Thanks for the fast responses J
I will let the list know if more interesting stuff pops up.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-792-3400 phone
sales at elecplus.com
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I ported Christian Corti's great IBM 5110 emulator to JavaScript, so you
can work with an emulated IBM 5110 directly in your (HTML5-capable) web
browser.
There are still some bugs in it, disk and tape support are still
missing, and I could not test it with a non-German keyboard layout. I
nonetheless wanted to share the WIP version to give you a first impression.
You can try it out and write some small BASIC or APL programs at
http://members.aon.at/nkehrer
Greetings
Norbert
PN 60-00694, date code 8908.
Does this interest anyone?
About 16 inches by 22 inches, looks to be in good shape.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
830-792-3400 phone
sales at elecplus.com
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>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2015 19:16:53 -0700
> From: Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com>
> Subject: Framebuffer driver for RDI BriteLite IPX?
>
> Hi all --
>
> Sent this query to the Rescue list last week, no bites. Any Sun
> fanatics here have any ideas? (Linux/OpenBSD appear to support it, but
> I'd rather keep the OS vintage-appropriate. For some reason...)
>
> Got myself an RDI BriteLite IPX; a "laptop" (a generous description)
> based around a stock SPARCStation IPX motherboard with a very large
> laptop-style enclosure around it, a 640x480 active-matrix LCD (very
> pretty) and a gigantic lead-acid battery. It has a handle, so it's
> portable!
>
> Anyway -- I have it up and running and I have SunOS 4.1.4 installed on a
> fresh hard disk (the original drive was long gone when I got it).
> Unfortunately, the LCD framebuffer is unrecognized by SunOS; it
> identifies itself as cgRDI and it's a custom SBUS board that drives the
> 640x480 LCD.
>
> From what I've been able to dig up this driver was packaged as "RDIlcd"
> by RDI but I can't find it, of course. Anyone happen to have this
> archived somewhere? Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
I have IPC, IPX, and LX based BriteLites. I believe that I have the SunOS
driver files, I just need to find them.
GE-14-Hawk-Drive-23991-47d266933G3
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261895292646
One of these systems really appears to be a CDC drive, but the other one
is badged Datacraft 5208, and doesn't look familiar.
Any idea on what it is? Looks like something that would fit a
collection of storage devices as a unique item, given that it is 14"
removable.
This page implies it is a CDC drive, but I've not seen one with the
front this one has.
http://www.mfarris.com/pack/datacraft.html
thanks
Jim
Hi all --
Sent this query to the Rescue list last week, no bites. Any Sun
fanatics here have any ideas? (Linux/OpenBSD appear to support it, but
I'd rather keep the OS vintage-appropriate. For some reason...)
Got myself an RDI BriteLite IPX; a "laptop" (a generous description)
based around a stock SPARCStation IPX motherboard with a very large
laptop-style enclosure around it, a 640x480 active-matrix LCD (very
pretty) and a gigantic lead-acid battery. It has a handle, so it's portable!
Anyway -- I have it up and running and I have SunOS 4.1.4 installed on a
fresh hard disk (the original drive was long gone when I got it).
Unfortunately, the LCD framebuffer is unrecognized by SunOS; it
identifies itself as cgRDI and it's a custom SBUS board that drives the
640x480 LCD.
From what I've been able to dig up this driver was packaged as "RDIlcd"
by RDI but I can't find it, of course. Anyone happen to have this
archived somewhere? Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Josh
I've had a lot of help from all over the world getting my Data General
MV/2500 up and running, so it's time to give a little back...
I am now able to provide on-line access to my operational MV/2500 DC to
individuals who make reasonable requests for it.
Currently the machine is running AOS/VS 7.70 and has little other than
the base software installed, although most of the NADGUG library
contents is available.
I am not willing to run the MV/2500 24x7, so operational times will be
by mutual agreement. I strongly suggest using DasherQ to connect.
Access is via telnet provided by a Raspberry Pi acting as a
serial-to-network gateway to real serial ports (I don't have TCP/IP on
the machine yet).
If anyone would like access to the machine please email me stating why
you would like access (even if it is just for nostalgia!) and what time
zone you are in.
Steve
--
/Stephen Merrony
Email: steve at stephenmerrony.co.uk
http://www.stephenmerrony.co.uk/dg/
Yes I was asking myself the same question, and your answers continue to help
a lot.
I think I should retrace the path of technology evolution. Start getting it
up with paper tape tests and BCS. That probably means working mostly in
assembly and getting to know the most basic level of the machine. Which is
just about what the doctor prescribed.
Then add the mag tape for which I have the tape and the cards.
I got a 7900 disk though (with cables and power supply, but no interface
cards to go with it!). I'd love to get that one going later on. Then it
would make sense to have the bigger memory to run disk based OS systems. So
7900 interface card and memory are definitely on my hunt list...
By the way I also have a punched card reader which I just restored.
Documation ML600, but the exact same model that HP re-branded I believe. Do
you know which interface cards I need to connect it to the HP-1000? I
suppose one of the 16 bit IO ones with a driver to go with it?
Sorry to keep picking your brain, but that is so much more efficient than
trying to piece it together (usually wrong at first) from an disorganized
pile of documentation!
Marc
From: "J. David Bryan" <jdbryan at acm.org>
>> So I might be in the hunt for the cards or alternate solutions you
>> mentioned.
>I'd suggest that the question to answer first is whether you want to expend
>the effort and expense to gather the moderate amount of additional hardware
>necessary to run one of the more advanced disc-based OS versions that can
>use DMS. Note that the design of the memory mapping hardware in the 1000
>requires explicit software support (i.e., programming of the DMS hardware)
>in order to use more than 32KW of memory. Earlier OSes that did not
>support DMS will simply ignore all memory in the machine over 32K, even
>when DMS is present.
>With the hardware you have, you can run a paper-tape based OS, such as BCS
>(the Basic Control System) in 24K. BCS is fairly primitive, but it does
>offer an assembler, FORTRAN IV, and ALGOL compilers, and paper-tape BASIC
>interpreters were also available (from the user contributed library).
>The hardware requirements for running the disc-based RTEs are listed on
>these HP Computer Museum pages:
> http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=565
> http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=566
> -- Dave
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> Would you like some of the REAL monitors? They will do all sorts of bizarre
I'd like some of the REAL monitors, such as an NEC Multisync 3, that
can do VGA *and* NTSC-rate analog RGB. At some point the monitor
companies stopped bothering to make them handle horizontal scan rates
below 30 kHz.
I recently posted reference to a page on my personal web site listing HP-1000 assets for sale. There was a flurry of interest. As of this afternoon, the last of a half-dozen boxes were shipped to the new owners of many of these items. Thank you to everyone for their interest and thank you for your patience.
Several individuals have expressed interest in acquiring more parts. The good news is that I still have items left.
The bad news is that the 256k and 128K memory boards, +True In/Out, Term, Timebase, Error Correct, FPP Arith, and FPP control cards are all gone. So consider this fair warning: If there is something else you need to restore your system or to build a reserve of spares, now is the time to grab it before it's gone, too.
The inventory sheets have been updated on my site to reflect what is left. Some items are being offered piece-by-piece, some I'd prefer to sell as a set. Details are on my site.
www.hpfriedrichs.com/hpfparts/hpfparts.htm
73,
Pete
AC7ZL
