images up under
http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/floppyimages/rx50/V7M-11-V1.0_6_USR_RX50-QJ083-H3.zip
If you care about what is on that tape, send it to Chuck for recovery.
I wouldn't trust someone without a lot of experience in tape
prep and recovery with something I thought was important.
On 3/12/21 4:27 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports.
thank you
I think this is where all the code wound up after Red Hat abandoned GNUpro
https
On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports.
thank you
I think this is where all the code wound up after Red Hat abandoned GNUpro
https://sourceware.org/mission.html
On 3/12/21 4:05 AM, david raingeard wrote:
No, I don't even know who he is, sorry
Seriously? He's one of the Cygnus founders and is a good guy
On 3/12/21 3:33 AM, david raingeard via cctech wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for cygnus gnupro for powerpc BeOS, to be able to make ports.
thank you
have you tried contacting John Gilmore?
On 2/20/21 5:56 AM, Will Cooke via cctech wrote:
I think I have at least ver 12 for Linux.
Can you still get license keys for the older versions?
On 2/11/21 10:00 AM, David Schmidt via cctech wrote:
That's right, for disks detected as RX01 (which are of course fully FM, 128 bytes per sector). Sector data that is actually 0xDEADBEEF will
show up in the .dmk as 0xDDEEAADDBBFF.
I've wondered why .dmk did that.
On 2/3/21 1:57 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
On 2/3/21 1:29 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote:
The RICM would happily accept any donated FlipChips
Almost everything sold yesterday.
and I won't go into how disgusted I am with eBay's new seller payment system
they forced everyone
On 2/3/21 1:29 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote:
The RICM would happily accept any donated FlipChips
Almost everything sold yesterday.
On 12/2/20 7:37 PM, r.stricklin via cctech wrote:
On Dec 2, 2020, at 12:48 PM, Chris Hanson via cctech wrote:
I’m bidding on these tapes with the intent to get them into the hands of
someone like Josh and/or Al who has the skill and equipment to read and archive
them.
Then I hope you're
On 9/26/20 8:56 AM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
sd3: non-CCS device found at target 0 lun 0 on esp0
sd3: at esp0 target 0 lun 0
sd3: corrupt label - wrong magic number
sd3: Vendor ´ADAPTEC*´, product ´ACB4000*´, 181520 512 byte blocks
ACB4000s aren't common command set.
it expects
On 9/14/20 9:00 AM, Josh Dersch via cctech wrote:
One issue is weak picture
tubes in the displays -- the monitors are powered on with the system and
have no separate off switch, so they tended to get a lot of hours put on
them. We had good luck with a tube rejuvenator on the one we restored at
On 9/14/20 6:35 AM, Michael Engel via cctech wrote:
Hi,
for a planned exhibition, I am thinking of restoring two of the machines to
working state again that are in storage here for decades:
- A TI Explorer ("Sperry" labeled)
and
- A Xerox Star (no idea if ours actually ran Interlisp or one of
On 7/10/20 10:42 AM, Electronics Plus via cctech wrote:
I have a number of keyboards with Micro Switch ST switches, but no SD.
Does anyone still use old Memorex or Telex keyboards?
YES! I have terminals w/o keyboards
On 5/12/20 1:42 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
Al,
Here is the Ebay auction, I hope the manual is included assuming the 50-pin
port is the output port.
? there isn't a manual shown
the 50 pin connector is the I/O
you can find descriptions of the pinout online from people making paper tape
reader
They made their own, and it is very definitely a Japanese design
You have to be careful with the motors, many are 220 though it looks like they
are 100v in the pictures of that model
on the web
I went through the excercise of trying to find reader schematics a couple of
years ago for
On 4/15/20 6:51 PM, Alan Perry via cctech wrote:
Does anyone here know whether a 501-1102 memory board be used with a 3/160 CPU?
nope, the P2 buses and memory subsystems are very different between the 1xx and
2xx
On 4/7/20 10:03 AM, Bill Degnan wrote:
Wondering if you can get/inquire from http://retrotechnology.com/#multi site.
Manuals are not always listed there, you have to ask.
Bill
Herb is on the intel-devsys mailing list, I just posted a request over there
which would also
get to a bunch of
I should have known this, since the Morrow S-100 controller
didn't have a PLL and supported SA4000 and Fujitsu 8" drives.
On 11/14/19 9:42 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
>
>
> On 11/14/19 9:33 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
>>
>>
>> unlike the Memorex
>
> I was mistaken, it is 4000 as well :-(
>
>
On 11/14/19 9:33 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
>
>
> unlike the Memorex
I was mistaken, it is 4000 as well :-(
PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
>
>
> On 11/14/19 3:24 PM, David Gesswein via cctech wrote:
>
>> It looks
>> like it is SA4000 type with internal data separator
>
> nope, thought i had the manual under Fujitsu but it's under Memorex
>
> 112-114.60
On 11/14/19 3:24 PM, David Gesswein via cctech wrote:
> It looks
> like it is SA4000 type with internal data separator
nope, thought i had the manual under Fujitsu but it's under Memorex
112-114.60-00_Memorex112_Fujitsu2301_jan83.pdf
there is also a maint manual for the winc-08 on
On 5/14/19 7:25 AM, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
> Is the NVRAM A ST Microelectronics TimeKeeper or Dallas module or something
> else?
It is a DS1287
The issue is finding out what the contents should be, since it isn't
documented in the surviving manuals.
Some of this was figured out in getting the
On 5/4/19 10:29 AM, Dennis Grevenstein via cctech wrote:
> I have the same problem with a cloned MIPS machine, a Sumitomo
> Sumistation SP300. The biggest problem with my machine is that the
> NVRAM holds the ethernet address. If it goes flat, there seems to be
> no way to reprogram the NVRAM.
On 10/30/18 4:27 PM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote:
> I have a Quad-i860 VME board in one of my Sun systems.
Do you have any of the software for it?
there I wonder.
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 5:46 PM Al Kossow via cctech <mailto:cctech@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>
> sadly all that is there is some Data Products core memory
> with a couple of boards missing
>
> On 9/24/18 11:49 AM, William Donzelli
On 9/23/18 7:46 AM, Michael Thompson via cctech wrote:
> Before we cave
> in and buy some modern C toggle switches
ugh
use black arcade pushbuttons
that is what the PDP-1 at CHM has been using for over 10 years
On 4/16/18 7:54 PM, Mark Matlock via cctech wrote:
>I’d like to make it available online
it is online now
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/rsx11/Pieper_RSX_A_Guide_For_Users_1987.pdf
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
actually, it appears the machine is emulated in MAME
On 11/22/16 11:12 AM, Anders Sandahl wrote:
> Not that I'm aware of. I can do it, but I don't have daily access to the
> machine so it will take a couple of months.
>>
>> has the firmware been dumped from this?
>>
>> On 11/21/16 6:54 AM,
you might also look at patent 4979173
cirrus / adaptec from around that time
x^52 + x^50 + x^43 + x^41 + x^34 + x^30 + x^26 + x^24 + x^8 +1
licensed from Glover
On 11/18/16 3:02 PM, David Gesswein wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 03:33:36PM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
>> I'm not looking forward
look in the corvus H drive manuals
On 11/18/16 12:50 PM, jos wrote:
>
>
> ..in particular I wouil like to know the purpose of the dipswitches on the PCB
>
>
> Jos
>
check out
http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2015/08/qic-24-tape-data-block-format-decoding.html
he may be willing to try recovering what still exists on the tape
like I say, what is there is pretty important to recover.
On 11/5/16 1:57 PM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
> All other tapes are far beyond
never mind, that was just for diagnostics
the srm is described further down. it's a 386 running Sys V
it is likely to be either one of their 310 series multibus boxes with
a Wyse terminal, like the iPCS-2, which had a 286 or their 386 clone AT
box
On 11/5/16 8:29 AM, Al Kossow wrote
let me see if I can get this scanned this morning
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102719961
you also REALLY want to get any docs and tapes/disks out of there
finding software is going to be extremely difficult
On 11/5/16 7:02 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> - Does anyone
>> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/cdc/
>
> That's odd -- I thought there used to be CDC 6600 material here?
it's under Cyber
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tapeutils/
On 8/10/16 8:22 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:22 AM, asw...@t-online.de wrote:
>>
>> I successfully took a (factory new) DEC TSZ07 SCSI tape drive into operation
>> using a Sun SS20 and a Linux box.
>>
>> Now I do have a big
On 6/11/16 11:06 AM, David Gesswein wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on post-processing
>> 2241092-0001_Business-Pro_Professional_Computer_Hardware_Technical_Reference_Apr86
>> right now..
>>
> Is this the later 286 model?
yes
decnet ethernet boot still MIA :-(
On 6/8/16 11:24 AM, william degnan wrote:
> Posted an inventory of my M9312 ROMs
>
> http://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=638
>
> b
>
On 5/6/16 10:48 AM, Robert Ollerton wrote:
> I've always wanted to know more about the SDS 940 project since its a
> relative to my SDS Sigma 9. If you know of any of the papers on the
> hardware, and OS they created I'd appreciate some pointers to where I could
> read them. Thanks!
>
On 4/2/16 2:01 PM, william degnan wrote:
Thanks for that. I could not find much about the 2116A (2114/15) software
on Bitsavers or the HP museum site. Where else does one go for these
manuals?
I have a bunch scanned, just need to post-process them. Now that tumble
is running in my new
On 9/10/15 4:38 AM, simon wrote:
Hi All,
just to let you know that i've made a vector graphics file for A
hollerith punchcard.
https://hack42.nl/wiki/Bestand:Punchcard.svg
enjoy
they are PUNCHED cards
look at ALL of the documentation of the period
NO ONE called them PUNCH cards
On 9/10/15 8:54 AM, Simon Claessen wrote:
Being right and being polite are two completely different things.
And no one has ever accused me of being polite.
On 9/5/15 8:40 AM, william degnan wrote:
I surprisingly found little
commentary or threads about the TU10 / TM11, other than DEC docs. I guess
these are not super common
They were common. I worked on a bunch of them. Expect the vacuum sensors to be
bad
in the columns. I think Guy still has
On 8/15/15 5:35 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
Mike,
I have the original 9-track system
tapes (FOS), some spare NOS tapes
have you imaged all of these tapes?
On 8/15/15 5:56 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
Al,
I shared the images with J. David Bryan. One of the tapes
had a bad spot on it so, there was one file that was
unrecoverable.
Ah, good. I was hoping he got copies of them.
Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Aug-13, at 9:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I turned up some CPU info on it, which I uploaded to bitsavers/lockheed/sue
Dumps of the programmable parts on the CPU would be nice if anyone has one.
So this was interesting, another in the list of 60s/70s minis - hadn't heard
On 8/14/15 6:20 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
who
appears to have made their own PDP-8 clone (Bob Rosenbloom has one)
http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/photos2/1k/cmc3.jpg
oops, it's actually a Digital Computer Controls DCC-112
But many numbers didn't exist there. For instance M7765 of which you
have 15.
http://www.tamayatech.com/partsindex/partM009.htm
fills in some of the M76xx/77xx holes
be careful, there are lots of other vendors in there too
yes, but the only software that survives are diagnostic listings.
I tried and gave up trying to get the software from the person who saved
the Livermore Stretch
On 7/14/15 8:58 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
I wonder if there is anywhere near enough information available to do a
Stretch.
JRJ
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