Dear Jerry,
I have been looking for a copy of Tek SPS for some time.
Is there now a version that runs on normal PC's? or is it still only hosted on PDP 11/35's etc.?
I programmed in SPS for 10 years and was quite accomplished with it.? I love its graphics and data array handling capability.
The High and low level support packages made driver construction a worthwhile effort as well.
Sincerely,
Bob Forgey
Addy, WA
Bob Forgey
ADDY,
WA
Any interest out there in a DEC Rainbow.
I may have one available. It's front badge is missing, but it does have
memory expansion, hard drive controller, and 10M ST412 hard drive
(and of course the DEC dual floppy drive).
I do not have keyboard, video cable, or monitor.
I can't verify full operation of the system due to that, but powering it on
hd spins up (bearings may be a little noisy... I don't recall how 'quiet' an
ST412 should be anymore :-) ). It does try to boot from floppy (but of
course I have no floppy). It is very clean inside. Exterior isn't bad
beyond
the missing badge and a bit of yellowing on the floppy drive front.
If you want to make any offers, that's cool. Also willing to
trade/partial trade for
VT-78/WA (WT78), DecMate I, DecMate II, DecMate III, DecMate III+,
NeXT color or turbo color cube or slab, anything PDP-8, PDP-11/93 cpu board,
any blinking lights/switches PDP11, Sun 1 (yeah, I might as well dream
:-) ),
Sun 2, Apple PowerMac G4 Cube, Atari 1200XL, Amiga 4000, Amiga 1200
-- Curt
Message: 29
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:39:27 -0700
From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
Subject: Looking for DEC QVSS (M7602) manual or dip-settings
Got myself a QVSS video board that I'd like to run in my MicroVAX II,
but either it's configured incorrectly or it doesn't work. Anyone have
a manual scanned or a list of the dip-switch settings for this? I can't
find any useful info on the 'net.
Symptoms are that the Keyboard responds (beeps at power up, I can hear
the keyclick when I type, and the VAX seems to be responding to input)
but I get no video or sync on the monitor (a VR262). Monitor, keyboard,
and cable all work fine on my MicroVAX 2000, so something must be up
with the QVSS.
Thanks,
Josh
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J,
Search online for EK-104AA-TM-001, AZ-GLNAB-MN, and AZ-GLFAB-MN. I found all these online for my QVSS, just don't remember from where.
jS
Awhile back, there was a discussion about the NEC V20 CPU and someone
asked about a couple of NEC-origin files. While looking for
something else, I stumbled upon an old disk from NEC's Natick
operation, given to me by Rich Naro. There is a V20 DEBUG program,
some macros, a benchmark and some CP/M files to be run under the
CPMulator program, but this disk does not include that program.
If anyone's interested, drop me an email and I'll send a zip of the
disk contents. AFAIK it is not proprietary, nor is it copyrighted
material; merely something sent to NEC's customers.
Cheers,
Chuck
Okay, I have been watching this auction for quite sometime, I am thinking about bidding.? What is it worth??? I don't want to over bid, but I've never seen an in box Lisa in good shape like that, and one with a working widget (come to think of it, I've never seen one with a working internal drive), and its said to have been owned by Apple.
The item number is:
270351871785
Whats it worth bidding?? I would love to bid, and its stayed so cheap, I just want to meet the reserve, but if other bid (and there is also said to be 326 watchers), I don't want to get cought up in the moment and bid my life away, I just want to know whats its worth before I bid, you guys seem like experts in this area.
Thank you,
Rich
[I sent this on monday but it seems to have been lost; sorry if it's a dup]
I have a dumb question about rx01 image files used by simh.
I used "copflp" (by John Wilson - thanks John!) to image a box of rx01
floppies.
I then put the images on pc and used simh and I can see them fine with
rt11 running under simh (i.e. "att rx0 image.dsk")
But an old program I have which will read rt11 images does not see the
directories. I am confused because it works fine with mscp image files
that I connect to simh via an ra device (like an rd32).
What's the difference between rt11 ra image files and rt11 rx01 image
files? I would think the rt11 volume and directory info would be in the
same place (but it seems I'm wrong).
I tried skipping track 0 by offsetting 128*26 bytes, but that did not
help. It looks like 128*25 might be a better offset for floppies.
what am I missing?
(and thanks in advance!)
-brad
The card I have at the moment is the xebec card with
a WD25 drive (20M). I do have a ST-251 and a ST-225
to hand as well and probably some other MFM drives.
A controller for any of these would be perfect :)
I did see the ISA adapter but wanted to keep the machine
reasonably original if possible. I checked the cables
etc, but no joy.
Thanks
Ian
BTW this machine runs the older (but still fun) MPE-V operating system on a 16-bit word stack architecture. Probably circa-early 1980s era business mini-computer. Not second generation PA-RISC 32-bit HP3000 architecture.
If you've ever wanted to have a stack machine, this is a pretty good example. Nice small, albeit slow, HP3000.
Lee Courtney
--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu> wrote:
> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at mail.msu.edu>
> Subject: Anyone looking for a HP Micro 3000 GX?
> To: "On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 12:31 AM
> Hey all -- doing some more
> cleaning.? I have an HP Micro 3000 GX, (model 32536AH)
> I'm looking to offload.? I inherited this when I was in
> high school from a business that was tossing it, and I
> haven't done much with it since.? It looks like an
> interesting machine, but I've got too many other things to
> play with at the moment and figured there might be some
> 3000-series fanatic out there looking for a new toy (or just
> parts...)
>
> At one point it was booting some version/flavor of MPE but
> in the past few years either the hard drive's gone bad, or
> it's developed a few bad sectors.? It does pass all
> power-on diagnostics, however.
>
> It has an 157MB ESDI drive, some manner of cartridge tape
> drive, 4MB of ram and 16 serial ports.? It's a smallish
> (well, relatively speaking) tower-form-factor machine.
>
> It's in pretty good shape, but it's missing a few screws on
> the back panel from when I took it apart when I was 16 and
> lost a few.? (Man do you ever have to take a lot of
> screws out to get inside this thing!)
>
> Anyone interested in this?? I can't ship it (please
> don't ask!) as it's way too heavy (must weigh 90lbs) but
> I'll happily drive a bit to meet someone halfway.? This
> is located in the Seattle, WA area.? Drop me a line...
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
