I was assisting an older client the other day, a former Yale prof,
and he's been programming since the late 1950s.
He knew people who worked at Bletchley Park. He also mentioned he
knew people who had manually scribed their programs on some sort of metal
cylinder. Which computer system was t
On 4/20/19 3:47 PM, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
> I haven't found any more info on the signaling that goes
> over the DB37 data cable, and I would like to use my portable logic
> analyzer to sniff out some basics:
I could help you, I have several DWs and I want to document the hardware,
but
On 4/20/19 1:32 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Picked one up, it is the last generation of 3274-style controllers before
> they went to 3174-style ca. 1988.
> I'd like to find manuals and the IPL diskette (1.2mb).
> The unit actually had an IPL floppy, but it disintegrated trying to recover
> From: Nigel Williams
> I'm wondering if on a real 11/70 there is a 5mm gap between the
> masthead and the rack blanking panel below it?
If by "masthead" you mean the thing DEC calls a "Logo Panel" (see 11/70
Engineering Drawings, 'Unit Assembly', pg 1 of 5), it's the same as all th
On 4/21/19 9:11 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> Today's project is to go through the later-gen 1174 controller docs to see if
> there is some hint of how to
> configure the thing and try that on the earlier model.
>
Configuration is completely different
I noticed it isn't even getting as f
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Telex 20 Meg 10 platter very heavy monster drive needed drop line off list
thanks Ed# ---hope this works and see ds from phone ok... thx---
On 2019-04-21 5:43 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
> Subject: Telex 20 Meg 10 platter very heavy monster drive needed drop line
> off list..
>
> Telex 20 Meg 10 platter very heavy monster drive needed drop line off list
> thanks Ed# ---hope this works and see ds from phone ok... thx---
>
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:56 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
> If by "masthead" you mean the thing DEC calls a "Logo Panel" (see 11/70
> Engineering Drawings, 'Unit Assembly', pg 1 of 5), it's the same as all the
> other PDP-11 etc logo panels,...
when you say "same", as in the same text as wel
> From: Nigel Williams
>> it's the same as all the other PDP-11 etc logo panels,...
> when you say "same", as in the same text as well?
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. 'Same physical shape' is what I meant;
just different stuff painted on the insert.
> thanks for the co
Cool, do you happen to have schematics for the keyboard or a description of
the signaling? I could help make a hardware convertor that takes in a USB
keyboard and spit out DW keystrokes...
A POST logic trace would be helpful I'm sure - where are you located? We
can take this off-list if you prefer
Looks like this guy has the Displaywriter keyboard protocol on his to-do
list:
http://www.kbdbabel.org/
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 10:15 PM Anders Nelson
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> Cool, do you happen to have schematics for the keyboard or a description
> of the
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