Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Sean Ellis via cctalk
Well, thanks for all the help guys - Finally narrowed it down to a JE1078 on Stason: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/io-cards/I-L/JAMECO-ELECTRONIC-COMPONENTS-Multi-I-O-card-JE1078.html I can believe this thing was made in Taiwan - I had to repair probably 1/4 of all the joints on the card because

Re: DEC ADV11-D Analog to Digital converter with DMA

2020-10-16 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 10/16/20 5:34 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: I recently acquired an ADV11-D Qbus A/D board and having been working on a RSX11M+ driver for it. It is similar enough to the ADV11-C that the driver I wrote for the -C works ok, but the -D is DMA capable. It seems to have two extra

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/16/20 4:23 PM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 3:41 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >> Is "QC OK" the brand name? :-) >> > > Clearly we need a QC OK stickers reproduced onto a T Shirt for the next > time we can get together... Rivaled only by "Inspected by No.

Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

2020-10-16 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
> That is way smaller than the AGS. > Dwight > > > From: cctalk on behalf of Gavin Scott via > cctalk > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 6:04 AM > To: rice43 ; General Discussion: On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature

Re: Firing up the pdt11

2020-10-16 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Assuming people are still interested I'm working on other, lesser issues now that the little thing works. First thought: The interconnections between the CPU board and the IO board/memory boards are weird. Basically it's a plate, insulator, board, very odd spacer that provides

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 3:41 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Is "QC OK" the brand name? :-) > Clearly we need a QC OK stickers reproduced onto a T Shirt for the next time we can get together... Warner They made a lot of stuff. > Some of their premium stuff was designed by Pat Pending. > > >

DEC ADV11-D Analog to Digital converter with DMA

2020-10-16 Thread Mark Matlock via cctalk
I recently acquired an ADV11-D Qbus A/D board and having been working on a RSX11M+ driver for it. It is similar enough to the ADV11-C that the driver I wrote for the -C works ok, but the -D is DMA capable. It seems to have two extra CSR registers in addition to the CSR, and read buffer.

Re: AOL CD and other old PC software...

2020-10-16 Thread Peter Van Peborgh via cctalk
I have a collection of British magazine CDs and DVDs from the mid-1995ish to 2013ish. They contain tools, programs, etc. I tried 5 and they mounted under Win10 so they should work on old win releases: XP,7,8? Would anyone be interested in acquiring these? Talk to me and we can work out how.

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Is "QC OK" the brand name? :-) They made a lot of stuff. Some of their premium stuff was designed by Pat Pending. On 10/16/20 11:15 AM, Gregory Beat via cctalk wrote: This is a “Taiwanese generic 6-Pak” Add-In (8-bit ISA) expansion card. RAM 384 kB; Serial port, Parallel port, Game port,

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/16/20 11:15 AM, Gregory Beat via cctalk wrote: > Sean, Fred, and Glen — > This is a “Taiwanese generic 6-Pak” Add-In (8-bit ISA) expansion card. > RAM 384 kB; Serial port, Parallel port, Game port, AND Real Time Clock ! Exactly. The generic "QC OK" oval sticker is the tipoff that this is

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
BTW - IF you look at advertisements in the 1985-86 PC magazines, this was typical: PC Network (Mail-Order/Telephone reseller). PC NETWORK SIX-PACK“ CLONE with 0K $89.00* Full Six-Pack“ Features —Game Port Standard. Direct Import from Taiwan at a Fabulous Price! == The “unknown” is whether the

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Gregory Beat via cctalk
Sean, Fred, and Glen — Sorry, late to this ISA card thread. I worked in Tech Support for an Apple/IBM/HP/Novell retail computer dealer, during summers in early 1980s, when in Graduate school. So I saw the “wide selection” of add-in cards for IBM PC/XT and compatibles. == This is a “Taiwanese

Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

2020-10-16 Thread dwight via cctalk
That is way smaller than the AGS. Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of Gavin Scott via cctalk Sent: Friday, October 16, 2020 6:04 AM To: rice43 ; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

looking for advice on cleaning old equipment

2020-10-16 Thread Bjoren Davis via cctalk
Hello Classicquers, I have some vintage DEC equipment (terminals and small systems) that I need to clean up. I'm looking for advice on how to clean the plastic bits. Specifically, I want to know if anyone has a good solution to preserve labels that are attached to such plastic bits while

Re: PDP 8/L & 8/I G228 warning

2020-10-16 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 10/16/2020 1:37 PM, David Gesswein via cctalk wrote: >Noticed in another thread an 8L is upcoming on the persons restoration > list. Making separate post so more visible. The G228's have a 20 uF 50V > electrolytic capacitor on them. I have had two short. When they short its > a race between

Re: Next project: 11/24. Does it need memory?

2020-10-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ethan Dicks > ODT works from my 11/34 with bad RAM, ?? The -11/34 doesn't have 'real' ODT (like the one in the LSI-11's, KDF11's, KDJ11's), which is in microcode). The M9301 and M9312 bootstrap ROM boars contain a console emulator, but it's in macrocode. Noel

PDP 8/L & 8/I G228 warning

2020-10-16 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
Noticed in another thread an 8L is upcoming on the persons restoration list. Making separate post so more visible. The G228's have a 20 uF 50V electrolytic capacitor on them. I have had two short. When they short its a race between the trace on the board burning up or the backplane 30 AWG

Re: Next project: 11/24. Does it need memory?

2020-10-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > Next up is the 11/24, this is one of the 5.25 inch rack mounts with a > CPU, KT24, and no memory. > First question: Will ODT respond at all with no memory on the Unibus? My _guess_ is probably, since on other KDF11 CPU's, ODT works with no memory, but I

Re: AOL CD and other old PC software...

2020-10-16 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 10/16/20 7:50 AM, geneb wrote: Grant, you might search the IA for them.  I know a LOT of the CDs were put online there over the past 18 months or so. Yep. I've found many. It's just one of those things like pilfering through the pile of CDs (both formats; new digital and old analog) at

Re: Next project: 11/24. Does it need memory?

2020-10-16 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 10:52 PM Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > Next up is the 11/24, > this is one of the 5.25 inch rack mounts with a CPU, KT24, and no memory. > > First question: Will ODT respond at all with no memory on the Unibus? I don't recall. I think so but it's possible it won't. ODT

Re: AOL CD and other old PC software...

2020-10-16 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: I'm interested in some of the old OS & Server Apps that were in many of thee MSDN CD sets. Grant, you might search the IA for them. I know a LOT of the CDs were put online there over the past 18 months or so. g. -- Proud owner of

Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

2020-10-16 Thread Gavin Scott via cctalk
Or was it really just a calculator? The mode list in the ad kinda suggests it wasn't programmable so the human operator may have been required to be the program and the rest of the "system". On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 4:23 AM rice43 via cctalk wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- > From:

Re: Identifying a Mystery ISA Card

2020-10-16 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On 10/15/2020 6:55 PM Richard Cini via cctalk wrote: > > > Well, it looks like one of those memory/multi-IO/clock boards like the AST > RAMPACK+. I would take a look at this site (which you might already know): > > https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/memory-cards/index.html > > When I was

Re: FIRE SALE!

2020-10-16 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:41:11PM -0700, Josh Dersch via cctalk wrote: > with a spare set of 11/70 boards. What sold me though was that the 11/70 > has a PEP70 + Hypercache board set installed (which would be really cool, > assuming anything in there can be made to work again). Lucky bastard :)

Re: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

2020-10-16 Thread rice43 via cctalk
-- Original Message -- From: "Steve Malikoff via cctalk" To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Sent: Friday, 16 Oct, 2020 At 08:02 Subject: Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967? I was idly browsing early editions of Computer World journal on Google newspapers and found an

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-16 Thread John Many Jars via cctalk
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:26, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Depends on your definition of experience. I last used Informix > on XENIX on the TRS-80 Model 16 in the early 80's. :-) > It was quite different from the Univac 1100 running DMS-11 that > was the main

Control Data 449 Special Miniature Computer from 1967?

2020-10-16 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
I was idly browsing early editions of Computer World journal on Google newspapers and found an announcement and picture of the '449', an experimental aerospace computer built by Control Data in 1967 and touted as "the world's smallest computer" at 4" x 4" x 9", of which the logic part is a 4"

Re: Informix for SCO XENIX

2020-10-16 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, it was written Can I get a copy of that? I have a PC-X ;) It can be found on our FTP server: ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/siemens/pc-x Christian