DG S/130 progress

2015-10-13 Thread Jay West
Pictures of the S/130 system I'm building up are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/131070638@N02 I think the last I posted here... the cpu was up and running, that was the first piece I refurbished. I took everything out of the rack and cleaned that up well, and the cpu has been remounted there. Y

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-13 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 10/13/2015 5:08 PM, Jay West wrote: > Pictures of the S/130 system I'm building up are at > https://www.flickr.com/photos/131070638@N02 > > I think the last I posted here... the cpu was up and running, that was the > first piece I refurbished. I took everything out of the rack and cleaned > tha

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-13 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 10/13/2015 7:04 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > On 10/13/2015 5:08 PM, Jay West wrote: > > More to follow related to my hardware and software inventory, but I just > got called to dinner. > > JRJ > Jay (West): FYI, my Nova 4 has the later "Eclipse" series hard drive and the DSDD soft sectored floppy

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Henk Gooijen
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Jay West Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:08 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: DG S/130 progress Pictures of the S/130 system I'm building up are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/131070638@N02 [... snip long cool progress descri

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 10/14/2015 11:59 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote: > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Jay West Sent: Wednesday, October > >> It would seem that DG didn't believe in anything plugging in to >> interface boards. Instead, interface boards went in the cpu with no >> external connectors. Then you wirewr

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Jay West
Henk wrote... >Great series of pictures Jay! Thanks! Most of those pics are "so I don't forget where wires go", but some of them are presentable :) >After more than a year on a desk, I mounted the 6125 tape drive in the top of the rack with its power supply on the right side next to it. I went to

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Charles
Jay, have you tried floppydisk.com? Their site only shows 3.5 and 5.25" floppies, but they do have 8" too (although not cheap). Not sure if they'll have the hard-sectored ones but they have SSSD soft-sectored (for my RX01) at $90 for a pack of ten. Going rate on ebay is $25-35 a pack...

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread shadoooo
Hello, I'm almost sure that the DG dual 8" uses hard-sectored floppies with 32 sectors (33 holes). The internal logic will generate sync signals for 8 sectors starting from the 32 on the floppy. So industry standard hard-sectored floppies should be fine. You need to use formatted disks, DG supp

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 10/14/2015 3:44 PM, shad wrote: > Then I developed a tool to connect it to PC via serial, using the > console port; > this tool is somehow similar to VTserver for PDP11 realm, but more > expandable. > Basically, you can do memory transfers between Nova and PC (both > directions), and > exec

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-14 Thread Jay West
Shadoo wrote... - Then I developed a tool to connect it to PC via serial, using the console port; this tool is somehow similar to VTserver for PDP11 realm, but more expandable. Basically, you can do memory transfers between Nova and PC (both directions), and execute almost *ANY* I/O instru

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-15 Thread Henk Gooijen
Henk wrote... Great series of pictures Jay! Thanks! Most of those pics are "so I don't forget where wires go", but some of them are presentable :) I am used to make notes and draw sketchy pictures to remember how cables were connected. But then, I try to re-install all cabling within a week

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-15 Thread Jay West
Henk wrote... -- On the right vertical post of the rack you mount two hinges. Each hinge has a pin that simply goes through a hole of the vertical post, and one screw. -- Yep, I got the installation instructions in the manual, which are wonderfully detailed WRT rackmounting. You may not hav

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-15 Thread Henk Gooijen
Jay wrote... -- Henk wrote... -- On the right vertical post of the rack you mount two hinges. Each hinge has a pin that simply goes through a hole of the vertical post, and one screw. -- Yep, I got the installation instructions in the manual, which are wonderfully detailed WRT rack

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-10-15 Thread Jay West
Henk wrote... - Yup, I mounted the 6125 in the top of the rack. The thought indeed did not occur that you can screw the pin in the metal hinge from the *bottom* side. I removed the top plastic part with the Data General text (top cover) to get the clearance space needed to hang the drive on the

Re: DG S/130 progress

2015-11-05 Thread shadoooo
Hello, I'm curious to know if you managed to find some hard sectored floppies to be used with your DG machine... When you wanna have some fun to try, I could send you the current version of the tool to transfer data between DG nova and PC. Unfortunately I have no bootable media yet, but maybe an

RE: DG S/130 progress

2015-11-05 Thread Jay West
, November 05, 2015 4:14 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: DG S/130 progress Hello, I'm curious to know if you managed to find some hard sectored floppies to be used with your DG machine... When you wanna have some fun to try, I could send you the current version of the tool t