Re: Ultrix 3.0 VAX

2019-04-24 Thread John Forecast via cctalk
Dennis, It sounds like you are looking for an Ultrix 3.0 standalone boot tape. While I found a number of people who claim to have a physical tape, with some claiming to have imaged the tape, I was unable to find an image on-line. That being said, it’s possible to use the Ultrix 2.0

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Patrick Finnegan via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:51 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > > The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable. > > It may actually be compatible with the 955 keyboard, which I was able to > read. > Key layout is the same, though the manuf is different > The 924 should be

TSX-Plus help needed!

2019-04-24 Thread Charles via cctalk
OK, I have figured out how to modify TSGEN.MAC, use PUTR to make a disk image, load it in SIMH, reassemble, relink, and *finally* send it to an RL02 pack via vtserver! TIme-consuming but doable. I've been wrestling with this all day. BUT - TSX+ 6.50 just will not run. At all. Using RT-11SJ

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable. It may actually be compatible with the 955 keyboard, which I was able to read. Key layout is the same, though the manuf is different

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread allison via cctalk
On 04/24/2019 08:47 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > On 4/24/19 5:46 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > >> The 8049 is readable just like the 8048 save for 2k device.  I worked >> for NEC back then and had access to intel parts too. > is that true for "HC" parts or just NMOS? > > All!  The HC were

Re: VTserver problem (bug?)

2019-04-24 Thread Charles via cctalk
And even more bizarrely... it crawled its way up to the 7400K block, and now it's going at normal speed again! 10MB should be done soon. I have no idea what could be causing this major slowdown from 6.6-7.4 MB. It's not the drive because two different ones do the same thing (and they work

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/24/19 5:46 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > The 8049 is readable just like the 8048 save for 2k device.  I worked > for NEC back then and had access to intel parts too. is that true for "HC" parts or just NMOS?

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread allison via cctalk
On 04/24/2019 07:55 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > At 08:14 AM 24/04/2019 -0700, you wrote: >> >> On 4/24/19 5:39 AM, Guy Dunphy wrote: >> >>> The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable. >> 8049s aren't protected. they are 2k versions of the 8048 >> and can be read as 8749s > I

Re: VTserver problem (bug?)

2019-04-24 Thread Charles via cctalk
-Original Message- But there is some kind of bug that always appears at the same point, in the middle of the next 100K block after "6600K written". The data transfer stops (no more head motion/ready light flicker on the RL02), and the character that vtserver uses to indicate a write

Re:

2019-04-24 Thread Charles via cctalk
But there is some kind of bug that always appears at the same point, in the middle of the next 100K block after "6600K written". The data transfer stops (no more head motion/ready light flicker on the RL02), and the character that vtserver uses to indicate a write operation just repeats endlessly

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
Thanks, I'll check that. At 07:48 AM 24/04/2019 -0500, wrco...@wrcooke.net wrote: > >> On April 24, 2019 at 7:39 AM Guy Dunphy via cctalk >> wrote: >> > >> I haven't dumped the chargen chip yet, because I don't know what it is, and >> suspect it's more complex than just a ROM. >> 24 pin

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 08:14 AM 24/04/2019 -0700, you wrote: > > >On 4/24/19 5:39 AM, Guy Dunphy wrote: > >> The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable. > >8049s aren't protected. they are 2k versions of the 8048 >and can be read as 8749s I did try reading it as an 8749. By 'not readable' I meant it

VTserver problem (bug?)

2019-04-24 Thread Charles via cctalk
I sometimes use vtserver to download disk images to the RL02's on my PDP-11/23+. Takes quite a while at 9600 baud, too :) But there is some kind of bug that always appears at the same point, in the middle of the next 100K block after "6600K written". The data transfer stops (no more head

Re: SIMH question

2019-04-24 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 05:08, Charles via cctalk wrote: > Thanks... unfortunately I'm running 64-bit Windows and just discovered PUTR > will only run on a 32-bit (or even older) machine. 32-bit code _should_ run on 64-bit Win7/8.x/10. 16-bit code won't. Win7 has "XP Mode", which is a free

Re: SIMH question

2019-04-24 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 4/24/19 10:14 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: From: Glen Slick when I wanted to assemble some code with the RT-11 assembler but wanted to edit the source code elsewhere and then transfer the code into a SIMH disk image.

Re: SIMH question

2019-04-24 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:05 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > >> From: Glen Slick > >> when I wanted to assemble some code with the RT-11 assembler but wanted >> to edit the source code elsewhere and then transfer the code into a >> SIMH disk image. > > Someone should write the SIMH

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 4/24/19 5:39 AM, Guy Dunphy wrote: > The keyboard controller is an 8049. Firmware not readable. 8049s aren't protected. they are 2k versions of the 8048 and can be read as 8749s

RK611 Technical Manual needed

2019-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Anyone have a copy of the RK611 Technical Manual (EK-RK611-TM-001 is the version that's attested)? It's not online. (I have a copy in my fiche set, but my fiche reader died - no, it's not the bulb, already changed that! :-) Noel

Re: Infocom mystery binary

2019-04-24 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 05:14 AM 4/24/2019, David Griffith via cctalk wrote: >When I first noticed that the binary wasn't stripped, I tried poking around >with assorted disassemblers and decompilers hoping to get something resembling >C code out of it. And you found what? - John

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On April 24, 2019 at 7:39 AM Guy Dunphy via cctalk > wrote: > > I haven't dumped the chargen chip yet, because I don't know what it is, and > suspect it's more complex than just a ROM. > 24 pin character gen ROM/? at U10 is marked: > > VTi (logo) > 350 RN 118 > 2333-5006 > 8000142 >

Re: Televideo 925 character rom dump

2019-04-24 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 04:34 PM 23/04/2019 -0700, you wrote: > > >On 4/23/19 3:35 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: [my Televideo 924] > >I have maint manuals for the 925. > >Some photos of the boards and dumps of the keyboard firmware and controller >would be nice to add to bitsavers, since I've not come across

Re: Infocom mystery binary

2019-04-24 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, Ethan Dicks wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 9:58 PM David Griffith via cctalk wrote: In one of the repositories of Infocom game source code recently uploaded to Github, there's an executable that appears to have