On 6/29/20 12:41 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
> From: Chuck Guzis
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2020 4:51 PM
>
>> It's noteworthy that on the Univac 1100 series, a "byte" could be 6, 9
>> or 12 bits, but not 8. (36 bit words). The PDP-10 had similar issues,
>> such as the "packed" string
A few of the self-tests I’ve seen on the 147s set BRDFAIL if the NVRAM doesn’t
pass, so perhaps changing the NVRAM for a known good would be a place to start.
Richard
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Jonas, I am using an SD card, not CF because I need to move files from a laptop
to this computer using the SD. Having said that, I suspect everything you said
is still true. I don't have access to any linux. But do you think I could make
a 300MB partition (for example) on the SD card and use
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2020 4:51 PM
> It's noteworthy that on the Univac 1100 series, a "byte" could be 6, 9
> or 12 bits, but not 8. (36 bit words). The PDP-10 had similar issues,
> such as the "packed" string format of 5 7-bit characters per word, with
> one bit unused.
Of
On Sunday, June 28, 2020 at 22:20, CuriousMarc via cctech wrote:
> I also have a 91740-80033/34/35 set which I don't know what it is. Does
> anyone know?
Those are DS/1000 revision 1826.
Page 3-130 of the HP "Communicator/1000 for Software Update 6.0"
(5951-6201, December 1992) has a full
Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an MVME197LE that
I’m trying to bring up but it’s staying in BRDFAIL, while SYSCON and RUN are
green and pressing RESET appears to work.
Nothing on console at all. (via a 712 transition module)
Same behavior with the NVRAM removed.
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 22:55, Richard Pope via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Will,
> Ultimate Zip is showing that the file is empty. Hum! I have been
> using Ultimate Zip for decades. Hum! I wounder what is going on!
I've never even heard of this tool before. I looked it up, and
Following up on my earlier Y2K fixes for DECnet/E, I implemented proper support
in EVTLOG and NCP for the undocumented RSTS feature supporting DECnet over
terminal lines. You can find it in the same place, specifically the "decnete"
subdirectory. The main changes are in the new NCP.TSK; there
On Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 14:48, grant--- via cctech wrote:
> 12992-80011
> 91740-80070
> 91740-80071
> 91740-80072
>
> there is a set of 91740 on bit savers but with a suffix of 67-69 ?
These are the original DS/1000 ROMs (date code 2003) without the 7974
loader extension. That was
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 04:20, Kevin Lee via cctalk
wrote:
>
> https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html
MAME is a beast. Sometimes it kind of works (for other stuff), here it
just hits me with an "Abort" with no indication as to why.
Good morning Noel
Thanks for the link While I appreciate "retired" might describe your
current status, I was looking for a better description of how you
were/are involved with RSTS.
And...
You might be amused to learn I was the author of the RSTS 80th Birthday
document. It was "frozen"
On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 2:36 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
> > Err, I expect that that was RSTS-11 in June, 1970, not RSTS-E. Since RSTS-11
> > (which I learned to program on; happy memories :-) was a BASIC-PLUS only
> > system, and ran on a PDP-11/20, I suspect it was a fairly different
> >
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