-----Original Message-----
From: CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com <CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, March 31, 2000 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: I need some PDP-11 RT11 archiving software
>>I am spending all my time right now packing and rackmounting - I have no
>>time to write anything. I will have some people come over and feed in the
>>paper tape this weekend. While I won't be able to archive most of it, I do
>>hope to at least read in most of the source code on paper tape. (I have
over
>>310 PDP-1 paper tapes alone).
>>
>>This program needs to be *very* easy to use and hopefully supports
>>X/Y-MODEM. I will set up a terminal program at this end that supports 32
>>character file names (windows 98). This program would have to run under
>>RT11-V3B, or RT11V4 BL. Hopefully it would send the code down a serial
line
>>separate serial port.
>
>Umm, what's wrong with Kermit? The latest Kermit for RT does just fine
under
>RT-11 V4, and Kermit is available for just about every other piece
>of hardware ever created. See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/
>
>>It would be really nice if this software just asked the end user to load a
>>paper tape, then huit return, and it sends the data read out a separate
>>serial port, then prompts to load the next one.
>
>What sort of paper tape reader are you using? If it's a serial reader,
>you can hook it straight up to a PC-clone running MS-DOS and MS-Kermit
>(or Linux and C-Kermit) and archive the tapes that way. Both MS-Kermit
>and C-Kermit include powerful scripting languages.
PC05 with a PC11 controller.
>
>Remember, you *don't* have to start from scratch, others of us have
>been archiving this sort of stuff for many years.
>
I appreciate that. Do you have this archived:
PDP-1 source code.
PDP-11 source code - Dos/Batch-11 , RT11. I also have source code to most of
the packages they released.
If you have this stuff then I won't bother archiving all the source code I
have and pass it on. I did get almost all the source from the original
minicomputers dec knocked out.. alot of it was internal.
john
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On Apr 1, 10:48, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> In my eyes, though, the real prize was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 1016
RAM
> pack and six tapes, manual and all the cables EXCEPT the power supply.
The
> manual has no pinout. It looks like a 9V 1/8" jack but is it centre
> negative or positive?
It's centre-negative, on a 2.5mm power jack.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
> VAX station 2000 HD details?
A lot of what you might ever want to know is answered in
ftp://ftp.spc.edu/third-party-disks.txt
I'm guessing that between that document and the DEC Micronotes about
80% of the questions asked here about DEC stuff are answered...
Tim.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: healyzh(a)aracnet.com [mailto:healyzh@aracnet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:34 PM
> To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Messages Per Month
>
>
> > I was just checking the number of messages that have come
> through this year
> > and it is pretty close to 3900 so far! Let's see. At 90
> days into the year,
> > it averages out to about 63 per day. No wonder things get
> lost in my inbox
> > :)!
Wonder how many it would be if Tony were still posting :-)
Anyone know what happened to him?
Steve Robertson <steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
Not really old enough to be a classic but looks useful. Sep
portable, w/handle Hard drive-----model VS410-AA--
Anyone know what is inside--drivewise? RD52,53,54 maybe?
Thanks
Unix server freaks missed out at the Santee swapmeet. Some guy was selling an
original NeXT for $75, there were a whole row of Sparc SLCs at $15 a pop,
and an SGI Indigo and two SParc 2s. The Sparc 2s were loaded with Linux and
ready to run. There was also a Mac Portable, but by the time I came back to
buy it it was gone :-( The only server I care about is my Apple Network Server
500, but if you're near the San Diego area show up on the first/third
Saturdays of the month -- they might be back. There were also some assorted
Data General boards (dated 1968) but I have little experience with them.
I got, myself, an NEC 8201A. I understand this acts like a Model 100. It
works great, came with the leather case, and is in fantastic condition, but
it has no manuals whatsoever. Any resources I might consult for it? How do
I connect a modem (or does it have an internal one) to use the Term program?
It was only $10 :-)
In my eyes, though, the real prize was a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 1016 RAM
pack and six tapes, manual and all the cables EXCEPT the power supply. The
manual has no pinout. It looks like a 9V 1/8" jack but is it centre negative
or positive? At the bottom of the box, when I got it home, I also found
that there was, of all things, an AIM-65 BASIC manual in there too.
Also, has anyone turned up an Atari 130XE power supply in their travails?
I'm still trying to get that XEGS working.
--
----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)ptloma.edu
-- "I'd love to go out with you, but I've dedicated my life to linguini." -----
Well, 82s123 are proms, they are used in a lot of places however are they
programmed or not?
If they are you get whats in them. If not, you need a way to blast them.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 12:21 PM
Subject: PROMs offered: Should I take?
> I've been offered a cheap price on a tubeful of Signetics 82S123 bipolar
>PROMs.
>
> If memory serves (pun intended), these were used as boot ROMs for various
>PDP-11's of the UniBus persuasion.
>
> Is this so? If so, are they also useful for other classic apps? I'm
>considering picking them up, but don't know for sure whether I'd be wasting
>$10 or not...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
>http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
>Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77
>"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
>own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
>
9102=2102 sram. It's just another number for the same thing.
74C92x is TI and you need to find a TI or maybe motorola CMOS databook
CA1980ish.
Allison
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks(a)yahoo.com>
>AMD 91L02 - I know it's some kind of SRAM but not the size or pinout. The
9101
>is 256x4. This one is likely to be either 1024x1 or 1024x4 but I don't
know
>which.
>
>NS 74C921 - The 74C922 and 74C923 are somewhat common keyboard encoders,
one
>of which was used on the Netronics Elf-II design. I can't find any info on
>the pinout of the 74C921, but I did find several places selling them from
>$6 USD to 72 Danish Kroner (however much that is)
>
>I have a few of each, along with 2Kb of 21L02 chips (-2L and -4L speeds,
>whatever they are), all with 1979 - 1983 date codes.
>
>Any clues?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-ethan
>
>
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>
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The hard drive can be any of the RD51-54, RD31, RD32 others are possible as
user retrofits.
Typically the hard drive was a RD53(71mb) or RD54(159mb).
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Smith <ip500(a)roanoke.infi.net>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Saturday, April 01, 2000 3:06 PM
Subject: VAX station 2000 HD details?
>Not really old enough to be a classic but looks useful. Sep
>portable, w/handle Hard drive-----model VS410-AA--
> Anyone know what is inside--drivewise? RD52,53,54 maybe?
>Thanks
>
