Re: PDP11/03 BA-11M Front panel switch replacement

2018-02-26 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 02/26/2018 04:18 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk wrote: On 2/25/2018 10:40 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: I have a BA11-M box with the usual front panel control, however it was damaged and all three

Re: PDP11/03 BA-11M Front panel switch replacement

2018-02-26 Thread Douglas Taylor via cctalk
On 2/25/2018 10:40 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 7:50 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: I have a BA11-M box with the usual front panel control, however it was damaged and all three switches have been sheared off.  The LED's and the circuit

RE: What is vintage

2018-02-26 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Jay West via cctalk wrote: The OP was being sarcastic. Please not this thread again. . . . and a sarcastic response just further exacerbates the situation. Sorry.

Writing emulators (Was: SimH DECtape vs. Tops-10 [was RE: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]]

2018-02-26 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
The purpose of an emulator is to accurately pretend to be the original hardware. It doesn't matter that the original OS runs on a particular emulator. If a program can be written that runs on the original hardware but fails on the emulator then there is a flaw in that emulator. On Mon, 26 Feb

Re: DEC Pro 350

2018-02-26 Thread Kurt Hamm via cctalk
Yeah, the fact that the issue is intermittent (mostly not booting) is weird. Just to be clear, You mentioned a 25 pin connector. My understanding is that the console port is the printer port which is a 9 pin connector. Thanks for the info. I have ordered the stuff to make a cable so should

Re: SimH DECtape vs. Tops-10 [was RE: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]]

2018-02-26 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > Another example is the work pdp2011 had to do in order to make RSTS boot on > that FPGA based PDP-11 emulation, because RSTS was doing some CPU-specific > hackery to test for an obscure CPU (or FPU?) bug

Re: Why don't you respect the mail threads?!

2018-02-26 Thread Mike Stein via cctalk
- Original Message - From: "Tomasz Rola via cctalk" To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" Sent: Monday, February 26, 2018 3:18 PM Subject: Re: Why don't you respect the mail threads?! > ... I do not feel the need to have

Re: SimH DECtape vs. Tops-10 [was RE: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]]

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 12:06 PM, Doug Ingraham via cctalk > wrote: > > The purpose of an emulator is to accurately pretend to be the original > hardware. It doesn't matter that the original OS runs on a particular > emulator. If a program can be written that runs on

Re: Why don't you respect the mail threads?!

2018-02-26 Thread Tomasz Rola via cctalk
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 03:36:08PM -0500, Evan Koblentz via cctalk wrote: > It's gone meta: people threadjacking a thread about threadjacking. > Now it's some posters trying to show others who is smartest about > arcane details of obsolete email software. Hey, I hope you do not mean that I am

Re: DEC Pro 350

2018-02-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Kurt Hamm > If anyone has any thoughts, I would appreciate it. You probably already know this, but... My sense is that a collector of classic computers has to be able to diagnose and repair at the component level - get in there with an oscilloscope and a set of prints (creating

Re: SimH DECtape vs. Tops-10 [was RE: Writing emulators [Was: Re: VCF PNW 2018: Pictures!]]

2018-02-26 Thread Doug Ingraham via cctalk
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Rick Murphy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 2/21/2018 5:14 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > >> Ok, then it could be for VMS, which also does this (via Andy's >> unsupported driver). I don't know of PDP-11 or other minicomputer systems >> that

Re: What is vintage

2018-02-26 Thread Gary Sparkes via cctalk
I SUCK at basic arithmetic. But i'm stupidly fast with a slide rule. I'm in between useless and obtuse! On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:56 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Zane Healy wrote: > >> I’ve started seeing toys (mainly action figures) from

Re: DEC Pro 350

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Feb 25, 2018, at 5:39 PM, Kurt Hamm via cctalk > wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. Interestingly, upon first boot I was able to > get the hard disk controller error with the picture of the computer. Then, > sure subsequent reboots failed to display anything.

Re: Honeywell DDP-516 console on Ebay - PLEASE don't bid!

2018-02-26 Thread Philipp Hachtmann via cctalk
Hello again, On 24.02.2018 04:42, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: so did u get it? Yes, I won the auction at a badly high price. :-) :-) :-) :-) Kind regards Philipp