> Wayne (ttyparts.com) and I had a disaster of a shipment on a ASR33, Fed Ex
> Ground did us no favors.
You are probably better off sending heavy shock-sensitive items on a pallet via
freight. A parcel invites being handled on a conveyor or dropped. A pallet
has to be handled with a forklift
Well they managed to keep that quiet or I would have gone like a shot.
My wife and I go to Germany three or four times a year on holiday.
I worked in Germany for a year (1969/70) and speak enough German to get
around.
So I am totally hacked off that it was a secret closed show and so I
never
This is a representative auction by the vendor. Look at all of his
stuff for the whole story.
VINTAGE-COMPUTER-AT-T-3B2-500-600-1000-UNIX-SYSTEM-16MB-MEMORY-WESTERN-ELECTRIC
http://www.ebay.com/itm/321811268824
The buyer of his Lisp Machine is going to be sad. The vendor has broken
off go
I'm curious. This auction appears to be for an ASR33 in a Honeywell
box. If so $1200 is way too much for a funny case unless you like
plastic with "Honeywell" on it.
Any ideas?
RARE-Vintage-Honeywell-Teletype-Machine
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201442852051
Thanks
Jim
On 10/28/2015 1:05 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
I'm curious. This auction appears to be for an ASR33 in a Honeywell
box. If so $1200 is way too much for a funny case unless you like
plastic with "Honeywell" on it.
Any ideas?
RARE-Vintage-Honeywell-Teletype-Machine
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014428
Jack,
in your forum you say
"Joerg Hoppe took the picture above but unfortunately, I didn't manage
to take one of him. He had a very impressive collection of (mostly) DEC
front panels running in full blinken-light glory off SIMH on captive
Beagle Bone controllers."
Here's my gallery ... inc
On 10/28/2015 4:08 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
On 10/28/2015 1:05 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
I'm curious. This auction appears to be for an ASR33 in a Honeywell
box. If so $1200 is way too much for a funny case unless you like
plastic with "Honeywell" on it.
Any ideas?
RARE-Vintage-Honeywell-Teletype
> -Original Message-
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> Sent: 28 October 2015 08:08
> To: Classic Computer List (cctalk@classiccmp.org)
> Subject: Re: Honeywell "Teletype"
>
> On 10/28/2015 1:05 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious. This
car bulbs? (just to be as pedantic...)
On 27-10-15 19:03, Craig Ruff wrote:
Just to be pedantic, as this is the Internet after all :-), distilled
water is a pretty good insulator, but not a "perfect" one. Neutral
(pH 7.0) water always has a very small amount of the molecules
disassociated into
Nice looking Burroughs! *kidding*
Looks like the seller hasn't had any bites since the last go-round. I did
some investigating at that time but couldn't come up with a Honeywell
system that had this 'stylized' unit. However, I did find photos of
plain-jane 33's with Honeywell badges on the covers
>Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Ben Sinclair
> I'm trying to get my RLV11 working
Oh, I was going to mention this about the RLV11 - it's a Q18 device. So it
_probably_ won't work in a system with more than 256KB of memory (which you
don't, at this point, have, though). It would all depend o
Hi Jerome, thanks for the info!
According to the Microcomputer Interfaces Handbook, my H9273 backplane
should be all ABCD. Am I correct in that I shouldn't have any problem
using the RLV11 in that backplane?
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>>Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>>>
> From: Ben Sinclair
> According to the Microcomputer Interfaces Handbook, my H9273 backplane
> should be all ABCD.
Yup, that was one of the first things I checked - whilst realizing that if
it wasn't, it was too late... :-)
> Am I correct in that I shouldn't have any problem usi
No magic smoke so far!
I think you had written something a while back that would test that
interrupt. Was that correct, or is there another diagnostic I can use
to test that?
The 17440 wasn't a typo, it's just my misunderstanding of how the
addressing works. I'll read the actual location later to
Hello. I seem to be getting quite a big assortment of DEC equipment over
here as of late. Back in July I made a trip to Miami to pick up a PDP 11/34
with related equipment a while back and posted about it here on the list.
I'm still working on getting the power supply on the pdp 11 fixed but am
mak
I just tried to read 774400 from ODT, and it just gives the question
mark. So, I don't think it's seeing it at all right now! I'll try
moving it next.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Ben Sinclair wrote:
> No magic smoke so far!
>
> I think you had written something a while back that would test
On 2015-10-28 18:25, Ben Sinclair wrote:
I just tried to read 774400 from ODT, and it just gives the question
mark. So, I don't think it's seeing it at all right now! I'll try
moving it next.
I wonder if it really uses 18 bit addresses in the console.
Johnny
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at
Same testing as with any early 90's server. If the server boots and
squeals to holy hell you prob have a bad drive, but the system is pretty
robust and if you have multiple drives it might seal it off and boot
anyway.
>From the >>> you can check things out at the ROM level.
Run the SHOW DEV com
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:02 AM, devin davison wrote:
> Hello. I seem to be getting quite a big assortment of DEC equipment over
> here as of late. Back in July I made a trip to Miami to pick up a PDP 11/34
> with related equipment a while back and posted about it here on the list.
> I'm still wo
Here are some docs that might be helpful if you haven't already found these:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/655/EK-306A-MG-001_655Mnt_Mar89.pdf
KA655 CPU System Maintenance
Order Number EK-306AA-MG-001
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/655/EK-KA655-TM-001_KA655_CPU_Module_Technical_Manua
I know I'm a terrible person for saying this, but as a person who spent several
years as a 3b2 admin for $WORK, and would like to be able to work with the
operating system again, the sellers prices alone are enough for me to be happy
for Seth's 3b2 emulator project, when ever it is complete enou
A core memory unit from Gemini 3 is up for auction:
http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/10/auction-memory-first-computer-space?et_cid=4906629&et_rid=742193094&location=top
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, feldma...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> A core memory unit from Gemini 3 is up for auction:
> http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news/2015/10/auction-memory-first-computer-space?et_cid=4906629&et_rid=742193094&location=top
>
Comical. "Chip" indeed. And "first use of
For 18 bit addresses, I assume I would look at 74400 instead? I get
17 there.
I did just try moving the RLV11 boards below everything else (except
the BDV11), with the same results as before.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-10-28 18:25, Ben Sinclair wrote:
That looks pretty clean. I haven't seen one in the UK at anywhere near that
price. Looking at US prices its almost worth shipping if I could find a set of
50hz gears
They do pop up now and then. I actually purchased mine though Ebay, last
year for £300. The seller originally had it listed
Okay, I think I need to be looking at 774400, which doesn't return
anything. Also, the PDP11GUI has a handy RL11 dialog to show all of
the registers, which I think shows the same thing... It's not there!
I've double checked my switch settings, and tested the switches
themselves for continuity just
Well I just figured out something important...The switch numbers on my
board backwards! I was going over the docs again, and noticed that MSB
and LSB in their board diagram were on the wrong sides, compared to
the switch numbers referenced on the next page. I'm not sure if that's
just the way it is
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:40:46PM -0500, Ben Sinclair wrote:
>Well I just figured out something important...The switch numbers on my
>board backwards! I was going over the docs again, and noticed that MSB
>and LSB in their board diagram were on the wrong sides, compared to
>the switch numbers refe
Thanks John, I think the insanity is my own! After changing those
switches I accidentally put the M8014 above the M8013. I've swapped
them and now get slightly different results:
One note, it now takes a while for it to start printing anything,
which I think might mean it's running some of the fir
> From: Johnny Billquist
> I wonder if it really uses 18 bit addresses in the console.
Yes (if the question is 'for input'). What it puts out on the bus I haven't
checked, definitely BBS7 plus the low 13 bits (0-12), dunno about BDAL13-21.
> From: Ben Sinclair
> For 18 bit addr
Seems like it's worth is totally dependent on its provenance...how do you
prove that?
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
> > On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, feldma...@comcast.net wrote:
> >
> > A core memory unit from Gemini 3 is up for auction:
> http://www.scientificcomputing.
> From: Ben Sinclair
> I think you had written something a while back that would test that
> interrupt. Was that correct, or is there another diagnostic I can use
> to test that?
Well, I'm sure there's a DEC diagnostic for the DLV11-J, but I have no idea
what it is.
I did have a
(Jerry you are not a terrible person for saying that)
I have similar thoughts. Ebay seller twenex has had this stuff listed
for months. It's not new. He's trolling for desperate buyers. I would
hardly call this a 'sale'. I've offered him very reasonable prices on
several things he listed for c
I didn't like his prices either, but I wanted to put the 3Bx eyeballs on
this in case there was something they needed for the emulator project.
Breaking out what I consider to be spares from the Symbolics sale is
what I referred to in my post below, but didn't put it in such language.
At le
On 2015-10-28 20:35, Ben Sinclair wrote:
For 18 bit addresses, I assume I would look at 74400 instead? I get
17 there.
Um? 74400 is 15 bits... :-)
18 bits would be 774400. But 22 bits would be 17774400. And 16 bits
would be 174400.
I would primarily expect 16 bits addresses to be used on
On 2015-10-28 21:40, Ben Sinclair wrote:
Well I just figured out something important...The switch numbers on my
board backwards! I was going over the docs again, and noticed that MSB
and LSB in their board diagram were on the wrong sides, compared to
the switch numbers referenced on the next page
Even better. Sorry for writing responses without checking what else is
in my inbox. I've caught up now, though.
And you definitely look like you got a stuck bit in there.
All of the errors show expected and received data, and in all cases bit
13 is on while it shouldn't be.
Could be a bad bus
Not a proof in entirety of the claim, but from a ref and looking at the closeup
pics from the auction website, it is an unusual form of core memory where the
cores have two holes through them, like a blocky figure 8, apparently an aspect
of a technique to achieve non-destructive readout. This is
Yes, I was wondering that too. The paper sticker pasted on the array as show
in the photo is hardly persuasive.
paul
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
>
> Seems like it's worth is totally dependent on its provenance...how do you
> prove that?
>
> On Wed, Oct 28,
I didn't realize there is any such thing as non-destructive read core memory.
Google does turn up a few obscure articles about such things. It doesn't seem
to have caught on, and I wonder why it was used here.
So that phrase actually may be accurate. But does that clearly tie it to
Gemini?
While there are documents out there that describe the function of the
Educomp/Quodata TSC8-75 Timeshare System Controller for Omnibus PDP 8
machines, I have searched high and low, and there doesn't seem to be
/any/ schematics for it anywhere.
I know this was a proprietary board that did some prett
On 2015-Oct-28, at 4:41 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> On Oct 28, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> On 2015-Oct-28, at 2:45 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:58 PM, feldma...@comcast.net wrote:
>
> A core m
Has anyone here ever used a Dowalert back in its heyday of the early
1980s?
For those who don't know, a Dowalert is a device that resembles a
tape-driven telephone answering machine. Dow Jones had an idea of
broadcasting stock information over FM radio to this device for later
perusal by s
didn't they keep craft intact for display etc?
heh who stole the memory then!/
anything is FLOWN in space has a high value.
we collect a bit of that but most is stupidly out of the price range.
ed sharpe archivist for smecc
In a message dated 10/28/2015 12:32:03 P.M. US M
Anyone in the St. Paul / Mpls area need paper for a Teletype? I had to buy
half a dozen rolls to get a decent price, so I am making (3) spare rolls
available at my cost of $5/roll.
If you have interest, please send me a message off-list - thanks!
-Bill
On 10/28/2015 06:32 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Not a proof in entirety of the claim, but from a ref and looking at the closeup
pics from the auction website, it is an unusual form of core memory where the
cores have two holes through them, like a blocky figure 8, apparently an aspect
of a techni
Would anyone have a working EISA motherboard or smallish EISA machine
they'd part with for a reasonable price? I find myself in need of one
to resurrect some elderly kit I'd like to play with. Contact
off-list.
KJ
Original Message
Subject: Re: Up for Auction: Memory from the First Computer in Space
From:couryho...@aol.com
Date:Thu, October 29, 2015 11:29 am
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
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On 2015-Oct-28, at 6:35 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> On 10/28/2015 06:32 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> Not a proof in entirety of the claim, but from a ref and looking at the
>> closeup pics from the auction website, it is an unusual form of core memory
>> where the cores have two holes through them, lik
> From: Steven Malikoff
> a Raytheon module from a Block 1 AGC
> ...
> I don't think the Block 1's were flown(?).
Yes, but not on manned flights. (Researching this is made more complex
because there were quite a few different AGC designs; AGC3, AGC4, AGC4B, AGC5
and AGC6, in addi
I've seen this vendor's stuff before but their prices were so off the wall,
I just laughed and moved on.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I know I'm a terrible person for saying this, but as a person who spent
> several years as a 3b2 admin for $WORK, and would
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