Nicolet 1080 (MED-80) installation

[gnupublic]

Hello,

I would like to show one of my future tasks. Got the rack two weeks ago and picked up the tape and tape controller last weekend.



Most about this machine can be read here https://versci.com/1080proposal/index.html . This is a great site with lots of information.
Most files can be found here http://www.dvq.com/docs/nicolet/ about Nicolet 1080, this is also a really great site.

Together with the machine I got some papertapes:



And in the diskdrives are cartridges:



Devices look quite good for the age. Maybe there is a chance to get this running again.
The tapedrive came from a differnet source, so the I/O controller is missing what I need to fit the tape. Maybe time will help to find the necessary parts.

If you are experienced with Nicolet 1080, I'm interested in any information and contact.

Best wishes to Jack and Dwight!

Have fun,
Volker

 

[Dwight Elvey]

You have a lot of floppy tapes but I see no floppy drive. I do have the drive and interface. I have one hard drive and interface.
There are so many great tapes you have. WOW!.
Your find is fantastic. I don't see the floppy DEMON, just a lot of applications. Be careful with the core memory. Especially the areas listed on the tapes. there may still be info in there you don't wan to lose.
I suspect there are large blocks of data on the hard drives but still go slowly. It is quite common for the top surfaces of these disk to get gunk on them and the heads crashing.
Dwight

 

[pbirkel@gmail.com]

You have a lot of floppy tapes but I see no floppy drive.

Fanfold Decitek paper tape reader is at the top of the rack.

 

[Dwight Elvey]

Fanfold Decitek paper tape reader is at the top of the rack.

Yes, a reader but no floppy drive on the system. Anyway, a great number of interesting tapes to read.
There are two ways the NIC-80 can read tapes,depending on the reader. It can do it serially with rs232 or using the parallel bus input, depending on the reader.
gnupubic, you should open the NIC-80 and see what baud rate it is set to. The serial board can have two uart's as well. Mine only came with one but there is a place for a second one.
That is why I asked for a picture of how it is wired on the back.
Dwight