Re: Ultrix-11
images up under http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/floppyimages/rx50/V7M-11-V1.0_6_USR_RX50-QJ083-H3.zip
Re: Help reading a 9 track tape
If you care about what is on that tape, send it to Chuck for recovery. I wouldn't trust someone without a lot of experience in tape prep and recovery with something I thought was important.
Re: Looking for gnupro for BeBox BeOs PowerPC
On 3/12/21 4:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote: Hello, I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports. thank you I think this is where all the code wound up after Red Hat abandoned GNUpro https://sourceware.org/mission.html Preservation of development toolchains especially for embedded systems is really a mess. Turn of the century emulators show up on eBay and are completely useless because they don't include the software and often don't even have the manual.
Re: Looking for gnupro for BeBox BeOs PowerPC
On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote: Hello, I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports. thank you I think this is where all the code wound up after Red Hat abandoned GNUpro https://sourceware.org/mission.html
Re: Looking for gnupro for BeBox BeOs PowerPC
On 3/12/21 4:05 AM, david raingeard wrote: No, I don't even know who he is, sorry Seriously? He's one of the Cygnus founders and is a good guy
Re: Looking for gnupro for BeBox BeOs PowerPC
On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote: Hello, I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports. thank you have you tried contacting John Gilmore?
Re: Intel/Altera Dev, Seeking Quartus II old versions
On 2/20/21 5:56 AM, Will Cooke via cctech wrote: I think I have at least ver 12 for Linux. Can you still get license keys for the older versions?
Re: RX02 DMK image to raw tool?
On 2/11/21 10:00 AM, David Schmidt via cctech wrote: That's right, for disks detected as RX01 (which are of course fully FM, 128 bytes per sector). Sector data that is actually 0xDEADBEEF will show up in the .dmk as 0xDDEEAADDBBFF. I've wondered why .dmk did that.
Re: Flip-Chip selloff (Al Kossow)
On 2/3/21 1:57 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: On 2/3/21 1:29 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: The RICM would happily accept any donated FlipChips Almost everything sold yesterday. and I won't go into how disgusted I am with eBay's new seller payment system they forced everyone into on the first of the month. What used to appear in my Paypal account instantly when a buyer paid will now take a minimum of several days to appear in my bank account and eBay takes their cut up front, rather than once a month.
Re: Flip-Chip selloff (Al Kossow)
On 2/3/21 1:29 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: The RICM would happily accept any donated FlipChips Almost everything sold yesterday.
Re: Anyone want some LMI Lisp Machine tapes?
On 12/2/20 7:37 PM, r.stricklin via cctech wrote: On Dec 2, 2020, at 12:48 PM, Chris Hanson via cctech wrote: I’m bidding on these tapes with the intent to get them into the hands of someone like Josh and/or Al who has the skill and equipment to read and archive them. Then I hope you're not making it harder by bidding against them. I'm not bidding, it's just Josh
Re: Disabling SCSI parity checking to dump disk on ACB4000 MFM-SCSI adapter?
On 9/26/20 8:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: sd3: non-CCS device found at target 0 lun 0 on esp0 sd3: at esp0 target 0 lun 0 sd3: corrupt label - wrong magic number sd3: Vendor ´ADAPTEC*´, product ´ACB4000*´, 181520 512 byte blocks ACB4000s aren't common command set. it expects the driver to tell it the drive parameters just get a gesswein mfm emulator already.. this is a trivial data recovery job for it i'm sorry if this offends you, but i watched the whole thread on vcf unfold where the guy screwed around with his rare copy of viasyn ccpm until he wiped out a part of it you ARE doing this with write-gate cut on the cable, right?
Re: Care and feeding of some Lisp machines (TI Explorer and Xerox Star)
On 9/14/20 9:00 AM, Josh Dersch via cctech wrote: One issue is weak picture tubes in the displays -- the monitors are powered on with the system and have no separate off switch, so they tended to get a lot of hours put on them. We had good luck with a tube rejuvenator on the one we restored at LCM. I found my copies of the Ball HD series service manuals, I'll try to get them uploaded today. Xerox used them in the original expansion foam cased 8010 monitors. The ones Fuji/Xerox used that are in the smaller plastic cases are more reliable, but I don't have any documentation for those.
Re: Care and feeding of some Lisp machines (TI Explorer and Xerox Star)
On 9/14/20 6:35 AM, Michael Engel via cctech wrote:
Hi,
for a planned exhibition, I am thinking of restoring two of the machines to
working state again that are in storage here for decades:
- A TI Explorer ("Sperry" labeled)
and
- A Xerox Star (no idea if ours actually ran Interlisp or one of the other OSes
for the Star/Dandelion)
Best people to talk to are Josh Dersch and Ian Finder
Re: In search of 4B3A Microswitch Keyswitches (for a restoration, not a keyboard collector!)
On 7/10/20 10:42 AM, Electronics Plus via cctech wrote: I have a number of keyboards with Micro Switch ST switches, but no SD. Does anyone still use old Memorex or Telex keyboards? YES! I have terminals w/o keyboards
Re: PDF of FANUC TAPE READER A860-0056-T020 Manual Wtd.
On 5/12/20 1:42 PM, Bill Degnan wrote: Al, Here is the Ebay auction, I hope the manual is included assuming the 50-pin port is the output port. ? there isn't a manual shown the 50 pin connector is the I/O you can find descriptions of the pinout online from people making paper tape reader replacement devices
Re: PDF of FANUC TAPE READER A860-0056-T020 Manual Wtd.
They made their own, and it is very definitely a Japanese design You have to be careful with the motors, many are 220 though it looks like they are 100v in the pictures of that model on the web I went through the excercise of trying to find reader schematics a couple of years ago for Japanese CNC readers and never really found anything down to the PCB level You also need to be careful that the pinch rollers haven't gone soft
Re: Sun 3 and memory
On 4/15/20 6:51 PM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Does anyone here know whether a 501-1102 memory board be used with a 3/160 CPU? nope, the P2 buses and memory subsystems are very different between the 1xx and 2xx
Re: ISO: Documentation for Interphase SMD 2181 disk controller
On 4/7/20 10:03 AM, Bill Degnan wrote: Wondering if you can get/inquire from http://retrotechnology.com/#multi site. Manuals are not always listed there, you have to ask. Bill Herb is on the intel-devsys mailing list, I just posted a request over there which would also get to a bunch of other people with Multibus boards.
Re: AED WINC08
I should have known this, since the Morrow S-100 controller didn't have a PLL and supported SA4000 and Fujitsu 8" drives. On 11/14/19 9:42 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: > > > On 11/14/19 9:33 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: >> >> >> unlike the Memorex > > I was mistaken, it is 4000 as well :-( > >
Re: AED WINC08
On 11/14/19 9:33 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: > > > unlike the Memorex I was mistaken, it is 4000 as well :-(
Re: AED WINC08
I just checked and I have 3 revs of the Fujitsu 230x CE manual scanned I'll put them up tomorrow I need them anyway, since I have a couple I need to get the data off of. Also, if you decide to replace the WINC, I'd be interested since I've slowly been collecting AED products On 11/14/19 9:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: > > > On 11/14/19 3:24 PM, David Gesswein via cctech wrote: > >> It looks >> like it is SA4000 type with internal data separator > > nope, thought i had the manual under Fujitsu but it's under Memorex > > 112-114.60-00_Memorex112_Fujitsu2301_jan83.pdf > > > there is also a maint manual for the winc-08 on bitsavers >
Re: AED WINC08
On 11/14/19 3:24 PM, David Gesswein via cctech wrote: > It looks > like it is SA4000 type with internal data separator nope, thought i had the manual under Fujitsu but it's under Memorex 112-114.60-00_Memorex112_Fujitsu2301_jan83.pdf there is also a maint manual for the winc-08 on bitsavers
Re: RS2030 MIPS workstation
On 5/14/19 7:25 AM, Ethan O'Toole wrote: > Is the NVRAM A ST Microelectronics TimeKeeper or Dallas module or something > else? It is a DS1287 The issue is finding out what the contents should be, since it isn't documented in the surviving manuals. Some of this was figured out in getting the 2030 to run in MAME and there is a guess at the correct contents as a rom image there. If you have the original timekeeper part, the unique part of the machine's ethernet address is written on a label on top of the part.
Re: RS2030 MIPS workstation
On 5/4/19 10:29 AM, Dennis Grevenstein via cctech wrote: > I have the same problem with a cloned MIPS machine, a Sumitomo > Sumistation SP300. The biggest problem with my machine is that the > NVRAM holds the ethernet address. If it goes flat, there seems to be > no way to reprogram the NVRAM. If you find any solution for this, > please tell me. You might be able to take the fake nvram data from the simulation in MAME I'm about to try that this week since I got in the NVRAM and video cable.
Re: i860: Re: modern stuff
On 10/30/18 4:27 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: > I have a Quad-i860 VME board in one of my Sun systems. Do you have any of the software for it?
Re: Rayethon Computer AN/FYK9 CMI Store 33
The only Raytheon I know of is Bob's 704 http://dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/704.jpg On 9/24/18 5:29 PM, Bill Degnan wrote: > A complete general-purpose system complete with asr33 and XRAY compatible > papertapes would be awesome and pretty rare. > Are there any complete 706 or 703s out there I wonder. > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 5:46 PM Al Kossow via cctech <mailto:cctech@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > sadly all that is there is some Data Products core memory > with a couple of boards missing > > On 9/24/18 11:49 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > > It looks like a Raytheon 706 without the front covers. >
Re: SPACEWAR! Switch Boxes for a PDP-12
On 9/23/18 7:46 AM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote: > Before we cave > in and buy some modern C toggle switches ugh use black arcade pushbuttons that is what the PDP-1 at CHM has been using for over 10 years
Re: Scanned paperback book "RSX A User's Guide"
On 4/16/18 7:54 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote: >I’d like to make it available online it is online now http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/rsx11/Pieper_RSX_A_Guide_For_Users_1987.pdf
Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?
On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says "Silver > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an arrow > to the disk surface in the picture. > Any thoughts about what the "Special cleaning liquid" could be? > No, but I hope you don't have the dark blue coated disk. One of the designers told me the original platters were rhodium plated to reduce friction, and they have the problem that the surface gets contaminated due to air pollution (apparently a serious problem with them in LA back in the day). The special stuff probably doesn't react with it.
