Unanswered Questions
14 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Did ARPANET hosts have some kind of name resolving before 1974?
I'm trying to complete some information on the history of DNS and name resolution in networking. I've found some information on ARPANET and BBN's protocols relying on the numerical machine code for ...
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Origin of Cisco-like CLI?
Loads and wagons of networking devices all over the world use the same manner for commandline interface (CLI). First I met it in 1990s at Cisco devices (switches, routers...) which used Cisco IOS. It ...
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How can I prevent unwanted key repeat when using PS/2 keyboard with USB adapter?
I'm currently using an IBM Model M keyboard with a PS/2-to-USB active adapter. When I type fast on my main PC, almost any key will get "stuck" and keeps repeating until I press another key.
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IBM RS/6000 Token Ring ISA card not operational
After solving a configuration challenge, the ISA Token Ring adapter in my RS/6000 is still not connected to the ring.
Extract from errpt -a:
LABEL: NONE
IDENTIFIER: 0118D2D0
Date/Time: ...
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Are there alternative BIOS ROMs for the IBM 5162?
This page references a problem with the IBM 5162 BIOS where it will present an error during POST under some circumstances and that using a third-party BIOS was a workaround.
What other BIOS ROMs ...
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How small a punched card or punched tape batch job could be?
A while ago I read a post about creating the smallest possible ELF executable doing something observable — printing the number 42, for example — which Linux could accept and execute successfuly. The ...
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Windows/lanman shares ending with $ are invisible - where did this come from?
(Inspired by a comment in an answer about CLOCK$ which says: the 'symbols with a dollar sign are reserved to us' was also a DEC convention, certainly on RSX-11M systems)
In Windows, network shares ...
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Why was the IBM 7070 unsuccessful?
In a talk on the IBM 360 and the computers it replaced the speaker at 39:35 describes the 7070 as 'a dog', and elsewhere contrasts it unfavorably with the 1401 (which considerably exceeded ...
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What was the hardware-level data format on IBM 1316 or 2316 disk packs?
A description of the hardware-level track format of the IBM media used on the BESM-6 I've found is as follows (translated by Google with minimal corrections):
Track header structure:
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Running Codenet on a Commodore 64 Emulator
I finally managed to get basic networking stuff working on VICE, thanks to another thread on Retrocomputing. I'm now wondering how to setup a Codenet server emulation.
I was able to identify four ...
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When and with which system or software was IBM's system of tape headers (VOLx, HDRx, ...) introduced?
Background:
IBM compatible tape structure (*1) consists of a series of label blocks describing the volume and each file (Data Set). Essential the structure looks like this:
VOL1..9 Volume header
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How to reset/recover password on Ascend/Lucent "SuperPipe 155" ISDN router
I am trying to set up a second-hand 1990s era Ascend/Lucent "SuperPipe 155" ISDN router for use with some of my 90s era computers, but I don't know the router's password and the instructions I found ...
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How to Perform RR-Net MK3 Detection on VICE Commodore 64 Emulator?
RR-Net documentation describes a detection algorithm for the MK3 model. The algorithm is supposed to reveal the last four hex digits of the MAC address. According to documentation the MAC address 28:...
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Record definitions with IBM COBOL and IMS
A common technology stack for line of business applications in the sixties and seventies was IBM COBOL with the IMS database. I'm curious about how the combination handled record definitions.
COBOL ...
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