The DEC Legacy Event is running this year from November 12th-13th 2022 in
Windermere, UK.
Head over to http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/ for more information.
Hope to see you there.
Regards, MArk.
On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 17:15, Steve Lewis via cctalk
wrote:
> Greetings, we've extracted th
You’ve got some nice Hp goodies.
Unfortunately I’m a bit far from salt lake
(I’m in the chicago area).
The 2100a is particularly interesting but it all looks cool!
-Bob
> On Sep 21, 2022, at 12:15 AM, Tim Riker via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I added some old videos to the Google Photos archive. Ex
On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 2:30 AM jim stephens via cctalk
wrote:
> I'm getting ready to move to KC and my pile of DSD is back there.
Hi, Jim,
Cool.
> I have both PDP8 varieties and PDP11. One complete system from Sellam
> which hopefully contain data, etc. Dual booted for a friend he helped
>
20 years ago I loaned Fred van Kempen a pdp11 disk pack (RK11?) to try
recovering for me. We think it may have the Dutch "GUTS" operating system
(Groningen University Timesharing System -
https://gtoal.com/history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/archive/scans/guts/*.pdf ) and
sources on it. My Dad carefully hand-ca
Hi Graham.
I last communicated with Fred at least a year ago (might've been two,
actually). Last I heard from him he was moving into a nursing home as he
was apparently debilitated as a result of a car accident some years ago.
I believe the last time he reached out to me was via Facebook. Later
Ah. Thank you. And that would explain the loss of communication.
Graham
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 4:51 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Hi Graham.
>
> I last communicated with Fred at least a year ago (might've been two,
> actually). Last I heard from him he was movi
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022, 07:51 geneb via cctalk wrote:
> The question I have is how did a contemporary system deal with the
> combination of a disk with both index windows and a drive with both index
> sensors?
>
They didn't deal with it at all. It didn't work. No normal 8-inch floppy
disks have bot
