test-drb January 2004

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by vcf＠siconic.com

Can someone help Charlie? (See below...) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:35:52 +1300 From: Charlie <techj(a)inspire.net.nz> To: info(a)vintagetech.com Subject: TMS1000 Processor I wan to dump the program off a TMS1000 so tha I can read and then make some improvements and then reload onto a current day processor. Cna you send me in the right direction to locate info on how to dump etc. for the TMS1000. Charlie Harris New Zealand -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

20 years, 4 months

Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by aek＠spies.com

> PN 700-10470-04. Do you want it? let me take a peek inside the one I have > do you know if it really is Multibus? at one point, I had a maint manual for the 68k variety it may have started out that way, but from memory they used the P2 connector differently.

20 years, 4 months

Old MFM controller on a PCI bus machine

by cheri-post＠web.de

Sellam, I'm using a Gigabyte board with the HX-Chipset to test my MFM- and RLL-drives. It works fine, just make sure you turn of the onboard IDE-controllers and onboard floppy-controller. In general, MFM-drives take a long time to turn into ready state, too long for these kinds of motherboards such as they declare your harddrive faulty. So what I do is resetting the mainboard. Enough time is elapsed, the drive meanwhile ready to perform the "working test" done by the board. Pierre > > I haven't played with MFM hard drives and controllers in a LONG time > (about 10 years now) so I have some questions. > > I'll start off easy. Should there be any reason an old 16-bit ISA MFM > controller won't work properly in a Pentium-class PC with ISA and PCI > slots? I imagine I would just have to configure the BIOS to reserve the > proper interrupt (I believe it's 14, correct?) for the MFM controller. > > I did all this but the MFM controller wreaked havoc on the system. It > killed the on-board floppy disk and IDE controllers (not physically killed > but basically disabled them and the system couldn't boot). > > I'm trying to determine if there is a natural conflict before I venture > forth with this configuration. This may be a problem related to the PC > I'm trying to plug the card into because there are other oddities with the > IDE controller that is preventing the system from booting with 4 hard > drives installed (2 per IDE interface). It halts after it auto-recognizes > the drives on the primary controller. Weird. > > Anyway, any insight would be appreciated. > > I'm going to do more experimentation in the meantime. I'll get another PC > with ISA and PCI slots to work with, and will also find an old 386 to test > the MFM controller on to make sure it is working fine. > > -- > > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org > > [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] > [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ] > ______________________________________________________________________________ Erdbeben im Iran: Zehntausende Kinder brauchen Hilfe. UNICEF hilft den Kindern - helfen Sie mit! https://www.unicef.de/spe/spe_03.php

20 years, 4 months

DZQ11 Config Question

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

That did the trick! Thanks guys. It comes up as KB5 - 8 now, but hey, it works! I'm gonna enjoy multiple RT-11 sessions on this thing .. . . Jeff On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:09:54 -0700 Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net> writes: > jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote: > > >Does anyone out there know what CSR Address and vector I should > >set this to to make RSTS/E happy? When RSTS INIT's, it bitches > >that the board doesn't interrupt, and happily disables it. > > > >I'm using it in an 11/73, with RQDX3, 1MB ram, TQK70, the > >aforementioned DZQ11, and a DEQNA. > > > >If I do a SHOW DEV, KB1-4 is listed, but no CSR. . . . > > > > > > > According to VMS (assuming that the TK50 and TK70 have the same > addresses) > there aren't any floating address/interrupts, so: CSR: 760100 > Vector: 300* > > $ run sys$system:sysgen > SYSGEN> CONFIG > DEVICE> rqdx3 > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device RQDX3 will be output > as UDA > DEVICE> tqk70 > %SYSGEN-W-DEVNOTKNWN, device not known: /TQK70/ > DEVICE> tk50 > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device TK50 will be output > as TU81 > DEVICE> dz11 > DEVICE> deqna > %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device DEQNA will be output > as QNA > DEVICE> Exit > Device: UDA Name: PUA CSR: 772150 Vector: 154 > Support: > yes > Device: TU81 Name: PTA CSR: 774500 Vector: 260 > Support: > yes > Device: QNA Name: XQA CSR: 774440 Vector: 120 > Support: > yes > Device: DZ11 Name: TTA CSR: 760100* Vector: 300* > Support: > yes > SYSGEN> > > > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

20 years, 4 months

Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by aek＠spies.com

I have one, and a Z8002 pod. Docs would be nice to find..

20 years, 4 months

cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8?

by n2hqc＠earthlink.net

-----Original Message----- >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:06 -0000 >From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk> >Subject: RE: cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8? >> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org >> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson >> Sent: 26 January 2004 23:31 >> where did that start? I'm sure I remember seeing the "cow orker" typo in >> usenet postings about ten years ago, but maybe it has a history far >> older than that... >> > >I'm sure it's been in common parlance for longer >than this, but my other online home at www.b3ta.com >(currently offline for upgrades) coined the term >'orking' for a picture of an animal that had its nose >too close to the camera lens, and from that the 'new' >term of a cow-orker was born, but from sniffing around >USENET archives it seems it's been around for longer >than the last couple of years :) > >cheers Hello, My first try on this list. Hope this works. :) I recall using cow-orker as early as my FIDOnet days (up til 1993). It seems to go back as far as the late 80's. I just loked around and found this URL... Excerpts from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowOrker ------------------ The earliest reference in GoogleGroups is from a signature file posted to alt.sca on June 27, 1989... The same author used it in his signature file for posts to alt.sca through August 11, 1989... --------------------------------

20 years, 4 months

looking for a few items.

by TRASH3＠splab.cas.neu.edu

I have a KXT11-AA, which is an M8063. Never thought it was good for much, but now maybe I have to reconsider. The M7676 is the -AB model, I think. Joe Heck

20 years, 4 months

Anybody have an Applied MicroSystems Z-8000 emulator?

by rigdonj＠cfl.rr.com

The title says it all. Joe

20 years, 4 months

RX8E printset?

by djg＠pdp8.net

>Can someone e-mail me a URL of where I can pick up a pdf of the RX8E >schematics? My goal is to examine how this guy wired up his RX8E >interface to a posi-bus machine, then look at *building* an RX8L >from M-series modules (since I have no spare RX8Es lying around). > http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8cgi/query_docs/view.pl?id=238 Search finds it by everything other than RX8E, will have to fix that. David Gesswein http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights

20 years, 4 months

RX8E printset?

by aek＠spies.com

they're on Kevin's site http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/hardware/rx8.tif I'll see about putting a pdf up on bitsavers.

20 years, 4 months

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test-drb January 2004