RE: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive

2020-04-04 Thread Mike Begley via cctalk
Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had it running for about six months and decided to sell it to someone I believe was in Madison

Re: ISO: Cipher F880 tape drive, Fujitsu Eagle disk drive

2020-04-04 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 12:35 AM Mike Begley via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Years and years ago I owned a Lambda, along with a couple friends. I'm > going to guess this was around 1993 or so, give or take a few years. It > had been owned by Ames Lab at Iowa State University. We had

Re: Identifying Machine for DEC Memory

2020-04-04 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Back to the original topic, someone suggested the memory would fit a DECstation 2100. They were right! I have done a short post about it https://robs-old-computers.com/2020/04/04/memory-for-a-decstation-2100/. Thanks for the suggestion :-) Regards Rob On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 5:04 PM +

Re: APL-11

2020-04-04 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Well, I have had the time to thoroughly go over what is on that RL02 Disk Image. It's disappointing. One could certainly not do an install on any of the OSes from that pack as it is very incomplete. Lots of missing file. On top of that, reading some of the files shows that there should be a s

Help installing HP 2000 contributed library in simh

2020-04-04 Thread David Williams via cctalk
Okay, I've only ever been a user, back in high school, of HP 2000F TSB system but wanted to play with it again and learn more about the system. I've been able set up Simh with 2000F TSB and everything is working fine. Using the latest release I can find out there, HP2100 release 29. Now I'd lik

State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Brace via cctalk
https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/ -- = Jeff Brace Vice President & Board Member, VCF East Showrunner Vintage Computer Federation http://www.vcfed.org/ jeff...@vcfed.org

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
I seem to recall they were using a lot of pdp11's, so oddly enough my Cobol81 skills might be handy here I could even work remotely on my pdp11/73 and hook up to them with DecNet Hm On 4/4/2020 11:06 PM, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote: https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-n

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote: https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/ In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL programmers. They were told to update their software. Now, 20 years later, t

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 4/4/20 9:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote: >> https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/ >> > > In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL programmers. > To b

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote: https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/ On 4/4/20 9:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: In December 1999, the

Re: State of New Jersey needs COBOL programmers

2020-04-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 4/4/20 10:15 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > In 1970, in my absolutely bottom of the totem pole job at Goddard Space > Flight Center, I questioned the use of 2 decimal digits for the year. > (FORTRAN)  I was told, "don't be ridiculous.  All of this will be redone > long before that, and WE w