On Fri, May 5, 2023, at 10:44 AM, ben via cctalk wrote:
> How ever the people still use them. Fast internet is only good about 1?
> km from
> the router. Other than Netflix or Multiplayer games, what is really high
> speed internet needed for?
> Ben.
When I had 1200 baud I wanted 2400. When I h
I'm trying to track down ROM images from AT&T 3B2 expansion cards.
I've started with the EPORTS serial card, which I have. What I'd love
to find is the ROM from the NI Ethernet card.
Not all ROMs were socketed. Freqently they were soldered, so I know
that getting these probably won't be easy. If I
Hello all,
I'm trying to put together a Personal DECstation 5000/25 workstation,
but I'm missing the keyboard and mouse. Does anyone have an LK-501 and
VSXXX-BB mouse (the one with the RJ-11(?) connector) they're willing to
part with?
Best Wishes,
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
w...@loomcom.com
Hello all,
I'm trying to put together a Personal DECstation 5000/25 workstation,
but I'm missing the keyboard and mouse. Does anyone have an LK-501 and
VSXXX-BB mouse (the one with the RJ-11(?) connector) they're willing to
part with?
Best Wishes,
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
w...@loomcom.com
Hi folks,
I'm looking for ULTRIX RISC Software Products Library CDs from 1996 or
1997. If you know of where I can get my hands on them, I'd be grateful.
Images would work just fine.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
w...@loomcom.com
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017, at 03:17 AM, Mark Wickens wrote:
> Hi Seth
>
> Is the year important?
>
Not super important, but I am hoping to find products that would have
been shipped for Ultrix RISC 4.5, so I think that limits me to after
1995. I have products sets 1992 and 1993 already, but those ar
I've been a list member on and off (mostly on) for a good 20 years
now. I've seen my fare share of flame wars, and they're never fun. I
would never want to add to frivolus attacks or general noise. But I
cannot let this thread go without feedback.
Every time this argument appears, I come back to t
All,
I have two DECstation 5000/133s here with dead power supplies. I've done
some basic troubleshooting on both, and I've recapped the other, but
they're still dead dead dead.
I don't see any obviously blown components, and the fuses are fine, but
several of the caps I replaced WERE leaky. I ins
Hi folks,
I can't seem to find the "Networking Support Utilities" package for
the 3B2 anywhere online. Unfortunately, this package is required in
order to install TCP/IP (which I DO have)
(Note that this is NOT the "Basic Networking Utilities" package --
that's UUCP, and I do have that)
If anyon
Hi Alan,
* On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:26:53AM -0500, alan--- via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I believe the yahozna archive has them under misc/network.
Yup, this is where I originally got the NI card driver disk, and
the Wollongong TCP/IP disks.
Unfortunately, when I attempt to install the Wollongong
* On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:03:30PM -0800, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I can't seem to find the "Networking Support Utilities" package for
> the 3B2 anywhere online. Unfortunately, this package is required in
> order to install TCP/IP (which
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023, at 1:18 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am working to get my two microvax systems working, I have a couple of
> microvax 3800 systems.
>
> While I am waiting to get the real hardware going, I would like to set up
> simh with vms to use for testing.
>
> I
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, at 7:26 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
> All the VCFMW info is on the Discord server.
I swear to God, Discord will be the end of the open Internet, it's where
information goes to die. I hate it with every fiber of my being. And yes, I use
it, I'm on many servers. I'
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
> This dislike of “Discord” has touched a nerve for me. It’s also one of
> the reasons the cctalk list has lost most of it value.
> Discord is a collection of channels most devoted to specific subjects
> that you more or less subsc
On 3 Apr 2019, at 9:43, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 4/3/19 8:53 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote:
What I didn't understand was a fascination with the black mechanical
Cherry switches the keyboard used. These turn out
to be extremely popular with the 'gaming' community.
This 'communit
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 4:33 AM, Paul Birkel via cctalk wrote:
> >-Original Message-
> >From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam Proven
> >via cctalk
> >
> >Found on Hackernews but by our very own Seth Morabito...
> >
> >"This is what makes a PDP-11/35 or PD
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019, at 9:22 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 18:15, Seth Morabito via cctalk
> wrote:
> >
> > Oops! Clearly a boneheaded mistake on my part. Time to fix that ancient
> > post of mine...
>
> Ancient? It w
One of the projects I've been working on recently is adding floating point
accelerator emulation to the SIMH 3B2/400 emulator. I _think_ I've done
reasonably well, in that the simulator passes all of the accelerator
diagnostics that AT&T wrote for their own product, but frankly these tests are
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> is there anything in
> http://bitsavers.org/bits/ATT/SysV_r3.0_SV_Ver_Suite_Source_Tape_1987 ?
Wow wow wow, thanks for pointing this out (and for dumping the tape) Al. That's
a great find, I wasn't aware it was on BitSavers!
I wi
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Phil Budne wrote:
> Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ?
> Which says:
>
> "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and
> Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have access to only one such
> old compi
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:28 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
> I will definitely dig around in here. Moreover, I'll try to get it
> compiled on the 3B2 emulator in its entirety so I can attempt to pass
> verification.
Unfortunately there is no obvious way to build the SVV
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, at 2:07 AM, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
> [...] so my response is to filter out anything to do with Linode from
> here.
This is something of a touchy subject for me because I have been a Linode
customer for over a decade, and have always been extraordinarily happy with
On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 12:32 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote:
> I am big into sgi equipment, I have many deskside coputers and a full onyx
> 1000 rack. I have just about every machine in the sgi linup and I need to
> clear out most of my big sgi stuff. I was big into the nekochan forums, but
>
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
> I have access to 3 ES45s, a DS15, and an RA8000 in a tall blue Compaq rack
> in Athabasca, Alberta. All the in-service disks were removed but all the
> spares are available. The box also has the fibre switches used the connect
* On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:55:30AM -0600, Jim Brain via cctalk
wrote:
> Analog, which is my nemesis, curses me again.
>
> I have a cute idea for a cassette port project for the Tandy line of
> computers (the ones with the cassette port). I have a Coco 3 on the bench,
> so I scoped the output
* On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 03:50:36AM -0600, Jerry Kemp via cctalk
wrote:
> Hello Seth,
>
> Fingers crossed that you already have what you need.
>
> Given the possibility that you don't, my comment here is that your request
> for internal documents are somewhat vague. Can you be somewhat more
>
* On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:54:17PM -0600, Jerry Kemp via cctalk
wrote:
> Very interesting. I didn't start wearing a Unix hat till 1989-1990 time
> period. Aside from the ATT 3B2, my only other exposure to SysVR3 Unix was
> thru Banyan Vines.
>
> Banyan Vines sat on top of SysVR3 Unix, and we
* On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 11:08:37AM -0600, Electronics Plus via cctalk
wrote:
> I called the only place I know of that supported 3B2 stuff, which is
> Communications Hardware in TX. They recently had a change in technicians,
> and a lot of the older stuff they no longer support got culled, but t
* On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33:36AM +1000, Warren Toomey via cctalk
wrote:
> Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Unix in mid-2019,
> a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
> network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
> easie
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, at 2:20 PM, David via cctalk wrote:
>
> These are all standard bound books, so I’m unsure about how they would
> get scanned in the best possible way without destroying them.
>
That shouldn't be an impediment. I have access to a book scanner here in
Seattle (full double pa
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019, at 12:24 AM, Kevin Parker via cctalk wrote:
> FTGH Decstation 5000
>
> * Decstation 5000/125 - also houses a CD drive
> * 2 Expansion storage boxes - one has a tape drive and the other one has a
> floppy drive.
> * 2 very large and heavy RGB Digital monitors - one has both Di
Hi folks,
Maybe a long shot, but does anyone have a 3B2/1000 running SVR 3.2.3
that I could get an account on? Specifically, I need one with a compiler
installed. There's a publicly accessible one at the Living Computer
Museum, but unfortunately there are no compilers or assemblers installed
on it
Hello all,
This is probably a long-shot, but does anyone have any advice for testing the
End-of-Tape sensor on a QIC drive?
I've recently restored a Wangtek 5125ES (well, "restored" is a bit strong, I
just replaced the capstan roller) and after about 5 tape passes, it completely
lost its End-o
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> The only tricky thing would be having a mirror in the optical path. You
> should see something happen on the photo
> detectors (there are two) if you can get the light to make the 45
> degree turn
Further investigation with an
On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 4:47 AM, Dave Dunfield via cctalk wrote:
>
> Should be fixed now - may have to refresh your browser if It cached
> the bad links.
>
> Dave
By the way, Dave, I just wanted to say thanks for ImageDisk. I use it
constantly on my floppy archiving box and it's one of the mos
I'm trying to track down "MacScheme", an implementation of the Scheme
programming language for the Macintosh (68K). It's not even all that old, but
it seems to have completely vanished off the face of the earth.
It was published by Lightship Software in the early 1990s. I have found several
edi
Folks,
I know someone in North Carolina (not on this list) who just found a small pile
of IBM System/36 manuals in three ring binders. These are all already on
Bitsavers, and these manuals are in pretty rough shape, but if anyone really
really wants them, let me know and I'll pass on your conta
Hi folks,
I know this is a wild long shot, but just in case...
Does anybody have a copy of the source code for the NI Ethernet driver for the
AT&T 3B2? AT&T distributed it, but I have never seen a copy in the wild. The
package name was "nisrc", if that helps.
If I can't find it, I'll have to r
I'm experimenting with setting up UUCP and Usenet on a cluster of 3B2/400s, and
I've quickly discovered that while it's trivial to find old source code for
Usenet (B News and C News), it's virtually impossible to find source code for
old news *readers*.
I'm looking especially for nn, which was
Hello folks,
This weekend I picked up a VT52 DECscope terminal from a fellow collector. It's
in fantastic shape, apart from being a little dirty and missing the number "6"
keycap from the number pad.
This is a real long shot, but if you have a permanently broken VT52 terminal
you're keeping fo
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
> I'm trying desperately to remember an anecdote I remember reading not
> too long ago about programming ITS using DDT.
> [...]
Replying to myself here, because I found it! Thanks to Rainer Joswig on Twitter
for posting it.
I will quote it
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, at 6:19 PM, Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote:
> Height 27.38 mm (1.07 in)
> Diameter 13.36 mm at the base (closed end), 13mm at the open end (hard
> to measure as it's easily deformed).
> Ear slots 5.5 mm wide
> Ears 2.17 mm wide, 11.3 high (the tooth-shaped part only).
> -R
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021, at 12:36 PM, Alexandre Souza via cctalk wrote:
> Burnos aires is in Argentina, not in Brazil :/
> Anyway Argentina is near and I have proffessional A3 scanning capabilities.
> If you want to save on freight I can receive the manuals and scan them.
>
> Enviado do meu Tele-Move
Thanks to all the help from this list, I've been able to successfully print
some replacement feet for my LK201 keyboards. For anyone interested, the model
is now on Thingiverse, here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4841952
It's not a 100% perfect match by any means, but it's "Good Enough" to
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021, at 6:21 PM, Michael Kerpan via cctalk wrote:
>
> What are we, as a community, to do to fix this and make sure that our
> history stays peserved and isn't one bad day away from vanishing.
>
> Mike
Unfortunately, we're just not doing enough. I don't have an answer, but for
On Sat, Nov 20, 2021, at 1:22 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
> Unless, of course, you have a mainframe shop and figured all this shit
> out back in the 1960s.
Figuring things out accomplishes very little if what was figured out is not
broadly applied.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
Poulsbo, WA
w.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021, at 9:16 AM, Christian Liendo via cctalk wrote:
> https://web.stanford.edu/~allison/JimWarren.html
>
> For those who do not know about Jim Warren
>
> Jim Warren's wiki page
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Warren_(computer_specialist)
Very sad to hear of his passing, his
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021, at 10:59 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
> The correct answer is women and men in computing within some sort of
> historical context so that it does not seem like the fact that a person
> happens to be a woman that they're being featured rather than due to their
> actual acco
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