15 Nov
2012
15 Nov
'12
7:44 a.m.
After being contacted by Don's niece, I went down on behalf of CHM in July and
retrieved
every box of media that was in the storage unit from his garage. I've spent several
months
going through everything, including the PCs that were there, and could not find what I
had
assumed were disk images that are described in the 'sysdisk.txt' file that Don
maintained
which I've attached.
Does anyone have any contacts with the San Diego folks that knew Don that could help with
figuring out where these images would have been? It's possible either they were on
more
modern PCs, or on a CP/M system. CHM is not willing to take everything that is still in
the storage unit (mostly paper and the computers that were in the garage). I'm going
to
have to make a pretty strong case for trying to recover any of the systems that are still
there.
15 Nov
15 Nov
1:56 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 7:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
After being contacted by Don's niece, I went down
on behalf of CHM in
July and retrieved
every box of media that was in the storage unit from his garage. I've
spent several months
going through everything, including the PCs that were there, and could
not find what I had
assumed were disk images that are described in the 'sysdisk.txt' file
that Don maintained
which I've attached.
That's really bad news. If they were images it seems like you would have
found a setup that he used for copying them out again. It is suspicious
the names of all the disks are limited to eight characters. That would
sort of indicate they were files on something.
3:15 p.m.
On 11/15/12 1:56 PM, mc68010 wrote:
It is suspicious the names of all the disks are
limited to eight
characters. That would sort of indicate they were files on something.
Exactly. I would assume it started on an MSDOS machine since I had heard he
was using Teledisk. I also suspect some just came to him that way, since I've
been able to find what I think may be the original disks, but it isn't everything
that was there. I've tried reading some of them and it's a very mixed bag. They
were stored in a garage and I've run into some that got wet. I also found most of
the hundreds of disks from G. Herr that I sent him a LONG time ago. I have been
able to recover a few things that people have been looking for, like TurboDOS 1.43
4:10 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 3:15 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Exactly. I would assume it started on an MSDOS machine since I had
heard he
was using Teledisk. I also suspect some just came to him that way,
since I've
been able to find what I think may be the original disks, but it isn't
everything
that was there. I've tried reading some of them and it's a very mixed
bag. They
were stored in a garage and I've run into some that got wet. I also
found most of
the hundreds of disks from G. Herr that I sent him a LONG time ago. I
have been
able to recover a few things that people have been looking for, like
TurboDOS 1.43
If you ever run into the Monroe ones let me know. I spent years looking
in vain for them and always Don's SYSDISK.TXT kept coming up in searches
taunting me. I don't even have the machine anymore but, I spent so many
years looking I can't give up now. I won't let it beat me. I'm just
going hang the floppy on the wall as a trophy.
7 p.m.
Well, I don't think Don was even much of a Windows person. Most likely
his stuff would be stored on a DOS drive of some sort. Have you looked
for tapes or optical media that might have been used for backup?
--Chuck
7:56 p.m.
On 11/15/12 7:00 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Well, I don't think Don was even much of a Windows
person. Most likely his stuff would be stored on a DOS drive of some sort. Have you looked
for tapes or optical media that might have been used for
backup?
Yes. There were no obviously labeled backups. There are copies of DOS tape backup
programs, though :-(
No CD-Rs, or machines with CD-R or tape drives. There were one or two CD-Rs that appear to
have been
sent to him with CP/M content. It's pretty frustrating to have gotten this far and not
actually have
found the files or any backups which is why I'm hoping they may still be on machines
that weren't in
the storage unit.
8:25 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 7:56 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
were no obviously labeled backups. There are copies of
DOS tape backup
programs, though :-(
No CD-Rs, or machines with CD-R or tape drives. There were one or two
CD-Rs that appear to have been
sent to him with CP/M content. It's pretty frustrating to have gotten
this far and not actually have
found the files or any backups which is why I'm hoping they may still
be on machines that weren't in
the storage unit.
Could Sellam have got the files it in something he took ?
10:40 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 10:01 PM, mc68010 wrote:
On 11/15/2012 9:11 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Well, I suspect he could well have stored samples the way I still store
them--in a large filing cabinet.
--Chuck
On 11/15/12 8:25 PM, mc68010 wrote:
No other machines "left" I would guess. Could Sellam have got the files it in something
he took ?
He claims to have no other machines.
11:20 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 10:40 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/15/2012 10:01 PM, mc68010 wrote:
I always imagined he did exactly that. That he was imaging stuff is new
to me but, makes way more sense. I could always picture him going
through his carefully indexed file cabinets to find the original floppy.
Then he would carefully take it over to his own computer, of the same
type of course, and copy it. I always imagined a garage full of all the
cp/m boxes. Pretty silly I guess.
It's nice we are still talking about Don today. What made him a good guy
was not his collection but, that he shared it with anyone who asked.
On 11/15/2012 9:11 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Well, I suspect he could well have stored samples the way I still
store them--in a large filing cabinet.
--Chuck
On 11/15/12 8:25 PM, mc68010 wrote:
No other machines "left" I would guess. Could Sellam have got the files it in something
he took ?
He claims to have no other machines.
8:54 p.m.
> Well, I don't think Don was even much of a
Windows person. Most likely his stuff would be stored on a DOS drive of some sort. Have
you looked for tapes or optical media that might have been used for
> backup?
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
Yes. There were no obviously labeled backups. There
are copies of DOS tape backup programs, though :-(
No CD-Rs, or machines with CD-R or tape drives. There were one or two CD-Rs that appear
to have been
sent to him with CP/M content. It's pretty frustrating to have gotten this far and
not actually have
found the files or any backups which is why I'm hoping they may still be on machines
that weren't in
the storage unit.
I visualize at least four file cabinet drawers full of floppy disks.
Even if he DID image everything, he would not have discarded the floppy
originals. If you haven't seen a cubic yard of mutually unique floppies,
then his collection is still missing.
9:10 p.m.
On 11/15/12 8:54 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
If you haven't seen a cubic yard of mutually
unique floppies,
then his collection is still missing.
I retrieved a Ford Explorer's worth of media. Well over 1000 floppies.
What I did was went through as much as I could do before literally
getting heat exhaustion in a totally packed 10x10 storage unit,
pulling out any box that looked like it contained media.
The recovery rate has been OK so far, but there's no way I have time
to do it all. Much of it is unlabeled, or are applications (lots, and
lots of copies of DBASE, Wordstar, etc. etc.).
From looking at the pictures, it was just whatever was in the garage.
The disks from me were still in the boxes that they went down there in.
They certainly weren't in filing cabinets..
I can sort of figure out what was done later. He had dot-matrix printed
labels on those (some of which you can see in the label jpgs I've been
putting with the .img files on bitsavers)
so I've been trying to match those up with the contents of the .txt file
What I've done sort of matches.
Someone else from CHM is going to be down there on other business for
the next couple of weeks, so this is probably the last gasp of our involvement
with any recovery.
16 Nov
16 Nov
11:49 a.m.
> If you haven't seen a cubic yard of mutually
unique floppies,
> then his collection is still missing.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
I retrieved a Ford Explorer's worth of media. Well
over 1000 floppies.
What I did was went through as much as I could do before literally
getting heat exhaustion in a totally packed 10x10 storage unit,
pulling out any box that looked like it contained media.
You have a herculean task! Unfortunately, the Alpheus and Peneus rivers
won't help any.
Don't overdo it! We can't afford to lose you, too!
Actually, the picture of his garage didn't look like I expected it to be.
I expected a full cram, with no way for "outsiders" to differentiate
between the clutter and the goodies.
For XenoSoft, the most important Intellectual Property is the collection
of sample disks. Everything else could be re-written, and you never know
when you might need to go back to the original to recheck something - "Ah
HA! That disk is 77 track, but it is FORMATTED to 80 tracks! THAT's why
disks more than half full have file position errors on some files!".
Don apparently always worked alone - even his wife didn't know about his
hobby. Therefore, his labelling, for his own use, might be completely
indecipherable for anybody else. 17/4 could mean, "disk is the 4th disk
in the 17th box", etc. Although he probably had extensive imaging to make
it easier to fulfill requests, his primary collection is disks, not
images. His memory was probably eidetic, and he probably relied more on
remembering everything than on organization and labelling.
A VERY large portion of the sample disks will be duplicates of the user's
WORDSTAR disk, no matter what was ASKED for. And the USER labelling was
oft less than useless. Lots of the "Televideo" disks that came in were
due to the user not understanding that the name of the TERMINAL was not
the name of the computer system.
Even if the numbered or labelled sample disks that comprise the REAL
collection are never found, there is a wealth of information scattered
through what is there. Finding the image files would permit resuming
SOME of the day-to-day ways that Don helped people.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
12:19 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
There are probably a few of us on the list willing to come lend a hand
next time something like this comes up. May even be list members locally.
I retrieved a
Ford Explorer's worth of media. Well over 1000 floppies.
What I did was went through as much as I could do before literally
getting heat exhaustion in a totally packed 10x10 storage unit,
pulling out any box that looked like it contained media.
12:32 p.m.
On 11/16/2012 11:49 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
A VERY large portion of the sample disks will be
duplicates of the user's
WORDSTAR disk, no matter what was ASKED for. And the USER labelling was
oft less than useless. Lots of the "Televideo" disks that came in were
due to the user not understanding that the name of the TERMINAL was not
the name of the computer system.
I think I still have a couple of samples labeled "Hazeltine". Hey, how
can you argue with someone who says that the machine has "Hazeltime
1400" written right on it?
--Chuck
2:57 p.m.
On 11/16/2012 03:32 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/16/2012 11:49 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
More than likely it meant the stuff on it was optimized for a H1400
terminal (Hazeltine only made terminals).
Allison
A VERY large portion of the sample disks will be
duplicates of the
user's
WORDSTAR disk, no matter what was ASKED for. And the USER labelling was
oft less than useless. Lots of the "Televideo" disks that came in were
due to the user not understanding that the name of the TERMINAL was not
the name of the computer system.
I think I still have a couple of samples labeled "Hazeltine". Hey, how
can you argue with someone who says that the machine has "Hazeltime
1400" written right on it?
--Chuck
3:54 p.m.
On 11/16/2012 02:57 PM, allison wrote:
More than likely it meant the stuff on it was
optimized for a H1400
terminal (Hazeltine only made terminals).
I knew that, but try arguing with a customer about that. The 1400--one
of the more awful, but cheap, terminals in the terminal universe. For
some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape lead-in character.
I also seem to recall that attributes tood up a space in the display,
but I may have that confused with one of the early Wyse displays.
--Chuck
17 Nov
17 Nov
7:42 a.m.
On 11/16/2012 06:54 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 11/16/2012 02:57 PM, allison wrote:
H1400 was ANSI just like VT100 (in Vt100 mode) and many others. The
escape sequences were ANSI plus private (hazelitne additions).
You may be thinking of Wyse on the memory thing.
Allison
More than likely it meant the stuff on it was
optimized for a H1400
terminal (Hazeltine only made terminals).
I knew that, but try arguing with a customer about that. The
1400--one of the more awful, but cheap, terminals in the terminal
universe. For some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape
lead-in character. I also seem to recall that attributes tood up a
space in the display, but I may have that confused with one of the
early Wyse displays.
--Chuck 
7:59 a.m.
On 11/17/2012 10:42 AM, allison wrote:
H1400 was ANSI just like VT100 (in Vt100 mode) and many others. The
escape sequences were ANSI plus private (hazelitne additions).
Uhh...I used a Hazeltine 1400 for a long time. (then a 1420, then a
1500) I don't recall anything even remotely ANSI-like about its command
set.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
More than likely it meant the stuff on it was
optimized for a H1400
terminal (Hazeltine only made terminals).
I knew that, but try arguing with a customer about that. The
1400--one of the more awful, but cheap, terminals in the terminal
universe. For some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape
lead-in character. I also seem to recall that attributes tood up a
space in the display, but I may have that confused with one of the
early Wyse displays. 
8:27 a.m.
> I knew that, but try arguing with a customer about
that. The
> 1400--one of the more awful, but cheap, terminals in the terminal
> universe. For some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape
> lead-in character.
H1400 was ANSI just like VT100 (in Vt100 mode) and
many others. The
escape sequences were ANSI plus private (hazelitne additions).
You may be thinking of Wyse on the memory thing.
More likely the 1500, which definitely did use a ~ leadin for what for
most terminals would be escape sequences. (The 1420 used an escape
leadin but was otherwise completely unlike X3.64 or X3.41.) The 1510
and 1520 were switchable. The 1552, well, in the words of termcap:
# Note: the h1552 appears to be the first Hazeltine terminal which
# is not braindamaged. It has tildes and backprimes and everything!
(The 1500, in addition to using ~ as a leadin, displayed ` as a solid
quad rather than a backprime. I forget whether it filled up the whole
character cell; I think I still have a Hazeltine of some stripe, and if
so and if it still works, I can check what it does in these respects
within the next few days.)
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9:17 a.m.
On 11/17/2012 07:42 AM, allison wrote:
H1400 was ANSI just like VT100 (in Vt100 mode) and
many others. The
escape sequences were ANSI plus private (hazelitne additions).
You may be thinking of Wyse on the memory thing.
After a little checking, it was the 1500--it was 1977 when I used one.
The attribute occupying a character space was indeed the godawful WY-50.
Wyse did sell a pile of those, didn't they?
--Chuck
9:29 a.m.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
After a little checking, it was the 1500--it was 1977
when I used one.
The attribute occupying a character space was indeed the godawful WY-50.
Wyse did sell a pile of those, didn't they?
I received a few sample disks with the disk format identified as "Wyse",
so they must have sold a few. A significant portion had "Morrow" content
on the disks.
9:58 a.m.
On 11/17/2012 12:29 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Like the 1400 or should I say the 14xx there were several versions of
the 15xx.
I worked with the 1500, 1552, and 1520. there was also a 1400, 1420 and
a rare
1452 (the latter may have been as many as 5 or 6 of them). Mostly
because I
got some time inside Hazeltine.
Myself I never went with any of them as I was using the H19 when it became
available. It was a decent tube.
Allison
After a little checking, it was the 1500--it was
1977 when I used one.
The attribute occupying a character space was indeed the godawful WY-50.
Wyse did sell a pile of those, didn't they?
I received a few sample disks
with the disk format identified as "Wyse",
so they must have sold a few. A significant portion had "Morrow" content
on the disks.
18 Nov
18 Nov
9:58 a.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 3:54 PM
The 1400--one of the more awful, but cheap, terminals
in the terminal
universe. For some odd reason, it used tilde (hex 7E) as the escape
lead-in character.
Remember that in the days of Teletype, ALTMODE was character code 175 or
176 (Umm, 7D or 7E for the octally challenged). Hazeltine was using the
ALTMODE character to introduce command codes, as intended. Only later
was ALTMODE redefined to be 033 (1B) = ESCAPE.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
2:18 p.m.
On 11/18/2012 09:58 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
Remember that in the days of Teletype, ALTMODE was
character code 175 or
176 (Umm, 7D or 7E for the octally challenged). Hazeltine was using the
ALTMODE character to introduce command codes, as intended. Only later
was ALTMODE redefined to be 033 (1B) = ESCAPE.
Sure, but this was a terminal that was brought out in 1977. X3.4-1968
has 7/14 as a tilde character.
--Chuck
3:42 p.m.
On 11/16/2012 06:46 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
If you look hard enough, such instructions can be found EVERYWHERE.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
how can you
argue with someone who says that the machine has
"Hazeltime 1400"
written right on it?
That's quite clearly an instruction to eat Nutella every afternoon at 2pm. 
17 Nov
17 Nov
6:08 a.m.
On 16 November 2012 23:42, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 11/16/2012 06:46 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
If you look hard enough, such instructions can be found EVERYWHERE.
Yup. They're written next to the fnords.
--
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how can
you argue with someone who says that the machine has
"Hazeltime 1400"
written right on it?
That's quite clearly an instruction to eat Nutella every afternoon at 2pm. 
15 Nov
15 Nov
4:11 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/15/12 1:56 PM, mc68010 wrote:
Just a thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he maintained
his collection of files via DOSEMU?
It is suspicious the names of all the disks are
limited to eight
characters. That would sort of indicate they were files on something.
Exactly. I would assume it started on an MSDOS machine since I had heard
he was using Teledisk. I also suspect some just came to him that way,
since I've been able to find what I think may be the original disks, but
it isn't everything that was there. I've tried reading some of them and
it's a very mixed bag. They were stored in a garage and I've run into
some that got wet. I also found most of the hundreds of disks from G.
Herr that I sent him a LONG time ago. I have been able to recover a few
things that people have been looking for, like TurboDOS 1.43
5:23 p.m.
On 11/15/2012 4:11 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
I think he was a bit old school for that but, who knows ;)
Exactly. I
would assume it started on an MSDOS machine since I had
heard he was using Teledisk. I also suspect some just came to him
that way, since I've been able to find what I think may be the
original disks, but it isn't everything that was there. I've tried
reading some of them and it's a very mixed bag. They were stored in a
garage and I've run into some that got wet. I also found most of the
hundreds of disks from G. Herr that I sent him a LONG time ago. I
have been able to recover a few things that people have been looking
for, like TurboDOS 1.43
Just a thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he
maintained his collection of files via DOSEMU?
5:38 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, mc68010 wrote:
On 11/15/2012 4:11 PM, Tothwolf wrote:
I think he was a bit old school for that but, who knows ;)
It came to mind because of how easy it is to use it to switch between
various DOS and DOS-clone type operating systems. If that's the case, and
these files are small, they could easily be hiding in a disk image file on
a hard drive somewhere.
Exactly.
I would assume it started on an MSDOS machine since I had
heard he was using Teledisk. I also suspect some just came to him that
way, since I've been able to find what I think may be the original
disks, but it isn't everything that was there. I've tried reading some
of them and it's a very mixed bag. They were stored in a garage and
I've run into some that got wet. I also found most of the hundreds of
disks from G. Herr that I sent him a LONG time ago. I have been able
to recover a few things that people have been looking for, like
TurboDOS 1.43
Just a thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he maintained
his collection of files via DOSEMU?
5:42 p.m.
On 11/15/12 5:23 PM, mc68010 wrote:
There are some random Win9x and Mac disks, but no evidence that those machines were in the
garage that
was packed up into the storage unit. We have a few pics of what the garage looked like and
the only PC
I can see was his imaging machine that had a bunch of different floppy cards in it. Sellam
gave that
machine to me a couple of years ago, but the disk was too small to have stored the
collection.
There was a 386 with a Maxtor ESDI out there, but it appears to have been wiped. Like I
said, I hope
the relatives still have some newer machines.
Thinking about it, I haven't tried a low-level dump of the Maxstor yet. That would be
a bit of a hassle
to set up for.
Just a
thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he maintained his collection of files
via DOSEMU?
I think he was a bit old school for that but, who knows ;)
6:24 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/15/12 5:23 PM, mc68010 wrote:
There are some random Win9x and Mac disks, but no evidence that those
machines were in the garage that was packed up into the storage unit. We
have a few pics of what the garage looked like and the only PC I can see
was his imaging machine that had a bunch of different floppy cards in
it. Sellam gave that machine to me a couple of years ago, but the disk
was too small to have stored the collection.
It would seem odd to store that stuff on a Win9x or Mac. A machine running
MacOS X could have been a possibility, but if he wasn't a *nix guy, then
that wouldn't seem likely either.
Just a
thought, but did he use Linux or BSD? If so, maybe he
maintained his collection of files via DOSEMU?
I think he was a bit old school for that but, who knows ;) There was a 386 with a Maxtor ESDI out there, but it
appears to have
been wiped. Like I said, I hope the relatives still have some newer
machines.
Thinking about it, I haven't tried a low-level dump of the Maxstor yet.
That would be a bit of a hassle to set up for.
Gulp. I first read "Maxtor ESDI" and then "wiped"...that sinking
feeling
is awful. If this was the main disk image storage, let's hope someone just
did a quick format.
16 Nov
16 Nov
6:28 a.m.
On 11/15/2012 07:42 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
There was a 386 with a Maxtor ESDI out there, but it
appears to have been
wiped. Like I said, I hope
the relatives still have some newer machines.
Thinking about it, I haven't tried a low-level dump of the Maxstor yet.
That would be a bit of a hassle to set up for.
Hmm, I think that's a worthwhile route to investigate - either get the
drive into a more modern system, or boot via floppy and either serial-link
data blocks across or run something to scan for anything that might be a
teledisk signature. None of which are trivial, of course...
23 Nov
23 Nov
12:25 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
Anyone know what this is ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-or-keyboard-VT-100-TES…
12:31 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On Nov 23, 2012 12:28 PM, "mc68010" <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know what this is ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-or-keyboard-VT-100-TES…
That VT100 terminal box goes with a VS11/VSV11 raster graphics system for a
PDP-11.
In the VSV11 Interconnection Diagram on page 9 of this manual it is shown
as a VT100-LA or LB (I think the only difference there is 115/220):
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/MP01102_VS11_Engineering_Drawings…
In the VS11-FX/HX/JX Raster Graphics System Installation Manual
EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 there are illustrations of this box being used in
combination with a VRV02-AA/AB color monitor where the box is refered to as
the "keyboard interface box" and the combination of the monitor and the
"keyboard interface box" makes up the VRV02-FA/FB.
The "keyboard interface box" video output feeds into the VS11 where the
terminal video output is then fed back out along with the VS11 raster
graphics output to the monitor.
I can't find an online copy of the EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 manual anywhere. I have
an original hard copy of the manual.
12:38 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On 11/23/2012 03:31 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
Oh wow...NEAT!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Anyone know
what this is ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-or-keyboard-VT-100-TES…
That VT100 terminal box goes with a VS11/VSV11 raster graphics system for a
PDP-11.
In the VSV11 Interconnection Diagram on page 9 of this manual it is shown
as a VT100-LA or LB (I think the only difference there is 115/220):
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/MP01102_VS11_Engineering_Drawings…
In the VS11-FX/HX/JX Raster Graphics System Installation Manual
EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 there are illustrations of this box being used in
combination with a VRV02-AA/AB color monitor where the box is refered to as
the "keyboard interface box" and the combination of the monitor and the
"keyboard interface box" makes up the VRV02-FA/FB.
The "keyboard interface box" video output feeds into the VS11 where the
terminal video output is then fed back out along with the VS11 raster
graphics output to the monitor.
I can't find an online copy of the EK-VSFHJ-IN-001 manual anywhere. I have
an original hard copy of the manual.
12:44 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On 11/23/2012 12:31 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Nov 23, 2012 12:28 PM, "mc68010"
<mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
That's a pretty neat setup. Anyone have one of those running at home ?
Anyone know what this is ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-or-keyboard-VT-100-TES…
That VT100 terminal box goes with a VS11/VSV11 raster graphics system for a
PDP-11.
In the VSV11 Interconnection Diagram on page 9 of this manual it is shown
as a VT100-LA or LB (I think the only difference there is 115/220):
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/MP01102_VS11_Engineering_Drawings…
1:55 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On Nov 23, 2012 12:58 PM, "mc68010" <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
That's a pretty neat setup. Anyone have one of those running at home ?
I have one of those VT100 boxes and the three board set, M7061 Sync
Generator, M7062 Memory, M7064 Display Processor. I need to get them
installed in a system and see if they work.
2:25 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On 11/23/2012 1:55 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Nov 23, 2012 12:58 PM, "mc68010"
<mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
Do you have a VRV02 Monitor ? I looked
on google but, can't find a
picture of one. Be neat to see a video of it all up running if you get
it going.
That's a pretty neat setup. Anyone have one
of those running at home ?
I have one of those VT100 boxes and the three board set,
M7061 Sync
Generator, M7062 Memory, M7064 Display Processor. I need to get them
installed in a system and see if they work. 
12:33 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
I found this post, which seems related:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/1999-March/177316.html
Garrett Meiers
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 2:25 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know what this is ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/**
DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-**or-keyboard-VT-100-TEST-BOX-/**330833250257&…
12:37 p.m.
New subject: vt100 test box ?
On 11/23/2012 03:25 PM, mc68010 wrote:
Anyone know what this is ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIGITAL-DEC-VT100-no-monitor-or-keyboard-VT-100-TES…
I have no idea of what this might have been intended for, but it seems
obvious that it's simply a version of the VT100 that lacks a monitor.
Since the standard VT100 board has an NTSC video output on a BNC
connector, one could certainly use this with an external monitor.
Very interesting, and very odd!
-Dave
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