Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 5:10 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > On 3/26/19 7:54 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > > > Mine has two entries: > > > > > tms 0 174500 2605 tmsintr # tmscp driver > > > tms 1 164334 0 5 tmsintr # tmscp driver >

Re: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-03-26 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 26, 2019, at 8:14 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > Argh! I just got a batch of 10.5" open-reel tape in and about one-third > of the batch has vinyl "hanger strips" that heave either self-destructed > in shipment or are about to do so. > > Given that the durned things have la

Re: 1/2" tape storage.

2019-03-26 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
> > wonder if anyone on tapeheads.net could help u with ideas?

1/2" tape storage.

2019-03-26 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Argh! I just got a batch of 10.5" open-reel tape in and about one-third of the batch has vinyl "hanger strips" that heave either self-destructed in shipment or are about to do so. Given that the durned things have lapsed into the land of the unobtainium, I wonder if plastic (probably polypropylen

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/26/19 7:54 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk wrote: > > Mine has two entries: > > > tms 0 174500 2605 tmsintr # tmscp driver > > tms 1 164334 0 5 tmsintr # tmscp driver > > You set the vector on the second one to zero. Should it be > something el

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Mine has two entries: > tms 0 174500 2605 tmsintr # tmscp driver > tms 1 164334 0 5 tmsintr # tmscp driver You set the vector on the second one to zero. Should it be something else? De

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:35 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Yeah, got all that. The problem seems to be init not finding them > during the configure system stage. > > And even given the possible confusion over multiple TMSCP controllers, > it doesn't explain why the second I add a TMSCP

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 3/26/19 3:02 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:23 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: >> >> The saga continues!!! I really don;t remember it being this >> hard back in the good ole' days but then we had lots of real >> hardware to work with and systems weren't kl

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 11:23 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > > The saga continues!!! I really don;t remember it being this > hard back in the good ole' days but then we had lots of real > hardware to work with and systems weren't kludges like what > I have in my house. :-) > > I am curre

Re: 2.11 BSD on an 11/93 with an CMD SCSI Module

2019-03-26 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
The saga continues!!! I really don;t remember it being this hard back in the good ole' days but then we had lots of real hardware to work with and systems weren't kludges like what I have in my house. :-) I am currently working with E11 V7.3. My prime interest is in getting a 2.11 system runn

AGC restoration / was Re: PDP-8 signed overflow detection - Apollo guidace computer

2019-03-26 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2019-Mar-26, at 9:28 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> From: Ben Bfranchuk > >> Now they seem to have have found a SCRAPPED Apollo guidance >> computer and am rebuilding the missing pieces. > > Wow. What a great site (and that guy has mad skills, everything from > repairing old Teletypes,

Re: George Comstock

2019-03-26 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/26/19 8:53 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/03/25/george-comstock-silicon-valley-pioneer-and-portola-valley-civic-leader-dies Thanks for that--I remember George well. --Chuck

Re: PDP-8 signed overflow detection - Apollo guidace computer

2019-03-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ben Bfranchuk > Now they seem to have have found a SCRAPPED Apollo guidance > computer and am rebuilding the missing pieces. Wow. What a great site (and that guy has mad skills, everything from repairing old Teletypes, through designing boards, to repairing analog stuff). Just

George Comstock

2019-03-26 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/03/25/george-comstock-silicon-valley-pioneer-and-portola-valley-civic-leader-dies

Re: PDP-8 signed overflow detection - Apollo guidace computer

2019-03-26 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/25/2019 7:27 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:26 AM Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: All this to fix a ~45 year old bug in Spacewar! where a ship's velocity overflows, causing the ship to "bounce" off of nothing. I would have figured it was bouncing off a chunk