I'm wondering if anyone wants a DEC Vax 6220 (model number 62AMB-YE).
It's approximately 5' x 3' x 3' and is located in the Mobile, Alabama
area. Please reply quickly.
david
Hi All:
I have an M8047-AA 2 port SLU/boot rom card. It's a dual-height Q bus
card.
I am looking for the pinout of the 2 serial ports. They are 10 pin IDC
headers, with one pin removed to ensure correct polarity.
The headers look like:
o o o o o
o o X o o
The "o"s are pins, the "X" is the missing pin.
This is for an 11/23, the card is configured with what appears to be a
boot ROM, I'm assuming that one of the serial ports comes up as the
console.
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
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>>Why do you have to remember when you have VMS HELP available? :-)
>Hey, that's cheating :-)
>The story I heard about uFortnights was a bit of an "in joke" within VMS
>development. There was obviously a concerted effort to make VMS
>documentation as dry as IBM stuff is perceived, so the developers put up
>this new unit to see how far up the chain of cleansing it would go before
>being "expunged". I hear that there was some surprise and embarrassment
>when it escaped to customers.
If that's the case, I wonder how "?SYS-F-FUBAR - Failed Unibus Address
Register" snuck in, too :-)
Tim.
I'm not sure if the HP Paintjet is >10yo. If not,feel free to ignore.
Is it possible to upload fonts to the Paintjet? Or redefine its
character set in any way? Does anyone have the escape codes for it?
I looked on www.hp.com, but it is Lynx-unfriendly.
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Thank you very much for the scanning info, Eric. If I can get my
clients out of here reasonably early enough Sunday(tomorrow), I will
give things a try along the lines you've suggested... seems I have
most of the tools lying around here somewhere.
My offer, though, re: the doc that spawned this thread, still
holds. If you want this TurboDos info, it is yours for the price of
UPS or FedEx from Los Angeles.
Thanx again!
PS: Thanx Ward G. I had quite forgotten about the F/F/F system of
mensuration. And it is no less ridiculous than the one we (in 'Merka)
use that is derived from human anatomy and plant biology.
Cheers
John
> The "programmer's" front panel doesn't exist for the PDP11/70.
I saw this earlier and I severely disagree. Two systems I knew of
in the Mill (PRINCE::) and Westford (GRAF::) locations were both 11/70
with programmers front pannels. The latter system, GRAF:: was one I'd
reboot if the sysmangler wasn't around so it's familiar to me.
Allison
Hello, all:
I finally got Acrobat Exchange and my scanner to talk to eachother, so I
started scanning my PDP docs.
I posted to http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/pdp11/ copies of the
following:
* IAS/RSX-11 Fortran IV Installation Guide approx size 2mb
* RK05J Engineering drawings approx size 2.7mb
I also have the RK05 service manual scanned and broken into four,
25-page chunks totaling about 7.5mb.
Let me know what you think about the file sizes. I'm torn between files
for each chapter and a single file so long as it isn't much bigger than 2mb.
Rich Cini/WUGNET
- ClubWin!/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Collector of "classic" computers
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> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 18:33:48 +0100 (BST)
> From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: 11/70 front panel
> Message-ID: <m0zX7ZY-000IyNC@p850ug1>
> Content-Type: text
>
> > The "programmer's" front panel doesn't exist for the PDP11/70.
>
> I would guess he's refering to the original 11/70 front panel. It looks
> just like an 11/45 panel, except that it has 22 address indicators and 22
> switches.
>
> > What you probably have is the 11/70 Remote Diagnostic Console
> > which allowed DEC to remotely diagnose the 11/70 (even when hung
> > in a microcode loop or power fail routine) from Colorado.
> >
> > The front panel hooks to a microprocessor controlled card which interfaced
>
> The original 11/70 panel connects directly into the CPU logic AFAIK. I don't
> think there's a microprocessor in there.
I don't believe so... I do think the Remote Diag Console used a microprocessor
(Looked kind of like a modified DMC/KMC-11 to allow it to grab Unibus
state snapshots and stuff like that from a machine which was completely
hung.
I only wished they kept working front panel switches and lights with
the RDC.
>
> -tony
>
You could do a lot of good diagnostic stuff remotely with just the
RDC and a console DL11 hooked to a modem...
The board was supposed to be DEC proprietary and removed from the machine
(like the 11/750 RDC board) when it went off service contact.
In the late 80's DEC started getting a bit lax on removing them.
If I find the pocket guide for it -- I'll post the commands.
Bill
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>And of course there's a VMS sysgen parameter whose unit of measurement is
>the micro-fortnight. Any VMS systems types out there remember what the
>parameter is, and how long a micro-fortnight is :-)
Why do you have to remember when you have VMS HELP available? :-)
(TIMAXP)$: MCR SYSGEN
SYSGEN> SHOW PARAM *TIME*
Parameter Name Current Default Min. Max. Unit Dynamic
-------------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ---- -------
TIMEPROMPTWAIT 65535 -1 0 -1 uFortnight
SYSGEN> HELP PARAM TIMEPROMPTWAIT
TIMEPROMPTWAIT
TIMEPROMPTWAIT defines the number of seconds that you want a
VAX processor to wait for the time and date to be entered when
a system boot occurs, if the processor's time-of-year clock does
not contain a valid time. (The time unit of micro-fortnights
is approximated as seconds in the implementation.) If the
time specified by TIMEPROMPTWAIT elapses, the system continues
the boot operation, and the date and time are set to the last
recorded time that the system booted. For a VAX-11/730 processor,
which does not have a battery backup clock, the system time must
be supplied following a power failure.
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