Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-29 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 22:52, John Blake wrote: > > Vetusware is highly unreliable and tries to charge for accounts, which isn't > worth it at all because most of the things I've gotten from there haven't > worked. Try: https://winworldpc.com/library I got the "blue spine" release of OS/2 War

Last call: free machines in Sweden

2016-01-29 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi My employer is moving house and need to clear out some old stuff. We have ported to many, many Unix systems over the years and have kept some of the machines. Available is: 1x IBM RS/6000 big and beige 1x Bull DPX/2 1x Concurrent Computer Corporation in rack 1x Sperry unix machine 1x NCR (s

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Tothwolf wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to be >> missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s gear, >> it's not round. It's square... > > There aren't to

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 1/28/2016 8:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On faster, more modern systems, I use VirtualBox. Just not worth the extra trouble finding drivers--but I suspect 98SE will run on P4 systems as well. The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned in re VirtualBox is that what if you have a legacy Win

Re: CDC Sabre 8" SMD blues

2016-01-29 Thread Al Kossow
only problem would be formatting them for the Symbolics.. On 1/28/16 10:19 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: I just realized, that I have 2 8" SMD drives that are bolted together (along with their power supplies). I have *no* idea of their operational condition (but physically they're in good shape). I

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/29/16 8:04 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned in re VirtualBox is that what if you have a legacy Win 98SE system with hardware in it, like a GPIB card or sound card? Or if you have software that talks to hardware via serial or parallel ports eg. eprom bur

Re: CDC Sabre 8" SMD blues

2016-01-29 Thread Shiresoft
Yea, that's unfortunately the problem for any disks for the Symbolics. :-( TTFN - Guy > On Jan 29, 2016, at 8:06 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > only problem would be formatting them for the Symbolics.. > >> On 1/28/16 10:19 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: >> >> I just realized, that I have 2 8" SMD drives

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Josh Dersch
On 1/29/16 8:04 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: On 1/28/2016 8:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On faster, more modern systems, I use VirtualBox. Just not worth the extra trouble finding drivers--but I suspect 98SE will run on P4 systems as well. The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned in re Virtu

RE: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Ali
> The other hassle is having to > essentially rebuild an Win98 (or any > other) machine from scratch in order to try to replicate an existing > setup. I haven't seen any way to "capture" an existing machine and all > its disk partitions -- especially when there's multiple partitions of > different

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/29/2016 08:04 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned in re VirtualBox is that what if you have a legacy Win 98SE system with hardware in it, like a GPIB card or sound card? Or if you have software that talks to hardware via serial or parallel ports eg. eprom b

RE: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread John Foust
At 11:19 AM 1/29/2016, Ali wrote: >> The other hassle is having to essentially rebuild an Win98 (or any >> other) machine from scratch in order to try to replicate an existing >> setup. I haven't seen any way to "capture" an existing machine and all >> its disk partitions -- especially when there'

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Jon Elson
On 01/28/2016 10:28 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: Hello, all, I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to be missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s gear, it's not round. It's square. Is this a standard IBM thing from the 70s/80s? Anyone know where

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Paul Berger
On 2016-01-29 12:28 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: Hello, all, I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to be missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s gear, it's not round. It's square. Is this a standard IBM thing from the 70s/80s? Anyone know where

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 01/28/2016 10:28 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal... > > I'd open up the case and see if you can find out who made the whole fuse > holder assembly. Lots of outfits made "fancy" fuse holders that

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Paul Berger wrote: > On 2016-01-29 12:28 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: >> I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal... > > I did a quick google search for 'ibm 3101' and among the hits was a manual > on archive.org, www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/31xx/ there are tw

RE: Last call: free machines in Sweden

2016-01-29 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pontus > Pihlgren > Sent: 29 January 2016 10:38 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Last call: free machines in Sweden > > Hi > > My employer is moving house and need to clear out some old stuff.

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: "Chuck Guzis" Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 12:39 PM > As others have mentioned, the best approach is to keep systems that > support what you need "just in case". In my case, some of the hardware > is of my own design and construction--and employs the ISA i

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/28/2016 08:28 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to be missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s gear, it's not round. It's square. Is this a standard IBM thing from the 70s/80s? Anyone know where I could ge

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/28/2016 08:28 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> >> I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to >> be missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s >> gear, it's not round. It's square. > > Somethin

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Tothwolf
On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:39 AM, Tothwolf wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: I was just gifted with an IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal that happens to be missing the fuse and fuse holder. Unlike a lot of 1960s and 1970s gear, it's not round. I

RE: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > j...@cimmeri.com > Sent: 29 January 2016 16:04 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA ha

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Charles Anthony
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 8:28 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > Hello, all, > > > Also, I found only a little info on it from Googling. Later IBM ASCII > terminals emulated ANSI command or Wyse-50 or something. I couldn't > find anything on the 3101. Is it a glass TTY or does it respond to > any cursor

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-29 Thread Robert Ferguson
> On Jan 28, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one > was an in-house board design based around Intel's RISC chip, the i860 > -- codenamed the N10. NT allegedly stood for "N Ten" before MS > marketing retconned it to "New Te

Re: IBM 3101-12 ASCII terminal - need fuse holder

2016-01-29 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Charles Anthony wrote: > This is the Multics Release 12 C compiler terminfo entry for the 3101: > > # @(#)ibm.ti 1.3 (1.10 2/22/83) > > ibm|ibm3101|3101|i3101|IBM 3101-10, > cr=^M, cud1=^J, ind=^J, bel=^G, tbc=\EH, hts=\E0, am,

VCF East exhibit registration is open

2016-01-29 Thread Evan Koblentz
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