Re: Sperry SP-425-08 Display - Datasheet?

2020-01-07 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Anders, I got the schematics of the driver circuitry from the HP 59304A documentation. You should be able to replicate it. Will send you in separate email. Marc From: cctalk on behalf of "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Reply-To: Anders Nelson , "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Date: Wednesday, January

SWTPC 6800 and Percom Floppy Controller

2020-01-07 Thread Mike Douglas via cctalk
I’m restoring a SWTPC 6800 that includes the Percom LFD-400 floppy controller. This controller goes on the SS-50 bus instead of the SS-30 bus where the SWTPC controllers installed. The standard Percom MiniDOS PROM is installed, and the other two PROM sockets have a third party extension called

Priam 3450/7050 schematic wanted (Priam interface)

2020-01-07 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
Bitsavers has a schematic of the ANSI interface version of the Priam 3450/7050 eight-inch hard drives, but does anyone happen to have the schematics of the "normal" version (Priam interface, as opposed to SMD or ANSI)?

Re: Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

2020-01-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/7/20 4:08 PM, Nigel Johnson via cctalk wrote: > Have you searched for them on the NXP web site? no, I was hoping someone had grabbed the whole directory. there are a few obscure ones there. I was looking for AN1123 MCS3201 Floppy Disk Controller in MC68000 System

KCC and parenthesis in preprocessor lines

2020-01-07 Thread David Griffith via cctalk
I'm having some trouble getting Frotz 2.50 ported to TOPS20. Version 2.32 with dumb interface compiles fine under KCC. With 2.50, there are several preprocessor lines that include parentheses. For instance: #if UINT_MAX == (1UL<<32)-1UL typedef unsigned int uint32; #else typedef

Re: Hello All - new member in the UK

2020-01-07 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
mån 2020-01-06 klockan 13:42 + skrev Salik Rafiq via cctalk: > Hello all, a new member here. > > > > I’m in the UK where I’ve lived for 17 years now. Before that I lived > in > Canada. > Peter Stokes (Ashlyn Computer Services) have machines to sell including some fairly recent eq at a

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 64, Issue 3

2020-01-07 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
sön 2020-01-05 klockan 21:54 +0100 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 19:02, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk > wrote: > > I had been working on the IBM Microkernel (was one of the original > > 6 > > people onthat team). It was eventually to form the basis of OS/2 > > for > > PPC.

Re: Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

2020-01-07 Thread Nigel Johnson via cctalk
Have you searched for them on the NXP web site? I found the RF ones here: https://www.nxp.com/products/rf/rf-power-application-notes/rf-power-application-notes-by-frequency-range/general-frequency-range-application-notes:RF_FREQ_GEN_FREQ_RANGE_APP_NOTES 73 de Nigel ve3id On 07/01/2020 18:14,

Re: Motorola app notes (Al Kossow)

2020-01-07 Thread Evan Linwood via cctalk
> did anyone copy the moto app notes that were once at > http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/willem/PDF/Motorola/apnoteindex.html ? some of them are available at: http://archive.retro.co.za/archive/Motorola%20Appnotes/ plus a few more on this level: http://archive.retro.co.za/archive/

Re: TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 2:23 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I just listed one of my TU55s on eBay > I have a second one available in a rack with a TC01 avalilable for pickup in > Fremont, CA > that I'm accepting offers on. Wow. I have a PDP-8/I to connect it to, but I seriously doubt I could

Re: TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread Marc Howard via cctalk
Wow, a TU55 + TC01. Were they once a part of a PDP-12? Marc Howard On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:55 AM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I just listed one of my TU55s on eBay > I have a second one available in a rack with a TC01 avalilable for pickup > in Fremont, CA > that I'm accepting offers on. >

Re: TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/7/20 11:37 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I have around 100 R series modules and some custom cables with scotchflex > ribbon instead of the printed stuff that de-laminates available that I'm > going to sell since I'll never be doing anything with negative-bus equipment > in the future.

Re: TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/7/20 11:22 AM, Marc Howard wrote: > Wow, a TU55 + TC01.  Were they once a part of a PDP-12? PDP-8I I have around 100 R series modules and some custom cables with scotchflex ribbon instead of the printed stuff that de-laminates available that I'm going to sell since I'll never be doing

Re: Vintage computing spots in Chicago?

2020-01-07 Thread Eric Christopherson via cctalk
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 8:30 AM John Herron via cctalk wrote: > Made the mistake of not defining that path early on so mostly personal/home > computing. But anything I find interesting or historically interesting > often finds a way home. I think my largest sets are Commodore and > Tandy/radio

Re: TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
The description is not showing at all - no text. This is one of those Ebay bugs that has been around for months, but they do not fix. I have reported it several times - you should too. -- Will. On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 12:03 PM Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > I just listed one of my TU55s on

TU55 / TC01

2020-01-07 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
I just listed one of my TU55s on eBay I have a second one available in a rack with a TC01 avalilable for pickup in Fremont, CA that I'm accepting offers on.

Re: Vintage computing spots in Chicago?

2020-01-07 Thread Jim Manley via cctalk
Hi John, You may already be aware of it and visited if you've ever been to Chicago, but, the Museum of Science and Industry is well worth a visit if you don't find anything more computing oriented that's more interesting. You can check out their current exhibits and search for computing exhibits

Re: Vintage computing spots in Chicago?

2020-01-07 Thread John Herron via cctalk
Made the mistake of not defining that path early on so mostly personal/home computing. But anything I find interesting or historically interesting often finds a way home. I think my largest sets are Commodore and Tandy/radio shack. I see a store called freegeek and "Chicago computer club" which

Re: Lars Hamrén / Computer Automation Museum Project

2020-01-07 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
I'll make another effort to reach Lars. /P On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 11:06:17AM -0800, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > I never heard anything more about this. > It would be good to get the manuals back online > > On 10/16/19 10:13 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > there was an email adr on the

Re: OpenStep Solaris

2020-01-07 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 at 06:25, Alan Perry via cctalk wrote: > > On 1/6/20 3:53 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: > > Any screeenshot galleries or better still videos anywhere? > > I found this photo that I took - > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZjYMdZZrIygvsQas9b40QWW7uNxMeD1V/view?usp=sharing