That will be great to follow... Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
Em dom., 19 de fev. de 2023 01:10, Phil Pemberton via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> escreveu: > Hi all, > > I know there are a few PDP enthusiasts here so I figured this was worth > an ask! > > I'm looking for any software, manuals, photos of hardware - anything > really - that relates to the Jerrold Communications / General Instrument > analog cable TV headend equipment. > Many of their headend "addressable controllers" were built around DEC > hardware -- the AH series units used a PDP-11, the Terminal Configurator > ran on a PC, the ACC-4000 ran on a DEC Prioris server running SCO UNIX. > > Things I'm looking for especially -- > > - The software from the ACC-4000 Addressable Controller (Prioris > based), AI-0/AI-O or AH-4/AH-4E (PDP-11/73 based) controllers, or > Terminal Configurator (PC based). > > - Backup tapes from a running system (may be TK50, or DAT/DDS) > > - Terminal Configurator, Message Editor (ME-1000) or "OSD Edit" software > > - Any documentation > > - Photos, or other details of the I/O cards (either the PC one - > which may have been called ANIC - or the SCX11, SCX11E, SCX11M or SRT11 > cards used in the PDP systems). > > > > I'm trying to build an analog cable TV headend from scratch, as a bit of > a preservation and "to see if I can" project. > So far I've managed to modulate a couple of channels and get a cable box > to tune to them, but my two boxes have different frequency maps, and I > need some way of sending an "Input Frequency Map" or channel name table > to them. > > I'm hoping that someone might have inherited a bunch of backup tapes, > hardware or media from a cable TV company who was migrating to digital.... > > Thanks, > -- > Phil. > phil...@philpem.me.uk > https://www.philpem.me.uk/ >
