Thanks for the responses. I am rewriting some applications to utilize
shared libraries, etc instead of it being statically linked. Makes things a
lot easier for managing user-supplied code. I will look into getting
SIMH...
Cheers,
Ram
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Koning [mailto:pkoning at equallogic.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 1:54 PM
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: VMS Question...
>
>
> >>>>> "Ram" == Ram Meenakshisundaram <RMeenaks at olf.com> writes:
>
> Ram> Hi, This is my first venture (or an attempt to venture)
> into the Ram> world of VMS. I have a couple of questions:
>
> Ram> 1) Is there an emulator, etc to run OpenVMS on and
> where can I Ram> get it as well as OpenVMS?
>
> SIMH.
>
> Ram> 2) Does OpenVMS support the notion of shared libraries
> (DLL to Ram> you windoze users)...
>
> Yes, from day 1.
>
> paul
>
Several people responded to my original "rescue" notice, but folks seem to
want boards, etc. as opposed to system units. I'm bringing it up again - as
I was just notified that the space where the equipment is located is now
under a new lease contract, and the DEC gear must be "disposed of" as soon as
possible, or it will be scrapped. This is totally "free" gear - local pickup
O.K., or get it for the price of shipping...
History:
>From a historical perspective, this equipment is interesting - I was used to
develop TSX-plus!!! The "11/73" is an "11/03" that was upgraded to an
"11/23", to an "11/23+" and finally to an "11/73". The original $28K system
was provided by DEC free of charge to TSX for software development...
Here's the equipment list:
1 PDP11/73 processor - 1 MB memory (maybe more)
2 RL01 drives (one may not be functional)
1 RL02 drive
1 Fujitsu Winchester drive (probably around 75 MB)
2 RX02 drives
1 dual RX50 drive
1 TK50 tape unit
I believe all the cabinets are original DEC. The main cabinet is a "DEC
DataSystem" rack about 5.5' tall. The RL02 and the Winchester are housed in
a DEC cabinet about 3 to 4 ft tall. Finally there is the "desk" which holds
the floppies.
PICTURES: Pictures of the what's available can be found via anonymous ftp at
"bickleywest.com" in the directory "nashville".
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
Hello all,
- Found on comp.os.cpm...
- I am *NOT* the seller, his information is at the bottom of this
message .... I *cannot* take the whole lot, nor can I hold it (or
parts of it) for others. I would be interested, however, in being
part of a team to transport it someplace ...
Rich B.
> Hi;
>
> I have a huge collection of vintage equipment I want to sell. There is a
> collection of several years here. Make a reasonable offer, you pick up. It
> is just too much for me to deal with any more and I want a serious vintage
> collector take it and use it.I cannot sell and ship selectively. And there
> is just WAY too much to ship anyway.I need to sell it as ONE lot. Here is a
> small sketch of what I have. Because of the range of stuff, I apologize
> ahead for cross posting.
>
> Commodore...(2) c64,(1) C64C (2)c128,(2) vic20,(3) plus 4, and (1)c16
> computers. (4) 1541 and(2) 1571 disk drives, cables etc. 1 c2N Datasette, 2
> commodore Monitors, one working one in need of repair. There are diskettes,
> miscellaneous manuals.A number of Texas instruments 994a units (both Beige
> and Silver and Black) and accessories, including THE expansion box.A lot of
> program cartridges,disks, a tape drve unit, etc.
>
> Also multiple Tandy 1000 type units,A Tandy 2000, A PC Junior and monitor
> and accessories, Multiple Apple 2e, 2e+ and a number of early Macs including
> 2gs. A couple of Apple 2c units and the matching monitors.A couple of Lazer
> 128s, A couple of early Atari and coleco game systems and cartridges. An
> Atari 520ST with monitor,A complete coleco Adam and some spare parts. 2
> Kaypros, an Osborne 1, A number of Various Zenith products including a
> couple of Z100s, EZ PCs and early portables. A Panasonic Partner.There is
> also a Digital Rainbow 100. There are a bunch of early notebook machines
> here too from various manufacturers.
>
> Also a number of early desktop systems, IBM PC 5150s, IBM ATs, Various other
> Early IBM machines, Zeniths, Compaqs, some portables, and other numerous
> desktops with names such as Sanyo, Hundai, Wang, -- clear up through 286s
> 386s 486s and early pentiums and AMD products.
>
> Also totes full of cards, drives, cables, parts etc. There are not monitors
> for each individual system, but there is a at least one monitor that will
> work with each. Some of the 8 bits use a TV and there is a TV switch unit or
> two here also. Ive got a few printers, enough to match and couple with most
> systems.
> There is also a LOT of software,disks,books,manuals, etc.You'll need to
> bring cartons :-)
>
> So, in short a bunch of equipment from the early 80s up through. 8 bit and
> up.
>
> Fully 99% of the equipment is operational. All has been stored here, dry and
> protected,where I live. Everything is as is, please. MAKE ME AN OFFER.
>
> Please email so we can make arrangements. You pick up, and I won't take
> personal checks, please. I live in the central Vermont area.
>
> email at: onthfly1 at hotmail.com
> ... would it be near to 'plug-and-go' for his
> 3803-controller/3420-drives combination, or would their be a lot
> of 3803-specific software-driver development on the modern-host
> side (and requiring the acquisition of 100 lbs. of 3803 manuals) ?
Pretty much plug and go. It's very much like a SCSI interface.
Each device has a set of commands documented in its Functional
Characteristics manual: read, write, get status, etc. You'd find
this in the device's documentation (e.g. 3420) rather than the
controller's (3803). The commands do follow a common pattern
although there are some variations between devices.
The Bus and Tag protocol communicates these commands from
the channel (the interface in the CPU) to the device controller,
and returns the results. There are several different transfer
modes (byte at a time, burst, etc), different ways that
the device can signal the CPU for attention, and various ways
that either the channel, the controller or the device can
say "hang on, I can't do that right now," so it's fairly
complex. The logic frames for a typical channel interface built
with 1960s vintage SLT are about the same size as the IBM 1130's
CPU, for example. I suspect that data buffers (RAM) are a
significant part of that.
But from the programmer's standpoint, it's very simple. An
IO command points to a "channel program" which is usually just
a device command word and a data transfer address. The channel
takes it from there, and an interrupt is issued when the
operation is complete (usually).
Channel to controller cabling is standardized, two thick
cables. Controller to device cabling is device specific. Some
devices have an integral controller.
brian
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At 10:18 PM 9/5/05 +0100, Tony wrote:
>I recently won an HP82915 Modem on E-bay (my first, and so far, only
>purchase there).
<snip>
I went and did some checking on E-bay after reading Tony's message and I
found this: "
DATA I/O 201EPROM PROGRAMMER WITH HP 82939A OPT .001" It's a DATA IO EPROM
programmer with an attached HP-85 RS-232 interface! It's ended already and
there were no bids.
Joe
<http://cgi.ebay.com/DATA-I-O-201EPROM-PROGRAMMER-WITH-HP-82939A-OPT-001_W0Q
QitemZ7540654128QQcategoryZ1504QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>
I just found this scanner online, I have no experience with it.
It does look good and cost about $250. The high-end machines cost $1000s.
"Whereas professional book scanners are targeted mainly for large libraries,
archive museums, and corporations with big budgets, OpticBook 3600 is an
affordable solution for all libraries, copy rooms, students, teachers,
universities, SOHO, law offices, publicists, and work groups."
http://www.plustek.com/products/book.htm
Michael Holley
Hi,
I have extensively been familiar with all the Cadnetix workstation,
Auto-routers, servers and PC version all of which I own or have owned.
Further I my be one source for some of the most complete set of manuals
>from inside engineering at Cadnetix through many notebooks of personal
trials these machines were put through. Feel free to contact me if you
are serious about using these to design PCB's.
Regards,
D.W.
I know Sellam is on this list often, and I am sorry for posting this
to the list, but I can't seem to get through to him as of late,
possibly, my address is being filtered for some reason. If you
can Sellam, please contact me off-list as we need to discuss
something privately.
Thank you,
John Boffemmyer IV
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The HP 82915 Modem (for the Integral) that I mentioned in another
message, uses a 3-chip chipset from Rockwell. The chips are R5313-14,
R5132-14 and 10464-14. THe first 2 are 64 pin QIL zig-zag pin packages,
the last is a 40 pin DIL.
Now, I have the 1985 Rockwell databook here, which covers modems. It
appears you could buy a ready-assembled PCB from Rockwell containing
these chips and the support components. I have data on that. You could
also buy the chips not-on-a-PCB, as the R1212DS 'device set'. Alas I have
no real data on those, the book refers me to 'R1212 Modem Device Set
Manual', order number 652. And I don't have that.
Does anyone have it? Failing that, does anyone have 'R2424 Modem Device
Set Manual), order number 651 (this is the 2400 bps version). The chips
seem to be somewhat related.
What I am relally looking for is complete pinouts of all 3 chips. This
may not be in those manuals, though. I have the service manaul for the
Amstrad PPC, which includes a schematic of its internal modem. That used
the R2424 chipsset, but the schematic does not name most of the pins on
these chips, only those that go to other parts of the modem. The
internconnections between the 3 chips in the chipset are shown, but not
named. I am wondering if the Manual just told you to link pin 7 on the Tx
chi to pin 15 on the Rx chip (or whatever, that is a ficticious
connection!), and didn't tell you what that signal was.
-tony
Hi Guys,
I've just posted my utility which allows you to make Cromemco BOOT disk
via a serial cable and RDOS to my site:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
Go to the very bottom of the main page, and select "disks and images",
the utility is called RT050410.ZIP (I'll think of a better name later).
I've also posted CROMDISK.ZIP which contains:
CDOS disk configured for dual 5.25" drives
(It's easy to make an 8" disk from this)
Cromix in both 5.25" and 8" formats.
Please refer to the RT.TXT file enclosed for information on how it
all works.
NOTE: So far this has been tested and found to work on only my one
Cromemco system, which is a System-3 with ZPU, 256KZ and 16FDC (plus
a bunch of Tuarts, PRI and WDI boards which don't matter for this).
This machine has dual Tandon 8" drives, and I've got a pair of Teac
5.25" drive attached externally ...
The RDOS on the 16FDC is version 2.52 ... it is possible/likely that
I have done things which may not be compatible with other versions
of RDOS, please report your findings to me.
I'm supposed to be picking up two more Cromemco systems next week,
one of which I know has a 4FDC (I think the other is another 16FDC),
so I should be able to verify/fix operation with the 4FDC shortly.
If anyone happens to have a spare 64FDC, I would love to have one
available so that I can get it working with the full set.
Regards,
Dave
PS: Mike S. reports that the CDOS/INIT problem with 32k occurs only
when you are running it in 64k - on a true 32k only system, he says
it works OK - if you have only 32k, you may be able to skip the
intermediate disk - hopefully we can dig up a version of CDOS & INIT
which will resolve this little oddity.
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dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Collector of vintage computing equipment:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
