Someone needs to revive the VT525 case and make a DEC Multia again with
an i7 in it. Should last about the same length of time thermally. :P
Al.
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Wednesday, 13 June 2012 10:05 PM
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] [Simh] Pi VAX Cluster
Talking of small hardware, I would have thought that the latest i7
with
built in video would be a good candidate for a small motherboard.
Anyone know if there are any miniITX etc. planned for such a beast?
Mark.
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A place like the classiccmp newsgroup is a better bet. Please do not abuse this list.
Johnny
On 2012-06-13 16:53, Patrick J. Jankowiak wrote:
Hello,
I apologize for the off topic post but this Osborne 1A in California
needs a home and I have nowhere else to turn. I do not collect any more
but people still occasionally turn to me with an offer or to find a home
for their unwanted yet classic computers. The message *below* from Don
offers one for the cost of shipping.
Knowing the system type below, a good re-seating, solder touch up, and
cleaning could get it back. They ran hot inside. The 1A incorporated
some improvements for that.
Many pics of this type of system here for anyone interested.
There is probably a terminal program for it, would be an interesting
on-topic use for it.
http://bunkerofdoom.com/computers/osborne1/index.html
Patrick Jankowiak
OpenVMS Hobbyist #1
www.bunkerfodoom.com
*
**On 6/12/2012 11:10 AM, Don Workman wrote: *
**
*If you know someone
that would like to have it and will pay the shipping I will give it away. I
am in Susanville CA.
Thanks,
Don*
*On 6/11/2012 2:10 PM, Workman Consulting wrote:
*
*> Hello,
> I have an Osborne 1a computer complete with all the original software
> disks and manuals. Also the Olympia typewriter that interfaced as a
> printer also the 'internal' modem and an external monitor. The
> adapter for the monitor quit and I don't think I have it anymore. All
> worked a few years ago when I unpacked it except that the B drive had
> trouble reading disks.. I also have the original shipping boxes
> except for the external monitor.
> Let me know if you are interested.
> Thanks,
> Don Workman
> 530-257-8678
> consultant at frontier.com <mailto:consultant at frontier.com>
*
Hello,
I apologize for the off topic post but this Osborne 1A in California needs a home and I have nowhere else to turn. I do not collect any more but people still occasionally turn to me with an offer or to find a home for their unwanted yet classic computers. The message below from Don offers one for the cost of shipping.
Knowing the system type below, a good re-seating, solder touch up, and cleaning could get it back. They ran hot inside. The 1A incorporated some improvements for that.
Many pics of this type of system here for anyone interested.
There is probably a terminal program for it, would be an interesting on-topic use for it.
http://bunkerofdoom.com/computers/osborne1/index.html
Patrick Jankowiak
OpenVMS Hobbyist #1
www.bunkerfodoom.com
On 6/12/2012 11:10 AM, Don Workman wrote:
If you know someone
that would like to have it and will pay the shipping I will give it away. I
am in Susanville CA.
Thanks,
Don
On 6/11/2012 2:10 PM, Workman Consulting wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an Osborne 1a computer complete with all the original software
> disks and manuals. Also the Olympia typewriter that interfaced as a
> printer also the 'internal' modem and an external monitor. The
> adapter for the monitor quit and I don't think I have it anymore. All
> worked a few years ago when I unpacked it except that the B drive had
> trouble reading disks.. I also have the original shipping boxes
> except for the external monitor.
> Let me know if you are interested.
> Thanks,
> Don Workman
> 530-257-8678
> consultant at frontier.com <mailto:consultant at frontier.com>
On 13 Jun 2012, at 13:05, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
Talking of small hardware, I would have thought that the latest i7 with built in video would be a good candidate for a small motherboard.
Anyone know if there are any miniITX etc. planned for such a beast?
Intel DH77DF is a really nice ITX sized Ivy Bridge board. Takes all
i3/5/7 LGA 1155 CPUs pretty much. If you intend on using on-board
graphics ensure you get a **CPU** with it built-in, it's not on the
board on the current Intel chipsets.
--
Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/bloghttp://twitter.com/MDBenson
Talking of small hardware, I would have thought that the latest i7 with built in video would be a good candidate for a small motherboard.
Anyone know if there are any miniITX etc. planned for such a beast?
Mark.
--
http://www.wickensonline.co.ukhttp://declegacy.org.uk
On 13 Jun 2012, at 01:04, Boyanich, Alastair wrote:
This looks like it might be cute to run SIMH on.. there was the Rpi VAX cluster doing the rounds yesterday, but these things came out today (..wonder what tomorrow will bring) for $49 .. with twice the ram, 800Mhz ARMv11 core (Rpi is ARMv6 afair? Please correct me).
http://apc.io/
No, the Raspberry Pi CPU is ARM11 (note, no v) 700MHz Broadcom BCM2835 SoC which is ARMv6 (the Linux distro I run debian armv6l). It's quite confusing, there are a few number schemes that all relate to different things with ARM and I don't fully understand them.
http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
That so-called 'APC8750' board is a VIA Neo-ITX board also. The CPU setup looks almost identical to the RPi one save for the extra RAM and 100MHz.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/VIA-APC-8750-WonderMedia-ARM-Neo-ITX,15721…
--
Mark Benson
http://DECtec.info
Twitter: @DECtecInfo
HECnet: STAR69::MARK
Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts.
This looks like it might be cute to run SIMH on.. there was the Rpi VAX cluster doing the rounds yesterday, but these things came out today (..wonder what tomorrow will bring) for $49 .. with twice the ram, 800Mhz ARMv11 core (Rpi is ARMv6 afair? Please correct me).
http://apc.io/
Al.
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2012 11:06 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: [HECnet] Fwd: [Simh] Pi VAX Cluster
-------- Original Message --------
Subject:
[Simh] Pi VAX Cluster
Date:
Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:59:13 +0100
From:
Sevan / Venture37 <venture37 at gmail.com>
To:
simh at trailing-edge.comhttp://www.designspark.com/content/raspberry-pi-vax-cluster
Andrew Back blogged about running a VAX cluster with simh on the Pi
Sevan / Venture37
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El 11/06/2012, a les 23:55, gerry77 at mail.com va escriure:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:08:37 +0200, you wrote:
KLH10 does not seem to have an idle loop detection like SIMH does. The Panda
TOPS-20 uses some sort of virtual device to make the host aware if it is
idling, but the regular TOPS-10 monitor does not, so it's using the 100% of
the CPU time of the host virtualbox machine. So if I don't cap it it ends
topping one of the cores of the "real" host machine. And the it gets hot :)
You can easily patch either the actual TOPS-10 monitor or the sources used to
generate a custom monitor. Then it will behave like the TOPS-20 Panda monitor.
KLH10 implements a special device that forces the emulator to sleep until the
next interrupt, e.g. the interval timer. That device does its thing whenever
is "called", and that's just only one single Macro instruction.
If you'll want to give it a try, just ask: it's quite easy... :)
HTH,
That sounds fun, but I have zero knowledge about PDP-10 assembly language :). I pretend to learn a little bit of it, but I haven't done it yet (one more thing in the huge list of thinks I want to learn).
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:08:37 +0200, you wrote:
KLH10 does not seem to have an idle loop detection like SIMH does. The Panda
TOPS-20 uses some sort of virtual device to make the host aware if it is
idling, but the regular TOPS-10 monitor does not, so it's using the 100% of
the CPU time of the host virtualbox machine. So if I don't cap it it ends
topping one of the cores of the "real" host machine. And the it gets hot :)
You can easily patch either the actual TOPS-10 monitor or the sources used to
generate a custom monitor. Then it will behave like the TOPS-20 Panda monitor.
KLH10 implements a special device that forces the emulator to sleep until the
next interrupt, e.g. the interval timer. That device does its thing whenever
is "called", and that's just only one single Macro instruction.
If you'll want to give it a try, just ask: it's quite easy... :)
HTH,
G.
