On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:34:25PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> terrible fluorescent lighting.
There's another kind?
:-)
mcl
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 07:26:25AM -0500, allison via cctalk wrote:
> I just fire up the PDP-11/73 (RL02, RX02, RD52x3,), then Microvax-II/GPX,
> Then the PDP-8f
Right now in the server room here at the house it's at 77dB -- well,
right at the server rack; it's a bit lower where I sit. There'
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:22:10PM -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove via cctalk
wrote:
> Don't forget what a machine room and the equipment looks like.
I think everyone has forgotten the most important part of the recreation.
There simply *must* be someone standing in the room to scream
DON'T
Hello Seth,
Fingers crossed that you already have what you need.
Given the possibility that you don't, my comment here is that your request for
internal documents are somewhat vague. Can you be somewhat more specifics?
The reason specifically I'm asking, is I was reviewing an old Unix book/d
On 2017-03-05 4:19 AM, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:22:10PM -0500, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove via cctalk
wrote:
Don't forget what a machine room and the equipment looks like.
I think everyone has forgotten the most important part of the recreation.
There simply *
* Noel Chiappa via cctalk [170304 22:34]:
[..SNIP..]
> Anyway, I've seen BA11-K boxes with several different kind of mounting
> slides.
>
> The tall, grey-coated ones are made by Chassis Trak, a division of General
> Devices of Indianapolis. The 4 I looked at, all idential looking (except for
> h
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 3:02 AM, Mark Linimon via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:34:25PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> terrible fluorescent lighting.
>
> There's another kind?
Well, there are "daylight" type fluorescent bulbs. Those are quite good.
We've had them aro
> From: Pete Turnbull
>> I'm not the sure BA11-K (10-1/2" box) mounted 11/34's could do the
>> rotate thing
> The two I've had .. both rotated.
Ah, right you are - brain fade, late at night.
I went looking in my BA11-K collection, and found a couple that do have the
rotate - th
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Noel Chiappa via
cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2017 12:05 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: PDP-11/34 rails?
> From: Pete Turnbull
On 03/05/2017 12:02 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:34:25PM -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>> terrible fluorescent lighting.
>
> There's another kind?
The fixtures themselves were so high that they *did* make for some
recreation. Bored operators would engage in late
Hi folks,
I didn't see the message at the bottom of this one arrive since I think I
sent it JUST as the list software was being changed over.
Gah, having just looked again I realise I've sent it from not the address
I've subbed with. PEBCAK there :)
Since then I discovered the -5V rail for the 4
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 09:49, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I don't recall many who used those yellow rings for their intended
> purpose. It was just too easy to forget to remove one. You mounted
> tapes without and reached around the back of the reel with a punch card
> and tripped the "
On 03/05/2017 10:41 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
>
> So, was the write enable state latched at some point in the loading
> cycle on those drives? That surprises me, because I would have
> expected the write enable sensor to interrupt write current as
> combinatorial function on the drive, a
One i've had luck with is posting on Craigslist and putting ads in local
newspapers to where the manufacturing was done. Use to work better when
people read newspapers, but even last year I got an e-mail back from an
advertisement in a paper with an offer of just pay the media mail rate for
a full
Here is what comes to mind, it may not qualify as a computer. A
Westinghouse Numa-Logic PC700. It is an early PLC. uses a Sinetics 8X300
bit slice. Unfortunately Westinghouse only started to invest in PLCs about
the time the they merged with CBS and in a few years
all of Westinghouse became history
On 2017-Mar-05, at 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 03/05/2017 10:41 AM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
>>
>> So, was the write enable state latched at some point in the loading
>> cycle on those drives? That surprises me, because I would have
>> expected the write enable sensor to in
On 03/05/2017 12:41 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
On Mar 5, 2017, at 09:49, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I don't recall many who used those yellow rings for their intended
purpose. It was just too easy to forget to remove one. You mounted
tapes without and reached around the back of th
Somewhere, probably in a box in the attic, I have a xerox of a preliminary
document on the WE32000. I really liked that processor.
bill
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Pete Lancashire via
cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org]
Sent: Su
I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the past.
BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards. And I still have Terak boards
(should
qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work OK in any QBUS
backplane.
I'm sure if I thought about it there is more.
bill
_
That all makes perfect sense now. Thanks!
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X
http://www.nf6x.net/
On 03/05/2017 12:18 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
>
> Mention above about the vacuum capstans. Some really old drives had
> two continuously counterrotating capstans with slots in them. Valves
> applied either air pressure, to make the tape float over the capstan,
> or vacuum, to make the capsta
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I've gotten rid of a lot of wierd stuff in the past.
>
> BUt toiday, I still have some QBUS M68K boards. And I still have Terak
> boards (should
> qualify as rare I imagine) no Terak boxes but they work O
I recently acquired a HP 9825 and have a project planned that will need
serial i/o. If anyone has one of these interfaces they'd care to sell, I
would be interested in visiting about it.
Thanks,
Tom
Original Message
Subject: Re: PDP-11/34 rails?
From:"Todd Goodman via cctalk"
Date:Mon, March 6, 2017 1:48 am
To: "Noel Chiappa"
"General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
--
I have a pair of Model 16 Keyboards for sale. If interested make an offer.
Allow at least $10 additional for Priority Mail with the USPS.
bill
>
> Speaking of which - I'll put out a call again for if anyone wants to get a
> group purchase on the motor run caps for a TU55/56
>
I need some. I have been working on my system, and just discovered that
all four of my drives have leaking motor run capacitors.
I have found some online,
https://goo.gl/photos/nTH55jvTqC9Mc2Uq8
Many of the DC300 size carts have broken bands.
and a Tek 4041 PROM tray.
-pete
And for what it is worth, continued bounces.
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To: a...@gnu.org
Subject: confirm
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:28:13 -0600
Your membership in the mailing list cctalk has been disabled du
On 4 March 2017 at 17:40, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'm OK with it too. It correctly shows that this is a
> message relayed by a list sent from a person. I can easily choose whether I
> want to respond to the list or to the person or both, I had to make that
> choice
I picked these up as part of an estate liquidation, but I don't have a
Unibus setup to run them off, and they are large and taking up space. They
now need to be gone. The condition is unknown but they are intact.
If you know what one is, you probably know how to hook it up and use it. If
you don't
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