Computer Engineering (DEC) - was Re: PDP-12 at the RICM

Sean Caron scaron at umich.edu
Mon Jul 13 10:01:18 CDT 2015


Seconded. Excellent book. I picked up a copy from a used book seller maybe
a year ago and to my surprise, my copy is stamped "XEROX PARC RESEARCH
LIBRARY" :O Double cool :O

Best,

Sean


On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
wrote:

> On 2015-07-13 1:52 AM, Kip Koon wrote:
>
>> Hi Michael,
>> I would be most interested in finding out more about this effort. ...  I
>> used a PDP-8/E in high school and college
>>
> and have been quite interested in the high capability PDPs like the
> PDP-11 Series for starters. I didn't know there were PDP 12 Series
> computers. Are there other PDP series computers as well?
>
>
> A good reference to the complete PDP range is "Computer Engineering: A DEC
> View of Hardware Systems Design", Bell, Mudge, McNamara.
>
> http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=olbp11850
>
> (It's a beautiful hardcover to own, but there's a link to an online HTML
> version.)
>
> --Toby
>
>
> > Congratulations
> on your restoration efforts! I wish I could see what all you guys have
> been and are up to! Take care my friends.
>
>>
>> Kip Koon
>> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
>> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Michael Thompson
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:32 PM
>>> To: cctech
>>> Subject: Re: PDP-12 at the RICM
>>>
>>> The RICM Learning Lab was nice and cool today so we spent the afternoon
>>> chasing the "LGP GP=GPC PRESET" in the TC12 LINCtape
>>> controller. With a logic analyzer connected to lots of the TC12 signals
>>> were were able to chase down the signal that is causing the
>>> fault. We are now not sure if the signal behavior we observed is the
>>> correct behavior, and there is a fault elsewhere. More debugging
>>> time and more studying of the documentation is required.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Thompson
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>


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