Nova system in Houston

2016-12-26 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55474-Found-an-Entrex-setup-I-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-it I hope to God someone can save the whole system. People who gut systems for the core memory boards REALLY piss me off.

Re: DEC banner panel

2016-12-26 Thread Al Kossow
It exists http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102666173 I don't know why that particular one is in the wrong colors also this style: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102691355 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102666170 on the short racks On 1

Re: DEC VT100/220 line wrapping semantics sought

2017-01-01 Thread Al Kossow
I'll put my copy on line. It's 70mb, the mirrors should have it sometime tomorrow. On 1/1/17 2:26 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote: > I did see a bunch of DEC STDs sitting on bitsavers but 070 doesn't seem to be > one of them. >

Re: PDP-10 Foonex

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
wonder if its the code on bitsavers I got from a Symbolics backup tape On 1/2/17 10:33 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Appeared here: > > http://github.com/PDP-10/FOONEX >

Re: Hollerith cars available (ebay warning).

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
The rounded corners may be more of an issue since unmodified Documation card readers can't read them. On 1/3/17 1:31 AM, jim stephens wrote: > I don't personally care that there is a lot of crap printed on them, rather > than the column indexes. The machines don't > read that, and the top band

ISO Compugraphic MCS-10 keyboard

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
Pics of what I'm trying to find at http://www.retrocomputing.net/parts/compugraphic/mcs_keyb/ Bought one w/o kb or monitor and managed to locate a few floppies for it. CP/M 86 was available from CG, but I don't think there's much chance of ever finding that. Even just a dump of the microcontrol

Re: PDP-10 Foonex

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
thanks. guess I should do that my files in http://bitsavers.org/bits/Foonly/F2 On 1/3/17 4:53 PM, Johnny Eriksson wrote: >> Appeared here: >> >> http://github.com/PDP-10/FOONEX > > The web says: > "Initial checkin whilst I figure out what format the files are" > > I took a quick look and gues

Re: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/3/17 5:22 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > The key questions for reconstructing such a device is what the modulation > scheme is, and the pulse pattern. There are running LGP-30s. Should be short work with a digital oscillosope to capture the flux changes. Hopefully, someone has done this alread

Re: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/3/17 5:42 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > Someone should do the same for the surviving G-15s as well. I think Paul > Pierce's machine is at LCM now. > turns out we have it http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102728118

Re: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update

2017-01-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/3/17 5:42 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > I think Paul Pierce's machine is at LCM now. They have his LGP-30

ISO small quantity of 3M 3418 40 pin pcb to ribbon male connectors

2017-01-04 Thread Al Kossow
I need some of these for making Diablo disk drive cables. Mouser/Digikey, etc. have a minimum buy of 500 (at $9 ea). Picture at http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/140452P/ts0005-pcb-connector.jpg Anyone see any at any surplus places? Online searches are pretty much useless because of the extrem

Re: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update

2017-01-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/4/17 7:03 AM, Klemens Krause wrote: > We have a second LGP-30 drum in our museum. It is damaged by water. > (large rusted areas, probably from water between heads and drum). > I'm dreaming to wash the brown oxide coating off with a solvent like > acetone, polish the drum and repaint it. > A

Re: ISO small quantity of 3M 3418 40 pin pcb to ribbon male connectors

2017-01-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/4/17 10:33 AM, Marc Howard wrote: > I know I've bought these in the past 3 years at Excess Solutions (www. > *excesssolutions*.com). > I'll check again, but I didn't see them. They have turned a lot of stock, or didn't put it out after they moved to San Jose I may have to ask Mike if he's

Re: ISO small quantity of 3M 3418 40 pin pcb to ribbon male connectors

2017-01-04 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/4/17 7:03 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > The part number at Digi-Key is > CPC40S thanks! I didn't know what other vendors still made them besides 3M and they are 1/3 the price.

Re: ISO small quantity of 3M 3418 40 pin pcb to ribbon male connectors

2017-01-04 Thread Al Kossow
CW Industries part number is CWR-142-40-0203 On 1/4/17 10:00 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 1/4/17 7:03 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >> The part number at Digi-Key is >> CPC40S > > thanks! I didn't know what other vendors still made them besides 3M > and they are 1/3 the price. > >

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
isopropyl alcohol works. TFE is better, if you have some stashed. If you can find them anywhere, Texwipe made a plastic wand that looks like a tongue depressor with a slit down the middle and a lint free sleeve called the Texsleeve (tx300 sleeve, tx800 wand) that you would use to clean heads Min

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
91% IPA works fine. 99% is better though i'm skeptical it really is https://www.quora.com/When-is-70-isopropyl-rubbing-alcohol-better-than-91 >> In the US, "rubbing alcohol" is mostly denatured ethanol (though "isopropyl >> rubbing alcohol" is mostly IPA), but always contains other chemicals a

Re: LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
we have them http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102752995 i'll see about getting them on line by noon On 1/4/17 5:21 PM, David Gesswein wrote: > I would also be interested in schematics. I have just started looking at this > board to try to use it with a ODEC/Data 100 chain print

Re: LC8-P (M8365) PDP8 printer interface schematics

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
don't have them it turns out. mistook LC8-E for LC8-P On 1/5/17 7:56 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > we have them > http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102752995 > > i'll see about getting them on line by noon >

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
http://simplegreen.com/downloads/SDS_EN-US_SimpleGreenAllPurposeCleaner.pdf not something I would think of using on a disk surface On 1/5/17 8:59 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > On 5 January 2017 at 17:11, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: >> - apply some Simple Green to a microfiber cloth > > > I may be the

Re: Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)

2017-01-05 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/5/17 9:22 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote: > As Allison taught me, the oxide surface on platters / drums is just a form of > inactive RUST.. and therefore, unaffected > by water (no, the water doesn't cause it to start rusting further). > The interface between the aluminum platter and the stee

Morrow MD-3P Portable MicroDecision

2017-01-06 Thread Al Kossow
www.ebay.com/itm/302178528335 bought for the CHM collection. This is the first one I've ever seen. I don't remember if the Morrow sons auctioned one off when they were selling off George's shop. It's essentially a MicroDecision III and MT-70 terminal according to the notes I scanned.

Re: Drum Computers (Was Cleaning things (was Cleaning RK05 packs (Was: LGP-30 Memory Drum Update)))

2017-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/7/17 3:06 AM, jim stephens wrote: They did make a tape drive of some sort They made several generations, what I've found on their cartridge tape drives is under 3M on bitsavers. All use variations of their trade secret or what eventually became QIC standard tape formats. The 1/4" tape

Re: Stripping an RA80

2017-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/7/17 12:22 PM, Tony Duell wrote: > Interestingly the personallity board in the R80 printset is called the RM80 > personality board. Suggesting that as I thought the RM80 is the R80 with > a Massbus interface box. > RM == "Minnow" The R80 started out life as the disk for the ill-fated lit

Re: Friden Auxiliary Reader

2017-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
programatic flexowriter seen in 74-221_Friden_Programatic_Flexowriter_Brochure.pdf and 74-204_Friden_Computyper_Brochure.pdf On 1/7/17 2:50 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > I guess I'm on a roll, trying to find out what some things are in the > collection. Any idea what this paper tape reader could've been

Re: Friden Auxiliary Reader

2017-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
and Friden_SFD_Brochure.pdf On 1/7/17 3:19 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > programatic flexowriter > seen in > 74-221_Friden_Programatic_Flexowriter_Brochure.pdf > and > 74-204_Friden_Computyper_Brochure.pdf > > On 1/7/17 2:50 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: >> I guess I'm on a ro

Re: Unknown keyboard

2017-01-07 Thread Al Kossow
neither. GI keyboard encoder and translation prom pretty common in Keytronics kbs On 1/7/17 7:14 PM, dwight wrote: > > I'm not much help but is the uP a x51 or x48 chip? > > Dwight > > > > From: cctalk on behalf of Adam Sampson > > Sent: Saturday, January 7,

Re: Don't put certain tool handles in with artifacts...acetic acid and butyric acid

2017-01-08 Thread Al Kossow
> I found this interesting wondering why some tool handles smelled odd. Xcelite is notorious for this

Fwd: Stinky screwdrivers

2017-01-08 Thread Al Kossow
I sent this out to some friends at the end of December Forwarded Message Subject: Stinky screwdrivers Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 08:51:02 -0800 From: Al Kossow To: Eric Schlaepfer , Kenneth Sumrall CC: Hedley Rainnie , Alvaro http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/archive

Re: Fwd: Stinky screwdrivers

2017-01-09 Thread Al Kossow
Exactly the problem with tool sets that are kept in sealed plastic containers. BTW, you NEVER want to keep anything that outgasses/chemically decomposes in a sealed container. Sealed PLASTIC containers are even worse. Reminds me that I need to throw out the plastic latching-lid tool boxes that I

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-11 Thread Al Kossow
There is a fairly steep learning curve, but you may want to consider getting a MAME simulation of the device running. There are some pretty powerful tools in the debugger for analyzing things like I/O port references etc. and it can deal with debugging in environments where multiple microprocessors

Re: Unknown 8085 opcodes

2017-01-11 Thread Al Kossow
since it's been brought up, and your forgot to mention IDA is a commercial product http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/is-there-any-disassembler-to-rival-ida-pro On 1/11/17 11:08 AM, shad wrote: > try to analyze your dump with IDA > Disassembler.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-11 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: > I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? http://www.livingcomputers.org/ They just changed their name.

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-11 Thread Al Kossow
sigh.. even proofreading I got it wrong Living Computers: Museum + Labs On 1/11/17 5:34 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > On 1/11/17 4:45 PM, Brad H wrote: >> I wasn't even aware of the LCM until this thread > > You mean "Living Computer: Museum + Labs" ? > ht

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/12/17 10:24 AM, jim stephens wrote: > the CHM took ownership of the USL archive which would have included any BCPL > remains. This came in before my time. I know about the paper archive and index, were there tapes with it too?

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual software item do you own?

2017-01-12 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/11/17 11:02 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > What about software? > tough one.. I've worked on recovering a lot of rare stuff. Probably the copy of the University of Hawaii BCC-500 backup tapes, since there was only ever one BCC-500 At CHM, probably the Whirlwind paper and magnetic tapes, or

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-12 Thread Al Kossow
$15,000 for a used Mekel microfiche scanner in the early-2000's It turned out to be just past prototype stage, was missing the pneumatic fiche handler and never really got it working at production volumes. The small number of fiche scans on bitsavers from around then was the sum total of the out

Re: What is the most amount of money you've spent on a computer or computer-related item?

2017-01-13 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/13/17 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote: > AUD $25,000 for a Linotype L100 PostScript imagesetter (used). > > Has a 68K computer inside it with Adobe ROMs. Communication via serial or > AppleTalk. > > One of the first high resolution PostScript imagesetters. Put a lot of feet > of bromide pape

Re: KA-10 desirability [was RE: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?]

2017-01-14 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/14/17 12:11 PM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:58:13AM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> > From: Rich Alderson >> >> >>> If he had a KA, I would have tracked him down and beaten him to a >> pulp >> >>> to lay hands on it >> >> > A KA-10 based PDP-10 is the H

DG Nova extender board on eBay

2017-01-14 Thread Al Kossow
fyi www.ebay.com/itm/252724692683

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
I dug out the boards that I have to dump the eproms, and a while back put up what I had for schematics on bitsavers. On 1/14/17 3:40 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > > >> From: "Rick Bensene" >>> - A Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation using a National 32016 CPU and a >>> 4.2bsd port called UTek >>> >

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
Bob Rosenbloom or Ian Finder might have one. I forgot to inventory the ROMpacks in the 4054 that I sent to Ian and Bob has a pretty big collection of 405x stuff. On 1/14/17 3:49 PM, Rick Bensene wrote: > I have a 4907 single 8" floppy disk drive for my 4051, and it works great, > but I don't have

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/14/17 6:29 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > I got versions of Genix and Xenix with it. Do you still have Xenix? That reminds me I need to dig out the Genix sources I have. There were a couple of companies that made PC cards with the chipset on it, and once company that made a Q-Bus co-processor

Re: DG Nova extender board on eBay

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
you're welcome. extender cards don't come up very often On 1/14/17 7:01 PM, jim stephens wrote: > > > On 1/14/2017 12:33 PM, Al Kossow wrote: >> fyi >> www.ebay.com/itm/252724692683 > Thanks! > Jim

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/14/17 7:20 PM, allison wrote: > If the 32016 had a second generation It had several generations. The 32532 saw some use in laser printers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS320xx

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/15/17 10:02 AM, Jay West wrote: > I'd have to say my HP-2000 systems that are running are the rarest that I'm > aware of. > So I fairly strongly suspect that my running HP-2000's are the only ones > left, anywhere. probably true. http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/1026828

dual-wide dec extender cards

2017-01-15 Thread Al Kossow
fyi more common, but it has the correct depth connector on it thought I'd post since the description isn't at all obvious what it is http://www.ebay.com/itm/361530436227 http://www.ebay.com/itm/361530436651

ISO Altos 686/886 documentation

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
Worked on cleaning up and documenting the 686 and 886 I had over the weekend. Pics and firmware up now on bitsavers, but I don't have any documentation. I'm especially interested in the 8274 diagnostic serial port, which isn't installed on either of my boards. I'll have a hard disk image of Concur

Re: Close encounters of the CADR kind

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/16/17 7:42 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >is _definitely_ a CADR. > > How do you figure that? > logo panel, for one, blue power strip on the bottom and, I owned one for a while. if pics are needed, I can see if I can get access to it again I assume that CONS ww panel we had on displ

Re: Close encounters of the CADR kind

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
pics of CHM's http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X842.87 On 1/16/17 8:14 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > logo panel, for one, blue power strip on the bottom > > and, I owned one for a while. > > if pics are needed, I can see if I can get access to it again >

Re: Close encounters of the CADR kind

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/16/17 9:41 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > The robot that the AI Lab _did_ build, that was used in the production of > CADR's, was a wire-wrap testing machine, used to verify the huge CPU panels > immediately upon arrival. It was this large frame (made out of Dexion, IIRC) > in which the CPU pane

Re: Origins of the term 'WYSIWYG?

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
Yes, but the actual phrase comes from the Flip Wilson show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flip_Wilson_Show On 1/16/17 10:25 AM, Tony Duell wrote: > I wonder what predates that usage (if anything) >

Re: Origins of the term 'WYSIWYG?

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/16/17 10:48 AM, william degnan wrote: > Maybe Ted Nelson used the term to refer to computing specifically in late > 1960s or within Dream Machines? > b > > > > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > >> Yes, but the actual phrase comes from th

Re: ISO Altos 686/886 documentation

2017-01-16 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/16/17 7:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > I'm also still trying to figure out if there is any way to do an inital > format since > at least the CP/M tools expect a config block on disk before you can > partition it, > which optionally will format the disk (chicken and egg).

Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own? [Tek 4132]

2017-01-17 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/17/17 9:09 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > Does anyone collect Varian minis? > I had a few 620's, the most interesting was the 18-bit version. No software to speak of for them. I even talked to the guy who ended up supporting them down in LA when Sperry spit them out. The only thing he had was a

Re: Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-17 Thread Al Kossow
let me see what I can get to on it. we got a ton of stuff from the stuff we bought in Germany On 1/17/17 10:00 AM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote: > I would really love to play with the 18/30 but have very little documentation > on it. No hardware docs at all. It's > compatible with the IBM 1800 and 1130

any thoughts where this might be?

2017-01-17 Thread Al Kossow
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rgkAAOSw-0xYfg9p/s-l1600.jpg from www.ebay.com/itm/351959392585

Re: any thoughts where this might be?

2017-01-17 Thread Al Kossow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia#/media/File:Diegogarcia.jpg On 1/17/17 12:02 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rgkAAOSw-0xYfg9p/s-l1600.jpg > I thought it looked familiar. One of those places I looked at on the big Google Earth display we have in the CHM lobby.

Re: any thoughts where this might be?

2017-01-17 Thread Al Kossow
@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Al Kossow wrote: >> >>> http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/rgkAAOSw-0xYfg9p/s-l1600.jpg >>> >>> from >>> >>> www.ebay.com/itm/351959392585 >>> >>> >

Re: Varian, GA was: Re: What's the rarest or most unusual computer-related item do you own?

2017-01-18 Thread Al Kossow
good. I'm glad it wasn't recycled. On 1/18/17 1:43 AM, Christian Corti wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Al Kossow wrote: >> let me see what I can get to on it. we got a ton of stuff from the stuff we >> bought in Germany > > That is where our GA stuff comes from ;

Re: TS05AA drives?

2017-01-18 Thread Al Kossow
I have a fair bit of experience with these. http://www.recycledgoods.com/digital-ts05-80-mb-1-2-tape-drive.html is a Cipher 880 I would get pictures of the unit. 9610's don't look like this, they have a card cage in the back and a completely different control panel. Docs/pics are on bitsavers fo

Re: TS05AA drives?

2017-01-18 Thread Al Kossow
Maybe try a private message to him. I'm curious what happened as well. I probably have two dozen 105x drives. One of them has a 7 track head mounted but not wired up. On 1/18/17 12:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > Whatever happened to the guy with the cheap Qualstar drive who claimed > that he coul

Re: How do you clean your vintage computers?

2017-01-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/19/17 11:06 AM, et...@757.org wrote: > I accidentially damaged video ram on an arcade board vacuming it out. Was > using normal shop vacume cleaner in winter in > a warehouse. > > Not sure what would work better. 3M 497 vacuum with an anti-static hose.

Re: TS05AA drives?

2017-01-20 Thread Al Kossow
www.ebay.com/itm/272514729727 www.ebay.com/itm/272479761322 On 1/19/17 8:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > But I haven't seen any Keystone drives for sale lately. Pity that. > > --Chuck >

DS12887 pcb substitute with battery

2017-01-21 Thread Al Kossow
someone just pointed this out on vcfed https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/qyNfzAMf

Re: quick omnibus question

2017-01-22 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/22/17 2:05 PM, W2HX wrote: > I hope this email can be found by the next guy searching for the omnibus > details so they can avoid wasting time. > THIS FILE IS WRONG > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8e/Omnibus_legenda.pdf > > This file shows the Omnibus signal

ISO Altos 586 firmware

2017-01-24 Thread Al Kossow
I've been working on documenting the hardware in the early Altos x86 machines and it would be nice to find a copy of the eproms from a 586. I tried asking Dave Dunfield about this, but never got a reply. Has anyone heard anything from him lately? I know Eric Smith was trying to contact him a few

Re: Compaq foam rot keyboard SOLVED

2017-01-24 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/24/17 12:24 AM, Randy Dawson wrote: > take a look in you junk bin for a IBM PC compatible keyboard, it worked for > me. > The BTC 5339R is a bit more common on eBay and is foam and foil https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=77030.msg1935636#msg1935636 I didn't see it anywhere on geekhack,

Re: LMI Lambda?

2017-01-25 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102668040 On 1/25/17 5:43 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > If there is anyone out there who has access to or knows someone who has > access to an LMI Lambda in any condition or > configuration, please contact me. >

Re: LMI Lambda?

2017-01-25 Thread Al Kossow
oh.. it is currently on exhibit, so getting access internally will be difficult On 1/25/17 8:15 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102668040 > > On 1/25/17 5:43 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: >> If there is anyone out there who has access to o

Re: Anyone have the service guide for a Sanyo VM4209 monitor?

2017-01-26 Thread Al Kossow
it took a month but http://www.manuals-in-pdf.com did finally come through with a manual i stuck it up on https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98434900/VM4509_SM_SANYO_EN.pdf for now On 1/24/17 5:32 PM, Santo Nucifora wrote: >> I need the schematics. I'm not sure I trust all those "manual" site

Re: ISO: Documentation for a Northern Scientific NS-600

2017-01-27 Thread Al Kossow
There is a small chance someone at Nicolet may remember this Tracor/Northern was in Middleton, very near by. I don't remember if this was the origin of their DSO line http://www.theoscilloscopeshop.com/nicolet-oscilloscopes.html On 1/26/17 11:07 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > http://yahozna.dyndns.or

Re: Looking to read past EOT on DDS/DLT/LTO

2017-01-27 Thread Al Kossow
Also, prior to servo tracks on serpentine drives, there was a full-width erase head, so if you rewrite from BOT, ALL tracks are erased as it rolls to EOT. The trick with killing power on 8mm and DAT works because they use helical recording. On 1/26/17 6:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 01/26/2017

nice looking Series/1

2017-01-30 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Mainframe-Series-1-/172507912099 hopefully someone out there can grab it

Re: Pac-Man (Alfred M. Szmidt)

2017-01-31 Thread Al Kossow
On 1/31/17 7:17 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > as an historian I definately real historians know how to spell

Re: RL02 version of UNIX6?

2017-02-02 Thread Al Kossow
DEC V7m comes to mind. On 2/2/17 11:32 AM, william degnan wrote: > All this talk about compatibility...was there ever UNIX made for the PDP > 11/40 and RL02, or was it only run on RK05? Wouldn't all of the C and wake > calls, etc issues have been solved then? Why is this an issue now? I am > la

Re: LMI Lambda?

2017-02-05 Thread Al Kossow
pictures and firmware now uploaded to http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/lmi/ does anyone still have schematics for the Lambda? would be nice to archive a set for the artifacts in CHM's collection. On 1/25/17 5:43 AM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: > If there is anyone out there who has access to o

Re: Unidentified (CDC?) panel

2017-02-08 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/8/17 10:12 AM, Josh Dersch wrote: > The switches and the labels look very similar to the ones used on the CDC > 160's front panel. And the 160 was a 12-bit machine. Maybe this was some > sort of an alternate front panel for a 160? > I'm going to guess it is for a 160-G, with 162 tape syn

Re: Wanted: AT&T 3B2 systems & software

2017-02-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/5/16 4:40 PM, Seth Morabito wrote: > I'm also still looking for more documentation. I especially wish I had > schematics, and any docs related to writing drivers. Anything that > would be useful in documenting the 3B2 internals would be lovely. > I picked up a couple of 3B2 drives on eBay,

Re: Wanted: AT&T 3B2 systems & software

2017-02-10 Thread Al Kossow
That might be good afa trying to find software. I bought a 3B2 SVr3 Source Code Provision kit off eBay last year which turned out to be missing the actual source tape :-( It had the floppies and docs but no cartridge tape. On 2/10/17 10:06 AM, Jay West wrote: > Years ago I picked up a pallet of

Re: RSTS V7 magtape images on bitsavers

2017-02-10 Thread Al Kossow
On 2/10/17 12:43 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > Trying to remember how to do a V7 installation with no docs was interesting... AA-2669E-TC is on bitsavers

Re: PDP-11/24 CPU later version

2017-02-18 Thread Al Kossow
PDF-A which is the reason it's not on bitsavers On 2/18/17 9:48 AM, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2017-02-18 12:44 PM, Paul Birkel wrote: >> Thanks for scanning this! No sign that Al has done-his-bit :-<. >> In the meantime is it possible to get an unlocked copy that I can OCR so >> that it's searchabl

Displaywriters in Chicago

2017-02-19 Thread Al Kossow
Is there anyone out there that can save these? http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?56313-IBM-Displaywriter-printer-(5215-or-5218)-needed I'm primarily interested in archiving the software.

Fwd: 50% DISCOUNT WEBSITE MANUAL & PARTS, ONE WEEK ONLY

2017-03-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
FYI Forwarded Message Subject:50% DISCOUNT WEBSITE MANUAL & PARTS, ONE WEEK ONLY Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 06:53:02 -0700 From: Tucker Electronics Company To: a...@bitsavers.org 50% DISCOUNT WEBSITE MANUALS & PARTS, ONE WEEK ONLY Thanks for your purchases of m

Re: PDP-11/20 in Iowa (x3)

2017-03-27 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/27/17 7:37 AM, Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote: >> I don't know of MOS memory appearing in 11/20s as built by DEC, but there's >> no reason against it. There were 3rd party cards, Monolithic Systems, for example. The problem with the 11/20 is that hex wide cards don't fit, the fans overlap

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

2017-03-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/28/17 6:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Anything else would be seriously unethical. the guy on ebay made a big deal on the net about one SGI machine that he knew had video game source code on it.

Re: PreOwned machine privacy - Was: Acclaim Entertainment Indy (with data, emails, etc) on eBay

2017-03-28 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/turok-source-code-ebay On 3/28/17 6:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 3/28/17 6:21 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > >> Anything else would be seriously unethical. > > the guy on ebay made a big deal on the net ab

Re: Cross-talk square-wave?

2017-03-29 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/29/17 2:14 PM, David Bridgham via cctalk wrote: > And I think this picture is the smoking gun. > > http://pdp10.froghouse.org/qsic/pic_24_2.gif > > Again, the bottom trace is the CS signal in question and the upper trace > is now one of the QBUS DAL lines (after the bus transceiver and lev

Re: Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

2017-03-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/30/17 8:15 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 03/30/2017 08:04 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: >> As to recommendations, I like the Country Inn & Suites by Carlson in >> Sunnyvale, which is at Ca 237 and Caribbean. If you run around by >> the bay is Weird Stuff, and it is about 2 or

Re: Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

2017-03-30 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/30/17 8:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >The guys who did the Hard Disk drive guide book had their >> original store in there Corporate Systems Center their main office was on Maude

Re: Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

2017-03-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/30/17 9:29 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > In the late 70s, on Evelyn in Sunnyvale, near Wolfe, I believe. That would be the original Halted location, Evelyn and Wolfe Halted moved to roughly laurence and central, then moved to 3051 Corvin last year. The previous building was demolis

Re: Trip to CHM - Hotel/Restaurant Advice

2017-04-01 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
DeAnza College swap in Cupertino happens on the 2nd Sat of the month. eBay has pretty much killed off anything of value there. On 4/1/17 10:41 AM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote: > Are there any swap meets / flea markets in the area on weekends anymore? >

Re: DCC-116 E / DATA GENERAL NOVA 2/10 / Nixdorf 620 - Restoring and restarting

2017-04-01 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/1/17 12:33 PM, Dominique Carlier via cctalk wrote: > strange machine, there is a tape reader inside the printer. it is used to program vertical forms postioning. the format tape is in a loop

Re: SimH PDP-8 simulator plays music

2017-04-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/5/17 11:12 PM, Randy Dawson via cctalk wrote: > Have you had a look at Max B. Mathews MUSIC4BF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N

Re: SimH PDP-8 simulator plays music

2017-04-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/EMS/bv-interview.html I had a summer gig in the early 80's at EMS helping Steve Haflich with some 68K hardware. I may have Unix MUSIC-11 on a pack somewhere. On 4/6/17 6:17 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 4/5/17 11:12 PM, Randy Daw

Re: LOD bands for MIT CADR

2017-04-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
http://www.unlambda.com/index.php?n=Main.Cadr On 4/12/17 7:50 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt via cctalk wrote: > Anyone seen or got any? >

Re: Harry Huskey, Bob Taylor -- sad news

2017-04-15 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
some, but not enough Harry did an oral history at CHM when he became a fellow, as did Bob On 4/15/17 8:34 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea he was still around! I hope he wrote up > some memoirs or left stories. > > Jon

Re: LambdaDelta 0.98.1 released!

2017-04-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
yay! I also sent a note to richard that the RSS seems to have stopped updating mid-march On 4/22/17 9:21 AM, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote: > Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages - I present to > you LambdaDelta, my decidedly average LMI Lambda emulator. > > See https

Re: Bitsavers size

2017-04-22 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/22/17 8:22 AM, Joseph Zatarski via cctalk wrote: > But wouldn't a nice tape be a much more appropriate distribution > medium? For the record, I have no intention of creating these "more appropriate" distribution media for anyone.

Re: Tektronix 8560 floppies

2017-04-24 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/24/17 6:55 AM, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote: > Hi, > > I've imaged (with ImageDisk) some floppies I've got with my "new" 8560 system. that reminds me I wanted to see if the a.out format was compatible with stock V7 and if the tools would run on an ordinary PDP-11 Unix V7 system.

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