At 12:50 AM 6/24/2020, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>Thanks for straightening that out--all I know is that the tapes are from
>an 11/70, which isn't much information, admittedly.
A few months ago, I was re-rescuing some files that a friend had
once read from a RSTS tape. He gave two sets of file
> On Jun 23, 2020, at 9:57 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I've been processing some PDP-11 9 track (800 NRZI) tapes and run across
> something that I don't recognize.
>
> Every file on the tape consists of a number of 512 byte blocks (okay,
> that's normal) but at the head of each f
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 9:03 PM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> So I'm working on this RSX11M+ system here and while working I ran
> myself out of file headers. Using the HOME /MXF command I was able to
> increase the number of headers, but only up to 4090. or so. Trying to go
> to 4100 gave me an
>>> Peter Coghlan wrote:
>>> Does anyone use ASCII anymore?
>>
>> I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator.
>> I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126.
>
> I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behind a SSL VPN and mandate
> the use of Outlook, then forc
Someone whose name might be Marc might have written:
Peter Coghlan wrote:
Does anyone use ASCII anymore?
>>>
>>> I read and write my email with Emacs running in a terminal emulator.
>>> I rarely need anything beoynd codepoint 126.
>>
>> I vote we move the list to an Exchange server behi
I did get an answer from Johnny B, and it makes sense why I couldn't
figure it out: In order to increase the file handles significantly you
have to either dismount with "dmo du0:/dev/lock=v" to lock tasks in
memory then mount foreign and back it up or just put BRU64K on an RX01
floppy with VMRV
On 6/24/2020 10:02 AM, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote:
But I would strongly suggest that we limit it to using characters from the
Baudot set. If not they don’t print right on my 1930 Teletype.
I can peruse the list on my Teletype ASR-32(s). Can archive the list
with the 5 level paper tape (a
On 06/23/2020 09:09 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote:
Short story of crashing the 360 MVT system. We had IBM
reels we reused which IBM used for patches called DTRs.
they had 50 or 100' max length tape. We had a guy muck up
a program to send a file off our system to the mainframe,
and he
On 6/24/20 1:23 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> The 1052 Selectric console on the 360's were not on a channel, but
> driven via direct I/O directly from the CPU microcode. (Yes, the
> console has a pseudo channel address that made you THINK it was on a
> channel, but it actually wasn't.)
One p
Sometimes I had only lunch hour to do PMs, and one office worker always
ate into my time because she had to 'finish something'.
Pretty soon I found that [ 2 ; 9 y would put all ANSI terminals
into continuous self-test, and that solved the problem:-)
Those were the days!
cheers,
Nigel
On
On 06/24/2020 04:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 6/24/20 1:23 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
The 1052 Selectric console on the 360's were not on a channel, but
driven via direct I/O directly from the CPU microcode. (Yes, the
console has a pseudo channel address that made you THINK it
On 6/24/2020 2:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 6/24/20 1:23 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
The 1052 Selectric console on the 360's were not on a channel, but
driven via direct I/O directly from the CPU microcode. (Yes, the
console has a pseudo channel address that made you THINK it
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