Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 1 Apr 89 08:35:39 EST Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 08:36:39 EST From: "Robert E. Seastrom" Subject: ***** Please read! ***** To: pdp8-lovers@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Message-ID: <567724.890401.RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Administrivia: Possible impending disaster: As some of you may know, the US Govt in its finite wisdom has decided to stop supporting the Arpanet. MIT's IMPs (the packet-switching machines which heretofore have served as our connection to the Arpanet) are expected to be turned off tomorrow. Some efforts have been made to replace the cross-country Arpanet functions by tying various local-area nets together; such connections do exist for MIT. However, we can't guarantee how well this will work initially; we expect the new connection system to require some time to undergo shakedown, and mail service will probably go haywire during this period. Please bear with us in our time of trial. Pandora Berman for Postmaster@MC The target date has been changed to April 15 , nevertheless, should you have trouble getting stuff through, send me mail personally and I'll forward it manually if I have to. RS@EDDIE.MIT.EDU is a good bet, well connected, but forwards my mail to AI. If mail to me there should bounce, send me mail at RS@KICKI.STACKEN.KTH.SE (this *is* overseas... the SE domain, by the way, is Sweden...) Best regards, Rob  Received: from bu-it.BU.EDU (TCP 20061201050) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 1 Apr 89 14:52:14 EST Received: by bu-it.BU.EDU (5.58/4.7) id AA21572; Sat, 1 Apr 89 14:47:45 EST Date: Sat, 1 Apr 89 14:47:45 EST From: jsol@bu-it.BU.EDU (Jon Solomon) Message-Id: <8904011947.AA21572@bu-it.BU.EDU> To: RS%AI.AI.MIT.EDU@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Cc: pdp8-lovers@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: "Robert E. Seastrom"'s message of Sat, 1 Apr 89 08:36:39 EST <567724.890401.RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Subject: ***** Please read! ***** I should point out that KICKI.STACKEN.KTH.SE is only in the AI.AI.MIT.EDU host table, and is not in the official NIC host table, nor is it in the domain database, so you might have trouble reaching him there.  Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 11 Apr 89 09:28:26 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 09:28:21 EDT From: "Robert E. Seastrom" To: pdp8-lovers@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU Message-ID: <574708.890411.RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Over the past couple days, I've been getting requests to add people to the list in record numbers. This is EXCELLENT! There are still people out there who are interested in computers that are older than I am! Ok, now that I'm done flaming about how great it is to have more people on board, let me put out a notice that I'm looking for a Classic 8. (The old one, with the smoked plastic ears and R-series logic modules), in a tabletop configuration. If anyone out there has the Y-shaped table that they always used to show them on in the microcomputer handbooks, I'd love one of those too. By the way, I have a couple of spare copies (1970 and 1973) of Introduction to Programming kicking around - if anyone's interested, they're up for grabs... ---Rob  Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 11 Apr 89 22:08:08 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 22:08:07 EDT From: "Christopher R. Zach" To: RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU cc: pdp8-lovers@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU In-reply-to: Msg of Tue 11 Apr 89 09:28:21 EDT from Robert E. Seastrom Message-ID: <575254.890411.CZ@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Does anyone have a good TU55/56 Dectape and controller for Positive bus Pdp-8/I's (and PDP12's)? I have approximately 6 large boxes of Dectape, loaded to the brink with software, but I can't use it without a tape drive. Any ideas? I also have just about all of the PDP-8 , 8/I, 8/L, and PDP12 manuals, so if you need some info, drop me a line! Chris Zach  Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU (CHAOS 3130) by MC.LCS.MIT.EDU 11 Apr 89 23:47:30 EDT Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 23:47:41 EDT From: Doug Humphrey To: CZ@AI.AI.MIT.EDU cc: RS@AI.AI.MIT.EDU, pdp8-lovers@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU In-reply-to: Msg of Tue 11 Apr 89 22:08:07 EDT from Christopher R. Zach Message-ID: <575311.890411.DIGEX@AI.AI.MIT.EDU> Sigh... U should have asked me about 5 or 6 years ago.