Re: Odd vintage computer sellers

2020-01-04 Thread Jack Blake via cctalk
I've been after a manual for months. There is one up on eBay for $520, it's been there for months.  A few weeks ago the seller sent out an offer to anyone watching, with an offer of $399, I sent a counter offer of $99.  I just bought a copy that turned up yesterday for $20. Zane I see the sam

Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD

2020-01-04 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in Tucson, or want to come to Tucson for it, you're invited; email me for the address and time). Although the party is Elvis-themed, it's really about boardgaming and classic videogaming. So I kind of wanted to put a general-purpose

Re: Odd vintage computer sellers

2020-01-04 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > > > > It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes > really only > run OS/MP. My affection for them is largely nostalgia; as SPARC > systems they > are quite finicky and the later SPARCstations surpassed even

Re: [PiDP-11] Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD

2020-01-04 Thread Johnny Billquist via cctalk
Interesting. Trinity works fine under ZEMU. So ZIP must be rather a hog... V8 games that I've played under ZEMU: BALLERINA DREAMHOLDER HEROINE VIOLET Johnny On 2020-01-04 06:12, Adam Thornton wrote: I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in Tucson, or want to come

DEC flat cables

2020-01-04 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
Has anyone found a good method for repairing the DEC flat cables? The ones with flat wires with plastic laminated to each side. The glue holding the plastic on fails and you end up with two sheets of plastic and loose wires. I had some success with contact cement but it only glues the plastic t

Re: Odd vintage computer sellers

2020-01-04 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020, 4:32 AM Stefan Skoglund via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk: > > > > > > > It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes > > really only > > run OS/MP. My affection for them is largel

Re: Odd vintage computer sellers

2020-01-04 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Jan 3, 2020, at 7:39 PM, Jack Blake via cctalk > wrote: > >> I've been after a manual for months. There is one up on eBay for $520, it's >> been there for months. A few weeks ago the seller sent out an offer to >> anyone watching, with an offer of $399, I sent a counter offer of $99.

Re: IBM RS/6000 Model 320 (7012-320) SCSI cabling

2020-01-04 Thread Chris Hanson via cctalk
On Jan 3, 2020, at 10:31 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > > I don't have any internal SCSI cables left from those systems. I do > still have a 70F9733 5-foot external SCSI cable that has the weird > 60-pin connector on the system end, and the weird pass-thru normal > 50-pin connector on the d

Re: Sperry SP-425-08 Display - Datasheet?

2020-01-04 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2020-Jan-01, at 6:14 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: > I'd love to see examples of driving circuitry if it's not too much trouble. Remarkable that Tom found someone with spec sheets for the same type. Two examples of in-use are here (see the linked PDFs under tech data): http://ma

Re: DEC flat cables

2020-01-04 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk
> > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 08:57:40 -0500 > From: David Gesswein > Subject: DEC flat cables > >Has anyone found a good method for repairing the DEC flat cables? > The ones with flat wires with plastic laminated to each side. The glue > holding the plastic on fails and you end up with two sheets

Re: Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD

2020-01-04 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
So, it's _mostly_ a 64K problem. All z-machine games have, in the file header, a "high memory" address above which it's safe to page data in and out as needed, because it's all read-only. Trinity's header claims what smells like an implausibly high value for a z4 game to me: 0xf771. There's no w

Re: Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD

2020-01-04 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 12:12 AM Adam Thornton via cctech wrote: > I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in Tucson... I'm a bit far off but it sounds cool. > So I kind of wanted to put a general-purpose Z-machine interpreter on my > PiDP-11, so that people could play In

Re: DEC flat cables

2020-01-04 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 01/04/2020 12:19 PM, Michael Thompson via cctalk wrote: Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 08:57:40 -0500 From: David Gesswein Subject: DEC flat cables Has anyone found a good method for repairing the DEC flat cables? The ones with flat wires with plastic laminated to each side. The glue holding the

SCO software box last chance

2020-01-04 Thread Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
All, have not yet brought myself to throw away this big box of SCO software. Last call, though. I’ll pay media rate to get it to you in the US, just let me know that you want it and where to ship it. If you are abroad, email me and we can split postage, depending on total price. SCO OpenServer