test-drb August 2016

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by billdegnan＠gmail.com

I was checking bitsavers for CDC 6600 manuals. There are a lot of other models but nothing for the 6600. There is not on the web technically about the 6600 other than excerpts of Gordon Bell's book (which I have been reading "Computer Structures Readings and Examples, chapter 1-2, 39 touches on the 6600) http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/cdc/ Here is a recent picture: http://vintagecomputer.net/pictures/2016/CHM_California/CDC_6600_system.jpg -- Bill Degnan

8 years, 4 months

Imaging and Emulating Rainbow

by robert.jarratt＠ntlworld.com

I have a Rainbow 100+ with a working hard disk. I want to image the disk before it fails and then emulate the Rainbow. The disk is an RD51 and appears to have 4 partitions on it. For imaging my first thought is to put the disk into a MicroVAX II, net boot the MicroVAX into VMS and do a BACKUP/PHYSICAL, copying the image to a SIMH tap file. There shouldn't be any issues with this I assume? Second, I would like to find an emulator for the Rainbow. I did a quick search of the web and it seems like MESS/MAME may be the only option. I have never used MESS/MAME, has anyone ever emulated the Rainbow successfully with this software? Regards Rob

8 years, 4 months

Differences between a Xerox 6085 and 1186

by rob＠bitscience.ca

Hi Folks, Are there any hardware differences between a Xerox 6085 (Daybreak configured to run Viewpoint) and a Xerox 1186 (Daybreak configured to run Lisp), or can they run each other?s software? In particular, is there anything preventing a 6085 from running the stuff on bitsavers in /bits/Xerox/1186? Thanks, Rob Ferguson

8 years, 4 months

[OLDVTRS] Real time video software for SGI computers

by rich＠torpey.com

What's the application? Is this for a museum installation or for a current live production or post production? SGI's were used for high end work in the past, but have been replaced by more commodity hardware. -Rich Torpey -----Original Message----- From: Matt Patoray mspproductions at gmail.com [OLDVTRS] [mailto:OLDVTRS at yahoogroups.com] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 11:56 AM To: OLDVTRS at yahoogroups.com, 'vcf-midatlantic', cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: [OLDVTRS] Real time video software for SGI computers Hello all, I know that SGI machines are well know for high end 3D graphics that are not real time (Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and the like. But was there ever any real time 2D/3D graphics programs for title generation to replace a stand alone Chyron unit for making opening/closing titles and lower 1/3 graphics? If so what system would be the best to use, I was thinking an O2 since it is small and has a low power consumption along with standard composite video output. Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG __._,_.___ ------------------------------------------------------------ Posted by: Matt Patoray <mspproductions at gmail.com> ------------------------------------------------------------ Visit Your GroupNew Members1 ? Privacy ? Unsubscribe ? Terms of Use __,_._,___

8 years, 4 months

Real time video software for SGI computers

by mspproductions＠gmail.com

Hello all, I know that SGI machines are well know for high end 3D graphics that are not real time (Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and the like. But was there ever any real time 2D/3D graphics programs for title generation to replace a stand alone Chyron unit for making opening/closing titles and lower 1/3 graphics? If so what system would be the best to use, I was thinking an O2 since it is small and has a low power consumption along with standard composite video output. Thanks, -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG

8 years, 4 months

HP to acquire SGI

by cliendo＠gmail.com

This is for all my SGI guys out there. http://insidehpc.com/2016/08/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-sgi-to-e…

8 years, 4 months

CDC 603 tape drives an dtCyber

by aswood＠t-online.de

The tape drives are from a 3000 system. I do have an original cdc 170 series console and it would be a big deal and a nice project to get the console and the tape drives connected to dtcyber, since I lost almost any hope to get a real cy17x or 18x. I'll be back home tomorrow and have a detailed look at the peripheral controller. Fortunately I do have a lot of spares. -- Andreas > Am 12.08.2016 um 15:59 schrieb Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net>: > > >> On Aug 11, 2016, at 10:27 PM, aswood at t-online.de wrote: >> >> I do have two original CDC 603 tape drives with controller, but to be honest it would be quite a challenge to hook them to a modern system. > > 603? My manuals don't go back that far. What kind of drive is that, and what does the controller connect to? > > If it's a 6000 series channel interface, then that's very easy to deal with. Channel to PCI-e interfaces have been built (out of FPGAs) and hooked up to DtCyber. If it's some other type of channel, the same sort of answer would apply; none of those old channels are all that complex. > > paul > >

8 years, 4 months

HP to acquire SGI

by cliendo＠gmail.com

I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts and a lot of oil companies as customers. HP buying that also means they now have the ears of those customers when their solutions are old and they need to migrate to new equipment. I predict a lot of late model Irix equipment coming into the used market place.

8 years, 4 months

5150/5151 Video Card??

by COURYHOUSE＠aol.com

sad when you think of all the cards that have been scrapped over the last 20 years for early PC Ed# In a message dated 8/14/2016 10:55:54 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, cclist at sydex.com writes: On 08/14/2016 10:15 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > why the unnecessary switches? (CGA does mode switching in software, > and enables simultaneous composite and RGB, hence the IBM vetsion > dorsn't need switches) I think that the switches mostly relate to output configurations; that is, they don't change the basic operation. For example, the "monochrome composite" is probably just luminance, blank and sync (VBS), whereas the "color composite" is the complete CVBS signal. I suspect that setting either of the two composite modes probably disables the output at the DE-9. It would be interesting to see what other combinations of switches produce something useful. Of course, this is all wild-hare speculation on my part, as I don't have anything like this card sitting in my hellbox. FWIW, Chuck

8 years, 4 months

Front Panel - Update. - PDP=8/i and PDP-8/l - Bezels - PDP-11

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Rod Smallwood > Please register interest in ... PDP-11 panels It will depend on price - will they be the same as the PDP-8 panels (since they are so similar)? If so, can you remind us of the pricing, please? If not, any estimate? I assume you'll eventually be doing all of them (/35, /40, /45, /50, /55, /70 - both variants), but the order will depend on interest? Do you have a /20 panel scan/measurements, to do that one too? If there is any interest in /05-/10 panels, I have one and can scan it. I can't recall any other models with front panels? (Well, the /74, but IIRC there are none of those extant outside museums - although people might want some for simulators.) Noel

8 years, 4 months

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