On 4/11/22 19:27, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 11, 2022, at 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of any communities / mailing lists / newsgroups / et al. for
retro networking / WAN technologies?
I find myself interested in (at least) the following and would
On 7/31/22 07:23, Ali via cctalk wrote:
So I am wondering if there is a box that provides a telnet CLIENT to a
serial port device? I.E. a box smart enough that handles the telnet client,
LAN functions, and terminal emulations internally and then provides a text
based interface through a serial po
Hi Emanuel,
On 9/23/22 16:30, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
Hi all,
anybody has some GCC or any other tool chain for the above?
Or some pointers, which was the last version of the GCC tool chain
which supported the i860, and would be still compile-able on this days
tools/OS's?
I've go
Hi,
I've imaged (with ImageDisk) some floppies I've got with my "new" 8560
system.
You can find them at
ftp://ftp.groessler.org/pub/chris/tektronix/8560/diskimages .
Among other things there are cross-assemblers for 68000, 6809, and 6800.
From the TNIX installation disk set one is missing (
On 04/24/17 17:54, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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.
If you want I can send you some sample execuables to test...
I wanted to test the same but I first h
At least here in the EU, they banned mercury batteries, mostly used by
old photo gear, and then supported light bulbs containing mercury.
How many people will need and by these batteries and how many people
need and buy light bulbs?
Go figure...
regards,
chris
On 05/22/17 15:20, Bill Guns
Hi,
On 08/11/17 19:58, Marvin Johnston via cctalk wrote:
And just to make it interesting, I have a number of hard disks (5mb to
maybe 20mb) of both 5.35" and 8". I've got several Lobo drives 8" hard
drives that I would love to get the information from since they came
from Lobo Drives when they
On 10/05/17 20:18, Tom Gardner via cctalk wrote:
I suspect this might start another discussion, but as I understand it Apple had
little to do with the evolution of SASI into SCSI.
Shugart Associates published SASI in 1981 and took it to ANSI in 1982 where
they renamed it SCSI to avoid using a
On 10/07/17 03:06, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
If I recall correctly, these machines used an 8" Micropolis hard disk drive.
These were most definitely not SCSI, or even SASI. They used a proprietary
Micropolis parallel interface.
The disk expansion connector, while looking like it might be
On 10/10/17 01:24, Rick Bensene via cctalk wrote:
Al K. wrote:
there are two versions. the 1981 8560 uses microp 1200, later ones have xebec
1410 and are sasi
070-3899-00_8560_MSDU_Installation_Guide_Nov81.pdf
070-4759-00_8560_8561_8562_Service_Mar84.pdf
If the 8560 in question uses the 8" ha
On 11/23/17 21:28, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: Liam Proven
> TCP/IP basically postdates the MS-DOS era, in PC terms, and it's Bloaty
> McBloatface.
This must be a uSloth TCP/IP you are speaking of. There's the one from FTP
software which was based on the one done at MI
On 4/6/24 5:37 PM, Mike Norris via cctalk wrote:
Additional
I would like £5 beer money for this one please!
Writing Open VMS Alpha Device Drivers in C - Margie Sherlock/Leonard Szubowicz
I'd take it.
I can send you beer money, or could send you 2 or 3 bottles of local
beer. I'm living near M
On 7/20/24 4:52 AM, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
Has no one explored a "tri-state" system? (discrete regions across 5V?)
Do you mean ternary computers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer
Former SU played with it a bit...
regards,
chris
Hi,
says it all. I've inherited an AX-45 from my late uncle. Would
like to use it with a computer.
best regards,
chris
Hi,
I knew that since ~20 yrs, but I didn't know the affected gcc
version(s). According to http://toni.technetium.be/hacker/pragma.htm
this "special" pragma handling should be in gcc 1.34.
But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the
sequence doesn't exist), and gcc-
On 1/30/19 3:21 PM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
[...]
But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the
sequence doesn't exist), and gcc-1.35 (where it's "#if 0"ed).
Does
On 1/30/19 7:19 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:53:59PM +0100, Christian Groessler via
cctalk wrote:
[...]
But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the
sequence doesn't exist), and gcc
On 2020-01-30 20:11, Jason T via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:49 AM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
wrote:
I have a umatic deck and capture hardware if you wanted them converted.
What is your setup to capture videos? I've been given the task of
digitizing some family VHS-C tapes. VCR
Hi,
the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for
"ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparently most (or all) links on this
page don't work.
Where can I get the latest ImageDisk version?
regards,
chris
p
The rest of the things should be in the same directory.
Pat
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:47 PM Christian Groessler via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Hi,
the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for
"ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work
On 2020-05-26 22:06, Stan Sieler via cctalk wrote:
Fred writes:
..."MS-DOS 3.3 did not even come with a
disk cache."
and discusses problems with SMARTDRV (in MS DOS 4.01 and later).
I'm not sure if it was technically a form of caching, but the AmigaDOS
delayed floppy write (well before MS-DO
Hi,
I want to use my daisy wheel printer to create letters and memos and
similar (rather simple) texts.
What can I use to write the text?
I think "special effects" with daisy wheel printers are "bold" and
"underline" parts. And "double stroke" (if that's the correct word, I
mean a space cha
On 10/27/18 15:04, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
There was actually a nice PC Mainboard from Hauppauge, with an i486 &
i860 on the same board ...
Always wanted to have one of those, never found a used one. And it was
running some king of Unix back then ...
http://www.geekdot.com/hauppauge-
On 4/21/21 2:41 PM, mazzinia--- via cctalk wrote:
Ach,
If only I was in UK ☹
Me too :-(
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On 5/20/21 11:05 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote:
MacOS (Mojave) can mount an image read from a 512-byte UFS CD.
What does one have to do (Linux, MacOS, *BSD) to write such an image to the CD
with 512-byte blocks, so it can be read by a DEC boot-ROM?
I think that's a property of the CD
on a 512-byte-block CD-ROM ?
If the former, I guess I'll have to find an old, 512-byte-block
jumperable SCSI CD burner.
On Thursday, May 20, 2021, 02:15:39 PM PDT, Christian Groessler via
cctalk wrote:
On 5/20/21 11:05 PM, Jonathan Stone via cctalk wrote:
> MacOS (Mojave) can mount a
Hi all,
what are the word processing options for a daisy wheel printer?
I would like to be able to write "bold face" (double stroke) and
underline some parts. I guess there aren't any other capabilities to
exploit on a daisy wheel printer.
Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD).
On 5/29/21 2:11 AM, Christian Groessler via cctalk wrote:
Operating system is unixish (Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD). MS-DOS would work,
too.
Maybe something like (g|t)roff?
Ok, so Wordstar should work. I think I have version 5 or 6 for DOS.
Were there Unix versions of WS? Or any other solution
I've got a real VT340, if somebody wants to verify an emulation.
regards,
chris
On 6/18/21 7:14 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech wrote:
Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will
emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal?
On 7/22/21 5:12 PM, Kevin Anderson via cctalk wrote:
In response to Chuck Guzis' mentioning that there was more than one design of what was
labeled a Compaq "Deskpro" during the time of PIII processors: the series of
desktops that I used to have,, and from where the extra boards and drives I
On 7/23/21 1:35 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
I remember when a Compaq 386 was I
think the first 386 I ever worked on.
I think Compaq was the first company to offer a 386 PC back then (before
IBM).
I remember, when I worked as a student at MBB around 1988, that we
visited another depar
On 11/20/21 5:55 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
That's why I am saying you literally need a family archivist who
periodically converts content on old media to new media for.old family
photos. That is the only practical way to preserve things or than if the
original paper/photo/tape exists and
On 2/14/25 1:43 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
That would be cool. I found this link for all the networking gear:
https://www.ardent-tool.com/Xircom/Xircom_Pocket_Adapters.html
And found parallel port multiplexers.
Do you have drivers for them?
I think DOS packet drivers supported the PE3.
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