2 Jun
2023
2 Jun
'23
8:56 a.m.
Anyone on the list have a VT-180 a.k.a "Robin"? I got one for free a while back,
but no disks. Wondering if anyone's in a position to make copies of their working
disks and mail them to me -- I could have blanks sent, of course. I'm in the SF bay
area.
john
2 Jun
2 Jun
9:32 a.m.
On 06/02/2023 10:56 AM CDT John Floren via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Anyone on the list have a VT-180 a.k.a "Robin"? I got one for free a while
back, but no disks. Wondering if anyone's in a position to make copies of their
working disks and mail them to me -- I could have blanks sent, of course. I'm in the
SF bay area.
john
I don't have a VT-180 or disks, but I think you can find disk images at this link:
http://www.gaby.de/sysdisk.htm
In the list it says the Robin disk is in the archive, listed underneath the Rainbow.
Download the archive and look in the 1997 directory. The file robn-cpm.td0
"should" be the boot disk image.
Will
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
Nikola Tesla
10:23 a.m.
I have one, if the images dont work, I can make them and post online. If
you want actual disks, let me know
Bill
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 12:06 PM John Floren via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Anyone on the list have a VT-180 a.k.a
"Robin"? I got one for free a while
back, but no disks. Wondering if anyone's in a position to make copies of
their working disks and mail them to me -- I could have blanks sent, of
course. I'm in the SF bay area.
john
1:35 p.m.
Since you've got one, maybe you can clear up my assumptions... I'd been figuring
that once I got, say, Kermit up and running from a disk, I could use a serial cable to
transfer disk images from my PC to the VT180 and write them to disk that way. Being
extremely unfamiliar with the system, though, I guess I'm not sure that will work or
not. Have you been able to do something like that, or have you had to use tools like
Greaseweazle to prepare disks from images?
Thanks,
john
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On Friday, June 2nd, 2023 at 10:23 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have one, if the images dont work, I can make them and post online. If
you want actual disks, let me know
Bill
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 12:06 PM John Floren via cctalk cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
> Anyone on the list have a VT-180 a.k.a "Robin"? I got one for free a
while
> back, but no disks. Wondering if anyone's in a position to make copies of
> their working disks and mail them to me -- I could have blanks sent, of
> course. I'm in the SF bay area.
>
> john
1:52 p.m.
Speaking of the VT180, I have one but am missing the disk drives and
cable. Does any have a spare they'd like to sell?
--
Eric Dittman
1:56 p.m.
Use Dunfield's image disk cp/m disks are easier than most to produce from
an image.
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 4:45 PM John Floren via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
Since you've got one, maybe you can clear up my
assumptions... I'd been
figuring that once I got, say, Kermit up and running from a disk, I could
use a serial cable to transfer disk images from my PC to the VT180 and
write them to disk that way. Being extremely unfamiliar with the system,
though, I guess I'm not sure that will work or not. Have you been able to
do something like that, or have you had to use tools like Greaseweazle to
prepare disks from images?
Thanks,
john
------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 2nd, 2023 at 10:23 AM, Bill Degnan via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have one, if the images dont work, I can make them and post online. If
you want actual disks, let me know
Bill
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023, 12:06 PM John Floren via cctalk
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
wrote:
> Anyone on the list have a VT-180 a.k.a "Robin"? I got one for free a
while
> back, but no disks. Wondering if
anyone's in a position to make copies
of
> their working disks and mail them to me -- I
could have blanks sent, of
> course. I'm in the SF bay area.
>
> john
2:18 p.m.
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, John Floren via cctalk wrote:
Since you've got one, maybe you can clear up my
assumptions... I'd been figuring that once I got, say, Kermit up and running from a
disk, I could use a serial cable to transfer disk images from my PC to the VT180 and write
them to disk that way. Being extremely unfamiliar with the system, though, I guess I'm
not sure that will work or not. Have you been able to do something like that, or have you
had to use tools like Greaseweazle to prepare disks from images?
With appropriate software, you should be able to create VT180 disks on a PC with a 360K
drive.
(MFM, 48tpi)
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