8 Sep
2006
8 Sep
'06
7:22 p.m.
A couple of years ago I got an EAE off of ebay and it has never worked
with my -8/e. I was looking at it again and see that my M8330 Timing
Generator board is too early a revision to work with the EAE. I need at
least rev B (I think). Does anyone have a spare M8330 they could part
with? I kick myself for not grabbing a spare processor off of ebay over
the years. Otherwise does anyone have a working EAE that would be
willing to talk about with me?
9 Sep
9 Sep
2:36 p.m.
On Sep 8, 2006, at 7:22 PM, C. H. Dickman wrote:
A couple of years ago I got an EAE off of ebay and it
has never worked
with my -8/e. I was looking at it again and see that my M8330 Timing
Generator board is too early a revision to work with the EAE. I need
at least rev B (I think). Does anyone have a spare M8330 they could
part with? I kick myself for not grabbing a spare processor off of
ebay over the years. Otherwise does anyone have a working EAE that
would be willing to talk about with me?
I have two working EAEs and can help you diagnose. I *might* have a
spare timing generator; I will check when I return home tonight or
tomorrow.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
3:49 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
It still amazes me that a 4096 word computer
can have hardware aided floating point.
it's more (as I recall, dimly) for integer multiply and divide, which
(as I also recall, dimly) was pretty costly in software on the 8.
I seem to remember pawing through focal and basic fp routines and the
bit by bit work was very slow. EAE helped a lot.
I also remember using the 8/L's at Carleton College as password generators
and using them to crack TSS/8 passwords on their 8/I :-) early distributed
computing :-)
-brad
10 Sep
10 Sep
3:48 p.m.
Jay West wrote:
> Woah! A "spare time generator"??? I want one!!!!!!
On Sat, 9 Sep
2006, woodelf wrote:
But you need to supply a *flux Capacitor* .:)
It still amazes me that a 4096 word computer
can have hardware aided floating point.
I don't have enough spare time to build one.
Besides, don't you need to connect a DC transformer to an AC battery to
make it work?
3:51 p.m.
On Sep 10, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
In the good old days, that's all it took...Now it takes a
cycle-efficient and register-rich x86 processor, along with an honest
American businessman.
I'll bring the DC transformer and AC battery if you can find either
of those.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL
> Woah! A
"spare time generator"??? I want one!!!!!!
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, woodelf
wrote:
But you need to supply a *flux Capacitor* .:)
It still amazes me that a 4096 word computer
can have hardware aided floating point.
I don't have enough spare time to build one.
Besides, don't you need to connect a DC transformer to an AC battery to
make it work? 
12:44 p.m.
On Saturday 09 September 2006 02:40 pm, Jay West wrote:
Dave wrote....
Yeah, you and me both!
Dunno if I could afford to feed it, though.
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M Dakin
spare timing generator; I will check when I
return home tonight or
tomorrow.
Woah! A "spare time generator"??? I want one!!!!!!
9 Sep
9 Sep
3:25 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
I have two working EAEs and can help you diagnose. I
*might* have a
spare timing generator; I will check when I return home tonight or
tomorrow.
Thanks to all for the offers, I have a board coming.
With any luck my EAE works, the old M8330 I have is just not compatible.
There is a signal missing from the over-the-top connector.
-chuck
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