On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:36 AM Mike Stein via cctalk
wrote:
> ... including the
> technical manual with schematics of the cards, so at least
> documentation is out there somewhere (Tasmania, IIRC ;-)
Shared from here since 2019...for those that missed it :-)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder
Thanks David for taking this on. I think there are many who would
welcome Apple releasing Newton as they did for the early Macintosh
implementations.
On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 10:16 AM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Which version of RSTS is MicroRSTS V2.1 equivalent to?
>
From here:
https://groups.google.com/g/net.micro/c/_HXPyIyrSwo/m/MuWDLNE8P48J
"Micro-RSTS comes with RSTS/E V8.0". This means that while buying a
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:49 AM Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> I see that the PDP-11 architecture handbook doesn't seem to be on Bitsavers...
Do you mean this handbook?
http://wwcm.synology.me/pdf/EB-23657-18%20PDP-11%20Architecture%20Handbook.pdf
ORDER CODE: EB-23657-18
(from here: http://w
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 5:40 PM Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
> https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/
This links to archive.org that has login; back to Volume 8 (1983), but
I don't see prior volumes.
On 2 Jul 2019, at 1:34 pm, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've got
> some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
Well excitingly it was home to the Illiac IV supercomputer! supported by a
Burroughs B6700 and DEC PDP-10, bot
Marketing at the time even had a catchy name for the 32-bit minicomputer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superminicomputer
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 5:56 AM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
> If by "masthead" you mean the thing DEC calls a "Logo Panel" (see 11/70
> Engineering Drawings, 'Unit Assembly', pg 1 of 5), it's the same as all the
> other PDP-11 etc logo panels,...
when you say "same", as in the same text as wel
I'm hoping to (partially) recreate an 11/70 setup, at least as close
as I can get with what I have on hand (see the first pic in this
gallery that shows the 11/70 advert):
https://imgur.com/a/pvgUVmg
I don't have the right masthead but I'm wondering if on a real 11/70
there is a 5mm gap between t
Been catching up on a backlog of scanning, grab what you like. Manuals
indicated with an asterisk are available for cost of packing+shipping
if you want something printed. This offer will expire in about a week
so please indicate interest early.
Burroughs [1]
* B2000_B3000_B4000 Work Flow Language
On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:49 PM Bill Degnan via cctech <
cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Random question
> would you prefer having, if you had to pick only one, the original PDP
> 11/70 or the newer "blue cabinets" PDP 11/70, ...
>
I think the decdatasystem 570 is pretty, but coloured like an ice
> On 18 Jan 2019, at 6:02 am, Guy Fedorkow via cctalk
> wrote:
> Does anyone in the Boston area know of a working 80-column
> punched-card reader?
> I'm working with a researcher at Harvard who's come across some very
> interesting election polling data from the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon race,
Re
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 7:44 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> I don't know if this is always true, but it appears that the way you can
> tell is if there is a "T" on the lower right of the 6580 badge on the front.
Possible, I don't recall anything in the docs to confirm. The only way
I know is b
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 1:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> I have 11D on bitsavers.
this is actually RSX-11D? http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/magtapes/ias/
I’m looking for a circa 1974 copy of RSX-11D distribution and the COBOL
compiler that was shipped as an add-on product.
I’ve looked through trailing-edge but maybe I am missing the obvious, anyone
have any ideas or has a copy?
thanks
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk
wrote:
> http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/LCM_Early_PDP-11
Thanks everyone for preserving these items.
In the unpacked file dectapes-extracted.zip, folder 118655.tu56 has
within it BASIC.P11.txt, the filename suggesting it might be
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk
wrote:
> wires by 1965 or earlier. it does appear to have 40 bit planes, however,
Elliott 503 and 803 were 40-bit machines, 39 data bits + one parity
bit and from the early 1960s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_803
We have the backing-
On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 9:57 AM, william degnan via cctalk
wrote:
> what magazine?
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=7wAAMBAJ&pg=PA82
Popular Science Dec-1976
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
> There is a CPU board for sale on ebay, M8189, and it has the usual 3 chips
> CPU, MMU, FPU. However, there are 2 extra chips and I've never seen that
> before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11_architecture#Optional_instructi
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk
wrote:
> About the original question, since the Burroughs architecture was
> eventually implemented as a microprocessor you can say that this was
> designed to run Algol:
>
> http://www.cpushack.com/2015/04/18/the-forgotten-ones-unisy
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jason T via cctalk
wrote:
> Did anyone win this and/or make a deal with the seller?
I'm curious too, seemed like fairly complete systems and we now have
most of the software that was released for these systems and nearly a
complete Displaywriter emulator.
I had o
> On 13 Jan 2017, at 9:23 pm, Randy Dawson wrote:
> I am reading and it looks like most of it is there, with some goofy stuff
> messing up the subroutine declarations, and binary inserted in places.
Wasn't sure how to interpret your statement, but just in case you overlooked
it, TAP is a specia
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Randy Dawson wrote:
> The famous Brigham Young University 3D graphics program, by Dr. Hank
> Christensen.
This?
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DataGeneral/nova/movie_byu.tap
Fragment of text found inside the TAP, looks to be FORTRAN source and
doc file
thanks for digitising all this fascinating DEC MPS material, I'm glad
to see this coming to light.
I was surprised to see that there was a DEC authored FOCAL for the
8008 for this system, known as FOCAL/MPS. Squeezed into 12KB with
2.6KB left free for the user program.
Does anyone know if the var
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Camiel Vanderhoeven
wrote:
> Yes, it's an optional expansion box. The idea behind the vaxmate was that
> instead of from a hard disk, it could run from a disk image on a VAX, so a
> local hard disk was optional.
ComputerWorld once wrote:
"... In the confusion of
I'm on the hunt for diskette images of DEC VAXmate software. From a
post to comp.sys.dec there appears to be at least the following
diskettes, but possibly more:
VAXmate MS-DOS version 3.10 for VAXmate Oper Environ V1.1
VAXMATE S/A INSTALL V1.1
VT240 EMULATOR UPDATE For VAXmate Oper Environ V1.1
V
Long ago there was a thread about FOCAL-65 for the 6502, and I asked
the people involved but it seemed it never came to light.
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/2001-September/1691.html
As it happens I appear to have both the user-manual and a quite thick
photocopied (not great quality) listin
> On 28 Jun 2016, at 11:46 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Displaywriters supported single and double-sided drives. What kind do you
> have? I assume these are from the 3.5" images that have been discussed on the
> CP/M usenet group. Are these images recorded as single
> or double-sided? Someone there h
On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:32 AM, Todd Killingsworth
wrote:
> Terminals: DEC, IBM, Qume, AT&T, others
A shout-out to the "others" category as there appears to be a
mountain of Unisys T0300 terminals there, quite a nice alternative to
the mainstream with several built-in emulations:
http://www.eb
This is a chuckle:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/16985@N04/27810356761/in/album-72157670110346756/
A tub full of blue capacitors but also known as "caps", the tub is
labelled "VAULT MONEY", a reference to the game Fallout and the
monetised Bottle Caps?
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Electronics Plus wrote:
> The age runs from reels of tape (9 track? Dated 1989 and earlier) to LTO4.
Have you had interest in the 9-track tapes as yet? I would coordinate
(contribute to postage) with someone so they can be saved and
inspected.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Toby Thain wrote:
> I'm sure he meant MDS. Which back then I used on a Mac XL, alongside
> Whitesmiths C (and a 1983 draft Inside Mac which I still have).
I queried MPS since I don't see Bill Duvall listed as involved with
MPS, or at least listed here:
https://en
> On 16 May 2016, at 1:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Lightspeed was done by Think Technologies in Lexington, MA.
> Consulair is a completely different product.
> http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2010/3/13_Consulair_Mac_C.html
Thanks Al for the correction, there
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ali wrote:
> I've seen references to a CP/M port for the IBM Displaywriter in magazines of
> the era. Has anyone ever seen this beast in real life? Better yet anyone have
> a copy of it?
Thanks for the reminder, I'd been meaning to send an email here and
elsewhe
AEK recently uploaded this to Bitsavers (thanks Al!):
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/Softech/Macintosh_UCSD_Pascal.zip
It was a surprise to re-learn of the port of UCSD p-System done for
compact Macintosh. The diskettes were labelled:
Softech Microsystems
MacAdvantage UCSD Pascal
UCSD P
If anyone knows the dip switch settings, I'd be grateful to learn them please
or even better a manual. It doesn't match any of the units currently on
bitsavers. Compared to the more common Remex units this one is quite compact.
I tried some test tapes and it produces a regular pattern differing
Good work on getting the 2116A working again.
Anyone care to speculate on the initial low sales of the 2116A? was it
because HP weren't well known for producing computers at the time or
was the $22K asking price too high compared with say DEC's less than
$10K for a PDP-8?
Not an essential manual but for completeness I would like to find a
copy. If anyone has one would they be willing to scan it please or I
can arrange to get it done.
The list of manuals for the DECwriter I LA-30 are:
(missing) EK-OLA30-OPLA30 DECwriter User's Manual
(online) DEC-00-LA30-DC1972-08
Has anyone made a list of all the known software for the PERQ?
I'm on the hunt for a rumoured port of VAX ML (written in Pascal) to
the PERQ at Edinburgh.
thanks.
The LogiCalc manual is here:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/softwareProductsInternational/
anyone have the LogiQuest III manual to go with it?
Here is an advertisement for the SPI application suite that includes
Logiquest III:
http://i.imgur.com/k0D3wRX.png
LogiQuest III was a relational database fr
> On 27 Oct 2015, at 5:59 PM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote:
> And my advice, sadly learnt and forgotten quite a few times, always after
> drilling a critical part:
>
> CLAMP THE JOB DOWN!
+1 on Steven's advice, having learned this lesson the hard-way.
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Jonathan Chote
wrote:
> I know it exists out in the wild somewhere, but I can't find a copy
> myself. It's for a VT100 clone terminal called the Visual 100 - from around
> 1982.
>
I scanned the reference manual if you haven't found it elsewhere, has a
small amou
> On 13 Oct 2015, at 7:15 PM, Rod Smallwood
> wrote:
> Its called a Hellschreiber http://
> www.nonstopsystems/radio/pdf-hell/hell-g5xb.pdf
Fixed URL:
http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/pdf-hell/hell-g5xb.pdf
Thanks Jos, Tony and Rod - you've neatly highlighted why I found the
screen printer so curious and fascinating, an oddball feature in the
terminal world and seemingly a simple mechanism to render the screen.
If anyone with access to one has the interest and time I'd appreciate
pictures and any add
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
> I picked up a few of the VT52s today and they looked pretty good.
Paul, if you come across any VT52s that have the built-in screen
printer could you take some pictures please.
Has anyone ever seen one? I had an idea it used a silvered-paper
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:49 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> I believe that I do have one of these machines, and it's in good working
> order as of a couple months back. You're looking for a Portable ///
> correct?
>
> Are you in the USA?
>
Hi Bill, thanks for the follow-up, seeking the updated varia
If anyone has one they want to offload I'd be keen to hear about it please.
thanks.
A mix of Smalltalk luminaries have resurrected Smalltalk-78 (a port of
Smalltalk-76 to an early 8086 prototype luggable called NoteTaker
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/notetaker/) and it runs
in a modern web-browser using Javascript (even runs on an iPad but
will need changes to suppo
On 29 Sep 2015, at 11:34 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> Is source available somewhere?
http://www.retrocmp.com/attachments/article/243/blinkenbone_src.tgz
Found under attachments from the original link:
>> On 9/27/2015 4:14 PM, Jörg Hoppe wrote:
>> As always it's a BlinkenBone application; description
> On 24 Sep 2015, at 7:41 pm, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> ...And now my employer is throwing out box
> upon box of SUN, Ultrix, tru64 and various literature.
Is it practical/possible to make a list of what is available and to
crowd-source out to the cctalk community to check whether copies exist
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Twitter, @hotelzululima suggested Motorola MIKBUG, introduced in
> 1974, but IMO it's a monitor, not an operating system.
Given the constraints of the systems of that time (speed, memory size,
peripheral support) the line between monitor and
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> I've been searching for introduction dates of early microcomputer
> operating systems
Are you including or excluding systems like the APL-based Intel 8008 MCM/70?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCM/70
circa 1974 - I guess Zbigniew's book might
On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Thank Jim Haynes for saving these from UC-Santa Cruz's machines and donating
> them to CHM in 1998.
Most definitely, thanks to Jim Haynes for the foresight and energy to
grab them when he could. Jim has been involved in the early
discussions abou
We would be glad to hear from anyone who might have new material
related to the Burroughs B6700.
We're on the hunt for any manuals or software related to the Burroughs
large systems so we can build an emulator for the B6700. This search
includes the B5000, B6000, B7000 families, since there is con
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> The datamuseum.dk collection represents 25 years of accumulation, I was
> told. But more importantly, I think their work demonstrates a very
> well-considered approach for presenting the history of the collection's
> machines to visitors.
Tha
Hi Evan and others who might have been wondering, I managed to find
out what happened to the Burroughs B7800 that was "under the stairs"
at Monash university.
The good news is that the interesting parts, namely the indicator
panels, have been saved by the Monash Museum of Computing History.
They a
> On 13 Aug 2015, at 4:41 am, Paul Koning wrote:
> I found this out when I tried to write a program that reads foreign format
> tapes, in particular past tape marks. Algol can’t do that — either that, or
> the consultants couldn’t figure out how.
I’m assuming the sentence above is in the same
> On 13 Aug 2015, at 1:04 pm, Toby Thain wrote:
> For more on this, see "Classic Operating Systems," Per Brinch Hansen, which
> reprints the paper "Operating System for the B 5000", Clark Oliphint (1964).
>
> "Two of the major B 5000 design objectives were (1) that all programming was
> to be
> On 12 Aug 2015, at 11:24 pm, Paul Koning wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 10:23 PM, Mark Kahrs wrote:
>> For those of you who might be interested, I sent a listing of the B6700
>> ALGOL compiler source code to the CHM.
> I did find a copy of the B6500 ESPOL compiler online recently.
In the B55
On 11 Aug 2015, at 3:05 pm, Nigel Williams
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Mark Kahrs wrote:
>> One could always implement a KDF9 emulator and then port Randall and
>> Russell code (from the book).
>
> Both of those requirements are already done:
>
>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Mark Kahrs wrote:
> One could always implement a KDF9 emulator and then port Randall and
> Russell code (from the book).
Both of those requirements are already done:
http://www.findlayw.plus.com/KDF9/emulation/emulator.html
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Right. And further tweaked by myself, also at DEC (for RSTS/E), though I
> don’t believe that version was sent back to DECUS.
Neat! I'm a big fan of RSTS/E, are you able to make your tweaked
version available?
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 7:57 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> There’s DECUS ALGOL, which is essentially a PDP-11 version of Burroughs
> Extended Algol. It generates bytecode which even looks somewhat like B5500
> machine code. I still have a copy, though I need to do some work to find the
> correct s
> On 8 Aug 2015, at 4:15 am, Paul Koning wrote:
> For other languages: I’ve been maintaining the Cyber1 PLATO system from the
> start of that project, which involves periodic work in TUTOR. And I’m
> working on recovering software for the Electrologica EL-X8 and EL-X1 systems;
> the former wa
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> Subject pretty much says it all, except that I need the
> ceramic package with the metal lid.
Like this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MK4008P-2-MOSTEK-16-Pin-GOLD-PURPLE-DIP-Vintage-MK4008-/390115835505
> On 30 Jul 2015, at 7:12 am, Mike Ross wrote:
> Interesting. So Bernie Madoff used an AS/400?
ahh bingo! I found this comment on the Amazon book review:
"The description of the ancient 1988 IBM AS 400 and the terminals from a 1970's
spy film that were still cranking away on the 17th floor whe
Seems an odd request, definitely needs more detail, unless you know your
computers they were pretty bland to most observers.
To me there are three enclosure styles: the original monolithic white box, the
later black box with colour accents and the current generic POWER rack style -
none jump ou
A colleague was adamant that the Apple LaserWriter worked with the Apple Lisa;
my counter was I thought he was likely confusing his memory with the Mac XL
which via Macworks and LocalTalk could use the LaserWriter drivers to print
although more slowly due to the 3MHz speed difference (Mac XL at
> On 23 Jul 2015, at 12:02 am, dwight wrote:
> I'm curious, does anyone program in Ada?
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
I changed the subject line since unless you recognise 43201 others might not
make the connection :-)
> On 22 Jul 2015, at 4:18 pm, Eric Smith wrote:
> now, I have just wired up the 43201 on a breadboard in microcode ROM
> dump mode, and captured the ROM contents using a logic analyzer.
> Photos:
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> ...though I have not actually checked. The B5000 had IO processors as well.
Not quite, the B5000 and B5500 arguably had DMA channels (up to 4 of
them), but not independent IO processors (with their own machine code)
that were seen on the later
On 8 Jul 2015, at 7:57 am, Randy Dawson wrote:
> Anybody have this?
I'm interested too please.
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Chris Osborn wrote:
> Proportions probably aren’t perfect since all I had to work from was very low
> resolution pictures of the original. I’m happy to send out vinyl cut decals
> to anyone that wants one if you send me a SASE.
Did the font (proportions) change
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Original Woodworks wrote:
> I was an Intel salesman and have this board...I have lots of docs, serial
> monitor, chess PROMs but no keyboard monitors.
Are you able to share the chess PROMs please? were these developed
specifically for the SDK-86 or ported from ano
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