27 Dec
2015
27 Dec
'15
8:15 p.m.
I have a MINC-23 that I am in the process of restoring. On the hardware side, I
modified the BDV11 ROMs with some help from Malcolm Macleod on the boot eprom images so
that I could boot a DU device directly from a 11/23 (not plus).
It boots an Emulex UC07 and a SCSI2SD so I can load various images on to the microSD
card. I found a microSD to normal SD adapter which I plan to mount through one of the MINC
blank front panels (with a blinking drive activity LED of course), so that changing disks
is convenient. Currently, the SCSI2SD is formatted as four RD54 drives which are a
convenient size to load individual images with the dd command on Linux or Mac OSX.
Currently, I can boot both RT-11 or RSX11M with either 11/23 or 11/73 CPUs (limited to
256KB by the MINC Q18 bus).
The software I am looking for are the MINC software packages FEP (Fortran Enhancement
Package) V2.1 and FRP (Fortran Real_time Package) V1.0. Also SSP V1.3 (Scientific
Subroutines Package) and LSP V1.2 (Laboratory Subroutines Package) would be great to find
as well. These all run under RT-11 and I understand that there was also a version (V1.1)
of FEP and V1.0 of FRP that ran under RSX11M which would be fantastic to find as I am more
interested in RSX11M. This is based on documents in the MINC folder in the bitsavers
online archives.
Please contact me if you have any of these packages or would just like to compare notes
on the MINC hardware. I am still gathering diagnostics and documentation to check out the
analog to digital, programable clock, digital to analog, and digital I/O cards. Someone
mentioned earlier the "Minicomputer in the Laboratory" book by James Cooper and
I have found it to be very helpful as well.
Thanks and Happy New Year!
Mark
27 Dec
27 Dec
8:35 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Mark Matlock <mark at matlockfamily.com> wrote:
The software I am looking for are the MINC software packages FEP (Fortran Enhancement
Package) V2.1 and FRP (Fortran Real_time Package) V1.0. Also SSP V1.3 (Scientific
Subroutines Package) and LSP V1.2 (Laboratory Subroutines Package) would be great to find
as well. These all run under RT-11 and I understand that there was also a version (V1.1)
of FEP and V1.0 of FRP that ran under RSX11M which would be fantastic to find as I am more
interested in RSX11M. This is based on documents in the MINC folder in the bitsavers
online archives.
I have an RX02 floppy labeled:
BA-L796C-BC
RT-11/FEP V2.2 INSTL BIN RX2
(C) 1983
I don't know if that would help. I'll have to look and see if I have
already created an image of this disk. If not it might take some time
before I get setup again to create RX02 disk images.
-Glen
28 Dec
28 Dec
10:25 a.m.
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:35:54 -0800
Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Mark Matlock <mark
at matlockfamily.com> wrote:
I'd be interested in these images, too (I also have an 11/23 MINC)...
Cheers,
Lyle
--
73 AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
The software I am looking for are the MINC software packages FEP (Fortran Enhancement
Package) V2.1 and FRP (Fortran Real_time Package) V1.0. Also SSP V1.3 (Scientific
Subroutines Package) and LSP V1.2 (Laboratory Subroutines Package) would be great to find
as well. These all run under RT-11 and I understand that there was also a version (V1.1)
of FEP and V1.0 of FRP that ran under RSX11M which would be fantastic to find as I am more
interested in RSX11M. This is based on documents in the MINC folder in the bitsavers
online archives.
I have an RX02 floppy labeled:
BA-L796C-BC
RT-11/FEP V2.2 INSTL BIN RX2
(C) 1983
I don't know if that would help. I'll have to look and see if I have
already created an image of this disk. If not it might take some time
before I get setup again to create RX02 disk images. 
11:27 a.m.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:35:54 -0800
Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
I started such a project a while back, and grad school intervened. :-)
But with all this interest, I'll see if I can't disinter my MINC and try it
again. I'm pretty sure I have these packages and a lot more, and I really
need to get them imaged of RX02s before the oxide starts falling off. :-)
I have a MINC-11, but I put an 11/23 processor in it - 18-bit addressing,
though, and I DO want to keep it stock so I'm not going to modify the
backplane for 22-bit addressing, as much as I'd like that extra working
store space!
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
I don't know if that would help. I'll have to look and see if I have
already created an image of this disk. If not it might take some time
before I get setup again to create RX02 disk images.
I'd be interested in these images, too (I also have an 11/23 MINC)...
Cheers,
Lyle
--
73 AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
3:51 p.m.
On 12/27/2015 10:15 PM, Mark Matlock wrote:
I have a MINC-23 that I am in the process of
restoring. On the hardware side, I modified the BDV11 ROMs with some help from Malcolm
Macleod on the boot eprom images so that I could boot a DU device directly from a 11/23
(not plus).
It boots an Emulex UC07 and a SCSI2SD so I can load various images on to the microSD
card. I found a microSD to normal SD adapter which I plan to mount through one of the MINC
blank front panels (with a blinking drive activity LED of course), so that changing disks
is convenient. Currently, the SCSI2SD is formatted as four RD54 drives which are a
convenient size to load individual images with the dd command on Linux or Mac OSX.
Currently, I can boot both RT-11 or RSX11M with either 11/23 or 11/73 CPUs (limited to
256KB by the MINC Q18 bus).
The software I am looking for are the MINC software packages FEP (Fortran Enhancement
Package) V2.1 and FRP (Fortran Real_time Package) V1.0. Also SSP V1.3 (Scientific
Subroutines Package) and LSP V1.2 (Laboratory Subroutines Package) would be great to find
as well. These all run under RT-11 and I understand that there was also a version (V1.1)
of FEP and V1.0 of FRP that ran under RSX11M which would be fantastic to find as I am more
interested in RSX11M. This is based on documents in the MINC folder in the bitsavers
online archives.
Please contact me if you have any of these packages or would just like to compare
notes on the MINC hardware. I am still gathering diagnostics and documentation to check
out the analog to digital, programable clock, digital to analog, and digital I/O cards.
Someone mentioned earlier the "Minicomputer in the Laboratory" book by James
Cooper and I have found it to be very helpful as well.
Thanks and Happy New Year!
Mark
I have some MINC hardware (also a MINC/23 I think) and software, but it
does not look like I have what you are looking for.
What I do have images of (except for the one marked "(Bad)" that seem
likely MINC related:
RX01:
CONTENTS COMMENT
LAB Applications-11 Library V3 DEC-11-SLABA-C-YB, NSUM=41906
LAB Applications-11 Lib Source 1 of 3 DEC-11-SLABA-C-YA1, NSUM=56190
LAB Applications-11 Lib Source 2 of 3 DEC-11-SLABA-C-YA2, NSUM=28900
LAB Applications-11 Lib Source 3 of 3 DEC-11-SLABA-C-YA3, NSUM=65055
CONTENTS COMMENT
PLOT, Ver June '80 DECUS 11-381 RT-11 Media(KA) (Bad)
MINC BASIC/FORTRAN IV VIR TERM DECUS 11-417 RT-11, NSUM=22281
PLOTTING PKG For RT-11 FORTRAN DECUS 11-431 RT-11, NSUM=12228
LABORATORY APPLICATIONS-11 1 of 4, (KD) DECUS 11-448 RT-11, NSUM=15424
LABORATORY APPLICATIONS-11 2 of 4, (KD) DECUS 11-448 RT-11, NSUM=1369
LABORATORY APPLICATIONS-11 3 of 4, (KD) DECUS 11-448 RT-11, NSUM=2841
LABORATORY APPLICATIONS-11 4 of 4, (KD) DECUS 11-448 RT-11, NSUM=21353
FEP2: FINITE ELEMENT PROG 3DIM 1 of 2 KB DECUS 11-461 RT-11, NSUM=14187
FEP2: FINITE ELEMENT PROG 3DIM 2 of 2 KB DECUS 11-461 RT-11, NSUM=26552
RX02:
CONTENTS COMMENT
MINC MA DEMO/23 V2.0 BIN RX2 BA-J837B-BC, NSUM=04649
MINC MA DEMO/03 V2.0 BIN RX2 BA-H107D-BC, NSUM=58263
MINC MA SYS/23 V2.0 BIN RX2 BA-J836B-BC, NSUM=17510
MINC MA SYS/03 V2.0 BIN RX2 BA-H106D-BC, NSUM=61253
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