Anyone have any suggestions for how to go about finding developer documentation for VME hardware? I haven?t been having much luck with Google searches.
Given that (aside from its use by workstation manufacturers) most VME hardware was intended for composing systems from disparate parts, I assume that most of it at one time had programming documentation available. After all, you can?t just provide binary drivers when you know neither what CPU nor what OS your customers will be running?or even if they?ll be running an OS, versus some tightly-coded assembly.
My current interest is in using something like a D/A board or a specific audio interface[1] to provide audio for a VME-based workstation that lacks it, but I figure being able to find information like this will be generally useful to those of us with VME hardware.
-- Chris
[1] Something like a Vigra MMI-210: <https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-9634773.html <https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-9634773.html>>, about $125 on eBay.
Hi, I'm looking for information on a semi-obscure Flip Chip; an M826 (sort
sort of combination clock/counter). I can't find out anything about it.
Apparently the M8xx Flip Chips were generally custom modules intended for
a specific device, which is probably why I can't find anything on it.
I've looked in the Digital Logic Handbooks for 1969-1977, with no luck. So
I also looked through the Spare Module Handbook to see if I could find
something else that used it, so I could see if the documentation for that
thing covered it (e.g. I found the M167 in the RS64 Maintenance Manual).
However, I struck out there too.
My Google-fu wasn't strong enough to turn up anything online. Anyone have
anything on this beast?
Noel
I will be ordering another batch of boards. If you wish to order more
boards email me djg at pdp8online.com with how many and if bare, with surface
mount chips, or fully assembled. If you currently are on the waiting list
you don't need to reply.
Info is here.
http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/
The price may be $5 more since it looks like the quantity will be less
than last time. Bare boards should ship by end of month. I haven't found
a place at these quantities to have them assembled for less than listed
price so have been doing them myself. Assembled boards may be a couple
more weeks.
I will collect payment when getting ready to start shipping.
> From: Adrian Stoness
> All seems we see is HP and Dec mostly talked about
Well, don't forget that i) a lot of people (like me) are interested in things
they worked with 'back in the day', and for many people, that is very likely
to be DEC and HP machines, since they were very common, ii) the conversation
is partially driven by what's available now, and again, because they were so
common BITD, there are more of them now, and finally iii) the list has a lot
of US-based members, and they wouldn't have run across (either back then, or
now) machines from the somewhat obscure European manufacturers.
I don't think anyone looks down on the more obscure machines, in fact I
personally (and many others, I suspect) are very happy to see people paying
attention to them, and my respects to the people who are working to save them.
Noel
SMECC is looking for any Philips Broadcast year new or old
sorta like
http://www.smecc.org/ldk20/philliconnector1.jpg
which is one of our ldk-20 cameras... they can
say on the side Philips, or later Thomson or BTS
Philips was a great developer and implementer of CCD Technology in
video cameras.
this studio camera has computers in it for the control unit and you
can store setups etc on Flash memory cards
I keep one at the house to learn to program up the MCU controller etc
for the one at the museum.
So anything Philips, or later Thomson or BTS hardware, software, cables,
adv. materials, training books is indeed welcome here and if you have a
lighted script holder we need one for the unit at the museum.... it looks
like this... http://www.smecc.org/ldk20/philli57.jpg
People ask on our duplicate stuff what would we trade for? here
is a non computer area that works well to get some of our extras.
Have a great weekend
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 9/11/2016 11:40:13 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cclist at sydex.com writes:
On 09/11/2016 08:23 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> Philips was founded around the end of the 19th century as a maker of
> light bulbs, got into vacuum tubes in the 1920s or so.
Philips was into everything. For simple appliances, most in North
America were completely unaware of the parent company, because personal
care products are marketed under the "Norelco" brand. I believe that
Philips acquired Sylvania, then sold it to Funai.
In 2000, Philips was the largest manufacturer of semiconductors, having
acquired both Signetics and VLSI Technology. later spun off as NXP to a
private investment consortium.
If you own a Sonicare electric toothbrush, that's Philips too.
It's pretty safe to say that almost everyone has a Philips product
somewhere in their life--it may not be branded with the Philips name
however.
--Chuck
I am finally getting around to getting this GT-6144 graphics board working. ?It seems pretty straightforward, however I am confused by the advice given re:use with the CT1024 vs 6800. ?The instructions describe using it with either or, I think. ?I'm wondering what the right way to hook up would be if you are using both together. ?I'm thinking it must be CT1024 in that case, otherwise you'd need two monitors? ?I just want to be able to program the GT-6144 from the 6800 while using the CT1024.
Anyone familiar enough with these to offer advice?
Thanks in advance!!
Brad
The rest of the story.
As Al pointed out, much to our surprise, the museum has rejected an offer
>from Art's estate for the donation of a Fast Fourier Transform computing
system which included both the Unicomp Computer and a hardware FFT
accelerator. This is a very strange decision since the system is one of the
earliest if not the first implementation of a FFT in anti-submarine and
anti-aircraft warfare. FFT mathematics dates to 1965 but processor until
much later had the power to do it real time in software at the resolution
necessary, so Art invented the hardware accelerator and multiple units were
sold to the Navy. The estate is appealing the museum's decision.
The estate would like to keep the FFT system together and so if the museum
continues with a cranial rectal inversion it will look to other alternatives
including those of u who have already
I will respond by email not later than tomorrow to the several list members
who expressed interest in the components and/or the computer. I'm busy
today helping set up the Atari retrospective for the IEEE Silicon Valley
History Committee.
Regards,
Tom
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 18:16:23 -0700
From: Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Components available
On 9/6/16 4:18 PM, Tom Gardner wrote:
> A friend of mine died recently; he was amongst many things an
> electronics tinkerer and has a closet full of small parts in bin
> cabinets (resistors, capacitors, ICs, transistors, hardware, etc.).
There is also a Unicomp 18 bit minicomputer, paper tape reader, and FFT
processor circa 1972 in the garage (6ft rack) with full documentation.
I walked out of the donations meeting with the other curators today who
thought it was a piece of s**t and didn't want to take it, calling it a
'dumpster fire'
Art was a friend of mine.
Hopefully it can go someplace where it can be appreciated.
Talk to Tom about it, unfortunately, time is short.
--
73 AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
> From: Ian S. King
> Do you have the grey rectangular bits that plug into the pods? If not,
> you're pretty much screwed
Not necessarily. I bought a couple of Tek 1240's, without pods or probes, but
managed to locate a goodly supply of each on eBait.
The key for me was to find the original Tek part number for the pods and
probes, and then search for that. The same might work for this HP thingy.
Noel
