Re: Electronic Systems TRS-80 Serial I/O Board?

2017-06-12 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/12/2017 10:23 PM, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > Things odd about the board. No 1488 / 1489 or any other transmit / > receiver chips. No clock circuit. Was there an appropriate > frequency crystal or clock on the interface to divide to something > for the 1602 uart clock? > > I see

Re: Electronic Systems TRS-80 Serial I/O Board?

2017-06-12 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 6/12/2017 5:08 PM, Win Heagy via cctalk wrote: Does anyone recognize this serial board for the TRS-80...Model 1 I think. It came with a bunch of model 1 stuff years ago. I haven't been able to locate much online. Some manual type material would be great. Nothing on the back except "Copyri

Old IBM Ref Manuals give away

2017-06-12 Thread Keven Miller(rtt) via cctalk
1. IBM 2.10 DOS Technical Reference, Sep 1983 2. IBM Hardware Technical Reference, Jan 1983 Hopefully the picture comes through. Any takers? Keven Miller - Orem Utah, 84097 ps: the previous HP boards have been claimed.

Electronic Systems TRS-80 Serial I/O Board?

2017-06-12 Thread Win Heagy via cctalk
Does anyone recognize this serial board for the TRS-80...Model 1 I think. It came with a bunch of model 1 stuff years ago. I haven't been able to locate much online. Some manual type material would be great. Nothing on the back except "Copyright 1978 Electronic Systems". http://imgur.com/a/m5Yi

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 20:09 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > > > 2017-06-12 19:55 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > >> >> >> 2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : >> >>> >>> >>> On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: >>> >>> > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says >>> "S

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 19:55 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > > > 2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : > >> >> >> On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: >> >> > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says >> "Silver >> > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleanin

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : > > > On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > > > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says > "Silver > > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an > arrow > > to the disk surface in

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
That would fit. Most metals are white (silvery) and rhodium, being a noble metal, doesn't oxidize so it retains the base metal color. I wonder if it's the anti-friction properties that were impaired by LA smog. Even 1970s smog seems insufficiently potent to cause any changes to rhodium. Or m

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
that does seem to be the case. I never looked to see that rhodium plates silver white. http://www.foxfinejewelry.com/blog/article/rhodium-plating-or-dipping-your-yellow-gold-jewelry-into-white-gold-jewelry/ On 6/12/17 10:43 AM, Paul Koning wrote: That seems odd because rhodium is a noble metal (a

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 12, 2017, at 12:59 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > >> There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says "Silver >> colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an arrow >> to the di

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says "Silver > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an arrow > to the disk surface in the picture. > Any thoughts about what the "Special cleaning liq

Re: TC-11 RALL reader

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
found it. The main change was the handling of the PSR for the 11/44 and I also created a version that could read 18 bit tapes. I'll UL all the versions to bitsavers under bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/tools/ The mirrors should pick them up after noon PDT On 6/12/17 8:30 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:

TC-11 RALL reader

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
here was the thread way back when https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vmsnet.pdp-11/0RZKjpVmIGQ and http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rt11/putr.mac I'm still looking for my version of putr.mac but that should get you started. Most of the non PDP-11 tapes on bitsavers were read with this.

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
> >> Also perhaps noteworthy that this RS64's "twin" which resided in the UW >> Computer Systems Lab was at one point "resurrected" by flipping the disk >> upside down. >> > > Then one definitely need the track writer I guess. But it is good to know > that it is possible to flip the disk if it is i

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:59:14PM +0200, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > BTW. Speaking of dumping. Now that I have a TC11 / TU56 that seems to be > working, what is the best way to dump 18 and 12 bit tapes? Is there some > PDP-11 OS that can do it or is it assembly programming required? I had > ho

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 0:27 GMT+02:00 Jay Jaeger : > On 6/8/2017 2:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > > I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The > > previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got it in the > > beginning of the seventies. It is used but has the shi

Re: DEC MINC in center Germany

2017-06-12 Thread Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
On 11.06.2017 23:06, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote: What a steal, if I weren't moving to a 2 bedroom apartment in NYC I'd grab it! I'm currently the high bidder! Curious if I will win the auction. :-)