Hi. Having recently been the happy recipient of an HP 7978 tape drive I have
set about the task of finding new blank tapes for it. Not too difficult
until faced with the embarrassing question of whether my tapes need to be
Wright Line seal or Easy Load (Auto Load ?). My vintage magnetic media
experience doesn't go much beyond 8 inch disks, so I wondered if anyone could
please give me some hints on how to answer this. (Of course I haven't got
any manuals). Thanks in advance.
I've got the manual, but it doesent go into detail about the
fault/failure codes.
I dont have a console terminal or ethernet connection hooked up
to this yet - but when power is applied, it goes through the
self-test, lighting up 8 7 6 5 4 3, then those LEDs blink, 2 and 1
are dark, and only the POWER LED is lit otherwise.
Anybody know what this means, exactly? Is this a paperweight?
Bill
--
Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX
> You still don't get it. Demos have no marketing relevance whatsoever.
They're
> done just for the fun of it, and the prestige. They don't fulfill any needs
> and don't claim to do it. I don't even see why I'm trying to explain to you,
> you don't even seem to read what I write.
No, I trying very hard to grok this. Is this in the United States?
What part of the country? It doesn't happen around here (Louisville,
KY metro area), I'd have heard of it. Given the Internet, I suppose
my world shouldn't be limited to a 150-mile radius, but in a way, it
is.
-dq
I have this qbus board that is a date/time clock. It was made by Romar
Peripherals and looks very simple, does anyone have any info on this
board? I would like to use it in a RT11 system to set the date/time
automatically. It is based on a National Semiconductor 58167 clock chip, I
think the board is set to respond to an address176600.
Hello, all:
Just to relay some great news. Theo has killed the last of the
nagging bugs in the processor core (mostly flag-setting stuff) and has
successfully gotten Altair BASIC 3.2 (4k BASIC) to run!!! I have some code
to cleanup tonight and I'll post new sources over the weekend.
Woo, hoo!
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair32.htm
Rich
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New York, NY 10036
(212) 545-4402
(212) 840-6259 (facsimile)
In a message dated 8/16/01 10:27:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com writes:
> Is anyone on the list interested in SPARCStation 1's ?
> --Chuck
Sure!
-Linc Fessenden
In The Beginning there was nothing, which exploded - Yeah right...
Calculating in binary code is as easy as 01,10,11.
From: Stan Sieler <sieler(a)allegro.com>
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>; classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> So here are some specific questions that might be interesting to
answer:
> 1) What was the first example of a TERMINAL (See above)?
In the late 60s I did use the H1000 (hazeltine) wich was glass tty.
> 2) When was a processor (micro, bit-slice, whatever) first
> DEDICATED to operating a terminal?
That came in the mid 70s, later than some of the terminals that
could do #3.
> 3) What is the first terminal that could manipulate its own
> buffer memory in response to a "control" code?
at least one example was the VT52, it had gotoxy and a few other
controls but was not uP based.
> 4) What is the first terminal that could display graphics and
> text? (either alternately or simultaneously)
I beleve the TEK401x and even the tube in the PDP1 (vector graphics)
could do that. Likely predates standalone tubes. However the first
serious graphics tube I encountered as a text/standalone was VT100
with line drawing or VT125 with regis/sixel and VT100 text.
5) what was the first terminal to have memory "above" the screen?
(I.e., some number of lines could scroll off the top, but could still
be scrolled back later)
(Probably HP 2640A)
This was implemented on the SWTP CT1024 many others did it.
6) what was first terminal with user-installable option cards?
(Probably HP 2640A)
H1500, Vt100, CT1024 and others.
Allison
Greetings, port-VAX'ers and CLASSICCMP'ers,
I wanted to let you all know I'm going to be doing a one-day-only garage
sale on Sep. 15th (Saturday) from 10:00 to 17:00 at 12641 SE 277th Pl.,
Kent, WA (southeast of Seattle).
I'll be clearing out a bunch of VAXen and Qbus stuff, along with disk
drives, cables, tape devices, test gear, etc. If you're local to the area,
or going to be in the area, swing by. I never know when I'll be putting
out something that someone may have been digging for.
Thanks much for the small bit of advertising space.
--
Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
Blue Feather Technologies -- http://www.bluefeathertech.com
ARS KC7GR (formerly WD6EOS) since 12-77.
"Plut? Ahh, Gribble Snort!"
From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay(a)cs.umn.edu>
>Fairly early examples are:
>
prior to this there was the H1000.
>2/70 TEC inc. model 410/415, 420/425, 430/435
>
>4/70 Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS) Consul 920
>
>5/70 Univac Uniscope 100
>
>10/70 Hazeltine 2000
>
>>
>> 2) When was a processor (micro, bit-slice, whatever) first
>> DEDICATED to operating a terminal?
>>
>> 3) What is the first terminal that could manipulate its own
>> buffer memory in response to a "control" code?
>>
>> 4) What is the first terminal that could display graphics and
>> text? (either alternately or simultaneously)
>>
>> I'm guessing that the Lear-Seigler machines were near the front...
>
>Nope. The ADM-1A didnt come out until 8/73.
There were many out there befor the ADM1A, When that one hit
VT05s were around. See 1973 small computer handbook.
The ADM1 was notable for several reasons but being first
was not it. the fact that it was lower in cost than many
and by 1975 avaiable as a KIT for much less made it popular.
For me I'd been using electronic terminals for a few years by
1973 with the H1000, VT05 being notables but there were others
around.
Allison
