[cctalk] Re: Stuff to go or it's off to the dumpster

2023-02-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > So these go *into* RK06 or 07 drives? Yes; per the "Field Guide to UNIBUS and QBUS Modules". Also: https://gunkies.org/wiki/RK611_disk_controller reveals that the RK611 contains "five hex cards" (listed there). Noel

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-06 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> the later "pdp11 bus hanbook" (which, as mentioned, does not seem to be > online yet, alas) Arck, I'm a moron; Paul has pointed out to me that this is, in fact, online at Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks/PDP11_BusHandbook1979.pdf It didn't show up in a

Re: UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > You might give a precise source citation on that page. Done: https://gunkies.org/w/index.php?title=UNIBUS_Initialization=6842=25463=25451 Don't complain to me if the publication data is skimpy; that's all that's in it! (I mean, we all know that DEC is in

UNIBUS powoer on/off spec

2022-04-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I looked at the early editions of the "pdp11 peripherals hanbook", which have good, detailed discussions of UNIBUS operations (at the back; chapter 5, "UNIBUS Theory and Operation", in the 1976 edition), but in contrast to the level of detail given for master/slave operations, and bus requests

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: "Rob Jarratt" > I did plug the connector back in, so that DCLO and > LTC are connected, I just removed the ACLO pin. Ah, OK, good. Pulling the pins from those Mate-n-Loc shells without the right tool is tricky; glad you did it, because as Brent Hilpert pointed out, having a

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> The 'unused' gate in E52 is the one that the added wires from the ACLO > ECO went to; I wonder if it was damaged by the -15V, somehow? So, I checked, and the wire that goes from the plated-through hole next to the etch cut on E70p1 winds up at E52p4 (the bus line on that transceiver),

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> It was quite a struggle to separate those nylon connectors, is there a > trick to it? You mean the Mate-n-lok's? Not really; just make sure the catch is released. What did you do about DCLO? (Oh, I think I see the answer, below looks like you're relying on the pullup on K3...)

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Finally found time to get to this one... > From: Rob Jarratt > However, there is a puzzle. On the CPU I found that the track from the > pull up resistor to E70 has been cut. I don't know about the "pull up resistor" part, but I have several KDF11-U's, and _all_ of them have the

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> and there is some circuitry driving the clear input on the second > 123. Never mind this section. I mis-read the print; the clear input is connected to an _input_ of the flop below (which is also tied high). Noel

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> does [disabling the MCLK counter via DCLO, asserted by the two > E126 monostable chain from ACLO] happen just on power-down, or on > power-up too? I'd need to understand how that two monostable chain > works in both cases, which I currently don't. (I only understand >

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-04-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert >> ACLO is only used to trigger a 'power-failing' interrupt; CPU >> operation is otherwise un-affected by ACLO (so the CPU can get ready). >> DEC P/S's carefully sequence ACLO and DCLO such that on power-down, >> ACLO is asserted first (to allow the CPU

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > DCLO & ACLO behave as power-on-reset signals to the system. Minor nit: actually, I think it's DCLO which performs that function in a lot of places; see e.g. the latches on pg. K2 (pg. 153 of the PDF) and K7. (INIT, usually in buffered form, is used more widely for

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > So apparently I've been looking at the wrong +5V supply (H777) because > the rest of you are indeed looking at a different +5 supply (H7140), > both of which are in that same 11/24 pdf document That's because the H777 is the P/S for the BA11-L 5-1/4" box,

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tony Duell > A short in FET Q15 on the bias/interface board in the PSU could do it. > The gate of that FET is driven from an LM339 comparator the -ve supply > of which is -15V. Ah; I hadn't even looked at the P/S prints. (Like I said, I'm really weak on analog: for

Re: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > I found these two signals and ACLO is low (-15V) 'Good news, bad news'... Bad is that something is seriously wrong there; 'allowed' values are 0v (asserted) and +3V (un-asserted). I'm worried that the -15V will have taken out some of the semiconductors that are

Re: Loss of Museum in Ukraine

2022-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Murray McCullough > One can only hope that D. Cherepanov can rebuild his museum someday Is _he_ OK? (There are too many who aren't.) Noel

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Brent Hilpert > But the LED and CPU clock are not driven directly by that RC oscillator > - there's a bunch of logic in-between the oscillator and the LED / CPU > clock. Oh, sure; it was late (for me; the dog woke me up at AM today :-), and it had taken me a while to get

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: "Rob Jarratt" > Thanks for the lengthy reply. Glad to help - or try to. > As an aside I have also been trying to find a fault on a Pro 350 which > uses the same CPU chipset. I have a pinout but no datasheet. There doesn't seem to be as lot on the F-11 set. I looked in

RE: PDP 11/24 - A Step Backwards

2022-03-27 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > today I went back to it to check things a bit more carefully. All the > power outputs of the PSU appear nominal. > ... > Presumably, whatever the part is, it is stopping the CPU working, > because previously the CPU did appear to show some activity,

Re: DEC ME11-L core memory expansion unit drawings

2022-03-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven Malikoff > I have finally got around to scanning the print set for the DEC ME11-L > memory expansion unit Ah, thanks for that. The prints for the boards are available, in the PDP-11/05 Engineering Drawings (on pp. 115-137), but the MF11-L backplane was previously

RE: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-26 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>> (I have yet to check and see if the KY11-LB asserts SACK if the CPU >> halts on its own accord - probably 'yes', but that's a project for tomorrow.) Yes, it does. I toggled in the following program: 5000 5200 776 0 (what, you all can't program a PDP-11 in octal? :-) and hit

RE: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mattis Lind > What about the M9300 board? Do you have an idea what the purpose is of > that card? Yes, that one's well-documented and understood. It's intended for use on the 'B' UNIBUS of the RH11-AB, in deployment configuratons where that UNIBUS is in use, but there's no

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
First, a minor correction: > the M8264 Sack Timeout module ... there's next to nothing in print > about them There is also some coverage in EK-KD11E-TM-001, at: Section 4.7.2.4 "M8264 NO-SACK Timeout Module" (pg. 4-41, pg. 87 of the PDF), which I found while looking for parity stuff

Re: PMI memory on an -11/93 (Was: Installing an operating system on an 11/83)

2022-02-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Christian Gauger-Cosgrove > From the KDJ11-E module user's guide ... the solder-side of the CD > fingers is left unpopulated, but for the +5 and ground pins. > The only PMI compatible option then would be the KTJ11-B UNIBUS adapter. I forget how the -11/84-94 backplane is

Re: 'dd' for Windoze (Was: cctalk Digest, Vol 89, Issue 21)

2022-02-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rod Smallwood > dd is a linux command. UNIX, actually. (V5, I think: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/source/s1/dd.c There no 'man'page for it in V4. Anyway...) > I only have windows PC's. There are Windoze versions. I've used this one:

Re: PMI memory on an -11/93 (Was: Installing an operating system on an 11/83)

2022-02-22 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Gunshannon > Just wish I could get some PMI memory for that 93. ?? The KDJ11-E in the -11/93 comes with a minimum of 2MB on the CPU card. That's enough for almost 16 maximum-sized processes (assuming they aren't sharing program texts - almost double that, if they are). Does

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>> On Feb 19, 2022, at 10:51 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> The -11/34 (not the /34A) has something unusual for grant timeouts, >> but I forget the details. I'll look it up. And here it is... > From: Fritz Mueller > I think you are thinking of the

Re: rotron caravel fan used in DEC and other cabinets

2022-02-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Vincent Slyngstad > I had to replace one of those recently Where did you source the replacement? I need a few. Thanks! Noel

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> Neither the KD11-E nor the KD11-EA has built-in termination and pull-ups > ... I haven't yet checked, but it may be the only PDP-11 CPU of which > that is true Also the KD11-D of the -11/04. Noel

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I've made what I think is a significant discovery about the -11/34: > 1B _is_ necessary, but can be provided anywhere on the bus; most > UNIBUS/QBUS CPU [pullups] have it built in I was wrong. Neither the KD11-E nor the KD11-EA has built-in termination and pull-ups (those are both

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > SACK turnaround capability so that the machine doesn't hang accessing > an address that doesn't respond on the UNIBUS. Umm, I think you're mixing up i) grant timeouts and ii) master-slave timeouts. All PDP-11 CPUs have master-slave timeout handling; after a

KK11-A cache for -11/34A on eBait

2022-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Anyone want a KK11-A: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275173894774 US$200 sounds like a lot, I know, but KK11-A'S and FP11-A's are going for that much; an FP11-A just went for US$250. And KK11-A's are rare; this is he first one in a while. Noel

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > I suspect some of the other cards that were in the machine might do the > necessary termination stuff. Different answers for each part of the functionality. 1A and 1C fundamentally have be at the end of the bus, physically. So, unlikely; since _other_ cards

Re: Is The M9312 Boot Module Essential?

2022-02-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > is the M9312 essential to ever get this machine to boot up an operating > system? Interesting question. I don't have my -11/24 running yet, so this reply is theoretical, not tried in practice (and as we all know, the difference between theory and practice is

Re: PDP-11/34 CPU PROMS

2022-02-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Warner Losh > Do those chips have ROM numbers on them? I have updated the: https://gunkies.org/wiki/KD11-E_CPU https://gunkies.org/wiki/KD11-EA_CPU articles with the DEC part numbers for the i) microcode and ii) instruction decode PROms. That's not all the PROMs on the

Re: PDP-11/34 CPU PROMS

2022-02-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>>> On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM Rod Smallwood wrote: >>> On the M8266 CPU control board a defective 7404 (E111) has killed a >>> bunch of the PROMs holding the microcode. That's pretty astonishing; I've heard of PROMs dropping bits over time, but I'm a bit amazed to hear of a

Re: Anyone live in Minneapolis?

2022-02-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steve at oldcomputers.net > There are some vintage tablets in Minneapolis (Eden Prarire) that would > like, but the seller will not ship. > Any help? When dealing with eBaiters who can't/won't ship, I have had good luck with PakMail (http://www.pakmail.com/); for a

KW11-L ON eBait

2022-02-07 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
https://www.ebay.com/itm/393915648077 I've already got one for my machines that take one! Noel

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-01-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tom Gardner > You define logical disks by assigning a logical disk unit number to a > file on a physical disk. You can then use the logical disk as though it > were a physical disk. To me, 'partition' implies a contiguous are of the disk; "a file" to me implies that it

Re: Origin of "partition" in storage devices

2022-01-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > When did Unix first get partitions? 'Partitions' the mechanism, or partitions the term for the mechanism? The former appeared about V5: https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/dmr/rp.c when an RP03 was added; pre-V7, UNIX filesystems were

Re: What was a Terminal Concentration Device in DEC's products?

2022-01-31 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bob Smith > the original UART was designed by DEC, Vince Bastiani was the project > lead and designer, Gordon Bell was behind the project, and it may have > been his idea. "Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design" covers this, in a footnote on pg. 73.

Re: What was a Terminal Concentration Device in DEC's products?

2022-01-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > Maybe that is the dhv11. The DH11, DHV11 and DHU11 are all very similar, although not 100.00% program compatible. (The DHQ11 can be set to exactly emulate either the DHV11 or DHU11.) So, all provide DMA output, but not DMA input. Differences with the DH11 include

Re: What was a Terminal Concentration Device in DEC's products?

2022-01-29 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > DH-11 is unusual in that it has DMA in both directions McNamara's DH11? (I don't know of another DECdevice of that name.) Per: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/unibus/EK-ODH11-OP-002_DH11_Asynchronous_16-line_Multiplexer_Users_Manual_Sep76.pdf it's DMA on

Re: Question about DECtape formulation

2022-01-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Gary Oliver > Paul - thanks for the bitsavers reference. Ahem! In any case, it's Al who really deserves the credit, for finding that document, and putting it up. Noel

Re: Question about DECtape formulation

2022-01-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Gary Oliver > I've always thought the physical tape wound on a DECtape spool was a > fairly conventional 'sandwich' of mylar/oxide/mylar ... > Was there some kind of 'lubricating' coat on the data side? It makes > sense, but none of my DEC documents or Googling has any

Re: Typing in lost code

2022-01-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Gavin Scott > I think if I had a whole lot of old faded greenbar etc. ... Someone may > even have done this already See: https://walden-family.com/impcode/imp-code.pdf Someone's already done the specialist OCR to deal with faded program listings. Noel

PDP-11/34 FP11-A on eBait

2022-01-13 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Speaking of FP11-A's: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275096265379 I wouldn't mind having one, but not for that much! I wonder how much it will go for? Noel

Re: 8" Floppy Drives needed

2022-01-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 12:16 PM Mike Katz wrote: > I am looking to make a RX01 (and hopefully RX02) disk formatter Something that can format floppies for the RX01 can effectively format RX02 floppies, too. An RX02 drive can convert RX01-formatted floppies to RX02-formatted floppies.

PDF of FP11-A FMPS available

2022-01-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Just ran across this: http://wwcm.synology.me/pdf/MP00189%20FP11-A%20Field%20Maintenance%20Print%20Set.pdf which isn't available online in this form. (This appears to be a different scan from the one on the Maine Coon site, split up into several TIFF's, as it has the cover which that one

Re: Plessy core memory

2022-01-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > I'm guessing that the DD11-F is significantly different from the DD11-B? I assume theat "DD11-F" is a typo; there is, AFAIK, no DD11-F, and a Web search revealeddidn't turn anything up. (There are DD11-CF and -CK backplanes, as well as -DF and -DK, but the -CF and

Re: Plessy core memory

2022-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> an adapter cable to go from a 9-pin male (shell; female pins) to a > 15-pin female (shell; male pins) Sigh, shouldn't try to type when I'm this tired. Female 9-pin (to plug into the BA11-D) to male 15-pin (for the DD11-C/D to plug into). Noel

Re: Plessy core memory

2022-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > the DD11-B is a MUD backplane No, it's SPC; other sources, e.g. http://www.chdickman.com/pdp11/Notes/DD11.shtml agree. So if you have a DD11-B, you must have a BA11-D, with the 9-pin power plugs. The best thing to do is get a DD11-C or -D, and build an adapter

Re: Plessy core memory

2022-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > the secondary memory (a Plessy 700101-100) may be shorting the -15 line > for some reason. Working on it, but does anyone have a manual or > anything like that for this kind of memory board? I've got a Plessey core memory manual somewhere, but I can't find

Re: The Portable C Compiler (pcc)

2022-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tom Hunter > The original "Portable C Compiler" by S. C. Johnson (also known as > "pcc") had functional support for the Data General Nova. Could somebody > please point me to this original implementation? > ... > I am looking for the original implementation - not

Re: VAX 780 on eBay

2022-01-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> This: > https://www.ebay.com/itm/275084268137 > ... > Anyway I fully expect it to go ... for a _lot_ more than the opening price. Much to my surprise, it didn't sell at all (although a number of other lots, likely from this machine, did.) I'm rather puzzled that an -11/70

Re: Mate-n-lok connector for H744 Regulator

2022-01-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rob Jarratt > Does anyone know what the correct one is? This: http://gunkies.org/wiki/DEC_standard_modular_regulators has all the details. (If anyone knows of any PDP-11 hardware or UNIX information which is not on the CHWiki - I'm not interested in DEC PDP-11 software, but

Re: 3-phase power

2022-01-04 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jon Elson > It should be 208V Oh, right you are. It's been a long time, and I had a distinct memory that it was less than that, but I looked, and I think that's it. The term for my flavour of 3-phase is apparently "open wye/open delta"; each leg is 240V to the others, but only

Re: 3-phase power

2022-01-04 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Scott Quinn > I have seen some roads where the utility has 2 of the phases plus > neutral going down them, not true 2-phase power, but 2 phases 120/240 > degrees apart with the third phase just not present. My street has that. The subdivision as a whole has all 3 phases

Re: 11/785 on ebay (2018) - was Re: VAX 780 on eBay

2022-01-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Grant Taylor > From that last picture, it looks like one of the plugs is five pronged, > and looks very similar to the 120/208V 30A 3? plug in one of the > pictures about the current 780 auction. Not too surprising; the /780 and /785 are basically the same machine. (In

Re: What is a BC01-R

2022-01-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach >> Anyone know what an M857 is? I guess it might be a DF11 async answer >> mode? > No, it's a single width full height M series board from the early > 1970's. Argh, digit swappping on my part. The _M587_ is in the DN87 FMPS:

Re: VAX 780 on eBay

2022-01-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jonathan Chapman > Last one that went auction-style on eBay went for $1,178.00 When was that? Do you have any details of the machine's config? That's a pretty good deal for a 780 (IMO). Noel

Re: What is a BC01-R

2022-01-02 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > a M857 board with a RS232 cable on it and BC01R-25 on it. Anyone know what an M857 is? I guess it might be a DF11 async answer mode? I found this: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102731577 but I think the number there is wrong; I'm not sure

VAX 780 on eBay

2022-01-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
This: https://www.ebay.com/itm/275084268137 The starting price is expensive, but probably not utterly unreasonable, given that: - the 780 was the first VAX, and thus historically important - 780's are incredibly rare; this is the first one I recall seeing for sale in the classic computer

Cheap PDP-8 boards on eBait

2021-12-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
This guy: https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=jariadkin-0&_sop=10 has a couple of PDP-8 boards for sale that at the moment are going _really_ cheap. Noel

Re: Reproduction DEC 144-lamp indicator panels

2021-12-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tony Duell > I have _two_. But alas nothing to connect them to. Well, there are still a good flock of machines with IBM channels around, but _you_ don't have one (I can't blame you :-). I wonder if any of the people with IBM channel machines have any need to connect to an -11?

Re: RC11 controller (Was: Reproduction DEC 144-lamp indicator panels)

2021-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven Malikoff > Was there ever an indicator panel for the RC11? .. I have a set of RC11 > modules .. No backplane though. I've not found any docs for these, I suppose > they're probably on bitsavers and have overlooked them. Looking at the manual and engineering

Re: Reproduction DEC 144-lamp indicator panels

2021-12-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > Also, if someone (else, presumably) does up a replica of the indicator > panel board (perhaps with the option to use LEDs, with some resistor > packs that could be bypassed for lamps Two points. First,there's the question 'are you trying to produce

Re: RK11-C indicator panel inlays?

2021-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Rod Smallwood > Let me see what artwork I have I'm curious as to what you'd be able to find. Like I said, I'm pretty sure DEC never did an RK11-C inlay; the engineering drawings for the 19" indicator panel (included in the RF11 engineering drawings:

Re: Need picture of power supply mounted in 11/40 cabinet

2021-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Marc Howard > I've got an 11/40 I'm going to start working on. Problem is that there > are two power supplies (H742 and H7420) that came with it but neither > was mounted in the rack. -11/40's in general only have one of those large H742x suppplies in a rack. The

RK11-C indicator panel inlays?

2021-12-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Let me get this out before the list gets shut down _again_... There is discussion of doing a run of indicator panel inlays: http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/DECIndicatorPanels.html for the RK11-C (which is wired for an indicator panel, although as far as I know, DEC never did the inlay).

Re: Women of Computing

2021-12-05 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Can we please return to discussions of actual classic computers, before our long-suffering list host shuts the list down _again_ for this sort of argument, this time perhaps forever? Thank you. Noel

Re: PDP-11/70 Boards

2021-12-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Guy Sotomayor > I don't unfortunately have any light masks Dave Bridgham and I were manoeuvreing to be able to produce clones of the one you loaned me (he has access to a computer-controlled milling machine at his maker-space or whatever the name is for them now, and we bought a

Re: PDP-11/70 Boards

2021-12-01 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From the blog of someone who got a KB11-A working It's Fritz Mueller's blog; at about the top of this page: https://fritzm.github.io/category/pdp-116.html he's just turned the machine on for the first time, and you can follow as he chases, finds and fixes CPU problems. The KB11-C/D of

Re: PDP-11/70 Boards

2021-11-30 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Ed Cross > I'm currently restoring a PDP-11/70 system and need the following > boards to complete the CPU: FP11-C >From your mention of the FP11-C, I gather your -11/70 has a KB11-C (later) CPU, not the KB11-B CPU of the earlier PDP-11/70's (prior to 1976 - the difference

Re: The precarious state of classic software and hardware preservation

2021-11-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Adrian Stoness > [M?]iror everything guys make copies and stash > From: Paul Koning > The web can make things perpetual if they are stored redundantly ... > But anything centralized is just as vulnerable as any centralized copy > ever was, whether from risk of

Re: Apple cube cleaning

2021-11-19 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> rom: Paul Koning > WD-40 is a good solvent to use for adhesives stuck to plastic. It's > unlikely to hurt the plastic but it will soften the glue. My go-to solvent for non-ionized glue residues (use water for ionized) on all sorts of materials has been, for many years, mineral

Re: Looking for info on memory

2021-10-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Nigel Johnson Ham > an 11/23 will not work without bank zero memory It depends on what you mean by 'work'. If you mean 'ODT does not operate correctly', or 'the CPU won't run', I can assure you that neither of those is correct. Here is a recorded log from a session earlier today

Re: Looking for info on memory

2021-10-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Nigel Johnson > I will wait with bated breath! First things first; did you get either/both CPU's running ODT OK in a system containing just i) the CPU card and ii) the console serial interface? Noel

Re: Looking for info on memory

2021-10-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
A couple of comments on a number of things touched on in this thread: > From: Nigel Johnson Ham > Ah, well there you see the end of my technical knowledge. My observation is that since varying QBUS PDP-11 CPU's can be swapped in and out (unlike UNIBUS PDP-11's, where the CPU's backplane

DEC ML11 (Was: DEC KM11 (Was: DEC KL11))

2021-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tony Duell > Were there 2 things called the KM11? > The KM11 that I know is the maintenance unit > From: Paul Birkel > I think that we're all talking about the ML11-A, or at least are > intending to ... although the Subject line has been erroneous from the >

Re: DEC KM11 (Was: DEC KL11)

2021-09-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Paul Koning > But the sector format is a different matter. If it's designed for > PDP-11 and friends, presumably it has a 512 byte sector size. For > PDP-10 or -20 use you'd presumably want a sector size consisting of > some round number of 36 bit words. Actually, the

DEC KM11 (Was: DEC KL11)

2021-09-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Mark Kahrs There's a typo in your original Subject: line: the KL11 is a very early UNIBUS (probably the very first UNIBUS device ever, looking at the board's Mxxx number) asyn serial line interface: https://gunkies.org/wiki/KL11_asynchronous_serial_line_interface > manx tells

Re: DEC UNIBUS and use of cassette

2021-08-21 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Bill Degnan > Was there a UNIBUS storage system that used a cassette player as the > storage device .., rigged to send receive signals via a serial card > connection. Yes and no. There is the TA11 Magnetic Tape Cassette System, which used the TU60 Dual DECasette

RE: DQ11 prints needed

2021-08-12 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > BTW, I have only the sales brochure for the DM11, near as I can tell. > 114X-00871-1715/J . If you want me to drag the box of sales lit from > the garage, and scan it, me know - could do it next week. No major need for it; I found the DM11-AA Tech Manual in

Re: DQ11 prints needed

2021-08-10 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Jay Jaeger > ROTFL - especially given the earlier case, and since Noel knows about > you folks quite well.. The joke's actually on you: DQ11_RevL_Engineering_Drawings_Aug75.pdf 2021-08-09 14:05 I'd

Re: DQ11 prints needed

2021-08-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Al Kossow > Date: Mon Aug 9 14:05:07 CDT 2021 Wow! That was _amazing_ speed, to get that uploaded so quickly (even if you had already scanned it in), considering I only posted my request at 14:32 EDT! Thank you very, very much: that allowed me to complete the DQ11 page on the

DQ11 prints needed

2021-08-09 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Anyone have a set of DQ11 prints? The DQ11 MM is missing some important info, which is apparently only on the prints. Noel

DEC use of switching supplies (Was: Looking for VAX6000 items)

2021-07-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Chris Zach > The older Vaxes had linear power supplies if I recall up to the time > of the Decsystem/2020 (when they went switching at last) Really? The H742 power supply: https://gunkies.org/wiki/H742_Power_Supply (well, technically, the associated 'bricks', such as the

KI10/KL10 I/O bus terminator

2021-07-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Hey, anyone need a KI10/KL10 I/O Bus terminator: https://gunkies.org/wiki/File:KIKLIOBusTerm.jpg (H867)? Since I don't have either a KI10 or a KL10, I'm unlikely to ever have a need/use for this one! :-) Noel

Re: PDP-11/05 (was: PDP-11/05 microcode dump?)

2021-06-14 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Tom Uban > it has the early version M7261E Control Logic & Microprogram board and > the later version M7260 Data Paths board Ah, I'm glad someone found all that stuff I wrote up there useful. As always, I _think_ I got it all transcribed correctly, but do be on the lookout

H960 documentation

2021-05-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
So, I have images of two different pieces of DEC documentation for the H960 series of racks/cabinets (the H950 is the bare rack; the H960 is the rack complete with various appurtenances such as side panel, stabilizer feet, etc). I had a request for them, so I've put them online. They are:

Re: LCM

2021-05-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Lars Brinkhoff > Chris Zach wrote: >> I'll drop by and see which CHAOSNet card it has. > It may have been removed when we worked on getting ITS booted. For a long time AI used a UNIBUS CHAOSNet card, plugged into an -11 connected up to AI via the Rubin 10-11 interface.

Re: DEC weights

2021-05-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Barry M > H960 120 lbs (not sure if this includes the side panels) The H960 has a whole constellation of appurtenances which can add to the weight: sides, back door, back mounting frame, top fan(s), floor screen, stabilizer feet, etc, etc. I happen to have an empty H960 (well,

Re: RS64 on a PDP-8?

2021-05-23 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> Is there a controller to attach an RS64 disk to a PDP-8? The only > controller for the RS64 I can find is the UNIBUS RC11. Thanks. I never saw any reply, so I gather the answer is 'no'. I looked through the stuff on BitSavers for a bunch of other machines (IIRC, PDP-9 and PDP-12 and

RS64 on a PDP-8?

2021-05-03 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
Is there a controller to attach an RS64 disk to a PDP-8? The only controller for the RS64I can find is the UNIBUS RC11. Thanks. Noel

Re: DEC PDP-11/45 backplane +5 ECO

2021-04-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Eric Smith > The KB11-B (original 11/70) and KB11-C (later 11/70) have essentially > the same changes as from the KB11-A to KB11-D Speaking of which, two of the boards that are different in the KB11-D, from the -A, are _identical_ to boards in the KB11-C - the M8123 ROM & ROM

Re: DEC PDP-11/45 backplane +5 ECO

2021-04-28 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Henk Gooijen > I have the M8120 and 4 M8121 boards (32kW bipolar RAM). It is a bit > weird, but in the 11/55 are also two G114 boards (4kW MOS RAM), IIRC. G114s? Those are the sense/inhibit module from the MM11-U/MJ11. Did you mean G401s? If so, one guess as to what

Re: DEC PDP-11/45 backplane +5 ECO

2021-04-25 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> I had a look at my /45 ... and it seems to ... look just like those on > Josh's. I'd really want to take pictures of mine .. so I can compare > them directly, though, not depend on visual memory. Yeah, mine (a late /55, actually) has the _exact_ same wires at Josh's. So that's

Re: DEC PDP-11/45 backplane +5 ECO

2021-04-24 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Fritz Mueller > could I ask that you take some closeups around the Mate-n-Locks along > the top? I'd be very interested to see the board traces and the details > of the red bus wiring there. I had a look at my /45 (a later KB11-D - although I think the backplanes for the

Re: DEC BA11-K KY11-L mounting brackets -- how?

2021-04-20 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: From: Fritz Mueller > two solutions come to mind -- the one you mention here with nut and > washer, or inserting a hex-head machine screw in the other direction. > Either the nut or the hex-head screw could then be secured with a small > combination wrench. Well, if

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