Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 5:41 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > Is there a schematic anywhere for the hockey puck mice? Don't know if there is a VSXXX-AA mouse schematic anywhere. There is a DEPCA print set: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/ethernet/depca/MP02421_DEPCA_sch_May87.pdf Page 3

Fwd: [simh] Announcing the Open SIMH project

2022-06-03 Thread Clem Cole via cctalk
Announcing the Open SIMH project SIMH is a framework and family of computer simulators, initiated by Bob Supnik and continued with contributions (large and small) from many others, with the primary goal of enabling the preservation of knowledge contained in, and providing the ability to execute/ex

Announcing the Open SIMH project

2022-06-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
Announcing the Open SIMH project SIMH is a framework and family of computer simulators, initiated by Bob Supnik and continued with contributions (large and small) from many others, with the primary goal of enabling the preservation of knowledge contained in, and providing the ability to execute

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 3, 2022, at 8:55 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > On 6/3/22 08:46, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: >> On 03/06/2022 03:09, Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote: >>> On 6/1/2022 12:49 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: No one ever called it a "Digital Ethernet Personal Compute

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread David Bridgham via cctalk
On 6/3/22 08:55, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: On 6/3/22 08:46, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: It's predecessor, the DEQNA, was "Digital ETHERNET Q-Bus Network Adapter", according to its user guide, or "broken", according to most people :-) I see comments like this all the time bu

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 6/3/22 08:46, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: On 03/06/2022 03:09, Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote: On 6/1/2022 12:49 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: No one ever called it a "Digital Ethernet Personal Computer Bus Adapter", just a DEPCA. I never previously knew that there was any meaning beh

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 3, 2022, at 8:46 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > It's predecessor, the DEQNA, was "Digital ETHERNET Q-Bus Network Adapter", > according to its user guide, or "broken", according to most people :-) Yup. It went through 12 revisions, but even that last "rev L" didn

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 03/06/2022 03:09, Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote: On 6/1/2022 12:49 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: No one ever called it a "Digital Ethernet Personal Computer Bus Adapter", just a DEPCA. I never previously knew that there was any meaning behind the DEPCA name. Yes, that's what it meant. "DE

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 6/3/22 08:16, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Jun 3, 2022, at 12:47 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2022, 9:36 PM Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: Speaking of DEPCA, does anybody (a) know what kind of mouse connects (the docs just say DIGITAL MOUSE) and (b) know where to

Re: IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

2022-06-03 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 3, 2022, at 12:47 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2022, 9:36 PM Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > >> Speaking of DEPCA, does anybody (a) know what kind of mouse connects (the >> docs just say DIGITAL MOUSE) and (b) know where to get one? >> >> Warner >> > >