Sounds like they may have confused the A22 Control Unit with a CPU?
Although that doesn't explain any HDDs ... all the A22 pictures I've found
show it having just a 5.25" floppy drive. In line with the confusion theme,
perhaps the "HDDs" are really tape cartridges?
If the price is right, maybe it
Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
their core enterprise systems.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
> I was just speaking with a guy who works in the ph
That keyboard does indeed look pretty far out ... it must have been ...
"interesting" ... to type on :O
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Brad wrote:
> Hey there,
>
>
>
> I'm currently working on a replica of Don Lancaster's prototype TV
> Typewriter (pic here:
>
> http://s1381.phot
ct 12, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Mike Loewen
wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
>
> Cool! I know of at least one "large state university" here in Michigan (not
>> U-M, unfortunately) that still uses OpenVMS (on Itanium) extensively on
>> their core enterprise syst
I stumbled upon that site a few months ago ... It's a great read! I wish he
wrote more :O
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> I don't know if this memoir is well-known or not, but I thought it
> might interest.
>
> «
>
> The Burroughs B5900 and E-Mode
> A bridge
I love those Nature Valley bars! Dark Chocolate Cherry is my favorite, LOL.
The "speed rails" (with the latching mechanism to grab the holes in square
post racks) we have nowadays are a real advance in data center equipment
deployment. I can stuff almost an entire rack just working myself in maybe
There has to be some support for it in the ROM ... otherwise it won't do
anything ... and may in fact cause the system to behave strangely (having
an uninitialized ACIA just sitting there on the bus) ... I'm fairly new at
writing assembly code but I found it was a few hundred lines of code to
imple
Hi Brad,
I have a MEK6800 so not quite the same board but I know a little bit about
6800s ... I would suggest referring back to the original publications from
Mot ... there is a M6800 Applications Manual and a M6800 Programming Manual
... those are canonical and you should be able to find both on
Congratulations! My own VT131 is on the repair line so I'll be watching
this thread with some interest.
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Ian Primus
wrote:
> I can't seem to get the link to work with the pictures, so I don't
> know what the tube looks like, but sticky fluid is NOT a
AFAIK there's nothing special about the video on the IIsi ... pretty sure
that if the adapter and monitor will work with i.e. a standard Mac II
640x480x8 NuBus board (or equivalent) it should work with the IIsi.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardso...@
Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 7:42 PM, Jules Richardson <
jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/27/2015 12:54 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
>
>> AFAIK there's nothing special about the video on the IIsi ... pretty sure
>> that if the adapter and monitor will work with i.e. a st
I've seen this vendor's stuff before but their prices were so off the wall,
I just laughed and moved on.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I know I'm a terrible person for saying this, but as a person who spent
> several years as a 3b2 admin for $WORK, and would
I work in scientific computing and occasionally still see FORTRAN codes
around. Not totally dead yet ... You'd be surprised how many, say, R
libraries are written in FORTRAN ...
What concerns me is the amount of code these days that is being written in
languages that has no formal standard at all.
Hi all,
I was stopping by a local recycler to pick up a few Cisco switches I bought
to add to my lab, and while I was there, I happened to spot a complete IBM
System z9 machine out of the U-M Health System.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Type-2096-S07-System-z9-Enterprise-Server-TESTED-w-Console-Lap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2016, shad wrote:
Hello,
I'm a modest collector of DEC and PDP11 stuff, I always thank who wrote the
PDP11 field guide with the almost complete list of all the existing
boards...
Now comes the idea: could be useful having a website where the field guide
assume a graphical aspec
It was always my experience ... I think NeXTstep had a reputation of being
a little balky on the proprietary NeXT hardware. I am fortunate to have a
decent swath of their product line ... an original '030 Cube, a Color slab
and a Turbo Color slab and even on the Turbo slab with 32 megs RAM and a
72
That's cool. I'd love to have a copy of their deck just as a display piece
:O
Best,
Sean
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:24 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
>
> I saw this article over on the Hercules group, and was amused.
>
> http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html
>
> Thank
to the PPC as well. I don't think they really got things
cleaned up good until 10.2, at least, maybe 10.3...
Best,
Sean
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Chris Osborn
wrote:
>
> On May 28, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
>
> > Can you even run Openstep on the NeXT proprie
I've got to go with Alexandre on this, look for an HP 16500B or 16500C or
if you want something smaller, an HP 166x or 1670x. You should be able to
find a nice one in good shape with all the pod cables, break-outs,
"grippies" ... a "full backpack" for a few hundred dollars or less.
An HP 165x in n
That explains ... I've got a handful of miscellaneous SMS cards, actually,
that I got from my dad; he probably picked them up from some electronics
scrap back when he was in high school or when doing his undergrad probably
for the same reason as you may have done; to salvage parts from...
Professio
I swear, this is the only place in the world where I have seen the group
consensus shake out that NeXTstep was fast and responsive on the NeXT '040
hardware :O
I am about to go downstairs and benchmark my Color Slab vs my Quadra 800
and make sure I'm not going nuts, LOL.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, May
ry Mac and can in fact be slightly quicker in some cases.
Best,
Sean
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
> I swear, this is the only place in the world where I have seen the group
> consensus shake out that NeXTstep was fast and responsive on the NeXT '040
> ha
Hi Ian,
If someone else doesn't come along ... please contact me off-list and maybe
we could work something out ... You do have a current hobbyist license, yes?
Best,
Sean
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> ISTR that DHCP was introduced in TCPIP-5.1, which was
Yeah, there were a few CDC drives like that ... I encountered a few "Hawk"
drives once on an old Alpha Micro S-100 machine long ago; I believe it
was, five megs fixed, five megs removable?
The pack was about the size of a garbage can lid and I believe the unit
spun them up to around 2400 RPM or s
Hi Ken,
I think that's a pretty good overview but just wanted to add a few notes:
* The HP16500A (obsolete) ran completely from (DS/DD) floppies. There were
two drives; one in front and one in back. The 16500A is capable of running
only a limited subset of cards that were ultimately produced for
It's too bad that I catch myself thinking this so frequently these days,
but "thank goodness I got mine" ... before the scene blew up... I guess the
good times of just pulling carloads of cool stuff out of the dumpster for
nothing couldn't go on forever... I do tend to agree; at least it's getting
I dunno, guys, that might be a little paranoid ... a lot of this stuff is
big and heavy ... I just can't imagine a thief coming in and carting away
PDP-11s, VAX-11s, RP/RL/TU drives, IBM mainframes, whole racks and the like
... I can hardly move some of this stuff I have as one guy and it is
certai
Hi Tony,
I don't mean to throw shade on your HP 1630 or your K100 ... just in my own
personal opinion, when I see a HP 1630 on eBay for $100 or a HP 1660 on
eBay for $100 ... and you see this all the time ... I think going with the
1660 is the better deal ... you do make a good point about schemat
Aha, West Michigan! I know WOOD TV 8... I've got an Amiga 500 myself that
came from Cable Access TV in Kalamazoo. A friend of mine still in town has
a few more. Whodathunkit ... there's still some neat vintage gear out there
in the wild up here in MI after all :O Funny. There's a legacy system for
The default is 9600/8/N/1 but maybe someone messed with the default comms
parameters in OpenFirmware; have you just tried it at a bunch of different
baud rates on your terminal [emulator]? I believe sending a BREAK on ttya
is equivalent to the Stop-A from the graphics head but it's been a while
...
You never know ... I once had a network cable that would cause SS10s to
crash intermittently and refuse to boot. It was pretty consistent ... it
would fail out pretty much any unit I put in the position ... Finally I
ripped all the cabling out and started from fresh and ... the machine
plodded on a
You can get a whole HP 4957 these days for only $25 or so... it takes up a
bit more space than a plain BoB but you get a lot more functionality :O
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 06/14/2015 02:28 PM, Chris Osborn wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:18 PM,
I suppose it depends on what you're working on ... I have a BSEE but only
practice as a hobby ... and I am still mostly in the DIP, through-hole era
... by choice, I suppose ... I wanted to move beyond the level of depending
on pre-manufactured development or demonstrator boards and understand how
I thought I'd take a quick spin through the operating systems section of my
library now that I'm at home just to give you some titles that you might
want to check out.
1. Toby mentions Tanenbaum's Minix book and that's a fairly canonical text
... there is a lot of great information in there but IM
Mine too! I just love the old paper books versus PDFs ... and I've got a
pretty decent collection of databooks both that I have picked up second
hand, as well as a pretty large chunk of those that my dad acquired over
the course of his engineering career when he was cleaning them out from his
libra
Ha, I need to just stop using "OT" since it's ambiguous. On topic, on
topic! :O
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
> I'd consider it OT ... I miss my IBM 9595 ... with the P60 processor
> complex ... I thought it was doubly cool si
I'd consider it OT ... I miss my IBM 9595 ... with the P60 processor
complex ... I thought it was doubly cool since the CPU was one of the
examples of the Pentium that got shipped with the FDIV bug ... great
machine to play with WNT 3.51/4, or OS/2 3.x or 4.x.
I wouldn't say the P5 killed workstat
Sean
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
> Ha, I need to just stop using "OT" since it's ambiguous. On topic, on
> topic! :O
>
> Best,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
>
>> I'd consider i
Yes! I am totally with you; just being able to flip through the books and
peruse a broad swath of the vendor's product line, has the potential to
stir the creativity in a way that's hard to replicate with discrete PDF
datasheets for each component ... most vendors Web sites are a mess and
it's some
I could always use another RRD42; you're just looking to let go of them for
cost of shipping?
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Richard Loken <
richar...@admin.athabascau.ca> wrote:
> Somebody said something recently about wanting an RRD-42 or two. I just
> found two of them in my p
Hi Christian,
I'm guessing by the CLLI code in your sig, you're maybe close to St.
Catharines, ON, CA?
If that's true, I just wanted to let you know that - IIRC - there is a
SR-71 on static display within a car trip of your location in Kalamazoo, MI
at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. It's actually a B-mod
I've often wondered that myself ... I wonder if someone out there is still
using Alpha machines in a mission-critical application ... of if it's just
kind of the storied history of the CPU, and the strong collector market for
anything that's DEC ... Nice stuff from the later years really seems to
h
There were so many neat war plane designs of the 50s and 60s that never
made it to volume production ... the BAC TSR-2, the Avro Canada Arrow ...
we have our share here in the USA as well i.e. the NAA XB-70 Valkyrie and
XF-108 Rapier... It's funny; it's the ones that were never produced in
volume t
I have a National Geographic somewhere on my shelf that has an article
about remote sensing and I vividly recall at least one interior shot of the
U.S. government aircraft used to gather the imagery for the article; it was
fitted with a bunch of operator workstations for the folks operating the
var
BA23 in the
cabin :O I believe the aircraft is a DC-8.
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> I have a National Geographic somewhere on my shelf that has an article
> about remote sensing and I vividly recall at least one interior shot of the
> U.S. governmen
I have gotten some of my best stuff from the trash ... One day I will never
forget when I was doing my undergrad... the CS department had just gotten
their own building (previously EE/CS shared a building) and they were
cleaning house and moving out ... it was incredible; the gallery on each of
the
I've spent a lot of time researching computer engineering in the Eastern
Bloc ... there aren't a lot of sources here in the West that really
describe well everything they did over there ... my Russian skills are
absolutely awful so most of my knowledge derives from these secondhand
summary papers t
Yeah, I figured something like this would have happened eventually; running
a computer museum is pretty far out of Goodwill's charter. That is what
happens when you give your old stuff to Goodwill; they sell it. Hopefully
some of the cooler stuff gets back to the original owner, and there's
always
Hi Devin,
Assuming you are in CONUS, checking eBay and hanging out on this list is
probably the best places to check ... I would suggest for you a VAXstation
3100 series ... especially if you can find a 3100/76 for not too much
money, it makes a pretty good machine... I paid maybe $130 for mine,
"
I think there's a lot of good advice here ... as others have discussed, the
greatest consideration for you will likely be the weight and dimensions ...
the 11/34a is a "4-6U" machine but it is much heavier than any 4U machine
you will see nowadays, and the weight is not evenly distributed in the
ch
Just a data point but I'll probably continue to maintain my personal page
in HTML 3.2 as long as the technology will let me get away with it :O No
need for all that fancy new-fangled stuff ... and it's nice to have at
least one ready-made demo for browsing the Web on my older machines :O
Best,
Se
Cribbing! Brilliant! I love that. Definitely going to remember that trick
when I try to rack my 11/34. Anyone got a spare set of rails? :O
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> On Thursday (07/02/2015 at 03:16PM -0400), Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > >
Wasn't it Apollo, that used a pair of 68000s in their very early systems?
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-07-04 01:54, m...@markesystems.com wrote:
>
>> In the late 80’s, I bought from a surplus/junk shop a (by then somewhat
>> obsolete) Unix compu
I was going to write almost exactly this ... although the Wiki page
mentions that AT&T was one of the primary customers of the System/7, AFAIK,
the common control on the 1/2/3/4ESS switches was a proprietary WECo design
that was highly integrated into the design of the switch itself ... in the
5E,
And not consistent; under that criterion a BA123 or S-box would count but a
BA23-based system is disqualified, while the two could be identical systems
once you open up the card cage! No fair. :O
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Dave Wade wro
I've never meet a full-size rack that didn't have casters ... otherwise
there'd be no way to move it around. :O There must have been? Of course,
you'd put the feet down once the equipment is situated.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Toby Thain
wrote:
> On 2015-07-08 10:46 AM, Fred
I love those server hoists... the data center that I work in at U-M has two
of them, however they are made by Genie and they are a hand-crank type, no
automatic lift. They easily turn a job that could require two, three or
even four people into a job that can be quickly done by one person. I
really
I was wondering along those lines myself earlier this morning... I am
thinking, regardless of how many may have originally been produced, I bet
if you gathered up all the VAXen in the hands of collectors now; big and
small; bussed and bus-less, I bet you'd end up with only a few hundred
machines, t
This can still be the case nowadays in certain niche scenarios ... at U-M
CSG, we are building systems today with 1 PB of storage attached to a
single system; that is; quantity 360, 3 TB, 7200 RPM Enterprise SATA
spindles arranged in a RAID 60 configuration... I can't of course discuss
the specific
Gotta give Rob credit for at least throwing something out there ... what
approach would you take?
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Toby Thain
wrote:
> On 2015-07-09 1:20 PM, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>
>> But with an rdbms and a nice front then it could encompass all makes and
>>>
>>
If this is an old P5 Pentium, IIRC, it was the same CPU whether you were in
a laptop or a desktop. I remember many of those early Pentium laptops; they
ran incredibly hot and the battery life on them was just awful ...
Depending on a myriad of factors ... whether or not your particular
laptop's log
There absolutely was a P5 Overdrive from Intel for 486 motherboards ... I
saw a few of them in the wild back in the day...
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 5:51 PM, jwsmobile wrote:
>
>
> On 7/10/2015 1:21 PM, Joe Giliberti wrote:
>
>> Hey. I'm sorry for the off topic post, but I couldn't think of anoth
... sorry, I really dislike Google Mail sometimes :O Here's a URL:
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium/datashts/29054401.pdf
Also a nice full-color pic here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_OverDrive
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> There ab
Seconded. Excellent book. I picked up a copy from a used book seller maybe
a year ago and to my surprise, my copy is stamped "XEROX PARC RESEARCH
LIBRARY" :O Double cool :O
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Toby Thain
wrote:
> On 2015-07-13 1:52 AM, Kip Koon wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
Seconded; I was just leafing through "A DEC view of hardware systems
design" again last week and I had noticed that footnote and was wondering
myself ... the PDP-3 must be the rarest of them all :O I wonder if there
are any surviving leftovers?
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Paul A
That's an interesting argument against using FPGAs in this sort of
application; definitely food for thought. That said, from my (admittedly
limited hobbyist and academic exposure) to FPGAs, I would expect the bulk
of of whatever's being implemented would be fairly device-agnostic ...
certainly you
As well, some early microprocessors used multiple clocks i.e. the TMS9900.
Best,
Sean
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:28 PM, tony duell
> wrote:
> > If you mean 6 different clock sources (i.e. clocks delayed from each
> other, etc) then that
> >
I think a lot of things drive the popularity of the PDP-8 from nostalgia to
historicity to perhaps the relative simplicity of the CPU to understand as
a design example in computer architecture ... IMO the machine is just a bit
too limited to be much fun to program in assembly ... although maybe som
Wow, that trailer is one heck of a collection on wheels ... I see
everything from Novas to 88k systems ... hopefully this is saved by someone
... this is the largest agglomeration of DG equipment I've ever seen. Just
hook up your semi and go!
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:37 AM, David W
Anyone got an ISO handy? Trying to get my 3000/400 up; V7.0 firmware; and
it does not like the OpenVMS V8.4 ISOs I got from HP ... I do have a valid
Hobbyist license ... please chat with me off-list?
Thanks,
Sean
X, perhaps? I assume
it's just a save set that's restored with the BACKUP command once one can
actually get to the point of a DCL prompt on the machine?
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> Anyone got an ISO handy? Trying to get my 3000/400 up; V7.0 fir
I'm all set; thanks to all that responded! I've got a few different *.isos
to try and hopefully one of them will be palatable to my old 3000/400 ...
I'd rather run VMS on it than Tru64 :O I truly appreciate it!
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
>
t; CD's all of the time from ISO, but maybe I need to do more research on the
> subject as far as size and set up go for an Alpha-bootable CD, or CDRW type
> I need to use, etc. I'd offer my ISO, but I don't know if it's good.
> Bill
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Sean Caron wrote:
>
> > Anyone got an ISO handy? Trying to get my 3000/400 up; V7.0 firmware; and
> > it does not like the OpenVMS V8.4 ISOs I got from HP ... I do have a
> valid
> > Hobbyist license ... please chat with me off-list?
>
> I have a 7.2 C
I'm using a genuine DEC RRD45 so no sector size issue and it's worked fine
with burned CDs in the past to load my VAX machines ... I've never had too
much trouble with burns ... I think I just got a funky image from HP ...
other people have reported issues with it ... I could see the RRD45 getting
Well, it took a little bit of monkeying around but I was able to get the
the V7.3 ISO I received from a helpful fellow list member to boot on my
3000/400 ... it seems to only like my RRD37 drive and only on the internal
SCSI channel ... she is finicky ... but hey, whatever gets the job done :O
Woo
Geography matters ... if you're in the right area, say, near a university
with a historically high computer science impact, or large high-tech
industries ... you can find a lot of equipment for free or very low cost
since the density was high and you're well situated to inexpensively pick
up large
+1; weak sauce from the seller ... he listed it and the auction ran to
completion ... It always irks me when people renege on eBay auctions.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Todd Goodman wrote:
> That's just seller's remorse.
>
> It's obviously up to you, but I'd have strongly cons
If you're going to toss them otherwise, I'd be happy to keep them and give
them a good home until someone came along who could use them ... but I'll
take a backseat to anyone who's actually got one of those systems.
Best,
Sean
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Mike Stein wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Th
Hi Shaun,
Can you estimate weight on the SHD1Z-ZZ? That's all DEC RZ26 drives in
there? I can't seem to find a picture so I'm not clear on dimensions or
weight ... Someone already claim it?
Thanks,
Sean
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Shaun Halstead <
microf...@microfilm.kscoxmail.com> wrote:
Aha ... I first saw the request and thought it was strange that a film
would be so specific but I guess the AS/400 they ran has attained some
notoriety of its own:
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh021609-printer01.html
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh111609-story05.html
I guess I've gotta give them
-9821-11de-8d3d-00144feabdc0.html
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 6:36 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> Aha ... I first saw the request and thought it was strange that a film
> would be so specific but I guess the AS/400 they ran has attained some
> notoriety of its own:
>
> http://www.i
I just heard DEC-branded drive box with 1 GB units and I figured it might
be a ready source of RZ26 drives; I suppose there's nothing particularly
special about them compared to any other 50-pin SCSI 1 GB drive but I like
to keep a stock of DEC firmware drives in case I get a "finicky" system on
my
Never had a Classic but I've wrangled plenty of other Sun workstations ...
in general I have always found SCSI on Suns to be very easygoing ... you
generally won't get SCSI errors unless something has gone grossly awry... I
assume no internal disk? If so, definitely disconnect that and give it a
sh
Oh! And if you're using the "boot cdrom" mnemonic, make sure that your
CD-ROM is actually set to SCSI ID 6, otherwise you need to substitute in
your boot path i.e.
/iommu/sbus/espdma@4,840/esp@4,880/sd@{scsiid},0
Definitely check that!
Best,
Sean
On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Michae
When it comes to soldering, I usually recommend Hakko or Pace irons; I have
a Hakko 936 and it's a great "all-rounder". The FX-888D seems to be their
recommended replacement for the 936 so I guess I will endorse that, if they
are making the new models as well as they built the old ones (although IM
When I was in middle school, I once saw another kid stuff a bunch of potato
chips in a Disk ][ ... does that count? LOL
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Adrian Stoness wrote:
> When I was a toddler apparently I used to stuff penny's inside the floppy
> drives of my dads rainbow 100
Man that is foul ... I too started in the business doing repair, at a local
shop, and we definitely saw some dirty ones, but never like that! The
grossest stuff was always out in the field particularly some of the
industrial customers.
Best,
Sean
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ben Sinclair wr
And so it remains today; most servers sold for data center applications
include a little service processor ... I've found it's usually a little
embedded ARM or PPC ... that you can use for remote console, remote power
control, etc. Although these are not required to bootstrap the system, of
course.
BTW I love your little terminal room there ... these things are on the
fantasy list for me right next to the LISP Machine and TOAD-1, LOL. I
wonder if it runs MTS? :O At least I've got Hercules :O
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
> And so it remains tod
it!
These are eventually going to be submitted to the Telephone Collectors
International Library but it's certainly okay to take a copy for Bitsavers
as well, if so desired.
Best,
Sean
-- Forwarded message --
From: Sean Caron
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:17 PM
Subject: ROL
It doesn't even shunt across; it's just 16 pins in a DIL package
"floating"? Strange. If it were a manufacturing test, one wouldn't expect
it would show up in production machines?
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 3:17 PM, geneb wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 6
For sure. When I quoted the 20 minute post time on new 4U machines earlier,
I didn't include the time the four HBAs on those particular machines spent
enumerating each one of the 360 drives connected ... only to poop out at
the end of the process anyway because it runs out of memory in a fixed data
All the young kids are using Python and PHP these days! :O
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:24 PM, David Cooper wrote:
> I program in Perl every day at work. I suppose that puts me in that
> category. :)
>
>
> -Original Message- From: Eric Christopherson
> Sent: Friday, August 07
Hi Holm,
If the CD-ROM is showing up as DKnXXX in "show dev", you just need the boot
parameters to be zeroed out or default or whatever ... nothing special is
required, just boot DKnXXX where that's the CD-ROM device and it should
come right up. I have found this to be the case on any VAX machine
I suppose so ... in the process of building various little
single-board-computers based on historical microprocessors, I end up using
their corresponding assembly languages, some of which are probably no
longer really in commercial use.
Mostly on UNIX I just use C (or Perl, or ...) but on other pl
Yikes, that looks like more "fun" than even MVS JCL ... it'll definitely
help you win an obfuscated programming contest :O The more I play with the
truly older machines (emulations, mostly, to be honest) I have really
gained a new respect for how difficult and time-consuming it must have been
"back
or). It turns out to be really
> efficient and low
> overhead. I can't imagine what it would take for a C-runtime to provide
> the environment
> that I currently have with Forth.
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
>
> On 8/7/15 12:10 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
>
>> I suppose so ... in
I love this list, I always learn so many interesting things ... reading the
article on SynthesisOS now; a few pages in, it sounds like an early attempt
at building a reflective operating system? Neat. I wonder if the Quamachine
still exists? :O
Best,
Sean
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Sean Co
Hi Phil,
I checked out your SNOBOL4 page and I just wanted to note for your list of
historical platforms that SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL were also implemented on the
Michigan Terminal System (MTS) on S/360 ... this is actually the
incarnation I've been playing with recently ... along with numerous other
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