19 Aug
1998
19 Aug
'98
6 p.m.
< I'm about to expose a lack of understanding of Q-bus, but do you need a
Dig up a PDP-11 Qbus book, most had a good description of the bus and
bus protocals.
< slot for uVAX-II memory given that it has the PMI (private memory
CDbus is used for PMI too.
< interconnect)? As you can tell, I'm not up there with Q-bus specifics an
< all the uVAX Q-bus systems I've used came with a suitable back plane (a
< vast cost at the time from Digital :-)
Makes it a lot easier.
Alliosn
19 Aug
19 Aug
10:03 p.m.
At 11:00 PM 19-08-98 -0400, Allison J Parent wrote:
< I'm about to expose a lack of understanding of
Q-bus, but do you need a
Dig up a PDP-11 Qbus book, most had a good description of the bus and
bus protocals.
Any suggestions as I'll have to go beg/borrow/steal/buy one. All the books
I have either predate Q-Bus or talk about "real" VAX systems (like Massbus,
Unibus etc).
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20 Aug
20 Aug
8:50 a.m.
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21 Aug
21 Aug
6:02 p.m.
At 06:50 PM 20-08-98 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
_The_ one to find is called the 'PDP11 Bus
Handbook'. It's one of the little
DEC paperbacks, and it includes a full description of the Unibus and
Q-bus. It's one of the DEC books I use a lot. No idea where to get one
now, but certainly keep looking.
Well a quick look through the engineering archives at work didn't lead to
anything describing Qbus in any more detail. I found a neat book on the
DECmateIII, some PDP options catalogues from the late 70s and the complete
DECsystem-10 fische that I'd forgotten we had. Nothing interesting there :-)
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23 Aug
23 Aug
9:42 a.m.
DECsystem-10 fiche? Which 10?
If you pitch that, I'll personally show up and disembowel you with a
blunt object. :)
Or at least drop an 11/44 on your toes.
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5:13 p.m.
At 11:42 AM 23-08-98 -0700, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
DECsystem-10 fiche? Which 10?
If you pitch that, I'll personally show up and disembowel you with a
blunt object. :)
Tempting as the offer of a personal visit for a disembowelment is, I might
skip it this time round. There is no way that I'd throw out the -10 fiche.
Given that we had a KI-10 I assume the fiche is for that - the reason for
the "assume" there is that someone has thrown out our fiche reader.
Thinking about this over the weekend, is there a service that will take
fiche and put it onto a more useful medium (say image files on a CD) that
anyone has heard of?
Or at least drop an 11/44 on your toes.
Too late, been there, done that, broke toes....
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8:27 p.m.
Thinking about this over the weekend, is there a
service that will take
fiche and put it onto a more useful medium (say image files on a CD) that
anyone has heard of?
I just double checked with someone I know, there are companies that do
this, unfortunatly he didn't know what it would cost. I imagine it's
RATHER expensive. I also suspect they might be leary of doing it for
someone other than the copyright holder.
Actually I was looking into what it would cost to get a machine to make
prints as I got a large stack of DEC fiche a month or so ago, you don't
even want to know. You'd have to make 1000's of copies, if not 10,000's,
to make it worth it.
Zane
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24 Aug
24 Aug
5:10 a.m.
[KI fiche]
Cool! You should be able to read the larger print with a magnifying glass
and a white sheet of paper. Lay the fiche on the paper, and try using the
magnifying lens. You should be able to determine at least what the fiche is for.
We've a machine here at school that makes printed pages from a microfiche...
Maybe, if the fiche could end up here, I could print the pages and scan them?
But it's 10 cents a page, that would add up... I'll have to ask the librarian
if there's a way around this.
[Been there, done that, broke toes..]
Been there, done that, broke ALL of my friend's toes :)
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3:15 p.m.
At 07:10 AM 24-08-98 -0700, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
We've a machine here at school that makes printed
pages from a microfiche...
Maybe, if the fiche could end up here, I could print the pages and scan them?
But it's 10 cents a page, that would add up... I'll have to ask the
librarian
if there's a way around this.
I should warn you all that there's lots of fiche in my cupboard. Give a
take a few mm, there's about 1m worth (approx 1 yard for those not yet
assimilated :-)
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