KA10: Foonly F2

[larsbrinkhoff]

There's a rumor going around that the KA/KI/KL simulator may add the Foonly F2 some time in a distant future. Potential operating systems include WAITS and FOONEX.

I'd like to open this issue to submit pointers to information.

[larsbrinkhoff]

The Saildart archive has a file called MPLAN.TXT[TXT,JAM] which describes a plan for porting WAITS to CCMRA's Foonly F2. I haven't read it all yet, but I can add in details here later.

• A Grinnell framebuffer system replaced the Data Disc.

[larsbrinkhoff]

https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169277.tape/blob/896a1a6daf7e9fcd71e32f883c76bb55736e0d30/m33/f3sym.cab
https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169273.tape/blob/abc68e373db6be0104efe986d23624462ef691b9/mondoc/opcode.nfo

https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169273.tape/blob/abc68e373db6be0104efe986d23624462ef691b9/mondoc/f3man.doc
https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169273.tape/blob/abc68e373db6be0104efe986d23624462ef691b9/mondoc/f3xept.txt
https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169273.tape/blob/abc68e373db6be0104efe986d23624462ef691b9/mondoc/hardwr.nfo

[larsbrinkhoff]

F3 microcode, including SLOE assembler.
https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169274.tape/tree/2503fd1f601987c27a75b1d89df877069f375fd8/f3code

https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169274.tape/blob/2503fd1f601987c27a75b1d89df877069f375fd8/f3code/f3.mem

[larsbrinkhoff]

https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169274.tape/blob/2503fd1f601987c27a75b1d89df877069f375fd8/f3code/f3note.txt

No NXM reporting is  or ever will be done. To determine memory existence,
do SETZM. If data reads back zero, memory is there. If memory is not
there, Poole guarantees at least one bit coming back one (most of them
come back as ones).

Tymnet interface simulates TYMbase, with pointers etc. However,
doesn't write or check key cell.

[larsbrinkhoff]

F3 disk controller:
https://github.com/TYMCOM-X/169274.tape/blob/2503fd1f601987c27a75b1d89df877069f375fd8/f3code/dctrl.doc

[larsbrinkhoff]

Bitsavers has F2/F3 microcode sources and an executable for the microcode assembler: http://bitsavers.org/bits/Foonly/F2/files/

I have tested running the assembler, and it seems to work.

[larsbrinkhoff]

In the mid 80s, WAITS had disk driver code for the Foonly C1 channel.