tor 2015-07-23 klockan 13:11 -0400 skrev Murray McCullough:
> A momentus event happened 40 years ago around this time, July 1975,
> the world's first computer store opened in West Los Angeles, called
> Arrow Head Computer Store, tag-lined, 'The Computer Store'. It was
> opened by Dick Heiser. How t
tor 2015-07-23 klockan 18:08 -0400 skrev william degnan:
> I told him start with buy it now for $2000 with best offer, leave it
> to see what kind of watchers and interest he gets then lower the price
> until a sale is made. That said, because you're asking for the item
> to be shipped, the seller
ons 2015-10-14 klockan 13:57 -0700 skrev Ian Finder:
> HP-HIL.
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Chuck Guzis
> wrote:
The HP HCL speaks about a HIL-only host (SPU) to PS/2-keyboard adapter
from mic.com
The 9000/715 (and 725/100) computers had a special HIL-port (SMD-10)
which required an bre
sön 2015-10-18 klockan 17:16 +0200 skrev Stefan Skoglund (lokal
användare):
> The specs makes me think that it is a bit more powerfull than a Sun
> 3/80 (and 280 too.)
> The ECL monitor reminds me about Sun Sun2/3/4:era bwtwo.
>
> About the same resolution.
>
> Remark: how
tis 2015-10-20 klockan 19:52 + skrev tony duell:
>
> Sanders 12/7 and 700 printheads are quite easy to take apart (but
> keep the
> pin/armature assemblies in order).
>
> Other than those, I wouldn't strip any of them!
>
> Maybe clean the face with propan-2-ol and then soak that end in th
tor 2015-11-05 klockan 07:33 + skrev rod:
> Hi Anke (I'll use English for the benefit of rest of the list)
> I would love to hear about any vintage computer shows
> anywhere in Western Europe.
> Please add my name to your mailing list.
> Whilst a lot of us are
tis 2015-11-17 klockan 22:25 +0100 skrev Pontus Pihlgren:
> Will you attend? I'm going.
>
> /P
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:18:18PM +0100, Stefan Skoglund (lokal
> användare) wrote:
> > This year's ETA-auction i gothenburg at 5 Dec.
> >
> > Then for software I found a diagnostic, XXYAD0 that supposedly
> > should draw
> > a square and a rectangle.
> >
> > Anyone know of other drawing software that uses the XY11
> >
> > /Mattis
>
> The book 'The Minicomputer in the Laboratory' by James W Cooper
> covers using an
> X-Y plotter w
tis 2015-12-22 klockan 16:45 +1300 skrev Mike Ross:
> H.
>
> I do have a massive idler motor - as in it takes two people to even
> think about lifting it - from my days in NY when I had to manufacture
> a 3rd phase to make the S/3 and other items work... I wonder if I
> could do anything using
, but pretty thick...
>
> Dave
> G4UGM
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
> > Stefan
> > Skoglund (lokal användare)
> > Sent: 23 December 2015 11:07
> > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
>
tor 2016-01-07 klockan 15:08 -0500 skrev Mouse:
> > Well, if you don't have access to thermite [...]
>
> Actually, red heat is well above the Curie temperature for most media,
> isn't it? You could chuck the platters into the coals of a bonfire,
> let them get up to a nice cherry red. Depending
tor 2016-01-28 klockan 01:52 -0500 skrev John Blake:
> Vetusware is highly unreliable and tries to charge for accounts, which
> isn't worth it at all because most of the things I've gotten from there
> haven't worked. Try: https://winworldpc.com/library
>
> Their images are tested, I've used t
ons 2016-01-27 klockan 14:42 +0100 skrev Liam Proven:
> But trying the modern version today brings the bad memories flooding
> back, I'm afraid... Of multi-thousand-line CONFIG.SYS files, of
> juggling drivers (PATA versus SATA today, for example), of patchy or
> missing hardware support etc.
>
tor 2016-01-28 klockan 14:01 +0100 skrev Liam Proven:
> The result was named "Windows NT".
>
> Entertainingly, WNT is what you get if you shift the letters of 'VMS"
> 1 position forward in the alphabet.
>
> Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one
> was an in-house b
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 22:22 -0600 skrev Tothwolf:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> > On Feb 1, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Ken Seefried wrote:
> >> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Tothwolf wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> >>>
> Spend the extra few dollars (or what your cur
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 14:07 +0100 skrev
martin.heppe...@mh-aerotools.de:
> While I was reading through the HP 200/300 BASIC Manual I came across some
> interesting points I hadn't considered in the past.
>
> I thought HP manuals were dry and hard to read, but I was wrong. See for
> yourself...
>
mån 2016-02-01 klockan 20:37 -0800 skrev Guy Sotomayor:
>
> On 2/1/16 8:11 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 8:09 PM, devin davison wrote:
> >> I really wanted to take a look at the AIX version of unix.
> >> I don't have any of the original hardware, I assume there was a straight
fre 2016-02-05 klockan 15:39 +0100 skrev Pontus Pihlgren:
> Yes.
>
> The primary reaspn I'm working with this system is because I
> want to give it away to someone with more knowledge and more
> importantly, more time.
>
> But I need to remove some sensitive data first. Wipeing the
> whole di
tis 2016-02-09 klockan 23:13 +1300 skrev Mike Ross:
> The 3290 plasma panel? It's not for sale but I do have one - and more
> importantly the critical DSL diskette the 3174 needs in order for it
> to work. It's the only one I've ever seen' good luck; you'll need it!
> If you do get one and need th
tor 2016-02-11 klockan 13:41 -0800 skrev Glen Slick:
> My memories from the early 1980s are of a room full of undergrads
> working on rows of VT100s (maybe 50+ at least?) on a DECSYSTEM-2065
> running TOPS-20.
>
> Things usually seemed to run pretty well on that system, until the
> night before p
Howdy.
I connected one of theese (i have two) to an PC last night.
Blemishes:
the text is blurry
wrong color tones (a little bit red)
so how much can i do with the display picture setting buttons ?
I'm thinking about connecting one of them to a Sun 10 (but i do have a
bunch of RS 6000 PPC machi
mån 2016-02-15 klockan 14:38 +0100 skrev Stefan Skoglund (lokal
användare):
> Howdy.
>
> I connected one of theese (i have two) to an PC last night.
>
> Blemishes:
> the text is blurry
> wrong color tones (a little bit red)
>
> so how much can i do with the disp
sön 2016-02-21 klockan 09:36 -0600 skrev Ben Sinclair:
> I was just looking up VAXstations the other day on eBay. I checked
> again now for 4000's, and the prices seem crazy. Is there something
> particularly special about them, or is it just the usual eBay
> craziness?
It exists a number of appl
mån 2016-03-14 klockan 13:38 -0400 skrev Mouse:
> > There is one axis along which I concede that things have advanced
> > since Multics, which is away from monolithic kernels -
>
> Whether that is an advance or a regression depends on your priorities.
> I see good arguments each way.
>
> > But t
tor 2016-04-21 klockan 10:06 +0200 skrev Nico de Jong:
> - Oprindelig meddelelse -
> Fra: "Swift Griggs"
> Til: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>
> Sendt: 20. april 2016 18:55
> Emne: Re: strangest systems I've sent email from
>
>
> > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Pontus Pi
tor 2016-05-26 klockan 11:21 -0700 skrev Ian McLaughlin:
> Last year I made a day trip from Kelowna BC to Seattle Washington to pick up
> a Northstar Horizon, and I paid cash ($100 if I recall correctly).
>
> When I arrived back at the border, I got the third degree about the computer.
> The ag
tis 2016-06-07 klockan 10:55 -0700 skrev Chris Hanson:
> I know MemoryX in Santa Clara has at least recently had full boxed copies of
> SunOS 4.1.4 (aka Solaris 1.1.3) available for something like $99.
>
> I'm unaware of whether Sun SPARC hardware carries a license for the OS with
> which it sh
fre 2016-06-17 klockan 16:09 +0200 skrev Liam Proven:
> On 16 June 2016 at 22:09, Sean Conner wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once stated:
> >> It's a modern init. Most of panic is just headless running around. No,
> >> it's not an old-fashioned simplistic Unix utility. Hey
lör 2016-07-09 klockan 13:04 +1000 skrev Doug Jackson:
> Umm
>
> Weren't our computers designed before quality change control existed...
>
> (Duck)
>
> Doug
Umm, im reading James W Cortada's book Before The Computer.
The E Remington company got from 1865 far less custom from it's largest
tor 2016-09-08 klockan 13:03 -0400 skrev Murray McCullough:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television show of 5
tis 2016-09-13 klockan 19:31 +0200 skrev Liam Proven:
> On 13 September 2016 at 18:53, Ryan K. Brooks wrote:
> > See Also RedHat and CentOS.No telnet, netstat, etc.
>
> My lack of fannish enthusiasm for the RH family of Linuxes got me
> fired from Red Hat.
>
> Nonetheless, their willingness
tis 2016-09-13 klockan 10:43 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis:
>
> Heh, the first message that I got after I changed the PRAM battery and
> booted MacOS was that the system time didn't match the NTP time within
> reasonable limits. But there the oddity hit--if I wanted to get rid of
> the message, I had
ons 2016-11-09 klockan 19:52 -0700 skrev Richard Loken:
> So last week there was some conversation about lisp compilers and an
> expressed interest in old VAX lisp comilers. Co-incidently, I was rooting
> through the morgue at work on semi legitimate business and found
> VAXlisp 2.2 copyright 198
lör 2016-12-03 klockan 19:46 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin:
> > > (Three other cases had simply disappeared between the time my buddy
> > > died and the time that the county let us go through the house.)
>
> On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
> > let me know if you have a 90 mm summacron f2
sön 2017-01-08 klockan 21:17 -0800 skrev Chuck Guzis:
> On 01/08/2017 08:16 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> >
> > I sent this out to some friends at the end of December
>
> I've got a few large (not the torque-handle thing) from the late 60's
> Xcelite nutdrivers. They don't smell and they're in fine c
tor 2017-01-12 klockan 20:35 + skrev Andy Cloud:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> I know this is a bit of a personal question, so please feel free to ignore
> this email!
>
> If you're willing to answer it would also be interesting to know what drove
> you to spend as much as you did on that particular co
lör 2017-01-21 klockan 03:25 -0800 skrev jim stephens:
> I post this not so much as an ebay to buy, though if anyplace could be
> found with the means to use this it is on this list.
>
> someone had an optical MO drive at some point and wrote their backup and
> a Solaris (probably 2.5 or later)
tor 2015-10-08 klockan 16:48 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis:
> On 10/08/2015 01:44 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> > Unfortunately SVT Öppet Arkiv is not available to anyone outside
> > Sweden, which is a pity. A great source.
> >
> > This interest for computers and election vigils come from the fact
> > that I
lör 2015-10-17 klockan 10:01 -0400 skrev et...@757.org:
> I was always under the impression that a few of them made it out
> there?
>
> I have a TT030 and actually was just looking at it last night. It has
> a
> VME slot (as they call it) that has a dual serial port board
> installed. I
> think
This year's ETA-auction i gothenburg at 5 Dec.
SEE http://auktion.eta.chalmers.se/
Multiple Tek Scopes and a HP 16500C.
AT least one VT101 and other misc (including multiple sun ultras) and a
bunch of routers/vpn gateways and so.
fre 2015-09-25 klockan 11:18 -0400 skrev Sean Caron:
> Very nice looking set of DEC 4000 machines! I'd definitely be tempted
> to
> make an offer on one of they were in the US...
>
> Best,
>
Pontus Pihlgren
Rasby-Hammarby
755 96 Uppsala
Sweden
It isn't that far to Arlanda.
tis 2022-01-04 klockan 08:40 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 1/4/22 12:14 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > Seymour Cray, along with Bill Norris and Jim Thornton and others
> > left Remington Rand/UNIVAC after Rand bought the near-bankrupt ERA.
> > Apparently, the work environment at
fre 2022-09-23 klockan 10:30 -0400 skrev emanuel stiebler via cctalk:
> 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
fre 2022-09-23 klockan 22:27 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> > I always thought the i960 was an upgrade to the i860 (sort of like
> > i386 to i486 upgrade). However, based on the info on wiki it seems
> > as if the i960 actually came first and although a RISC chip it was
> > in no way in t
tor 2017-04-06 klockan 19:59 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> A late follow up on this topic.
>
> I got my IBM 1627 running. Actually it is not mine, it belong to my father
> that got it used for his home built computer somewhere around 1977. It
> became a project that never was finished...
ons 2017-04-12 klockan 10:57 -0400 skrev Noel Chiappa via cctalk:
> > From: Alfred M. Szmidt
>
> > No even the following program:
> > int main (void) { return 0; }
> > is guaranteed to work
>
> I'm missing something: why not?
>
> Noel
>
If the compiler doesn't have ANS
Anyone with access to a distribution of SDT (Telelogik's SDL programming
system) for old era SunOS 4 ?
I have a SS10 which is a beggar for SDT (or KEE or Frame.)
lör 2017-04-22 klockan 10:13 -0700 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
>
> internet V Fedex
>
> Unfortunately, their 2040 number is based on an assumption that bandwidth
> will continue to increase, but that media capacity won't.
Andrew Tanenbaum makes another of those
ons 2017-05-24 klockan 11:16 +0200 skrev Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk:
> I'm surprised to see a swedish keyboard there :)
>
> What is a PCM-12 ?
>
> And I think that Datability VCP-1000 can do LAT to TCP/IP translation.
>
> /P
I think (the Viking kb) is a console for something like a computer
c
ons 2017-09-27 klockan 16:03 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> >> In a closed Facebook group in Sweden there is someone that want to sell a
> >>> number of ICL1501 terminals.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> There doesn't seem to be any information about ICL terminals at the
> >> Terminals wiki http://termina
ons 2017-09-27 klockan 19:54 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> 2017-09-27 17:33 GMT+02:00 Stefan Skoglund via cctalk >:
>
> > ons 2017-09-27 klockan 16:03 +0200 skrev Mattis Lind via cctalk:
> > > >> In a closed Facebook group in Sweden there is s
fre 2017-09-29 klockan 12:52 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Sep 29, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 09/29/2017 10:56 AM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On a related note my plan is to make a USB-based, Pertec-compatible
> >> contr
sön 2017-10-29 klockan 23:49 +0100 skrev Tomasz Rola via cctalk:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 08:43:36PM -, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony
> > > Duell
> > > via cctalk
> [...]
> >
lör 2017-12-23 klockan 11:39 -0800 skrev Fritz Mueller via cctalk:
> The most documentation I’ve seen re. the PROMs is pages A-1 and A-2 of the
> VT52 maintenance manual here:
>
> http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8cgi/query_docs/tifftopdf.pl/pdp8docs/ek-vt52-mm-002.pdf
>
> I think you’ve probably seen th
The main problem with that lorry hurtling down the freeway is
latency.
I need to move 1 PB . how long will it take filling and packing
enough IBM LTO-9 tapes to send 1 PB ?
How long does it takes to fill 1 tape with 18 TB ?
Liam, TriPOS ?
If i'm not wrong it was a OS developed in Cambridge (Cambridgeshire).
Did someone port it to other arch than ARM ?
mån 2018-02-05 klockan 10:31 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 01/18/2018 12:23 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote:
> > You all talk about Proxy ARP in the past tense for some reason. :)
>
> You might find it entertaining to know that I was just talking with
> colleagues that are currently
lör 2018-12-01 klockan 22:08 -0500 skrev ED SHARPE via cctalk:
> Hi Alan - The hard drive is same size cabinetwith I
> guess a SCSSI cable. I will have to look at it further...
> wonder if starting it out on a variac would help the
> capacitors like I do with the
fre 2018-12-07 klockan 08:07 -0600 skrev Kyle Owen via cctalk:
> Upon closer inspection, it appears as though I have no frame buffer.
> Drats.
>
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/ariFxb8xggERExkU9
>
> Anyone have a spare that would work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
You have one the ECL one ie (i think) bwt
lör 2018-12-08 klockan 13:56 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
>
>
> CeBIT (Hanover Germany) was the largest. Started in 1970; ended? in
> 2018.
> Sorry, I have little or no information about it; I never got a chance
> to go.
Heinz Nixdorf died (heart failure) on the showroom floor in 1986.
tis 2018-12-18 klockan 14:41 -0700 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 12/18/2018 02:08 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> > Cindy, I’m curious, is there really a market for 8086/88, 286, and
> > 386 computers? What are folks using them for?
>
> I know that there is an active IBM PS/2 collectors
ons 2019-05-22 klockan 01:42 -0600 skrev Jim Manley via cctalk:
> No firefighter in their right mind is going to knowingly pump a drop
> of
> water anywhere near or in the direction of a data center, let alone
> into
> it. That's why they're equipped with Halon or other oxygen
> displacement,
> co
ons 2019-05-22 klockan 08:45 + skrev Wayne S via cctalk:
> All true. Just sayin' that water can get into the DC even when it's
> not intended.
> When fighting a fire in another part of a structure, the water may
> find it's way into the DC.
>
> Not sure about not allowing water to get near
fre 2019-05-24 klockan 23:38 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 5/24/19 9:12 PM, Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Sulfuric acid is hard to wash off; the amount that made it to the
> > room
> > must have been pretty small, otherwise people couldn't be allowed
> > in.
> > And,
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space
> to
> do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it
> to work.
>
HPUX 8 has smit, doesn't it ?
I did some works with HPUX almost 30
sön 2019-05-26 klockan 21:09 -0700 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> I've been doing more work on my 9000/350 now that I have actual space
> to
> do work on it in. Although the 10b2 is flaky, I can usually coax it
> to work.
>
> However, the damn thing won't query DNS even though I have a
> popul
mån 2019-05-27 klockan 12:47 -0500 skrev Mister PDP via cctalk:
> I took a look at all the lines you mentioned. BDAL3-13, BDIN, BSYNC,
> and
> BBS7 are all active and jump around in some manner. BRPLY is still
> the only
> line that does not have any activity on it. None of the BDAL lines
> seem
>
tor 2019-06-06 klockan 13:43 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
>
> Result of the eventual convergence on the American model:
>
> We have amazingly sophisticated, high-spec smartphones and tablets,
> but they have a battery life of a single day, replacing European
> phones that lasted a week and
tor 2019-06-06 klockan 13:43 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 20:06, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
> > I don't think that my Fossil (Palm-OS WATCH) does IRDA.
> > I should find somebody who will pay me money for such a piece of
> > crap^H^H^H^H NEAT technology.
>
I al
ons 2019-06-12 klockan 14:35 -0700 skrev Chuck Guzis via cctalk:
> On 6/12/19 1:47 PM, alan--- via cctalk wrote:
> > I especially appreciated he not only offered an opinion - his
> > specific
> > ideas on where the boarder between RISC and CISC was - but then
> > provided
> > an analysis of a bunch
tor 2019-07-25 klockan 05:52 + skrev dwight via cctalk:
> Failure of the POKEY chip were likely bonding wire failures. Voltage
> stress failures are not likely to self repair.
> I would agree, the fix is likely temporary.
If chip inside consumer stuff is so prone to this failure,
what is the d
mån 2017-03-06 klockan 20:52 -0800 skrev Zane Healy via cctalk:
> > On Mar 5, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > wrote:
> >
> > I picked these up as part of an estate liquidation, but I don't have a
> > Unibus setup to run them off, and they are large and taking up space. They
> >
fre 2019-08-30 klockan 10:37 +0200 skrev Angelo Papenhoff via cctalk:
> So many VCFs happening in the US but we have them in Europe too!
> VCF Berlin is not even two months away (Oct 12th and 13th) and
> you can still register as an exhibitor till Sept 8th.
> Our special topic this year will be Com
ons 2019-08-21 klockan 18:30 +0100 skrev Antonio Carlini via cctalk:
> On 21/08/2019 15:46, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> > I have mixed reactions to it. I use it some, often to see if
> > something is
> > online at all. (If I buy a manual, I usually check, to see if I
> > need to
> > scan it, a
fre 2019-08-30 klockan 11:05 -0700 skrev Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk:
> I’m actively working on SMD and ESDI emulators. However, given my
> work schedule this is a long term project. :-(
>
> TTFN - Guy
>
> > On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Haddox via cctalk <
> > cctalk@classiccmp.org> w
lör 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
> El sáb., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> escribió:
>
> > On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's guide (3.8 something)
lör 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
> El sáb., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> escribió:
>
> > On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via cctalk wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's guide (3.8 something)
mån 2019-09-16 klockan 11:17 -0700 skrev Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk:
>
> And that’s just the HW. Hydra (the OS that ran on C.MMP) was a
> capability based system (so you needed the proper capability to do
> anything). I recall at one point the grad student who was doing work
> on the file syste
sön 2019-09-22 klockan 16:25 -0400 skrev Patrick Finnegan via cctalk:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019, 16:21 William Donzelli via cctalk <
> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > > Keep in mind, this is a Classic Computing list, not all of us
> > > have a way
> > to send Texts. :-) Hopefully you’re monitori
sön 2019-09-29 klockan 23:46 -0500 skrev Jason T via cctalk:
> Well I said no more computers I can't lift, but exotic systems keep
> finding me. So today we pulled a Tandem CLX out of a basement, along
> with a few boxes of docs, 9-track tapes and random odd and ends:
>
> https://photos.app.goo.g
ons 2019-10-02 klockan 19:02 + skrev Rich Alderson via cctalk:
> From: Mark Kahrs
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2019 7:24 PM
>
> > The first implementation was done for the 7090 by McCarthy (hence
> > CAR and
> > CDR --- Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement
> > Register).
>
>
tor 2019-10-03 klockan 09:45 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Oct 3, 2019, at 8:25 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki > > wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> >
> > > > You need an extremely high resolution timer to detect slight
> > > > differences in
> > > > execution tim
ons 2019-10-16 klockan 09:16 -0700 skrev Al Kossow via cctalk:
> anyone know what happened to this?
>
> the last sign of the web site was in 2010
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20100314165117/http://www.sdu.se:80/computer-automation-museum/
>
> someone just asked about some floppies that I had
tis 2019-10-29 klockan 17:48 + skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
> I know next to nothing about PostScript and fonts, is it possible to
> convert this to a font that can be installed on Windows? I found a
> site that says it converts it (convertio.co), but I am suspicious of
> free sites like that.
ons 2019-10-30 klockan 13:17 -0400 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> >
> In some countries, at least in the early 1980s (Sweden?) the law said
> that private organizations could run communication wires on a floor
> of a building, but to wire from one floor to another was the monopoly
> of the govern
ons 2019-10-30 klockan 16:01 -0700 skrev Zane Healy via cctalk:
> >
> I rebuilt the system recently, and now the error seems
> intermittent. I will say, that backing up my directory of files, and
> restoring it to the new system was a lot easier than fighting with
> the tape drives we had on the
fre 2019-11-15 klockan 14:07 +0100 skrev Jörg Hoppe via cctalk:
> Its been a long time since last public post about UniBone, time for
> a
> bragging broadcast.
>
> *What it is:*
> In case you forgot: UniBone is a plugin board to DEC PDP-11 UNIBUS
> systems containing a BeagleBone Black.
>
> See
sön 2019-12-15 klockan 08:40 -0800 skrev Guy N. via cctalk:
> Is it classic enough to ask about on this list?
>
> A friend of mine finds himself in the awkward position of being asked
> to
> take on some RPG programming, but knows nothing about it.
>
> Can anyone here suggest some good resources
fre 2019-12-20 klockan 14:53 -0600 skrev Adrian Stoness via cctalk:
> weird nixdorf is the last name of my boss whos in his 70's engineered
> lime
> plants around north america for what became greymont
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:42 PM Roland via cctech <
> cct...@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
He
tis 2019-11-26 klockan 19:16 -0800 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk:
> Good point.
>
> Some companies that COULD HAVE been the leaders made great
> inventions
> and/or engineering, and then fumbled the marketing.
>
> I'm thinking that Xerox Parc could be said to have "invented" the
> next
> generati
tor 2019-12-26 klockan 17:09 -0500 skrev Paul Koning via cctalk:
> > On Dec 26, 2019, at 12:23 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
> > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > And, a Happy Humbug to you, too!
> > Fleas Navy Dad and Yo new huevo!spellling?
> >
> >
> > > I^@^Ym not familiar with U.S. law
tor 2020-01-02 klockan 11:36 -0800 skrev Cameron Kaiser via cctalk:
> >
>
> It's really rather ludicrous, given how even the IDT Solbournes
> really only
> run OS/MP. My affection for them is largely nostalgia; as SPARC
> systems they
> are quite finicky and the later SPARCstations surpassed even
sön 2020-01-05 klockan 21:54 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
> wrote:
> > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original
> > 6
> > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2
> > for
> > PPC. The
mån 2020-01-06 klockan 13:42 + skrev Salik Rafiq via cctalk:
> Hello all, a new member here.
>
>
>
> I’m in the UK where I’ve lived for 17 years now. Before that I lived
> in
> Canada.
>
Peter Stokes (Ashlyn Computer Services) have machines to sell
including some fairly recent eq at a goo
sön 2020-01-12 klockan 21:10 + skrev Rob Jarratt via cctalk:
> The PSU in my VAXmate failed recently and I think I have found a
> problem
> with one of the windings on the transformer not ringing when I test
> it with
> a ringing tester. The technical description of the VAXmate says that
> one
tis 2020-02-18 klockan 02:50 -0700 skrev Jim Manley via cctalk:
> Not everyone on this list was even alive when much of this happened,
> and
> others of us were busy dealing with other very important things going
> on in
> The Real World then, so this is a very interesting story for many.
>
> Anyo
someone is selling a Sun 3/60 labeled as Nokia Data AB.
I think that it is a 3/60.
https://www.tradera.com/item/340854/363918390/nokia-data-system-20-4mb
350 $ (2495 Sek) or so.
It is a re-seller.
someone is selling a Sun 3/60 labeled as Nokia Data AB.
I think that it is a 3/60.
https://www.tradera.com/item/340854/363918390/nokia-data-system-20-4mb
350 $ (2495 Sek) or so.
It is a re-seller.
fre 2020-02-21 klockan 14:17 +0100 skrev Christian Corti via cctalk:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for information about Westward graphics workstations,
> especially for the 2019 (from about 1983) and the 2220 (about 1987).
>
> Christian
I believe that is the type of terminals that my school (Skövde Swede
lör 2020-03-21 klockan 14:44 + skrev Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
>
> > > Not a question for me, but for the record I have used a WTI
> > > remote site
> > > manager, essentially a combined power distribution and terminal
> > > server
> > > u
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