Re: OpenVMS Alpha V7.3

2015-07-18 Thread Sean Caron
Well, it took a little bit of monkeying around but I was able to get the the V7.3 ISO I received from a helpful fellow list member to boot on my 3000/400 ... it seems to only like my RRD37 drive and only on the internal SCSI channel ... she is finicky ... but hey, whatever gets the job done :O Woo

Re: Front Panels Sample layout.

2015-07-18 Thread Rod Smallwood
White layer 8/e front panels A and B On 17/07/2015 22:23, Adrian Stoness wrote: Sure On Friday, July 17, 2015, Rod Smallwood rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Guys! Further to my previous email. If anybody would like to see the artwork I can send you a copy. Its in

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
What I am wondering about, though, is the extra current they draw while they are forming up while the power supply is running. The capacitor might survive it (not get so hot that it fails), but the things supply the higher than ordinary current to it might not. Killed a bridge rectifier on a

RE: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread Peter Coghlan
Rich Alderson ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org wrote: It is generally a good idea to re-form electrolytic capacitors in power supplies, and to bench check the power supplies (under some kind of load) before actually applying power to the whole unit. It is always a good idea to replace

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread John Robertson
Oh, sorry, didn't realize they used switchers for the PDP-11s. However I was talking with a friend of mine last night about my error, and he told me that the switching supplies for the PDP-11s were very unreliable back in the day. He often had to troubleshoot the machines back then. A common

RE: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread tony duell
Oh, sorry, didn't realize they used switchers for the PDP-11s. There have been _many_ DEC PSU designed used for the PDP11. I think all of them used some kind of switching regulator for the +5V line. A quick glance at the printsets will settle it.. However I was talking with a friend of

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread Rod Smallwood
More myths and ledgends. As I remember it this all started with the arrival of FET's having a very high input impedance due to narrow gate areas. If you were daft enough not to have a path to earth and let a charge build up on the gate then you could exceed the breakdown voltage across the

Re: Looking for keyboard for a BLIT / Teletype / ATT terminal

2015-07-18 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Ian Finder ian.fin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I need help hunting down an item. This is a keyboard that shipped with a few ATT / Teletype terminals with a 6-pin RJ connector. I am also looking for one. I recently cam into a Blit and a 730+ , neither of

STSC APL*PLUS System for VAX VMS User's Reference Manual

2015-07-18 Thread Mark Wickens
For those who expressed an interest in the STSC APL*PLUS manuals for VAX/VMS I happy to report they are now available from here: http://wickensonline.co.uk/static/files/scans/APL-Plus-System-for-the-VAX-VMS-Environment-Users-Manual-Release-1-Aug-1987-STS.pdf

Re: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread Jules Richardson
On 07/17/2015 11:17 PM, tony duell wrote: On the other hand if the +5V line did get too high it could have wiped out just about every IC in the unit. Ouch!. I've only ever had this happen once, and it was in a much lesser machine than a PDP11 (fortunately). Many years ago, I managed to feed

Re: Reproducing old machines with newer technology

2015-07-18 Thread Mike Stein
- Original Message - From: Chuck Guzis ccl...@sydex.com To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts cctalk@classiccmp.org Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 12:21 PM Subject: Re: Reproducing old machines with newer technology On 07/16/2015 11:45 AM,

Re: Reproducing old machines with newer technology

2015-07-18 Thread ben
On 7/18/2015 10:06 PM, Mike Stein wrote: I always wondered which was more efficient, multiplexing among essentially complete 'computers per user' sharing a common I/O 'channel' or swapping processes and memory banks... m I can't think of any system for the average user that runs efficient.

Re: RE: PDP 11 gear finally moved

2015-07-18 Thread David Woyciesjes
So, tony, if I'm correct, you just called bullshit, right? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech -http://certification.comptia.org/--- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst -http://www.ThinkHDI.com/Registered Linux user number 464583 Computers have lots of

Re: Reproducing old machines with newer technology

2015-07-18 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 07/18/2015 09:06 PM, Mike Stein wrote: I always wondered which was more efficient, multiplexing among essentially complete 'computers per user' sharing a common I/O 'channel' or swapping processes and memory banks... Well, the multiplexing (via hardware) memory among a single processor