Re: Looking for RX01/02 rack slides

2015-10-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/6/15 11:14 AM, Ben Sinclair wrote: I actually need some slides for my RL02... Are these the same type? Nope. DIGITAL designed their own chassis slides after the 11/34 11/44, RLxx and everything after were custom.

Symbolics MCD-405 tape drive / Georgens Industries

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
Does anyone have a loose 3M/Georgens MCD-405 tape drive they could take board pictures and firmware dumps from, or any of the other MCD-40 series tape drives? I'm trying to figure out how similar it is to the one in the Apple 40mb tape drive. I was asked about recovering some tapes from a Super

Re: MFM Emulator

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/8/15 10:07 AM, Ian Finder wrote: If Al decides these sorts of images belong on bitsavers, I'll go on a full-on imaging spree and work to improve my information hygiene. yes, that is the plan. I received one this week as well that I was going to put into an 1186 to make some Koto/Lyric

Re: MFM Emulator

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/8/15 11:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/8/15 10:07 AM, Ian Finder wrote: If Al decides these sorts of images belong on bitsavers, I'll go on a full-on imaging spree and work to improve my information hygiene. yes, that is the plan. I received one this week as well that I was goi

Re: MFM Emulator

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/8/15 11:38 AM, Ian Finder wrote: We do not intend to overlap with a big, professional museum like CHM or LCM. Rather think of this as a kind of a maker-space for old systems; There is a lot of interest in Seattle- largely people from the software industry- who would love to code somethi

Re: Symbolics MCD-405 tape drive / Georgens Industries

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/8/15 11:15 AM, Al Kossow wrote: Does anyone have a loose 3M/Georgens MCD-405 tape drive they could take board pictures and firmware dumps from, or any of the other MCD-40 series tape drives? I'm trying to figure out how similar it is to the one in the Apple 40mb tape drive. looks

Re: Burroughs Distribution Box

2015-10-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/8/15 4:22 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: Any idea what this might go to? Someone suggested a B1700, but wasn't exactly sure. probably, since it was made in Goleta.

Re: Symbolics MCD-405 tape drive / Georgens Industries

2015-10-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/9/15 9:32 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: On 10/8/15 3:53 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Al Kossow mailto:a...@bitsavers.org>> wrote: Does anyone have a loose 3M/Georgens MCD-405 tape drive they could take board pictures and firmware dumps from, or

Re: blog entry

2015-10-11 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/11/15 6:13 PM, Tony wrote: I also included about 30 pictures. Any message with attachments is bounced on this mailing list.

Re: HP 1663A Logic Analyzer keyboard

2015-10-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/14/15 3:55 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: I have one sitting in a drawer at home, I can crack it open tonight if anyone's curious what's inside ;). Did that a while ago, and they are passive. They are designed to work with a PA-RISC workstation that can deal with either kind of keyboard on the

Re: Oddball floppies for trade - 8", HS (outer edge), weird cutout

2015-10-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/18/15 6:00 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: it's truly amazing that Memorex still exists--as a brand of Imation. Thank Ella Fitzgerald "Is it live, or is it Memorex" http://www.totalmedia.com/content/trivia-and-tips/maxells-chair-man-hell-blow-you-away-part-1.html

Re: Has anyone hear of the Computer History Archives Project?

2015-10-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/20/15 11:35 AM, Christian Liendo wrote: I found a channel that's about a Month old, but no real information as to who they are. Computer History Archives Educational Vintage Computer Films I think it is a guy in Sacramento. I remember buying a CD of the 1050 film off ebay years ago a

Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?

2015-10-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/23/15 12:04 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: The 2190 does not, and it fails in precisely the same way I've personally seen three or four other Maxtor drives of the same era fail: It spins up fine, but when it goes to load the heads, it sounds like the voice coil positioner for the heads is "screa

Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?

2015-10-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/23/15 1:33 AM, Joseph Lang wrote: the scream is the stepper motor trying to move with only one phase working. (Also a common drive failure.) Maxtor drives have a very distinctive (and loud) recal sound.

Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?

2015-10-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/23/15 12:39 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: I don't suppose anyone has a service manual for these things so I know what stuff to probe? (Nothing on Bitsavers and a casual Google search turns up nothing of interest.) Service manuals/schematics/ASIC info is EXTREMELY difficult to get for anything

Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?

2015-10-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/24/15 10:15 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: there are a few ICs surface-mounted to the flat ribbon cable running to the head assembly. Those are the head preamps. You should be able to scope out if there is anything coming out of them.

Re: Common Maxtor MFM drive failure mode -- any ideas?

2015-10-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/24/15 11:40 AM, tony duell wrote: Most likely those ICs are head switch/preamp devices and the servo head preamplifier. They are very likely to be custom. Silicon Systems was a common supplier in the 80s to mid-90s, which is why their Storage Products data books have been scanned.

Re: Mac IIsi - SoG?

2015-10-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/27/15 4:42 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: I don't know if it's just some lowly service processor nope, just the 68030.

Re: Mac IIsi - SoG?

2015-10-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/26/15 8:30 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: I've got a system here which makes encouraging startup noises, but isn't outputting any video to a VGA screen (adapter cable OK with my other Macs). The si and cx/ci are old enough that it doesn't support VGA timing.

Re: Mac IIsi - SoG?

2015-10-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/27/15 7:10 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: On 10/27/2015 08:36 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 10/26/15 8:30 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: I've got a system here which makes encouraging startup noises, but isn't outputting any video to a VGA screen (adapter cable OK with my other Macs).

Re: Front Panels - Thoughts

2015-10-31 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/30/15 11:32 PM, rod wrote: What about a front panel with lights and switches for systems that never had one and could have done with one? Which computer would you nominate? Motorola 68030

Re: Front Panels - Thoughts

2015-10-31 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/30/15 11:32 PM, rod wrote: Which computer would you nominate? here is the weirdest DEC panel I have ever come across http://bitsavers.org/mysteries/mysteryPanel_Nov74.jpg that I spotted in a lot of DEC panels that were on display at CHM in 2001 It is labeled "Special Order PDP/15 Ord

Re: youtube video of a runnning XDS Sigma mainframe with lots of nice peripherals

2015-11-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/2/15 2:15 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: Not just running condition. 100,000 pounds of gear, including the 9, 6, and a 7 that had been retired in the 90s, spares for all of them, the 8 running disk drives and 4 running tape drives, along with about 20 more disk drives (the older 50MB hydraulic

sort by date back in google groups searches

2015-11-02 Thread Al Kossow
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/classiccmp|sort:date for example

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-04 Thread Al Kossow
are? They look to be PDP-10 {something}, given what appear to be two rows of 36 lights on the bottom (although they are hard to see clearly), but I couldn't find a panel like that in my PDP-10 manual. I don't have time to go down this rathole right now. If you are sure they are off a 10, che

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 4:51 AM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: The tags say DEC PDP-10 - tape controller, 1973 retrocmp.com, c-c-g.de They are both disk controller panels. The one marked tape controller has "sector word count" in the upper right

Re: VCF-Berlin, 2015

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 8:46 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > now that I have the better picture, let me see what I can turn up. Got it! It's the _bottom_ indicator panel from an RP15 disk controller - from a PDP-15. I think that's the only DEC controller I've ever seen with _two_ indictor panels on it! And n

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 2:47 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: A new user on the Vintage Computer Forums is posting about what appears to be this machine in random, unrelated threads. In one of them, he shared a System/32 picture which came from the Corestore site. He doesn't have enough posts yet to enable the pri

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 3:19 PM, Mike Ross wrote: That's the guy I've been talking to. Pissed he's stealing pics from my site. Can someone post the URL or thread where he's using them? http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?36875-Molecular-Computers-board/page3 http://www.vintage-computer.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 10:40 AM, Jos Dreesen wrote: And then around 100 / 150 8" floppies to image when it rains it pours.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/311470113149 Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time. They are BASF floppies, though.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 3:55 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 11/5/15 10:40 AM, Jos Dreesen wrote: And then around 100 / 150 8" floppies to image when it rains it pours.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/311470113149 Eric Smith and I have been looking for these for a long time. They are BASF floppies, t

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/5/15 9:06 PM, Jos Dreesen wrote: As are mine... ( some 3M and CDC disk also part of the haul ) Does that mean they will need baking ? Yes. I was going to try what I use on one, white board cleaner. Chuck has not had good luck with BASF recovery.

Re: WTB: Unix/Solaris Adobe FrameMaker 8

2015-11-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/7/15 4:45 PM, Kevin Parker wrote: Try contacting Weird Stuff Most of the boxed software goes out on the floor or in the 'free' box outside the store. Lyle might see it when it comes in, though generally they don't sort used software or books, they just give it to retail.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/9/15 6:04 AM, Brad Parker wrote: I was wondering about software. Is anyone planning to turn those schematics into verilog? Help would be nice reverse-engineering the chipset. I also picked up some of the Russian versions of the instruction decode chip.

Re: youtube video of a runnning XDS Sigma mainframe with lots of nice peripherals

2015-11-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/9/15 6:14 AM, Brad Parker wrote: I'll never forget the community memory at Project One. We have the tape backups along with their paper archives at CHM thanks to Lee F. I'm hoping to get to archiving the cartridge tapes at some point. They aren't in normal QIC format.

Re: IBM System/32 available

2015-11-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/9/15 11:46 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote: I got a reply from the seller of this system, and I'll see if I can go take a look at it today or tomorrow. And so far, it's still priceless.

Re: PDP 8E Panel Paint Chipping - How to seal edges

2015-11-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/9/15 3:04 PM, rod wrote: 2. Screen Print first holes second. That was clearly the case on the panel that I sent scans of to you and I mentioned that they had milled off some of the white lines around the cutouts for the paddle switches.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/10/15 2:00 AM, GerardCJAT wrote: Help would be nice reverse-engineering the chipset. I also picked up some of the Russian versions of the >instruction decode chip. Any idea how one can do it ??? The same way the other NMOS devices like the 6502 have been done. Mapping the photos to

Re: MAINDEC-11-DZQKC-E-D listing posted (Re: Deciphering PDP-11/05 ZQKC (Instruction Exerciser) MAINDEC failures...)

2015-11-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/10/15 2:10 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: A PDF is there as well as a zip file containing the original .tif files as Al Kossow prefers for submissions. (Al: Hint, Hint ;) ). Thanks! Just send me an email as you add things, and I will pick them up.

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/10/15 3:47 PM, Brad Parker wrote: but what is special about the HP 165xx chip which Al referenced? Variations of that ASIC are the core of HP's logic logic analyzers for a LONG time (at least while they were using 68K processors). One of my back burner projects has been to understand ho

Re: WD9000 Pascal microengine schematics available

2015-11-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/10/15 3:56 PM, Brad Parker wrote: fyi: from the 6502 faq: /* How do you turn bitmaps into polygons?/ We draw them in our custom Python app. We spent about two months looking at automatic vectorization and using the bitmaps to create polygon fragments, but neither of these was better th

Re: DECtape reliability?

2015-11-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/12/15 7:27 AM, Jon Elson wrote: LINCtape is essentially identical to DECtape. I think the directory format is different, but I think the block format is the same. I think the tapes are wound in reverse order and the order of increasing block numbers is reversed. Actually the block f

Re: x86/DOS system backup via rs232?

2015-11-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/12/15 4:00 PM, Mouse wrote: However, I _think_ some old Sun and MicroVAX machines play in that space; I've seen Qbus hardware that talks to drives with card-edge connectors and I've seen SCSI-to-cardedge interfaces on Suns of Sun-3/260 vintage. I don't know the details of ST506, ESDI, and

Re: To Al Kossow at bitsavers

2015-11-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/14/15 5:46 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Another thing that I don't know is if XX2247 would possibly be required to pay a fee to HP for each license sold. It might be, which would make it hard to even give licenses for binary distributions tricky. That is the crux of the problem. While

11/70 front panel colors

2015-11-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/15/15 9:43 AM, rod wrote: Right now back to 11/70 front panels. Anybody know what the colours are called? Magenta and Wild Rose

Re: Could someone make the list do the [cctalk] thing in the subject line?

2015-11-17 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/17/15 7:54 AM, et...@757.org wrote: Hello, By any chance could someone configure the mailing list to add [cctalk] or [cc] or [cct] into the beginning of the subject line? If you do this, please do the same for cctech, and make sure messages go out from the correct source on cross-po

Re: Could someone make the list do the [cctalk] thing in the subject line?

2015-11-17 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/17/15 11:46 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote: What gets duplicated? Are you subscribed to both -talk and -tech at one time? Yes, they were two separate lists at one point, then someone decided to start forwarding messages between the two, and other people started posting replies to the wro

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/20/15 1:44 AM, rod wrote: What it reveals was that they silk screened the panel first then routed or milled out yes, and I posted that a week ago here when I sent you the scans of one of my panels.

Re: Front Panel Orders - Special Update

2015-11-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/20/15 8:04 AM, rod wrote: So the more sets of measurements I get the better. OK, will check the panels I have and send the pn/demensions to you An interesting delema I noticed is the milling cut off some of the vertical white lines around the paddle switches. So should the repro do

Re: Emulation

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 7:16 AM, wulfman wrote: I have been collecting roms for years for repair of my huge collection of game board but this is the first time i have seen the retro computers in the rom sets. There were two independent projects, MAME and MESS. MESS was merged with MAME recently to make c

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 8:09 AM, Mark Green wrote: Does anyone know which 68000 compilers were available in 1993, and which could produce ROM code? Or a few? In the embedded space, Alcyon and Green Hills Metrowerks maybe. I'm more familiar with their CodeWarrior Mac product. They were bought out by Mot

Re: HP 7914

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/20/15 7:16 PM, Jay West wrote: I have a board from a HP 7914 disc drive (07914-60001). No clue how I obtained it, as I've never owned a 7914 (but did have a hard luck case 7912, which is long gone). In any case... free for shipping if anyone wants it. J There are a bunch of 7912/4 boar

Re: Looking for an IBM manual PDF

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 1:38 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: Unfortunately, downloading the DjVu file does nothing and Firefox reports it as a web forgery. If someone can find real djvu files for those manuals, I will convert them to pdf and put them on bitsavers. Any site that requires you to star

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 2:54 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote: Which is one instruction longer... so it's not Aztec. Alcyon was popular.

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 9:29 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: Let's not forget the VersaDOS/EXORmacs platforms. That's where I did my 80's 68K work. Arg, totally forgot to include the HP 64000 and Tek 8560 development systems though I'm blanking right now on if they did their own or sold third-party C compilers

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/21/15 10:44 AM, Paul Koning wrote: Arg, totally forgot to include the HP 64000 and Tek 8560 development systems though I'm blanking right now on if they did their own or sold third-party C compilers. Third party, I believe. I used one of those for a 68040 (developing the DECbridge 9

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/23/15 11:46 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Your native interface have the additional problem that in addition to requiring people to write their own device driver for any OS usage, it will be rather difficult to get booting from it, since that require special support. There is no reason

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/25/15 8:46 AM, Brad Parker wrote: In 1987 gcc would compile to 68k quite well. Before that I seem to recall that there was also a C compiler from Standford, from sumex (wow - do I still have those brain cells?). Remember sumex-aim ? SumMacC. Anyway, I think the Kinetics fastpath was co

Re: PDP 8 Timesharing

2015-11-30 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/30/15 2:20 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: I'm told by a former operator of one that TSS/8 will also run on an 8/e, but I don't have independent confirmation that that is so. It did. The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee's system was an 8/e with custom mods that let you store files on an

Re: Triprocessor PDP-10 [Was: Re: [multicians] Emacs humor]

2015-12-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/2/15 12:18 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:13:06AM +, Rich Alderson wrote: KL-10/PDP-10/PDP-6 triprocessor, Who, besides Peter Löthberg, ran threeprocessor machines? SAIL, which is the triprocessor Rich is referring to.

Re: TU-58

2015-12-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/4/15 6:40 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: I seem to recall that the "roller" in the cartridge also turns to goo, might want to check that out also. Nope, it's hard plastic. They have been known to have crescents worn into them if the tape jams and it can't spin against the pinch roller thou

Re: Help w/ HP 88780 Tape Drive (corrected email).

2015-12-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/3/15 10:45 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote: I haven't done much with my Kennedy drive yet other than ordering a replacement power switch for it. Keep an eye on the tach roller, the rubber degrades. They are nice drives, but they spin fast and are not gentle on tapes. When they work, they do p

Re: Evotek Winchester Harddisk

2015-12-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/7/15 3:54 AM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: And - I found nothing "compatible" so far to replace them with other harddisks. It looks similar to the SA1000 interface. Memorex 112/Fujitsu 2301? Fujitsu drives were used in Morrow 8" disk units.

Re: Anyone interested in old (PDP-8 driven) Radio Automation hardware?

2015-12-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/8/15 8:54 PM, Alexis Kotlowy wrote: Very interesting. The cartridges were probably NAB cartridges. They are continuous loop, lubricated with graphite, with cue tones on the non-audio tracks. The graphite shed onto the playback head so you had to clean the heads every couple of shifts at

Re: Anyone interested in old (PDP-8 driven) Radio Automation hardware?

2015-12-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/9/15 6:24 AM, Mike Boyle wrote: Do you have photos? They look just like a Lear 4-track tape, with the hole for the capstan to pop up into.

Re: DEC MM15 core mem found

2015-12-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/8/15 11:52 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: What where the failure(s) with System Modules in the PDP-6? cost? reliabilty? Connectors. They had over the top and backplane connectors. They also had problems with solder joints on rivets used for connecting traces on the front and back side of th

Re: Anyone interested in old (PDP-8 driven) Radio Automation hardware?

2015-12-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/9/15 6:24 AM, Mike Boyle wrote: Do you have photos? http://www.jimprice.com/prosound/carts.htm or do a google image search for "broadcast cart" I had forgotten the top of the cart was often clear

Re: Anyone interested in old (PDP-8 driven) Radio Automation hardware?

2015-12-09 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/9/15 6:54 AM, Al Kossow wrote: you had to clean the heads every couple of shifts at a non-automated station. I hadn't ever thought much about this, but the air sound of a 1960's Top-40 AM radio station was the direct result of the invention of the cart machine.

mail hosting

2015-12-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/10/15 8:47 AM, et...@757.org wrote: Self hosted mail systems for the win. Sadly, I'm seeing more and more organizations abandoning hosting their own mail servers (and mailing lists) because it has become too much of a PITA to keep spam / being blacklisted under control. CHM is in the

Re: Decisions you regret (classiccmp related)

2015-12-17 Thread Al Kossow
The biggest one, which started me down the path of software preservation, was giving away all the DECtapes that were on UW-Milwaukee's TSS/8 system to Gary Coleman in Cleveland. I managed to find a box or two that other people on the system kept, which is where what I have of the TSS/8 sources cam

Re: Decisions you regret (classiccmp related)

2015-12-17 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/17/15 10:44 AM, Lee Courtney wrote: About 10-15 years ago a pristine multi-rack fully stuffed HP1000 F-Series with disc, 1/2 tape, and rack of analog I/O (maybe 2250?) at AuctionBDI. I have it in storage in San Carlos.

Re: Fw: Odd disk image format... .552?

2015-12-22 Thread Al Kossow
Could the 552 just be a serial number `? It is the version number of the program There is an entry in the directory "RPO6VER522" along with "RP06.EXE"

Re: Fw: Odd disk image format... .552?

2015-12-22 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/22/15 10:57 AM, Al Kossow wrote: Could the 552 just be a serial number `? It is the version number of the program There is an entry in the directory "RPO6VER522" along with "RP06.EXE" It is nice that the Massbus emulator disks have been found.

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

2015-12-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/23/15 4:57 AM, Tony Pflum wrote: I was with a retailer that sold Fortune in about 1982. It is Motorola 68000 system running UNIX. It was sold to small business for word processing and accounting and supported multiple dumb CRT terminals. You could get a C compiler for it. The problem i

Re: Odd disk image format... .552?

2015-12-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/23/15 3:38 AM, Mike Ross wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Wouter de Waal wrote: Recently found some long-lost images of 5 1/4" floppies that were sent to me... 10-15 years ago. Here's one of them: http://www.corestore.org/RP06.552 Looks like a straight image for a 1.44 wha

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

2015-12-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/23/15 9:45 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I did the development of the firmware for the monochrome terminal--still have the code as well as the prototype PCB. Z80-based. I used the 32/16 a bit for testing. Fortune was located at the old Pepsi Bottling Plant in Redwood City. Did it use ANSI e

Re: IBM channel-attached DASD emulation

2015-12-26 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/25/15 5:55 PM, Mike Ross wrote: I've recently been poking about with various bits of emulation with hardware interfaces... Dave's MFM emulator; various SCSI-to-USB or SCSI-to-SDcard devices; my Setasi RP12 Massbus disk emulator; the Sigma Seven Lisa widget/ProFile emulator etc. What about

Re: IBM channel-attached DASD emulation

2015-12-26 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/26/15 9:32 AM, William Donzelli wrote: FWIW, I picked this up in October http://www.ebay.com/itm/230304621233 It is a PC-based device that lets you exercise channel peripherals off-line simulating the CPU. Does it work? Can I borrow it? For a long, long time? -- Will Sure. I got it

[SPOILERS] Re: Targeting Computers in X wing fighters.

2015-12-31 Thread Al Kossow
On 12/31/15 3:10 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Hi Went to Starwars last night. Thanks a lot. I should have known better than to open a message with that subject.

Re: Conservation issue - shrink-wrapped manual

2016-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/6/16 9:42 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: I have a DEC manual (actually a Products Guide) still in its original shrink-wrap, and I'm interested in hearing opinions/rationales on whether or not I should keep it like that The CHM archivists tell me shrink wrap will continue to shrink, and it sho

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

2016-01-28 Thread Al Kossow
IS the multiplatform aspect one of the reason why the kernel as such worked so well ? It was designed by a crew of ex DEC people who knew WTF they were doing after having built a couple of kernels from the ground up. They did quite well for themselves as a result of being in the right plac

Re: Jacques Laporte's HP-35 webpage

2016-01-28 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/28/16 10:48 AM, Kyle Owen wrote: I'm mostly interested in his work on reverse engineering the HP-35 hardware. Talk to Eric Smith. He is easier to communicate with, since he is still alive.

Re: CDC Sabre 8" SMD blues

2016-01-29 Thread Al Kossow
only problem would be formatting them for the Symbolics.. On 1/28/16 10:19 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: I just realized, that I have 2 8" SMD drives that are bolted together (along with their power supplies). I have *no* idea of their operational condition (but physically they're in good shape). I

Re: Can Windows 98SE run on an Intel I7 with SATA hard drives?

2016-01-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/29/16 8:04 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned in re VirtualBox is that what if you have a legacy Win 98SE system with hardware in it, like a GPIB card or sound card? Or if you have software that talks to hardware via serial or parallel ports eg. eprom bur

Pascal Microengine software images

2016-02-02 Thread Al Kossow
I successfully imaged OS revs E0, F0, F1, G0 and H0 of the Pascal Microengine from the original distribution media this morning with the application of cyclomethicone as Chuck suggested. I was worried since they were 79'ish vintage BASF media, but the lubrication did the trick and they read wit

Re: MEM11 update

2016-02-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/8/16 10:09 AM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: So, things are moving forward. I also wanted to get folk's opinion on the need to actually produce an SBC form factor board. In other words (and sort of in line with how peripherals were done on the original 11/20) is it OK to have the MEM11 be outsi

Re: Real tape drive densities

2016-02-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/15/16 2:32 AM, Christian Corti wrote: I've added another picture of a closeup of the R/W head. In my opinion it's a 9 track read-after-write head. The geometry and gaps are identical to those of the adjacent 7970B 800bpi-only tape drive we have. I have two 7/9 track HP drives, and a bun

Re: QSIC update

2016-02-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/15/16 5:05 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Anyway, we think getting slave cycles working was a major milestone (for a couple of software guys :-) yay! Have you guys thought about a panel that would connect to the KM11 connector slots of real rk11/tc11 controllers? At one point, I thought about

Re: Couple of Xerox 6085 questions

2016-02-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/16/16 2:35 PM, Mike Ross wrote: 1. Anyone who has played with Xerox systems will have encountered the dreaded 0937 code at boot time; it means "I have been configured for network operations. I abjure the world and will wait until hell freezes over before continuing the boot - unless I get

Re: Looking to buy a Tektronix 405x computer.

2016-02-21 Thread Al Kossow
I have an NOS 4054 in Silicon Valley. It is BIG and HEAVY On 2/21/16 3:35 PM, Ian Finder wrote: I've been looking for one of these for ages- I have a lead on a TeK storage tube terminal and will make a trip for it as soon as I can, but I'd love to find one of the computers. I'll pay for one in

Re: HP 21MX paper tapes

2016-03-07 Thread Al Kossow
They would be part of the cupertino binary distribution tapes on bitsavers. Unlike DEC, HP had part numbers for EVERY program, with date-coded revisions. On 3/7/16 1:14 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: I have been going to our HP 21MX paper tapes that come with a M-series system that we received many y

Re: VMS 4.4 source code microfiche

2016-03-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/12/16 8:11 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote: It's probably worth experimenting a little No, it's not. I'm sorry, but file size matters squat compared to the time it's going to take to scan them.

Re: Sun 4/260

2016-03-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/12/16 12:56 AM, James Vess wrote: Howdy there folks, I've been kicking myself for giving away a dying Sun4/260 due to space issues and moving about 15 years ago and since then my life has settled I've started looking occasionally to see if I can find another one. Where are you? I have

AM-100 board set

2016-03-12 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.ebay.com/itm/201536498192 FYI (esp Cameron) I was the buyer. The instruction decoder will be decapped, and the microcode roms send to Eric Smith for reading

anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-18 Thread Al Kossow
we have a bunch of optical packs at CHM that we'd like to archive does anyone have a working setup?

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/18/16 9:15 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: I have a RV20 somewhere. Are you in a big hurry? On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote: we have a bunch of optical packs at CHM that we'd like to archive does anyone have a working setup? no, but I have nothing with a LESI interfac

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/20/16 4:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 3/20/16 12:05 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Not a working setup, but if you need spares. They are not mine but I think you could have them for free for the good cause. /P thanks! btw, this would be to recover the CAD design data for the VAX 9000

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-20 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/20/16 12:05 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Not a working setup, but if you need spares. They are not mine but I think you could have them for free for the good cause. /P thanks!

Re: "Abandonware" and copyright [was Re: WinWorld]

2016-03-30 Thread Al Kossow
On 3/30/16 6:26 PM, Paul Koning wrote: I have a few ideas of my own.. but for now, I'd like to hear other members thoughts on the matter. Ultimately, it might necessarily involve bringing the rights holders and/or publishers over on to "our side". Yes, that's precisely correct. And doing

tumble under BSD

2016-04-01 Thread Al Kossow
Out of curiosity, has anyone ever gotten Eric Smith's tumble pdf creation program running under any version of BSD? I ran into a problem porting it to OS X, in the way it used rewind() and was wondering if anyone else ran into that on other BSDs

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