3 Jul
2005
3 Jul
'05
7:09 a.m.
I spent a big part of yesterday sorting out the DEC cards that I've been
picking up the last couple of weeks. This morning I photographed SOME of
the PDP-8 cards. Take a look
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/> there's definitely some
odd stuff there! This is just a small part of the ones that I got. I'll add
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If anyone wants to take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
Joe
3 Jul
3 Jul
9:35 a.m.
At 10:09 AM -0400 7/3/05, Joe R. wrote:
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If
anyone wants to take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
I'll pass on trying to ID anything, however, you might find this old
project of my interesting. It's a list of non-Q-Bus and non-Unibus
modules.
ftp://192.168.1.41/pub/ModuleList.txt
Zane
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9:40 a.m.
I could link to the list?
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Subject: Re: My PDP-8 Cards
At 10:09 AM -0400 7/3/05, Joe R. wrote:
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If
anyone wants to take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
I'll pass on trying to ID anything, however, you might find this old
project of my interesting. It's a list of non-Q-Bus and non-Unibus
modules.
ftp://192.168.1.41/pub/ModuleList.txt
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
10:01 a.m.
At 11:40 AM -0500 7/3/05, Keys wrote:
I could link to the list?
Yes, but you'll want to use ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/pub/ModuleList.txt
Obviously not enough caffeine yet this morning. Guess that's what I
get for posting when I first get up.
Zane
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| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
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11:03 a.m.
Thanks not thinking this morning myself. The list is great.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: My PDP-8 Cards
At 11:40 AM -0500 7/3/05, Keys wrote:
I could link to the list?
Yes, but you'll want to use ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/pub/ModuleList.txt
Obviously not enough caffeine yet this morning. Guess that's what I get
for posting when I first get up.
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
9:42 a.m.
Hi Zane,
I found it. It's been pretty useful. I have enough DEC docs that id'ing
the DEC stuff isn't a problem. It's the 3rd party stuff that's a problem.
For example I know what the Plessey 700643, 700645 and 700647 are but I've
never even heard of a Plessey memory card and I have no idea what the other
Plessey card is for. I'd love to find docs for stuff like the Mostek
memory cards, not only are they capable of holding 64k of memory but I also
have several of them so they could be real handy.
Joe
At 09:35 AM 7/3/05 -0700, you wrote:
At 10:09 AM -0400 7/3/05, Joe R. wrote:
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If
anyone wants to take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
I'll pass on trying to ID anything, however, you might find this old
project of my interesting. It's a list of non-Q-Bus and non-Unibus
modules.
ftp://192.168.1.41/pub/ModuleList.txt
Zane
--
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
10:16 a.m.
On 7/3/05, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
If anyone wants to take a stab at identifing some of
the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
I don't know _what_ it is, but the card you have marked "SSS" is a
Systems Industries card - so you might consider renaming it to "SI
Unknown" or something similar.
I wish there were more information running around about SI products -
I have a Qbus SCSI controller that I'm still searching for more info
on - it was strapped to a non-standard address, plus I'm not sure if
it is TMSCP only or if it does MSCP. It's a model CS-21, IIRC.
-ethan
1:23 p.m.
Am zondag, 03.07.05, um 16:09 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Joe R.:
I spent a big part of yesterday sorting out the DEC
cards that I've
been
picking up the last couple of weeks. This morning I photographed SOME
of
the PDP-8 cards. Take a look
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/> there's definitely
some
odd stuff there! This is just a small part of the ones that I got.
I'll add
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If anyone wants to
take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
The ECRM cards you've got are hardware speedups for OCR scanning.
Yes PDP8's were used for OCR !
Some ECRM cards are very usefull, but those aren't.
Nevertheless I have all info on those boards should you want do do
something with them.
ECRM has a two card 24x80 VDU option and a multi-io ( RS232, PPT,
printer) all one one omnibus card.
That are the truly usefull ones.
btw ECRM is still in business...
Jos Dreesen
3:01 p.m.
Jos,
Thanks for the info. Can you tell me what the cards that I have do? I'd
like to be able to tell something about them. As far as OCR is concerned,
at least part of this stuff came from a "DECStation 310" that was used for
word processing. I have the Engineering Drawings for the DECStation 310 (I
THINK that is the correct name) and a plastic rack panel marked "WPS-8".
Joe
At 10:23 PM 7/3/05 +0200, you wrote:
Am zondag, 03.07.05, um 16:09 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Joe R.:
I spent a big part of yesterday sorting out
the DEC cards that I've
been
picking up the last couple of weeks. This morning I photographed SOME
of
the PDP-8 cards. Take a look
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/My%20PDP-8%20Cards/> there's definitely
some
odd stuff there! This is just a small part of the ones that I got.
I'll add
more photos and (hopefully) descriptions later. If anyone wants to
take a
stab at identifing some of the third party cards and/or writing a
description I'll be glad to post it.
The ECRM cards you've got are hardware speedups for OCR scanning.
Yes PDP8's were used for OCR !
Some ECRM cards are very usefull, but those aren't.
Nevertheless I have all info on those boards should you want do do
something with them.
ECRM has a two card 24x80 VDU option and a multi-io ( RS232, PPT,
printer) all one one omnibus card.
That are the truly usefull ones.
btw ECRM is still in business...
Jos Dreesen
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