On 10/6/2015 9:43 PM, Ali wrote:
Pretty simple--basically, it draws the tape over a carbide or ceramic
blade and scrapes loose surface oxide off; pads wipe both sides of the
Chuck,
Thanks for the explanation. So then you would use this on tape w/o data or w/
data that does not need to be reta
On 11/13/2015 5:45 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
Hey all --
Now that I have my PDP-11/05 running nicely,
What did you end up doing to arrive at
that functionality? Did I miss some emails?
I'm curious what others are
running on small systems like this -- until this point I've only played
with
On 11/14/2015 11:25 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
It seems to me that Paul Koning's attitude will lead retrocomputing to die. We
can't all own computers that can do interesting things with front-panel
programming alone.
By his definition, I have committed a lot of "theft" in my days to restore
sys
. . / . - - - . . - . . .
On 11/16/2015 9:00 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Guess you'll have to forgive those of us in the "Classicmp enthusiast"
group that don't overlap into the "HAM operator" group.
I for one had no idea that a member's location could be pinned-down (to
within shippin
Ugh... Could this thread get any more
offensive to people's knowledge..
On 12/2/2015 11:13 AM, Tony wrote:
Mathematically, circumference is PI
times diameter or 3.14159. times
the diameter.
On 12/2/2015 11:06 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
Actually, it's
On 12/8/2015 9:36 AM, Jay West wrote:
Noel wrote.
-
So I know someone who has a working 11/34
...
list it as a whole with a firm number in mind that it must sell for (or
better). If t
Well, for one, I wanted to answer
because I understand the need to
maximize income from a sale, and happen
to own the same equipment they're selling.
No one here has to buy this system or
pay any more than they want to, so I
don't see any abuse occurring.
You use the word "profit" but th
On 12/11/2015 9:33 AM, Kevin Anderson
wrote:
I used to be an ardent bottom-poster like this list requires, but then I was
given one very good reason to switch that I believe is valid and persuasive --
bottom posting (and even inline posting), I understand, is a very royal pain in
the arse f
On 12/16/2015 4:58 PM,
m...@markesystems.com wrote:
Yep. Among the things that I have
given away (to Goodwill, or possibly
Salvation Army) - all in running
condition:
- A complete HP-1000 system: A600
processor with internal hard drive,
serial card + 8-port serial mux, all
floppies,
On 12/29/2015 2:08 PM, Jules Richardson
wrote:
I've wondered occasionally what
happened to ghetto blasters - despite
finding other audio equipment of the
time every once in a while, I don't
think I've seen one anywhere in over
25 years. Were they exceptionally
fragile or something, and so
On 1/1/2016 1:28 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
...
So maybe I'll get out of the 1.5/0.800
"Neanderthal" service one of these
days. I hope my story helps out other
CL customers.
--Chuck
Oh, don't feel too bad. I've only got
3.0/1.0 via Comcast cable on this semi
rural small mountain I live
On 1/1/2016 2:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 01/01/2016 11:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com
wrote:
Oh, don't feel too bad. I've only
got 3.0/1.0 via Comcast cable on
this semi rural small mountain I live
on. But, I'm happy with it
given my bill is $59 / month with
basic TV servic
On 1/17/2016 1:40 PM, tony duell wrote:
Incidentally, another reason I am not
too keen on using an emulator is that
I suspect there could well be logic
faults in the CPU and if I am not
careful I will just have a long list
of unsolved problems, whch can be
somewhat disheartenng...
Yeah,
On 1/18/2016 11:33 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
There was a tape sold by a few
manufacturers (I think 3M's was called
Black Watch) that had a coarse black
matte finish on the back side. A
problem with some drives which had
fast rewind speeds was that air was
trapped in the tape wind, and then
on
On 1/18/2016 12:46 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
Longevity of tapes was very spotty.
Some expensive, name-brand tapes just
disintegrated after a few years.
Others have held up amazingly well.
Yeah, I think even among the same brand
/ model. Like I've heard bad things
about Black Watch before t
On 1/18/2016 10:51 AM,
martin.heppe...@dlr.de wrote:
this machine has a 98204B video board (intended to work with a 35721 monitor,
which I don't have). I have not yet found the specs for its composite signal.
It's around 25khz. The 98204B is
normally used with the 35721 or 35731
640x400
On 1/22/2016 2:54 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
Short: R27 in my VT100 PSU is hot and smelling. Why?
Long: I think it has been 20 years since I powered up this VT100 so I did
it carefully. Used a Variac and a bench supply. It switched just fine and
delivered the steady 5V out when the input was at appr
On 1/22/2016 6:56 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
2016-01-22 21:48 GMT+01:00 j...@cimmeri.com:
On 1/22/2016 2:54 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
Short: R27 in my VT100 PSU is hot and smelling. Why?
Long: I think it has been 20 years since I powered up this VT100 so I did
it carefully. Used a Variac and a
On 1/23/2016 5:40 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
This is a 0.0033 uF 1600VDC SPARAGUE capacitor. It looks nice and orange
and there are no signs of cracks whatsoever.
What is the likelihood of this being bad?
Not highly likely, but possible. Just
put another one in temporarily and see
if it solv
On 1/23/2016 9:22 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
Yes. agree with you.I really should get oneWhat meter do you have and
recommend?
I use the BLUE ESR Meter of AnaTek Corp
(designed by Bob Parker). I've been
using it for several years and really
like it.
- J.
On 1/27/2016 8:42 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
I actually bought OS/2 with my own money. I was always extremely
averse to doing that.
It was good for its time, but NT 3.x was technically superior, just
lacking in the UI department.
Correct me if I'm remembering
incorrectly (probably am), but wasn
On 1/27/2016 1:14 PM, John Willis wrote:
Correct me if I'm remembering incorrectly (probably am), but wasn't
NT a descendent of DEC VMS?
As I understand it - an important caveat here - Windows NT was to some
extent a conceptual descendent of VMS, but that was more because the
same person was i
On 1/28/2016 8:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On faster, more modern systems, I use
VirtualBox. Just not worth the extra
trouble finding drivers--but I suspect
98SE will run on P4 systems as well.
The one thing I'm not seeing mentioned
in re VirtualBox is that what if you
have a legacy Win
On 2/4/2016 8:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Nothing older than Win7 on any Windows
PC that accesses the Internet. This
includes email.
Well, my 2 cents: I still use WinXP for
all my primary, workhorse machines.
Rarely have any issues with it.Win7
is ok but annoyingly
over-user-friendly.
On Feb 5, 2016, at 21:46, Dan K <100dash...@gmail.com> wrote:
Are there any good alternative solutions I can do to replace it? I'm
sure I don't want the plastic touching the disk media.
I use felt cleaning pellets for a .20
caliber pellet gun, and cut them to size.
- j.
On 2/6/2016 10:22 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 5 February 2016 at 23:54, Steven Hirsch wrote:
I've finally had my fill of the general grumpiness and bluntly worded
interactions on this list.
Over the years I have learned a lot and would like to particularly express
my thanks to Tony Duell, Fred
On 2/20/2016 7:03 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
I might just try all switches *closed* on the basis that maybe it was
wired wrong but... no doesn't make sense; the system would have been
operational when decommissioned; the switch settings as I received it
must be valid...
Make sure the switches are act
On 3/9/2016 1:03 PM, couryho...@aol.com
wrote:
In a message dated 3/2/2016 3:32:48 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com writes:
...
The only process deviations I have allowed myself are as follows:
Rod, very interesting! Do you have a
description of the full pr
On 3/10/2016 8:24 PM, Richard Cini wrote:
Ok, I spent some time trying this again, and here’s what I did. The system is
very basic — LSI-11 CPU, 32kw of RAM and two SLU cards.
Have you checked your SLU addresses and vectors to be sure they're
standard values (ie. what RT11 is expecting)? I r
On 3/10/2016 8:57 PM, Richard Cini wrote:
Maybe I’ll re-create the image again and see if that helps. I’m using
the RT11v4 image from the SIMH distribution and it boots just fine (as
an RK05 image) under SIMH. Rich
Try making an RL02 image from the RK05 image in SIMH and booting from
that (i
On 3/10/2016 9:36 PM, Richard Cini wrote:
Separately… John — the SLUs are at what I think are the standard
addresses and vectors (per the Heathkit and DLV11-J manuals) and the
ODT and TU58EM work. I don’t know what RT-11 is looking for but the
console @ 177560/60 and TU58 @ 176500/300 (Channel
Can that scanner produce anything other
than massive .png files?
- J.
On 3/11/2016 9:12 PM, devin davison wrote:
Well, I have the scanner and the time, I am going to put in online anyways.
It may not be the full source, but perhaps it will come in handy for
someone else.
I only spent a few
Chances are, you'll waste a lot of your time dealing with nothing but
trepidation, and get nowhere with what is probably NOT a gold mine.. but a
hoarder junk mine. Seriously, who writes meandering, confused ads like that,
that don't even state what they have and prices?
You'll very often see
On 5/28/2015 1:05 PM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
On 2015-05-28 12:00, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015, 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
Is the bitcoin output anywhere
On 8/19/2015 11:52 AM, Jason Scott wrote:
In closing, I might ask you to consider taking your sweet time getting
this stuff online. There are still some manual dealers out there. Let
them handle the decline of their business in whatever way they see
fit. All of them know it is just a matter of
On 8/30/2015 1:08 AM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
The MEM11 is a multi-function memory
board for Unibus based PDP-11
computers. It contains:
* 128KW memory
* Emulates console ROM & boot ROMs
* 2 SLUs (DL11s)
* KW11K
* KW11P
* KW11L
* KW11W
* RF11 (emulating up to 8 RS11 disks)
* KE11
G
On 8/31/2015 12:56 PM, et...@757.org wrote:
"3.5 million of the 4 million
produced were sent back to the
company as unsold inventory or
customer returns. Despite sales
figures, the quantity of unsold
merchandise, coupled with the
expensive movie license and the large
amount of returns, ma
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
On 9/1/2015 10:01 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
run Unix V1
I am very interested in the MEM11 for this exact reason. I have a
PDP-11/20 that I'd love to do this with.
You could also try Mini-Unix on your 11/20, which might support a wider ran
run Unix V1
I am very interested in the MEM11
for this exact reason. I have a
PDP-11/20 that I'd love to do this
with. [Ethan Dicks]
You could also try Mini-Unix on your
11/20, which might support a wider
range of devices. [Jay Jaeger]
Very interesting. Does Guy's MEM11
provide wh
On 9/4/2015 5:41 PM, Johnny Billquist
wrote:
On 2015-09-05 00:31, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Let me live the rest of my time like
a child playing with old computers,
that's exactly why we are here;
nothing else matters.
I know that people trying to help,
trust me, I'm doing that in other,
cases
On Fri, 4 Sep 2015, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
culture re what is offensive. His
remarks did not bother me because
they were "typically German." Maybe
me saying that will offend Holm...
lol...
On 9/5/2015 5:40 AM, Christian Corti
wrote:
Hey, they weren't "typi
On 9/5/2015 8:02 AM, Mouse wrote:
I think it where much more helpful to answer things like "Sorry don't
know, never had todo with that", vs. simply saying nothing at all,
leaving the man that looks for help alone.
As a bystander, I would much rather see silence than some forty or
fifty "sorry
On 9/8/2015 12:28 AM, Marc Verdiell wrote:
Thanks for the answers everyone, I am writing everything down...
Marc
Nice to hear that people are still *writing* things down...
- J.
On 9/27/2015 2:56 PM, tony duell wrote:
The plan is to get it to work with the 8kW core memory, M7800 connected to
a good old teletype and PC05 paper-tape reader / punch and then run paper
tape BASIC on it or other paper tape software.
The problem is that I am lacking in the M7810 board. Sin
On 10/5/2015 10:24 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
=
Sorry for the delayed answer, I don't
have email available at work -:/
I have one M930 in slot 3 position
A-B, because that is the termination
for the processor. I am pretty sure
(not 100%) that I also have an M930
in slot 9 position A-
On Apr 12, 2016, at 8:19 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
"I suppose it might do that, but that's not its main purpose. Its main
purpose is to loosen rusted and otherwise stuck fasteners and shafts."
That is *not* the main purpose of WD-40, nor does it even work well for
that purpose *at all*.R
On 4/20/2016 11:04 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Apr 19, 2016, at 10:09, Ali wrote:
Well, eBay is killing itself slowly. Every year they make more and more
onerous and anti-buyer rules and policies.
Warning: Longish anti-eBay tale inbound!
... While I am disappointed that I can apparently nev
On 5/24/2016 8:37 AM, william degnan wrote:
... I fixed the core problem I
described in my email. ... Bill
B, what was the issue with the core,
that you fixed it so fast?
- J.
On 5/29/2016 7:02 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2016, wulfman wrote:
http://hackaday.com/2016/05/29/dragging-teletypes-into-the-21st-century/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+hackaday%2FLgoM+%28Hack+a+Day%29&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view
--
The contents of
On 5/31/2016 2:01 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 05/31/2016 11:21 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
I don't like the Model "M" keyboard. It's a bit like wanting a
tracker organ rather than my Yamaha EL90. The keys require
significant pressure to operate and if you are not used to it its
actually hard work...
On 6/2/2016 3:18 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
OK Here's what I did
1. Jumpers on underside of board all on
2. KDJ11-E in first slot
3. APM in second slot connected to CPU
4. nothing in slot 3
5. Unibus Control card in slot 4
6. RX02 Control card in slot 5
7 Bus Grant in 6,7 and 8
8 Bus te
What are you using as a terminal?
- J.
On 6/2/2016 6:25 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Well I could use the wifes iPad to
record the VT100's screen as a video
Rod
Do you have any way to capture a
session log of what you're doing, and
paste it here?
Hard to follow.
- J.
On 6/12/2016 12:00 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
On 12/06/2016 16:19, Jerome H. Fine
wrote:
>Rod Smallwood wrote:
Firstly one important fact
that I did not know. If you bulk
erase a TK50 you can turn it into a
TK70 tape with an INIT.
Thank you I did not know that.
A bulk er
On 6/12/2016 2:49 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
On 12/06/2016 19:18, j...@cimmeri.com
wrote:
On 6/12/2016 12:00 PM, Rod Smallwood
wrote:
On 12/06/2016 16:19, Jerome H. Fine
wrote:
I still have a few RD53 drives
around which I stopped using.
I also converted a couple of
Micropolis
On 6/26/2016 10:56 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2016-Jun-25, at 8:09 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
What is the name of the rounded, 3-pin power connector often seen on early test
equipment (I've seen it on older HP and Fluke stuff)?
I have an S-100 chassis that inexplicably uses one, despite dating
On 7/1/2016 9:00 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
Some would say this is not vintage, classic or collectible (and so
shouldn't be discussed here). However, these are all subjected terms which
can be (and are!) argued about at length.
Wouldn't h
On 7/1/2016 11:48 AM, Ian Finder wrote:
The original iMac is old enough to vote... And besides, I don't think
drawing a chronological line in the sand is necessarily sensible.
Just don't violate the spirit of classic computing? (A G5 tower that you
run Linux on is not classic computing, for in
On 7/1/2016 2:03 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 2016-07-01 2:46 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
That was my thought too- color CRTs
are where this really mattered- which
is why I mentioned black and white.
I am not overly concerned, someone in
the IRC channel I'm in asked and I
thought I'd ping. Even then,
On 7/1/2016 2:33 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
"I wasn't here for the last XXX number
of times that that flamewar raged" is
not an acceptable reason to
deliberately re-ignite it.
It is an easy, fully objective
parameter for OLD machines, not for
"classic" machines, which is subjective.
If you w
As always, amazing, Dave!
- J.
On 7/7/2016 10:36 AM, J. David Bryan wrote:
The second release of the HP 3000 Series III simulator is now available
from the Computer History Simulation Project (SIMH) site:
https://github.com/simh/simh
This release adds a simulation of the HP 2607, 2613, 26
On 7/18/2016 7:07 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
I hear that the PSUs that went with the systems these boards came from
might still survive (they did as of last week, anyway), but the word
is that everything else - drives, racks, cables etc. - went to
landfill long ago.
Landfill? Or metals
On 7/21/2016 3:42 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
Possibly the rarest Apple 1 ever is up
for auction.
The seller is working through
CharityBuzz, which will display the
computer at VCF West next month.
CB's auction site:
http://apple1.charitybuzz.com/
MacRumors covered it:
http://www.macrumor
On 7/24/2016 10:06 AM, william degnan
wrote:
...
One thing to remember is 16KW in a pdp11 is not the same thing that simh
refers to when one sets the CPU to 16K. WWW do not all make this
distinction clearly. I get it, just making this comment for future readers
of this thread.
Bill
What
Recently acquired a Teac MT-2ST SCSI
cassette tape drive and am
attempting to recondition it.
Although it does have direct drive
motors on both reels (no rubber bands),
the design is still plagued by having a
rubber roller "tire" on its encoder
roller which has turned to a very sticky
goo f
On 7/29/2016 2:29 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 07/29/2016 12:07 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Recently acquired a Teac MT-2ST SCSI cassette tape drive and am
attempting to recondition it.
Although it does have direct drive motors on both reels (no rubber
bands), the design is still plagued by
Hi, folks.
I'm experimenting with various old
SCSI tape drives to see which
will work with my PDP-11/34 with an
Emulex SCSI card.
To my surprise, not all SCSI tape
drives are created equal. I
was under the mistaken assumption that
all SCSI tape drives would
pretty much be abstracted
On 8/17/2016 1:19 PM, tony duell wrote:
More load _reduces_ the ripple? That's very unusual.
Perhaps a parasitic oscillation that's defeated by more load
because now the loop gain is below 1?
But loading the +5V output also reduces the ripple on the +12V
output. Loading the +5V output would,
Thanks very much, Mouse, Paul, Maciej,
and Guy for helping me
understand my SCSI tape drives. I had
no idea!
- John
On 8/17/2016 2:38 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/17/2016 11:07 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
I'm experimenting with various old SCSI tape drives to see which will
work with my PDP-11/34 with an Emulex SCSI card.
To my surprise, not all SCSI tape drives are created equal. I was
unde
On 8/17/2016 6:17 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/17/2016 02:59 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Hi, Chuck. Excellent question -- and they do respond per your
minimum, but beyond that, I'm not sure. When a drive wouldn't work,
I only thought to check for unit ready, unit identify, and t
On 8/19/2016 2:16 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/19/2016 11:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
apparently it isn't SCSI
http://oldcomputer.info/media/teac/index.htm
But the product spec about says (top of PDF page 6):
Interface: In compliance with SCSI ANSI X3.131-1986
..and the remainder of the docume
http://oldcomputer.info/media/teac/index.htm
On 8/19/16 11:08 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/19/2016 09:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Where might I find information on how to form SCSI command data
blocks so as to try the above commands? I sent just an "01" to the
TEAC MT-2ST, and i
On 8/19/2016 1:08 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/19/2016 09:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Where might I find information on how to form SCSI command data
blocks so as to try the above commands? I sent just an "01" to the
TEAC MT-2ST, and it did rewind..
John, what's
ot;discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic
Posts"
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: Are old SCSI tape drives not all created equal?
On 8/19/2016 1:08 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/19/2016 09:24 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Where might I find information on how to form SC
On 8/21/2016 12:46 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/21/2016 10:12 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
The final matter is that I'd still like to get the Teac to function
with some software, just to watch it operate (you have to really
like mechanical things to understand this strange fascin
On 8/21/2016 6:15 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 8/21/16 4:08 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
8mm
(Exabyte) drives have a pretty good chance of survival
nope, the transport has rubber rollers that crack, and
little rubber belts.
Al,
Is that true for both the full height and half height models?
- John
Gene, see attached. Is that right?
- John
On 8/23/2016 11:10 AM, geneb wrote:
I'm not after a generic Pascal. It
has to be Borland's Turbo Pascal,
v3.01a for CP/M.
tnx.
g.
On 8/24/2016 10:50 AM, et...@757.org wrote:
Cool. I supplied all of the
magazines (1986) covers for this
season. Look
on the office tables, etc. I have
these available (images not the actual
mags) if anyone else wants them. Let
me know privately.
Bill
Awesome
I just did some rese
On 8/24/2016 11:52 AM, Geoff Oltmans wrote:
On Aug 24, 2016, at 11:06 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
I don't think it's the retro computers that are the subject, but rather,
the pioneering efforts and often flamboyant personalities involved.
- John
Here I was thinking it was a pe
On 8/21/2016 6:47 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/21/2016 04:15 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
nope, the transport has rubber rollers that crack, and little rubber
belts.
That's the transport; but what are the shortcomings of the medium itself?
FWIW, I've got at least one DDS drive with rubber parts th
Are they still for sale?
On 8/26/2016 2:12 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
I tried fashioning my own leaders from various materials but could never
find one robust and flexible enough compared to the originals, so did in
the end resort to buying a stock.
On 26 August 2016 at 19:23, shad wrote:
If there's ever a vote taken up for whether to ban the constant
billboarding of ebay ads here,
I'm for "ban." People who know how to use ebay do not need help
finding things on ebay.
On 9/5/2016 10:31 PM, Electronics Plus wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/191960867958
Apparently the buy
On 9/5/2016 11:49 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:56:24PM -0500, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
If there's ever a vote taken up for whether to ban the constant billboarding
of ebay ads here, I'm for "ban."
I would subscribe to a spin-off list that was merel
On 9/6/2016 9:51 AM, Jason Howe wrote:
On 09/06/2016 04:31 AM, Rob Jarratt
wrote:
Some of us find them useful or
interesting.
I agree. The volume of these eBay
emails is not high. It would be
another matter if there were really a
lot of these emails, but as it is I
find them useful/i
On 9/10/2016 3:34 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
Sent: 10 September 2016 02:54
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Logic Analyser Advice
The key for me was to find
Why in your opinion was it a failed
experiment?
I had one and liked it very much.
- J.
On 9/12/2016 3:15 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Put it this way. The product manager for the cube was the first person
I know of who had one as a kleenex dispenser. It was a failed industrial
design experiment th
On 9/14/2016 8:50 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 14 September 2016 at 03:08, Chuck Guzis wrote:
There were networking packages for the PC early on. Remember Banyan? They date
from 1985. Corvus? Even Datapoint had an ARCnet facility for PCs in 1984.
Quite a few vendors had 802.3 capability. Ne
On 9/14/2016 11:04 AM, william degnan
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:56 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
I too started in 1988, doing the same kind of work (mid-Atlantic region,
USA), same number and types of places. Just to compare:
* Banyan VINES(never saw)
* Corvus (saw
On 9/14/2016 4:58 PM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
At 05:42 PM 9/14/2016, Steven M Jones wrote:
How do you justify making everybody conform to your preferred behavior?
I don't, but the behavior and archiving of this list is bound by the software
that it runs under.
Dale H. Cook, Contract IT Adminis
On 2016-09-15 2:38 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: Chuck Guzis
> Call it anything you want, but we know what Motorola called it.
The _first implementation_ may have been 16-bit, but I am in no doubt
whatsover (having written a lot of assembler code for the 68K family)
that the _architec
On 10/1/2016 9:19 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291894250804
I don't get it. Would someone explain to me how a couple of old, dirty,
untested, belt driven floppy drives are worth this kind of money? And
why??
There's actual bidding going on. That's not just an asking pric
On 10/1/2016 9:54 AM, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 01/10/2016 15:42, "j...@cimmeri.com" wrote:
On 10/1/2016 9:19 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291894250804
I don't get it. Would someone explain to me how a couple of old, dirty,
untested, belt driven floppy drives
On 10/1/16 8:12 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
Ok, you just gave a bunch of reasons why they're even more worthless than I
originally thought, and why people bidding
on them have clearly lost their marbles. :)
- J.
On 10/1/2016 10:21 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
Going price nowadays for a Lisa
On 10/1/2016 3:21 PM, N0body H0me wrote:
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On 10/01/2016 08:27 AM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
But, like airplanes and boats, this looks like only a rich
On 10/1/2016 6:38 PM, Adrian Graham wrote:
On 01/10/2016 23:52, "Santo Nucifora" wrote:
For those who are bidding on the twiggy drives, you can have a Lisa 1
faceplate here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/62204758 and a matching
Lisa 1 mouse here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172360487433
Hel
On 10/7/2016 5:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/07/2016 03:12 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
ouch!
this is about 2x what I thought they would go for
On 10/1/16 7:19 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291894250804
That simply defies logic. I *really* don't get this collecting business.
--C
On 10/7/2016 7:38 PM, Kevin Griffin wrote:
This guy was spot on about if his Lisa1 had Twiggys
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/sys/5797104896.html
Kevin
How does this SF guy so confidently know
--> $30k plus?Is there a place where
these Lisas regularly sell for that?
- J.
On 10/1/2016 5:52 PM, Santo Nucifora wrote:
For those who are bidding on the twiggy drives, you can have a Lisa 1
faceplate here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/62204758 and a matching Lisa
1 mouse here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172360487433
These are a little on the expensive side too :)
On 10/8/2016 6:06 AM, Corey Cohen wrote:
...
So does this mean you should hoard everything you have until the price goes up?
I don't have a crystal ball to tell you what is the next item of value. Who
knew that a movie about the Tucker automobile would make a Tucker one of the
most desira
On 10/8/2016 11:22 AM, Corey Cohen wrote:
On Oct 8, 2016, at 12:07 PM, "j...@cimmeri.com" wrote:
The fact that a friggin' *movie* raises the value of something, also really
irks me. How did movies ever become the be-all, end-all?
I'm sure others are irked as well
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