23 Mar
2018
23 Mar
'18
1:46 p.m.
Well, I don't know what happened to everybody who wanted it
but that Unix-PC is still sitting here and it needs to go.? One more
offer before I scrap it.? Needs to be someone who can pick it up
real soon.
bill
23 Mar
23 Mar
2:32 p.m.
I will take it if no one else does, but where is it, missed this thread
B
On Mar 23, 2018 4:46 PM, "Bill Gunshannon via cctalk" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Well, I don't know what happened to everybody who wanted it
but that Unix-PC is still sitting here and it needs to go. One more
offer before I scrap it. Needs to be someone who can pick it up
real soon.
bill
3:25 p.m.
On 03/23/2018 14:32, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
I will take it if no one else does, but where is it, missed this thread
Most recent reference I could find was May 2017:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2017-May/034691.html
Bill appears to be located near Scranton, PA. If I were within a couple
hundred miles, I'd be writing to him instead of the list... ;)
Good luck,
--Steve.
24 Mar
24 Mar
4:44 p.m.
The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone
I am sure will enjoy and appreciate it.? I would expect him to
show up here sometime with questions as he tries to revive
it.? I tried booting it and while it booted fine from the diagnostic
floppy and things like memory and CPU tested OK it won't boot
off the hard disk which means either the hard disk has died
(a possibility considering its age) or could just be bit rot.? In
any event, he got all the floppies that went with it.? Who knows,
might show up at VCF-East some day.
bill
4:58 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone
I am sure will enjoy and appreciate it. I would expect him to
show up here sometime with questions as he tries to revive
it. I tried booting it and while it booted fine from the diagnostic
floppy and things like memory and CPU tested OK it won't boot
off the hard disk which means either the hard disk has died
(a possibility considering its age) or could just be bit rot. In
any event, he got all the floppies that went with it. Who knows,
might show up at VCF-East some day.
At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM
emulator to have near infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due to
limitations in the controller, it seems).
It would be cool if it could run something more modern, but don't those
boxes max at at 4MB or 8MB of RAM?
Warner
5:39 p.m.
On 03/24/2018 07:58 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone
I am sure will enjoy and appreciate it. I would expect him to
show up here sometime with questions as he tries to revive
it. I tried booting it and while it booted fine from the diagnostic
floppy and things like memory and CPU tested OK it won't boot
off the hard disk which means either the hard disk has died
(a possibility considering its age) or could just be bit rot. In
any event, he got all the floppies that went with it. Who knows,
might show up at VCF-East some day.
At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM emulator to have near
infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due to limitations in the controller, it
seems).
I wondered about that. I heard someone was working on one but I never saw it.
Got any pointers? 70M is the limit I think. has something to do with the registers
in the controller. But I seem to remember a mod to let it use two disks. That would
make it 140M.
It would be cool if it could run something more modern, but don't those boxes max at
at 4MB or 8MB of RAM?
This one has 1 Meg. Amount isn't the problem, finding the expansion boards is. They
were rare in its heyday and probably unobtanium today.
As for something more modern, I always thought it would be an improvement if it ran
BSD. Even with only one meg it should be able to run 2.11BSD if someone could do a
port. Then you put NFS on and disk space is no longer a problem. :-)
bill
25 Mar
25 Mar
11:29 a.m.
At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM
emulator to have near infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due
to limitations in the controller, it seems).
I wondered about that. I heard someone was working on one but I never
saw it. Got any pointers?
http://www.pdp8online.com/mfm/. Thats mine and has link to the other unit
available.
3b1 faq with info on disk sizes supported.
http://unixpc.taronga.com/faq/part2/faq.html
And our 3b1.
http://www.pdp8online.com/shows/vcfe16/pics/P1090149.shtml
Emulator has been tested with it. Some videos online by other of them
using it with a 3b1.
11 Apr
11 Apr
5:30 p.m.
On 25/03/18 00:39, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
On 03/24/2018 07:58 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
The Unix-PC has found a new home in the hands of someone
I am sure will enjoy and appreciate it. I would expect him to
show up here sometime with questions as he tries to revive
it. I tried booting it and while it booted fine from the diagnostic
floppy and things like memory and CPU tested OK it won't boot
off the hard disk which means either the hard disk has died
(a possibility considering its age) or could just be bit rot. In
any event, he got all the floppies that went with it. Who knows,
might show up at VCF-East some day.
At least it has MFM hard drives, which means that it can use the MFM emulator to have
near infinite storage (sadly, only ~64MB at a time due to limitations in the controller,
it seems).
I wondered about that. I heard someone was working on one but I never saw it.
Got any pointers? 70M is the limit I think. has something to do with the registers
in the controller. But I seem to remember a mod to let it use two disks. That would
make it 140M.
That'd be the P5.1 Mod.
This one has 1 Meg. Amount isn't the problem,
finding the expansion boards is. They
were rare in its heyday and probably unobtanium today.
As for something more modern, I always thought it would be an improvement if it ran
BSD. Even with only one meg it should be able to run 2.11BSD if someone could do a
port. Then you put NFS on and disk space is no longer a problem. :-)
Good luck finding an Ethernet card! I don't like the sound of NFS over
SLIP... (which you'd need a Combo Card for)... or NFS over PPP at 1200
Baud thru the internal modem...
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
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