I'm not sure if this is 10 years old or not, but given that it's not an
Intel based system, I'm sure I can slide it by.
My roommate just aquired an HP 715/64 but no keyboard. It doesn't take
the standard HP keyboard but instead has a 10-pin connector (looks like a
10/100Base-T connector, but has 10 pins) and from searching, it looks like
it requires a special keyboard adaptor to use an HP or PC keyboard. Anybody
know anything about these? Where he could get one? Maybe make one?
-spc (Thanks)
> If you want to be bold, use the Intel compiler. It is freely distributed
> for Linux systems and as a 30 day evaluation for Windows. SIMH really
> buzzes when compiled with it.
>
> -- hbp
Have you tried this with more than just the VAX version of SIMH? I'm
wondering how much of an improvement I'd see with the PDP-11 version of
SIMH, and KLH10 (KLH's PDP-10 emulator).
Does the compiler put any kind of a time limit on how long you can run the
executables that you generate?
Zane
I need some help. Jay West has kindly posted the file
"rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" at:
http://www.classiccmp.org/PDP-11/RT-11/freeware-CDS/images/
"rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" is about 171 Mbytes in size. It is my
understanding that
the full size file "rt11freewarev2.iso" is exactly 671,088,640 bytes in
size which
is the CD for the RT11 Freeware CD produced by Tim Shoppa. However,
when
the download of the "rt11freewarev2.iso.gz" file is complete, I end up
with a file
that is 687,282,673 bytes which is different in size and can NOT be
identical to
the full size (and correct - Tim Shoppa used to have the full size image
at his
site and I downloaded it before it was changed to a ".bz2" image) image
of the
actual CD.
I am using Windows 98 SE/Netscape 4.78 and the normal WinZip in case
that
is part of the problem. Jay has told me:
"I spent about 6 hours this morning redownloading (from Tim's site) all
3
freeware cd's, uncompressing them, recalculating MD5 hashes, and
rezipping
them. The files I just downloaded compare identically with the files on
Tim's site, AND those files compare identically to the files I have had
on
my server for the past few weeks that you already downloaded. I even
downloaded those files from my server to my windows pc across the net
like
everyone else would, and they uncompress and compare identially to the
ones
on Tim's site. The files on my server have been completely correct since
day
1. I don't know what happened on your end when you downloaded the files,
but
I can assure you what is (and has been) on my site is a correct
identical
copy of Tim's."
I am confident that Jay is correct and that there is something I don't
understand
with what takes place when I do my download. Can anyone suggest to me
what
I am doing wrong? PLEASE!!
Sincerely yours,
Jeremy Fine
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At 10:30 AM 6/14/02 -0400, you wrote:
> F.Y.I. - My Cabletron MRXI hubs have RJ-45 sockets, for hooking up
>to a serial VT420 terminal... :)
> But, yes, I agree. Those hubs are the only time _I've_ seen RJ-45
>used for serial communication.
Many terminal servers use RJ45 for serial
In a message dated 6/14/02 4:54:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
eric(a)brouhaha.com writes:
> AFAIK, the last customer release of CDS-432 was release 2.7, which
> supported the release 3.2 chips. Intel continued development in house
> in support of the Intel/Siemens joint venture (later commercially named
> "BiiN"). There were release 3.3 chips, and probably software to support
> them, but they were not available to customers.
>
> I have not been able to obtain a complete copy of any release of
> CDS-432 or iMAX-432, nor I have found the diagnostics or DEBUG-432.
> I keep hoping that copies of this stuff will turn up eventually, but
> things look pretty grim...
>
>
Grim is right. Intel was extremely dedicated to destroying SW. When we were
buying from them in that time period we never got any SW. Saw large bins of
Intel disks on their way to destruction. Sad.
I have the pinboard tester for the Biin CPU card. It came out surplus in a
later lot we did not have to certify destruction on. I have full docs on it
too. It is a classic museum piece, and I bet nearly the only piece of Biin
left.
I will try to get pictures up within the next few weeks. It is buried in
storage.
Paxton
Astoria, OR
All this mention of Motorola's 88000 RISC chip has made me wonder
what machines were built around it. Did Data General make anything
with it? Was there a Motorola development system?
One of my collecting goals is to acquire an example of each of
the microprocessor acrhitectures. Now 6502, 8080, 6809, 68000,
and so on are easy. What about the Z8000? The 32032 (I do have
a Whitechapel)? The 88000? The iAPX432?
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk
> From: Jim Arnott
>
> Thanks.
>
> Never seen Serial RJ-45 ports before
>
> Jim
>
F.Y.I. - My Cabletron MRXI hubs have RJ-45 sockets, for hooking up
to a serial VT420 terminal... :)
But, yes, I agree. Those hubs are the only time _I've_ seen RJ-45
used for serial communication.
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Mac OS X 10.1 - Darwin Kernel Version 5
Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash
>Perhaps it was a part of the OS install on later MacOS versions?
Most of the optional items were wrapped into the mail installer starting
with OS 8, so I was probably thinking of that rather than 7.5.5 when I
said to check the custom install.
>Now, a new problem. When I try and run the 7.5.5 upgrade, it starts to
>install (with the progress meter), and then says that it can't be
>installed and aborts. I downloaded it from the Apple 'Older Software
>Downloads' page on apple's site, and the Disk Copy images
>checksum-verify ok.
Um... does it give you any kind of a reason why it can't install? (any
kind of error message?). I don't notice anything that jumps out in
Apple's TIL about it, but you might try restarting with extensions off,
and then run the updater (restart holding down SHIFT until you get the
Welcome To Mac screen)
It has been a LONG time since I tried to do a 7.5.3 install and then a .5
update. I have a 7.5.5 Installer CD that I have been using since I got
it, and that does the 7.5.3 install, followed directly by the .5 update,
so it never seems to have problems. (and I never stop at .3, as .3 was
pretty buggy, with .5 fixing much of the problems).
It is possible that the Text To Speech installed something that the .5
updater can't get past. Is it possible for you to start over and do the
7.5.3 followed by .5 before installing anything else?
Worst case, I can dub you that 7.5.5 install CD and mail it down to you.
Now that 7.5.5 is available on Apple's site for free, I don't think there
would be any legal issues with me doing that (or at least not ones that
Apple would care about persuing).
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>
> > Bob Supniks excellent emulator (VAX along with many PDPs
>
> Is this what happened to Charon-VAX... someone else
> perfected the commodity so the also-rans gave up?
> I had heard that C-V never got up much steam.
>
> John A.
CHARON-VAX is still around http://www.softresint.com/charon-vax/index.htm
however, unlike Bob's emulators, it's a commercial product. The Hobbyist
version of CHARON-VAX has about the same features as SIMH (I think SIMH
supports more devices). However, the commercial version of CHARON-VAX is
currently the best product[1], unfortunatly, it costs FAR more than an
equivalent VAX!
Zane
[1] Only the commercial versions of CHARON-VAX have ethernet support.
>> Yes, it can talk. Actually, the 128k Mac can talk with the right version
>> of MacInTalk (anyone remember the Talking Moose).
>
>Neat.
I think the first real use of MacInTalk I ever saw (beyond Talking Moose,
which was the first place I saw it at all, but I considered that a "show
off the technology" app) was in the game Captain Magneto (which I never
did solve, anyone know how to get the laser gun out of the room on the
island?)
>I did a custom install, but don't remember seeing it. Where is it/can I
>download a copy to install from Apple's downloads site or something?
It might have been an optional installer rather than being part of the
main OS installer as a custom item. If you have a 7.5 CD, check some of
the optional items on it. I would check my 7.5.5 CD, but I forgot it at
home (and didn't bother checking last night like I should have)
It should be listed as Text-To-Speech or PlainTalk, or you can download
the PlainTalk 1.5 installers from Apple's web site. That includes the
Text-To-Speech installer.
You want to install MacInTalk 2 (there are 3 versions, 2, 3, and Pro. 2
is the one that will probably work best on a Classic II, but 3 might also
work, you can try it. Pro is for 040's or PPCs)
You can find a list of the older Apple software at:
<http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html>
Click the link for System Software Downloads (or just scroll down about
2/3's of the page). Then in that list, scroll to the bottom of it. You
will find a little ways up from the bottom of the list is
"Macintosh/System/Speech/PlainTalk_1.5", the list is alphabetical. You
will want the 5 "English_TTS" disks (unless you want to hear your Mac
talk in spanish, in which case get the 3 "Mexican_TTS" disks as well.
-chris
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