See previous discussions of this on the list.
It is on the order of 10000 DPI. I have two fiche scanners, A 3M
unit that I actually have software for, but requires manual positioning
and a much older automatic unit with no docs or software.
The effective resolution of the output is normally between 200 and 400
DPI after magnification between 20 and 30x.
This res. gets hot even when switched off, but just in the socket. I'm
going to take pictures of the unit on wednesday, but a picture of the
teletype with the cover on can be found at
tore.nortia.no/bilder/s201002.jpg .
ASCII drawings:
(out of scale)
________________________
| | | | Blue slot with card that gets hot
| |-- |/
| | ||
|_________________| ||
| | |
|_________________|____|
____________
| |
| (14 O ) | <- large resistor
| |
| (220ko)| <\
| (300ko)| |
| | |- not sure
| etc (vr) | |
| | </
| _ |
|||||| ||||||
The resistor gets extremely hot when the 33 is plugged in.
"Athlon without its fan"-style hot.
-Tore
"Insert quote with wierd Tore-humour here"
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> Whenever I type anything I just get a left-arrow. I am blaming the
>> 1818-23/-21 for this. Shouldn't I?
>
>Maybe. Does the Model 33 work correctly when switched to 'local'? If not,
>then you certainly have problems in the Teletype. If it does work in
>'local' mode, then you might still have problems in the Teletype, but
>problems with the interface are also possible.
Hi
It is also possible that he has the wrong speed gears/motor.
A 60Hz motor will run in local with 50Hz connected but the
Baud rate to the outside will be wrong.
Dwight
>
>>
>> OK; current loop.
>>
>> Would this explain a resistor (14 Ohm, big) in the slot of the KSR would
>
>Are you sure it's 14 ohms? I remember a multi-tapped power resistor with one
>tap being about 1400 ohms in the standard current loop electronics for
>the Model 33.
>
>> get extremely hot when off this loop? Also; Hans Pufal, I would be most
>
>And I think it does run hot. When switched to local, the teletype is
>_still_ a current loop device, but the transmitter (keyboard contacts),
>receiver (the selector magnet driver -- the little module with 2
>transsitors in the Teletype electronics chassis) and a 'local' power
>supply (which includes that resistor) are all in series. A current loop,
>but one entirely inside the Teletype Model 33.
>
>-tony
Hi
I believe this is normal. According to the schematic
I have, only the motor is switched. The transformer
that supplies the current loop is still active. You
must pull the plug when working on these.
Dwight
>From: "Tore Sinding Bekkedal" <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>
>
>This res. gets hot even when switched off, but just in the socket. I'm
>going to take pictures of the unit on wednesday, but a picture of the
>teletype with the cover on can be found at
>tore.nortia.no/bilder/s201002.jpg .
>
> ASCII drawings:
> (out of scale)
> ________________________
> | | | | Blue slot with card that gets hot
> | |-- |/
> | | ||
> |_________________| ||
> | | |
> |_________________|____|
>
> ____________
> | |
> | (14 O ) | <- large resistor
> | |
> | (220ko)| <\
> | (300ko)| |
> | | |- not sure
> | etc (vr) | |
> | | </
> | _ |
> |||||| ||||||
>
> The resistor gets extremely hot when the 33 is plugged in.
> "Athlon without its fan"-style hot.
>
>
>-Tore
>
>"Insert quote with wierd Tore-humour here"
Hi
I think the rule is 0.5ma per cubic inch of computer
grade capacitor and 0.25 ma per cubic inch of normal
capacitor. As an example: 2" dia X 3 inch = 9.4 in^3
Cap voltage rating of 10V
use 2.2K limiting resistor and
10V supply.
Of course, if the capacitor is on a 5V rail, you'll
need to disconnect one end.
Dwight
>From: "Luc Vande Velde" <luc(a)e2t.be>
>
>For years I use a high-voltage DC power supply with current limiting for
>this. Works very fine...
>Only a few, weird designs, need the AC voltage to start.
>This is also a very safe way to repair the things (safe for the unit and the
>technician)
>
>gr.
>
>Luc
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
>Behalf Of Robert Maxwell
>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:21 PM
>To: 'cctech(a)classiccmp.org'
>Subject: RE: reforming PS caps w/primary-side components
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>Anybody want to offer advice on reforming filter
>>caps? I'm planning to power up some stuff that
>>hasn't seen voltage in a long time. My plan is
>>to put several low-wattage light-bulbs in series
>>with the thing, to limit the amount of current it
>>will get, and hopefully allow those old caps
>>to reform instead of, say, exploding in my face.
>>...
>>Now the questions:
>>
>>Could putting the light-bulbs (or whatever) in
>>series on the primary side of the transformer
>>actually produce the desired effect? IIRC, a
>>step-down transformer divides the voltage but
>>multiplies the current. So I'd have to limit the
>>current on the primary side that much more to
>>keep the secondary current down, right?>
>>
>>Also, what kinds of things could be damaged by
>>getting less voltage than they were designed for?
>>I could imagine hard disks spinning too little to
>>lift the heads from the surface, for instance.
>>(This is moot, because there are no hard disks
>>in any of the equipment I'm looking at.) How
>>about CRT's? Could too little deflection make
>>the beam hit something it shouldn't? Anything
>>else?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bill.
>
>Bill,
> (1) Don't use a light bulb - they have a very low resistance when cold,
>and will cause the inrush you're trying to avoid. The best recommendation
>I've seen is to use a "variac"-type variable transformer to reduce the
>powerline going in. Start at minimum, and turn things up slowwwwly, watching
>current draw. Beware gotchas like LSTTL drawing heavy current at around 2.1
>volts supply. Actually, with a meter across the capacitor supply, stop at
>about one volt, so any semiconductors in line can't get terribly excited: if
>there's no apparent short as things stabilize, turn the voltage up.
> (2) CRTs aren't a hazard from undervoltage (I ran a sick Zenith TV on
>85VAC for years using a Variac). It's overvoltage that causes X-Ray risks.
>Just to be safe, disconnect anything mechanical, to avoid problems like the
>hard-drive one you mentioned - some types of motor overheat if undervolt-ed.
>
>Bob "HW-Hacker" Maxwell
>How many people do you know that sawed their computer in two?
Hi Joe,
>I'd like get a copy if you have it. I'm running into a couple of
>oddities when I try to operate it. It's working but not the way that I
>expected and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what.
I remember being slightly confused by the operation of the bus analyser too.
It didn't really seem to make sense to me for some operations - I was never
sure if it was broken or that was just the way it worked.
I think that these things tend to be a little flaky / sensitive - I ended up
constructing a single analyser that sort of worked from three analysers that
didn't.
>Steve Robertson ran into the same problem when he tried to use it to
>study the disk operation as part of writing an OS for the HP 1000. He did
>get some usefull info but only 32 bytes of it!
That's right, the internal memory buffer in the bus analyser is only 32
bytes.
You can either set it up to store 32 bytes from the bus or (I think), if you
have the patience, you can manually (in binary) store 32 bytes in the memory
and then have the analyser clock them out onto the bus.
>I'm currently investigating another option.
>NI make a GPIB+ card (ISA or PCI) that acts as both a GPIB controller and a
>...
>codes. I'll let you know how I get on.
I've now had a chance to take a look at the NI GPIB+ cards in some detail.
With the proviso that these cards only work under Windows 98 se or earlier
and windows NT, they seem to be an excellent solution to seeing what is
going on on an HPIB bus.
The software can be set up to monitor all events on the HPIB bus, control
lines, data lines, control words, data words etc. The card can also be set
up to passively monitor the bus and add time stamps to the captured bus
events.
The only limitation to the number of events that can be stored in a capture
file appears to be how much memory/disk space the capture machine has.
The capture files can be exported in a text format and dumped into Word /
Excel for further processing.
>I have (had?) a card like that but NI no longer supports it and I
>haven't been able to find any docs or software for it.
If the card is a GPIB+ Controller/Analyser then the software is available
for NT / Win98 - you need version 1.7 of the GPIB controller software from
the NI website.
>I have something else that might be usefull. It's Bus Analyzer module
>made by HP that works with one of their logic analyzers. You plug the LA
>pods directly into it (no wire leads) and it has sockets for RS-232, HP-IB
>and one or two other standard interfaces. With it you can use a LA to grab
>the data, disaasemble it (if you have the the disassembler), save it, send
>it to a computer, etc. I've never tried to use it since I don't have the LA
>(HP 1631 IIRC) that it works with.
For me, after looking at the GPIB+ card it seems to be a 100% solution - I
am very impressed with it - only the slightly ageing software lets it down.
Peter
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For years I use a high-voltage DC power supply with current limiting for
this. Works very fine...
Only a few, weird designs, need the AC voltage to start.
This is also a very safe way to repair the things (safe for the unit and the
technician)
gr.
Luc
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On
Behalf Of Robert Maxwell
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 5:21 PM
To: 'cctech(a)classiccmp.org'
Subject: RE: reforming PS caps w/primary-side components
-----Original Message-----
>Anybody want to offer advice on reforming filter
>caps? I'm planning to power up some stuff that
>hasn't seen voltage in a long time. My plan is
>to put several low-wattage light-bulbs in series
>with the thing, to limit the amount of current it
>will get, and hopefully allow those old caps
>to reform instead of, say, exploding in my face.
>...
>Now the questions:
>
>Could putting the light-bulbs (or whatever) in
>series on the primary side of the transformer
>actually produce the desired effect? IIRC, a
>step-down transformer divides the voltage but
>multiplies the current. So I'd have to limit the
>current on the primary side that much more to
>keep the secondary current down, right?>
>
>Also, what kinds of things could be damaged by
>getting less voltage than they were designed for?
>I could imagine hard disks spinning too little to
>lift the heads from the surface, for instance.
>(This is moot, because there are no hard disks
>in any of the equipment I'm looking at.) How
>about CRT's? Could too little deflection make
>the beam hit something it shouldn't? Anything
>else?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill.
Bill,
(1) Don't use a light bulb - they have a very low resistance when cold,
and will cause the inrush you're trying to avoid. The best recommendation
I've seen is to use a "variac"-type variable transformer to reduce the
powerline going in. Start at minimum, and turn things up slowwwwly, watching
current draw. Beware gotchas like LSTTL drawing heavy current at around 2.1
volts supply. Actually, with a meter across the capacitor supply, stop at
about one volt, so any semiconductors in line can't get terribly excited: if
there's no apparent short as things stabilize, turn the voltage up.
(2) CRTs aren't a hazard from undervoltage (I ran a sick Zenith TV on
85VAC for years using a Variac). It's overvoltage that causes X-Ray risks.
Just to be safe, disconnect anything mechanical, to avoid problems like the
hard-drive one you mentioned - some types of motor overheat if undervolt-ed.
Bob "HW-Hacker" Maxwell
How many people do you know that sawed their computer in two?
Hi, I have a DEC RL02, supposedly removed from a working system.
Anybody want it? Anybody want to offe a few $$$ for the wear and tear on my
back?
It's a heavy beast, so expect $45 or so shipping cost
in the USA.
Regards,
George
-----Original Message-----
>Anybody want to offer advice on reforming filter
>caps? I'm planning to power up some stuff that
>hasn't seen voltage in a long time. My plan is
>to put several low-wattage light-bulbs in series
>with the thing, to limit the amount of current it
>will get, and hopefully allow those old caps
>to reform instead of, say, exploding in my face.
>...
>Now the questions:
>
>Could putting the light-bulbs (or whatever) in
>series on the primary side of the transformer
>actually produce the desired effect? IIRC, a
>step-down transformer divides the voltage but
>multiplies the current. So I'd have to limit the
>current on the primary side that much more to
>keep the secondary current down, right?>
>
>Also, what kinds of things could be damaged by
>getting less voltage than they were designed for?
>I could imagine hard disks spinning too little to
>lift the heads from the surface, for instance.
>(This is moot, because there are no hard disks
>in any of the equipment I'm looking at.) How
>about CRT's? Could too little deflection make
>the beam hit something it shouldn't? Anything
>else?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill.
Bill,
(1) Don't use a light bulb - they have a very low resistance when cold,
and will cause the inrush you're trying to avoid. The best recommendation
I've seen is to use a "variac"-type variable transformer to reduce the
powerline going in. Start at minimum, and turn things up slowwwwly, watching
current draw. Beware gotchas like LSTTL drawing heavy current at around 2.1
volts supply. Actually, with a meter across the capacitor supply, stop at
about one volt, so any semiconductors in line can't get terribly excited: if
there's no apparent short as things stabilize, turn the voltage up.
(2) CRTs aren't a hazard from undervoltage (I ran a sick Zenith TV on
85VAC for years using a Variac). It's overvoltage that causes X-Ray risks.
Just to be safe, disconnect anything mechanical, to avoid problems like the
hard-drive one you mentioned - some types of motor overheat if undervolt-ed.
Bob "HW-Hacker" Maxwell
How many people do you know that sawed their computer in two?
I guess that's me!
I am quite busy. In a few months (3) I have my own
"PDP-11 garden house" (3,5 x 8 meters) just for PDP-11's.
Then www.pdp-11.nl will see some new info.
On http://home.hetnet.nl/~tshaj is a link to www.pdp-11.nl
and to my StarShip project. Again, in a few months time,
I will start new developments ... indeed time is a problem.
The 'StarShip Simulation' of Dilithium Press is the Bible,
but, as it should, use it for inspiration and do not follow
it like a fanatic :-)
- Henk.
BTW. Megan, I have sent you the 68020 assembler source code
of the kernel which supports task start/stop/suspend/resume
and time-wait and semaphore-pend calls. Ever ported it to
PDP-11?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Megan [mailto:mbg@TheWorld.com]
> Sent: dinsdag 3 juni 2003 15:46
> To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Display of first networked personal computer
> game returning
>
>
> I have a copy of the 'StarShip Simulation' and have also often
> thought about rendering some code...
>
> alas, not enough time...
>
> I do know that there is someone on the net who has been trying
> to actually build the hardware for a starship simulator and has
> been basing his code on the 68000... I'm not sure where his page
> is or if he reads CCMP.
>
> Megan
I have a copy of the 'StarShip Simulation' and have also often thought
about rendering some code...
alas, not enough time...
I do know that there is someone on the net who has been trying
to actually build the hardware for a starship simulator and has
been basing his code on the 68000... I'm not sure where his page
is or if he reads CCMP.
Megan
Jerome Fine wrote:
.
> Is there an actual Qbus - or something else? It certainly
> sounds like a Qbus!
The PDT has no Qbus. I believe the eBay auction has a picture
with the top cover off and the top board elevated - you can
make out a ribbon cable coming off the bottom board, and the
paper insulating sheet that sits between the bottom two boards
when closed.
> Also, I presume there is no possibility of a hard drive?
> How many DL ports are available?
The PDT-11/150 was reportedly available with one or two RX01
drives, and three serial ports with another three optional. I've
only seen the one I own, which has both drives and six ports.
There're no other expansion options that I can recall.
In fact it's sitting in the dining room with a VT100 waiting to
be powered up to check some 8" floppies I received a while back.
I'm in the process of bringing up a VAX 4000/500 I recently
received and it'd be a hoot to connect the PDT to it.
Did RT-11 ever include DECnet support? Probably so, but as of
what version? I don't recall seeing mention of it with whatever
version came with the PDT, and I'd be amazed if the PDT could
support it...
--Steve.
smj(at)spamfree.crash.com (lose spamfree to get through, m'kay?)
>I should hedge my bets here: There is no Qbus backplane in the
>PDT-11/150. There are some stacking connectors between two dual-
>height sized boards (serial ports and memory) on top and the
>middle board, which carries the CPU complex. I believe the bottom
>board in the stack is the floppy controller - not sure if the
>console circuitry (8085 based?) is on that or the middle board.
The interrupt processor on the PDT is an 8085(A)...
Megan
>The PDT-11/150 was reportedly available with one or two RX01
>drives, and three serial ports with another three optional. I've
>only seen the one I own, which has both drives and six ports.
>There're no other expansion options that I can recall.
I've never seen one with only one drive, but I have seen some
which didn't have the extra 3-line option.
>In fact it's sitting in the dining room with a VT100 waiting to
>be powered up to check some 8" floppies I received a while back.
>I'm in the process of bringing up a VAX 4000/500 I recently
>received and it'd be a hoot to connect the PDT to it.
Remember, after powering it on, you type two '@' to autobaud and
boot the unit.
>Did RT-11 ever include DECnet support? Probably so, but as of
>what version? I don't recall seeing mention of it with whatever
>version came with the PDT, and I'd be amazed if the PDT could
>support it...
RT never came with DECnet support... DECnet was, however, available
for it as a 'layered product'. The DECnet available for RT was
Phase III, asynch/sync support only. No Phase IV/Ethernet. I know
of someone who actually had a PDT running RT on the DEC internal
network at one point...
Megan
I noticed this on eBay and thought I'd post it here for those PDP-11
collectors among us:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2733136922&category=1247
The starting price ($199 US) seems high, but these are pretty hard to find.
One possibly sour note though - the seller wants a flat rate of $150 to ship
anywhere in North America.
I picked up one of these in terrific condition last December for $25. It cost
$65 to pack and ship the heavy thing, but it was worth it. I haven't seen
another PDT sell since then.
Stuart Johnson
Sorry, I can't help you with your identification, but must point out that it
can't be MUCH earlier than the Jupiter Ace, since both the Ace and the
MC68010 processor were released in 1983, so the computer you have can be at
most a few months earlier, and probably more recent since the Jupiter Ace
ran for a shorter time than the 68010!
Some CAD stations have multiple joysticks, also video editing consoles, or
even studio music production equipment. Could it be something like that? Is
there any clue from the location you found it (on the kerbside outside what
building???).
You may get more clues if you switch it on and see what comes up on the
monitor!
Good luck
paul
-----Original Message-----
From: peter tremewen [mailto:ptremewe@bigpond.net.au]
Sent: 01 June 2003 22:18
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Jupiter Computer (No Not the ACE)
Hi all,
I have in my hands a "Jupiter" computer and am wondering if you can
offer any info on it? It is not the Jupiter ACE home computer, but a much
earlier very large and obviously fairly old rack mounted system. The
computer
is based on the 68010 CPU. I can't determine how much memory it has on
board,
but there are more than several banks of 4164 mem chips which if I remember
is
a 64kbit dynamic Ram device. The huge keyboard is attached via a missing
multipair cable and has two joysticks on either side. The monitor has
separate
RGB and Sync cables, each of which are generated using separate discrete
component boards in the chassis. Inside the chassis are two huge Vertex hard
drives, and a 3.5 in floppy, each connected to their discrete driver boards,
Z80 based.
On the front of the computer is "Jupiter". Model number is J12CHAS
and
Man date is "514". It was manufactured in Berkeley C.A. USA. The serial
number
is "Jup.S.N. 12C-1025-AA". I basically found it all on a curbside and
couldn't
resist adding it too my rather small but now growing collection. If you need
any further info to help with identification let me know, I'll see what I
more
I can get from the chassis.
Maybe I'm insane and have just picked up what most would consider
total junk, but I personally think that systems such as this are worth
preserving. I haven't been brave enough to switch the damn thing on yet,
with
all that discrete hardware it will probably double my power bill with about
a
minutes use. However I love all this old stuff, and worse comes to worse at
least their are some interesting discrete components in it. If you need or
would like a photo let me know, I'm a freelance photographer and will take a
few shots anyway, so when I do I'll pass some scans on to you.
Peter T.
My Selectric III went in the local metal-recycle bin quite a few years ago.
It was getting sticky and needed a thorough cleaning. The local IBM service
center wanted $125 just to take a look at it, so enough was enough. I have
not used a typewriter in the last 8 or so years, and don't miss it.
I had a second Selectric my brother gave me, but during a move, one of the
cast-metal parts gave up the ghost. It seemed too expensive to get it
replaced, so it, too, went to the metal recycle bin. I suspect many other
typewriters, Selectrics et al., met the same fate.
My mother, 89, still uses a manual typewriter, but her sight is failing and
she has a hard time getting the right roy of keys. Sometimes we have to sit
at the keyboard and "decipher" her notes. She recently found a typewriter
repair shop on Long Island (NY) that would repair and clean her manual unit.
She got new type and a cleaned unit for about $85. That's a deal.
Jon
Jon Titus
36 Sunset Drive
Milford, MA 01757-1362 USA
Phone: +1-508-478-8040
E-mail: jontitus(a)attbi.com
Member, National Association of Science Writers
Whenever I type anything I just get a left-arrow. I am blaming the
1818-23/-21 for this. Shouldn't I?
OK; current loop.
Would this explain a resistor (14 Ohm, big) in the slot of the KSR would
get extremely hot when off this loop? Also; Hans Pufal, I would be most
grateful for the schematics for the CL>RS232 converter. Also tell me more
about the modifications made to the TTY control on the PDP? The card says
181823 on the solder side and 181821 on the other.
Thanks!
-Tore
"Life's a bitch and then you turn on your PDP and it's all nice and when
you turn it off it goes back to being a bitch. Repeat when nessecary. Oh,
and you die, btw."
I am having trouble on my toshiba laptop 210CT the screen goes dark when i am
working on it i then pull the screen down towards me the back up and the
screen then goes back to normal can you help thanks paul tel 020 8838 4943
How many people would publically claim to own a PERQ 3a, a PERQ T4, an
HP95C, a DAP, a 370/E (which is not an IBM machine!) or something like that?
==
What's the point of having cool stuff if you can't say you have it? :-)
I don't make a secret of the Xerox protos that I have. On the other hand
there aren't a lot of people who know where they actually ARE..
J.C. Wren wrote:
.
> What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning? That's
> seems pretty wierd.
I can imagine such a circumstance. Wasn't an Enigma device stolen
>from a museum or collection not too long ago? Weren't the US$10,000+
sales of some Apple I's widely publicized?
Some folks might not want to play the odds when publishing their
holdings, if they're lucky enough to have some truly rare objects.
--Steve.
smj(at)spamfree.crash.com (lose spamfree to get through, m'kay?)
Knowing Atari, there tapes were most definitely written on a PDP-11
system.
==
They are discs, not tapes.
Atari switched from development on PDP-11's (an 11/60 that actually
was at Weird Stuff when they were next door..) to a VAX in the early
80's.
They are probably the RM05 packs from KIM::
--
I don't know about you, but I would be pretty surprised if Curt is
going to find someone willing to put an unknown 12 platter pack in
their RM05. I dont think Scopus or any of the disc inspection
companies are even around any more.
I have several dozen of those same vintage packs that I'm terrified
to even try to put in a drive (not for a VAX..)
How about a Video Brain
Really form someone
other than Dwight
>To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
>
> > What kind of machine could one possibly not admit to owning?
>
>
>a PC ?
>
>
>
>
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