[cctalk] Pertec controller; was: anybody need 1/2" tape drives?

2022-11-27 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/27/22 12:54, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > Anybody need some 1/2" 9-track tape drives? > I have a Pertec T9640 tape drive (vacuum column, 75 IPS 800/1600 Pertec > unformatted interface).  DEC sold this drive as the TU45.  I also have > an MDB MLSI-TM11 Q-bus tape controller that will run

[cctalk] Re: Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Hello, thank you for the advice on repairing the failed power supply parts. I do intend to repair them, my intent was to get one system working, and then move along to the others. I will admit i am anxious to get a running rsx system running. I have been working to repair cateract and power

[cctalk] Re: Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
I am looking for advice to get the 11/34 system up and running. I have started to put together a site to document my progress, to stay on track with the repair effort. The system has 2 rl02 drives, and an attached 9 track tape drive. I had worked to repair a power supply issue at first,

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

2022-11-27 Thread Peter Coghlan via cctalk
> > I think that a good thing is to ramp up the input voltage slowly. Use a > bench PSU to supply the Vstart voltage and then use a variac with > insulation transformer to feed the rest if the supply. Use some small > loads on the 5V and 12V outputs. Now you can safely probe the PSU and >

[cctalk] Box of SCSI stuff

2022-11-27 Thread Van Snyder via cctalk
I have a box of SCSI stuff that I'm no longer using. PCI adapters (Adaptec, Symbios) Cables -- 68-pin, 50-pin Centos, 50-pin Mac-Centos, 50-pin ribbon cable, Terminators Yours in exchange for a PDF of a USPS flat-rate box shipping label. Everthing might fit in a medium flat-rate box, but

[cctalk] anybody need 1/2" tape drives?

2022-11-27 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
Anybody need some 1/2" 9-track tape drives? I have a Pertec T9640 tape drive (vacuum column, 75 IPS 800/1600 Pertec unformatted interface). DEC sold this drive as the TU45. I also have an MDB MLSI-TM11 Q-bus tape controller that will run this drive on either LSI-11 or uVAX II systems. DEC

[cctalk] Re: Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread Martin Bishop via cctalk
Have you run any (paper tape) diagnostics ? I genuflect to paper tape as XXDP and TU58 diagnostics are broadly a continuum from the paper tape days. The seminal 11/40 diagnostics are broadly applicable to all machines (noting that some addressing modes were implementation dependent ...) and

[cctalk] Re: Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Hi! Probably the best way to get an 11 going is to take it by big steps first, then when that fails switch to one small step at a time and change as few things as possible between steps. That said you might want to start by making sure the RL02's come up first. Open them up, make sure they

[cctalk] Re: Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
There are some pretty good.videos on youtube about the 11/34.and RL02. Ray Fantini, who lives(d) neat Salisbury, MD. Bill On Sun, Nov 27, 2022, 12:48 PM Devin D via cctalk wrote: > Greetings, > > Been a while since i have posted here. I have several PDP11 systems and > peripherals. I picked

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

2022-11-27 Thread John Robertson via cctalk
On 2022/11/27 1:21 a.m., Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote: I have done a little more probing around. I have found that the 7812 regulator that drives Vstart on sheet 1 of Tony Duell’s schematic is shorted, so I will have to replace this too. I have not found anything else that looks obviously

[cctalk] Guidance on repairing Dec PDP 11 System

2022-11-27 Thread Devin D via cctalk
Greetings, Been a while since i have posted here. I have several PDP11 systems and peripherals. I picked the original lot of a system 34 and related tech in Miami FL a couple years back, and have since found several more pdp 11/34 machines, and a pdp 11/05, 11/85, and others. It has been a

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

2022-11-27 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
> On 27 Nov 2022, at 10:21, Rob Jarratt wrote: > >  > I have done a little more probing around. I have found that the 7812 > regulator that drives Vstart on sheet 1 of Tony Duell’s schematic is shorted, > so I will have to replace this too. I have not found anything else that looks >

[cctalk] Re: Identifying a Failed Diode in a Rainbow H7842 Power Supply

2022-11-27 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
I have done a little more probing around. I have found that the 7812 regulator that drives Vstart on sheet 1 of Tony Duell’s schematic is shorted, so I will have to replace this too. I have not found anything else that looks obviously suspicious. I can’t test the output rectifiers for shorts