Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
> On Mar 1, 2018, at 8:54 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > >> From: Charles Dickman > >> So if the I/O page is completely (all processor modes) unmapped is >> there any way to recover besides a power cycle? Does the RESET >> instruction disable the MMU? > > Interesting questions! > > T

RE: Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread Rich Alderson via cctalk
From: Dennis Boone via cctalk Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 2:50 PM >> Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes back to the 90's? >> If so, could I ask you to "hunt down" an old message of mine? I once >> wrote a "reminiscence" of connecting to the ARPANET when I was a kid >> that I w

VCF East keynotes -- holy moly!

2018-03-01 Thread Evan Koblentz via cctalk
There will be three awesome keynotes for VCF East this spring. - Friday: our own Bill Dromgoole who'll talk about restoring the VCFed UNIVAC mainframe. - Saturday: Don Eyles (NASA contractor who hacked the Apollo Guidance Computer to save the Apollo 14 mission) - Sunday: Dave Walden, who p

OT: Any tech apprenticeship opportunities in Brisbane, QLD?

2018-03-01 Thread Sellam Ismail via cctalk
Hello Folks. Forgive me for the intrusion. I know a good soul in Brisbane area in Queensland, Australia who is looking for some sort of apprenticeship in electronics or communications/networking. I thought I would ask here in case this message reaches some of you blokes down there that might be

Re: Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:18 PM, William Sudbrink via cctech wrote: > Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes back to the 90's? If > so, could I ask you to "hunt down" an old message of mine? I once wrote a > "reminiscence" of connecting to the ARPANET when I was a kid that I was > rathe

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Charles Dickman > So if the I/O page is completely (all processor modes) unmapped is > there any way to recover besides a power cycle? Does the RESET > instruction disable the MMU? Interesting questions! The CPU manuals don't say, about the RE$ET; I just tried it on the /

Re: Last sun3 ask: In search of a SCSI controller (VME) for a 3/260

2018-03-01 Thread Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
I don't, but I do have a memory board from one if you want it. Rather dirty. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:35 AM, Ian via cctalk wrote: > Folks, sorry for the Sun spam. > > > Everything was working in my newly acquired 3/260, and the monitor is even > starting to shape up. > > It was a gorgeous mac

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Charles Dickman via cctalk
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > That's true when the MMU is disabled; if so it supplies 1 bits for the upper > bits for page 7, > and zeroes for the other pages. But if the MMU is enabled, all mapping goes > through its mapping > registers, and page 7 is no longe

RE: Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
Bingo! Thanks a lot! -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Boone via cctalk Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2018 5:50 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Old Classiccmp archive > Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes bac

Re: Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes back to the 90's? > If so, could I ask you to "hunt down" an old message of mine? I once > wrote a "reminiscence" of connecting to the ARPANET when I was a kid > that I was rather pleased with. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost > it in a

Re: Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:18 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk > wrote: > > Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes back to the 90's? If > so, could I ask you to "hunt down" an old message of mine? I once wrote a > "reminiscence" of connecting to the ARPANET when I was a kid that I was

Old Classiccmp archive

2018-03-01 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
Does anyone have an archive of classiccmp that goes back to the 90's? If so, could I ask you to "hunt down" an old message of mine? I once wrote a "reminiscence" of connecting to the ARPANET when I was a kid that I was rather pleased with. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost it in a disk crash (a

Re: Vtserver 32MB limit

2018-03-01 Thread Robert Adamson via cctalk
>From Dennis Boone > Jonathan Engdahl's homepage shows his email > address. His changes are explained at the page you linked. Yes indeed - as I (meant to have) said, no reply to his email listed there. > The 32MB limit arises due to the use of 16 bit block number fields in > the protocol. I und

Re: Shipping a Flexowriter

2018-03-01 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
+1 on Pak Mail too. Marc > On Feb 27, 2018, at 12:12 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > >> On 02/27/2018 11:37 AM, Ed Sharpe wrote: >> *In my case lady worked at a warehouse and had her people palate >> and strap the 3 ttys! saved $$ Pack mail is great though to pack >> stuff

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Ethan via cctalk wrote: > That is a very standard IDE drive that you can replace with just about any >> IDE drive you can find, at least to get things up and running. The >> controller won't support the faster transfer speeds of later drives, and >> may not suppor

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread Ethan via cctalk
That is a very standard IDE drive that you can replace with just about any IDE drive you can find, at least to get things up and running. The controller won't support the faster transfer speeds of later drives, and may not support the full capacity of the larger drives, but the newer drives sho

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
Noel; Thanks for the exact info I was looking for!  I knew there was a text listing of the addresses and what devices occupied those addresses.  Going thru the manuals one by one was way too tedious.  Thanks for explaining the 'bank switching' that is done to accommodate the larger boot roms.

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread Jon Auringer via cctalk
- Original Message - > From: "devin davison" > To: "Jon Auringer" > Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 12:51:14 PM > Subject: Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines > > It is the 2500 SX. The drive is a quantum prodrive LPs 105 AT. > The

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread devin davison via cctalk
It is the 2500 SX. The drive is a quantum prodrive LPs 105 AT. The drive spins up but is not recognized. On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Jon Auringer wrote: > Hi Devin, > > - Original Message - >> From: "devin davison via cctalk" >> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"

Re: Picked up a couple 386 machines

2018-03-01 Thread Jon Auringer via cctalk
Hi Devin, - Original Message - > From: "devin davison via cctalk" > To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 5:05:03 PM > Subject: Picked up a couple 386 machines > > The tandy 2500 is pretty nice as well, it has a cdrom and a hard dri

HP 1000 system in Europe

2018-03-01 Thread GerardCJAT via cctalk
NICE system !! I would have love it but hadn't room for it too sad :-(( Where did in goes ??? ( Which country, in Europ, I think ? ) Gerard

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 1, 2018, at 6:12 AM, allison via cctalk wrote: > > ... and the MMU also > understands that peripherals live in that physical space be it 16/18/22 > bit memory map. That's true when the MMU is disabled; if so it supplies 1 bits for the upper bits for page 7, and zeroes for the other p

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> On many of the PDP-11s that page is signified by asserting BBS7 QBUS machines only; the UNIBUS has no equivalent signal. > FYI the microPDP-11/53 is the 11/23+ cpu card Err, no; according to the "MicroPDP11/53 System Supplement Manual" (AZ-GPTAA-MC), pg. 3-1, the CPU card in the /53 is

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Douglas Taylor > Is there a document that describes the bank 7 memory page and what > addresses are reserved for what? Here's one I collated from a large number of DEC manuals: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/UNIBUS_Registers.txt (Ignore the name, it applies to QB

Re: PDP11 I/O page memory map

2018-03-01 Thread allison via cctalk
On 02/28/2018 08:15 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: > Is there a document that describes the bank 7 memory page and what > addresses are reserved for what?  I think I've seen this before but > can't seem to put my hands on it. > > Another question, bootstrap is reserved for 173000, how many wo