Next project: 11/24. Does it need memory?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 10/19/20 8:20 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> On 10/19/2020 6:10 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>  > Time to stop trying random things and drop the (metaphorical) Big
>  > Hammer.
> 
> Well, yeah. Although my methods are *not* random, what I have been doing 
> is trying to set the 11/24 and it's peripherals to a known working base 
> state. Unibus can get annoyed at a lot of things (lack of termination, 4 
> kinds of Unibus (well 5 if you consider the 11/45), and a whole lot of 
> general weirdness.
> 
> Q-Bus is much simpler, although there is 18 and 22 bit and the weird CD 
> interconnect to watch out for, you don't need a terminator and with very 
> few exceptions (RKV11, RL01 dual controller, very early memory that 
> wanted external refresh) things pretty much work bus-wise.
> 
>  > "Internal addresses; i.e. serial line unit registers .. There is no
>  > external bus cycle performed for an internal address."
> 
> Yeah, the serial ports I think are emulated-ish on the main board. If I 
> could disable them I could do a normal DL11 and see what I see, but that 
> won't work. Maybe I'll just drag out the 11/05 and get that working 
> first, it's got a nice front panel that doesn't lock up often :-)
> 
> But if someone has an 11/24 and can cross-check my switch settings to 
> see if I missed something I would appreciate.
> 


Wish I still had my 11/24.  It was my first and I always liked it.

bill