Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:45:29 -0600
From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com>
Subject: Re: Sports! .. and with an on-topic association.
At 01:23 PM 12/21/2010, Tony Duell wrote:
>A quick look at the picture of me on the recent HPCC conference page
>(linked from http://www.hpcc.org/ [2]) will, I think indicate that I am
>not the wort of person to go running...
Hmm. Your shirt is untucked in some places, tucked in others.
- John
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Surely a sign of true genius!
But he needs a pocket protector; anybody have a spare they could send him?
mike
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:16:53 -0500
From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Service bureaus (Was: Tek 4051 firmware listing
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: Service bureaus (Was: Tek 4051 firmware listing
>> >
>> > Perhps you could explain how human knowledge is advanced by palying
>> > baseball (or any other similar sport).
>> >
>> > -tony
>>
>> Fixing and preventing sports related injuries. Pro athletes tend to get
>> hurt
>
> Ah, so sports lead to cures for injuries that you wouldn't get if you
> didn't take part in sports. I can think of a much simpler way to avoid
> such injuries, which is, of course, the method I use.
>
Yea like nobody ever pulled a muscle, broke a leg, dislocated a shoulder,
got a concussion outside of sports. People have been known to get major
injuries just getting out of the bathtub (waiting on your reply about how
you don't wash either).
+++++++++++++ REPLY: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
?? I think perhaps your irony/sarcasm detector is malfunctioning...
m
Pontus wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:16:16PM -0500, Tim Shoppa wrote:
>> That said, it does not strike me as an especially "something to be
>> run at home" machine. Those who want to do this at home are already doing
>> BOINC with machines 2 decades newer or they have their own Beowulf cluster.
>> This is the fickle world of parallel supercomputing.
> I think you are on the wrong list Tim :D Speed isn't really the reason.
I was a user of both the Delta and a Paragon when they were new. Speed
really was the reason! There was very little cute or affecting about the
machines. The OS and Compilers sucked. (OK, not a lot worse than the
suckiness of some others at the time). Parallelizing code that wasn't
easily parallelized, a lot of folks wasted time with that. But for
the problems in the sweet spot, wow, speed was ENTIRELY the reason.
Knowing that I was using one of the fastest "machines" on earth (although
really a farm of many machines) was in itself exhilirating.
Bringing back that exhiliration by running the same hardware that was new
20 years ago, but today? It's just not the same. Again, the fickle
world of parallel supercomputing.
These are machines that are fine for displaying in museums, they were
truly the pinnacle of parallel supercomputing for a couple years. I'm
very happy that CHM has examples of each. But not at home :-).
Tim.
> Message: 10 Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:50:36 -0800
> From: dwight elvey <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Need help with Project Northstar/Data I/O System-19/ADM,
> Terminals (dwight elvey)
>>>> Turns out that the Problem is that the Data I/O System-19 I am using doesn't want to load the Hex file as INTEL. It will only load a File if it is flagged as BINARY and that doesn't give a proper code Image. I am trying to get a fellow to see if his System-19 will load the file and burn the 2708 Properly then I can get mine Fixed I HOPE.
>>>> I also have been Re-Erasing the EPROMs as I go along.
>>>> Bob
> Hi
> What is the command sequence that you are using with the Data IO Sys-19
> to get it to understand Intel Hex?
> Dwight
Dwight;
I have been using a program called PL [Version 26 & 34] that I
downloaded from Magnetics & Memories of Philadelphia.
It is driven by a Configuration file that can be Setup for the Device
Type and File type and Baud Rate, etc.
I am in contact with Al Marin of M & M and he is looking in on the Problem,
My Latest attempt was to EDIT out a Intel Hex file to make it PURE
Binary but that doesn't want to load properly either.
I burnt a Prom with a few additional lines of Code that I had to shrink
as it didn't match the input file when I load RAM from the device and
created a File from it. But alas even that did not perform as it should
on the N*.
I could not see the OUT [6, 2, 3] instructions being executed the way
the do with the Original 2708.
If I go back to the 2708 that Andrew L Burnt for me the Code performs in
accordance with the Listing.
Bob
Anyone interested in this swap? I just recently got a TI-85 calculator thinking that I had a manual for it already. It seems that somewhere along the line I decided that I didn't really need the manual anymore so I got rid of it. So, I now have a calculator with no manual. Anyone have an extra TI-85 manual they'd like to trade for a Radio Shack Pocket Computer with manual?
This time they made it LOOK like a real Commodore:
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx.
Neat, but unfortunately its only support for vintage operation is
emulator software. It needs a real C64 inside, a la Jeri E.'s projects.
n 12/20/2010 4:38 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Something you don't see every day:
>
> http://www.ioffer.com/i/intel-paragon-super-computer-180057571
>
> --Chuck
The Paragon (and Delta before it - I was much more familiar with the
Delta) represented the pinnacle in ultra-GFlop multiprocessing of the
early 90's especially for "embarassingly parallelizable" code.
If the compiler could make your code run and your problem fit into
the memory space of a node, wow, the Delta was astonishingly kick-ass
compared to anything else out there at the time.
That said, it does not strike me as an especially "something to be
run at home" machine. Those who want to do this at home are already doing
BOINC with machines 2 decades newer or they have their own Beowulf cluster.
This is the fickle world of parallel supercomputing.
I think CHM has/had a nice Paragon on display and I recall seeing the
cabinets and prominent nameplate of the Touchstone Delta.
Tim.
Hi guys,
I'm trying to track down a copy of the schematics (if any still exist)
for the DMA Data LSI used in the AT&T Unix PC (aka the AT&T 3B1 or AT&T
7300).
The Technical Reference Manual scans which were posted here earlier
include the DMA Address LSI, but not the DMA Data LSI. Unfortunately
about 80% of the DMA logic is in.... *drumroll*... the Data LSI. The
Address LSI is basically a glorified presettable up-counter.
These should be in the AT&T UNIX PC Technical Reference Manual, if
anyone has a copy kicking around. I already have the DMA Address LSI,
Video LSI, 512k Motherboard, 1MB Motherboard and 2MB Motherboard
schematics.
Thanks,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/