[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Martin Bishop via cctalk
Doug You have the essence of what it can do and how it might do it, an old iron PDP-11 / LSI-11 can't organically do the signal processing necessary to go from a compact signal representation to audio. That said you could use a one bit output, which would for efficiency require a serialiser, t

[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
Wow! Actual engineers responding... It looks like I could only do the most rudimentary audio. 1. Sample Rate: You got maybe 20K samples to store in lower memory.  At 7KHz sample rate that would allow 3 seconds of audio.  Voice only. 2. Samples: They must be 12 bits. Converting a modern audio cl

[cctalk] Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/9/23 7:21 PM, John Herron wrote: It can be a buzz kill if you visit about:logins on Firefox. Yes, that can be a bit of a surprise to someone not in the know. But if you stop and think about it for a few minutes, any and all password managers absolutely MUST have access to the unencrypted

[cctalk] Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread John Herron via cctalk
On Sun, Jul 9, 2023, 7:07 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > PSA: Not all password managers are created equally. > It can be a buzz kill if you visit about:logins on Firefox. >

[cctalk] Re: 1-click exploits was Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/9/23 3:12 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: It helps if you're running a version of *nixand not fenestrae. Not as much as one would hope. Android (Linux) and iOS (BSD derivative thus probably has a better clain to Unix) have had 1-click or the dreaded 0-click vulnerabilities (bugs) repeatedly

[cctalk] Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 7/8/23 4:27 AM, dave.g4...@gmail.com wrote: ... sorry sent this to soon... Things happen. Despite what your browser says, the link itself isn't dangerous. Web browsers aren't dangerous. Its USERS that are dangerous. All the single, or worse zero click, attack vectors tend to imply that

[cctalk] Problems with getting your newslatter

2023-07-09 Thread Murray McCullough via cctalk
Hello sir, I used to get your newsletter but no longer...I understand there are problems... I would be most interested in getting your newsletter again. Many thanks, Murray 🙂

[cctalk] Re: 1-click exploits was Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
> It helps if you're running a version of *nixand not fenestrae. Helps, but is not the near cure-all it was at one point, especially for the larger/more popular distros! Thanks, Jonathan

[cctalk] Re: 1-click exploits was Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 7/9/23 12:51, Todd Pisek via cctalk wrote: > Be aware that clicking on a malicious url can result on malware or spyware > being installed on your machine without any further action on your part. All > browsers have vulnerabilities. The most famous of these was the older version > of Pegasus b

[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Martin Bishop via cctalk
You just did use it to play "audio" :<) The 6 us settling time corresponds to a sampling rate of ~167 kHz, not that you will ever get there or would wish to. The theoretical (real) sampling rate required for a given bandwith is Fs = 2 Bw. That requires brick wall filters and it is a lot of wor

[cctalk] 1-click exploits was Re: BEWARE: Phishing

2023-07-09 Thread Todd Pisek via cctalk
Be aware that clicking on a malicious url can result on malware or spyware being installed on your machine without any further action on your part. All browsers have vulnerabilities. The most famous of these was the older version of Pegasus by NSO back in the 2014-2016 timeframe. These so called

[cctalk] Re: VT100: Datasheet for Intel 8228

2023-07-09 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Thanks for confirming that HLDA doesn't need to be asserted at this stage. I looked at the address trace and matched it to the disassembled ROM. My ROM image compares to another ROM image that has been posted online at 9track.net, so I am fairly confident that the CPU and ROM are OK. I don't th

[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 7/9/23 13:46, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: I have a PDP-11/53 and have just started playing with an AAV11-C D/A board.  It is a 4 channel D/A convertor with 12 bit resolution. Can it be used to play an audio bit stream? Here is simple code used to see if the thing was actually working

[cctalk] Re: Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On 07/09/2023 1:46 PM CDT Douglas Taylor via cctalk > wrote: > > > I was surprised to see that it took ~34 ms to run through all the > numbers from 0-, that is about 34 Hz. The manual says the 'settling > time' is 6 microseconds. Is this fast enough for audio? > > How would you conve

[cctalk] Talking PDP11

2023-07-09 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
I have a PDP-11/53 and have just started playing with an AAV11-C D/A board.  It is a 4 channel D/A convertor with 12 bit resolution. Can it be used to play an audio bit stream? Here is simple code used to see if the thing was actually working:     .title AAV11 D/A test     ;     .asect     db

[cctalk] Re: VT100: Datasheet for Intel 8228

2023-07-09 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
HLDA should be deasserted, that puts the processor in a DMA mode where it releases all the control signals. I/O W is asserted low when OUT is high and the low WR pulse comes along. It's both status and timing, coming out of the 8228. You would probably do well seeing if MEMR and MEMW are assert

[cctalk] Re: VT100: Datasheet for Intel 8228

2023-07-09 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Actually I have just found a more detailed description in the Intel 8080 Microcomputer Systems Users Manual 1975, but it still doesn't tell me exactly how it works. It isn't completely clear to me if it needs HLDA to be asserted for I/O W to be asserted. > -Original Message- > From: Rob Ja

[cctalk] VT100: Datasheet for Intel 8228

2023-07-09 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
Hello, I have a non-functioning VT100. I think I may have isolated the problem to an Intel 8228 chip (or 88228, the schematic says 8228, the part is marked 88228C). Certainly, the part gets a bit hot and it doesn't seem to be outputting anything on the I/O W pin (pin 27) despite activity on STS

[cctalk] Re: OT: Ham Radio

2023-07-09 Thread David C. Jenner via cctalk
There are numerous Ham Radio groups at Groups.io: https://groups.io If you know what you are after, search for it. If you're not sure, search for "ham radio". I belong to about 44 ham radio groups there. 73, Dave K7DCJ On 7/6/23 9:30 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: I know this is

[cctalk] Re: OT: Ham Radio

2023-07-09 Thread jake utley via cctalk
Threes this discord server where there is a nice ham community but most of the groups I’ve found are on Facebook. It’s fun to combine both hobbies like I’ve been computer controlling one of my old rigs with a apple 2 and using a C64 in conjunction as a rtty terminal. So many people take joy fr