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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:30:30 -0400
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
Subject: Re: UARTs (was: Switch settings: Facit 4070 tape punch)
On Thursday 13 March 2008 11:13, M H Stein wrote:
> I've got a pretty complete set of GI datasheets, including their funky game
> chips etc. if anyone needs any info.
Maybe I oughta get a list from you and see about adding them to the pile. :-)
----------Reply:
Well, it's a bulging 3" binder, not counting some superseded dupes, but
I'll send you a scan of the index off-list for your reference.
m
Sent to the list, because your email server reckons that I am a security
or content violator...
Timothy,
Thanks for that - two is because I have 2 11/04 systems. At this stage,
Curt from the atari museum has offered me one that will get me out of
strife.
If I end up being able to get both systems fully operational, I'll give
you an email (probably via the list :-) )
.
Doug
My last comment on this bit of absurdity is
>from Bob Supnik, who would have been in the
position to know as one of the senior VAX
engineers in the 80's.
I didn't even bother asking if a PDP-11 version
of OS/2 existed.
--
No, there was no VAX version of OS/2.
And a luggable wasn't done on my watch.
No idea who Dan Gahlinger is, either.
Does he have a "VAXmate" (which was really a
PC, and could run OS/2) confused with a VAX?
Now, if he means "luggable like a Rainbow",
which was just a PC chassis without keyboard or monitor,
then there were tons of those - every VAXstation looked
more or less like a Rainbow, since they all came out of
the same industrial design group ("any color you want,
as long as its beige"). If he means a real luggable,
with a built in monitor and keyboard, I never saw one.
But the VAXstation 2000 was fairly small, only slightly
bigger than a DECmate, so repackaging it with a fold out
keyboard and a small monitor would have been possible,
if some government group wanted one.
/Bob
I have recently become the proud owner of a PDP-11/04 with a set of
11/34 cards (M8266 & M8265)
This particular 11/04 has some stuff on an extension backplane that I
don't understand:
PDP11/04-LH configuration
UNIBUS layout:
A B C D E F
M7263 M7263 M7263 M7263 M7263 M7263 1
M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 2
blank blank blank GRANT blank blank 3
M9312 M9312 M7859 M7859 M7859 M7859 4
M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 5
M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 6
blank blank blank GRANT blank blank 7
M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 8
M920 M920 blank GRANT blank blank 9
------------------------------------10
M920 M920 M7219 M7219 M7219 M7219 11
(- M9688A-) M208 M208 M7821 M796 12
PWR M205 M611 M611 M112 M113 13
M9302 M9302 blank blank M116 M239 14
The M9688A is a very short card - titled DR11-B Test Board
The stuff in slots 11-14 is what I have no idea about.
Anyway - I also have a M8265 / M8266 pair that I would like to use
to upgrade to 11/34A if possible. To do that - I suspect that the config
changes to:
A B C D E F
M8266 M8266 M8266 M8266 M8266 M8266 1
M8265 M8265 M8265 M8265 M8265 M8265 2
M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 M7891 3
M9312 M9312 M7859 M7859 M7859 M7859 4
M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 M7762 5
M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 6
blank blank blank GRANT blank blank 7
M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 M7856 8
M9302 M9302 blank blank M116 M239 9
------------------------------------10
The removal of the M920 should mean that the extension is
effectively disconnected.
blank blank M7219 M7219 M7219 M7219 11
(- M9688A-) M208 M208 M7821 M796 12
PWR M205 M611 M611 M112 M113 13
M9302 M9302 blank blank M116 M239 14
Any help from an expert would be appreciated.
Doug
> Because they are "Thinker Toys", I'm not sure
> if they would be in what you received or not.
We have some docs back to the PACE system he did with Godbout up
through the portable for Zenith. We only appear to have gotten what
John didn't think he could sell (some of which I had to buy last year
for more money than I wanted to spend).
There are only pasteups for the manuals, for example, and no finished
manuals.
the
company is going out of business.
on March 21
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I was checking out the Vintage Computer listings at
http://www.onlineauctions.com, and noticed a number of listings accepting Google
checkout. Has anyone had any experience/comments using it, and is it worth
signing up for? I'm looking at putting up some listings there since VCM is down,
so I am rather curious if offering it helps.
Does anyone have any info or experience with either of these
plasma (thin flat screen) displays/terminals?
There's no keyboard: just a touch-screen and RS232 interface.
Dow Jones Telerate used to use them.
I'm concerned if I need to send them commands to
read the touch-screen or configure it just to work.
- Planar model EK IV
(with touch screen added so it doesn't fold down)
- Datamedia T-SLATE
Thanks in advance
-- Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj at panix(dot)com
The original Dr. JCL and Mr .hide
