Re: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-07 Thread jim stephens
On 12/7/2016 10:42 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 12/07/2016 12:46 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: Neither of those is entirely accurate. 9-track tapes on the PDP-10 used one of the following encodings: The last time that I had to deal with PDP-10 tapes, admittedly also 40 years ago was essentially

Re: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-07 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 12/07/2016 12:46 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: > Neither of those is entirely accurate. 9-track tapes on the PDP-10 > used one of the following encodings: The last time that I had to deal with PDP-10 tapes, admittedly also 40 years ago was essentially core-dump format. 5 7-bit characters per

EMACS folly

2016-12-07 Thread Lars Brinkhoff
Rich Alderson wrote: > Well, sure, if you load the suckit.el library, but that's optional. It's > faster if you load the compiled suckit.elc instead. > > I prefer the compiled TECO variant BITEME.:EJ, of course! Loaded into GNU Emacs? ;-) Hey, do you have any VAXen over there? How about

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

2016-12-07 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > Given that it's extended length anyhow, and thus not compliant with the > bus spec, it doesn't really matter which side of the board the components > are on, other than it precludes use in some backplane slots. I may have >

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

2016-12-07 Thread Eric Smith
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Michael Thompson < michael.99.thomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Extended-length Multibus. Definitely not Multibus II, which uses > Eurocard > > 6Ux220 form factor with two 96-pin DIN 41612 connectors. > > The components are on the wrong side of the board for a

RE: Odd "endianness" [was Re: RE: Base 64 posts to the list]

2016-12-07 Thread Rich Alderson
From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:15 PM > On 12/05/2016 01:09 PM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: >> As Charles wrote, the PDP-10 commonly uses 7-bit bytes for ASCII >> text, but that's only part of the truth. The architecture is quite >> byte size agnostic. There are instructions to

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

2016-12-07 Thread Michael Thompson
> > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 22:57:08 -0700 > From: Eric Smith > Subject: Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board? > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 7:32 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > > > It appears to be an extended-length Multibus II board with 2 8-bit

RE: RE: Base 64 posts to the list

2016-12-07 Thread Rich Alderson
From: Cameron Kaiser Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 6:35 AM >>> Thanks for the suggestion. My delivery was set to MIME, I have changed it >>> to plain text. Hopefully that will solve the problem. >> What? No format flame war? What's this world coming to? > emacs sucks! > *waits patiently*

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

2016-12-07 Thread Ken Seefried
From: Jon Elson > It appears to be an extended-length Multibus II board No. Multibus II used DIN connectors. KJ

Re: Could somebody please help me identify this board?

2016-12-07 Thread Mike Niswonger
The "CG" logo on the corner appears to be one of the many Compugraphic logos. Possibly a a board from a custom phototypesetter that drove a CRT to expose the photomask (film)? On 12/06/2016 06:57 PM, Chris Pye wrote: I’m moving my collection and found this board amongst some others.

M7869 KY11-LB ROM dumps

2016-12-07 Thread Tom Moss
Hi All, I've been testing an M7869 recently and noticed that my 11/34 would give a BUS ERR whenever it was halted or if I tried to read from the switch register, so I used the "wholly scientific" fingerpoken troubleshooting method and noticed the ROM at U33 (P/N 23345A9) was piping hot. Does

Re: VAX expert 'needed'

2016-12-07 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > So, looking at the list of 'wanted pages' on the Computer History' wiki: > > http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages > > the top page or so of entries are all about various Vaxen. And plenty of entries for

VAX expert 'needed'

2016-12-07 Thread Noel Chiappa
So, looking at the list of 'wanted pages' on the Computer History' wiki: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Special:WantedPages the top page or so of entries are all about various Vaxen. Is there a volunteer our there to sign up as an editor there (note: applications have to be approved, which can take

Wanted: Terminator for an RL02

2016-12-07 Thread Tom Moss
Hi All, Does anyone have a spare RL02 terminator for sale? Regards, -Tom

Have lunch with Lee Felsenstein

2016-12-07 Thread Evan Koblentz
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