Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > It appears to be an extended-length Multibus II board with 2 8-bit DACs on > it. Output for an XY scope? > Extended-length Multibus. Definitely not Multibus II, which uses Eurocard 6Ux220 form factor with two 96-pin DIN 41612 connectors.

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

On 7/12/2016 1:57 p.m., Chris Pye wrote: I’m moving my collection and found this board amongst some others. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0m4VYF4tIU5aXJMSHBwUDJMUWM Cheers, Chris It's a Compugraphics board of some sort, I t

Miniscribe 6053 HD PCB needed

Hi all, I accidentally dropped something on a Miniscribe 6053 44MB HD and cracked the board; looks pretty dense and tricky to repair so I'm hoping that there's a kind soul out there somewhere who happens to have a 6053 doorstop and can spare the circuit board for a good cause? Removing the bo

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

> On 7 Dec 2016, at 12:32 pm, Jon Elson wrote: > > > On 12/06/2016 06:57 PM, Chris Pye wrote: >> I’m moving my collection and found this board amongst some others. >> >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0m4VYF4tIU5aXJMSHBwUDJMUWM >>

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

On 12/06/2016 06:57 PM, Chris Pye wrote: I’m moving my collection and found this board amongst some others. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0m4VYF4tIU5aXJMSHBwUDJMUWM Cheers, Chris It appears to be an extended-length Multibus

Could somebody please help me identify this board?

I’m moving my collection and found this board amongst some others. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0m4VYF4tIU5aXJMSHBwUDJMUWM Cheers, Chris

Re: Double Buffer RK11-C

> On Dec 6, 2016, at 2:56 PM, Fritz Mueller wrote: > > >> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> >> [data fetch] can't be off-loaded onto a separate interface unit, as it needs >> access to >> register contents held in the CPU. > > Yeah, it’s pretty interesting! My guess would

Re: UNIBUS/QBUS interface chips Was: Re: MEM11 update

On 12/6/16 10:05 AM, Toby Thain wrote: On 2016-12-06 1:34 AM, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, allison wrote: A bunch of us old digits (former dec engineers) got together and were talking about old systems and the thing that stood out is a general dislike for having to use th

Re: Intel C1101A

On 12/6/16 11:46 AM, Brad H wrote: I kind of thought that might be a possibility. I might just let things lie for a while.. I was concerned about stock disappearing, didn't think about price tripling. Not sure I want to spend $1400 for 1K of RAM on a clone. :) -Original Message- From

Re: Double Buffer RK11-C

> On Dec 6, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > [data fetch] can't be off-loaded onto a separate interface unit, as it needs > access to > register contents held in the CPU. Yeah, it’s pretty interesting! My guess would be that it was a separate register/command oriented interface, sit

RE: Intel C1101A

-Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jim stephens Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 9:28 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Intel C1101A On 12/6/2016 8:46 AM, Brad H wrote: > I kind of thought that might be

Re: Intel C1101A

On 12/6/2016 8:46 AM, Brad H wrote: I kind of thought that might be a possibility. I might just let things lie for a while.. I was concerned about stock disappearing, didn't think about price tripling. Not sure I want to spend $1400 for 1K of RAM on a clone.:) -Original Message- Fr

RE: Intel C1101A

I kind of thought that might be a possibility. I might just let things lie for a while.. I was concerned about stock disappearing, didn't think about price tripling. Not sure I want to spend $1400 for 1K of RAM on a clone. :) -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@class

Re: HP1631D Logic Analyzer..Software???

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > The person working on simulating the HP Integral ran into the problem with > HP's funny > disk formats with the last track on the Integral disks having sector IDs > around 100 > that record the wear level of the tracks. As far as that particu

Re: Intel C1101A

Business is about making money. The more the better. Just posting on the board here most likely caused a few to go searching for them just from curiosity. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Noel Chiappa Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2016 8:06:17 AM To: cctalk@cla

Re: HP1631D Logic Analyzer..Software???

On 12/6/16 7:48 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > Dave, I have some questions/suggestions about TD02IMD.COM > Is Dave still around? I know Eric Smith has been trying to contact him about adding things like M2FM types to the format Browse the web for the Babel that floppy disk image container formats h

Re: FP11-C Engineering Drawings?

> From: Al Kossow > i'll see about getting CHM's set scanned Oooh, great; thanks very much, _much_ appreciated! Noel

Re: Is there a magic word to format a 8" Altos hard disk?

Quoting Al Kossow : > Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the > Xenix actually > came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I > had another Quantum > 2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to call Altos, > asks for a confirm

Re: Intel C1101A

> From: Mark Moulding > I did a bulk buy of some 1960's era miniature vacuum tubes (500 pcs) > for around 50 cents each; the next time I looked, the price from all > vendors who had them had jumped to around $3 There is another possibility (one which I think I saw happening when G

Re: Double Buffer RK11-C

> From: Glen Slick > You should also hang out at vcfed forum in addition to hanging out here. I barely have time to keep up with the things I'm already into (actually, strike that - I _don't_ have time to keep up already :-)! So I'm going to have to pass. Interesting about the FP11 stuf

Re: HP1631D Logic Analyzer..Software???

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:02 AM, Christian Corti wrote: > On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Glen Slick wrote: >> >> I tried using ImageDisk on a PC to read the two HP 1630 3.5-inch >> floppies I have (10304 8085 preprocessor, 10342 HP-IB, RS-232C/V.24, >> RS-449 preprocessor). It appeared to be able to read the

Re: FP11-C Engineering Drawings?

i'll see about getting CHM's set scanned On 12/6/16 7:14 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > Is there a set of FP11-C Engineering Drawings online anywhere? Our favourite > search engine didn't turn one up, and according to Manx: > > http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9306 > > there are none online. > >

FP11-C Engineering Drawings?

Is there a set of FP11-C Engineering Drawings online anywhere? Our favourite search engine didn't turn one up, and according to Manx: http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9306 there are none online. Noel

Re: UNIBUS/QBUS interface chips Was: Re: MEM11 update

On 2016-12-06 1:34 AM, Eric Smith wrote: On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, allison wrote: A bunch of us old digits (former dec engineers) got together and were talking about old systems and the thing that stood out is a general dislike for having to use the limited set of bus interface chips whe

Re: Is there a magic word to format a 8" Altos hard disk?

On 12/6/16 6:40 AM, william degnan wrote: >> Sound familiar? >> >> > When you run the hard drive format command and you're asked "Do you want to > continue?" rather than say "Y" enter "sotla" This is the secret response > you need to bypass the format block. > > Bill > That was it. The list i

Re: Is there a magic word to format a 8" Altos hard disk?

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the > Xenix actually > came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I had > another Quantum > 2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to ca

Is there a magic word to format a 8" Altos hard disk?

Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the Xenix actually came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I had another Quantum 2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to call Altos, asks for a confirmation but just returns to the

Re: Intel C1101A

I do notice these "schlock" IC sellers actually raise the price the more "hits" they get on an item. So your shopping around will actually make the price worse and my even cause your earlier vendors to raise their price when you finally do place an order. corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ > On Dec

Re: HP1631D Logic Analyzer..Software???

On Mon, 5 Dec 2016, Glen Slick wrote: I tried using ImageDisk on a PC to read the two HP 1630 3.5-inch floppies I have (10304 8085 preprocessor, 10342 HP-IB, RS-232C/V.24, RS-449 preprocessor). It appeared to be able to read the expected data just fine. Singled sided disk with 16 256-byte sectors