[cctalk] Re: Alacron i860 boards

Wow Tony, thats a really cool board. I hope you get the support software, compilers and all that. I had an i860 fromAT&T Truevision, for their TOPAS 3D modeling SW, but they dropped it. The i860 was also in a desktop, Kubota bought the Ardent graphics supercomputer and moving the software to t

[cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel.

OK, the web is your friend. Looks like it has applications in cryptography, or searching thru text: https://cryptome.org/jya/sadd.htm From: Chuck Guzis via cctalk Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 11:28 AM To: Randy Dawson via cctalk Cc: Chuck Guzis Subject

[cctalk] Re: Minicomputer front panel.

On the top secret number cruching The Cray had an instruction called 'population count' asked for by the NSA. The number of bits on in a word, not sure what this was used for. From: ben via cctalk Sent: Friday, September 23, 2022 10:52 AM To: cctalk@classicc

Re: Early '80s Motorola Semiconductor Reference - anyone?

I found a few of the databooks here: https://usermanual.wiki/search.php?q=motorola%20semiconductor%20reference Randy From: cctech on behalf of r.stricklin via cctech Sent: Saturday, August 7, 2021 5:50 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Early

Ian Hirschsohn - DISSPLA, Superset Inc. and sad news

As some here know, I collect some dusty deck fortran graphics. We have MOVIE.BYU up and running! (Thanks Douglas Taylor and Emanuel Steibler). Ian built AMD 2901 bit slice hardware to run his graphics, it was called SuperSet, and was very quick for the 1980s. Architecture was 48 bit, A=B op C,

Re: Distribution floppies (Was: Microsoft OSs (was: Install Floppies)

LOT'S OF GOOD INFORMATION HERE! I am keeping this one Fred, and thank you. From: cctalk on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2021 3:27 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Distribution floppies (Was: Microsoft

Re: Pro-Log M980 Programmer

I had a Data I/O 29B with a serial interface and I assume your Pro-Log is similar. Cabled up and baud correct you should get a menu on a CR with your host. Mine took an Intel or Motorala ASCI HEX string on power up without any commands or prompts. Randy From: cct

COMPAQ ISA PC to ethernent

If anyone has ideas about boards or software to connect this original Compaq to the net let me know! Browsing the ebay, I do not find a PC 8 bit ethernet board but still looking. Then, the rest, a net set of tools in source would be great.

Original Intel 8085 training briefcase with tapes

Just on a chance, would anybody have the paper workbook that goes with this kit? It is a 8085 SDK board in a briefcase, power supply and tape player that was probably part of a class they presented. Mine works fine, including the Sony Walkman in the case, I am listening to the 10 or more trainin

Microsoft fortran and c manuals

Hi Thomas, Did you ever the pdf copies of these? I also would like to get a set. Thanks, Randy

interesting manual find - usermanual.wiki

Ran across this, give it a try. There are tons of old (and new) manuals in there. Randy

evil thing to ask but I need keystroke logger

I have kids that after corona are in lockdown, so they are on computers all the time. Supposed to be doing schoolwork, but no, feedback from the school is negative. Can I trap some traffic from these PC's and what software would you recommend? Randy

Re: Tektronix PDP-11 Signal Processing System BASIC 1980

Hi Al, Fantastic! Your work here has always been the best, and the Tektronix graphics documents, as a subject was on target. I have a Tek 4051, and, its gathering dust. I need to fix a broken trace blanking, but this thing is hard to get into. Its going to be lay it out on the bench for scope

Re: Computer History

fix your links. CC yourself and see if you can click on them. From: cctalk on behalf of Murray McCullough via cctalk Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 5:25 PM To: cctalk Subject: Computer History I've recently reread *Fire In The Valley, Ed. 1,2 &3.* They ar

IBM professional graphics adapter and monitor

Before I ebay buy a monitor, original IBM 5135, will it match the scan rates of the IBM of the IBM Professional Graphics Controller? I wanted to keep this system looking all original IBM. Will I need a different monitor, Princeton or something like that? Your recommendations appreciated. Thank

Herbert Schildt C code from books

A wild guess that maybe some on the group may have these files. I bought the books from abe books, a few dollar's each. They are (vintage 80-90's) but of course the code floppy disks are not there. Did anybody keep these files? The Art of C The Craft of C C Power Users Guide I hope you say no

CHM software

Follow up to the Living Computer Museum discussion... I can understand why CHM does not allow access to the hardware, But what about the software? It should all be downloadable. Randy

Re: Grinnell Systems

Hi Emanuel, I remember them well, I was their manufacturer's rep in Houston, and sold several to petrochem, NASA and universities. It was a big ticket item, selling for upwards of 40K when loaded up with all the options. NASA was using it for animation, the petrochem guys for geology visualiza

Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?

A couple other ccmp guys, Emanuel Steibler and Doug Taylor and I have been passing around what I have. Doug got it working under linux. Where is the best place to put this? I also have BYU's follow up CQUEL, greatly expanded, with X11 GUI. Randy From: cctalk

Re: Old FORTRAN programs, libraries, graphics

Emanuel, I have you covered with FORTRAN graphics. I have your 3d wireframe, and rendering too with MOVIE.BYU. The greatest 3D and animation package in its day, say late 70's early 80s. Martin Hepler gave me the latest, I got most of it working, but aaa well something took me away. Let me

Re: PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration

I can't be the only one who would like to see the FORTRAN source of some of those editors, linkers, macro processors. As a medical electronics guy, I had to deal with a fortran monster of a database engine, manman. It was legacy in with the FDA, but woa, what a suck piece of crap it is. Hi Dia

Re: First Internet message and ...

No, this was the first personal computer... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4050#/media/File:Tektronix_4051_ad_April_1976.jpg From: cctalk on behalf of Mike Stein via cctalk Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 7:15 PM To: Fred Cisin ; General Discussion: On

Re: Looking for older Motorola pagers (UHF, POCSAG)

I do not have the pagers themselves, but 2 large boxes of NEW Motorola RF components. ICs, RF transistors, etc. From: cctalk on behalf of Ethan O'Toole via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 10:27 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Looking for older M

Re: Wanted: Scan of RF modulator article in Sept. 1978 Radio Electronics

The next issue is here (as well as all pop tronics and radio electronics, Byte and more) https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Electronics/70s/1978/Radio-Electronics-1978-09.pdf '' 1' - americanradiohistory.com

Re: Anyone have any Datapoint software on floppy?

Anyone interested in Datapoint should get this book: Datapoint The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution ISBN 978-1-936449-36-1 Quite a story, I could not put it down. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of jos via cctalk Sent: Wedne

Your Heatkkit EC-1 analog computer

Hi Jeff, I have hundreds of crystals here for you, and built a crystal tester (Jim Williams app note) https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/application-notes/an12fa.pdf AN12 - Circuit Techniques for Clock Sources

Re: Latest Additions to the Virtual Warehouse of Computing Wonders Sale Inventory

Anybody try business with this guy? His prices are 10X off the chart From: cctalk on behalf of Sellam Ismail via cctalk Sent: Monday, June 24, 2019 9:59 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Latest Additions to the Virtual Warehouse of

Re: PDP 11/15

Paul, That is so cool! How much space would it take? That is my first computer (outside of timesharing and Z-80 homebrew). My first job was on the PDP-15 to transcribe the APOLLO analog range tapes of the lunar experiments, primarily the seismometer moonquake data for the University of Texas Geop

Re: PDP-8: count number of set bits in a word

Hi Kyle, hat's a really interesting problem, and the government (NSA) wanted this badly and done FAST. they asked Seymour Cray to create a specific instruction for this and they called it 'population count' Anybody know the why and how it is useful? I am deep in matrix math books and 'classif

Re: Looking for Byte Jan 78 missing page

The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your missing pages: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf From: cctalk on behalf of Peter Cetinski via cctalk Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2019 1:40 PM To: wrco...@wrc

a timer for the PC - screen tme for the kids

Before I develop this, I thought it may already exist, and the classiccmp mail list might be the place to ask. What we have, is the screen time problem with the kids. If we are not there hounding and policing them, they will be on for hours. All the medical community says, we need to limit the

Re: Another dealer going under

I an next door, give us the address please... Thanks, Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Ali via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 9:07 AM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Cc: 'Electronics Plus' Subject: RE: Another dealer going under

Re: ISO - 386 or 486 system or cplt mobo

We use a website called 'nextdoor' which is a neighborhood community exchange. I posted a message asking for the same, old PC's. In a coupe of days I picked up 5 of them for free. Two were VERY unique, belonging to a LA area movie editor. They came with high end Matrox frame grabber/video car

Re: Researching IBM rare equipment from 50s to 80s

I worked with an ex-IBMer who told me about this thing. It was nick-named "The Noodle Snatcher" - with a puff of air it wiggled the mag tape and wrapped it around a drum for read/write. It had a nasty habit of mis-handling the tape. He told me that during a sales presentation to a customer, th

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

turday, December 15, 2018 12:27 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine On 12/15/2018 12:54 AM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: > Zane, your comments are appreciated. > > I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, an

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

Zane, your comments are appreciated. I have paid for subscriptions to ebooks that cost ~10 a month, and they are OK for text, but when a schematic comes up, it sucks (scribd) you cant zoom or increase the resolution. I also follow you on your purchase experience with out of print and search. I a

Re: Looking for a home for most issues of BYTE Magazine

Hi John, If you have not gotten any takers, I will step up. I am in Los Angeles (Thousand Oaks). I see most if not all is online at internet achive an here: https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm I would rather have the physical magazine. Let me know what others you want to ge

Re: AMD Am8177 Datasheet

Let us know of any bipolar AMD am2900, anything in the am2900 Bipolar Microprocessor Family. 2900 demo board: http://www.donnamaie.com/AMD_Vintage/EVAL_Board_cropped_reduced.pdf www.donnamaie.com Created Date: 1/15/2009 12:09:39

Re: Tektronix 6800 Board Bucket and 4051 Working Together Video

Thats amazing Brad! Good job. The amazing is that you have working board bucket, that has to be the rarest thing out there in 4051 hardware. I need to follow vcfed and you guys more, you are definitely on top of the hardware. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of B

Re: Looking for optical grid mouse pad

Carmiel you lucky dog! How come you get TWO Titan's, all I want is ONE. I had one for about a year after it came out. I convinced their sales to park it in my office next to NASA JSC while we both were entertaining customers. I did some visualization work using Dore' and AVS. recently, I have

Re: Teletype cheap

There are 4 tie down bolts that you insert in the bottom to secure the printer carriage. this is pretty critical From: cctalk on behalf of steve shumaker via cctalk Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 7:39 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subje

Re: modern stuff - i860

Two design wins I remember: TrueVision, the AT&T computer graphics people that did the TARGA video boards had software to back the board sales up, a 3D animation package TOPAS. Beautiful, but dog slow even on the fastest 25MHz PCs at the time, so they had ported it to the i860 as an add in card.

Re: Source code listings from REDAC PDP-based PCB layout system.

I think this is Racal-Readac, one of the early PCB software vendors (from the UK). Later bought up by Zunken (the big three are Cadence, Mentor, Zunken). Is the source straight PDP-15 assembly, or a mix with another high level language? It would be great to look at this, I hope it makes it to b

Microsoft DOS Fortran 5.1 graphics

I am looking for a sort of 'hello world' example and/or samples to use the graphics library in this compiler, some sample code. My target is DOS and the Compaq luggable mono display. It looks like its all there, the library and include files for display adapters and modes, but I cant find an

Re: Looking for Tektronix 4052 R12 Graphics Enhancement ROM Pack and Tektronix 4014 demo files

My 4051 is down at the moment, it seems to be just a minor supply issue but I will get you the demo files. I really think the 4051 users are a really lose knit group out here. Since I bought mine a few years back at that auction site for divorce prices, I have met maybe half a dozen users,owne

Re: Looking for Tektronix 4051 or 4052 Display Board

Hi Monty, My 4051, which I have had for a couple of years now, has failed with a display problem very similar to yours, likely a power supply issue. The characters all look funny, but I am able to type in a 10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10 and it fills the screen, so at least the processor is runn

Re: More tapes - This time all Tektronix 405x series

Hi Pete, Send them to Monty - my 4051 is crippled with no serial port. I currently have no way to get data in and out of this, except via Micheal's RAMSTORE modules. Monty, I also looked at emulating the tape drive, or the floppy disk over GPIB, that would be great, have the PC with a NI U

Re: More tapes - This time all Tektronix 405x series

Wow, good job Marty. Now there are three of us. Brad Sebrink has a 4051, and also written an emulator. The Tek guys in Beaverton have another, VintageTek. I will contact one of the guys there, he may have a RAMPACK and MAXIPACK for you, his software speeds up the graphics incredibly, and gi

Re: New Listings for Sellam's Collection Sales

Inspired by ebay for all the items there that never sell for the asking price. C'mon Sellam, you want to get out, how about lowering the prices a bit to move things along? From: cctalk on behalf of Ed Sharpe via cctalk Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 7:50 PM T

Original CAD code in the wild?

For a while I have collected bits of legacy CAD, most recently Martin Hepperle sent me what I believe is the last version of Hank Christianson's MOVIE.BYU, a FORTRAN based 3D modeling and animation system. I also have experimented with the original Berkley SPICE, also written in FORTRAN. This

Re: Kaypro II keyboard fault / keyswitches wanted

Here you go: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Victor-9000-SIRIUS-1-Keyboard-repair-Foam-Pads-for-KeyTronic-Keyboards/121266887970?hash=item1c3c11dd22:g:HRYAAOSw91NTtPPK [https://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/121266887970-0-1/s-l1000.jpg]

Re: WeirdStuff going out of business

Zane, The Country Store is still going, and while you are there check the museum, VintageTek next door. Surplus Gizmos in Hillsboro looks to still be in business: http://www.surplusgizmos.com/ Welcome to SurplusGizmos.com, LLC - We sell the Gizmos ... www.surplu

Re: 4051 communications PACK

talk Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2018 9:37 AM To: Randy Dawson via cctalk Subject: 4051 communications PACK Hi Randy. I'm sure I have an extra com pack. I'll check storage today. Bob -- Vintage computers and electronics www.dvq.com<http://www.dvq.com> [http://banners.wunderground.com/c

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

This was for Mike Hass, he was not in the email chain, and I do not have his address. But it' s a general shout out to the other Tek 40xx users out there... Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Randy Dawson via cctalk Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2018 9:54

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

veral wired edges On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 10:15 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > I bought the Tek 4051 on ebay today; Jason brought it to my house and it > works perfectly, with about a half hour of programming instruction my 12 > old daughter was plotting a cat face. > > > https://ww

To the 2901 bit slicers out there

Since I know there's tons of PDP/11 geniuses here, and other gurus with a NOVA 4, and a Tektronix 4052 guy (I have the 4051): What have you done, with microprogramming this part? In your architecture, have you changed the microcode, create an instruction to enhance your machine? I would be

Re: Ebay listings from potomacstore

I considered the Tektronix 4051 hardcopy unit, but my search turned up zilch for the paper (3M Dry Silver type) Price is right, the printer looks great, but no source for the paper that I can find. randy From: cctalk on behalf of systems_glitch via cctalk

Re: Tek 4051 semi-repaired

I will be glad to open mine up, and 'PhotoFact' it for you. I can take scope shots of the critical signals, voltage rails. I suppose the first, would be if you hit the HOME PAGE key it should clear the screen, I can follow that signal path, and take some scope shots... Even with the screen f

Tek 4051 users and replacement for the 405x QIC Tape

One of the Ex-Tek's, Micheal Cranford has designed a modern FLASH based RAMPACK for the tape drive, and filled it with most of the known BASIC games. More significant, Micheal has written FASTGRAPHICS, a replacement for the BASIC vector draw functions; 100x increase in performance, in addition

Re: Tektronix 4050E01

Hi Bob, I have a 4051, in perfect working order. I would like to buy one of these 'Toasters' from you. I could also take your schematic and make more copies of it for others. What ROMPACKS do you have? Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Bob Rosenbloom via

Re: Convex C220 lives

Hi Carmiel, What did you do with the Ardent (Stardent). That's where all your great benchmark demos are. The Dore' system, the 'Flag' demo. If you want Fortran, I have been working on MOVIE.BYU, a dusty deck, but I have almost got there. It is wireframe and rendered poly animation. It is

Re: Convex C220 lives

martin.heppe...@dlr.de Thanks to Martin, Where should we post, it the last copy I know of, movie.byu From: Randy Dawson Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 10:30 PM To: Peter Allan; General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Convex C220 lives Hi Carmiel

Re: EBAY - DEC RX01/02 floppy disks - Andromeda Systems and AED utilities

I saw one of the disk labels in the pictures, - VERSATEC VERSAPLOT I have that, its fortran source, a pretty nice plotting package, plus it does a nice job of vector to raster (to support their electrostatic plotters). I was a customer, and did build this on the PC, I think it was lahey or pha

Re: IBM Scientific Subroutine Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?)

Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?) On 7/11/17 3:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 7/11/17 3:31 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: >> Hi Chuck, >> >> >> Maybe you can answer a related question to the conversion of IBM 360 .tap >> files. >&

IBM Scientific Subroutine Package (was Re: SIMH .tap file 7 track?)

Hi Chuck, Maybe you can answer a related question to the conversion of IBM 360 .tap files. I see the IBM FORTRAN Scientific Subroutine Package on Bitsavers in .tap format: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/IBM/360/360A_CM-03X_Scientific_Subr_Pkg.zip How do I read/convert this back int

Re: Re: Directory of old computer collectors

diminishing every day. Randy From: jim stephens Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 11:26 PM To: Randy Dawson; steven stengel Subject: Fwd: Re: Directory of old computer collectors Randy, I'm sort of running interference for STeve on the list. Since his ema

Re: Directory of old computer collectors

Hi Jim, add me to your list. I am in Thousand Oaks, CA (Los Angeles area). I have a Tektronix 4051 vector graphics computer running, just BASIC games at the moment. I have a Compaq Model 1 with the PC-IDE flash setup, running Autocad, Versacad, Dr. Halo, Turbo-C, MS-Fortran. I am in conv

Re: SimH PDP-8 simulator plays music

Kudos! That is awesome Kyle, and sounds great. Have you had a look at Max B. Mathews MUSIC4BF? Old FORTRAN dusty deck I want to bring up, it is not realtime like yours, but calcs wavetable (or DAC) output for later processes. Anybody found the source for this? Randy ___

Re: Old manuals (Univac, IBM, Burroughs, Teletype)

Hi Todd, I have a Model 33, what do you want for those manuals? Thanks, Randy From: cctech on behalf of Todd Pisek via cctech Sent: Tuesday, April 4, 2017 2:00 PM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Old manuals (Univac, IBM, Burroughs, Teletype) Spring cl

Re: Ardent Titan

of Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctech Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:31 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Ardent Titan Hello, On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:07 AM, Randy Dawson via cctech wrote: > > Kubota (who purchased Stardent) put the rendering software, Dore' in th

Re: Ardent Titan

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Supercomputers-Titan-Case-Study/dp/1483246590 Good luck, and keep in touch on how this is coming. Regards, Randy Dawson The Architecture of Supercomputers: Titan, a Case Study ...<https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Supercomputers-Titan-Case-S

MOVIE.BYU - progress

Thanks group for the links to the source. These have passed thru many copies, and somehow have embedded control characters and such, but I am successful so far at the cleanup: I pull the source into a fortran knowledgeable editor, I am using "blocks" When the editor stops in the file, I drop

Re: Tektronix Terminal Emulation

xterm will do your Tek 4014 emulation. There should be lots of Tek stuff in X11, they were one of the original consortium members. While you are fishing around for software to run, I have MOVIE.BYU from one of the guys here. ISSCO's DISPLA should be around, but I have not found it. Look o

Re: How to refurbish plotter pens?

Suggestion: drop them in an ultrasonic cleaner with solvent... From: cctech on behalf of David Gesswein Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 10:34 AM To: cct...@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: How to refurbish plotter pens? On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 03:51:49PM +0100, Ma

after a long search, I found the Dr. Dobbs bound volumes

Located here: http://6502.org/documents/publications/dr_dobbs_journal/ Apologies to the list if this is common knowledge. Randy 6502.org: Documents Archive 6502.org A collection of useful documents pertaining to the 6502 microproces

DISSPLA fortran source anyone?

The scientific graphics software package, written By Ian Hirscholn. Later sold to Coumputer Automation. He ported it to the PC later, with his company ISSCO. They also made a neat bitslice machine to run it, the Portable Graphics Mainframe, I had one for a bit, I was their rep. Anybody have a

Re: Changing wire-wrap configurations on DEC circuit boards

That OK tool works great, and you can see it has the wire stripper in the handle. One end is the unwrap, put it on the post and twist counter clockwise. Clockwise is the wrap direction. You strip 1 1/2 inch, shove the wire into the notch on the wrap end, place on post and twist. _

Re: Changing wire-wrap configurations on DEC circuit boards

You can use the solderless board prototype board jumpers, sold at Frys and elsewhere. They come in male and female, I assume (not being a dec guy) that these are standard square wire wrap posts... From: cctech on behalf of william degnan Sent: Monday, Februa

XTIDE - boot menu callback via int 18h

Thanks all for getting me going. I cheated at first with a real Maxtor 20 GB hard drive, and Alexadre's suggestion to FDISK with just a few cylinders, and that worked. Now, going to a CF card, same plan, no errors with FDISK, FORMAT C:/s, and I can see command.com is there if I boot from a fl

Re: I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

didn't worked before. 2017-01-28 0:13 GMT-02:00 Fred Cisin : > On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Randy Dawson wrote: > >> I have a Compact Flash adapter and card, while I wait for the soldering >> iron to heat up and make the power cable for it, I wanted to ask, what are >> the ne

I finall flashed my XTIDE rev 1, now what?

Yippie! But what a long haul it was. Just getting the data on a disk that I could read was a nightmare. I bought a USB 3.5 floppy drive (Sabrent SBT-UFDB, $19 at Frys), and it does not write 720K reliably. Comments on the net say it does not work, under windows 7 lots of errors, but bringi

Compaq foam rot keyboard SOLVED

I posted yesterday about my attempt to weld a IBM PC keyboard to my Compaq model 1 - the 'luggable'. Well, it did not work, even though I saw clock and data on both Compaq and IBM keyboards that looked the same. I did not dig into the decoding, but somehow they are different. OK so I alread

Re: Attempt at Compaq keybord swap with a PC keyboard (failed)

that way (it should). Record the signals' wire path, match the replacement keyboard wiring. B On Jan 23, 2017 12:45 AM, "Randy Dawson" wrote: > > This is the original Compaq I IBM PC clone, 8088 > > > > From: cctalk on behalf o

Re: Attempt at Compaq keybord swap with a PC keyboard (failed)

, 23 Jan 2017, Randy Dawson wrote: > I have luggable with the famous Keytronics foam kepad rot. WHAT model Compaq? 8088? 80286?

Attempt at Compaq keybord swap with a PC keyboard (failed)

I have luggable with the famous Keytronics foam kepad rot. I am searching for the foam (have not found it yet), and on a lark, I tried using a PC keyboard. In the PC keyboard, I soldered in a 7805 to take the Compaq 12V to 5V for the PC keyboard. Traced the clock and data lines, hooked it all

Re: anybody have MOVIE.BYU?

, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Randy Dawson wrote: > The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank > Christensen. This? http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DataGeneral/nova/movie_byu.tap Fragment of text found inside the TAP, looks to be FORTRAN source and doc files

anybody have MOVIE.BYU?

The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank Christensen. I am looking for the fortran source, it should be 7 files: DISPLAY SECTION UTILITY TITLE COMPOSE UPDATE MOSAIC Any docs related too. Thanks for letting me beg. Randy

Re: Supercomputers, fishing for information

I can take the Titan off your hands if you like, I have really wanted this machine. I am serious, and with $$. Here is some things for you if you decide to keep it and turn me down. A great book, all about its development and includes technical details about the Titan bus, and an intro By Go

Tek 4051 with a 10 year old at the helm

Here is my daughter Gina, I thought you guys would like, Tek is still exciting. Sure, we have lots of PC's around the house, but this is the first one that she is programming, and programming the 4051 creates a smile. Randy https://youtu.be/o0LiYkHG3iE

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

This is some really cool stuff! I am also chatting with Dave Brown (exTek, and VintageTek museum volunteer to dig up their resources. Anything that comes up from all this begging will of course be posted to bitsavers. Thanks guys! Randy From: cctalk on

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

here public please let me know.. love >> watching vids of these ones in action. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Randy >> Dawson >> Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 7:15 PM >> To: General Discus

Re: Tek 40xx computer users

ones in action. > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Randy > Dawson > Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 7:15 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Tek 40xx

Tek 40xx computer users

I bought the Tek 4051 on ebay today; Jason brought it to my house and it works perfectly, with about a half hour of programming instruction my 12 old daughter was plotting a cat face. https://www.facebook.com/Thelma.Franco/videos/10154277153852670/ I would like to get in touch with other user

Re: Strange ICS on eBay Nothing to add!

I just want to say OOPs after reading the long thread before me. You guys already got the part. Sorry Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Randy Dawson Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 1:08 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re

Re: Strange ICS on eBay

These are 7 segment LED displays, with a magnifying lens on top. Randy From: cctalk on behalf of Ali Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 6:19 PM To: CCTalk Mailing List Subject: Strange ICS on eBay Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc. ht

FFS - Fujitsu Sylistic, Toshiba TLCS 900L Development board

I do not have the pen for the Stylistic. Its 386, I have booted a BSD / Xwindow environment on it, works. The Toshiba is a thru hole board with a prototyping area. Includes c compiler, assembler and the CMX RTOS on 3 1/4 floppies, power supplies, cables, from Softaid. Randy

Re: classics I threw away or sold ... foolishly

About 10 ISC (Intecolor) 19" color computers, set them on the curb for the trash. These were 2MHz 8080 computers, wit a modified MS Basic in them. MY company (USDATA) sold these as realtime industrial control terminals for use with Programmable Logic Controllers. We modified the Basic, trapping

Analog Computers (Was Re: [Sbms] MW stuff for Sale)

and I have free for shipping High Speed Analog computers and Analog Electronic Computer Primer for the first volunteer, as in my haste I bought duplicates of these two books. Randy Dawson KF7CJW From: COURYHOUSE--- via Sbms Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016

Re: High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re: SGI ONYX

I had a similar board set for CAD, wish I still had it. It was two boards, a 68000 and a graphics board, to run VERSACAD. In the CAD wars against AUTOCAD, we were winning for a bit, I was a rep selling this 3D solution. It was Sun3 boot, and ran the Sun version of VERSACAD. _

Recomended: IBM 100 aniversary video

Some great stuff here, and yes it a promotional film but note: Patty McHugh, the Mother, of the motherboard, and the PC segment. Brooks, and the 360 project (I recommend his Mystical Man Month for any project manager) What was missing, how about FORTRAN, and Jim Backus? Randy https://ww

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