Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
måndag 9 september 2019 skrev Kyle Owen via cctalk : > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019, 20:39 Guy Dunphy via cctalk > wrote: > > > > > > >We recently replaced the ferroresonant capacitor in a power supply on > the > > CHM's > > >PDP-1. They do fail (thankfully, not often) - and they are not > >

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 9/8/19 7:41 PM, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > I can't seem to find motor caps that meet the voltage spec of 660V. 8uF > doesn't seem like a problem, but the combination together isn't looking > good. Are there any specific vendors I should be looking at? My usual > suspect of DigiKey isn't

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
On Sun, Sep 8, 2019, 20:39 Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > > > >We recently replaced the ferroresonant capacitor in a power supply on the > CHM's > >PDP-1. They do fail (thankfully, not often) - and they are not > super-critical > >as to value. If the one you're replacing has the same marked

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Guy Dunphy via cctalk
At 04:54 PM 8/09/2019 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Kyle, > >On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 18:42:06 -0500 >Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > >> Has anyone replaced the capacitor in a ferroresonant power supply with much >> success? My current understanding is that the capacitor and transformer are >> mated as a pair,

ISO old AST mainframe comms driver software

2019-09-08 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
AST-coax, AST-432, AST-SNA, etc. IBM comms products circa late 80s I'm in the process of pdf-ing the manuals this afternoon. The only product disk I have is AST-3780

Re: Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Lyle Bickley via cctalk
Hi Kyle, On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 18:42:06 -0500 Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > Has anyone replaced the capacitor in a ferroresonant power supply with much > success? My current understanding is that the capacitor and transformer are > mated as a pair, so replacing just one of them would require

Ferroresonant transformer supply repair

2019-09-08 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
Has anyone replaced the capacitor in a ferroresonant power supply with much success? My current understanding is that the capacitor and transformer are mated as a pair, so replacing just one of them would require careful consideration. The PDP-8/I I'm working on has a 704A in it, with a GE 8uF

Announcing VCF Pacific Northwest 2020

2019-09-08 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
The Vintage Computer Federation is pleased to announce Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2020! We will be at Living Computers:Museum+Labs in Seattle Washington on Saturday March 21st and Sunday March 22nd, 2020. To make this happen we are looking for exhibitors, speakers and

Re: Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 9/8/19 4:21 PM, Mister PDP via cctalk wrote: I guess I should have been a little more specific about the memory issues I was having when I made this post. For the most part these issues seem to be scattered all about memory. Also, while the XXDP I have been running has been catching more or

Re: Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Mister PDP via cctalk
I guess I should have been a little more specific about the memory issues I was having when I made this post. For the most part these issues seem to be scattered all about memory. Also, while the XXDP I have been running has been catching more or less the same addresses every time I run it,

Re: Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 9/8/19 3:20 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > From: Mister PDP > listed back there were numerous bad addresses all over memory. > ... > I cannot find schematics for any of the boards . With the completed chart in hand, given a failing word (address and bad data),

Re: Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mister PDP > listed back there were numerous bad addresses all over memory. > ... > I cannot find schematics for any of the boards You can repair MOS memory boards where the board is basically working, but just has some failing memory chips, without schematics. First you

Looking for schematics of QBUS 32KW memory module.

2019-09-08 Thread Mister PDP via cctalk
Hello, A few weeks ago I ordered a Sigma 400255 for my H11A LSI-11 computer with the hopes of getting a 8" floppy hooked up for VCFMW. For the most part, all the tests I ran from the ODT seemed to be AOK. The one this I couldn't do it boot RT-11 from my TU58 emulator, as it would crash every

Re: Info on testing vintage power supplies

2019-09-08 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
On 9/2/19 9:56 AM, Tony Duell wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 5:35 PM Alan Perry via cctech wrote: Can anyone here provide a pointer to info on testing vintage power supplies? Search results on the web may eventually lead to the kind of info that I am looking for, but I have to get through

Shugart-Interface 8" Floppy Diskette Drive Configurability

2019-09-08 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
I've been contemplating a floppy diskette drive emulator with features to make it fit better into systems using 50-pin Shugart style floppy drive interfaces vs. the other emulators already on the market. Studying manuals for various 8" floppy diskette drives, I see that they generally provided