From Andy.Cowley at uwe.ac.uk Mon Oct 12 02:57:40 2009 From: Andy.Cowley at uwe.ac.uk (Andy Cowley) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:57:40 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Bell and EUUG tapes - who could read? Message-ID: <4AD20E84.2000501@uwe.ac.uk> Dear All, I have a number of old Unix™ ½ inch reel to reel tapes. I would dearly love to transfer the contents, if readable, to a more modern medium. If anyone has the facility to do this please contact me. I'm located in the United Kingdom. They are 800 or 1600 BPI, 9 track and, I suspect, NRZI encoded. They should be compatible with DEC reel-to-reel drives, probably most others. They contain various PDP/LSI-11 versions of AT&T Bell Research Laboratories UNIX™ Edition 6 and 7. The Bell tapes (1, 2 and 3) are for PDP-11/45 with other drivers. The EUUG (European Unix Users Group) tape has kernels for various LSI-11 models including LSI-11/23. It also contains a large number of contributed utilities. There is more info at http://www.andycowley.com/Unix/tapes.html best Andy Cowley This email was independently scanned for viruses by McAfee anti-virus software and none were found _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs From neozeed at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 03:29:25 2009 From: neozeed at gmail.com (Jason Stevens) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:29:25 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... Message-ID: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice' collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number command... http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each > decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make > the output sound well when played through speak(1). So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point? Does anyone know how it worked? Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does seem very interesting...! I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....? Thanks! Jason -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs From carl.lowenstein at gmail.com Tue Oct 27 03:44:02 2009 From: carl.lowenstein at gmail.com (Carl Lowenstein) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:44:02 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... In-Reply-To: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <5904d5730910261044g524b1c11i71f34a1de5c1cab6@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Jason Stevens wrote: > I was going to upload the various man pages of 32/V so I'd have a 'nice' > collection of them, and to help with my eventual conversion of the help text > into RTF for a windows helpfile when I was reading through the number > command... > http://gunkies.org/wiki/32v_1m_number > >> Number copies the standard input to the standard output, changing each >> decimal number to a fully spelled out version. Punctuation is added to make >> the output sound well when played through speak(1). > > So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point?  Does anyone know how > it worked?  Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does > seem very interesting...! See "Votrax" in Wikipedia for more information. "Vocal division of Federal Screw Works". A speech synthesizer, predecessor of Digital's DECtalk. > I wonder if this was the start of the UNIX/IVR relationship....? What's IVR? carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein at ucsd.edu _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs From cowan at ccil.org Tue Oct 27 03:40:19 2009 From: cowan at ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:40:19 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... In-Reply-To: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> References: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20091026174019.GF22428@mercury.ccil.org> Jason Stevens scripsit: > So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point? Does anyone know how > it worked? Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it does > seem very interesting...! I think the speaker was an RS-232 device. -- De plichten van een docent zijn divers, John Cowan die van het gehoor ook. cowan at ccil.org --Edsger Dijkstra http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs From IanK at vulcan.com Tue Oct 27 07:51:22 2009 From: IanK at vulcan.com (Ian King) Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:51:22 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... In-Reply-To: <20091026174019.GF22428@mercury.ccil.org> References: <46b366130910261029g52e47beavf1011a123d5839c4@mail.gmail.com> <20091026174019.GF22428@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: There's also a Qbus device that was intended for IVR systems, called DECtalk. That was hosted on a MicroVAX system. (I have the voice synth card but not the D/A card....) -- isk > -----Original Message----- > From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org [mailto:tuhs- > bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:40 AM > To: Jason Stevens > Cc: tuhs at tuhs.org > Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX/32v & speak.... > > Jason Stevens scripsit: > > > So it seems that VAX's could do audio at some point? Does anyone > know how > > it worked? Naturally the speak command seems to be missing, but it > does > > seem very interesting...! > > I think the speaker was an RS-232 device. > > -- > De plichten van een docent zijn divers, John Cowan > die van het gehoor ook. cowan at ccil.org > --Edsger Dijkstra > http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs From agrier at poofygoof.com Thu Oct 29 05:28:05 2009 From: agrier at poofygoof.com (Aaron J. Grier) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:05 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] history of termios? Message-ID: <20091028192805.GL2041@arwen.poofy.goof.com> before I do some code spelunking, does anyone here know the history of termios? I've been doing some serial programming recently and wondering how things got to the way they are... why is VTIME an inter-character timer instead of a timer for an entire VMIN block, for instance? -- Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier at poofygoof.com _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs