Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-29 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Which brings us to the real problem: we don’t have 360 Model 50 ALDs. Anyone has them? Marc From: cctalk on behalf of "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Reply-To: Jon Elson , "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Date: Friday, March 29, 2019 at 8:45 AM To: Ken Shirriff , , "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Subject: Re:

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/29/2019 3:37 PM, Nemo Nusquam via cctalk wrote: On 03/29/19 14:08, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 19:01, ben via cctalk wrote: I have been trying to read the Dr Dobbs PDF scans and a few other PDF's. They seem to work only with the NAME BRAND pdf reader. Of course I

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread Nemo Nusquam via cctalk
On 03/29/19 14:08, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 19:01, ben via cctalk wrote: I have been trying to read the Dr Dobbs PDF scans and a few other PDF's. They seem to work only with the NAME BRAND pdf reader. Of course I use the OTHER brand. Since you don't name names, I ca

Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-29 Thread dwight via cctalk
>From an emulation standpoint, latch or flop is not necessarily an issue. It is >that it is a state holding element. The only potential issue is if he was >doing clock cycle emulation. He'd need to understand what was originally >considered a clock cycle. Dwight

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/29/2019 12:18 PM, Hagstrom, Paul wrote: Perhaps an obvious thing to say, but I'm sure others who have encountered this would appreciate your efforts if you were to re-scan these things or convert existing scans from the format you are having difficulty with into a format that is less pro

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread Hagstrom, Paul via cctalk
> On Mar 29, 2019, at 2:01 PM, ben via cctalk wrote: > > I have been trying to read the Dr Dobbs PDF scans and a few other PDF's. They > seem to work only with the NAME BRAND pdf reader. Of course I use the OTHER > brand. It would be nice if when scanning a file THEY used a generic output >

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 at 19:01, ben via cctalk wrote: > I have been trying to read the Dr Dobbs PDF scans and a few other PDF's. > They seem to work only with the NAME BRAND pdf reader. Of course I use > the OTHER brand. Since you don't name names, I can't directly comment. We don't know what OS yo

Re: Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread ben via cctalk
On 3/29/2019 4:57 AM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: In a previous thread I asked for a couple of specific pages from Byte magazine, which I got (thanks to all, especially Peter, for helping out!) But that brings up a bigger issue (no pun intended.) About a year ago I found the Byte scans on am

Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-29 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Mar 29, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > ... > Oh, one other issue is the 360's had no FFs. All storage elements were > transparent latches, and they generally used a 4-phase clock. The same is true for the CDC 6600. Not a big surprise; a transparent latch can b

Re: Apollo Ethernet EPROM mystery

2019-03-29 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
My DN3000 has a 3C505 that I got off of eBay in 2012. It does *not* have a boot ROM, just the firmware EEPROMS - National NMC27C64N. Works fine, if I recall correctly. I expect I would have tested it as soon as I got it, and I did an assign an IP address to it. Unfortunately, my "lab notes" are

Re: IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-29 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 03/28/2019 11:46 AM, Ken Shirriff via cctalk wrote: I'm writing a S/360 Model 50 emulator that runs at the microcode level, in order to drive a Model 50 front panel accurately. I'm about 80% of the way there, but there are some microcode operations that I haven't figured out. So I figured I'd

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-29 Thread Johnny Eriksson via cctalk
Noel Chiappa wrote: > > It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies > > I was meaning before that; somewhere in Scandanavia, I expect? Eh, not that > important, I guess. >From Finland. Sold used by DEC Sweden to Stacken, for 1 SEK (aound 20 cents at that time).

Re: VCF/PNW Exhibit & Trip Report - The Old Calculator Museum

2019-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mattis Lind >> Ah. I wonder where it came from originally? > It has been in use at STACKEN at least since the beginning of the 80ies I was meaning before that; somewhere in Scandanavia, I expect? Eh, not that important, I guess. >> And it's odd (to me, at least) to see

Byte Magazine

2019-03-29 Thread Will Cooke via cctalk
In a previous thread I asked for a couple of specific pages from Byte magazine, which I got (thanks to all, especially Peter, for helping out!) But that brings up a bigger issue (no pun intended.) About a year ago I found the Byte scans on americanradiohistory.org and started reading from the

Re: Looking for Byte Jan 78 missing page

2019-03-29 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 10:29, Tor Arntsen wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 01:41, Randy Dawson via cctalk > wrote: > > > > The american radio history site has this byte issue intact, with your > > missing pages: > > > > https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/70s/Byte-1978-01.pdf > >

IBM 360 Model 50 information?

2019-03-29 Thread Ken Shirriff via cctalk
I'm writing a S/360 Model 50 emulator that runs at the microcode level, in order to drive a Model 50 front panel accurately. I'm about 80% of the way there, but there are some microcode operations that I haven't figured out. So I figured I'd ask if anyone has obscure Model 50 manuals that aren't on