Looking for I/O specs HP 9000/236 - 9836CU

2016-03-22 Thread Pete Lancashire
I just acquired one of the guys w/o a display Looking for the spec's of the display connector. I have what I believe to be the pinout but nothing on timing, scan rates, levels etc. Other identification on the thing is "1 MB Board internal set as 1st Card" Upgraded to 9836CU NO BATT / DOES NOT

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

2016-03-22 Thread drlegendre .
Vincent & All, Yes, I read that the series conforms to that particular UL fusing requirement. My point was that I didn't see any promotion of or expansion on the fusing qualities of the design. The UL spec almost seemed like an afterthought. But then, I am not an engineer - so not used to parsing

Andy Grove dies

2016-03-22 Thread Murray McCullough
Andrew Grove, co-founder of INTEL, passed away.Truly a giant of our industry. He made possible, or promoted, the brains and memory chips that drive our machines, old and new.

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

2016-03-22 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Josh Dersch > I have no excuse, I just get nervous working on these things. I should hope you do get nervous! Anytime one is working around equipment that contains lethal voltages, one _should_ be nervous! It helps with... > I suppose eventually I'll get used to it. Don't ge

Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-22 Thread william degnan
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Dr. Roland Schregle < roland.schre...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:45:38 +0100, John H. Reinhardt < > johnhreinha...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Anyone can also get a free membership at Encompasserve by ssh to >> eisner.decus.org and creating an account.

Andrew S.Grove 1936-2016

2016-03-22 Thread SPC
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Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-22 Thread Dr. Roland Schregle
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:45:38 +0100, John H. Reinhardt wrote: Anyone can also get a free membership at Encompasserve by ssh to eisner.decus.org and creating an account. Good to know -- many thanks, Peter! Most of the ones I tried were long defunct. --GT -- "END OF LINE" [MCP, 1982] "

Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-22 Thread Dr. Roland Schregle
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 12:29:18 +0100, Peter Coghlan wrote: You also need to be a member of a user group such as DECUS or Interex or whatever it is called this week. Some of these have membership fees but as far as I know, there is at least one international group that anyone can join for f

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

2016-03-22 Thread Josh Dersch
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > >>> Good news - mine worked so fingers crossed for yours too. I now have a > >> functioning PSU again though I've not tried it back in the chassis > yet... > >> > >> Nice! My replacements arrived today and unfortunately I did not have > > su

Re: Anyone want some Polymorphic 88 manuals and disks?

2016-03-22 Thread Ben Sinclair
I'm actually not sure how they are sectored, but I assume my Poly 8813 had whatever controller most other Polys had. I'm not looking for anything, I just wanted them to go to a good home! On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:33 AM, dwight wrote: > Hi Ben > I have the manual but would be interested in th

Re: Restoring Nylon parts (like the card guides in a PDP-8a chassis)

2016-03-22 Thread Doug Ingraham
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:37 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > Interesting. If water evaporation accounts for the dimensional > instability, why not use something that doesn't evaporate quite as easily? > Say, ethylene glycol or a silicon oil? I had this idea as well but I have not experimented with

Re: Restoring Nylon parts (like the card guides in a PDP-8a chassis)

2016-03-22 Thread Doug Ingraham
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Jules Richardson < jules.richardso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Interesting... so boiling them can make them expand too much, leaving them > for a few weeks will allow them to contract, but they "remember" their > manufactured size, such that a few weeks after they the

Re: Anyone want some Polymorphic 88 manuals and disks?

2016-03-22 Thread dwight
Hi Ben I have the manual but would be interested in the disk. Do you know if they are hard or soft sectored? I suspect they are hard sectored as that was the most common. There soft sectored was not industry standard and took a special controller to read. What are you looking for? Dwight ___

Anyone want some Polymorphic 88 manuals and disks?

2016-03-22 Thread Ben Sinclair
I had a Poly 8813, and just found that I still have the System 88 User's Manual, including the Macro 88 manual, schematics, and 16K RAM manual/schematics. I also have some disks that came with the system, though their status is unknown. I believe many of them were just blank, but there is some sys

RSX11S

2016-03-22 Thread Mattis Lind
While archiving a bunch of old 8 inch disks I found disks that apparently contain an old RSX11S system. I think it has been used in some kind of railroad CTC system. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96935524/Datormusuem/PDP11RX01DISKS/DISK4.RAW It is possible to boot this image in SimH (when s

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

2016-03-22 Thread Vincent Slyngstad
From: drlegendre: Monday, March 21, 2016 6:50 PM I don't quite get what makes this DigiKey part suitable for the role of a fused resistor. I do see that it has specs for 'fusing behavior' but that aside, I don't see that this series is marketed / sold as a "fusible resistor". I take "UL1412 rec

Re: multinet 4.1 PAK

2016-03-22 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Anyone have the multinet 4.1 PAK checksum and install key info? I need to > re-install my PAK and I don't have *doh!* the checksum value. I thought I > did but...nope. > You can get a Multinet hobbyist license from Process software if you first get a VMS hobbyist license from HP. Both are f

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

2016-03-22 Thread Mattis Lind
>>> Good news - mine worked so fingers crossed for yours too. I now have a >> functioning PSU again though I've not tried it back in the chassis yet... >> >> Nice! My replacements arrived today and unfortunately I did not have > such good luck. No smoke or fire, but now I get nothing at all out o