On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, Paul Anderson wrote:
> If they are not scanned, I'll pay to ship them to Al or whoever.
>
> Thanks, Paul
Paul, I went to the bitsavers site and found a fairly good selection of
LA120 docs (which may or may not contain all that I have) but they don't
seem to have much on the LA36. There Sun-1 and DPC manuals that I have
do not seem to be there either.
I looked for contact information on the sitev but I cannot find any,
I am willing to send these for scanning but I do not know how to make
contact, I have not the time, skill, or tools to scan them myself.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, jim stephens wrote:
> On 10/12/2016 9:47 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>> any chance that it could be scanned, then shared that way?
I think this manual should be scanned for posterity but cannot do that.
> Something like what is on this page?
> http://www.solivant.com/sun100/
Nothing similar there.
> Bitsavers:
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/sun/sun1/
the one above is the previous version to the manual I have. According
to the first page, the single volume Sun-1 System Reference Manual from
July 1982 was replaced by two volumes the User Guide, which I have, and
the Programmer's Reference Manual which I do not have. The older
manual is probably more useful but this one is expanded (according to
revision page) to include 1/2" and 1/4" tape drives and Fujitsu disk
drives. I see that the CDC Lark operation is in here, the Sun-1 that
I dealt with had a CDC Lark cartridge unit and I still have some of the
old Lark cartridges and no possible way to read them.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
> From: Rick Bensene
> Some of the machines in the series had a very powerful (for the time)
> floating point unit (known as the IPU) that operated in tandem with the
> main CPU
I wonder if the machines in the auction had this?
Noel
Came across this in the local craigslist today:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/sop/5820161303.html
I don't know if this is of interest to the Big Iron IBM guys, but if
there's any interest from folks not in the Seattle Area, I'm happy to
help faciliate.
--Jason
It's not a matter of bothering.. it's a matter of not knowing what I'm looking at yet. ?I was checking what I thought were all the clutches in the back.. they all seemed good.
I guess changing caps would be a smart idea right off given they look original. ?I'll check the diodes too. ?I am just nosing around.. given it wasnt shorting out when it left.. I'm concerned something might have shifted in transit.
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-------- Original message --------
From: dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com>
Date: 2016-10-14 7:36 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: ASR 33 buzzing
I see you didn't bother to check the clutches. You'd have found that the
clutch that reset the keyboard could be released.
The buzzing may also be related to your fuse blowing the supply
that feeds the receiving coil may have a shorted diode or capacitor.
That would both explain the fuse and the buzz.
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Brad H <vintagecomputer at bettercomputing.net>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2016 6:30:57 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: ASR 33 buzzing
Got a little further.? The keyboard was definitely jammed.? I pulled the carriage over to the right and noted there's a bar on the left side that a piece of metal attached to the carriage belt hits, I assume triggering something.? Doesn't work.. the bar is stuck.? At any rate, I put the metal piece over it and the carriage returned on its own (spring action).? I then wound the motor some more and got a bell sound.? After that, the keys started to work properly -- I can see the little arms (code bars?) changing as each key is pressed.
Thought maybe if the keyboard was jammed that might short the motor.. but still blows out fuses.
AFAIK the unit was working before it was shipped, sort of.? The seller mentioned powering it up and doing a carriage return successfully before shipping.? I'm inclined to think something happened during shipping.
It's too bad it's out in Australia, I qualify for the top priority of the
list, 'under 21 years of age'
Especially this is too bad: "Anything not sold, swapped or given away by
early December will likely go to recycling."
Joe
I have a collection of DEC items available for sale, swap or giveaway.
They are mostly VAX or MicroVAX items, as well as a few PDP-11 items.
These are in Melbourne, Australia. I appreciate this may not be of much
interest to the rest of the world.
If interested, please take a look here -> http://avitech.com.au/?p=1285
Thanks.
I thought the question about the prevalence of .156" connectors in early
systems was interesting and I assume someone here has the detail on the
rationale.
Jim
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Subject: CBM edge connectors pitch?
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 19:31:47 +0200
From: silverdr at wfmh.org.pl
Reply-To: cbm-hackers at musoftware.de
To: cbm-hackers at musoftware.de
Do we know what is the norm used in the CBM edge connectors? Like the IEEE, USER PORT or CASSETTE?
I found out mentions that it uses a 0.156" pitch. Where the heck does that come from? Nothing "round" in either metric or imperial..
--
SD!
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Hi, although somewhat off topic, unless I'm reprogramming antique computers :)
...
I was wondering if anyone might know where I could find an A/B switchbox for a 10-pin JTAG cable?
(An old-fashioned mechanical switch would work for my purposes, but I don't want to have to try to build one :)
thanks,
Stan
> From: Jason Howe
> I really really want to aquire a PDP-11 ... Given the price of these
> things in the world right now...
If you're willing to live with a QBUS machine, and not a UNIBUS one, it
doesn't necessarily take a mountain of money - if you're patient and wait for
deals.
I've bought 11/23 CPU boards for as little as $40 recently, and memory and
serial interface cards for console are on the same order of money. And I got
a BA11-S box, complete with power supply and backplane, for a little over
$100, IIRC.
The real hangup is mass storage; the older drives, at least, are all real
money now. I don't know about the later ones (from the uVAX era), those seem
to be cheaper, but I don't know anything about them. If Dave B and I can
get the QSIC project to the production stage, that would probably alleviate
that side.
Noel
