O. Sharp <ohh(a)drizzle.com> wrote:
> [*] - Our house is much too small. We're working on moving to someplace
> larger where we can actually get our books and our hobby supplies and our
> shop equipment and our fine china and our bondage equipment _out_ of all
> the boxes we've had to put them in for the last few years.
Bondage equipment? Are you a BDSM couple? Is the wife ClassicCmp-friendly?
Who is the dom and who is the sub?
MS
> we added the KL8/E's and RK05's. Early RSTS (originally called Edusystem-
100) was
Which reminds me there used to be a series of "EduSystems" for the PDP-8 as I
recall. -25, -30, etc. The one I used was TU-55/-56 based, though one or more
might well have been disk-based. Have any of these been recovered?
John
Looks like I may be doing a rescue of the following in Eastern Conn....
It is a VAX 6000/610.
2 cabinets, approx 1000 lbs total weight.
2 CPU
CMD Technologies DSSI controller
ethernet capable
comes with up to a dozen 2 gig drives( formatted)
covers for the empty drive bays
pretty sure that it is 208 volt single phase, although the drive cabinet has
a 120v 30 amp twist lock connector on the cable. I dont know if this plugs
into the CPU cabinets PSU or what.
VMS docs and manuals
The bad news, if that I try to keep it, I will lose the wife. Without
debating the merits of this trade, let me just say that it will not be good
financially <grin>
So....What do I do?????
We've just been offered a Norsk Data ND100 (running Sintran), which
according to the 'offeree' is somewhat unusual in being a rack-mount
version rather than the more typical cabinet variety.
I doubt the museum can take it though as we're somewhat swamped in mini-
class machines at present, but it's destined for landfill otherwise.
Comes with full documentation and (likely) the controlling dumb terminal
and a Genicom dot-matrix printer. Was working when put into storage
apparently. The hard disk and floppy are also mounted in the rack (so no
seperate enormous cabinets! :-)
It sounds like the company may be hanging onto the rack it was put in
(which probably makes it a little easier to manage, at least for most UK
folks!) but that they may be disposing of the rack too.
The machine's currently in Reading, Berkshire.
There doesn't seem to be much info about these on the 'net - from what I
gather they're 16 bit minis with a bit-slice ALU, and microprogrammed
CPU.
Anyone able to save it? I can put you in touch if so.
cheers,
Jules
--
"We've had a lot of loonies around this place, but you're the first one
who thought the sunrise was made out of stale beer. Now are you going to
pick up your flute and leave, or shall I part your hair with this
crowbar?"
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Oct 17, 2004 3:31 PM
To: simh(a)trailing-edge.com, Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net>,
Classic Computers <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: [Simh] Gah! ascii don't work??!
On Oct 17, 2004, at 12:32 PM, Kevin Handy wrote:
> Ron Hudson wrote:
>
>> simh running rsts
>>
>> print chr$(27);"[2J"
>>
> Try
>
> print chr$(27+128);"[2J"
>
> RSTS plays odd games with the escape character (prints it as
> a dollar sign most of the time), and setting the parity bit helps.
> There are various "open" modes, and terminal settings that
> will bypass this, but this is easier.
>
>> prints
>>
Ready
10 print chr$(27+128);"[2J"
run
NEW 12:25 PM 17-Oct-84
?[2J
Ready
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nope, that don't do it either. It's the same output on the terminal too.
What about +256? are they 8 bit chars? hmm no that would just be 27
again...
chr$ does a MODULO right?
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Ashley says:
Ron,
The way I always cleared the screen in Basic-Plus on RSTS on a VT50 or VT52
terminal was:
PRINT CHR$(155)+"H"+CHR$(155)+"J"
The CHR$(155)+"H" positions the cursor in the top left of the screen
Then, the CHR$(155)+"J" clears the screen.
This is all from memory. I haven't actually written that kind of code
since the late 1970s.
Ashley
Hi
I'm working on my PDP 11/60's and need info on the processor set.
The 1st board has LED's and thats a starting point if anyone knows
the status of the the LED's would be helpful. Or a source for
a on-line copy of the manual. ?? (kd11-k, m7872 1st board)
The second item is a maintiance manual on a TE-11 tape drive. These
look like a real challenge. ( Not sure if the TE-16 is close enough)
I don't have either manual.
Thanks, Jerry
Jerry Wright
JLC inc.
800-292-6370
Hi there,
Perhaps someone who is a little more familiar with the innards of the
PDP8/Ses can answer this...
Are the individual flip-flops arranged like a shift register or a set of
latches? In other words, when data is being clocked into a register,
does a bit get put into (say) AC0 then bumped along until it eventually
ends up in AC11, or are all the D lines of the flip-flops connected
together, with each one being clocked in turn?
Gordon.
In rummaging through classic computer stuff I haven't seen in a while, I
saw several things that are definitely a problem. What other things need
to be added to the list for collectors to watch out for?
* Leaky nicad batteries that will "eat" the circuit board traces
The early computers that come quickly to mind are the TRS-100, Lobo
Drives Max 80, NEC 8201A, 286 and later motherboards, and S-100
CompuWatch Clock/Calendar boards. Any others that should be added to
this list?
* Subterranean termites (eating manuals and other cardboard/paper
products)
Fortunately, they had only mostly started on the cardboard boxes, and
only damaged some of the manuals. I'm thinking that keeping the manuals
in ziplock bags might be a good idea for any manuals that need to be
packed away. This would also protect them from moisture if the boxes got
wet.
* Leaky storage areas leading to equipment and documentation being
ruined.
I've had quite a few books and manuals that had to be thrown away
(nothing really rare, hard to come by, or valuable) due to a leaky roof
where they were being stored.
