While trying to benchmark Fusion PC (as a IIci) on my AMD DOS PC, I threw
together a small implementation of the Sieve of Eratosthenes and Ahl's
Simple Benchmark to test integer and FPU performance. Like everything else
in my life, this snowballed, so here is the fruit of my labours for people
who are interested in benchmarking their 68K Macintosh.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/mac/ahl/
The reference is a Mac Plus running 6.0.8 with 2.5MB RAM and the stock 8MHz
68000 CPU. However, to make it really vintage, I tested it against a Mac
Plus running System 1.1 and it worked! 512K RAM recommended.
Just to prove I have a sense of humour, the benchmark is in Modula-2.
Some of the tests ran on my classic Mac stable had rather startling results.
For example, the Daystar PowerCentral control panel seems to accelerate FPU
performance on the IIci, even with no Daystar hardware installed.
Comments?
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism. -----------------
> The problem is that you actually have less memory available when you
> run XM since it is a larger monitor. And we're talking about memory
> in the critical area of the low 56kb.
If VGBEXE is no solution to run ADVENT, try using the SJ monitor.
I had exactly the same problem (in E11) and lots of memory available.
Booting into SingleJob was the solution for me.
Didn't help much getting throught ADVENT, but that a completely
different story ...
happy gaming,
- Henk.
> Dan Cohoe and I both made the rounds of the TTY spares on the balcony
> of the Armory in NJ (thanks again, William!) I do not recall seeing
> anything of that nature amidst the bits. Spare keytops, plattens,
> chad bins, springs and more, but no keyboard butterflies.
Oh wow! There are chad bins there? I need one for my 33. Is anyone
going back that way?
Thanks!
I've pretty much got this PDP-11/24 up and running, except for one confusing
detail. There are some (what I consider to be) strange cards plugged into
one section of the unibus.
In this box, there are three seperate sections of bus. The one on the right
has 9 slots, and contains the cpu, memory, dl-11, etc. The one on the left
has 4 slots and contains the bus terminator, as well as the controller for
the RA-80. It is joined to the right hand bus by an extension cable.
The middle section of bus is the wierd one. It contains some kind of power
supply cable and a bunch of single-height flip-chips. Here is the setup:
1 2 3
4
A Power
B M205
M660
C M116
D M113
E M112
F
Anyone have any ideas what this is for?
Thanks.
To the best of my knowledge, 3290s are meant to talk to 3274s.. But I think
it depends on the exact model... I hope mine are for 3274s, I wanna use 'em
on the 4381.
Will J
_________________________________________________________________
Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
http://www.hotmail.com
Hope someone can help - perhaps they're lying in a NJ warehouse!
Been checking out my old ASR33s, a couple of them are missing the small bar
(shaped like a 'double Y') which connects the keyboard mechanism to the
printer. Anybody got any spares?
Thanks
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
For possible List interest - DO NOT REPLY TO ME!
Perhaps this Gentleman will be amenable to a 'reasonable'
counter-offer...
I dunno: FYI.
Cheers
John
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Jeff Kilgore" <the.weight(a)verizon.net>
Newsgroups: rec.radio.swap,rec.radio.amateur.equipment
Subject: FS: Various
[much snippage of OT radio gear]
Hewlett-Packard HP41CX calculator, with magnetic card reader, Advantage
module, original manuals and boxes, and several additional books on the
HP41. $275 shipped
All items will be carefully packaged. Payment by USPS money order, PayPal,
or personal check (personal checks must clear before shipping).
73,
Jeff Kilgore, KC1MK
-- end of forwarded message --
>From: "Ethan Dicks" <erd_6502(a)yahoo.com>
>
>--- Mike Ross <mross666(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hope someone can help - perhaps they're lying in a NJ warehouse!
>>
>> Been checking out my old ASR33s, a couple of them are missing the small
>> bar (shaped like a 'double Y') which connects the keyboard mechanism to
>> the printer. Anybody got any spares?
>
>Dan Cohoe and I both made the rounds of the TTY spares on the balcony
>of the Armory in NJ (thanks again, William!) I do not recall seeing
>anything of that nature amidst the bits. Spare keytops, plattens,
>chad bins, springs and more, but no keyboard butterflies.
>
>It's a flat part and shouldn't be as critical on the manufacturing
>tolerances as parts in the printer carriage - if you have one, it
>should be possible to make duplicates. If you don't have any, someone
>could throw one on a flatbed scanner... You might even be able to get
>away with a plastic replacement - wouldn't be as durable (months/years
>instead of years/decades), but you could make a stack of them.
Hi
The piece has to transmit quit a bit of torque to reset
the keyboard. I'm not sure if a piece of plastic could handle it.
One could carve it out of a piece of cold rolled steel using
a dremel tool. It has a slot in the center to make it easy to
remove and install with a screw driver but this part isn't
needed. The rest is just cutting around the edges.
I don't have a scanner so maybe someone else can make a picture.
Dwight
>
>If you have any friends who are train buffs, especially those who make
>their own engines/cars from raw materials rather than kits, they should
>have the necessary tools/skills to copy a 1"x2" flat piece of metal
>with a few notches and curvy bits.
>
>-ethan
>
>
>
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs
>http://www.hotjobs.com
>
>I'd like to find the schematics for the DCT11-EM board (or even
>better, a board based on the J-11).
I have a scan of EK-SBC02-UG-001 and it has schematics
(and ROM and FPLA listings) for that system. IIRC it is T-11
based. That should eventually appear at the DFWCUG site.
If you want it right now, I'm reasonably sure that it is a later version of
http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/dec/pdp11/EK-KXT11-UG-PR1.pdf
which you can get right now. I doubt that either of these are *exactly*
what you asked for, but they may serve as a useful starting point.
Antonio
> > I just received a DEC T-11 evaluation board (part number DCT11-EM) I bought
> > on eBay. Does anyone have any documentation on this? Compaq Assisted
> > Services still lists the User's Manual for $142, but when I made an
> > internal inquiry, I found it had been obsoleted and was no longer
> > available. :-(
>
There are a couple of T-11 manuals at
http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/dec/pdp11/
but I don't think either of them are for that
particular system. They may provide some hints
though.
Antonio
Does anyone have a manual for this? My clock appears to work except that it's not setting the time automaticly. It recieves WWV and the Data light blinks and the Capture light blinked a couple of times but the correct time never appeared on the display. Also what do the Hi Spec, Trim Up and Trim Dn lights mean?
Joe
>>Before I give in to the temptation to e*** this critter, anyone know
>>anything interesting about it or care to make me an interesting offer
>>(sell/trade/etc.) on it?
>>
>>BIG IBM Mainframe (I think) display. Display unit only...
>I haven't heard of anyone getting these to do anything other
>than what they were designed to do.
There *are* possibilities, since 'they were designed' to talk to 3174
controllers and *they* are intelligent devices that can do a lot with the
right microcode.
They talk coax 3270 to a 3174 controller. If you can get a 3174 with
token-ring or ethernet connectivity (t/r is common, shows up on ebay from
time to time, and is cheap; ethernet is like hens teeth and still worth a
fair bit) and the latest microcode from IBM (C6 or better), the 3174
supports tcpip & telnet, allowing you to use the 3270 terminal to connect to
any ASCII host across the LAN.
I *think* that only applies to common or garden 3270 CUT devices however -
and the 3290 series stuff is DFT, requires download (DSL)microcode from the
3174 to work, and can't be used for telnet. I *think*.
I have a 3174 set up for telnet; I have a 3290. I'll get 'em together
sometime and see if it works.
Mike
http://www.corestore.org
_________________________________________________________________
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
> From: Derek Peschel [mailto:dpeschel@eskimo.com]
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm going to be in Boston for a few days next week and in western
> Massachusetts (on the way to Tanglewood) next weekend. Is anyone
> in either of those areas? This will be a nice opportunity for me
> because I haven't been to VCF East yet and you New Englanders don't
> seem to want to come to VCF West. :)
>
> -- Derek
New Haven, CT, is probably about an hour or two out of the way...
--
--- David A Woyciesjes
--- C & IS Support Specialist
--- Yale University Press
--- (203) 432-0953
--- ICQ # - 905818
> From: Sellam Ismail [mailto:foo@siconic.com]
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris wrote:
>
> > >> Wasn't that one of the ones that IBM shut down for being
> > >>TOO compatible?
> > >
> > >I think that was the Corona Data Systems one. They just
> > >copied the ROMs from what I've been told.
> >
> > Does this mean my Corona luggable will sell for huge $$$ on
> > ePay? Oh why
> > oh why did I give my complete one to Dave :-(
>
> No, it means that it is obscure or forgotten and nobody will even know
> what they are bidding on and it will languish there and end
> up costing you the listing fees.
>
> Sellam Ismail
> ----------------
You know, I should dig that thing out and fire it up one of these
days. It got put in the basement computer room, and I haven't had a chance
yet to start it.
When I saw this mentioned, I was about to laugh at Chris for handing
it over, but Sellam had to come by and burst the bubble... :/
--
--- David A Woyciesjes
--- C & IS Support Specialist
--- Yale University Press
--- (203) 432-0953
--- ICQ # - 905818
Well, I now have the fixings for an interesting VAXcluster in the basement:
VAX 6000 320, VAXstation 4000 90, VAXstation 3100 40 (I think), VAX 4000
200, and some maybe-OT alphas (DEC 3000/300X, DEC 3000/700, and a DEC
3000/800). Also a TU-81+ w/ RA-81, and a RA-91 in the 6K machine. Support
hardware includes a DELNI, DECserver 100, and an HP bridge to segment the
cluster off the network proper.
Now I have to figure out how I'm going to tie it all together. The plan so
far is to cluster all the VAXen over the DELNI. I don't have any CI
equipment, and in any case IIRC only the 6K would be able to use it. I'm
not positive what I'm going to do with the alphas, but I'd like at least one
of 'em in the cluster too, maybe dual-boot them into OpenVMS or NetBSD. I
think OpenVMS 7.? still supports the old VAXen, and from what I've heard on
c.o.v it's recommended over the 5.5-? currently installed on three of the
machines.
Ok, I confess this was partly to brag, but has anyone done something neat
with a VAXcluster that I could do too? I'm not to the point where I can
spark everything at once (need a new power circuit for the 6K for one
thing-- did the 220V conversion already, thanks), but I'd like to have a
direction early on, kind of a goal to work towards. Anyone want to share?
Bob
>The VT103 unit has two tape drives and I think you can copy from one to
>the other it just a matter of knowing the correct commands, hence the
>reason for this email. Therefore I would be most grateful for any
>suggestions you could suggest for the commands required to copy from
>drive 0 to drive 1, we have so far tried the following:
>
>Note :- RT11FB.SYS = Boot program (I think)
>i) COPY/BOOT RT11FB.SYS
> TO: DD1
>ii) COPY/SYS
> FROM? DD0
> TO? DD1
>
>The second method kicks up the following: - PIP-F-FILE NOT FOUND
If these are the commands as used verbatim, then it is looking for
a *file* by the name of DD0. You need to specify the device name,
so use 'DD0:'. (I'm surprised it didn't report the name of the file
it didn't find.) So, the command should be:
COPY/SYS DD0: DD1:
Doing this, however, will not result in an optimized tape... it may
actually take a relatively long time to boot. I actually got a
TU58-based system to boot in as little as 30 seconds by judicious
placement of the system files. If you (or other people) are
interested, I could write it up...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL | email: gentry at zk3.dec.com (work) |
| Unix Support Engineering Group | mbg at world.std.com (home) |
| Hewlett Packard | (s/ at /@/) |
| 110 Spitbrook Rd. ZK03-2/T43 | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Nashua, NH 03062 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (603) 884 1055 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
Hi,
I am in the process of compiling a list of inmos
transputer boards (excluding trams). I have information
on most if not all of them so far except the following:
IMSB013 - Did it ever exist and if so, what was it
IMSB019 - ditto
anything after IMSB020???
again, I am only looking for information on the IMSB
series and not IMSB4?? trams...
Thanks,
Ram
PS: Finally figured out what was causing the HTML
messages. First of all, I apologize for that. Our
confidential signature that gets added by Microshaft
Exchange only supports HTML so even if you send your
emails via text, the server sends them out in HTML. Our
useless SAs, claim that it can not output plain text. Is
this true???
At 10:47 PM 8/17/02 -0500, you asked:
>
>Why has Micro$oft not gone after "X Windows", this looks
>even closer to the actual name of Windows, but since it
>is freely available they cant zero in on anybody/company.
For one thing they'd have to go after companies like AT&T and HP. MicroSlouth couldn't push them around the way that it does small companies.
Joe
If someone needs components (lights from real computers), the best place is
http://www.digikey.com/
They don't specialize in vintage, but a surprising number of things are still
standardized after all these years.
Well over the last couple weeks the Mac XL from eBay arrived in the mail
but was DOA. It will go into the repair pile at the warehouse. Got a
nice book by Dr. Jerry M. Rosenberg called The Computer Prophets from
1969.
Here's a short list of some items I picked up.
1. Nice Next KB for the N4000A monitor at the local Goodwill (still
looking for the computer).
2. Galactic Pinball cartridge for the Virtual Boy console.
3. I-O Corp. model 2677C terminals (3 of them) at a auction for 50 cent
each.
4. IBM 3180-02 terminal for 50 cent at same auction.
5. Prc Realty System model 101 Data terminal based on the TI 745
portable.
6. IBM 8503-001 mono monitor.
7. Large box with a Mac Plus and all kinds of goodies for it for free at
the auction.
8. hp 700/70 terminal for $3 powers up great but need the kb for it.
9. A Jetbook 386sx notebook for $10, needs battery charger.
10. Robot named 2-XL from 1978, needs a little care.
11. TurboGrafx 16 with 8 games on the HuCard for $20 at the flea market.
12. AS/400 Barcode labeling software.
13. About 20 more mousepads for the collection.
That's it for now there were lots more items but some are too new to
list. Keep on computing.
There is a great website ( http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ ) with
information about what to do if you get one of those scam letters.
The US Treasury department is collecting info and procicuting scammers.
You can forward your scam letter to: 419.fdc(a)usss.treas.gov
*** argh! bad email address, it's probably us.treas.gov, but I'll check. ***
Be sure to mark it "No financial loss" ... unless you fell for the scam : ^ )
See the website above for info.
There is a great website ( http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/ ) with
information about what to do if you get one of those scam letters.
The US Treasury department is collecting info and procicuting scammers.
You can forward your scam letter to: 419.fdc(a)usss.treas.gov
Be sure to mark it "No financial loss" ... unless you fell for the scam : ^ )
See the website above for info.
I'm looking for an HP86 as a backup for the one I use with a data
acquisition system. Is it still available? This message is quite old so
I'll be surprised if the equipment is still available. Thanks!
I have some old Sun Sparc systems that need to find a new home (preferably
not the dumpster in the parking lot). Is there any one here who might be
interested.
I have SparcStation 1's
I have SparcServer 330's
and even a Sun4/something that was in a 7' high rack and includes a
9 track tape drive (which worked quite well the last time I used it.)
All of this stuff is at the University of Scranton and would need to
be picked up. It's free, although I wouldn't turn down some PDP or
VAX trinkets (expcept async boards :-) in exchange.
Please reply directly to me as I am currently not reading the list.
bill
--
Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>