Re: Control Data (?) circuit boards

2015-09-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/10/15 9:23 AM, Mike Stein wrote: Not very interesting backside is all-telling. DD12092 is the part number. DD == "Data Display" the display division of CDC they are the form factor that DD used. I picked up a 3291-B display controller manual from Billy Pettit yesteray, and is uses discre

Re: 21MX proms (per request

2015-09-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/10/15 7:14 AM, dwight wrote: Anyone interested in doing 1702As should look at the schematic in the MCS4 user manual on bitsavers.org or just buy a ME1702A from Martin Eberhard

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/10/15 4:38 AM, simon wrote: Hi All, just to let you know that i've made a vector graphics file for A hollerith punchcard. https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Punchcard.svg enjoy they are PUNCHED cards look at ALL of the documentation of the period NO ONE called them PUNCH cards

Re: punchcard svg file available

2015-09-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/10/15 8:54 AM, Simon Claessen wrote: Being right and being polite are two completely different things. And no one has ever accused me of being polite.

Re: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?

2015-09-11 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/11/15 8:28 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: I do have some R1 documentation which I intend to scan and then send to either CHM or Rice University Fondren Library. A volunteer at CHM (Paul McJones) is scanning R1 documentation currently.

Re: release dates of early microcomputer operating systems, incl. Intel ISIS

2015-09-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/15/15 4:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: the machine had to be configured (via connecting up computing units with cables) In 1947 ENIAC was modifed at BRL to be a stored program computer. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1339839

Re: PDP-11 manuals scanned/scanning

2015-09-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/15/15 6:34 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: The first thing through the machine was the DZV11 Technical Manual (which Paul Anderson was gracious enough to loan out, to enable it to be put online - thanks Paul!), now available here: thanks! UL-ing them now.

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/15/15 1:02 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: In the case of spinning rust, what brand is most reliable? I've seen dreadful reports of DOA drives from Western Digital, fewer from Seagate, but I don't know about Hitachi, Samsung, etc. CHM has been having good luck with 3 and 4tb (mostly) Hitachi a

Re: Desperately need BA11-N/BA11-S Technical Manual

2015-09-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/16/15 6:36 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Also, this page: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/Book-Catalog.html which claims to be the "Book Catalog (incomplete) of the Computer History Museum, as of July 27 2002" says they have one. Would it still be there, and is there any chance that, if so, i

Re: Still seeking 3B2 information

2015-09-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 8/11/15 7:36 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: Hello Seth, We were having a 3B2 discussion on the Sun Rescue list, and that got me to thinking about your emulator project. Can you share a status update? Is there anything us non-developers can do to assist? Thank you, Jerry On 01/19/15 01:45 PM, Se

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/16/15 11:15 AM, couryhouse wrote: We have 10 years of backups.ed# ever verified them?

Re: Desperately need BA11-N/BA11-S Technical Manual

2015-09-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/16/15 11:23 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decqbusMP0_10391074 (Doesn't seem to be on BitSavers?) http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/MP00740_1123_schem_Oct81.pdf

Re: Cryptolocker (was RE: Is tape dead?

2015-09-17 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/17/15 9:58 AM, Paul Koning wrote: DtCyber is open source but their OS collection is not. they're called "controlfreaks" for a reason.

ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-18 Thread Al Kossow
Someone asked about uploading the SunOS 4.1 docubox I had scanned, so I finally got around to doing that today, but discovered that I never scanned the part 1, just the system calls of 800-3827. I suspect that I never had it. So if someone has that or a Solaris 1.x docubox a scan would be helpful.

Re: ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/18/15 1:40 PM, Jason T wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Al Kossow wrote: Someone asked about uploading the SunOS 4.1 docubox I had scanned, so I finally got around to doing that today, but discovered that I never scanned the part 1, just the system calls of 800-3827. I suspect

Re: ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/18/15 1:46 PM, Jason T wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Al Kossow wrote: great timing! the rest of the set is under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sunos/4.1 Good deal. I don't know if I have the full set or not - I suspect not. I was given many boxes of Sun binders and I

Re: ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/18/15 1:52 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote: On 9/18/15 1:46 PM, Jason T wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Al Kossow wrote: great timing! the rest of the set is under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sunos/4.1 Good deal. I don't know

Re: ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/19/15 10:34 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: I also have a ton of stuff for 3.0, I'll see if there's anything I have that isn't already on Bitsavers. I'm working through 3.0, 4.0, and 4.1.1 this morning. 2.x would be good to scan. Is the KV-S3065W working OK? I still need to write you with my

Re: TSS/8 with modern disks?

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/19/15 9:44 AM, John Wilson wrote: later TSS/8s already supported RKs as data disks, unless I've gone senile). No idea how they managed that -- UW-M's TSS/8 supported that. It should be in the monitor sources that we read.

Re: TSS/8 with modern disks?

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/19/15 11:12 AM, John Wilson wrote: but an RK could still be fast enough to be useful. When did the 4K user space(s?) actually swap? Did they round-robin or swap based on activity? I would think they would stay in place until cpu-bound jobs reached their time quantum. With only a couple of

Re: ISO 800-3827-10A_SunOS_Reference_Manual, part one

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/19/15 12:29 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: I also have a lot of 1.1 stuff; considerably more than is on Bitsavers right now -- do you have more left to scan for that? I thought I did, but it isn't in the sun to-do directory I also have a dozen or so Software Technical Bulletins from 1986-1989

Re: IBM 026

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
If you really wanted it that badly then you should've bought it. The only posts from "Able Baker" (whoever THAT might be) going back six years have been about the keypunch Dont' feed the troll

Re: TSS/8 with modern disks?

2015-09-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/19/15 1:45 PM, John Wilson wrote: BASIC runs in your 4 KW with you. I've never seen its sources The source is in with the UWM stuff. Look under http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp8/ascii/basic /TSS/8 BASIC COMPILER (BASCOM) VERSION 18 / /REVISION: 13-AUG-71IDC/GWB/PJK / /C

Re: Self modifying code, lambda calculus - Re: ENIAC programming

2015-09-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/21/15 2:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN. Was there something before http://bitsavers.org/pdf/eth/pascal/ETH_Pascal_Listing_Nov72.pdf ? looks like 6600 assembler to me

Re: Query for dec teleprinter roms

2015-09-22 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/21/15 8:02 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu wrote: The direct prompt of this request was the desire to get one or more of the dot matrix teleprinters running in MAME/MESS, the progress of which can be seen at https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mess/drivers/decwritr.c , with the LA120,

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 2:41 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: Hi I have more manuals than I really have room for. Lots and lots of VMS binders and softcover books. And now my employer is throwing out box upon box of SUN, Ultrix, tru64 and various literature. I'd like to get a set of SunOS 1.x manuals to fill ou

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 5:53 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: I think the oldest I have seen from Sun is from 1987 or 88. Is that old enough? Yes, 4.1.x is what I am looking for in particular. I have most of 3.0 - 4.1 covered, and any products that I don't have there, in particular a clean copy of the NeWS

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
Up until now, I've confined my purchasing to 500GB drives on the hope that they're more reliable than the 3-5TB monsters. Is this a mistake? 1tb was the transition to vertical recording. They had the tech down by 2tb. Seagate 1 and 1.5s are utter crap. I had a dozen 1.5s that NEVER worked.

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 4:30 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote: Google for the Blackblaze reports. Backblaze

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 5:31 PM, ben wrote: I wonder what is happening in the clouds? Mere mortals will never know. Backblaze is the closest you will ever hear a peep from, any they are teeny beany in terms of buying drives.

Re: Backups [was Re: Is tape dead?]

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 5:45 PM, Al Kossow wrote: Backblaze is the closest you will ever hear a peep from, any they are teeny beany in terms of buying drives. Thinking about it, Jason/IA could say something wrt drive reliability. They are running similar chassis to us (24/36 drive Supermicros) just a

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 7:11 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: While I understand that a number of individuals would appreciate their own dead tree versions, before they arrive at that good home of an interested individual, would there be any interest in adding them the bitsavers archive? From memory, I suspect tha

US source for SCSI2SD boards

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
from the vintage-computer list http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?49260-SCSI2SD-microSD-bundles-in-stock-and-ready-to-ship-from-USA http://www.ebay.com/itm/191700123328

Re: assembler, disassembler for Intel 8089?

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 8:45 PM, Eric Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:51 PM, dwight wrote: You just may have to write your own. Most don't even know what a 8089 is. That's looking likely. What I/O board are you trying to figure out, Eric? A bunch of different manufacturers early Multibus Winches

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/25/15 9:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: If you whip up a list of what you've got, I'd be happy to check it for you. You REALLY want to check what Alan Frisbie has done this past year before spending a lot of time on this. I see in alt.sys.pdp11 that he just listed an RT 5.6 manual set on eB

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/24/15 11:16 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: What is the best way to proceed, I can make an inventory and crosscheck with what is on bitsavers. After that I can put things in box if you want to pay for shipping, I'm afraid I have no means or time to scan. Sounds good. Shipping would be to Mo

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/25/15 11:06 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: But I seriously would like to OCR the manuals WHICH manuals are you complaining about? I have been going back and applying OCR to the ones on bitsavers. Are there some in particular that you have a problem with?

Re: Acquiring a bunch of Lisp Machines

2015-09-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/25/15 11:23 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: ...so how fast will one of those run FORTRAN? as fast as their owners needed to.

Re: Regarding Manuals

2015-09-26 Thread Al Kossow
On 9/26/15 1:28 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: Sadly I don't even remember what software I used for OCR about 10 years ago, but I had something for Windows back then, which actually figured out fonts and all, and created a plain Word document from the OCR process. Ain't gonna happen. I have ma

MARC

2015-09-27 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.loc.gov/marc/

Re: Interlisp-D (Medley) "display font" disks for the 1186?

2015-10-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/3/15 10:53 AM, Ian Finder wrote: I am the friend with the broken 1186, i've narrowed down the problem to the MPB/CPU board I have boxes of spare 6085/1186 boards. Are you in Seattle?

Re: Interlisp-D (Medley) "display font" disks for the 1186?

2015-10-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/3/15 10:53 AM, Ian Finder wrote: I intend to take an image of the drive using David G's excellent MFM emulator File-level is probably adequate. I have dozens of original distribution disk sets for the 1186; Koto, Lyric and Medley. I dug out the Koto and Lyric display font disks this

Re: Looking for RX01/02 rack slides

2015-10-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 10/6/15 9:31 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: Those look like the normal narrow slides DEC typically used DEC used Chassis-Trak slides, still made by General Devices, and are not difficult to find. http://www.ebay.com/itm/221719800397

Re: Why do good floppy disks go bad?

2016-04-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/7/16 10:11 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: as a guarantee for replacement for as long > as I own my home. I haven't had to claim a replacement yet. > How often do you change the anode rod?

WD-40 (again) was Re: A fruitfull evening

2016-04-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/12/16 5:38 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: > >> On Apr 12, 2016, at 8:19 PM, drlegendre . wrote: >> >> "I suppose it might do that, but that's not its main purpose. Its main >> purpose is to loosen rusted and otherwise stuck fasteners and shafts." > > That is *not* the main purpose of WD-40,

Re: WD-40 (again) was Re: A fruitfull evening

2016-04-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/13/16 10:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > "WD-40 is mostly a mix of baby oil, Vaseline, and the goop inside > homemade lava lamps." > > https://web.archive.org/web/20140119014037/http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside > > https://www.

Xerox Alto on eBay

2016-04-13 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XEROX-ALTO-II-XM-SYSTEM-COMPLETE-MONITOR-KEYBOARD-MOUSE-DISKS-CASE/282003972041 didn't sell for $4, so now it's $40005 trying to decide if I should report him for this message I got from him. New message from: paperonebonaparte (964Purple Star) photos in internet. pl

Re: Xerox Alto on eBay

2016-04-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/13/16 7:52 PM, jwsmobile wrote: > Side discussion on Facebook says that media is rare too. None with the > system (I think) from the discussion there. > I have tons of it. They are 12 sector 2315 packs. You have to duplicate it on a two drive Alto, since the format is unique. I've heard L

Re: Xerox Alto on eBay

2016-04-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/14/16 9:55 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: > If anyone out there ends up with a working Alto and needs working media, we > can help out in that regard (assuming you provide usable packs). Have you ever gotten a pack from an RK05 to write? I've tried a couple of times without luck and have wondered

Re: Xerox Alto on eBay

2016-04-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/14/16 9:22 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > I'm also assuming whoever has it reads this list, since the BIN just > happens to match what I've been offered for the machines that I still > have. > In restored condition..

flea markets (was Re: Vintage Computer Festivals???)

2016-04-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/18/16 4:36 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > John Craig experienced a process that a friend called "the inevitable decline > of flea-markets". two things have killed the electronics ones off in the Bay Area eBay and the nail in the coffin the state of California requiring a sales number if you s

Re: Harris H800 Computer

2016-04-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/20/16 9:21 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system. Don't > know what I'll do with these for now, other than maybe hang them up for > display purposes...unless someone has one, what else can one do? > I have two front panels for a similar sy

Re: Harris H800 Computer

2016-04-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/20/16 9:21 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > I seem to have acquired a few boards from a decommissioned system. it also would be a good thing to dump proms/microcode from them.

Re: Harris H800 Computer

2016-04-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/20/16 11:07 PM, Raymond Wiker wrote: > I was a bit surprised to see that it used 2901 with a date code of 1985 - > the 2901 was introduced 10 years before. > I designed a microcoded 12-bit graphics processor in 1985 using them. They were the thing to use until CMOS bit-slices came out (ac

Re: Harris H800 Computer

2016-04-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/21/16 12:38 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > I'd be happy to dump the microcode/PROMs when I get some time, perhaps over > the summer. > > Kyle > thanks. I just saw the panels, so I'll pull them out for pics

Re: pdp8/e problems

2016-04-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/24/16 7:18 PM, Ian S. King wrote: > You do know about bitsavers.org, yes? The M8330 is a particularly bad drawing. It was apparently originally very large and didn't do well when it was copied inside DEC.

Re: Using flashable Macintosh ROM SIMM

2016-04-26 Thread Al Kossow
I assume you'd have to locate a 32-bit clean rom image from one of the emulator sites, then break out every 1/4 byte into a file. You then have to use an external prom programmer to write them. According to the eBay ad: "Chips are socketed for individual flashing on a standard eprom programmer w

Re: Very sad message: the passing of Jon Johnston

2016-04-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/27/16 6:26 AM, Jay West wrote: > Yes, I got the same email a few minutes ago. Very sad. I just had an email > from him a couple weeks ago, I was preparing to send him some manuals for > the museum. > > This is horrible news. The last project we worked on was my recovery of a bunch of HP3

Re: Programming language failings [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/29/16 12:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > I don't know what people do now. > Find libraries that other people have written, glue something together, and move on to the next project/job. Then scream if you try to rebuild it later and the new version of the libraries didn't maintain backwards c

Re: Programming language failings [was Re: strangest systems I've sent email from]

2016-04-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 4/29/16 1:34 PM, ben wrote: >> The problem is that C doesn't just allow you to do stupid things, it's >> actively encouraged. C doesn't just let you aim at your foot, it >> defaults to aiming at your foot. >> > I like C for the most part, what you see is what you get. Apparently you've never

Re: Mini-RSTS

2016-05-01 Thread Al Kossow
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96935524/Datormusuem/mini-rsts.pdf > an RK11-C with a light panel.

Re: Nice LAB11 brochure.

2016-05-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/2/16 1:21 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > I think Tektronix made monitors of this type Tek 1241 http://www.barrytech.com/tektronix/logic_analyzers/tek1241.html and DAS 9100 logic analyzers used them. You could get red, green, and yellow

Re: Nice LAB11 brochure.

2016-05-02 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/2/16 1:32 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 5/2/16 1:21 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> I think Tektronix made monitors of this type > > Tek 1241 > http://www.barrytech.com/tektronix/logic_analyzers/tek1241.html > and DAS 9100 logic analyzers used them. > You

Re: Titlers, Switchers, Paintboxes, Paint Apps and Old Broadcast Equipment

2016-05-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/3/16 8:56 AM, Swift Griggs wrote: > Superpaint running on a DG Nova 800 > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpaint > Superpaint was an experimental system at Xerox PARC Quantel paintboxes were some of the earliest commercial systems. Dig around in the SIGGRAPH proceedings in the 70s for

Re: Cleaning rubber goo

2016-05-03 Thread Al Kossow
something naptha/citrus based, like goo gone? On 5/3/16 10:14 AM, Mike Stein wrote: > What's the best commonly available solvent for cleaning the rubber goo that > used to be pressure rollers, belts, feet etc.? > > m >

Re: When did Memory- and IO Protection Emerge (Esp. in Minis)?

2016-05-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/3/16 11:15 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > Keep in mind that mapping and protection are not required to build a > multi-user system. DEC did timesharing on the PDP-11/20 (RSTS-11) and on the > PDP-8 without either. The SDS-940 is an early small-ish timsharing system that had base-bounds memory

Re: When did Memory- and IO Protection Emerge (Esp. in Minis)?

2016-05-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/3/16 11:23 AM, Erik Baigar wrote: > Well, but is this not an software abstraction for a non existing > encapsulation feature of the underlying hardware? Yes, or you can design a language with array bounds checking and no arbitrary pointer dereferencing. Burroughs Algol, HP SPL, Xerox Mesa,

Re: HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you can

2016-05-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/6/16 9:44 AM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > If you care, you might want to check out: > ftp://ftp.hp.com:/pub/alphaserver/firmware > Either I missed it when I wget'ed it a year or two ago, but I was looking for Compaq Portable 486 softpaqs recently, slurped all of them from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pu

Re: HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you can

2016-05-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/6/16 11:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > Either I missed it when I wget'ed it a year or two ago, but I was looking for > Compaq Portable 486 softpaqs recently, slurped all of them from > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/ > last week, and it ended up being almost 2tb with a lot

Re: Memory and I/O protection on the 940

2016-05-06 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/6/16 10:48 AM, Robert Ollerton wrote: > I've always wanted to know more about the SDS 940 project since its a > relative to my SDS Sigma 9. If you know of any of the papers on the > hardware, and OS they created I'd appreciate some pointers to where I could > read them. Thanks! > http:/

Re: PDP-11/05 microcode dump?

2016-05-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/6/16 11:45 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > What are the failure modes of PROMs? > early parts with nichrome fuses have a problem with migration where the blown link will grow back. you'll see that in single-bit errors in the part there are tech notes describing this from vendors that went with

Re: HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you can

2016-05-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/7/16 8:24 AM, Jules Richardson wrote: > shunted > things across to an old 486 machine and wrote images there. > I had thought about a mass conversion for all the versions of the diagnostics and configuration programs, but then went back to all of the fires/ratholes I'm dealing with.

CMU-CS-78-104

2016-05-08 Thread Al Kossow
Came across this in some stuff I got last week and thought it was pretty interesting http://bitsavers.org/pdf/cmu/cs-tr/CMU-CS-78-104_Impact_of_Implementation_Design_Tradeoffs_on_Performance_PDP-11_Feb78.pdf

Re: Softech p-System for Macintosh

2016-05-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/14/16 9:23 PM, Nigel Williams wrote: > Bill/Consulair would later release the Lightspeed Pascal / C compilers > (that were eventually sold to Symantec). > Lightspeed was done by Think Technologies in Lexington, MA. Consulair is a completely different product. http://basalgangster.macgui.co

Re: ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/14/16 12:29 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > Hi all -- > > Got me an early MIPS workstation, an RC2030. I'm trying to track down a > keyboard and mouse for it. The keyboard > connector uses an 8-pin DIN connector. Anyone have any leads? (Or know what > the pinouts and protocol might be?) > >

Re: ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/15/16 3:01 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > And it works perfectly. So, it's a > "standard" AT keyboard, but be careful which one you choose :). > What are the pinouts off the 8-pin connector? I'm guessing the mouse uses the other pins. Digging on the web, this has been asked with no replies for

Re: ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-15 Thread Al Kossow
Is there still an os on the disk? The MAME guys might be interested in simulating it if you dump the roms and the hd. It wasn't obvious from the picture in the picture if the V50 had an eprom as well. I'm gussing the intel 40 pin part by the keyboard is an 8031? On 5/15/16 5:13 PM,

Re: ISO: Keyboard/mouse for MIPS RC2030 workstation

2016-05-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/16/16 1:02 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: >> I disassembled the RC2030 to get at the motherboard and spent some time >> probing. If you get a chance, an couple of MB pictures would be nice. I just to pics and dumped the proms from my RC3230. uploaded to pdf/mips/M20 What pins does the AT keyboa

Re: 'Inside Macintosh' books

2016-05-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/18/16 10:39 AM, Chris Hanson wrote: > And then a couple years after that, around the time the PowerPC-based Macs > were released, there was “New Inside Macintosh” where the entire series was > reorganized into 25-30 volumes based on content. I don’t think any “New > Inside Macintosh” boo

Re: The RSTS riddle.

2016-05-21 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/21/16 12:28 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > Third Point > There's no way to copy an image only files under any DEC operating system. > > Fourth Point > > If I had a RSTS system how would I make a backup copy of the install > tape? > you would use TPC, and you can convert b

Re: ND-10 software - Re: Harris H800 Computer

2016-05-22 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/22/16 4:52 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Now I just need to find a tool that converts IMD to raw format and > runs on FreeBSD. http://bitsavers.org/bits/convergent/ngen/imd2raw may be adequate. There may also be other versions around that people have squashed bugs in it.

Re: Tektronix 4404 servcie manuals needed

2016-05-22 Thread Al Kossow
time warp. I found the manuals and software I bought in 2010, still in the unopened box yesterday, and since then I got a base unit (no storage box). Unfortunately, the firmware that was sent to me that I uploaded to bitsavers is mostly FF's. Fortunately, I could read the eproms in mine, the ligh

Re: Tektronix 4404 servcie manuals needed

2016-05-22 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/22/16 4:57 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > If someone has the scsi storage box, dumping the 6502 floppy eprom would be > really > helpful (and maybe taking some pictures of the board). > turns out that one was good. the Adaptec 4000 dump was the bad one

Re: Tektronix 4404 servcie manuals needed

2016-05-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/23/16 8:59 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: >> turns out that one was good. the Adaptec 4000 dump was the bad one >> > > It is a 4000, not a 4000A, right? I have the ACB-4000A and can make a dump > of it. > thanks, but I have dozens of 4000A boards, so I'm not so worried about that assuming Tek did

ISO Force DRAM-8C switch/jumper settings

2016-05-23 Thread Al Kossow
If anyone has any Force manuals squirreled away, I'd like to figure out how to configure one of their 8meg memory boards. Started playing with some VME boards that I had collected over the years, including a huge pile of stuff from Integrated Solutions. Depressing that I had forgotten how much of t

Re: Tektronix 4404 servcie manuals needed

2016-05-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/23/16 9:55 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > OK. I misunderstood. There were no firmware listed in the adaptec/firmware > directory so I thought this was the problem. I also have the ACB-3530, the > ACB-4070, some Xebec S1410A and some OMTI bridges if there is a need for a > firmware dump. > yea, I

Re: Tektronix 4404 servcie manuals needed

2016-05-23 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/23/16 9:34 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > I'll work on reading the floppies today. They were in boxes and sealed in > plastic bags by the seller, so I'll try a couple that I have duplicates of > to evaluate their condition. > So far everything has been readable. They are d

Re: Front panel switches - what did they do?

2016-05-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/24/16 9:34 AM, William Donzelli wrote: > The demise was really about money. All those lights, switches, wiring, > metalwork, etc. for a full panel was EXPENSIVE. > And the functionality could be replaced by scan chains connected to a small computer so you still had all the visibility w/o

Re: Front panel switches - what did they do?

2016-05-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/24/16 10:44 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > There was also automated "stapled wire". I forget the name for the process. > stitch wire you spot weld to a socket post

Tek 4405/4406

2016-05-25 Thread Al Kossow
Things went well reading the floppies. Everything should be uploaded by noon PDT. There were bits of the system and smalltalk for the 4405/6, so it would be nice if someone might have one of these to dump the firmware, though there probably isn't enought to boot one. checked with http://www.ch

Re: Tek 4405/4406

2016-05-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/25/16 8:28 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > mentions a 441x line that ran uTek, that I never heard of 431x

Re: WTB: Compaq Portable 486 for parts.

2016-05-25 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/25/16 12:16 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > am trying to help someone replace his damaged one. > is the guy in texas?

Re: Servant .953

2016-05-26 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/7/10 11:35 AM, Roger Holmes wrote: > > Could developers modify it any include it in heir commercial 64 bit Intel > applications for instance? > No It was made available by Apple for non-commercial use

Re: Servant .953

2016-05-26 Thread Al Kossow
sorry, I was looking at archived mail from 2010 and didn't realize it.. On 5/26/16 9:34 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 5/7/10 11:35 AM, Roger Holmes wrote: >> >> Could developers modify it any include it in heir commercial 64 bit Intel >> applications for insta

Re: vintage computers in active use

2016-05-27 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/27/16 5:03 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote: Now will somebody explain to me why windows is considered not good. It became too popular, and created a monoculture that was a prime target for malware. It also didn't start out that way, but it evolved into an OS that would only run on one architect

Monster 6502

2016-05-27 Thread Al Kossow
Here is a video of it running at Maker Faire http://makezine.com/2016/05/27/this-functioning-monster-6502-is-a-larger-than-life-version-of-the-iconic-microchip/

ISO "VME/10 Microcomputer System Equipment Manual"

2016-05-27 Thread Al Kossow
Moto part number M68KVSEM/D1 I have most of the manuals, but not the hardware manual.

Re: Monster 6502

2016-05-28 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/28/16 9:06 AM, Sam O'nella wrote: > That is incredibly awesome. The especially cool part is that it isn't static logic. The state is stored as charge on the gate, which is why there was a minimum clock speed on the NMOS 6502. As you slow the clock down, you can see the bits rot, and finge

Re: AT&T 5620 (Blit/DMD) software

2016-05-29 Thread Al Kossow
"Shattered" has been working on this. I assume you know about his SIMH simulator and how he's getting frustrated with nothing being available. http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=105737&Searchpage=1&Main=7894&Words=shattered&Search=true#Post105737 On 5/28/16 2:15 PM, Se

Re: TI Professional Computer (TIPC) Service Manual?

2016-05-29 Thread Al Kossow
On 5/28/16 1:42 PM, Martin Peters wrote: > The TIPC is an early, not really compatible clone of the IBM PC 5150. I > wonder if I need to do some reengineering and/or disassembling or if > there is a service manual out there. > I bought a copy last year. It doesn't look like I've scanned it yet

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