Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

> Computer games require all you can give them [...] Only if your idea of "games" is "slick-looking realtime 3D-rendering games". There are lots of games that work perfectly well on 3100-class (and even slower) machines, such as roguelikes (rogue, larn, hack, etc), text adventures (ADVENT,

Re: VAX 11/730 quickie

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote: > >> On Feb 21, 2016, at 02:57 , Mike Ross wrote: >> >> Looking back at a long >> thread on vintage-computers last year it appears that tu58em had >> timing issues and was unusable on 11/730 but is now

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/21/2016 07:21 PM, Jay West wrote: ... I'm not familiar with those type of machines, is that fast enough to play around with? J ... You would not want to go web browsing on a MicroVAX, even though the 3100 is quite a bit faster than my MicroVAX-II.

Re: Looking to buy a Tektronix 405x computer.

On 22.02.2016 00:35, Ian Finder wrote: I've been looking for one of these for ages- I have a lead on a TeK storage tube terminal and will make a trip for it as soon as I can, but I'd love to find one of the computers. I'll pay for one in any condition and shipping from anywhere I can find one.

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Jay West wrote: > It was written... > >Yes. Jerome he is right, he ist not intrrested in your great numbers > >since hi want to emulate not a PDP11, but a VAX. > > Actually, I found those numbers Jerome provided quite interesting. It >

Re: Looking to buy a Tektronix 405x computer.

I have an NOS 4054 in Silicon Valley. It is BIG and HEAVY On 2/21/16 3:35 PM, Ian Finder wrote: I've been looking for one of these for ages- I have a lead on a TeK storage tube terminal and will make a trip for it as soon as I can, but I'd love to find one of the computers. I'll pay for one

Re: Schematic for PA68-F (High speed paper taper reader/punch for PDP-8)

On 2/21/2016 10:28 AM, Marc Howard wrote: Thanks! I didn't know the drawings were part of the Typeset-8 documentation. Now to find out if any modules are missing/misplaced... Marc On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Vincent Slyngstad

Re: Internal HP docs on 9845 sys?

* Just out of curiosity, what a big company like HP does with its "historical" documents? Easily. >99% of the destroy all documentation, specially when it was internal. Your best bet, and mine has been for documents people took home with them, and luckily not thrown out during a move, or the

RE: Logic Analyser Polling ....

> > Which is your favourite ? Why you like it and would recommend it ? and > How often you use it ? Does the HP LogicDart count? (it is a 3 channel logic analyser) If so, then it's my favourite, its so convenient (not much more work than a simple logic probe, but it tells me so much

Re: Logic Analyser Polling ....

Like most others, the favorite is the one I use! So we are all biased by definition, and I have an HP 1670G. In general I’d go straight to Tek for vintage scopes and HP for vintage LAs, and be very somewhat leery about doing the opposite... I chose it because it is small and portable, has a

Internal HP docs on 9845 sys?

Hi everyone, I've been working for the last few months on implementing the MAME emulator of HP 9845B system. In case you're interested, have a look at MAME development page at https://github.com/mamedev/mame. My emulator mostly works, the main missing thing now is the graphic mode and the ability

Re: PCS Cadmus/QU68000 systems

On 2016-02-16 15:09, Andreas Sikkema wrote: Hi, Is anyone interested in PCS Cadmus/QU68000 systems? We at Hack42 have no idea what to do with them. We need to downsize and these take up a significant amount of our space. So, are they all taken? Anybody picked them up? Cheers