Front Panels - Update

2016-03-18 Thread Rod Smallwood
Hello Guys The latest batch of PDP-8 panels are now reaching their new owners. We held shipping until now to make sure we had good product. The only way you can check the quality is to go through the whole production cycle We threw a fair few in the dumpster! We did ext

PDP 8A for sale

2016-03-18 Thread Sellam Abraham
I have a PDP 8A for sale. It's kind of a project but as far as I can tell it's complete, with the front panel. See photos and information here: http://vintagetech.com/sales/Big%20Iron/PDP%208a/Chassis%201/ Asking price is $900 obo. I also have two other PDP 8A systems in various states of di

Re: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks -smecc

2016-03-18 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Charles Anthony > I desperately want to port Multics to a modern architecture Funny you should mention this! Dave Bridgham and my 'other' project (other than the QSIC) is something called iMucs, which is a Multics-like OS for Intel x86 machines. The reason for the x86 machines is

Re: DEC RK05 Emergency Retract Batteries

2016-03-18 Thread dwight
I'd think a stack of supper capacitors would do it. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Paul Koning Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:32 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: DEC RK05 Emergency Retract Batteries > On Mar 16

Re: Resistor/Fuse replacement (DEC H7104-D)

2016-03-18 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
From: Josh Dersch: Thursday, March 17, 2016 3:34 PM It's listed in the print set as a 1 Ohm, 2 Watt resistor, with a "FUSE" designation. I'm not entirely sure what I should be searching for for a replacement; clearly the "fuse" part of the designation is important but I'm not sure what a moder

Reproduction 8/e panel from Rod Smallwood

2016-03-18 Thread Michael Thompson
I received my reproduction 8/e panel from Rod Smallwood (aka "panelman") this week. It looks spectacular compared to the peeling paint on the original. Rod did not drill the hole for the rotary switch because the position varies a little depending on the revision of the switch panel. I put the orig

anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-18 Thread Al Kossow
we have a bunch of optical packs at CHM that we'd like to archive does anyone have a working setup?

Re: Code listings for the I4004 or I4040

2016-03-18 Thread Kyle Owen
On Mar 18, 2016 9:15 AM, "dwight" wrote: > > Also, you see most applications using 1702s instead of 4001 > or 4308. I've never seen a 4308 in the wild. I've seen one 4308 in the wild: in a later generation ARC RT-485A NAV/COM radio. The earlier ones just use four 4001s. Kyle

Re: anyone have a working RV-20 or RV-64?

2016-03-18 Thread Paul Anderson
I have a RV20 somewhere. Are you in a big hurry? On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > we have a bunch of optical packs at CHM that we'd like to archive > does anyone have a working setup? > >

Re: PDP-11/05-NC with M9301?

2016-03-18 Thread Mattis Lind
2016-03-17 15:24 GMT+01:00 william degnan : > > > > > > > > If one read notes in the PDP-11/04 printset it says: Do not insert a M930 > > or M9302 in a MUD slot. Only in the Unibus slots or you will have short > > circuit. On the other hand it does not say that the M9301 (or M9312) > cannot > > be

Re: OKI if800 CP/M

2016-03-18 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 03/16/2016 03:37 PM, Jason T wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: 22Disk has the definition, which is the same as the BMC IF800 (it was marketed under both brandings). I have samples in my files. Do you think you may have the same disk I'm imaging? It would be nice

Re: Connecting a Cambridge Z88 to the Internet

2016-03-18 Thread Robert Rissell
Your problem would be finding a suitable host device. Early internet access was serviced by text only portals such as Gopher. Today I would not count on finding one operating other than as a remote termial session on an older machine. On Mar 18, 2016 10:04 AM, "Liam Proven" wrote: > I've been

Re: Code listings for the I4004 or I4040

2016-03-18 Thread dwight
Also, I've found a source for 5.185MHz crystals. ACE Components has some. They are in San Jose, on Oakland Rd. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of dwight Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 7:51 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: R

Re: PDP-11/05-NC with M9301?

2016-03-18 Thread Guy Sotomayor
> On Mar 17, 2016, at 9:35 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > > 2016-03-17 17:27 GMT+01:00 Guy Sotomayor : > >> >>> On Mar 17, 2016, at 6:01 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: >>> > >>> >>> If one read notes in the PDP-11/04 printset it says: Do not insert a M930 >>> or M9302 in a MUD slot. Only in the Unib

NetBSD TK70 question

2016-03-18 Thread Christian Corti
I'm not sure where I should start asking, so I'm starting here ;-) I have a problem reading TK70 (and probably TK50) tapes in NetBSD 3.0 on a MicroVAX II. There is absolutely no way of reading a single tape block with a simple read(). All I get is mt0: unknown opcode 0x80 status 0xc01 ignore

Re: OKI if800 CP/M

2016-03-18 Thread Jason T
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > 22Disk has the definition, which is the same as the BMC IF800 (it was > marketed under both brandings). I have samples in my files. Do you think you may have the same disk I'm imaging? It would be nice to have it in another format for compar

Re: PDP-11/05-NC with M9301?

2016-03-18 Thread Mattis Lind
> > Yes. That is pretty clear from pin assignment list that bad things WILL > > happen if you try to install a Unibus-slot-compatible device into a MUD > > slut. But the vice-versa? Installing a MUD-compatible device into a > > Unibus-slot? > > Most of those are memory boards and from my recollect