Re: VAX 4000-200 Maintenance

2015-11-20 Thread Holm Tiffe
william degnan wrote: > Performed maintenance of my VAX 4000-200. > > Removed NiCad battery > Replaced hard drive > Made new image of system drive > > The how-to is all over the web, but I summarized a lot of the basic support > tasks associated with a networked VAX 4000 here for anyone interest

Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread rod
Hi Guys Well the original panel arrived yesterday and revealed one or two interesting features. It was from an 8/m but as the underlying programmers console (apart from the change from bulb to LED) is the same for all of versions I am making. Its a good example What it reveals was t

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/20/15 1:44 AM, rod wrote: What it reveals was that they silk screened the panel first then routed or milled out yes, and I posted that a week ago here when I sent you the scans of one of my panels.

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread rod
Hi Al Yes thanks for that. The one that came in just confirmed it. I'm trying to find the range of variation. As you know my panels are laser cut which is a much smoother finish and should get rid of the chip and peel problems. This means I screen after cutting at the expense of fitting the

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Noel Chiappa" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:29 AM Subject: Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms >> From: Mike Stein > >> I don't think I can scan the print set; IIRC the pages were longer >> than 14". > > How much longer? My A3 scann

Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Fred
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:41:53 -0500 (EST) > From: et...@757.org > Subject: Re: Could someone make this topic go away? > Message-ID: > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Am I the only one left using Pine!? > > I get odd looks when I'm checking email from my cell phon

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Fred Cisin
Am I the only one left using Pine!? On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Fred wrote: No you are not. I use (al)pine on my OpenVMS system here as well as my main Linux host. I have mail going back to 2004 here and since 1996 at another public access Unix host I use. It's great when I'm out of town and can ssh

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread william degnan
> > > > As usual, while looking for something else I finally happened to find the > LA100 > docs and ROMs and I've sent the ROM images to Jonathan separately; the > print set > is 11" x 17" and I'll contact Noel off-list regarding scanning. > > I hear you...today looking for something totally unr

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread COURYHOUSE
Just a hit . . scanning/printing without having to go to kinkos etc to any of you needing something that will print--- nice photos print 11 x 17 scan a tad larger than 11 x 17 fax reasonable price free OCR software built in duplex printing has a bin sheet feeder too for doc size

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Am I the only one left using Pine!? >>> >> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Fred wrote: > >> No you are not. >> I use (al)pine on my OpenVMS system here as well as my main Linux host. I >> have mail going back to 2004 here and since 1996 at another public

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Jason Howe
Demonstrating reading your work mail (hosted by gmail) on a VMS system via pine is totally worth the speechless responses. --Jason On 11/20/2015 11:39 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Am I the only one left using Pine!? On Fri, 20 Nov 2015,

MicroVAX 3100, DECservers, etc. available for a couple days

2015-11-20 Thread Jim Carpenter
Just saw this on the rescue list. I *believe* the location would be North Carolina, US. E-mail them, not me. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lenore Ramm via TriLUG Date: Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:20 PM Subject: [TriLUG] Vintage Hardware (Everything Must Go NOW!) To: Triangle Linux Use

Re: Pine

2015-11-20 Thread Jerry Kemp
sigh. I keep meaning to upgrade, probably to alpine, but I'm so attached to elm its hard to move forward. Jerry Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 21:41:53 -0500 (EST) From: et...@757.org Am I the only one left using Pine!?

Re: Could someone make this topic go away?

2015-11-20 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 09:41:53PM -0500, et...@757.org wrote: > Am I the only one left using Pine!? I used to use Pine, and used Alpine for a while. I'm currently using mutt. > I get odd looks when I'm checking email from my cell phone. My cell phone is nice for many things, but I find even

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Just a hit . . scanning/printing without having to go to kinkos etc > to any of you needing something that will > > print--- nice photos > print 11 x 17 > scan a tad larger than 11 x 17 > fax > reasonable price > free OCR software > built in duplex printing > has a bin sheet feed

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread Jay Jaeger
I dunno about Ed, but my usual email client (Thunderbird) does that if you use plain text, and I haven't seen where to fix it. It is indeed annoying - for the sender, too. On Nov 20, 2015, at 16:06, Peter Coghlan wrote: >> >> Just a hit . . scanning/printing without having to go to kinkos

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/20/15 8:04 AM, rod wrote: So the more sets of measurements I get the better. OK, will check the panels I have and send the pn/demensions to you An interesting delema I noticed is the milling cut off some of the vertical white lines around the paddle switches. So should the repro do

Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92

2015-11-20 Thread Stéphane Tsacas
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/13/technology/gene-amdahl-pioneer-of-mainframe-computing-dies-at-92.html?_r=2 -- Stephane

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread rod
Hi Al The designs of the 8/e and the 8/f 8/m differ. On an 8/e panel in the switch area you have a pair of lines running round three sides of the each switch cutout. Or at least you would have if the area had not been removed. So you end up with two lines at the top left changing to on

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Richard Loken
On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Jason Howe wrote: > Demonstrating reading your work mail (hosted by gmail) on a VMS system > via pine is totally worth the speechless responses. I am reading this with Pine on my VMS Alphaserver 4100 as usual. I did not know that alpine was available for VMS, I will have to l

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Mouse
>> Demonstrating reading your work mail (hosted by gmail) on a VMS >> system via pine is totally worth the speechless responses. :-) > I am reading this with Pine [...] While I don't actually use pine, I do read my mail using text-only tools that are completely MIME-blind. (I do have tools that

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-11-20 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 20/11/2015 22:33, Jay Jaeger wrote: I dunno about Ed, but my usual email client (Thunderbird) does that if you use plain text, and I haven't seen where to fix it. It is indeed annoying - for the sender, too. Thunderbird doesn't do that for me, but you could try using the rewrap command?

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at what's necessary for that. You could use fetchmail to snarf it and any IMAP server to make it avai

Re: Pine

2015-11-20 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 11/20/2015 04:58 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote: On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at what's necessary for that. You could use fetchmail to

Re: Pine (was: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 20)

2015-11-20 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, Pete Turnbull wrote: > On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: > > >I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content > >locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at > >what's necessary for that. > > You could use f

HP 7914

2015-11-20 Thread Jay West
I have a board from a HP 7914 disc drive (07914-60001). No clue how I obtained it, as I've never owned a 7914 (but did have a hard luck case 7912, which is long gone). In any case... free for shipping if anyone wants it. J

MCBA COBOL/DIBOL App Docs

2015-11-20 Thread Jason T
Oh dear, look at all this COBOL (and DIBOL, too.) This is pretty dry stuff, folks. But there isn't much out there from this vendor, so here it is: http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/MCBA Free to add to your collection, as always. I have some 9-track tapes that may or may

Re: MCBA COBOL/DIBOL App Docs

2015-11-20 Thread william degnan
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Jason T wrote: > Oh dear, look at all this COBOL (and DIBOL, too.) This is pretty dry > stuff, folks. But there isn't much out there from this vendor, so > here it is: > > http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/MCBA > > Free to add to your co