test-drb September 2000

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by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

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 -----Original Message----- 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? >________________________________________________________________________ _ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. > >

23 years, 10 months

Altair Emulator enhancements - progress report - questions

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

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

23 years, 10 months

Thank You (Re: HP 82059D 110v to 6v AC power adapter ?)

by rigdonj＠intellistar.net

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 >(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.) > >

23 years, 10 months

VAX panic - buried models?

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Can I interpret this to mean that 7.2 will run on an 11/750? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

23 years, 10 months

VAX panic - buried models?

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

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

23 years, 10 months

Thank You (Re: HP 82059D 110v to 6v AC power adapter ?)

by kla＠helios.augustana.edu

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.)

23 years, 10 months

Spliff

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> 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

23 years, 10 months

Spliff

by dhquebbeman＠theestopinalgroup.com

> 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

23 years, 10 months

Compaq sets final order dates for VAXen.

by antonio.carlini＠riverstonenet.com

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

23 years, 10 months

NeWS

by rutledge＠cx47646-a.phnx1.az.home.com

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. -- _______ Shawn T. Rutledge / KB7PWD ecloud(a)bigfoot.com (_ | |_) http://www.bigfoot.com/~ecloud kb7pwd(a)kb7pwd.ampr.org __) | | \________________________________________________________________ Get money for spare CPU cycles at http://www.ProcessTree.com/?sponsor=5903

23 years, 10 months

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