Has anyone successfully assembled pdp-8 focal with one of the unix pal's?
I was fooling around and grabbed the focal sources and pal. I had to
fix a few minor things but I got it to assemble. But it doesn't run.
Just curious if anyone else had tried this.
I suppose I could fire up tss/8 and run pald :-) Does tss/8 run on any
of the emulators? (but then, hmm.. how to get the output back off the
virtual disk)
ok, os/8 might be a better choice... is focal known to build cleanly there?
-brad
>
>Subject: Re: Lights (was: Re: Smithsonian gets it wrong)
> From: William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org>
> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 18:40:51 -0500 (EST)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> So given the choice, what lighting *is* good?
>>
>> I'm just thinking that we might have to replace lighting at the museum
>> one day - so maybe keeping other options in mind is a good idea,
>> providing they're not horribly expensive....
>
>I have a book, called "the Care of Art Objects" (I forget the author) that
>outlines all of this.
>
>Lots of interesting content in that book - things you would never know
>(like why oak shelves should never be used in archives) - but then again
>these folks actually plan on keeping things as close to forever as
>possible.
>
>William Donzelli
>aw288 at osfn.org
Well for computers especially those with exposed and unshuttered EPROMS
any exposure over time to UV light _may_ be problematic. Generally speaking
UV is har on a lot of things and florescents are fairly rich in UV, some
more than others. That and it tends to distort color rendition if cheap
lamps are used.
Allison
James,
Yes Doug might be perfect. The Mid Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists
(MARCH) is in the planning stages for the VCF East to be held next
spring. Please contact me off list so that I can get you in touch
with the powers that be who arrange speakers for this event.
Here is a link for more info on the VCF East:
http://www.vintage.org/2006/east/
Bill D
>
>Sorry for my ignorance -
>Who runs the VCF events?
>Do they have guest speakers?
>
<snip>
>Would there be an interest in having Doug present, does the VCF have
>space in their program for speakers?
>
-- E N D --
>
>Subject: Re: Ultrix for DECstations
> From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:11:18 -0800
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>On 11/13/2005 at 8:48 PM woodelf wrote:
>
>>I hate vd ... er vi. I like le myself. t.com for dos. Right now I
>>am using
>>edit in XP. It comes with windows but for some reason they don't push
>>80x24 text displays.
>
>I'm still using a WYSIWYG text editor that I copied from an issue of
>Microcomputing. It's been modified and ported to a number of platforms;
>it's very small (just shy of 12K in x86 and smaller in x80). The last
>change I made to the version that I'm currently using was to support long
>file names in Windoze. I''m guessing a bit, but I suspect that I've been
>using it in excess of 25 years.
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
Never saw the article, likely before I was getting Microsystems. Is
the source for the 8080/z80 version anywhere on line?
Allison
More prowling around yields more stuff...
I've discovered that I've got the full set of developer's documentation for
the Atari ST (regular and Mega) from around 1988 or so. This is a thick
hunk of paper--I kept it in 2 3-inch binders and one 1 1/2" one. It
includes Volume 1, No. 1 and No.2 of the "Atari Forum" newsletter.
It's got lots of stuff about programming under GEM and TOS, datasheets for
the various components, engineering documents, Q&A's for developers, etc.
IOW, everything a ST software developer might ever need.
I don't think that I ever did anything with this after I unpacked it. The
material is in pristine condition.
I don't think that the NDA that I signed as part of this deal is in effect,
so I believe that I can pass it on without fear of whoever now owns the
Atari IP and licenses getting their revenge on me.
Is this worth anything or is this curbside recycling material?
Cheers,
Chuck
Good morning to all,
I am finally starting to scrap out my Telcom equipment. Here is a list (so
far) of a few of the boards available:
20 ea M7270 processors
5 ea M8045 memories
3 ea M8028 RX 02 int.
2 ea SMS 8" disk int. PN # 0003770-0001
2 ea M8186 processors
I would assume condition to be BAD. Most of these boards have been sitting
around for 10 years without power. I am going to price the boards out at $
2.00 each to cover shipping and handling. If you are only interested in one
board then I will probably charge more.
If no one is interested in the boards, into the scrap box they will go....
Phil
Allison wrote:
> I'd forgotton that beast. For laughs I opened a dos box on the NT4 system
> and typed edit... lo and behold it's there!
Even EDLIN is still there! (at least in NT 4.0 and Win2k).
**vp
Still prowling through my junk and I discovered that I'd kept the prototype
of the terminal that I did for the Fortune Systems 68K Unix box.
(Basically a Z80 unit that I don't recall much about--though I've still got
source code somewhere).
At one time, FS was a hot prospect with a few major Unix names on the
payroll. But I've never heard of anyone collecting the boxes. Any reason
for this?
Cheers,
Chuck
>From a post I made to the PDP-11 newsgroups in the previous
millenium:
The benchmarks were done under RT11FB 5.7 doing 1, 2, 4, 8, 16,
32, and 64 block-at-a-time READW's and WRITW's to 16384-block
data files. A KDJ11B (PDP-11/73) CPU with 2 Megabytes of Clearpoint
non-PMI memory was used for the bencharmks. With the SCSI
controllers a Barracuda 7200 RPM ST15230N drive was used; with
the RQDX3 a RD52 drive was used.
Here are the peak data rates measured for read and write 64
blocks-at-a-time:
Read Write
---------- ----------
Andromeda SCDC 2.298 MB/s 1.131 MB/s
CMD CQD440 2.397 MB/s 1.525 MB/s
CMD CQD220 1.418 MB/s 0.882 MB/s
CMD CQD220A 2.088 MB/s 1.409 MB/s
DEC RQZX1 1.379 MB/s 1.097 MB/s
Viking QDT 0.846 MB/s 0.704 MB/s
DEC RQDX3 0.164 MB/s 0.161 MB/s
I've got a DEC 3000-300X (ALPHA! ALPHA!) that I want to run VMS 7.3 on, but
I need to do a firmware update. I have a bootp boot image file, but I've not
a clue how to set up what I need to do to run it. Anyone able to point me in
a good direction?
