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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Date madness
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:22:26 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213202226.5214E18C094@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo

    > My /83s have them, but I'm not so sure it's a feature of the CPU board:
    > there's this thought nagging in the back of my head that the ToY thing
    > actually sits in the front panel module with the various buttons on it.

/83 documentation seems to be very thin on the ground, alas.

It's definitely not the CPU; the KDJ11-B CPU (of the /83) manual
(EK-KDJ1B-UG-001) makes no mention of it; and in the PDP-11/94E System User
and Maintenance Guide (EK-KDJ1E-UG-001), section D.2 "PDP-11/94 and 11/84
Hardware Differences" (the /?3 and /?4 models use the same CPU board, but a
different backplane, with QBUS/UNIBUS converter, so this could equally well be
titled "PDP-11/93 and 11/83 Hardware Differences") says "Time of Year Clock",
indicating the 83/84 don't have one.

Several companies made after-market ToD clocks to plug into the QBUS, e.g.
here:

  https://www.ebay.com/itm/371284594072

Is something like that what your /83 has?

   Noel


             reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-13 20:22 Noel Chiappa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-16 10:50 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-16 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-16 17:11   ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-13 22:16 Norman Wilson
2017-12-14  0:24 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-17 16:20   ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 18:53     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-17 20:07       ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 19:12 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-14  3:07 ` Random832
2017-12-15  3:04   ` Random832
2017-12-13 17:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-13 20:46 ` arnold
2017-12-15 16:41   ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-15 17:19     ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 15:45     ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16  3:39   ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16  3:45     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-17  1:43       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14  3:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14  3:13   ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 16:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:50 ` arnold
2017-12-13 16:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:23 ` arnold
2017-12-13 15:56 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 15:07 ` Random832
2017-12-13 17:00   ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:18     ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 18:02       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-13 15:39 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-12-14  0:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 14:09   ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 16:19     ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 16:33       ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 17:54         ` Random832
2017-12-17 22:15           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-17 22:54             ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-16 18:12 ` Wolfgang Helbig

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