnick-dead-at-59/
Too bad, but on the other hand, John Draper turned 80 this year.
Probably a better role model.
-
On 6/29/23 21:39, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
So I was able to get the listing for the PROMs by using the HEX file of
IMSAI BASIC 1.4 from.Rich Cini's website. I was able to then pull the
Intel papertape file image using Teraterm to capture the log of the session
while using to load BASIC i
On 6/28/23 21:43, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Anyone have the 2716 ePROM listing for IMSAI Basic. Version 1.4 or
whatever. I once had it, can't find my copy. If not 2716, I'll take any
listing that I can convert somehow.
Thanks
Bill
Possibly the Prom-4 board with 1702s. As mentioned 2 bo
All of them are for various hard drives. None floppy of any sort.
The first 4, 2840, 34, 21, and 09 all look like ones I'd use on a
Western Dynex either 5mb or 10mb (capacity) drive. 100tpi or 200tpi.
The others are progressively higher density, someone else may recognize
them. Epay period
ion on key mappings, unless you
have a knight or space cadet keyboard laying around and properly
mapped, lol.
Good times, it is definitely very different and weird.
-Eric
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 12:27 PM jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
This is great to see. One note, you'll
This is great to see. One note, you'll need to install libx11-dev (on
Ubuntu 22 anyway)
then build it. Now to figure out how to play with it.
thanks
Jim
On 3/30/23 10:53, Eric Moore via cctalk wrote:
Originating in 1960, Lisp is second only to Fortran as the oldest
programming language still
On 3/12/23 15:00, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk wrote:
Thank you so much. The links are extremely helpful. Actually, your entire blog
is excellent, Steve
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
On Mar 12, 2023, at 12:24 PM, Steve Lewis via cctalk
wrote:
Hello. I am visiting the Computer History Museum in Ca
On 3/10/23 19:07, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
The school district was thrilled to get the PDP. Then they had PG&E set
up the power for it. Some PG&E technicians did not know the difference
between "Delta" and "Wye"/"Y" three phase! Seriously dsmaged the
machine.
This goes a bit sideway
On 3/10/23 20:13, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
And all the OS/360 variants were so late that they introduced three
other operating systems as a stopgap to allow IBM to actually ship
systems that were usable by customers. First came Basic Operating
System/360 (BOS/360), which was pretty much c
On 3/10/23 00:16, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I believe that this photo shows a Datamatic 1000 tape next to a standard
1/2" drive.
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/00/3e/7d/003e7d4e3a2478db0b9a7c94f2033252.jpg
--Chuck
Hub size looks small on the 1/2" for later style tapes. 2" tape? I
wonder i
On 3/8/23 22:23, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 3/8/23 19:23, Chris Elmquist wrote:
Who can read them now? ;-)
I suppose that you could rig something up as a streaming rig, but the
metal was murder on heads; the Univservo I interposed a thin plastic
tape between the metal and the head.
On 10/29/22 01:06, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
Re below. why would they refuse cash?
And vy the way, as soon as I had it, I offered it, but
they refused the tender.
If they accepted any amount from Sellam, they were on the hook for a lot
of laws
and regulations in the state. CA has som
On 9/24/22 14:59, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
o?
On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 12:30 PM jos via cctalk
wrote:
On 24.09.22 04:57, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote:
Wow someone mentioning à phillips p series
Has a p854 new old stock panel my self along with bunch of manuals and à
spare core m
On 9/22/22 22:56, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-09-22 11:30 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 9/22/22 21:49, Teo Zenios via cctalk wrote:
I assume some of that stuff was purchased for TV show or movie props.
I recall all of the IBM 1620 front panels in "The Forbin Project", along
with
On 9/22/22 10:05, Peter Van Peborgh via cctalk wrote:
I know this is sacrilege but I am looking for the front panel of a *Data
General Nova *and/or *a DEC PDP 8/11/12/15*.
Why? I collect artefacts from the days of the minicomputer and earlier and
I want them for my collection/display. They sho
On 9/17/22 13:30, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
Greetings, all,
While getting ready for VCF Midwest etc, I have been spending a lot of
hobby time in the past year digging out various DEC minicomputer items
and testing/repairing them. To that end, I've been staring at a DSD480
on top of a PDP-
On 9/5/22 11:07, Tom Stepleton via cctalk wrote:
Are you sure about that? The 5100 doesn't support floppy drives. And
I've
never heard of third-party drives (that would need IMFs, too) for the
5100.
$3100 is about what IBM charged for a fully loaded 5150. (PC)
THAT is not a 5100! $3100 f
On 9/5/22 08:53, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out a
22 07:16, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
On Sun, 4 Sep 2022, jim stephens wrote:
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and
he added the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM buy for
31
On 9/3/22 17:38, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Well, it ain't in the 5150/5160 range!
The 5100 new was $10K to $20K.
I had a 5100 that a dentist had bought as soon as it came out and he
added the floppy drives and printer. It was a direct IBM buy for 31000.
thanks
Also a fair amount of so
On 9/2/22 11:59, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 9/2/22 11:15, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
I’m working on an update to Wikipedia on floppy disk drive controllers –
there is a nice section on WD but nothing on Intel/NEC
Anyone know the history of how the NEC µPD765 and the Intel 8272 beca
On 8/31/22 13:33, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
Someone on Fesse Bouc just found a sealed box of SS/SD 8" floppies in
their garage.
Most FB types are too young to know 8" disks existed, of course.
Someone suggested punching a notch in them and using both sides.
Was that even possible on 8"
On 8/11/2022 5:33 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 8/11/22 2:07 AM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
I have used such as US Robotics with a vonage voip account pad. Sends
and receives faxes quite well, as well.
ACK
not sure what you are after then. I haven't seen a way to hook
On 8/10/2022 10:53 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Does anyone know if it's possible, or -- better -- have experience
using a cell phone as a dial up modem?
I'm wondering about doing something as an alternative to a traditional
POTS modem connected to a VoIP ATA. I'd think that treating
If you scroll thru the other auctions, these aren't the only ones with
interesting material. There is a lot of other equipment and items.
I scrolled and saw meters and power supplies for instance. The sad
thing that this shows is how poor a choice of an agent this operation is
in attracting
I'm good with the duality going away. I see in a day longer ago that
the split made sense and also was more useful.
I don't think I've seen the cctech separate out much that can't be
located and followed anyway.
Appreciate all the efforts. I'll look at my archives. I think Jay had
all I h
Dag Spicer posted a Tweet saying that Steve, a volunteer @ the CHM has
passed away.
https://twitter.com/dag_spicer/status/1544666106501087234?t=bMAk29lJ42j9mKv_iZaf7Q&s=03
Thanks
Jim
not sure what needs to be done either. Maybe Jay's having problems with
that.t
Sending this along to see if my non google related post goes thru.
google folks apparently won't get it.
thanks
Jim
I picked one up several years ago for my 029. maybe 25 or 30 bucks.
I also grabbed a couple of the cylinders that were used to put legends
on cards, which were around. Never knew exactly what process used them,
but the look cool.
On 4/22/2022 3:16 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/22
The list doesn't send any of the emails, but I get forged emails that
were harvested from someone with a folder full of different emails.
They show up with all the addresses, a lot of them email addresses from
here, all in the From: or CC: field, which the list mail server never does.
I've no
On 4/1/2022 11:51 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 1, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk
wrote:
On 2022-Apr-01, at 6:02 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
When I looked at that ebay listing of "glass memory" it pointed me to another item,
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2656236
On 3/27/2022 11:49 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 3/27/22 14:48, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Bigger question is who repaired the power supply "under warranty"?
My guess would be whoever fixed it this last time and warranted it.
bill
I have an Alpha DS-20 retired Feb 2021 that
sorry to put on list, but never heard from Tom about what I sent him.
thanks
Jim
On 3/22/2022 9:23 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
I came across a reference to a cctalk message from 9 September 200
On 3/22/2022 9:23 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote:
I came across a reference to a cctalk message from 9 September 2006 and
would like to read the rest of the thread with the subject "PDP-8m Console
Switch Problems - fixed!".
Sending you the requested month. many titled messaages.
will send
I have a serial Documation M-1000. Not running at the moment, but
adequate for such
Two more M-600 parallel, and I think the number for the dinky one is
M-150, also parallel.
interface would go thru an arduino with 5v board easily to a USB serial
or whatever (Ethernet maybe)
thanks
Jim
On
The thread with the photograph had an Ebay source for the part.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/151010204380
doesn't help with function, or with the solder blob jumper purpose (or
booboo) but can get the part for some amount if they ship to Brazil.
On 2/24/2022 10:24 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrot
Could be speaking ahead of answers here, but TI had an entire internal
PN system for their parts in the 70s (I dealt with it in 75) and they
did it to stop people from doing component level repairs on such as TI
silent 700s. I don't think there's a common P/N part in those.
I couldn't get the
On 1/31/2022 11:01 AM, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
It seems clear it was used in memory well before HDDs but when it got
started there is unclear.
* IBM PC DOS v2 was an early user in 1983 with FDISK and its first PC
support of HDDs
* UNIX, Apple OS's and IBM mainframe all seem to come lat
I think Datum was an Orange County, CA company mostly. They also did
tape formatters which were used with Pertec (also OC based for initial
time) to do NRZI and PE. I recall that they were similar to the Pertec
units, might have been related.
A friend worked for them on projects doing progra
On 12/26/2021 7:49 PM, Ali wrote:
Not sure what you mean here. Refurbished means that a seller has brought an item to the
original operating specs and that the item will operate as it should. This is also eBay's
meaning of refurbished. So I am not sure why you think they "screwed" it up.
I h
Epay has messed the definitions up into a useless mess.
I'd expect a vendor not selling on such to actually test the items.
Whether they are warranted is a separate issue.
On ebay they've screwed over sellers to the point that it's all but
wasting time to list there unless you sell either r
I don't know who is left, but a friend who has a system running on a
DS-20 alpha system migrated off the hardware as the vendor supporting
them was withdrawing support (finally) for that and some others. But
they also supported hardware replacement for them, and migrated them to
Intel servers.
is is
the style I have, but I’m pretty sure my manual is for the pull-out enclosure.
A manual on this enclosure might give some idea on the gas struts.
Zane
On Dec 24, 2021, at 11:58 AM, jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
I have the same system cabinet, but have not looked at it in detail. I
I have the same system cabinet, but have not looked at it in detail. I
think from some of the replies, they are thinking about the H960 tall
cabinets and systems that are pulled out, then rotate on the slides.
This I think is like the hood of a car, then the system tilts up, as
the cabinet i
On 11/20/2021 11:11 AM, Jonathan Katz via cctalk wrote:
Hey everyone!
Has anyone been able to use a SCSI2SD setup where HVD is required? I
know by default that isn't supported, but given we can get custom kits
to solder, we could just change out one of the controller chips
(optimistically?)
On 11/16/2021 2:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 11/16/21 2:08 PM, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
Did the 4004 chip start our interest in microcomputing?
no
I got interested in microprogramming before it was hijacked as a a term
for such devices. It's generous at best to appl
On 9/28/2021 2:48 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
"I've been using vi for about two years, mostly because I can't
figure out
how to exit it."
:q
you're welcome
Or having to power cycle the machine to get out of EMACS.
thanks
Jim
I have a version of a full size 8" floppy drive footprint (or hard
drive) which is wafer scale storage.
thanks
Jim
On 9/21/2021 3:00 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk wrote:
An interesting project that Sir Clive was involved in was the wafer
scale integration effort by Ivor Catt.
http://www.co
Wifey has phone numbers and knows about several of these lists.
thanks
Jim
On 9/18/2021 7:10 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 9/18/21 7:32 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
Which is worse, no basement or a wife 😁
To all the wives out there: "no basement"
On 9/18/2021 1:45 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Of course, Busicom was the first programed microprocessor driven
calculator, it wasn't the first calculator using calculator ICs. That
is what Busicom was trying to compete with, when going to In
On 9/5/2021 2:55 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 9/5/21 1:24 PM, Gabriel Nielson via cctalk wrote:
I was digging through the internet and found a post where a 3803 was posted for
sale, would there happen to still be one available?Preferably a model 2
Thanks,gcniel...@yahoo.com
Aside f
On 8/26/2021 5:14 PM, Ray Jewhurst via cctalk wrote:
Hello all,
Long time lurker, extremely rare poster, I was reading the Wikipedia
article on the IBM 1620 and became quite intrigued. I know that there is a
simulator for it on SimH but I have never ran or simulated any card-driven
machines b
I had an 11/15 with one of these, no memory in the main box.
Both stolen along with an 8/M
Wondering if anyone saw such for sale in the last 5 years. Private
email if so.
thanks
Jim
On 8/20/2021 4:04 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
I just saw there is an ME11 Memory Expansion unit on
On 8/14/2021 1:36 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021, 2:08 PM Douglas Taylor wrote:
On 8/14/2021 1:54 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 10:19 AM Douglas Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
I ran into a YouTube video, that it is 5 years old
On 8/11/2021 11:23 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 8/11/21 11:12 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
On 8/11/2021 10:57 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
"nobody collects printers"
Tossed a couple 2 years ago which were unloved. I don't think I have
any in my KC ware
On 8/11/2021 10:57 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
"nobody collects printers"
Tossed a couple 2 years ago which were unloved. I don't think I have
any in my KC warehouse, but will have my friend there check.
I mainly don't save the Laserjet because no parts and they
don't run forever.
On 8/2/2021 7:22 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
FANUC A860-0056-T020 Papertape Reader and DOSTEK 440A BTR
https://www.ebay.com/itm/274883740917
Ebay listing includes my project notes. Hopefully someone here will want
it.
Bill
I see that to ship from you to the Los Angeles area is $112.00
On 7/31/2021 8:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/31/21 6:23 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
A practice still observable on Youtube where you can marvel at a grimy oily
ASR33 being stripped down and restored, all the while whilst wearing a spotless
crisp ironed long-sleeve pin-st
I stored the tape drives and printers from the SDS pile. I asked when
the whole fiasco first surfaced and someone connected to the landlord
got into the mess. They said there was no media. I never saw any in
Kansas City which was to have been delivered as part of me storing that
stuff for hi
On 7/20/2021 10:13 AM, pspan via cctech wrote:
I worked at a company called DMA located in Amery Wisconsin during the
80's and 90's that did do core mat repair. Yes, the gal that did the
work used a scope. She replaced cores and wires. Good luck finding
someone to do that work now. If I reme
On 6/23/2021 10:25 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 6/23/21 10:17 AM, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote:
Many years (decades?) ago Dave Babcock and I read all the cards as
part of
the original 1620 project at CHM.
There has been a steady stream of misinformation about CHM's 1620 in
the pas
On 6/22/2021 11:46 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
| The same goes for Multics
I think the 80286 was a better platform than the original for Multics.
And, of course, the Pentium is even better. Is Multics available for
Intel systems?
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Intel's engineer
On 6/21/2021 4:00 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
I was once told that the most valuable guy in a Honeywell 6080 Multics
shop was the plumber.
No water cooling.
On 6/21/2021 1:43 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
But with all this computing science, they have yet to make a clean
meta compiler like Meta II, or Tree meta.
The compiler structure used in Pick is pretty much like this.
XPL by William M. McKeeman and others which Microdata used to create the M
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