Re: Wanted, Papertape Reader for Archiving Tapes

2020-05-06 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Thanks! Marc > On May 2, 2020, at 4:49 AM, David Collins via cctech > wrote: > > I've pulled together details of the controller used with an HP2748 paper > tape reader to dump a bunch of tapes from the HP Computer Museum's collection > with the help of J. David Bryan. > > The details are

Re: Great, my VT52 is shot.

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Well, I pulled the E2 op-amp and replaced it with a NOS one of the same model. Put the supply together and now I am getting -17 volts on pins E2 to ground (E10). I'm thinking of just replacing the power transistor Q12 with a 7912 -12v regulator that I have here and bypassing the whole op

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Aaron Taylor via cctalk
> But I agree that given the 18 chips, [the MSV11-R is] probably parity. The link below is a screenshot from the onboard KDJ11-B 'print a memory map' function. It confirms the DEC MSV11-R is recognized as parity. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=37954=1493018113 Aaron

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/images/Invent/GeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg I don't know what that is, but it's not an MSV11-R. Here: https://gunkies.org/wiki/File:MSV11-R.jpg is an MSV11-R. > Maybe it's PMI memory without ECC? I count 18 bits across which

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Aaron Taylor via cctalk
> I'm trying to confirm an online report that [the MSV11-R is] a PMI card; I can confirm that the DEC MSV11-R is a PMI card. I own two and have used them with my KDJ11-B. The vcfed.org thread linked by someone else was actually started by me when I purchased them and couldn't find dipswitch

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
One is a DEC M7458 MSV11-R, the other is from a 3rd party "General Robotics Corp." according to the printing on the board, which apparently happens to share the same model name. On Wed, May 6, 2020, 3:57 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Cool, but can't see without logging in. Was the other pic

Re: Facit N4000 Schematic

2020-05-06 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Would love to see it, I have such a machine in the queue for restoration. Marc > On Apr 30, 2020, at 5:49 AM, Tony Duell via cctalk > wrote: > > From time to time there are posts here about the Facit N4000 paper > tape punch/reader unit. The one that looks like a Facit 4070 with a > tape

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Cool, but can't see without logging in. Was the other pic wrong? C Photos of an actual DEC M7458 MSV11-R, not some random 3rd party board, on this thread: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?55636-MSV11-R-dipswitch-settings

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 1:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > Hi, I'm looking for documentation on the MSV11-R; there's next to nothing > online. (An -11/84 manual gives config, but that's all I cam find.) There is > an 'MSV11-R User Guide' (EK-MSV1R-UG), but it's not online; I don't suppose

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Ok. I think this is a picture of it: http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/images/Invent/GeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg However if it is PMI then it does not have ECC. That's more like a MSV11-Q type memory. C

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
The link doesn't work but this does. http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/images/Invent/GeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg Maybe it's PMI memory without ECC? I count 18 bits across which seems like the MSV11-Q parity memory. Does it say PMI on the side? C

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
here is a picture of the board http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/ExpandThumbnail.asp?str640_480Image='images%2FInvent%2FGeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg'

RE: Odd book

2020-05-06 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
> From: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Cc: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu > Subject: Odd book > Message-ID: <20200506152915.23ea118c...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > > So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving > Accuray: A Legacy of

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
In case you didn’t already have this info... http://pdp-11.nl/fieldguide.html This site has a doc “ Field guide to Q bus and unibus options“ modules and it’s listed as a Q bus 3rd party option as follows... MSV11-R Q General Robotics 4Mb 22-bit memory, MSV11-p compatible Sent from my

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
Hmmm.  Smoke??? -- John H. Reinhardt On 5/6/2020 3:30 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Never heard of it, but if you want me to try plugging it into my BA23 let me know. What's the worst that could happen :-) C On 5/6/2020 4:23 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Hi, I'm looking for

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Never heard of it, but if you want me to try plugging it into my BA23 let me know. What's the worst that could happen :-) C On 5/6/2020 4:23 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: Hi, I'm looking for documentation on the MSV11-R; there's next to nothing online. (An -11/84 manual gives config, but

MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hi, I'm looking for documentation on the MSV11-R; there's next to nothing online. (An -11/84 manual gives config, but that's all I cam find.) There is an 'MSV11-R User Guide' (EK-MSV1R-UG), but it's not online; I don't suppose anyone out there has one? I'm trying to confirm an online report that

RE: Odd book

2020-05-06 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Yes, the Monrobot is particularly interesting > because (among other things) it was reviewed > in the New Yorker magazine. > > https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/03/19/portable-robot That must have been quite a machine to beat a person five times in Tic Tac Toe. Even the WOPR couldn't do

RE: Odd book

2020-05-06 Thread William Sudbrink via cctalk
Noel Chiappa wrote: > Competent, but nothing special. Then it > gets interesting, though. > MONROBOT III (!!), Yes, the Monrobot is particularly interesting because (among other things) it was reviewed in the New Yorker magazine. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/03/19/portable-robot

Odd book

2020-05-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving Accuray: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles", by Marshall William McMurray. The first couple of chapters merely re-tell the story of earliest computers (pre-elecronic and electronic), up through the IBM 701, Elliott 401,

Heathkit H8 and other items on Minneapolis craigslist

2020-05-06 Thread Mike Begley via cctalk
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