test-drb August 1997

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by danjo＠xnet.com

Boy I thought I had lost this one 8-( But NOPE I found it! Harvard seems to have an excess. I can't get there but you people on the East Caost may have a beter chance. Please talk to Clifford. > From chen47(a)fas.harvard.edu Mon Aug 11 19:55:23 1997 > Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 14:18:35 -0400 (EDT) > From: Clifford Chen <chen47(a)fas.harvard.edu> > To: Brett <danjo(a)xnet.com> > Subject: Re: PDP-11 miscellany for sale Hi. Sorry for the extreme delay, but we've had quite a time organizing and documenting our stuff. In any case, here's the list we drew up: Hardware: 1 Digital Decscope (vt-52) 1 Heathkit H19 Terminal (vt-52?) 2 DecWriter II's 1 PDP-11/05 1 PDP-Industrial 11 (a model 35, I think) 1 RK-05 drive + interface 1 Card reader 9+ bus interfaces 1 RK-07 disk drive and 48 inch rack 2 Expansion boxes with power supplies 3 extra power supplies lots of unidentifiable circuit boards 1 RL-01 disk 1 Nashua 15-12 disk a bunch of RK-05 cartridges 1 MT-11 Tape drive and rack Documentation: 1) RT-11 System Reference Manual 2) Programming RSX-11 in Macro and Fortran 3) Workbook for 2) 4) RSX-11 Task Builder manual 5) RSX-11 I/O drivers reference manual 6) RT-11 Software Support Manual 7) RT-11 System Message Manual 8) RT-11 Programmer's Reference Manual 9) RSX-11M PDP-11 Record Management System 10) RSX-11M System generation and installation 11) PDP-11 DL-11 asynchronous line interface engineering drawings 12) RK-05 Engineering drawings 13) KW11-2 Engineering drawings 14) Bootstrap Terminator schematics 15) BA-11-K Mounting box manual 16) RK-07 Schematics 17) KT-11D Memory Manager schematics 18) ME-11L Core memory Schematics 19) KE11-F Floating Instruction Set Schematics 20) TM11 DEC Magtape Schematics 21) KW11-P Programmable Real-time clock Schematics 22) TU10 DEC Magtape engineering drawings 23) Power supply/chassis engineering drawings 24) DL-11 Asynchronous Line interface schematics 25) H720 Power supply and rackmount drawings 26) RK-711N schematics 27) DL-11 Asynchronous line interface schematics 28) Restart Loader schematic 29) KT-11D Memory Manager 30) PDP-11/05 engineering drawings 31) LAXX-KG drawings 32) RK-05J engineering drawings 33) More RK-05 engineering drawings 34) RK-11D disk controller schematics 35) RK-611 schematics 36) KD-11A schematics 37) Qume daisywheel manual and schematics 38) Heathkit terminal manual 39) RK-07 manual and schematics 40) DECwriter 2 manual 41) Model 1770 memory manual 42) KT-11 memory manager manual 43) DL-11 asynchronous line interface manual 44) RT-11 Software Support Manual 45) RT-11 System User's guide 46) RT-11 Documentation Directory 47) RT-11 System reference manual 48) Qume interface manual 49) RX-02 floppy manual 50) RT-11 Programmer's manual 51) RT-11 System release notes 52) RT-11 Fortran manual 53) Kermit Manual 54) DSR (text formatter) manual 55) RT-11 intro 56) Decwriter II maintenance manual 57) RT-11 Basic manual 58) RT-11 software support manual 59) LISP manual 60) ODT Reference (RSX-11) 61) RSX-11 Crash dump analyer manual 62) RSX-11 Error logging 63) RSX-11 System Library routines 64) RSX-11 diagnostics 65) RSX-11 System library update notice 66) RSX-11 Program development 67) RSX-11 I/O operations 68) Random pages from a 1984 Byte magazine 69) Centronics Series 100 Printer manual 70) M200 Card Reader manual 71) Raytheon PDP-11 repair manual 72) RX211 floppy controller drawings 73) KT-11D memory management manual 74) KW11-L programmable clock manual 75) DL-11 asynchronous line manual 76) MM11S, MF-11L, MF11-D core memory systems 77) BA11K mounting box manual 78) DL-11 asynchronous line manual 79) XXDP - PDP11 diagnostic manual 80) MS11-L MOS memory users guide 81) PDP-11/05-s, PDP-11/10-s system manual 82) BA11K mounting box 83) BA11K technical manual 84) DL-11 asynchronous line manual 85) DR11-W direct memory interface module 86) BA-11K engineering drawings BC -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Name: Classic Computer Rescue List URL: http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/1055/classic.html Name: The Classic Computer Encyclopedia Page URL: http://www.xnet.com/~danjo/classic/ Name: Classic Computer ListOp URL: http://haliotis.bothell.washington.edu/classiccmp/

26 years, 8 months

Finding and Caring for PDP's or VAX's

by healyzh＠ix.netcom.com

Hi, For quite some time I've been pondering getting either a PDP or a VAX, I'm wondering about a few things. First and formost would be how does one go about finding one :^) and what kind of price can I expect? Also, what would space and power requirements be? Yes, I'm aware they vary in size from tiny little things, up to systems that require a full sized computer floor. I'm thinking a system that would fit in a garage as far a size goes. Also what would be a good source to familiarize myself with the various models as I embark upon my latest quest? Thanks, Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Mac Programmer | +----------------------------------+---------------------------+ | For Empire of the Petal Throne, and Traveller Role Playing | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |

26 years, 8 months

Multiple Topics...

by carl.friend＠stoneweb.com

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:51:45 -0500 (CDT), Brett wrote this: > http://haliotis.bothell.washington.edu/classiccmp ^^^^^^^^ Why do I always parse this as "halitosis"? :-) ______________________________________________________________________ | | | | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:carl.friend@stoneweb.com | | | http://www.ultranet.com/~engelbrt/carl/museum/ | ICBM: N42:21 W71:46 | |________________________________________________|_____________________|

26 years, 8 months

Anyone ever?

by thedm＠sunflower.com

Anyone ever run STiK on an ATARI ST? I have it up and it works, but I can't seem to get a DNS resolution, If i manually put in IP's its works and connects, say to IRC. But I can't get it to resolve names against IP's I have the entries in Default.cfg that the docs SAY that works, but it dosn't appear to. Line is NAMESERVER x.x.x.x and NAMESERVER0 x.x.x.x obviously, in my configuration I have the ip's for our nameservers.

26 years, 8 months

Wait! Crossed cable! It booted, it booted!

by dseagrav＠bsdserver.tek-star.net

It booted! It's up! I have no idea what to do! And it IS RSTS/E!

26 years, 8 months

Old arcade game?

by sinasohn＠crl.com

At 08:50 PM 8/21/97 -0500, you wrote: >flakes all over it from that age. Anyway, it was simply a black and white >game in which you control a motorcycle (a white dot or line) down the >road, again white lines, and try not to die. A very simple game. I also There was a game called "Night Driver" that was similar. It too was simple graphically, with a pair of dotted(?) lines scrolling downward to indicate the edge of the road. It would bend right and left -- curves -- and you had to steer between them. Had a real steering wheel and an accellerator pedal, possibly a high-low gear shift as well. I know there was a sit-down model, there may have been a stand-up version as well. It was incredibly simple, especially compared to some of the high-end, need-a-pentium-and-3d-video-card games out today, but it was actually a lot of fun. --------------------------------------------------------------------- O- Uncle Roger "There is pleasure pure in being mad sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know." Roger Louis Sinasohn & Associates San Francisco, California http://www.crl.com/~sinasohn/

26 years, 8 months

Multiple Topics...

by allisonp＠world.std.com

<> Getting _new_ 8" drives is next-to-impossible < <No, not really. I just call up California Digital (310-217-0500, <or look at http://www.cadigital.com/) and FedEx brings the drives There is that. Myself I only have two sets of 8" to worry about one sa800 on the cp/m crate (rarely used and that drive is generally powered off) and my RX02s. Around here 02s are easy to find and I have spares for everything on it. I also hardly use that, noisy, I have hard drives, rx50 and rx33 as well. It's there for compatability. Nearly every system I have has been migrated toward 3.5" drives or up scaled 5.25s where possible. Exceptions are the Vt180 where compatability is required and the odd 360k floating around. The PDP-11 and vax DEC hardware it's not a choice for the most part and I keep them compatable. Three goals are accomplished, single 3.5" media, more storage than 8 or 5" formats and power down with media in place is not problematic. All 3.5" PC/PS2 compatable drives have write interlock on power fail. One unique thing I've done is to embed two PS2 720k 3.5" floppies inside a kaypro as 782k hard disks. They are drives A: and B:. They have power fail but, their bezels are specific to the IBM case. They can be found real cheap as a result and are a deal. Using Advent turborom in the 5.25/96tpi mode puts 781k on them. By putting them on a bracket inside the case they are captive and amount to a slow small hard disk from the user side. For CP/M use 1.5m of on line storage not including the 3.5<782k> and 360k 5.25 on the front pannel makes for a fairly roomy system. That system has a 2meg ramdisk so it can boot and copy the floppies to ramdisk for speed. Advantages include if the media fails pop the cover and put in a new disk and it's less likely to crash the disk if dropped. The only other storage I keep around is the TU58 dectapeII as it's serial and can be plugged into anything that can do RS232/423. At 256k a cart its not big or fast. What I'd like to find out how to do is use the floppy interfaced tapes for non-PC systems. These drives in the smaller storage sizes can be found cheap and even new ones aren't too expensive. Allison

26 years, 8 months

Darn! Darn darn darn! RA81 problems continue: No O/S?

by dseagrav＠bsdserver.tek-star.net

I plugged everything up, and fired her up. b du and b du0 hit the harddisk for a second, then it returns to the ODT prompt. Does this mean no O/S?

26 years, 8 months

9-track tape drive: What is this?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> writes: > [IEEE488/centronics/whatever connectors] > >From the HP-97S user manual (I have one on loan for a demonstration in a > few weeks...) > > 'Your peripheral device is connected to the HP-97S interface with a > standard 25-pair telephone connector (Amphenol 57-30500 or equivalent)' Ah. Yes, we used to call the 50-pin version a telephone or telco connector because, well, that's where we used to find most of them: going to a 5-line office phone, or on the side of a punch-block. But HP-IB and Centronics printer connectors didn't have enough pins to be called telco connectors. Besides, HP-IB used bigger, stackable screws, and Centronics printer connectors had those ears. It wasn't 'til I saw the 50-pin Centronicsish SCSI connector that I started to get confused. -Frank McConnell

26 years, 8 months

PDP11/15

by Philip.Belben＠powertech.co.uk

Since no-one seems to have answered this, I shall put my bit in. I am no PDP expert, though. > After all the discussion here recently about collecting PDP11's I have > located one which I intend negotiating for. I haven't actually seen it yet. > > It is a PDP11/15, a model number that I haven't seem mentioned. Is there a > listing somewhere on the web that describes the various models as there is > for PDP8's ? The 11/15 and 11/20 were two variants of the original PDP11 CPU, which came out in 1970 (I think). The processor itself may have been called the KA11, but I am not sure of this. The difference between them was system configuration, AFAIK. > This one apparently dates from about 1970, and is probably incomplete. > There was talk of a rack, the PDP11/15 itself, some RKO5 disk drives and > some boxes labelled PDP11/10 which may be other computers. There is no > other IO device other than front panel switches. PDP 11/10 is usually an 11/05 variant (again the difference is configuration of the system), dating from c. 1974 (and full of TTL - 74XX device codes and 74XX date codes can be very confusing). But I have heard rumours of an 11/15 variant of that name. No doubt Allison, Tim or Tony will tell you all about this. One day I shall get my 11/10 working... > Could this equipment be used with a more recent terminal? I have no chance > of finding a card reader or teletype but have access to several VT220's. AFAIK it will require a current loop interface. Some quite late terminals had this feature - I use something called a Westward Graphics Terminal. Philip.

26 years, 8 months

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test-drb August 1997