Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

2019-02-17 Thread John Blake via cctalk
Any idea what that blue Data General machine was?  Some kind of terminal server?

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-17 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 2/17/19 2:23 AM, Dave Wade wrote: I would say the 3174 is acting more as a Terminal Server rather than a gateway. So 3270 CO-AX terminals which are directly attached to the 3174 can connect via TN3270 to another host. Often this is Hercules where Hercules provides a a TN3270 server which

Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

2019-02-17 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 01:51 PM 16/02/2019 -0500, you wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I heard Kemners Surplus in Pottstown, PA was going away so I decided to pay >them a visit. I'm taking pictures of as much vintage computing gear as I >can as we speak. I'll be here until they close today at 5pm EST, so if you >see something

3B2 Simulator Ethernet - Looking for Testers

2019-02-17 Thread Seth J. Morabito via cctalk
Hi folks, I think the NI Ethernet device is ready for some real world beta testing. I have put up a page here with details about how to build SIMH and how to install the "NI" ethernet drivers and TCP/IP software here: https://loomcom.com/3b2/networking.html If you're interested in helping

Re: Dumping contents from MC68701

2019-02-17 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 15:52 Al Kossow via cctalk it depends on the version of 68701 > > P3 has no protection P5 does > > a P3 can be read with a Data I/O Unisite > > http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/pdf/MC68705P5_Bootstrap_ROM_Listing.pdf > > The P5 is more involved. You put it into factory test

Re: PDP-11 disk image question

2019-02-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > First, my hardware. I have a PDP-11/93 with a CMD SCSI Module and > a BA350 with 6 2GB hard drives. The Module is set up to present RA81 > disks and the first 3 disks have 4 partitions each which should work >

RE: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-17 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Al Kossow via > cctalk > Sent: 17 February 2019 16:29 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks? > > > > On 2/16/19 6:36 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > >> As for using telnet on the 3174, I'm

Re: PDP-11 disk image question

2019-02-17 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 16, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > let's try with a detailed explanation of what I did that didn't seem > to work. > > First, my hardware. I have a PDP-11/93 with a CMD SCSI Module and > a BA350 with 6 2GB hard drives. The Module is set up to

Re: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 2/16/19 6:36 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: >> As for using telnet on the 3174, I'm going by what I've seen posted on >> Hercules mailing lists about how others have >> connected real terminals to the Hercules mainframe emulator.  A few pictures >> of such terminals connected to

Re: Dumping contents from MC68701

2019-02-17 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
it depends on the version of 68701 P3 has no protection P5 does a P3 can be read with a Data I/O Unisite http://matthieu.benoit.free.fr/pdf/MC68705P5_Bootstrap_ROM_Listing.pdf The P5 is more involved. You put it into factory test mode, feed it a NOP instruction and it will output the rom data

Re: Kemners Surplus - Real time walkthrough

2019-02-17 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
One final note: I didn't get pictures of these, but Kemners has probably 20-25 IBM external 5 1/4" floppy drives, about half of them are 360K and half are 1.2MB. Two of the 360K drives are NIB, wrapped in their original plastic. =] On Sat, Feb 16, 2019, 5:37 PM Anders Nelson Well, I got outta

Dumping contents from MC68701

2019-02-17 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
Has anyone been successful in dumping the EPROM contents from an MC68701? As I understand it, this MCU requires executing a particular program from external memory to access the internal EPROM, both for programming and reading. I will write a utility to dump the contents if necessary, but I am

RE: IBM 3174 C 6.4 Microcode Disks?

2019-02-17 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> > I should look for more details. It sounds like some 3174's, with proper > firmware, can actually function in both directions. > > Coax connected 3270 terminals using the 3174 as a gateway to connect to > something across the network (Token Ring or maybe Ethernet) via telnet. > I suspect

Re: PDP-11 disk image question

2019-02-17 Thread J. David Bryan via cctalk
On 2/16/19 7:55 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > So, I used SIMH to do an install of a complete OS on an RA81 disk. I > would like to move this to a real disk and try it on a real PDP-11. Note that SIMH always writes disc images in little-endian format, regardless of host platform. If