Folks,
I forgot if I posted this here or not. I've been busy preparing for my
move. I have 3 items that still need homes.
1) Sun V240. 2z1Ghz CPUs, 2G of RAM. No drives. I'd like $50 obo
2) Sun E3000. 6x400Mhz CPUs, 6G of RAM. No drives, but I can throw 2x
50GB in there. $100 obo
3) SGI Fuel. 600Mhz, V10 Graphics, 1G of RAM. 36G drive. Irix 6.5.33
loaded. $200 obo
Shipping would be from Indianapolis, IN 46219.
--
-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.
I've found myself wondering just what a typical development system for an Atari 2600 or 5200 looked like. I gather that an Atari ST was used for developing Atari 7800 software.
Obviously now, something like DASM can be used for the 2600, but what was used back when the systems were new?
Zane
--
healyzh at aracnet.comhttp://blog.zanesphotography.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/zanes-photography/
Just a little bit of cursory looking turned up nothing. Has someone written
a Forth interpreter for PDP-8? Preferably using 24-bit integers, but I'll
take what I can get. OS/8 support would be nice.
I see that a Lisp interpreter exists, so that's somewhat promising, I
suppose.
Thanks,
Kyle
Hello ClassicCMP`s
I`am resorating an TU56 dual drive. It is clean now, i repaired the
powersupply, i formated the capacitors and i checked if all modules that
needed are existing.
My question before first "smoke test" is done is....
In the engeneering drawings "Module Utilization" are shown special
places for each module. In my drive the Modules on different places then
in the drawing.
Is the backplane a real bussystem or got i use the ports shown in drawings?
Marco
P.S.: Is it allowed to send pictures as attatchment to the list? Or
wants the moderator killing me when i do?
The SCSI2SD project
(http://www.codesrc.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=SCSI2SD) was brought
up here a few months back -- it's effectively a SCSI disk emulator,
using Micro-SD cards as the backing store. I ordered a couple and I
started chatting with the creator (Michael) about supporting
non-standard sector sizes (for example, the 1280 byte/sectors that the
Symbolics XL400, XL1200, and XL1201 demand...) SCSI drives that support
sector sizes other than 512 bytes are getting more and more hard to
find, and having a modern replacement would be awesome.
Michael was extremely receptive to the idea (he was already working on
256 byte/sector support) and added non-standard sector size support
(from 64 to 2048 bytes/sector) and I tried it out with my XL1200. It
didn't work initially, but over the last month we've iterated over a few
potential fixes, with me gathering logs and diagnostics and him doing
all the hard work of fixing the firmware. And finally this morning the
last bug was squashed -- I have my XL1200 booting Genera entirely from
a Micro-SD card. It actually seems to be a little bit faster than the
Seagate drive I've been using (and I'm still running a debug version of
the firmware) :).
If anyone's looking for a replacement for oddball SCSI devices like
this, the SCSI2SD seems to be a pretty good option. Michael has been
very receptive to bug reports and suggestions (and of course, the source
is open to anyone who wants to hack away at it...)
Just thought there might be a few people on this list interested in this
news...
- Josh
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:42:57 +0200
> From: Marco Rauhut <marco at familie-rauhut.eu>
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: DEC TU56 dual drive and it's modules
> Message-ID: <5375B371.6090107 at familie-rauhut.eu>
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> My question before first "smoke test" is done is....
> In the engeneering drawings "Module Utilization" are shown special
> places for each module. In my drive the Modules on different places
> then in the drawing.
> Is the backplane a real bussystem or got i use the ports shown in
> drawings?
>
Congratulations, the TU56 is quite sought after.
The TU56 backplane isn't a bussystem as you describe it (i.e. not like the
pdp8 omnibus). The wiring is point to point between the various module
positions and the modules have predetermined positions. There will likely be
some differently coloured wiring modifications too.
If yours are in different places to the engineering drawings it may be
wrongly assembled - check some intermodule signals to confirm.
You may or may not need some G888 modules depending on which controller you
have or plan to use.
Bob
I can use some help in my attempt to access some files on an old
IDE 160 GB ATA 100 hard drive with a FAT32 file structure for
each of the partitions. This hard drive was used as a data drive on
a Windows 98SE system (which because of the old BIOS supported
only 131 GB - more than acceptable since that hard drive replaced
at about 2/3 of the original cost a 40 GB drive) with a separate
controller to provide faster throughput. The cable was a DOUBLED
40 pin IDE interface between the controller and the drive.
The system that I have to work with is a Windows XP with SATA
drives, but also with an IDE interface which supported a DVD drive
with a standard 40 pin cable, but the DVD drive is no longer in use.
While it probably does not matter, on this Windows XP system,
all of the partitions on all of the SATA drives are also FAT32.
I have access to Partition Magic to be able to activate and name
the partitions on the old IDE ATA 100 hard drive.
Is it likely that I can just attach the old IDE ATA 100 drive to the
IDE cable on the Windows XP system and access the files I want
to copy from one of the partitions? Alternatively, do I need to use
the DOUBLED 40 pin cable used with the old ATA 100 hard drive
when it was used in the Windows 98SE system?
Failing both of the above being successful, are there any other
suggestions which might work?
Jerome Fine
Could I get some advice and pointers on the practice of interfacing old
payphones with modern equipment? In particular, I want to know about
turning a COCOT (which seems to be the easiest to find) into a telco phone
-- that is make it emit redbox tones when coins are deposited. I want to
experiment with that kind of phone with Asterisk.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
I can use some help in my attempt to access some files on an old
IDE 160 GB ATA 100 hard drive with a FAT32 file structure for
each of the partitions. This hard drive was used as a data drive on
a Windows 98SE system (which because of the old BIOS supported
only 131 GB - more than acceptable since that hard drive replaced
at about 2/3 of the original cost a 40 GB drive) with a separate
controller to provide faster throughput. The cable was a DOUBLED
40 pin IDE interface between the controller and the drive.
The system that I have to work with is a Windows XP with SATA
drives, but also with an IDE interface which supported a DVD drive
with a standard 40 pin cable, but the DVD drive is no longer in use.
While it probably does not matter, on this Windows XP system,
all of the partitions on all of the SATA drives are also FAT32.
I have access to Partition Magic to be able to activate and name
the partitions on the old IDE ATA 100 hard drive.
Is it likely that I can just attach the old IDE ATA 100 drive to the
IDE cable on the Windows XP system and access the files I want
to copy from one of the partitions? Alternatively, do I need to use
the DOUBLED 40 pin cable used with the old ATA 100 hard drive
when it was used in the Windows 98SE system?
Failing both of the above being successful, are there any other
suggestions which might work?
Jerome Fine
