At 04:15 AM 9/4/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> > Yep, this is the Imlac I got from Tom after seeing his PDS-1D at VCF.
> >
> > I traded an old PDP 11 and some spare boards for the PDS-1(a?),
> > documentation and spare parts.
>
>Don't tell Tom, but I definitely think you got the better end of the deal
>;)
LOL! Well, I still have my PDS-1D and I am happy that Bob is interested
enough to get the PDS-1 running. Note, the "D" stands for Dense, as in
a more densely packed set of hardware. In the PDS-1D, they put more
logic into the same physical space.
> > Now I've got to get a way to load the 4K terminal program into memory
> > quickly and reliably (my Imlac has had the core memory replaced with
> > SRAM), and interface it to one of my HP minis!
>
>The PDS-1D I got came with the software and documentation for
>boot-strapping it off the serial port. Maybe you can do it that way? If
>I can find where I stored this stuff I can lend it to you if it would be
>helpful.
When you say "software", what all do you mean? Do you have any additional
software which runs on the Imlac, which I don't have in my collection?
This is how I load my machine. I think that Bob has the serial loader
information
as well, and if he does not, the documentation is on Al's site:
http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/imlac/
When are you going to get your machine running Sellam?
--tom
>Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Wed Sep 04 2002 - 14:39:00 BST