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I've just started a meetup for vintage computer folks in Salt Lake City and environs: https://www.meetup.com/Beehive-Bit-Bunker/ (Credit to Silent 700 for the group name) Feel free to join for occasional meetups and stuff :) -- Richard

In case you weren't following this thread in the documentation requests forum, I'm planning on having manx automatically ingest documents on bitsavers into it's database. This is based on the heuristics of how files are named on bitsavers to automatically extract document metadata like part...

At my suggestion, VCFMW has created a playlist for all the "Family of 8" videos from the various years: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE-Iywr9LQERueYxABdmjV6pUCTjtVDHU This is a nice set of videos :)

You may know about the manx documentation database. What you may not realize is that the entire implementation of this web site is open source on github. I work on it when I find slices from my bucket of "copious spare time". After VCFMW there was some discussion of making some improvements...

Is there a nice emulator like SIMH or something like that for Windows that will allow me to get CP/M programs from my PC into the emulator and run them?

http://www.softsector.aplaholm.se/cpm/sl5/ This looks like a nice little FORTH for Z80/8080 machines and it is packaged as CP/M executables. Has anyone tried it?

The base VT100 has the Advanced Video Option (AVO) as an add-on to give you the additional attributes (underline, blink, bold, in addition to reverse video), additional video RAM to support 132x24 screen layout and the ability to have additional ROM/overlay ROM on top of the base VT100 ROM. If...

Local pickup only. https://www.ebay.com/itm/113774095397?ul_noapp=true&autorefresh=true They look a little grungy, but otherwise in good shape. Powder blue. I have no affiliation with the seller.

Does anyone know if there is any public record of how many units of DEC products were sold? Perhaps something buried in an annual report? I'm primarily interested in knowing the number of shipped units for various models of terminal: VT05, VT52, VT100, VT220, etc.

I've been looking for one of these, preferably a VT4x graphics system with the VT11 board set and associated PDP-11/05, monitor and keyboard. However, even just a VT11 board set and backplane would be a good start as I could find a generic PDP-11 unibus system in which to house the thing. I...

I was gifted a Beehive CP/M machine with some peripherals and a stack of disks. Beehive stuff was made locally (I'm in Salt Lake City), which is why it interested me. I haven't done anything with it yet, but wondered if there was anyone else with one of these.

I've never been to this place, but TX Dj posted a 30 minute walkthrough of the location. It's about what you'd expect: overfull to the top with boxes and equipment piled everywhere. It's mostly PC stuff, but TX Dj did note a few things in passing that might be of interest to other sorts of...

I may be dragging a VT100 to VCFMW. I've got some ideas already for creating a file containing ESC sequences to show off the terminal. Please post any ideas you have for sharing to this thread. No promises, but maybe someone has some good ideas that I haven't thought of yet :) And yes, I'll...

I know of the disk images on bitsavers and "Dave's Old Computers". Are there any other VT180 diskette images out there? I didn't do exhaustive googling, but preliminary results seem to refer to those archives only. Can you run generic CP/M-80 software on it as well?

Has anyone hacked the VT100 keyboard to see what kind of sounds you can coax out of the speaker other than the key click (1 tick of the speaker circuit) vs the bell (200 ticks of the speaker circuit that averages out to a perceived tone)? I'm wondering if any other pitches could be induced by...

See https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/User:Legalize/CD_Part_Numbers This was on the nekochan wiki and I managed to find a copy of it from 2016 on archive.org.

See http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/tektronix/402x/070-2832-00_4027_Service_Manual_Vol_2_Jan1980.pdf page 291 and following. I have a Tektronix 4024 terminal and the keyboard enclosure is similar to the 4027 keyboard. There are 4 tiny hexagonal set screws along the back of the keyboard...

Hi, I was watching a demo video of a Tektronix 4006 today on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-F7ZySfgZ0 Clearly this person obtained a bunch of Tektronix plt files (e.g. already rendered into Tektronix 401x escape codes) and is just catting them to the terminal output. Files shown in...

OK, some of you may know that I created and maintain the terminals wiki. I understand serial terminals pretty well, but in the IBM land, things are quite different. Now at the lowest level, I've spent some time researching bisync, SDLC and HDLC. I know that SNA is layered on top of SDLC and...

Has anyone ever made one? I was thinking: 64 LED bar/lights for PC 64 LED bar/lights for basic registers: {{{{al, ah}, ax}, eax}, rax} {{{{bl, bh}, bx}, ebx}, rbx} {{{{cl, ch}, cx}, ecx}, rcx} {{{{dl, dh}, dx}, edx}, rdx} {{{{bpl}, bp}, ebp}, rbp} {{{{sil}, si}, esi}, rsi} {{{{dil}...