[cctalk] Re: unpleasant odor from VT100

Hi Hush: There are dangerous - potentially lethal - voltages inside a CRT display, so be very, very careful if you don’t have lots of experience with these devices. Touch the high voltage points by mistake and you are likely dead on the spot. The issue probably relates to bad electrolytic capa

[cctalk] 11/45 and 11/34 Taken!

Hi All: I’m pleased to report that my 11/45 and 11/34 which were in need of a new home have been taken by another collector here in BC. They will be off to a very good home! Thanks for reading my post. Kevin

[cctalk] Test Message

Pardon the test message, I have just re-subscribed to the list but have seen no traffic on it for a couple of days. Kevin McQuiggin

Re: Electr* Engineering

Norman, I recall you! I was at SFU first as a high school student from 1975 then as an undergrad 1977-1981. Elma, Doreen, Ted Sterling, James Weinkam - you’ll remember them! I was a TA as well in the late 1970s and classes were small, especially upper level. 5-6 students per class and we’d

Re: Electr* Engineering

In my school in Canada, the computing science program started about 1974 and grew out of the math department, but when it was formalized as a department in 1976-77 the university wisely placed it in a new “Interdisciplinary Studies” faculty and staffed the school with people from mathematics, ch

Re: Recovering the ROM of an IBM 5100 using OCR (among other things)

In the early days of cyber crime (it was called “computer crime” back in the 1980s), fraudsters would purchase an aerosol spray with tiny metal particles in it (I forget what the specific valid use case was, but it was legitimate), and apply the spray to the mag stripe on the back of credit card

Re: Lots of unused CompacTape IV Cartridges Available

Hi Richard: I have a couple of compatible drives that I use on my Microvaxes, if you could spare say 6 then that’d be great. I live in Vancouver and of course would pay shipping! Kevin McQuiggin Sent from my iPad > On Dec 17, 2018, at 15:07, Richard Loken via cctalk > wrote: > > I have ac

Re: chasing down an old game

Might be the old “Star Trek” game? It is still around, I think. Sent from my iPad > On Dec 9, 2018, at 01:20, Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk > wrote: > > Many many years ago in a distant galaxy (called Strathclyde University > Computer Science) we ran a game on the > PDPs. It was great at tes

Re: UniBone - access DEC PDP-11 UNIBUS under Linux

Wow, fantastic!!! Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 12, 2018, at 05:33, Jörg Hoppe via cctech > wrote: > > Guys, > > I'm about to finish another project: > "UniBone" - a Linux-to-UNIBUS bridge, based on the BeagleBone Black. > > It is supposed to be a development platform for device emulation. >

Re: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

Yup that’s me, stuck working! > On Nov 22, 2018, at 11:38 AM, Jim MacKenzie via cctalk > wrote: > > And happy Thursday to all the non-Americans :) (Stuck at work today :( :) ) > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of ED SHARPE > via cct

Re: IND$FILE

Ah, fond memories! IEFBR14... Sent from my iPad > On Nov 19, 2018, at 19:00, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > >> On 11/19/2018 03:11 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> I believe the package internal to mvs / OS has the preface of IND for the >> modules. Similar to IFBR14 is part of t

Re: Historic IBM memory tech

Hi Peter: You might try asking Paul Pierce in Portland Oregon. Just google “Pierce Computer Collection”. He has dozens of historic IBM machines going back to a vacuum tube (valve) -based 704. Kevin Sent from my iPad > On Aug 8, 2018, at 10:49, Peter Van Peborgh via cctech > wrote: > > Vi