At 01:10 PM 9/10/2016, Glen Slick wrote:
>Those are the leads that go with the HP163x series logic analyzer pods such as the HP 1630G that Rob Jarratt was just asking about here.
Aaah - that is why I did not recognize them - I had seen only the 165x/166x leads.
Dale H. Cook, GR / HP Collector, Roanoke/Lynchburg, VA
http://plymouthcolony.net/starcity/radios/index.html
> >On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:59 PM, Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at update.uu.se>
>> >wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >Hmm, yes, I think I might actually. What do you have so far?
>>> > >
>> >
>> >I don't have much yet, unfortunately; still trying to get my thoughts
>> >together on how it should be implemented. Mark Pizzolato recommends using
>> >as much existing display code as possible. I did start an issue for it
>> >here, though:https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/337
>> >
>> >Kyle
> I found Phils code when I looked into this yesterday. There also the VR12
> emulation in the, now dormant, GreenPea[1] project. I was wondering which
> graphics library to use but since both simh and GreenPea uses SDL I guess
> that settle that.
>
> I found and read Dougs[2] VC8E summary. Do you have any other docs? A
> cursory look on bitsavers didn't give any result.
>
> /P
>
> [1]https://github.com/andysan/greenpea/
> [2]http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/pdp8/man/vc8e.html
>
There is at least schematics on bitsavers: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp8/omnibus/VC8-E_engineering_d…
I encourage you to do this, I have a working VC8E if you what me to try anything.
/Anders
I thought chm had woosed.. out on it already?..
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-------- Original message --------
From: Tom Gardner <t.gardner at computer.org>
Date: 9/10/16 11:24 (GMT-07:00)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Components available - the rest of the story
Hi Jason:
Yes the LCM has asked for it.
If the CHM says no, we need to work out details of the transfer and may take
u up on your offer to help in transport.? Note it is a 6-foot rack with
about 5 file drawers of documents
Regards,
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Howe [mailto:jason at smbfc.net]
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 10:40 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Components available - the rest of the story
Have they thought about other museums, like the LCM up here in Seattle??
I'd be happy to volunteer to go get it and bring it back North.
--Jason
On 09/09/2016 08:39 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 00:59, curiousmarc3 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> I might be interested, as I already have two FFT systems that I am
restoring (an HP 5420A and a HP 5451C). I am local. Just drop me an email.
>
> If Marc adopts it, he'll surely make some excellent Youtube videos about
it!
>
>
Okay, I have it all dialed in now!
With that iffy memory board swapped out, the system works beautifully. I
did have some trouble loading Altair BASIC but after looking at a video of
someone running it I discovered an extra line that appeared to be in the
Altair patch file and also a couple of memory addresses that were altered.
Once I did that, the prompts came up and it let me enter a program! The
only problem was for some reason Hyperterminal was cutting off a column or
two - so instead of the OK prompt I had O. I figured that was probably just
Hyperterminal, so I switched the system back to 110 baud, loaded Altair
BASIC, and then switched to the CT-1024. It worked perfectly!
Pretty magical being able to use this software I've only seen demonstrated
in videos on vintage hardware! Can't wait for the day I have a real Altair
and teletype.
I'm going to hunt around for more S19 files. I'd also like to learn more
about how to program this thing (I assume in assembly). And then another
thing on my wish list would be to have both the MP-S and MP-C cards working
together in a way that I could use one to load and save stuff off to my PC
terminal and the other for actual terminal interface.
Thanks again for the help and suggestions!!
Brad
You bet it does! My friend Jim Early explained to me how it was
used on the Bell Solar Batteries ( solar cells) for TELSTAR
Ed Sharpe PDP-8 SN18
In a message dated 9/9/2016 7:55:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
dpi at dustyoldcomputers.com writes:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Murray McCullough wrote:
> And use so much transparent aluminum.
>
Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was thinking of
using it for the touch screen face of the iphone.
--
Doug Ingraham
PDP-8 SN 1175
yep!
In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:46:36 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
pete at pski.net writes:
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo <cliendo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from
> Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macintosh
> trying to show transparent aluminum.
>
> In my own humble opinion it is one of the best scenes ever from a Star
> Trek movie or show.
?Hello, computer!?=
you mean when he picks up the mouse and says.... hello computer into it?
yea I fell outta my seat!
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:31:59 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cliendo at gmail.com writes:
The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macintosh
trying to show transparent aluminum.
In my own humble opinion it is one of the best scenes ever from a Star
Trek movie or show.
Charles Dickman's site shows a VC8E screenshot with text:
http://www.chdickman.com/pdp8/spacewar/
However, unless I'm missing something, I don't actually see what would've
drawn the characters. A little digging on Bitsavers shows there was a VC8E
driver.
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/bits/DEC/pdp8/papertapeImages/russ.ucs.i…
Even in this, I don't see any sign of a character lookup table or the like.
Where would all of this have been created?
Thanks,
Kyle
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
a television show of 50 years ago?
Happy computing!
Murray
