If there is interest, I can get to 5 or 6 H7100's and about 50 or so
boards soon. If no interest I will work around them.
I still have an 11/780 spares kit here and at least one backplane(
11/780 I think).
Thanks, Paul
Partial list of double height Q-bus boards
M3106
M3107 DHQ11 $40
M7090 35
M7195-FA MXV11
M7270 11/03 CPU
M7504 DEQNA 35
M7546 TK50 25
M7555 RQDX3
M7559 TQK70 50
M7651 DRV11-WA
M7740
M7818
M7940 DLV11 20
M7941 DRV11
M7944 MSV11-B 20
M7946 RXV11 45
M7949 LAV11 30
M7952 RRD50
M7954 50
M8043 DLV11-J 85
M8044 MSV11-DD 25
M8186 11/23 CPU
M8192 11/73 CPU
Option names may be off. I have some CPU?s without chip sets.
$10 s/h for up to 4 boards within US. Please contact me with mail codes
for overseas shipping quotes.
Please contact me off list. I am working on quad boards and hope to have
a list in a few weeks.
Thanks, Paul
Has anyone communicated with Al Kossow lately? I emailed him a couple
times a couple weeks ago about some scans I made for bitsavers.org and
never heard back from him.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>> You can have a detailed doc for our ingestion STREAM format and the
>> complete source for the IPF decoder, including our high performance
>> bit accurate WD177x emulator. There are even third party tools
>> available working with it.
> Cool, that sounds useful. I found the Stream Protocol page on your web
> site. Is the IPF decoder source on the site somewhere? If not, how do
> I get it?
>
> Thanks!
> Eric
Hi Eric,
yes, it's here: http://www.softpres.org/news:2011-10-15
Please also check the forums. There is even more code available for both the STREAM files as well as the IPF decoder: http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=365
Enjoy.
Tony,
>
> > Hi Dave, so do I. now I think I understand the issue. It's about the
> > (old) open source discussion and daring to ask for money. I really don't
> It's partly that, but actually I think there's more to it.
>
> Firstly, I think it is a very bad idea to archive someing in a format
> which is not fully docuemtned. The fact that there's somehign around
> _now_ that can read it does not mean there will be soemthing aroudn in 50
> years time that can read it. At least if you know the archive format
> then you have a chance of creatign somethign to make sense of it.
That's why I explained that it is. You can have a detailed doc for our
ingestion STREAM format and the complete source for the IPF decoder,
including our high performance bit accurate WD177x emulator. There are
even third party tools available working with it.
>
> Seocndly, these disk readers are, or at least should be, very verstile
> devices. I know that the FPGA code for the Diskferret is available, so if
> you want to modify it (at your own risk, of course) to read some other
> type of disk then you can do so.
That's why we store raw flux transitions. Even if no sector decoder
matches, you can still read it at the lowest level. You even don't have
to modify or change anything.
>
> And thirdly, there;'s the question of support. I've had_much_ better
> support -every time -- from the authors of free software than from
> commerical software companies. This may be becuase I am often talkign to
> the guy who wrote hte code in the former case. It may be becuase they
> genuinely care.
You obviously never worked with me or anyone else in our organisation.
But obviously the fact that we are commercial qualifies you to make any
assumption regarding my (our) work ethics. Would it be fair to say all
open source is crap because the tool I relied on has been discontinued?
Why would any assumption qualify you to criticize what we do? What you
say is: A green man cheated me. All green men will cheat. Note that
green was chosen on purpose. If anyone reading this is green please
accept my apologies.
Many customers work directly with our head of development for very
specific problems and usually we deliver solutions pretty quickly in a
couple of hours or days.
Apart from that we even publish the board schematics. You could build
your own board and use our software for free which means I don't get a
single cent from you yet I would still try to support you if possible.
How many companies would do that?
>> > feel like arguing against that. What I know is that people deliver good
>> > work when they are motivated. I see no evil in the fact that people get
>> > paid because this can be a very good motivation. It also enables you to
>> > spend money for things that make the product better.You also can spend
>> > the money to train programmers so they use latest techniques and don't
> I think that's one of the msot insulting things against all the excellent
> free software uthors that I have ever read. Are youy seriosuly claiming
> that a program like gcc is no good becuase it's free and that the
> programmers who wrote it are clueless and not motivated? [No, gcc is not
> perfect. But it's better than several commercial C compilers I've been
> forced to use].
Don't reverse my words! I said absolutely nothing about free software. I
do like free software. I only outlined why being commercial is good for
the path we've chosen. We can even afford sending someone over, like we
did several times in the past, to help with setup and give a
comprehensive hands-on lesson. We also can afford donating free boards
and software to certain institutions because others subsidise them.
What I said was that someone that gets paid will help you solve your
problem and try to add whatever awkward format is needed to make you
happy. I see nothing evil in that, because there aren't many volunteers
around that will do this.
> Quite simply if that's your attidude I do not wish to do business with you.
Again, you never worked with us. How insulted would you feel if someone
judged about you in public, without ever having worked with you?
I'm not sure how much variety there was in the plastics available in the
late '50s / early '60s, but I've got a plastic part here from that era[1]
which needs sticking back together - is there any particular type of glue
that I should be wary of? I just have memories of those plastic model
airplane kits way back, where certain types of glue would dissolve the
plastic, and I don't want to have that happen on an unobtanium part...
It's probably one of those things where there's no way of knowing - but I
figure it doesn't hurt to ask, and it's the sort of thing where if there is
a right answer, I expect that someone on this list will know it :-)
[1] OT; actually the platen knob from an old Smith-Corona typewriter.
cheers
Jules
Cctalk'rs,
Here's a big update about all the things happening with the Vintage
Computer Festival East 8.0, May 5-6, at the InfoAge Science Center in
Wall, New Jersey.
So far we're up to three "celebrity" lectures: Dr. Thomas Kurtz, who
co-invented BASIC; Dan Kottke, of early Apple fame; and Bil Herd, of
Commodore 8-bit fame. There's also a lecture by Dr. Kent Lundford,
who'll teach us the history of analog computing, and there are two more
still to be announced.
This year we have ** SEVEN ** technical workshops: chiptunes music,
software restoration, intro to minicomputer care/feeding, intro to
Commodore 8-bit maintenance, into to Apple II maintenance, intro to
S-100 zen/innerworkings, and Build a Vector Graphics Kit (the latter is
a separate ticket.)
So far there are 14 exhibits. We expect around 25 total.
There will be a book sale, consignment, food, museum tours, prizes,
vendors, etc.
In addition, for the first time, we're having a few company sponsors
(beyond the usual ones: MARCH, VintageTech, InfoAge Science Center.) The
new sponsors are:
- Eli's Software Encyclopedia - sponsoring our t-shirts
- Western Design Center - that is MOS 6502 co-creator Bill Mensch's
company - they're donating 20 autographed chips, which we'll sell for a
modest price
- Trenton Computer Festival - distributing VCF East fliers to all of
their attendees
- Vintage Computer Forum (can I say that on cctalk?) - running banner ad
for us
Bottom line, this is going to be one of the best VCF East shows ever.
You'd all be fools to miss it. :)
Tickets, as always, are sold at the door for just $10/day, $15/weekend,
and free for kids.
Do any IBM RS/6000 emulators exist that are capable of something
around AIX v4.x?
Zane
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I'm divesting myself of most of my q-bus stuff, starting with the
uVax board sets.
M7169 - 4-plane video controller module
M7168 - 4-plane color bitmap module (x2)
M7622 - 16-Mbyte RAM for KA650 (MicroVAX III) (x2)
M7625 - MicroVAX III CPU (workstation license), 60nS
M7606-EF Microvax II CPU
M7609 - 8-Mbyte parity 36-bit RAM for KA630 (MicroVAX II) (x2)
I also have the cable for the video card, and a couple of those
switch panels for the CPU's
I just need to unload this, make me an offer; would prefer to
sell the lot. I could also be bribed to ship this internationally;
make me a good offer, and maybe we can cut a deal.
Shipping will be from STockton, CA 95212 (USA)
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