> From: Paul Koning
> Here's what it looked like
Not having RT11, I embedded this in a small stand-alone program (which took a
little work, Unix assembler being rather different :-), so I could see it (it
wasn't obvious from the code what it did).
Pretty clever, to get that complex a pattern out of so few instructions.
Although the self-modifying code is, err.... (If anyone wants the source or
.LDA, let me know, I can post/upload it.)
On the Unix machine we had at MIT, I 'stole' a light pattern I'd seen
somewhere else (not the code, just the visuals). The code is considerably
longer, but I didn't try to bit-push it, just wrote something very
straightforward to produce that pattern.
Noel
I have been able to sysgen an RT-11 XM monitor with the idle loop light pattern enabled, and install and boot it on my PDP-11/45. Here?s a video of the idle lights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycADKwgnLpE
I built the latest simh and tu58em from source on my MacBook, then was able to do the sysgen under simh, copy the resulting binaries onto a TU58 image using simh?s TDC device, then use tu58em to copy the binaries over onto my working RT-11 4.00 distribution RK05 pack.
It was pretty fun to get all this working ? I had never seen RT-11's console light pattern before!
?FritzM.
On 12/23/2017 07:24 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> I?m not sure you can smell the difference between failed selenium rectifiers and lutefisk...
It probably doesn't get interesting until you toss in a can of
surstr?mming...
--Chuck
pretty neat... what format material was it stored on!?
Ed#
In a message dated 12/27/2017 6:03:28 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
Hi,
I don?t know if I missed the announcement on this list but I just saw this
article:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/12/27/apple-lisa-source-code-to-be-released/
It features quotes from our own Al Kassow. ;-) Way to go Al!!!
TTFN - Guy
On 12/03/2017 10:00 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> That sounds like the original version with the separate logic module.
>
> I think the display is the same between the 2 versions. I am also
> pretty sure the same display is used in all the old Voyagers (there
> are annunciators on it that are not used on some models, but they
> are still there on the display of that model). AFAIK the difference
> between the models is the firmware.
Please forgive the delayed response--for some reason, the CCTalk server
belched up a bunch of messages dating from 30 November onward today.
I've read a bit on the HPMuseum forums that indicate that early displays
aren't interchangeable with later ones--the later ones apparently use a
finer-pitch connector.
My own HP 16C has a serial number beginning with 2228A..., which I
believe puts its date of manufacture in 1982, so my fingers are crossed
to see if the "old" HP12C that I picked up on eBay is even close in
terms of display connections.
--Chuck
Has anyone tried to build tumble on Ubuntu 16?? I've used the libtiff,
libpbm and the like that are included in the current system as
installed, and there are problems now with the tumble_pbm.c code
parameters (line 237 specifically).
I had built up and saved a build with my own downloaded and built
libtiff and libpbm, but those packages won't build anymore either.
Hoping not to rathole Al maybe Eric?? someone else who is using it to
convert tiff to pdfs.? I've scanned some stuff and would prefer to use
the full bitsavers toolchain, as well as have notes on how to build
going forward.
I'll flail on it more if noone is interested, but spent enough times
tonight trying to build it before asking.
thanks
Jim
> From: Mattis Lind
> Unfortunately I am not having any lutfisk this year. The rest of the
> family is not very fond of it.
I"m glad to see there are _some_ non-crazy people there! :-)
Anway, I can way top that - the tradition Bermudian Christmas dish is cassava
pie: make that wrong (starting with raw cassava root), and it will _kill_
you! :-)
(Cassava root contains a cyanide precursor. That's what cassava root is
banned for human consumption in Japan. Somewhat ironic, the land of 'fugu'
banning it! :-)
Noel
