test-drb January 2013

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more shameless classic trafficking (NOT Sellam's stuff)

by ittybittybytes＠gmail.com

More cleaning and lowered price on some stuff that didn't sell last time around. As always, remind me that you are a list member and I'll add some freebies. Thanks to all on the list whose purchased from me. -tom tcp1022 AT&T 6300 Personal Computer 251219453567 DEC Pro 350 251219291641 DEC VAX4000/300 251219438856 DEC alpha PWS 500au 251219352958 DEC VAX 4000/VLC 251219392926 HP 9885 floppy drives 251219443307 AT&T 6300 251219453567 DEC TU-58 251219297427 SMS RXO1/RX02 floppy dr 251219332374 PDP 11/04 251219325467 ADM3A 251219433952

13 years, 1 month

Top Posting

by marvin＠west.net

On 2013-01-24 14:26, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: > From: Fred Cisin<cisin at xenosoft.com> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Marvin Johnston wrote: >> >It is normally better to top post when only one idea is going to put forth. > Or if one is too lazy, or enough of an asshole, to not adequately > delete the extraneous content. Top posting makes a lot of sense for people who want to read the gist of what is being said now, instead of having to scroll. Personally, I do both. But I don't mind the flame bait for people who won't or can't see both sides of the issue. A good point was made about voice synthesizers and top posting in another post. I tend to equate sending messages to back in the 30 baud days ... less is better unless needed for clarification. And never let it be said I won't fan the flames ... especially when I have a few minutes to spare :).

13 years, 1 month

Zorba Computer on Orange County, CA craigslist

by jwsmail＠jwsss.com

Looks nice, but I'm not collecting them. http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sys/3575037994.html

13 years, 1 month

Vector art on SAGE

by jfoust＠threedee.com

The Atlantic published a piece about vector art on the SAGE, circa 1956: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-never-before-told… - John

13 years, 1 month

FW: lost emails on SCSI to IDE/SD converter project

by LYNCHAJ＠YAHOO.COM

Hi I've started a new N8VEM mailing list to discuss the SASI or SCSI-1 to IDE and SD bridge board project. The purpose of the mailing list is to discuss the design, build, and test of the N8VEM SASI or SCSI-1 to IDE and SD bridge board. It is a completely free and open source development to benefit all vintage, hobbyist, classic, and home brew computer enthusiasts. http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem-s2i Thanks and have a nice day! Andrew Lynch

13 years, 1 month

Don't need Kermit anymore (update)

by xmechanic＠landcomp.net

Just a quick update to let you guys know I finally got Kermit80 up and running. Found MLOAD.COM and got it transferred over and used it to link the kermit hex file and the Xerox 820 overlay. Played with it a bit last night and hooked an old Hayes 14400 modem up to the comm port and although I can set the command string(s) for the modem, it doesn't hand control back to the terminal after it connects (was trying to get it to connect to an old 80286 that has my TRI-BBS software on it) I'll probably have to stick with transferring stuff back and forth with Tera-term or something similar. There's kind of a grey area with Kermit on just how much control it has over the machine's comm port (varies from one machine to another), so maybe I'm trying to run data through it faster than what the port will allow. I need to get with Chuck Guzis at some point and get a license for 22disk, just not right this minute, until I get this months bills caught up. :P Thank you Chuck, and everyone else for your help. Dave Land Land Computer Service

13 years, 1 month

Don't need Kermit anymore. :)

by xmechanic＠landcomp.net

You guys are going to get a good laugh out of this... I got desperate and did a little measuring and eyeballing on the index sensors on my 8" drive, and then took one of my prized DSDD Fujifilm guaranteed 100% error-free disks, and carefully opened it up and even more carefully slid the disk out onto a clean sheet of paper. I then took a 1/4" drill bit and heated the back side till it was almost red hot and shoved it through the jacket around where the other sensor was located. Cleaned up the excess plastic with a razor blade and smoothed everything up and carefully re-inserted the disk. Covered up the other sensor hole and tried it out. Oops! Hole was about 3/16" too low. Carefully slide the disk back out and notched the hole out a bit. Re-assemble disk and tried it again. Ahaa! Drive now sees disc. Formatted with 22disk using the XER5 SSDD setting and wrote 2 hex files to it. Shut down PC, hooked everything back up, and miracle of miracles, the Xerox actually read the files and let me copy them to the hard disk!! Now all I need to do is get MLOAD.COM loaded on it so I can combine the 2 hex files (kermit & the Xerox overlay) and theoretically, it should load and run. But it's been a very long day, and I just now found MLOAD on my Walnut Creek CD, so something to do tomorrow. So, the theory is correct, the 2 sensors DO designate between single & double sided disks... (for future reference) :-) Dave Land Land (vintage) Computer Service :-D

13 years, 1 month

Kennedy 9000 Magnetic Reel to Reel 9 Track Tape Drives ( x2 ) FOR SALE

by Gerard.bg.Timbert＠free.fr

Interested, anyone ?? Not affiliated with seller. $200 for TWO units. http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400398859982&ssPageName=A…

13 years, 1 month

Another seller of my stolen property located

by sellam＠vintagetech.com

Again, thanks to to eagle eyes of some faithful watchers out there, I've been able to identify another eBay seller of my stolen archives: eBay seller ID "appliancealley" http://www.ebay.com/sch/appliancealley/m.html For those who have been suggesting professional legal counsel, you should be happy to know that I am speaking with such tomorrow. Thank you for your concerns. I'll let you know what they're able to offer to me. -- Sellam Ismail VintageTech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintagetech.com Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...The truth is always simple.

13 years, 1 month

DECnet on SIMH/VMS 3.7

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I am trying to get DECnet working on SIMH running VMS 3.7 using a DELUA. I have already fixed one bug in the DELUA emulation that gave a fatal controller error on startup, but now I get this: $ @startnet %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 00020011 %OPCOM, 25-JAN-2013 22:15:27.94, message from user DECNET DECnet starting %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0001000C %NCP-I- NMLRSP, listener response - Operation failure, detail # 30 Executor node = 9 (VMS037) %SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort $ Can anyone tell me what this means? After that the line bounces up and down with line synchronisation lost errors. Regards Rob

13 years, 1 month

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test-drb January 2013