Bill,
The APL-11 files on DECUS RSX85A are not a complete distribution but a modified version that was intended to run under I/D on M+.
I have the APL-11 V2.1 source files on a RL02 disk image. I will make it available at http://www.rsx11m.com/apl11.zip
Once you mount the disk image with Simh, the are two ready to run task images that will run under RSX11M or M+
In [201,200]APL6OK.TSK and APL7OK.TSK that are the REAL*4 and REAL*8 versions of APL-11. On the disk are the
Original .MAC sources as well as files from a RSX SIG tape that modified APL-11 for I/D under RSX11M+ that increased
The workspace (.BXWA from ~30000 to ~60000 bytes). It also contains a character set for Vt220 for the APL character set.
When you install the APL task experiment with the /INC to maximize the available workspace, On my system, I can
INS APL6.TSK/INC=37000 to max the workspace for the single precision version.
Also, the scanned APL-11 reference manual can be downloaded at http://www.rsx11m.com/APL-11-Ref-Man.pdf
and the APL11 installation guide at http://www.rsx11m.com/APL11ins.pdf
The RSX SIG files that have the info to change APL-11 to an I/D RSX11M+ task from RSX85A are also at [370,360] on the RL02 disk. I remember having this work back in the mid-1980s but I have not been able to get it to work today. If I link it with ODT it seems to blow up when the first overlay is loaded. If anyone could help with that I?d really appreciate it!
Best,
Mark
Here in NZ and around the world many of us are in lockdown and spending more time on our computers, if that were possible. I have just completed the restoration of a PDP-8 Straight 8 which I believe is the only one in New Zealand. You can view the restoration story and find appropriate resources here: https://pdp-8.nz <https://pdp-8.nz/>
While it plays Chess, it would be great if someone wanted to write (say) a Prime Number Generator, or some other application and email it to me off list. I have Focal-69 and can probably source other languages for this wonderful old machine with 4K of memory.
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Haven't given up on DIBOL. May try installing the RT-11 version and
see if it runs.
But now another language of interest has reared its ugly head. :-)
Anybody have an image of the tape for APL-11? Manual claims it
runs on all of the PDP-11 OSes and it is another language from
my past that I haven't touched (other than to read some programs
out of curiosity) in more than two decades.
I have the source to something called APL-11 for Unix but it is
not the same thing. Actually, not even close. :-)
Would love to see a few pointers.
Oh, and in case anyone is curious about my endeavors....
The SIMH system I am using now is based on the 11/70 and was built
with only 2M of memory. Why you would do that under SIMH where there
is really no memory constraint at all, I can not fathom. I used to
have a bunch of 11/44's and that has been my favorite since my original
11/24 system died long, long ago./ I am going to configure a SIMH
System using the 11/44 as my model and then reinstall everything in
order to have a really good system for playing with this stuff.
Sure wish there was a way to find some of the third party stuff from
the sourcebooks. A lot of nice software that should have been saved
for historical reasons, if nothing else, has been lost.
bill
I just stumbled over https://legacyos.org/ and checking here for what
you say about it only to find out that it seems like you missed it.
Have you all missed it or is it just not interesting ?
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Since I am forced to stay at home more than I would like I though I would
check some more PSUs. One I wanted to check was the H7109-C from one of my
VAXstation 4000 VLC machines. I found a leaked capacitor and some other high
ESR ones, so I will replace those. However, I also noticed a ceramic disk
capacitor that appears to be split all around the edge. Is that a known
failure mode?
Regards
Rob
Hello list,
I have a scan of a manual with schematics for a ?ISS Sperry Univac Driver Exerciser for 7330 and 843x type of disk drives that was kindly scanned and provided to me by Mark from the Computer History Archivies Project, since he and myself happen to come accross such exercisers. I contacted two times Al via email for access credentials to upload the document as I did in the past years for numerous scans, but I never got an answer. He is probably very busy during the last months. In case anybody has access for uploading documents on this list, can you contact me so that we can make this document available to everybody?
Best regards,
Pierre
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Does anyone have a .tap image of a DIBOL install tape for RSTS?
And while I am at it, was there ever RPG for RSTS?
I am so bored I have decided to really load up a SIMH system
and just live in the past for a while. I have Fortran-IV,
Fortran-77, COBOL-81 and C installed now as well as BASIC and
MACRO. But I haven't had the chance to do any DIBOL or RPG
for quite some time and would love to try them again.
bill
>Patrick Finnegan pat at vax11.net Tue Mar 24 18:14:05 CDT 2020
>
>It looks like the magic that updates the 5-digit number in the URL doesn't
>work after the classiccmp.org recovery. Try:
>http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img54306/imd118.zip
>
>The rest of the things should be in the same directory.
>>On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:47 PM Christian Groessler
>> Hi,
>>
>> the link on http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm for
>> "ImageDisk 1.18" doesn't work. Apparently most (or all) links on this
>> page don't work.
The "magic" is me, it has nothing to do with the classiccmo recovery.
The links are something I update manually from time to time, and I've
recently updated some pages to correct links to my now expired
commercial site, and failed to amend these with the current transient
page.
Should be fixed now - may have to refresh your browser if It cached
the bad links.
Dave
In the "Dataproducts (300/600 LPM) Line Printers Maintenance Guide"
(1984) at (23Mb)
https://www.wang2200.org/docs/fiche/742-0432.MNL.2273LinePrinterMaintenance…
Table 1-2. 300 LPM Character Band & PROM Set Kits p. 1-10 (p. 30-31 in
PDF) &
Table 1-3 600 LPM .... p1-12 (p. 32-33 in PDF)
List
"Country/Language","Character Band Number","PROM Number"."Number of
Printable Characters","Description","Font Style","Spacing"
Band???????????????? Desc????????????????? Font Style
250035-019 64 Utility?? ? ? ? ?? ???? DPC-C
250042-022 96 Upper/Lower???? DPC-B/C
250045-022 96 Upper/Lower???? DPC-C
250088-039 96 ASCII/Modified? DPC-B
"Number of Print..." is 64 or 96 ... except for an Arabic one
"Spacing in characters per inch" is always 10, except for 4, 15 pitches
"Font Style" is either DPC-B, DPC-B/C, DPC-C, DPC-15, DPC-D for Thai, Arabic
Are there fonts available for the common Font Styles (DPC-B. DPC-B/C,
DPC-C)?
The fonts for the Dataproducts (64-char) drum printers may be in that set.
It's possible that the Dataproducts laser printers may have provided the
fonts, but googling
hasn't shown anything, the Dataproducts website is on archive.org,
and my searches showed that the Computer History Museum has a printer
and a few bands.
The HP2614A Drum printer we had in 1980 was probably one of those and we
had band printers later.
I should look through my printouts ...
There's a font for the IBM 1403
http://ibm-1401.info/IBM140310Pitch-Regular.otf
"Chainprinter Regular Font" at
http://legionfonts.com/fonts/chainprinter-regular
may be related to the IBM 1403 one too.
This assumes that fonts might be useful for OCR at some stage, or for
checking retyped data,
or for fun on SIMH.
Hi all,
I have 4000/90 which behaves funny. It only starts, after switching on
twice. The first time, all LEDs stay on, flipping the switch off/on, it
boots happily.
Any insight?
THANKS!