[located in Washington, D.C. area or Harpers Ferry, WV (near Frederick, MD)]
For sale,
DEC Professional 350, 512KB. Machine has been restored (email me for what
that means) and tested with RT-11, POS, and Venix.
currently configured and tested as:
M000401 -- RD 5 1/4" Winchester disk controller (rev 0, MFM)
M002004 -- RX 5 1/4" floppy diskette controller
M001002 -- Video bit map controller
M000034 -- option RAM (256 KBytes).
also included:
M000401 -- rev 1
M001403 -- extended bit map (EBO - color option)
This is a cool lot for someone a lot closer than I am. It's in
Gloucester, MA. It is only a 3 day auction and it could end up being a
rescue by the sound of it. Hopefully someone can save it from landfill.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/231018428749
Hi! Thanks to everyone for all the great work you've been doing in my
partial absence. Still trying to sort things out and making some progress
but slow and very intermittent.
Would someone please take another whack at the Wikipedia Gods (aka editors)
to reinstate the N8VEM article based on the great work that Oscar has done?
He has singled-handedly done a huge amount of work getting the Circuit
Cellar article published. That may be enough to spur them to reinstate.
Always open for discussion and new ideas. Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
From: Wayne Warthen [mailto:wwarthen at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 11:01 AM
To: Oscar Vermeulen
Cc: Tothwolf; Andrew Lynch
Subject: Re: Circuit Cellar site...
Indeed. Regardless, great to see this progress.
Thanks again for making it happen!
--Wayne
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Oscar Vermeulen <o.vermeulen at altis.ch>
wrote:
Wayne,
On 24/06/2013 15:52, Wayne Warthen wrote:
Makes sense. Sorry if I caused any grief by bringing this up.
No, not at all - the idea of getting these articles published was exactly
to get justification for a Wikipedia article.
It's also a nice demonstration about the difference between Old Print Media
and the internet age... getting the darn thing in the magazine costs 10
months. Some people develop two generations of a computer + operating system
in less time than that :)
Regards,
Oscar.
Greetings ccmp'ers across the globe! I have so far been remiss in my
planning and advertising duties for the upcoming eighth installment of
the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. But worry not, the show *will*
go on!
What: A fun, friendly, open and FREE exhibition of vintage and classic
computers of every type and era. We like obscure, (formerly)
expensive, exotic and interesting electronics but (almost!) anything
goes. Bring stuff to show, trade or sell or just come and enjoy the
exhibitions and the camaraderie of your fellow hobbyists. And once
again VCFMW will be sharing the convention center with ECCC, the USA's
premiere Commodore exhibition
When: September 28-29, 2013. That's two days of fun - plan to stay over night!
Where: Heron Point Convention Center/Fairfield Inn and Suites, Lombard, IL
Who: YOU! And your friends from across the Midwest and beyond.
WWW: http://vcfmw.org
Please feel free to post this message and/or the show's URL on all
relevant lists, fora and permitted public places.
We at Chicago Classic Computing and our friends in the Chicagoland
area are looking forward to another great show - hope to see you
there!
-jht
--
silent700.blogspot.com
Retrocomputing and collecting in the Chicago area:
http://chiclassiccomp.org
I have a program in MACRO-11 and I have retained just
the essential aspects related to my question. That portion
of the program is at the bottom.
I have unsuccessfully attempted to isolate the first 5 characters
of STRING in the MACRO ABC, but I have been unsuccessful.
Concatenation is possible along with checking individual characters
of the argument, but there does not seem to be support for
changing the last character from "T" to "2" as in my example.
If that were possible, I could always use "ABC WRKTXT"
and check to determine if "WRKTX2" was a defined STRING
name at which point the MACRO ABC would automatically use:
: Mov #WRKTX2,-(SP)
without the necessity of providing the explicit STRING name
of WRKTX2 to be used WITHIN the conditional A$. It
is essential that the address of the STRING be placed on the
stack when the text is in the .PSect TX2. Sometimes, the
text must remain in .PSect TXT, so that is why ABC has
the additional code to detect the last character of STRING.
As I have shown, it is possible to determine if the 6th character
of the STRING name is a :"2", but I don't seem to be able to
strip off the 6th character of the name from STRING and
replace it with a "2". At that point, it would be possible, still
within the MACRO ABC, to test to see if the STRING name
for which the 6th character has been replaced by a "2" exists
and use the second form of ABC.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions?
Jerome Fine
=============================
.IIf NDF A$,A$ = 0
.IIf NDF A$,A$ = 1
.MACRO ABC STRING
..STRI = 0
...STR = 0
.IRPC ..STR.,<STRING>
...STR = ...STR+1
.If EQ ...STR-6
.If IDN ..STR.,<2>
..STRI = 1
.EndC;IDN ..STR.,<2>
.EndC;EQ ...STR-6
.EndR;.IRPC
.If EQ ..STRI
Mov #STRING,R0
.IfF;EQ ..STRI
Mov #STRING,-(SP)
.EndC;EQ ..STRI
.ENDM ABC
.If EQ A$
.PSect TXT RW,D
WRKTXT: .Ascii /Work/
.IfF;EQ A$
.PSect TX2 RW,D
WRKTX2: .Ascii /Work/
.EndC;EQ A$
.PSect Code RW,I
.If EQ A$
ABC WRKTXT
.IfF;EQ A$
ABC WRKTX2
.EndC;EQ A$
.End
My PDP-8/L arrived this afternoon (in one piece and without any damage)
and I'll be going over it and cleaning it up over the next few days.
Looks like it won't take much more than elbow grease to make most of it
look nice again,but there's a big piece of masking tape stuck right
above the switches. Age has more or less permanently affixed this to
the front panel -- any recommendations as to how to remove this without
damaging the front panel?
Thanks,
Josh
I'm having a hairtearing time with some basic Puppet configuration
involving getting RabbitMQ to provide a stomp listener/server thingy. If
you can help me, please send me a private email. We can do this as a
professional gig.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
Just saw this on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23330157
Lots of interesting tech stuff to be scrapped, including a decwriter....
Too far away, and really no clue on to how to get this stuff...
Jos
In case anyone is not aware, a lot of the Circuit Cellar magazines are
posted online in digitized format at:
http://archive.org/details/magazine_rack
Also of interest is 73 Magazine back in the late 70's and early 80's as
there are a number of good articles on the early computers (Kim1, etc.)
The only unfortunate thing is they are scans so you can't cut and paste
>from the articles except as images.
Hello David,
That's wonderful, Ive sent you an offlist message.
Regards Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: David Griffith
Sent: 07/13/13 11:56 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Xebec S1410 wanted
On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Roland Huisman wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Can anyone hel pe getting a Xebec S1410 MFM tot SASI controller board? > > http://www.philipsradios.nl/forum/images/uploaded/2013033020463251574118361… I might have one. I sold something similar a couple months ago. -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
