KIM Uno /PiDP-11 plans...

2015-10-21 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, >> Oscar is already working on another very promising product. >> [..]He will also pay a visit to my "museum" to take a few measurements. Sorry, can't say more >> I'll leave that up to Oscar. Perhaps he want to stay "below the radar" until that project is finished ... Thanks for the kind word

Making a PDP-11 bezel

2015-10-23 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
>> http://retrocmp.com/projects/pdp-11-70-panel-on-blinkenbone/243-simulated-pdp-11-70-panel-on-simh That's a work of art, together with the PDP-10 he did. I saw them running on a nice touch screen at VCF Berlin, and I wondered whether all this physical replication stuff makes sense when that's

Ping!

2015-10-25 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Jorg, >> I forgot to ask for your private email on VCFB, so I use this public channel. Ah -- beg your pardon! >>Can you sell me a PiDP8, so I can port my Blinkenlight Api Server to the >> platform of the upcoming 11/70? Absolutely not. That would be ethically impossible. I can, however, offer

Using the simh LGP-30 emulator

2016-06-09 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Some time ago, there were two posts asking how to operate the simh LGP-30 emulator. It is not exactly obvious from the rudimentary manual, and it seems nobody had figured it out completely. I am slightly obsessed with this machine at the moment (it happens), so here is a how-to on operating the

Wanted for RSX-11M Plus 4.6: the DECnet install tapes

2016-11-27 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, I am trying to do a clean install of RSX-11MP 4.6 on simh. I have found the install magtapes on Bitsavers, and they work fine. However, trying to install DECnet, I found only 1 of the 2 (or 3) install tapes. What is missing is the decnet11mp46-deckit tape. The accompanying **netkit** tape

Wanted for RSX-11M Plus 4.6: the DECnet install tapes

2016-11-27 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, Memo to self: the DECnet install tape image *is* complete, my know-how isn't... As someone showed me: .mou mu3:/for .bru /rew/dir mu3: VOL1. INSTALL NETKIT 25-JAN-99 16:04:05 VOL1. NETKIT NETKIT 25-JAN-99 16:04:15 VOL1. DECKIT DECKIT 25-JAN-99 16:05:3

Vintage Computer Festival Zurich: 18-19 Nov 2017

2017-10-15 Thread Oscar Vermeulen via cctalk
Hi, Just to spread the word: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year. There will be rather a lot of minicomputing goodness as well. Like last year, it'll be in Zurich's Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. Here's an impression of last year'