On 7/30/15 6:55 PM, Jay West wrote:
You wrote
I really dont see the reasoning behind my classiccmp ban, You just banned me
for no reason..
You are incorrect. Just because you don't understand the reason doesn't mean I
banned you for no reason. I will not be dragged into a senseless
pas
When I reformed the 1967? capacitors in MARCH's straight 8 I took some
data showing the improvement in leakage and also measured capacitance and
ESR. I couldn't find original spec for the capacitor but the values
seemed reasonable compared to datasheet for more recent capacitors.
Graphs here.
http
I know I'm just adding to the noise, but the absurdity of the
subject title gave me a good chuckle. Jeez Steve, I had to double-take
there to make sure I wasn't reading some 12 year old's youtube
comments.
On 31 July 2015 at 08:33, Steven Landon wrote:
> On 7/30/15 6:55 PM, Jay West wrote:
>
>>
Remember that time bodily threatening someone on a nerd list got everyone
to calm down?
On Jul 31, 2015 3:33 AM, "Steven Landon" wrote:
> On 7/30/15 6:55 PM, Jay West wrote:
>
>> You wrote
>>
>>> I really dont see the reasoning behind my classiccmp ban, You just
>>> banned me for no reason.
> On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:02 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> I don't know how many of you were familiar with the Addressograph-Multigraph
> (AM) Varityper phototypesetting systems. Basically small computers with
> floppy drives and a (very nice) terminal--and a big box that held quite a
> number of
Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am
done with the list.
Matt
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Matt Patoray wrote:
Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am
done with the list.
7 messages (including yours...gah! Now *8*) out of 1163 is not exactly
bad ratio. Maybe you forgot how to math today? :D
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should
the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a "Special Control
Unit", so does anyone know what this is?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Faulty-Vintage-Research-Machines-380Z-Special-Cont
rol-Unit-Computer-/33161747165
I recently visited the Minuteman II launch control facility in South
Dakota, and was curious about the computers used there.
Here's a photo of the rack, with the Boeing part numbers visible:
http://i.imgur.com/KTaW3Il.jpg
Some Googling of those numbers didn't really reveal much. People love to
ta
>
> I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should
> the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a "Special Control
> Unit", so does anyone know what this is?
The PCBs and backplane in the last photo are not standard 380Z boards. The 380Z
doesn't use edge con
On 07/31/2015 12:32 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should
the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a "Special Control
Unit", so does anyone know what this is?
That's interesting... the case is typical of an early machine
On 31/07/2015 18:32, "Robert Jarratt" wrote:
> I remember the Research Machines 380Z and wouldn't mind getting one should
> the opportunity arise. But I have no recollection of a "Special Control
> Unit", so does anyone know what this is?
>
>
As Jules and Tony have said, that's not 380Z in
Stopped in the local electronics haunt, and the owner directed me to a "Fine
to Very Good" IBM 5150. I did not look at it closely, but externally appears
to be very good shape with minor scratches on the under-side. It has two FH
5.25's, and a cassette port on back. He did say that "memory had been
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian
> Graham
> Sent: 31 July 2015 21:44
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: RM 380Z Special Control Unit (?)
>
>
>
>
> On 31/07/2015 18:32, "Robert Jarratt" wrot
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Jay West wrote:
Stopped in the local electronics haunt, and the owner directed me to a "Fine
to Very Good" IBM 5150. I did not look at it closely, but externally appears
to be very good shape with minor scratches on the under-side. It has two FH
5.25's, and a cassette port on
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 08:25:04PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Basically, this thing, or a variation thereof:
>
> http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/varityper
This looks to be a later model than the one I used, which was definitely
an 8008 (I looked).
The keyboard is different. When
How did his last missive make it through to the list in the first place?
Didn't Jay just recently say he was perma-banned?
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:15 AM, geneb wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Matt Patoray wrote:
>
> Since the S/N ratio on the list is now at about 20 dB and falling, I am
>> done
drlegendre wrote:
How did his last missive make it through to the list in the first place?
Didn't Jay just recently say he was perma-banned?
Within moments after I posted that he was banned, I went to the mailman
interface, and his account was not in the membership list. I assumed he h
> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:18 PM, Jay West wrote:
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> drlegendre wrote:
>
> How did his last missive make it through to the list in the first place?
> Didn't Jay just recently say he was perma-banned?
>
>
> Within moments after I posted that he was banned, I went to the mailman
> inter
No worries, Jay. I was just a bit confused, as I'm sure you can understand.
As for recent comments on the list S/N ratio.. not to be rude, but some
folks must not get out much. This list is certainly among the best-managed
out there - it's a nerd list, and we all know how contentious nerds can be,
- Original Message -
From: "Jay West"
To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
Posts'"
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 7:18 PM
Subject: accidental post allowance
drlegendre wrote:
How did his last missive make it through to the
list in the first place?
Didn't Jay just rec
Time to reform is to a first approximation proportional to the rated
capacitance, rated voltage, and the length of time that the capacitor has
been unpowered. However, there is still a lot of variation. I've had a few
40-year-old capacitors (unused for at least 30 years) that took less than
two hou
I just heard DEC-branded drive box with 1 GB units and I figured it might
be a ready source of RZ26 drives; I suppose there's nothing particularly
special about them compared to any other 50-pin SCSI 1 GB drive but I like
to keep a stock of DEC firmware drives in case I get a "finicky" system on
my
@Eric & others
Good news, everyone. ;-)
I found the hardbound volume in question, and it does have a very
interesting and detailed discussion of aluminum electrolytics, and the
Mallory FP series in particular. But my memory is a little hazy, and I'm
not sure this is the +exact+ article I had in m
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:07 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> I found the hardbound volume in question, and it does have a very
[...]
> But happily, I did a little searching and it turns out that the entire doc
> is available online via Cornell U and Google books. How cool!
> Here's the link: http://babe
> -Original Message-
> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David
> Gesswein
> Sent: 31 July 2015 02:52
> To: cct...@classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Reforming capacitors (technical description, not politics)
>
> When I reformed the 1967? capacitors in MARCH's stra
Mark wrote
As a matter of fact I assumed that you'd intentionally let it through to give
him the opportunity to show us first hand what kind of person he is. Very
effective in any case.
(taking off my list-owner hat and speaking for myself)
Nah - I believe that pretty much the most
Jay West wrote:
When I saw his next (and last post), I dug further. His email was on a
"whitelist" along with all members of cctech. This was a vestige of how the
old "two lists joined at the hip" was configured. So I had to manually
remove him from the whitelist, even though he wasn't subscribe
>
> As Jules and Tony have said, that's not 380Z internals so if that puts you
> off I'll have a punt just for the power supply ;)
... Which also may well not be RML original. The 380Z has a regulated PSU,
S100 has separate regulators on each board and an unregulated PSU.
-tony
I have BA350s, BA356s, drives, power supplies, etc if anyone needs more.
Please contact me off list.
Paul
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> I just heard DEC-branded drive box with 1 GB units and I figured it might
> be a ready source of RZ26 drives; I suppose there's nothing
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