Re: Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
On 11/28/17 13:27, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > Dave has a KV10 already in verilog, so why not port it to the uengine? Well, the uengine would have to be considerably modified before it could be used for a PDP-10 (e.g. wider data-paths); this version is very specialized to the SD

Re: Livermore Data Systems / was Re: what is this NCR modem? what did it go to?

2017-11-28 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
On 2017-11-28 7:11 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: On 2017-Nov-28, at 2:54 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: I couldn't find the ebay listing for the NCR modem for some reason, either using the number or by searching by keywords. https

Re: TRS80 Model 4P CRT contrast fail

2017-11-28 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 26 Nov 2017, at 21:06, Adrian Graham wrote: > > I replied to this thread a while back but managed to only reply to Tony and > not the list, oops! Rather than using my multi-transistor tester for TR103 I > tested it with a DMM in diode mode and it’s almost a dead short from B-E, I > get th

Re: Livermore Data Systems / was Re: what is this NCR modem? what did it go to?

2017-11-28 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2017-Nov-28, at 2:54 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >> I couldn't find the ebay listing for the NCR modem for some reason, either >> using the number or by searching by keywords. > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/132411929563 That works . .

Re: Livermore Data Systems / was Re: what is this NCR modem? what did it go to?

2017-11-28 Thread Santo Nucifora via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Brent Hilpert via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Thanks for the additional datapoint. > It does suggest Model A production may likely have started in 1968. > Actual date codes in mine were 6908 to 7008. > The larger caps are also a good place to look fo

Re: Livermore Data Systems / was Re: what is this NCR modem? what did it go to?

2017-11-28 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: I couldn't find the ebay listing for the NCR modem for some reason, either using the number or by searching by keywords. https://www.ebay.com/itm/132411929563

Re: Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread David Bridgham via cctalk
On 11/28/17 13:27, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > Dave has a KV10 already in verilog, so why not port it to the uengine? > ;-) Once the QSIC is far enough along that I go back to working on the KV10, I expect I'll do just that.

Re: Livermore Data Systems / was Re: what is this NCR modem? what did it go to?

2017-11-28 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2017-Nov-27, at 5:25 PM, steve shumaker via cctalk wrote: > On 11/27/2017 2:26 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: The Livermore Data Systems modems that I sold off were from about 1964? >> >> On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote: >>> Were those the Livermore Data Systems modem

Parts for old RS/6000's

2017-11-28 Thread Benjamin Huntsman via cctalk
Anyone on here have any old RS/6000 parts? I have an old C10 I'm trying to beef up a bit for a project. I'm after the following (pardon the lame table): FC FRU Qty Desc 3033 74G8824 2 2.2GB SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Disk Drive 4012 9H5583 8 32MB SIMM Memory 4224 02G7431 1 Ethern

Re: Sun 3/50 processor board and unknown processor

2017-11-28 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
Apologies, board *1* Anyway, the CADDstation was a turnkey system based around the Sun 3 so it makes sense that the boards are together. If you look closely in the lower right of board 1 you can make out the manufacturer's name. On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Ian Finder wrote: > The second b

Re: Sun 3/50 processor board and unknown processor

2017-11-28 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
The second board is clearly out of a ComputerVision CADDstation. On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 11/21/17, 3:40 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Charles Dickman via cctalk" > wrote: > > > >It looks like board 2 is for a Sun 3/50 workst

Re: Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2017-11-28 08:54, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: and the whole thing is here: https://github.com/dabridgham/QSIC including the Verilog for the uengine. Dave reports that it should be easy to adapt his uengine design to other uses, it should run in pretty much any FPGA. So if you want to

Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, as part of the work on getting our QSIC card to support SD cards for storage, Dave and I have produced some tools that people might find useful. Dave's original concept was to do SD support with a state machine. However, the SD protocol turned out to be a little too complex for that, so we de