Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread COURYHOUSE
Ah! Ok! heard of it but never seen an installation. Great find! I am a little foggy on it but I somehow remember it being able to control external devices for process use vs. the usual IBM stuff that was just 'data processing' Ed# In a message dated 11/22/2016 12:31:26 A.M. US

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr
The IBM Series/1 was introduced in 1976 and withdrawn in 1988. There were originally 2 models and another 2 models were added later. I always knew them by their code names — different varieties of peaches…so named because they were developed by IBM’s GSD division which was headquartered in

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread allison
On 11/21/2016 05:44 PM, william degnan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote: > >>> On Nov 21, 2016, at 2:13 PM, william degnan >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: >>> Hi all --

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread COURYHOUSE
what is it? looks too new for me, do not remember this one Ed# In a message dated 11/21/2016 9:30:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, drlegen...@gmail.com writes: The vintage computing world is in your debt, Steven.. ;-) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Steven Maresca

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-21 Thread Richard Loken
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Cameron Kaiser wrote: There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, but it runs very well. What is an Alpha Micro? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University :

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread drlegendre .
The vintage computing world is in your debt, Steven.. ;-) On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Steven Maresca wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > > > Someone go rescue this: > >

Re: Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Steven Maresca
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > Someone go rescue this: > http://nwct.craigslist.org/zip/5886266424.html > > Or palletize it and send it to me. > > > -- >Ian Finder >(206) 395-MIPS >ian.fin...@gmail.com >

Free IBM system/1(?) in eastern US.

2016-11-21 Thread Ian Finder
Someone go rescue this: http://nwct.craigslist.org/zip/5886266424.html Or palletize it and send it to me. -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com -- Ian Finder (206) 395-MIPS ian.fin...@gmail.com

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread Josh Dersch
On 11/21/16 5:47 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > From: Josh Dersch > The 11/40 is mostly working ... but I've been unable to boot anything > (like XXDP, for example). What are you trying to boot from? I've tried an emulated TU58 and (most recently) a UNIBUS SCSI controller that I'm

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

2016-11-21 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/21/2016 12:28 PM, Charles Dickman wrote: I was looking here: http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/fe/2020/Z33-1021-0_2020_Processing_Unit_FETOM_May68.pdf (pdf) pages 45, 46 describe the ALU And here:

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Josh Dersch > The 11/40 is mostly working ... but I've been unable to boot anything > (like XXDP, for example). What are you trying to boot from? > Slot 9 of the CPU backplane is supposed to be an SPC slot but it > doesn't seem to work Missing/hard-wired BG/NPG

Re: Reverse-engineering WD1000, WD1001 hard disk controllers

2016-11-21 Thread Eric Smith
I've put my work in progress on reverse-engineering the original WD1000 firmware on github: https://github.com/brouhaha/wd100x I use my own assembler syntax output by my previously mentioned s8x30x disassembler, so at the present there is no assembler for it. I expect to have an assembler in the

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread william degnan
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote: > > > On Nov 21, 2016, at 2:13 PM, william degnan > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > > >> Hi all -- > >> > >> I'm finally turning my attention back

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

2016-11-21 Thread jim stephens
On 11/21/2016 2:17 PM, Charles Anthony wrote: Perhaps the ALU is only present on late model machines? -- Charles If it were a GE645 strapped for running Multics, very possibly, and undocumented. The builtin special purpose abacus was used on some early models.

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

2016-11-21 Thread Charles Anthony
> I was looking here: > > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/ > fe/2020/Z33-1021-0_2020_Processing_Unit_FETOM_May68.pdf > > (pdf) pages 45, 46 describe the ALU > > I note that the cover page says: "(Machines with serial no. 50,000 and above)." Perhaps the ALU is only present

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread Jerry Weiss
> On Nov 21, 2016, at 2:13 PM, william degnan wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > >> Hi all -- >> >> I'm finally turning my attention back to my 11/40 (which I started working >> on 7 years ago and never quite got around

Re: ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread william degnan
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > Hi all -- > > I'm finally turning my attention back to my 11/40 (which I started working > on 7 years ago and never quite got around to finishing -- I've learned a > lot since then and I'm hoping to be able to debug it

ISO: PDP-11/40 LTC and Stack Limit options

2016-11-21 Thread Josh Dersch
Hi all -- I'm finally turning my attention back to my 11/40 (which I started working on 7 years ago and never quite got around to finishing -- I've learned a lot since then and I'm hoping to be able to debug it properly now). My ultimate goal is to run V6 or V7 UNIX on it -- I have the MMU but

Re: A Multibus board just sold for over $2000

2016-11-21 Thread Mattis Lind
2016-11-21 5:15 GMT+01:00 George Rachor : > Time to look at my Inventory (grin). Never had any 432 stuff. > > George Rachor > > Sent from my iPhone > geo...@rachors.com > > > On Nov 20, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Glen Slick wrote: > > > >> On Nov 8, 2016

Re: DNIX and ABCenix install media disk images.

2016-11-21 Thread Al Kossow
has the firmware been dumped from this? On 11/21/16 6:54 AM, Anders Sandahl wrote: > >> >> 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

Re: DNIX and ABCenix install media disk images.

2016-11-21 Thread Anders Sandahl
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 And I have documentation and software to the

Re: for sale/trade: big list of both old and (relatively) new, deadline: end of November (ideally)

2016-11-21 Thread Liam Proven
On 21 November 2016 at 15:24, MG wrote: > My apologies for (possibly) double-posting, because the thread didn't show > up in my Gmail account (for whatever reason). Gmail tends to suppress display of your own posts to mailing lists, unless or until they get

Re: for sale/trade: big list of both old and (relatively) new, deadline: end of November (ideally)

2016-11-21 Thread MG
My apologies for (possibly) double-posting, because the thread didn't show up in my Gmail account (for whatever reason). - MG

for sale/trade: big list of both old and (relatively) new, deadline: end of November (ideally)

2016-11-21 Thread MG
The following is for sale, or trade possibly. (I've tried to send this earlier, but it didn't appear in the list, so this is my second try to post this...) Most of the listed items I've used together with SGI IRIX and HP/Compaq/DEC OpenVMS and Digital/Tru64 UNIX systems and served me very

for sale/trade: big list of both old and (relatively) new, deadline: end of November (ideally)

2016-11-21 Thread MG
The following is for sale, or trade possibly. (I've tried to send this earlier, but it didn't appear in the list, so this is my second try to post htis...) Most of the listed items I've used together with SGI IRIX and HP/Compaq/DEC OpenVMS and Digital/Tru64 UNIX systems and served me very well.