LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-01 Thread Mark Kahrs via cctalk
The first implementation was done for the 7090 by McCarthy (hence CAR and CDR --- Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement Register). If you want to see a tiny implementation then look for the PDP-1 implementation done by L Peter Deutsch. There's a book chapter and then I found this

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-01 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Mark Kahrs wrote: > The first implementation was done for the 7090 by McCarthy (hence CAR > and CDR --- Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement > Register). Or was it an IBM 704?

VCF Midwest 14 Videos

2019-10-01 Thread Jason T via cctalk
The videos are up! The last of the VCF Midwest 14 Talks videos, shot in glorious 4K and lovingly edited by the intrepid Trixter, have been rendered and posted to our YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/vcfmidwest Check out the Talks you missed this year and in years past, as well as select atten

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/1/19 5:22 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. > > I remember Mylar punched tape. That stuff is amazingly strong and > waterproof. I've seen it for paper tapes that were intended to be read > thousands of times --

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote: >> Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is lost after the latest >> server crash > > Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. I remember M

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Toby Thain via cctalk
On 2019-10-01 6:28 p.m., ben via cctalk wrote: > Strange Paper tape lasts forver,Digial media is lost after the latest > server crash Both better have backups. Paper tape doesn't do well in fires and floods. --T

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/1/2019 1:38 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, ben wrote: A quick look,  nothing is said about Algol, did you mean Assembler? what I see is interesting is that LISP is on a 11. I allways thought LISP only ran on BIGGER machines. I have the source and binary for KL

Looking for S100 SCP-500C, Disk Master, Seattle Computer Products

2019-10-01 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Looking for a SCP-500C Disk Controller to go with my CPU Support and 8086 boards.

Re: Tek 500 pulser modules

2019-10-01 Thread dwight via cctalk
I thought I'd mention, do use caution when fixing pulse generators. The output transistors are often mounted an a beryllium ceramic. Even the dust from these is quite toxic. These usually have warning stickers but stickers can get lots. Dwight From: cctalk on b

Re: Tek 500 pulser modules

2019-10-01 Thread dwight via cctalk
Hi I thought I'd mention that when troubleshooting a computer, if you can't takeover the execution of the processor, such as a diagnostic ROM, a pulse generator can be a useful tool. For most all TTL, except some bus drivers, one can use a pulse generator to override a 1 value to inject a signa

RE: Standard Engineering CAMAC crate controller with LSI-11

2019-10-01 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
Much to my surprise, there are CAMAC Crates and memory cards on E-Bay. How you would use this I don't know. When I worked at NERC we used them for many many tasks. We had a Honeywell L66 running GCOS3. We used these to emulate Honeywell RNP707s. These were like 3780's so remote work terminals, p

SGI Challenge M memory boards

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
I have 15 pieces of memory SIMMs for the Challenge M series (funny, seems like there should be an even #). Pics here : http://pico-systems.com/images/SGIChallenge.JPG Jon

Re: RAMTEK memory boards FTGH

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 09/30/2019 08:21 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: I have 20 RAMTEK memory boards from late '80s frame buffers. They each have 20 TMS4161-20NL video RAM chips on them. The RAMTEK part # is ASSY 510857 Anyone have any interest? Jon Here's a pic : http://pico-systems.com/images/RAMTEK.JPG

Re: Standard Engineering CAMAC crate controller with LSI-11

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 09/30/2019 09:17 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: just a box of boards or a system missing a memoru module? Here's the LSI11/2 module : http://pico-systems.com/images/CAMACLSI.JPG Here's the CAMAC interface : http://pico-systems.com/images/CAMACintf.JPG Here's the panel label : http

Re: Tek 500 pulser modules

2019-10-01 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/01/2019 08:02 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: http://www.pulseinstruments.com/plugins/PI-451A_Users_Manual.pdf 100ns to 100us with MOS outputs Wow, good find! Thanks, Jon

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > Any idea what ultimately happened to that 11/45? MIT offered it to me as a gift, but I was a total idiot (and also didn't have future vision), and as I was so busy with the IETF/IESG at the time (which might have been the right call, given how the Internet - note the

Re: Tek 500 pulser modules

2019-10-01 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
http://www.pulseinstruments.com/plugins/PI-451A_Users_Manual.pdf 100ns to 100us with MOS outputs On 9/30/19 6:48 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: I have 3 units of the Pulse Instruments PI-451A programmable pulse driver.  One has a note that it is bad.  These seem to be general purpose pulse ge

RE: Standard Engineering CAMAC crate controller with LSI-11

2019-10-01 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
Jon, Used lots of these back in the day. Where in the world is it, its big to ship? Does it need a CAMAC memory card or a QBUS card? Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Jon Elson via > cctalk > Sent: 01 October 2019 02:45 > To: gene...@ezwind.net; discuss...@ezwind.net

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, ben wrote: A quick look, nothing is said about Algol, did you mean Assembler? what I see is interesting is that LISP is on a 11. I allways thought LISP only ran on BIGGER machines. I have the source and binary for KLISP-11 V2 on papertape; available on our FTP server. C