RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
Straight from Stephan. Ask nicely and, if he has stock available, he will sell you one. Use the inquiry/contact form link on the web page: https://8bit-museum.de/sonstiges/hardware-projekte/hardware-projekte-chip-tester-english/ Bill S. From: Patrick Finnegan [mailto:p...@vax11.net] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 6:28 PM To: William Sudbrink ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? Where did you buy the board from? The eBay linked seller seems to only sell built testers, and the UK person linked from the author's site claims to only sell in the UK. Patrick Finnegan On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 15:46 William Sudbrink via cctalk mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the versions are listed. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
Where did you buy the board from? The eBay linked seller seems to only sell built testers, and the UK person linked from the author's site claims to only sell in the UK. Patrick Finnegan On Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 15:46 William Sudbrink via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" direction, I've > ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you purchase the board, you > get > a BOM and links to stored shopping baskets for some European vendors. Has > anyone built this in the US and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev > 1.2k by the way, but any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences > between the versions are listed. > > > > Thanks, > > Bill S. > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus >
RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
I'm talking about this guy: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133957290061?hash=item1f307a084d%3Ag%3ASPMAAOSwTpJhr8DA&nma=true&si=Jv7lwO0W4lizYwsCX3KDWMC0wiA%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 He's in the US. -Original Message- From: s shumaker [mailto:shuma...@att.net] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 2:02 PM To: William Sudbrink ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? Ya except his web page say no US sales... is he being flexible if one asks nicely? Steve On 1/14/2022 9:16 AM, William Sudbrink wrote: > Oh, US source, no. You have to buy straight from Stephan. > But there is a guy on ebay who builds and sells them. > But you'll pay a premium. I considered it, but I like to build things myself. > > The parts scavenger hunt? Not so much. > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > William Sudbrink via cctalk > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:50 AM > To: 's shumaker' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts' > Subject: RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? > > He just added 2708 programming to it. Which is extremely useful. > > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of s > shumaker via cctalk > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:20 AM > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? > > Seems like a very useful gadget. Any suggestions for a US source? > > Steve > > On 1/13/2022 1:18 PM, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> >> I have a Digikey shopping cart for most of the items and another for >> Mouser for the rest of the items but mine was Rev "i". I did this >> back in August and I looked at the cart and noticed that some of the >> items may have substitutes now. I know I had to do a few substitutes >> when I followed the BOM even back then. I'll post them here but >> please be careful and check the BOM from the RTC (Retro Chip Tester) Google >> site you were emailed >> against these carts.Again, you may have to make some substitutes and >> some of the other components may not line up exactly but that's the >> nature of these pre-created carts, unfortunately. It will at least >> give you a good start: Note, I ordered from a Digikey.ca site but I >> created an identical US cart for a friend in the US that was building one as >> well. >> Again, triple check everything. >> >> Digikey US cart: https://www.digikey.com/short/d9vrt54z >> Mouse CA cart for 4 items not at Digikey (but they may be there now?): >> https://www.mouser.ca/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=9e70 >> 7 >> cf7c4 >> >> BTW, good choice on a Christmas present. You will wonder how you did >> without it. >> Hope this helps, >> Santo >> >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:46 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >>> In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" >>> direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you >>> purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping >>> baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US >>> and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but >>> any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the >>> versions are listed. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Bill S. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >>> > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
Ya except his web page say no US sales... is he being flexible if one asks nicely? Steve On 1/14/2022 9:16 AM, William Sudbrink wrote: Oh, US source, no. You have to buy straight from Stephan. But there is a guy on ebay who builds and sells them. But you'll pay a premium. I considered it, but I like to build things myself. The parts scavenger hunt? Not so much. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William Sudbrink via cctalk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:50 AM To: 's shumaker' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? He just added 2708 programming to it. Which is extremely useful. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of s shumaker via cctalk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:20 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? Seems like a very useful gadget. Any suggestions for a US source? Steve On 1/13/2022 1:18 PM, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: Hi Bill, I have a Digikey shopping cart for most of the items and another for Mouser for the rest of the items but mine was Rev "i". I did this back in August and I looked at the cart and noticed that some of the items may have substitutes now. I know I had to do a few substitutes when I followed the BOM even back then. I'll post them here but please be careful and check the BOM from the RTC (Retro Chip Tester) Google site you were emailed against these carts.Again, you may have to make some substitutes and some of the other components may not line up exactly but that's the nature of these pre-created carts, unfortunately. It will at least give you a good start: Note, I ordered from a Digikey.ca site but I created an identical US cart for a friend in the US that was building one as well. Again, triple check everything. Digikey US cart: https://www.digikey.com/short/d9vrt54z Mouse CA cart for 4 items not at Digikey (but they may be there now?): https://www.mouser.ca/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=9e707 cf7c4 BTW, good choice on a Christmas present. You will wonder how you did without it. Hope this helps, Santo On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:46 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the versions are listed. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Question about SIMH Sigma-7/9 emulation
Hi Dave, Sorry I do not have a CP-V image to send you, but please post any progress you make here. I know others would be interested. Lee Courtney On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:53 AM Dave via cctalk wrote: > Hi all, > I see that SIMH incorporates the 32-bit Xerox Sigma architectures. The > Sigma 8/9/5x0 architectures are commented out but compile fine Does anyone > know if those later architectures have known issues? > Has anyone succeeded in running CP-V on those emulations? It would be > amazing to run CP-V and tha various languages on a Sigma 9 emulations, not > to mention the 350-point and 550-point adventures. However, I haven't > found any type of software on line. Does anyone know of a stash somewhere? > I remember that the Living Computer Museum, when it was open, briefly had > a Sigma 9 up and running with CP-V, but was restricting public accounts due > to some issue with the account generation mechanism. I wonder if someone > associated with the Museum might potentially have access to some CP-V tapes > or images, even if the museum is closed. > Thanks in advance, > > Dave > -- Lee Courtney +1-650-704-3934 cell
RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
Oh, US source, no. You have to buy straight from Stephan. But there is a guy on ebay who builds and sells them. But you'll pay a premium. I considered it, but I like to build things myself. The parts scavenger hunt? Not so much. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William Sudbrink via cctalk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:50 AM To: 's shumaker' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? He just added 2708 programming to it. Which is extremely useful. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of s shumaker via cctalk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:20 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? Seems like a very useful gadget. Any suggestions for a US source? Steve On 1/13/2022 1:18 PM, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I have a Digikey shopping cart for most of the items and another for > Mouser for the rest of the items but mine was Rev "i". I did this > back in August and I looked at the cart and noticed that some of the > items may have substitutes now. I know I had to do a few substitutes > when I followed the BOM even back then. I'll post them here but > please be careful and check the BOM from the RTC (Retro Chip Tester) Google > site you were emailed > against these carts.Again, you may have to make some substitutes and > some of the other components may not line up exactly but that's the > nature of these pre-created carts, unfortunately. It will at least > give you a good start: Note, I ordered from a Digikey.ca site but I > created an identical US cart for a friend in the US that was building one as > well. > Again, triple check everything. > > Digikey US cart: https://www.digikey.com/short/d9vrt54z > Mouse CA cart for 4 items not at Digikey (but they may be there now?): > https://www.mouser.ca/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=9e707 > cf7c4 > > BTW, good choice on a Christmas present. You will wonder how you did > without it. > Hope this helps, > Santo > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:46 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" >> direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you >> purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping >> baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US >> and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but >> any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the >> versions are listed. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bill S. >> >> >> >> -- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
RE: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
He just added 2708 programming to it. Which is extremely useful. -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of s shumaker via cctalk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:20 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket? Seems like a very useful gadget. Any suggestions for a US source? Steve On 1/13/2022 1:18 PM, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I have a Digikey shopping cart for most of the items and another for > Mouser for the rest of the items but mine was Rev "i". I did this > back in August and I looked at the cart and noticed that some of the > items may have substitutes now. I know I had to do a few substitutes > when I followed the BOM even back then. I'll post them here but > please be careful and check the BOM from the RTC (Retro Chip Tester) Google > site you were emailed > against these carts.Again, you may have to make some substitutes and > some of the other components may not line up exactly but that's the > nature of these pre-created carts, unfortunately. It will at least > give you a good start: Note, I ordered from a Digikey.ca site but I > created an identical US cart for a friend in the US that was building one as > well. > Again, triple check everything. > > Digikey US cart: https://www.digikey.com/short/d9vrt54z > Mouse CA cart for 4 items not at Digikey (but they may be there now?): > https://www.mouser.ca/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=9e707 > cf7c4 > > BTW, good choice on a Christmas present. You will wonder how you did > without it. > Hope this helps, > Santo > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:46 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" >> direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you >> purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping >> baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US >> and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but >> any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the >> versions are listed. >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Bill S. >> >> >> >> -- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
Seems like a very useful gadget. Any suggestions for a US source? Steve On 1/13/2022 1:18 PM, Santo Nucifora via cctalk wrote: Hi Bill, I have a Digikey shopping cart for most of the items and another for Mouser for the rest of the items but mine was Rev "i". I did this back in August and I looked at the cart and noticed that some of the items may have substitutes now. I know I had to do a few substitutes when I followed the BOM even back then. I'll post them here but please be careful and check the BOM from the RTC (Retro Chip Tester) Google site you were emailed against these carts.Again, you may have to make some substitutes and some of the other components may not line up exactly but that's the nature of these pre-created carts, unfortunately. It will at least give you a good start: Note, I ordered from a Digikey.ca site but I created an identical US cart for a friend in the US that was building one as well. Again, triple check everything. Digikey US cart: https://www.digikey.com/short/d9vrt54z Mouse CA cart for 4 items not at Digikey (but they may be there now?): https://www.mouser.ca/ProjectManager/ProjectDetail.aspx?AccessID=9e707cf7c4 BTW, good choice on a Christmas present. You will wonder how you did without it. Hope this helps, Santo On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 3:46 PM William Sudbrink via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the versions are listed. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Re: Question about SIMH Sigma-7/9 emulation
Here is what I have: https://www.vintagecomputer.net/simh/sds/sds_940_doc.pdf But it's for the Sigma 940 specifically, which is almost 10 years too old. I don't know if there are enough similarities between the two systems, maybe a useful peripheral config.The 940 was famous for time sharing in 1966...Hopefully you can use this as a starting point. Bill On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:53 AM Dave via cctalk wrote: > Hi all, > I see that SIMH incorporates the 32-bit Xerox Sigma architectures. The > Sigma 8/9/5x0 architectures are commented out but compile fine Does anyone > know if those later architectures have known issues? > Has anyone succeeded in running CP-V on those emulations? It would be > amazing to run CP-V and tha various languages on a Sigma 9 emulations, not > to mention the 350-point and 550-point adventures. However, I haven't > found any type of software on line. Does anyone know of a stash somewhere? > I remember that the Living Computer Museum, when it was open, briefly had > a Sigma 9 up and running with CP-V, but was restricting public accounts due > to some issue with the account generation mechanism. I wonder if someone > associated with the Museum might potentially have access to some CP-V tapes > or images, even if the museum is closed. > Thanks in advance, > > Dave >
Re: Question about SIMH Sigma-7/9 emulation
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 03:51:41PM +, Dave via cctalk wrote: > Hi all, > I see that SIMH incorporates the 32-bit Xerox Sigma architectures. The Sigma > 8/9/5x0 architectures are commented out but compile fine Does anyone know if > those later architectures have known issues? > Has anyone succeeded in running CP-V on those emulations? It would be > amazing to run CP-V and tha various languages on a Sigma 9 emulations, not to > mention the 350-point and 550-point adventures. However, I haven't found any > type of software on line. Does anyone know of a stash somewhere? > I remember that the Living Computer Museum, when it was open, briefly had a > Sigma 9 up and running with CP-V, but was restricting public accounts due to > some issue with the account generation mechanism. I wonder if someone > associated with the Museum might potentially have access to some CP-V tapes > or images, even if the museum is closed. > Thanks in advance, Try here: https://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/ My university ran a Sigma 9 with UTS then CPV A research facility (http://www.friendsofcrc.ca/Nelms-BriefHistoryOfCRC/ShirleysBaySiteName.html) Shirleys bay near Ottawa ran a Sigma 7 years ago. > > Dave > Diane/VA3DB -- d...@freebsd.org d...@db.net http://www.db.net/~db
Re: Retro Chip Tester Pro, US shopping basket?
I ordered many of the parts from mouser. I also just checked the cart and some parts are now on backorder with long lead times, but may be replaceable. I may have skipped some parts if I had them in stock, so you would want to compare the cart against the BOM, and also I may have ordered more parts than necessary in some places to round out the quantity to the nearest price break. At least it could be a starting point and might save a bit of time. Cheers, Dave On Thursday, January 13, 2022, 02:46:54 PM CST, William Sudbrink via cctalk wrote: In response to my wife's "Buy yourself a Christmas present" direction, I've ordered a Retro Chip Tested Pro board. When you purchase the board, you get a BOM and links to stored shopping baskets for some European vendors. Has anyone built this in the US and stored their basket with a US vendor? Rev 1.2k by the way, but any basket would be helpful as the BOM differences between the versions are listed. Thanks, Bill S. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
Question about SIMH Sigma-7/9 emulation
Hi all, I see that SIMH incorporates the 32-bit Xerox Sigma architectures. The Sigma 8/9/5x0 architectures are commented out but compile fine Does anyone know if those later architectures have known issues? Has anyone succeeded in running CP-V on those emulations? It would be amazing to run CP-V and tha various languages on a Sigma 9 emulations, not to mention the 350-point and 550-point adventures. However, I haven't found any type of software on line. Does anyone know of a stash somewhere? I remember that the Living Computer Museum, when it was open, briefly had a Sigma 9 up and running with CP-V, but was restricting public accounts due to some issue with the account generation mechanism. I wonder if someone associated with the Museum might potentially have access to some CP-V tapes or images, even if the museum is closed. Thanks in advance, Dave
