Koning TECO

2021-07-14 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
Paul Koning may be pleased to know that his implementation of TECO has supplanted Blake McBride's TECOC as the standard TECO in the Rubin Observatory's Science Platform Interactive Notebook Aspect. https://github.com/lsst-sqre/nublado/blob/f6b186081c0a3c9e12a1935db304ee2b31840e2c/jupyterlab/stage2

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

2021-07-14 Thread Doc Shipley via cctalk
On 7/13/21 14:30, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: Hi folks, Powering up with nothing attached apart from an MMJ/H8571 cable I get nothing on the console, I'm using PuTTY via a genuine COM1 port on a PC which is one level above what I used last time I powered the machine up (FTDI USB adapter to a

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 14, 2021, at 3:53 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote: > > > On 7/14/21 9:50 AM, Paul Koning wrote: >> >>> On Jul 14, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> I've found 2 issues w.r.t. "rotary converters". >>> >>> * They *always* consume lots of power regardless of th

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On 7/14/21 9:50 AM, Paul Koning wrote: On Jul 14, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: I've found 2 issues w.r.t. "rotary converters". * They *always* consume lots of power regardless of the actual load Really? That seems odd. A rotary converter is merely a three phase mo

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 7/14/21 11:33 AM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: On 7/14/21 6:21 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jul 13, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: When we got an 8530 at work in the early 90s (needed a machine with a Nautilus bus for specific hardware testing), it was defi

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 7/14/21 11:50 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jul 14, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk wrote: I've found 2 issues w.r.t. "rotary converters". * They *always* consume lots of power regardless of the actual load Really? That seems odd. A rotary converter is merely a thre

DEC use of switching supplies (Was: Looking for VAX6000 items)

2021-07-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > The older Vaxes had linear power supplies if I recall up to the time > of the Decsystem/2020 (when they went switching at last) Really? The H742 power supply: https://gunkies.org/wiki/H742_Power_Supply (well, technically, the associated 'bricks', such as the H

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

2021-07-14 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
VT100 to the rescue, the VLC is fine talking to it so now I'm wondering why my old faithful hardware UART in this PC I'm typing on now has let me down. The BlueSCSI appears as 7 devices though, which is usually a termination or ID problem so I now need to dig out an external terminator for the box

KI10/KL10 I/O bus terminator

2021-07-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hey, anyone need a KI10/KL10 I/O Bus terminator: https://gunkies.org/wiki/File:KIKLIOBusTerm.jpg (H867)? Since I don't have either a KI10 or a KL10, I'm unlikely to ever have a need/use for this one! :-) Noel

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 14, 2021, at 12:33 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > I've found 2 issues w.r.t. "rotary converters". > > * They *always* consume lots of power regardless of the actual load Really? That seems odd. A rotary converter is merely a three phase motor with run capacitors. Jus

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Guy Sotomayor via cctalk
On 7/14/21 6:21 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jul 13, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: When we got an 8530 at work in the early 90s (needed a machine with a Nautilus bus for specific hardware testing), it was definitely a 3-phase machine and since we were in an indus

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
The 6000 is not like that. After the inlet box the three phases go to the power conditioner which has a 3-phase thyristor controlled rectifier. From there its 300v up to the regulators. I remember my 11/780 was like you described. Oh, that shouldn't be too bad then: Most good networking power

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 14, 2021, at 7:43 AM, Brian Roth via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> Interesting. Were the power supplies 3 phase input? Like you I have >> noticed that most pdp and vax gear just pull 120 volt legs off the 3 >> phase to balance power loads. So you can run them on a couple of 120 >> c

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
The LSSM, VCFed and System Source acquired a large collection of VAX hardware couple of years ago and divided it up for their various museums (6000? 7000?). There is very little about it online, but I have seen the portions that made it to vcfed and System Source. If it wasn't a very large 6000

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jul 13, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > >> When we got an 8530 at work in the early 90s (needed a machine with a >> Nautilus bus for specific hardware testing), it was definitely a >> 3-phase machine and since we were in an industrial setting, I just >> tapped into ou

Re: Looking for VAX6000 items

2021-07-14 Thread Brian Roth via cctalk
  >Interesting. Were the power supplies 3 phase input? Like you I have >noticed that most pdp and vax gear just pull 120 volt legs off the 3 >phase to balance power loads. So you can run them on a couple of 120 >circuits. Outside of say the RP07 (which is a real 3 phase motor) The 6000 is not

Re: VAX4000 VLC diagnostics/console

2021-07-14 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 13 Jul 2021, at 23:20, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > wrote: > > On 13/07/2021 22:34, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> On 7/13/2021 3:30 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Powering up with nothing attached apart from an MMJ/H8571 cable I get >>> nothing on the co