BA23 Cab Kit for a Microvax 3400 (KA640)?

Hi folks, I’ve got an empty BA23 (originally used for a 11/23 system), and a KA640 with the appropriate memory. I know that the KA640 was more commonly used in the larger BA213 cabinets, but is it reasonable to put it in the BA23? Is there a cab kit for that combination? What would it includ

DEC Fiche EP-M8436-MA-A

Hi Everyone, I’m looking for a scan or a printout of the contents of DEC fiche EP-M8436-MA-A. It’s referenced at the top of page 163 of http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/xxdp/fiche_200dpi/0254_index_85-07.pdf, and allegedly contains the details for M8436, M8437,M8439, and M8440 b

Re: Larry Niven's Altair

I have had several similar personal experiences. Even in the face of extreme need, huge companies and major institutions sometimes can't find things you'd think should be at their fingertips. When you think about it from a historical point of view, it's actually pretty shocking. > On Aug 21, 2

Decmate Owner's Guide (or equivalent experience)

Hi Folks, Does anyone have a electronic copy of the original Decmate Owner’s Guide (AA-K330C-TA) that they could share? Alternatively, can anyone describe what can be accomplished (if anything) from the initial “Setup” prompt on a VT278 *without* any disks attached? The situation is that Brent

Re: What to Do with a PS/2?

> On Jan 28, 2016, at 5:01 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > > Actually, though, it was developed on multiple CPU platforms, and one > was an in-house board design based around Intel's RISC chip, the i860 > -- codenamed the N10. NT allegedly stood for "N Ten" before MS > marketing retconned it to "New Te

Differences between a Xerox 6085 and 1186

Hi Folks, Are there any hardware differences between a Xerox 6085 (Daybreak configured to run Viewpoint) and a Xerox 1186 (Daybreak configured to run Lisp), or can they run each other’s software? In particular, is there anything preventing a 6085 from running the stuff on bitsavers in /bits/Xe

Re: Differences between a Xerox 6085 and 1186

> On Aug 15, 2016, at 8:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > On 8/15/16 6:58 AM, asw...@t-online.de wrote: >> A 6085 can run Viewpoint, GlobalView and Lisp. >> > > And Smalltalk-80 on the MPB 1, if we can figure out how to start it. > I noticed that software in the archive, and it was one of my speci

Re: MIPS I-IV instruction set standards

> On Mar 7, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctech > wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017, Angelo Papenhoff via cctech wrote: > >> I'm wondering where the MIPS I-IV standards that are referenced >> everywhere are defined. I was able to actually find what seems to be the >> IV standard [1] bu