22 Jun
2004
22 Jun
'04
2:13 p.m.
I haven't seen much PDP-11 stuff at the MIT Flea. This past
sunday, there was a robin and a rainbow, but no other systems
that I saw. There were also some vendors who had accessories
for various DEC laptops...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL,ST| email: mbg at world.std.com |
| Member of Technical Staff | megan at savaje.com |
| SavaJe Technologies, Inc. | (s/ at /@/) |
| 100 Apollo Drive | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Chelmsford, MA 01824 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (978) 256 6521 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
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23 Jun
23 Jun
7:08 a.m.
I know what's a Rainbow, but what's a Robin?
It's a bit of a downer that the PDPs don't have cool code names like the
VAXens. :-)
Megan wrote:
I haven't seen much PDP-11 stuff at the MIT Flea.
This past
sunday, there was a robin and a rainbow, but no other systems
that I saw. There were also some vendors who had accessories
for various DEC laptops...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
+--------------------------------+-------------------------------------+
| Megan Gentry, EMT/B, PP-ASEL,ST| email: mbg at world.std.com |
| Member of Technical Staff | megan at savaje.com |
| SavaJe Technologies, Inc. | (s/ at /@/) |
| 100 Apollo Drive | URL: http://world.std.com/~mbg/ |
| Chelmsford, MA 01824 | "pdp-11 programmer - some assembler |
| (978) 256 6521 (DEC '77-'98) | required." - mbg KB1FCA |
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24 Jun
24 Jun
7:05 a.m.
Wai-Sun Chia declared on Wednesday 23 June 2004 02:08 pm:
I know what's a Rainbow, but what's a Robin?
It's a bit of a downer that the PDPs don't have cool code names like
the VAXens. :-)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=605&st=1
Aka, VT180, it's a modification to a VT100 that gives you a CP/M system
inside a VT100 alongside the normal terminal capability.
Pat
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12:05 p.m.
New subject: Robin boot disks was: DEC at MIT
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Wai-Sun Chia declared on Wednesday 23 June 2004 02:08
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Does anyone have boot disk images for the VT180?
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I know what's a Rainbow, but what's a
Robin?
It's a bit of a downer that the PDPs don't have cool code names like
the VAXens. :-)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=605&st=1
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25 Jun
25 Jun
7:57 a.m.
New subject: Robin boot disks was: DEC at MIT
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Mike Kenzie wrote:
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On Thursday 24 June 2004 15:05, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
The attached ZIP file contains three images of CP/M and utilities
for the Robin. They are SSDD when reproduced. Hope this helps.
- don
Wai-Sun Chia declared on Wednesday 23 June 2004
02:08 pm:
Does anyone have boot disk images for the VT180? I know what's a Rainbow, but what's a
Robin?
It's a bit of a downer that the PDPs don't have cool code names like
the VAXens. :-)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=605&st=1
Aka, VT180, it's a modification to a VT100 that gives you a CP/M system
inside a VT100 alongside the normal terminal capability.
- --
Collector of vintage computers
http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600
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12:31 p.m.
New subject: Robin boot disks was: DEC at MIT
At 08:05 PM 6/24/2004, Mike Kenzie wrote:
Does anyone have boot disk images for the VT180?
I have an original DEC disk - VT180 CP/M 2.2.
No idea if it's still usable, but it's unlikely that I
overwrote/reformatted it.
The floppy isn't readable on a peecee floppy drive. If you're
interested, I can drop it into the mail to you.
-Rick
28 Jun
28 Jun
2:14 a.m.
New subject: Robin boot disks was: DEC at MIT
>>>> "Rick" == Rick Murphy
<rick(a)rickmurphy.net> writes:
Rick> At 08:05 PM 6/24/2004, Mike Kenzie wrote:
> Does anyone have boot disk images for the VT180?
Rick> I have an original DEC disk - VT180 CP/M 2.2. No idea if it's
Rick> still usable, but it's unlikely that I overwrote/reformatted
Rick> it.
Rick> The floppy isn't readable on a peecee floppy drive. If you're
Rick> interested, I can drop it into the mail to you.
Assuming Robins use the DEC standard 5.25 inch floppy formatting
(i.e., the same as for the RX50) you CAN read it on a PC with a bit of
work. I did that in my program "rstsflx" which is available on some
ftp servers (or I can provide the relevant code fragment if anyone is
interested). Both Linux and DOS can do this. I don't know about
WinNT and its descendants, though -- probably not.
paul
24 Jun
24 Jun
1:18 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:08:27AM +0800, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
I know what's a Rainbow, but what's a Robin?
It's a bit of a downer that the PDPs don't have cool code names like the
VAXens. :-)
The Rainbow was DEC's 8-bit competitor to the IBM PC. It runs DOS, but
is not 100% compatible - more available DOS memory than the real thing,
which screws with some programs that depend on a precise memory map. It
also has RX50 drives. At least it can format blank media.
The Robin was a CP/M machine built into a VT100 chassis (external drives).
It's also called a VT180.
-ethan
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