Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
Den ons 4 mars 2020 kl 02:05 skrev Matt Burke via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org>: > On 03/03/2020 16:48, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > The connector is the correct one. It has four jumpers that could be used > > for setting one of the keyboard types using the KB ident lines. > > > >

Re: For those with 6809 experience

2020-03-03 Thread osi.superboard via cctalk
My assumption is, that the LDA address access is too late at the end of the instruction cycle, and the CPU already started the next instruction cycle internally. HALT will be acknowledged only during the instruction cycle following the LDA. It would be interesting to measure, when the LDA pulls

RE: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
For those interested there are several 360/67 pictures here... http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/index.html and one of the 360/40 console at MOTAT, Auckland, New Zealand here:- https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ag4BJfE5B3onlq0VBQd65MgE8EH67g?e=1DiSyI Dave > -Original

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Marc reckoned > Yeah, a 360/50. When all the tapes are organized and color matched to the > computer, you know it’s just a photo-op of a fake data center, or at best a > real one with many hours of preparation for a beauty shot. Nice picture > though! It could be the 'white room'. This was a

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Yeah, a 360/50. When all the tapes are organized and color matched to the computer, you know it’s just a photo-op of a fake data center, or at best a real one with many hours of preparation for a beauty shot. Nice picture though! Marc > On Mar 3, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk >

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
ETA: I believe that the CPU shown is a 360/50. --Chuck

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/3/20 8:12 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > At least I finally know what the tapes that went in those cases looked like. > :-) I have at least a couple of the cases that came out of Tektronix 40+ > years ago. Every manufacturer had their own version of the hard tape cases. 3M, for exmaple, used

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 3, 2020, at 7:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: >> From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a >> data center? >> >> https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg > > Marketing models. Too clean. At least I

Re: Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a > data center? > > https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg Marketing models. Too clean.

Re: Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-03 Thread Brent Hilpert via cctalk
On 2020-Mar-03, at 4:18 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: > Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue > what system this core board was from: > http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/coresmall.jpg > > The curved edge connectors (presumably to make board

Good picture of a S360.

2020-03-03 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a data center? https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg

Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Matt Burke via cctalk
On 03/03/2020 16:48, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > The connector is the correct one. It has four jumpers that could be used > for setting one of the keyboard types using the KB ident lines. > > https://i.imgur.com/PhfvKaV.jpg > > https://i.imgur.com/VPT38cK.jpg > >

Re: Wang 2200 Diskettes

2020-03-03 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 3/3/20 4:26 PM, Joe George wrote: > > Yup! Single sided, single density, 32 hard sectors. And the Wang 2200 had > apparently some weird insert orientation, the “Wang” labels are on the back > of the diskettes, opposite side of the manufacturer sticker. > > Cheers, My recollection is that

Mystery 1970 core board

2020-03-03 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
Hopefully collective wisdom can help on this one - does anyone have a clue what system this core board was from: http://www.classiccmp.org/acornia/tmp/coresmall.jpg The curved edge connectors (presumably to make board insertion easier) are quite distinctive, plus the way the power's fed

Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Paul Berger via cctalk
I was doing field service on 3270 terminals among other things up until 1983 and I never saw a 3278 or 3279 with a keyboard like this, all the ones I recall seeing where an earlier capacitive switch keyboard that is sometimes referred to as the "Beam-spring" switch.  That said this ones does

Re: What is this System 360 peripheral/maintenance console?

2020-03-03 Thread Johannes Thelen via cctalk
Here's my contribution to this topic: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iidmMNXV3arCqlMmJdzWNFwgtrjDjpt6 Our national broadcasting company visited my unofficial museum and filmed my computer collection for the documentary "Lada, Laika, Marx ja mä". You can see there the 1800 running a simple

Re: stuff for sale - recent move

2020-03-03 Thread Joe Zatarski via cctalk
> > On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Joseph Zatarski via cctalk > wrote: > > > > I've started inventorying a lot of the stuff I'd like to pass on here: > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vhF-o6vx9g7l-D8cvLJ5OPJzpdmU9PTTknbxY-mY58/edit?usp=sharing > > I can't see these in the Google sheet,

TOPS-20 networking

2020-03-03 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
*TOPS-20* The set of config files you need to edit in TOPS-20 is found here, about halfway down the page: http://www.ldx.ca/notes/tops-20-notes.html I'll paste it here: Configuring the system The *Panda Distribution* README has this to say about initial configuration: You’ll need to edit the

Re: Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 3/3/20 8:48 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > Which terminal was it used for originally? IC date codes appear to be 1983/84

Is this IBM keyboard compatible with the IBM 3279?

2020-03-03 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
The connector is the correct one. It has four jumpers that could be used for setting one of the keyboard types using the KB ident lines. https://i.imgur.com/PhfvKaV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VPT38cK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nN1gtFu.jpg Which terminal was it used for originally? /Mattis

Re: For those with 6809 experience

2020-03-03 Thread Jim Brain via cctalk
On 3/3/2020 2:26 AM, Veit, Holger via cctalk wrote: Am 01.03.2020 um 00:42 schrieb Jim Brain via cctalk: What are you trying to accomplish? Right now, I am just trying to understand how one pulls the 6809 off the system bus and get some more experience in performing DMA activities.  I have

Re: stuff for sale - recent move

2020-03-03 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 at 17:58, Joseph Zatarski via cctalk wrote: > > I've started inventorying a lot of the stuff I'd like to pass on here: > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19vhF-o6vx9g7l-D8cvLJ5OPJzpdmU9PTTknbxY-mY58/edit?usp=sharing I can't see these in the Google sheet, for some reason:

Re: Panda TOPS20 networking trouble

2020-03-03 Thread Bob Smith via cctalk
what is the host environment? Linux? or something else? You have to set up some hoste networking, sometimes involving some installs of virtual networking bits. bb On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:25 AM David Griffith via cctalk wrote: > > > I'm having loads of trouble getting networking going with the

stuff for sale - recent move

2020-03-03 Thread Joseph Zatarski via cctalk
Hi. I forgot to mention it’s an eye phone 11 PRO 256gb. I may be missing something -- *what's* an "eye phone"? I thought you were listing vintage kit, not smartphones? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at

Re: stuff for sale - recent move

2020-03-03 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 07:13, Kevin Lee via cctalk wrote: > > Hi. > > I forgot to mention it’s an eye phone > 11 PRO 256gb. I may be missing something -- *what's* an "eye phone"? I thought you were listing vintage kit, not smartphones? -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven

Re: What is this System 360 peripheral/maintenance console?

2020-03-03 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:51 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < >> Will's right - the 16-bit register display should have been a tipoff. >> >> See http://www.dvq.com/1800/1800.htm for lots of images. >> 1800->industrial control version of the 1130. >> >> --Chuck >> > Thank you, I will update how I have

Re: For those with 6809 experience

2020-03-03 Thread Veit, Holger via cctalk
Am 01.03.2020 um 00:42 schrieb Jim Brain via cctalk: Looking at the datasheet for the 6809 (specifically, the 6809E that needs incoming quadrature clock), I read that !HALT can be asserted 200nS (for 1MHz part) before falling Q and the CPU will finish the existing instruction and then go into