On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, chocolatejolli...@gmail.com wrote:
Been trying to no avail to find any info on this 'MCT' S-100 serial
card.
Could this MCT be Modular Circuit Technology, the generic brand of add
on cards once sold in the JDR Microdevices catalog?
Possibly, I mentioned this in the other
Jay Jaeger wrote:
> On 9/29/2015 1:22 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> > Holm Tiffe wrote:
> >>
> > Forgot to ask:
> > In the VAX CPU the M8236 should be the Interface to the Console Computer,
> > what is ion the other reEnd in the PDP11?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Holm
> >
>
> I have one taken out of a
On 9/30/2015 10:46 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm fairly certain this is a serial board - mostly because the PO told
me so, and when I received it, it had a 25-pin male connector on a
three-wire cable carelessly soldered to the pads behind one of the
cable headers on the top edge. Bu
Hi drlegendre,
According to the attached datasheet for the GI AY-3-1014A & AY-3-1015D chips on
your board, they are 0-30K baud UAR/T chips so you at least have two serial
ports. As to what the rest of the board is, many of the other chips
identifications are a bit fuzzy plus one chip is missing
On 1 October 2015 at 02:34, Sean Caron wrote:
> While there are a few "forks" of BSD, there never was a proliferation of
> various "distributions"; that is to say, there is only one, definitive
> FreeBSD, one, definitive NetBSD and one, definitive OpenBSD. All are
> significantly stripped of crud
> >
> > I'm fairly certain this is a serial board - mostly because the PO told
> > me so, and when I received it, it had a 25-pin male connector on a
> > three-wire cable carelessly soldered to the pads behind one of the
> > cable headers on the top edge. But the cable was removed as a matter
> > o
I have been doing a bit of spadework on this one.
There was a company call MCT who advertised in the PC Mag. in the early
80's
The products were add-ons for PC's.
The possibiliy that they made S100 products prior to 1980 is not an
unreasonable one.
So anybody with an early 80's PC Mag might fi
They still have them. They pulled the bin and put your name on it. It's about
100 (my guess) pieces at .15 each. I already did a lifetime buy myself.
Joe
On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:36 PM, j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote:
>> From: Joseph Lang
>
>> How many do you want?
>
> How many d
The same seller is apparently selling a lot of punched card machines:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/371453045495
http://www.ebay.de/itm/371453065369
2015-09-21 22:32 GMT+02:00 Henk Gooijen :
> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: jwsmobile
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 8:37 PM
> To: General Di
> They still have them. They pulled the bin and put your name on it.
Great, thanks very much! Just called them up and ordered the whole shebang.
> It's about 100 (my guess) pieces
Your guess was very accurate - actually, 105!
> I already did a lifetime buy myself.
If anyone needs
On 10/1/2015 2:34 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Jay Jaeger wrote:
>
>
> Do you possibly want to sell that M9400-YE? (I don't know if the
> people in Halle would buy it, I'm just asking to tell them).
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Holm
>
I expect that I would be willing to sell it, as I have no VAX to connect
I had a look, and it seems to me that there is more going on on this
board than just serial ports. It is even possible that the system it
was in had essentially re-purposed the board to use for a serial ports
in a way that the original designer did not intend. That would explain
the lack of obvio
I picked up the Decision Data card puncher last Tuesday. Heavy stuff!
I helped the seller move the orange colored card punch. It's a Juki.
Also *very heavy*. BTW, the keyboard of the Decision Data puncher
is connected with a cable; you can move the keyboard to a comfortable
position. IIRC, the key
On 09/30/2015 11:14 PM, chocolatejolli...@gmail.com wrote:
Been trying to no avail to find any info on this 'MCT' S-100 serial
card.
Could this MCT be Modular Circuit Technology, the generic brand of
add on cards once sold in the JDR Microdevices catalog?
I suggested that back in an earlie
Just ran across this while deleting old posts;
many of the Aresco 'PET Paper's can be found here:
http://6502.org/documents/publications/pet_paper/
The Midnight Gazette also took over 'The Paper',
to be found here:
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/newsletters/midnight-software-gazette/midnight
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Liam Proven wrote:
* m0n0wall
Isn't m0n0wall just a LiveCD for a firewall? It was when I used it last.
g.
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Jay Jaeger wrote:
> On 10/1/2015 2:34 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> > Jay Jaeger wrote:
> >
> >
> > Do you possibly want to sell that M9400-YE? (I don't know if the
> > people in Halle would buy it, I'm just asking to tell them).
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Holm
> >
>
> I expect that I would be
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> Just ran across this while deleting old posts;
> many of the Aresco 'PET Paper's can be found here:
>
> http://6502.org/documents/publications/pet_paper/
Those are great, but incomplete. Looks like only the even pages of
Volume 1 Issue 6 (Augus
I've got another theory regarding drlegendre's board.
I happen to know via out-of-band information that he is here in MN.
There is a company in the Twin Cities called Micro Component Technology
that existed in the 70s, 80s, 90s and still today.
They make handling and test systems for IC fabricat
Who knew? Not me :O But those are all kind of "piddly" (sorry) ... I don't
think they have much "mindshare" or very many actual installations compared
to the top-line FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD ... and those BSD repackagers
don't have so much potential influence to argue over the basic direction of
*
> From: Stephen Lafferty
> When I bought the Omnibus prototyping board from Douglas Electronics by
> phone a few years ago, the lady I spoke to offered to include handles
> ...
> I have not found the handles mentioned on their website but I might
> have missed it.
They do
On 9/25/2015 4:03 PM, m...@markesystems.com wrote:
>>> Not sure why you have VARCHARs for primary keys, why not use the
>>> conventional auto-increment int so you can dispense with
>>> the LastGeneratedArtifactID table.
>>>
>
>> Because my artifact ID's are not always just numbers. In some cases
@Chris
That's an intriguing and very real possibility, but then there's this:
http://www.mct.net/ - Does that logo look familiar? Founded in the 80s,
controller boards, interface modules, single-board computers.. but yes,
they are in Germany. I did try contacting them, but never heard back.
@All
Now a question..
Can someone give me a quick rundown on how the CPU communicates with this
board? Does the board show up as a few bytes in the memory map, like on
page zero? Does it connect directly to some registers in the CPU? How does
data move from the CPU / buss into & out of the board?
In s
On Thursday (10/01/2015 at 06:21PM -0500), drlegendre . wrote:
> @Chris
>
> That's an intriguing and very real possibility, but then there's this:
> http://www.mct.net/ - Does that logo look familiar? Founded in the 80s,
> controller boards, interface modules, single-board computers.. but yes,
> t
On 10/01/2015 04:36 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
They claim "Embedded Control know-how since 1984." but you have 1980
and 1981 date code parts on your board. It's possible they made
the board before they knew how however. That is not unheard of.
:-)
If you know the provenance of your Altair, ma
On Thursday (10/01/2015 at 06:27PM -0500), drlegendre . wrote:
> Now a question..
>
> Can someone give me a quick rundown on how the CPU communicates with this
> board? Does the board show up as a few bytes in the memory map, like on
> page zero? Does it connect directly to some registers in the C
@Chris / All
Unfortunately, I've never eyeballed the logo of the locally-based MCT corp
so I can't comment on it, but again, it's an intriguing thought. And yes,
it's quite possible that the PO knew or ever purchased this Altair from an
employee there. He (PO) indicated that he bought the system s
On Thursday (10/01/2015 at 07:30PM -0500), drlegendre . wrote:
> @Chris / All
>
> Unfortunately, I've never eyeballed the logo of the locally-based MCT corp
> so I can't comment on it, but again, it's an intriguing thought. And yes,
> it's quite possible that the PO knew or ever purchased this Alt
Here's more grist for the mill. I did contact and receive a reply from
gentleman Herb Johnson at retrocomputing. I hope he doesn't mind if I quote
his comments here.. they seem quite pertinent and they reflect or
complement many of our working assumptions.
Herb Sez:
"Warning: I'm offering advice,
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 01:45:27PM +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> Well, there's one OpenBSD and one NetBSD.
>
> Off the top of my head, FreeBSD has begotten:
FreeBSD keeps a "BSD family tree" chart in ASCII. Of course it is
not complete, and open to disagreement.
But here it is from the commit rep
Coming up with a schema that works with multiple manufacturers is the big
challenge.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> On 9/25/2015 4:03 PM, m...@markesystems.com wrote:
> >>> Not sure why you have VARCHARs for primary keys, why not use the
> >>> conventional auto-increment int
"My guess would be cost. Those headers back then were somewhat expensive
due to the heavy (30) gold plating."
Wow. I never even considered that a header could be more costly than a
74LSXXX chip - doesn't make sense. But then again, I wasn't in the field
back in that day.
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