Re: cleaning up edge connectors

2022-04-29 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 4/28/22 18:33, Jonathan Chapman wrote: If there's bad/deep corrosion, I hit it with the ink eraser (I have a bunch of Eberhard-Faber ones that look like a wooden pencil, you sharpen them like a pencil too). If that won't touch it, I use the stainless steel toothbrush. Corey Cohen has some p

Re: RT11 Freeware Collection

2022-04-29 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 28, 2022, at 11:05 PM, s shumaker via cctalk > wrote: > > duh... Didn't look there. was googling all over w/o success. It didn't > show the bitsavers link. Thanks! Rumor has it that Google has a bias against http (not https) sites, even though for applications like this http i

DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Dennis Grevenstein via cctalk
Hi, just recently I found this archive: https://vetusware.com/download/OSF1%20Source%20Code%201.10/?id=11574 this is a package of source code for DEC OSF/1 V 1.0. I knew that this is supposed to run on DECstations (with MIPS), in fact I have a DS3100 running it myself. However, one thing really

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
I was at IBM when OSF (and subsequently OSF/1) was created and had a lot of discussions with OSF at that time.  At IBM I was working on the IBM Microkernel.  OSF/1 also used Mach (but a different source base) as the kernel.  The big effort was to keep the APIs and documentation "similar".  We h

Re: cleaning up edge connectors

2022-04-29 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
> Copper? Mine all look like solder. Probably copper underneath but > the exposed part is lead which probably explains why they seem to > corrode so easily. Ah, yeah, if they're finished in matte tin or HASL, I just reflow leaded solder on. A little bit of Superior #30 flux will make it flow nice

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC" which was supposedly OSF/1 based? -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *

Re: DEC OSF/1 for i386?

2022-04-29 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
I knew folks who worked on A/UX at Apple, but I don't have any details about it's internals. TTFN - Guy On 4/29/22 11:40, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: but I know at IBM we had 2 principle "ports" that we maintained (PPC Did this have anything to do with Apple's alleged "A/UX for PowerPC"

Re: cleaning up edge connectors

2022-04-29 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 4/28/22 18:02, Mike Katz wrote: I use DeOxit Gold to clean my PDP-8 boards edge conectors: I have DeOxit but I saw that as a very short term solution (no pun intended :-)). I think I will try my idea of using solder with a little silver in it if I can find some suitable. bill

Looking for old OAK keyboard/control switch...

2022-04-29 Thread John Robertson via cctalk
I've been hunting for a few years for these switches and was thinking that perhaps folks here may have seen them or even have some they wish to part with...I've hit all the surplus sites, and poured over old copies of old Radio Master Parts Catalogue/Encyclopedias - have 7 of those, from 1971 g

Re: Looking for old OAK keyboard/control switch...

2022-04-29 Thread John Robertson via cctalk
Link to image of switch: https://www.flippers.com/images/Misc/OAK_Pushbutton_Switch-1973.jpg Thanks, John :-#)# On 2022/04/29 2:14 p.m., John Robertson via cctalk wrote: I've been hunting for a few years for these switches and was thinking that perhaps folks here may have seen them or even ha

Re: cleaning up edge connectors

2022-04-29 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
DeOxit works pretty good for cleaning up connectors that still have serviceable surface finishes, but yeah, temporary at best if the surface finish is gone. We use it to clean up all sorts of connectors that are just regular dirty, pots, etc. Thanks, Jonathan --- Original Message --