Hi,
One of the bit flip switches on my 11/45 front panel is broken. It
snapped off cleanly at the pivot where the plastic meets the metal. The
remnants of the two little plastic switch handle leg tips are still there,
in the metal switch housing.
The fracture is clean and is such that they would fit perfectly back onto
the main hunk of the switch plastic, like new, if l could find the right
compound to get the pieces to re-meld into each other. I guess model
airplanes used to employ this sort of melding technique I'm describing in
their construction, right? But I have no idea of the chemistry involved --
whether pdp11 switch plastic is compatible with that sort of glue.
I don't think I want something that just adheres, non-porously to the
bits because that would interfere with the operation of the switch pivot
point and there's no room for inaccuracy / spurting glue gobs in there.
The fracture is essentially _at_ the pivot.
So my question: are these pdp11 switches the right sort of plastic for
this meld repair I'm describing? If so, what's the chemical that I'd need
to make this happen? Plain old model airplane glue?
thx
jake
Dear Friend,
I am writing this mail in confidence . I am looking for a trust worthy person and I decided to contact you because you and the deceased customer has the same surname.
My name Lee hao and I work in Private Banking Division of Bank of Communication Hong Kong and 9years ago I opened and managed account for an individual Ryan with a financial portfolio of USD$9,000,000.00(Nine Million United States Dollars)which he wished to invest and have spun around in the growing market in mainland China at that time.
we made various investment opportunities and this hide high return and with sometimes getting back return as high as %0.02 of funds total quarterly. This ran until last quarter in 2009 when he instructed me he had URGENT investments in Hong Kong which requires cash payment and that I liquidate funds principal(9M) and have monies available to him in Hong Kong which we did. We made contact with a reputable bank in Hong Kong at that time(Bank of China) and they agreed to receive the money for a fee and make cash available to our client. I went ahead with the transfer request and that was the end of it. However Bank of China send us memo end of 2010 informing us the money was not claim since that time and that they only inform us about this because after a certain amount of years and money not claim government confiscate money as unclaimed funds.
Further to this an enquiry was carried out and it was discovered that Ryan was involved in automobile accident in Chengdu, Sichuan Province Mainland China in 2010 and died as a result of his injuries sustained. on further enquiry we also discovered he died intestate without a known next of kin to the funds in Bank of China as his wife and only known relation had died some years earlier before making investment with my bank.
This is what I propose: Since you share the same last name as the late Ryan you stand in as next of kin and with my exclusive access to his file and the preparation of legal documents I make you the beneficiary to the funds in bank. I painstakingly work out all modality how this should work without no one get into trouble now or in the future when all concluded. I know this might be a bit heavy for you but trust me on this for you do not have to have known him for provided you have same last name and with the arrangement I have in place I assure you this would work. Nobody get hurt as this lifetime opportunity for me to secure a better future for my family as I retire soon and with all my years in the banking sector very little to show for.
Finally I do understand you may be skeptical about this considering the fact you do not know me and we not have previous dealing. Rest assure this is a known practice in the banking industry here in Hong Kong/mainland China as this happens every time the only other alternative is money revert back to the States enriching already wealthy corrupt government officers. I send you this letter not without a measure of fear as to the consequences of this if my actions are discovered and I beg you do not betray my confidence in this matter for I know nothing ventured is nothing gained. If you are able to render your genuine assistance please get back to me immediately via, email. I look forward to executing this business deal with you.
I ask that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you, delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like me who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones' way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in total control of my destiny. These chances won?t pass me by. I ask that you do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.
I await your response.
Best regards
Lee Hao
Email: leehao44 at hotmail.com <mailto:leehao44 at hotmail.com>
Forgive me if I missed earlier discussion, but has anybody
seen the
Imitation Game movie, ostensibly about Alan Turing?
There certainly were some real howlers in there, like the
bit where Turing
single handedly decides what info they would share with the
British
government, so as not to alert the Nazis that the Enigma
code was
broken!
Also, there is only one instance of the Bombe, while it is
pretty well
known they had a set of 350 of them at Ft. Meade running 24
hours
a day. And those were the NCR Bombes, running at 1800 RPM,
insted
of the one in the movie going clunk-clunk-clunk. Some other
papers
seem to indicate there were another 350 Bombes at Bletchley.
It only makes sense for there to be a big array of NCR
Bombes, not
the slow British-built ones, but
with all the ships being sunk, how could they be sure such a
shipment
could make it across the Atlantic? These things were
critical national
resources, so I just can't image the US shipped a batch of
them to
Britain. (Also, there is the security issue of how to keep
prying eyes
off the Bombes while being shipped.)
Also, they have Turing building the Bombe with his own
hands. Various
descriptions have hundreds of people at Bletchley wiring the
rotors and
doing much of the other work. The Bombe parts must have
been made
in machine shops across England.
At the end of the movie, they sort of imply by a confusing
flashback that
Turing tells the whole story of the code cracking work at
Bletchley to
the police officer. It is well documented that he never
revealed anything
to anybody about what he did there.
Any comments?
Jon
I've recently acquired a TC08 controller to interface a set of TU55 drives to my PDP-8/I. My 8/I has the earlier Negibus I/O configuration and the simplest (at least in terms of number of cards required) solution for interfacing is to convert the Posibus TC08 to a Negibus TC08N. This requires swapping out a few positive logic interface cards for the corresponding negative logic equivalents. I'm looking for the following cards and quantities:
M100 - qty 3
M102 - qty 2
M633 - qty 4
Please let me know off-list if you have any of these items available for sale or swap.
If you do have an M102 but don't want to get rid of it, I'd be very happy just to have clear photos of the card, front and back. Vince Slyngstad has already prepared Eagle layouts of the M100 and M633 but lacks adequate info to recreate the M102.
Thanks!
Jack
Being bitten by "vintage computer restoring" bug, I am long time looking for a reasonable condition PDP8, preferably a PDP8/L.?
Is there such a machine out there looking for a new home or can someone point me to a possible selling-place other than eBay? EBay has hardly any, and just a few weeks ago I unfortunately missed one.
Any help or hint is highly appreciated...
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
Regards,
Christian
--
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
STCKON08DS0
Contact information available upon request.
I have often thought it would be cool to build a relay calculator, along the lines of Casio's relay calculators that they marketed for a time in the 1950's before it became clear that electronics were the way to go. They even made some scientific and programmable machines, but a basic four-function machine with an accumulating memory register would be enough.
Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculator.com
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I've been bouncing around the idea of building my own relay computer
* I have mostly inspired by the TIM project[1] and Harry Porter's Relay
Computer[2]
* I am looking at having a limited number registers like the 6502 or 6800
* the computer is going to be Harvard architecture based
I wondering have any of use done anything like this?
[1] http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/
[2] http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/
