On 18 June 2015 at 10:33, Sean Caron wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> I'm guessing by the CLLI code in your sig, you're maybe close to St.
> Catharines, ON, CA?
>
Close; actually, I'm in Stoney Creek/Hamilton, ON, CA.
> If that's true, I just wanted to let you know that - IIRC - there is a
> SR-71 on s
On 6/19/2015 4:24 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
I don't think any of the SR-71s do flying demos, do they?
NASA attempted to keep one airframe (don't recall which one) flying for
research. The effort didn't last long, however.
I got involved in an interesting way. A friend who sold
Hi Guys
Well the panels are steadily getting to their new homes.
The feed back has thrown up some interesting information
Mainly that not all 8/e panels are the same. So I'm doing a little survey
to see if I can produce the different types.
In addition I have been asked about panels f
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:50 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
>
> The closest I came to an aircraft in this class was an almost on a Concorde
> Ticket in the late 70's when an upgrade to first class could get you near to
> the Concorde fare, and then on a visit in the 90's I got to see one take off
> like
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Cetinski
> Sent: 19 June 2015 13:26
> To: jwsm...@jwsss.com; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology etc
>
>
> > On Jun 19, 2015,
The BA Concordes at Heathrow lived in a hanger at the eastern end of
the main runway.
The perimiter road intersected the main runway so the bit with the
hanger was to the left and the main runway to the right.
No fences no gates.
The Concordes would be towed by the usual tug to and from the t
Need help with my 2113e, can someone take a look at their 1000 series that
using the 820ohm resistor on the battery input and tell me which pins to
shunt? Looking at the plug on the rear of the machine there are nine holes
arranged 3x3. I've found TerraHertz's tear down and he shows the shunt
pl
Ursprüngliche Nachricht
Von : captainkirk...@gmail.com
..snipped...
North American P-51 Mustang, Junkers Ju 52... and that list is
..snipped...
If the lowly JU52 really fancies you, then you can visit my place, where said
airplane passes multiple times a day during summer season...
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:10 AM, pdaguytom . wrote:
> Need help with my 2113e, can someone take a look at their 1000 series that
> using the 820ohm resistor on the battery input and tell me which pins to
> shunt? Looking at the plug on the rear of the machine there are nine holes
> arranged 3x3.
Perfect. Thanks Glen.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Glen Slick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:10 AM, pdaguytom . wrote:
> > Need help with my 2113e, can someone take a look at their 1000 series
> that
> > using the 820ohm resistor on the battery input and tell me which pins to
> > shun
There are two IBM 3277's for sale on www.publicsurplus.com at this moment.
Starting bids at right around $10. No buyers yet.
I don't currently have the space for them, but it'd be good if someone picked
them up before they make their way to a scrapper...
I'm not the seller, nor do I know who is
Does anyone here know why certain AlphaServers are worth such seemingly high
prices on eBay still?
Particularly the DS15's seem to be worth their weight in gold, and the DS10's
still sell for quite a bit. I see DS25's and ES47/ES80's get listed all the
time for fairly high prices, but never se
> There are two IBM 3277's for sale on www.publicsurplus.com at this
> moment. Starting bids at right around $10. No buyers yet.
It would probably be useful to indicate that these are at UIdaho
Surplus, that the auctions end in 8 hours, and that the auction numbers
are 1371255 and 1371262.
De
I was born too late to see the SR-71 fly. I could still see a U-2 fly
though (those are also neat planes). There's so many cool planes, and
so little time to experience them all. (SR-71/A-12, U-2, B-52, CF-105,
Avro Lancaster, Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, Messerschmitt
Bf 109, Avro
Damn. I *would* try and get them but they want local pickup only. :-(
TTFN - Guy
On 6/19/15 7:55 AM, Dennis Boone wrote:
> There are two IBM 3277's for sale on www.publicsurplus.com at this
> moment. Starting bids at right around $10. No buyers yet.
It would probably be useful to indic
On 2015-06-19 10:51 AM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
Does anyone here know why certain AlphaServers are worth such seemingly high
prices on eBay still?
The obvious(?) answer is that they are still used commercially.
I think this explains the phenomenon for even older hardware than Alpha too.
--
Thanks to everyone for trying to help, but I'm not sure we've cracked it yet.
This coating is _not_ a lubricant: it's a hard, thin even coating over the
entire piece; it cannot be easily scraped off (e.g. with a fingernail), but
requires a knife tip or somesuch. So I think that rules out the molybd
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
> Does anyone here do Alpha gear, especially the newer stuff?
I am baby sitting three ES45s, two DS20s, and a DS15 all running Tru64 Unix
5.X. Yes, you can buy a used Dell desktop at any garage sale that has more
memory and CPU than a DS20 but it doe
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, ANDY HOLT wrote:
I expect that quite a lot of Bf109s are currently being made
airworthy in time for the75th anniversary of AdlerTag … it quite
surprised me that there were more flyable than I might have guessed, but
none in the possession of the RAF or the Confedera
On 6/19/15 8:22 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Thanks to everyone for trying to help, but I'm not sure we've cracked it yet.
Chassis Trak is still around as part of General Devices, why don't you ask them?
http://generaldevices.thomasnet.com/category/solid-bearing-slides
On 19 June 2015 at 10:58, ANDY HOLT wrote:
> At RAF Duxford (less than an hours drive from my home) you can see
> Concorde*, a SR-71, a Lancaster, a Vulcan**, one of the only two remaining
> TSR-2s***, a Bf109 and many many more.
>
Is the Lancaster at Duxford the other flightworthy one? I can
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Benjamin Huntsman
wrote:
> Does anyone here know why certain AlphaServers are worth such seemingly high
> prices on eBay still?
>
> Particularly the DS15's seem to be worth their weight in gold, and the DS10's
> still sell for quite a bit. I see DS25's and ES47/
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
> On 2015-06-19 10:51 AM, Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
> > Does anyone here know why certain AlphaServers are worth such seemingly
> > high prices on eBay still?
> The obvious(?) answer is that they are still used commercially.
>
> I think this explains the phen
I guess I've struck out here? That's such bad luck; other things, there are
multiple copies out there, but apparently none at all of this one...
Oh well, I guess I'll start with the DZQ11 TM, and with an ohm-meter try and
trace out the initialization circuitry (which is clearly broken) at least.
Hi Noel,
If you get a minute call me this afternoon or evening.
Paul
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
> I guess I've struck out here? That's such bad luck; other things, there are
> multiple copies out there, but apparently none at all of this one...
>
> Oh well, I guess
On 2015-Jun-19, at 5:26 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:50 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
>>
>> The closest I came to an aircraft in this class was an almost on a Concorde
>> Ticket in the late 70's when an upgrade to first class could get you near to
>> the Concorde fare, and then on
On 2015-06-19 1:19 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Jun-19, at 5:26 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
On Jun 19, 2015, at 7:50 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
The closest I came to an aircraft in this class was an almost on a Concorde
Ticket in the late 70's when an upgrade to first class could get you near to
I've often wondered that myself ... I wonder if someone out there is still
using Alpha machines in a mission-critical application ... of if it's just
kind of the storied history of the CPU, and the strong collector market for
anything that's DEC ... Nice stuff from the later years really seems to
h
There were so many neat war plane designs of the 50s and 60s that never
made it to volume production ... the BAC TSR-2, the Avro Canada Arrow ...
we have our share here in the USA as well i.e. the NAA XB-70 Valkyrie and
XF-108 Rapier... It's funny; it's the ones that were never produced in
volume t
I need a couple of DecTapes to finish debugging (and to use) my TU56. There
haven't been any on Ebay or anywhere for many months. Does anyone have a
couple they'd be willing to sell me?
I'd prefer ones formatted from a pdp8 since that's what I'm using, but any
at all would do.
Anyone?
> I need a couple of DecTapes to finish debugging (and to use) my TU56. There
> haven't been any on Ebay or anywhere for many months. Does anyone have a
> couple they'd be willing to sell me?
>
> I'd prefer ones formatted from a pdp8 since that's what I'm using, but any
> at all would do.
I notic
On Friday, 19 June 2015, tony duell wrote:
>
> [1] No, not a TU55. This is a TU56 with just one transport and a blanking
> plate over the other holes, It is
> an official DEC variant.
>
> TU56H is the name of that one. If I recall correctly.
Cheers,
Christian
--
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
From: Chris Osborn
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2015 11:21 AM
> On Jun 18, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Rich Alderson
> wrote:
>>> That’s the modern Digital logo, not the DEC logo that looks like the
>>> plug-in cards. I thought you had a ps of the original pre-1957 DEC
>>> logo.
>> Pre-1957??? That would b
BTW, are you building your own plug with the ~820 ohm resister? For
now I just have something kludged up with dangling wires attached to a
resister and no proper pins and plug housing. When I looked for the
correct plug housing in the past it seemed that part was no longer
available for purchase th
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
"in 1949 the Air Force ordered all the flying wings destroyed, all the jigs
and tools destroyed, every trace of the flying wing eradicated. A few years
later even the engineering drawings were all destroyed by new Northrop
management."
I don't know w
I've got some pins that appear to be the right size from when I was making
battery packs (electric R/C) that I plan to solder to the resistor with a
little bit of heat shrink on each leg to keep from starting fires or other
exciting things from happening. A sorta kludge. I remember using these
st
On 2015-06-19 3:05 PM, geneb wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Toby Thain wrote:
"in 1949 the Air Force ordered all the flying wings destroyed, all
the jigs and tools destroyed, every trace of the flying wing
eradicated. A few years later even the engineering drawings were all
destroyed by new Nort
- Original Message -
From: "Christian Gauger-Cosgrove"
Is the Lancaster at Duxford the other flightworthy one? I can't recall.
No
Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
(DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
air
On 2015-Jun-17, at 7:31 AM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
>>> From: Dave G4UGM
>>
>>> I found it easier to think of it in DC terms. So the Cap charges
>>> through R5 + R3 and R9 + R8.
>>> As the Cap charges the voltage on the bas
>
> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
>
>
> Not finding it easy to get a definitive answer but
>
> It's a fair
I believe that the NERC for whom I used to work had PDP/11's on ships. There is
a report here:-
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/14170/1/14170-01.pdf
about an 11/04 data logging system. I also understand that earlier ships had
IBM1130's on board
... this mentions a portable IBM1130
https://www.b
> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
DEC architecture machines were in the serious minority when it came to
military compu
> It's a fair bet that some military computers using the PDP/11 architecture
> were used … probably on AEW, AWACS, and maritime patrol planes.
I think they were IBM based (4pi?). The disk drives were ruggedized 2314s.
--
Will
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
>
> I believe that the NERC for whom I used to work had PDP/11's on ships.
I don’t know that one. But I do know that RC25 support in RSTS/E was driven by
a large Navy order for PDP-11 systems running RSTS/E on RC25 drives, for use
aboard ship
On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>
> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
On 2015-Jun-19, at 1
On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>
> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
Another example of sh
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>
> On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>>
>> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
>> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
>> aircraft? Not transported b
There's a formatter for DECtapes that can create 12-bit or 18-bit formats.
I don't recall the name off the top of my head, but ISTR it was easy to
find.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 19 June 2015, tony duell wrote:
> >
I can not think of a worse computer to do radar data analysis. Do you
mean System/360?
Still, Boca Raton was a S/3 stronghold.
--
Will
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>
>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gauger
On thinking more - could you mean System/7? That would make sense, and
it was a Boca Raton machine as well.
--
Will, who would like an S/7
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>
>> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>>
>> On 2015-Jun-19, at 9:07 AM, Christian Gau
Ack! You're right. For some reason I was thinking about the System/3 and put
that down instead.
TTFN - Guy
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 4:10 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> On thinking more - could you mean System/7? That would make sense, and
> it was a Boca Raton machine as well.
>
> --
> Will, w
- Original Message -
From: "William Donzelli"
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
Posts"
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: XH558 - was Re: using new technology
etc
Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone
know if any minicomputers
(DEC PDP-8s or 11s,
On Fri, 6/19/15, William Donzelli wrote:
> DEC architecture machines were in the serious minority when it came to
> military computers in combat service.
It turns out that was partly by design. Recently I was reading an
interview with Ken Olsen that I hadn't seen before. In it he was
saying tha
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
>
> There's a formatter for DECtapes that can create 12-bit or 18-bit formats.
> I don't recall the name off the top of my head, but ISTR it was easy to
> find.
The format is described in the manuals. And while the PDP-11 formatter I have
seen
Does anyone have routine maintenance information (e.g. user or service
manuals) for the Wright Line manual punches? My newly acquired unit
seems to need a little lubrication. I'll guess if I have to, but...
This is the variety with the large grey wheel on the side to select the
desired character
> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
A friend of mine worked for DoE in Nevada. They used to fly minis on
helicopters
They were probably Rolms, which were very much based of the Nova
architecture (compatible to the Nova 2, maybe?). I do not think Data
General actually made any milspec machines.
--
Will
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
> > Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if
> On Jun 19, 2015, at 8:31 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>
>> Bringing this topic full circle, does anyone know if any minicomputers
>> (DEC PDP-8s or 11s, DG Novæ, HP 21XXs, et cetera) were ever used on
>> aircraft? Not transported by one, but I mean setup and used on one.
>
> A friend of mine worke
> They were probably Rolms, which were very much based of the Nova
> architecture (compatible to the Nova 2, maybe?). I do not think Data
> General actually made any milspec machines.
I don't know that they were _using_ milspec machines. I'll have to ask
him next time I talk to him.
De
> Don't forget Cromemco:
I think we can forget Cromemco.
The original poster wanted examples of minis "setup and used on one".
I doubt a Cromemco would survive long in flight service. This is why I
also pointed out "combat service", as opposed to being part of a test
set in an air and power condi
PLEASE CC me on this if you turn one up we could use at least a
scan of it we hae one of these cute little things here at the SMECC.
... ED#
In a message dated 6/19/2015 5:27:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
d...@msu.edu writes:
Does anyone have routine maintenance inform
All,
My 14-year-old son has mentioned that he’d like a breadboard and some
parts to fool with, and the pointer below really helps. I have an old Archerkit
VOM already, and I’m thinking about turning him loose in August with the
discrete components part kit, the VOM, a box of logic parts,
4000 series are really much more static sensitive than bullet proof ttl
there are pros and cons to everything 4000 series can use a higher VCC
where ttl is 5V
if you plan using 4000 series get him a wrist strap and a bench pad to
attach it to
grounding it all to earth.
On 6/19/2015 7:19 PM, Taple
An acquaintance just the other day showed me an Arduino experimenters kit that
came with breadboard, LEDs, jumpers, etc, all in a compartmentalised plastic
box for 28$CDN. Haven't used it myself, just saw it briefly. Maybe you want to
start him out at a lower level of logic than that though, or
> He has a Raspberry Pi, which he pretty much contempts in favor of his
> laptop, which will play the modern version of MineCraft :-P, but presumably
> hooking those together might be fun.
Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
move to command blocks.
--
W
On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli wrote:
> Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
> move to command blocks.
>
I'm not ashamed to admit I (24 y/o) play Minecraft now and again (with
friends on their own private servers). I'd suggest anyone serious
about tryin
I have a National Geographic somewhere on my shelf that has an article
about remote sensing and I vividly recall at least one interior shot of the
U.S. government aircraft used to gather the imagery for the article; it was
fitted with a bunch of operator workstations for the folks operating the
var
Here's the picture if anyone's interested; it turns out that the issue is
from 1993:
http://wildflower.diablonet.net/~scaron/aerialBA23.jpg
This may have actually been a University operated project; I don't believe
it's actually a military aircraft ... but I see at least one BA23 in the
cabin :O
On 2015-06-19 11:21 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli wrote:
Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
move to command blocks.
I'm not ashamed to admit I (24 y/o) play Minecraft now and again (with
friends on their own
On 6/19/2015 8:21 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 19 June 2015 at 22:38, William Donzelli wrote:
>Let him play Minecraft. Start with simple redstone contraptions, then
>move to command blocks.
>
I'm not ashamed to admit I (24 y/o) play Minecraft now and again (with
friends on their o
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