Re: [simh] RSTS processor identification

2021-03-07 Thread Johnny Billquist via cctalk
On 2021-03-07 23:00, Paul Koning wrote: On Mar 5, 2021, at 9:02 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2021-03-06 02:33, Paul Koning wrote: ... I would have liked better comms. The USART has such a tiny FIFO that you can't run it at higher than 9600 bps even with the J-11 CPU. At least

Re: [simh] RSTS processor identification

2021-03-07 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 5, 2021, at 9:02 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > On 2021-03-06 02:33, Paul Koning wrote: >>> ... > >> I would have liked better comms. The USART has such a tiny FIFO that you >> can't run it at higher than 9600 bps even with the J-11 CPU. At least not >> with RSTS; perhaps a

Re: Vax/pdp on ebay

2021-03-07 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 07/03/2021 21:31, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > Sold for $4,900. Looks like a couple of low score bidders got in a > bidding war and really wanted to win. Must be those deskthority people _really_ wanted those '220 keyboards. :) On UK epay, an LK201 fetches maybe £25 - £50. Pity, I

Re: Vax/pdp on ebay

2021-03-07 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Sold for $4,900. Looks like a couple of low score bidders got in a > bidding war and really wanted to win. Must be those deskthority people _really_ wanted those '220 keyboards. :) De

Re: Vax/pdp on ebay

2021-03-07 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 3/7/2021 1:56 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:25 PM Wayne S via cctalk wrote: Is anyone from this list bidding on this. If so i’ll back out. Just don’t want it to be “recycled “ and i have room for it.

Re: Vax/pdp on ebay

2021-03-07 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
*Wow* That's a bit much. On 3/7/2021 2:56 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:25 PM Wayne S via cctalk wrote: Is anyone from this list bidding on this. If so i’ll back out. Just don’t want it to be “recycled “ and i have room for it.

Re: Vax/pdp on ebay

2021-03-07 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:25 PM Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > > Is anyone from this list bidding on this. > If so i’ll back out. Just don’t want it to be “recycled “ and i have room for > it. > >

Re: digital group's Richard Bemis

2021-03-07 Thread Scott Quinn via cctalk
> > I merely wanted to point out the ambiguity in the original message, > though... > Every time I ran across "DG" in there I had to stop because I mentally filled in "Data General" at first. I have one of their dual 8" floppy drives for a Z80 machine. Be interesting to see the final video.

Re: PIC programmers? More generic programmer? Port?

2021-03-07 Thread Scott Quinn via cctalk
On Sat, 2021-03-06 at 10:13 -0800, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > It should be possible to do the same using a Blue Pill cheapie and > MAX232 level shifter. Still if this is a one-off, I doubt that it > would matter to the user. That's what I had started thinking. Use the STM32 board with

Re: Spelunking the places where files are not

2021-03-07 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 07:55 PM 3/6/2021, John Foust via cctalk wrote: >And I guess I hadn't thought of that case where the file system >named the number of bytes in the file and that the unused ends >of blocks could also contain stuff, too. Is there a name for those bytes? An interesting analysis of "slack bytes"

Re: 80286 Protected Mode Test

2021-03-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jim Stephens > The 286 can exit protected mode with the LOADALL instruction. Really? So why all the hullabaloo about Triple Faults: http://www.rcollins.org/Productivity/TripleFault.html back in the day; and why did IBM set up the keyboard controller so it could send a RESET

RE: 80286 Protected Mode Test

2021-03-07 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Fred Cisin via > cctalk > Sent: 06 March 2021 23:17 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: 80286 Protected Mode Test > > A stupid idea: > Could the test require, and be failing, access to memory above

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

2021-03-07 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
The tapes are now hosted here: http://vtda.org/bits/software/DEC/PDP-10/tymshare/

Re: Tymshare PDP-10 tapes

2021-03-07 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
Jim Carpenter wrote: > Tony Aiuto wrote: >> I think that is an artifact of the files being created with the wrong >> names. For example, with tape 169249, after you skip the UFDs, tito >> -t prints >> >>(SYS).SHR1977-01-26 22:22 [1,4] >> [...] >> >> All the file names are