On 11/7/16 8:46 AM, et...@757.org wrote:
> I think one of the guys might of
> mentioned you! But he talked as if much of that documentation was gone.
>
Yup, all dumpstered by the company formerly known as Rackable
What survives is in the hands of collectors. They worked hard to save what
was s
I wonder if LCM has ever measured the power draw of each of their big machines?
On 11/7/16 10:25 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> We tried to get a 370/145 running at a guy's house. That had the 17 KVA
> motor generator set in the back (WAY more than
> a 145 needed, but they apparently used one MG set fo
Depending on what the clothing was, maybe they just like the old stuff.
I buy good condition vintage shirts because I don't like the quality or fit of
the crap
they make today.
On 11/8/16 7:24 AM, Tom Moss wrote:
> Maybe the buyer was taking this hobby to the next level: a vintage way of
> life?
another rathole :-(
picked up some ST125 mfm drives and a multibus-ish floppy/mfm controller on
ebay that came from a AR/Telenex
8600 Autoscope, which is a high-level protocol analyzer because it used an
example of a hard disk controller
chip I had never seen used before (Signetics 68454)
http:
On 11/8/16 11:21 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> I don't suppose anyone has the manuals for it
>
there are a couple of 4600 technical manuals listed on eBay
they probably won't have schematics, though
On 11/8/16 12:37 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
> I've assembled and run on RT-11 and it goes through the motions of
> writing out the timing and mark tracks, but when it goes through the second
> pass to write out the block numbers it fails immediately
Did you set the switch on the controller front pan
On 11/8/16 3:46 PM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
>
> I have manuals for the ARC Interview 7000 and the Interview 8000, but I
> suspect that they are sufficiently different
> as to be of no use to you. I do think they are scanned though, so if you
> think they might be useful, please shout.
>
It w
well, not just ANY Multibus board
http://www.ebay.com/itm/262697366358
On 11/9/16 1:50 PM, jim stephens wrote:
>
> Are
> there two such stations on the drive for reading?
Nope. DECtape only has one set of heads, so it writes blind.
On 11/10/16 10:13 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> Which was the one that used that rectangular connector often mis-called
> the V.35 connector?
>
Data Products uses a 50 pin Winchester Electronics connector.
dbit makes a converter
http://www.dbit.com/wilson/dplpc/
There has to be a better solution than either the vaccum or all-plex cases for
paper tape. Neither one is very good for
anything other than what the slots were set up for (like 1") Short ones get
bunched together in a slot, and long ones
bridge slots. Either way, you end up not being able to see
There are no suppliers, and the NOS stuff is all gone.
No one is making new 80 column punched card stock either.
That is why a box of fanfold sells for 25$ and up on eBay,
even more if it is has the DEC logo.
On 11/10/16 5:36 PM, Charles Dickman wrote:
> And where can I get new fan-fold paper tape
On 11/11/16 7:42 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>> No one is making new 80 column punched card stock either.
>
> No stock, or no cards? I would think that one of the paper manufacturers
> would be putting out postcard stock of the right specifications.
This has been discussed for several years here.
you can still buy rolls from Western NC
http://www.westnc.com/paper-tape-rolls.html
it ain't cheap
On 11/11/16 7:49 AM, Tom Moss wrote:
> On 11 November 2016 at 15:42, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> Is punch tape still made? I would guess so, for old CNC machines
>> perhaps. That's typically roll t
CHM has one, and a collection of printing cylinders
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102670869
On 11/11/16 2:03 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> Somewhere I have a photo of the machine that IBM used to make punch cards.
> It's in a small museum in Endicott, NY. It did indeed take a ro
https://deskthority.net/wiki/Category:Alps_switches
you should let Daniel Beardsmore know about these. They don't look like
anything I've seen before
On 11/12/16 8:31 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> I found Alps key switches at a small Swedish electronic surplus seller. The
> resembled some switches I
The person working on Integral PC emulation in MAME asked for it, so it's up
now under pdf/hp/hp150
Unfortunately, what he was looking for was info on the graphics ASIC, which
isn't really talked about at all :-(
seeing if 'x'x'x' is tripping the list profanity filter
Forwarded Message
Subject: TSC UniFLEX 68xxx
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 12:38:38 -0800
From: Al Kossow
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
I wanted to see if anyone has any more inf
On 11/13/16 8:21 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
> This one? Looked like an interesting system. Something I had never
> seen before. Glad I didn't also bid it up if you ended up with it.
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/97883938
>
That's it.
Working with the MAME folks right now to get it simulated.
I just started cataloging and dumping firmware my SASI/SCSI disk and tape boards
starting with Xebec. It would be nice to find images for the two alternate fw
proms for the S1410A, particularly the 8k 104793 version so I can compare it to
the one used on the S1420
yes, thanks.
I have pictures up now for the S1401 and S1420, still need to do S1410 and
S1410A
On 11/14/16 3:53 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 05:57, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>> I just started cataloging and dumping firmware my SASI/SCSI disk and tape
>&
If you turn up NCD info, I'd like to add it to bitsavers.
On 11/14/16 3:33 PM, Rico Pajarola wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to resurrect my NCD19 for vcfe.ch but I can't find the firmware
> for it (I have half a dozen different versions of NCDware, but most don't
> contain the boot images, and no
On 11/15/16 11:25 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> Although they're not SASI or SCSI, while you're collecting such things, it
> might also be nice to collect firmware from WD1000-nn and WD1001-nn
> (numeric suffix) disk controllers with the 50-pin general-purpose host
> interface, and which use the 8X300
permission denied
On 11/15/16 11:44 AM, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
>
> Forgot the URL: http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/divcomp/NCD/
>
> Forwarded Message
> Subject: NCD16 images. Was: NCD19 / Xncd19
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:42:16 +0100
> From: Fred Jan Kraan
> To: cctalk@cla
probably.
On 11/15/16 4:47 PM, Alan Perry wrote:
> On 11/14/16 9:37 PM, Jason T wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Alan Perry wrote:
>>> In a box of my old stuff, I found a copy of the Mt. Xinu calendar for 1993,
>>> the last year that they did a calendar, and scanned it. Some of you may
As far as creating text files in firmware directories, yes
There probably should be something on github if a bunch of people are going to
be editing files
that could be pulled.
I'm NOT going to put up any sort of Wiki though. Bitsavers stays a collection
of files that can
be easily mirrored wit
On 11/15/16 3:34 PM, Rico Pajarola wrote:
> Unfortunately, no new
> manuals that are not already on bitsavers (except for the Explora 400
> brochure).
>
I scanned a NCD16 users manual and uploaded it to bitsavers yesterday and
created a list of the part numbers of the manuals I know about.
If he put down the wrong email address, that would explain why no replies to
inquiries
On 11/16/16 2:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
>> This is all the seller's responsibility. All Jay has to do is wait.
>
> Meanwhile, the seller is impatiently waiting, w
On 11/17/16 7:26 AM, Kyle Owen wrote:
> I just picked up "Unplayed by Human Hands" (the first album, from 1975) and
> wanted to learn a little more about how it was done. I do know it was a
> PDP-8 and Model 33 ASR connected to a pipe organ, and there are bits and
> pieces referencing it online.
On 11/17/16 10:26 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> Who has some time to go clean up Wikipedia?
>
No one
Also, the Englebart mouse is two potentiometers mounted at a right angle
so it only worked in a confined space.
I need to dig my vaccuum-formed case SRI mouse and keyset out and take pictures
of t
I've uploaded them to bitsavers.org/bits/DIAB
I should get my Colex 68K unix bits pulled together
It was a VME 80186 MSDOS system that had a 68000/68451 board grafted onto it to
run Unisoft Unix
On 11/17/16 10:52 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> A guy in Sweden made the effort to image the install media
On 11/17/16 12:44 PM, Kyle Owen wrote:
> are there any other
> computer music albums out there?
yes, check the Warners budget (Nonesuch) label
On 11/17/16 2:20 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Maybe an earlier ILLIAC?
correct.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiac_Suite
Fred, could you make these files readable, please
On 11/15/16 11:44 AM, Fred Jan Kraan wrote:
>
> Forgot the URL: http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/divcomp/NCD/
>
> Forwarded Message
> Subject: NCD16 images. Was: NCD19 / Xncd19
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:42:16 +0100
> From: F
28x0%253Amusic%2Bx4%253Alp%2529format
is an interesting search
On 11/17/16 2:45 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2016-Nov-17, at 2:26 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>> On 11/17/16 2:20 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>> Maybe an earlier ILLIAC?
>>
>> correct.
>>
>> https://e
and
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102651543
On 11/17/16 2:51 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> http://www.worldcat.org/title/illiac-suite-for-string-quartet-1957/oclc/3866433
>
> http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=su%3AComputer+music.&qt=hot_subject#x0%253Amusic-%2C%2528x0%2
On 11/17/16 3:07 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:59 PM, dwight wrote:
>
>> Do you have working hardware?
>>
>
> No, only a drive that 48-bit ECC.
MFM?
For a while, I was collecting ISA controllers that weren't adaptec, wd, dtc, or
omti
for the uncommon controllers. I just
On 11/18/16 12:02 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> This is great! Thanks Mattis, Jonas and Al.
>
> Somewhere I have an early DNIX system image from a development machine.
> I don't know if that is interesting to put on bitsavers as well?
>
yes, I think so
On 11/18/16 12:01 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I may have to tell the owner of the disk drive that I can give him the
> uncorrected data only.
>
is there any way to find out what the system and disk controller board was?
corvus/service/7100-04704_H-seriesDrvSvc.pdf page 111
drv sel 1
drv sel 2
drv sel 3
drv sel 4
optional reset
size sel 0
size sel 1
drv sel enable
the shunt on the corvus omnidrve 1-7 are closed, 8 open for all
size drives
On 11/18/16 12:50 PM, jos wrote:
>
>
> ..in particular I wouil like to k
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Subject:[SIGCIS-Members] Jay Wright Forrester
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:27:40 +
From: Deborah Douglas
To: Sigcis
I regret to announce the death of one of MIT’s leading computer pioneers Jay W.
Forrester. Forrester died Wednesday,
No
look in the corvus H drive manuals
On 11/18/16 12:50 PM, jos wrote:
>
>
> ..in particular I wouil like to know the purpose of the dipswitches on the PCB
>
>
> Jos
>
you might also look at patent 4979173
cirrus / adaptec from around that time
x^52 + x^50 + x^43 + x^41 + x^34 + x^30 + x^26 + x^24 + x^8 +1
licensed from Glover
On 11/18/16 3:02 PM, David Gesswein wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:33:36PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
>> I'm not looking forward to
On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
> and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
>
> linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
>
still on the net
http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
>>> So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
>>> and my Redhat Linux
On 11/19/16 4:06 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I've been working a little bit off-and-on for years on reverse-engineering
> the WD1000 and WD1001 disk controllers (8X300/8X305-based), and their
> clones.
there were a lot of them, looking around my office I see:
Davong
Liberty Bay / Codata (multibus
On 11/19/16 4:25 PM, dwight wrote:
It is actually a controller for a TRS-80 but it was a WD1000 in disguise.
what format board (5" or 8")? 8X300 or 305?
I dumped and took pictures of a couple different styles which are up on
bitsavers under westernDigital
would be interesting to find a 305 var
spent way too much time on this the past few days
I dug up everything I had on the system, took pictures and dumped firmware and
floppies
Maybe someone will figure out how to remove the serialization some day
bitsavers.org/pdf/fortuneSystems floppy images under bits/
I also started reverse-eng
On 11/19/16 4:35 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I dug up everything I had on the system, took pictures and dumped firmware
> and floppies
> Maybe someone will figure out how to remove the serialization some day
>
forgot to ask, I think the terminal was a Chuck Guzis design, wasn't it?
On 11/19/16 10:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> the firmware source and a bunch of handwritten
> engineering drawings.
>
i'd like to add that to the archive. it is the monochrome one
On 11/19/16 11:18 PM, jim stephens wrote:
> I updated the page, and found out that there is a Datum 4091EC disk
> controller in slot 12 optioned for a Diablo 30. I
> was wondering if anyone has any info on those as well as the Datum card. Is
> there a similar effort to get an emulator
> for
On 11/19/16 11:14 PM, jim stephens wrote:
> The disk drives look a lot like Priam SMD drives. Two to a tray, 8" form
> factor. About 150 or 300mb IIRC. They had a
> very nice open frame 60mb and 90mb drive which i have a specimen of somewhere
> as well that proceeded the 8" product. I
> do
has the firmware been dumped from this?
On 11/21/16 6:54 AM, Anders Sandahl wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/18/16 12:02 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>>> This is great! Thanks Mattis, Jonas and Al.
>>>
>>> Somewhere I have an early DNIX system image from a development machine.
>>> I don't know if that is inter
actually, it appears the machine is emulated in MAME
On 11/22/16 11:12 AM, Anders Sandahl wrote:
> Not that I'm aware of. I can do it, but I don't have daily access to the
> machine so it will take a couple of months.
>>
>> has the firmware been dumped from this?
>>
>> On 11/21/16 6:54 AM, Anders
On 11/23/16 3:46 AM, jos wrote:
> I added a pic of a wd1001-85 and prom contents on ftp://ftp.dreesen.ch/WD1001
>
what system was this from ?
Used Dave's emulator to image the hd in an Intel SYP310 and to my
surprise it had an iRMX II (286) development toolchain on it. The
MAME guys got it running in simulation in about 30 minutes.
Anyone have any documentation or software distributions?
iRMX development stuff is extremely hard to find
On 11/23/16 12:06 PM, Sam O'nella wrote:
> I think it's the hardware or server company folks might have an attachment
> towards. I only saw novell 3.x and up but it was all standard x86 arch. Did
> they support other platforms?
really early Novell servers were 68000 based
http://www.computerh
"noise 48dB, speed 5000 RPM"
Don't be in the same room with these for long
Papst is a good brand, though.
Weird Stuff had some 6"
metal 110v ones for $10/ea so I bought a bunch to replace
all the sleeve bearing ones that have been seizing up in
my tape oven.
On 11/23/16 1:41 PM, Chuck Guzis wro
On 11/23/16 2:51 PM, Rico Pajarola wrote:
> woot! \o/
>
> Any chance of making this available?
>
yes, as soon as I can make an image that doesn't have anyone's personal
files on it.
On 11/24/16 7:34 AM, dwight wrote:
> I have a loose WD1000 someplace that I was going to use as for spare parts,
> for the trs80 board I'm using.
take a look at the pictures of the boards on bitsavers to see if they've
already been dumped
they are bipolar, 24 pin .6 are 82s181 .3 are 82s147
there are none that I know of. I've been doing a lot of work this year archiving
VME information and firmware.
there's not a lot out there for software, though beyond NetBSD
HP 9000/300 documentation is at the HP Museum and under hp/9000_300 on bitsavers
On 11/24/16 10:51 AM, Pete Lancashire wro
On 11/26/16 11:10 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
> It will take me some time to check, but I seem to remember an ISA card,
> not a disk controller, with one on. Possibly a 3720-type interface (I
> think there
> was a single BNC socket on the bracket, and it's not ethernet).
>
IRMA card
I'm starting to work through my board pile.
The IRMA card is the only 8X305 I've seen lately that isn't in a disc
controller.
I have a bunch more disk controllers in the queue, mostly multibus, the ADC
S-100
and some others.
On 11/26/16 8:39 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> Now that I have an 8X300 (et
oh, and the Xerox 6085 disk controller with tags is high on my list to know the
innards,
especially the difference between the two known revisions
On 11/27/16 7:14 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I'm starting to work through my board pile.
>
> The IRMA card is the only 8X305 I've see
the only thing known is they added an extra head for xt1140 support
On 11/27/16 7:17 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> oh, and the Xerox 6085 disk controller with tags is high on my list to know
> the innards,
> especially the difference between the two known revisions
>
http://www.cpushack.com/2016/11/26/hp-3000-series-33-16-bits-of-sapphire/
"Looking at the handdrawn schematic of the Series 33"
?
Something Tony did?
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=108017#Post108017
it would be really handy to have installation instructions for the 286 right
now :-(
have you seen a copy of the schematic anywhere?
closest that has turned up is the Russian clone of it
On 11/27/16 1:18 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> The DEC Pro hard drive controller.
>
> paul
>
>
Slim chance, but does anyone have a working Chameleon that I could clone the
software off of?
They are 40mb MFM drives, I just bought two, and both units are missing the
drives, making them
boat anchors. Or, slimmer yet, if someone has the software on floppy
I bought a rev 1 with proms and a print server from dca on ebay today to dump
http://www.ebay.com/itm/192014611480
http://www.ebay.com/itm/262721065197
On 11/28/16 5:33 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> IRMA card
>>
>
>
We have little in the CHM collection coax or twinax related, which I'm trying
to fix.
One of the reasons I got the Chameleon 32 and the MTX 1174 recently.
On 11/28/16 5:45 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> I bought a rev 1 with
On 11/29/16 7:42 AM, jim stephens wrote:
>
> Here is an IRMA-II which was suggested by one of AL's auctions. As Eric
> says, no roms, so firmware would have to run in
> ram.
>
> DCA-IRMA2-8-BIT-ISA-BOARD-INTERNAL-CARD-08-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-S167/
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/371801048053
I
the only one I've seen is the Zendex ZX-203
On 11/29/16 10:28 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I don't think that I've seen an 8X30x board with more than an 8X300/305
> and perhaps an 8X330 FDC and various transceivers, memory and other logic.
>
> How many boards used other specialized members of the pro
On 11/30/16 9:15 AM, Brad H wrote:
>
>
> When I got
> a dead Digital Group Z80 system, repairing that and getting it operating was
> like going on an exploration of ancient ruins.
Were you born in the 20th century?
Seriously, for some of us, DG microcomputers are modern.
On 11/30/16 9:07 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Seriously, though, like all hobbies, it's primarily to amuse me, not to
> create anything useful.
And, like an old car, it's nice to have something around you can understand
down to the gate or transistor level. You haven't been able to do that with
a
On 11/30/16 9:45 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> For me it is really about the learning experience. And boy is there much to
> learn. It's very interesting to see what is different and was is similar
> between various operating systems and architectures (and decades).
>
> Learning the history ma
I was curious what the compound is that corrodes IC leads in old black
anti-static foam
adipic acid
https://www.febo.com/pipermail/time-nuts/2008-July/032531.html
and google for polyurethane and adipic acid
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20619421
Corrosion on Metallic Tokens Stored in Polyureth
On 12/3/16 2:06 PM, Mattis Lind wrote:
> 2016-11-28 20:27 GMT+01:00 Al Kossow :
>
>> Slim chance, but does anyone have a working Chameleon that I could clone
>> the software off of?
>> They are 40mb MFM drives, I just bought two, and both units are missing
>> t
Picked up an Altos 8600 that I bought on eBay yesterday, amazingly the Xenix
actually
came up, but the drive failed as I was tarring off the file system. I had
another Quantum
2040, put it in, tried to run the formatter, but it says to call Altos, asks
for a confirmation
but just returns to the
On 12/6/16 6:40 AM, william degnan wrote:
>> Sound familiar?
>>
>>
> When you run the hard drive format command and you're asked "Do you want to
> continue?" rather than say "Y" enter "sotla" This is the secret response
> you need to bypass the format block.
>
> Bill
>
That was it. The list i
i'll see about getting CHM's set scanned
On 12/6/16 7:14 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Is there a set of FP11-C Engineering Drawings online anywhere? Our favourite
> search engine didn't turn one up, and according to Manx:
>
> http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9306
>
> there are none online.
>
>
On 12/6/16 7:48 AM, Glen Slick wrote:
> Dave, I have some questions/suggestions about TD02IMD.COM
>
Is Dave still around?
I know Eric Smith has been trying to contact him about adding things like M2FM
types
to the format
Browse the web for the Babel that floppy disk image container formats h
I have a similar design and a monitor that I've promised to Richard
Mine is vector
Docs are hard to find.
On 12/10/16 12:58 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a card cage full of cards that seems to be a Megatek Graphics
> Subsystem. I've found a board with coaxial connectors that seems
On 12/11/16 8:06 AM, Tom Manos wrote:
> I want to build some emergency rescue diskettes and tapes, and my
> problem is that the 3.5" floppy will not format a diskette under
> UnixWare.
Use Dave Dunfield's Imagedisk program under DOS
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
On 12/10/16 10:42 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I have a similar design and a monitor that I've promised to Richard
> Mine is vector
>
> Docs are hard to find.
>
> On 12/10/16 12:58 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've got a card ca
On 12/11/16 8:01 PM, Mark Green wrote:
> I have an E&S picture system
> that I would like to get fully functional again, but I have no documentation
> for it.
>
PS-300 or earlier?
On 12/11/16 8:01 PM, Mark Green wrote:
> If it has vector output
> you really need the display unit. They are less likely to survive than the
> other components unfortunately.
>
Mostly because they are BIG CRTs
Megatek documentation is extremely difficult to find, which is why I never did
a
On 12/12/16 8:55 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Holm Tiffe wrote:
> [..]
> I made some pictures and currently uploading them to
> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/misc/Megatek/
>
thanks! mine looks very similar. I guess I need to check the backs of
the boards to see if there are 40 pin DIPs hiding on the
On 12/12/16 10:53 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I also need to dig out the chassis to see what model number mine is.
> None of the boards have Unibus connectors out the top.
>
> I also put up a couple of Megatek related documents and a product announcement
> for the 7000 on bitsavers
a product spec for the 7000 is up now on bitsavers.
there are two busses, graphics and peripheral.
On 12/13/16 9:07 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> I think that most of the backplane may just be bussed, with 16 bit adr and 32
> bit data.
>
On 12/13/16 4:59 PM, jim stephens wrote:
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/vms_vs_unix.html
>
The '71 map shows the 810 connected to an IMP and no 6700 which implies to me
that the 810 was working as a TIP
http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED097913.pdf
is interesting.
Jef Raskin and a Microdata 800 at UCSD
On 12/13/16 6:17 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 12/13/16 4:59 PM, jim stephens wrote:
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>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/vms_vs_unix.html
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> The '7
On 12/14/16 12:56 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> As far as I understood, you now have found the AM2901 BitSlices in your
> machine?
yes
> It where intersting to know in which order the boards in your system are
> placed.
>
Unfortunately, the boards were separated from the chassis years ago, and after
On 12/13/16 5:50 PM, Steve Hatle wrote:
> I acquired an ADM3-A a while back from the NWA auction, and a
> generous friend was able to get me the lower case ROM chip that
> was "missing" from my terminal.
>
related to this
http://juliepalooza.8m.com/sl/adm3a-2.htm
has rom dumps
I was going
hopefully, someone can pick these up
it doesn't look like there is any software with it. would be nice to get
images if there is any software with it
if someone gets it, and tries to use the disk images on bitsavers, you
will need to bulk erase the floppy you copy the diagnostic disk to since
it
likely, that's why I didn't go after the one that was just on eBay
where did you see the picture? I wonder if it's the same as the irmaprint I
bought
On 12/23/16 3:31 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2016 8:10 AM, "Al Kossow" wrote:
>> IRMA card
>
&
see if he'll dump the firmware. it's identical to the DCA IRMAprint
On 12/23/16 8:22 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> https://twitter.com/yesterbits/status/812415257616457728
>
On 12/24/16 7:43 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> see if he'll dump the firmware. it's identical to the DCA IRMAprint
>
the pcb is identical
On 12/25/16 2:20 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
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>you'd need to resurrect some bit of software to do anything meaningful.
a lot already is on line
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev_en/lgp30/
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/cm/lgp30/
and this shows the major assemblies
http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev/lgp30_40/lgp30_deko.html
On 12/25/16 6:00 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
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> On 12/25/16 2:20 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
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>> you'd need to resurrect some bit of software to do anything
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