Re: SWTPC 6800

2016-08-03 Thread jim stephens
On 8/3/2016 10:58 PM, Brad H wrote: Thought I would post this here in case it reaches eyes my forum posts don't. So I finally got my hands on a SWTPC 6800! This machine is chock full of boards.. 4 ram boards, the cpu card (with SWTBUG ROM), MP-S, MP-C serial cards, a floppy controller,

SWTPC 6800

2016-08-03 Thread Brad H
Thought I would post this here in case it reaches eyes my forum posts don't.   So I finally got my hands on a SWTPC 6800!   This machine is chock full of boards.. 4 ram boards, the cpu card (with SWTBUG ROM), MP-S, MP-C serial cards, a floppy controller, some little custom board, a sound ca

Re: Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point'

2016-08-03 Thread Ian S. King
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brad H wrote: > > > I would call Win 95 a high point also. I lived near Toronto at the time > and remember the unfurling of a huge Win 95 banner down one side. There > were events everywhere. MS was really at their zenith. The excitement > around that launch was

Re: VCF West tickets

2016-08-03 Thread Fred Cisin
Is there parking there? Is it free?

RE: HP 2100A Restoration

2016-08-03 Thread Jay West
Marc; There's probably a HP 2100/21MX singularity being formed in my basement. I think it's the 7906's that push it over critical mass lol Hayden - Here is a link to the 21MX M/E/F I/O interfacing guide. It is not the earlier 2100-specific one that I was thinking about the other day, but it should

Re: Irix 5.3 drivers

2016-08-03 Thread Pete Turnbull
On 03/08/2016 00:08, Pete Turnbull wrote: I realise this is a bit of a long shot, but does anyone have the driver CD "GIO Fast Ethernet 1.0 for Irix 5.3 and 2.0 for Irix 6.2", SGI part number 812-0576-001? Thanks to those who replied - I now have the files I wanted. -- Pete Pete Turnbull

PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_ & _Programming_Languages_(Scanned) Covers Needed

2016-08-03 Thread Anders Sandahl
>Does anyone have DEC's PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_, Editions 3 >and/or 4 and/or the PDP-8 _Programming_Languages_ handbooks? > >If you're not willing to part with your copy, could you scan the front >covers of these handbooks and tell me which Edition(s) they are from? >I'm >especially lo

Re: 8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:19 AM, Rik Bos wrote: > It is a HP disc, probably for the hp 9845/35 series. > H tells you the drive type (9895A), 8 the controller select code, 0 the drive > address, 1 the unit address (second disc in a unit, first disc will be 0). > Probably the disc will contain a lar

Re: VCF West tickets

2016-08-03 Thread Corey Cohen
ID with name is ok. We have a list of names and PayPal email addresses with what you purchased. corey cohen uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ > On Aug 3, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Chris Hanson wrote: > > Any word on how the admission will work for those of us who prepaid? > > Do we need to show our PayPal receipt, just

Re: VCF West tickets

2016-08-03 Thread Chris Hanson
Any word on how the admission will work for those of us who prepaid? Do we need to show our PayPal receipt, just have our ID with the same name, etc.? -- Chris > On Jul 31, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Alan Hightower wrote: > > Yes, please clarify both the CHM admission and how my Paypal receipt > ema

Re: RX02 rx-01 heathkit 8 inch drive for H-11 ( lsi11 heath case drive diff?)

2016-08-03 Thread COURYHOUSE
Rich - correct. That is the disc we have here. Just wondering in case We ever got a pdp-8 with disc interface or a standard unibus PDP 11 here at SMECC . We have an 11/20 but of course not much memory and no disc controller so it sits. Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.s

Re: Differences between the PDP-11/15 and PDP-11/20

2016-08-03 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Paul Koning > It would have to be a Unibus bridge type device, i.e., it terminates > the Unibus from the CPU, and at the other end originates a Unibus with > mapped addresses on it. Oh, right you are - I hadn't worked that out. (Probably because my head is still full of KT

RE: 8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Rik Bos
You can find a lot of explanation on the HP 9845 website. www.hp9845.net and the hp computer museum in Sidney www.hpmuseum.net is also a good starting point. -Rik Van: Denise de Vries

RE: 8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Rik Bos
148 is the volume name/number. -Rik Van: Denise de Vries Verzonden: woensdag 3 augustus 2016 14:20 Aan: cct...@classiccmp.org Onderwerp: 8 inch disks - help needed identifying format Thanks Rik I also should have asked what does 148 mean? NAME PRO TYPE REC/FILE BYTES/REC ADDRESS H

Re: PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_ & _Programming_Languages_(Scanned)

2016-08-03 Thread Don Stalkowski
On Tue Aug 2 20:20:47 2016 bobvine...@gmail.com (Bob Vines) wrote: > > Does anyone have DEC's PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_, Editions 3 > and/or 4 and/or the PDP-8 _Programming_Languages_ handbooks? > > If you're not willing to part with your copy, could you scan the front > covers of thes

8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Denise de Vries
Thanks Rik I also should have asked what does 148 mean? NAME PRO TYPE REC/FILE BYTES/REC ADDRESS H8,0,1 148 ALT-ADATA 1 1188 0/1/0 Denise

Re: MicroVax II

2016-08-03 Thread Glen Slick
On Aug 3, 2016 3:10 AM, "Peter Coghlan" wrote: > > > > > Also, the built in SCSI on a VAX 3100 doesn't support drives over 1GB. > > > > That's not quite correct. > Yeah, more details than I could be 100% accurate about off the top of my head and had the patience to type with one thumb. The only

Re: Differences between the PDP-11/15 and PDP-11/20

2016-08-03 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:18:07PM +1000, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > A few months back you might recall the road trip I did I do, and I've been meaning to ask you what became of the PDP-9 that was in the same room. Thanks, Pontus.

Re: Differences between the PDP-11/15 and PDP-11/20

2016-08-03 Thread Paul Koning
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > ... > I'm not sure how the KT11-B works, but my _suspicion_ (going from the > pictures of that one that sold on eBay) is that it's not part of the CPU, but > a UNIBUS device, which maps part of the UNIBUS which the CPU _can_ see (i.e. > in the 0

Re: Differences between the PDP-11/15 and PDP-11/20

2016-08-03 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Steven Malikoff > I'm wondering if there are any more differences apart from the lack of > the two high address switches? According to the -11/15-20 processor manual (pg. 2), the differences between the two are i) the -15 has only one hardware interrupt level, not four (the la

Differences between the PDP-11/15 and PDP-11/20

2016-08-03 Thread steven
A few months back you might recall the road trip I did to recover a Foxboro FOX-2, a rebadged PDP-11 that ran the furnace oxygenation plant at the BHP steel mill at Port Kembla here in Oz during the 1970s. I had thought the machine was an 11/20 with a custom FOX front panel that (apart from the

RE: 8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Rik Bos
Hi Denise, It is a HP disc, probably for the hp 9845/35 series. H tells you the drive type (9895A), 8 the controller select code, 0 the drive address, 1 the unit address (second disc in a unit, first disc will be 0). Probably the disc will contain a large fata file of 1188 blocks, may be it’s a

Re: PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_ & _Programming_Languages_(Scanned) Covers Needed

2016-08-03 Thread Don North
On 8/2/2016 9:18 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: Does anyone have DEC's PDP-8 _Introduction_to_Programming_, Editions 3 and/or 4 and/or the PDP-8 _Programming_Languages_ handbooks? I have a 4th edition PDP-8 Introduction to Programming. I'm not willing to part with it and I don't currently have a scan

8 inch disks - help needed identifying format

2016-08-03 Thread Denise de Vries
I am trying to preserve data from a selection of 8inch disks and the only information I have is some printouts which I believe to be HP CAT reports. The first couple of lines are as follows NAME PRO TYPE REC/FILE BYTES/REC ADDRESS H8,0,1 148 ALT-ADATA 1 1188

Re: RX02 rx-01 heathkit 8 inch drive for H-11 ( lsi11 heath case drive diff?)

2016-08-03 Thread Richard Cini
Are you referring to having the H-27 drive from Heath? I don't know for sure because I've never seen H27 docs, but the disk capacity is the same as the RX01 (256k) and I think the interface was made deliberately incompatible, likely at the behest of DEC. The version of RT-11 (called HT-11) suppo

Re: MicroVax II

2016-08-03 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Also, the built in SCSI on a VAX 3100 doesn't support drives over 1GB. > That's not quite correct. The firmware on VAXstation 3100 and early MicroVAX 3100 machines has issues addressing directly attached SCSI disks larger than 1.073GB for booting and doing system dumps only. The issues can

Re: HP 2100A Restoration

2016-08-03 Thread COURYHOUSE
yes we used to at computer exchange inc... we had a bunch of blank I/o boards with the i/o special chips traces on the corner of board we would populate that portion then built out the rest. rest of board was like a prototype board I scored a stack of them at a san jo