test-drb February 2005

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by dvcorbin＠optonline.net

> > So ya know, since you never mentioned getting it > OUT of storage and shipping > it to CA.... I can head up there with a van & all... ;) > And the Race Is ON.......Illegal Road Rally with the PDP-8 as a prize....Gentlemen (and others) start your engines!

20 years, 1 month

Looking for a 6U (both J1/J2 populated) 4 to 8-slot VME chassis

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

I need a VME chassis to hook up some of my transputer cards to my Ultra Enterprise 2 workstation (as well as my PC). I current have a PTSBS915 Sbus-to-VME adapter on my SUN and a SBS Bit3 Model 617 PCI-to-VME adapter on my PC. I need a small chassis as I currently don't have much space left. Something similar to the ELMA portables like the following: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3669&item=6742586384& rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW If you have one please respond off-list... Thanks, Ram

20 years, 1 month

DG equipment in my future

by tomj＠wps.com

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Ethan Dicks wrote: > With all the DG stuff happening around here, I thought I'd mention > that I'm trying to work out a rescue of some unknown DG rack from a > machine shop in Central Ohio that was bought new, approx 25-30 years > ago by said machine shop for approx $50K. I have no idea what to > expect except a tape drive in the top of the rack and a "very heavy > disk drive" in the bottom of the rack. > > My contact has no idea what any DG equipment is, so I'll get a > surprise when I show up, I suppose. In the meantime, from the rough > age and cost, would anyone care to speculate what I might be facing > when I see it? I'm hardly a DG expert, and actual experts may have replied off-list, but 1980 plus/minus five years it's probably very approximately like mine. DIsk drive heads need to be locked down before transport or they'll likely self-destruct. If it's one of the typical top-loader disk drives, there's little lock levers on each side of the front rack handles, flip these down and slide the cabinet out. If it won't come out more than 1" there's a latch on the rear, lift it up. Remove the cartridge (dust cover, slide lever on handle to engage, lift >BONK< place in dust cover, fold handle). There "ought to be" a shipping dust cover to fill up the hole... With the drive all the way out, take the 4? 6? screws from the sides and lift off the cover. There's a red bracket bolted with an allen screw on the right of the head motor assembly, take it off and flip it around, that locks the heads. Non-removable disks have a similar system but I don't know it. If it's got small metal toggle switches it's a rare early Nova, by all means take it! If it's a plastic front panel it is newer. If it's from some CNC thing it prpbably has paper tape.

20 years, 1 month

substitute for TI TIL306/307 Display

by harald.giese＠ihm.fzk.de

Dear folks, I realised there was a discussion going on ... a long time ago ... on the TIL306 and TIXL306 availability. Just wanted to let you know, that I am presently offering 6 TIXL306 on ebay-Germany. So, if you're still interested or if you know somebody else who might be looking for them, here is your chance. I have tested them using standard TTL-voltage levels and a slow clock to see wether the display characters are all ok and everything looked neet. The ebay auction runs until next Saturday. Air-Mail-shipping worldwide is EURO 8.00 ($ 10.50). If you chose the option 'registered delivery' it's a little bit more expensive: EURO 10.05 ($ 13,00) Best wishes from the snow-clad black-forest to wherever you are. Harald Dipl. Physiker Harald Giese Institut fuer Hochleistungsimpuls und Mikrowellentechnik (IHM) Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe Telefon 07247 82 6235, Fax 07247 82 4874 e-mail: harald.giese at ihm.fzk.de

20 years, 1 month

OT: AVR programming using SP12?

by zmerch＠30below.com

Finally git my AVR 8515 programmer built and debugged -- I chose to build the programmer around SP12 -- it's a dos-mode programmer, but says it supports Win2k. Got everything built, plug 'er in, and no matter what, it says it can't find a valid chip. Hrmph. Anyone ever deal with AVR programming and/or the SP12 software? (SP12 is easiest found if you search google for "Programming a Spider's Brain".) I'm wondering if it's due to my dual-processors... Please keep replies off-list, as this is offtopic. Thanks all! Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers _??_ zmerch at 30below.com (?||?) If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead _)(_ disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.

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Data General Nova 4/X -- HELLO COMMA WORLD STOP

by tomj＠wps.com

RDOS prompt is newline then "R". I had to re-create the FORTRAN IV distribution and libraries from random tape dumps. Of course the library file editor pages were missing from the manual I printed out! Had to build the fortran library, aargh. CLG is "compile load go" an all-in-one utility. Amusingly, RDOS isn't umm fully Y2K clean! Accepts year as 2005, but prints it variously as 105 or :5. I guess I'll write "hello world" in macro then assume I'm in business, and go work out the foreground terminal, line printer, etc... Thanks again Bruce for all the help!!!!! tomj R CLG HW HW.LS/L PROGRAM IS RELOCATABLE .TITL .MAIN HELLO, WORLD STOP R LIST HW.- HW.FR 82 D HW.SV 8192 SD HW.LS 9786 D HW.RB 282 D R HW HELLO, WORLD STOP R TYPE HW.FR C THIS PROGRAM DOES NOTHING BUT PROVE THAT IT EXISTS. TYPE "HELLO, WORLD" END R R TYPE HW.LS ; DGC FORTRAN IV REV 05.50NH ; C THIS PROGRAM DOES NOTHING BUT PROVE THAT IT EXISTS. ; ; TYPE "HELLO, WORLD" ; ; END 0001 .MAIN ; DGC FORTRAN IV REV 05.50NH ; C THIS PROGRAM DOES NOTHING BUT PROVE THAT IT EXISTS. ; ; TYPE "HELLO, WORLD" .NREL .TITL .MAIN .ENT .MAIN .NREL 000001 .TXTM 1 .EXTU .EXTN .I .F1: 00000'000000 .F2: 0 000000 .CSIZ 0 00001'000000 FS. .MAIN: 00002'002401 JMP @.+1 00003'000004' L1. L1.: 00004'006002$ JSR @.FWRI 00005'000021' .C1 00006'000000 0 00007'000006 6 .TXT "HELLO, WORLD" 00010'044105 00011'046114 00012'047454 00013'020127 00014'047522 00015'046104 00016'000000 ; 00017'000005 5 ; END 00020'006001$ JSR @.FRET 00021'000012 .C1: 000012 000000 FS.=0 000000 SFS.=0 177611 T.=-167 000011 V.=200+T. 177610 TS.=T.+177777 177611 FTS.=T.+0 000010 VS.=V.+177777 000011 FVS.=V.+0 .END 0002 .MAIN FS. 000000 FTS. 177611 FVS. 000011 L1. 000004' SFS. 000000 TS. 177610 T. 177611 VS. 000010 V. 000011 .C1 000021' .F1 000000' .F2 000000' .FRET 000001$X .FWRI 000002$X .I 077777 X .MAIN 000002' HW.SV LOADED BY RLDR REV 07.10 AT 22:08:51 02/27/:5 R LIST HW.FR 82 D ASM.SV @:ASM.SV FIV.SV 20992 SD LFE.SV @:LFE.SV FMT.LB 6292 D RLDR.OL @:RLDR.OL HW.SV 8192 SD SYS.LB @:SYS.LB FORT0.LB 7794 D FORT1.LB 22552 D HW.LS 9786 D SPEED.ER @:SPEED.ER CLG.SV 3584 SD RLDR.SV @:RLDR.SV FSYS.LB 4036 D N.SV DP0:NSPEED.SV FORT2.LB 18242 D COM.CM 8 FORT3.LB 13618 D FORT.SV 3072 SD HW.RB 282 D LIBS. 37 D BREAK.SV 14336 SD FORT.LB 62134 D R

20 years, 1 month

more progress, searchable archives

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

The cctech archives have been indexed, check it out. www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/ The archives can be user selectable via thread, subject, author, or downloaded as text. In addition, you can now seach those archives (exact match (any or all) or boolean expression!), sort criteria, etc. At least for the things I was searching on, the results were returned QUITE fast. The index isn't built for the cctalk list yet, but it will be sometime tomorrow. Jay West

20 years, 1 month

Tektronix plugins available

by ddl-cctech＠danlan.com

Not exactly computer, but clearly classic. :) I have a Type K fast-rise calibrated preamp and a Type 53/54C dual-trace calibrated preamp. As usual, price is $0 plus shipping. Dan Lanciani ddl at danlan.*com

20 years, 1 month

Age

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

Well, I couldn't resist. I am 33 years old (born 1970) and got my first taste of computers when we bought a TI99 4/A in the early 80's. I spent hours and hours typing in the games in Compute! during those golden ages. We started using a TRS80 during my junior high school and later an Apple / IBMPCin high school. I got so fasinated with computers that I started my Comp Sci degree for both my masters and bachelors. I worked more in the "wall street" type firms designing various trading systems for different markets (FX, international banking, government bond trading, and now Power/Energy market trading). Currently I design trading systems for the Energy Markets (specifically for Power..). I got exposed to transputers during my undergraduate days and have been hooked into it ever since.... Cheers, Ram

20 years, 1 month

INFO 2000 Vintage S-100 Dual 8" Floppy Disk System

by rmeenaks＠olf.com

On ebay, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4193&item=5170416637& rd=1 Cheers, Ram

20 years, 1 month

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test-drb February 2005