Brian wrote:
> If that's the smoke he smelled, he wouldn't care about the other
> machines. He'd be off looking for munchies... "Now where were
> those chips?"
Mmmmm... NMOS chips... With just a hint of boron...
Hi,
As I promissed here comes my first question ;)
While writing several C files for the WEGA/ZEUS kernel out of the
disassembled objects (with unresolved symbols marked as external) I came
across a piece of code I can't get to reproduce when compiling C.
The original object contains:
0006de: 35a2 0004 ldl rr2,rr10(#$0004)
0006e2: 9424 ldl rr4,rr2
0006e4: 0704 7f00 and r4,#$7f00
0006e8: 5d04 8000 0004 ldl $8000+$0x4,rr4
I tried to reproduce it:
ipc.ip_addr.l = *(unsigned long)(uap->addr.l)&0x7F00FFFF;
Which generates:
0008 35a2 0004 59 ldl rr2,rr10(#4)
000c 0702 7f00 60 and r2,#32512
0010 5d02 8000* 61 ldl _ipc+4,rr2
0014 0004*
which looks for me functional the same...
I also tried:
ipc.ip_addr.l = *(unsigned long *)(uap->addr.l)&0x7F00FFFF;
Which generates:
0010 35a2 0004 60 ldl rr2,rr10(#4)
0014 1424 61 ldl rr4, at rr2
0016 0704 7f00 62 and r4,#32512
001a 5d04 8000* 63 ldl _ipc+4,rr4
Which looks "better" but isn't the same as the original because the
adress of rr2 gets loaded into rr4 first, not rr2 itself.
I'm a bit lost because I tried several different */&-pointer stuff to get
this as it is in the original object without success. the elements
ip_addr and addr are both of type saddr_t which is declare as follows:
typedef union
{
caddr_t l;
struct
{
unsigned left;
unsigned right;
} half;
} saddr_t; /* segmented address with parts */
rr4 itself gets later overwritten in both codes - my code and the
original object - it is not reserved for an internal C-variable. Maybe
someone from you can help me here?
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> From: "Mike Hatch" <mike at brickfieldspark.org>
>
> Have past experience with Elliott 803b, Digital PDP7 & 11/20,
> Scientific
> Data Systems SDS9300, ASR/KSR 33 & 35, Ampex TM4 tape drives.
May I ask what machine the Ampex TM4 tape drives were connected to? I
have them on my ICT 1301s, and I have a slightly different deck
marked TM4 Leo but if you know of any other machines which used them
it would be interesting. Do you know if they were always ten track
read/write heads or were they different configurations? I guess the
formats were different across different machines, it seems unlikely
anyone else would have chosen to use 4 data bits and 6 CRC bits, and
certainly not in multiples of 12 digits with the digits from each
half of the word interspersed ending at a word of hex FFFFFFFFFFFF.
Roger
Does anyone know the fate of the Australian Computer Museum? Looking at their
website at http://www.acms.org.au it looks like they were in real trouble a
couple of months back.
Does anyone know if they found alternative storage space for the collection
(and therefore that the website just hasn't been updated)?
cheers
Jules
Hi,
I've got here some electronic modules made by Venner Electronics LTD,
Kingston By-Pass, New Malden, Surrey. One is a Transistor Decade Unit
type TS.10/5 and the other just has Type TS 11/HF on it, where 11/HF is
scratched into the metal label.
Opening one reveals a number of Mullard OC44 Ge transistors.
What on earth are they for? I can imagine they're for some sort of
digital machine or even a whole computer, but I can't find any
information about them or the company.
Thanks,
Alexis.
Hi Gary,
I saw your 12 Mar 2007 post about reconstructing Fastback files. I have EXACTLY the same problem ! Did you get a solution ?
Regards, John Watson.
See ebay item # 120269073061
We've talked about terminal multiplexers here before, as opposed to
terminal servers. They sound like interesting devices to me and I was
wondering if this item on ebay is one of those muxes or some kind of
telecom equipment instead (its listed under telecom, but ebay items
are often listed under the wrong category).
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How is the color video for display on a TV generated? I have a
reasonable understanding of how the composite video signal works,
although probably not all the details.
Each horizontal scan line consists of a lower frequency signal that
represents the brightness with higher voltage being darker. Added to
this is a higher frequency signal that represents color and the color is
determined not by amplitude, but by phase shift relative to a reference
generated during the horizontal retrace time.
So, if this is how the video signal works, then to generate 16 colors,
we could use one bit for a brightness level and 3 bits to select a
color. I can see a D F/F to hold the brightness level during a pixel
time.For color, I see an 8 bit shift register with the color signal
being shifted though and an 8 to 1 multiplexer to select the phase based
on the 3 color bits during each pixel time. Now add some resistors to
set the right levels and maybe some capacitors to take off the sharp
edges and you have a video signal.
I know this is ignoring the sync signals. I am really interested in how
you get color.
OK, so how close am I?
-chuck
I'm trying this again, since I still haven't gotten one,
I'm looking for a volker-craig terminal, preferably an 4404 (not a 3000-series).
I used these at western and would love to have one.
If anyone has one they want to get rid of, sell, trade, etc, please let me know.
Thanks,
Dan.
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