Several of us are meeting for drinks in midtown NYC tomorrow night. 7pm, Mustang Sally's, 324 7th Ave., ostensibly to celebrate Dan "Ragooman"; Roganti's 50th...
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Mike Loewen
mloewen16823
Nov 23, 2012 10:55 pm
... Did you put them on the "stack"? Mike Loewen mloewen@... Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Nov 23, 2012 10:48 pm
Alise and I stopped at the museum today. We delivered some boxes that were accumulating (get it ... "accumulating" ...?) at my apartment. We also built yet...
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B Degnan
billdeg
Nov 23, 2012 4:32 pm
Wrong thread. But what trainers, from 40s to 1950, were produced. -- Sent from my PDP 8/e....
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Brian Schenkenberger,...
VAXman@...
Nov 23, 2012 2:29 pm
... $10.00 -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "And though it seems they smile with glee, I know in truth they envy...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Nov 23, 2012 2:04 pm
Hi everyone. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. Please remember that our awesome club holiday party is just two weeks away!!!! It's from Saturday, Dec....
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Nov 23, 2012 1:57 pm
... Why do you think that? (I don't mean the abstract Simon from the "Giant Brains" book, I mean the digital logic trainer, a la DigiComp, etc....
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B Degnan
billdeg
Nov 23, 2012 1:26 pm
... Functioning computers. B -- Sent from my PDP 8/e....
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B Degnan
billdeg
Nov 23, 2012 1:24 pm
Simon...none were actually produced I thought. -- Sent from my PDP 8/e....
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Brian Schenkenberger,...
VAXman@...
Nov 23, 2012 1:22 pm
... True. Before the advent of CD, fiche was king. Hardware maintenance and FRU documentation, diagnostics, and source listings were made available on on...
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Dave Wade
g4ugm
Nov 23, 2012 1:14 pm
... I still believe that the first machine that was a true stored program computer, and so the first thing most of us would recognize as a computer, rather...
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David Gesswein
dgesswein
Nov 23, 2012 12:56 pm
... DEC released most/all? their documentation that was still current on fiche. I have some PDP-8 and module fiche and left at least the auction amount of 11 ...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Nov 23, 2012 12:43 pm
... Context is key. :) ENIAC isn't in one piece, nor one place ... parts of it are scattered about the country, and huge fractions of it are simply gone. The...
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Mike Hatch
terrapindundee
Nov 23, 2012 10:00 am
... I doubt if it is, there is lots of PDP-11 documentation about but I've never seen any mentioned on microfiche. Can this be saved for MARCH / InfoAge ??. ...
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Mike Hatch
terrapindundee
Nov 23, 2012 9:55 am
... I hope this starts a trend in restoring these oldest of machines, and perhaps a little ** FRIENDLY ** (please) rivalry. I thought we here in the UK...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 9:15 am
Could this be documentation not available anywhere else? ...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 9:07 am
There's an effort afoot to take back the TITLE! Restore the ENIAC in Philadelphia! https://sites.google.com/a/opgate.com/eniac/Home/business-plan Are ya WITH...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 8:51 am
... I guess the ENIAC is non-function? Darnit. Those Brits....
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 8:32 am
... serious errors. ... Oh. Right you are. I was duped by the package type... only had seen statics in gold ceramic package. So I have a line on 72 of them, I...
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Evan Koblentz
ekoblentz
Nov 23, 2012 1:34 am
... It's the oldest digital large-scale computer. But there are probably some people with Simon computers from the 1950s. Those are digital, just not...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 1:31 am
I'll be interested in hearing if you guys think their claim of oldest is true. I did enjoy the video, love seeing old pixie tubes in action. It would be really...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 1:23 am
I'm sure you all will be bitterly disappointed to hear that the updates have been postponed till January 2013. Yes, I clicked through their awful link to their...
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Dave McGuire
purringdave
Nov 23, 2012 1:17 am
I may be interested in some. How many do you have? These are dynamic RAMs by the way, unless my own RAM is experiencing serious errors. -Dave -- Dave McGuire,...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 1:14 am
... *whew* there's no way I could have retyped that long one into the browser address field. The short one was hard enough. What's that blue underline mean?...
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Douglas
dougmemphis
Nov 23, 2012 1:10 am
Are NEC uPD416D 16kx1 RAM chips of interest to anyone? ... perhaps S-100 board use?...
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Richard Cini
racinijr
Nov 22, 2012 3:59 pm
Bill -- Other than the smoke test, no. I'm waiting for 50-conductor ribbon cable that I ordered to arrive. I have the 50-pin IDC connectors already. I'm hoping...
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B. Degnan
billdeg
Nov 22, 2012 3:53 pm
Have you had a chance to try the drives? ... <midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com> ... only ... 2810. ... and ... it ... <midatlanticretro@yahoogroups.com> ... ...
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Ray Sills
raysills
Nov 22, 2012 2:47 pm
Hi Gang: I found this item on Yahoo this morning: ...
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madodel
Nov 22, 2012 12:36 am
... You don't say where you are. OS/2 software from the 1.x days has really gotten pricey. I have stopped buying stuff on eBay since I won't pay $100's for...
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Kelly
kb2syd
Nov 21, 2012 5:22 pm
Mostly duplicated TRS-80, early apple, macintosh and PC (386 and earlier) stuff. I just have too much to work with. No reasonable offer refused. Come and load...
