Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-13 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Jay Jaeger wrote: Yes, I am doing the drawings at 600DPI, including the drawings that reside inside a couple of the maintenance manuals (but 400DPI for the text, etc.) Please do *everything* at 600dpi, disk space and file sizes for such documents don't matter these days,

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 20:09 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > > > 2017-06-12 19:55 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > >> >> >> 2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : >> >>> >>> >>> On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: >>> >>> > There

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 19:55 GMT+02:00 Mattis Lind : > > > 2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : > >> >> >> On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: >> >> > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says >> "Silver >> >

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 18:59 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctech : > > > On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > > > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says > "Silver > > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an > arrow >

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
That would fit. Most metals are white (silvery) and rhodium, being a noble metal, doesn't oxidize so it retains the base metal color. I wonder if it's the anti-friction properties that were impaired by LA smog. Even 1970s smog seems insufficiently potent to cause any changes to rhodium. Or

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
that does seem to be the case. I never looked to see that rhodium plates silver white. http://www.foxfinejewelry.com/blog/article/rhodium-plating-or-dipping-your-yellow-gold-jewelry-into-white-gold-jewelry/ On 6/12/17 10:43 AM, Paul Koning wrote: That seems odd because rhodium is a noble metal

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/12/17 7:17 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > There is a note in my RS64 manual, page 3-1 / Figure 3-2, that says "Silver > colour Soaped water, Dark blue Special cleaning liquid" and then an arrow > to the disk surface in the picture. > Any thoughts about what the "Special cleaning

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
> >> Also perhaps noteworthy that this RS64's "twin" which resided in the UW >> Computer Systems Lab was at one point "resurrected" by flipping the disk >> upside down. >> > > Then one definitely need the track writer I guess. But it is good to know > that it is possible to flip the disk if it is

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:59:14PM +0200, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > BTW. Speaking of dumping. Now that I have a TC11 / TU56 that seems to be > working, what is the best way to dump 18 and 12 bit tapes? Is there some > PDP-11 OS that can do it or is it assembly programming required? I had >

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-12 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-12 0:27 GMT+02:00 Jay Jaeger : > On 6/8/2017 2:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > > I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The > > previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got it in the > > beginning of the seventies. It is

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-11 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 6/8/2017 2:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctech wrote: > I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The > previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got it in the > beginning of the seventies. It is used but has the shipping lock on the > motor axis. > > Maybe the

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-11 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 6/11/2017 1:16 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Jay Jaeger > > > Fortunately, I do have some, and will scan them in > > Yesss! Thank you! > > > I will do the usual 400DPI / tiffs > > I've found that for engineering drawings, 600 dpi is better; the prints often >

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-11 Thread Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> From: Steven Malikoff > I acquired an RC11 flip chip set Do you mean literally this (just the cards), or did you mean a complete RC11 (including the backplane)? The Flip Chips do turn up (the ones I put up a post about a few days back are RC11 chips), but the backplanes are rara aves

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-11 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 6/10/2017 3:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > > > On 6/10/17 8:02 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > >> Well. Nobody has posted any thing about RC11 schematics, unfortunately. > > I checked my usual places and couldn't find it. Fortunately, I do have some, and will scan them in, and

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-11 Thread Jay Jaeger via cctalk
On 6/10/2017 10:02 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > 2017-06-08 18:38 GMT+02:00 Paul Koning : > > > Well. Nobody has posted any thing about RC11 schematics, unfortunately. > Maybe someone has a paper copy that could be scanned? Or that I can borrow > to scan? > > With

RE: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Rick Bensene via cctalk
Steve wrote: >I acquired an RC11 flip chip set with the FOX 2 (PDP-11/15). Although I don't >have a schematic for them, I do have the schematic print >set for the >controller for the fixed-head / drum that Foxboro supplied which was a DDC >6200. Check this out:

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Steve Malikoff via cctalk
Mattis said > Well. Nobody has posted any thing about RC11 schematics, unfortunately. > Maybe someone has a paper copy that could be scanned? Or that I can borrow > to scan? > > With the RS64 and the RC11 it would be possible to run DOS/BATCH 11. Could > be interesting to test it on the real

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread John Wilson via cctalk
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:35:52PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: >John Wilson might have some ideas. I wrote a MACRO-11 program for dumping raw PDP-8 tapes on my TC11 on RT-11, years ago. I believe I hacked it to do PDP-10 DECtapes at some point too (easy change since it's just a different block

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk > wrote: > > > > On 6/10/17 8:02 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > >> Well. Nobody has posted any thing about RC11 schematics, unfortunately. > > I checked my usual places and couldn't find it. > > >> With the

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 10:35 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > > >> On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk >> wrote: >> >>> ... >> BTW. Speaking of dumping. Now that I have a TC11 / TU56 that seems to be >> working, what is the

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: > >> ... > BTW. Speaking of dumping. Now that I have a TC11 / TU56 that seems to be > working, what is the best way to dump 18 and 12 bit tapes? Is there some > PDP-11 OS that can do it or is it assembly

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/10/17 1:59 PM, Mattis Lind wrote: > > BTW. Speaking of dumping. Now that I have a TC11 / TU56 that seems to be > working, what is the best way to dump 18 and 12 > bit tapes? Is there some PDP-11 OS that can do it or is it assembly > programming required? I had hopes that RT11 had such >

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-10 22:29 GMT+02:00 Al Kossow via cctalk : > > > On 6/10/17 8:02 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk wrote: > > > Well. Nobody has posted any thing about RC11 schematics, unfortunately. > > I checked my usual places and couldn't find it. > Thanks for looking. Tomorrow I will

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 11:02 AM, Mattis Lind wrote: > > ... > With the RS64 and the RC11 it would be possible to run DOS/BATCH 11. Could be > interesting to test it on the real hardware. DOS/BATCH? That would be DOS 8 or later. I don't know if that still supported the

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-10 Thread Mattis Lind via cctalk
2017-06-08 18:38 GMT+02:00 Paul Koning : > > > On Jun 8, 2017, at 3:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The > > previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got

Re: RC11 manuals / schematics online?

2017-06-08 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Jun 8, 2017, at 3:22 AM, Mattis Lind via cctalk > wrote: > > I happened to find a RS64 / RC11 combo (missing the PSU though). The > previous owner was an ex DEC field engineer that himself got it in the > beginning of the seventies. It is used but has the shipping