On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> > The VS11 is the M7061-YA / M7062 / M7064 Q-BUS board set.
>>
>> That don't make sense. The VS11 was a Unibus device. The Qbus equivalent
>> was the VSV11, which was then replaced by the VSV21 (I have one of those).
>
> >From waht I remember, the VS11 was a VSV11 (Qbus) with a DW11-B
> (Unibus-Qbus interface).
I have a DW11 w/DDV11-CK for an "IB11" (IBV11 for Unibus). It came
with an 11/34 from a University setting (thus the DD11V-CK backplane).
I've thought about using that with a Qbus SCSI card, but haven't
tried it yet.
AFAIK, there's nothing funny about mapping since it's an 18-bit Qbus
card presented to an 18-bit Unibus, so there shouldn't be driver
issues.
-ethan
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 12:09:50 Ian Primus wrote:
> What's the size of the tube? The real VT100 had a 12" tube, but I don't
> know about your VT100 clone. You should be able to rob a tube from another
> terminal, or a portable B&W TV set and replace it. If it's a 9" tube, hunt
> down an old security monitor. A scope tube isn't going to work - those use
> drastically different deflection angles (and in some cases electrostatic
> deflection).
>
> -Ian
Its 4 inches diagonally. About the size of a Osbourne 1 display.
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 21:14:32 Tony Duell wrote:
> There were some small 5" portale TVs sold in the UK a couple of years
> back. Maybe a CRT from one of those could be shoehorned in.
Ok,
I am going to have to take this thing apart and get some part numbers and also
look around and try and find a tube. I have been playing wack a mole with some
a$$hats for a internet service provider and will be for a couple more days. I
will post back here after I have some more concrete info.
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Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the VS11-FX/HX/JX Raster Graphics System Installation Manual
> EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 there are illustrations of this box being used in
> combination with a VRV02-AA/AB color monitor where the box is refered
> to as the "keyboard interface box" and the combination of the monitor
> and the "keyboard interface box" makes up the VRV02-FA/FB.
>
> The "keyboard interface box" video output feeds into the VS11 where
> the terminal video output is then fed back out along with the VS11
> raster graphics output to the monitor.
>
> The VS11 is the M7061-YA / M7062 / M7064 Q-BUS board set.
That don't make sense. The VS11 was a Unibus device. The Qbus equivalent
was the VSV11, which was then replaced by the VSV21 (I have one of those).
Ah, looking at the field guide, the M7061/7062/7064 *is* a VSV11.
Johnny
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 06:19:57 Tim Shoppa wrote:
> A regular VT-100 puts out composite/RS-170 video on a BNC jack on the back.
> (Classic problem from a few decades ago: people plugging the school's
> thinnet ethernet onto the VT-100 video out connector!)
>
> I don't see any BNC's on the back of Francesca's Franken-VT-100. But
> I'd be pretty sure the Ball Brothers unit just takes the composite video
> in.
>
> Didn't some early regular VT-100's use Ball Brothers screens and flybacks
> too? I remember a couple variations of the CRT/flyback boards some more
> reliable than the others. Somewhere I've got pictures of my garage
> completely filled with VT-100's!
Hi actually it does have those BNC's and yes when I was working at JPL back in
the old days I had to explain to a person in charge of one of the computing
department's that in fact they could not create a network series of VT-100's
using the then new Thin Net network being installed lab wide. :-)
The problem is the small size of the tube actually. Now the part that is broke
is the neck. I am thinking maybe I can find a smaller CRT from a scope or so
to replace it. But that would be after I tear this thing apart since the label
for the crt itself is of course upside down and blocked by the flyback/scan
board. I do see a E C as a possible company name on it.
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On Wednesday 21 January 2009 06:19:57 Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
> Every so often this crops up... ?Is it a black-and-white CRT? ?Do you
> know roughly what the scan rate is?
>
> Perhaps you could use a tube from a scrapped TV. ?They can't be *that*
> different.
Well the tube is about 4 inch in size. About the size of a old Osbourne. Not
sure what it is since its broke. I guess time to remove it and look underneath
for any markings.
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Does anyone know where I can find a reference manual for OMSI Basic
for OS/8? I've found executables for OMSI Basic 3.0 for OS/8 but can't
find any documentation on the net.
Thanks!
David
Dear Gentlegeeks,
Thank you for your generous offers to help unburden me of some classic
hardware. I was so surprised by some of the stuff that generated
interest that I thought I'd list a few more odds and ends that
originally seemed just too ancient or oddball to mention:
1 x Artecon SB-16 (?) SBUS serial card. No breakout cable or anything
like that.
1 x SUN 540-2007 serial/parallel controller breakout panel & cable
(i.e. a metal box with rubber feet and 8 serial + 1 parallel
female DB25 connectors on it +
a big, beefy cable to connect it to whatever used to do the Real
Work)
3 x mini-DIN - female DB25 SUN serial cables (I forget what model SUN
they fit)
5 x SUN mini-DIN keyboard cables
? x various SUN SCSI cables with the Really Old connectors (DB50?)
they used + a couple of terminators
3 x DB25 - CENT50 Apple SCSI cables
3 x Macintosh Hard Disk Toolkits (still shrink-wrapped)
No one wants the SUN power supplies? I guess no one needs them while
supplies last :-)
Again, please contact me off-list if you are interested in any of this
stuff. And PLEASE tell me approximately where it needs to be shipped
so I can figure out how much it will cost.
Cheers,
Bob.
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