>A while back I believe someone posted an address for a site that provided
>the schematic for hooking up an 8" drive to a pc. IF so, please pass it
>on to me again. Sorry for losing it.
What you want is the "comp.os.cpm FAQ", available from:
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html
Not only does it tell how to hook an 8" floppy drive to a PC-clone
and succesfully use the combination, it also contains invaluable
information on many other questions frequently asked here.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
As Jay Jaeger pointed out to me, this thing is a terminal controller. I
was thinking it was a small server. Makes sense given the label on the
disk that came with it. I should have guessed from the number as well.
Is this of use to anyone on the list? I'm in Toronto. I'm not
going to store it as its out of my league for collectables. If nobody
wants it I'll grab the 8" drive out of it and hook it up to my PC. Of
course as soon as I do that the mainframe will show up. Probably sitting
in the garbage of the man around the corner who works for IBM.
Let me know soon.
Colan
The picture's up. It's fairly big, but it was the best I could do with a
desktop scanner, and let the lables and everything still be readable. If
anyone has any info on this card, let me know.
BTW: The connectors for the HD have been cut off, because my scanner is
just a bit too small to scan a full-length card.
-Jason
***********************************************
* Jason Willgruber *
* (roblwill(a)usaor.net) *
* *
* http://members.tripod.com/general_1 *
* ICQ#-1730318 *
************************************************
---------
>
> Hi! I have an old Adaptec Hd controller that I'm trying to use in an IBM
> PC (5150). Here's what it says on it:
>
> adaptec, inc.
> ASSY401406-00
> REV K
>
> I'm trying to find out how to get into the controller's BIOS so that I
can
> set up the HD (using DEBUG). There's two jumper blocks, and one single
> jumper. I'm going to post a picture at:
>
> <http://members.tripod.com/general_1/adaptec.jpg>
>
> I'll try to get it posted in about 20 minutes.
>
> ThAnX,
>
> -Jason
>
> ***********************************************
> * Jason Willgruber *
> * (roblwill(a)usaor.net) *
> * *
> * http://members.tripod.com/general_1 *
> * ICQ#-1730318 *
> * /0\/0\ *
> * > Long Live the 5170! *
> * \___/ *
> ************************************************
What did Advanced Micro Devices make in the late 70s (?) that ran
AMDOS/29? I got several 8" disks a couple weeks ago in AMD disk sleeves
with the following hand-written labels:
System 29
AMDOS/29
V1.2
S/N 18-0
CPM
BASIC-E
AMDOS-29
BASIC-E
COMPILE
RUN
PROMGEN 1
Some of these are obvious. I'm hoping it'll ring a bell for someone who
can tell me what they belong to.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Always being hassled by the man.
Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
[Last web site update: 11/02/98]
DAMN, DAMN, DAMN!!
Sorry. Not meant for broadcast. I was trying to get this to Jason W.
*&%$$#$#&* REPLY button!!!
On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 08:32:17 -0500 Phil Clayton <handyman(a)sprintmail.com>
writes:
>> This is urgent. Remember that ZIP file I sent you with the
>SpeedStor?!
>>
>> Destroy it, NOW!!
>>
>> I don't know how, but it has been infected with the Jerusalem
>virus.
>> Damn! I'm sorry, guy. I'm really, really sorry.
>>
>
>Hey I remember that Virus from the early 90's.. Its easy to get rid
>of
>without
>distroying the program. Just run Mcafees Clean on it.. It will remove
>it..
>Another popular virus was the "Stoned Virus".. In 1990 I used to get 2
>or 3
>computer repairs at my shop per week of units infected with that
>one...
>I felt like a Doctor back in those days! HeHe!!!!
>
>Phil....
>
>
___________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html
or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
Just as a follow-up...
I found some datasheets from Rockwell dated 1987 that day that *all* of the
65xx processor devices (i.e., the 6502-6507 abd 6512-6515) were "bus
compatible with M6800". Before I change the "story" on my web site, I'd like
to have a consensus of:
1. the history of the 6502 processor
2. if there was a 6500 and 6501
Thanks!
Rich Cini/WUGNET
- ClubWin!/CW7
- MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
- Collector of "classic" computers
<========= reply separator ==========>
Speaking of which, I read in a PC repair book that the 486SX is a
486DX with certain lines cut to disable the math coprocessor. The
thing that went into the coprocessor socket was a rebranded 486DX
that took over all functions of the SX when installed. Anyone know
about this?
>>Philip.Belben(a)pgen.com wrote:
>
>>> No thanks to whoever said the 8088 and 8086 were the same thing. If
that's
>>> the case, the Pentium and the 80386 are the same thing :-)
>
>>In general terms, without getting into a lot of super-geek discussion,
the
>8086
>>and 8088 are in the same category in that they are both predominantly
an XT
>>class processor, despite the 8 and 16 bit differences....
>
>Yes, to say that the 8088 and 8086 were the same is incorrect, but they
>_basically_ had the same core and everything... it was just the data
bus
>was 8 bit on the 8088 and 16-bit on the 8086. They were fully
compatible
>program-wise, just that the 8086 was faster as it could push 2x data
over
>the 8088.
>
>Comparing the 80386 and the Pentium wouldn't be fair, tho. Comparing
the
>80386SX (with the 16-bit data bus) and the 80386DX (with the 32-bit
data
>bus) would be a lot better comparison... as again, the chips were fully
>compatible, but the DX's were faster due to the larger data bus.
>
>Just the way I seem to remember it...
>
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
> On Friday, November 06, 1998 7:31 PM, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> Don't recall exactly, but it was longer than that. A couple of years
> as "Kilobaud", then as "Kilobaud Microcomputing" as the font for the
> first word shrank and the font for the second word grew, then a couple
> of years as just "Microcomputing". Of course, there were more pages
> published in the few years of the spin-off "80-Micro" than there were
> in the whole run of Kilobaud under any name. Which itself spun-off
> "Hot CoCo".
January 77 to November 84. I stumbled into someone who wanted to get rid
of his old computers magazines. He gave me (for free!) every issue of
Kiloboad and the first four years or so of Byte, plus a bunch of others.
What a find. Serendipity at it's best.
Al McCann
Russ,
The problem you're encountering isn't an error in math, it's an error in
understanding. You're misunderstanding is common becayse Ebay words thier
rules rather crappily.
You are charged 5% of all sales up to $25
PLUS an additional 2.5% for $25 to $1000.
So using the printer that sold for $41, you get charged 5% for the first
$25 (1.25) then 2.5% for the additional $16 (.40) for a total of $1.65.
I know, it's a weird system :)
Tony
I have a ZEOS 486 board with a SCSI controller. I don't do SCSI much, so I
have some questions...
A customer connected my SCSI drive backwards to the (motherboard)
controller.
He reported being unable to get the BIOS to recognize the drive.
1) Is the SCSI drive (a 170 MB Toshiba) toast? Can it be fixed?
2) Is the motherboard SCSI controller toast?
3) There's no separate SCSI setting under "drive type". Should I use "no
drive", or set the parameters to something?
Thanks
manney
