test-drb March 2021

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by hachti＠hachti.de

Hi, I habe some pdp10 related docs which need to go away. Anybody interested? Or should I dump it (and reuse the white folders foro pdp8 stuff)? https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B0r5oqs3qGclUOi Kind regards Philipp -- Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Philipp Hachtmann Buchdruck, Bleisatz, Spezialit?ten Klus 16 31073 Delligsen Mobil: 0171/2632239 UStdID DE 202668329

3 years, 8 months

pdp11, pdp8 prototyping boards

by emu＠e-bbes.com

Don't know if you guys know about them, I just tripped over them... https://www.tindie.com/products/glitchwrks/gw-dec-1-prototyping-board-for-p… Cheers

3 years, 8 months

[TUHS] A stack of PDP-11 field maintenance print sets

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: John Floren > Can anyone on the list point me to either an existing archive where > these exist The canonical repository for historic documentation online is BitSavers. It has an almost-complete set of DEC stuff (both manuals and prints. QBUS devices are at: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/qbus/ QBUS CPU's will be in the relevant model directory, e.g.: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1123/ and disk drives are in: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/disc/ I haven't checked your list, but I suspect most of them are there; I think the ADV11-A prints are missing, though. You can either send the originals to Al Kossow, or scan them for him; but check with him first, to make sure he doen't already have them, just hasn't got around to posting them yet. There's another site which indexes DEC online documentation: https://manx-docs.org/ There are a very few things which aren't in Bitsavers, and can be found there. > KFD11-A cpu I assume that's a typo for 'KDF11-A'? Noel

3 years, 8 months

Fwd: [TUHS] A stack of PDP-11 field maintenance print sets

by jfoust＠threedee.com

> >From: John Floren <john at jfloren.net> >Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 14:51:40 -0800 >To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs at tuhs.org> >Subject: [TUHS] A stack of PDP-11 field maintenance print sets > >I've been hauling around a pile of DEC Field Maintenance Print Sets >for PDP-11 components for over a decade now, intending to see if >they're worth having scanned or if there are digital versions out >there already. Can anyone on the list point me to either an existing >archive where these exist, or an archivist who would be interested in >scanning them? They're full of exploded diagrams, schematics, and >assembly listings. > >Here's the list of what I have: > >Field Maintenance Print Set (17" wide, 11" high): >RLV11 disk controller >RL01-AK disk drive >ADV-11A (??) > >Field Maintenance Print Set (14" wide, 8.5" high): >RL01 disk drive >DLV11-J serial line controller >RLV11 disk controller >KFD11-A cpu >KEF11-A floating point processor >PDP11/23 >PDP11/03-L > >Absolutely not tossing them, just wondering if there are already >scanned copies available somewhere, if I should send them off to be >scanned and put online, or if I should just check in with computer >museums (I'm near the CHM, for instance) > >John Floren

3 years, 8 months

PDP 8/a for sale UK (Devon)

by gordon+cctalk＠drogon.net

I'm moving soon and need to down-size a little, so selling off my PDP-8/a. It has 16KW core and is in full working order. It has the serial IO board which I think was standard in the 8/a anyway. It's a 3-card system plus the 2 x 8KW core boards. Also included is a Vincent Slyngstad memory/rtc expansion board - not built up, so full kit form that I've not been able to assemble yet. ?1000 ono. https://unicorn.drogon.net/IMG_20210305_150415.jpg boards: https://unicorn.drogon.net/IMG_20180126_181135.jpg https://unicorn.drogon.net/IMG_20180126_181115.jpg https://unicorn.drogon.net/IMG_20180126_171659.jpg I'm based in Devon. Buyer collect (if you want to see it working) else I can make a short video and may be able to take it a little way up or down the A38/M5. Thanks, Gordon

3 years, 8 months

Looking for the numeric pad "1" key on VT-100 vintage keyboard

by cramcram＠gmail.com

Does anyone out there have a "1" key (the one in the numeric keypad, not the 1 / ! key) that they are willing to sell: me? I saw a couple of partial keyboards go fairly cheap on ePay a couple of months ago but didn't see it until it was sold. Thanks, Marc Howard

3 years, 8 months

Intellec MCS-8 8008 monitor program ROM files

by roelof_klaas＠yahoo.com

Hello everyone, Does anyone have the?Intellec MCS-8 8008 system monitor ROM files? According to the Intellec MCS-8 manual the System Monitor is contained in five 1702A PROMs.My ROMs have a disk loader, but the disks system is long gone... Any papertape software is also welcome for this machine! Thanks in advance!Regards, Roland Huisman

3 years, 8 months

SPARCengine CP1200

by rp＠servium.ch

I just acquired a Sun SPARCengine CP1200. To my knowledge the CP1200 is the only 32bit SPARC with a PCI bus, which makes it pretty cool. It was also extremely unpopular, because who wants a 100MHz MicroSPARC IIep when you can have a SPARCengine CP1500 with a 270MHz UltraSPARC IIi (they were released at the same time, and I suspect the cost difference wasn't all that much). Would anyone know where I can find a Sun PROM image? mine has a VxWorks ROM, but I'd rather run Solaris on it. I've searched everywhere, and couldn't find anything. Most "usual" places (e.g. the FE handbook) barely acknowledge its existence if at all. AFAIK this predates field upgradeable flash PROMs, so it's not hidden in a patch somewhere. thanks Rico

3 years, 8 months

Searching for Elevated socket

by brain＠jbrain.com

IN my continuing Digitalker saga, I did find a couple not horribly priced Digitalker ICs online and purchased them.? As one arrived, I found that my original IC was actually OK, but the cable from the computer to the device has issues. I've traced it to what looks like a heavy duty 16 pin IC socket on the board that plugs into the computer, and into which a 16 pin 2x8 .3" DIP IDC header plugs into (with the IDC cable going to another such header, which plugs into a similar socket on the main synthesizer PCB). The socket has the same basic footprint as a normal 2x8 16 pin .3" IC socket, but it's much heavier duty.? I could replace with a simple leaf socket, but would prefer to find a direct replacement. Though I am sure other manufacturers sold similar, I find that Aries sells that I need.? It's an Aries 16-8430-10 <http://www.beckwithelectronics.com/ARIES/16-8430-10.htm> (or could be an Aries 16-8480-10 <http://www.beckwithelectronics.com/ARIES/16-8480-10.htm>) elevated IC socket.? The link below shows the units: http://www.beckwithelectronics.com/ARIES/8xxx.htm Digikey has the 14 pin version in stock, but no 16 pin ones, and neither does Mouser.? I'll keep searching, but they are very expensive and I'm not sure I need 40 of them (minimum Digikey order). Thus, I am wondering if someone on list has 1 or 2 they might be interested in selling for the cause. The good news is that I was able to get the connection to work, and now the unit operates as designed. Still, I do not trust the socket. Jim -- Jim Brain brain at jbrain.com www.jbrain.com

3 years, 8 months

Massbus - was: Re: VAX 11/750

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Paul Koning > There's a good reason why the big disks on many DEC machines were Massbus > devices until MSCP arrived. It's quite clear on Unibus PDP-11s, which > needed Massbus both for speed and for a cleaner answer to more-than-18 > bit addressing. I follow the first sentence, but I'm confused by the second, especially "a cleaner answer to more-than-18 bit addressing". The UNIBUS MASSBUS controller/adapter, the RH11, only has 18-bit addressing on the main memory side. It does have more than 18-bit addressing on the device side, but so does the RP11 (sort of). Are you thinking of the RH70? That does have access to more than 2^18 bytes of main memory, but that's because it connects to the -11/70 memory bus (as well as the UNIBUS, which is only used for control, not data). Similar questions about the speed point; passing data through an RH11 doesn't increase the speed of the UNIBUS? Yes, the RH70 is faster, but that's because of its connection to the -11/70 memory bus. Noel

3 years, 8 months

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test-drb March 2021