Erik's Home-page, V19012008

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News:

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17.4.2012: Another release of the IRIX-Simh including a Rolm 1602 emulator with boot capability.
25.3.2012: Bugfix in the simh-binary for IRIX ("BOOT CPU" code for Nova/Rolm1602).
26.1.2012: Update of the PEC page adding a "wanted items"section (and XLS file).
23.6.2011: Update of my personal information; addition of the many achievements (e.g. PEC-Sound)
of the last months to the vintage computing logbook, not only explaining the pictures
added to the gallery of the PEC's page but also showing newly acquired parts ;-).

Addresses to reach me:

The most important reason for generating one's own (private) home-page in my opinion is to allow others to look up my address:
  • The most effective way to contact me is to use email:

    < erik@baigar.de>

  • Nearly every day I check for SMS:

    < 0173/3723182>

  • My address for snail mail in the west of Munich is:

    Erik Baigar,
    Gotzmannstrasse, 5, 1.Og,
    D81245 München,
    Tel. (0049)89/63496363
    Fax. (0049)32/223564681
    AB (0049)321/21248233
    48°09'30.82"N, 11°24'42.62"E, 570m above sea level

  • On Weekends I am sometimes in Marktoberdorf (100km from Munich in the beautiful Allgäu):

    Erik Baigar,
    Richard-Strauß-Straße 9
    D87616 Marktoberdorf
    47°46'09.47"N, 10°36'38.13"E, 824m above sea level

  • During the day I am working in the R&D division of the Dionex-Softron GmbH:

    Dr. Erik Baigar
    Dionex Softron GmbH
    Hardware Engineering Project Manager
    Dornierstraße 4
    D82110 Germering
    Tel. (0049)89/89468446
    Fax. (0049)89/89468301
    Email: erik.baigar@dionex.com
    48°07'48.82"N, 11°21'30.73"E, 590m above sea level

  • And here some out-of-date addresses.

    • Interesting Links to other WWW sites

    Another nice feature of a private home-page is that you can have bookmarks of pages you often use available on the net. So here are my bookmarks:

    General Infos:

    1. Search the WWW by the linux powered Google or DECs Altavista Searchengine.
    2. At eBay there are always a lot of interesting auctions in which you can search for an item. Especially interesting for
      me are auctions e.g. on used test-equipment, vintage Computers in the US and in Germany. There is a German offspring of eBay, too.
    3. LEO offers a lot of software and quite acceptable German-English or German-French dictionaries.
    4. For a survey of films in Munich's cinemas click here, movies shown in Kaufbeuren's Corona are listed here and for info what's tonight on television look here.
    5. The Musikhochschule Muenchen often offers excellent performances of old and "new classical music.
    6. Using public transport in Germany can be planed by using the electronic enquiry desk of the Bahn AG.
    7. The local public transport in Munich, the MVV and his help-desk are not so bad as many people say.
    8. Some nice ASCII-ART is always allowed - in today's perfect and megabyte consuming world they bring a nice diversification.

    Electronics/Technology:

    1. A nice point to start a search for many nice topics about electronics - e.g. Sam Goldwasser's FAQ.
    2. A nice collection of links can be fond on the HF-Pages.
    3. Following pages deal with HF: Look at SOMIS' for practical (ham radio) issues.
    4. Looking for data-sheets try the following links: The famous Chipdir, Semiconductor Data-sheets, the Data-sheet catalog, the Data-sheet archive, AllDataSheet and Elektroda in Poland.
    5. If you are in search for a special manual or schematic, BAMA might have them. Agilent (HP) even have some of them online now.
    6. Some nice projects (some related to vintage computing) can be found on SparetimeGizmos or if you want to build a spectrum analyzer, look here.
    7. Jet engines are rather reliable because of the many tests done on them (see e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) but quite often (one per month currently) a failure is "uncontained" ...

    Computing/Networking:

    1. LRZ-München, Munichs top Computer facility.
    2. A useful whois-Database for several debugging purposes or a domain checker and a MAC lookup tool.
    3. SGI made very nice MIPS based computers running IRIX and offers help and freeware for them. For older OSes (5.3), the tgcware is very handsome.
    4. Manly PC-Computer hardware projects can be found here - useful e.g. for getting pin-outs!
    5. FAQs regarding UNIX systems (SUN, SGI, HP,...) are available on Pimpin' Networks!
    6. PvMegaPOV is an extension to the multi-platform render program povray.
    7. Microprocessor Historic Data offers a nice overview of past microprocessors and their performance.
    8. Some interesting reading about minimalistic languages, e.g. the TinyBASIC.
    9. Ian's: Pages dealing with the ancient Sinclair stuff.
    10. Vintage computers are a nice topic since they show how ingenious designs and ideas set the bases for today's horrible colored and bad M$ software: PDP8, Bitsaver-Archive, PDP8, performance database, a online and freely accessible Cray, the unique Micro Professor training system, the lunar landing computer, and last but not least ClassicComp Archive (Transputers, Helios and much more).
    11. Software development for older processors in assembler (8051, PIC) and other architectures is much easier in using the know how from the WWW: Programmer's heaven. A very nice cross assembler for Z80, Cosmac, 6502 and many others is the asxxxx (this is part of the sdcc, too).
    12. Nekochan is a great knowledge base for SGI machines!
    13. UNIX offers many powerful tools, but you might want to look into these manuals on how to use them: SED, regular expressions and bash.

    Weather/Sports:

    1. The karate Dojo 1.MKC has it's own home-page as well as the new Dojo of Shihan Lowinger in Haldenwang and the German karate association. Nice movies (mpeg) of the Kata practiced in the Shotokan style can be seen online.
    2. Weather-forecasts and satellite images are available from the Klimarechenzentrum. Actual information on the weather and the possibility of avalanches in Switzerland and for Germany are available online.
    3. The home-page of one of Germany's best info stations, the Deutsche Welle is available here.
    4. In the alps near my homeland there is a nice school for climbing mountains. They have nice mountain guides and maps as well.
    5. Climbing guides are available in the Edition Filidor.
    6. If you need to know the actual weather in Garching, look here.
    7. For some dancing moves you can find step diagrams online at the TSV-Forstenried.

    Scientific (and hobby scientific ;-) ) Links:

    1. Remember: In science Murphies law's are always omnipresent!
    2. Patents are an important factor -do online searches in the US patent office or even better via UK's intellectual property office.
    3. One of the worst aberration of science was the invention of nuclear warfare which caused lot of harm dut to the physical effects involved.
    4. Look at the hobby-Scientific-page and a nice mailing list regarding Tesla coils lies on the WWW, too.
    5. Other interesting links concerning physics:
      1. Publications in OSA-Journals
      2. The Weizmann Institute provides links to valuable atomic physics databases.
    6. A how-to on building an Inexpensive X-ray Machine was published by the Scientific American in the sixties.
    7. Several Databases might be useful. Check out Chemistry/Biology/Database, web-elements, mat-web. And if you have a spectroscope, the a database of the visible spectral lines is a must.
    8. Lasers are interesting toys and building one at home is not that difficult. Look here for HOWTO's.

    Companies:

    1. LABX and Capovani are pages dealing with used optical components and lab equipment.
    2. Several commercial and non-commercial sites are offering cross-references and chiplists: National Semiconductor, Linear Technology and Maxim.
    3. A German computer discounter offering affordable hardware: Alternate.
    4. Used SGI-Hardware can be bought from SGIDEPOT.
    5. All types of test equipment and some very exotic parts are available at Rainer Foertig, Warbird relics and of course at Helmut Singer
    Links to home-pages of other people I know (not only via cyber space):
    1. Pia Frommknecht opened her business as dentist on the beginning of 2004.
    2. Thomas Hamm, who started his own business in autumn 1999.
    Older history:
    2.6.2011: Version 1.3 of the Elliott Simulator released. Doku on FH7Z.8-GearBox added to specials.
    12.2.2011: PEC: New version 1.2 of the Simulator for 18 bit Elliott machines released.
    Tornado Engine Computer donated to the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
    12.12.2010: PEC: Added latest achievements to the Time-Line - included is a short video of the
    PEC BlinkenLights in action and an outlook to the Waveform Generator 1.
    17.11.2010: Uploaded a technical note with schematic of the Ferranti FH7Z/8 attitude indicator.
    14.09.2010: Linked in a new page on an electronics/test equipment project related to the 04KN009.
    30.05.2010: Update to PEC-Page: Documentation of UK-Trip and latest progress with the setup.
    30.01.2010: Added first blinkenlights related information and pictures of the newly acquired
    waveform generator from the early versions of Tornado to Time-Line.
    13.12.2009: Latest achievements added to the Time-Line and new pictures on the gallery.
    5.7.2009: Checked all pages for dead links and removed them; added diary to the PEC-page.
    6.6.2009: Added new pictures on PEC page - plotter is running under control of PEC now.
    Pictures sorted chronologically. Removed some outdated links.
    31.3.2009: Added IRIX software, repaired counters, minor changes in links and update to PEC.
    17.6.2008: Now ALL (even the custom ones) chips in the PEC are identified, thus there
    is an updated version of the Reference-Page with pin-outs.
    23.2.2008:Added page offering some freeware I compiled for the SGI/IRIX platform for download.
    19.1.2008:Update of my information page on the vintage military computer restoration project: New information including all secrets prayed out of the box so far. New: The unit is a 12/12 from Elliott.
    15.6.2008: Added additional Foxhunter picture, both now available in better resolution. Uploaded new documents about 12/12 and 902 (no comments yet).
    8.6.2008:Added technical information on all chips, used on the unit together with date code statistics.
    4.5.2008:Added document with pictures and information on all PCBs of the unit. 29.4.2008:Added Emulator for the vintage Elliott 903 series to the Black-Box-page of my vintage military computer restoration project. Additional new information: Experts believe that the box was used on the early radar of the Tornado aircraft.
    5.8.2006: Marriage with Pia Frommknecht.
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    This article is compiled by Erik Baigar, <erik@baigar.de>, 10/28/1998,
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