Re: Anyone know who does 'decmuseum.org', PDP-5 pictures

2017-10-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Thanks, everyone! Got it. Noel

Re: Which Dec Emulation is the MOST useful and Versatile?

2017-10-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jon Elson > I'm not sure the original DEC PDP-10 (KA-10) used microcode No, it didn't; in part because it pre-dated fast, cheap ROMs (the development of which was a considerable task in the /360 project - the wonderful "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems" covers this is some detail).

Re: H7861 PSU issues

2017-11-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Aaron Jackson > Picked up a few 555s and sockets and now it works! Congratulations! It's odd that a 555 failed, but sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to what fails. E.g. I was fixing some broken M7859's (KY11-LB Programmer's Console), and on one of them a 7493 (4-bit counter)

Re: H7861 PSU issues

2017-11-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > when I replaced it and powered on there was a big bang What went 'bang'? (I assume if there was a loud noise, it mus have left visible damage somewhere.) Noel

Re: PDP-8 chassis on eBay

2017-11-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So if someone's building an earlier -8 from bits and pieces, here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192350321318 is something they might find useful - an empty chassis. (I'm not associated with the seller, although I've bought stuff from them before. They have some other PDP-8 stuff listed, too.)

PDP-8 chassis on eBay

2017-11-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So if someone's building an earlier -8 from bits and pieces, here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/192350321318 is something they might find useful - an empty chassis. (I'm not associated with the seller, although I've bought stuff from them before. They have some other PDP-8 stuff listed, too.)

Re: "Left a home full of computers" Craigslist ad

2017-11-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Peter Cetinski >> I was left a home with all of its contents tons of electronics and >> computers, call if you want me to send pics > FWIW, I received some pics of these items. So, what else was there (that you don't mind telling us about because you're not grabbing them

Re: PDP-8 chassis on eBay

2017-11-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Dave > I managed to snag the chassis and what I hope is the matching cover. No, that cover is for a paper-tape reader. Noel

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Dave Wade > ENIAC had been configured in stored program mode earlier in the year > and had run a program stored in the function switches, e.g. ROM > ... > Despite the fact that when running stored programs ENIAC's parallel > processing features were not available, i

Re: RL02 Spinup fails

2017-11-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Aaron Jackson > The RL02 technical manual says to figure out why a drive error > occurred, I can execute a get status command (?) and then perform an > MPR read (?). So while I don't know how to do that, RLV 12 User Guide, section 5.2. Noel

Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I was trying to find info about the early IBM 709/7090/7094 computers, but when I went to what is supposedly the authoritative work on these computers (among others): Charles J. Bashe, Lyle R. Johnson, John H. Palmer, Emerson W. Pugh, "IBM's Early Computers", MIT Press, Cambridge, 1986

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > What about that little issue of writeable program storage? Just to clarify my understanding of your position, is a system with a CPU chip (say one of the 68K models) with only ROM not a 'stored program machine'? Noel PS: You really should look at the book

Re: Computing Pioneer Dies

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Evan Koblentz > That's the dumbest thing I read today. And that helped... how? Noel

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Please, everyone, I do actually know of BitSavers; you don't need to point me at it. When I said: >> I could look at the engineering manuals, but I was hoping for something >> in between them and Bashe et al. I assumed everyone would understand that by "engineering manuals", I was meanin

Re: Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

2017-11-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ben Franchuk > Multics never really made it out of the lab. This 'bogo-meme' (to use a word I coined) is, well, totally flat wrong. Multics was a reasonably successful product for Honeywell from the end of 1972 (when the H6180 was introduced) to around 1987 (when they stopped sel

Re: Ideas for a simple, but somewhat extendable computer bus

2017-11-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison > simple 16 data, 24 address likely 6 lines for basic control plus others > your up to 50+ lines I would seriously consider shared data/address lines, like on the QBUS. It doesn't add _that_ much complexity to share the lines (I did a slave device using only 74xxx part

Re: Slightly OT: Computer internals book recommendations

2017-11-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Sophie Haskins > earlier editions of "Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective" had a > bunch of discussions of buses etc .. but the edition I have explicitly > calls out that they felt like it wasn't important to have chapters on > anymore :( Well, that might not b

Re: Ideas for a simple, but somewhat extendable computer bus

2017-11-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison >> I would seriously consider shared data/address lines, like on the QBUS. > QBUS is wrapped around a subset of PDP11 and the unique processors made > to fit it. I did say "like ... the QBUS", not "the QBUS"! I was just trying to make the point that the original s

Re: Ideas for a simple, but somewhat extendable computer bus

2017-11-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Charles Anthony > a hybrid PDP-11 (16 bits) / PDP-15 (18 bits) on a shared bus (UNIBUS?) That's a UNICHANNEL-15: it allowed devices on the -11 to do DMA directly into the PDP-15's memory through the MX15-B Memory Multiplexer. Odd factoid: this UNIBUS could run in 18-bit mode (!!)

Re: LA30 parts and question

2017-11-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > Overall, I have been pretty amazed by the sheer number of machined > parts, castings, high quality bearings, etc. within this beast. Lots of > stainless steel throughout. Sure wouldn't find anything built this way > these days! What a tank. That's DEC f

DEC indicator panel 'light shield'

2017-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So Dave Bridgham and I are continuing to make (slow) progress with the QSIC and indicator panel project; the latest step was to find some LEDs which look much more like the original lights: http://pdp10.froghouse.org/qsic/new-led.jpg So now I'm trying to make up a prototype 'light shield' (the

Re: DR-DOS

2017-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Liam Proven > TCP/IP basically postdates the MS-DOS era, in PC terms, and it's Bloaty > McBloatface. This must be a uSloth TCP/IP you are speaking of. There's the one from FTP software which was based on the one done at MIT which was freeware. That one was definitely DOS-era -

Re: Slightly OT: Computer internals book recommendations

2017-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Christopherson > I have an inside scoop that a certain library is about to get rid of > their 2003 printing (which is apparently 1st edition) ABE seems to have copies for around US$10: https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bi=0&bx=on&cm_sp=SearchF-_-Advtab1-_

Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, as part of the work on getting our QSIC card to support SD cards for storage, Dave and I have produced some tools that people might find useful. Dave's original concept was to do SD support with a state machine. However, the SD protocol turned out to be a little too complex for that, so we de

Re: Microassembler, etc, available

2017-11-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
On 11/28/17 13:27, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > Dave has a KV10 already in verilog, so why not port it to the uengine? Well, the uengine would have to be considerably modified before it could be used for a PDP-10 (e.g. wider data-paths); this version is very specialized to the SD

FTGH: Old ham radio headset

2017-12-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
FTGH: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/jpg/tmp/HeadSet.jpg Noel

Re: RX02 Difficulties

2017-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Aaron Jackson > Most of the tests now look something like this: > ... > SECTOR ADDRESS ERROR > EXPECTED SECTOR=18. > TARGET SECTOR=17. I wonder if there's a problem with the floppy you are using? Remember, the RX0x drives can't hard reformat the floppies (a

Revive 11/34

2017-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: John Welch > Any suggestions as to what to try first? I would _definitely_ start by pulling _all_ the cards you can, to get down to the simplest possible configuration. Once that works, start adding things back in, one at a time. If that configuration doesn't work, first try the

Re; Revive 11/34

2017-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Henk Gooijen A few comments to you about Henk's points: > Standing in front of the 11/34 processor box (looking at the console), > slot number 1 is at the right side. That's for the 10-1/2" box; the 5-1/4" is different. Which is this? > Each slot has 6 positions. Positio

Re: Revive 11/34

2017-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: John Welch > Can you give me a refresher on how to tell which slots are cut? I > remember having to turn the chassis over and looking for a particular > wire Yeah; you can use the G7273 as a 'crib', since it has the NPG jumper on it. That jumper goes from CA1 to CB1: comp

Re: RX02 Difficulties

2017-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> Aaron Jackson > if I try to dump using vtserver using a floppy which passed the > diagnostics, it fails. My copy of of the V7 standalone stuff (which I got from the VTServer directory) didn't include an RX driver. Where'd you manage to find one? (I need one for my own use, plus I wa

Re: Revive 11/34

2017-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Henk Gooijen > the M7859 is sort of a UNIBUS device. The (front panel) console only > communicates with the M7859. Not quite; it does _mostly_ 'do its thing' over the UNIBUS, but there are also two special lines carried across the DD11-P backplane to the CPU, 'Halt Request' an

Re: RX02 Difficulties

2017-12-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Aaron Jackson >> My copy of of the V7 standalone stuff (which I got from the VTServer >> directory) didn't include an RX driver. Where'd you manage to find one? > I am using the version from here: https://github.com/sethm/vtserver/ After offline discussion with Aaron, we

Re: Dec-10 Day announcement from Living Computers: Museum + Labs

2017-12-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ethan Dicks > I look forward to taking a stab at this. I suspect there are a number of people who'd be interested in MASSBUS storage devices (e.g. me - suddenly all those RH11's I've got are no longer boat- anchors :-). We should try and organize an group build, to share the load.

Re: 11/04 Project

2017-12-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: John Welch > Any thoughts? Concur 100% with Henk's comments. There is a manual online for the M9312: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/M9312_TechRef.pdf which will tell you what the other start options are (Appendix C), but see page 3-1, too. Note especially the bit about h

Re: 11/04 Project

2017-12-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: John Welch > Anyway, 'a' comes over as 000141 and 'A' comes over as 000101. Good, the console is working. > CLR > LAD > DEP OK, that loads a '0' (halt) in 0. > CNTRL+INIT > CNTRL+START -> reads 02 OK, so it reads the HALT at 0 and stops. > CNTRL+

Re: 11/04 Project

2017-12-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: John Welch > CLR > 765000 > LAD > EXAM > 'Bus Err' light comes on. Oooh, that's very interesting, and illuminative. The ROM isn't working (so there's no way for the software console to work - its code is in that ROM). So look at Section 1.5 of the Technical Manual

Re: 11/04 Project

2017-12-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: William Degnan > 1) the console rom does not go in any of the 4 bootstrap slots, these > should be empty for now. There is a special console rom slot. Just to clarify, by "slot", you don't mean 'backplane slot', you mean 'socket (on the card)', right? Also, note that the cons

Re: eBay: MEMOREX 3693-2 & 3690-2 Disc Drive Mainframe IBM 3370-2 VINTAGE

2017-12-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven Malikoff > they mention it will be scrapped if no takers. Don't be misled by the .au URL; the units are in Sacramento, CA. Anyone in the Bay area up for saving these? Noel

Re: RX02 Difficulties

2017-12-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Aaron Jackson > It was the disks after all. Well, I'm glad you got it working. Where'd you get a good floppy? Noel

Re: eBay: MEMOREX 3693-2 & 3690-2 Disc Drive Mainframe IBM 3370-2 VINTAGE

2017-12-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Guy Sotomayor Jr > I *really* want them and I'm within an hour (usually) of where they > are. The problem is that right now I'm on a business trip until the end > of the month and he needs this gone prior to 12/31. Why don't you reach out to the person and tell them you _r

Re: RX02 Difficulties

2017-12-17 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> My copy of of the V7 standalone stuff (which I got from the VTServer > directory) didn't include an RX driver. Where'd you manage to find one? So, thanks to a tip (thanks, Jerry! :-), the source has been found: https://github.com/chapmajs/vtserver/tree/master/pdpvtstand http://www.s

Re: RL02 to PC image

2017-12-17 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jonathan (Systems Glitch) > the vtserver `rx` driver has a bug in it anyway where it continues > reading past the end of the media I'll be working with the RX driver for the standalone stuff soon on a project of my own, I'll look into this then. BTW, 'VTserver' refers to thr

DEC indicator panel mounting details

2017-12-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, Dave and I are getting to the point where we're about to start mounting up our indicator panels, but we're not sure what some of the mechanical details (below) are. Could someone who has one please take a look and let us know (or, even better, send us photos)? It appears that the bezel and in

Re: DEC indicator panel mounting details

2017-12-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > See the pictures at the below link: ... > Hope this is the right assembly for you Yes, those are _exactly_ what we're looking for. Thanks very much for taking the time to take those! Noel

Re: DEC indicator panel mounting details

2017-12-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > the plastic "ball on post" brackets PS: Apparently the 'official' DEC name for the 'ball on post' plastic brackets is "latch molding". Not very descriptive/apt, alas. Noel

Re: DEC indicator panel mounting details

2017-12-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Adrian Stoness > theres a 3d model for printing those brakets over on this site > http://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/cad/3d.php http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2017-December/036544.html Noel

Re: Miss categorized DEC box on ebay

2017-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Gunshannon > At best, it's a third part QBUS box. I assume that was 'third party'? No, that's a real DEC front panel. They could have put that on an off-brand chassis, but I would _guess_ not. (The outer housing I can see looks like the slide-in ones DEC used to hold the BA

Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, anyone happen to know the font used in DEC's indicator panels: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html or, at least, a very close match? For mockups we're doing, Dave B is using 'DejaVu Sans', but that's not a really close match: the vertical bars are wider than in the D

Re: Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> We're just about settled on the format for the QSIC RKV11-F/RPV11-D > panels. PS: Here's the latest rev of our thinking: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/jpg/inlay-rk11-f3.pdf if anyone has any comments. (Since the format is entirely set by the FPGA, it's 'easy' to tweak it,

Re: Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jason T > According to my notes, for the VCFMW8 shirts ... I used DIN Next Pro > Rounded Medium for the panel text, although the font I had in my work > directory is "DIN 1451 Fette Breitschrift 1936". That is probably the > font next to the knob on the right and the b

Re: Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Toby Thain > To get closer I'd need better images of the panels. Hi, I borrowed a DEC inlay from someone (a KA10 CPU bay) and scanned a chunk of it (as much as I could fit into my A4 scanner :-) at 200 dpi: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/jpg/KACPUPanel.jpg I have a TC08 in

Re: Font for DEC indicator panels

2018-11-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning >> The DEC font uses a zero with a slash > For that, a capital O with a slash would probably serve. Actually, it turns out that only earlier panels (e.g. KA10, TC08, etc) use the slashed zero; later ones (KI10, RP11, etc) use the ordinary ones. Since our panel is

cctalk/cctech

2018-11-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
I thought cctalk was supposed to be a complete superset of cctech, but looking at the cctech archives, I see a lot of posts that didn't make it to cctalk. Does one need to do both to see everything? Noel

Re: Working Ardent Titan on Youtube

2018-11-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Camiel Vanderhoeven > I have a fully working Ardent Titan with some interesting software on > it - the bundled version of MATLAB, and BIOGRAF, a molecular modeling > application Neat! Excellent! Do you have the source for any/all of the software on it? Noel

BA11-C and BA11-E mounting boxes

2018-12-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
For some actual content about classic computers (instead of flaming about various ideas for improving existing systems), I think I've worked out why the BA11-C and BA11-E mounting boxes have out of sequence variant codes. It's obvious the variants were not assigned in creation order (the /44 and /

Re: eBay search fail

2018-12-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> On a whim, I tried searching for '"pdp-11" "pdp-11"' (i.e. just > repeated the keyword), and this time it _did_ turn it up! Very odd. > I wonder why that made a difference? So I have a new theory about this. Searching for 'pdp-11' causes eBay to automagically limit the search to the

Re: Opening RL02 disk pack

2018-12-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From>: Christian Corti > I thought that the DEC packs would be similar but no, DEC had to invent > something different... Huh? I thought RL0x drives use an IBM 5440 type pack (as used on the IBM System/3 - I used one of those at my first computer job, they'd just gotten it in); DEC

Re: Opening RL02 disk pack

2018-12-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Birkel >> I thought RL0x drives use an IBM 5440 type pack (as used on the IBM >> System/3 DEC may have used their own format (and servo track >> stuff), I don't know much about the 5440. > Sounds to me like it was different, but in a good way? I took a look,

Re: PDP-8/e

2018-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > That code would not run in Windows of course, but it wouldn't be all > that difficult for someone with a C programming background to move it > to Windows under gnucc, or even Microsoft C++ or C#. I highly recommend CygWin (which comes with 'gnucc) for doing C

Re: IBM SMS Data Capture - IBM 1410 update

2018-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > I have finished the 3rd phase of my IBM 1410 SMS computer > reverse-engineering project. ... The ALDs comprise 752 pages from 9 of > the 11 total volumes of system schematics/engineering drawings ... It > took me roughly 375 hours of time (probably more lik

Re: AMD Am8177 Datasheet

2018-12-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Kyle Owen > Gah...just found it. We've all been there... :-) Noel

Re: Core memory emulator using non volatile ram.

2018-12-17 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > For that matter, core memory details such as destructive read weren't > visible to the CPU Umm, not quite. If you'd said 'core memory details such as destructive read weren't visible to the _program_', you'd have been 100% correct. But as I suspect you know, jus

Re: Core memory emulator using non volatile ram.

2018-12-18 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning >>> core memory details such as destructive read weren't visible to the >>> CPU > DATAIP/DATAO on the Unibus doesn't depend on the destructive read > property. Yes, the CPU can't tell what the memory is doing. > The reason it existed is that it allo

Re: Want/Available list

2018-12-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Hanson > Do you mean you would prefer to visit a web page to read the latest > posts on cctalk rather than have them delivered to you via email? Hey, that's how I read CCTalk: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ I don't want all this cruft clogging up my inbo

Re: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mattis Lind > I cannot figure out which early machine it comes from. They're called 'System Modules': http://gunkies.org/wiki/System_Module and they were used from the PDP-1 through (I think) the PDP-7; at least, this PDP-7 internals image: https://www.soemtron.org/images/j

Re: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> through (I think) the PDP-7; at least, this PDP-7 internals image > .. seems to show System Modules at the top, and FLIP CHIPs at the > bottom. After groveling through the 'PDP-7 Maintainence Manual' (F-77A), this seems to be accurate. In "Module Identification" (pg. 6-5), it refers

Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Does anyone know where the 'Straight 8' name for the first PDP-8 model came from? Obviously, it's probably a play on the car engine configuration name, but how did the connection get made? Thanks - I hope! Noel

Re: Which DEC machine made use of th pre Flip-Chip board?

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison > IC as in digital logic were in production in the early 60s Yes, but if you look at the picture/manual (I found a "Module location for I/O" chart on pg. 335 of the PDP-7 Maint Manual - alas, not the whole machine, just the FLIP CHIP part), the PDP-7 is all B-series and R-

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > "Straight-8" seems to be a fairly modern name coming from collectors My _guess_ is that that probably happened because there is no formal 'model' for that first one (unlike the first -11, which got re-named the -11/20 BITD), and people recently picked that to disambigu

Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>> people recently picked that to disambiguate them from all the other >> -8's. So my assumption (that it was recent) seems to be incorrect; I heard that it was in use in the 60's to differentiate it (e.g. for knowing what spares to take). Alas, with the origin that far back in time, we'll

Re: Original PDP-11/10 [was: Re: Origin of 'Straight 8' name]

2018-12-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Degnan > It's pretty well researched at this point to be true to state that the > first two PDP 11 models were the 11/10 and 11/20. It just takes a while > for this to work its way through academia. Some places got the message a while ago: http://gunkies.org/w/inde

PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2018-12-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning >> On Dec 31, 2018, at 6:32 PM, Henk Gooijen via cctalk wrote: >> ... >> There are one or two bits in a register of the RK11 that have a >> different meaning/function, depending on the controller being a -C or >> -D. > If someone can point me to th

Re: wanted back issues IEEE ANNALS OF THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING bound or unbound... dtop us a line off list please.

2019-01-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > I do not archive any paper myself. There are quite a few silver-dish lovers; you might be able to raise some funds by listing stuff on eBait (although I can easily see that maybe it would be more hassle than it's worth). > Currently, I am being asked to reduce my

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning >> I haven't sat down with -C and -D manuals and done a bit-by-bit >> compare. I just did that (I used the "RK11-C Moving Head Disk Drive >> Controller Manual", DEC-11-HRKA-D, and the 1976 "Peripherals Handbook"), >> and found in the following: >> In the

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > All the CPU, FPU, KT11, KW11, and RK11 MAINDECS are passing just fine. Don't forget Vonada Maxim #12: "Diagnostics are highly efficient in finding solved problems." :-) Noel

KD11-E/EA microcode flow diagrams

2019-01-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
The copy of the KD11-EA engineering drawings (in the 11/34A Field Maintenance Print Set, MP-00190) on Bitsavers is missing most of the pages that hold the microcode flow diagrams. I have a set of the KD11-EA FMPS (MP-00192), which does have all the missing pages, which I can eventually scan. Howeve

Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8? HELP

2019-01-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Grant Taylor > Is "byte" the correct term for 6-bits? I thought a "byte" had always > been 8-bits. I don't claim wide familiary with architectural jargon from the early days, but the PDP-10 at least (I don't know about other prominent 36-bit machines such as the IBM 7094/etc

Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8? HELP

2019-01-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Guy Sotomayor Jr > I think it's also telling that the IETF uses the term octet in all of > the specifications to refer to 8-bit sized data. Yes; at the time the TCP/IP specs were done, PDP-10's were still probably the most numerous machines on the 'net, so we were careful to u

Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8? HELP

2019-01-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: William Donzelli >> in 1980, there were more PDP-11's, world-wide, than any other kind of >> computer. > I bet the guys at Zilog might have something to talk to you about. I was quoting my memory of a DEC ad in the WSJ, which now that I go check, says the -11 was "the bes

Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8

2019-01-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Dave Wade > The only machine I know where a "byte" is not eight bits is the > Honeywell L6000 and its siblings I'm not sure why I bother to post to this list, since apparently people don't bother to read my messages. >From the "pdp10 reference handbook", 1970, section 2.3, "B

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > Oh, one last thing: if anybody else out there has a real working '11/45 > + RK05 and wants to try this RSTS image, let me know, and I'll send you > a copy (all 2.5MB of it, hah). It'd be interesting to see if this a > really just limited to my machine?

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > I've thought about that; Unix V6 is actually next on my list of OS's to > try. I think I have seen a fairly detailed set of instructions on > building an image from this from the commonly available distribution > tape. Yeah, one comes with the V6 distr

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> I guess I'll do up a cheat sheet. OK, first crack here: http://gunkies.org/wiki/Upgrading_UNIX_Sixth_Edition If there are any improvement I can/should make, please let me know. Thanks! Noel

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > Thanks, Noel -- I'll give that a try! Sure - always glad to help with anything V6 related - that's my chief technical amusement, now that I'm retired! :-) Any questions/issues, let me know, and I'll try and get right back. When booting UNIX, remember make sure th

Re: KD11-E/EA microcode flow diagrams

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller >> the last microinstruction for RTI/RTT has been moved from 002 -> 744. > So what's at 002 now? Maybe something new was required there by micro > branch/fork logic, so the original contents had to be moved? Well, it turns out I've been transcribing the ucod

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller >> http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Ken_Wellsch_v6/ > Hmm, this link didn't work for me Arggh, sorry. I simply copied the link from my page: http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/V6Unix.html and didn't check it. :-( I'm a bit suprised

Re: KD11-E/EA microcode flow diagrams

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > I should go read up on QSIC. There's not much on the Web, alas. We have two working prototypes (a wirewrap QBUS mother-board with bus transceivers, level converters, etc, connected to an FPGA prototyp ung card by flat cables), and working FPGA code to emulate an R

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > Kernel boots on my actual hardware, but an "ls" in single-user mode > generates a "Memory error -- core dumped". Oh, yeah, your hardware definitely has issues, then. > So evidence is mounting that I really do have some sort of issue with > my MS11-L.

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller PS: > I could work to extract the core file Can PDP11GUI save output from the -11's console? If so, just say 'od core', and send me the output. Noel

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller PPS: > I could work to extract the core file I just checked, and the binary for the 'ls' command is what's called 'pure code'; i.e. the instructions are in a separate (potentially shared) block of memory from the process' data (un-shared). I don't recall off the to

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> I don't recall off the top of my head whether the location of that > shared block of memory is in the per-process swappable kernel data > (which is included in the process core dump). So I checked, and the swappable per-process kernel data does in fact include pre-computed contents f

Re: PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

2019-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> the swappable per-process kernel data does in fact include pre-computed > contents for all the memory management registers, so we'll be able to > see (from the process core dump) where the code and data segments were. Uh, no. The copies there are 'prototypes', later modified for actu

Re: Vintage-computing relevant IOBCC entry

2019-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Degnan > I attempted to port the same version of unix to an rl02 disk pack and > to run on an actual 11/40. I was able to get ir to boot up to the # > prompt but my system does not have a working EIS card to proceed any > further. I"m incredibly surprised that you

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Gunshannon > I have a number of different memory modules. Mostly DEC but a couple > zthird party. Here's the problem. None of them are reflected in any of > the documentation I have been able to find so I can't configure them > away from their defaults! ... > A

Re: warped RK05 pack -- lost cause?

2019-01-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller fritzm at fritzm.org > I'm assuming that if I had to release the media from the hub in order > to true it, its value as an alignment cartridge would be lost anyway. Yes and no The RK05 alignment pack is mostly to make sure that the fine lateral track adjustm

Large group of later DEC board on eBay

2019-01-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Not my thing (I'm into earlier stuff): https://www.ebay.com/itm/392212420626? but I thought I'd post it since it's filed in an unusual place. Noel

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > I think I see an H960 with a couple DEC half panels stuck on it peeking > out of the very back there... Two H960's, actually - it looks like there's another one in front of that one. If the half panels are for sale, I'll take them! :-) Noel

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison Parent > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. The only -11 that complains if the grant chain is broken that I know of is the /34 (maybe the /04 too). I certainly have a QBUS chassis right next to my workstation here that i) has a bunch of empty slots, and ii)

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > They'd nicely compliment or house those new QSIC indicator panels > you've been working up, huh? :-) Complement. I already have a large stack of empty bezels, acquired to hold the indicator panels... :-) Although Dave Bridgham has been playing with the CNC mil

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