Re: Glass memory?

2022-04-02 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 00:34, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > And, as you say, an Arduino or a Pi that fits in my pocket is orders > of magnitude more powerful and costs pocket money. The comparisons of size, power, storage, cost, power usage, heat output and so on are often made. What is l

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> does [disabling the MCLK counter via DCLO, asserted by the two > E126 monostable chain from ACLO] happen just on power-down, or on > power-up too? I'd need to understand how that two monostable chain > works in both cases, which I currently don't. (I only understand > monostab

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> > Disconnect the bad ACLO, power it on, and see if the CLK LED comes on. if > not, then we'll have to work out why not. This is my plan for later today. > > Noel

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> and there is some circuitry driving the clear input on the second > 123. Never mind this section. I mis-read the print; the clear input is connected to an _input_ of the flop below (which is also tied high). Noel

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: Brent Hilpert > Sent: 31 March 2022 22:48 > To: r...@jarratt.me.uk; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards > > On 2022-Mar-31, at 2:14 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote: > >> Those three comparators in the H777 a

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 4/2/2022 5:49 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > does [disabling the MCLK counter via DCLO, asserted by the two > E126 monostable chain from ACLO] happen just on power-down, or on > power-up too? I'd need to understand how that two monostable chain > works in both cases,

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Finally found time to get to this one... > From: Rob Jarratt > However, there is a puzzle. On the CPU I found that the track from the > pull up resistor to E70 has been cut. I don't know about the "pull up resistor" part, but I have several KDF11-U's, and _all_ of them have the trace

Re: Glass memory?

2022-04-02 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2022-04-02 4:27 a.m., Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 at 00:34, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: And, as you say, an Arduino or a Pi that fits in my pocket is orders of magnitude more powerful and costs pocket money. The comparisons of size, power, storage, cost, power u

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Rob Jarratt via > cctalk > Sent: 02 April 2022 11:58 > To: 'Noel Chiappa' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic > and Off-Topic Posts' > Subject: RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards > > > > > Disconnect the bad ACLO, power it on, and see if the

Re: Core memory

2022-04-02 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
You don’t strictly need an inhibit wire to write cores. You can write the core with just the addressing lines. The inhibit wire is just there to simplify the addressing electronics logic in early core memory, so you don’t need to have per core control of the current in the address lines when wri

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> It was quite a struggle to separate those nylon connectors, is there a > trick to it? You mean the Mate-n-lok's? Not really; just make sure the catch is released. What did you do about DCLO? (Oh, I think I see the answer, below looks like you're relying on the pullup on K3...)

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa via > cctalk > Sent: 03 April 2022 03:41 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu > Subject: RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards > > > It was quite a struggle to separate those nylon connectors, is there a