Re: Thanksgiving Day

2016-11-25 Thread drlegendre .
They seriously call them 'pubs' in Venezuela?? ;-) (Among many other things, I'm also thankful to live in a place where the odd power outage is unexpected, and may even constitute a special occasion.) On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Ian S. King wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Chuck G

Re: Turkey Day Scans: TELEX

2016-11-25 Thread COURYHOUSE
These are very nice! thank you for posting them! do you have anything else twx, telex or teletype? Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 11/24/2016 10:52:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, silent...@gmail.com writes: I received another big pile of random document

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

2016-11-25 Thread Peter Corlett
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:07:41PM +0100, MG wrote: [...] > All the items are located in the Netherlands. I'll provide more information > and pictures on demand. Some of the storage kit looks worth a gander. Where in the Netherlands is this? I live in the backwaters of Zaandam.

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

2016-11-25 Thread MG
Hello, Op 25-nov-2016 om 12:22 schreef Peter Corlett: Some of the storage kit looks worth a gander. Where in the Netherlands is this? I live in the backwaters of Zaandam. The items are located in a residential area in Leiden (in the province of Zuid-Holland / South Holland). Kind regards

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-25 Thread allison
As someone that has several Gmail and Verizon accounts my call is: AOL is often either put in junk or trash for all all. Often that includes Yahoo as well. I suspect its the general drift to better authentication to slow the junkmail and spoofed emails. This is why people use Gmail, it filters

Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

2016-11-25 Thread Pete Lancashire
VME based systems ? I've been given a VME chassis and want to build up a 68K based system for fun. HP 9000/3xx ? I think I asked this one before. But can't find searching the archives or my email. TIA -pete

Re: Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

2016-11-25 Thread Al Kossow
there are none that I know of. I've been doing a lot of work this year archiving VME information and firmware. there's not a lot out there for software, though beyond NetBSD HP 9000/300 documentation is at the HP Museum and under hp/9000_300 on bitsavers On 11/24/16 10:51 AM, Pete Lancashire wro

Re: Membership disabled due to bounces

2016-11-25 Thread Mouse
> This is why people use Gmail, it filters spam and trash like no other Maybe for the people whose eyeballs it's selling. My view as someone who doesn't use it is that it's a bulletproof spammer drop-box hosting service crossed with a spam spewer. Their offloading the costs of their antisocial b

Re: Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

2016-11-25 Thread Jon Elson
By the way, we still use VME for data acquisition systems in nuclear research. We don't usually have a CPU in there, they are too slow. Everything is run with FPGAs, and it is possible to have data flowing at pretty close to the maximum VME word rate. We have a module that sucks up the words

A good shipping service for large computers?

2016-11-25 Thread devin davison
I have purchased 3 large SGi crimson computers and need them shipped from california to florida. I am uncertain of a good service to use for the task, i need the machines to be packaged up / put on a pallet at the pickup location, the owner is unable to do so. Usualy I would use YRC freight, howeve

Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ...

2016-11-25 Thread Matti Nummi
Pete, You can start with www.m88k.com You can email me for information. BR Matti On 11/24/16 10:51 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > VME based systems ? I've been given a VME chassis and want to build up a > 68K based system for fun. > > HP 9000/3xx ? I think I asked this one before. But can't find se

Re: Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ... (Al Kossow)

2016-11-25 Thread Michael Thompson
> > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 08:46:19 -0800 > From: Al Kossow > Subject: Re: Are there mailing lists or groups just tor ... > > There are none that I know of. I've been doing a lot of work this year > archiving > VME information and firmware. > > there's not a lot out there for software, though beyo

Data General CS 200n (Ebay warning)

2016-11-25 Thread jim stephens
This system has several tape drives, and possibly some Eclipse era processor. If someone knows what this is they may want to rescue it. There are three what appear to be 6' racks with various tape devices, and a desk high cabinet. There are two 3 or so switch front panels, one on one of the 6'

Re: A good shipping service for large computers?

2016-11-25 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Devin Davison > I am uncertain of a good service to use for the task, i need the > machines to be packaged up / put on a pallet at the pickup location I have had good luck with PakMail (http://www.pakmail.com/); I've had them ship a couple of 6' racks (one from Arizona, one fr

Re: Turkey Day Scans: TELEX

2016-11-25 Thread Jason T
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:03 AM, wrote: > These are very nice! thank you for posting them! > do you have anything else twx, telex or teletype? Not that I've run across yet. There are some more terminal brochures to come, however. Informer, among others. j

Re: A good shipping service for large computers?

2016-11-25 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/25/2016 05:49 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: I have discovered that a Ford Taurus wagon nicely holds an H960 6'x19" rack (I joked that the car must have been designed by someone who collects old gear :-), so I have been able to pick up a shipment consisting of _two_ H960's this way: one inside, an

Re: Turkey Day Scans: TELEX

2016-11-25 Thread COURYHOUSE
well that is good stuff and your scan were well done many thanks ! Ed# In a message dated 11/25/2016 8:24:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, silent...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 4:03 AM, wrote: > These are very nice! thank you for posting them! > do you have a

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

2016-11-25 Thread Ian S. King
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 3:28 AM, MG wrote: > Hello, > > Op 25-nov-2016 om 12:22 schreef Peter Corlett: > >> Some of the storage kit looks worth a gander. >> >> Where in the Netherlands is this? I live in the backwaters of Zaandam. >> > > The items are located in a residential area in Leiden (in t

Macintosh Portable

2016-11-25 Thread Chris Pye
Does anyone know off hand what polarity that Mac Portable requires? I know that the original was 7.5V @ 1.5A, but not sure of the polarity. I did have have a PB100 power supply that I used with mine, but (unfortunately) no longer have it. Also (if it still works) what is the easiest way to imag