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WTB : CTL, CTuL 9956 ??

by gerardcjat＠free.fr

This is a (very ) long shoot ! I am looking for ( Fairchild ? ) CTL / CTuL 9956 chips. Anyone ? Thanks.

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WTB : Card extender for HP 21xx ( Fit from 2116 to 21MX )

by gerardcjat＠free.fr

All is in the title. An other very long shoot, isn't it ? ;-)

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Raspberry Pi floppy interface.

by geneb＠deltasoft.com

This looks like a project with a ton of potential for archviving media without having to deal with the asshattery of the kryoflux people. https://github.com/picosonic/bbc-fdc g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.diy-cockpits.org/coll - Go Collimated or Go Home. Some people collect things for a hobby. Geeks collect hobbies. ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://scarlet.deltasoft.com - Get it _today_!

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PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Fritz Mueller > I've had a bit of time in front of the machine to repro this and take a > look. What I actually see is: > R0 177770 > R1 0 > R2 0 > R3 0 > R4 0 > R5 34 > R6 141774 > PC 000254 Argh. (Very red face!) I worked out the trap stack layout by looking at m40.s and trap.c, and totally forgot about the return PC (that's the 0444) from the call to trap(): 0001740 000013 141756 022050 000013 000000 000000 000000 000034 0001760 000444 000031 177760 000000 030351 177770 010210 170010 I clearly should have looked at core(V) in the V6 manual! The R6 you have recorded is correct for just after the trap; that's the kernel mode SP, which points to the top of the kernel stack, in segment 6 (in the swappable per-process kernel area, which runs >from 140000-1776). So there is no R5 mystery, I was just confused. Back to the other two! Noel

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PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Wayne S > it might be a wonky filesystem. ... > The corruption probably came because the entire disk was going bad. This theory is contradicted by the fact (mentioned several times, including in the message you were replying to) that doing a plain 'ls' bombs, but 'sleep 300 &; ls' works fine. Noel

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PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Jay Jaeger > This sort of situation, where DEC diagnostics run OK but UNIX has issues > was reported to be not all that uncommon - to the point where the urban > legend was that some DEC FE's would fire up Unix V6 as a sort of system > exerciser. Amusing! Never heard that; our -11's were never under maintenance, so DEC FE's never worked on them. > Make a copy of ls, and see if the copy also fails It acts just like the original; fails when run by itself, runs OK when 'sleep' is also running (in the background). > From: Bob Smith > We finally had the cpu backplane replaced Ow. Not an option for Fritz, I expect. (I dunno - anyone have a spare /45 backplane?) > From: Paul Koning > Is there any way to attach a logic analyzer to various data paths on > this machine? I had suggested to Fritz that the symptoms led me to believe that it was time to deploy a LA, especially since the MM trap only occurs once between him typing 'ls' and the process failing - i.e. easy to trigger on. He offered me the options of look at the IR or at the UNIBUS - I opted for the IR so we can see _exactly_ what the machine _thinks_ it is doing! No report back yet, though. Noel

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PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Jon Elson > Does the MMU classify what the error condition was Yes, there are a series of bits in SSR0 to indicate the particular error: 'non-resident', 'length', 'read-only', etc (and also the segment number the error's from). As my message mentioned, we're seeing the 'length' error bit on, and for segment 1 (which the instruction isn't using). > is it possible to borrow an MMU from somebody else? Fritz does have a spare board, but it has known errors. We haven't thought about borrowing one yet, it may come to that. > If this fault could be caused by memory Well, _some_ of it could. E.g. if the 'jsr r5, csv' is read as 'jsr r4, csv', dropping the '1' bit in the register number, that would explain the wonky R5 content - R4 does contain the 034 that should be in R5, I have just noticed. But that doesn't explain the bogus MM trap. Although I suppose there could be several different problems, all at the same time. > does this machine have a cache? Nope. Noel

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TU-58 support under Unix

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

Here's a question for someone who has been around long enough to remember. Why did none of the available PDP-11 Unixes support the TU-58? I have looked at Ultrix-11, V7M and BSD 2.11 (didn't try 2.9 but I suspect if it isn't in 2.11 it wasn't in 2.9) and none of them had support for the TU-58. Seems to me it would have been a rather simple device to handle as it ran over a serial line. bill

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Looking for Limited Function Board

by pontus＠Update.UU.SE

Hi I'm restoring a PDP-8/a with the help of some friends. The CPU is now passing the MAINDECs I've thrown at it. The memory is a modern semiconductor board my friend Anders Sandahl made. This machine is pieced together from several others and the limited function panel I got does not match the backplane I have. My theory is the DEC simplified the design of the boardto cut costs and simpler design is not compatible. Mine is labeled (on the PCB): "LIMITED FUNCTION BD. 5411507 5011506C-P2" And the one I need is: "LIMITED FUNCTION 5411165 5011167" However, the picture I have of the other is not so good. I may have read the numbera wrong. I would very much like to buy one to finish this project. /P

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TU-58 support under Unix

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Bill Gunshannon > Why did none of the available PDP-11 Unixes support the TU-58? > I have looked at Ultrix-11, V7M and BSD 2.11 The 'TUHS' list might be more likely turn up the reasoning? Noel

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Vax sw: Computex Plus

by robert＠irrelevant.com

Hi. Has anybody got a copy of this? It's a viewdata host program. https://www.cbronline.com/news/applied_telematics_adds_minitel_access_from_… Even better would be an installed database.. Ta. Rob. -- Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse brevity or spoiling mistooks.

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More facets of hard disk recovery (SA1000, RD53) and emulation

by djg＠pdp8online.com

I have made a SA1000 adapter board for my MFM reader emulator. I did a small run which seems to work so if you are interested email me to get in on the next order. Prices may get a little better if I get enough orders. http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/ http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/sa1000/sa1000_usage.shtml I have used it for reading Shugart SA1004 and Quantum Q2040 drives. Another has used it to replace drive in a TRS-80 Model II 8 Meg drive unit. Some other items that may be of interest: Dealing with stuck head problem with Quantum Q2040 drives http://www.pdp8online.com/q2040/q2040.shtml Using a DAC to pull the head servo to recover otherwise unreadable data >from DEC RD53 drive. Also procedure tried for Q2040 but data had been erased so not successful. http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/head_servo/

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Last call: Exhibitors for VCF PNW 2019

by mbbrutman＠brutman.com

If you were thinking of joining us for VCF PNW 2019 in Seattle then now is the time to let me know! The event is March 23-24th (Saturday and Sunday) with setup the day before. We still have room for some more exhibits if you are interested in joining us. If you are going to join us I need to know by Friday, February 8th. If you have told me you were coming but did not complete the registration form, well, now is the time ... A description of the event can be found at http://vcfed.org/vcf-pnw . General information for exhibitors including pictures from last year, a link to the registration form, and a FAQ can be found at http://vcfed.org/wp/vcf-pnw-exhibitor-registration/ . Also, yell at me directly if you have questions Thanks, Mike mbbrutman at brutman.com or michael at vcfed.org PS: Not exhibiting at the event but interested in unloading some tonnage? We're doing a consignment area again, and that's open to everybody. Now is a good time to start cleaning and testing things that you might want to sell.

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tape transport drive belts

by binarydinosaurs＠gmail.com

Evening folks, I?m bringing a Sharp MZ80B back to life and have so far fixed a horizontal collapse problem on the video board meaning I can see what it?s prompting for at boot. I remember when I first got this machine back in 2003-ish I dismantled it and discovered some of the tape transport had melted and gummed up the automatic head mechanism. Fast forward* 15 years and I have the transport in bits again on the bench and I can see that one belt has melted and another is on the way to collapse. Did we ever find a reasonable source of replacement belts? I know a couple of collector friends with 3D printers have printed replacements but this is new tech and I need old tech :) Cheers! *sorry, pun intended -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk

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DEC TKZ10 Tapes

by bill.gunshannon＠hotmail.com

Does anyone have any DC6525 tape cartridges they would be willing to part with? One of the Expansion boxes on my VAX has a TKZ10 but none of the older QIC tapes I have can handle the format from this drive. bill

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Tandy RS DWP-220 printer equivalent?

by seefriek＠gmail.com

My google-fu is failing me; forgive me. Is the Tandy DWP-220 daisy-wheel printer a rebrand/OEM of someone else? In particular, can I find ribbons and font wheels under another manufacturer? KJ

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advice / suggestion wanted PDP 11/40 only boots XXDP, not RT11

by billdegnan＠gmail.com

My PDP 11/40 suddenly lost it's ability to boot RL02 disks except the XXDP disk. I have two drives, both boot up an XXDP (I have more than one) just fine, but any formerly-working RT-11 (v 5, 5.1, 5.3) no longer boots, it just hangs. I have been troubleshooting, running the 11/40 XXDP tests, but they seem to just hang too. And I am not a big fan of XXDP anyway. I have cleaned the drive heads, the disks are ok. I can load BASIC just fine from PDPGUI "tape" through the serial card (M7800) Any off the cuff suggestions why this specific issue would arise? Power seems ok, looking for dumb reasons that I missed. I have swapped out CPU cards, does not make any difference. I am pretty sure it's a UNIBUS interference issue, at least that's my working theory. I suppose there may be an RT-11 boot instruction call or routine of the CPU that XXDP does not exercise explaining why XXDP boots. Maybe RAM locations. In the end I just have to work through everything, but I am open to suggestions to help cut down the time spent diagnosing the problem. Thanks in advance, I will be around tonight (East Coast USA Time) Bill

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11/70 - original or 570 model more desirable?

by billdegnan＠gmail.com

Random question would you prefer having, if you had to pick only one, the original PDP 11/70 or the newer "blue cabinets" PDP 11/70, assuming both were complete configurations with racks of storage etc as they would have been sold, more or less. Assume space and power are not issues, consider just the machine itself. Bill

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early PDP-11/45 info sought

by fritzm＠fritzm.org

Those reading through the recent "PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem" thread here will know that I've gotten to some corners of my 11/45 CPU now that don't match up with the commonly available engineering drawings. My /45 is an early serial number (#152). So far I've verified hardware differences on at least my M8100 and M8105 cards and spares, relating to parity error abort handling. I would really like to track down any of the following resources: - PDP 11/45 system engineering drawings *earlier* than those currently available on bitsavers (Jun '74) - Any PDP 11/45 backplane wire list (what looks to be a wire list in the currently available engineering drawings is actually only a breakdown of the power harness.) - PDP 11/45 ECO information, particularly the following: M8100 00003 M8103 00005 M8105 00005 M8106 00007, 00008, 00012, 00012A M8110 00008 KB11-A 00015 Bitsavers seems to have a DEC-O-LOG for M8105, but this does not contain specifics on cuts and jumps for ECO 00005, referring only to the associated "kit". DEC-O-LOGs for the other processor boards are missing. If anybody thinks they might have any of this info squirreled away anywhere, I'd really love to find out more about it! Parts of the ECO's are pretty easy to figure, just by comparing the state of my existing boards to the '74 drawings. But other parts not so much... thanks much, --FritzM.

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Plug+Play for PDP-11/40 panels - BlinkenBone update

by j_hoppe＠t-online.de

Hi guys, There is now a special 11/40 adapter board for the BlinkenBone system. With that you can plug a physical 11/40 panel to the extended SimH running on a BeagleBone. Surprisingly there was some demand for the 11/70 panel adapter, so adding the '40 panel may be worth mentioning. There is no own '40 documentation, see again the 11/70: http://www.retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/physical-pdp-11-70-panels/288-… If you want it: I made the '40 ?10 cheaper then the '70. Entry to far-too-many web pages here: http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone All in all there are now at least 6 different (but compatible) ways to get a blinking PDP-11's with SimH. - Connect a real 11/40 or 11/70 panel. http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/physical-pdp-11-70-panels - Run the virtual Java panels for 11/20, 11/40 or 11/70, also with play isntruction for the physical ones: http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/simulated-panels/253-blinkenbone-s… http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/simulated-panels/254-blinkenbone-p… http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/simulated-panels/252-blinkenbone-p… http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/simulated-panels/247-blinkenbone-s… http://retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone/simulated-panels/243-blinkenbone-p… Download & run from github https://github.com/j-hoppe/BlinkenBone/releases - get Oscars Vermeulens PiDP11 http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 I will be at VCFPNW in Seattle with that stuff. kind regards, Joerg

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old gcc #pragma handling

by chris＠groessler.org

Hi, I knew that since ~20 yrs, but I didn't know the affected gcc version(s). According to http://toni.technetium.be/hacker/pragma.htm this "special" pragma handling should be in gcc 1.34. But I cannot find gcc 1.34. ftp.gnu.org has gcc-1.30.atari (where the sequence doesn't exist), and gcc-1.35 (where it's "#if 0"ed). Does anyone know where to find the source code of gcc 1.34? regards, chris

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decgraphic brochures on eBay

by aek＠bitsavers.org

Is anyone here bidding on them that intends to scan them? I won't snipe them if that's the case

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early PDP-11/45 info sought

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

From: Jay Jaeger > Here is what I have for drawings: Wow. You have some very desirable stuff there! Let me point at a couple of things of particular interest: > B-TC-FP11-C-6 FP11-C (Print Set MP00038) December 75 > [M8126, M8127, M8128, M8129] AFAIK, prints for the FP11-C are not available online: http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9306 so those of us with an FP11-C would be particularly grateful if you could scan those and make them available. > EK-KT11C-MM-005 KT11-C, CD Memory Management Unit Maintenance Manual Not available online; the earlier DEC-11-HKTCA-C-D KT11-C Memory Management Unit Maintenance Manual is available online, but doesn't cover the -CD. This one is in the fiche set, but it's a pain to work with (especially since my fiche reader burned out its bulb recently :-), so it's a 'nice to have', scan-wise. > EK-MS11A-MM-006 MS11-A,B,C memory System Maintenance Manual Agaih, not available online, but in the fiche. Ditto 'nice to have'. Of course, anything you've got that's not online should be scanned 'eventually' (I have several of those myself, sigh). Noel

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cctalk Digest, Vol 52, Issue 30

by kurt＠hamm.me

> > Why can't I buy a replica paper tape reader? Emulate a serial ASR 33? I > guess, both punch and read. Why can't I buy that? Kurt

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by marvin＠west.net

> Sorry, but no. It?s grossly offensive for things that work perfectly well and that someone might actually find useful to go to scrap. There?s tons of useless and broken junk that our civilization can mine for scrap, we don?t need to actually destroy things that have actual value. > > If someone isn?t able to sell for the price they?d like to get, maybe the market won?t bear that price and they need to lower it. Scrapping should be a course of last resort, a way to recover value from something you can?t even give away, not a competing outlet for goods. > > -- Chris While I also don't like scrapping out things that work or can be repaired relatively easily, a saying I use in a variety of situation is "don't force your limitations on me, I have enough of my own." That said, I VERY much appreciate the free pile at VCFMW that allows me to get rid of stuff that will go to a good home rather than go to landfill or scrap (I DON'T DO EBAY!!!) Many times I find free to be far to expensive for most people including myself (think postage/shipping/prep time.)

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early PDP-11/45 info sought

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Fritz Mueller > I would really like to track down any of the following resources: > - PDP 11/45 system engineering drawings *earlier* than those currently > available on bitsavers (Jun '74) My KB11-A prints have an 'overall' date of "4/76" (on the front page), but prints within the set seem to be older. E.g. my M8100 prints are dated 2/72, and none contain any entries in the 'Revisions' block (lower left). However, they are marked as Rev. D, which is newer than the KB11-A prints at Bitsaver, which are marked as Rev. C. So I have no idea what changed to cause the rev update! (The first drawing, the board layout, does show a listing for 'D', so maybe it was just a layout change?) The boards aren't all the same rev, though: the M8102 in mine are marked Rev. C. My KT11-D prints are dated "5/72" (on the front page), and the M8107 prints are hand-marked as Rev. A, but the M8108 pages have mostly been replaced with 'yellow-sheet' updates with Rev. F, dated 6-'73. Noel

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 07:13 PM 1/28/2019, dwight via cctalk wrote: >When looking at the 45 minutes, also consider the various overheads involved. >They are in business. Time is money. Space is money. Organization is money. Information is money. Advertising / listing for sale takes time and money. And it all only gets worse if the item is heavy, dirty, or leaking. - John

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HP E2447AA/E2446AB (68000 probe pod) - UDS/LDS delays

by philpem＠philpem.me.uk

Hi, I'm looking for some (technical!) information on the HP E2447AA or E2447AB probe pod (for using a HP logic analyser to monitor a 68000 CPU). I need to probe a DIP64 packaged 68HC000, but the E2447AA/AB are for PGA parts. So I figured I'd make a "top hat" PCB to adapt the 68k to a bunch of HP transition headers. The E2447AA delays the UDS and LDS signals before passing them to the analyser. Does anyone know how much of a delay is introduced compared to the original signal? Thanks, Phil.

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by jwest＠classiccmp.org

Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of directly with Jesse and I'm happy. We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know we can't pay typical full price that corporations/military can. We must be willing to pay something above scrap value, of course. I ask folks to keep an open mind and give Jesse a fair shake moving forward. Best, J

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Monitor BARCO CD 233

by emu＠e-bbes.com

anybody out here has a manual for it? Thanks!

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Jesse and the ebay mess

by jzatar2＠illinois.edu

On Thu Jan 24 16:26:48 CST 2019, Electronics Plus sales at elecplus.com said: > I just got off the phone with Jesse at Cypress. He said he did not post the > gold and tantalum items on ebay. It is someone else, trying to cast a bad > name on him. Sorry, but this doesn't really check out. Jesse sent an email to the list, original subject 'Hewlett-Packard 3000, 9000, Itanium (HP-UX & MPE/iX) Servers, Storage Arrays, Replacement Parts, Maintenance, & Disaster back-ups' and put his email and website in the message. Going to that website, cypress-tech.com, we can go to the 'ebay store' page where the apparently official ebay store of Cypress Tech is linked to. Following the link, http://stores.ebay.com/Cypress-Technology-Inc we see that this is the same seller as the original gold scrap ebay link, https://www.ebay.com/itm/382505855460 Here is the list of reasonable possibilities that I can think of: - Somebody sent a fake email, from a fake Cypress-Tech.com, and made a fake ebay page with the sole purpose of defaming this person (I'll admit, not entirely out of the realm of possibility if there were someone with a grudge against him) - Jesse does not maintain full exclusive control over the ebay store, and one of his coworkers/employees have posted the gold scrap auctions without his knowledge (I suppose this is possible) - You've been lied to, or otherwise you made a mistake Please correct me if I've made an error somewhere, and please don't take this as a personal attack of any kind. I don't have any interest in this matter really, but my BS detector was showing a reading, so I checked it out a little deeper and that's what I found. Best Regards, Joe Zatarski

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PDP-11/45 RSTS/E boot problem

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Fritz Mueller > it flagged a bunch of memory locations that weren't reported by my much > simpler diagnostic (which only does all-ones/all-zeros passes looking for > stuck bits at this point.) What is is complaining about? > The MAINDEC memory diagnostic is bulky and complicated, and it takes > several minutes to re-download it after a power cycle, so it's not > exactly convenient to use while troubleshooting. Would it be possible to put it on a disk and boot it from there? If it's in some documented format (e.g. .LDA), I can easily produce a Unix disk with it on, if that would help (although loading the image onto the physical pack would take forever, I guess - although you could let it run overnight). It's probably not worth trying to devise a way to load individual files onto a Unix disk over the serial line until Unix is working reliably, so the program can run under Unix (otherwise a stand-alone program would have to include file-system code). > I'll probably be beefing up my smaller diagnostic with a few more tests > (including parity). One of the first things to add is to store each location's address in it during a set-up pass, and check to see that it's still there during the checking pass. > Went ahead and tried both RSTS and Unix again after the above repair, > and saw the same fault behaviors from both (sadness). Yeah, sounds like you still have memory issues (per the diagnostic grumping). > I tried enabling trap on parity error in the MS11 CSR before running my > diagnostic, but it didn't trap, even though it did flag parity error(s) > in the CSR. So maybe I *also* have a bug I haven't yet addressed in > parity handling within CPU. Starting the CPU (i.e. 'START' switch) or an INIT instruction will clear the 'trap enable' bit in the MS11-L CSR. I'd modify your program to set it, and check to see if you're getting parity error traps. (Clearly, if that hardware - either in the MS11-L, or the CPU - isn't working you need to look at that first.) > some of the earlier ones support setting a bit to determine whether > parity errors will halt or trap the CPU Huh? I was just looking at parity in the MM11-L and MM11-U (to see if parity needed to be enabled on them, or if it's always on by default), and I didn't see that. Also, there's no way I know of, on the UNIBUS, for anything to halt the CPU (the QBUS has such as line, but not the UNIBUS). Which memory has this feature? > I'm curious how OS init code sniffs out what memory CSRs there are, > determines their specific flavors and, in a heterogeneous system, > determines how much address space is under the auspice of each CSR? Unix V6 does nothing at all with parity (doesn't enable it in memory modules, although the memory that was extant at the time - MM11-S, MM11-U, etc - did support it as an option). If one turned it on, the code _would_ catch the trap and 'panic' (print a message and halt operation). It would be pretty easy to modify the code to send a signal to the process if it happened in User mode. I'm not sure there's much to be done if it happens in Kernel mode. V6 sizes memory by doing a read every 0100 bytes (of the xxxx00 byte), looking for success or a trap. If that succeeds, it clears the 32. sequential words starting at that address, and then tries the next 0100. (So if you modified the code to enable parity traps, you wouldn't hsave to deal with bad parity left over from random contents at power-on....) > The 11/45 prints show a jumper (W1, lower left of sheet UBCB) that > looks like it would entirely disable Unibus parity error detection if > removed. Yup, that's what it looks like to me too.. > when I pulled and examined my UBC board (and also looked over my spare) > no such jumper or any associated pads were anywhere to be found! So maybe > this was either added/removed from later etches of the UBC? Well, if you have an M8106, you do have a KB11-A; in the later /45 CPU, the KB11-D, that has been replaced by the M8119 - but that still has W1! (The KB11-D prints are in MP00039, 11/55 Vol 1.) I looked on my M8119, and W1 is indeed there - it's a 0-ohm 'resistor' (single black band) just less than half-way up the 4th column of chips, with a '1' next to it in the etch. The M8106 board layout drawing (a couple of pages back from UBCB) does show W1 - upper left corner of the board, next to E84. Noel

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HP 1000 A class series boards

by jesse＠cypress-tech.com

If anyone can use any of the 1000 A Series boards, I have the following.. feel free to contract need anything. Sorry for the two inventory postings, I spent all weekend inventorying these boards. 02430-60009??? Voltage jumper board 12001-60003??? A400 CPU board 12004-60001??? Memory Controller 12005-60002??? Cable Assembly 12005-60010??? Serial Interface board 12005-60012??? Serial Interface board 12008-60001??? Prom Storage Module 12009-60001??? HP-IB Interface 12009-60010??? HP-IB Interface 12009-60020??? HP-IB Controller Card 12010-60003??? Bread Board Interface 12012-60001??? Jumper Board 12025-60001??? I/O Card 12038-60002??? Frontplane memory connector 12038-60005??? Frontplane Memory Connector 12040A/B????????? 8- Channel MUX 12060-60002??? Analog Input card 12076-60001??? LAN Interface 12100-60001??? A400 CPU board 12101-60001??? A600 CPU board 12102-60002??? 512kb Memory Controller 12102-60007??? 512kb Memory Controller 12103-60003??? 512kb Memory 12103-60004??? 1MB Memory 12103-60016??? 512kn Memory 12105-60001??? A600 CPU board 12110-60002??? 1MB Memory 12150-60002??? Interface 12152-60001??? A700 Upper processor 12152-60002??? A700 Lower processor 12152-60003??? Memory Controller 12154-60005??? Battery Back-up 12156-60001??? Floating Point Processor 12156-60002??? 3-slot frontplane connector 12163-66001??? Interface 12202-60002??? DataPath 12202-60104??? DataPath 12202-69006??? DataPath 12203-60004??? Cache Controller 12203-60017??? Cache Controller 12203-69018??? Cache Controller 12204-60002??? Memory Controller 12204-60004??? Memory Controller 12204-60005??? Memory Controller 12220-60001??? 768kb Memory 12222-60001??? Frontplane Memory Connector 12222-60002??? Frontplane memory connector 12222-60004??? Frontplane Memory Connector 12230-60001??? Frontplane Memory Connector 12230-60003??? Frontplane Memory Connector 12230-60004??? Frontplane Memory Connector 37203-60003??? Extender Card 5061-3434??? Direct connect I/O Board 5061-4938??? Direct connect I/O Board 5061-4939 ??? Direct connect I/O Board 5061-4940??? Interface 5090-1631 ? 5061-3417??? Interface 93691-60003??? Asynchronous Multiplexer 93699-60003??? Watchdog Timer

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by couryhouse＠aol.com

all the 3000 stuff too? sorry to hear that Al.. ?back in the 80s would visit him nice guy glad to hear he is,still alive. ?ed# ... -----Original Message----- From: Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Sent: Sat, Jan 26, 2019 07:49 PM Subject: Re: OT Parts houses & scrappers On 1/26/19 5:40 PM, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > Is? Larry? at? Crisis computer still around? He is in Sacramento. Most of what he had was scrapped 15 years ago. A large number of Bay Area people were involved in saving what could be saved. I ended up with a lot of 9000/300 stuff. I didn't go after any 21xx stuff because I had literally hundreds of boards. All were stolen from a storage container about a year ago.

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Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

by rlloken＠telus.net

Gentemen, All of you have at one time expressed interest in all or part of this rack full of Alphaservers and one of you even talked about driving a truck up from Montana and taking it all home. Are any of you still interested? First priority goes to anybody willing to come up here and pick up all or part of the collection. I will consider shipping if that is what it comes down to but the packing and transprotation will be expensive for the DS15 and extremely expensive for the other units. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by couryhouse＠aol.com

Is? Larry? at? Crisis computer still around? Jay? used to? know him? too back? years ago. Ed# In a message dated 1/26/2019 6:35:21 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: > That sounds all well and good.? Until you something unexpected and > unknown when you are at an auction for something else.? There's only so > much self education you can do on a smart phone 10 minutes before the > auction. Start now with the research. You can gain quite a lot knowledge from the various scrap forums and Youtube videos. -- Will

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HP M, E, F-Series boards

by jesse＠cypress-tech.com

If anyone can use any of the M/E/F-Series board, I have the following.. feel free to contract need anything 02100-60060??? ??? Terminal 02102-60001??? ??? Memory Controller 02102-60002??? ??? Mem Controller 02102-62010??? ??? Mem Cont? 2120E 02108-67007??? ??? 9-slot Backplane 02112-60001??? ??? 14-slot Backplane 02116-6110??? ??? Jumper 0950-0106??? ??? 9-slot Backplane 11146-66501??? ??? INSTR I/O 12531-60022??? ??? BUP ND In RED 12531-60025??? ??? HS Terminal 12536-60001??? ??? Pinter Interface 12539-60003??? ??? Time Base Generator 12539-60005??? ??? Time Base Generator 12554-60023??? ??? + 16 Dup Reg 12622-60001??? ??? Trans Sync Modem 12731-60001??? ??? Mem 12746-60001??? ??? 32k Mod 12747-60001??? ??? 64k HSM 12747-60002??? ??? 64k HSM 12749-60001??? ??? 256kw HSM 12779-60002??? ??? 256KB Bit Array Assembly 12780-60002??? ??? HSFCA 256k 12790A??? ??? Univ Com I/F 12791-60001??? ??? Fem 12792-60002??? ??? 8 Channel MUX 12797-60001 12821-69003??? ??? Disk Interface 12843-60011??? ??? Line Printer 12845-60001??? ??? Line Printer 12845-60005??? ??? Line Printer 12892-60003??? ??? Memory Protect 12897-60004??? ??? DCPC 12920-60001??? ??? MUX Data USC 12922-60001??? ??? MUX R Controller 12962-60001??? ??? 256KB Bit Array Assembly 12966-60001??? ??? BACI 12966-60002??? ??? BACI 12979-60022??? ??? I/O Buffer 12979-60029??? ??? I/O Buffer 13037-60023??? ??? Interface 13183-60012??? ??? 7970 Mag Tape 13183-60013??? ??? 7970 Mag Tape 13187-60001??? ??? 16k Mod? 13187B 13210-60000??? ??? Disk 2 I/F 13210-60004??? ??? Disk I/F 17210-60001??? ??? Plotter 26099-60001??? ??? Line Printer 5061-1332??? ??? 16k Mod? 13187A 5061-1382??? ??? 9-slot Backplane 5061-1383??? ??? 14-slot Backplane 5061-1389??? ??? Univ Cm I/O 5061-3488??? ??? 8 Channel MUX 5080-9747 ??? ??? 8k Mod (2102A) 5090-0107??? ??? 14-slot Backplane 5090-1608??? ??? 8 Channel MUX 5601-3415??? ??? 8 Channel MUX 59310-60101??? ??? Bus I/O 93550-60071??? ??? Grd True In/Out 93770-60001??? ??? Clock 93770A

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Houston stash sorting this coming Saturday

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Electronics Plus > I did not bring the stuff home. ... Call John Adler ... he owns the > stuff in the sheds. Now I am completely confused. What happened to the online spread-sheet that some of us filled out? Did that go to him? If so, does the fact that we've heard nothing means our offers were not interesting? If not, are we now supposed to call instead? Noel

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PDP-11 ID page, a few images needed

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Fritz Mueller > those PDP-11's have their toggles set for V6 single-user boot! :-) Very observant! (Although I guess you've been using that a lot recently! :-) > From: Paul Koning > Was the 11/74 ever shipped? I don't think so. (Well, I vaguely recall rumours of a couple going out on beta-test; too busy to chase down where I saw that.) Noel

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PDP-11 ID page, a few images needed

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Paul Koning >> Also, I still need images of a few things: -11/60 and -11/94 front >> consoles, the original LSI-11 card, the KDJ11-E, and most of the DEC >> QBUS boxes. (Yeah, I could try looking for free images > Google "pdp11/60" turns up some good pictures, one showing the console > panel closeup is from a UK computer museum. Which one - 'computermuseum.org.uk'? Many of the pictures I saw online were on pages with copyright notices. I was actually hoping someone who _has_ one the the things I listed would take a picture and send it to me. > It seems like a problem caused by taking the photo with flash; lit by > ambient light it would probably look better. They are in low-light locations; without flash it's a long exposure and I get blurring because my hand isn't steady enough. And I don't feel like moving them, or re-doing the lighting - too many higher priority things to do. > A variant of the LSI-11 is the H-11 sold by Heathkit. .. it would be > worth mentioning. I've seen some go by on eBait, so I have an idea of the value, but I couldn't get enthusiastic about listing them. > Do you want to show the PRO system boards? And maybe the I/O boards? Again, not enthusiastic enough to put in the work... > In the discussion of boards, you might mention that "FLIP CHIP" often > appears ... And there will be a "digital" logo, the 7-box kind. OK, I will add that. > (on older boards?All boards? Many boards regardless of age?) It's spotty, and seems to die out later on. The -11/40 boards have it, but for the -11/45 and -11/70, some do, and some don't. None of the KDF11 or KDJ11 QBUS CPU boards do. > The "Miscellaneous Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 Information" > link lands me on a "Forbidden" error page. Ooops. Fixed. Thanks. > Zane Healy > Don't forget the quad-height /73 board, it's much nicer than the > dual-height boards. That's the KDJ11-B, no? That's there. > Is a /44 really worth that much now?!?! Hey, one just went for more than that: eBait #183624991924, $3K! Admittedly, that one was loaded, but the page does say "a number of factors will cause them to vary considerably from the numbers given here ... Exactly which peripherals and memory are included". But I did adjust the number a bit - the boards are going for about $50 each, and add in a BA11-A, it's probably $700 for a bare machine. Actually, I really need to check all the numbers. But I think I'd rather get the QBUS boxes sorted out first; I pretty much only know the BA11's. If someone could tell me what later boxes to list, above the BA23, (which I also need an image of), that would be very helpful. Noel

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Scsi and FDD emulation with RPI

by imp＠bsdimp.com

In Japanese, but interesting. http://www.geocities.jp/kugimoto0715/index.html Talks about interfacing old school high current 5V interfaces like FDD or SASI/SCSI into into lower voltage lower current RPI pins. Warner

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Parts Pieces and Folks

by couryhouse＠aol.com

this? did not seem to? go though? when I? sent? as? a reply.-------------------------------------------------------------------- Glad? to? Hear? Jay -? I guess the? timeshare systems? were about the only? thing? I? ever? saw? those board? sets in. ok~To? refile my? slightly? prior? ?message under? ?perhaps a better? title I have? one? foot in each HP community? ?The? real production one and the? Collection of? vintage HP Gear? one. I have had no complaints about? Jesse? ? from the? ?people? the? do data processing? with HP machines and have always? found him to be? friendly and timely in responses. This? goes? for? Cindy? as? well. Be? nice? to our? dealer? friends? they? can? help you. Maybe? not? today? but? ?you? will need? assistance some day and it is good to have them there. well darn it... be? nice to everyone. eh? Ed Sharpe archivist? for SMECC In a message dated 1/25/2019 10:36:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctech at classiccmp.org writes: Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of directly with Jesse and I'm happy. We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know we can't pay typical full price that corporations/military can. We must be willing to pay something above scrap value, of course. I ask folks to keep an open mind and give Jesse a fair shake moving forward. Best, J

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Sparcom Drive95 3.5 inch disk drive for the 95lx

by couryhouse＠aol.com

Sparcom Drive95 3.5 inch disk drive for the 95lx Both? NOS in? box? was unsold inventory? from? computer exchange? ?in Phx? (my old? company...? ?these turned up in relatives? garage...)? ?one? has? manuals and all paper? work? one? has? no manuals and paperwork? but? NOS I will offer? for? ?sale? and? ? ?even better if? you? buy? both. you? buy? both!? Offered? for? offers here? ? next? stop? ebay? if? no one here interested.? Sold? as? is.Ed#

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OT Parts houses & scrappers

by couryhouse＠aol.com

Glad? to? Hear? Jay -? I guess the? timeshare systems? were about the only? thing? I? ever? saw? those board? sets in. ok~To? refile my? slightly? prior? ?message under? ?perhaps a better? title I have? one? foot in each HP community? ?The? real production one and the? Collection of? vintage HP Gear? one. I have had no complaints about? Jesse? ? from the? ?people? the? do data processing? with HP machines and have always? found him to be? friendly and timely in responses. This? goes? for? Cindy? as? well. Be? nice? to our? dealer? friends? they? can? help you. Maybe? not? today? but? ?you? will need? assistance some day and it is good to have them there. well darn it... be? nice to everyone. eh? Ed Sharpe archivist? for SMECCIn a message dated 1/25/2019 10:36:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctech at classiccmp.org writes: Kudos to Jesse for working with me offlist, I feel I've gotten a good deal. I appreciate the offers to help purchase, very much, but I got this taken care of directly with Jesse and I'm happy. We have to understand, as others pointed out, that if no one speaks up for stuff at a price that can keep the parts houses in business then the parts won't be around. By the same token, the parts houses have to know we can't pay typical full price that corporations/military can. We must be willing to pay something above scrap value, of course. I ask folks to keep an open mind and give Jesse a fair shake moving forward. Best, J

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Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

by rlloken＠telus.net

On Thu, 24 Jan 2019, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote: > I also know I think other have their dibs in first.? But if they wash out... Thanks John, I will keep you in mind. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear, Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black

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More TeleVideo, system repair

by pat＠vax11.net

I have the next one up, after fighting a bit with Blogger. It details my efforts to resurrect a TS-1605 IBM compatible system that I got off ebay (and probably spent too much money on). https://worldofvax.blogspot.com/2019/01/televideo-systems-part-iii-ts-1605-… Pat

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Jesse and the ebay mess

by jesse＠cypress-tech.com

Holly smokes... 1st, Cindy thanks for calling me and vouching for me on this list but let me clear something up here.... A. the ebay ads are mine and I put all content up there. B. there reflects different locations (Largo, Clearwater, Land o lakes) all around the Tampa area. We have been in that area since about 1995 and address have changed several times because we have moved . C. The ebay ads are not all corrected with the current address since I didn't thing that was going to be any kind of issue ever. I have like 400 running ads and you have to individually correct each one.. again, I really never and up until this moment thought it was ever an issue since selling on ebay since 1997. D. some of the older 1k and older board ship from Pittsburgh because thats where I split my time between Tampa and Pittsburgh and the really old stuff is in Pittsburgh. E. I never even posted my ebay stuff on here, I did an intro and posted some stuff I was looking for.. Heck, I never even contributed to the ebay thread. Jesse

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Jesse and the ebay mess

by couryhouse＠aol.com

I have? one? foot in each HP community? ?The? real production one and the? Collection of? vintage HP Gear? one. I have had no complaints about? Jesse? ? from the? ?People? the? do data processing? with HP machines and have always? found him to be? friendly and timely in responses. This? goes? for? Cindy? as? well. Be? nice? to our? dealer? friends? they? can? help you. Maybe? not? today? but? ?you? will need? assistance some day and it is good to have them there. well darn it... be? nice to everyone. eh? Ed Sharpe archivist? for SMECC In a message dated 1/25/2019 10:18:12 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctech at classiccmp.org writes:

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IBM 5100

by cc＠informatik.uni-stuttgart.de

Hello to all IBM 5100 owners, I have started disassembling and commenting the Executable ROS of the 5100 that a kind soul has exctracted and provided me with the dump. I've come across an inconsistency with the Maintenance Information Manual as found on the net. I have both SY31-0405-2 and SY31-0405-3. The issue is the description of the control I/O commands for device 1 (non-executable ROS selects). The manual says bit 12 is APL select and bit 13 is BASIC/Common select (page C-4), and that matches the block diagram on page 5-20. But in fact, the code uses the bits as defined for the 5110 (12=select BASIC, 13=select APL, 14=select Common) and therefore, the 5100 must be different from the system described in the MIMs. So here are two questions: - Does someone have a newer version of the MIM, i.e. SY31-0405-4 or greater? A scan would be wonderful, especially because the scans for the available MIMs are horrible... - Are there known major revision changes in the 5100 line? Christian PS: I really mean 5100, not 5110 or 5120 ;-)

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Hewlett-Packard 3000, 9000, Itanium (HP-UX & MPE/iX) Servers, Storage Arrays, Replacement Parts, Maintenance, & Disaster back-ups

by jesse＠cypress-tech.com

Cypress Technology, Inc. is a HP hardware vendor specializing in selling and supporting Hewlett-Packard HP 3000 (MPE/iX), 9000, and Itanium (HP-UX) servers, workstations, parts, and all related peripherals. We offer HP hardware from the early 1990's to the current date. We offer but are not limited to the following HP items: HP IA64 Itanium Integrity servers HP 9000 Enterprise HP-UX servers HP 9000 Visualize HP-UX workstations (PA-RISC and Itanium) HP 3000 MPE/iX PA-RISC servers (aka e3000) HP 1000 Series classic servers, parts, and peripherals HP VME Industrial workstations, VME CPU boards, peripherals, and parts HP ABB Advant Stations / RTA Real Time Accelerator platform / OSC / 800xA HP Memory, disk arrays and drives, tape drives, CPUs, data communications, & networking solutions HP Enterprise Storage, XP, 3Par, Hitachi, EMC... Disk Arrays and drives HP spare parts for all lines We specialize in HP servers and workstations that support the following OS: Linux, HP-UX, HP Unix, MPE/iX, OpenVMS, and MS Windows . Contact us if you want a price quotation on any HP servers, workstations, hardware, or services. . Contact us if you wish to sell or trade for any hardware. . Contact us if you have any questions. . We offer hardware and software support. . We offer migrations service for HP-UX and MPE/iX platforms. . We provide parts and servers for discontinued HP items . We sell to large and small corporations, World governments, military, suppliers, re-sells, and end-users . We buy off-lease bulk and surplus hardware . We ship and export Worldwide to every country. www.Cypress-Tech.com Thank you Jesse Dougherty Cypress Technology, Inc. Land O Lakes, Florida USA Phone 888-954-3414 / (cell) 412-589-3779 jesse at cypress-tech.com jesse.cypresstech at gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/jessedougherty

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