Re: How to refurbish plotter pens?

2019-01-19 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
It has been almost two years since I visited this topic. But just before christmas i got around doing something about it. I interfaced it to the PDP-11/05 using an XY11 board. It seems to be very little information on the XY11 board saved. At least I didn't find anything. But the board is a quite

Re: How to refurbish plotter pens?

2019-01-19 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2019-01-19 04:57, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > So I concluded that the best option is to make a new pen holder plunger > which could take standard ball point refill. The Pilot BRFV-10M seemed to > be very common refill and would probably work well if I had another pen > holder. I asked arou

Re: How to refurbish plotter pens?

2019-01-19 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 01/19/2019 03:57 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: All my pens were obviously dry. Refurbish a pen seems to be impossible. Well, leaving them in alcohol for a few days seems to slowly seep in and soften the dried ink. Most have hair-thin wires that run down through the pen "needle" and the

DEC Rainbow / Pro video on VGA monitors?

2019-01-19 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
Greetings, I'm trying to find a way to get my DEC Rainbow's monochrome output onto a newer monitor than my aging VR201 (especially since I zapped something in it and my diagnostic efforts to date haven't fixed it). So, I found the bit in the Rainbow docs that said the output was DC Coupled RS-170

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-19 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
Happy weekend, all! Latest updates on this issue: Identified and replaced a faulty 4116 DRAM (E204) on my MS11-L. After this, my small hand-rolled standalone diagnostic passes the full 256K. I'll post my diagnostic source over on my blog soon. After this repair, tried MAINDEC ZQMC, called ou

Re: DEC Rainbow / Pro video on VGA monitors?

2019-01-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 19, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk > wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm trying to find a way to get my DEC Rainbow's monochrome output onto a > newer monitor than my aging VR201 (especially since I zapped something in > it and my diagnostic efforts to date haven't fixed it). >

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jan 19, 2019, at 4:17 PM, Fritz Mueller via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > Looking into the parity issue some last night has raised a few questions: > > - There is a lot of inconsistent and incomplete information in the > documentation about memory CSRs. They appear to come in different fl

Re: DEC Rainbow / Pro video on VGA monitors?

2019-01-19 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 2:38 PM Paul Koning wrote: > > > > On Jan 19, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I'm trying to find a way to get my DEC Rainbow's monochrome output onto a > > newer monitor than my aging VR201 (especially s

Re: Houston stash sorting this coming Saturday

2019-01-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/14/19 11:20 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > The 2 sheds will be sorted next Saturday morning, early, in Katy, TX. Did this end up happening? I've not seen any postings or updates.

VCF PNW 2019: Exhibitors (still) needed!

2019-01-19 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
This is not quite last call, but it is getting close ... We have 16 exhibits so far and we need a few more to make the show work. (20 would be nice, 25 would be ideal.) The event is March 23-24th in Seattle. Soon I'm going to start working on the exhibit floor plan, set the event schedule, and s

Re: Xerox Star emulator (Darkstar) released today

2019-01-19 Thread Scott Kevill via cctalk
Josh didn't mention this, and I didn't see it linked on the GitHub repo, but he's also written a fantastic intro article about it here: https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/19/introducing-darkstar-a-xerox-star-emulator/ Covers some of the Xerox Star's history, challenges of the e

Re: Xerox Star emulator (Darkstar) released today

2019-01-19 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Just wow. Congrats Josh. Marc > On Jan 19, 2019, at 9:09 PM, Scott Kevill via cctalk > wrote: > > Josh didn't mention this, and I didn't see it linked on the GitHub repo, but > he's also written a fantastic intro article about it here: > > https://engblg.livingcomputers.org/index.php/2019/01/