put paid to LABSAM, H-P decided
it wasn't worth updating it, although they kept LAS staggering along
for a final year. We did a five man-year project for a major
pharmaceutical company, writing an add-on chromatography calculations
package with just the FORTRAN compiler and H-P's FORMS/1000 screen
management library.
Happy days!
Brian.
of surprises me, as Toronto isn't a small
town.
Is there anybody around the Toronto area that has a few extra dumb terminals
lying around, or does anybody know of a good source for them around the Toronto
area?
Thanks
-Brian
A1 is rather nice, they had lots of neat stuff last time I was there... Don't
remember anything terminal-ey though.
-Brian
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Stein
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 7:05 PM
To: General Discussio
iance bulb to be the
easiest.
--
Brian Archer
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Toby Thain
wrote:
> On 2015-10-25 8:56 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>
>> On 2015-10-25 8:42 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
>>
>>> No- if it works with the standard display, the supply is fine.
>>>
Hi Toby,
I'll try to post some photos in a week or 2. Rob has asked me to make some
internal load boards for him so I can show more details while I'm at it.
The bulb is the best option in my opinion and seems to work just fine
without additional cooling in the cube.
--
Brian
On M
I saw a couple of posts; thought it seemed a little slow today as well. I
did see Liam's post regarding Fortran, which I did have a semester of back
in '93. Probably a little rusty as there just isn't a lot of need for it...
On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On 30 October 201
Having read all sorts of bad things about these older oil filled
capacitors, I decided to replace the one on my 8a. I got what I think is a
replacement - 6 microF, 660VAC, 50/60Hz, "NO PCB's" - but it is physically
about 1/3 the size as the original.
Did the tech for these get that much better?
27;ve been having trouble locating one, however.
Anybody have one lying around, or know of where to find one in the Toronto area?
It needn't be a high spec machine, just something to play with OS/400 and a
terminal.
Thanks!
-brian
I can find one at a surplus or recycler, mm.
-Brian
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Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 3:25 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: R: Looking for AS/400
Can't help, since
Yeah, ugh that post was baad.
-brian
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Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:27 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: List vs. community size
Chris wrote
Would be nice if more of you people with Kewl Machines posted pictures on there!
It's been slow recently, not many posts, and boring stuff.
-brian
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Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 1:29
Oh yeah? Well, my machines are boring. Beat that.
-brian
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couryho...@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 7:37 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: List vs. community size
mine are old enough to
1? Not enough, come on. Hi-Res NCube pictures please.
-Brian
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Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 4:26 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: List vs. community size
I was considering asking on that list, but I figured it was geared toward new
machines.
I'll take a look.
-Brian
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Monceaux
Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-
How the heck do you copy an RX02 disk for use in simh?
I've been trying to transfer RX02 images between simh and a real PDP11
(that has only two RX02's, console, and ethernet). So far, I've only
attempted sending an RX02 image from the PDP to simh, but simh fails to
read it: "?DIR-F-Invalid direc
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
>
> Did you have problems with my RAW files as well? Which? I tested a few of
> them right now and they seemed to work fine.
>
Nope, no problems. That was what triggered this...that someone else could
do it.
I jury rigged an RX50, and managed
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Don North wrote:
> From the SIMH pdp11 RX driver (pdp11_rx.c) the disk size is computed as
> follows,
> and the byte offset into the file is computed by CALC_DA(trk,sec) given
> the PHYSICAL
> track (0..76) and sector (1..26) addresses used in accessing the
> cont
I'm still kicking myself for passing up an IBM mainframe and a Sun 2000
that my previous employer no longer needed. I reasoned that I didn't have
space or power for them; never let logic and good sense dictate your
actions :)
Connor picked a great learning experience... EE, CS, and other disciplin
next logo
motherboard box? I've never seen one before.
Thanks,
Brian Archer
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Steven Stengel wrote:
> Just acquired a NeXT 68040 cube computer. It's way cool, but the
> responsiveness is unimpressive - I'd call it pokey.
>
> All 16 RAM slots a
Do you have another compatible sparc machine which you could install the OS
and transfer the drive from? Also is it possible to update the ROM to a
newer version on these? Just a gut feeling, but that would be my likely
suspect.
--
Brian Archer
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:33 PM, David Williams
a little extra peroxide to make it thinner. Then I have a bottle of
peroxide with a sprayer nozzle that I use to keep everything damp every
hour or so. I usually get good results in < 4 hours.
--
Brian Archer
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Geoffrey Oltmans
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 20
Hi. The original ROM request showed up just before I started receiving
messages this morning, and I only got the tail end of the chatter. Instead
of tacking a reply on to that, I thought I'd just start a new thread and
introduce myself at the same time.
Here's what I think is 23-038e4-00 from an
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
What is the part number of the dead power supply you gave up on?
>
It's the H7864 (Astec aa12130) in the BA23 enclosure.
It powered up a few times, but now only the switch light comes on. If I
remember, it wouldn't power up with just the cp
Don't forget about this one:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/191698368565
$17k for a CRT and a keyboard in a (beat up) wood case. He's missing the
box with the electronics, and, clearly, the cables... At least it isn't
signed!
b
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 9:49 AM, wrote:
> Pocket change compared to w
I did a bit of searching in the fall for an 8881 (to fix a busted HALT
instruction on a PDP8a). I concluded the 7439 is a pin-for-pin replacement
- I can't claim all credit for this, it's probably known by a few people
here. My notes say the 8881 will handle 30mA loads. The 7401 will handle
16mA
After Alex mentioned it, I'd thought about driving up if anyone saw
anything of interest, but sounds like there isn't a great deal to pick from
for older computers. I really can't justify the drive anyway, this year...
Brian KI4GTD
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Jerry Weiss
the Apple Dual Disk drives that seems to be working perfectly and quite
a bit cheaper than several alternatives I looked at. Melinda was very
helpful in processing the order.
Regards, Brian.
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Alexandre Souza <
alexandre.tabaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> htt
Is there an electronic copy of this floating around? My (ex-library) copy
is missing all of chapter 11, "What is there to calculate?. (And the last
page of the previous chapter). The pages weren't ripped out, they were
missing when it was bound. Very annoying, I enjoyed the book right up
until
I have a printer - just finished putting a Rostock V2 together a week or so
ago - and an 87xm (and 86b, fwiw) and some modules, but no PRM-85. If fit
against a standard module board is sufficient, I can do an iteration or
two. I haven't quite finished calibration, but it is printing sufficiently
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
Werner Buchholz (editor), "Planning a Computer System: Project Stretch",
> McGraw-Hill, New York, 1962
>
http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/IBM-7030-Planning-McJones.pdf
> Speaking of books, there's also a CDC 6600 book:
>
> Jim E.
It's not as old as some would like, but it's definitely unique enough.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UBER-RARE-MULTIFLOW-TRACE-14-300-COMPILER-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-processor-compiler-/112050410557?hash=item1a16b9943d:g:r2EAAOSw3YNXbtaY
b
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> After successfully repairing the G231 module of the MM11-L set I continued
> with the next one. This one was not able to access addresses ending 0100
> (binary). Luckily it was not the transistors arrays that were bad but the
> selector chip.
I enjoy using vintage test equipment as well, but I'm not usually willing
to pay more than $5 or $10 for a piece unless I know it works. Generally,
the only time I'll pay more without testing is when it's an automated piece
of equipment that included some computer interface capability as part of
as
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 8:20 PM, Bob Vines wrote:
> Does anyone have DEC's PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_, Editions 3
> and/or 4 and/or the PDP-8 _Programming_Languages_ handbooks?
>
> If you're not willing to part with your copy, could you scan the front
> covers of these handbooks and tell
ome interesting hardware. We
had a couple of old IBM XTs interfaced to them.
Regards, Brian.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Pete Lancashire
wrote:
> Over the years I've played around with a few old CAMAC (*) modules, by
> today's standard they pretty much have zero value, anyway t
The interest in video terminals has been awoken again, and I am again searching
for one.
I like the look/size of the VT220s, very nice and compact!
Anybody have extra DEC or IBM terminals in Toronto (Canada) ? I’m probably
somewhat interested!
-brian
somewhat interested!
-brian
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Ian S. King wrote:
> I love reading stories of component-level repair.
>
Assuming my notes and sketchy memory make any sense:
One of my PDP 8a CPU boards (the M8315) passed all the self tests I could
toggle in, EXCEPT, it would ignore HLT instructions. It'd jus
Yeah, unfortunately Ottawa is a bit too far for me.
But if it wasn¹t I¹d be looking at that AS/400.
-brian
On 2016-11-11, 11:37 AM, "cctech on behalf of Mike"
wrote:
>On Monday, November 07, 2016 17:22:22 Brian Adams wrote:
>> The interest in video terminals has been awo
>>> Anybody have extra DEC or IBM terminals in Toronto (Canada) ?
>> Is Ottawa too far away?
>
>While we're speaking of Ottawa and terminals...it's neither DEC nor
>IBM, but I do have a Hazeltine in Ottawa I would like to get rid of,
>but I do not like the idea of just chucking it. Anyone interes
4 pin converter
method.
Regards, Brian.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Alexandre Souza <
alexandre.tabaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris, is it a 40 pin cable?
>
> Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
>
> Em 26/11/2016 04:26, "Chris Pye" escreveu:
>
> > Does anyone
number is (437) 345-6530
Before you ask, 437 is a new area code assigned to the Toronto area
because the supply of 647 numbers is dwindling (they might even be
exhausted at this point).
Thanks!
-Brian
On 2016-12-11, 10:01 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Jerome H. Fine"
wrote:
>As I find
I've got one in the metal case. On the back is a property tag:
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical
E.T. "028400a" [<- the 'a' in pen]
Gov't I.D. "MDA9729530013"
Prop. of "USAF"
R-5051-2-REV.5-93
Where the stuff in quotes is from a typewriter, the rest is form
boilerplate. There are also some inventory
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> [...]
a pump makes it work 10X better. The trick, as described in the Pace
> manuals, is you heat the connection for several seconds, then apply vacuum
> and orbit the tip so it moves the component pin in the plated through
> hole. That orbi
On Mon, 12/14/15, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mike wrote:
>> On Dec 14, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>>>
>>> The subject brought up the thought of how many display-less
>>> computers we encounter every day without giving it a
>>> thought. I think that probably
On Thu, 12/31/15, Fred Cisin wrote:
> One quick [non-spoiler?] question: Is it a remake? Or is it
> another in the "series"? (if so, earlier? later?)
It's in the series, specifically Episode 7, taking place sometime
after Revenge of the Jedi.
BLS
On Sat, 1/16/16, tony duell wrote:
> I tried a RS232 analyser between the TU58 and the VAX. Very odd. Either
> my RS232 anaylser drops 00 bytes or the TU58 sets short result packets. The
> meaningful bytes (response code, etc) are there, but things like the sequence
> number are not. Odd...
>
> D
On Sat, 1/30/16, Eric Smith wrote:
> Does anyone have a PDP-11/03 or LSI-11 with the KEV11-C CIS
> (Commercial Instruction Set) option? It may have also been known as
> DIS (Dibol Instruction Set). It apparently consists of two microcode
> ROM chips (MICROMs), 23-004B5 and 23-005B5.
Eric,
It tur
On Fri, 6/19/15, William Donzelli wrote:
> DEC architecture machines were in the serious minority when it came to
> military computers in combat service.
It turns out that was partly by design. Recently I was reading an
interview with Ken Olsen that I hadn't seen before. In it he was
saying tha
> they are known to multiply on their own...
Clearly someone who has one (or better more) 780s (or 730s)
needs to start breeding them for the rest of us.
I guess to be fair I should offer that if anyone wants a 3600 and
they can reproduce asexually, I'll see if I can breed the one I just
got. :)
On Tue, 6/30/15, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
>
> > I'll see if I can breed the one I just got. :)
>
> Do *not* post pictures. I'm still trying to forget seeing
> the ones from that other guy.
Don't worry. I don't have any plans to cross breed it with
myself. Besides I doubt VMS would run very w
> The problems revolve around the fact that instructions cannot be
> properly restarted on the 68000. Not enough context is saved. This in
> turn means you cannot do demand paging, a that will cause a memory
> exception trap, from which you cannot recover.
True, but IIRC the OP was talking about
On Sat, 7/4/15, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> found in the archives of CERN, this image is beautiful! but what IBM
>> system is this.
>>
>> https://cds.cern.ch/record/1847692
>
> I don't believe you're looking at a single system. Note the banks of
> CDC 844 disk drives in the foreground (you can even ma
> Ok. I didn't know it was some version of 7th ed. I didn't even know that
> managed to get much beyond the PDP-11.
At least that's the way I read the original message. And there were
a number of re-implementations/clones of 7th ed.
> Anyway, it's sad, because the PDP-11 hardware can easily
>
I need to pick the brains of some PDP-8 experts. According to
the references I can find, especially the Small Computer Handbook,
the GTF instruction should include the M837 interrupt inhibit bit
in AC3. However, maindec 8E-D1HA test 05 seems to depend
on this not being true. Running the GTF inst
On Mon, 7/27/15, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> > I need to pick the brains of some PDP-8 experts. According to
> > the references I can find, especially the Small Computer Handbook,
> > the GTF instruction should include the M837 interrupt inhibit bit
> > in AC3.
>
> I can see where this happens in
> To Stuart - are you sure your code does it right. Could you post it?
That's kind of what got me here. I was running the 8E-D1HA
maindec on my emulator and it was failing at that point. My
initial reaction was that I was misinterpreting the RTF behavior
and that perhaps it wasn't setting the in
> I can see where this happens in the M837 schematic (E50),
> whenever DF is gated to AC9-11. That, in turn, seems to
> be for GTF or RIB.
I wonder if there are differences in different versions of the
schematics. If I'm reading the versions I got from bitsavers
correctly, on E50, Pins 2, 5,
On Fri, 8/7/15, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Is there a subset of this group for people who like to program in
> languages or language implementations or libraries that are no longer
> in common mainstream use? Or other groups for such a thing?
Funny you should mention that. I just recently wrot
On Fri, 8/7/15, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> To Brian L. Stuart: What separates MCPL from CPL and BCPL?
> I'm not finding much about it, although it looks like it has the benefit of
> nice pattern matching.
The pattern matching mechanism was, I think, the big thing
he was experimen
On Sat, 8/8/15, Kip Koon wrote:
> I have often wondered what the inspiration for the C Language was. BCPL ->
> MCPL -> B -> c, quite an interesting list of languages.
Kip,
As Noel mentioned, MCPL wasn't part of the evolution; it actually
is pretty recent compared to the other three.
> I had he
On Thu, 8/20/15, Mouse wrote:
> Maybe _rated_ current, but, even there, I don't think so (my TTL
> doc hasn't been unpacked yet, or I'd go check, but I'm fairly sure
> they are generally specced to sink more current to GND
> than source from Vcc).
It so happens I have a TTL handbook to hand at t
On Thu, 8/20/15, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Mouse wrote:
> > Copyright violation is not theft. (That doesn't make it OK. I just
> > get so sick of people tossing around emotionally loaded words like
> > "theft" and "stealing" when discussing copyright violation I feel it
> > incumb
On Thu, 9/10/15, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> From a friend of mine on RoadRunner (I won't say where, but in the USA
> of course); their trace dies as it leaves the Cogent Communications
> network (since it bounces through a few of their servers before dying).
I'm seeing the same behavior f
On Mon, 4/25/16, Swift Griggs wrote:
> So, the point is that the masses
> don't often pick "great" languages to fixate on. IMHO, Just
> because I point that out, doesn't make me "foolish, ignorant, narrow
> minded, or short-sighted"
I usually try to stay out of such discussions, but I think i
On Mon, 4/25/16, Swift Griggs wrote:
>The idea is somewhat that if students learn a
> "good" language that'll teach them some meta-structure that will help them
> later.
Certainly a lot of people do view it that way, but it's not what I was
getting at or how I see it. Based on my experience, the
On Wed, 4/27/16, Liam Proven wrote:
> ... with a few weirdos saying that 6809 was better than
> ... and a few weirdos maintained that Forth was better.
> ... while the weirdoes use FreeBSD.
I've never been more proud to be classified as a weirdo :)
> The efforts to fix and improve Unix -- Plan 9
On Wed, 4/27/16, Sean Conner wrote:
> > The bracketed note in the second paragraph of content on
> > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/personality.html is exactly the sort of
> > thing I'm talking about here; ESR taught himself TeX by the simple
> > expedient of reading the TeXBook.
>
> You mean
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> Every fancy curve there is but not a straight
> forward line and circle method of creating lower case
> characters
I'm not sure if you count it as straightforward, but I'd
suggest METAFONT. Straight lines are certainly straightforward.
Circles are a lit
On Thu, 4/28/16, Liam Proven wrote:
> Oh, yes, indeed! I have a Plan 9 VM, and I intend to try it on my Pi.
> But it's had relatively little impact on mainstream Unix.
I would agree, given the qualification "relatively." There are several
things that have made their way from the late research UN
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> On 28/04/2016 16:32, Jon Elson wrote:
>> Have you tried MetaFont? I've never actually created a font with it,
>> just used it automatically within the TeX environment. But, there is
>> a human-readable language that defines the characters.
>
> I haven't
On Thu, 4/28/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> How about morse by a key made in 1898 . Then cw to ascii serial
> converter and normal program input after that.
I've often thought of doing that! Though my key dates from more like
the '40s or '50s. I see a weekend Raspberry Pi hack in my future...
BL
On Thu, 4/28/16, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> The efforts to fix and improve Unix -- Plan 9, Inferno -- forgotten.
>
> It is, true, but it's a sideline now. And the steps made by Inferno
> seem to have had even less impact. I'd like to see the 2 merged back
> into 1.
Actually, it's best not to think o
On Wed, 6/1/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> On 01/06/2016 18:57, Charles Anthony wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Rod Smallwood
> > wrote:
> > > Apart from a personal 1202 alarm
> >
> > I have a habit of coding "can't happen" error checks with 1201 or 1202
> > error numbers.
>
> You may be
On Wed, 6/1/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> On 01/06/2016 19:34, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
>> On Wed, 6/1/16, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>>> On 01/06/2016 18:57, Charles Anthony wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Rod Smallwood
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
On Thu, 6/16/16, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Liam Proven once stated:
> > And Plan 9 went one better, and (mostly) eliminated that nasty old
> > unsafe mess, C, and it eliminated native binaries and brought
> > platform-neutral binaries to the game.
>
> Um ... what? Pla
>
> The one I haven't found yet is:
f29bdg00.boo
The Google suggests:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Common_User_Access
which has working links to f29al000.boo and f29bdg00.boo on IBM servers
I've done a lot of work converting technical documentation archives from
DCF and Bookmaster to Word and
>
> Someone in IBM must know, I suppose.
More likely, someone in IBM must have known.
But I would hazard a guess that almost everyone who had direct internal
knowledge of DCF, GML/Bookmaster, and the BOO format has already retired.
Charles Goldfarb was born in 1939
brian
protected, then the path
forward is going to be very different).
Does anyone have the ability to check one of the chips that I have here is
code protected so I can see if I should pursue this any further?
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area but can mail a sample chip.
Thanks!
Brian
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it to VCFMW this year.
(Those of you who don't know me are probably thinking "So what?"
Those who do are probably split between "Aww, that's too bad"
and "Good; he's a pain in the...") In lieu of my "sparkling
personality" I'm making available the ENIAC simul
I know this is a very long shot, but I'm looking for Figure 6-13
from the Part I Technical Manual on the ENIAC by Adele Goldstine.
In the table of tables at the front of the manual, this table is one
of three listed as "in an envelope attached to the back cover."
Neither the scan on archive.org, no
I know this is a very long shot, but I'm looking for Table 6-13
from the ENIAC Technical Manual Part 1 by Adele Goldstine.
In the table of tables at the front of the manual, it's listed as being
"in an envelope attached to the back cover." Neither the scan
on archive.org nor the printed copy from
On Tue, 11/1/16, Jon Elson wrote:
> Also, some IBM publications (where I'm more
> familiar with their models) had some photos
> of machines that probably were in-house
> prototypes that were quite different than the
> production version.
Along the same lines, the picture in the original PDP
On Thu, 12/29/16, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Interesting factoid about the Bendix G-15: it was designed with the help of
> one of the ACE people (Harry Huskey), and is basically a re-packaged ACE with
> drum instead of delay lines. There's an interesting article by Huskey himself
> in "Alan Turing's A
On Tue, 1/3/17, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:
> What I’m wondering is if anyone is familiar with the setup/adjustment
> procedure for getting the heads set correctly. There *might* be a couple of
> unused tracks I can relocate heads to, but my thought is that if half a
> dozen heads were already in cont
On Tue, 1/31/17, geneb wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> Can someone please fix the mailing list software? This has been
>> reported every once in a while by a bunch of people for over ten
>> years.
>
> Bounces aren't caused by the mailing list, they're caused by the
> dest
On Wed, 2/15/17, jim stephens wrote:
> I saw her speak twice...
I got to hear her speak once when I was a freshman in
college before I really knew much about who she was.
Yet there were still several things she said that have stuck
with me ever since. Years later I was talking with a retired
Nav
27;d like to protect against
anything accidentally making contact. I have seen surface mount 0.05 pitch
pin headers come from their manufacturer with protective caps, but I
haven't been able to find anything to apply to 0.1" pin headers that I
could by aftermarket.
Any ideas would be appreciated!
thanks
brian
that's a thought, thanks. This is 2x3. That could work.
I may end up just clipping off the pins!
brian
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:35 AM Richard Cini wrote:
> I have not seen a cover but how about an empty header shell. I forget if
> they're called C-Grid but it's the o
Speaking of good keyboards, my typing class used IBM Selectrics for the
lucky people but we also had some older Underwoods and Royals in the class.
You got those when you irritated the teacher. I took Typing I & II and it's
worked out great as every job I've had since required lots of typing.
On F
I worked with STL some but am much more familiar with structured text as
used by Rockwell/Allen-Bradley. However, my first exposure to PLCs after
getting out of the Navy back in 1991 was the Mitsubishi A series with a GPP
for a programmer. I found that one interesting because you could program in
l
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
>
> "Nathan Ensmenger has observed"
>
> he's written a whole book on the subject "The Computer Boys Take Over"
> https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/computer-boys-take-over
>
>
And:
"Recording Gender", Janet Abbate (also mentioned in the ar
IIRC, the first time I had problems with the low level format was with one
of the early IDE controllers and a 230MB Maxtor. Crapped out the entire
firmware, was never able to get it to admit who it was again. Seemed to
work okay with earlier MFM/RLL 40 MB and 80 MB Conner drives (I think, it's
been
I'm assembling a PDP-8/a from a pile of parts, but I'm missing the entire
AC power entry assembly, as shown in
http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/8a_trans_gnd0.jpg. Does anyone know
what the 6-pin connector is? Even better, does anyone have an extra
assembly?
Thanks to Herb Johnson for the 8
05:40 PM, Brian Walenz via cctech wrote:
> > I'm assembling a PDP-8/a from a pile of parts, but I'm missing the entire
> > AC power entry assembly, as shown in
> > http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/8a_trans_gnd0.jpg. Does anyone
> know
> > what the 6-pin c
as searching.
https://louisville.craigslist.org/sys/d/processor-technology-sol-20/6391107432.html
Regards, Brian.
Hello,I have a current hobbyists license for OpenVMS 7.3 and a handful of
simulated VAXen. I wanted to add my simulated 11/780 and 11/782 to my DECnet
and wondered if there was a (legal of course) license workaround to install
networking on an older version such as 4.4. The current PAKS will not
that figured out.
Thanks again Brian.
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On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 7:21 AM, Matt Burke via cctalk
wrote: On 07/03/2019 03:21, BGeezer via cctalk wrote:
> Yes, I can see now that they are different. If I can't find a license
> tape I'll probably put o
I just acquired an RK07 drive and disk packs. I am looking for the 5 Unibus
boards and back plane to add to my 11/84.
Brian.
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