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 ... ".
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.
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:45:34PM +0000, 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 ... ".
When I was at University the 'mainframe' was an Elliot 503 on which we could try our hand at programming. My brother-in-law (who is a few years older than me) was at Elliot Automation in Borehamwood involved in the design of the 503 and 803, he then went on to work at English Electric in Stoke on Trent.
I started programming as a job around 1970 on what were then called timesharing systems to which one connected via a 300 baud modem and all I/O was on teletypes or similar. Those new fangled VDUs were just appearing.
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 08:44, Chris Green wrote:
When I was at University the 'mainframe' was an Elliot 503 on which we could try our hand at programming. My brother-in-law (who is a few years older than me) was at Elliot Automation in Borehamwood involved in the design of the 503 and 803, he then went on to work at English Electric in Stoke on Trent.
The 503 was a parallel machine, where as the 803 was a serial machine, so the 503 ran a lot faster !
But Elliotts never managed to produce an operating system for the 503 so it was only ever used as a turbo-charged 803 I think.
I started programming as a job around 1970 on what were then called timesharing systems to which one connected via a 300 baud modem and all I/O was on teletypes or similar. Those new fangled VDUs were just appearing.
If anyone wants to play with the 803 emulator I'll put the source code up on my web site, but be warned, there is NO documentation, so unless you actually used an 803 you won't get very far with it ! Also the code is rather ugly !
Peter.
The recent postings by Peter Onion and Chris Green have just struck a cord with me. It's off-topic for this list, for which I apologise in advance, but does anyone have a machine with a half-inch tape drive and a more modern removable medium? I have some tapes that I'd like to read before all the oxide falls off them.
..Adrian
-
Adrian F. Clark -
Chris Green -
Christopher Dawkins -
Peter Onion -
Peter Onion