Can't help, since I live on the other side if the pond, but AS/400s are cool
machines. I own a bunch of them (and some S/36s too) and I like them. OS/400
was and is a good OS (if you have clear in mind what it can and what it can't
do).
Meanwhile, you could request a free AS/400 access to the fo
> Meanwhile, you could request a free AS/400 access to the folks at
pub1.rzkh.de and play with OS/400. It's fun to access such a beast from
a... Smart Phone :)
What are you using to do this? Is there a decent 5250 client for mobile?
Decent... well...
Hard to tell...
If you use an external USB mini keyboard they're decent :)
There's the free version of Mocha TN5250, just for an example...
On 2015-12-07 21:14, Paul Koning wrote:
On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-12-07 20:36, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 7 December 2015 at 14:29, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I think all (modern PDP-11) OSes can install from TMSCP tapes. RSTS/E is
more picky than so
I help cleaning out a large repository of DEC parts.
There a quantity of DEC core module assemblies appeared.
According to PDF docs these must be PDP-15 MM15's, but no labels are on
the boards.
I show/offer some of them at
retrocmp.com/flipchipshop ,
under "core memory"
Can somebody confirm th
I've seen a memory assembly from a PDP-15 and it looks very much like
this. Also, if each connector pair corresponds to one bit it adds up to
18 which matches the word lenght of a PDP-15.
Of course, PDP-1, -4 and -7 used 18 bit word lenght, but they were not
made with flip-chips.
PDP-9 is made
Careful. Some PDP-11 memory is also 18 bits wide... 16 bits plus two
parity bits.
Johnny
On 2015-12-08 13:03, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
I've seen a memory assembly from a PDP-15 and it looks very much like
this. Also, if each connector pair corresponds to one bit it adds up to
18 which ma
But not these - PDP-11's didn't use dual-height connectors on memory.
Anyway, they are indeed PDP-15. (Whether or not they are actually MM15
I don't know). The page on the memory on the provided link indicates:
G100
G613
G614
The modules and options document on
bitsavers.org/dec/modules/module
So I know someone who has a working 11/34 (4 RLO2's and the 11/34 in an H960,
running RSTS/E) they want to sell, and they want to know how to maximize the
value - i.e. whether to sell it as a complete working system, or to part it
out - and if the latter, how to break it up?
(No discussion about t
Keep it together. RL drives are pigs to ship and rather common.
Basically, they are hard to sell on their own.
--
Will
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> So I know someone who has a working 11/34 (4 RLO2's and the 11/34 in an H960,
> running RSTS/E) they want to sell, and they
Noel wrote.
-
So I know someone who has a working 11/34 (4 RLO2's and the 11/34 in an
H960, running RSTS/E) they want to sell, and they want to know how to
maximize the value - i.e. whether to sell it as a complete working system,
or to part
>> So which direction [as a whole or parting out] would get the most
>> money?
> One would think that the highest revenue would be parting it out.
> Typically that is true on paper. But be aware that [...]
Also be aware that it will cost you people time (which usually
translates fairly directly
On 12/8/2015 9:36 AM, Jay West wrote:
Noel wrote.
-
So I know someone who has a working 11/34
...
list it as a whole with a firm number in mind that it must sell for (or
better). If t
Why would anyone here want to contribute to such a question? The outcome
is unlike to be contributing anything here anyway.
(Or maybe I'm just naive in thinking that people who request assistance
to maximize their profits targeting the same crowd they ask for
assistance from (for free) is abus
> From: Johnny Billquist
> (Or maybe I'm just naive in thinking that people who request assistance
> to maximize their profits targeting the same crowd they ask for
> assistance from (for free) is abusive.)
_I_ am not selling the item in question; I merely happen to know the selle
You should perhaps reread Noel's message - he is asking for someone
that may or may not have any interest in the well being of the
machine, but probably has a very strong interest in keeping their
business afloat. There are at least a few people on this list that are
experienced and qualified to he
>William Donzelli wrote:
Keep it together. RL drives are pigs to ship and rather common.
Basically, they are hard to sell on their own.
Also, be aware that the competition is not someone else selling
another PDP-11 system, but a PC running Windows which
runs the same software UNDER Ersatz-11
On 2015-12-08 16:24, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Johnny Billquist
> (Or maybe I'm just naive in thinking that people who request assistance
> to maximize their profits targeting the same crowd they ask for
> assistance from (for free) is abusive.)
_I_ am not selling the item
Well, for one, I wanted to answer
because I understand the need to
maximize income from a sale, and happen
to own the same equipment they're selling.
No one here has to buy this system or
pay any more than they want to, so I
don't see any abuse occurring.
You use the word "profit" but th
On 2015-12-08 16:25, William Donzelli wrote:
You should perhaps reread Noel's message - he is asking for someone
that may or may not have any interest in the well being of the
machine, but probably has a very strong interest in keeping their
business afloat. There are at least a few people on thi
Do they have excess employed staff who need additional tasks created to
keep them busy?
Do they have other use for the space? Or do they have excess space, and
need a way to keep the space occupied indefinitely? Piles or boxes of
pieces of machine take as much or more space than assembled mac
Hi Noel
Being in the UK the morality or otherwise is not for me
to comment.
I have an 11/34A awaiting restoration. So I would not have a vested
interest in its
market value. What I can't work out is why there's such an old system
still in working order.
1. What the heck is
On 2015-12-07 20:36, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> On 7 December 2015 at 14:29, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> I think all (modern PDP-11) OSes can install from TMSCP tapes. RSTS/E is
>> more picky than some others, though, if I remember right...
>>
> Yes, RSTS/E installs from TMSCP just fine
> 4. I can't see any form of sale raising salary type money.
Working PDP-11 systems have been fetching good money lately. We do not
know the circumstances with the business, but the sale of the system
very well could keep a tech employed for a little longer - and
sometimes that might make all
Will wrote...
>Also, keep in mind that the membership of this list (especially the active
>members) is just a small fraction of the computer collector community.
Eh, I'm fairly sure that a somewhat sizeable percentage of the people in the
hobby most definitely DO wind up subscribing here.
J
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 02:25:25PM -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> On 6 December 2015 at 13:24, Mark G. Thomas wrote:
> > As much as I love old CPUs, I've lost my patience with hard disk drives.
> > I've been using AztecMonster (search ebay) CF-SCSI adapters, with several-GB
> > CF
Well, no offense, and maybe it is a decent size piece of the pie, but
there are a lot that I have found are not listmembers, especially in
the big iron and (Peecee) microcomputer areas.
What is the membership size of the list?
--
Will
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Jay West wrote:
> Will wrot
Last I checked, which was quite some time ago, it was in the mid-hundreds.
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William
Donzelli
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:47 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Maxi
Connecting a scsi dlt or dat drive is something i had not considered. I
thought i would have had to buy and use DEC branded tape drives.
I already have a scsi dat and DLT drive in use on my SGI octane. I could
probally write the image with the octane and then move the drive over to
the microvax t
Ok, and please invite those big iron and non-whiteboxPC folks here when you
find they aren't on the list ;)
J
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William
Donzelli
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 11:47 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic a
I think your slice of the pie just got smaller in my mind.
The community is a lot bigger than you realize. A wild guess might be
in the few thousands by now.
This is not a slam, just an observation.
--
Will
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Jay West wrote:
> Last I checked, which was quite some
I mention it to many of my customers and other contacts, and quite a
lot either do not know, or know and are just not members. I suppose
the PeeCee crowd is mostly on the forum, but the big iron people
mostly keep to themselves.
I suppose there are quite a few people, myself included, that would
l
On Dec 8, 2015, at 9:55 AM, William Donzelli wrote:
> The community is a lot bigger than you realize. A wild guess might be
> in the few thousands by now.
I've got 13,000 on RetroBattlestations and I doubt very many of them know about
the cctalk mailing list.
--
Follow me on twitter: @FozzTex
> I've got 13,000 on RetroBattlestations and I doubt very many of them know
> about the cctalk mailing list.
Wow, that is impressive. However, I suppose much of the PeeCee crowd
really does not integrate well with cctalk, and that is fine.
--
Will
On 2015-12-08 2:16 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Hi Warner, hi Brad,
...
I don't intend to use this harddrive anyway, I just fear that I made a
misstake in my circuit or the code and others intending to use my
emulator also experiencing problems with their drives too.
Well, it's certainly interesti
Will wrote...
---
I think your slice of the pie just got smaller in my mind.
The community is a lot bigger than you realize. A wild guess might be in the
few thousands by now.
This is not a slam, just an observation.
Once cctalk and cctech are recombined, I suspect it will be a siz
Chris wrote...
> I've got 13,000 on RetroBattlestations and I doubt very many of them know
> about the cctalk mailing list.
To which Will replied...
>Wow, that is impressive. However, I suppose much of the PeeCee crowd really
>does not integrate well with cctalk, and that is fine.
Yep, 13,000 i
Wow, that is impressive. However, I suppose much of the PeeCee crowd
really does not integrate well with cctalk, and that is fine.
Scanning the front page of retrobattlestations, SOL-20, DEC 1957
documentary, C64, POSIX Maze War, Vic 20...
Yep full of PC stuff!
--
Ethan O'Toole
bah! sacrilege!
In a message dated 12/8/2015 8:30:58 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
b...@update.uu.se writes:
sell the feet separately from the H960, etc) is
>>> the way to get the most money,
> bah! sacrilege!
So you've got someone working for you, been working for you for years, and
you think it's more important to not commit the sacrilege of splitting up an
H960 and its feet, rather than to have to tell them they're fired, that they
have to go home and tell their spouse and kids
Ed#wrote
-
bah! sacrilege!
-
While I understand the sentiment c'mon... Noel presented clear and
reasonable request to forgo the judgement and assist him. Let's not
degenerate to "oh, the horrorr".
J
Hmm,
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: "Noel Chiappa"
Verzonden: 8-12-2015 20:19
Aan: "cctalk@classiccmp.org"
CC: "j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu"
Onderwerp: Re: Maximizing value selling a working 11/34
> bah! sacrilege!
So you've got someone working for you, been working for you for y
On 12/08/2015 09:50 AM, devin davison wrote:
Hopefully the DLT drive will be supported. the dat drive i have
seems finicky at it's best.
That, at least in theory, is the great thing about SCSI--it doesn't
matter what the device is, so long as it implements a set of basic SCSI
device-class c
Mmm, of your business depends on the value of a vintage computer. You should
ask yourself if your business can survive anyway.
-Rik
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: "Noel Chiappa"
Verzonden: 8-12-2015 20:19
Aan: "cctalk@classiccmp.org"
CC: "j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu"
Onderwerp: Re: M
I seriously doubt the splitting of the H960 from its feet or not will
influence the outcome of a job position.
In a message dated 12/8/2015 12:24:16 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
hp-...@xs4all.nl writes:
Hmm,
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: "Noel Chiappa"
Verzonden:
Bingo.
In a message dated 12/8/2015 12:29:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
hp-...@xs4all.nl writes:
Mmm, of your business depends on the value of a vintage computer. You
should ask yourself if your business can survive anyway.
-Rik
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: "Noel Chiap
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Rik Bos wrote:
> Mmm, of your business depends on the value of a vintage computer. You
> should ask yourself if your business can survive anyway.
>
>
>
>
Noel *has* my 11/34 ... and I sold another one a few years ago.
Fortunately there are still a few out there and
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> One detail on "it doesn't care what the tape is": RSTS kits on 1/2 inch tape
> come
> in 800 and 1600 bpi versions. They have different boot blocks, each of them
> designed to work with all tape drives/controllers supported on RSTS that
> sup
To answer to that, I think selling it in complete units like disc complete with
controller and complete CPU etc. will get you the most.IMHO selling single
boards won't get you much more money.
-Rik
-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: "Jay West"
Verzonden: 8-12-2015 20:23
Aan: "'General Di
> Mmm, of your business depends on the value of a vintage computer. You should
> ask yourself if your business can survive anyway.
We know nothing of the business situation. small consulting firms are
notorious for having huge swings in cash flow. It may be that the
business in question really is
2015-12-08 15:01 GMT+01:00 Jay Jaeger :
> But not these - PDP-11's didn't use dual-height connectors on memory.
>
> Anyway, they are indeed PDP-15. (Whether or not they are actually MM15
> I don't know). The page on the memory on the provided link indicates:
>
> G100
> G613
> G614
>
> The module
yea but I doubt a pair of H960 feet would be a make or break for
her... just 'sayin
In a message dated 12/8/2015 12:37:21 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
wdonze...@gmail.com writes:
> Mmm, of your business depends on the value of a vintage computer. You
should ask your
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:27 AM, supervinx wrote:
> Decent... well...
> Hard to tell...
> If you use an external USB mini keyboard they're decent :)
> There's the free version of Mocha TN5250, just for an example...
>
I remember using a 5250 emulator to check prices and inventory and submit
label
If there are enough potential buyers of a system's parts to justify breaking it
up, and assuming that at least some of them actually need them, then doesn't it
make as much or more sense to restore several systems back to life instead of
keeping just one together? If you happen to get more for t
> I seriously doubt the splitting of the H960 from its feet or not will
> influence the outcome of a job position.
I don't know, because I don't know enough about their exact financial state.
But it doesn't matter, for two reasons: First, given that it's for a good
cause, it shouldn't mat
> Wasn't "retrobattlestations" where some "person" was happy about
"modding" a HP 21MX into an raspi ntp server?
That's the place, yes.
I think CCtalk is a representative sample of most of the "serious"
collectors, whatever that means.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Jay West wrote:
> Chris w
Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-12-08 2:16 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Hi Warner, hi Brad,
...
I don't intend to use this harddrive anyway, I just fear that I made a
misstake in my circuit or the code and others intending to use my
emulator also experiencing problems with their drives too.
Well, it
Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-12-08 2:16 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Hi Warner, hi Brad,
...
I don't intend to use this harddrive anyway, I just fear that I made a
misstake in my circuit or the code and others intending to use my
emulator also experiencing problems with the
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
I checked it now with an old 486-DX50 EISA+VLB board (rare combination ;))
with a Goldstar Prime 2 and an Acer M5105 ISA Controller. Both detect and
work fine with this harddisk. No idea what mode they work but I guess it
is PIO 0-whatever only - no DMA
Alas: http://i.imgur.com/qhnK1JA.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/3i1rk5/turned_it_into_a_time_server_and_binary_clock/
It's the binary clock that really seals-the-deal :-<.
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ia
On 2015-12-08 17:02, Paul Koning wrote:
On 2015-12-07 20:36, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
On 7 December 2015 at 14:29, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I think all (modern PDP-11) OSes can install from TMSCP tapes. RSTS/E is
more picky than some others, though, if I remember right...
Yes, RSTS/
Yeah, I've got an account on an AS/400 right now. I like the OS, I probably
couldn't do anything useful with it, but I like the look.
But having an account on a remote system isn't the same as a physical system,
ya know? And I don't have QSECOFR access of course.
Maybe I can find one at a surplu
Yeah, ugh that post was baad.
-brian
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:27 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: List vs. community size
Chris wrote...
> I've got
Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on there!
It's been slow recently, not many posts, and boring stuff.
-brian
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of et...@757.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:29 PM
To:
"So a 9-track open-reel SCSI drive should work just as well as a DDS, DLT,
SLT drive."
Oh wow. i had not even considered that. I have a pdp 11 with a beast of a 9
track tape drive in is's own rack, that would be interesting if i could get
a scsi tape drive for the vax and use some big tapes to mov
On Dec 8, 2015, at 10:46 AM, Brian Adams wrote:
> Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on
> there!
Would really love to see some of the big iron playing music through an AM radio
since it's Holiday Music Week on RetroBattlestations right now.
--
Follow me on
My kewl pictures from the System Source Computer Museum
http://www.syssrc.com/linlee/
The home page for the museum is at http://museum.syssrc.com
Bob Roswell
brosw...@syssrc.com
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brian Adams
Sent: Tuesda
On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Brian Adams wrote:
Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on there!
It's been slow recently, not many posts, and boring stuff.
So I post a picture of my workshop with 13 racks, including half a dozen
SGI Onyx2, a pair of SunFire 6800s, a C
Ah shuddap JP, you Ncube2 stealing SOB :)
But seriously I posted a BLIT a while back - That crowd just seems to care
more about the Nth C64 or Apple II than the 'real' retro stuff.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 1:26 PM, JP Hindin wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2015, Brian Adams wrote:
>
>> Would be nice i
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
>
> Would really love to see some of the big iron playing music through an AM
> radio since it's Holiday Music Week on RetroBattlestations right now.
>
I've got a tune written up and ready to record on the PDP-8/M. I'll do that
tonight!
Kyle
Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Toby Thain wrote:
On 2015-12-08 2:16 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
Hi Warner, hi Brad,
...
I don't intend to use this harddrive anyway, I just fear that I made a
misstake in my circuit or the code and others intending to use my
emulator also exper
From: Pontus Pihlgren
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2015 4:03 AM
> I've seen a memory assembly from a PDP-15 and it looks very much like
> this. Also, if each connector pair corresponds to one bit it adds up to
> 18 which matches the word lenght of a PDP-15.
> Of course, PDP-1, -4 and -7 used 18
So I post a picture of my workshop with 13 racks, including half a dozen SGI
Onyx2, a pair of SunFire 6800s, a Cray J98, a Sun E1, and a bunch of
PDP11s, VAXes, Sun E450s/E4000s/386i, Sun 4/470s, MicroPDPs, MicroVAXes, oh,
and an nCube2... and it's boring?
Cray J90 series!
Does it run!? I
It was written
--
Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on
there!
--
"Kewl" machines? Yeah, keep that traffic elsewhere.
J
Yes, keep the kewl machines elsewhere. Our machines are groovy, far
out, or maybe even the Bomb.
--
Will
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jay West wrote:
> It was written
> --
> Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on
> there!
> --
>
> "Kewl" machines
On 12/08/2015 02:23 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
Yes, keep the kewl machines elsewhere. Our machines are groovy, far
out, or maybe even the Bomb.
You forgot "rad" and "neat".
Outasite,
--Chuck
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 12/08/2015 02:23 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>> Yes, keep the kewl machines elsewhere. Our machines are groovy, far
>> out, or maybe even the Bomb.
>
>
>
> You forgot "rad" and "neat".
Certain Crays were "totally tubular."
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jason T wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> > On 12/08/2015 02:23 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes, keep the kewl machines elsewhere. Our machines are groovy, far
> >> out, or maybe even the Bomb.
> >
> >
> >
> > You forgot "rad"
On 12/08/2015 02:34 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
A lot of these old machines are "smokin'". At least if you don't
test the power supplies appropriately...
If the power involved is sufficient, then they become "dyn-o-mite"
--Chuck
I was wondering if anyone on the list may have contact info for Mr. Volpe
the author of ModemDoctor. I attempted to send in the registration fee for
his service based on the address on his website. The letter was returned
"not deliverable". The site does get occasional updates so he is still
around
This is a laughable ask, I realize that- but I'd really like to find a PERQ.
Anywhere in the US and Canada is fair game. I am prepared to work on one in
any condition, and am okay with any model.
I'm definitely not asking for a handout and would like to negotiate a
reasonable price. (I am aware o
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
> This is a laughable ask, I realize that- but I'd really like to find a
> PERQ.
>
> Anywhere in the US and Canada is fair game. I am prepared to work on one in
> any condition, and am okay with any model.
>
> I'm definitely not asking for a hando
On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 06:53:31PM +, Brian Adams wrote:
> Yeah, I've got an account on an AS/400 right now. I like the OS, I
> probably couldn't do anything useful with it, but I like the look.
I've had an account there for years, though I don't use it much these days.
> But having an acc
Man...IUsed this program for YEARS. I'd be glad to register it as a "thank
you" note
Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
Em 08/12/2015 21:18, "Ali" escreveu:
> C A I X A E C Ô N O M I C A F E D E R A L - LOTERIAS
>
> Alexandre Souza,
>
> Conforme você pediu, seguem os resultados das Loterias da Caixa
I have a PERQ-1 & -2, both with keyboards, mice, manuals, and a bunch of
software on floppy disk.
I haven't worked on them in... *well* over ten years. But they have bubbled
near the top of the 'soon, really this time!' pile, and I might consider
parting with one.
Let me chew it over.
Mike
On De
Thank you for that post, I wasn't aware of that list. I'm now subscribed.
Hoping to relive some of my System/34 and System/36 days, or even better (for
me) virtualized.
Jerry
On 12/ 8/15 05:50 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
There was a post on the Midrange-L list last
month from someone with
mine are old enough to be bitchen!
Ed#
In a message dated 12/8/2015 3:33:34 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
silent...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 12/08/2015 02:23 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>>
>> Yes, keep the kewl machines elsewhere. Our
Check my YouTube channel - name is 'abaduck' (!) - for videos of all my IBM
midrange machines, from System/3 to System/38, running :)
Mike
On Dec 9, 2015 1:37 PM, "Jerry Kemp" wrote:
> Thank you for that post, I wasn't aware of that list. I'm now subscribed.
>
> Hoping to relive some of my Syst
Hi all --
I have recently acquired a PDP-8/m system that was used to drive a radio
automation rig (very very similar to this: http://www.bowkera.com/kcbs1.htm
).
My understanding is that this system hooked to banks of what were
essentially 8-track tape drives, each of which held a short loop of t
Hi Josh,
Can you call me about this?
Thanks, Paul
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On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I have recently acquired a PDP-8/m system that was used to drive a radio
> automation rig (very very similar to this:
> http://www.bowkera.com/kcbs1.htm
> ).
>
> M
opps, that was supposed to be off listsorry.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I have recently acquired a PDP-8/m system that was used to drive a radio
> automation rig (very very similar to this:
> http://www.bowkera.com/kcbs1.htm
> ).
>
> My understanding
The "carts" were 4 track tapes. it was a popular radio station
automation system back in the old days.
The first radio station i engineered at used them and i was QUICK to
convert them to a computer based
automation system way ahead of most other stations.
On 12/8/2015 8:56 PM, Josh Dersch wrote
On 9/12/2015 2:26 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
My understanding is that this system hooked to banks of what were
essentially 8-track tape drives, each of which held a short loop of tape
(containing a song, an ad, call info, etc.) and the 8/m was programmed with
a playlist of sorts so that even in the e
since we collect broadcast gear for radio and TV
we would like to buy this depending on where it is located.
are there any tapes too??? we are VERY INTERESTED!!
thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc.
In a message dated 12/8/2015 9:54:10 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
thrashb...@kapu
YES!!DOES IT STILL HAVE THE DIABLO DISC HARD DRIVE TOO!>!>?opps
caps ok yes one of the phx stations had one of these and it had
the 8 and the diablo hard drive
PRICEed sharpe
In a message dated 12/8/2015 8:56:51 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dersc
Oh yeah? Well, my machines are boring. Beat that.
-brian
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mine are old enough to b
1? Not enough, come on. Hi-Res NCube pictures please.
-Brian
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of JP Hindin
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 4:26 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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I was considering asking on that list, but I figured it was geared toward new
machines.
I'll take a look.
-Brian
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Monceaux
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic an
Yeah... the feeling of a real machine is different...
AS/400s aren't retrocomputing cult machines so, waiting a bit, it's not hard to
grab one at a decent price...
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