Hello,
People have been earching for PDP-10 MDL for a long time. Finally, we
found source code for TOPS-20 including slightly bit-rotted ITS support.
It has now been fixed and is up and running in ITS. Twenex people are
welcome to give it a go too. This is published with permission from
Chris Reeve and Tim Anderson:
http://github.com/PDP-10/muddle
Next is, of course, trying to run Zork. How to do that is an entire
research project of its own.
Best regards,
Lars Brinkhoff
Well, the ones listed now have been re-listed at least once. :-(
I was just contacted by the Living Computers Museum. They emphasized they are a 501(c)(3) org. :-)
I donate to the CHM. I will probably give them first shot.
Does anyone in the group have access to documentation for the Cybernex APL-100 video terminal?
All that I've been able to locate is a 4 page brochure for it; they were originally made in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hope this qualifies as classic computing...
Does anyone have the pin-out for the P2 connector on MVME processor boards?
I think that the pin-out would be the same for MVME147, MVME177, MVME162,
etc. and would mate with the P2 adapter board.
David Griffith <dave at 661.org> wrote:
> I'm looking for someone who knows TOPS10 / TOPS20 well enough to figure
> out for me why this test program won't compile. Once that's done, I can
> complete the firmware for the USB Panda Display an its support within
> klh10. I'll then make more copies of the USB Panda Display board (and
> maybe overlays) for whoever wants them.
A couple of observations on the following code:
1/ It is written for, and uses TOPS20 syscalls. If you intend to run this
under TOPS10 change the syscalls (LITES% and DISMS%) to the equvialent
TOPS10 counterparts, can be done by including these lines:
SEARCH UUOSYM
OPDEF LITES% [LIGHTS]
OPDEF DISMS% [HIBER]
2/ The program uses the CIRC instruction, which is not present in stock
DEC processors, and possibly not known to MACRO-10. You could try
OPDEF CIRC [247000,,0]
if that is indeed the problem.
[source code trimmed down]
> David Griffith
--Johnny
Howdy,
It seems to go unmentioned here, so here you are. One guy have set up
a public Multics site.
Access via ssh:
# ~$ ssh dps8 at m.trnsz.com
# The authenticity of host 'm.trnsz.com (139.162.119.37)' can't be
# established.
# ECDSA key fingerprint is
# e7:f6:da:31:eb:a0:a5:0b:50:fc:91:96:32:e7:18:f2.
# Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
# Warning: Permanently added 'm.trnsz.com,139.162.119.37' (ECDSA) to the
# list of k
# nown hosts.
# Connection from: AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
# Session starting now, Fri 20 Apr 2018 at 15:34:42 UTC.
#
# BAN.AI Systems Public Access Multics Service
#
# ? ? ??? ? ?
# ?? ?? ? ? ? ????? ??? ??? ???
# ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?
# ? ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ????
# ? ? ????? ??? ??? ?????????? ?????
#
# Visit https://ban.ai/multics/ to request a full user account
# Guest print job output at https://ban.ai/spool/anonymous
# Public anonymous login available. Type "enter Guest" to login
#
#
# Multics MR12.6f: BAN AI Systems (Channel a.h001)
# Load = 10.0 out of 300.0 units: users = 10, 04/20/18 1034.7 est Fri
# enter Guest
# You are protected from preemption until 10:35.
# Anonymous user Guest.Guest logged in 04/20/18 1035.0 est Fri from
# ASCII termin
# \cal "none".
# New messages in message_of_the_day:
#
# Welcome to the BAN AI Systems Public Access Multics Service!
... and so on, and so on ... (the '# ' comes from me, to make screen
dump stand out from my own words)
I have none prior experience with Multics, so it is going to be
interesting. I guess.
Source:
AN.AI's Public Access Multics System
https://lobste.rs/s/4ktahz/ban_ai_s_public_access_multics_systemhttps://ban.ai/multics/
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
--
** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... **
** **
** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola at bigfoot.com **
I couple years ago I completed the design for my USB Panda Display[1]
board. This is a modernization of the original Panda Display once
distributed by Spare Time Gizmos[2]. Both devices are intended to be
connected to a more-or-less modern x86-class computer running the klh-10
pdp10 emulator and provide useful blinkenlights. The development of klh10
is once again active, this time on Github[3]. I created my own repo of
klh10 as a means of writing support for my new Panda Display. The
display seems to be recognized and used, but what it displays is
meaningless. I cannot fully test it until I can get the old test program
compiled and working. Once that's done, I'll add my changes to the
PDP-10/klh10 repo and delete my own.
Here's a video of a computer with the old Panda Display running klh10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_LcQ5apODg. The creator of that video,
Jan de Rie, got the program that was used to generate that pattern from
Mark Crispin, the creator of the Panda distribution of klh10. That
program appears at the end of this post.
I'm looking for someone who knows TOPS10 / TOPS20 well enough to figure
out for me why this test program won't compile. Once that's done, I can
complete the firmware for the USB Panda Display an its support within
klh10. I'll then make more copies of the USB Panda Display board (and
maybe overlays) for whoever wants them.
TITLE HACK
SEARCH MONSYM
HACK: SKIPA 4,[^D4]
HACK0: SOJL 4,TRAILL
SETZB 1,3
HACK1: TLNE 1,777777
JRST HACK0
MOVE 2,1
CIRC 2,-^D18
SKIPN 4
SKIPA 1,3
IOR 1,3
LITES%
HALT
HRRZ 2,1
MOVEI 1,30
DISMS%
MOVE 1,2
AOJA 1,HACK1
TRAILL: SETZ 1,
TRALL0: LITES%
HALT
MOVE 2,1
MOVEI 1,30
DISMS%
JUMPL 2,TRAILR
LSHC 1,^D37
AOJA 1,TRALL0
TRAILR: MOVSI 1,400000
TRALR0: LITES%
HALT
MOVE 2,1
MOVEI 1,30
DISMS%
MOVE 1,2
TRNE 1,1
JRST HACK
ASH 1,-1
JRST TRALR0
END HACK
[1] https://github.com/DavidGriffith/panda-display
[2] http://sparetimegizmos.com/Hardware/Panda.htm)
[3] https://github.com/PDP-10/klh10/
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Hi Jim and all
>Hmm, I guess it does indeed depend on shipping costs, but I am looking
>for a card cage for the 12, and they can be a bit tough to find.
Yea, we tend to use couriers but it runs to a few hundred dollars a pop.
I will send pics off-list sometime next week.
W
