Vintage Computer Festival Zurich: 18-19 Nov 2017

2017-10-15 Thread Oscar Vermeulen via cctalk
Hi, Just to spread the word: there will be a Vintage Computer Festival in Switzerland again this year. There will be rather a lot of minicomputing goodness as well. Like last year, it'll be in Zurich's Rote Fabrik cultural center, at the shore of Lake Zurich. Here's an impression of last

Wanted for RSX-11M Plus 4.6: the DECnet install tapes

2016-11-27 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, Memo to self: the DECnet install tape image *is* complete, my know-how isn't... As someone showed me: .mou mu3:/for .bru /rew/dir mu3: VOL1. INSTALL NETKIT 25-JAN-99 16:04:05 VOL1. NETKIT NETKIT 25-JAN-99 16:04:15 VOL1. DECKIT DECKIT 25-JAN-99

Wanted for RSX-11M Plus 4.6: the DECnet install tapes

2016-11-27 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, I am trying to do a clean install of RSX-11MP 4.6 on simh. I have found the install magtapes on Bitsavers, and they work fine. However, trying to install DECnet, I found only 1 of the 2 (or 3) install tapes. What is missing is the decnet11mp46-deckit tape. The accompanying **netkit** tape

Using the simh LGP-30 emulator

2016-06-09 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Some time ago, there were two posts asking how to operate the simh LGP-30 emulator. It is not exactly obvious from the rudimentary manual, and it seems nobody had figured it out completely. I am slightly obsessed with this machine at the moment (it happens), so here is a how-to on operating the

Ping!

2015-10-25 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Jorg, >> I forgot to ask for your private email on VCFB, so I use this public channel. Ah -- beg your pardon! >>Can you sell me a PiDP8, so I can port my Blinkenlight Api Server to the >> platform of the upcoming 11/70? Absolutely not. That would be ethically impossible. I can, however,

Making a PDP-11 bezel

2015-10-23 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
>> http://retrocmp.com/projects/pdp-11-70-panel-on-blinkenbone/243-simulated-pdp-11-70-panel-on-simh That's a work of art, together with the PDP-10 he did. I saw them running on a nice touch screen at VCF Berlin, and I wondered whether all this physical replication stuff makes sense when that's

KIM Uno /PiDP-11 plans...

2015-10-21 Thread Oscar Vermeulen
Hi, >> Oscar is already working on another very promising product. >> [..]He will also pay a visit to my "museum" to take a few measurements. Sorry, can't say more >> I'll leave that up to Oscar. Perhaps he want to stay "below the radar" until that project is finished ... Thanks for the kind