Guys,
I now know it is an early CDC board. IT had C*NT*OLDATA on the reverse - how
I missed that must be attributed to old age. (Thanks Doug)
Here are shots of the back: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UPozyBB3zp7XYcP79
Any idea what the row of hole opposite the contacts were? Testing points?
But then why holes and not short pillars? Some are labelled on both sides.
Continuing in hope,
peter
Agree that current mailing list format is best as simple, low
bandwidth and can always post links to images or other large
files. I still use Eudora as my email client and have text only
emails. Seems to perplex a lot of people I deal with when I can't
read their emails, but it seems somewhat wastefull to use 1-2 Mb to
send a message that only needs 200 bytes at most (once one strips off
all zero-information fluff from the email). Run my own mailserver as
well so can email myself massive attachments when email is only way
of getting data off a remote machine.
Images take up a lot of space and are best dealt with via
links. I've run my own webserver/ftpserver since 1999 and find
that's the easiest way of sharing large files with people. While
it's nice having high resolution photos like those that Samsung
phones creat, they're in the 3-5 Mb size range. If I need to put a
lot of photos on a web page, I'll use the free Photo Studio program
(written by John Hawkins) which creates a web page with a series of
thumbnails with full image available by clicking on thumbnail and can
set size of thumbnail image. Rather old, but works fine for simple
web pages where all one wants to do is serve up a set of images.
Remember 15 years ago that online documentation was sparse but have
found most DEC manuals are online and C64 stuff a lot easier to find
than it used to be. Being rather paranoid, I've downloaded manuals
for all machines I have and keep a duplicate copy of everything.
Not sure how many people are on cctalk/cctech, but keeping everything
text only would be best way of minimizing bandwidth for whoever hosts it,
Boris Gimbarzevsky
>On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 3:31 PM Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
>cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > Sure, there's always `uuencode' when you do need to post that non-text
> > piece (which I guess will keep the eyes of Luddites away from it too).
> >
>
>Or an http, https, ftp, or gopher url to somewhere else hosting the image.
>
>Pat
Love the title on this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/184317705963
eBait auction: "16K Sense Inhibit Board .. VAX 6000, VAX-11/730".
Yeah, core on a VAX! And such a deal, a mere US$400!
Noel
It appears that my RK8E has a problem - it fails the diskless control test
with
.R DHRKAE.DG
SR= 0000
COMMAND REGISTER ERROR
PC:1160 GD:0000 CM:0001
DHRKAE FAILED PC:6726 AC:0000 MQ:7777 FL:0000
WAITING
Ok, maybe a bad bit in the command register so I'll check it out. But then
it dawns on me - how do you work on this thing? It's three boards connected
with "over the top" connectors - you can't use a module extender on it.
Worse, the M7105 Major Registers board is the middle one of the stack! Is
there some secret to working on this thing? Has anybody fixed one? Any
suggestions?
I hadn't thought about it before, but the KK8E CPU would have the same
problem. Fingers crossed that one never dies...
Bob
Hello!
I have been working on interfacing the Hercules emulator with various real
terminals for some time. First project was an Alfaskop terminal cluster
which I connected using a small STM32 controller handling BSC.
Next is an Informer 213, portable 3178/3174 compatible terminal. It it
using SDLC.
A friend has a 3178 and 3279 which would interesting to work with. A
3174-51R/-61R/-81R/-91R would be very suitable for this.
It would be very nice to test my BSC and SDLC code with the real IBM stuff.
I have put my project here:
https://github.com/MattisLind/alfaskop_emu/tree/master/Utils
<https://github.com/MattisLind/alfaskop_emu/tree/master/Utils>
Still very much Work In Progress.
If anyone has a type 1 3174 that does BSC and SDLC so I could test my stuff
I would be very interested. No need for fancy features like TCP/IP and/or
token ring.
I of course pay shipping. But can throw in various DEC QBUS stuff as a
trade.
/Mattis
I've just come into a couple of CSPI VME cards, an SC-3XL and an SC-4XL (both with attached memory), and I was wondering if anyone has documentation.
They're based on the Intel i860 and intended for VME-based array processors.
-- Chris
Picked up a CDC 94166 ESDI disk on Ebay last week, arrived and sure
enough it works. No errors either, so I can now give my 30+ year old
Fujitsu 2322 a rest and load up rsx11m+ instead of 11/m 4.2
After formatting it on the MTI controller (MQD13) I set the first
partition to 30mb and loaded up my RT11 5.7 backup from the TK50 onto it
with no issues.
Productive. If I can find my DEQNA and an AUI to wireless adapter I
could get this thing up on the net.....
Use modern email program that sees expanded char. Sets and graphics.... it is a brand new world !??? I love old hardware to look at but if communicating? I like? the ability to see graphical? things...? and I think tell majority of people like? images of things......?? Ed#
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Fred Cisin via cctalk <cisin at xenosoft.com; cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, ED SHARPE @ AOHell.com via cctalk wrote:
> These 2 have my vote as well....
> I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore!
>
>> The one thing I would change here is removal of the restriction on attachments.
>> Well, two things.. Getting rid of the cctalk/cctech split as well.
I read this list on PINE, on a shell account at my ISP.
In this group, I doubt that I am the only one.
Can we restrict to TEXT emails?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred? ? ??? ??? cisin at xenosoft.com
> From: Paul Koning
> airfight and any number of other multi-user games -- a thing made
> popular by PLATO and possibly originated there.
What was the date on that? Multi-player MazeWar on the Imlacs/ITS at MIT was
running before 1976 (I played it about then), but I don't recall exactly when
it first ran (before my time).
Noel
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Peter Coghlan
> via cctalk
> Sent: 18 June 2020 08:22
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: RE: Future of cctalk/cctech
>
> ED SHARPE wrote:
> > Use modern email program that sees expanded char. Sets and
> > graphics.... it is a brand new world ! I love old hardware to look
> > at but if communicating I like the ability to see graphical
> > things... and I think tell majority of people like images of
> > things...... Ed#
> >
>
Just beware. Some environments, especially old EBCDIC ones put different currency symbols on the same code points
So:-
I wrote this as one dollar => $1.00
This as one pound => $1
And this as one euro => ?1
Lastly one cent => ?1
I expect you all get that as sent except for perhaps the Euro which didn't exist when Peters VAX was built....
... but on an old UK EBCDIC mainframe Dollar becomes Pound and Cent becomes dollar. This was a real pain as a UK user of Bitnet.
Dave
> Let me get this straight. If I stop using VMS MAIL for this list and use one of
> these new fangled things instead, I too will be able to make high quality
> postings to the list, just like this one???
>
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan
>
> >
> > On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Fred Cisin via cctalk <cisin at xenosoft.com;
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, ED SHARPE @ AOHell.com via cctalk wrote:
> > > These 2 have my vote as well....
> > > I do not know, anyone using a text only mail reader anymore!
> > >
> > >> The one thing I would change here is removal of the restriction on
> attachments.
> > >> Well, two things.. Getting rid of the cctalk/cctech split as well.
> >
> > I read this list on PINE, on a shell account at my ISP.
> >
> > In this group, I doubt that I am the only one.
> >
> >
> > Can we restrict to TEXT emails?
> >
> > --
> > Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
> >
