This script boots a PDP-8/I into the Adventure game. Here is the front panel… bill@bill:~/Downloads/Computers/PDP-11/BlinkenBone$ ./pdp8i_os8advent.shStarting panel simulation and portmapper …May 16, 2023 9:51:01 PM blinkenbone.blinkenlight_api.RpcServerINFO: RpcServer logging startedWait 30 seconds for java/portmap to come up … *** blinkenlightapitst v1.09 – client for BeagleBone Blinkenlight API panel interface ***Build Dec 26 2018 14:09:16Copyright (C) 2012-2016 …
Monthly Archives: May 2023
Real 11/70 speed in simh
Someone suggested to SET THROTTLE 600K would represent a real 11/70. I tried it and it took almost 30 sec for ERRINT (the last startup command) to complete on my Ryzen desktop. I tried starting without SET THROTTLE and it took less than 3 sec on my Ryzen.
BlinkenBone PDP-11/70
From here. I run the below script on my desktop. bill@bill$:~/Downloads/Computers/PDP-11/BlinkenBone ./pdp1170_blinky.shStarting panel simulation and portmapper …May 16, 2023 9:11:14 PM blinkenbone.blinkenlight_api.RpcServerINFO: RpcServer logging startedWait 30 seconds for java/portmap to come up … *** blinkenlightapitst v1.09 – client for BeagleBone Blinkenlight API panel interface ***Build Dec 26 2018 14:09:16Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Joerg Hoppe.Contact: j_hoppe@t-online.deWeb: www.retrocmp.com/projects/blinkenbone …
Applied for Mojo access
Here. Saw a guy on YouTube talking about it, and it renewed my interest. I first talked about it here.
Practice kit IC
This kit may exceed my visual capabilities. It has an Integrated circuit that is very small. So now I have to purchase even more equipment? Perhaps a jewelers loop? So I can see what’s on these ICs. I’ve read up and watched videos and it seems important to locate pin #1. Also it’s a SMD …
Raspberry Pi 4 Model B has shipped
Got an email saying my Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Model B has shipped from the UK. Yea!
Spacewar (1962) on a DEC PDP-1
It was amazing for it’s time. Consider that pong didn’t show up in the home in the mid 1970s. Pong was no where near as advanced as Space War. Having originally been developed on the PDP-1 in 1962. And later ported to the PDP-6. And then again later on the PDP-10. Read more here. See …
My old PDP-11/70 computer room
Trying to reconstruct in my mind something I saw every weekday 40+ years ago. Actually this is the second location I worked from. We moved twice after this location. Thank goodness for old pictures I got from Annual reports (all in B&W). There were no cell phones with cameras everywhere back then. This newer (mostly …
Open SIMH
When I first posted to the PiDP-11 group. Someone recommended downloading and building the PDP-11 simulator from Open SIMH. At the time I was just interested in running the basic simh. However now that the PiDP-11 software is running on my old Pi, I decided to look into it today. make pdp11 …to build the simulator! So …
Ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB Model B
Yesterday this company named The Pi Hut tweeted that they’d have Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB today at 9PM UK time. So I set my alarm to remind me, fully not expecting to get one…but I did. I totally did something out of character…pay for shipping. Which is over $20 from there. Normally I’d …