Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread dwight via cctalk
How about some pictures of what was inside. A picture that is atleast good enough to see what is there. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Brent Hilpert via cctalk Sent: Saturday, August 31, 2019 1:25 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread John Ames via cctalk
On 8/31/19, Gregory Beat wrote: > Beautiful front panel (1970s design). > It would make a nice front panel for a DIY Computer. Yeah, that's definitely a thought that's crossed my mind (I've been meaning to get around to a TMS-99105 project for ages...) Though I'd like to find out more about this

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2019-Aug-30, at 7:24 PM, John Ames via cctalk wrote: > Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from > my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what > it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot > like a 16-bit

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 8/31/19 10:16 AM, 'someone' via cctalk wrote: > It would make a nice front panel for a DIY Computer. Yes, chop of its head. That's always the first thing to do with a piece of 'unknown' test equipment

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Beautiful front panel (1970s design). It would make a nice front panel for a DIY Computer. — It is an RS-423 control/switch panel. RS-423 is an EIA/TIA serial communications standard, BUT there is no common pinout (standard) for RS-423. == RS-232 was defined in 1962 by the Electronics

Re: DecNet / Linux

2019-08-31 Thread John Forecast via cctalk
I finally got around to getting DECnet running on the latest release of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi (the 2019-7-10 Buster release). I’ve also done some (very) limited testing on Debian Buster (both 32- and 64-bit x86 kernels). For anyone who is interested the code is available at:

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Aaron Taylor via cctalk
I have something from the same company that sounds like it might be the same type of device. It is an RS-670 40 MHz Digital Word Generator. Mine is obviously a decade or two newer. It includes a small CRT plus keypad/keyboard and is a general purpose computer. It includes 32 output lines

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread dwight via cctalk
One wonders what the micro instructions were? It looks like a lot of circuit tracing ahead. Dwight From: cctech on behalf of Chuck Guzis via cctech Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 7:57 PM To: John Ames via cctech Subject: Re: So what the heck did I just pick

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk
On 8/30/2019 7:24 PM, John Ames via cctech wrote: Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot like a 16-bit general-purpose

So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread John Ames via cctalk
Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot like a 16-bit general-purpose computer of some kind. Despite the claims of being

Re: So what the heck did I just pick up?

2019-08-31 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 8/30/19 7:24 PM, John Ames via cctech wrote: > Ran into this at the electronics-surplus store just down the way from > my workplace and grabbed it on the cheap. I don't actually know what > it *is,* but the labels on the switches make it look a *hell* of a lot > like a 16-bit general-purpose