[Simh] [HECnet] Announcing PDP-11 Multi-Precision Arithmetic Package V0.9 (Preliminary Version) - FORTRAN 77 Callable

2015-06-23 Thread Jerome H. Fine
About 10 years ago, I was using an algorithm which required more than 15 digits of precision. I wrote some PDP-11 assembler code which could handle unsigned values up to 2^512 (just under 10^160) plus fractional numbers with 1024 bits that had a precision on the right hand side of the decimal poi

[RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
Some years ago, I wrote about a clone of the Beeprog (made by Elnec) I bought here locally in Brazil. Now, seems chinese are cloning the Beeprog PLUS (!!!) I got a Beeprog+ in the used market here in Brazil. Asked for Elnec warranty, since the programmer was manufactured in (month)1

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 07:57 AM, Alexandre Souza wrote: Some years ago, I wrote about a clone of the Beeprog (made by Elnec) I bought here locally in Brazil. Now, seems chinese are cloning the Beeprog PLUS (!!!) I got a Beeprog+ in the used market here in Brazil. Asked for Elnec warranty, s

Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Antonio Carlini
.Apologies if this has already been posted There seems to be someone building a processor from individual transistors: http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html Estimated size: quite big! Antonio

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 17:22, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 06/23/2015 07:57 AM, Alexandre Souza wrote: Some years ago, I wrote about a clone of the Beeprog (made by Elnec) I bought here locally in Brazil. Now, seems chinese are cloning the Beeprog PLUS (!!!) I got a Beeprog+ in the used market he

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread william degnan
I don't know, but there could be some WOW stuff there. I have to admit, the day I heard Barak Obama said the US was going to free up restrictions with Cuba I thought about the carsand the COMPUTERS!...UNIVAC? IBM 701? Anything could be there. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Paul Birkel wr

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Birkel
I wonder to what Soviet equipment they would have upgraded? On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:06 PM, william degnan wrote: > > http://millennialmainframer.com/2014/12/ibm-still-waiting-cuba-pay-mainframes/ > > Who's up for it? > > B >

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread COURYHOUSE
whenever I see video from there is to full of 50scars! Neat! Ed# In a message dated 6/23/2015 4:24:37 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, billdeg...@gmail.com writes: I don't know, but there could be some WOW stuff there. I have to admit, the day I heard Barak Obama said the US was

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Jonathan Katz
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Paul Birkel wrote: > I wonder to what Soviet equipment they would have upgraded? > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:06 PM, william degnan >> http://millennialmainframer.com/2014/12/ibm-still-waiting-cuba-pay-mainframes/ I wonder what kind of intelligence the Soviets

Strange DEC PC05 paper tape reader: doc for M705 needed

2015-06-23 Thread Jörg Hoppe
Hi all, I could acquire *four* rotten PC05 Papertape Reader/Punches for PDP-11. I'm now restoring them. One of these is strange: Normally, the feed hole (between data hole 3 and 4) is used to clock in bits from the data holes. But this very special PC05 does not have a phototransistor for the f

Re: Strange DEC PC05 paper tape reader: doc for M705 needed

2015-06-23 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: > Does anybody has a FPMS with schematics for the M705 modul? Perhaps as part > of some PDP-8 doc? The M705 is the standard part in the PC8L (along with the M710 and M715). Vince Slyngstad has some modern schematics here: http://svn.so-much-st

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
Fortunately, there are solutions to restore functionality to the clone Beeprog. I do not know if the same obtains for the clone Plus. Unfortunately I wasn't able - yet - to find online a working solution. All of them are crap, just deosn't work.

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
I doubt there any legal problems with their course of action. They are not obliged to ensure that their software works correctly on a pirate copy of their hardware. If they add some additional checks, and they trap out on a clone, I doubt that could be considered illegal. They do not try to de

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 17:59, Alexandre Souza wrote: I doubt there any legal problems with their course of action. They are not obliged to ensure that their software works correctly on a pirate copy of their hardware. If they add some additional checks, and they trap out on a clone, I doubt that could b

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Koning
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2015-06-23 17:59, Alexandre Souza wrote: >> >>> I doubt there any legal problems with their course of action. They are >>> not obliged to ensure that their software works correctly on a pirate >>> copy of their hardware. >>> If they

Re: What are the differences between the DEC RP11-C and RP11-E controllers?

2015-06-23 Thread P Gebhardt
Mike, Charles and the two Pauls, thanks very much for your feedback on this! The remaining point now is that they are practically impossible to find anymore these days, but that's different topic... Thanks again, Pierre

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Phil Budne
If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want build a TX-0 clone!

RE: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Michael Holley
I bought the January 1975 Popular Electronics (Altair Computer issue) at the US Navy Exchange in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mitscher_DDG35_Cuba_Jan_1975.jpg Michael Holley -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Beha

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 18:10, Paul Koning wrote: On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-23 17:59, Alexandre Souza wrote: I doubt there any legal problems with their course of action. They are not obliged to ensure that their software works correctly on a pirate copy of the

RE: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Dave G4UGM
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul > Koning > Sent: 23 June 2015 17:10 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN. > > > > On Jun 23, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrot

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Holm Tiffe
Jonathan Katz wrote: [..] > I wonder what kind of intelligence the Soviets gained from the ex-IBM > mainframes there. At that point in time a lot of the US defense > (NORAD) was run off of the SAGE setup, which must have had some 650s > as a component, right? Jonathan, I think it is _really_ naiv

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running. No Johnny. As I said, it bricks (renders inoperable) your hardware if it isn't origina

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 09:32 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running. You do misunderstand the situation. Elne

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 09:32 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: Jonathan, I think it is _really_ naive to think that the Soviets gained any big knowledge from that old Mainfraimes. The soviets build the sputnik, atomic bombs and intercontinental ROckets w/o to find such things on cuba at all. There was'nt any techno

RE: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread J. David Bryan
On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 15:39, Jay West wrote: > The disc drives appear to be HP 7900A drives. I agree. A few pictures for comparison here: http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=275 The printers appear to be Data Products 2310 drum printers, also sold as the HP 2767A; photos: h

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Jarratt RMA
Yes, I saw that on The Register today. Pretty impressive. I think it should be called a DuellProcessor. :-) Regards Rob On 23 June 2015 at 16:22, Antonio Carlini wrote: > .Apologies if this has already been posted > > There seems to be someone building a processor from individual transistors:

Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor

2015-06-23 Thread Marc Verdiell
Thanks David. My go to place for batteries is http://www.all-battery.com/. They are in the Valley, very cost effective, associated with Tenergy I believe. I receive my batteries in one or two days usually. Always had very good luck with them, and they have all possible cells in all possible grades

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Holm Tiffe
Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 06/23/2015 09:32 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: > > >Jonathan, I think it is _really_ naive to think that the Soviets gained any > >big knowledge from that old Mainfraimes. > > > >The soviets build the sputnik, atomic bombs and intercontinental > >ROckets w/o to find such things on

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running. No Johnny. As I said, it bricks (renders i

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 19:00, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 06/23/2015 09:32 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running.

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
No Johnny. As I said, it bricks (renders inoperable) your hardware if it isn't original. Please, read it again.

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread geneb
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware, and it refuses to continue running.

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
He's mentioned more than once that this software BRICKS the device. When something is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like the stone kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on. In the last message I added (render it unoperable) for the ones who don't k

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread geneb
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alexandre Souza wrote: He's mentioned more than once that this software BRICKS the device. When something is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like the stone kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on. In the last message I added (re

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Rod Smallwood
Well if that don't take the biscuit for originality. Good luck to you sir. Its a living animated schematic. Rod On 23/06/2015 17:20, Phil Budne wrote: If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want build a TX-0 clone!

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:27 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: > On 23/06/2015 17:20, Phil Budne wrote: >> If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want build a TX-0 clone! >> > Well if that don't take the biscuit for originality. The physical layout concept is actually quite similar to Harry Porter's relay mac

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Fred Cisin
We have now had conflicting "definitive" statements ranging from "the software simply displays a message and refuses to run", to "the software irreparably damages the device" But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Fred Cisin
It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir Invisible. IT'S BRICKED. Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D It is most assuredly NOT pining for the fjords! :) It is a relatively common euphemism, and is explicitly included in the classic Monty Python "Dead

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Sean Conner
It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin once stated: > > Surely any competent designer will provide a way to prevent/recover from > that situation! > That could consist of a physical switch or jumper that must be manually > set before the system can writeover the NVRAM. > OR there could be a

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Rod Smallwood
This guy needs help. Send a busload of soldering techs armed with temp controlled metcals and about a ton of tin/lead solder On 23/06/2015 19:37, Jarratt RMA wrote: Yes, I saw that on The Register today. Pretty impressive

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Koning
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Sean Conner wrote: > > ... > It could be due to an unforseen situation not considered by the designers. > Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a > high end German car in any case). He was updating the firmware on the car > wh

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread COURYHOUSE
hp drives yes... data printer no... correct name is data products and a neat printer if you were just printing the first 20 col zone I remember something about this model banging it out at 800 or 1000 lpm at full 80 col it was 300 LPM ( This was the first formal sale o

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread geneb
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Fred Cisin wrote: It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir Invisible. IT'S BRICKED. Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D It is most assuredly NOT pining for the fjords! :) It is a relatively common euphemism, and is explicitly in

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
Why are such incompetent designers still employed in the industry? Eh...this is INTENDED by the company. They want to fry your clone programmer, so you can buy an original one... :o\

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Fred Cisin
It could be due to an unforseen situation not considered by the designers. Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a high end German car in any case). He was updating the firmware on the car when the power cut out, leaving the firmware in an inconsistent state.

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Fred Cisin
Why are such incompetent designers still employed in the industry? On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alexandre Souza wrote: Eh...this is INTENDED by the company. They want to fry your clone programmer, so you can buy an original one... :o\ The retaliatory actions, certainly. The incompetent designers t

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: What is in the NVRAM? And how did it get there in the first place? Are you saying that it is impossible to reprogram the device with some other firmware after you have tried the version Elnec have which detects your clone? It's possible, but as I

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Dave Woyciesjes
On 06/23/2015 03:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a message saying that this is the wrong hardware,

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread geneb
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 06/23/2015 03:13 PM, geneb wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-23 18:41, Alexandre Souza wrote: But unless I misunderstood things, the software merely does a check if the hardware looks sane, and if not it displays a m

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Jules Richardson
On 06/23/2015 02:47 PM, Sean Conner wrote: Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a high end German car in any case). He was updating the firmware on the car when the power cut out, leaving the firmware in an inconsistent state. The fix required an engineer fr

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 21:49, Paul Koning wrote: On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Sean Conner wrote: ... It could be due to an unforseen situation not considered by the designers. Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a high end German car in any case). He was updati

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-23 22:05, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 06/23/2015 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: What is in the NVRAM? And how did it get there in the first place? Are you saying that it is impossible to reprogram the device with some other firmware after you have tried the version Elnec have which dete

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread Jules Richardson
On 06/22/2015 11:43 PM, Christian Kennedy wrote: I think the hint is on the back. This is a story of Delaine Donohue retiring from D&B where he created and ran the National Business Information Center and the Central Data Collection Group between the early 70s and early 80s. He retired in ’89,

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > hp drives yes... > ... > > OK another odd thing - note tapes but lack of tape drives. > > If only we could see what was in the rest of the room! I think those are all disk cartridges, rather than tapes. I was trying to guess what

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread geneb
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-06-23 22:05, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 06/23/2015 12:03 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: What is in the NVRAM? And how did it get there in the first place? Are you saying that it is impossible to reprogram the device with some other firmware after y

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread Rod Smallwood
Yes I noticed the rarther fancy panels with the edgewise meters. I'm begining to wonder if they might be for monitoring private comms circuits. Sort of a comms test box. The meters would be right for signal to noise and the row of buttons at the bottom for channel to monitor selection. On 23/

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Alexander Schreiber
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 05:59:08PM -0700, Ian S. King wrote: > ROAD TRIP! It is going to take a lot of bulldozers to build a road to Cuba ... > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:06 PM, william degnan > wrote: > > > > > http://millennialmainframer.com/2014/12/ibm-still-waiting-cuba-pay-mainframes/ >

Re: Strange DEC PC05 paper tape reader: doc for M705 needed

2015-06-23 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
From: Ethan Dicks: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 8:07 AM On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Jörg Hoppe wrote: Does anybody has a FPMS with schematics for the M705 modul? Perhaps as part of some PDP-8 doc? Vince Slyngstad has some modern schematics here: http://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/Eagle/p

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Sean Caron
I've spent a lot of time researching computer engineering in the Eastern Bloc ... there aren't a lot of sources here in the West that really describe well everything they did over there ... my Russian skills are absolutely awful so most of my knowledge derives from these secondhand summary papers t

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread william degnan
It could be a bunch of terminal multiplexers or communications controllers, does not even have to be CPU's... On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > > hp drives yes... > > ... > > > > OK another odd thing - note tapes bu

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexander Schreiber
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:03:33PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote: > On 2015-06-23 17:59, Alexandre Souza wrote: > > > >>I doubt there any legal problems with their course of action. They are > >>not obliged to ensure that their software works correctly on a pirate > >>copy of their hardware. > >>If

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexander Schreiber
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:38:22PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote: > We have now had conflicting "definitive" statements ranging from > "the software simply displays a message and refuses to run", to "the > software irreparably damages the device" > > >>>But unless I misunderstood things, the software me

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread TeoZ
Its one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it, another to clone something and stick the legit company name and logo on it. Why can't they brick a fake if they want to (after all it is the end user trying to load copyrighted firmware on a fake product not the company seeking out to

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Alexandre Souza
Now, if someone actually have one of these devices, and can verify that it actually bricks it, then we can talk. Until then, all I have is the above information from Elnec, which do not suggest anything beyond showing a message, and not continuing past that point. I have, I've seen it be

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jun-23, at 2:28 PM, william degnan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote: >> On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: >>> hp drives yes... >>> ... >>> >>> OK another odd thing - note tapes but lack of tape drives. >>> >>> If only we could see

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread william degnan
One way to find out! On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Sean Caron wrote: > I've spent a lot of time researching computer engineering in the Eastern > Bloc ... there aren't a lot of sources here in the West that really > describe well everything they did over there ... my Russian skills are > abso

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 02:50 PM, TeoZ wrote: Its one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it, another to clone something and stick the legit company name and logo on it. Why can't they brick a fake if they want to (after all it is the end user trying to load copyrighted firmware on a fake pro

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
That one's been around for awhile. Ever watch any old reruns of 60's era "The Outer Limits"? When there's a computer involved, it's clickety-clackety of relays working. Old TV can be fun. The other day, I saw an episode of "Get Smart" showing a bank of CDC tape drives, followed by a "Missio

Re: [RANT] EX-PARROT (Was:False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Jun-23, at 2:58 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote: >> Now, if someone actually have one of these devices, and can verify that it >> actually bricks it, then we can talk. Until then, all I have is the above >> information from Elnec, which do not suggest anything beyond showing a >> message, and

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread jwsmobile
On 6/23/2015 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: hp drives yes... data printer no... correct name is data products and a neat printer if you were just printing the first 20 col zone I remember something about this model banging it out at 800 or 1000 lpm II do have an 80 column Dat

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Mouse
> [It's] one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it, > another to clone something and stick the legit company name and logo > on it. Why can't they brick a fake if they want to [...] The same reason I'm not allowed to smash your car window, even if your car bears an unauthorized cop

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread drlegendre .
When it's done, I hope he mounts it all on a black rectangular table with 20 shiny metal legs on each the opposing longer sides. On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > That one's been around for awhile. Ever watch any old reruns of 60's era > "The Outer Limits"? When there's a c

Front Panel Update A and B panels

2015-06-23 Thread Rod Smallwood
Hi Guys I am off to Friedrichshafen for a few days and will be back on 1-JUL-2015. The next two batches of front panels will be: 8/e Type A 1. Old switch position markings (1 and 6 vertical) 2. Line around switch Area 3. Vertical lines b

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 04:11 PM, drlegendre . wrote: When it's done, I hope he mounts it all on a black rectangular table with 20 shiny metal legs on each the opposing longer sides. I seem to remember that the Packard-Bell PB250 used only about 400 transistors. (Magnetostrictive delay line memory). Lo

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Rod Smallwood
Which of course harks back to the Bletchley Park systems built on narrower but similar British Post Office 19" Relay Racks. The predecessors of the modern 19" racks. On 23/06/2015 20:34, Brent Hilpert wrote: On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:27 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote: On 23/06/2015 17:20, Phil Budne wr

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 09:32 , Holm Tiffe wrote: > > 1) > Yes they copied the PDP11 and the VAX but, They made an VAX Chip that's > compatible to the VAX730...and we all know that the VAX730 ist not an one > chip solution as the russian chip is. Ooh! Is there any chance I could get my hands

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread COURYHOUSE
well how many transistors does our table top straight pdp-8 have?! In a message dated 6/23/2015 4:26:38 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ccl...@sydex.com writes: On 06/23/2015 04:11 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > When it's done, I hope he mounts it all on a black rectangular table with > 20 s

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 11:59 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: Think that's ok for you? (not for me as for most people on the world, but they simplay take the rights to do this which really pisses me of) If yes, for sure you want to call it stupid that IBM still want's to get payd for the old Mainframes, don't you?

Re: George!

2015-06-23 Thread Ian S. King
It looks like you've refactored/consolidated a bit - or were there components you hadn't installed at VCF-E? On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:56 PM, wrote: > Great save! > > By the Way Evan I like the photo of that self contained Syston Donner > Analogue computer in your book! > Ed# _www.smecc

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread TeoZ
They didn't burn it, they just made it inoperable when the owner wanted to install new legit copyrighted firmware. If you kept it as is when purchased nothing would have happened. If you took that fake unit into a company shop for free user upgrades I think they would have the right to rip off

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 06:05 PM, TeoZ wrote: They didn't burn it, they just made it inoperable when the owner wanted to install new legit copyrighted firmware. If you kept it as is when purchased nothing would have happened. If you took that fake unit into a company shop for free user upgrades I think th

Re: [RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

2015-06-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
FTDI recently took the same approach of having their driver deliberately brick counterfeit chips, rather than throwing an error and refusing to talk to them. This is why I no longer purchase their chips or design them into my projects. A vendor who distributes drivers which deliberately brick ha

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-06-24 02:06, Mark J. Blair wrote: On Jun 23, 2015, at 09:32 , Holm Tiffe wrote: 1) Yes they copied the PDP11 and the VAX but, They made an VAX Chip that's compatible to the VAX730...and we all know that the VAX730 ist not an one chip solution as the russian chip is. Ooh! Is ther

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
> On Jun 23, 2015, at 19:24, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > Well, unless I'm mistaken, when the Russian VAX-11/730 on a chip came, DEC > had already produced the uVAX II, which is also just a chip, but much faster > than an 11/730, so it's not exactly as if the Russians were outperforming > what

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread wulfman
http://www.ebay.com/itm/N1839VZh2-USSR-Soviet-Russian-Clone-of-DEC-Micro-VAX-11-II-Support-IC-/380857961090 close but no cigar On 6/23/2015 8:43 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: >> On Jun 23, 2015, at 19:24, Johnny Billquist wrote: >> >> Well, unless I'm mistaken, when the Russian VAX-11/730 on a chip

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread wulfman
from same seller http://www.ebay.com/itm/L1839VM1-USSR-Soviet-Russian-Military-32-bit-CPU-Clone-of-DEC-Micro-VAX-11-II-/151342349060?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item233cb4fb04 bingo ! On 6/23/2015 8:58 PM, wulfman wrote: > http://www.ebay.com/itm/N1839VZh2-USSR-Soviet-Russian-Clone-of-DEC-Micro-VA

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:28:21PM -0700, Chuck Guzis wrote: > followed by a "Mission Impossible" episode where Mr. Phelps > receives his instructions via 4-track tape cartridge (which > self-destructs as usual). Even the ones that were not spy-approved did that :-) mcl

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:42:54PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote: > II do have an 80 column Dataprinter that looks like the one in the photo, > not a Data Products. There were two different companies, Data Printer and DataProducts. Confused everyone even at the time IIRC. mcl

Re: HP 2113e Battery resistor

2015-06-23 Thread J. David Bryan
On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 11:42, Marc Verdiell wrote: > Thanks David. You're welcome. > I might put NiMH batteries instead That may not be advisable, given the continuous constant-current trickle charger in the CPU power supply. The Panasonic "Nickel Metal Hydride Technical Handbook"

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 06/23/2015 09:38 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: Even the ones that were not spy-approved did that :-) Ain't that the truth! --Chuck

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread emu
Zitat von Sean Caron : I've spent a lot of time researching computer engineering in the Eastern Bloc ... ...being somewhat isolated from what was canonical over here, they also had their share of quite unusual indigenous designs ... a few of the papers I have read discuss experiments with hybrid

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread jwsmobile
On 6/23/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:42:54PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote: II do have an 80 column Dataprinter that looks like the one in the photo, not a Data Products. There were two different companies, Data Printer and DataProducts. Confused everyone even at the

Re: organizing a trip to Cuba

2015-06-23 Thread Mark J. Blair
Oh, I want the whole computer, not just the CPU chip. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X http://www.nf6x.net/

Re: Front Panel Update A and B panels

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Birkel
Can anyone recommend suitable rotary switches for either the A (vertical) or B (angled) configuration? On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Rod Smallwood < rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Guys > I am off to Friedrichshafen for a few days and will be back > on 1-JUL-2015. > >

Re: Megaprocessor - built from individual transistors

2015-06-23 Thread dave
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Phil Budne wrote: If I were going thru the trouble, I'd want build a TX-0 clone! I think it would me more interesting to build a replica of a pdp-8 straight-eight using significantly-reduced flip chips with surface-mount parts. -- David Griffith d...@661.org A: Becaus

Re: 1990 Era computer room

2015-06-23 Thread COURYHOUSE
the only one that did the hi speed reduced cols was that table top 80 col one for dataproduicts that I know of. our larger ones did not. by the way that small dataproducts also had a floor pedestal that made it a tall tower and you could open door for paper box...