No, that's not a typo. I know not everyone reads Slashdot, so I thought
I'd share it since no one else has posted it yet:
There's a guy working on creating a FPGA verions of a PDP-8. Does anyone
know anything about this? Is Andrew Grillet on this list? There's more
information at his web site: http://www.grillet.co.uk/pdq8/index.html
Pat
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Purdue Universtiy ITAP/RCS
Information Technology at Purdue
Research Computing and Storage
http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu
Got lucky this weekend at the market and picked up the following:
1. Sun ext. cd-rom drive model X559A-ST had empty caddy in it.
2. Panasonic Portable Data Terminal model KX-D4911 not tested yet.
3. Some Game gear cartridges.
4. hp 82143A printer in the box all the paperwork and manual plus 3 rolls of
paper for it.
5. Printer adapter called a G-Wiz by Supra Corp.
6. A box full of books was given to me for the collection.
7. COMPUTERS: The Inside Story a 1000 piece puzzle set.
8. OT: A Viewsonic 14" flat panel for $17.50 at auction (works great).
9. OT: A Dell Latitude XPi laptop and ethernet docking station both for $10
at local thrift. Laptop works but battery is dead.
10. Another T1000 in a carrying case with adapter but dead battery.
That was part of the haul for the weekend.
IIRC, not many 8 bit CP/M computers were marketed as "game machines."
Certainly not all the Osbornes, Kaypros, Morrows, Televideos, etc., etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: ben franchuk [mailto:bfranchuk@jetnet.ab.ca]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 5:40 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: 8 bit vs other Computers.
<snip>
But 99% of all 8 bit machines in the 1980's were marketed as
game machines.
<snip>
Careful now, a quick visit to the Canadian Government website shows the
following,
(1) 7.6% unemployment
(2) 3.2% inflation
(3) Average family income of 38,000 after taxes
(4) Exchange rate of 1.56690 to one, in our favor
(5) Average retirement pension that is less than 10% of what mine will
be,
and of course that wonderful socialized health care.
Doesn't seem that you are in any position to criticize George W or our
Government until yours gets its act together.
Rich
loedman1(a)juno.com
Subject: OT Bush and Canada
> As a Canadian, I must explain to our US neighbors that the press
misunderstood the Canadian official at the Prague meetings who was
reported as saying "What a moron" in reference to George Dubya.
> In some circles up here there is a slang phrase of approval meaning
"more on top of it", hipper. I'm sure that's what he meant. And of
course Dick Cheyny is also a veritable moron, (in Can. slang terms ,
of course).
> Lawrence
lgwalker(a)mts.net
bigwalk_ca(a)yahoo.com
> > Actually, I've been planning on building my own. I am currently
I spent 15 minutes digging in a few boxes of surplus keyboards until I had
3 I liked, paid the man a buck each, and toddled on home. Typing this on a
very nice feeling Micron keyboard from the W95 era. Not quite as nice as my
Apple Extended II keyboard, but feels good, works fine.
I did a little more looking on the web and I must say either my memory is failing me, or I have looked at so many pictures of pdp-11s that I have just confused myself. I said I remembered the programers console was a little more flash looking that the 11/04 programmers consoles I had seen to date; and well I must say the picture of the 11/60 panel I found in a PDF titled "PDP11_Handbook1979", realy reminds me of the one I used on the small PDP-11 I am trying to identify. Did this panel sytle get used on any other PDP-11 models? Its just that I remember it being an 11/0(something), but I find the 11/60 console's octal pad framing in white and the location of the 7 segment display very familliar.
David
>I had time to troubleshoot further, and somehow managed to get it to at
least make it to '6', but
>couldn't get it to progress past '9' the next time (when I had a
console cable connected). I'm
9 is "Identifying console terminal". It's supposed to give up
after six seconds and skip to step 7. If it identifies ther terminal,
it will go to step 8 instead and query the language.
6 is the RAM test.
You said uVAX II but what cards are in there? If it finds
a video card I think the sequence might change a bit.
>Also, what is the story on the FCO on the power harnesses for the
backplane? The two harnesses in
>my BA123 are made of a gray ribbon cable pressed into orange
connectors.
I *thought* it was the early BA23 power harness that
had the issue, not the BA123. A bit of googling through
newsgroups (comp.sys.dec or comp.os.vms) should nail
that down somewhat.
Antonio
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 Michael Nadeau wrote:
> Open Channel Software is making old NASA applications available for
> download. There is a fee involved for what's called the NASA Classics
> collection, and the goal is to encourage commercial development of the
> applications. The list is at http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/NASA_1.html.
> I have no connection with OCS or NASA, but just happened to come across a
> press release about the offer.
I had not seen Michael's previous posting on
this subject, I just stumbled across this web
page this morning. It appears they want volunteers
to help develop this software.
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/cosmic/
-----------< quote >----------------
Open Channel Publishes the NASA COSMIC Collection
Open Channel Software has entered into an agreement
with the National Technology Transfer Center (NTTC)
to publish the COSMIC software collection. This
collection represents software created by NASA in a
wide range of disciplines including engineering,
chemistry, aerodynamics, and other areas.
Adopt an application!
Many of the COSMIC programs are available for
"adoption". When you adopt an orphaned application
at Open Channel, you agree to moderate user
contributions to the application. You also take over
the maintenance of the site for the application through
our Content Management system. Your name will appear
on the application home page.
------< end quote >----------------
The Moderator Responsibilities
http://www.openchannelfoundation.org/contrib/mod_resp.php
include:
-----------< quote >----------------
* Helps Open Channel decide on means of distribution
(free open source, licensed open source, etc.)
* Makes current version of software and documentation
available for download from site, and/or
* Helps Open Channel define and price products offered
for order on the site
------< end quote >----------------
So by adopting one of these programs you may be able to
influence how this software is distributed.
--Doug
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Doug Coward
@ home in Poulsbo, WA
Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
http://dcoward.best.vwh.net/analog
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Greetings;
I'm trying to track down an EISA .CFG file for an SMC Elite32 8033W
dual-port Ethernet card.
Google is surprisingly sparse.
The card ID is: SMC0110 (And, therefore, the CFG is !SMC0110.CFG)
Many thanks,
JP
