RE: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread Rob Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: tony duell [mailto:a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk] > Sent: 10 September 2016 06:02 > To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: RE: Logic Analyser Advice > > > I have an HP1630 of some flavour and find it very useful. AF

RE: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread Rob Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel > Chiappa > Sent: 10 September 2016 02:54 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu > Subject: Re: Logic Analyser Advice > > > From: Ian S. King > > > Do you have the gr

Re: VC8E Option

2016-09-10 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:14:41PM -0500, Kyle Owen wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Pontus Pihlgren > wrote: > > > > Hmm, yes, I think I might actually. What do you have so far? > > > > I don't have much yet, unfortunately; still trying to get my thoughts > together on how it should be

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

2016-09-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
you mean when he picks up the mouse and says hello computer into it? yea I fell outta my seat! Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:31:59 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, clie...@gmail.com writes: The only "computer" related thing I can t

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

2016-09-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
yep! In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:46:36 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, p...@pski.net writes: > On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo wrote: > > The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from > Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macin

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

2016-09-10 Thread COURYHOUSE
You bet it does! My friend Jim Early explained to me how it was used on the Bell Solar Batteries ( solar cells) for TELSTAR Ed Sharpe PDP-8 SN18 In a message dated 9/9/2016 7:55:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, d...@dustyoldcomputers.com writes: On Thu, Sep 8,

Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!

2016-09-10 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 09/10/2016 07:31 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is > the crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was > thinking of using it for the touch screen face of the iphone. Pardon my pickiness, but sapphire isn't alum

Re: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread Jon Elson
On 09/10/2016 03:34 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: I went the Tek route. I had a 1240 for a long time, and then upgraded to a 9200 with 3 92A96 acq cards. Quite a beast, with 288 channels at 10 ns. They have transmission line cables to the pods, but the pods are passive, I think a parallel 82K resis

Identify HP Pods

2016-09-10 Thread Dale H. Cook
While going through some bags of probes that I recently acquired I found two of these HP pods that do not bear HP model numbers, just the company name and logo: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ONAAAOSwBahVJjOo/$_57.JPG as well as the clips used with them: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/

Re: Identify HP Pods

2016-09-10 Thread Glen Slick
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Dale H. Cook wrote: > While going through some bags of probes that I recently acquired I found two > of these HP pods that do not bear HP model numbers, just the company name and > logo: > > http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/ONAAAOSwBahVJjOo/$_57.JPG > > a

Re: SWTPC 6800 Weirdness

2016-09-10 Thread Brad H
Okay, I have it all dialed in now! With that iffy memory board swapped out, the system works beautifully. I did have some trouble loading Altair BASIC but after looking at a video of someone running it I discovered an extra line that appeared to be in the Altair patch file and also a couple o

RE: Components available - the rest of the story

2016-09-10 Thread Tom Gardner
Hi Jason: Yes the LCM has asked for it. If the CHM says no, we need to work out details of the transfer and may take u up on your offer to help in transport. Note it is a 6-foot rack with about 5 file drawers of documents Regards, Tom -Original Message- From: Jason Howe [mailto:ja...

Re: Identify HP Pods

2016-09-10 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 01:10 PM 9/10/2016, Glen Slick wrote: >Those are the leads that go with the HP163x series logic analyzer pods such as >the HP 1630G that Rob Jarratt was just asking about here. Aaah - that is why I did not recognize them - I had seen only the 165x/166x leads. Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector

RE: Components available - the rest of the story

2016-09-10 Thread couryhouse
I thought chm had woosed.. out on it already?.. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: Tom Gardner Date: 9/10/16 11:24 (GMT-07:00) To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: RE: Components available - the rest of the story Hi Jason: Yes th

Re: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread Ian S. King
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: > > > I will buy a set and see how it goes. I also believe there are some probes > that are designed to clip over a whole IC, any recommendations for those? I > did try using one once but it was designed to be used in conjunction with > grabber

Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-10 Thread Chris Hanson
Anyone have any suggestions for how to go about finding developer documentation for VME hardware? I haven’t been having much luck with Google searches. Given that (aside from its use by workstation manufacturers) most VME hardware was intended for composing systems from disparate parts, I assume

Re: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread Glen Slick
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Ian S. King wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Rob Jarratt > wrote: > >> I will buy a set and see how it goes. I also believe there are some probes >> that are designed to clip over a whole IC, any recommendations for those? I >> did try using one once but

Re: Identify HP Pods

2016-09-10 Thread Glen Slick
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Dale H. Cook wrote: > At 01:10 PM 9/10/2016, Glen Slick wrote: > >>Those are the leads that go with the HP163x series logic analyzer pods > > Aaah - that is why I did not recognize them - I had seen only the 165x/166x > leads. > Sorry, I was wrong. I saw replies

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-10 Thread Mark Linimon
You just had to go by each manufacturer's documentation. I can say this with some authority, as I wrote some of said documentation during my several years at Mizar :-) There is the spec, of course, but that only tells you what each board must implement so it can talk to the others across the back

Re: Logic Analyser Advice

2016-09-10 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 9/10/2016 3:34 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa Sent: 10 September 2016 02:54 To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: Logic Analyser Advice The key for me was to find

FW: Y Combinator is restoring one of Alan Kay's Xerox Alto machines

2016-09-10 Thread CuriousMarc
Video of session 6 is up: https://youtu.be/b7yVhMT7tr4 Found our first bad IC. Probably not our last one. On 9/3/16 11:08 PM, curiousma...@gmail.com wrote: Episode 5, still does not boot, but we are starting to follow long why: https://youtu.be/Wr7vDZpniNIr Marc On Jul 31, 2016, at

bitsavers FP11-B schem: M8115-0-01 sheets 1 and 2 missing?

2016-09-10 Thread Fritz Mueller
Hi all, I’m working on debugging an FP11-B floating point option in a PDP-11/45. I’ve just discovered that in the engineering drawings for this on bitsavers, sheets 1 and 2 of the FRL board prints are missing :-( Does anybody have a complete set of FP11-B drawings? I can work around the miss

obscure forgoten Machean of Europe?

2016-09-10 Thread Adrian Stoness
I've got the model for the Phillips p1000 love to get more stuff to go with it. Got the paper cut out scan someone sent me a while back. Came across this doing my once every few months search https://aconit.inria.fr/omeka/items/show/595 http://amitrtlu.free.fr/guirimand/G3d.htm What other obscu

Re: Components available - the rest of the story

2016-09-10 Thread Curious Marc
Forgot to say, I am also interested in old components (particularly old ICs, TTL and CuTL). I'm local, can pick up. Marc Sent from my iPad > On Sep 8, 2016, at 10:08 AM, Tom Gardner wrote: > > The rest of the story. > > As Al pointed out, much to our surprise, the museum has rejected an offer

Re: obscure forgoten Machean of Europe?

2016-09-10 Thread Fred Cisin
Clan MacHeans ne'er got involved with such. Perhaps you mean the MacHines?

Re: Finding developer docs for VME hardware?

2016-09-10 Thread Chris Hanson
No worries, I expected that I'd need to find the manufacturers docs. I was hoping though that someone would have a repository or something, like Bitsavers... -- Chris Sent from my iPad > On Sep 10, 2016, at 2:28 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > You just had to go by each manufacturer's document

Re: obscure forgoten Machean of Europe?

2016-09-10 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 10:31:22PM -0500, Adrian Stoness wrote: > I've got the model for the Phillips p1000 love to get more stuff to go with > it. Got the paper cut out scan someone sent me a while back. > > Came across this doing my once every few months search > > https://aconit.inria.fr/omeka

Re: obscure forgoten Machean of Europe?

2016-09-10 Thread Mattis Lind
> > > > What other obscure European Machean are out there? > > There are of course Norsk Data that made minis and micros (rumor has it > North Korea still runs ND). In Sweden we had Datasaab which made minis and > mainframes. I have a rare micro, the Datasaab D16 which is really a Facit > which is