Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Holm Tiffe
Holm Tiffe wrote: Jerry Weiss wrote: Sorry if some of the suggestions aren?t appropriate, was just throwing a few things out. $analyze/error/since=today/full/include=tx Can you post a sample of the output for one of the lines that has an error? Regards, Jerry

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Holm Tiffe
Jerry Weiss wrote: Sorry if some of the suggestions aren?t appropriate, was just throwing a few things out. $analyze/error/since=today/full/include=tx Can you post a sample of the output for one of the lines that has an error? Regards, Jerry Hmm...

Re: RLV11 Debugging

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/18/2015 7:46 AM, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:48 PM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote: BR level is the bus request level for an Interrupt. BR 4 is typical. On Unibus machines, more of the BR levels were used. The rule of thumb was BR4 for slow devices (like

Re: PDP-12 Restoration at the RICM

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/17/2015 1:51 PM, Rich Alderson wrote: From: Jay Jaeger Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2015 3:18 PM On 8/16/2015 9:00 AM, Michael Thompson wrote: We did a lot more debugging on the TC12 LINCtape controller. Second gut hunch is that it would be hard to see how the drive could cause this

More Manuals Plus Rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Shoppa, Tim
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Choice quote: I am writing this from the car, sitting in the passenger seat with my shoes off. I have been standing for 12 hours. I've been giving introductions and tours and explanations and theories and everything else that comes when you put a bunch

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Holm Tiffe
Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-08-18 11:31, Holm Tiffe wrote: Jerry Weiss wrote: Sorry if some of the suggestions aren?t appropriate, was just throwing a few things out. $analyze/error/since=today/full/include=tx Can you post a sample of the output for one of the lines that has an

Re: test equipment / Re: Z80 / Z84C Swap (Doh!)

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/17/2015 10:06 PM, drlegendre . wrote: @ Jay, Ha, yeah.. I've seen a number of his vids.. Don't mean to offend, but he comes off a bit squirrely (hyper) for me. Probably has to or viewers would fall asleep. Jim Cramer on CNBC operates the same way. Yet another freaking Aussie

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Holm Tiffe
Holm Tiffe wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-08-18 11:31, Holm Tiffe wrote: Jerry Weiss wrote: Sorry if some of the suggestions aren?t appropriate, was just throwing a few things out. $analyze/error/since=today/full/include=tx Can you post a sample of the output

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Sean Caron
I agree, you really just have to try and run a test through with a representative page from the document with fine detail and see how it comes out ... I have found that even fairly fine detail reproduces okay with a 300 DPI scan ... there's no need in scanning with extraneous bit depth and then

Re: Shugart 800 spindle bearings (Re: Shugart 800-8 media centering problem)

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/17/2015 11:14 PM, tony duell wrote: Well, in the process of repairing the Altos power supply I managed to break the center lead off of the TIP31A that feeds the 2N3055 series pass transistor. This time, I need to order parts. Do you? The centre lead (collector) is connected to the

Re: test equipment / Re: Z80 / Z84C Swap (Doh!)

2015-08-18 Thread Sean Caron
I used to watch Dave but his ego got to be a bit much for me ... I now prefer mikesslectricstuff and w2aew on YT when I'm looking for some inspiration in the form of a video. Best, Sean On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote: On 8/17/2015 10:06 PM, drlegendre .

Re: Analog to Digital Converter

2015-08-18 Thread Douglas Taylor
On 8/15/2015 12:40 PM, tony duell wrote: I have a number of laboratory instruments that are from the 1990 time frame. They produce digital data that is the digitized signal from a detector, the data can be from 512 to 65K samples long. The ADC used in these instruments is a 16bit

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-18 19:05, Jon Elson wrote: On 08/18/2015 10:48 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: Understand my quandary: I have changed not a single bit on the hardware while cleaning and repairing it and besides that DHU11-DHV11 Switch the board was in the published factory setting! DEC went to this floating

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Jon Elson
On 08/18/2015 10:48 AM, Holm Tiffe wrote: Understand my quandary: I have changed not a single bit on the hardware while cleaning and repairing it and besides that DHU11-DHV11 Switch the board was in the published factory setting! DEC went to this floating address/vector scheme back in the

Re: RLV11 Debugging

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/18/2015 11:33 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-08-18 15:09, Jay Jaeger wrote: On 8/18/2015 7:46 AM, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:48 PM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote: BR level is the bus request level for an Interrupt. BR 4 is typical. On Unibus machines, more

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
Paul Koning paulkon...@comcast.net skrev: (18 augusti 2015 21:55:23 CEST) On Aug 18, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote: On 2015-08-18 21:29, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote: On 2015-08-18 19:05, Jon

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-18 21:29, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote: On 2015-08-18 19:05, Jon Elson wrote: ... Most likely, some board was added or removed from the system before you got it, and it caused the vector to now be wrong. The vector is

Re: More Manuals Plus Rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Evan Koblentz
Choice quote: I am writing this from the car, sitting in the passenger seat with my shoes off. I have been standing for 12 hours. I've been giving introductions and tours and explanations and theories and everything else that comes when you put a bunch of strangers together with a

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Mouse
I have found that one can generally have one's cake, and eat it too: [...600dpi BW...Group 4 compression...] If you can, avoid black/white scans. The reason is that scanners are often $ Personally, what I would do is scan 300dpi greyscale (my scanner does 600 in only one dimension), then,

Re: More Manuals Plus Rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Shoppa, Tim tsho...@wmata.com wrote: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Choice quote: I am writing this from the car, sitting in the passenger seat with my shoes off. I have been standing for 12 hours. I've been giving introductions and tours and

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Paul Koning If you can, avoid black/white scans. The reason is that scanners are often noisy in that mode ... Copiers used in scan mode are particularly likely to do this. Such documents are also surprisingly hard to read, look messy when printed, and utterly fail

RS-232 Tx / Rx monitoring LEDs?

2015-08-18 Thread drlegendre .
As part of my C-64 RS-232 to M15 60mA CL project, I've put together a simple MAX232 based interface to connect the TTL levels on the C-64 to the standard RS-232 +/- levels. Is there any reason that I can or cannot install LEDs - on either side of the MAX232 converter - to give some indication of

Re: RS-232 Tx / Rx monitoring LEDs?

2015-08-18 Thread Jim Brain
On 8/18/2015 10:40 PM, drlegendre . wrote: As part of my C-64 RS-232 to M15 60mA CL project, I've put together a simple MAX232 based interface to connect the TTL levels on the C-64 to the standard RS-232 +/- levels. Is there any reason that I can or cannot install LEDs - on either side of the

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread William Donzelli
Are you serious? Jason is currently sweating his balls off trying to save at least a portion of a huge warehouse of unique documentation under an incredibly tight deadline. Just for the record, the Manuals Plus hoard is not, in any way, a bunch of unique documentation. Test equipment docs

Re: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

2015-08-18 Thread drlegendre .
If reads go fine all around, but nothing will write, I'd be concerned that the write electronics (write amp, etc.) might be defective. But try Will'm D's suggestions, before taking that line, of course.. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:12 PM, william degnan billdeg...@gmail.com wrote: Try swapping

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 08:54:39PM -0700, Brent Hilpert wrote: I can understand why Al is peeved. IMHO the reply was conciliatory. I'm willing to give a little bit of the benefit of the doubt in the meantime. I don't expect to be best-friends with any/everyone on the list but I would like to

Re: MAINDEX-11 CZKMA Diagnostic?

2015-08-18 Thread Don North
On 8/18/2015 7:36 PM, Ben Sinclair wrote: I'm again trying to debug my PDP-11/23, and I believe I'm having trouble with my M8067-LB/MSV-11 memory. According to the manual, there is a diagnostic program called CZKMA (for my 18-bit system), but I can't seem to find it. I have all of the xxdp

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Guy Sotomayor
On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to redirect all search traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless 'new' content that Google thinks is real. I have watched over time as the volume of Google top

Re: DEC Fiche EP-M8436-MA-A

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
MA == Module Assembly. These fiche have BLUE tops. I have one that is slightly newer: EP-M8436-MA-B . In my case, it is part of the VTERM Fiche set. (Mine is VTERM-000171). M8436 - VT278 CPU, Revs A, C M8437 - COMM Adapter, Revs A, C and D M8439 - RL01/RL01 Disk Controller, Revs A, B and C

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Jason Scott
I am more than happy to discuss with people alternate ways that the information on the Internet Archive could be presented. On Aug 18, 2015 9:58 PM, Guy Sotomayor g...@shiresoft.com wrote: On 8/18/15 6:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Jay Jaeger
On 8/18/2015 8:35 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote: IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to redirect all search traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless 'new' content that Google thinks is real. I have watched over time as the volume of

RE: Speaking of Creating 5 1/4 floppies

2015-08-18 Thread Marc Verdiell
Try Imagedisk for DOS (with actually somewhat of an interface). Great software, superb manual. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm Also Omnidisk for DOS (command line) http://www.shlock.co.uk/Utils/OmniDisk/OmniDisk.htm#Downloads And Omniflop for WinXP with a GUI

Re: RS-232 Tx / Rx monitoring LEDs?

2015-08-18 Thread Mark J. Blair
Those little RS232 testers with LEDs built into a double DB25 connector box are usually just made of LEDs and resistors connected to each signal line. They can load signals enough to cause problems at high speeds, with weak drivers, or with long cables, but usually they don't cause problems. If

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Jon Elson
On 08/18/2015 01:00 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote: The floating address space was pretty much there from the start for the Unibus, even before you had large systems. For most controllers, only the first one has a fixed address, and all others were assigned from the floating space. Makes sense,

Re: DEC Fiche EP-M8436-MA-A

2015-08-18 Thread Paul Anderson
I have some DECMATE print sets, but not sure which ones. From what Jay says,It's in the DECMATE 1 set. I'll see what I can find. I need to take a few months and go through my fiche... Paul On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Robert Ferguson r...@bitscience.ca wrote: Hi Everyone, I’m looking

Re: MAINDEX-11 CZKMA Diagnostic?

2015-08-18 Thread Glen Slick
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Ben Sinclair b...@bensinclair.com wrote: I'm again trying to debug my PDP-11/23, and I believe I'm having trouble with my M8067-LB/MSV-11 memory. According to the manual, there is a diagnostic program called CZKMA (for my 18-bit system), but I can't seem to

5.25 floppies that read but don't write

2015-08-18 Thread Marc Verdiell
I have connected a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to my computer. After a bit of jumper learning and setting, it's recognized and reads my old DD and HD floppies fine. But for the life of me I cannot write to it. Not under DOS, Win98, or WindowsXP. Which all read fine. But can't add a file. It goes through

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread William Donzelli
Ask Will Donzelli about the Cyber Resources rescue we did. You'll not get any sympathy for waiting 'til the last day from him or me. The Data General save was far worse. At least with CyberResources (mainly a New Jersey CDC reseller that had a very sizable library, for those confused by the

Re: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

2015-08-18 Thread william degnan
Try swapping both a and b drives. Try with only 5 1/4 plugged in to a and then again to b. Makes a difference? Specify make and model of motherboard, drives. Describe cable. Describe ROM settings. Bill Degnan twitter: billdeg vintagecomputer.net I have connected a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to my

Re: 5.25 floppies that read but don't write

2015-08-18 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 08/18/2015 09:05 PM, Marc Verdiell wrote: I have connected a 1.2M 5.25 floppy to my computer. After a bit of jumper learning and setting, it's recognized and reads my old DD and HD floppies fine. But for the life of me I cannot write to it. Not under DOS, Win98, or WindowsXP. Which all read

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Paul Koning
On Aug 18, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: From: Sean Caron I have found that even fairly fine detail reproduces okay with a 300 DPI scan ... there's no need in scanning with extraneous bit depth and then you start to get people complaining about file sizes

RE: test equipment / Re: Z80 / Z84C Swap (Doh!)

2015-08-18 Thread Dave G4UGM
The videos below are from 2009 so are now 6 years old, so about the same age as windows/7. I don't know of any modern USB scope that does equivalent time sampling. Memory Depth isn't so important as USB2 means you can shift the data pretty quickly into the PC. I also note he says proudly he

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Shoppa, Tim
IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to redirect all search traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless 'new' content that Google thinks is real. I have watched over time as the volume of Google top search hits have migrated to IA

DEC Fiche EP-M8436-MA-A

2015-08-18 Thread Robert Ferguson
Hi Everyone, I’m looking for a scan or a printout of the contents of DEC fiche EP-M8436-MA-A. It’s referenced at the top of page 163 of http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp11/xxdp/fiche_200dpi/0254_index_85-07.pdf, and allegedly contains the details for M8436, M8437,M8439, and M8440

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-18 14:17, Holm Tiffe wrote: What makes me wonder is that I've wrote that the vector of the card schould be 300...but: What makes you say the card should have vector 300? $ mcr sysgen SYSGEN SH/CONF System CSR and Vectors on 18-AUG-2015 14:11:12.81 Name: PAA Units: 1

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Alexandre Souza
I have many schematics scanned in 300dpi and they are great even for a3 printing. Take a lookk at esquematico de informatica cce (google it) as an example... Em 18/08/2015 10:36, Tothwolf tothw...@concentric.net escreveu: On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Shoppa, Tim wrote: I certainly feel bitsavers is a

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Holm Tiffe
Holm Tiffe wrote: Holm Tiffe wrote: Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2015-08-18 11:31, Holm Tiffe wrote: Jerry Weiss wrote: Sorry if some of the suggestions aren?t appropriate, was just throwing a few things out. $analyze/error/since=today/full/include=tx

Re: Clearpoint DCME/Q4E configuration

2015-08-18 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Johnny Billquist DEC's memory boards never had any jumpers for PMI as such. Yes, and if you plug one of their PMI memory boards into a Q/Q backplane, it will emit magic smoke, too! :-) I think that's why this thing has the jumpers - to allow it to be used in a Q/Q backplane. It

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Tothwolf
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Shoppa, Tim wrote: I certainly feel bitsavers is a good model, and although I'm physically not too far away from the stuff, I'm not sure I have much to offer other than disk space on a server for staging. http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695 (previous link:

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Peter Coghlan
Holm Tiffe wrote: [snip] The additional VT420 is connected to txa3: and I haven't changed the term parameters since reboot: $ sh term txa3: Terminal: _TXA3: Device_Type: Unknown Owner: No Owner Input:9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 80 Parity: None Output:

Re: Clearpoint DCME/Q4E configuration

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-18 16:20, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Johnny Billquist DEC's memory boards never had any jumpers for PMI as such. Yes, and if you plug one of their PMI memory boards into a Q/Q backplane, it will emit magic smoke, too! :-) I don't remember if I've ever tried that, but I

Re: Probs w. M3119 CXY08 MUX on VAX VMS 7.3

2015-08-18 Thread Paul Koning
On Aug 18, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote: On 2015-08-18 21:29, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 18, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote: On 2015-08-18 19:05, Jon Elson wrote: ... Most likely, some board was added or removed from the system

Re: RLV11 Debugging

2015-08-18 Thread Ben Sinclair
Well, I tried a few things, including reading the CSR, which doesn't appear to be what I expect. I ended up removing the RLV11 and making sure my system was still passing the other tests, and I've found that I can no longer run JKDBD0 to test the CPU, which was working before. It never prints any

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread geneb
On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Al Kossow wrote: He destroyed the organizational schema of bitsavers when he mirrored it and had his little band of minions curate it for IA. Bullshit. His mirror has zero effect on your original site or organization. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 8/18/15 9:12 AM, Ian McLaughlin wrote: inflating the egos of the archivers? If you think this is an ego trip for ME, you haven't dealt with Jason Scott much.

Re: RLV11 Debugging

2015-08-18 Thread Johnny Billquist
On 2015-08-18 14:46, Paul Koning wrote: On Aug 17, 2015, at 10:48 PM, Jay Jaeger cu...@charter.net wrote: BR level is the bus request level for an Interrupt. BR 4 is typical. On Unibus machines, more of the BR levels were used. The rule of thumb was BR4 for slow devices (like terminals

Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-18 Thread Al Kossow
On 8/18/15 9:02 AM, geneb wrote: Bullshit. His mirror has zero effect on your original site or organization. Google disagrees. IA saturates the channel. Jason and IA are deliberately working to redirect all search traffic to IA from the original mirrors by constantly creating useless