Can someone help Charlie?
(See below...)
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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
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> 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.
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.
>
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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>
>
>
>
>
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-----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
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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...
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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
>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
