Yeah, Sampsa help me setup my simh based Vax as well. Been running extremely well on my Pi.. Yes it's slow, but for my needs it works well for learning OpenVMS. Plus it's clustered to his machines as well.
The RPi also is my airplay destination so I can output itunes to my Nortel phone system for music on hold, and it has the Appletalk software on it for net booting my old Apples. It's also running IncrediblePBX for voip and GoogleVoice integration via tcpip to the phone switch too.
For 256megs of ram it sure can do a ton of things all at once.
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Questions about the E11 version 0.9 release
I ordered mine ages ago, from like Amazon, delivered in a week.
It's been running SIMH as HPIVAX ever since..
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +961 788 10537
On 25 Apr 2013, at 01:17, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
>>>>> "general" solution.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
>>>> realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
>>>> would be super sweet!
>>>>
>>>>> That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other
>>>>> than
>>>>> the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
>>>> me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with
>>>> a
>>>> chainsaw.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
>>>
>>>> John Wilson
>>>> D Bit
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Cory Smelosky
>>> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
>>> http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
>>
>> Hello!
>> You did? When?
>>
>
> Around last year.They took many months and it kept getting delayed.
>
>> That was the doing of the things that are trying to eat the mail that
>> wanders past Dave's place.
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>>
>
> --
> --
> Cory Smelosky
> http://gewt.net Personal stuff
> http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
I ordered mine ages ago, from like Amazon, delivered in a week.
It's been running SIMH as HPIVAX ever since..
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +961 788 10537
On 25 Apr 2013, at 01:17, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other
than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with
a
chainsaw.
I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
John Wilson
D Bit
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
You did? When?
Around last year.They took many months and it kept getting delayed.
That was the doing of the things that are trying to eat the mail that
wanders past Dave's place.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
Well mine arrived at the end of last year as part of a birthday
present. As it happens it was included in the classic starter kit.
------
This does not explain why there are strange individuals standing
around watching Dave at home. And going through stuff.......
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
I ordered mine ages ago, from like Amazon, delivered in a week.
It's been running SIMH as HPIVAX ever since..
sampsa <sampsa at mac.com>
mobile +961 788 10537
On 25 Apr 2013, at 01:17, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other
than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with
a
chainsaw.
I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
John Wilson
D Bit
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
You did? When?
Around last year.They took many months and it kept getting delayed.
That was the doing of the things that are trying to eat the mail that
wanders past Dave's place.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other
than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with
a
chainsaw.
I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
John Wilson
D Bit
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
You did? When?
Around last year.They took many months and it kept getting delayed.
That was the doing of the things that are trying to eat the mail that
wanders past Dave's place.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other
than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with
a
chainsaw.
I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
John Wilson
D Bit
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
You did? When?
That was the doing of the things that are trying to eat the mail that
wanders past Dave's place.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, John Wilson wrote:
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with a
chainsaw.
I got a later rev board as an apology. Weird.
John Wilson
D Bit
--
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a
"general" solution.
I'm a year or two behind in Arduini -- do you mean there are versions that
realistically let you use the USB port as more than just serial I/O? That
would be super sweet!
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other than
the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Don't get me started on the RPi! By the time they got around to shipping
me what was by then an off-rev board I was so pissed I cut it in half with a
chainsaw.
John Wilson
D Bit
El 24/04/2013, a les 21:38, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> va escriure:
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other than the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
Not enough GPIO pins... You will need to multiplex the pins. I several 74HC595 to drive the LEDs, and I'm experimenting with 74HC165 to drive banks of DIP switches as input (although that project is quite freezing now). I posted some details in my blog (Blinkenlights: Not so difficult as I thought), with links to the code I have written for the 4.0 version of simh, and a java app with virtual LEDs also. My version, by the way, runs in an Arduino, but I also wrote a small "client" for the Pi. I just switched to the Arduino because I have heard horror stories about dead Raspis after stupid cabling mistakes messing with the GPIO pins...
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 3:16 PM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
Anyway at this point I think USB is
the way to go so that's about item #117 on my to-do list.
Yeah, an Arduino as the USB to T.ls would make this pretty trivial as a "general" solution.
That said, the RPi should be able to support it without anything other than the leds and switches added to the AdaFruit breakout board, I have.
From: Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
In going over my collection of things PDP-11 I came across a some what
startling discovery. That of this one, I have nearly all the releases
of E11 from the 0.8 one all the way to the recent one.
Nice! The bloating of the executable gets pretty embarrassing if you go
back far enough (it takes almost no code to boot RT-11 as an 11/34a -- the
other half-megabyte of flab is for ... well it must be for *something* ...).
Now I've gone and read all or nearly all of the documentation file
that it came with. There are two instructions there, one of is the
SWITCH one, and I quote here:
Unless I've gone senile (how would I know?), that flavor of that command
is still present in the latest DOS and stand-alone versions too.
And of course my question is one of, were those actually tested with
real hardware attached?
I never built an ISA board to do it. I had intended to, and I was going to
drill a blank 5.25" drive bay cover for LEDs and toggle switches, but then
I got the idea for the LPT-port hack with software muxing which does the
display part with way less hardware, so I never bothered. But I did test
it with a random device or two to convince myself it was working correctly
(reads and writes PC regs OK).
Doing a PCB layout for an ISA lights-n-switches board would take a weekend
at most so I'd be happy to do it, if anyone cared. Doesn't Bob Armstrong
already make something better though? Anyway at this point I think USB is
the way to go so that's about item #117 on my to-do list.
John I imagine you are aware that these early releases are floating
all over the Internet?
Yep, which is kind of sweet! And they're from before I decided to have a
go at making a living with PDP-11s, so they don't have any restrictions on
commercial use. Lots of very embarrassing bugs, but that'll always be true.
John Wilson
D Bit
