At 03:10 PM 10/16/2004, you wrote:
On Oct 11 2004, 3:51, mehditk2(a)juno.com wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone have a KDF11-B3 boot rom or any other version which
can boot RX33 or an MSCP device on my KDF11-BA. I will pay for
that and I will be very thankful since I have not to buy a Eprom
programmer to burn the immages.
KDF11-B3 isn't one ROM, it's an upgrade kit consisting of two EPROMs
plus instructions. It's more usual to refer to the ROMs themselves by
the actual numbers or the processor suffix. The ROMs in the -B3 kit
are 23-183E4 and 23-184E4, as far as I remember; that's the -BF
version, but most versions of the KDF11 ROMs work with MSCP devices.
For example, people have used RD31 drives on an RQDX3 with -BE ROMs,
although it wasn't officially supported until -BG. The next version
was 23-380E4 and 23-381E4, which would make the processor a KDF11-BG.
There's a list of ROMs at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/DECROMs/ (see the file called
ROMlist).
You can see which revisions officially support various MSCP devices in
Micronote 43, which you can find in various places including
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/hardwar…
BTW, the EPROMs for a KDF11-B are unusual 24-pin 8Kx8 devices; normal
2764-style 8Kx8 devices will not do because they're 28-pin.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
I looked into this and found that the people who fool around with old
arcade video games have the same problem with EPROMs, here is one fellows'
solution to using a standard 2764 PROM in place of the rare Motorola 68764
(which I think is the one on the KDF11-B quad CPU board). Haven't tried it
though. I could never find the pin out of the Motorola part.... BTW, my
PROM programmer had no problem identifying and reading the 24 pin DEC Prom,
I guess if I could find a blank one I could burn it.
Doug Taylor
You Build It: Hero Rom UpgradeYou build it: Hero Rom Upgrade
OK so you downloaded the new ROM version, but you cant find a 68764 (8K
Eprom in
24 pin package). Well here is a little conversion you can do to allow you
to use
a 2764 (8K Eprom in 28 pin package).
1 tie high (+5)
2 tie to socket #21
28 tie to socket #24
27 tie high (+5)
24 Pin 28 Pin Notes
--------------------------
Vcc 24 26 N/C OK to pass through
A8 23 25 A8 OK to pass through
A9 22 24 A9 OK to pass through
A12 21 23 A11 Socket to prom#2, pin to socket #18
E 20 22 OE OK to pass through
A10 19 21 A10 OK to pass through
A11 18 20 CE Socket to prom#23, pin to ground