> From: Jon Elson
> if they were doing mostly RPG work, then a /20 could do that.
This is a _long_ time ago, and I was a junior operator, not a programmer, but
I know most (maybe all) of their work was in RPG.
Noel
Some may recall the Nova 3 front panel discussion some months back. I
bought a Nova 3 front panel just for the heck of it, and we discussed
replacing lamp, and have the correct lamp info now.
Nova 3 CPU, 2 16K boards, Basic I/O and
Anyway the Nova 3 karma system was watching and guess what.
http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2016/11/data-general-nova-3.html
So now I may really be doing work on the lamps on both my system and on
the spare front panel.
Maybe the Star Trek gods are doing this, since we have a DG copy of Star
Trek too. Getting scary.
thanks
Jim
spent way too much time on this the past few days
I dug up everything I had on the system, took pictures and dumped firmware and floppies
Maybe someone will figure out how to remove the serialization some day
bitsavers.org/pdf/fortuneSystems floppy images under bits/
I also started reverse-engineering the board, mostly to see how the mmu worked.
Pretty basic, four base/bound sets made up of two 12 bit registers in three bytes
the 12 bit adder is applied to A10-21
This all looked familiar, esp the bus pinouts. I think I had docs at one point for
expansion board developers. Have no idea what happened to that.
I found this ad!
>From what I knew of him he was more of an admin type person than
a hands on person..
If anyone else finds something related to him at EAI let me know.
When I worked for him before I had started my computer business
and stayed at his house I do not remember much of any hoarded stash of
anything...
must be from living then Army life for over 20 years where you moved
all the time..
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anyway here is the ad I found!
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230 Dataplotter
Designed for time-share users I self-contained, desktop device, compatibly
interfaced to keyboard terminals and acoustic couplers / operates at
maximum speed in all directions'l includes easy-to-use FORTRAN plot ting
subroutines.
Electronic Associates, Inc. 185 Monmouth Pkwy. West Long Branch, N.J. 07764
Attn: Ed Sharpe
COMPUTERS and AUTOMATION for March, 1971
Ed Sharpe ( the younger) Archivist for SMECC _www.smecc.org_
(http://www.smecc.org)
I did not go back thru the list for the prior discussion of this, but
found this pile listed again, local pickup in Austin. IIRC, the seller
was a flake listing and relisting it a number of times. This time the
Buy it Now price id $999
Local Pickup Austin
MUSEUM-VINTAGE-COMPUTER-LOT-COLLECTION-FLOPPY-APPLE-NORTHSTAR-IBM-TI-XEROX-TEJAS/
http://www.ebay.com/itm/3617774590138
So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
So I exploded the tar ball and compiled it and it crashed so I carted it
over to one of our Tru64 Unix Alpha boxes, took the 'g' off "gcc" in the
makefile, used sed to change ncurses to curses where ever it could be
found and compiled it. AND IT WORKS SWELL!
Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the VAX-11/780 running
4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my AS4100.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
> From: William Degnan
> for all that I have read about the actual use of the /20 that was not
> what it was for. IBM used the /20's as a smart terminal and that kind
> of thing. The thing in between the mainframe and something else
> operating in a remote location, and so on.
When I was working at IBM Bermuda (as sort of an intern), they used a 360/20
as their main service bureau machine. (I'm pretty sure it was a /20, and not a
/30.) It had a card reader/punch, 4 (IIRC) tape drives, and a 1403 printer.
They had just gotten in a System/3, to replace it, but only one client had
transitioned to using it.
Noel
> Check out the module utilization chart .. On a stock RK11-C, slots 1-8,
> rows C-D (the bottom two rows) are empty. ... (I'll be documenting the
> added Flip Chips in the Double-Buffered variant 'soon'.)
I've added a module chart for the double-buffered variant here:
http://gunkies.org/wiki/RK11-C_disk_controller
I'm working on the prints now. (Any idea what I should call this thing?
There's already an "RK11-C_Engineering_Drawings".)
Noel