October 2026 - cctalk - classiccmp.org

by Jeffrey Brace

VCF Ontario has been postponed until the summer of 2028. As a new event, we’re giving ourselves more time to plan and put together a great show for the vintage computing community. The exact dates will be announced once confirmed. In the meantime, get your retro computing fix at VCF Montréal 2.0 on November 7–8, 2026, at Champlain College Saint-Lambert! Come celebrate vintage computers and connect with fellow enthusiasts. Find out more at cvcfed.org Purchase your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/vcf-montreal-2026-2-0?c=cvcfed_web Thank you for your enthusiasm and support—keep those CRTs glowing! #VCFOntario #VCFMontreal #RetroComputing #VintageComputers

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Solaris 9 Supplemental Software disks?

by dave＠mitton.com

I have a Sun Ultra Sparc 5 workstation still in working order. With two hard drives, floppy, CD. "Back in the day" I would leave it idling in the basement running a Samba server But after some power failures and my poor responses to fsck, I managed to end up with a corrupted name_to_major file on the primary boot disk I've recently tried to get the software in working order, to recover any useful files, and sell the system. I replaced the TOY chip. And used a Solaris 9 CD to boot the system. I tried various ways to rebuild that file, but failed. Eventually, I asked the Solaris CD to rebuild the system slice. (I only really care about the data slices) It decided on the system slice on the second disk in the system,(which also had an older version of Solaris on it) and I can now boot that. So now that I have a running basic Solaris 9 system, I'm looking for any of the Supplemental software disks with any useful tools on them. It seems that the old time Sun websites are drying up and this is too old for the ones I found to carry. Does anyone know any current online sources I could get these disk images? Thanks, Dave.

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Denali Kubota

by Michael Dombrowski

Hi All,Wondering if there are any other Kubota Denali owners out there, and more importantly, if anyone has a copy of the software CD?I recently got one but it is basically a boat anchor/dumb framebuffer without the SW CD thanksmike (apologies if this appears twice, I accidentally sent it before my account was verified and it didn't show up in the archives so I assume the first email was deleted)

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Re: WTB: Cromemco System Zero

by jessicatroutt022＠gmail.com

I have a cromemco zero. And alot of hardware along with it. I have 3 complete zeros actually and they're as clean as the day they were bought inside and outside still in perfect condition. I know this may be years ago but you never know. I'm looking to get ride of my vast collection. It's not free though so message me back k if you wanna look further Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer

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Subject: Looking for Tektronix 4012/4014 character generator ROM dumps (EA4001 / 156-0296-00, 156-0293-03)

by Serhii Bielov

Hello, I'm working on an emulator of the Tektronix 4010-series storage-tube terminals. The one thing I can't find documented anywhere is the dot pattern of the 4014's alphanumeric character set (a 7 x 9 dot matrix, scanned column by column). The character generator uses three ROMs: - 4012 (service manual 070-1461-01): U465 = 156-0296-00, an Electronic Arrays EA4001 (64 characters, 7 x 9, 9 outputs), and U479 = 156-0293-03, a Tektronix-coded ROM. - 4014/4015 (service manual 070-2303-00): ROM A U305 = 156-0296-00, ROM B U325 = 156-0293-03, and on the 4015 the APL ROM C U315 = 156-0294-03. Any of these would help: 1. A dump of 156-0296-00 (EA4001) and 156-0293-03, and of 156-0294-03 if you have a 4013 or 4015. 4013/4015/4016 boards may carry the same parts. 2. The Electronic Arrays data sheet or 1973-74 catalogue page for the EA4001 -- it is a standard-pattern part, so its font may be printed there. 3. A sharp close-up photo of a 4012/4014/4016 screen showing the full character set in one of the two smaller character sizes, where the beam wiggler does not fill in between the dots, so the dots can be counted. (The photo in the 4014 User's Manual, Fig. 1-4, is a halftone and does not resolve them.) I'd be glad to pass whatever turns up back to bitsavers and TekWiki. Thanks, Serhii Bielov

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Re: Subject: Looking for Tektronix 4012/4014 character generator ROM dumps (EA4001 / 156-0296-00, 156-0293-03)

by Fabio J.W.

>You are aware of Rene Richarz's excellent 4014 emulator ? Unfortunately that emulator uses a standard font (monospace) from the graphic library cairo so it's not historically accurate -- Fabio Montarsolo

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sun OS backup tapes

by Bill Degnan

I have been doing work commercially to recover SunOS 4.1.4 era (early 90s) backup tapes... anyone need this service? I have a good solid system set up to reconstruct the original file system from tape on the bench at the moment.. before I switch to VMS for my next project, let me know.

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DSI NC-2400 Papertape Reader / Punch for Sale

by Bill Degnan

DSI model NC-2400. https://vintagecomputer.net/temp/DSI2400_TapeReaderPunch/ I am going to try to bring this to the swap at System Source in November, but if anyone is interested before that contact me through vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm to make an offer. I am thinking around $500 because it's tested and jumpered for rs232 2400 baud for easy use. Not perfect, but it does read and write tapes. A person has to keep a little tension on the tape as it pulls through the reader as it is now, but that may be because it needs to be re-greased. What's important is that it reads the tapes correctly. Comes with a new spool of tape, manual, gender changer, power cable, test tape. I have tested reading and copying a tape successfully with the unit. I am selling because I have a same-spare and I am clearing out duplicate hardware as time permits. Located in Landenberg, PA. I am willing to meet 1/2 way if it's not too far, or will consider shipping but I much prefer to sell either at an upcoming event or if you're ok with picking up in Landenberg, PA (near the University of Delaware). I accept cash, credit card, paypal, venmo, cashiers check. Hoping someone can use this. Bill

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Re: S-100 PDP-11 Processor & Support boards

by Stephen Pereira

Thanks for the pointer, Will. I’ll try there next. smp - - - Stephen Pereira Bedford, NH. 03110 KB1SXE

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IBM House P/N to Manufacturer P/N Cross Reference?

by Sean Ellis

Hi all, I've got a collection of IBM 4683 point-of-sale equipment that I've been working on restoring and documenting this year. One of the planar boards in this collection is bad, and I'm trying to figure out what exactly is bad on it. Of course, every part on the board is marked with IBM's house part numbers. Does anyone have a better cross-reference list than what's on Bitsavers? Using that list I was only able to cross-reference the 74xx TTL chips on the board, none of the active chips. From my understanding of IBM hardware in 1986 and reading what few technical reference manuals still exist, I have a pretty good idea of what -should- be on the board, I just can't prove what's on the board: - Intel 80286 CPU - ~1MB of RAM (probably SRAM; not sure if the RAM bank is parity) - Dallas DS1220Y NVRAM (the only non-IBM labeled part on the board) - Big UV-erasable Intel chip (purple ceramic, almost certainly an 8042 or 8051) - Two additional Intel chips next to the UV chip (serial UARTs? Other MCS glue? they have different IBM P/Ns) - A couple of Hitachi chips, I suspect these are SRAM chips for the microcontroller section - Two 2716 EPROMs (hi byte and lo byte BIOS ROMs - I was able to confirm this from an arcade repair forum thread; ROMs were dumped and appear to have dumped OK) - Two or three large ASICs (One is manufactured by OKI, the other two have permanently glued heatsinks) I will get the IBM P/Ns later tonight... currently toiling away in the day job mines... Sean Ellis The Crusty Computer Club Secretary, Webmaster, RPG ILE Wizard https://crusty.computer

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