Rogue: Mctesq was here

So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found: linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar So I exploded the tar ball and compiled it and it crashed so I carted it over to one of our Tru64 Unix Alpha boxes,

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On 11/18/2016 07:59 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > Yes, I think it had to, as it had no adder. Had to be > incomprehensibly slow. I guess it would load the memory to an > internal register a piece at a time. The last time I dug around a bit for model 20 software, I was surprised to find that there was

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On 11/18/2016 06:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 11/18/2016 03:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: OH, yeah! Besides the limited instruction set, short registers only half populated, etc., did you know that the 360/20 did not have an adder? It could only increment/decrement. The data paths were only 4

Re: National Semiconductor 48-bit and 56-bit ECC polynomials

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > is there any way to find out what the system and disk controller board was? > Unfortunately not. It's possible that the 56-bit ECC code is generated by something other than division by a polynomial in GF(2). For instance,

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On 11/18/2016 03:15 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > OH, yeah! Besides the limited instruction set, short registers only > half populated, etc., did you know that the 360/20 did not have an > adder? It could only increment/decrement. The data paths were only > 4 bits wide, so to add a 3 in register A

Re: Fwd: [SIGCIS-Members] Jay Wright Forrester

On 11/18/2016 03:50 PM, Al Kossow wrote: I regret to announce the death of one of MIT’s leading computer pioneers Jay W. Forrester. Forrester died Wednesday, November 16 at age 98. Wow, I had NO IDEA he was still around! My freshman advisor was Bill Papian, who was Jay's grad student when

Re: HP Draftmaster RX pen plotter needs love

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote: > On 2016-Nov-16, at 11:34 PM, Michael Newton wrote: > > > That's right, there is a -5v test point that reads zero. > > From the previous discussion, presumably you mean -12V. Yes -12v, sorry > > Any guidance? Like if

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On 11/18/2016 02:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: Models? Wasn't the 9300 basically an instruction-compatible model of the S/360 Model 20? I think the 9400 was the bottom end 360/30 model compatible. Calling the Model 20 a "member of the System 360 line" has always been a bit of a stretch in my

Fwd: [SIGCIS-Members] Jay Wright Forrester

Forwarded Message Subject:[SIGCIS-Members] Jay Wright Forrester Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:27:40 + From: Deborah Douglas To: Sigcis I regret to announce the death of one of MIT’s leading computer pioneers Jay W.

Re: Looking for info on the imi 5018 MFM drive.

corvus/service/7100-04704_H-seriesDrvSvc.pdf page 111 drv sel 1 drv sel 2 drv sel 3 drv sel 4 optional reset size sel 0 size sel 1 drv sel enable the shunt on the corvus omnidrve 1-7 are closed, 8 open for all size drives On 11/18/16 12:50 PM, jos wrote: > > > ..in particular I wouil like to

Looking for info on the imi 5018 MFM drive.

..in particular I wouil like to know the purpose of the dipswitches on the PCB Jos

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:09 PM, william degnan wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > >> On 11/18/2016 10:00 AM, william degnan wrote: >> > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=658 >> > >> > Hot business women

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 11/18/2016 10:00 AM, william degnan wrote: > > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=658 > > > > Hot business women posing with classic UNIVAC hardware and a link to > > a very rare 1968 business proposal by

Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

On 11/18/2016 10:00 AM, william degnan wrote: > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=658 > > Hot business women posing with classic UNIVAC hardware and a link to > a very rare 1968 business proposal by UNIVAC to Philip Morris, an > attempt to sell either a 418-III or 9400, pricing,

Re: National Semiconductor 48-bit and 56-bit ECC polynomials

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > I don't know enough math to do the work, but a little rubbed off from > listening to those who do. > > CRC polynomials have special properties, they aren't arbitrary > polynomials. That reduces the number of possible

Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=658 Hot business women posing with classic UNIVAC hardware and a link to a very rare 1968 business proposal by UNIVAC to Philip Morris, an attempt to sell either a 418-III or 9400, pricing, comparison with IBM 360 models. Included with the proposal

Re: DNIX and ABCenix install media disk images.

On 11/18/16 12:02 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > This is great! Thanks Mattis, Jonas and Al. > > Somewhere I have an early DNIX system image from a development machine. > I don't know if that is interesting to put on bitsavers as well? > yes, I think so

Re: National Semiconductor 48-bit and 56-bit ECC polynomials

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > > I'm not looking forward to trying to reverse-engineer 48-bit and 56-bit ECC > polynomials. However, they usually tried to choose polynomials with > relatively few terms, to minimize the number of XOR gates needed in the >

Re: Datamation, May 1972

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Kyle Owen wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > >> >> This is the piece I mentioned, I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch? >> v=60oxsizDxaQ > > That's quite eerie sounding! I believe

Re: Datamation, May 1972

I've only skimmed this thread so I'll appologize in advance if I'm off topic or repeating things. But here are a few other early computer music projects: EMS in London (PDP-8/s): http://120years.net/musys-and-mouse-audio-synthesis-language-peter-grogono-untied-kingdom-1965/ EMS in Stockholm

New family member

Some may recall the Nova 3 front panel discussion some months back. I bought a Nova 3 front panel just for the heck of it, and we discussed replacing lamp, and have the correct lamp info now. Nova 3 CPU, 2 16K boards, Basic I/O and Anyway the Nova 3 karma system was watching and guess what.

Re: DNIX and ABCenix install media disk images.

This is great! Thanks Mattis, Jonas and Al. Somewhere I have an early DNIX system image from a development machine. I don't know if that is interesting to put on bitsavers as well? /P On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:59:29AM -0800, Al Kossow wrote: > I've uploaded them to bitsavers.org/bits/DIAB >