I've just acquired some Plus Development hardcards for my 286 powered Tandy 1000 TL/2. I'm looking for the driver loaded in Config.sys called plusdrv.sys needed to run the cards.
Does anyone have a copy of plusdrv.sys? Can anyone point me in the correct direction?
I've done the google thing and looked on Maxtor's website. (Maxtor acquired Quantum who acquired Plus Development) with no luck.
HELP!
Thank you, Carey Unruh
I got a Zenith Data System Z120 (model EIA-416). It
has 5 S-100 slots with two boards installed. One is a
disk controller board. It has a green build in
CGA-like monitor and two 5.25'' floppy drives. The
case is good. It boots into MS-DOS. I googled and
found it had both 8085 and 8086 or 88. Since I am a
VAX guy I am willing to convert this beast (maybe 50LB
or more) into some resource (another word for money)
that I can use to buy VAX stuff. How much do you guys
think it worthes? If too little I will not place it
onto epay. Thank you.
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Tom Jennings <tomj(a)wps.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what the diskette format is? It's not DSDD 512
> byte sectors, eg. dd won't read it on a linux box.
If its like the 1630 then the diskettes are LIF format either single sided
or double sided. Have a go at reading the disks on an MSDOS or Windows PC
using the LIFUTIL program. LIFUTIL was released by HP to allow the transfer of
data from HP LIF floppies to MSDOS systems. Initially they sold it, but now
its free.
ftp://ftp.math.jyu.fi/pub/hpil/lifutil
**vp
I've listed more DEC VT520 terminals for sale ($25 each) on the Vintage
Computer Marketplace:
http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=391http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=394http://marketplace.vintage.org/view.cfm?ad=395
These are excellent terminals that emulate a bunch of other terminals plus
allow multiple physical and virtual connections to different hosts. Setup
is through on-screen windows.
This is quite a deal...I've seen refurbished units selling for around $250.
Go get 'em!
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I have two Cisco IOS 11.2 Software Feature Packs (IP) available. Both kits
have original serial numbers in the box. I don't have the routers any more
(2500 series). Up for grabs to first responder(s) (private reply please)
for cost of shipping. They're outta here, or they're in Monday's trash.
:-) --Patrick
Hi, Zane.
On Jan 30, 20:38, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> It's not some much that I want to use it, as I want to run it :^)
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Softwindows+HOSTID+group:comp.sys.sgi*&hl…
SoftWindows 5.00 is on one of the O2 demo CDs. I think 4.00 is on one
of the older Irix CD sets.
Be warned, it writes things to various .cshrc files, .mime-types, and
several other places. Various things will either break, or believe
that any file ending in .doc (and others) should be handled by
treacle^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSoftWindows and it will take you a while to track
them all down.
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Hey ya'll... need a little help. I recently took apart a nonfunctioning ControlNet Communications Interface (Allen-Bradley) and I would really love to be able to find Datasheets, manufactures specs, and/or schematics/pinouts (this last is most preferable). Here is a description of the board (I tryed scanning the image but it didn't work... too dark, and I don't have a digital camera): the board has 2 floppy drive type connectors (not Hard disk IDE but the similar, smaller, connector used by the floppy drives) labeled J3 and J4, 2 IC's labeled MCM6502CJ25 and underneath is TQQAA9333 (date code I think), the are 4 LED's, 1 AC14 IC, 1 AC174 IC, 1 74AC32 IC, 2 ACT280 ICs, and many others there is a PAL chip labeled PALCE16V8M-15JC/4, 5 IC'S that I've never seen before... 3 labeled DA05M and 2 labeled HP 2601, and last but not least is 1 parallel port AND next to it is a CAT5 connector (the 8 pin phone connector, or T1). Anyone have any info on these? I would love to be able to use them
in a 6502 computer I building but I need the schematics/pinouts for that. Any info would be greatly appreiciated. Thanks.
Lyos Gemini Norezel
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On Jan 30, 18:43, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Personally the systems I'd like to get Softwindows running on would
be
> either my SGI O2 R12k/270, or a OpenVMS system :^)
Don't bother. It's like treacle, and it won't run any recent version
of Windows. SoftWindows 4.0 is faster than 5.0, but I think it
emulates a 486, so it won't run pentium-specific code.
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Hello Friend
I have one of those old qube boxes. It is complete, but since the Qube system is not available any longer, it does not look. Please let me know if you would be interested in it. I collect goofy things like that.
Chris
Sorry... I see your pictures of your Multispin4Xc cdr-c302 and is like one I got, please: how can I use in Win98 or XP systems?, I can´t get the drivers...
...at first thanks for your help and for if you send me those drivers
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Found one of these today. Tried to boot it but it goes into terminal mode
because I don't have a keyboard attached. It has a 20 Gb hard drive and all
four SIMM sockets are filled. It has the biggest, strangest SIMMS that I've
ever seen. They're shaped kind of like a T and the top is longer than the
bottom and are crammed full of ICs. No idea of the amount of memory or CPU
speed since I can't get to the OS. It's a model 380-0111-01. Does anyone
know where I can get the specs for that specific model?
Joe
Hi.
I need a manual set for the SGI Iris 1000. Anyone got some for sale or
trade?
Please contact me directly.
Thanks!
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I picked up a couple today, mostly because they were there. On has
no stylus, and neither has an AC adapter, so I'm not likely to do a
whole lot with them. They don't look beat up, and there's one carry
case.
So, choice one would be to find an AC adapter, and whatever other
accessories, Real Cheap.
Choice two is does anybody need one or both for parts spares?
Choice most likely is they go into the "Cute Things I Have Part Of"
drawer instead of the refiner. :)
Doc
I'm getting close to off-topic, but it (1) is > 10 yrs old and (2)
contains a computer... :-)
Does anyone have any idea what the diskette format is? It's not DSDD 512
byte sectors, eg. dd won't read it on a linux box.
Luckily the analyzer's OS has a disk-dup feature, so I can make copies,
but it would be nice to archive a copy.
(On a related note, if anyone has a PDF of the users manual I'd
appreciate it... I bought this used for the University, I figured out
most of the big chunks but a manual would sure be handy. I have the
Maintenance manual, which tells you how to unpack it and shows all the
various interesting flavors of power cord.)
I was sorting through all the bulk-erased DEC media last night
listing the OS's and software "I coulda had", and found one item I'm
pretty sure hasn't been degaussed - the "LXY11 and LXY21 DIAGS", P/N
YM-Z049D-AA on paper tape. It looks like it's never been run.
Slick. It's a darn shame I don't have a reader.
Doc
On Jan 26, 9:14, dvcorbin(a)optonline.net wrote:
> >Bwahahaha, I've written 10 replies, but canceled them all, because I
can't
> >teach a house
> >plant calculus. You Win.
Yeah, I thought about explaining why the paragraph around the idea that
.5mA kills is drivel, and gave up.
> Seriously the TOTAL lack of regulation on "WallWarts" is quite
common. I am currently (preofessionally) developing a product which
normally operates off of AC power (via a wallwart), but needs to remort
low AC conditions and fall back to battery.
>
> The load on this device is VERY dynamic ranging from under 10mA to
over 850mA depending on what it is doing. The voltage fluctuations out
of the wall wart (which is rated as 11.8V @ 1A) will rise as high as
17V when under a minimal load.
>
> Since the device is intended to have a very low production cost, they
really cut some regulation requirements on the board as well, since the
components WILL tolerate this range of voltages.
>
> Unfortunately, the side effect is that the voltage variation based on
load is significantly greater than the voltage variation based on
fluctuations in the AC (eg during a brown out). This has required the
development of software that is constantly monitoriing the "active"
state of many of the devices to "calculate" the current load, and then
going through a transform to estimate the RAW AC that is providing
power to the wart.
Well, there might be a way to deal with the problem. Most of the poor
regulation is down to the following. Most small DC wall warts consist
of a transformer feeding a bridge rectifier with a moderate
electrolytic capacitor across it. Under low or zero load, the
capacitor charges to the peak voltage. As you apply more and more
load, you get more and more ripple, and the average voltage goes down
(in fact, because there is resistance between the transformer and
capacitor, so does the peak). However, you could analyse the ripple
and work out what the input was doing. At moderate loads, the
capacitor will charge rapidly to something near the peak voltage on
each half-cycle, and discharge relatively slowly; at high loads, you'll
get a more symmetric ripple. If you want to know in detail, you could
sample it, but my guess is if you're just looking for brownouts all
you'd need to do is compare the amount of ripple to the average voltage
and apply some rule of thumb. Or compare the slope of the rise to the
slope of the fall. Of course when the ripple goes away completely
you've got no mains input at all :-)
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Curt vendel <curt(a)atarimuseum.com> wrote:
> Ah! Sorry, I didn't get into Dec Vax stuff until 94' and didn't start
> working with Ultrix till 95'
I started my VAX life at an even later date! 1997. So yes, I am a late comer
to the club. I saw a VAX for the first time in my life in 1997. But I wanted
to run 4.3BSD and I was determined to do whatever it takes to do it. So I
learned the VAX terminology and genealogy, learned how to make my way around
the VAX world, and learned that original 4.3BSD ran only on VAXen so huge and
so rare (an 11/7xx wasn't exactly a readily obtainable item even in 1997, much
less today) that I would never be able to run one. I learned that to make
4.3BSD run on a VAX of the kind I could lay my hands on and run in an apartment
I would have to actually do major work on the code first. Now imagine me back
then in 1997-98 thinking about the prospect of making major changes to a VAX
UNIX kernel while having virtually no knowledge of VAX architecture and system
programming. But I was determined. A good ClassicCmp friend provided me with
literature (VAX Architecture Reference Manual, VAX Architecture Handbook, and
VAX Hardware Handbook), and I learned the VAX architecture and instruction set.
I read and studied everything I could about VAXen. And it has paid off: I know
VAX really well now, people consult with me on deep VAX hardware questions, I
successfully maintain a VAX operating system, and I'm even working in the
background (though not too many cycles dedicated to it right now) on the design
of a new VAX CPU chip.
> I remember we got into the lab I think it
> was a Dec Infoserver, their first webserver and it was running Ultrix as I
> recall, [...]
> Actually, I think the infoserver was running OSF Unix???
Maybe we are talking about different things, but InfoServer runs a special
proprietary embedded OS and it is not a web server, it talks a special
proprietary protocol. Unless I'm totally mistaken on that one. (InfoServer
was a fairly unusual beast.)
MS
Nowhere near 10 years old, but ClassicCmp is the place most likely to
know....
A surplus barn here is getting a huge lot of factory refurb Hakko 939
solder stations. He says he'll be getting $150 for them, with a 90-day
warranty from Hakko. He has one as a sample from his supplier, and it
looks NIB.
That unit is much more sophisticated than I really need. I convert
serial & graphics cables for my toys, touch up the odd dry joint or
scratched-out trace, chase fire ants, and hack potentially lethal PSUs
into my print servers. (Yeah, I had to go there) However, even a
decent used setup that'll behave nicely for what I do is going to run
me $100, so I'd rather splurge a little than inherit somebody else's
scorch marks.
Back to the point, has anyone on-list used Hakko gear? Like it, or
not?
Or does anybody have a recommendation for a better deal in the
$100-150 range?
Doc
>> Misc PC cards:
>> 16 bit ISA multi I/O card (2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 joystick, floppy, and
>> ide)
>
>These are starting to disappear believe it or not.
Yeah because people like me chuck box loads of them when we can no longer
store them, and can't find anyone to take them.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
Hi
Ordinary glass glows a little redish yellow in a dark room,
when melted. Quartz glass if definitely white hot, when
melted. I don't think they are using quartz glass for neon
signs, though.
Dwight
>From: "Teo Zenios" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
><cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:18 PM
>Subject: RE: Voltage & Current..
>
>
>> At 12:02 PM 1/29/04 -0800, you wrote:
>> >> > I think perhaps it's best for Lyos to maintain his present beliefs
>about
>> >> > voltage and current. Over time I'm sure he'll collect more empirical
>> >> > data to either confirm or deny his hypothesis (though quite likely at
>> >> > some cost if he's as stubborn in his beliefs as I suspect the case to
>> >> > be).
>> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
>> >> In other words, blows himself up with a 3kV-to-240v electricity pole
>> >> transformer?
>> >
>> >Would that damage the transformer? (how many amps are those?)
>>
>> I believe that they're AT LEAST 1 Amp ON THE 3kV SIDE! The neon sign
>> manufacturer's use them to step the 240 back up to 2 or 3 kV at 1 Amp to
>> burn the gasses out of the glass walls of tubes that they use to make neon
>> signs with. They run them at ~1 Amp for 24 hours and the tubes are almost
>> white hot.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>Funny, All the glass/quarts tubes I have seen don't glow any color even when
>melting.
>
>
>
>
all of the cards you have posted are Unibus, not Qbus
the remex card is a reader/punch interface
the DR11C is a 16 bit parallel i/o card
L-10-B-2 appears to be a copy of a DEC M7800 serial line intf
the CDS is some sort of disc interface
and the DSD board is a unibus interface for a DSD440 floppy
Narrow Carriage Dot Matrix printers (all believed working, good shape):
Star NX-2430 Multifont
TI Omni 800 855 w/font cartridge
Star NX-1001 Multifont
Epson LX-850
Honeywell Bull Miniature inkjet - about 2 inches tall, 8 inches wide, 5
inches deep. Centronics parallel IF, Cute!
Viva Modem 24 (little tower, no PS)
Dell Monitor, 14", model Vi1439U
Packard Bell Monitor, model PB8538SVGA
Complete Epson Equity I+ system, monitor, keyboard, system unit. All epson
brand original set. Haven't opened it up but I suspect it's an 8080 or such,
360K floppy. Cute stylish setup.
Misc PC cards:
16 bit ISA multi I/O card (2 serial, 1 parallel, 1 joystick, floppy, and
ide)
16 bit ISA linksys etherlan16 network card
16 bit ISA VGA (JAX TVGA8900)
8 bit ISA Sound Magic (several creative labs chips)
Last but not least... can't believe I'm going to let this one go, but it
needs a better home. I have a Corona Data Systems PPC400-12.
Jay West
>From: "Dave Mitton" <dave(a)mitton.com>
>
>Folks,
> I need some help.
>
>I'm trying to bring up my LSI-11 system (KDA11, BA11-VA Cabinet, RX02,
>VT100), and due to a basement flood a few years ago, all of my RX02 media
>has been water damaged. This was my last 8" floppy system.
>
>The diskettes are sticking to the jacket, and some bits of the lining are
>sticking to the oxide, (or vice versa) anyways I cannot get anything to
>boot. I've tried cleaning a few of the media with isopropyl alcohol, but
>no success yet.
Hi
I assume you've removed them from the covers and run them bare.
Also try cleaning the pulley surfaces on the drives. Even tiny grunk
here will cause read errors. The belts tend to degrade and make
blobs on the pulleys.
Clean heads between each experiment.
I had this same problem with a number of "high quality" floppies.
It seems that the adhesive used for the liners would seep through
the liners onto the disk. Someone mentioned using goof-off but
I've never tried such and don't recommend it without some testing
first. I cleaned with isoproponal(sp?).
Dwight
Brad Parker <brad(a)heeltoe.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a version of Ultrix which will boot on an
> 11/730?
AFAIK DEC never dropped 730 support from Ultrix so I see no reason why would any
given version, e.g., V4.00 which I have on my FTP site, NOT boot on a 730.
> And if so, can I grab media files off the net somewhere?
I've got the full V4.00 distribution on my FTP site:
ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/UNIX/thirdparty/Ultrix-32/ult400vaxdist-tk50/
This dist came into my hands in TK50 format, hence the directory name on the FTP
site, but I see no reason why you can't write it to magtape as well. (6250 BPI
would be easier, for 1600 BPI you may have to split it into multiple tapes and I
am not sure how to tweak the metadata for the Ultrix installer so it knows from
which tape to get what.) Or you can bootstrap from TK50 on a 730 with a TUK50
controller.
You would, however, need to create your own TU58 media for Ultrix bootstrap.
They can be constructed from file.01 and file.02 on the tape (which are on the
FTP site), but I'm not sure of the exact algorithm and you'll need to look in
the source code. I have complete sources for Ultrix V2.00 and V4.20 on the same
FTP site. Not for V4.00, but since this stuff hasn't changed between V2.00 and
V4.20 it logically follows that it should hold for V4.00 as well.
Now even if you recreate the same Ultrix distribution TU58s that you would get
>from DEC when buying Ultrix, you are still not all set. DEC's Ultrix
distribution TU58s are not directly readable or bootable by the 730 console, and
you need ANOTHER TU58, which is not part of any Ultrix distribution at all, with
a sufficiently recent version of VMB.EXE and supporting stuff that knows how to
boot non-VMS operating systems, probably the original version that came with the
hardware in 1982 won't do. In other words you would be in for a lot of "fun".
> (I know 4.3bsd would, and I'd like to fool around with netbsd but it
> seems like ultrix might be a good way to bootstrap)
4.3BSD (either original or Quasijarus) is the easiest of all to bootstrap of any
11/7xx, including 730. Everything that you need is on ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG in
the appropriate directory (/pub/UNIX/4.3BSD or /pub/UNIX/4.3BSD-Quasijarus0b):
tape images and TU58 cassette image, and the TU58 is in RT-11 format directly
readable by the 730 console, no VMB or other stuff is needed.
Now here is something I want to ask you: would you happen to have an original
DEC 730 console TU58 with the latest version of 730 microcode and console
program they released? If you do, would you please make a block image (dd) of
it?
MS
I think I know the answer to this already...but I'll ask anyway. :) Can
the PDP-11 use the frame buffer boards that a VAX would use for graphic
displays?
Does anyone know where there's an on-line Field Guide for DEC cards that
weren't made by DEC? I found some Remex, Charles River and MDB cards that
I'm trying to figure out what they are.
Joe
> I wan to dump the program off a TMS1000
You'll have to decap the part and photomicrograph the ROM and PLAs
I've put the programmer's manual up at www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ti/_dataBooks
There is no way to read the ROM externally.
The Computing Service here at York still has one DEC LG01 printer in
use, but it's going offline for the last time at the end of this week.
Rather than wheel it out to the skip, we'd prefer to see it go to
someone who can use it. It's free to anyone who can collect it from
York in the near future, and we should have some paper and spare
ribbons as well.
It you don't know what an LG01 is, it's a large heavy-duty fast
(600lpm) 132-column dot-matrix tractor-feed printer in an integral
soundproofing enclosure (floor-standing). We use(d) it for admin and
finance reports, and multipart forms, originally on a VAX but now on
one of our Alphas. It's been under a maintenance contract until
recently, and it's in very good condition.
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University of York
J.C. Wren <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote:
> They claim you're on crack.
Well I say the same about them. I am at war with NetBSD and enemies in a war
always say bad things about each other, it's the propaganda front of the war.
I do not want to continue this thread further. No reply or followup to this
message will elicit any reply or followup from me.
MS
J.C. Wren <jcwren(a)jcwren.com> wrote:
> Wha? 'nyet' is Russian for 'no' last time I checked a dictionary.
The Russian word of "no" is CE C5 D4 in Cyrillic alphabet in KOI-8.
Transliterating Cyrillic in ASCII is always a pain and there is more than one
reasonable way to do it.
MS
Well, I posted this on comp.os.vms and got no response
so I repost it here. Hope it is not against certain
rules.
I plan to exchange with a pair of KDA50 cards (one
M7165 and one M7164). Each side pays shipping by
himself. Details:
I ship you a pair of KDA50 cards, with two card
covers.
You ship me a pair of M9404, M9505 with the attached
card covers.
People on the list, please let me know whether it is a
fair exchange. If not, I am willing to exchange for
the M9404 only. Yes, there is a M9405 on ebay now, but
what I really need is the M9404. Thank you.
Btw, I changed my name to vax,3900 in mail.yahoo.com 3
days ago, but still my old (fake) name is shown in
every email I send out.
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I got a PC ISA card: Apple Turnover. The prob. is that
I do not have the software for the card.... Can any1
help... please ????
Thanks in advance,
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hey,
i'm lookin' for an 8" floppy drive for my pc too. i do
hv a few of these disks (abs no idea what's in them).
let me know if there's any in any region close to
india.
pls.......
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Hi Christopher.
You offered me a RL11 but I can't reply to your mail. I tried two
different SMTP servers but I get allways:
Jan 29 17:47:33 SirTobie sendmail[15295]: i0TGOxt15222: to=<xxx(a)vt.edu>,
delay=00:22:34, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=301051,
relay=smtp.vt.edu. [198.82.161.8], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection
refused by smtp.vt.edu.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:18:45AM -0500, Christopher McNabb wrote:
> I have an RL11 available. You'd have to pay shipping from the US to
> Germany, plus whatever it is worth to you.
Thanks for the offer. :-)
I would pay perhaps US$20 for the card and additionaly max. US$20 for
shipping.
I am looking for other UniBus cards as well:
SMD disk controller. (MSCP or maybe R? emulation)
Pertec 9 track tape controler for my cipher F880.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Can someone help Charlie?
(See below...)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:35:52 +1300
From: Charlie <techj(a)inspire.net.nz>
To: info(a)vintagetech.com
Subject: TMS1000 Processor
I wan to dump the program off a TMS1000 so tha I can read and then make some improvements and then reload onto a current day processor.
Cna you send me in the right direction to locate info on how to dump etc. for the TMS1000.
Charlie Harris
New Zealand
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> PN 700-10470-04. Do you want it?
let me take a peek inside the one I have
> do you know if it really is Multibus?
at one point, I had a maint manual for the 68k variety
it may have started out that way, but from memory they
used the P2 connector differently.
Sellam,
I'm using a Gigabyte board with the HX-Chipset to test my MFM- and RLL-drives.
It works fine, just make sure you turn of the onboard IDE-controllers and onboard floppy-controller.
In general, MFM-drives take a long time to turn into ready state, too long for these kinds of motherboards such as they declare your harddrive faulty.
So what I do is resetting the mainboard. Enough time is elapsed, the drive meanwhile ready to perform the "working test" done by the board.
Pierre
>
> I haven't played with MFM hard drives and controllers in a LONG time
> (about 10 years now) so I have some questions.
>
> I'll start off easy. Should there be any reason an old 16-bit ISA MFM
> controller won't work properly in a Pentium-class PC with ISA and PCI
> slots? I imagine I would just have to configure the BIOS to reserve the
> proper interrupt (I believe it's 14, correct?) for the MFM controller.
>
> I did all this but the MFM controller wreaked havoc on the system. It
> killed the on-board floppy disk and IDE controllers (not physically killed
> but basically disabled them and the system couldn't boot).
>
> I'm trying to determine if there is a natural conflict before I venture
> forth with this configuration. This may be a problem related to the PC
> I'm trying to plug the card into because there are other oddities with the
> IDE controller that is preventing the system from booting with 4 hard
> drives installed (2 per IDE interface). It halts after it auto-recognizes
> the drives on the primary controller. Weird.
>
> Anyway, any insight would be appreciated.
>
> I'm going to do more experimentation in the meantime. I'll get another PC
> with ISA and PCI slots to work with, and will also find an old 386 to test
> the MFM controller on to make sure it is working fine.
>
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That did the trick!
Thanks guys. It comes up as KB5 - 8 now, but hey, it works!
I'm gonna enjoy multiple RT-11 sessions on this thing .. . .
Jeff
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:09:54 -0700 Kevin Handy <kth(a)srv.net> writes:
> jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com wrote:
>
> >Does anyone out there know what CSR Address and vector I should
> >set this to to make RSTS/E happy? When RSTS INIT's, it bitches
> >that the board doesn't interrupt, and happily disables it.
> >
> >I'm using it in an 11/73, with RQDX3, 1MB ram, TQK70, the
> >aforementioned DZQ11, and a DEQNA.
> >
> >If I do a SHOW DEV, KB1-4 is listed, but no CSR. . . .
> >
> >
> >
> According to VMS (assuming that the TK50 and TK70 have the same
> addresses)
> there aren't any floating address/interrupts, so: CSR: 760100
> Vector: 300*
>
> $ run sys$system:sysgen
> SYSGEN> CONFIG
> DEVICE> rqdx3
> %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device RQDX3 will be output
> as UDA
> DEVICE> tqk70
> %SYSGEN-W-DEVNOTKNWN, device not known: /TQK70/
> DEVICE> tk50
> %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device TK50 will be output
> as TU81
> DEVICE> dz11
> DEVICE> deqna
> %SYSGEN-I-EQV_NOTICE, equivalent name - device DEQNA will be output
> as QNA
> DEVICE> Exit
> Device: UDA Name: PUA CSR: 772150 Vector: 154
> Support:
> yes
> Device: TU81 Name: PTA CSR: 774500 Vector: 260
> Support:
> yes
> Device: QNA Name: XQA CSR: 774440 Vector: 120
> Support:
> yes
> Device: DZ11 Name: TTA CSR: 760100* Vector: 300*
> Support:
> yes
> SYSGEN>
>
>
>
>
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-----Original Message-----
>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:06 -0000
>From: "Witchy" <witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>Subject: RE: cow-orkers Was: Re: Estimated Price Of A "Classic" PDP-8?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
>> Sent: 26 January 2004 23:31
>> where did that start? I'm sure I remember seeing the "cow orker" typo in
>> usenet postings about ten years ago, but maybe it has a history far
>> older than that...
>>
>
>I'm sure it's been in common parlance for longer
>than this, but my other online home at www.b3ta.com
>(currently offline for upgrades) coined the term
>'orking' for a picture of an animal that had its nose
>too close to the camera lens, and from that the 'new'
>term of a cow-orker was born, but from sniffing around
>USENET archives it seems it's been around for longer
>than the last couple of years :)
>
>cheers
Hello,
My first try on this list. Hope this works. :)
I recall using cow-orker as early as my FIDOnet days (up til 1993).
It seems to go back as far as the late 80's. I just loked around and
found this URL...
Excerpts from http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowOrker
------------------
The earliest reference in GoogleGroups is from a signature
file posted to alt.sca on June 27, 1989...
The same author used it in his signature file for posts
to alt.sca through August 11, 1989...
--------------------------------
I have a KXT11-AA, which is an M8063. Never thought it was good for much,
but now maybe I have to reconsider. The M7676 is the -AB model, I think.
Joe Heck
>Can someone e-mail me a URL of where I can pick up a pdf of the RX8E
>schematics? My goal is to examine how this guy wired up his RX8E
>interface to a posi-bus machine, then look at *building* an RX8L
>from M-series modules (since I have no spare RX8Es lying around).
>
http://www.pdp8.net/pdp8cgi/query_docs/view.pl?id=238
Search finds it by everything other than RX8E, will have to fix that.
David Gesswein
http://www.pdp8.net/ -- Run an old computer with blinkenlights
>From: "Lyos Norezel" <lyosnorezel(a)yahoo.com>
>
>The phone required interior positive an that was, indeed, what the power supply
was. So the wrong connector for the psu my foot... OK smartasses... what could
have gone wrong now, eh? Voltage was EXACTLY the same... PSU had the correct
connector and nothing inside the phone was shorted (I checked), same with the
psu (nothing shorted). The ONLY difference was the difference in the amount of
amps supplied. Come on... explain that one, eh? Bet ya can't
>Lyos Gemini Norezel
>
Hi
First, one should mention that even though you measured
the phone to see if there was a short, it still may have
had a failure ( that blew the first wallwart ) that only
shows up when powered. Adding the additional current may
have simply switched the balance of what smoked first,
the wallwart or the phone. In other words, the phone was
bad to start with, you just finished it off.
I'm still not surprised or even slightly confused by
the fact that it blew up. I've seen much stranger things.
The solution, I just stated, is one of many that can still
be provided.
Dwight
Jay:
Saw your message dated Oct 1, 2003 about the TI system. Did you get it
running? I too,
have some TI hardware and I've written some cross support software that
may be of
interest (cross assembler, cross linker and a simulator). You can access
the stuff at:
http://www.cozx.com/~dpitts/ti990.html
Good luck.
--
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dpitts(a)cozx.com My other RV IS a Pullman (Colorado Pine).
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