Recent content by cruff

You should also check for bad solder joints, a microscope or magnifier (or magnifying camera) might be necessary. It may be possible when you cleaned it a bad joint opened up.

Gotta love those spinning tapes to show things are happening! Thanks for the post.

Had to do that to install my Qprobe 2023 into my BA23. DEC certainly didn't make it easy to do stuff quickly inside the enclosure.

For completeness:

Do you have an addressing conflict between the rqdx3 and the dhu11?

Do you perchance have another emulated device on the Qbone that might be causing some interference? What happens if you move the Qbone after the other devices?

A specific model of CFL may actually be driven at a higher frequency than the AC line if it has a switching power supply in the base.

I took a look in my BA23 power supply a while back thinking I'd need to change out soon to fail RIFA caps, but found a different brand in there that used a different encapsulation material. Looked at my VAXstation 4000/60 and didn't find any RIFAs in there either.

I built a PC532 years ago and had Minix running on it, I didn't end up using it much and I no longer have the hardware.

Are they 1/2" tape reels? Something else? Further description or pictures would help.

Yes, I am starting with Johnny's image, I was thinking your steps were starting there too and I could use them as a reference.

I was trying to take a look at your documented steps since I am going to do the same thing for my 11/83 with a DELQA, but I get this error trying to access it using Firefox:

The MacOS curs_scroll man page has this to say: It isn't very clear but perhaps you specify a negative integer? It's been a long time since I programmed something using ncurses.

Looks like there isn't much on that board other than some serial chips, a RTC, RAM, ROMs and the CPU. It must have acted as a serial line peripheral controller for another computer, so the resources to use it directly as a SBC will be limited to that set of features. You'll have to reverse...

Found a pair of MSV11-JE boards for a reasonable price and a 11/83 cabinet kit SLU to round things out.