Re: C64 to a good home

2017-10-16 Thread Robert via cctalk
I recently bought a ZoomFloppy from here: http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/ I got the version with an IEEE488 conector, for use with a PET, but it also supports the serial interface used on the C64. On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 9:11 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: >> There are some online re

Re: HPGL plotter art files

2017-10-16 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
Thanks, Brent; file received, sounds like a Challenge(r) ;-) There's also a YouTube video showing a plot of a Czech steam locomotive; I don't suppose anyone knows where the file might be found? m - Original Message - From: "Brent Hilpert" To: "Mike Stein" ; "General Discussion: On-To

Alphastation 500

2017-10-16 Thread Bryan Everly via cctalk
Hi cctalk@, I have a Dec Alphastation 500 that is missing the drive cover door (it's a piece of plastic about a foot long that covers the CDROM drive and the floppy drive) that is hinged. It's a minor nit (the machine itself works great - I'm running OpenBSD on it) but if anyone knows where I can

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)

2017-10-16 Thread Peter Cetinski via cctalk
> On Oct 16, 2017, at 2:18 AM, tom sparks via cctalk > wrote: > > I have just finished watching [Halt and Catch > Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)) > I've tried to Identify the companies the show represents > > > 1990 -1995 (Season 4): > * Comet = [Yahoo

Re: Space-Time Productions Z80 board

2017-10-16 Thread Amardeep S Chana via cctalk
Fritz Chwolka wrote: > I see that the usefull information is at 2010. > > I use wayback_machine_downloader from https://github.com/hartator/ wayback-machine-downloader. Excellent tool, thank you. I'll wait for the download to complete and see if it picked up any of the missing files. Amardeep

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)

2017-10-16 Thread Chris Elmquist via cctalk
I saw a credit flash by at the end of the final episode with a name I recognized, Carl Ledbetter Technical Consultant Turns out, it _is_ the Carl LedBetter who headed up ETA for a while, https://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylsnappconner/2014/05/29/lessons-in-tech-and-business-amcs-n

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-16 Thread Ian S. King via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:34 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > On 10/08/2017 02:47 PM, Ed via cctalk wrote: > > When I see something that is neat...I camp on it until I decide or > > have a friend put his hand on and stand in front. Yea... to many > times turn > > around and then look down

Re: Halt and Catch Fire (TV series)

2017-10-16 Thread Ed via cctalk
In a message dated 10/16/2017 10:28:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > On Oct 16, 2017, at 2:18 AM, tom sparks via cctalk wrote: > > I have just finished watching [Halt and Catch Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)) > I'v

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-16 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
What kind of nets are you looking for? I am an emergency communications volunteer with Kitsap County so I am aware of all sorts of emergency response related nets, but I only have equipment for the local nets. Have you looked at the ARRL Net database? alan On 10/16/17 11:24 AM, Ian S. King

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-16 Thread Ben Sinclair via cctalk
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Ian S. King via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Does anyone on this thread know if there are any regularly scheduled > traffic nets? > I don't do much with HF nets, traffic or otherwise, but I would be interested in participating in an informal classic

Re: Alphastation 500

2017-10-16 Thread Huw Davies via cctalk
> On 16 Oct 2017, at 23:49, Bryan Everly via cctalk > wrote: > > I have a Dec Alphastation 500 that is missing the drive cover door > (it's a piece of plastic about a foot long that covers the CDROM drive > and the floppy drive) that is hinged. It's a minor nit (the machine > itself works gre

Re: Alphastation 500

2017-10-16 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Good lucky, I was lucky that mine came with one when I bought it from Compaq. I was not so lucky in that the system lacks enough RAM to run OpenVMS. I’m glad to hear that OpenBSD supports it again. For a while it was running OpenBSD, and acting as my firewall, then they shipped a releases of

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

2017-10-16 Thread sandy hamlet via cctalk
Ben, I'm on the west coast, California, and have antenna's for 40 and 80. There are several nets on the west coast but none that talk classic computers. Maybe we need one? Informal would be the best. - Original Message - From: "General Discussion, On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" To: "Gene

Re: tandem computers cartridge tapes

2017-10-16 Thread steve shumaker via cctalk
On 10/14/2017 6:45 PM, Lyle Bickley wrote: On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:00:30 -0700 steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: On 10/14/2017 12:39 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 10/14/2017 12:22 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: found as part of the stack saved from an engineers estate: Tandem Computers cartrid

Re: HPGL plotter art files

2017-10-16 Thread steve shumaker via cctalk
On 10/15/2017 8:53 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote: Thanks, Brent; file received, sounds like a Challenge(r) ;-) There's also a YouTube video showing a plot of a Czech steam locomotive; I don't suppose anyone knows where the file might be found? m - Original Message - From: "Brent H

DECmate disks

2017-10-16 Thread william degnan via cctalk
Anyone have spare OS/8 for DECmate disks, RX02? (copies originals does not matter). I have a lot of RX01 disks, not sure if I have any RX02's, but I'd offer to trade what I can or pay a fair price. I may need a VT278 to the pedestal drive cable. I have a candidate cable that may work, but it's

Re: DECmate disks

2017-10-16 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
That’s pretty cool, I’ve never seen anything like that. Is ftp.update.uu.se still online? It at least used to have an archive of PDP-8 stuff, including the DECmate. I’m not sure if it has what you need. I can’t help, my DECmate’s are III’s. Zane > On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:42 PM, william

Re: DECmate disks

2017-10-16 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
I have a few DECMATE I's here. Call me when you get a chance Bill, On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:25 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > That’s pretty cool, I’ve never seen anything like that. Is > ftp.update.uu.se still online? It at least used to have an archive of > PDP-8