> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Maciej W.
> Rozycki
> Sent: 26 April 2016 00:42
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: AlphaStation 200 NVRAM Problem
>
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
> > To help me
Dear Paul,
thanks for your email - I acquired the reader several years ago and
did quite a lot of experiments to figure out how to use it with the
original firmware SPTS11, 2.02, 5289 but I never got an answer from
the reader. So the project of Jim to read in the DG tapes was the
reason I needed
Hi Jim, Dear Sherman,
thanks for your email (and the address via PM). I will prepare the
reader for shipping tomorrow. I will ship it with the power supply
and the adapter-cable attached, so you can plug it directly into
the PC. The supply is wide-range, so it will support 115VAC
directly, but
Thanks Erik; very helpful. For reference, mine also shares the same
firmware revision. Can you share your source code as well?
-Original Message-
From: Erik Baigar [mailto:e...@baigar.de]
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 5:33 AM
To: Paul Birkel
Cc: jwsm...@jwsss.com; cctalk@classiccmp.org;
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
On 04/25/2016 12:42 PM, geneb wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 04/25/2016 09:39 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
I used it to port a couple of my programs from (Ughhh!) Borland
Turbo Pascal for Windows to Linux, and it was a surprisingly painless
j
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Raymond Wiker wrote:
> If you think that Lisp is an "academic only language", you probably need
> to spend a little time with actually using it.
Thanks for making my point for me.
-Swift
2016-04-26 3:45 GMT+02:00 Ken Seefried :
> Is there an equivalent to the DSV11 for Unibus? Or other quick Unibus
> sync serial that my Google-fu isn't good enough to find? The DMC11
> looks like it can do 56Kbps over V.35, which is better than the
> 19.2kbps on the DMF32, but it would be useful
On 25 April 2016 at 19:00, Swift Griggs wrote:
> Hm. Are you sure your personal interest in the topic hasn't pushed you
> to be a little sensitive about it ?
Yes.
Because I was a support guy, and now am a writer, not a programmer. I
have been researching programming languages and operating
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 5:14 PM, ben wrote:
>
> But for the most part Common Folk did not have the resources
> I suspect for REAL programing languages, because those require
> a REAL OS to run with, and after the 8086 the Newer chips became
> too complex to use, and the 68000 was only 16 bit addre
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Mattis Lind wrote:
>
> 2016-04-26 3:45 GMT+02:00 Ken Seefried :
>
>> Is there an equivalent to the DSV11 for Unibus? Or other quick Unibus
>> sync serial that my Google-fu isn't good enough to find? The DMC11
>> looks like it can do 56Kbps over V.35, which is b
Hi Sherman!
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Sherman Foy wrote:
under the heading of d??j?? vu, if this unit is a Rockwell Collins mil
hand paper tape puller, my old roommate ran the qualification tests on
Hm, the reader is a Vaisala SPT11A and I searched the internet
for readers from Rockwell Collins.
Has anyone ever seen either A/UX or AIX running on an Apple Network Server
or Apple Workgroup Server? I had several hundred AIX machines running in a
server farm for a while, but even the oldest was POWER4 based, and I've only
done a bit of legacy support for PPC60x-based RS/6000 systems. I don't
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Erik Baigar wrote:
> Apart from Rolm mil-spec computers, my hobby is airborne vintage avionics
> and I know that Ferranti tested their intertial navigations systems for
> aircraft also by torturing them in a car driving around Edinburgh in
> Scotland...
That is an interesting
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Erik Baigar wrote:
Apart from Rolm mil-spec computers, my hobby is airborne vintage avionics
and I know that Ferranti tested their intertial navigations systems for
aircraft also by torturing them in a car driving around Edinburgh in
Scotland...
Erik is not the only one.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
> Erik is not the only one. Check out Tatiana van Vark.
Excellent! I've actually wondered who in the world might do something like
this. Now I know. Like I said, what a cool hobby.
> Here's a picture of what is in her DINING ROOM, the complete electronics
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 1:14 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
>> Erik is not the only one. Check out Tatiana van Vark.
>
> Excellent! I've actually wondered who in the world might do something like
> this. Now I know. Like I said, what a cool hobby.
>
>> Here
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
> From the looks of other items on her website, that collection of airplane
> gear is the *least* strange thing she has.
Holy smokes I just checked and you are right!
> Stuff like an encryption machine that isn't exactly an Enigma, but based
> on the sam
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 1:34 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
> ...
> Just about everything on that page is drool-worthy or cool in some extreme
> way. That crytograph does indeed rock and "The Inertial Navigator Platform"
> looks like an artifact from The 5th Element. What's more incredible about
> that
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Erik Baigar wrote:
Apart from Rolm mil-spec computers, my hobby is airborne vintage avionics
and I know that Ferranti tested their intertial navigations systems for
aircraft also by torturing them in a car driving around Edinburgh i
* On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:08:37AM -0600, Swift Griggs
wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Raymond Wiker wrote:
> > If you think that Lisp is an "academic only language", you probably need
> > to spend a little time with actually using it.
>
> Thanks for making my point for me.
That seems like a "
I use Samsung 850 Pro disks exclusively. The main one I tested with was
128GB.
80-pin SCA hot swap Ultra160 SCSI to SATA:
This one I've tested in my O2 and Tezro:
http://www.acard.com/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=240&prod_no=ARS-2160H&type1_idno=6&ino=43
50-pin ultra-scsi to SATA:
This one
On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
> ...To tell you the truth, I'm not very
> likely to hire anyone who isn't conversant with at least half a
> dozen different languages. ...
Although I agree with almost everything Brian said in his post, I’ll posit at
least one exception here
Erik is not the only one. Check out Tatiana van Vark. Here's a picture of
what is in her DINING ROOM, the complete electronics suite from a Vulcan
bomber!
Yes, Tatiana is the queen of collecting this kind of
stuff and she has an excellent page!
There's also a video of her picking up a Litt
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
problems with her SO freaking out, but who knows, perhaps she married an OCD
butler. It's tough to escape the laws of the universe sometimes. :-)
And I'd be interested in whether she had some help in
maintaining all this outstanding equipment ;-) For
Hi Jim,
after another test using a different PC and paper tape,
the paper tape reader is en route to you. I declared it as
"paper tape reader for hobby use, value USD10" and that it
will "return within 4 weeks". Hopefully this will prevent
you from having to get into toruble with the custom offi
I bought a 32016 Cambridge Coprocessor back in the day. It's in my loft.
On 25 April 2016 at 23:49, Jules Richardson
wrote:
> On 04/25/2016 10:02 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> I meant to develop this point slightly, and did in a blog post, here:
>>
>> http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/48593.htm
It was thus said that the Great Tapley, Mark once stated:
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
>
> > ...To tell you the truth, I'm not very likely to hire anyone who isn't
> > conversant with at least half a dozen different languages. ...
>
> Although I agree with almost everyt
It was thus said that the Great Raymond Wiker once stated:
>
> > On 26 Apr 2016, at 05:39 , Swift Griggs wrote:
> >
> > It's probably a bad idea to dismiss anyone's experience when you haven't
> > "walked a mile in his moccasins.", including mine. Though my attempt may
> > have been inarticul
> From: Erik Baigar
> I wanted to have a computer using core memory and so I bought a black
> box from the Tornado aircraft which contained core. This started a 10
> year yourney of analyzing it, decyphering the command set and building
> tools to program it. ... I have a proje
On 04/26/2016 10:49 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> That tube is interesting: it's the world's first integrated circuit.
> Yes, a hollow state integrated circuit. I describe it that way
> because it is a complete subsystem (in this case, a complete 3 stage
> audio amplifier) rather than just something l
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> On 04/26/2016 10:49 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> That tube is interesting: it's the world's first integrated circuit.
>> Yes, a hollow state integrated circuit. I describe it that way
>> because it is a complete subsystem (in this case, a co
On 04/26/16 10:21 AM, Swift Griggs wrote:
Has anyone ever seen either A/UX or AIX running on an Apple Network Server
or Apple Workgroup Server?
A/UX did not run on PPC hardware. The AIX that ran on ANS boxes (Apple Network
Servers) was a special deviant, and, among other issues, required A
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> > Has anyone ever seen either A/UX or AIX running on an Apple Network Server
> > or Apple Workgroup Server?
> A/UX did not run on PPC hardware. The AIX that ran on ANS boxes (Apple
> Network Servers) was a special deviant, and, among other issues, required
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I am absolutely, completely, blown away. This has got to be one of the most
amazing projects I have ever come across. I'm utterly awed by the work you
did to reverse engineer this thing.
Everyone should check out this site - especially the detailed time
On 04/26/16 03:25 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
A/UX - another Apple Unix that (originally) only ran on specific hardware.
There is now an emulation project called "ShoeBill" that will allow you to
run A/UX on top of other hardware.
I've seen that project before. The only issue is that you need
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:
> > One possibility is SRM unmaps them when it takes over from SROM, for
> > safety maybe -- so as not to let one corrupt flash by accident easily
> (BTW, I do
> > recommend write-protecting flash with its jumper for these experiments --
> > with DROM no
> -Original Message-
> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Maciej
> W. Rozycki
> Sent: 26 April 2016 21:02
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts
> Subject: RE: AlphaStation 200 NVRAM Problem
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>
> > > One pos
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I won't say any more or provide any specifics, as I like being on this
> list and don't want to get booted for sharing locations for unlicensed
> software.
Understood. I like to keep it legal, since I mainly work as a systems
programmer or sysadmin.
>
Does anyone out there have one of these controllers?
There is an unprotected PAL- the address decoder- and I really need a dump of
it. Many programmers, particularly the BP technologies ones, can read it
It was thus said that the Great Swift Griggs once stated:
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>
> > Unix is a very religious subject. My last intent is to get on someone's
> > bad side here.
>
> Tell me about it. I'm just lucky/glad to have avoided the VMS vs Unix wars
> in the 90's. Too
> I just got some very interesting results.
>
> I examined the bank 8 configuration register contents using the console.
It
> contained 0x0136, which suggests the cache is not valid. The base address
> register contained 0x4000.
>
> So I booted VMS and modified my code to read the same locations.
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
> > Tell me about it. I'm just lucky/glad to have avoided the VMS vs Unix wars
> > in the 90's. Too much drama. :-)
> What VMS vs Unix wars? I don't recall any in the 90s. Perhaps in the 80s
> ...
Perhaps so; like I said, I missed them, and thank goodness
Just to let folks know that I just received the prototype boards for the MEM11A
(FedEx just left).
The boards look great! The parts from Digikey arrived late last week, so once
I get my soldering
station set up (new microscope and new Metcal soldering iron) I’ll start to
build a couple of board
Is a 720TM any use? I just acquired one... And a BP-1200.…
Mike
On Apr 27, 2016 9:35 AM, "Ian Finder" wrote:
> Does anyone out there have one of these controllers?
>
> There is an unprotected PAL- the address decoder- and I really need a dump
> of it. Many programmers, particularly the BP techno
Hey Mike,
The docs claim the 700 / 710 TM use PAL P70013A at U102, and the 720
TM uses PAL P720008A at U102, but I don't think it'd catch anything on fire
to try it.
Could you send the two EPROM images too? Sounds like a great opportunity to
break in your BP (Baller Programmer) 1200...
Remember
On Apr 26, 2016 2:35 PM, "Ian Finder" wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have one of these controllers?
>
> There is an unprotected PAL- the address decoder- and I really need a
dump of it. Many programmers, particularly the BP technologies ones, can
read it
Curious how you know it is not a protect
The spec sheet from the PAL mfg. (signetics PLS173) seems to indicate
security fuses aren't an option on the model on my board. I have not
actually tried yet.
Failing that, if I can find one locally, there are only 12 bits of
combinatorial inputs.
I could easily whip up a little Arduino project o
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:
> It may be a checksum that is failing of course. Or the DROM itself,
> which I can't verify until I get the PLCC adapter for my PROM programmer
> and someone else to read their DROM.
Could you use a pull or replacement mobo ? I notice there are some
A
On Apr 26, 2016 3:04 PM, "Ian Finder" wrote:
>
> The spec sheet from the PAL mfg. (signetics PLS173) seems to indicate
> security fuses aren't an option on the model on my board. I have not
> actually tried yet.
>
Regardless of what the spec sheet does or does not explicitly say, I think
when I s
> I can now do test code for the NVRAM, I will start with repeated reads to
see if
> I get different values on different occasions. Then I will save it and
write
> patterns etc. It may be a checksum that is failing of course. Or the DROM
itself,
> which I can't verify until I get the PLCC adapter f
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Swift
> Griggs
> Sent: 26 April 2016 23:07
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>
> Subject: RE: AlphaStation 200 NVRAM Problem
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Robert Jarratt wrote:
> > It
I'm on holiday with my kids just - ping me next week when I'm home!
On Apr 27, 2016 9:59 AM, "Ian Finder" wrote:
> Hey Mike,
>
> The docs claim the 700 / 710 TM use PAL P70013A at U102, and the 720
> TM uses PAL P720008A at U102, but I don't think it'd catch anything on fire
> to try it.
>
> Coul
On 04/26/2016 12:40 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> This sort of stuff doesn't seem to be all that common; I haven't seen
> it elsewhere. Multiple tubes, like dual triodes or triode/heptodes
> are pretty common, but those are just the active part.
The only "passive in the tube" examples I can think of i
I have a "MACSIMM" from GGLabs (http://gglabs.us) which I bought from
their Ebay store. Unfortunately they haven't followed up on my request
for information on how to prepare a ROM image for use with the thing. Has
anyone else here used this or a similar device to hack the ROMs of the Mac
S
> On the world there is probably only my 12 bit freely programmable
> Elliott 900 still alive, I know of as little as 6 Rolms (privately
> owned, all variants) and less than 5 of the inertial navigators.
If you are talking about the various Rolm 1600 series machines - there are
a whole lot more of
There were a few others, as well as some RF devices with the tuned parts
inside the bulb. There were also some oddball types made for weather
balloon use that had the whole transmitter circuit as one unit.
--
Will
On Apr 26, 2016 6:30 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote:
On 04/26/2016 12:40 PM, Paul Koning
I assume you'd have to locate a 32-bit clean rom image from one of the emulator
sites, then break out every 1/4 byte
into a file. You then have to use an external prom programmer to write them.
According to the eBay ad:
"Chips are socketed for individual flashing on a standard eprom programmer w
Seriously,
http://tinyurl.com/j46jg4p
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743645
What in the world is this thing? Some kind of early parallel or vector
processor? External? How delightfully weird, except there is very little
online about it. Did any of you work with one of t
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Ian Finder wrote:
> The spec sheet from the PAL mfg. (signetics PLS173) seems to indicate
> security fuses aren't an option on the model on my board. I have not
> actually tried yet.
>
A PLS173 does not have a security fuse.
A PLUS173 does have a security fuse.
O
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> Seriously,
>
> http://tinyurl.com/j46jg4p
>
> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743645
>
> What in the world is this thing? Some kind of early parallel or vector
> processor? External? How delightfully weird, except ther
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Charles Anthony wrote:
> Try searching for ' cspi mini-map vector processor'
Ah yes. The marketdroid blurb sums it up:
"Today, CSPI is recognized as a leading manufacturer of vector processors
which enhance a computer's ability to perform high-speed arithmetic.
Markets
On 04/26/2016 12:14 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jon Elson wrote:
Erik is not the only one. Check out Tatiana van Vark.
Excellent! I've actually wondered who in the world might do something like
this. Now I know. Like I said, what a cool hobby.
Here's a picture of what is
On 04/26/2016 07:59 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
Seriously,
http://tinyurl.com/j46jg4p
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743645
What in the world is this thing? Some kind of early parallel or vector
processor?
We got a CSPI 6410 and had it hooked to a VAX 11/780. It
was probab
Yes, the CSPI box is mounted inside a standard DEC cabinet. I have one of
these things in a VAX, originally part of some sort of chemical analysis
tool.
--
Will
On Apr 26, 2016 9:44 PM, "Jon Elson" wrote:
On 04/26/2016 07:59 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
> Seriously,
>
> http://tinyurl.com/j46jg4p
>
From: Paul Koning
>
> HDLC is ok so far as it goes, but DDCMP is superior in every respect. The
> only reason
> to use HDLC is that you need to talk something that can't be made to speak
> DDCMP.
>
Like a Cisco router without the DECnet feature set? Or pretty much
anything that doesn't speak
> What was the highest level of integration in a single envelope?
Perhaps Selectrons.
--
Will
From: Ethan Dicks
>
> DUP-11? Will that do what you need?
>
Not sure, Ethan. I'm been looking at the doco and it's not clear yet
if it's suitable for what I'm trying to do.
Thanks for the pointer.
KJ
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Swift Griggs wrote:
Has anyone ever seen either A/UX or AIX running on an Apple Network Server
or Apple Workgroup Server? I had several hundred AIX machines running in a
server farm for a while, but even the oldest was POWER4 based, and I've only
done a bit of legacy suppor
> -Original Message-
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Dave
> Wade
> Sent: 26 April 2016 23:18
> To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
>
> Subject: RE: AlphaStation 200 NVRAM Problem
>
> > I can now do test code for the NVRAM, I will sta
On 04/26/2016 07:47 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
>> What was the highest level of integration in a single envelope?
>
> Perhaps Selectrons.
EBAM?
What a pile of stuff, much of which ties in (in various directions)
with things I've been thinking.
In no particular order
Grades - ideally, yes, grades would be unnecessary. But in a system
where others depend on something at least vaguely objective to measure
whether people know things, so
On 04/26/2016 09:47 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
What was the highest level of integration in a single envelope?
Perhaps Selectrons.
There were also "Compactrons", 12-pin tubes kind of
extending the 7- and 9-pin submini tubes.
Some of them had at least 3 elements in one envelope.
Jon
http://www.supervinx.com/OnlineMuseum/Apple/Quadra/950/
Scroll down and you'll find many A/UX pictures
On 04/26/2016 09:49 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> There were also "Compactrons", 12-pin tubes kind of extending the 7-
> and 9-pin submini tubes. Some of them had at least 3 elements in one
> envelope.
I remember them and used them. In particular, I remember an AF
amplifier with push-pull beam output e
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, William Donzelli wrote:
On the world there is probably only my 12 bit freely programmable
Elliott 900 still alive, I know of as little as 6 Rolms (privately
owned, all variants) and less than 5 of the inertial navigators.
If you are talking about the various Rolm 1600 ser
> On Apr 26, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Sean Conner wrote:
>>> Tell me about it. I'm just lucky/glad to have avoided the VMS vs Unix wars
>>> in the 90's. Too much drama. :-)
>> What VMS vs Unix wars? I don't recall any in the 90s. Perhaps in the 80s
>> ...
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