On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:47 +0200, Gooijen H wrote:
> I checked the wiring in my 11/70.
> On this M9312, TP1 and TP2 are connected to a small push button which is
> mounted on the bottom end of the front panel. Certainly not original,
> but that is how I got this 11/70.
> >From the MK11 MOS memory box above the 11/70 is indeed a small cable
> that connects to the M9312. This cable enters the 11/70 at the rear side
> and runs, over all the boards in the space where all the flat cables are,
> to the M9312. The white/black goes on TP3, and the blank one goes on TP4.
Thanks - just what I needed! :-)
> For its function, check the 11/70 manual :-)
Heh - I was staring at DEC engineering drawings for hours and it was
giving me a headache! I need to look at all the info for the memory
crate though as the CPU still isn't happy (the run lamp's permanently on
and we can't halt the CPU or toggle any data in from the front panel).
All cards look to be OK in the CPU though, but I suspect there may be a
problem with the memory...
> I do not use the battery for MOS memory backup in case of a power failure
> so I can not be of much help here.
No problem - we're not intending on using it either; I just wanted to
check that it should be OK without it. Time to do some reading this
week!
We did discover the limit of the power cabling in the museum room though
- with the 11/34, 11/44, HP T500 and a few assorted terminals running we
hit the 30A limit on the breaker and blew the power out to the room :-)
Luckily we've found a few power outlets that are on a different breaker,
so we can move some big stuff over onto that and spread the load. Still,
adding the Marconi machine, Elliott 803 and the Decsystem 570 with the
three massbus drives into the mix is going to make things interesting.
The startup sequence for everything is going to be pretty critical...
cheers
Jules
About twenty years ago I bought a dual tape drive "mass" storage
peripheral from a surplus outfit, United Products in Seattle. It was
for a long defunct personal computer of the '70s. The computer (which
I only ever saw in a few ca. 1978 ads in Byte) was an 8080-based
system, and I think it was billed as having color video graphics
capability. I don't remember the name of the company. Anyway, the
distinguishing characteristic of the system was the tape drive unit
used modified 8-track tape decks. That's right, 8-track *audio*
cartridges, the kind people make so much fun of these days.
The drive was housed in a blue metal enclosure with a black vacu-formed
plastic bezel for the two "drives." It had a DB-25 connector on the
back, though it definitely wasn't a standard RS232 interface. As I
recall, the tape head assembly in each drive had four read/write coils,
and it could move to one of two positions, up or down, thus giving
eight tracks total. Presumably this was to decrease the "seek" time.
I managed to trace through the circuit well enough to figure out how to
write and read back serial data on tape, at about 2400 bps, as I
recall. I had some fun hooking it up to a C64 in the lab to prove the
thing was actually working. I kept threatening a co-worker that I was
going to write a driver for the monstrosity to use on the lab's CP/M
machines. He had just built a Slicer, a 80186 SBC that was popular for
a few years in the mid-eighties, and the thought of such a kludge
horrified him. Heh.
I foolishly sold the dual tape drive and all my notes at a Seattle
Robotics Society auction sometime around 1989. I've done some poking
around on the web recently, but I have found zip about this machine.
Has anyone ever seen one of these tape drives? I actually have a
project that, perversely, requires something like this.
-RLN
Hello Tony,
I found a request on the internet today but the posting was made over a year
ago. I wish I would have seen it then
because I have this thing that I want to get rid of. It is a KSR33 Teletype
with the interface converted to RS-232.
It is still in working order but probably needs a new ribbon after sitting
for at least 20 Years.
I also have other vintage equipment that used to be connected to the
teletype. It is an old PDP11-05 (DEC).
Let me know if you are interested.
Ken
I've got PC-MOS/386 and wonder if serial port expanders for a 386 or 486 can still be sourced. A hunt of the net opened a minefield of such devices - hoping I can get some help from this list.
TIA!!!!
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I'm looking for a datasheet for an 8279 chip (Keyboard / LED controller), I
haven't found anything useful on the net. A PDF of the original Intel
datasheet would be preferred.
Thanks
-Neil
I have *five* Model 200s now, and not a single one
works, but I have just as many Model 100s, and every
single one works.
Is this just bad luck, or is there something defective
about the design?
Steve.
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Hi
I just saw a request for help in repairing
one of these on alt.folklore.computers. It seems
that this company was actually using this machine.
They are having problems with the printer ( no
wonder ). They are in the LA area. I would suspect
that after getting things printed out, they
might be interested in parting with it ( if they
had any sense ). It would be a good opportunity
for a local collector.
Dwight
Does anyone care to help this person? See below.
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:52:53 -0700
From: Robin Rae <freebace(a)fastmail.fm>
To: vcf(a)vintage.org
Subject: shot in the dark.
I've been ripping my hair out and was wondering if someone there could
help, I need to know how to access BIOS setup on a Philips P3230
(286/12.5) the only site i knew of that had manuals has disappeared. any
help would be greatly appreciated.
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On Oct 15 2004, 18:30, Jules Richardson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 10:36 -0700, Saddler, Chris wrote:
> > Returning to the original OT subject of this thread, where are the
rigid
> > rules of news group message format defined?
>
> Do you mean news (i.e. usenet), or email?
>
> Email seems to be covered by RFC822, and news (the message format) by
> RFC1036 - however a quick glance doesn't show either of them to
mention
> anything about signatures. I think it's just something of an unspoken
> standard that '--' on a line by itself is a signature separator - but
as
> far as I can tell there's nothing in the specs to say that, nor the
> actual purpose of the signature...
It's not "--" but "-- ", and must be immediately preceeded and followed
by a newline. It appears in RFC2646 as a "convention" -- but it's
worth remembering that RFCs are not (mostly) standards either -- just
conventions. There's a document called "son of RFC1036" which is the
basis that almost all modern newsreaders follow, anmd you'll find the
sig separator described in there. "son of RFC1036" was written, mainly
by Henry Spencer, one of the original authors of RFC1036, because there
are some errors/inconsistencies in RFC1036 which needed addressed;
there's also a widely-used document called the GNKSA (Good NetKeeping
Seal of Approval) where it appears as section 15. Both of these were
the result of much discussion on Usenet and appeared because although
the IETF produced many drafts of a successor to RFC1036, none were ever
finalised.
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