Aha! Now I remember. That Cassette I/O card is mostly unpopulated, and I think
it's just installed for its serial port. I think Bruce had told me about that
long ago, but my memories are as dusty as the Nova is at the moment.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X
http://www.nf6x.net/
More details: I can't be sure because the Nova rack is presently in a crowded
corner which is keeping me from removing the chassis from the rack in order to
get its top panel off. But it appears to me that the mystery edge connector
that I previously had the hard drive interface cable connected
> On Jun 11, 2016, at 22:00, Bruce Ray wrote:
>
> DG Model 6045 disk drive heads 0 and 1 are the removable platter, heads 2 and
> 3 are the 'fixed' platter. As you said, the controller memory address and
> sector/sector/count values are set to 0 by the IORESET pulse, so a read
> operation (S
DG Model 6045 disk drive heads 0 and 1 are the removable platter, heads
2 and 3 are the 'fixed' platter. As you said, the controller memory
address and sector/sector/count values are set to 0 by the IORESET
pulse, so a read operation (STRT pulse) will start the reading of the
bootstrap into lo
My Nova 3/12 system has a 6045 cartridge hard drive, with one fixed platter,
one removable platter, and a capacity of 10M. I haven't managed to boot my
computer from it yet, and after a long pause, my Nova 3 is requesting another
time slice of my attention.
I can see in the drive's technical ma
>Jerry Weiss wrote:
On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Rod Smallwood wrote:
I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives.
They now load and unload every time you press the button.
SFSG now to talk to them from RT.
Using the diagnostics on the forma
Hi all,
anybody know, which system used it?
It is a 1986 CRT controller, which was pretty fancy
back then. But never saw actual hardware with it ...
Thanks
On 11/06/2016 18:17, Mattis Lind wrote:
I just dig out this little thing form my father stash of various stuff.
When bringing up the setup screen it does not look like the one in the
> manual.
I love the way they felt they had to explain the keyboard at such
length. And explain that the unma
I doubt there is that much gold in them to cover
purchase price and shipping. The gold used in these
is really thin.
Dwight
From: cctalk on behalf of Ali
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 12:16:47 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject
> > Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc.
> > http://www.ebay.com/itm/152124208945
> > Interesting look to them. I would say EPROM but the magnifying window
> is weird...
>
> Those look like "starburst" displays:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_displa
I just dig out this little thing form my father stash of various stuff.
Had to replace the input filter module since there were a small cloud when
powering it up. It also left fair amount of thick smelly tar in the
machine. But the exact replacement were still to be found some 30 years
later.
The
On 06/11/2016 08:57 AM, geneb wrote:
> I just hope someone rescues them from that gold-bearing jackass of a
> seller.
I've got a late 70s mini terminal that uses these (or their kin) for a
single-line 64-character display. Not the best character formation,
but it does get the job done.
I'd t
> On Jun 11, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
>
> >Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
>> I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives.
>>
>> They now load and unload every time you press the button.
>>
>> SFSG now to talk to them from RT.
>>
>> Using the diagnostics on the format
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2016-Jun-10, at 6:19 PM, Ali wrote:
Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152124208945
Interesting look to them. I would say EPROM but the magnifying window is
weird...
-Ali
Those are 4-digit 14-
>Rod Smallwood wrote:
I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives.
They now load and unload every time you press the button.
SFSG now to talk to them from RT.
Using the diagnostics on the format (RX50) disk the Identify function
shows the drive and by inference its controlle
Hmmm...Ok. Sorry for the double post. Inconsistent behavior or
interpretation on my part.
Tom
On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 11 June 2016 at 14:22, pdaguytom wrote:
> > Okay so I'm trying again, as the Classiccmp software is not letting my
> > post through with the
On 11 June 2016 at 14:22, pdaguytom wrote:
> Okay so I'm trying again, as the Classiccmp software is not letting my
> post through with the correct name of the subject computer included in the
> post (I've tried thrice).
> My D#CM@TE II has begun behaving very strangely.
> The computers began to
On 10 June 2016 at 18:26, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> Yes. I just googled "ibm 3511", and it came up at around hit number 5 for me.
> It was a regular google search; an image search wasn't nearly as helpful.
>
> http://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/ibm/IBM-PS2-351x-StorageOption.pdf
Aaaah!
--
Liam Proven
Okay so I'm trying again, as the Classiccmp software is not letting my
post through with the correct name of the subject computer included in the
post (I've tried thrice).
My D#CM@TE II has begun behaving very strangely.
The computers began to develop keyboard issues a few weeks ago, which
resolv
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 09:16:37PM -0400, Ali Fahimi, M.D. wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc.
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/152124208945
> Interesting look to them. I would say EPROM but the magnifying window is
> weird...
Those look like "starburst" displays:
Hi
I have had some success in fixing a couple of TK tape drives.
They now load and unload every time you press the button.
SFSG now to talk to them from RT.
Using the diagnostics on the format (RX50) disk the Identify function
shows the drive and by inference its controller.
However it
Hi
VCF is now OK. I logged me normally and I got my panel bulletin up.
R
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:01:42PM +0200, Martin Peters wrote:
...
>
> Ok, it's working again :-)
>
Good to hear.
I got a scan of my tech ref up now.
http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp/software/TI_PC/documents/
You had said
> Yesterday we took a closer look at the Maintenance Manual (s/o
> sent me
On 6/10/16 7:03 PM, David Gesswein wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 12:01:42PM +0200, Martin Peters wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Ok, it's working again :-)
>>
> Good to hear.
>
> I got a scan of my tech ref up now.
> http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp/software/TI_PC/documents/
>
>
> You had said
>> Yesterday
Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/152124208945
Interesting look to them. I would say EPROM but the magnifying window is
weird...
-Ali
Thanks for that, the last looks very usefull...
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
> CuriousMarc
> Sent: 11 June 2016 01:27
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
>
> Subject: RE: IO Selectric
>
> Here is the li
Handy link. I have need of exactly that interface myself and didn't want to
design my own.
I just want to say OOPs after reading the long thread before me.
You guys already got the part.
Sorry
Randy
From: cctalk on behalf of Randy Dawson
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 1:08 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Stra
These are 7 segment LED displays, with a magnifying lens on top.
Randy
From: cctalk on behalf of Ali
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 6:19 PM
To: CCTalk Mailing List
Subject: Strange ICS on eBay
Just wondering if anyone knows what these chips are for/from/etc.
ht
Hi Josh,
I don't know if this will help you, but a guy in Sweden made a PDP-8/I out
of a Raspberry Pi which he calls a PiDP-8/I with a custom made authentic
looking slightly smaller version of the PDP-8/I front panel. The following
url describes the OS-8 he used on simh running on a version of lin
On 6/10/2016 1:59 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Pete Lancashire
wrote:
http://nicodemusauctions.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0238.jpg
http://nicodemusauctions.com/event/houge-electric-estate-auction/
Other then getting the notice I have no connection
Foun
Would you believe it.
VCF forum is up to its old tricks again.
Same old thing. Can't log in
Last time I got told I had registered when I had not.
Just like the banks your PIN number was used so it must have been you.
Our software can never be at fault. The user is always wrong.
Rod
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