test-drb November 2000

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by agraham＠ccat.co.uk

Zane bashed in on an old teletype: > RULE1: These systems are for *local pickup* only. I quite > simply do not have time to ship stuff. Bugger. > $ Apple III+ > $ Lisa 2/5 > Atari > $ Atari TT030 Dammit, dammit, dammit! Is there anyone local to Zane who a) doesn't want the above and b) has time to ship them to li'l ol' me in the UK on receipt of some $$$? adrian/witchy www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum (now WITH a working Lisa 2/5 but hell, I'm greedy :o)

24 years, 1 month

PDP, TYPESET-8 and linotypes

by kylianw＠hotmail.com

I am looking for documentation on the interface that existed between the PDP TYPESET-8 system and the Linotype electrons/comets (mid-60's - early 70's). Specifically, I need additional information on the output format of the TYPESET-8, both in the physcial sense (paper tape, or serial out- at what line levels), and the format sense- escape codes and such used for formatting. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Ky _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

24 years, 1 month

UCSD PASCAL (P-system) P-code Was:(Why is it that ...)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Bill Pechter <pechter(a)pechter.dyndns.org> >I thought it was that the 11/03 was a remicrocoded WD chip? >Anyone know what came first? WD13 chipset was developed with DEC and is a 16bit microcoded structure. DEC even had a 1k writeable microcode store for the LSI-11. So technically the WD13 chipset came first then the LSI-11, Alpha Micro and then WD Pascal Microengine. Allison

24 years, 1 month

UCSD PASCAL (P-system) P-code Was:(Why is it that ...)

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Roger Ivie <rivie(a)teraglobal.com> >That's an extremely interesting remark because of two of >the rumors I heard about the WD P-engine: > >1) It failed because a Z80 could execute P-code faster >2) It was a remicrocoded 11/03 Z80 was a good pcode engine, in 1978 the fast ones were 4mhz and the PDP-11/03 in the guise of an H11 was a bit faster. The WD Pascal microengine was the WD13 chipset as was the LSI-11 and the S100 box (forgot the name). The uEngine was a failure as WD was not a reliable vendor back then and it was buggy. It did run the pcode fastest of the pack then. The PDP-11 and to a lesser extent z80 had the addressing modes and instuction set needed to build a good stack oriented engine. UCSD was not so much a failure as the leading edge. With the avilability of natively compiled languages that were faster or better a P-code compiler was a weakness. The idea of cross platform code portability in the form of a compiled HLL was a big winner that remains. Allison

24 years, 1 month

tms9914 ieee488 controller

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

FWIW, Western Digital produced it as a second source... Will J _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

24 years, 1 month

Who wants a decwriter II?

by epgroot＠ucdavis.edu

I came across a decwriter II hardcopy terminal by the dumpster at one of the buildings at UC Davis. It resembles a glorified typewriter mounted in a tall desk. Too big to transport on my bike, so those interested have to pick it up from campus. Don't know how long it will be sitting there. No, Sellam, this is not some sort of entrapment ploy! Regards, Edwin Davis, CA

24 years, 1 month

Archiving Amiga floppies

by ethan_dicks＠yahoo.com

--- Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > At 11:16 AM 11/30/00 -0800, you wrote: > >This reminds me - does anyone here have an ethernet card that would work > >in an Amiga 2000? I've got one I'd like to put on the 'net. > > The last time I checked, Amiga ethernet cards were quite expensive still, > though things could've changed in a year since I moved off an Amiga 4000 to > my Power Mac clone. If you have a bridgeboard though and a PC ISA ethernet > card, there used to be a couple of programs on Aminet that would allow you > to access the ISA ethernet card from the Amiga side. It was a bit of a > kludge, but was reported to have worked. I still have new, in-the-box GG2 Bus+ bridge cards w/original warranty. They come with NE2000 drivers (along with other, non-NIC drivers) but there are also SMC/WesternDigital drivers on the web page (http://penguincentral.com/GG2/) I've mentioned it before to no great response, but I like to let people know there's still an alternative out there. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

24 years, 1 month

DECserver 200

by yoda＠isr.ist.utl.pt

>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com> writes: Ethan> I have one, too (and the uVAX2000 w/disk that it used to Ethan> boot from). What I would like to do is fire up DECnet on a Ethan> Linux box and start the DECserver from there. Has anyone Ethan> tried _that_ yet? I have a couple of DECservers here (one 300 and one 200) and I have successfully got them work with solely one linux machine. Here's the recipe: 1. start mopd-linux to make the DECservers load the boot image from the linux box; 2. start latd in the linux box to allow the DECservers login. All these software components for linux can be found at the DECnet for linux page. Note that both mopd and latd do not require DECnet, because they seem to use independent protocols. BTW, I've written a couple of progs from scratch that implement the mop console protocol. I use them to check a couple of DEChubs. I could provide the source code to everyone interested. Cheers, -- *** Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura <yoda(a)isr.ist.utl.pt> *** Web page: http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda *** Teaching Assistant and PhD Student at ISR: *** Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Polo de Lisboa *** Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, PORTUGAL *** PGP fingerprint = 0119 AD13 9EEE 264A 3F10 31D3 89B3 C6C4 60C6 4585

24 years, 1 month

Need help identifying the following IC/CHIP

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Hi, As my transputer collection increases, I just received a broken BBK-S4 (Sparc-based SBUS transputer link adapter). As far as I can tell, the only broken piece is the firmware IC. The IC actually was broken in half exposing the actual IC. I think someone was trying to extract it incorrectly and it opened up. The delicate wires are snapped as well. I hope that the firmware is downloaded to the chip each time it is fired up, but I am not sure. The chip is labelled as: TOSHIBA TC57H256D-70 JAPAN 8906YAA VPP 12.5V Does anyone know what type of IC this is and where I can obtain one? I would love to install this on my IPX and connect my T805-30MHz Xplorer to it. Thanks Ram

24 years, 1 month

UCSD P System (was: Why is it that ...

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> > >Does no one remember that IBM peddled UCSD P System for the PC? >An operating system that made PC-DOS look good! The PC version was really bad and sloer thant he z80 version. The only weakness that UCSD really suffered is it was P-system, It was a interpreter running pseudo code than that made it slow (like java). Compared to NS* DOS it was far more complete and advanced. It was plenty adaquate as a teaching platform for Pascal. Allison

24 years, 1 month

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