>
> 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!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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HELLO, WORLD
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R
LIST HW.-
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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"
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R
R
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; DGC FORTRAN IV REV 05.50NH
; C THIS PROGRAM DOES NOTHING BUT PROVE THAT IT EXISTS.
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00006'000000 0
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00021'000012 .C1: 000012
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SFS. 000000
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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
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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
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
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
