I know some folks have been trying to get in touch with me for a while and I want to apologize for not getting back in touch with folks before now.
The short and long of it has been the fact that first my wife had health issues, then I had health issues and finally in the middle of all of this my ISP decided to move me to a new static IP block which caused my email to be on various black-lists that took a while to get off of (so I could *see* the emails, I just couldn't respond).
So, that's why folks haven't heard from me.
Up until the above, I had been making steady progress on the MEM11 code. Right now I have most of the forth code written along with a J1 simulator (written in forth). I was in the process of debugging the simulator when all of the above occurred and I haven't been able to get back to it yet. I hope to start on it again in the next few weeks.
TTFN - Guy
> From: Pontus Pihlgren
>> Seeing the one with the one with the missing toggle switches reminds
>> me that I have an enquiry out re getting some made.
> I believe many would appreciate that.
We probably ought to standardize our terminology to be slightly less
confusing. As we've determined, the actual switch is a slide switch, not a
toggle. I'm not sure what the official DEC name is for the plastic lever which
actuates the slide switch - anyone know?
Noel
PS: If a way is developed to make the plastic levers, the 11/20 uses the
exact same part, just in PDP-11 colours.
Asof now I know of two variations
1, Selector switch positions 1 and 6 lines can be vertical or
at an angle to the vertical
2, Vertical divider between groups of three lamps
Anybody seen an 8/e panel with anything else?
Rod
Does anyone have documentation for the Intel MDS-740 hard disk system
for use with the MDS and Series II, Series III development systems?
The drive had one fixed and one removable platter, the removable being
a 12-sector 5440-style cartridge. The drive may have been a CDC 9427H,
or something similar. The controller was two Multibus boards, a 3000
bit-slice based channel board, and a drive interface board. (Similar
organization to the two-board floppy controllers.)
I am mostly looking for the schematics and programming information,
though if anyone has an actual controller board (or even just the
channel board), a dump of the microcode would be useful.
The documentation I'm looking for might or might not be contained in
the "Model 740 Hard Disk Subsystem Operation and Checkout" manual,
order number 9800943A.
Note that this is *entirely* different than the iMDX 750 winchester
disk subsystem. The 740 was supported by plain ISIS-II 4.x, while the
iMDS 750 used a variant of the iSBC 215 controller, and required a
special ISIS-II(W).
Thanks!
Eric
Hey guys?
Is there anyone that uses DOS and early Win9x Machines?? Ive got about
4 of them that could use a home.. Ive wiped them all and put FreeDOS on
them.
Ive got a number of early PCI and ISA VGA Cards and network cards as well
Are these worth saving??
Steve
Hi folks,
I was in an antique store today, mostly to humor my wife, and much to her
dismay spotted a fairly early luggable: it said TeleVideo on the face and,
looking closer, it was a TPC-1 with the keyboard, the carrying bag, the
documentation AND a metric butt-ton of floppies. Once I get everything
sorted I'll let the list know what software I have, so if you need
something maybe I can help....
...and maybe you can help me. I want to open up the TPC and check power
supplies, etc. - OK, I'll come clean. I plugged it in, watched carefully
for magic smoke and, seeing none, put a 'working disk' in the drive. I got
an endless string of '.' but no boot. I tried a couple of other disks
labeled <boot> and, after a couple, I no longer had a display. So no
surprise, I really need to open it up and probably replace a bunch of PS
capacitors.
I have no idea how to get this box open! There's nothing in the
documentation, and I found one online reference that suggested TeleVideo
kept this information close to the chest because they didn't want any Tom,
Dick or Ian opening up their machines. Now if I poke and prod long enough
I'll probably get there, but with the collective knowledge on this list I
figure there has to be SOME one who worked on these back In The Day, who
just knows this off the top of his/her head.
So... anyone? Thanks -- Ian
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Folks,
I'm trying to resurrect a couple of Sparcstation 10 systems. Is there
anything 'funny' about the serial console settings on SS10 hardware? I
thought they always defaulted to 9600-n-8-1, but I get voluminous
gobbledygook at that, and at every other baud rate I've tried.
Both systems behave identically, so I can't assume SS10 settings are
wrong. And I *am* getting data, so I don't see how it can be the
cabling. Something strange about the terminal emulation mode required
maybe?
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
'No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame.
For one person, in the dark, where no one will ever know or see.'
Just thought id share this with you guys.. I dont know if the price is
fair or not, But if someone wants it and needs pick up arranged I can
do it, Im about an hour from there. Just cover my gas.. I can bring
it out to VCFMW
http://grandrapids.craigslist.org/sys/5074135858.html
Thanks
Steve
