Plus one here. With all the SMD controllers languishing out there due to
dead drives, you'd think there should be a way to make a cheap little glue
board that could interface to a modern HDA, with the IDE bits ripped out,
right?
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
> It's on m
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of a good project to add some modern storage
>
> Available today, no. But there are a number of projects which will probably
> be cranking out UNIBUS DEC controller emulators with modern storage
> backends.
> I gather Guy's
Honestly, in the eighties playing Zork, When the thief looked like me, I
got good and wigged out, powered off the C64 and went straight to bed, real
scared. But that was text and I was a pre-teen. Or maybe I dreamt the
whole thing.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Mike wrote:
>
>
> On 12/10/20
Hi,
My Micro's power supply blew and I wanted to be in a fullsize cab anyway.
Can I bolt my Micro/PDP11 Q22 backplane into an 11/03 chassis easily?
Anyone know about feasibility / gotchas before I start experimenting?
thx
jake
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
> Having spent many hours fixing my own H7864, and finally succeeding, I am
> interested to know what kind of failure you had. Filter caps often go on
> these, are easily replaceable and don't stop it working. The recent fault I
> am referr
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Joseph Lang
wrote:
> It's simple to convert the h9270 q18 (11/03) to q22. Just wire the
> additional address lines. It took me about an hour to do mine.
> Don't put an 11/03 in it after conversion. The added lines are not
> addresses on the 03 CPU.
>
Joe,
I
Exciting stuff for a Friday night, right? Here's a visual aid in case
you're needing further inspiration:
https://www.instagram.com/p/_K-zHhHvLn78Qu5ijWqMf-HBem1LKMLaEdI1c0/ The
M2333K is the smaller one on the left with the green and yellow lights on.
I'm booting from rl0, which contains the tuh
I have a complete, unpopulated 11/03 chassis if you'd be interested in
trading for some number of unibus and q-bus modules on my wish list -
looking for scsi interfaces, ethernet, working -15v h745 bricks and a Micro
PDP11 power supply. Have any stuff like this?
thx
jake
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> On 12/22/2015 9:06 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> > So then what's the point of sending the link if the interesting content
> > isn't actually present?? ;-p
> >
> > Not trying to be the arse, but seriously..?
> >
>
> Well, I'm VEY Sorry. NOT. S
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Jerome H. Fine
wrote:
> >Jay West wrote:
>
> Just wanted to say a very sincere Thank You to all the talented folks that
>> hang out here and call this place home, and also to wish you and yours a
>> Merry Christmas.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Jay West
>> jw...@classiccmp.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 12:10 PM, tony duell
wrote:
> [...] I am (mainly) a Commodore enthusiast).
>
This discussion bumped my memory a little and I was wanting to do it. Has
anyone tried this or does anyone have knowledge of why it should or
shouldn't work?
-thx
jake
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:33 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> The C-64 video output +is+ S-Video..
Wow, thanks. Guess I should've just tried it ;)
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On a Number 5 Crossbar, your DTMF was never converted to dial pulse
> for the switch itself. The Touch-Tone Register would connect to a
> digit translator that inputs the 2-of-5 binary code directly
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Evan Koblentz wrote:
> You know you wanna watch. :)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUWt_StXKsY
>
excellent! now I have to try sam.
Man, I've not fired up my I2 R1 and Indy R5000 for a good decade. Twas
such a great desktop compared to others of the day, even well after. I
actually still miss many of the aspects of simplicity. And the graphics
effects were spectacular. I should see if I can dig them up and get them
goin
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 1:58 AM, Mike Stein wrote
[...]
>
> I'll give Joe a printout of these messages when I see him tomorrow to let
> him know what folks are saying about him; as Jim says he's usually pretty
> good but s**t happens sometimes.
>
Mike Stein, while you're printing and delivering t
On Jan 28, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Mike wrote:
>
> I am still working on the Choose your own adventure game and I was
> wondering it there a
> code line to let the player have a few minuets to read the text before
> the "make your choice " pops up under the opening text.
> I know to most of you think t
s to be 22-bit compliant.
thx
jake
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
> > From: Jacob Ritorto
>
> > Would you happen to have notes or references about how to do it?
>
> It's not too hard; basically, one has to wire pins BC1, BD1, BE1 and BF1
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Jerome H. Fine
wrote:
> [...]
Specifically, I always use a SEPARATE PC power supply for the hard
> disk drives.
Yep, this sounds like exactly where I went wrong. Two RD32s running
24/7. Took it only a couple months to burn out. In the next incarnation
of thi
Thanks for the replies, fellows. Just to (maybe) put this thread to bed
for a while and summarize: I didn't manage to get the m2333k disks to talk
to the sc21-BMG controller. I think it had to do with an incompatible
number of bytes per sector - no matter how I set up the disk's sectoring,
the c
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Noel Chiappa
wrote:
>
>
> I'm not absolutely sure exactly what you have that's holding the '11/03
> backplane'; if it's a standard BA11-M enclosure, the answer, sadly, is
> 'no'.
> [...]
> If your '11/03 backplane' is a different kind of backplane, in some other
>
Yis. I struggled for hours with inadequate eyesight, tools and
materials, but I think I got this mod done!
My KDJ11-B is plugged into what was a stock H9273 (bc1, bd1, be1, bf1
chained straight down the backplane using four wires to be a H9276) and it
runs! I've only plugged in one other
Does anyone still have a copy of the "Emulex LSI/PDP MSCP Formatter Program
(SXMX8B) ? My QD32 emerged from storage in a foul mood and is giving me
errors I don't understand when I use the manual entry methods for inputting
geometry and issuing a format. From what I can tell, it's complaining tha
Hi,
Seems I have bits 4 and 3 sticking on my Clearpoint QRAM-2-SAB-1 88b
4MB memory in my pdp11/73.
Can anyone offer hints as to how to identify which component is broken
and how to go about repairing this?
It's the only memory board in this machine, so I guess the problem
might actua
Dang Ethan! What Ian said! Get 'em out rtfn!
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Ethan Dicks
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Ian Finder
> wrote:
> >> The battery in the teletype DMD 5620 is mounted in a very fatal
> position,
>
Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in
my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10 going again to
image them, but might need some help
--jake
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jerome H. Fine
wrote:
> >Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>
> Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
>> appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them
>> in
>> my collection. Any inter
6, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jerome H. Fine
> wrote:
>
>> >Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>>
>> Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what
>>> appear to be original nine-track tapes with thei
the cluelessness of the descriptive text on that basic 4 ad. hilarious.
'there are only two mainframes i know of in existence.'
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Brian Walenz wrote:
> Don't forget about this one:
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/191698368565
>
> $17k for a CRT and a keyboard in a (b
I think I still have the Mix C floppies kicking around somewhere. I
remember that they were in a format manipulable by the Commodore 1571
floppy drive, operating in some compatibility mode.
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:24 AM, Dale H. Cook wrote:
> At 07:05 AM 5/11/2016, Corey Cohen wrote:
>
> >Loo
I think I should pass on my experience as a warning to others.
I googled around for a particular PDP-11 board I needed and tamayatech.com
was a hit, with "buy now" option and condition: refurbished. Seemed
convincing and the price was in the sane ballpark. So I bought it, paid
through their eco
On Feb 21, 2022, at 19:32, Rod Smallwood via cctalk
wrote:
> So how do I install an operating system?
You can install 2.11BSD rather normally using VTserver. It makes your modern
computer into a pseudo tape protocol via your serial port to the pdp console.
It was written for this purpose and I
Hi!
Anyone remember how to use this program that announces itself as "PDT-11
Virtual Terminal Monitor v1.07" ? I found it on a floppy of RT-11 v4.0
with my pile of PDT-11 treasures (which amazingly still seem to read fine
and work wonderfully; disk file timestamps around 1979 - 1982).
I thoug
Thanks for the lead, Lee. Hooking up a proper cable with all the signals
got her talking!
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 6:32 PM Lee Gleason via cctalk
wrote:
> > and tried looping back pin 2 to pin 3
> >on each serial + modem port and typing some characters, but nothing shows
> >up in vterm.
>
>
>P
Is there a way to do this? Or perhaps a driver in RT-11 that I could point
to an entire drive? If not, maybe I could write one with some community
guidance?
Would be a splendid way to write real media, or in my case, read the
hundreds of 8" floppies I have sitting on the shelf here for archive.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:08 AM Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> What about COPY/DEVICE/FILE DUx: SAMPLE.DSK to get a device into a file
> then kermit it to somewhere else?
>
I really did want to do that, but the target hardware is PDT-11/150, my
only system with wor
Does anyone have a working one to spare?
Needed for PDP-11 unix home project.
Emulex preferred but others would perhaps be acceptable.
TS11 and/or TMSCP would both be great.
Need 50-pin connectors (formatted).
Can throw a bit of money / trades around as necessary.
thx
jake
Western Pennsylvania, US
Thanks Jon! From a quick glance at its manual, it seems the TC03 would do
swimmingly! Does it have the 22-bit addressing kit?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 4:19 PM Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> On 2/24/23 15:01, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
> > Does anyone have a working one to spare?
&
> On Oct 18, 2023, at 09:56, hupfadekroua via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> does someone have a SCSI disc image of Ultrix 11 for a QBus based (11/73)
> PDP11.
>
> A.
I have sitting in front of me a PDP-11/83 running ULTRIX-11 v3.1 on MSCP SCSI
via the CMD CQD-200 controller. It’s w
Hi! Remember the blearrt-meelrp sounding seek oscillation noise
that the RD54 makes when you turn it on -- after it spins up, unlatches and
loads the heads?
Well, I took a chance on an el-(c)heapo ePay special RD54 that does all
these things perfectly up until the seek oscillation thing a
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 19:01, r.stricklin via cctalk
wrote:
> voice coil positioner.
Yikes, so that's an "open the lid" situation, bear? Any "how to" advise /
docs / anecdotes out there as I begin searching?
Thanks for the good ideas and convo everyone.
Now please do note that I can definitely hear motor/platter spinup
happening so it's definitely not "heads stuck to platter" stiction.
I hear the lock unlatch and I *think* I even hear the heads load and fly
(comparing what I hear on this drive to oth
Hi,
Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
the candidate program can handle that too.
This is on an 11/34; I don't have
n Fri, 14 Jun 2024 at 19:40, Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> On 6/14/24 15:51, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
> > running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
Ha, cool, Fred. I just recently in 2022 I showed up for my Pennsylvania to
San Francisco flight with a 1969 VW MicroBus crankcase (with its guts) in a
large box, hand carried it (oof) into the airport and sent it through as an
additional checked bag for, I think, $50 additional on the spot. Astou
Shoot, was asking my wife if I could have it for Christmas to replace my
regular desk in the family room :)
But to keep the decor of our home a little more sane, I'll abstain from
bidding and wish you best of luck instead!
happy holidays and good luck!
--jake
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 1:28 PM Conno
There are contractors who have the hardware to correctly and contractually
perform mil spec data wipe in situations like this.
More thorough than leaving sitting on some shelf and crossing fingers that
one will find time to burn them or whatever.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:02 PM Richard Loken via
Hey all,
Anyone know whether the Emulex UC04 works with the sd2scsi? I just
bought a uc04 and it won't talk to any of my old scsi disks, seems to think
there's supposed to be a "controller" in between :\ yuck.
thx
jake
P.S. While I'm at it, anyone know how to get UC04 to talk to directly to
pl
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:15 PM Randy Dawson via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Paul,
> That is so cool!
> How much space would it take?
> That is my first computer (outside of timesharing and Z-80 homebrew).
> My first job was on the PDP-15 to transcribe the APOLLO analog range tapes
>
Hi,
My pal Dave just gave me a very nice original Ultra 1 Creator! Found a
nice 1K 146GB disk and 1GB genuine X7004 Sun RAM from good old MemoryX
and this store I'd never used before called DiscTech (great ecomm site and
decent prices afaict), so this baby's shaping up to be a fantastic and
Hi,
Anyone with the requisite hardware handy willing to do a box of ten or so
for me, pretty please? I'm in western Pennsylvania, USA
thx
jake
Yay, thanks! I'll follow up off-list!
On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 11:48 PM Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019, 8:58 PM Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > Anyone with the requisite hardware handy willing to do a box of ten or so
>
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 17:07, Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> So while trying to figure out this XXDP format error (the FCT Write protect
> enabled one that's stopping me from formatting an RD54) I spent a bit of time
> copying the floppy to a backup disk. My RX50 wa
Nice going!
Related story:
I had probs formatting a maxtor 11xx (not an actual xt-2190 but really close)
as an rd54 due to geometry differences and binary patched that formatter to
deal with it using the xxdp equivalent of od. Have the patched xxdp formatter
binary on an rl02 pack here if anyo
Hi,
Would anyone still have a copy of latest pdp11 MicroPower/Pascal?
I'm trying to have a retro programming contest / party at my house and
want to feature Pascal along with Macro-11 and maybe c on a real 11/23
with RL02s under TSX. Hoping to hang like ten users at once on the
'ol girl and make
Wonder why I can't make(1) rogue on my 11/83, 2044KW, latest patch
release from sms.
[16] root--> make
cc -O -DUNIX -DUNIX_BSD4_2 -c curses.c
cc -O -DUNIX -DUNIX_BSD4_2 -c hit.c
cc -O -DUNIX -DUNIX_BSD4_2 -c init.c
cc -O -DUNIX -DUNIX_BSD4_2 -c inventory.c
cc -O -DUNIX -DUNIX_BSD4_2 -c level.
Thanks for the leads, everyone!
I made a little progress: I did read enough about ld to get it to load
the .o files from the initial cc run into a separate I&d overlaid
executable. But when I execute it, it gives me Segmentation fault
(core dumped).. There was one complaint of Undefined during th
I think that's the screen I'd really love to have for my vt240 but alas I'm
too many continents away! Also not sure it'd plug in directly. Could you
please tell me the model number and what the connectors look like?
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 8:48 PM Kevin Parker via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org>
Hi,
I've installed the recent release of 2.11bsd on my pdp11/73 and
recompiled the kernel to fit. But for some reason I can't resolve hosts
from my /etc/hosts file now; only DNS names.. I'm not running BIND. Is
there a setting that will allow me to find /etc/hosts entries first and
then DNS i
Hi Aaron,
I have some extra RL02 packs and would be glad to lend you a pack for
free if you like; maybe for keeps. But you're probably not on the same
continent as me, so shipping would probably be costly. If you have no
better offers, let me know and we'll work it out. Can also put bits on it
6:42 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
> Where in PA? I live on the south -eastern corner near the u of Delaware (
> Newark, del.)
> Bill
>
> On Feb 20, 2018 6:07 PM, "Jacob Ritorto via cctalk"
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aaron,
>> I have some extra RL02 packs and would be
Hi all,
Would anyone here be able to help me troubleshoot my qd32 controller? I
have a pdp11/73 that's mostly working, boots 2.11bsd from rl02 okay, but I
need my big disk to work so I can load the rest of the distro.
I've been following the manual for the qd32 to enter the geometry of my
real
I don't, but I do have a memory board from one if you want it. Rather
dirty.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:35 AM, Ian via cctalk
wrote:
> Folks, sorry for the Sun spam.
>
>
> Everything was working in my newly acquired 3/260, and the monitor is even
> starting to shape up.
>
> It was a gorgeous mac
Any interest in a Tek 4113 terminal (minus display)? I have one collecting
dust here and would like to trade for older Tek restoration help / other
pdp11 stuff. The keyboard is damaged but otherwise it's just old and
dirty, haven't opened it up. Located in western Pennsylvania.
thx
jake
Hi Ed,
I talked to that craigslist guy in DC. He's saving the cdc drive for me
(others welcome, too - just trying to keep it from the skip).
Are you saying you've found disk cartridges to fit it? And is this an
announcement of a huge haul you've come across in Anaheim (I'll be in sfbay
in a cou
Tangent:
I have a large bin of perhaps a hundred working (last checked circa 2002)
single board computers in the warehouse (Western Pennsylvania) with i960
cpus if anyone's interested.
They were the Switch Control Processors from FORE Systems ASX200
switches, quite fully functional little comp
Has anyone modified Warren's VTServer to ignore errors (or at least keep
trying upon encountering them)?
I'm trying to image some rl02s I found and am getting flack on some tracks,
killing the whole recovery process.
200K received
ww
Nice going! Next on wish list: openssh for 2.9BSD ;)
>
Hi,
I modified vtserver to work on pdp11/34 and similar - the older machines
that have the
00 00 00 00
@
odt prompt.
I'm afraid I didn't do a very thorough job (hack night and just wanted to
get it working) and in retrospect I wish I would've made a conditional
argument to put
I do. An early one from Stanford.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Apr 24, 2021, at 11:28 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> From: Fritz Mueller
>
>> could I ask that you take some closeups around the Mate-n-Locks along
>> the top? I'd be very interested to see the board traces and th
I'll be in Laguna Seca racing in 2 1/2 weeks and will have means to haul
large stuff. Can come down your way some days before or after.
I'd be happy to take
the PDP-11/44
at least four disk packs
lots of paper tape
8" floppies,
TU58
the big Kennedy disk
and the
DEC VT100.
Would you please let m
Does anyone have it? It supposedly came with TSX-Plus, which I grabbed
from the classiccmp site, here, but it seems missing from this distro.
thx
jake
How about all members here buy some big disks and take part in a number of
curated torrents? Publicize torrent health so it’s highly visible. Organize
custodians (preferably using folks who are already doing an excellent job).
Cost of access to the archives is that the prospective user can evid
> On Nov 23, 2021, at 14:18, Chris Zach via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> I spent the other day adjusting and getting my RX02's and the PDT11/150
> working in tip top shape. They run fine, but I was wondering: I didn't see
> the PD.SYS driver on my RT11 5.5 and 5.7 releases. Does anyone know if Dec
I don't have the source, but I had great success octal-patching my copy a
few years ago, made it work with a Maxtor xt-11something instead of the
real rd54 / xt-2190.
I'll reply again if I can find the instructions for doing it. Just
followed recipe from some guy's website and it worked perfect.
I’ve been wanting an 11/40. What’re you asking for yours? Does it run or is it
at least “all there?”
Thx
Jake
> On Jun 29, 2025, at 14:44, Wayne S via cctalk wrote:
>
> Paul, FYI, I don’t know if you monitor all your rmail, but i sent you some
> invites to some classic computer discords whe
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