Re: OT: Traveling to Zurich in February

2021-12-17 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 17/12/21 4:07 pm, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: I will be in Switzerland/Germany near Davos Feb 5-15 and I was curious what kinds of museums and sights were worth planning to see during this time of the year in that area? Is there an orchestra concert show season there? Any recommendations fo

[cctalk] Re: Late '70s DEC manual covers [niche!]

2023-02-11 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 11/02/23 09:22, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: Why does it show me Samsung health screen when I download? Sent from the all new AOL app for Android On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 12:58 AM, Paul Flo Williams via cctalk wrote:Folks, During lockdown I was having some fun redrawing old DEC manual coverswit

Re: Commercial AIM-65 Video Controller?

2017-05-21 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 19/05/17 07:08, Kyle Owen via cctech wrote: Any idea what this thing is? https://imgur.com/a/aNFiK At a guess I would say it's for (sub-)titling. The text would have to go in via serial, with the colour set similarly or via the rotaries. The video generator would be simple but would hav

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-14 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 14/11/17 18:20, Chuck Guzis via cctech wrote: It's always struck me how revolutionary (for IBM) the change in architecture from the 700x to the S/360 was. The 709x will probably strike the average reader of today as being arcane, what with sign-magnitude representation, subtractive index regi

[cctalk] Re: Pragmatically [was: Experience using an Altair 8800 ("Personal computer" from 70s)]

2024-06-01 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 1/06/24 14:20, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: https://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/Saga.html That one? Lawrence is on this list and posts occasionally. He's real: I've met him. He was kind enough to give me some boxed copies of OS/2. :-) Yes, I can confirm that I am real. Incidentally, I found some

[cctalk] Re: Antonio's call for donations (was LCM auction)

2024-09-05 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 5/09/24 02:39, ste...@malikoff.com steven--- via cctalk wrote: cctalk is allowing attachments now? I was under the impression that these were deliberately disallowed and filtered for bloat reduction or safeguard against possible malware distribution? I'd personally prefer no attachments on

Re: cctalk/cctech

2018-11-26 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 21/11/2018 16:19, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:34 AM Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 06:18:25AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: On 11/21/18 6:06 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: I thought cctalk was supposed

Fwd: Latest Batch of Items from Sellam's VWoCW

2019-02-16 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
Sorry, moderation fail. Forwarding to cctalk: Forwarded Message Subject:Latest Batch of Items from Sellam's VWoCW Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:27:12 -0800 From: Sellam Ismail via cctech Reply-To: Sellam Ismail , General Discussion: On-Topic Posts To: General Discu

Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-31 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 28/03/2019 17:46, Ken Shirriff via cctech wrote: > I'm writing a S/360 Model 50 emulator that runs at the microcode level, in > order to drive a Model 50 front panel accurately. I'm about 80% of the way > there, but there are some microcode operations that I haven't figured out. > So I figured I

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-06 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
It all looks quite complete. Note sure about the 3xxx/5xxx stuff, maybe it's lurking there somewhere. The listing does say there are 6 units 1m x 1m, it's a bit confusing. The Model 20 didn't need a DASD controller and could connect two 2311s directly. Not sure if the resulting disks were comp

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-16 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 16/04/2019 22:22, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > Clearly the pile was not purchased for scrap, so it will be > interesting to see where it ends up. We may never know, with the > secretive nature of big iron collectors.. I know one of the group that bought it, but I am not sure if they are

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-05-20 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 20/05/2019 18:42, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: The model 20 installations that I played with were mostly to supplant unit-record gear, which typically did not use a raised floor configuration. Mostly the CPU, card mulcher, printer and perhaps a 2311. The installation auctioned off is one of

Re: Post?

2019-05-29 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 29/05/19 7:07 PM, MEBA via cctalk wrote: > Did my post for the HP printer get posted? I haven't seen it. > > > > Mark Some mail systems will not send you an email that appears to be from yourself (I think gmail is one of these) so it can appear that your post has not appeared. You can also

Re:

2019-06-16 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 16/06/19 8:58 AM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > Looks like the recent recovery in Germany had a precedent. These two happy > guys have lugged their 360 out of the > building BUT look at the extra they snagged with theirs, and in great > condition too! > https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1965-TO

Re: Scanning question

2019-07-18 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 19/07/19 7:36 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 7/18/19 10:01 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > >> I have a lot more to say about the wisdom of destroying original publications >> to scan them, especially when you are not already an expert at scanning and >> the many tradeoffs. >> But have

Re: Full immersion emulation

2017-03-01 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 01/03/17 21:13, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: On 3/1/2017 11:14 AM, Charles Anthony via cctalk wrote: So I am fishing for any existing audio clips with clean sounds, or someone with a Selectric that is willing to make some recordings, or a pointer to somewhere where all of this has been do

Re: VCF Europe

2017-03-17 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
Dave and anyone else thinking of going, Last year I stayed at the Central Hotel-Apart, Josephsburgstraße 26, 81673 München (http://www.centralhotelapart.de but doesn't seem to work right now.) It's 500m or so from the venue. The Hotel Eisenreich mentioned on the website is no longer there. I

Re: IBM MST extender cards

2019-10-10 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 10/10/19 7:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/352810055470 > > are these extender cards for IBM MST modules? > They look like it, with a right-angle adapter plugged into the end. -- Lawrence Wilkinson lawre...@ljw.me.uk Ph +41(0)79 92

Re: Duplicate messages

2020-06-11 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
I think you might be subscribed to both cctalk and cctech. So you get the cctalk message immediately, and the cctech one when it's moderated. At the moment the lists are largely the same since everyone is good at not posting off-topic stuff. On 11/06/20 11:01 am, Johan Helsingius via cctech wrot

Re: New subscribers?

2020-06-21 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 21/06/20 6:49 am, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: > Are new subscribers to cctalk still accepted? Yes. > My subscription request was left unanswered. There is no outstanding subscription request for your email, and I don't remember seeing it. Given the email name I would likely have approved it imm

Re: Spam

2020-08-31 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
As a moderator, I am quite sure that no spam actually came through the list. On a few occasions the spam has come from a list member's address and gets passed straight through, but that's quite rare. However the number of spam posts to the list exceeds real posts by a factor of about 10. So it's q

HP Series 9000 early 1980’s computer hardware

2018-05-16 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
The following was sent to the list as an attachment so I am forwarding it. Please don't reply to me but rather to Mr Parker. I have removed his full address and phone number. To:  classiccmp.org Re: HP Series 9000 early 1980’s computer hardware Hi, I own several HP 9020 work stations along wi

Re: 6809 Monitor

2018-10-02 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 02/10/18 21:24, tim lindner via cctalk wrote: Does anyone have source to a 6809 monitor program? I'm looking for something I can make work in a CoCo. Functionality I'm looking for is something that will let me read and write to memory. There is a listing of ASSIST09 in this Motorola book:

Digitizing video frame for printing

2020-09-28 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
Sorry I accidentally deleted this message from Dag Spicer, so here it is for cctalk. Reply to him or the list, not me! Lawrence Forwarded Message Subject:Digitizing video frame for printing Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:00:21 + From: Dag Spicer via cctech Reply-To:

Re: Zuse Z4 - Oldest Surviving Computer in the World - Lost in the archives

2020-10-02 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 2/10/20 10:20 am, Brent Hilpert via cctech wrote: > I'm not sure how unique this is to Zuse however. > The raw design presented in the Radio-Electronics/Edmund Berkeley Simon > articles of 1949/50 presents this scheme, > although more complex (unoptimised) in the contact logic. > This is post-Z

Re: Need to have a roll of paper punch tape read by a tape reader and printed

2021-03-09 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
Sorry Vince & Gary, it was my fault that the original cctalk posting was deleted amongst the spam. It did get to cctech which is where Camiel saw it. But before I could ask Gary to re-post, Camiel had replied so I figured that everyone would get to see that. Lawrence On 9/03/21 9:41 am, Vin

Re: head alignment tape

2021-03-30 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 30/03/21 1:02 pm, Jos Dreesen via cctech wrote: Does this head alignment tape need saving ? https://www.tutti.ch/de/vi/zuerich/computer-zubehoer/komponenten-zubehoer/5-stk-vintage-computer-tapes-memorex-pericomp-etc/43582741 I'd be inclined to think that the alignment tape would suffer

Re: Bounces

2021-05-01 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 1/05/21 4:00 pm, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: Hi folks, Did anyone else get an email about excessive bounces today? I’ve not changed anything hosting wise forever so this is a bit weird. Cheers, There was a bounce from gmail - something about some of the messages it didn't like. If

Re: how to make use of daisy wheel printer

2021-05-28 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 29/05/21 2:40 am, Fred Cisin via cctech wrote: Wordstar had some "drivers" for proportional spacing. I kinda doubt that there are practical Windoze drivers. Yes. I seem to recall that Wordstar had fairly sophisticated support for printers, though you would probably still have to configure t

[cctalk] Re: Emails with photos attached to this list

2024-10-15 Thread Lawrence Wilkinson via cctalk
On 13/10/24 10:02, hupfadekroua via cctalk wrote: Will emails with embedded/attached photos send to this list published or dropped? Andreas Andreas, sorry for the delay - your messages were sitting in the moderation queue along with a zillion spams. I am glad you found a solution. -- Lawren