Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

On 12/22/2015 01:38 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Cindy Croxton wrote: >>> Has any of you took one of them old choose your own adventurer books and >>> coded it into a text RPG in basic? >>> >>> 1. Clear the screen for the next page! >>> >> Clear

Re: Odd disk image format... .552?

Recently found some long-lost images of 5 1/4" floppies that were sent to me... 10-15 years ago. Here's one of them: http://www.corestore.org/RP06.552 Looks like a straight image for a 1.44 what we call "stiffy". The 522 is the version of RP06. Google leads me to

Re: Remember the old "Choose your own adventure books" By D & D! ! !

> > > > Also your right Ethan and thank you that did the trick print CHR$ (147) > IN Qbasic there is a SLEEP command as in... > > 10 PRINT " HELLO WHAT IS YOUR NAME? " PNAME$ > 20 CLS > 20 SLEEP=10 30 PRINT "HELLO" PNAME$ "yOUR STARTING A ADVENTURE THAT WILL TAKE YOU

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

On 12/23/15 4:57 AM, Tony Pflum wrote: I was with a retailer that sold Fortune in about 1982. It is Motorola 68000 system running UNIX. It was sold to small business for word processing and accounting and supported multiple dumb CRT terminals. You could get a C compiler for it. The problem

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

On 23/12/2015 12:57, Tony Pflum wrote: I was with a retailer that sold Fortune in about 1982. It is Motorola 68000 system running UNIX. It was sold to small business for word processing and accounting and supported multiple dumb CRT terminals. Tony pflum On Dec 23, 2015 4:30 AM, "jim s"

Re: An IBM I/O Selectric interface using TTL and a 2708 EPROM

On 12/22/2015 10:43 PM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote: > Back in the late 70s early 80s one of Dad's work colleagues came up with this > circuit for interfacing > an IBM I/O Selectric to a microcomputer. We had one, which we planned to use > with our Fairchild/Mostek > F8 development board, but it

Re: Odd disk image format... .552?

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Wouter de Waal wrote: > >> >> Recently found some long-lost images of 5 1/4" floppies that were sent >> to me... 10-15 years ago. Here's one of them: >> >> http://www.corestore.org/RP06.552 > > > Looks like a straight image for a 1.44 what we call

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

On 12/23/2015 7:18 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote: > On 23/12/15 12:23, Jacob Ritorto wrote: >> fwiw, Jay, I appreciated your input, followed your link and >> subscribed, having never heard of the magazine before.. Looking >> forward to the Jan. issue with the ESR meter stuff, which I need for >>

RE: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Brent > Hilpert > Sent: 21 December 2015 22:33 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload? > > SMD markings and packagings are ambiguous, unclear,

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

it appears the pen kit for our plotter got listed before we had it glassed in living the glassed in display a areas if anyone has a calcomp box with the solenoid and pens that is extra to their needs please let us know many thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for smecc

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

-Oorspronkelijk bericht- From: Jay Jaeger Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:17 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter FYI, the January 2016 issue of Nuts & Volts magazine has an ESR meter. It uses a 1ma panel meter, but of course one could substitute a

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

On 23/12/15 12:23, Jacob Ritorto wrote: fwiw, Jay, I appreciated your input, followed your link and subscribed, having never heard of the magazine before.. Looking forward to the Jan. issue with the ESR meter stuff, which I need for diagnosing my 11/45's caps. My opinion is that this list is

RE: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

Surely there is a copy of CalComp Host Computer Basic Software (HCBS) around somewhere that talks to the XY11. After all the Calcomp is pretty thick. All it can do is move 1 step at once, well it can do diagonals as well, but pretty thick... Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Ferroresonant transformers and 3278

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, Stefan Skoglund (lokal anv�ndare) wrote: Find a property with its own little water power station ? And then rebuild the generator into a 60 Hz one. depending on the generaqtor design, increase the rate of flow of the water.

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

On 2015-12-23 7:18 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote: Can someone with the digital edition clarify whether it really is a PDF or not? If you look at the online version, there is a "download" link to the .PDF in the upper right corner. It downloads and reads just fine. Thanks Jay! -Jon

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

resending with corrections! it appears the pen kit for our plotter got LIFTED (aka stolen, ripped off... etc... bummer..) before we had it glassed in living the glassed in display a areas if anyone has a calcomp box with the solenoid and pens that is extra to

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

On 12/23/2015 10:13 AM, Al Kossow wrote: Did it use ANSI escape sequences? There is another computer collector in the Bay Area who worked on the Fortune Unix port. The MAME/MESS folks might be interested in simulating the terminal. They like working on things like that. The main CPU would be

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

yes I can... it got LIFTED! Ripped Off! Stolen! Bummer eh? In a message dated 12/23/2015 9:43:59 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, ci...@xenosoft.com writes: On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, couryho...@aol.com wrote: > it appears the pen kit for our plotter got listedbefore we

RE: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

Didn't some one else have this problem... http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/calcomp565.html Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin > Sent: 23 December 2015 16:59 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

I did the development of the firmware for the monochrome terminal--still have the code as well as the prototype PCB. Z80-based. I used the 32/16 a bit for testing. Fortune was located at the old Pepsi Bottling Plant in Redwood City. --Chuck

Re: Odd disk image format... .552?

On 12/23/15 3:38 AM, Mike Ross wrote: On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Wouter de Waal wrote: Recently found some long-lost images of 5 1/4" floppies that were sent to me... 10-15 years ago. Here's one of them: http://www.corestore.org/RP06.552 Looks like a straight

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

On 12/23/15 9:45 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I did the development of the firmware for the monochrome terminal--still have the code as well as the prototype PCB. Z80-based. I used the 32/16 a bit for testing. Fortune was located at the old Pepsi Bottling Plant in Redwood City. Did it use ANSI

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, couryho...@aol.com wrote: resending with corrections! it appears the pen kit for our plotter got LIFTED (aka stolen, ripped off... etc... bummer..) before we had it glassed in much better! living the glassed in display a areas ?? if anyone has a

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, couryho...@aol.com wrote: it appears the pen kit for our plotter got listed before we had it glassed in living the glassed in display a areas Could you rephrase that?

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

On 23 December 2015 at 13:44, CLASystems wrote: > Ironically, the shortest and fastest seems to be avoidance of the MQ > altogether [thus making it work on ANY model]. > > TAD ARGONE > AND ARGTWO > CLL RAL > CIA > TAD ARGONE > DCA ARGTWO > > This

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

The following is yet another way to do it [the same identities of course apply]: TADARGONE ANDARGTWO CMA DCATEMP TADARGONE MQL TADARGTWO MQA ANDTEMP This method has the advantage that it also works on the straight-8 EAE avoiding the

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

The MQ is standard on the PDP-8/E and up through the VT78 and the DECmates. Not possible on the 8/L, but an easy option for the PDP-8/I and the PDP-12. This could be a problem on the straight-8 [or LINC-8] with EAE though. It's the only model where the SWP [MQA and MQL in the same instruction]

Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

Has anyone written PDP-8 code for .XOR. that uses the MQ Register (when the EAE isn't available)? If so, can you share the source code and/or the algorithm? Thanks, Bob

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

Thanks all. I've tried the free subscription for now. That's got me Dec 2015 (which I can download as a PDF!) and will presumably get me Jan + Feb 2016. After that I'll probably take out a 1 year subscription and see how it goes. I'm happy :-) Antonio

ST-251 MLC-1

Hi, I knew ST-251-0, ST-251-1 drives for ST506. Some time ago I've got a ST-251 labled "MLC-1". Does someone knows what the MLC stands for? What is different to the other ST-251 variants? It looks like a regular ST506 drive. Oliver

RE: VAX 4000-500 PSU Overload?

Good news! It looks like I have managed to get this working again. I realised I had not checked the electrolytic capacitors on the main logic board, ones situated far from the main power output boards. I found one which had a higher ESR than two other identical ones, although the ESR was still

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

Ok, I think I get it The acc is one value. Both arg1 and agr0 are init to the second value ( start the same ) I'm not sure how to save a value to the acc on a pdp-8. I know how on my Nicolet 1080 that has a similar ALU. On my Nicolet: MEMA ARG0 A+MM ARG0 ANDAM ARG1 A+MA ARG1 ANGA A+MAM ARG0 (

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

On 12/23/2015 10:50 PM, Don North wrote: On 12/23/2015 7:14 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote: On 23 December 2015 at 13:44, CLASystems wrote: Ironically, the shortest and fastest seems to be avoidance of the MQ altogether [thus making it work on ANY model]. TAD

Re: dumping Western Digital Microms (PDP-11, WD16, Pascal Microengine)

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 2:26 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > I built an apparatus on a breadboard to dump the contents of [Western Digital] > Microms, [from the LSI-11, WD16, and WD9000 Pascal Microengine chipsets] I managed to get the state analysis data files exported as CSV and

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

Without the TMP on the Nicolet MEMA ARGONE ANDA ARGTWO LASH 1 ANGA A+MA ARGONE A+MA ARGTWO ( or A+MM ARGTWO to save in ARGTWO ) The link bit isn't used by LASH or adds on the Nicolet. It is only the carry out of an add. It is a little more clumsy to use as a carry. It can only be used as a

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

I'm not sure how to code it on the machine but I know how to do it. Take A AND B = C 2* C = D ( ignore carry ) negate D ( complement and add 1 ) A + B = E ( this could have been done first ) E + D = A XOR B I think it needs 3 variables? It works because the carries are the result of the AND of

Re: Has Anyone Written PDP-8 .XOR. Code Using the MQ Register (Without the EAE)?

oops blew it. MEMA ARG0 A+MA ARG1 ACCM TMP MEMA ARG0 AND ARG1 A+MA ARG1 ANGA A+MAM TMP ( both Acc and TMP have XOR of ARG0 and ARG1 I needed three locations Dwight From: cctalk on behalf of dwight

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

On 12/23/2015 10:56 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote: it appears the pen kit for our plotter got LIFTED (aka stolen, ripped off... etc... bummer..) before we had it glassed in living the glassed in display a areas if anyone has a calcomp box with the solenoid and pens

HP 16702A logic analyzer failed Ethernet (was Re: dumping Western Digital Microms)

I wrote about my HP 16702A not working on Ethernet any more. On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > Assuming you are using 10BT for the network connection, do > you have the terminator cap installed on the 10B2 BNC jack? I think > some things don't work right

Re: Nuts & Volts ESR Meter

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > On 12/22/2015 9:06 PM, drlegendre . wrote: > > So then what's the point of sending the link if the interesting content > > isn't actually present?? ;-p > > > > Not trying to be the arse, but seriously..? > > > > Well, I'm

Re: Ferroresonant transformers and 3278

tis 2015-12-22 klockan 16:45 +1300 skrev Mike Ross: > H. > > I do have a massive idler motor - as in it takes two people to even > think about lifting it - from my days in NY when I had to manufacture > a 3rd phase to make the S/3 and other items work... I wonder if I > could do anything

Re: Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

I was with a retailer that sold Fortune in about 1982. It is Motorola 68000 system running UNIX. It was sold to small business for word processing and accounting and supported multiple dumb CRT terminals. Tony pflum On Dec 23, 2015 4:30 AM, "jim s" wrote: > > There is one

Re: XY11 Manual, Anyone?

> > Then for software I found a diagnostic, XXYAD0 that supposedly > > should draw > > a square and a rectangle. > > > > Anyone know of other drawing software that uses the XY11 > > > > /Mattis > > The book 'The Minicomputer in the Laboratory' by James W Cooper > covers using an > X-Y plotter

Anyone collect Fortune 32/16 systems?

There is one quite inexpensive on Ebay right now. Looks to be a match for the system unit at the CHM as well. Maybe they need a spare. I don't know if they want parts machines or not, but for the price it is almost tempting to pick it up. http://www.ebay.com/itm/321399704868 Hope