Re: Next project: 11/24. Does it need memory?--Progress-ish

2020-10-23 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
And "in the meantime" I figured something was wrong on the Unibus, so I pulled all of the cards except CPU, memory, and the 9302 terminator. Still flunks in any memory references in ODT. Weird. Then I pulled the memory card so it was just the CPU. Same thing. Then I figured might as well put t

Re: non-shunting jumpers?

2020-10-23 Thread Peter Corlett via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:30:40AM -0700, brian--- via cctalk wrote: > Oddball question here: has anyone ever seen a way to cap off or protect > standard 0.1" pin header jumpers? I prefer to not leave boards in places where stuff like pin headers can be damaged. And really, pin headers are the lea

Re: The weird stuff I keep finding: 19 bit core memory?

2020-10-23 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM Eric Smith wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:22 AM Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I have seen PDP-15 core memory and it is not that format. It looks like >> > the memory modules from a PDP-8/I or -8/L >> > > The ME15 memory for the

Re: The weird stuff I keep finding: 19 bit core memory?

2020-10-23 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:22 AM Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 11:26:22PM -0400, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > > Or maybe a PDP-15? 18 bits plus parity. > > > > Possible, did the pdp15 use that type of board? > > > > I have seen PDP-15 core

Re: The weird stuff I keep finding: 19 bit core memory?

2020-10-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> (Whether that's all done on the companion driver boards, and the H21x > card would just bring the wiring of the two banks out to the edge > connector in parallel, letting the driver board do what it wants, I > don't know - you'd have to look at the MM11-L engineering drawings/TM.)