Re: LINCtape images

2021-11-03 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: Here is a program I wrote for reading/writing tape images via XModem protocol for my PDP-12, and another for comparing two linctapes. This is fantastic, thanks :-) I hope this will help us in bootstrapping the PDP-12. At least I would like to have a tape w

DEQNA cab kit wiring

2021-11-03 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
Does anybody have a wiring diagram?  I have one with two broken wires! Or a photo of the BERG connector as long as the colour code is consistent :-) Thanks in advance, Nigel -- Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! Skype: TIL

Re: LINCtape images

2021-11-03 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 11/3/2021 3:27 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk wrote: On Tue, 2 Nov 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: Here is a program I wrote for reading/writing tape images via XModem protocol for my PDP-12, and another for comparing two linctapes. This is fantastic, thanks :-) I hope this will help us in bootstra

RE: DEQNA cab kit wiring

2021-11-03 Thread Ron Pool via cctalk
I don't have anything for the DEQNA, but the cable info I've seen for DELQA has the comment "this one would probably work for a DEQNA, too." The document I grabbed from http://antinode.info/dec/delqa_cable.html says: 29 December 1996. SMS.

Re: LINCtape images

2021-11-03 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 11/2/2021 9:53 PM, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote: On 11/2/2021 2:25 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: Here is a program I wrote for reading/writing tape images via XModem protocol for my PDP-12, and another for comparing two linctapes. Cool!  I was able to recover the code and convert i

Re: DEQNA cab kit wiring

2021-11-03 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
Thanks for the outstandingly-quick response!  I had already buttoned up the cab and put it aside for another day. Thanks also for the link to a site I did not know about, I'll bookmark it for later browsing. Soldering iron on! cheers, Nigel Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU A

Re: LINCtape images

2021-11-03 Thread Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk
On 11/3/2021 9:13 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: On 11/2/2021 9:53 PM, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote: In making the page zero literals line up (so that the code matches the originals), I found two locations in xmtape which are coded as  TAD    (16. but the code references a new literal at locat

Re: LINCtape images

2021-11-03 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 3 Nov 2021, Jay Jaeger wrote: It seems you didn't notice that I included two separate programs in my previous post: XMTAPE and CMPTAP ;) I did, and I have found an error ;-) 0275 0361 7300 #WDFLSH CLA CLL 0276 0362 1073 0073 TAD XMCNT [ IF COUNT==128. 0277 0363 1176

RE: The Prolok Saga (Was: Applesauce FDC

2021-11-03 Thread Marvin Johnston via cctalk
Another thing Prolok did was produce a small 3 disk set of sample disks with the Prolok protection. Somewhere around here I still have a set of those disks. As I recall, a program was included on each disk to copy the program to be copy protected to the special disk.

Re: DEQNA cab kit wiring

2021-11-03 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 03/11/2021 16:15, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: Thanks for the outstandingly-quick response!  I had already buttoned up the cab and put it aside for another day. Thanks also for the link to a site I did not know about, I'll bookmark it for later browsing. Soldering iron on! The DEQNA

Re: DEQNA cab kit wiring

2021-11-03 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
Thank you for that.  Another list member sent me the DELQA drawing and it appears to be the same as my DEQNA - so I have soldered the wires back on and am awaiting a chance to test it with MAINDECs cheers, Nigel Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of th