Article 4235 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news1.best.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newsfeed.enteract.com!chicago-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!web.onecall.net!news.iupui.edu!haystack!mhwood From: mhwood@Ameritech.net (Mark H. Wood) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: KL Console Commands Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:51:40 GMT Organization: La Petite Hackerie Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <6vgg60$1gu@nnrp3.farm.idt.net> <361be09f.4444373@news.clark.net> <6vjahh$puq@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mhw.ulib.iupui.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0] Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4235 Since we're discussing PDP8-based peripheral controllers, did anybody here ever use a DN92? I came across the glossy for it one day while cleaning out old papers bequeathed by a former boss. It was an RJE station and (I think) could also handle a few terminal lines. (Before you ask: I don't know what became of that glossy, but I don't throw away interesting stuff so it may turn up again.) -- -- Mark H. Wood, radical centrist mhwood@ameritech.net Having seen what's at the edges of the road, I much prefer the dead armadillos. Article 4236 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news1.best.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!Supernews73!supernews.com!Supernews69!10.0.0.1!10.0.0.1 From: racerdave@net1plus.com (Dave Lyons) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Re: KL Console Commands Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:17:38 GMT Organization: http://www.supernews.com, The World's Usenet: Discussions Start Here Lines: 15 Message-ID: <36212c6e.1596271906@10.0.0.1> References: <6vgg60$1gu@nnrp3.farm.idt.net> <361be09f.4444373@news.clark.net> <6vjahh$puq@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.200.157.92 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: 908144354 P0XQBQRYN9D5CD0C8C usenet87.supernews.com X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 X-No-Archive: yes Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4236 On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:51:40 GMT, mhwood@Ameritech.net (Mark H. Wood) wrote: >Since we're discussing PDP8-based peripheral controllers, did anybody >here ever use a DN92? I came across the glossy for it one day while >cleaning out old papers bequeathed by a former boss. It was an RJE >station and (I think) could also handle a few terminal lines. > >(Before you ask: I don't know what became of that glossy, but I don't >throw away interesting stuff so it may turn up again.) >-- Yes, you could say I have heard of it, as I worked on the code that ran in the beast. There used to be on sitting in the **MIDDLE** of the machine room, between 1026 and 514. Article 4237 of alt.sys.pdp10: Subject: Re: Re: KL Console Commands From: aek@spies.com (Al Kossow) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 References: <36212c6e.1596271906@10.0.0.1> Originator: aek@spies.com NNTP-Posting-Host: goonsquad.spies.com Message-ID: <3621359e.0@news.spies.com> Date: 11 Oct 1998 15:47:58 -0800 X-Trace: 11 Oct 1998 15:47:58 -0800, goonsquad.spies.com Lines: 13 Path: news3.best.com!news1.best.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!news.spies.com!spies.com!aek Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4237 >>Since we're discussing PDP8-based peripheral controllers, did anybody >>here ever use a DN92? I came across the glossy for it one day while >>cleaning out old papers bequeathed by a former boss. It was an RJE >>station and (I think) could also handle a few terminal lines. >> >>(Before you ask: I don't know what became of that glossy, but I don't >>throw away interesting stuff so it may turn up again.) The unit I used in 1980 was an RJE to a dual KI at the Air Force Avionics Lab in Dayton. It was 8E based, had a line printer, card reader, and several serial lines. If memory serves me right, you booted it from the card reader; I don't remember any other periperals on it that you could boot from.