trouble imaging badblocks on rl02

2018-10-25 Thread Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
Has anyone modified Warren's VTServer to ignore errors (or at least keep trying upon encountering them)? I'm trying to image some rl02s I found and am getting flack on some tracks, killing the whole recovery process. 200K received

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Tom Uban via cctalk
On 10/25/18 12:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one > time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do > it. Also gives you a leg up on variable word-length designs. > > > Didn't at least one of the more

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 9:01 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/25/18 12:02 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > > > You might be thinking of the AMT DAP, which used arrays of 1-bit > processors. > > yup. > > I know we have one, just can't find it in the CHM catalog > I have some docs on bitsavers >

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 02:24 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: Likely make a fortune off my stockpile of 2901s. Building machine from the earth up is not that hard, software to make them useful is a big deal. Yes, and that's where my 32-bit 2903 project started to bog down. I knew some people, OS security

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread allison via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 05:37 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:45 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU? >> TMS9900? >> > I don't think the TI TMS9900 was bit-serial internally,

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 01:40 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do it. Also gives you a leg up on

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
Tangent: I have a large bin of perhaps a hundred working (last checked circa 2002) single board computers in the warehouse (Western Pennsylvania) with i960 cpus if anyone's interested. They were the Switch Control Processors from FORE Systems ASX200 switches, quite fully functional little

Re: Scan of Micro Peripherals Inc MPI 91/92 Product Manual Avail?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 4:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/25/18 4:00 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > >> If you need a sheet-fed duplex scanner for B-size, expect to spend a pretty >> good chunk of change even for a used one. >> > > I've been through several million pages with my

Re: Scan of Micro Peripherals Inc MPI 91/92 Product Manual Avail?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 4:00 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > If you need a sheet-fed duplex scanner for B-size, expect to spend a pretty > good chunk of change even for a used one. > I've been through several million pages with my Panasonic KV-3065CW duplex tabloid color scanner They can be found

Re: Scan of Micro Peripherals Inc MPI 91/92 Product Manual Avail?

2018-10-25 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:28 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > So that brings me to the question - Should I buy a nice scanner that > handles two sided and schematic prints?...I have so many things more I > could scan if I had something cost effective. That's the last

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:45 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU? > TMS9900? > I don't think the TI TMS9900 was bit-serial internally, but the RCA CDP1802 and National Semiconductor SC/MP

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 12:48 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > (the 432 is not a single chip > microcomputer--the basic family, as I recall was no less than three > (43201, 43202 and 43203) QIP chips. The General Data Processor (GDP) was split between two chips, the

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/25/18 12:15 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > The 1802 is claimed to be serial. Ah, that was it. Ultra-low power (for the time) CMOS. Simple instruction set. Thanks, Chuck

Re: Scan of Micro Peripherals Inc MPI 91/92 Product Manual Avail?

2018-10-25 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Hi - I finished the scan of the MPI 91/92. I did it at Kinkos and it cost me $54, and wow that's expensive. I should have asked before I dropped off the manual. I kind of assumed it'd be more like $20. I don't have an easy way to scan a plastic spiral-bound two sided document with pull out

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/25/18 12:04 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/25/18 12:02 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > >> You might be thinking of the AMT DAP, which used arrays of 1-bit processors. > > yup. > > I know we have one, just can't find it in the CHM catalog > I have some docs on bitsavers Danny

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread allison via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 01:28 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > On 10/24/2018 9:00 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >> On 10/24/2018 01:11 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: >>> On 10/24/2018 10:31 AM, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote: You know that since you mentioned possibly using CMOS 22V10's why not just build a board

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread allison via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 01:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one > time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do > it. Also gives you a leg up on variable word-length designs. > > > Didn't at least one of the more

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 12:02 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: > You might be thinking of the AMT DAP, which used arrays of 1-bit processors. yup. I know we have one, just can't find it in the CHM catalog I have some docs on bitsavers

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:48 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Arrays of single-bit processors have been tried. > CHM has one, I'm blanking on the company name. > We had one in Apple ATG. > Active Memory Technology DAP-500

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On 10/25/18 11:40 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one >>> time, if

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:53 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > There is the moto MC14500 > > http://bitsavers.org/components/motorola/14500/MC14500B_Industrial_Control_Unit_Handbook_1977.pdf No, not the ICU--it'd be a real stretch calling it a computer. It'll come to me at some point. --Chuck

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:49 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Dunno, the mind is foggy on this detail, since I never played with the > beast. But it seems to me that there was at least one "too slow" MPU > out there in production at some point. There is the moto MC14500

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:33 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/25/18 10:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > >> Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU? >> TMS9900? > > You've mentioned this a couple of times. > > Are you confusing this with the serial CRU

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:06 AM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote: > Obviously, he returned to academia before the project collapsed in a heap, > and he might have had to scramble and compete with other departing CS PhDs > (who would also have hung around too long). Many would probably be looking > at another

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:40 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > >> On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >> wrote: >> >> On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one >> time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do >> it. Also gives you

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one > time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do > it. Also gives you a leg up on variable word-length designs. > > Didn't at least

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 11:23 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote: > Didn't at least part of the team continue the project as the BiiN / > 960MX? Yes. Eric Smith can explain the whole history if he chooses to. Here is what he has on line for the 432

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 10:45 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU? > TMS9900? You've mentioned this a couple of times. Are you confusing this with the serial CRU I/O scheme TI computers used? I double-checked and the 960,980 and

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk
Jim Manley wrote about a professor's experience in the iAPX432 team. Didn't at least part of the team continue the project as the BiiN / 960MX? -- Jecel

Re: modern stuff

2018-10-25 Thread Jim Manley via cctalk
One of my postgraduate school CS professors worked on the iAPX 432 and his tidbit about the history of its development was that, whenever the EEs were confronted with a hardware-level problem by the CSs, the EEs would universally respond with, "Oh, well, that can be fixed by you software guys with

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On this subject, is there no interest in serial ALU designs? At one time, if you wanted a low-cast implementation, that was the way to do it. Also gives you a leg up on variable word-length designs. Didn't at least one of the more popular MPU designs employ a serial ALU? TMS9900? --Chuck

Re: 70's computers

2018-10-25 Thread ben via cctalk
On 10/24/2018 9:00 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 10/24/2018 01:11 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: On 10/24/2018 10:31 AM, Marc Howard via cctalk wrote: You know that since you mentioned possibly using CMOS 22V10's why not just build a board around AMD 29XX bit slice parts.  They actually predate 22V10's

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 10/25/18 9:48 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> >> >> On 10/25/18 9:18 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: >>> Now that I think about it, a flying probe may be easier for us hobbyists to >>> construct. The

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 9:48 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 10/25/18 9:18 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: >> Now that I think about it, a flying probe may be easier for us hobbyists to >> construct. The trick will be getting sufficient x/y resolution and not >> having the two probes

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 9:18 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > Now that I think about it, a flying probe may be easier for us hobbyists to > construct. The trick will be getting sufficient x/y resolution and not > having the two probes interfere when the two probes are close to each other. > I

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/25/18 9:18 AM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote: > I’m wondering if a “bed of nails” could be built that would allow for > automated scanning of the traces to at least get the netlist. yup that's the latest iteration of what I'm working on 16 bit open drain drivers, low voltage

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
> On Oct 25, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 10/25/2018 12:44 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/24/18 8:06 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: >> >>> Hmmm, you COULD actually use a schematic tool to do this! Maybe create >>> the components to look like DIPs. I

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/25/2018 12:44 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 10/24/18 8:06 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: Hmmm, you COULD actually use a schematic tool to do this! Maybe create the components to look like DIPs. I know I could do this in Protel 99 without a great deal of trouble. Then, just

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 10/24/18 11:51 PM, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > - ICs containing multiple functional blocks (eg 6 x inverters.) These may be > used all over >the place in a schematic. You don't want to be forced into drawing them > together at any >stage of schematic derivation. Actually you

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-25 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
If going for something non-VAX, Lisp is available on Multics. I’m feeling a bit frustrated at the moment, I’ve run into an interesting issue with SecureCRT on iOS, and emacs on Multics. The key for ‘ and “ works fine from the command line, but not from emacs. I’ve verified this with both the

Re: VAX Lisp, Macsyma, Maxima

2018-10-25 Thread Lars Brinkhoff via cctalk
How about NIL? There are some bits and pieces from ITS backups, but I don't know if there's enough to get it started, much less run a real application like Macsyma. Off on a tangent, I see T supports VAX and there was a T revival project some time ago.

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018, Guy Dunphy wrote: Keep the objective in mind. What you want to end up with is a schematic, that is laid out in a way that aids comprehension of how the circuit works. Typically this means overall left to right functional or power flow, with separate functional blocks

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 10:06 PM 24/10/2018 -0500, you wrote: >On 10/24/2018 04:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >> To draw out the schematics for the Displaywriter I have a bunch of boards to >> trace out, >> and I don't want to do the usual "scribble on yellow pad" >> to do it. Has someone written a graphical

Re: does a reverse-engineering EDA tool exist?

2018-10-25 Thread r.stricklin via cctalk
On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:25 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: > What I would like to find is a tool that puts up a bunch of footprints with > internal IC functions > shown, then a way to rapidly enter the buzzed out interconnections, > generating a netlist. > > This is exactly backwards workflow