How are people using their pidp-1s?

[Bill E]

I haven't seen much from people other than assembly results. It seems we have only a few active developers.

Aside from the development I've been doing, mine is prominently displayed on the living room wall with the excellent Type 30 that Michael G designed on a table in front of it.

It runs 24/7 cycling thru 6 programs with interesting graphics using my drumrotator program.

It's been a great conversation piece both with non-computer people and the (many) ex-DEC nerds around here. I even get to keep my -8, -10, and -11 in the same room, also all running but not nearly as interesting to non-tekkies as the -1.

So, anyone doing any fun stuff they haven't talked about?

Bill

[Unibus]

Hi,

Unfortunately I've had to stop doing everything with my PiDP-1. I'm up to my ears in a planning dispute that currently is scheduled to run through to August.

Regards,

Garry

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[R Clark]

Not 'using' here.  It's a blink'n light machine at this point.  To many other projects to actually write anything for the PiDP-1.... at this time.  Does look nice though sitting on the shelf.

[Malcolm Ray]

I was working on a project to interface a sensor via I2C, which involved writing a custom IOT handler, as well as the application to display the results.

I struggled with the completion pulse logic, and put the project aside when an unrelated project came along. I need to get back to it!

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[Matthias Barthel]

Hi @ all,

I've spent the last few months building hardware for my pidp1. 

In the meantime I can punch papertapes and I'm in the process of building the papertape reader. I also built a working 16-channel Sequence-Break-System.

 @Malcom: Which sensor do you want to operate? I used pcf8574 port expander on the i2c bus some time ago, maybe I can help you?

Best matthias 

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[Malcolm Ray]

Matthias,

I'm using the TMP117 temperature sensor (to be precise, Adafruit's breakout for it).

I found this easy to drive from C, but I got bogged down writing the IOT module for it.

Thanks for the offer of help, but it's more fun if I figure it out for myself!

[sunnyboy010101]

For me, just running stuff. At this point mostly with the HDMI turned off as there's no need running it all the time.

I tried the music system and got the one demo working, but some of the other demo tape 'songs' I cannot get to play. I'm probably missing some simple instruction on those.