The collected works of ClassicHasClass - Page 19

Hey, when I officiated in a pinball tournament I had to watch for rollovers all the time.

It's a lot of work, though. Updating Classilla to SNI was a b*tch, and I really doubt I can squeeze TLSv1.1 into it (let alone v1.2).

Well, I guess compared to the Quad, the POWER5+ in the 285 is clocked slower, and I imagine there were power utilization improvements between generations (though both the POWER5+ and the 970MP are 90nm).

Yeah, there's some incredible players out there. The #1 pinball player in the world, Keith Elwin, lives about 50 miles away, but we get international competitors around here too.

Compared to that lot, I look like I'm all thumbs.

I'll probably offer the excess for sale, but I need to sit down and prep it first.

Sure. Happens all the time.

SATAN'S KEYBOARD

When you type on it, is it evil?

That is pretty sweet looking. I'm obviously a big PowerPC fan, but why the 405? Purely the HW crypto?

They're shutting down?? They've got some nice pieces there. I hope some of the local collectors can get them before they go to scrap!

I have a cantankerous install of CATIA on my HP C8000. I say cantankerous because it finds any one of a million reasons to not start.

The glamour shots of Jim Clark on the desktop.

(Eww.)

GREEN FOETZ
FEAR!!!!!

In my case they'd have to deal with a burglar alarm, sensors, cameras, and one pissed off inhabitant with a 40-caliber handgun.

I'm confused. You have an 8-bit card, but you're trying to get 24-bit output out of it?

Oh. Well, the Xservers change he has won't do that (it's what *my* XL24 has, but it's a 24-bit card).

xlc is licensed anyway. Get used to gcc. xlc does generate better code in some situations, but IBM has contributed quite a bit to gcc, and remember that gcc was part of the Apple PowerPC toolchain as well.

I am glad RMS is out there and I am glad I am not sitting next to him.

You can have the rest of my sandwich now. I won't need it.

I just stacked my computers on long bench tables.

I'm not married.

Eh, I like my Viper better anyway ... except for the fact that I probably won't be able to father children after the 30 seconds it was in my lap.

THE BURNING

Welcome. I like your church if you get SGI's in tech drives.

I can think of worse ways to get introduced to Unixy things than an Irix box (though my first introduction was on BSD/386).

libreSSL -- libre of everything we don't like so there

DOD warning?
That's gotta be some card.

I'd buy it *maybe* for $3K, but not $6K.

"round tuit"

Well, that's easy, just remember the numbers. 0x80d8b9a0 is File, and ...

4/1

You should disassemble the children so that way you get to make some more. That's much more entertaining.

If this is the machine I saw when I was over last weekend, it is indeed a very nice box.

Pretty!

My IMSAI 8080 arrives this week, complete with various RAM cards and a TDL SMB (system monitor/cassette/terminal) interface card, and of course the CPU. No broken toggles, some scuffing on the sheet metal lid which should be repairable, powers up, blinkenlights blinkelte. Price was a bit steep but I liked the card selection and the fact that the system would probably be functional out of the box.

This is my first S-100 system (that works -- I have an Alpha Micro S-100 box but I have no idea if anything in that thing works, it was in pretty bad shape when I got it). I'd like to set up at least a floppy system and maybe a video board. Is anyone selling any cards they'd like to get rid of? What do people recommend?

Should be here by Wednesday! I've wanted one ever since WarGames ...

Here are the cards in the unit, in case it makes a difference to suggestions:

Ithaca IA-2000 Z80 CPU card (with the AMD 9519 interrupt controller); http://www.s100computers.com/Hardware%2 ... Z80-II.htm
TDL SMB system monitor board wired to "video" and "tty" (the difference is that "video" doesn't support tape punch), with cassette interface and boot monitor; http://s100computers.com/Hardware%20Fol ... %20SMB.htm
Godbout/CompuPro Econoram XIIIa RAM board; the full 32K appears to be intact
TDL Z16 RAM board, 16K; http://s100computers.com/Hardware%20Fol ... %20RAM.htm

So at least 48K RAM onboard, which is probably as much as practical since I'd need addressing space for ROMs.

the prices make a homebrew 8bit just as reasonable.

I don't know if reasonable is the word I'd use: as far as I'm concerned, if I'm going homebrew I'd rather just use an emulator unless I really need the hardware to exist physically. But given how I much I paid for this I understand the sentiment

It's nice to have a real piece of history, and everyone has been really excited to see "the War Games computer."

commodorejohn wrote: Oh drool . I'll have to post when I get the Jupiter-6 I've got lined up, just to avenge my jealousy...

See if you can line up some kind of music board (there were a few for S100, though I don't have any specific suggestions.) Nothing like that early computer music...

The JP-6 is indeed a very nice synth, though if I need a programmable sound I'm kind of spoiled by just telling the SID in the C128 to do it ...

The SMB does have a cassette interface, but that's kind of a drag. The problem is I don't know what floppy controllers will "just work" with this (and, more to the point, what kind of drives will "just work" with the controller). I don't want to be toggling boot commands in by hand every time I power the damn thing up and I don't know enough yet about the architecture to burn an EPROM it will use as boot code. The C128 is a nice CP/M machine but having the IMSAI boot CP/M as well would be fun too.

While I'm dreaming, I'd like a Cromemco Dazzler, too. And a pony.

So it came, and it doesn't appear to be working ...

I carefully checked everything before powering it on with no cards, and the front panel appears to light (but does weird things, to be mentioned).

Next I tried installing the CPU board. The Ithaca board has a 20-pin header for the front panel, but the panel connector has 16 pins. I guessed that it went in the rightmost 16 and it resets, runs and stops, at least. I powered it on with all the address toggles on zero. If I press EXAMINE NEXT, it advances its address bus lights. I didn't try to do anything else at this point.

Next I tried installing the Z16 board since I had a good guess that mapped to the bottom of memory. Here's where it gets weird. Going through memory with EXAMINE NEXT, data bits 0 and 6 light alternately. If I try to store with DEPOSIT, nothing is stored. Plus, some of the address lines now stick high, which may be why I can't store anything since they're indicating addresses outside of the Z16 addressing range. Toggling the switch makes no difference.

Ideas?

Ha. I've got a couple reels on my office wall from the Encore system we used before we got the HP K250 (in the machine room, link below).

I'm thinking it's stuck or marginal front panel switches. I was able to get the EconoRAM to store some words finally today.

http://www.floodgap.com/iv/2500

However, that AltairClone is intriguing. Shame it isn't really S-100, though it would seem to handle all the basics in emulation. It would also be nice if it were available in a smaller form factor.

Quality Nonsense, indeed.

I hope someone at least buys AltaVista at some point and does something nice with it.

It's been awhile since I've been in mine, but ISTR there is an internal terminator, yes.

Syscalls are one thing. That article doesn't say anything about dynamic linking (perhaps it requires that they are statically linked).

I see an Xsgi there, it's just not in the right order.