Re: [HECnet] DDCMP sync?

2021-01-25 Thread Peter Lothberg via cctalk
If you want to go reasonable fast, most common is v.35 and rs422, data and clock are the same differential signals but status signals are different. Most (old fashion out of date) T1/E1 CSU/DSU's have v.35.. Thanks for your great job with the PY router! --P - Original Message - >

Re: DDCMP sync?

2021-01-25 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
I did a thing called SyncDongle.( https://github.com/MattisLind/alfaskop_emu/tree/master/hardware/SyncDongle) Essentially a BluePill with some level converters. It is using the SPI port for sync communication. Then I developed a BSC implementation and a HDLC implementation to use on the

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Re: DDCMP sync?

2021-01-25 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
Usually, we referred to the synchronous chip as a USynrt chip, a play on UART, DMC can run 1.544 Mb/s, or full T1. DUP or DU11 were good to upto 56K. Bisync, ADCCP, HDLC, DDCMP, BDLC were all options back in 77 but... Yes, they are slow. I had a hard time trying to explain th the Signetics design

DDCMP sync?

2021-01-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
In playing with DECnet I built a DDCMP implementation which deals with a byte stream, normally from a UART. So that works nicely with async link DDCMP as found in RSX and several other operating systems. But the speed is limited. The other option would be synchronous links, which would enable

Re: Andromeda UDC-11

2021-01-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/25/21 10:42 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote: In any case, it would still be good to archive the contents of any of the programmable parts if possible. Yes that was the plan for mine as well. I've been going through and finding all of my QBus disk controllers to try to take pictures and

Re: 50 free 8 inch floppies!

2021-01-25 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 03:54, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > > I'm offering > these disks for free. > > So if you need 50 disks with various versions of RT11 and god knows what > data on them or 50 frisbees let me know and they're yours for the cost > of shipping. I need to either pitch these

Re: Andromeda UDC-11

2021-01-25 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:35 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > Does anyone still have one of these with the 50 pin drive splitter card and > could take some pictures? > > I picked one up a while ago and just noticed a 20 pin part is missing at U91, > probably a PAL :-(

Re: Andromeda UDC-11

2021-01-25 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/25/21 10:34 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: Does anyone still have one of these with the 50 pin drive splitter card and could take some pictures? I picked one up a while ago and just noticed a 20 pin part is missing at U91, probably a PAL :-( What "drive splitter card" are you talking

Re: Andromeda UDC-11

2021-01-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 01/25/2021 09:34 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: Does anyone still have one of these with the 50 pin drive splitter card and could take some pictures? I picked one up a while ago and just noticed a 20 pin part is missing at U91, probably a PAL :-( I think I gave it away, but might have a

Andromeda UDC-11

2021-01-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
Does anyone still have one of these with the 50 pin drive splitter card and could take some pictures? I picked one up a while ago and just noticed a 20 pin part is missing at U91, probably a PAL :-(

Re: 50 free 8 inch floppies!

2021-01-25 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/24/21 9:53 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: Ok, with the RX02 running I see that 50 of these disks from Solarex were formatted with the FD: driver which is probably the MXV21 controller. Since I don't have a 5.4 version of this driver and to be honest will not be putting the MXV11