Opps, I missed that URL. It's late (early?) and
I thought it was part of your digital signature.
I'll follow up on it myself.......
>
>A computer museum in The Netherlands is looking for the documentation for
>a Kennedy 9300 tape drive. I'm sure someone on this list has that.
>
>http://www.wins.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/wanted.html
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
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>
>
Now a question for the real wiered stuff:
Does anybody know a Wang-71 ?
I just know the name - I'm right now on a trace of
a specific Russian computer, and they told me that
this machine is a Wang-71 clone, but I can't find any
information about this machine. No, I have no pictures
of the Russian machine and no further data. The clone
is build 1975, so the original design might me a bit
earlyer.
Gruss
H.
P.S.: has anyone a list of PDP-clones ? I want to
classify some finds.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
I am not familiar enough with both machines to make a judjement on which one
is better but the franklin display some features that seem interesting:
apple dos 3.3 compatibility, floating point basic, apparently could run CP/M
or Pascal (OS?)(not much info on that), programmable function keysimpressive
display capabilities (16 colors at 560 x 192), built in parallel and serial
interfaces and memory expandable up to 576K.
Compare that to the Apple IIe or IIc. The memory extension and RGB interface
cards are optional (128K and 80 column color?)
It's hard to tell what the exact caracteristics are the users manual keep
refering to the technical manual that I don't have.
Francois
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From: Max Eskin <maxeskin(a)hotmail.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Franklin Ace 2100
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>
>Better means any feature that would bias one towards one computer
>versus another. Did it include a z80, by any chance? On the back
>of this machine, there were some slot covers; did it take standard
>apple cards?
>>
>>I haven't tasted them yet ;)
>>
>>
>>I don't really know yet. I would believe that they added some features
>but
>>how would you define "better", more reliable, faster, bigger software
>>library?
>>All I can do is look at the specs and compare the two.
>>
>>Francois
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< I have a couple of 29s for sale, several plugs and a copy of the manual.
< anyone is interested.
< Paxton
What kind of price is attached to one?
Allison
A computer museum in The Netherlands is looking for the documentation for
a Kennedy 9300 tape drive. I'm sure someone on this list has that.
http://www.wins.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/wanted.html
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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>I realized something, even if I do get this working, I'm going to need to
>partition one of the ESDI hard drives since they are to big for RT-11,
>according to the WQESD controllers documentation the partitions need to be
>30Mb or smaller. My smallest ESDI drive is 150Mb.
>How do I go about partitioning the drives? Unfortunatly my Doc set is for
>V3, so I can't RTFM on this one.
Since you've got a WQESD, you've got two choices with respect to
partitioning:
1: Hardware partitioning.
Partition your 150 Mbyte drive into multiple 65536-blocks drive
through the WQESD firmware. You don't need to do a reformat from
scratch; just redefine the disk structure and write it to disk.
2: Software partitioning.
Partition from RT-11. Assuming your drive is at LUN 0, you
already have the default mappings SET DU0:UNIT=0 and SET DU0:PART=0.
The "UNIT" refers to the MSCP LUN of the drive, and the PART
refers to the software partition number.
Map DU1: to be the second logical partition on the first MSCP
LUN with SET DU1:UNIT=0 followed by SET DU1:PART=1.
Continue on up until you've used up all the disk. Each PART
refers to a logical partition on disk, each of which is 65536
blocks long (except for the last one, which is whatever is left
over.) Of course, only the first 65535 blocks of each partition
are directly usable, given RT-11's block numbering scheme.
SHOW DEV:DU will show you the current partitioning.
Keep in mind that if DU is your system disk, you'll have to do
a reboot to reload the driver with the "new" partition settings
before they'll go into effect. (You wouldn't believe the number
of RT-11 5.7 field test sites who complained "partitioning doesn't
work" when they simply failed to reboot after the SET DU's! This
has been in the manuals for over a decade!) After rebooting, INIT
DU1:, etc., and away you go!
Since you *do* have the WQESD, I heavily recommend that you do your
partitioning at the WQESD level and not at the RT-11 level. This way
all your partitions will be hardware bootable. If you do the
partitioning through RT-11, the resulting logical partitions won't
be hardware bootable.
A neat tool (hey, I wrote it, I think it's neat) for looking at MSCP-
level stuff under RT-11 is the DUSTAT program, available from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rt/dusta…
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>I realized something, even if I do get this working, I'm going to need to
>partition one of the ESDI hard drives since they are to big for RT-11,
>according to the WQESD controllers documentation the partitions need to
>be 30Mb or smaller. My smallest ESDI drive is 150Mb.
By default, if your disk is larger than 65535 blocks, the physical unit
numbers for the DU device map to partition zero (0-65534) of the
selected physical unit. If you want to map another unit of the DU
handler to another partition, you issue the command:
SET DUn UNIT=m part=p
where 'n' is the RT-11 unit number, 'm' is the physical unit number in
your MSCP configuration, and 'p' is the partition number (starting at
zero).
For example, say I have an RQDX3 with an RD54 (169mb) and an RX50
(dual drive):
DU0 = Partition zero (0-65534) on phys unit 0 (rd54)
DU1 = First of the RX50 drives
DU2 = Second of the RX50 drives
If I want address more of the RD54, I can do the following:
DU0 = Partition zero (0-65534) on phys unit 0 (rd54)
DU1 = First of the RX50 drives
DU2 = Second of the RX50 drives
DU3 = unassigned
DU4 = Partition one on phys unit 0
(set du4 unit=0 part=1)
DU5 = Partition two on phys unit 0
(set du5 unit=0 part=2)
DU6 = Partition three on phys unit 0
(set du6 unit=0 part=3)
DU7 = Partition four on phys unit 0
(set du7 unit=0 part=4)
This is, in fact, how many partitions you would get on an RD54. All
of the partitions except the last one will be full 65535 block units.
The last one is about 7k blocks.
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
p.s. I forgot... after doing all these SET commands, you'll have to
reboot for them to take affect.
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I checked the storeroom at school today to discover that all the old
Tandy equipment (which had collected dust there for 2 years) has been
disposed of. Not even a keyboard left. All I could find is an
assortment of Apple II GSes, drives, Imagewriters etc & a few old Mac
LCs.
Sorry, I remember those old Tandys - 2 labs worth. (used 86-96). They
even had an Apple Emulation card (Trackstar) since at that time no one
in education could imagine using anything besides an Apple.
Eileen
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Looks like the Albuqurque Altairs are coming
out of the woodwork. There is now a 680 and
a 680b to go with the 8800bt.
If anyone was monitoring the auction of the
680 a couple of weeks ago which did not meet the reserve
price of $2500 - thought you might be interested
to know that it was bought by a buyer in Italy
after the auction. The purchaser bought it only
to trade for an original 8800 which he has done.
It will be interesting to see what happens with
these 680's currently up for auction. It appears
that the eBay bidders are not very aware of the
scarcity of the 680 and are consumed by the hype
surrounding the 8800.
Bob Wood
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I realized something, even if I do get this working, I'm going to need to
partition one of the ESDI hard drives since they are to big for RT-11,
according to the WQESD controllers documentation the partitions need to be
30Mb or smaller. My smallest ESDI drive is 150Mb.
How do I go about partitioning the drives? Unfortunatly my Doc set is for
V3, so I can't RTFM on this one.
Zane
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