CRT faceplates / screen "mold"

2019-11-29 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
Many years ago I cut the faceplate off an HP display exhibiting serious decay of the sealant between the faceplate and the CRT itself, cleaned everything up, then reattached the plate just with a bead of sealant around the perimeter (where it wouldn't be seen once the bezel was back on). Sh

P118

2019-11-29 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
It's not really classic (although it does try to pretend to be :-) but does anyone here do anything with the P118 SBC? I am trying to get 8" disks running on it but I am seeing some rather strange behavior. bill

Re: P118

2019-11-29 Thread Mark G Thomas via cctalk
Hi Bill, On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 02:29:45PM +, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > It's not really classic (although it does try to pretend to be :-) > but does anyone here do anything with the P118 SBC? I am trying to > get 8" disks running on it but I am seeing some rather strange behavi

Re: P118

2019-11-29 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 11/29/19 9:48 AM, Mark G Thomas wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 02:29:45PM +, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >> >> It's not really classic (although it does try to pretend to be :-) >> but does anyone here do anything with the P118 SBC? I am trying to >> get 8" disks runni

Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Hi all, I found this while throwing away e-waste at my old place: https://photos.app.goo.gl/R8xUxYijf1AYHNB38 Is it of any use to anyone? Need to know by Sunday. Thanks!

Re: Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
Also what appears to be a quad serial board: https://photos.app.goo.gl/21EvJcc7KwwDuS4t9 =] On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 3:25 PM Anders Nelson wrote: > Hi all, I found this while throwing away e-waste at my old place: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/R8xUxYijf1AYHNB38 > > Is it of any use to anyone? Nee

Grid server software

2019-11-29 Thread Grant via cctalk
I am looking for the elusive grid server software disks, I would really like to put this thing online I know of the disks that were on the yahoo grid group, but they were missing the all important utilities disk 2 , but worse than that they are for a tempest server, which unfortunately won't r

Re: CRT faceplates / screen "mold"

2019-11-29 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> Short of outright replacing the CRT with one of the same type, is that > still accepted practice - or in the years since has someone worked out a > way of applying new sealant across the entire face without getting air > trapped in there, thereby maintaining the structural integrity of the > ori

Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ;login:)

2019-11-29 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
I am continuing to clean out stuff from my office and today's items are printed copies of the USENIX publications Computing Systems (early 90s) and ;login: (late 90s). The content is available online, but some people like the printed versions. I prefer to send them all out in one lot rather

Re: Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Also what appears to be a quad serial board: https://photos.app.goo.gl/21EvJcc7KwwDuS4t9 It appears to have 384K of RAM, a battery backed clock/calendar, a serial port and a parallel portso "quad" function. :) Oh, looks to have a game

Re: Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Also what appears to be a quad serial board: https://photos.app.goo.gl/21EvJcc7KwwDuS4t9 NOT a "quad serial board", unless we equate brand name. It is 384K RAM (what was needed to bring 256K up to the 640K maximum), SINGLE serial port, para

P112

2019-11-29 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Let's try again with the right name in the Subject line! It's not really classic (although it does try to pretend to be but does anyone here do anything with the P112 SBC? I am trying to get 8" disks running on it but I am seeing some rather strange behavior. bill

Re: Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: Hi all, I found this while throwing away e-waste at my old place: https://photos.app.goo.gl/R8xUxYijf1AYHNB38 Is it of any use to anyone? Need to know by Sunday. One of the early Compaq ones. 360K. Although while that board was current, th

Re: Compaq Floppy/Printer board?

2019-11-29 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
http://minuszerodegrees.net/rtc/rtc.htm The Quadram SETCLOCK.COM should be included in the Quadmaster software. The rest of the QM package is ramdisk, print spooler, etc. SETCLOCK in Autoexec.bat should fetch the time for the computer. SETCLOCK MM-DD-YY HH:MM should set the clock. Notice the l

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ; login:)

2019-11-29 Thread Jason T via cctalk
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 16:59 Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > and ;login: (late 90s). The content is available online, but some people > like the printed versions. > Is this known for sure? Good scans?

Re: Free: USENIX publications (Computing Systems and late 90s ;login:)

2019-11-29 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 11/29/19 2:59 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: I am continuing to clean out stuff from my office and today's items are printed copies of the USENIX publications Computing Systems (early 90s) and ;login: (late 90s). The content is available online, but some people like the printed versio