Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > There's a 20-pin header on the CPU upgrade board which connects to the > front panel. ... the programmer's panel loses most of its functionality > .. but the HALT/SS and BOOT switches are functional with the cable > connected. ... With the 20-pin cable fro

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On 7/1/2017 8:59 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Jerry Weiss > So it would appear the upgrade board makes provisions for both > situations. I'm not sure that the two situations that the upgrade board supports are in fact different, from its point of view. (Assuming t

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
> On Jul 1, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk > wrote: > >> From: Jerry Weiss > >> So it would appear the upgrade board makes provisions for both >> situations. > > I'm not sure that the two situations that the upgrade board supports are in > fact different, from its point of view. (

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jerry Weiss > So it would appear the upgrade board makes provisions for both > situations. I'm not sure that the two situations that the upgrade board supports are in fact different, from its point of view. (Assuming that the two situations you refer to are the two different c

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Noel Chiappa > (One cable carries uclock, the other uPC data.) Minor goof there; the low bits of the uPC are in one cable, along with the "Manual Clock Enable" and "Manual Clock" signals; the other cable carries the high bit/bits (depending on whether it's a KD11-E or KD11-EA) of

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-07-01 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
> On Jul 1, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: > >> Right, that's what's confusing me. I can't work out what you could possibly >> be cabling to, on the new CPU board! >> >> Those two connectors on the M7859 are used only with the 11/34, not the >> 11/04 >> (the cable from the M

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-30 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
> Right, that's what's confusing me. I can't work out what you could possibly > be cabling to, on the new CPU board! > > Those two connectors on the M7859 are used only with the 11/34, not the > 11/04 > (the cable from the M7859 to the programmer's front panel must be there, > with > both); they ar

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-30 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On 6/30/2017 7:30 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Josh Dersch >> Now I'm confused. There is no cable from the front panel to the CPU in >> a standard 11/34? (There's one from the front panel to the backplane; >> another from the front panel to the M9301; and anoth

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch >> Now I'm confused. There is no cable from the front panel to the CPU in >> a standard 11/34? (There's one from the front panel to the backplane; >> another from the front panel to the M9301; and another from the >> programmer's front panel [if present] to

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-28 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
> On Jun 28, 2017, at 2:35 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk > wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >>> From: Josh Dersch >> >>> I pulled the ... bootstrap boards from slot 3 ... The BOOT button >>> causes the RUN light to momentari

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-28 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > From: Josh Dersch > > > I pulled the ... bootstrap boards from slot 3 ... The BOOT button > > causes the RUN light to momentarily flash, but that's about it. > > That's not too surprising. The

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > I pulled the ... bootstrap boards from slot 3 ... The BOOT button > causes the RUN light to momentarily flash, but that's about it. That's not too surprising. The way booting works with the M9301 boot card (not sure if you know this already; if you do, apologies

Re: Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-27 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
And to reply to my own post, tonight I took a closer look at the boards and noted that someone had written "3" and "4" on the CPU and memory board handles in sharpie. I checked out the power and ground signals on the card edges and they match up with a typical MUD slot. Based on this I felt it sa

Help identifying UNIBUS PDP-11 CPU upgrade

2017-06-26 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
Hi all -- Snagged an interesting boardset off eBay last week; it was listed as a PDP-11/34 CPU upgrade with no other details. The set consists of two hex-height unibus boards -- the CPU board has a J-11 processor on it, the memory board contains 4mb of memory, and there's an interconnect cab