My computer's "On Switch" was my ex's "Off Switch."
After 20 years of divorce she is now an E-Mail, and FB junkie and understands why I liked going on various BBS services in the late 80's.
Al
Richard writes:
>Do you mean the client is running on IRIX and the server is on anothermachine?
Yes
>I don't see any
>reason why any X client on one machine wouldn'tdisplay properly on another machine, so long as
>the X client wasn'tassuming the presence of extensions and was properly respecting theVisual
>of the target display.
I figured that as well, and I haven't had any problems with Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, etc. doing remote displays
to a different "brand" X-server, nor have I had any problems with IRIX -> IRIX, but mix up IRIX
and others and I have had trouble.
Linux is probably the worst - X.org server. I'll log in just fine, be working fine, no artifacts, then boom
X reset and I'm back at the XDM prompt. This works with different versions of Linux (mostly Debian),
different graphics in the X-server machine (ATi (shudder) and nVidia), different net cables, different
switches, different SGI boxes.
Mac System 10.4 is missing parts - the first thing I noticed after login was that the toolchest was missing
the text on about half of the selections. Going back and forth over it will cause some more to show up for a while.
Solaris 10/ Xsun (FFB) had red rectangular artifacts. Only tried that one once.
No one else has a problem with IRIX clients on other X-servers?
> I need to deal with modifying some COBOL code in the Tops-10 and TOPS-20
> usage reporting software, and have no manuals. Yeah, COBOL is COBOL, but
> the details (what is "DISPLAY-7" as opposed to "DISPLAY-9"?) are important.
> There are no COBOL manuals on the PDP10 portion of Bitsavers at the moment.
I wanted to post earlier but was afraid my decades old human memory had some bit rot! And I never did much COBOL to begin with.
DISPLAY-6 is SIXBIT
DISPLAY-7 is ASCII
DISPLAY-9 is EBCDIC
RECORDING MODE takes precedence over USAGE.
Page 3-21 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/v…
All,
A decade or so back I visited a warehouse in Kerrville with a
*lot* of classic computer gear. That warehouse is now closing, and
Cindy, the proprietor, is selling off the collection. Her description
of what is there includes:
At 9:15 -0600 11/6/12, Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus wrote:
>I would like to arrange that on Saturday a group of interested people could
>come up and go through all the antique stuff. There is Kaypro, HP, Apple,
>Commodore, Radio Shack, DEC Rainbow, etc. I will have space available that
>everyone can plug in what they want to, and test it before they leave with
>it. I have a limited amt of software that can be used on each type of
>machine.
>
>Also cases and cases of software and documentation for System 370, old IBM.
...
>The Apple stuff alone occupies a room upstairs abt 10x10x6 feet stuffed full
>of old computers, monitors, printers, software, disk and floppy drives, etc.
>I have every Apple on the Wikipedia except the Apple I. I even have a Lisa!
>Mac classic, all-in-ones, 128, 512, LCII, LCIII, and lots of others,
>including old Mac servers. Prob have extra memory if needed, and lots of
>spare parts for the Apple IIs.
>
>Also have IBM Microchannel machines and lots of spares.
On the phone with me this morning, she added that there are
waist-high Data General servers with 4 Pentium Pro's each, a lot of
Sun equipment, IBM 5160's including one in the original box with
matching printers and monitors, Apple posters and sales equipment
>from the Apple II era and forward, and much Apple software and boxes.
Contact information and location are:
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
AOL IM elcpls
the email address sales at elecplus.com also works.
There is a website at http://www.elecshopper.com/ , but that
website is not by any means complete in its coverage of what is there
nor does it give an indication of the scale of the place.
Cindy indicated that she would like to set up a
classic-computer shopper's day on a Saturday, when the shop is not
open to the general public. I'll recommend we coordinate on December
1, but she said she could meet by appointment at the warehouse on a
different Saturday if needed, except that November 17 won't work.
She said she had 10 workbenches with power, and was amenable
to having people bring in diagnostic software to test equipment
before they buy it. There is no loading dock, so if you acquire a
Data General server or the like you'll have to figure out how to get
it up into your pickup truck.
She prefers cash or check.
I still have a pile of pictures I took there which also don't
give a true indication of the scale of the place, but will forward on
request and they do show a lot of gear.
I'm planning to make the December 1 trip, I think; hopefully
I'll see you there. No connection except as a satisfied customer;
questions welcome on-list or off, but I recommend on.
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- Mark 210-379-4635
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
Never believed I would be able to get one, but an ACI-90 has joined my small collection.
For those who don't know it, is is a box with 2 8" floppies , power supply and a WD-900 Pascal Microengine board.
No disk or manuals sadly.
It should feel right at home next to the Lilith..
The WD-9000 chipset contains these :
CP2151-B, CP2161B-02, CP2171-B10, CP2171-B12 and CP2171A-13, I understand different combinations are around.
Bad side is of course that I have now reserved all free time for the next months :
finding/creating boot disks, tracing schematic, reading ROMS and creating the emulator...
Jos
I need to deal with modifying some COBOL code in the Tops-10 and TOPS-20
usage reporting software, and have no manuals. Yeah, COBOL is COBOL, but
the details (what is "DISPLAY-7" as opposed to "DISPLAY-9"?) are important.
There are no COBOL manuals on the PDP10 portion of Bitsavers at the moment.
Thanks,
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
(206) 342-2239
(206) 465-2916 cell
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
Sorta clich? response but check your local craigslist. They're really not too uncommon and shouldn't run you too much. IIc may be a bit less common than its big brother but still not at all rare or out of reach.
All,
in response to a couple of requests, I have posted the photos
I took in 2001; see the URL below, and let me know if it doesn't work.
Please be aware that these are more than a decade out of
date; it may be that none of the pictured equipment is still
available, or most of it may be there; I don't know.
Also, please be aware that this is just me posting;
Electronics Plus hasn't endorsed or requested this, and I'll remove
it immediately if they so desire.
>Reply-To: Mark Tapley <mtapley at swri.edu>
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 15:37:20 +0000
>Subject: Mark Tapley shared an album with you.
>
>You are invited to view Mark Tapley's photo album:
><https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=103229486827589783951&target=A…>Electronics
>Plus, March 2001
><https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=103229486827589783951&target=A…>
>Electronics Plus, March 2001
>Kerrville, Texas, Electronics Plus - posted
>Nov 7, 2012
>by Mark Tapley
>Photos from the turn of the centurly in Kerrville
><https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=103229486827589783951&target=A…>View
>Album
><https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=103229486827589783951&target=A…>Play
>slideshow
>
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Large Asteroids headed toward planets
inhabited by beings that don't have
technology adequate to stop them:
Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.
AT&T
CRT 313-B which actually went to an old 286 computer
53D410 YAA, with a base of some sort
Unix PC 8646 with attached monitor
That's all I see right now for AT&T.
These terminals were used on 3B2 machines sometimes, and I have 2 legal-size
paper boxes full of documentation and binders, some never opened. I do not
have any more of the 3B2 machines though.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
AOL IM elcpls
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Huntsman [mailto:BHuntsman at mail2.cu-portland.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 12:09 PM
To: sales at elecplus.com
Subject: RE: A few corrections/additions to the Kerrville inventory
Hi there!
Sorry to bother you, as I see you're being bombarded... but since you
mentioned AT&T terminals, by any chance do you have any 5620, 630, or 730
DMD terminals?
Many thanks!
-Ben
________________________________________
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on
behalf of Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus [sales at elecplus.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:56 AM
To: 'Richard'; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: A few corrections/additions to the Kerrville inventory
Terminals include, but are not limited to:
IBM Display Write systems
Other IBM terminals
Sun
ITT
TI
Harris Lanier
Wang
Tandem
Esprit
Tektronix
Motorola (these are new, never used)
Sperry/Unisys
HP
Honeywell
AT&T
DEC
Wyse
Farrington
Matching kbds might be available.
I do have several 10 pound kbds that went to the original DEC VT100
terminals. A few are missing one or more keycaps.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
AOL IM elcpls
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard [mailto:legalize at xmission.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 6:50 PM
To: Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus
Subject: Re: A few corrections/additions to the Kerrville inventory
[off-list reply]
In article <00a401cdbc58$12e25860$38a70920$@com>,
"Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus" <sales at elecplus.com> writes:
> LOTS of dumb terminals, some kbds.
Hi Cindy,
Any chance you could name a few make/models on the terminals?
Nothing exhaustive, just a representative sample would be nice.
Thanks!
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