Re: PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Noel Chiappa wrote: > I hope you're not being serious! There was almost no detail there. Oh, it was much more detailed than anything else I've read before! I wonder how the AI PDP-6 was used back in the day. I suppose ITS development moved to the KA10 using the virtual memory pager, leaving the

Re: PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Noel Chiappa
> It great to have such a detailed description of the DM PDP-6. I hope you're not being serious! There was almost no detail there. But... > I suppose that since the DynaMod group got their 10 shortly after the 6, > they may have focused on getting the 10 up and running. Maybe they

An interesting use of the 4004 instructions

2016-12-15 Thread dwight
I was looking at some disassembled 4004 code when I came across a SKIP operation. It isn't normally an instruction but If you do a JCN with all the = 0, it will do a NEVER jump. This is the equivalent of a SKIP instruction. I would suppose a JCN with = $8000 would be an always jump,

WTB 12/16MB RAM (MS42-BA/CA) for VAXstation 3100/30

2016-12-15 Thread Jacek Greniger
Hi, Recently I acquired pretty nice VAXstation 3100/30. It has GPX graphics card, two RZ23 disks (one dead, second cause short circuit but after removing tantalium capacitor on +12V line looks to be working) and MS42-AB 4MB memory extension card. Installed NetBSD under SIMH and disk image will be

Re: Z-80 code question about a loop that depends on the contents of the refresh register

2016-12-15 Thread allison
On 12/15/2016 02:12 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:08 AM, Alexis Kotlowy > wrote: >> On 14/12/2016 09:19, Ethan Dicks wrote: >>> So far, this loop hangs on all three emulators I've tried - simh's >>> altairz80, simcpm010 for AmigaDOS, and EMUZ80 for Raspberry Pi... >> Have you

Re: PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Phil Budne
I never knew there had been two '6s in Tech Square. I had thought AI and LNS (Labratory for Nuclear Science) were the only PDP-6s at MIT... phil

Re: PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Noel Chiappa wrote: > I don't know about the software run on the two PDP-6's - by the time I > arrived at MIT, they were both powered off and never, as far as I > know, ever ran again. I would _assume_ that it ran ITS. Yet it's very rare to see references to it, and never (as far as I know) in the

Re: Found in data center

2016-12-15 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr
If no one else wants/claims this, I will as it looks like mainframe stuff. Will you box/ship? TTFN - Guy > On Dec 14, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Pete Lancashire wrote: > > An old cabinet that only IBM had the key, they came by took what they > wanted and left it full > > I only got a quick shot of wh

Re: PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Lars Brinkhoff > Does anyone know more about this PDP-6? Did it ever run ITS, like its > PDP-10 successor? I don't know about the software run on the two PDP-6's - by the time I arrived at MIT, they were both powered off and never, as far as I know, ever ran again. I would _as

PDP-6s at MIT

2016-12-15 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
I always thought there was one and only one PDP-6 at MIT. The one running ITS at the AI Lab. But then I found a post to alt.sys.pdp10 by Marc Crispin: > I did meet the MIT AI and DM PDP-6s Digging further, I found Project MAC progress reports mentioning this Dynamic Modeling PDP-6. Page 59 in

Re: 6502 code

2016-12-15 Thread Eivind Nicolay Evensen
On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 01:27:54AM -0600, drlegendre . wrote: > @Sean > > I was wondering the same, but perhaps he needs physical hardware for some > specific purposes, like timing and so forth? > > The emus (VICE) are quite good these days, though. I can hardly find > anything that VICE x64 won'