OK, time again to dust off the old brains out there. I found a ("the")
ISIS-II emulator that runs under dos, which comes with a PLM80 compiler. It
also comes with link, locate, objhex and other goodies. The PLM80 compiler
identifies itself as PLM80 V4. I worked on the development of the ISIS-II
stuff at Intel in the very early 80's as well as on the National
Semiconductor Starplex system (anyone remember that one?) so I am able to
tinker around and remember how most of this works, but version 4 of the
PLM80 compiler is getting the better of me.
I have the PLM80 Programmer's Manual, but it is for earlier versions of the
two-pass version of PLM80, version 4 was a single pass version that used the
linker and locator, all of which was the precursor to the PLM86 compiler and
tools. I believe this version came out shortly before the 8086 was
introduced, everyone went on to the segmented world and never looked back,
which may explain why there isn't much out there for it. I am not able to
locate any information on this version 4 of PLM80 anywhere, and the use and
format is definitiely different from prior versions of PLM80.
Anyone out there have any information or pointers for me? I have tried all
of the excellent repositories of manuals and emailed Herb, his site
indicates that he might have what I need. Anyone have an ISIS-II set of
manuals sitting around that can check for me?
Specifically, I am in need of:
98-00268B plm 80 programming manual, V4
Thanks.
Jeff Erwin
By the way, I am running the ISIS-II emulator in a DOS box under windows,
itself an emulator. Windows is running under Parallels on my Mac Pro which
is running OSx. Is it possible to get further from reality here??
I've just been sniped (again) for one of these on eBay (#290263627918).
I don't especially care about the physical artifact, I'd just like to
see what's on the thing. Anybody know where I can grab an ISO image?
Thanks,
--Steve.
>> Anybody recognize the board in this lot:
>>
>> 120314777595
>>
>> transputer maybe? I hope the bidder isn't really going
>> to reclaim the obvious "pounds" of gold on it.
>
>The logo on top of each post looks like the Fairchild logo. The numbers
>suggest a date of 1976, but it looks *very* high tech for something of
that
>vintage.
>
>Alexis.
I'm certainly no expert on mainframes, but I do recognise a Fujitsu logo
when I see one. So, my money is on this being a board out of a Fujitsu
mainframe computer. Chips like that, with cooling towers etc.... Maybe
ECL logic?
I remember many years ago visiting Fujitsu's main development location.
The whole of the basement was constructed as a museum of all Fujitsu
major products over the years, including tons of computer stuff. I
remember marvelling at PCBs with 20+ signal layers and integral fluid
cooling etc, in the days when most PCBs were only double sided or 4
layers at best. Fascinating stuff!
I suspect the winner of the auction has got himself something that would
have cost major $$$ when new.
Nick Jarmany
Well, once again I find myself with too much stuff and not enough places
to put it. And my GF is moving in sometime soon so I really need the
room :). So here's a few things I'm getting rid of, in case anyone's
interested:
Stuff is free, but local pick up (Seattle area) only! Works unless
otherwise indicated. Anything not claimed 'll end up being recycled,
most likely.
Monitors:
- Amdek Color-I. Color AND Sound!
- Mitsubishi DiamondScan (CGA/EGA, composite, TTL) (needs a cap kit)
- Magnavox Professional (EGA)
- Gateway 15" SVGA (Trinitron)
- NeXT 21" Color -- beat up, but worked last time I used it a few years
back.
- NeXT 17" Color -- same.
Computers:
- Dell Optiplex GX Pro - dual PPro upgraded to Dual PII (via overdrive
CPUs). I have some RAM for it somewhere... works.
- IBM PS/2 Model 25. Will not power up. Color screen, 20mb hard disk.
Printers:
- HP Laserjet 6P. Missing rear side covers (over power/parallel ports)
but works fine. Relatively new toner cartridge.
Misc Junk:
- HP 1200B Oscilloscope. Needs repair.
- Various AT and ATX cases, empty but I can throw in a power supply or
two assuming I have one that fits. Inquire for details.
>> Anybody recognize the board in this lot:
>>
>> 120314777595
>>
>> transputer maybe? I hope the bidder isn't really going
>> to reclaim the obvious "pounds" of gold on it.
>
>The logo on top of each post looks like the Fairchild logo. The numbers
>suggest a date of 1976, but it looks *very* high tech for something of
that
>vintage.
>
>Alexis.
I'm certainly no expert on mainframes, but I do recognise a Fujitsu logo
when I see one. So, my money is on this being a board out of a Fujitsu
mainframe computer. Chips like that, with cooling towers etc.... Maybe
ECL logic?
I remember many years ago visiting Fujitsu's main development location.
The whole of the basement was constructed as a museum of all Fujitsu
major products over the years, including tons of computer stuff. I
remember marvelling at PCBs with 20+ signal layers and integral fluid
cooling etc, in the days when most PCBs were only double sided or 4
layers at best. Fascinating stuff!
I suspect the winner of the auction has got himself something that would
have cost major $$$ when new.
Nick Jarmany
replying to
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Subject: Re: Seeking SunOS 4.1.4
A friend had a beowulf cluster of IPXs but all running BSD.
> I share your IPX affinity. I had one on my desk for a very long
> time, when they were state of the art. Wonderful little machine.
> And amazingly zippy, from a time when software wasn't so poorly-
> written and bloated.
I too was very satisfied with the Sun IPX when it was new,
particularly with Sun's Answerbook (far better
than any other online manual system I used at that time)
and programmer's workbench development system.
I got to know and like the S-Bus
when writing a device driver for an SDLC card.
I still remember the phonecall requesting assistance
with my device driver. It wouldn't work on the Sun 4m processor.
It turns out the processor delays bus writes
in order to share the bus with other processors,
so I had to add a magic .asm spell to flush the writes.
I would've figured that mapping the I/O registers
into the memory map would've implied write-thru.
-- jeffj
Hi,
I recently got a Tektronix 4170 and terminal from ebay. The terminal is
a 4108, which I can't find in the 1985 catalog that introduces the 4170.
The next catalog I have is 1989 and that lists no 41xx products.
The enclosure for the terminal is very similar to a 4105, except that
the finish is black and not that green-gray that is on most Tektronix
gear of the period. The 4105 has a small cover on the back where you
can add ROM to the terminal to enhance its functions. In this 4108,
there is a cover in a similar area of the case, but it covers a set of
4 expansion slots. In my terminal, two of the slots are occupied.
One looks to be memory and the other looks to be control.
Had the tektronix terminal "mainframe" evolved by this time to be a
substrate into which processing and memory cards were inserted to
round out the system? I haven't opened the monitor case to look at it
in detail.
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