Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread william degnan
On Nov 20, 2016 1:54 AM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote: > > On 11/19/2016 09:56 AM, william degnan wrote: > > > True, but for all that I have read about the actual use of the /20 > > that was not what it was for. IBM used the /20's as a smart terminal > > and that kind of thing.The thing in between the

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread James B DiGriz
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:12:17 -0800 Josh Dersch wrote: > Looks like a rebadged Interdata 7/32 (or similar) to me. Someone > should try to rescue that; they're very rare... > > > - Josh > > > On 11/19/16 8:35 PM, TeoZ wrote: > > http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/general-electronics-recycling/3087

Re: Archiving Fortune 32:16 bits

2016-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/19/16 10:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > the firmware source and a bunch of handwritten > engineering drawings. > i'd like to add that to the archive. it is the monochrome one

Re: New family member

2016-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/19/16 11:18 PM, jim stephens wrote: > I updated the page, and found out that there is a Datum 4091EC disk > controller in slot 12 optioned for a Diablo 30. I > was wondering if anyone has any info on those as well as the Datum card. Is > there a similar effort to get an emulator > for

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/19/16 11:14 PM, jim stephens wrote: > The disk drives look a lot like Priam SMD drives. Two to a tray, 8" form > factor. About 150 or 300mb IIRC. They had a > very nice open frame 60mb and 90mb drive which i have a specimen of somewhere > as well that proceeded the 8" product. I > do

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 11/20/2016 07:05 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > Priam bought Vertex and survived into the 5" era The priam 519 is > equivalent to the Maxtor 2190 ...later acquired by Atasi. I still have a 519 with the Atasi label. I loved the Priam image of a discus thrower. Atasi, IIRC, was acquired by Tandon som

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread James B DiGriz
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 21:12:17 -0800 Josh Dersch wrote: > Looks like a rebadged Interdata 7/32 (or similar) to me. Someone > should try to rescue that; they're very rare... > > > - Josh > > > On 11/19/16 8:35 PM, TeoZ wrote: > > http://www.scrapmetalforum.com/general-electronics-recycling/3087

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-20 Thread Peter Coghlan
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote: There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little back in the day. I don't think I had the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so well for Alpha. It is probably possible to translate the VAX executable to an Alpha

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Josh Dersch > Someone should try to rescue that; they're very rare... I personally don't want to get into this (I'm already knee-deep in PDP-11 stuff), but I can help with the logistics; I'm down in SE Virginia, very close to the NC line. So if someone wants to do this, but is e.g

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Jon Elson > if they were doing mostly RPG work, then a /20 could do that. This is a _long_ time ago, and I was a junior operator, not a programmer, but I know most (maybe all) of their work was in RPG. Noel

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 07:52:20AM -0500, william degnan wrote: > Old Computerworlds from the time had a lot of ads for timesharing > services. That was before everyone decided it was far cheaper and saner to own and administer their own systems. (ahem.) Mark "everything old is new again" Linimo

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 11/20/2016 12:02 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 07:52:20AM -0500, william degnan wrote: >> Old Computerworlds from the time had a lot of ads for timesharing >> services. > > That was before everyone decided it was far cheaper and saner to own > and administer their own syst

Re: Some scrapper in NC has an old machine Labled TRIAD he is scrapping

2016-11-20 Thread Bob Rosenbloom
On 11/20/2016 11:42 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Josh Dersch > Someone should try to rescue that; they're very rare... I personally don't want to get into this (I'm already knee-deep in PDP-11 stuff), but I can help with the logistics; I'm down in SE Virginia, very close to the NC

owning the hardware was Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > Old Computerworlds from the time had a lot of ads for timesharing > > services. > > That was before everyone decided it was far cheaper and saner to own > and administer their own systems. > (ahem.) I will say on the personal side, as someone who has run their own do-everything server continu

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little back > in the day. There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, but it runs very well. http://ampm.floodgap.com/www/downld.htm -- personal: http://

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Charles Dickman
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > OH, yeah! Besides the limited instruction set, short registers only half > populated, etc., did you know that the 360/20 did not have an adder? This made me curious about how primitive it was, but the FE docs on bitsavers show a 16bit ALU that

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

2016-11-20 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/20/2016 05:30 PM, Charles Dickman wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: OH, yeah! Besides the limited instruction set, short registers only half populated, etc., did you know that the 360/20 did not have an adder? This made me curious about how primitive it was, but

for sale/trade: big list of both old and (relatively) new, deadline: end of November (ideally)

2016-11-20 Thread MG
The following is for sale, or trade possibly. Most of the listed items I've used together with SGI IRIX and HP/Compaq/DEC OpenVMS and Digital/Tru64 UNIX systems and served me very well. I need to sell this by the end of the month (Nov-2016), else I'll have to potentially scrap a considerable

Re: A Multibus board just sold for over $2000

2016-11-20 Thread Glen Slick
On Nov 8, 2016 6:43 PM, "Al Kossow" wrote: > > well, not just ANY Multibus board > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/262697366358 > As a follow on two bare 432/100 just sold for $1700 http://www.ebay.com/itm/262714109154

Re: A Multibus board just sold for over $2000

2016-11-20 Thread George Rachor
Time to look at my Inventory (grin). Never had any 432 stuff. George Rachor Sent from my iPhone geo...@rachors.com > On Nov 20, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > >> On Nov 8, 2016 6:43 PM, "Al Kossow" wrote: >> >> well, not just ANY Multibus board >> >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/26269736