Sender: prep@k9.prep.synonet.com Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Monitor V4 sources. From: Paul Repacholi Date: 01 Jan 2001 12:07:55 +0800 Message-ID: <87wvcf29us.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com> Lines: 48 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 196.d02.pe.iqnet.net.au X-Trace: 1 Jan 2001 11:25:01 +0800, 196.d02.pe.iqnet.net.au Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!enews.sgi.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!feedwest.news.agis.net!agis!feed-out.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!feed.newsfeeds.com!newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!news.waia.asn.au!usenet.per.paradox.net.au!127.0.0.1!nobody Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.sys.pdp10:2330 All the file we currently have of the V4 monitor have just been mailed to TIm. Expect to hear RSN ;) A word about the machine they ran on. It was the first sold. Serial number #4, memory box SN #1. It had the harp. It was ordered without FM, but had it anyway. I think there was some 'discussion' post order, and it was added to the order. CPU, 48KW memory, PTR, PTP(? rollie), CDR, LPT, DIS, MTAx4, 32 lines plus CTY and TTY1, both KSR35s. Oh, and 8 DECtapes. There was also LP1, a Mohawk I think. There was a PDP-6 channel for the 2 CDC disks, and a DC-10 for the tapes. The tapes where a latter addition. TM10B with 4 TU-10s I think. Can't find my manual... Plus there was a real-time interface setup for the IR Spectrometer, and other stuff. Now the DISKS and LP1 ( why LP1 you are wondering... ) hung off a PDP-8. The 8 was the controler fot the disks, and the 6 was its 'FPU'... I think this would have to be one of the first for both these ideas. OK, the FPU is just a divide, but still! Special interface between the two, and from 8 to disks. The man who did the code for the 8 is still at UWA. When they come back from hols, I'll see if he will post anything he has, or send it to Tim. In 72 it was retired, replaced by a CDC Cyber 72. After about 3 months of quiet riot, a KA-10 was ordered. I think that was not a complete shock, as the tape and memory went onto the 10. That stayed till 80, when a KL-10E took over. That machine is in the next room. And I have the 8 under wraps as well! In fact, when I first joined ( belatedly ) DECUS, it was the machine I put on my membership form. It is a 'real' 8, none of this noncy suffix stuff ;) If anyone has any other old stuff, PLEASE get it out and into the archive. -- Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd., +61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda. West Australia 6076 Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked. ###### From: berd_kalamunda@techemail.com (Rolie Baldock) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Monitor V4 sources. Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 22:18:36 GMT Message-ID: <3a51005d.2886473@news.m.iinet.net.au> References: <87wvcf29us.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/16.235 Lines: 64 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.59.69.73 X-Trace: news.iinet.net.au 978387310 30426 emut7d@203.59.69.73 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!tungurahua!news-ge.switch.ch!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!news.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.sys.pdp10:2344 Paul, You forgot to mention the PDP-8 disk drive controller and the remote peripherral computer interface. There was no PTP ever. You also forgot the Precision display which now resided in the ACMS-WA barn in Mundaring. The console was an ASR-33 (I almost lived on it Sunday Times photo to prove it). IGN has a bad memory for things he built on to it and mine is not much better. PO Dufty might remember, but much has passed under the bridge in his life. On 01 Jan 2001 12:07:55 +0800, Paul Repacholi wrote: > >All the file we currently have of the V4 monitor have just >been mailed to TIm. Expect to hear RSN ;) > > >A word about the machine they ran on. > >It was the first sold. Serial number #4, memory box SN #1. >It had the harp. It was ordered without FM, but had it anyway. >I think there was some 'discussion' post order, and it was added >to the order. >CPU, 48KW memory, PTR, PTP(? rollie), CDR, LPT, DIS, MTAx4, 32 lines >plus CTY and TTY1, both KSR35s. Oh, and 8 DECtapes. >There was also LP1, a Mohawk I think. >There was a PDP-6 channel for the 2 CDC disks, and a DC-10 >for the tapes. The tapes where a latter addition. TM10B with >4 TU-10s I think. Can't find my manual... Plus there was a >real-time interface setup for the IR Spectrometer, and other >stuff. > >Now the DISKS and LP1 ( why LP1 you are wondering... ) hung >off a PDP-8. The 8 was the controler fot the disks, and the 6 >was its 'FPU'... I think this would have to be one of the first >for both these ideas. OK, the FPU is just a divide, but still! >Special interface between the two, and from 8 to disks. > >The man who did the code for the 8 is still at UWA. When they >come back from hols, I'll see if he will post anything he has, >or send it to Tim. > >In 72 it was retired, replaced by a CDC Cyber 72. After about >3 months of quiet riot, a KA-10 was ordered. I think that was >not a complete shock, as the tape and memory went onto the 10. > >That stayed till 80, when a KL-10E took over. That machine >is in the next room. And I have the 8 under wraps as well! >In fact, when I first joined ( belatedly ) DECUS, it was the >machine I put on my membership form. It is a 'real' 8, none >of this noncy suffix stuff ;) > >If anyone has any other old stuff, PLEASE get it out and >into the archive. > >-- >Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd., >+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda. > West Australia 6076 >Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked. --Rolie Baldock. email: