Re: Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.

2019-07-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Richard Loken > I have never heard of her before and had no idea. There are two books from participants in the development of the AGC software (both of which I highly recommend) which mention her: Hugh Blair-Smith, "Left Brains for the Right Stuff: Computers, Space, and

Re: DEC PDP-11/70 cabinet setup

2019-04-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Nigel Williams > I'm wondering if on a real 11/70 there is a 5mm gap between the > masthead and the rack blanking panel below it? If by "masthead" you mean the thing DEC calls a "Logo Panel" (see 11/70 Engineering Drawings, 'Unit Assembly', pg 1 of 5), it's the same as all

Re: DEC PDP-11/70 cabinet setup

2019-04-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Nigel Williams >> it's the same as all the other PDP-11 etc logo panels,... > when you say "same", as in the same text as well? Sorry, I should have been more explicit. 'Same physical shape' is what I meant; just different stuff painted on the insert. > thanks for the

RK611 Technical Manual needed

2019-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Anyone have a copy of the RK611 Technical Manual (EK-RK611-TM-001 is the version that's attested)? It's not online. (I have a copy in my fiche set, but my fiche reader died - no, it's not the bulb, already changed that! :-) Noel

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Adrian Stoness > someones bid on them eh hopefully not a scraper Well, a scrapper would want to pay as little as possible, so anyone who wanted to actually save the system should be able to get it. There are a couple of bids on it, but the amounts are derisory. I hope

Mystery DEC backplane on eBay

2019-07-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
For those who saw this item: https://www.ebay.com/itm/183639487495 but didn't know what it went to (Web searches for "5409818" and "5009817" didn't turn up anything useful for me), it turns out to be a "Configuration 2" backplane for a PDP-11/05-/10:

Re: XXDP on PDP-11/03

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jerry Weiss > I turned BEVENT off and it boots successfully. I am not immediately > sure why this is necessary. If an LTC interrupt happens before the OS has set up the LTC vector, etc, hilarity ensues. E.g. the LTC has to be turned off before UNIX V6 will boot on an -11/23:

Google site ordering (Was: Archiving information)

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Christian Corti >> An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that >> use HTTP, versus HTTPS. > Not true, in contrary, Google even crawls through FTP sites :-) I did say "deprecate", not 'ignore totally'! :-) Here's what I know: An e-commerce site

Re: XXDP on PDP-11/03

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > I wouldn't have thought any of the (various 11 CPU) ODTs used > interrupts for the console They don't. > Don't know which CPU Noel was referring to. The OP was having problems with an LSI-11 (M7264 quad card); I was working with an LSI-11/2 (M7270 dual

Re: XXDP on PDP-11/03

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison Parent > ! Seriously? ... Memory of some form there is a must. I don't know about you, but my approach in looking into hardware issues is often to start by reducing things to the simplest possible configuration that exhibits the failure. (I asssume the various reasons

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven M Jones > imagine that a law is passed in a far away land, and the site owner > decides it's is too risky to bother with, and they then take the entire > site down - wiki and fora - with no warning and no access to the > material... > .. > I would

Re: GW-DEC-1: A New DEC Prototyping Board

2019-08-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Birkel > But which bus? There are three ... So I'm clearly not very awake this morning. I can only think of two major quad-width DEC standard slots - SPC (UNIBUS) and dual QBUS. What's the third - PMI? (MUD is hex, as is Fastbus.) Or OMNIBUS, if we're not restricted to

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Seth J. Morabito >> having stuff scattered across a zillion personal pages (be they blogs, >> or whatever) is going to make it hard to find the useful one when >> needed > The sheer vastness of content available, combined with a Google > monoculture, combined with

Re: Archiving information, was Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Christopherson >> Anyway, the whole 'how do we find the info' is a part of why I started >> working on CHWiki, once I discovered it > Psst: it would've been a good idea to share the URL to CHWiki. Well, that passing reference wasn't an attempt to get people to go

Re: XXDP on PDP-11/03

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > Isn't the interrupt disabled by RESET? Nope. On the -11/03 and KDF11-A, BEVNT is wired straight into the CPU, and there's no internal register to control it. The BDV11 does have a register which can enable/disable the LTC (it connects BEVNT to ground via a

Re: DEC VT20 boot device

2019-08-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> I didn't fully disassamble the program I have now done so; the -YK is _exactly_ the same as the -YA (the later ones, which are minorly different from what's in the manual), except that the HSR address (177550) has been replaced as the primary device address by that of DL11 #1, in the second

Re: DEC VT20 boot device

2019-08-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Birkel > Apparently the VT20 used the M792-YK as its bootstrap; the Field Guide > is silent regarding the boot device and M792 documentation stops > earlier in the series of variants. An M792-YK recently sold on eBait; I didn't get it, but I did manage to get the

Re: List fault analysis (Was: Test)

2019-08-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Charles Morris > my last couple of posts don't seem to be showing up? I see several posts from you. To check suspected failures, look in the archive: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/ because just because you're not getting a personal email copy, doesn't mean it

Current MANX location

2019-08-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Wasn't MANX supposed to be coming back up after moving? Did that never happen? Noel

Re: ADM-3A question

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>> Al Kossow via cctalk writes: >> Buried in a filing cabinet in the basement with a sign that says >> "Beware of Leopard". Good one! > From: Seth J. Morabito > I'm going to respectfully disagree .. the proliferation of modern > JavaScript frameworks that are designed

Re: XXDP on PDP-11/03

2019-08-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jonathan (systems_glitch) > Yep, fun times on LSI-11/2! Heh, this one was _utterly trivial_ compared to the 'must have working memory at 0 or ODT won't start'! (I don't think I've ever seen that one in DEC documentation anywhere...) Noel

Re: GW-DEC-1: A New DEC Prototyping Board

2019-08-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > I've seen pieces of HP high-end lab equipment from thru the 60s that > used tin plating on the PCB edge fingers, mating into gold-plated edge > connectors on the backplane. ISTR that DEC used bronze contacts in their backplanes, but basically all the

Re: Pinout for current loop interface

2019-08-17 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Charles Morris > Is there any standard pinout for 20 ma current loop using a DB-25 > connector, analogous to the well-documents RS-232 serial interface? > ... > Or would you recommend I use a different connector entirely? .. Maybe a > Jones 4-pin would make more

RE: Current MANX location

2019-08-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> They try and list all known DEC manuals and print sets Ooops, my mistake; the coverage is much wider than that (they default to DEC). On the home page, there's a pull-down menu labelled "Company", which lists over 100. > From: "Paul Birkel" >> the KE11-B I also just found

Re: Current MANX location

2019-08-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Glen Slick > This? Yes; thanks! I don't know it didn't show up in my Web searches - I tried a number of different things, no luck. Also, http://manx.classiccmp.org/ (which is the medium-old URL I had for it) redirects to something that has no working link to Manx; probably

KE11-B manuals (Was: Current MANX location)

2019-08-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> KE11-B Field Maintenance Print Set > http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9361 > the KE11-B I also just found (IIRC, on one of the collections they list > as indexed). Oh, speaking of KE11-B's, does anyone have either the Technical or User's manual for it (I couldn't locate

KE11-A craze (Was: Current MANX location)

2019-08-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> KE11-A Field Maintenance Print Set > http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9358 Speaking of KE11-A's, does anyone know what's behind the bidding wars on recent eBay KE11-A component board listings, e.g.: https://www.ebay.com/itm/372685033144 AFAIK, the boards (a complete set is an

Re: Shipping from Europe to USA

2019-08-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jon Elson > I have NEVER had even the SLIGHTEST damage with FedEx, even their > ground service. This could just be statistical chance This. I once had FexEx Ground destroy the entire packaging of a shipment (one of those rigid plastic tubs, sealed closed with those tension

Re: Too many DEC binders

2019-08-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > I don't even have time to deal with all of my paper. Understood. A huge 'thank you' for all the work you have put in, to saving and making available a massive quantity of old documentation. Given that we have stuff scattered across a number of sites, rather than

Re: KE11-A craze (Was: Current MANX location)

2019-08-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ethan Dicks >> Speaking of KE11-A's, does anyone know what's behind the bidding wars >> on recent eBay KE11-A component board listings, e.g.: >> >> https://www.ebay.com/itm/372685033144 > Perhaps someone has a broken KE11-A Must be two such people, though - I

Re: Too many DEC binders

2019-08-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Antonio Carlini > I think the best thing to do would be to get the data into manx. Manx > feels like the right tool for finding manuals. Yes, I agree. Replicating the data, in a system which isn't organized to hold it (i.e. the CHWiki) would be a desperation move, only to be

Re: Current MANX location

2019-08-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Zane Healy > What I found really odd was that it had part numbers and manual names > from one version, but when I clicked on the links it said no known > version online. They try and list all known DEC manuals and print sets that ever existed, so just because something is

Re: bit-slice and microcode discussion list

2019-08-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jon Elson >> On 08/22/2019 12:47 PM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote: >> On a possible related note, I am looking for information on converting >> CISC instructions to VLIW RISC. > I think it might end up looking a bit like the optimizers that were > used on drum

Re: phone systems, old and less-old

2019-09-18 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Kevin Monceaux > I'm not sure what it is about phone systems. ... I don't know why I'm > doing this. Oh, and the rest of us have a real use/need for old, slow, small (by modern standards) systems that use a ton of power? :-) Noel

DEC RP04 service manual available

2019-09-18 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So I have just acquired a copy of the service manual for the RP04 drive (ISS model 733). Does anyone have an immediate need to look at this? If so, I can put it on the top of the 'to scan' stack. Noel

Re: Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mister PDP > listed back there were numerous bad addresses all over memory. > ... > I cannot find schematics for any of the boards You can repair MOS memory boards where the board is basically working, but just has some failing memory chips, without schematics. First you

eBay: PDP-8/A KL8A serial line card

2019-08-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
This item: https://www.ebay.com/itm/133136230586 is poorly titled, so people's searches might not find it; the M8319 is a KL8A 4 channel EIA RS232 or 20mA current loop serial hex I/O card for the PDP-8/A. Noel

Re: eBay: PDP-8/A KL8A serial line card

2019-08-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Anderson > $325?? Well, they did list it with a 'Best Offer'. I figure the third time they get an offer of US$100 (or whatever the thing is actually worth, I don't track PDP-8 board values), it might become clear to them that they are way optimistic on the value. I once had

Re: RF08 light panel

2019-07-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ethan Dicks > Did anyone here get it? Yeah, me - although I didn't expect to! Because of my work on DEC indicator panels (this one's a 10-1/2" panel, unusual): http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html I put in what seemed to me a lowish bid, expecting not

Re: MicroPDP-11/23+ cabinet kit cables

2019-07-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Douglas Taylor > I'm putting together a MicroPDP-11/23 in a BA23 box. Have the M8189 CPU > quad width board and the bulkhead cabinet kit .. how the cabling goes > from the M8189 CPU board to the bulkhead cabinet kit? I _think_ this might be the cable you need:

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-09-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > descriptions of the PDP-11/45 DELPHI system > ... > moves on to Algol and LISP I later became the 'owner' of that PDP-11/45 (our group at LCS traded an -11/40, which EECS wanted for their DECSystem-20, for it). That Algol and LISP were later moved to Unix

Re: Course materials for MIT 6.031 (c. 1974) scanned

2019-10-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Josh Dersch > Any idea what ultimately happened to that 11/45? MIT offered it to me as a gift, but I was a total idiot (and also didn't have future vision), and as I was so busy with the IETF/IESG at the time (which might have been the right call, given how the Internet - note

Re: Manx entry update

2019-09-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jim Stephens > I don't know how to contact the maintainer for manx There was discussion recently about that, and I did manage (with help from someone here who provided his email - thanks muchly!) to reach him. We were discussing how I could help update things, but a hurricane

sa...@elecplus.com

2019-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Re: Cleaning an old keyboard Hey, that spiel would be a good start to a great article on the CHWiki, 'Cleaning keyboards'! (Not sure if any of the other replies contained anything worth picking up.) Noel

M7821 variants

2019-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So I just discovered that there are three wildly different variants of the M7821 Interrupt Control card. More here, with images: http://gunkies.org/wiki/M782_Interrupt_Control I'll have to dredge around and see if I can find circuit diagrams for them all; they are wildly different, the -C

DJ11 Maintenance Manual available

2019-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I have a copy of the maintenance manual for the DJ11; is this something anyone needs?n If so, I'll move it up the scan queue. Noel

Need DM11 documentation

2019-10-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hi, does anyone out there have any DM11 documentation? The only thing I could find online is the "DM11-BB model control option manual" (DEC-11-HDMBA-A-D) - and it's the impetus for this request, actually. One page 1-5, pg. 15 of the PDF, it has a diagram of which boards go into which slots on the

Re: DEC RP04 service manual available

2019-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Evan Koblentz > I know of two RP04 drives in the wild. One belongs to a private > collector. VCF has the other. Right, but does VCF need it scanned? Oh, one other place that might have one: the MIT MC KL10 had a couple of RP04's; when it was taken away to Scandanavia, they

Re: One of the deeper dives into RISC vs CISC I've seen

2019-06-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
I finally got around to reading that note. My principal reponse is that it got so far down into details that I couldn't see the larger picture any more. Going back to the original IBM 801 work, the RISC concept is very simple: to make the overall system as fast as possible; it did this by

Re: Email delivery protocols / methods.

2019-07-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Grant Taylor > How many different protocols / methods can we collectively come up with > for how email can be transferred?' Hey, this is the classic computers list, so you should only list early stuff, (say pre-1990), and leave out all the modern crap (but I repeat myself).

Re: KL10-A/KL10-B differences

2019-07-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> Erom: Eric Smith Hey, thanks for taking the time to provide all those details. As you no doubt saw, our emails crossed; I had managed to work out my own what the difference was. I'd been looking at this page: http://corestore.org/DEC2065.htm and saw the two backplanes, and assumed one

Re: Quantum 2080 and 540 service manuals

2019-11-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > These showed up on eBay, I'd been looking for them for over twenty years As in, 'you all shouln't bid on those so I can grab them'? Or do you want someone here to get them, and send you scans? If the latter, people should co-coordinate so they aren't bidding against

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> Although, with the 3 SPC slots - although they are on UNIBUS A, and only > UNIBUS B has the 18-bit capability Du. My brain finally turned on. It is of course perfectly possible to run UNIBUS _A_ (where the SPC slots are) in 18-bit mode too - although the _RH11_ can't use it that

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jörg Hoppe > UniBone can be used in UNIBUS-A SPC slots in 18 bit mode without any > extra adapters? And can emulate an RH11-C there As far as I can see, yes. > even if the RH11 is supposed to run in UNIBUS B? Well, all RH11's have both UNIBUS A and UNIBUS B; under

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> the Revision J prints (September 1993). Ooops, typo: '1973'. Noel

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Smith > One version of the RH11 added a small FIFO (called a "silo" by DEC, > IIRC) in the data path. I don't recall which suffix that was, nor > whether it was the version used in the KS10. Well, the -AB has the FIFO, according to the Revision J prints (September

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> maybe the two can be jumpered together (the way the two UNIBI in the > KD11-A/D can). Actually, now that I think about it, that might be the reason for the order of the UNIBUS A out B in/out slots in the backplane: https://gunkies.org/wiki/RH11_MASSBUS_controller#Backplane_layout One

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jörg Hoppe > did DEC construct 18bit mutants for a few PDP-11 peripherals to run > them in KS10? Yes and no. There were two 18-bit UNIBUS devices, but they were originally done for the PDP-15 (DEC's last 18-bit machine). They were the RK11-E and the RH11-AB. When the KS10

Re: DEC CR11

2019-12-04 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: William Donzelli > My manual only mentions the M200, but it may be an early edition What is it, and what date is it? DEC-11-HCRB-D, avilable online, is March, '72. DEC-11-HCRMA-C-D is June, '73. I see that EK-CR11-TM-004 is also available online:

Re: DEC CR11

2019-12-04 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: William Donzelli > Can the DEC M8291 CR11/CM11 controller card work with a DEC branded > Documation M600 reader as well as the M200? Should do; the 'CR11/CM11 system manual' (DEC-11-HCRMA-C-D) mentions it, although it doesn't provide extensive coverage. I guess that version

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

2019-12-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Guy Dunphy > JBIG2 .. introduces so many actual factual errors (typically > substituted letters and numbers) It's probably worth noting that there are often errors _in the original documents_, too - so even a perfect image doesn't guarantee no errors. The most recent one (of

Re: WANTED: DEC TU56 DECtape drive

2019-12-16 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Thomas Moss > Probably a long-shot, but I'm looking for a DECtape drive for my > PDP-8/e. Long shot indeed! DECtape drives are one of the rarest DEC peripheral, and un-surprisingly, one of the most valuable. (A TU56 sold on eBait for $7K back in 2015.) Would a TU55 do, or

Re: DIBOL manual

2019-10-15 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chuck Guzis > One could argue that it's just as similar to FORTRAN (cf. computed GOTO > and logical IF statements). It probably worth pointing out that I never used COBOL, and have little knowledge of it. So when one reads "it is vaguely reminiscent of COBOL, as it has a

Re: "First Internet message" and ...

2019-11-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Ooops, editing error: > Although one could build a system which has aggregatable addresses, used > for path selection, but hid them from the hosts, and used an 'invisible' > mapping system to translate from them to the aggregatable 'true' addresses. Should have been "to translate

Re: "First Internet message" and ...

2019-11-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fred Cisin > Is that message about 1) history of internet? (THANK YOU for specifying > "internet", otherwise "computer to computer" involves much older history. > ... > those messages were sent on PRECURSORS to the internet, NOT on the > internet. Did you mean

Re: Who changed the gravitational constant (Dec pdp11 stuff)

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > The MSV11-QC board ... failed startup diagnostics with what looks like > a stuck bit. .. now I need engineering schematics for that board so I > can replace one of the 41256 memory chips. On the positive side it looks like > a pretty obvious stuck bit,

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Doyle > Your memory is correct. The RH11C was the buffered version of the RH11 Umm, both the -AB and -B have FIFOs - confirmed from the prints. (I have an M7294 if we want to confirm that the prints aren't confused.) Now, maybe the -C has a _bigger_ FIFO (e.g. large enough to

Re: "First Internet message" and ...

2019-11-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Nigel Johnson > No, your home has an intranet! Can you please provide a crisp, definitive, technical definition of what an 'intranet' is (similar to the one I just provided for 'internet' - "disparate networks tied together with packet switches which examine the internet-layer

Re: "First Internet message" and ...

2019-11-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Richard Pope > Isn't the proper term for my network of computers here at home: > internet It depends on what's inside it. An 'internet' is a collection of disparate networks tied together with packet switches which examine the internet-layer headers of the packets passing

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Doyle > http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/RH11-C_Engineering_Drawings.pdf Oooh, thanks ever so much. Not sure how I missed that when I looked on BitSavers for RH11 stuff! Very illuminating - eventually! The M7294-YA seems to be a manual ECO to the M7294; there's a

Re: Scanning docs for bitsavers

2019-11-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > CCITT Group 4 lossless compression That's very good indeed. I scan text pages in B+W at slightly less resolution (engineering prints I do higher, they need it), but compressed they turn out to be ~50KB per page, or less - for long documents (e.g. the DOS-11 System

Re: DJ11 Maintenance Manual available

2019-09-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Pierre Gebhardt > there seems to be a copy of the maintenance manual in the unibus-folder > on bitsavers: EK-DJ11-MM-003_DJ11_Maint_Man_Aug76.pdf Argh! I looked in that folder, but didn't see it! (And Manx says its not online, either.) > Would be worth checking the

Re: Cleaning an old keyboard

2019-09-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow >> This is documented in NASA's official history of Project Mercury, for >> which it was invented. > could you post a pointer to the document where this appears? If the reference is to: Lloyd S. Swenson, James M. Grimwood, Charles C. Alexander; "This New

Re: Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jason T > didn't know you were at the show. Thanks for coming out! I wasn't! :-) This is via Paul A, who was there. I don't recall where they were before they got free-piled (he told me who it was who had it, but I had no particular reason to store those bits in my memory).

Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
This is a long shot, but... There was an Able Computer document at VCF Midwest, and through a miscommunication, it wound up on the 'free' pile. Did anyone here get it? If so, I'd like to try and get it scanned in, and made available. The thing is that documentation for Able products is

Re: Able document at VCF Midwest

2019-10-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Christian Corti >> we only have those for the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER > And what about the stuff on bitsavers? That's where I got my copies of the UNIVERTER and QNIVERTER docs. I guess I missed grabbing a few; and I see a few more have been added since I last looked:

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > Some early machines, the PDP-6 I believe is an example, have > "registers" in the ISA but they actually correspond to specific parts > of main memory. The PDP-6 and KA10 (basically a re-implementation of the PDP-6 architecture) both had cheapo versions where

Re: LISP implementations on small machines

2019-10-04 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Smith > Code can be executed from the MMU PAR registers on processors with > 22-bit addressing (11/23, 11/24, 11/44, 11/70, and J-11 based systems). My QBUS machine is apart at the moment, so I can't verify this before posting, but I don't think this hack works on the

DIBOL manual

2019-10-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
I recently picked up a copy of "CTS-300 - DIBOL Language Reference Manual" (because when I went to do a CHWiki page for the language: http://gunkies.org/wiki/DIBOL I could find almost nothing about it online); does anyone have enough of a use for this that I should put it in the high-priority

Re: DIBOL manual

2019-10-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chuck Guzis > Calling DIBOL "COBOL-like" is stretching things quite a bit. OK, so I'll change it to "vaguely COBOL-like"... :-) Seriously, though, there some high-level similarities, and not just the purpose... Noel

Re: Previous message: Wire list for the RKV11-D Qbus RK05 controller backplane anywhere?

2020-02-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > Yeah, info does seem to be scarce. Not even in my LEVAX fiche set. My fiche set has the Technical Manual, and also (in the wirelist section) the wirelist. Not sure how to get it to you, though. I stuck it in my industrial-grade scanner at its highest resolution; no

KE11-A stuff

2020-01-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So I've decided to try and build up a KE11-A Extended Arithmetic Element. I have most of the boards (although I*m missing a M234 Register dual-width board, if anyone has one). The main thing I'm missing at this point is a backplane. I do have a BB11 (which came out of an old piece of data

Images of -11/24 in 10-1/2 box

2020-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Does anyone have an -11/24 in a BA11-A 10-1/2" mounting box? If so, I'd love some images of the internals, if possible! I ask because the BA11-A doesn't use the usual MATE-N-LOC connector for sending power to the CPU; instead it has bus bars, and in the -11/44 (the usual denizen of this box), the

Please make sure your messages have a Subject: line

2020-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Please make sure your messages to CCTalk have a Subject: line, otherwise they end up being 'un-clickable' in the archive, like this: http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2020-February/date.html It's possible to hand-edit the URL's to see them, but it's a PITA! Noel

MSV11-Q info and interesting observation

2020-03-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, a while back someone had a broken MSV11-Q QBUS memory card, and needed info on them. I said I'd provide same, but then got distracted. Well, I finally got to it, and it's been added to the CHW page for them: https://gunkies.org/wiki/MSV11-Q_QBUS_memory It includes a table which says which

Re: pdp11/05 key?

2020-04-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ian McLaughlin > I can confirm that about 6 months ago I gave this very information to > our corporate locksmith, and he was able to make a key for me that > works. Thanks for the confirmation that that info is sufficient to produce a working key. I have updated the page

Re: pdp11/05 key?

2020-04-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
From: Tom Uban > Does anyone have information on having a replacement PDP-11/05 key made? Google is your friend; here: https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/05#Keys I don't recall if there's anough info there to create new keys without an original to copy. At one point I made a run of

FedEX unsurance issues

2020-04-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hi, a heads-up on sending expensive items via FedEx. They appear to have a new policy, limiting honouring insurance coverage; so, in my opinion, they are now unsuitable for shipping valuable items. Data point 1: a couple of months back, I bought a PDP-11/40 on eBait. It was shipped via FedEx in

Re: LINC-8

2020-04-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bob Smith > saw a comment that this belonged to CJL. Chris Lindblad? Sorry, I'm drawing a blank on someone with those initials who is connected with the LINC. > From: Jon Elson > Wow, those were fairly rare back when, and now there may only be a > couple in

Re: FedEX unsurance issues

2020-04-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > I suppose they still charge you an insurance fee according to what you > declared as the value? Yes, IIRC. > This seems like a pretty clear case of fraud, and you should report it > to the authorities. Well, at the time, I thought it was just a local

Re: pdp11/84 PMI memory: What is the problem with Q bus?

2020-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > Just checked the configuration and block mode DMA *is* off. Interesting. So it's not bklock-mode on the QBUS which is screwed up, but normal QBUS transfers. That jibes with the comment abour "gate array incompatibilities" (which I take to mean "errors" :-). >

Re: pdp11/84 PMI memory: What is the problem with Q bus?

2020-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jerry Weiss > uNOTE # 028 indicates that MSV-11 JB/JC (M8637-B/C) doesn't do block > mode. I went and looked at uNOTE #28, after I found it (it's not in the initial set of uNOTEs, but in the second set - the so-called 'OEM uNOTEs"; note that the numbers were re-used between

Re: Bob Davis and old computer stuff

2020-04-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > We have to move fast though, this needs to be cleaned out. How can > people help me on this? I'm sure there must be institutions that would love to have the PERQs; they were very important machines, historically, and are quite rare. Alas, although I'd normally

Re: pdp11/84 PMI memory: What is the problem with Q bus?

2020-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jerry Weiss > Sorry about the uNOTE confusion.. No problem, it only took me about a minute to find the right one; my note was to warn other people who didn't know about the number duplication. > If you look at the Memory Comparison table in this OEM uNOTE, it only >

re: pdp11/84 PMI memory: What is the problem with Q bus?

2020-04-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mark Matlock > Are you able to use a Qbus MTI controller in the 11/84's Qbus section > of the backplane? This is something I've often wondered about but never > tried. I looked into this in some detail, but I don't know:

re: pdp11/84 PMI memory: What is the problem with Q bus?

2020-04-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > in place of my quad height 11/73 CPU with 2mb memory. Sorry, which exact quad-height CPU card? {As someone else has previously pointed out, the /73 and the /83 are basially the same machine (roughly the same CPU board - KDJ11-B, perhaps with different clock

LINC-8

2020-04-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Wow: https://www.ebay.com/itm/353062352448 I've read manuals for these, but I've never even seen a picture of one before. Noel

MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hi, I'm looking for documentation on the MSV11-R; there's next to nothing online. (An -11/84 manual gives config, but that's all I cam find.) There is an 'MSV11-R User Guide' (EK-MSV1R-UG), but it's not online; I don't suppose anyone out there has one? I'm trying to confirm an online report that

Re: MSV11-R doc needed

2020-05-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > http://www.aceware.com.au/acms/images/Invent/GeneralRoboticsMSV_11R.jpg I don't know what that is, but it's not an MSV11-R. Here: https://gunkies.org/wiki/File:MSV11-R.jpg is an MSV11-R. > Maybe it's PMI memory without ECC? I count 18 bits across which

Re: Looking for a pair of DEC RL02 drives, working or otherwise

2020-05-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Stephen Buck > Looking for a pair of DEC RL02 drives, working or otherwise, for a > PDP-11 restoration destined for a local computer museum Well, there's this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/264277971437 It's an RL01, not an RL02 as you were enquiring after, but RL02's are

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