test-drb January 2021

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96 discussions

by dfnr2＠yahoo.com

The terminals wiki (https://terminals-wiki.org) seems to have been down for several months.? I hope the maintainer is OK. Does anyone know if this site is gone for good??? Is there a mirror anywhere?? The wayback machine has a few pages, but mostly serves to capture the look&feel. Dave

3 years, 11 months

Seeking: TMS32010 Assembly Language Programmer's Guide (1983)

by pbirkel＠gmail.com

All; I seek a copy (hard or electronic) of the "TMS32010 Assembly Language Programmer's Guide" (1983). Paperback : 194 pages ISBN-10 : 0904047423 ISBN-13 : 978-0904047424 Publisher : Texas Instruments (December 1, 1983) Item Weight : 1.11 pounds Language: : English The "TMS32010 User's Guide" (1985) is readily available. Not so the (more important!) Programmer's Guide :-{. I recently obtained a TMS 32010 Evaluation Module (EVM). So I'm motivated to "learn something" about the details of programming the TMS 32010. My first hands-on foray into the (early) world of DSP :-}. I've searched all of the nooks-n-crannies of the web to no avail. All help in locating/obtaining a copy of this document will be greatly appreciated. I do have a copy of "Digital Signal Processing Using TMS32010" (Douglas L. Jones) on order as a stop-gap measure. Thank you, paul

3 years, 11 months

PDP-11/70 backplane wire list

by derschjo＠gmail.com

Hey all -- Discovered a broken wirewrap wire on the 11/70 I'm slowly working on, it's on the last slot (44), and runs from BD2 to ??. White wire, part of a white/black twisted pair. I've been looking but haven't found a wire list for the backplane -- anyone have any leads, or, alternately, does anyone have ready access to an 11/70 backplane to trace where the wire from BD2 on slot 44 goes to? (Fortunately it looks like there's just the one wire on that pin, though there might be one "below" it on the pin that I can't quite see, rather cramped in there.) Thanks as always, Josh

3 years, 11 months

Emails going to spam folder in gmail

by billdegnan＠gmail.com

Hi, I have noticed the same email addresses' messages routinely end up in the spam folder of gmail. It's no big deal for me to check my spam folder but it's an extra step and messages can be lost. For those of you who run your own mail servers please consider updating your DNS / authentication to match gmail standards. It's not about making a filter or marking messages as "not spam". It's about how the sending mail server communicates with gmail and the "newer" mail server gateway protocols, etc. so that it's not necessary to make a filter in the first place.' There are a lot of how-to's on the web, each mail server is different and there is no simple fix that applies to all. Bill

3 years, 11 months

DEC part number system

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Antonio Carlini > It was (iirc) described in DEC STD 012 (the part numbering standard) ... > I do have (or did have) a DEC STDs CD at one point, but my copy of that > seems to be missing DEC STD 012. ... I've no idea why this one might be > missing. It looks like you already uploaded it to Manx: https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/standards/el-00012-00-0000.pdf Looking though that led me to DEC STD 012-2 "Unified Numbering Code for Part Identifier Class Codes": https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/dec/standards/el-00012-02-0000.pdf which was exactly what I wanted. It's not the thing I remembered, but as DEC's official list, in some ways it's better (although it's so detailed it's kind of overkill :-)! > From: Vincent Slyngstad > the "Spare Parts List" links on this page are relevant: Volume II had a brief but early 'class code' list; I made good use of it. Thanks everone! Much appreciated! Noel

3 years, 12 months

vtserver for geezer '11s

by jacob.ritorto＠gmail.com

Hi, I modified vtserver to work on pdp11/34 and similar - the older machines that have the 000000 000000 000000 000000 @ odt prompt. I'm afraid I didn't do a very thorough job (hack night and just wanted to get it working) and in retrospect I wish I would've made a conditional argument to put it in this mode. Perhaps we should collaborate on adding this properly and adding other desirable features like compression for incoming "all zero" blocks when pulling images in from real hardware, etc. It's here if you'd like to use it: https://github.com/jritorto/vtserver You can run it with ./a.out -odt to facilitate its talking to the pdp at power-on and loading its initial boot sequence via odt in octal. You have to run the primary bootstrap with L 140000 and S <return> because I botched the parsing a bit in my rush to get things going. thx jake

3 years, 12 months

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