At 12:56 AM 7/31/2021, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote:
>As some here know, I collect some dusty deck fortran graphics. We have
>MOVIE.BYU up and running! (Thanks Douglas Taylor and Emanuel Steibler).
Once I was in the business of making 3D file format translators,
and I still have code that runs
On 2021-07-30 11:34 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/30/21 6:22 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
The MT/ST did pretty good for being a electro-mechanical device,all the
logic was relays in it. I seem to recall many years ago one of the old
OP guys telling me that it write in stripes
On 7/31/21 8:55 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
> Since there was still a few 360s around when I started I also got to see
> the inside of a 1052 a few times, they are a really stripped down
> keyboardless selectric. They used a function cam to space and since
> they did not have a tab rack the
On 7/30/21 1:02 PM, James Liu via cctech wrote:
Hi,
I have been lurking for a few years, but thought I'd finally speak up
as I just received a 9 track tape purportedly containing the source
code to Schoonschip (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonschip). This
is a 2400' reel recorded at 1600 bp
On 7/31/21 8:08 AM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote:
> Where are you? I have a CDC Keystone drive that worked last time I
> fired it up,
>
> and I have it interfaced to a Linux PC. I'm in Missouri.
I wonder if the OP is in the Netherlands, Schoonschip being a Dutch product.
In any case, I'd advis
On 7/31/21 8:08 AM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote:
I'll add a thought that if this is a CDC 6000-system tape written in the
1970s, it could well be 7-track, regardless of the manufacturer's label.
Up through the 1970s, 7 track tape drives were very common on CDC systems.
--Chuck
If you care about what is on that tape, send it to Chuck for recovery.
I wouldn't trust someone without a lot of experience in tape
prep and recovery with something I thought was important.
On 7/31/21 9:19 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/31/21 8:55 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
Since there was still a few 360s around when I started I also got to see
the inside of a 1052 a few times, they are a really stripped down
keyboardless selectric. They used a function cam to s
On 2021-07-31 1:19 p.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/31/21 8:55 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
Since there was still a few 360s around when I started I also got to see
the inside of a 1052 a few times, they are a really stripped down
keyboardless selectric. They used a function cam
On 7/31/21 10:19 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Did the 1620 Mod II and the 1130 use the same Selectric mechanism as
the S/260 1052?
Is the S/260 a system that I'm completely oblivious to? Or is it a typo?
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 7/31/21 12:22 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 7/31/21 10:19 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> Did the 1620 Mod II and the 1130 use the same Selectric mechanism as
>> the S/260 1052?
>
> Is the S/260 a system that I'm completely oblivious to? Or is it a typo?
Typo--I don't see so we
On 7/31/21 10:40 AM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
> I have never seen either of these machines but looking at pictures of
> them it looks like the first version of 1620 had a type bar typewriter
> as a console. These type bar machine would have a common heritage with
> the Flexowriters both are
On 7/31/21 1:38 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Typo--I don't see so well in the morning. Obcously, S/360
ACK
I would have assumed a typo, but as I get deeper and deeper into IBM,
I'm finding more and more System/### than I ever heard of. So there was
a non-trivial possibility that's wha
Paul said
>Part of the fun of the banking terminals was some bank branches had the
>machines on the counter, right where the banks customers are, and
>customers would often feel obliged to offer some of their wit or wisdom
>while you where up to you elbows in a greasy machine. I those days of
>wor
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 9:21 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 7/27/21 4:27 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> > This was a talk at a recent Chaos Computer Club congress:
> > https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost#t=1707
> >
> > « We have ended up in a w
On 7/31/21 6:23 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
> A practice still observable on Youtube where you can marvel at a grimy oily
> ASR33 being stripped down and restored, all the while whilst wearing a
> spotless
> crisp ironed long-sleeve pin-striped business shirt... :)
> https://www.youtube.
On 7/31/2021 8:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/31/21 6:23 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
A practice still observable on Youtube where you can marvel at a grimy oily
ASR33 being stripped down and restored, all the while whilst wearing a spotless
crisp ironed long-sleeve pin-st
Does anyone recognize these IBM modules? My gut says late 50’s based on the
transistor packages and font. Perhaps for a contract or military system?
Thanks- Cory
https://www.dropbox.com/s/izitf1lmjqwcbuo/IBM1.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq8macaubrechkz/IBM2.jpg?dl=0
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