.Apologies if this has already been posted
There seems to be someone building a processor from individual transistors:
http://www.megaprocessor.com/index.html
Estimated size: quite big!
Antonio
On 29 June 2015 at 23:04, Johnny Billquist b...@update.uu.se wrote:
I don't remember if I have the printsets for the 8650, but we (Update)
sure have quite a lot of documentation for it.
IIRC I do have some 8600 *training* printsets which I scanned and made
available years ago.
I think some
That's a cop-out. Someone else did it first doesn't change the law.
In the general case both of the parties involved are breaking copyright
law, and the injured party is whoever holds the copyright (which isn't
likely to be the seller or the buyer in this case).
In this specific case though, as
On 07/08/15 04:56, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 08/06/2015 08:20 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
You might check whether the BIOS config is set to autodetect drives
at startup; in many BIOSes each IDE channel can be set to Auto/None
or a specific config. Try setting all installed drives to a specific
On 07/08/15 16:26, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Hi,
I've got an VAX4000/300 eqipped with an TK70, 2x RF31, 1xRF71 disks,
and an CQD-200/TM.
I've connected an toshiba Xm5701 drive to the SCSI Bus and the machine sses
it as DUA3. I have a VMS7.3 CDROM and want to install it on one of the
disks.
I think
On 06/08/15 14:38, Jay West wrote:
Gene wrote...
-
One thing I don't understand - why can't the machine boot on its own? Why
would IBM design a computer that required another computer just to boot it?
To report higher sales of OS2/Warp? ;)
Not the only one though, ISTR the 11/780 used
exactly
this.
I've seen plenty of smaller capacity SDRAM modules, and the 1GB one is
the only one that I've seen that does this.
You can feel the difference in weight between the 1GB module and a 512MB
one.
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don't think I've ever seen PSI software on 8" floppies before.
If you do manage to image them, I'd certainly be interested in a copy.
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On 07/07/15 23:02, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Right. But I did say some. :-)
Think 8978 for example...
Does that really count as a VAX? It was just a marketing name for
cluster ...
Antonio
On 16/09/15 14:36, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Alas, neither seems to be available online. (The BA11-N is EK-BA11N-TM-001;
the BA11-S is in the "PDP-11/23B Mounting Box Technical Manual",
EK-23BMB-TM-001.)
I guess they're not much use to you, but both the user guides
(EK-BA11N-UG and EK-23BMB-UG-001)
On 03/10/15 23:03, Ethan Dicks wrote:
the SPDs will contain the official list of what hardware is supported.
Exactly, although the hard part will be finding SPDs for each version.
For the versions that shipped
on CD it should be easier as they (almost all, I think) included the
relevant SPD
On 27/09/15 15:08, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Errors are always bad. Agreed. That is not something we're discussing
here.
I don't have problems reading the current scans, as such. But when
having ten of these open at the same time, and scrolling through them,
it becomes obvious that the
On 18/09/15 14:31, Mouse wrote:
|
| The single exception is that we will not publish the list of "system
| killers" outside of Digital. All questions about "system killers",
| even ones asking if there are any, will be answered "No Comment". The
| reason for this is to protect
On 21/09/15 14:15, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> From: tony duell
> In some cases it should be possible to write a machine code program
> that executes on 2 processors with wildly different instruciton sets.
I have this bit set that I was told (or something, the memory is _very_
vague)
On 21/09/15 01:55, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I used the above example when I created a CD which had files to be used
with RT-11 in addition to being a normal CD under Windows. I found that
for a normal CD under Windows, sectors 0 to 15 (hard disk blocks 0 to 63)
on the CD were empty. I don't know
Vince
FWIW: I'm guessing this is the medieval detective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadfael
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amp; Volts/Online is viewed via the web and is
printable AND downloadable."
Nowhere does it say PDF. I don't want to pay for something that could
vanish, I want something tangible for my $20.
Can someone with the digital edition clarify whether it really is a PDF
or not?
Thanks
Antonio
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Thanks all.
I've tried the free subscription for now. That's got me Dec 2015 (which
I can download as a PDF!) and will presumably get me Jan + Feb 2016.
After that I'll probably take out a 1 year subscription and see how it goes.
I'm happy :-)
Antonio
luck!
I have a DEC 9-track tape crimper (part # 47-00038). There's one
apparently on ebay now for $3.99 which sounds like
a steal as the next hit is a website offering one for the low, low price
of $126.97.
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y body know where I can lay my hands on a spare KA680?
The system maintenance manual claims that ?51 means "NOROM No valid ROM
image found", which seems a bit odd.
But that's a VMB message, so unless it was trying to boot then perhaps
I'm looking in the wrong place ...
Anton
this and I missed it ... I'm a little behind on my
reading ...)
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On 08/03/16 23:21, Peter Coghlan wrote:
Savesets produced using VMS BACKUP are the ideal way to archive your VMS system.
They will save everything you need in a format which can be restored onto any
disk big enough to hold the data, selectively if necessary, while dealing with
any errors on the
to rebuild the system yourself, you'll need
implementations of a whole pile of different languages anyway.
The listing format is 132 chars wide, so you do sometimes lose useful stuff.
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to
scan books and can go
right to the edge, then that would produce good results.
I don't have one of those ... :-(
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, how long did it take to produce those 12 pages?
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, assuming the scanner has
suitable knobs that
can be twiddled...
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ical order.
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On 09/03/16 20:44, devin davison wrote:
I do not know much at all about what it would take to compile this
into a working system. My first step is going to be to get over to the
library and get everything into a digital format. Ill be putting
everything i scan up online.
The last set of
obviously incomplete: his prized VAX-11/780
doesn't seem to be there for a start (at least not under the most
obvious entries I looked at).
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On 06/04/16 15:38, Dave Wade wrote:
I wish I had such an inventory of my collection
I wish I had a 4000sqm building nearby :-)
I'm much more likely to (eventually) build up an inventory of the stuff
I do have (that's just time and effort ...).
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...)
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the VAX 88x0 series ("Polarstar").
These were all much taller boxes than the VAX 8200 series.
BTW: well done for remembering RKG :-)
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that the
docs have been downloaded and (hopefully) saved somewhere.
Given a mysql database dump, it would be straightfoward enough to check
which docs still exist and which don't.
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at the one? (the HP link does indeed seem to be broken for that one.)
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ctive well known member of this list. (Not me)
Only $67 shipping to the UK :-)
I probably have enough of those to keep me going anyway. The black and
silver ones are likely to
be older (and therefore perhaps more interesting) than the red and white
ones.
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s "personal computer" from an advert in 1959
(May-Jun 29).
There's an earlier citation for "personal computer" from 1954.
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at some point before Phase III,
which definitely did exist. I also
assume that Phase I only acquired that designation once Phase II appeared!)
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assume they are similarly cheap in the US.
If you try some alternative technique don't you risk ending up with
stray wires in powered equipment?
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? If you really need
it on TK50 to
install on a system, then you could transfer to TK50 yourself.
Or do you actually want an original DEC TK50 distribution of ALL-IN-1?
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have a book, "Digital Large Systems Mass Storage Handbook" by Paul
Massiglia.
This provides an overview of DSA and MSCP, but no more than an overview.
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brochure, but they'd be the exception rather than the rule.
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as "display toys".
I expect that the vast majority of C64 systems that change hands end up
with someone who wants to relive his or her youth.
Antonio
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be useful, please shout.
Antonio
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. listing the fiche part
number and the documents contained therein).
Has anyone thought of putting together some sort of registry?
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ved.
Thanks Mark
I looked under /bits/DEC but I don't see a lot . Is there a stash I'm
not seeing?
I suppose I should get around to archiving my TK50s. Is there a standard
way of doing this and what metadata should one record?
Antonio
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u'll get a few offers to take the carts off your hands.
Antonio
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On 18/10/16 16:38, Adrian Graham wrote:
Hi Thomas, Have you got an install media set for VAX Dibol 4.2?
Someone here was looking for a copy a few weeks ago.
Wasn't it ALL-IN-1?
Antonio
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back in the day.
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On 20/11/16 05:39, Richard Loken wrote:
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote:
There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a
little back in the day.
I don't think I had the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so
well for Alpha.
Now THAT is interesting! I
the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so
well for Alpha.
Antonio
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o sold a PET for 350 euro and an Altair for $1136
and a C4004 microprocessor for 1297 euro.
He (or she) is obviously quite reasonable: the
" MITS Altair 8800a Lights Working! BILL GATES IMSAI 8080 - C4004 ERA PC
DISK (#271980509395)"
was up for 2000 euro but a best offer was accepted :-)
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collected over the years.
I've applied for an account. Once I have that I'll see about turning it from
whatever free-from text format I used years ago into wiki-script and then
uploading it.
It won't be exciting, but it will be data (sometimes with references too).
Antonio
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) amount
of instruction pre-fetch though.
Antonio
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it available.
Antonio
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of that as a very
early cache. That was the machine on which Dijkstra first implemented
the spanning tree algorithm (as a demo program for an exhibition).
Spanning tree? Really? Surely you mean Shortest Path First?
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: I think it's in line
with what I generally see coming out of the scanner(s).
Antonio
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?
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resent at the bottom
of this photo:
http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/dec-firefly/Image42.jpg
then I would guess that it is not a VAXstation 3520 (KA60 CPU).
Are there any obvious part numbers?
Antonio
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On 10/06/17 17:13, Anders Nelson via cctalk wrote:
Is that 6700€ or 67€?
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That's going to be 67€ (European decimal comma ...).
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anyone who took them up on
this though.
Antonio
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On 13/10/17 07:17, Holm Tiffe wrote:
I meant that brick:
http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-3.jpg
http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-1.jpg
http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-12jpg
on those boards:
fo/dec/vcb02_cables.html
Regards,
Jerry, WB9MRI
j...@ieee.org
There's a alter version online too:
http://manx-docs.org/collections/hcps/104aatm1.pdf
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ran Ultrix.
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unfortunately.
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s ever one for the VAX-11/730.
From reading the DTJ article it seems as though there was no set of
neatly pre-packaged ucode development tools for the 730.
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the
development of the MicroVAX II)
they say that they used the VAX-11/730 as a testbed
the 78032 chip. The VAX-11/730 was chosen because it was "an entirely
'soft' machine".
(The VAX-11/725 is essentially the same hardware but in different
packaging).
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y) thought that the terminator should also be
at such a position and so a terminator could not be located at a tap?
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The list has been quite for 24 hours for me, so sorry if this is a
duplicate!
The sources for the the latest version of PC-MOS/386 are up on github.
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) and also with various PSUs from
another company I worked for.
So doing rolling your own (if you indeed do need one) may be the only way.
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or example.
The suggestion of booting it as a satellite from a VMS cluster node is a
good idea (although if you've never set this up before then it may take you
some time to get it set up properly). SIMH makes this quite easy I think.
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them? Do you just use a device that is known
to require (say) 2A and check that it runs happily or have you rigged up
something to draw 2A and then check that you don't see a voltage drop
(and/or smell/see burning!)?
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st curious.
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, that may not be the case I suppose).
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(or the VAXstation 3100s).
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and 150 would confirm your suspicions. There's also
a DTJ article somewhere that explains the evolution of the InfoServer line.
(After the 150 I think they built custom hardware).
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Mine's in the garage and it's raining otherwise I'd go and measure it,
but that's exactly what mine is.
A small case that opens up to reveal a fiche reader. There's enough room
for a box or two of fiche too.
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I'm hoping that someone else
does come along to take (1), (2) and (4), but no-one does, please let me
know and I'll pony up the necessary postage.
Thanks
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ove google translate sometimes :-)
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were supposed to have a licence).
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of
the program. I never used it in anger, so I've no idea whether it
supported exporting to other formats.
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://gunkies.org/wiki/Main_Page.
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and would have been used in a DECstation 5000 Model
200 (and 240) (and the equivalent DECsystem).
The corresponding MS02-CA (in case you have any) was 32MB.
No idea about the rest I'm afraid.
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to be there.
I've not used anything older than V3.x ... I remember command line
recall arriving, so I expect that happened in V4.0.
I would expect V1.x to feel distinctly clunky in comparison ... to V4.x
and later.
Still a fun exercise though I would think.
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. Sadly my
CONDISTs only go back to V5.5 or so.
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savers has (at least) release notes for V3.0.
Since V2.0 mentions 1.6 and 1.6 mentions 1.5 and 1.5 mentions 1.01, I
want to know what happened to 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4!
Antonio
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f them locally too. Usually I can find the
archive.org copy before my own :-)
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ages back in the day.
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[1] Actually I think that the VAX 8600 ("Venus") was slowed down to get
it reliable enough to ship at all (and it was quite late at that, iirc).
The VAX 8650 ("Morningstar") followed just over a year later and was
(more or less) what the original VAX 8600 should have been.
ect ones I guess). However that points at codeplex, which MS
have made read-only, so I don't know what the correct mechanism might be
to get things fixed. I guess the owner needs to move the code somewhere
else ...
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be
converted to PDF (I think).
V6.0(ish) onwards was on the DEC website as PDFs, although whether
anyone saved complete sets (and all the different version) or not I
don't know. The PDFs might also have been on later CONOLDs, but I don't
recall for sure.
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anto
the
right tool for finding manuals.
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a year now and just don't seem
to have found enough free time, so if you get bored waiting, then go
ahead ...
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On 20/07/2019 21:15, Dave Wade wrote:
-Original Message-
From: cctalk On Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
via cctalk
"VAXstation 4000 VLC
The VAXstation 4000 VLC workstation is the first workstation in the industry
to break the $3,500 price barrier. Offering 6.2 SPECmarks (6
t tell how "low" it really was :-)
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from but I do have a licence PAK for
WordPerfect: 7-NOV-1991 to 2011.
You could just run with a date in the past ... seems somehow apropriate :-)
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need the space, this
has to go" or time (water damage, pages sticking together, mice/worms,
whatever).
Which reminds me, I need to find online copies of Personal Computer
World so I can sell off a few boxes worth :-)
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