Re: Electronics Plus
I noticed someone named Richard Thompson just donated. If you are that person, used to live in the Jemez mountains and hacked on Rainbow stuff back in the day, please contact me... On Sat, 27 Feb 2021, Mark Linimon via cctalk wrote: Or, if you are the Richard Thompson, guitar virtuoso, I will be *very* impressed. Not as impressed as I would be if it were to be the same Richard Thompson who went to my high school, and died in a car crash 40 years ago.
Re: Electronics Plus
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:00:05PM -0700, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > I noticed someone named Richard Thompson just donated. If you are that > person, used to live in the Jemez mountains and hacked on Rainbow stuff > back in the day, please contact me... Or, if you are the Richard Thompson, guitar virtuoso, I will be *very* impressed. mcl
Re: FW: List your old computer
On 02/26/2021 12:00 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 2/24/2021 5:48 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: Faster? The only comparison I have is between my KA630-AA and my current desktop (Dell Optiplex 980) running Ubuntu. It seems to be almost 1000 X faster. I have a program that records environmental data every 15 seconds. Then, there are programs that condense and summarize the data. The whole run at the end of the year used to take about 30 minutes. It runs in about 5 SECONDS on the PC. (Yes, I know, only 360 X.) Jon But it seems boot times get longer and longer. Ben. A stock Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop (with SSD) boots up, I can log in and be on the desktop in 15 seconds. That is good enough for me. I have to run Widows 10 for tax software, and on a VM and magnetic drive, that is quite slow. Jon
Re: Electronics Plus
On 2/26/21 11:00 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: I noticed someone named Richard Thompson just donated. Richard runs Manx and the Computer Graphics Museum in SLC https://manx-docs.org/about.php
Re: Electronics Plus
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 11:39 AM jwest--- via cctalk wrote: > In case this link only made it to discord, I'm (re-?)posting here. > I saw bits and pieces there, but missed the bigger context Woof! Definitely worth it... https://www.gofundme.com/f/electronics-plus I noticed someone named Richard Thompson just donated. If you are that person, used to live in the Jemez mountains and hacked on Rainbow stuff back in the day, please contact me... Warner
Re: Electronics Plus
On 2/26/21 11:39 AM, jwest--- via cctalk wrote: Cindy, a few things have changed on my end with retirement, but I may be able to get that website back online for you. Please reach out to me directly and I'll check. Feel free to email me directly if you need some hosting; DNS, web, email, etc. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
Electronics Plus
In case this link only made it to discord, I'm (re-?)posting here. Cindy has been extremely helpful and generous and giving of her time to all in this hobby. It is a very worthy cause. https://www.gofundme.com/f/electronics-plus Not too much more to hit their goal. Lets see if we can put them over, I'm pretty sure most of us have benefited from her efforts. Cindy, a few things have changed on my end with retirement, but I may be able to get that website back online for you. Please reach out to me directly and I'll check. Best, J
Re: FW: List your old computer
On 2/24/2021 5:48 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: Faster? The only comparison I have is between my KA630-AA and my current desktop (Dell Optiplex 980) running Ubuntu. It seems to be almost 1000 X faster. I have a program that records environmental data every 15 seconds. Then, there are programs that condense and summarize the data. The whole run at the end of the year used to take about 30 minutes. It runs in about 5 SECONDS on the PC. (Yes, I know, only 360 X.) Jon But it seems boot times get longer and longer. Ben.
RE: Pinging Jay West
Replied yesterday. Will reach out today too -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of jim stephens via cctalk Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 5:05 PM To: Paul Koning via cctalk Subject: Pinging Jay West Sent out a request via multiple channels to you WRT a local STL system. can you give me a call or ping back. sent to your emails, discord and other channels. thanks Jim
Re: Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750
On 2021-02-26 9:40 a.m., Lars Brinkhoff wrote: > Toby Thain wrote: >> Rich Alderson wrote: >>> You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1) and >>> Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me. ... produced, and >>> we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat down with a >>> logic analyzer and an RP06 attached to a KL-10, and proceeded to >>> spend the next two years (when not called on for other projects) >>> creating a disk emulator. ... >>> >>> Later, Bruce came on board as the museum was ramping up, and redid >>> the design in a Xilinx chip with VHDL. ... >> >> Are the above projects published? > > See here: > > https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum?tab=repositories > Very nice, thanks. --T
Re: Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750
On 2/26/2021 8:40 AM, Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk wrote: Toby Thain wrote: Rich Alderson wrote: You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1) and Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me. ... produced, and we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat down with a logic analyzer and an RP06 attached to a KL-10, and proceeded to spend the next two years (when not called on for other projects) creating a disk emulator. ... Later, Bruce came on board as the museum was ramping up, and redid the design in a Xilinx chip with VHDL. ... Are the above projects published? See here: https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum?tab=repositories Also here is Rich's announcement on DEC-10 day of 2017 Happy DEC-10 Day! It is my honor to announce that we at Living Computers: Museum + Labs are releasing to the computing community our Massbus Disk Emulator and all the associated software. This device connects via Massbus cables to the RH10 and RH20 interfaces on KI-10 and KL-10 systems, to the RH11 interface on KS-10 and small PDP-11 systems (including the front end 11/40 on the KL-10), and to the RH70 on the PDP-11/70. The MDE provides up to 8 emulated RP06 or RP07 disks (represented by disk files in the format used by the SimH emulation of these systems). We expect that it will also work with the RH780 on the VAX-11/780 and VAX-11/785 although we have not yet tested it in this configuration. The original MDE was designed by Keith Perez in 2005, and emulated up to four RP06 drives connected to a KL-10. The current generation was a redesign by Bruce Sherry in conjunction with the restoration of our DECsystem-1070 in 2012, and initially provided eight RP06 drives on the RH10. It has undergone continual development, with associated software created for us by Bob Armstrong, and is now being opened up for the use of the relevant communities. To this end, we have placed the design files for the hardware and the source files for the software to interface with it, along with our library of Universal Peripheral Emulator routines, on public access repositories at Github. The URLs for these repositories are https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/MDE2 https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/MBS https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/UPELIB These are released under a very liberal license which will allow for free use of the MDE by any interested party. Happy Dec-10 Day! Rich Richard Alderson, Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computers: Museum + Labs 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 Cell: (206) 465-2916 Desk: (206) 342-2239 http://www.livingcomputerss.org/ -- John H. Reinhardt
Re: Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750
Toby Thain wrote: > Rich Alderson wrote: >> You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1) and >> Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me. ... produced, and >> we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat down with a >> logic analyzer and an RP06 attached to a KL-10, and proceeded to >> spend the next two years (when not called on for other projects) >> creating a disk emulator. ... >> >> Later, Bruce came on board as the museum was ramping up, and redid >> the design in a Xilinx chip with VHDL. ... > > Are the above projects published? See here: https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum?tab=repositories
Re: Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750
On 2021-02-25 8:55 p.m., Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > ... > Hey, Josh! You could ask our friends Keith Perez (Massbus Disk Emulator v1) > and Bruce Sherry (MDE v2) about it, or even ask me. > ... > produced, and we had to do something. My brilliant friend Keith sat down with > a logic analyzer and an RP06 attached to a KL-10, and proceeded to spend the > next two years (when not called on for other projects) creating a disk > emulator. ... > > Later, Bruce came on board as the museum was ramping up, and redid the design > in a Xilinx chip with VHDL. ... Are the above projects published? --Toby > > As for operating system support,... > > Rich > > P.S. We're about 10 days from the 1st anniversary of the closing of LCM+L to > the public. Lift a pint in memory of the most fun we ever had standing > up. >
