According to the docs, by sending a special escape sequence you can
download a program into the DECmate I over the serial terminal line.
Has anyone done this? I have a DECmate I with no floppy drives
although it has the interface card for the drives.
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Does anyone have a machine with an Clipper RISC cpu in it?
Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph_Clipper> says that
only two companies ever used the Clipper (from Fairchild) were Intergraph
and High Level Hardware. HLH I never heard of before; Intergraph I
know of because they're big in CAD and GIS markets. Ah, WikiP says
that HLF was UK firm that made the Orion. Anyone got one?
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Just rescued one of these units from Craig's List. It's waiting for me a a friends house in Richmond, VA. Anyone know much about these? I think they're just a rebadged Northstar Advantage.
It has a bunch of software and a manual or two.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of information on these on the web. I did see the information at Dave Dunfield's site, and the disk archive there. Any manuals that have been scanned? I didn't see the Advantage line at bitsavers.
Thanks for any help,
Kelly
A long time ago I was involved with licensing databases
(of new and used car price books-- e.g. Edmunds, Kelley Blue Book,
etc.)
They had the custom of salting the data with a few deliberate
errors so that in the event of an infringement suit,
they could prove that their data had
been copied by the infringer, rather than independently created.
I can't say whether the same purpose applies to schematics,
but it just might be.
Brad
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To be certain, some errors/additions are deliberate; Rand McNally
generally sprikles a few non-existent landmarks in their maps;
Google satellite maps have "watermarks" that can be very confusing.
I spied what looked to be clearing on some of my forested land and
hiked to the very spot and found--trees, just like everywhere else.
It took some conferring with a USGS employee to discover that what I
thought was a clearing was a rather subtle watermark (viewed in just
the right way, you can make out a "Go".
Dan's message about his Prime made me go glance at the Prime FAQ, and I
noticed these few lines:
* Prime had operational prototypes of the entire Toons system running
in the lab when it was cancelled.
* After the meeting to announce the closing of Prime, engineers
returned to the lab and continued working on booting Primos on
the Toons system. They were successful.
The Toons hardware was the next generation, in development when Prime went
under; I hadn't realised that it was essentially operational though. Does a
complete example was ever rescued and now exists either in a museum or in
private hands?
cheers
Jules
There were two Orions in
the Computer Science machine room when I went to York, and I know where
both went -- to a collector just along the road from me.
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Did either still have the original 2901 based processor?
Apparently most HLH machines were upgraded to Clippers CPUs
I have seen a TV program on the one they built.
It was beautifully made in brass and steel and what's more it worked!
The program said he did not finish it because he simply ran out of
money!
Rod Smallwood
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woodelf wrote:
> To get back on topic about babbage's drawings, from what I read it was
> mechnical design that could not be produced with 18th century
> mechanical enginering.
I thought the Science Museum rebuild showed that it could be built with
19th century engineering? They deliberately didn't make it any more
accurate than Babbage could have, and they only found a couple of minor
difficulties. One was that it was too hard to turn the handle, so they
geared it down.
Surely something that, if Babbage had finished the Difference Engine,
he'd have done himself?
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>I'm seeing a few messages where the text being replied to isn't quoted
>(anything from Al and Billy Pettit it seems, but there have been
one or
>two others) other than a separating line beneath old and new text
We're both using the web interface to the list to quickly scan the msgs
then doing cut/paste to compose replies.
The big problem with doing this is it loses the thread info in the
mail header
so they don't thread.
