Re: DEC H745 regulator common failure modes?

2015-11-26 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
I can only say that they fail often. We have replaced lots in our 11/70. Luckily we have had spares. Sometimes the failure has been rather catastrofic with blown components. I think these modules run quite hot since discoloured pcb:s are common. /P On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 01:01:07PM -0800, Ia

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread Rod Smallwood
Not me I make replacement front panels for PDP-8 and PDP-11 Rod On 26/11/2015 20:29, william degnan wrote: On Nov 26, 2015 4:47 AM, "rod" wrote: Hi Guys Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends on the list. A nicer more helpful bunch of people I have yet to meet. It looks like

Re: 8" hard disk storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Mike Ross
Interesting, didn't know that. Was as much or more interested in the board. Mike On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Jos Dreesen wrote: > On 26.11.2015 10:08, Mike Ross wrote: >> >> Many moons ago I had a small fleet of pdp-11/04s, pulled out of a >> research synchrotron. >> >> (well, not *literal

Re: Large batch of DEC flip chips

2015-11-26 Thread Jörg Hoppe
Bob, my flip chip collection is finally online. See retrocmp.com/flipchipshop best regards, Joerg Am 14.05.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Bob Rosenbloom: On 5/14/2015 4:36 AM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: Here's the opportunity to buy&save batches of DEC flip chip modules. It must be several thousands, I estimat

DEC H745 regulator common failure modes?

2015-11-26 Thread Ian Finder
Hi folks, I've begun repairing my PDP 11/40 and have tracked down the first major issue to the H745 (-15v) regulator. Before I dig into it, I just wanted to see if there are any common known failure cases... Otherwise I'll just dive into troubleshooting it. :) Thanks as always- - Ian Sent fr

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread william degnan
On Nov 26, 2015 4:47 AM, "rod" wrote: > > Hi Guys > Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends on the list. > A nicer more helpful bunch of people I have yet to meet. > > It looks like I'm coming over next fall to go the 2016 Chicago vintage show. > I'll be bringing my traveling panel e

Re: PDP11GUI 1.47

2015-11-26 Thread william degnan
> > I'm not giving you a hard time out of idle sadism, I'm just very > curious to see how you implemented a USB interface to an 11/70 panel > :-) > > Mike I appreciate this tool and look forward to trying the upgrade. Mostly I use with 11/40 to debug hy RL02 not booting. Bill Degnan twitter: b

Re: Flash (or ide) storage for HP-2000?

2015-11-26 Thread COURYHOUSE
ok pretty interesting but no driver for access-2000unfortunately ! In a message dated 11/26/2015 9:08:52 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, glen.sl...@gmail.com writes: Some people have built their own. Some information here. http://newton.freehostia.com/hp/

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread Fred Cisin
We picked up the tradition, not for the same reason you guys do maybe, but we found it a good opportunity to get together with friends and family and have a good meal together. No, that's the same reason we do it. Happy xgiving, whoever's into it! We don't need a religious nor nationalistic exc

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread John Wilson
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:23:10PM +1100, Kevin Parker wrote: >We picked up the tradition, not for the same reason you guys do maybe, but >we found it a good opportunity to get together with friends and family and >have a good meal together. No, that's the same reason we do it. Happy xgiving, who

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread Jason T
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:47 AM, rod wrote: > Hi Guys > Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends on the list. A nicer > more helpful bunch of people I have yet to meet. > > It looks like I'm coming over next fall to go the 2016 Chicago vintage show. > I'll be bringing my traveling p

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Jerry Weiss
On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:29 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > > This a nice summary of the state of affairs for DEC/RT-11 8 inches Floppies. > >> The Sigma SDC RXV31 controller supported 22 bit DMA. See 400255-C SDC-RXV31 >> Floppy Ctrl Man Aug86 >> > I saw that model at one point. It was the o

Re: Blimey!

2015-11-26 Thread Adrian Graham
On 26 November 2015 at 16:58, Jules Richardson wrote: > On 11/25/2015 03:56 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote: > >> £567 for a Research Machines 380Z. Suppose I will have to give up hope >> ever >> getting one of those…. L >> > > That's... insane! It looks like a stock 40-column machine, and the text > ma

Re: Blimey!

2015-11-26 Thread Jules Richardson
On 11/25/2015 03:56 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote: £567 for a Research Machines 380Z. Suppose I will have to give up hope ever getting one of those…. L That's... insane! It looks like a stock 40-column machine, and the text makes it sound like one of the drives is faulty.

Re: 8" hard disk storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Jos Dreesen
On 26.11.2015 10:08, Mike Ross wrote: Many moons ago I had a small fleet of pdp-11/04s, pulled out of a research synchrotron. (well, not *literally* out of the synchrotron, they probably wouldn't work if they had been...) They all had disk subsystems made by a company called Baydel; a 19" rack

Re: Flash (or ide) storage for HP-2000?

2015-11-26 Thread Glen Slick
Some people have built their own. Some information here. http://newton.freehostia.com/hp/

Flash (or ide) storage for HP-2000?

2015-11-26 Thread GerardCJAT
Hello, Interesting, but could you provide a complete link. >From the short link you gave, I found nothing related ??? --- L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Jerry Weiss wrote: On Nov 25, 2015, at 10:41 PM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: For example, the DSD 880/30 (from Data Systems Design of course) emulates 3 RL02 disk drives using a single internal (non-removable) hard drive. The box also holds a single RX03 floppy disk drive (8" floppy disk drive wh

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>tony duell wrote: The RH11 do DMA, just like all other disk controllers I know of. IIRC, the RX11/RX211 (Unibus) and RXV11/RXV21 (Qbus) don't do DMA. The RX11/RXV11 don't do DMA, but the RX211 and RXV21 do, I think I can confirm that the RXV11 for the Qbus does not and I am also fai

Re: PDP11GUI 1.47

2015-11-26 Thread Mike Ross
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: > > > >> *goes to URL* >> >> Wait, what? 11/70 hardware console functionality? >> >> But links are placeholders... work in progress? > > See what you mean ... links fixed. *Some* links are fixed :-) The link from the main pdp-11 GUI page now wo

Re: PDP11GUI 1.47

2015-11-26 Thread Jörg Hoppe
*goes to URL* Wait, what? 11/70 hardware console functionality? But links are placeholders... work in progress? See what you mean ... links fixed. Joerg Mike On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: Folks, a new version of PDP11GUI is online. It fixes some errors, includi

Re: flash (or ide) storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-11-26 07:08, tony duell wrote: The RH11 do DMA, just like all other disk controllers I know of. IIRC, the RX11/RX211 (Unibus) and RXV11/RXV21 (Qbus) don't do DMA. The RX11/RXV11 don't do DMA, but the RX211 and RXV21 do, I think Right. And the RXV21 only have 18-bit addressing for DM

Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread rod
I'm surprised that after surviving the journey from the UK the aussies don't have a week long blowout every year. R On 26/11/15 10:23, Kevin Parker wrote: Don't forget your Aussie fiends :-) Our daughter worked in the states for about 2.5 years and we visited her of course and it was Thank

RE: Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread Kevin Parker
Don't forget your Aussie fiends :-) Our daughter worked in the states for about 2.5 years and we visited her of course and it was Thanksgiving. We picked up the tradition, not for the same reason you guys do maybe, but we found it a good opportunity to get together with friends and family and

Happy Thanksgiving

2015-11-26 Thread rod
Hi Guys Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends on the list. A nicer more helpful bunch of people I have yet to meet. It looks like I'm coming over next fall to go the 2016 Chicago vintage show. I'll be bringing my traveling panel exhibit with me. Rod (Panelman) Smallwood

[cc-talk] HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

2015-11-26 Thread COURYHOUSE
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! Have a great day and fun and food! >From the SMECC Folk! _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)

8" hard disk storage for unibus 11?

2015-11-26 Thread Mike Ross
Many moons ago I had a small fleet of pdp-11/04s, pulled out of a research synchrotron. (well, not *literally* out of the synchrotron, they probably wouldn't work if they had been...) They all had disk subsystems made by a company called Baydel; a 19" rack module, half-height like an 11/04, conta

Wanted EXTEL Printers and con systems manusl etc anything related.

2015-11-26 Thread COURYHOUSE
Wanted EXTEL Printers and con systems manual etc anything related. drop me a message off list with EXTEL in the subj line. Many Thanks Ed#