On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 21:45, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
Myself (BJ), John (with homemade biscuits, thanks) MJR, Adam, Kirty, Brett, Peter Onion (with very interesting emulator of a very old mainframe... something begining with E 800 which had very cool graphics and noises).
Elliott 803. Here is a picture of the machine I used to use when I was at school. http://www.g6lvb.com/803.htm
More pictures at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jacksmth/ell803.htm including a shot of the Calcomp 565 plotter
Ah, these are names I recognise.
An emulation of the 803, or just of the Calcomp plotter? Sounds exciting anyway: I'm most interested. If it might compile on FreeBSD and run in KDE?
I have here various 803B parts, in particular a flexowriter and a Creed teleprinter that might soon have to go for scrap unless someone can find a good home. Not working, but not rusty - could work given a lot of TLC.
All the bins around our Computer Centre are Elliot paper tape bins. I have core planes on my desk. There's not many other places you can point and say "There's a bit ... ".
Well , there's a name I recognise... Hello Chris... We have met, many many years ago when a group of us came down from Loughborough to try and fix one of your two 803s (in the squash courts I seem to remember ?)
Do you ever hear from Dave Bisset ?
I'll come and collect your teleprinter and flexowriter if you don't want them.
The emulator... ummmm... well it's a Xlib application so no dependencies on toolkits, but it does depend on /dev/rtc to get the emulation rate right (algol data waits sound correct).
I'll bring it over and show it you when I collec the ptinters.
Peter Onion.