I can think of reasons why not. namely enough ram and
enough disk as the minima is 4mb ram and 300mb disk
though you can get by with less. Most 750s have enough
of both. With 8mbram it runs fair with 12 it will run good.
Allison
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From: Will Jennings <xds_sigma7(a)hotmail.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: VAX panic - buried models?
>Can I interpret this to mean that 7.2 will run on an 11/750?
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From: James Willing <jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com>
To: Cini, Richard <RCini(a)congressfinancial.com>
>The paper-tape based versions of Altair BASIC polled the 'sense
switches'
>to determine the type of I/O to be used, and by inferrence the port
>numbers. It contained its own I/O routines.
Casette versions polled the sense switches (port FFh) as well.
>
>> What port locations were generally used to service
>> serial ports used for console I/O?
>
>The closest thing to a 'standard' selection (also used in the disk based
>versions of BASIC) was for the 2-SIO board which was located at ports 20
>and 21 (octal).
Or the MITS SIOA and SIOB at 0/1 with one of two possible status bit
combos. THe SIO had a early rev that move the sense bits around.
>> Does anyone have a working set of CP/M
>> binaries that I can load into the emulator?
>
>For what disk sub-system? (Mits, Tarbell, etc...???)
Do you plan to emulate the BIOS IO to the ports and disk system?
Allison
Kevin,
At 08:18 AM 9/12/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks to all for giving the information on the needed power
>supply and batteries for the HP 110 Portable Plus (it is
>indeed the Plus). In particular, thank you for correcting
>the power output of the 82059D as being 8v AC under load.
>(My source for it being 6 V was from Mike Simms FAQ on the
>HP1xx series of personal computers -- he has it in there
>as 6 volts -- so someone may want to have that changed.)
I wrote to him years ago and told him that is was wrong. I guess he's
just been too busy to change it.
Joe
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin Anderson
>Bismarck ND USA
>home: K9IUA(a)juno.com
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>home, which is much more convenient, but unfortunately the digests
>currently being sent out are not limited to under 60 Kb, which
>is a requirement still for the e-mail-only Juno service I
>normally subscribe to.)
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Can I interpret this to mean that 7.2 will run on an 11/750?
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From: John Allain <John.Allain(a)donnelley.infousa.com>
>They alluded that VAXen ship with hardware ID's,
>something that I had forgotten years ago
Yes they do.
>software is new or near new copies, then some VAX
>architectures with limited disk or memory would
>not be able to run it -- and without being able
>to re-HWID old SW copies, they could not be made
>to run on other configs, even exact matches.
re-hwid??? whats that. All I do is use a machine that I can
do a VMSbuild on to my spec, no biggie.
The biggest issue with recent copies of VMS is device
support for acient devices. The key here is SUPPORTED
as een unsuppported acient device drivers are often included.
>Anybody know if:
> All VAXes have HWIDs? Even micros?
Yep, and yep.
> Is it possible for some Third trusted party
> to permit back revision VMS copies to run
> on different copies of HW with other CPUID's?
Why? old copies of VMS are still around and they are not
locked nor are new ones. You only need a license pak.
DECs use of HWID was to make sure there was hw/sw support
for things like what ()-float types the machine supported and
what instructions needed trap emulation. Newer versions lise
all older machines and the only case where thish could be a
problem is if you were trying to run V3.6 on a VAX10000
not the reverse such as 7.2 on a 11/750.
Allison
Thanks to all for giving the information on the needed power
supply and batteries for the HP 110 Portable Plus (it is
indeed the Plus). In particular, thank you for correcting
the power output of the 82059D as being 8v AC under load.
(My source for it being 6 V was from Mike Simms FAQ on the
HP1xx series of personal computers -- he has it in there
as 6 volts -- so someone may want to have that changed.)
Cheers,
Kevin Anderson
Bismarck ND USA
home: K9IUA(a)juno.com
(alternate kla(a)helios.augustana.edu -- I would subscribe from
home, which is much more convenient, but unfortunately the digests
currently being sent out are not limited to under 60 Kb, which
is a requirement still for the e-mail-only Juno service I
normally subscribe to.)
> You wrote....
> > With the help of Doug Quebbeman and Steve Robertson and Kevin Davidson
of
> > QS Technologies, we repatriated a very nice Pr1me 9650 system with
> > Centronics printer from Greenville, SC back to New England. We
> > apprecaite all the assitance, and are looking forward to the day when we
> > pull it out of its temporary storage and get it running again.
>
> I spent a fairly large part of my career on Pr1me's. I still have a
complete
> set of docs for them and remember a fair amount. If you need any
assistance
> getting it up and running, drop me a line. Actually, I still maintain
> contact with an ex field engineer from Pr1me, which may help you out.
My initial contact with CVSI regarding a special licensing procedure for
preservationist has seemingly not been taken seriously by the licensing
department. At this point, they continue to view licensing of Primos et. al.
as a revenue stream.
This is most strange since it has been determined that CVSI does not own
any intellectual property rights for anything Pr1me related. Those rights
remained with Computervision, and are now property of Parametric
Technologies
Corporation (PTC), who is probably unaware of what they own.
So preserving Pr1mes at this point in time remains a black hat activity.
:-(
-dq
> With the help of Doug Quebbeman and Steve Robertson and Kevin Davidson of
> QS Technologies, we repatriated a very nice Pr1me 9650 system with
> Centronics printer from Greenville, SC back to New England. We
> apprecaite all the assitance, and are looking forward to the day when we
> pull it out of its temporary storage and get it running again.
Cool!
But what was the original post under this subject? Something about
Jamaican classic computing?
8D
jorgen.pehrson(a)compaq.com wrote:
>Plenty of the hardware documents are available (internally at Compaq) as
>scanned PDF files. And those documents will at least not end up in
>/dev/null.
Having current and semi-current manuals kicking around
isn't really the issue though. I've seen more PDP-8,
PDP-10 and PDP-11 era manuals outside of COMPAQ/Digital/DEC
than I ever saw inside.
For VAX, PC and Alpha material the situation was
much better inside.
I wonder how many VAX hardware manuals will still be available
internally to COMPAQ in maybe ten (or five) years time?
Antonio
I'd like to play with the NeWS system, since I've never seen it and
am intrigued...
Has anybody got anything at all related to this? Old Suns, old copies
of SunOS which included it, docs, example programs, ... ? I'd like to
buy a working setup.
My main interest is that I'd like to build a similar system for cross-
platform GUIs.
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