Re: Got it: RD54 formatting write protect solved

2019-11-19 Thread Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
Nice going! Related story: I had probs formatting a maxtor 11xx (not an actual xt-2190 but really close) as an rd54 due to geometry differences and binary patched that formatter to deal with it using the xxdp equivalent of od. Have the patched xxdp formatter binary on an rl02 pack here if

Re: Meantime, fixing RX50's.

2019-11-19 Thread Jacob Ritorto via cctalk
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 19, 2019, at 17:07, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > > So while trying to figure out this XXDP format error (the FCT Write protect > enabled one that's stopping me from formatting an RD54) I spent a bit of time > copying the floppy to a backup disk. My RX50

Got it: RD54 formatting write protect solved

2019-11-19 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Figured it out at last. On a BA23, the RD54 needs to be jumpered at the disk as UNIT 3, and I had it as unit 4. Thus the jumper needed to be between 3 and C, I had it one stake over between 4 and C. Fixed that, did the format where you do not select Autoformat, and downline load UIT and you

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:59 PM Chris Zach wrote: > Whelp, if you're planning on doing this early next year I'll start > dragging the KS10 box out of storage and cleaning it off. If you sell > the boards let me know so I can buy one and support your efforts. > Joerg is the one building and

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Whelp, if you're planning on doing this early next year I'll start dragging the KS10 box out of storage and cleaning it off. If you sell the boards let me know so I can buy one and support your efforts. CZ On 11/19/2019 7:53 PM, Josh Dersch wrote: On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:26 PM Daniel

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Josh Dersch via cctalk
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 2:26 PM Daniel Seagraves via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Nov 19, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Chris Zach via cctech < > cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > Ah. Another solution to the fabled "MASSBUS" to anything adapter? > Putting it in at the RH11-C level would

Re: Houston Computer Museum Warehouse Liquidation

2019-11-19 Thread Monty McGraw via cctalk
I have been to the warehouse once - and purchased a Commodore C64, 1541 Hard Disk, 1802 Color Monitor, a NOS sealed box of Verbatim 5 1/4" floppy disks, and a Tektronix 603 Storage Monitor. All of them are working well. Thomas responded to my Messenger PM with an appointment time. Monty On Tue,

Re: Houston Computer Museum Warehouse Liquidation

2019-11-19 Thread Eric Moore via cctalk
I have bought multiple items from Thomas and seen the warehouse in person repeatedly. On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 17:48 Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote: > Have any list members seen the place in person? > > Have any list members successfully bought anything yet? > > I have tried reaching Thomas by email

Re: Houston Computer Museum Warehouse Liquidation

2019-11-19 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
Have any list members seen the place in person? Have any list members successfully bought anything yet? I have tried reaching Thomas by email and phone, to no avail. Just wondering if others have had similar challenges. Thanks, Kyle

Re: Houston Computer Museum Warehouse Liquidation

2019-11-19 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> I have seen multiple posts over time speculating about flooding in the > warehouse. I would like to assure everyone that the warehouse has never > flooded, and that any posts to the contrary are inaccurate or greatly > exaggerated. The very best way to convince people of the lack of water

Re: TRS-80 Model III and IV parts needed (keycaps, keyboard switch, ribbon cable, floppy drive parts)

2019-11-19 Thread rescue via cctalk
On 2019-11-05 14:00, rescue wrote: So, on this Model III I'm working on the following keycaps are missing: 1/! key right shift key Still looking for these or a donor model I, III, or IV keyboard. Looks like keycaps from a Model III, and possibly a model I would work. Probably a Model IV

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Chris Zach via cctech > wrote: > > Ah. Another solution to the fabled "MASSBUS" to anything adapter? Putting it > in at the RH11-C level would remove a fair bit of complexity, then you could > simply emulate all the Massbuss insanity through the relatively

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 62, Issue 19

2019-11-19 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/19/19 11:05 AM, Adam Thornton via cctalk wrote: > I might have had something to do with > > https://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/njeip > > And as far as I remember, at least some of it was BSD licensed, so if > that's what floats your boat...knock yerself out. So where were you guys 35

Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 62, Issue 19

2019-11-19 Thread Adam Thornton via cctalk
I might have had something to do with https://www.sinenomine.net/products/vm/njeip And as far as I remember, at least some of it was BSD licensed, so if that's what floats your boat...knock yerself out.

Houston Computer Museum Warehouse Liquidation

2019-11-19 Thread Thomas Raguso via cctalk
I have seen multiple posts over time speculating about flooding in the warehouse. I would like to assure everyone that the warehouse has never flooded, and that any posts to the contrary are inaccurate or greatly exaggerated. I have cleared a significant area inside the warehouse and have not

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/19/19 8:43 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 11/18/19 7:34 PM, Frank McConnell wrote: >> Wall Data (5250 emulator, maybe 3270 too) > > yes, both, 'Rumba' which supported several different boards/drivers I've also been chasing down the history of the ASICs used on 'Irma' boards

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/18/19 7:34 PM, Frank McConnell wrote: > Wall Data (5250 emulator, maybe 3270 too) yes, both, 'Rumba' which supported several different boards/drivers they bought the Apple Nubus coax/twinax board product line and snaPS software product line as well (I've been trying to find the

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 11/19/19 1:36 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: > I don't think its really "the same" anymore since it took on much of HPEs > software. But essentially the great grandchild of the business which I > believe started Don Higgins 370 emulator. > >

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 11/19/19 2:51 AM, alan--- via cctalk wrote: > Are there any ideal resources I should be looking at?  I've browsed through > the GC30-3073-1 SNA Technical Overview but > it doesn't cover differences in LU types I put up a few more documents over the last few weeks, some would work well for

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Daniel Seagraves via cctalk
> On Nov 19, 2019, at 5:41 AM, Jörg Hoppe via cctalk > wrote: > > Several people asked to make UniBone PDP-10able, it should be not problem. > > UNIBUS PA,PB are (like all other signals) just pins on a GPIO multiplier, no > interpretation is done in hardware. > > On software side the PRU

UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Jörg Hoppe via cctalk
Daniel, >> >> Yes, can (get a kit with SMT work done) > > OK, that’s the answer I needed; > If I want to put one of these in a KS10, can the parity lines be hacked from the software > (the KS10 uses them as two extra data bits) or are they hard-wired to parity? Several people asked to make

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 11/18/2019 6:42 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote: > > I find it interesting that the field of comms interoperability with IBM > mainframes was huge up until TCP/IP > took over, and all traces of the software implementations have disappeared or > were consolidated into a couple > like Micro

Re: UniBone: Linux-to-DEC-UNIBUS-bridge, year #1

2019-11-19 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
Ah. Another solution to the fabled "MASSBUS" to anything adapter? Putting it in at the RH11-C level would remove a fair bit of complexity, then you could simply emulate all the Massbuss insanity through the relatively simple registers that an RH11 uses I wouldn't mind having eight RP06's

Re: message from andrew (was 3270 controller simulation)

2019-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 02:46, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > Please feel free to copy the above to the mailing list - I definitely > want to join (do you know if it is possible to join with a GMail > account, the last I heard was I was waiting to be approved) It absolutely is -- that's how I use

Re: Question about "Distributed" in the DFT name.

2019-11-19 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 19:24, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote: > > On 11/18/19 11:10 AM, Paul Koning wrote: > > > For example, I'm not sure anyone would call VMS an open system, yet > > clearly it's distributed (VAXcluster). > > What is "open" in this context? Is it open source? Is it open >

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread alan--- via cctalk
On 2019-11-18 19:42, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: I find it interesting that the field of comms interoperability with IBM mainframes was huge up until TCP/IP took over, and all traces of the software implementations have disappeared or were consolidated into a couple like Micro Focus. In

Conitec GRIP and GRIP-Color

2019-11-19 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Hi all, Some time ago I've got from a friend a defective ECB Bus Card named GRIP-4, that's a ancient Z80 based graphic display controller Card using the MC6845/HD6345 CRT Controller made by the (still existing) german Company Conitec in the 80s. Additional I've got an empty extension PCB called

Re: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 11/19/2019 1:36 AM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: -Original Message- From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via cctalk Sent: 19 November 2019 03:45 To: Will Cooke via cctalk Subject: Re: 3270 controller simulation On 11/18/19 5:36 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: I find it

RE: 3270 controller simulation

2019-11-19 Thread Dave Wade via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis via > cctalk > Sent: 19 November 2019 03:45 > To: Will Cooke via cctalk > Subject: Re: 3270 controller simulation > > On 11/18/19 5:36 PM, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote: > > > I find it interesting that one of the few remaining