On Friday 12/3 I will be heading down I-95 from NY to Va. to pick up a great
find...Returning Saturday (or possibly Sunday). I will have an SUV with
Trailer. If this can be of use to anyone (especially those looking to get
rid of DEC equipment to a good home <grin>) drop me a post.
Seriouly, anyone on list into DEC (especially PDP-8) who is near this route,
drop me a note....
David
david(a)dynamicconcepts.us
At 02:02 PM 11/19/2004 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
> Here are some pictures of SOME of the stuff that I got last weekend.
Besides a huge box of manuals that I've sent to Al, I found five BBN
computers and I'm attempting to rescue enough of one to make a workable
system for Tom Uban. Plus all the cards out of the other ones for him for
spares. The BBN chassis is just too big to deal with but I got ALL the
cables, the complete PSU (on the back panel!), the multibus card cage (and
all the MB cards) and the switch card that lets all the CPUs talk to all
the other CPUs. The BBN CPUs are odd in that they don't plug into a socket
so the card cage isn't absolutely necessary. All the power and signals go
through connectors on the front of the card. Warning: this is a SCRAP
place and some of it isn't pretty!
>
><http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/bbn/>
I designed the Multibus backplane in that BBN machine about 20 years ago.
Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson(a)IDS.net
Anyone got any info on the above board? motorola 68000 CPU, DRAM, ROM
& some IO (2*6821 PIAs, 2*6850 SIOs, 1* 6840), and a bunch of
switches, all on a MultiBUS I card. Also has "master/slave D16 M24 I16
VOL 1982" legended.
Nothing helpfull showing up on a Google so far.
(received it amongst a pile of DEC manuals & TK50s rescued a month or
so ago)
ta.
greg
Tom Jennings wrote:
>>that, a letter from a lawyer is often effective.
>
>
> To what end, this? It's a bit scorched-earth don't you think?
>
Hmmm, that rings a bell. I remember playing a DOS game by that name. Up
10 players, each has a tank in a 2-D screen, and you can blow the snot
out of (or from under) each other. Anybody else play that game?
--
--- Dave Woyciesjes
--- ICQ# 905818
>From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov>
>
>On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 01:26:04AM +0000, Philip Pemberton wrote:
>> In message <200411250057.QAA03125(a)clulw009.amd.com>
>> Aside from being a "better KIM"? ISTR it was basically a KIM with a few
>> extras (oscilloscope output, a la the Poptronics Scopewriter) added. I don't
>> think it used the mask-programmed RIOT chips either, unlike the KIM, which
>> makes it (slightly) easier to fix if something goes wrong.
>
>It does not use mask-programmed RIOT chips... one of the reasons I'm happy
>to have a SYM-1 - no unobtanium ingredients.
>
>-ethan
Hi Ethan
One can wire the 6532 and EPROM chip in place of the 6530. It does
require a little mapping because the selects most likely won't
be compatable but the rest should work. There is a fellow in
France that is doing this for Pinball machines.
Dwight
On Friday 12/3 I will be heading down I-95 from NY to Va. to pick up a great
find...Returning Saturday (or possibly Sunday). I will have an SUV with
Trailer. If this can be of use to anyone (especially those looking to get
rid of DEC equipment to a good home <grin>) drop me a post.
Seriouly, anyone on list into DEC (especially PDP-8) who is near this route,
drop me a note....
David
david(a)dynamicconcepts.us
I recently acquired a virgin Burroughs Panaplex display, and
can't find data for it. It's a 24-line, 40-column display, tube
only. Character matrixes are 5w x 9h (!) so it'll do decenders.
The only markings are a simple "N-0008" on one edge. It's got
double staggered rows of pins on all four sides. The whole
thing is about 8" x 10".
I know how (on paper) to drive panaplex displays (it's nasty)
and would love to work up a nice display with this thing if I
can find pinout data. Any ideas?
Sorry, John, I would have helped, but we leave for vacation this Friday for
16 days. Earlier or later would have been good, but thats the way it
is...
Joe Heck