http://www.ebay.com/itm/111013285214?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984…
There's already ample bids on it, so I guess I shouldn't feel that bad.
The first time I've ever *seen* one. Heard about it all the time back in the day. Looks like the old C64 case. Being a Commie expansion option makes it more collectible in my eyes then the fact that it runs the other s/w.
Would be nice to have one. Sure would be nice. Probably not this week.
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:00 PM PST Chris Pye wrote:
>That thing is totally ridiculous!
what would make you say such a thing!!!???
it seems people have to be continually reminded that this is a nostalgia group. and as such it doesn't really matter if something works or not!! let's hear it for light and airy vaporware!!
A volunteer has come up for the hosting space and software (all open source,
Linux)
I have the data, and will put it into uploadable formats, and provide
templates for others who want to contribute also.
I am NOT a php programmer, so a volunteer is needed who will design the site
and create a script to do the searches and display the results.
Any volunteers?
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Morning all,
I thought I'd try and get the ol' Epson QX-10 running as a dumb terminal.
AFAIK, there's nothing on the 'standard' set of disks to do this (e.g.
valdocs has the 'mail' program which is aware of the serial port and which
I think can talk via a direct link rather than a modem - but I think its
functionality is all quite high-level and there's no 'terminal' mode).
So... MEX looks like a possibility, and an overlay for the QX-10 seems to
be available (although I'm not sure how much work is involved in merging
them yet). Does anyone know of any other options[1] which will work with
the QX-10's serial hardware? Or, does anyone happen to have a QX-10 enabled
version of MEX archived already?
[1] does CP/M abstract serial hardware into a set of common calls, or is
that outside its scope?
cheers
Jules
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mike Ross <tmfdmike at gmail.com>
> To: cctech at classiccmp.org
> Cc:
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:22:04 +1300
> Subject: Re: cctech Digest, Vol 114, Issue 23
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:21:07 -0500
>> From: Michael Thompson <michael.99.thompson at gmail.com>
>> To: cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>> Subject: PDP-9 Restoration at the RICM
>
>> We need to fix the paper tape reader so we can load some of the diags.
>> We are a long way from connecting the TC-59 and the TU20.
>> I suspect that getting the TU20 working will be a challenge.
>
> How are you fixed for doc & spares?
>
> I have a TC59 on one of my pdp-15s - I have doc and I think I have
> some spare boards...
>
> Mike
Bitsavers has the TC59 Instruction Manual and Schematics.
I have an HP 7975A (TU20) tape deck manual on the way. I will scan it
and send it to Al.
I have not been able to find any documentation on the rack of
electronics in the bottom of the TU20 cabinet.
We don't have the I/O cables to connect the TC59 to the PDP-9.
We have some spare generic B, R, and S modules.
We probably don't have any spares for the special modules for the
PDP-9 and TC59.
Any offers of help are gratefully accepted.
--
Michael Thompson
(Think I may have goofed on my earlier post (excess formatting))
Hiya,
Just wondering if anyone has a Xerox 820-II with CP/M 2.2C that already
has Kermit installed, that could make a Image Disk of it and upload it
someplace? I have Dave Dunfield's Image Disk program, and I've
successfully transferred several programs to the machine this way, but
I'd like to have a comm program to transfer stuff, as I'm using a
modified cable from the existing 8" floppy drive to an old win98/DOS PC
for transfers, and I don't like to disconnect and connect those 50 pin
edge connectors on and off the boards too many times.
I actually have the .HEX files for the machine, but I tried to get them
transferred with 22disk, and it doesn't seem to like 8" drives too much
(ver. 1.42 or 1.44). I also tried the host terminal transfer, but hex
files seem to wreak havoc and don't transfer properly. So I'm kind of
stuck between a rock and a hard place. If anyone can help out, it would
be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
Dave Land
Land Computer Service
Is anyone interested in hosting an online cross reference for components
both small and major?
I have a fairly large (3000+ line items) of cross reference for hard drives,
CDROM, CDRW, NIC cards, video cards, etc for computers and servers that I
would be willing to contribute in spreadsheet format.
Also MANY hard copy sheets of old printouts for parts that go into HP and
IBM servers.
Cindy Croxton
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Hi all,
Tony, thanks for your input, we will check the PSU on Thursday when we
get to the machine again.
as Christian pointed out, the problem is not so much the pure amount of
components but the puzzle
game of identifying them since they have been relabled.
Whats definitely worse when comparing to out old VT100 is that the DEC
manual has one complete definitive
service manual that covers all schemes and logic. For our NOVA i failed
to find a comparable thing. I have constantly to go
back an forward through all kinds of docs. Again I may be unable to find
a "real" service manual, if you know any let me know ;)
Bruce, I am looking forward hearing from you. It would be great if you
come up with anything helpful before Thursday
so we can check everything out.
Dwight, we are currently missing the exact schematics for our machine. I
hope thats where Bruce comes into play. The only
real schematics i found were for the NOVA 2, and a quick glimpse showed
that the machine is different (at least the
layout of parts). None the less we will keep our eye on the clock(s), i
guess it will do no harm and make our scopes and logic analyzers
happy ;)
>Jeff Jonas [jeffj at panix.com] wrote:
>> Long ago when SCSI was young
>> and just an 8 bit parallel bus,
>> Ampro littleboards advocated using the SCSI bus
>> for peer to peer communications, not just master/slave.
>>
>> Did anyone else do that?
>
>I don't remember the details but I'm fairly sure you could run
>OpenVMS clusters over SCSI at some point. I don't recall
>whether this was "just experimental" or whether it was
>actually supported in some configurations.
>
>Antonio
OpenVMS AXP and I64 support partial clustering over some SCSI adapters, but I wouldn't call it full
"networking". The machines are configured as multiple initiators and can send storage requests over
the SCSI bus to shared disks or arrays. You still have to have another connection (usually Ethernet)
for machine->machine cluster communication.
While I haven't looked into it much beyond pinouts, DEC produced the proprietary DSSI which, in some
cases, used SCSI ASICs - indicating that at some level it was similar (HSD-05 used, I think, an Emulex at
either side. Can't check now, but can later). The protocol was different, and cluster communications could
go over the DSSI bus between machines.
I'm not sure whether the lack of a similar setup for SCSI is more because of impossibility or because Fast/Gig
Ethernet came about and there was no longer much of a reason to not use the Ethernet for cluster comms.
