[cctalk] Re: Old Professional/350 software, any of this out there

2023-07-29 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Sounds like these may the long lost P/OS drivers. Contact Jörg Hoppe at RETROCMP - he's been scanning in a lot of DEC fiche of late. http://retrocmp.com/ -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.net

[cctalk] Re: May need help buying computer in Houston - I’m in CA

2023-07-29 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Errr, I'm in Houston. What did you have in mind to get done locally on this deal? == Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.com

[cctalk] Re: Restoring Ultrix-32m 1.2 Floppies

2023-07-17 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
I have had good luck with a secfor convolver from the same page as this comment: http://www.chdickman.com/pdp11/lbn2rx50.cIt will go both ways, to and from physical block order and logical block order. For people working on P/OS or RSX, without a c compiler, here is a utility that can convert

[cctalk] Re: Any RSX-11 fans able to identify file types?

2023-06-26 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Some of the filenames  (eg ATOZ013.MSL)  suggest that the DEC product A-TO-Z might be involved. This was an RSX based product for small offices. -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.ne

[cctalk] Re: Using Flashfloppies on Professional 350 and 380--SOLVED

2023-03-08 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
"Holy smokes. Poking around on these disk images it looks like these system have a FULL DECNET FILE SERVER as well." Are you referring to DECnet FAL on the PRO, or the little known PRO Cluster software? -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.net

[cctalk] Re: Using Gesswein board with RQDX3

2022-12-22 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
 I'm using several of these, on PRO380s, and on RQDX3s on MicroVAXes and  a BA23 11/73. Lessee, did you create the container file for the disk? And make sure it's the same file name used in the command line that starts up the service? Did you do the command that tells the service to start at

[cctalk] Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card

2022-09-09 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Took some pictures of the MicroVAX CTI card, and another odd card I got - an 8086 CTI smartcard. See 'em both at https://rsx11.blogspot.com/2022/09/microvax-and-8086-smartcards-for-dec.html -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.net

[cctalk] Re: VAXstation 100 ROM image

2022-09-05 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
Reviving a year old thread, did anyone get around to dumping the VAXstation 100 firmware?   I gave my VAXstation 100 system unit to Dave McGuire last year (I didn't need it since I lost interest in UNIBUS sized hobby equipment).  Perhaps he could make a copy of its ROMs. -- Lee K. Gleason

[cctalk] Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card

2022-08-17 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  The vendor who sold me the MicroVAX CTI card found the memory daughter card. It 's missing a few memory chips, but otherwise looks in good shape. Can;t wait to get it, add the missing chips and do some testing. Still a long shot to make it do anything, but it's bound to help.

[cctalk] Re: Fixing a TU58 Dectape II: Questions

2022-08-06 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Yep, RSX11M and M+  support the TU58. Don't recall exactly what versions it first appeared in. -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.net

[cctalk] Re: Fixing a TU58 Dectape II: Questions

2022-08-05 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
3) Can the PDT11 handle anything faster than 2400 baud on the extension >ports? Can it do faster speeds in one direction? I can't guarantee that it can't go faster, but I've done a lot of testing, and haven't been able to get it to work faster than 2400. Faster than that, and I get lots of

[cctalk] Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card

2022-07-22 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  OK, got the card. The middle sized chip on the upper edge turns out not to be an 80186 or any other processor. It's an Intel C8207 dual port dynamic ram controller.   The EPROM is an Intel D2764. It has "TEST ROM" written on it in pencil. It was a bit of a disappointment - first 256

[cctalk] Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card

2022-07-18 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
Message: 6 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 19:32:47 -0500 From: Chris Zach Subject: Re: MicroVAX CTI (DEC Professional) card To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Message-ID: <448ec9e0-a5df-7dd2-65f4-6294e6ebe...@alembic.crystel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Well, auction is over, I

Re: anyone ever connect a TU58 drive to a PDT-11/150 terminal port?

2022-05-18 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
command? Chris On May 17, 2022 11:31:55 PM GMT+02:00, Lee Gleason via cctalk wrote: On 4/15/2022 2:48 PM, Lee Gleason wrote:   I've been tinkering with a PDT-11/150 lately. It's a little inconvenient to work on, since it doesn't have a simple way to transfer

Re: anyone ever connect a TU58 drive to a PDT-11/150 terminal port?

2022-05-17 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
On 4/15/2022 2:48 PM, Lee Gleason wrote:   I've been tinkering with a PDT-11/150 lately. It's a little inconvenient to work on, since it doesn't have a simple way to transfer files back and forth (KRTMIN doesn't work when transferring files to the box, just from the box, for some reason I

DX/IAS software

2022-05-17 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  I have a tape from the late 70s that contains  DX/IAS, a package from DEC that allowed terminal emulation and file transfer to/from WPS on DECmates to IAS systems. Not too many IAS systems out there these days, but  the tape includes sources, so it should be easily adaptable to RSX systems,

anyone ever connect a TU58 drive to a PDT-11/150 terminal port?

2022-04-15 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  I've been tinkering with a PDT-11/150 lately. It's a little inconvenient to work on, since it doesn't have a simple way to transfer files back and forth (KRTMIN doesn't work when transferring files to the box, just from the box, for some reason I haven't been able to puzzle out, and pasting

PDT-11 Virtual Terminal Monitor v1.07

2022-03-02 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
and tried looping back pin 2 to pin 3 on each serial + modem port and typing some characters, but nothing shows up in vterm.   PDT-11/150 terminal and printer ports ports all require a high on pin 20, DTR, before they can send characters.  I've never used the modem port on my PDT's but I

What's left of the Houston Museum stuff

2021-07-23 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
"Nice selection of dirty and yellowed computers in unknown condition." I just took a run out to the warehouse in question, figuring the owner would be there today cleaning up. The quote above sums up the state of things. There were some miscellaneous DEC terminals, a few MicroVAXes, and

DECNet for Pro 300 series boxes

2021-05-18 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  DECnet for Pro350/380 was donated to DECUS, available as  DECUS package PRO175. A quick Goog found the floppy disk images for it at http://www.os2site.com/sw/DEC/pro/pro175/index.html. If that site doesn't work out, or you don't like them in LHARC format, let me know - I have them as

Re: RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

2021-04-19 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  RK05 drive that could read it in for me? -- Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants lee.glea...@comcast.net On 3/8/2021 11:42 AM, Lee Gleason wrote: On 3/3/21 11:11 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: >>/On 3/3/21 10:42 AM, Lee Gleason via cctalk wrote: />>//>>>/   The au

Re: RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

2021-04-06 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
On 3/3/21 11:11 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: /On 3/3/21 10:42 AM, Lee Gleason via cctalk wrote: />//>>/   The auction starts at  more than I have in my computer budget this month />/I went ahead and bought these, but paypal contributions to my email would be helpful />/this i

Re: RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

2021-03-08 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
On 3/3/21 11:11 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: /On 3/3/21 10:42 AM, Lee Gleason via cctalk wrote: />>//>>>/   The auction starts at  more than I have in my computer budget this month />>/I went ahead and bought these, but paypal contributions to my email would be helpful

RSX11D disks on EBAY- anyone interested?

2021-03-03 Thread Lee Gleason via cctalk
  Saw this on EBAY today - three RK05s with what looks like at least part of RSX11D on them. Who knows, it might be a distribution - RSX11D distributions came on 3 RK05s.