Re: Gould 32/77 (was: NWA auctions)

2016-11-03 Thread Tony Aiuto
Bob: I have not found any Gould software yet but last night I found a packet of all the UTX-32 documentation on microfiche. When you are ready for it, let me know how to mail it to you. On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:12 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > There are some new scans up now for

Re: VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

2016-11-03 Thread Ken Seefried
I've heard Modula-3 (from DEC SRC and Olivetti Research Center) called "the Ada regular programmers would adopt". They never did, of course, because Olivetti decided research wasn't that important and DEC got bought and a lot of other reasons that are documented elsewhere. Not to get into a

Re: Looking for Prompt-475

2016-11-03 Thread Eric Smith
On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:42 AM, dwight wrote: > The UPP had a bug that was never fixed. The level for the > [...] > The problem was in an app note. Their solution was to put > a few NOPs at the start of the code. It worked most of the time. > Wow! I noticed the NOPs when I

Re: R: What interest in a

2016-11-03 Thread Norman Jaffe
Hi: As an ex-HPer, I'm also interested in this machine, but I suspect that shipping to Vancouver, Canada, will be exorbitant. From: "Mazzini Alessandro" To: "cctalk" Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:05:13 AM Subject: R: What interest in a Hi,

RE: Looking for info on a CAMAC module - Kinetic 3912 Unibus Crate Controller

2016-11-03 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jon Elson > Sent: 02 November 2016 16:24 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Looking for info on a CAMAC

Re: QIC-150 1/4" Cartridge Drive with Emulex MT-02 SCSI-QIC Controller?

2016-11-03 Thread j...@cimmeri.com
On 11/3/2016 10:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: Will an Emulex MT-02 SCSI->QIC tape controller work with a Wangtek 5150EQ (QIC-150) Tape Drive? I'd give it a try as I think it might. The 5150 can read the earlier formats fine. - J.

Re: QIC-150 1/4" Cartridge Drive with Emulex MT-02 SCSI-QIC Controller?

2016-11-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/3/16 8:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: > I have a bunch of old (1980's) QIC-24 tapes written with the old 5099EQ > drive that I want to look through and archive in a different form. > I would really suggest doing this on a more modern machine with a Tandberg Data SCSI drive.

Re: QIC-150 1/4" Cartridge Drive with Emulex MT-02 SCSI-QIC Controller?

2016-11-03 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/3/16 8:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: > Hello, all, > > Question of the day: > > Will an Emulex MT-02 SCSI->QIC tape controller work with a Wangtek 5150EQ > (QIC-150) Tape Drive? > I don't think so. The MT-02 supported QIC-11 and 24 formats, and the 5150 uses QIC-150, so I think it's

R: What interest in a

2016-11-03 Thread Mazzini Alessandro
Hi, very interesting machine. I've always been a fan of hp-ux... How much would you think it's going to cost, to ship to Italy ? ( near Milan ) Alessandro -Messaggio originale- Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] Per conto di Richard Inviato: giovedì 3 novembre 2016 15:38

Re: QIC-150 1/4" Cartridge Drive with Emulex MT-02 SCSI-QIC Controller?

2016-11-03 Thread Jon Auringer
Hi Rick, On 2016-11-03 10:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote: ...I've got a bunch of new tension bands I don't have an answer to your question, but am curious as to where you acquired the replacements. Thanks, -Jon

QIC-150 1/4" Cartridge Drive with Emulex MT-02 SCSI-QIC Controller?

2016-11-03 Thread Rick Bensene
Hello, all, Question of the day: Will an Emulex MT-02 SCSI->QIC tape controller work with a Wangtek 5150EQ (QIC-150) Tape Drive? I am trying to resurrect an old Tektronix 4132 Unix workstation. The 1/4" Wangtek 5099EQ drive that was in the machine was toast, something on the drive's

What interest in a

2016-11-03 Thread Richard
Hi to everyone, I have a PrecisionBook laptop made by RDI Computer Corporation in Carlsbad, CA. It's a Model #H16-12-8-256L2S with a 4050mAHr battery, a 6.5Gb hard drive with data and a 4.0Gb hard drive with HP-UX 10.2. I also have the charger for it. It works but I have no documentation at

Re: Looking for Prompt-475

2016-11-03 Thread allison
On 11/2/16 2:18 PM, dwight wrote: It had been a long time since I'd worked at Intel but I recall having to use a different UPP board for each. I worked for NEC microcomputers The other guys. IT was a few lifetimes ago, before DEC. I worked on the UPP with the 4040 uP. We had a MDS with

Re: Looking for Prompt-475

2016-11-03 Thread dwight
The UPP had a bug that was never fixed. The level for the reset was inverted for the 4040 from the 4004. They'd used a slow transistor to create the inverter but released the 4040 before the 4001's. The first few fetches would sometimes send it to strange places in the code. The fix was

Re: Looking for info on a CAMAC module - Kinetic 3912 Unibus Crate Controller

2016-11-03 Thread Pete Lancashire
For me starting in my early 20's at a Test & Measurement company, (btw at one time has to option to buy DEC) and being in the division that stuck a PDP11/40 (eventually a 11/84) in a rack along a bunch of T I've been from time to time collecting, specially from what I consider the boom years, the

Re: [TUHS] Booting PDP-11's from RX02's

2016-11-03 Thread Eric Smith
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:53 AM, allison wrote: > On 10/31/2016 07:45 PM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > > On 10/31/16 3:08 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote: > > > >> Isn't there some weird crap in track 0 on DECmate RX01s > > It also has the slushware code, aka front panel space code to