The 8041 has the same pinout as the Intel 8741 programmable. A Pro-Log M980
PROM Programmer with a PM 9054 personality module can read out the programs
inside.
I did a lot of Intel 8741 Development back in the day and even reverse
engineered the PIO in an Intel MDS-225. I have a MDS-225 now I'm getting
going from pieces.
Richard Main
+1 510-229-9711
Newark, CA USA
This just popped up today:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LOT-OF-54-USED-VINTAGE-DEC-DIGITAL-COMPACTAPE-TK50-D
ATA-TAPE-CARTRIDGES-SOFTWARE-/221774909736?
It is a bit expensive in my view and shipping to the UK is too much, but I
thought there *might* be some old versions of DEC software on some of those
tapes. I thought of asking about the DEC software myself, but as I know I
wouldn't bid it wouldn't be right for me to ask. Anyone in the USA
interested enough to find out what historical DEC software there might be
and recover the tapes (if possible)?
Regards
Rob
I decided to put the 11/44 on Ebay for $1, no reserve. (currently at
$40.39).
New photos (what is on ebay plus what I took today after opening the
cabinet to see what is in there)
http://vintagecomputer.net/digital/PDP11-44_2nd/
Ebay listing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-PDP-11-44-/271869650084
Item is pickup only BUT If you can't pick it up but want to make
arrangements to have a shipping company come to pick it up, pack and ship,
I am happy to help but it's on you to make all of the arrangements. I am
available during the work day.
Location - Landenberg, PA which is about 40 minutes South/west of
Philadelphia, about 60 minutes North/east Baltimore, 10 miles or so from
I95 at the MD/Delaware border.
vintagecomputer.net/contact.cfm
Bill
The scrappers are here, clearing out the warehouse.
I saved a box of old DEC and HP boards.
First $100 plus about $35 UPS ground shipping takes them home (in CONUS).
I have no idea if any of them still work, but I pulled them from large
working cabinets I was required to destroy about 18 years ago.
Part numbers are:
M8061
97871 401-33692 Quad Cache qty 3
85-3438-02 Cache memory
M8059FH
M8048 qty 3
M8059FB
M8186 qty 3
Peritek Corporation DMA-Q
97871 MUX qty 5
5020477-01-DC1 Diceon 6A
M8016YB
HP boards:
C-2440-40 2443-9572
5181-5649 Rev A
98257-66524 98257A
33445-60002 A-2745-39
D2237-60001 (no CPU chips)
A1470-66521 16MB memory qty 2
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-792-3400 phone
sales at elecplus.com
AOL IM elcpls
A correspondent just pointed me to a nice collection of photos of a (the?) 11/74 MP system:
http://oboguev.livejournal.com/2696291.html
I assume this is the one at DEC used by the RSX-11M+ group for their multiprocessor support work. As far as I know these didn?t become a product. I remember the name of the machine as ?Cerberus?, not sure what that label ?daemon? refers to. Maybe a DECnet node name?
paul
Hi
I received a DECpc 433 Workstation today with SCSI expansion box. It's a
small system which reminds me of the VAX VLC, but not quite.
I've not been able to find any manuals online, does anyone have anything?
Regards,
Pontus.
John wrote....
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I'm still looking for Oregon Software Pascal as well...
----
I said I would look, I did, and it was fruitful.
I have in my hands an original distribution fedex shipping box from Oregon software to my high school (Saint Louis University High) containing:
Oregon Software Pascal-2 Software Development System version 2.1F for RT-11 release package checklist (RN-121, august 1988):
Installation & Release notes
Oregon Language Letter, Summer 1988, announcing two new compilers (Oregon Modula-2 and Oregon C++)
8 SS/SD RX01 format disks containing P-2 RT-11 v2.1F (original, Oregon software labels, including my high schools site/license number)
Oregon Software Field Report form (4 carbon copy)
Misc Notes of my own from a skim of the above:
The compiler version here runs under RT-11 v5 or later
The compiler can run under XM or SJ monitors
Programs compiled with the compiler can run under FB, BL, SJ, or XM
Minimum requirements: EIS. P-2 uses FPP hardware or simulated floating point software (FIS). Also need 3500 blocks to install, and during compilation about 500 blocks are used for temporary storage. Computers with only flexible disk systems do not have enough storage.
I have no idea if these diskettes are still readable. I know my high school was fastidious about making a copy and then locking the masters away so these disks likely only saw one read. I do know that they used this software extensively, and there may well be other copies of these floppies around here.
I'd love to post images of these diskettes, but I don't know the status of Oregon Software and the IP situation.
So in the interest of completeness, anyone have other RT-11 versions of other Oregon Software's compilers?
I also found original S&H distribution copies of TSX+ v5, v6, and v6.2 (again, stamped with my high schools license number).
Best,
J
Dave - - actually there should be a scan out it out there already...
it is of the same vintage as the hp minicomputer handbook with the old
hp-2115 on the front....
Here I found a link to the early version! just enter any word in the
human checker thing and you can download the pdf! there are other hp
2000 things there too at that main url
http://www.hpmuseum.net/capcha/freecap_wrap.php?r=1124
posting the cc also to rest of list for those that would like
this also...
Yea our old one if we opened it to flat bed scan it it would be a
sheaf of lose pages I fear... but this pdf should be good for
info.
We love HP 2000 stuff here it was part of my work in the old days
fixing and selling therm and selling time on them. We still have our
first 2000 system we bought but we NEED THE 2883 disk drive and the hp
version of the GE terminet 300 to put with it.
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 5/16/2015 11:27:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
jdbryan at acm.org writes:
Hi Ed,
On Saturday, May 16, 2015 at 21:35, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Many Thanks for the HP 1000 interface board manual...
You're welcome.
> We have the old one here at the museum with the 2115, 2116 etc
> but it has gotten brittle on the back binding and if we do not
> have to open it.......
Maybe open it one more time to scan it?
-- Dave
I received this email - contact Alex below if interested:
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I'm a reporter for the New York Times and I'm working on a story about vintage tech/computer equipment, particularly when used as items to be displayed, or as home-decor.
Do you know have any collectors of vintage tech who have used it in any creative way as objects around the house?
If you have any thoughts on the topic, I'm all ears. Thanks!
--
Alex Williams
Reporter
The New York Times
212 556 1158
===================================================================
Chuck Guzis wrote:
One more category springs to mind--5xx would be printers (e.g. 501 and
512). Maybe I;m trying to forget about what it was like having a
machine gun on one side (501 drum printer) and a screaming banshee (512
train printer) on the other side.
8xx also includes drum storage.
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To add a little more: 1XX was test equipment; 3XX was paper tape equipment; 7XX was interconnect gear.
Later the numbers were changed to an elaborate code that used 2 Alphanumerics a dash, 3 more alpha numerics. This was later modified to include another dash and alphanumeric. For example, a disk drive might be: BJ-3A4-C.
There is a model decoder somewhere on bitsavers.
And there was a whole family of unique specially designed peripherals called SPAM boxes = Special Purpose Alogrithm Machines. These were usually all electronic. Most were used in the oil industry; for example strip recorders/readers for seismic data.
One I worked on a lot when in Houston, would add up all the one bits in a large field of data. For some applications, the petrol companies loved it.
Inital telecommunication products started here then evolved into their own families.
Chuck, I'll swap you for the time I was at CERN working on 627 (one inch) tape drives and some idiot rewound 24 of them at the same time. It was a gag they pulled on new operators. It could take an hour before you could hear people talk again.
Billy Pettit
