Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Paul Anderson via cctalk
Hi Bill, I have a bunch of both DEC and compatible memories, and extra CPUs. If you need anything, contact me off list. Thanks, Paul On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 12:49 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Well, I have decided to stop playing with my hardware for a while a

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-11 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
> On January 11, 2019 at 10:57 PM ED SHARPE via cctalk > wrote: > > > (OK I TRY THIS AGAIN!) > > THIS BELL MAC   YOU  SHOW  IS VERY  SCARCE ACTUALLY! > IT IS REALLY GREAT THAT  IT  HAS A MANUAL AND  LIGHTS  UP! > Yeah. It took all the discipline I had not to bid on it. I hope someone on

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-11 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
(OK I TRY THIS AGAIN!) THIS BELL MAC   YOU  SHOW  IS VERY  SCARCE ACTUALLY! IT IS REALLY GREAT THAT  IT  HAS A MANUAL AND  LIGHTS  UP! In a message dated 1/11/2019 8:48:22 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: VERY  SCARE ACTUALLY. AND  GREAT IT  HAS A MANUAL AND  LIGHTS 

Re: Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-11 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
VERY  SCARE ACTUALLY. AND  GREAT IT  HAS A MANUAL AND  LIGHTS  UP In a message dated 1/11/2019 8:12:53 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: I stumbled on this on ebay:https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bell-Laboratories-MAC-8-Processor-Tutor-1977-vintage-/202558325147Thought someon

Bellmac 8 Tutor on ebay

2019-01-11 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
I stumbled on this on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bell-Laboratories-MAC-8-Processor-Tutor-1977-vintage-/202558325147 Thought someone here might be interested. I have no affiliation. Will "He may look dumb but that's just a disguise."  -- Charlie Daniels "The names of global variables should

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:24 PM Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > > On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Adrian Graham via cctalk > > wrote: > >> It’s going back severalteen years now but I’m pretty sure I bu

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 4:55 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Adrian Graham via cctalk > wrote: >> It’s going back severalteen years now but I’m pretty sure I built a Micro 73 >> into a BA123, it’s a CD22 backplane after all. I still have all the cards >

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 7:11 PM Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: > It’s going back severalteen years now but I’m pretty sure I built a Micro 73 > into a BA123, it’s a CD22 backplane after all. I still have all the cards AND > the BA123 but I’m supposed to be turning it back into the MVII it was

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 11 Jan 2019, at 23:59, Ethan Dicks via cctalk > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 4:39 PM Pete Turnbull via cctalk > wrote: >>> Mine are all BA23. Wasn't the BA123 for the MicroVAX? >> >> No, it was introduced for the microPDP-11 series, and only later used >> for MicroVAX and MicroVA

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 4:39 PM Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: > > Mine are all BA23. Wasn't the BA123 for the MicroVAX? > > No, it was introduced for the microPDP-11 series, and only later used > for MicroVAX and MicroVAX-II. There are many microPDP-11/83 machines in > BA123 cabinets, it was a

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:51 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > Mine are all BA23. Wasn't the BA123 for the MicroVAX? As sold, most likely. I don't think DEC ever configured any MicroPDP systems in a BA123 but no reason it doesn't work. I got an empty BA123 a while back and when I get a ni

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 11/01/2019 20:51, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Listed what I'm using in the beginning of this thread. Just CPU and Memory at this point. OK, I didn't see that - sorry. BTW, BA23 and BA123 microPDP-11 backplanes aren't the same - it's the first 4 slots that differ in a BA123, and slot

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 3:41 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > On 01/11/2019 02:55 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >> On 1/11/19 2:25 PM, Allison Parent via cctalk wrote: >>> Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. For most microspheres >>> backplanes the first three slots are different than rem

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 3:38 PM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: > On 11/01/2019 19:59, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > >> MicroPDP box has first three slots A-B-C-D to support PMI >> memory and the rest are serpentine A-B. >> >> Even giving a bus grant problem, I can't see that causing a CSR >> error.  I

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 3:34 PM, Jerry Weiss wrote: > On 1/11/19 11:28 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >> Well, it has been so long since I had to put together an >> entire system I forgot what fun it can be. >> >> With almost documentation I was able to configure 4 1meg >> memory modules and I tested the

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 3:24 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > On 01/11/2019 02:32 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: >> > From: Allison Parent >> >> > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. >> >> The only -11 that complains if the grant chain is broken that I know of is >> the /34 (maybe the

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread allison via cctalk
On 01/11/2019 02:55 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > On 1/11/19 2:25 PM, Allison Parent via cctalk wrote: >> Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. For most microspheres >> backplanes the first three slots are different than remaining. > Yes, that's true. But the problem doesn'

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Pete Turnbull via cctalk
On 11/01/2019 19:59, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: MicroPDP box has first three slots A-B-C-D to support PMI memory and the rest are serpentine A-B. Even giving a bus grant problem, I can't see that causing a CSR error. I will probably have to dig out another box this weekend just to be su

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 1/11/19 11:28 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Well, it has been so long since I had to put together an entire system I forgot what fun it can be. With almost documentation I was able to configure 4 1meg memory modules and I tested them all in my 11/23+ box. KDJ11-B with 4 different (b

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread allison via cctalk
On 01/11/2019 02:32 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Allison Parent > > > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. > > The only -11 that complains if the grant chain is broken that I know of is > the /34 (maybe the /04 too). I certainly have a QBUS chassis right next to

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 2:32 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Allison Parent > > > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. > > The only -11 that complains if the grant chain is broken that I know of is > the /34 (maybe the /04 too). I certainly have a QBUS chassis right next to

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 1/11/19 2:25 PM, Allison Parent via cctalk wrote: > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. For most microspheres > backplanes the first three slots are different than remaining. Yes, that's true. But the problem doesn't occur until the 5th slot. And a quick look at the C-D edges o

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > They'd nicely compliment or house those new QSIC indicator panels > you've been working up, huh? :-) Complement. I already have a large stack of empty bezels, acquired to hold the indicator panels... :-) Although Dave Bridgham has been playing with the CNC mil

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Allison Parent > Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. The only -11 that complains if the grant chain is broken that I know of is the /34 (maybe the /04 too). I certainly have a QBUS chassis right next to my workstation here that i) has a bunch of empty slots, and ii)

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
> If the half panels are for sale, I'll take them! :-) They’d nicely compliment or house those new QSIC indicator panels you’ve been working up, huh? :-)

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Allison Parent via cctalk
Most Probable cause is interrupt grant is broken. For most microspheres backplanes the first three slots are different than remaining. Phoned this in! On Jan 11, 2019, at 12:28 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Well, it has been so long since I had to put together an entire system I f

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > I think I see an H960 with a couple DEC half panels stuck on it peeking > out of the very back there... Two H960's, actually - it looks like there's another one in front of that one. If the half panels are for sale, I'll take them! :-) Noel

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk
> On Jan 11, 2019, at 9:58 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk > wrote: > >> Looks like the "Mainframe" is an IBM Series/1 which is not a Mainframe, and >> I would say has limited appeal to collectors as there are few resources out >> there as the software is all fully licenced so its had to make

Re: Who is in Houston?

2019-01-11 Thread Ryan Eisworth via cctalk
On Jan 11, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > 2 storage sheds were bought at auction. Includes mainframes, terminals, dot > matrix printers, monitors, PS/2 and PS/2 machines, etc. I'm very close to Houston (Brenham) and I make trips there several times a week. -- Ryan Eis

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
I think I see an H960 with a couple DEC half panels stuck on it peeking out of the very back there...

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
thank God   for  Hoarders!   what a   stash! In a message dated 1/11/2019 10:49:45 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye This is the pic I was sent. Original msg should have said PS/1 and PS/2. Cindy Cro

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 11:49:33AM -0600, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye That looks like a job for many, many, people. mcl

Re: Who is in Houston?

2019-01-11 Thread Mark Linimon via cctalk
I'm in Austin but am due for a road trip to Houston I suppose. If no one else in Houston can go check it out ... mcl

RE: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
You guys decide what looks interesting and what you want to pay for it. The Series/1 is already claimed, but there is another big beast, not in the pic. Somebody make a spreadsheet or something. I am willing to go to Houston, and I have a friend from Austin with a truck and trailer that will hel

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Katz via cctalk
I spy some Sun CRTs and that ATEX cabinet looks interesting. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:49 PM Electronics Plus via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye > > > > This is the pic I was sent. Original msg should have said PS/1 and

Re: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> Looks like the "Mainframe" is an IBM Series/1 which is not a Mainframe, and > I would say has limited appeal to collectors as there are few resources out > there as the software is all fully licenced so its had to make legal copies. It does not help that the OS software also sucks. -- Will

RE: IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
Looks like the "Mainframe" is an IBM Series/1 which is not a Mainframe, and I would say has limited appeal to collectors as there are few resources out there as the software is all fully licenced so its had to make legal copies. Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Elec

IBM in TX

2019-01-11 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xwq1JKaMPVXLXJwhocWf9qTogANG2iye This is the pic I was sent. Original msg should have said PS/1 and PS/2. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Re: Who is in Houston?

2019-01-11 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
Hi Cindy, On 01/11/2019 10:37 AM, Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: 2 storage sheds were bought at auction. Includes mainframes, terminals, dot matrix printers, monitors, PS/2 and PS/2 machines, etc. Can I get more details on this? I know someone that's in Texas (other than you) that owns a

Re: Who is in Houston?

2019-01-11 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
Who bought the pile? What are the mainframes? Ex Houston Computer Museum? -- Will On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:38 PM Electronics Plus via cctalk wrote: > > 2 storage sheds were bought at auction. Includes mainframes, terminals, dot > matrix printers, monitors, PS/2 and PS/2 machines, etc. > > >

Who is in Houston?

2019-01-11 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
2 storage sheds were bought at auction. Includes mainframes, terminals, dot matrix printers, monitors, PS/2 and PS/2 machines, etc. Cindy Croxton Electronics Plus 1613 Water Street Kerrville, TX 78028 830-370-3239 cell sa...@elecplus.com --- This email has been checked for viruses by

Re: PDP-11 Memory

2019-01-11 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
Well, it has been so long since I had to put together an entire system I forgot what fun it can be. With almost documentation I was able to configure 4 1meg memory modules and I tested them all in my 11/23+ box. KDJ11-B with 4 different (but similar) memory cards. "MAP" option of the KDJ11 show

Re: Interest in a DiscFerret?

2019-01-11 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 1/10/19 7:05 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > But getting too cheap on this one-off sort of stuff gets silly after awhile. But cctlk navel contemplation and bile generation is sooo much more fun than producing anything USEFUL

Re: Interest in a DiscFerret?

2019-01-11 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:55 PM Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote: > Cool, another possible. Ironically I have a 9121 and a 9123, not a 9122. > Now to work out whether the difference is significant. I think that other than the PSU, the HP9122 and HP9123 are much the same. The HP9122 has an internal P