FYI, RIP Ed
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FYI
73 Eugene W2HX
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With sadness, I must report that Ed Sharpe, KF7RWW, passed away 1 June
2024. He was 72.
Ed was a consummate archivist, and had a large Collins collection, which he
housed in a Historic house in Glendale , AZ, known as the Coury House.
This was the home of SMECC, the Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications, and Computing.
Ed was a USAF veteran, a ground radio repairman stationed at Luke AFB in
the early seventies.
Ed haunted many of the vintage and military radio sites and garnered much
of his collection through these channels.
His rampant enthusiasm for technology of any kind will be missed!
www.smecc.orghttps://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/glendale-az/edward-sharpe-118465…
Scott Johnson W7SVJ
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Intel introduced to the world the x86 processor: the CISC technology still
with us. So what has changed other than speed and upward development?
Happy computing,
Murray 🙂
Does anyone have any manuals or other information on the Heurikon HK68/M10? Or the Hbug ROMs for it?
The HK68/M10 is a Multibus 68010 board with serial, SCSI, parallel, timers, 1MB onboard RAM, 2- or 4-channel DMA, and an optional 68451 MMU. It's similar but not identical to the HK68/V10 (the VMEbus version) and so far I haven't been able to find much that would make one usable.
I'm particularly interested in:
An Hbug ROM.
Pinouts for the top edge connectors, which provide the serial ports, the SCSI port, and the parallel port.
Jumpering/strapping and other configuration information.
And of course it'd be incredible to find the UniPlus+ distribution for it, but I'm not holding out much hope for that.
I already know what's on Bitsavers—such as the brochure—and I've already looked at the MAME HK68/V10 emulation, so no need to point those out.
-- Chris
I have a new-in-box (but twenty-year-old) HP C8000 workstation (HP
Precision Architecture). The box contains an HP-UX license certificate,
entitling me to copy and install HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11) TCOE (Technical
Computing Operating Environment) for use on the machine. Unfortunately I
don't have 11i v1 install media. Unfortunately the license entitlement is
not sufficient to be able to get a copy from HPE, because they no longer
support HP-UX 11i v1 (11.11), nor the C8000 workstation, and even when they
did, you had to have a subscription to get the support and buy media or
download images.
I'm hoping that someone here might have such media, and be willing to sell
me a media set, or copies or ISO/UDF images. (They have to be "real" ripped
images, not a rebuild using typical burner software that builds a new
ISO/UDF image out of gathered files.)
Ideally, the disks I want are AFAIK the final 11i v1 disks::
p/n B6821-10057 HP-UX 11i TCOE DVD from December 2006
p/n B6845-10052 HP-UX 11i MTOE DVD from December 2006 (MTOE is a subset of
TCOE)
p/n 5014-1459 HP-UX 11i Applications DVD from September 2009
p/n B3921-10061 HP-UX 11i Instant Invo CD from September 2009
p/n 5013-8893 HP-UX 11i Support Plus from December 2008
p/n DV500-10026 HP-UX 11i IUX DVD from 2005 or 2006
However, I can't be that picky. I'd settle for ANY edition of those titles,
earlier or later, or the equivalent CD sets instead of the DVDs, as long as
it is HP-UL 11i, and not 11.00, 11i v2, or 11i v3. As far as I've been able
to determine, the C8000 can run any release of 11i v1, but can't run 10.20
or 11.00. It _might_ be able to run 11i v2 or v3 without graphics support,
but I'd really like the graphics to work.
If anyone can help me out, please get in touch! Thank you!
This is ultimately part of a project to come up with a replacement
processing system for the HP 16700 family logic analyzers, which are based
on a 150 MHz PA-7300LC. Ultimately I'm hoping to control the logic
analayzer acquisition modules from a non-PA-RISC processor (e.g., x86), but
I want to tackle this in smaller steps, like making the software run on a
newer PA-RISC processor (the PA-8900 in the C8000). It's much easier to
start with a processor that at least has the same architecture, rather than
having to jump immediately into binary translation.
Not to mention that it would just be nice to have the C8000 working at all.
I have the p/n 5990-7398 Dcoumentation Library CD for HP Workstation C8000
from May 2004, and the p/n 5991-5986 HP9000 Offline Diagnostics Environment
PA0712 from December 2007, if anyone needs copies of those. (The Offline
Diagnostics Environment disc says "Valid license required".
Best regards,
Eric
Today I came across an obituary of Lynn Conway, computer pioneer in the
field of VLSI(along with Carver Mead) and also in one called dynamic
instruction scheduling(used in supercomputing world). More to the point
Conway was transgender and suffered for this, an almost forgotten pioneer
in the microcomputing and supercomputing fields. Also, as a researcher at
IBM and Xerox Parc where she contributed to the first years of
microcomputing, the GUI and Ethernet protocol development. Eventually the
IEEE recognized her contributions as did IBM - better late than never!
Murray 🙂
Tickets for VCF West 2024 Aug 2 & 3, Mountain View, CA
The show is looking to be bigger than ever!
We will again be at The Computer History Museum.
Tickets available through this link:
https://buy.acmeticketing.com/events/499/list
Existing VCF Members were emailed the coupon code for their 20% discount.
New members can email us after creating their membership to get the code.
I case anyone is interested...
I've just passed on my "Mits Altair 8800" - this is a very historic system
from the 70s - it is:
First Personal Computer (long before IBM PC)
First S100 buss system
First system Bill Gates wrote code for (long before Microsoft)
I did write a pretty decent emulator for my exact Altair system some years
ago...
And with recent interest in the system, I've just updated it with a few
minor
improvements and a "cleaned up" edition of the software I created to
bootstrap
a hardware front-panel based system (no on-board ROM) via a serial port card
- requiring you to enter only 18 bytes through the front panel
So .. if you'd like to experience what it was like to use a system from the
70s - here's some of the things you can do:
Bootstrap it cold
Run NorthStar DOS (one of the first commercial DOSes)
Run DMF (Device Management Facility) - a DOS I created for it
- can you tell that at the time I was working on an IBM mainframe ... my
- OS name sounds a lot like various IBM mainframe packages at the time.
A few other software setups (for example there's a stand-alone bootable
FORTH)
Has Editors, Assemblers, BASIC and other tools from the era.
and a few games - some written by yours truly - some very early commercial
offerings (like "Cranston Manor Adventure", or "Valdez")
Note1: My Altair emulator was created under DOS and is a 16 bit program!
It does work very well with DosBox (I recommend the one on my site)
Note2: I've not updated the ALTAIR.ZIP on "Daves Old Computers" yet - you
can get the updated one from:
"Daves Old Computers" -> Personal -> Downloads ->
OlderDownloadsFromPrevious
- look for "ALTAIR" under: Simulators and Emulators
*** I don't follow this list nearly as much these days - if you want to
reach me, use the contact link on my site!
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Search "Dave's Old Computers" see "my personal" at bottom!