At 09:37 PM 2/26/98, you wrote:
>Awww! And all I've been able to get this week is a HP-97, HP-9815 with
>various interfaces and a HP 9871 printer and a Commodore Pet 2083 with
>MODEM, dual disk drive, printer and tractor feed attachment with all the
>docs and software.
Geez, where do you guys keep all these computers??? My wife would kill me,
and my daughter of 19 months would tear them up. This is one reason why I
collect GRiD laptops. They are the last word in durability, and are small
compared to desktop systems and others.
(BTW, All I did this week was get Red Hat 5.0 setup and running on both my
home and work machines, not that I'm trying to go off topic or anything...)
While I am making this program in Visual Basic 5, this problem is
way over 10 years old, and the program will be old computer-related.
How do I alphabetically sort an array?
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I just killed 2 hours playing wump under V7 Unix on my 11/83.
Just so everyone knows, it runs, but I ave to boot RT-11 and say
boot/foreign dl0: to start it...
Now, once SCO makes a source liense available, I'm set! It's single user for now...
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On 1998-02-28 classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu said to lisard(a)zetnet.co.uk
:apple //gs and a //c+ to complete my apple ][ collection,
mmm, a //gs... yes please here also. the thought of a 16-bit 6502 to
play with... :> (yep, even though we have a special affection for the
much maligned 286.)
as for a //c+ - were they the ones with the 3.5" disk instead of the
5.25"? we saw them in the states, one of the times we went over there
(arizona - little hack shop in tucson that had all kinds of old hardware
for frankly, silly prices; lots of pcjrs, which we'd also like one of,
since they never made it over here) and thought they were cute, but we
don't believe they ever crossed the atlantic. was the disk drive the
only difference, or were there others & what were they if so?
-- Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
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previous subject : Can anyone identify this item ? (BASF HD?)
>
> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Lynn & Mike wrote:
>
> > BASF model 6106, part #54670
> >
> > Looks like a HD, connected to a floppy with a
> > ribbon cable, which then goes to the motherbd.
> > Found in what appears to be a homebrew TRS80-type
> > puter with LNW expansion board.
> >
So this morning I walked past the Beast & noticed that
what I had thought was a solid panel had an inner part
that was open, hinged at the top, the little black raised
rectangle at the bottom had gotten pushed & the door had
popped open, & I pulled a 5 1/4" disk out of it.......
(duh)
---mikey
Hi, Tony.
You're up late too :-) Seems we have quite a lot in common :-)
> I don't know if I have a spare one, but I can trivially copy the EPROM
> from the one in my Acorn System - I know where that is.
That would be great. What size EPROM shall I send you? Can you see if you
can find the Flex disk one day, as well?
> I am looking for some of the Acorn user manuals/schematics from that
> period - I think I need the 6502 CPU schematic, and the 80 column VDU
> schematics/manual. It wouldn't be hard to reverse engineer them, though.
I'll photocopy any of those I've got for you. Mail me a list.
> Oh, and I have some kind of user I/O card in one of my Atoms that looks
> as though it belongs in a System.
It's easy to fit such cards to my Atom, since it's missing the bottom half of
the case :-)
> I know I have the 6809 manual, the Acorn DOS manual (including the disk
> controller schematics), the Econet manual (System + Atom econet info), etc.
Was the Acorn DOS for the Atom or 6502-based System? I assume the 6809 ran
some variant of Flex?
> I have a PromPro8X which does most 27xx from the 2716 onwards, and also
> the bipolar and PAL modules for it. The latter only does the MMI Pals,
> though. Then I have a homebrew (Elektor) GAL programmer, an Intel UPP
> (2708's and 2716's), an Intel MCS8i (1702's), a Softy 1 (2708's again), a
> strange thing which does upto the 2732 (including the 2708 and the 3-rail
> 2716) based on an SCMP - and the 8-way copier that goes with it, etc.
Hmmm... I still have the Softy-1 schematics, and I'm sure that uses an SC/MP.
> One day I'll buy a modern universal programmer, but not yet...
I had a Softy-1 and I wish I still did, since not many programmers do the
3-rail devices these days. Now I have a little box that sits on the 1MHz bus
(it was meant for a BBC B but I have it on my Archimedes 440 now) which does
2716 - 27128, and I use a little adaptor for 27256/27512. The Department has
two S3's and an S4, which I'm occasionally allowed to borrow, since they do up
to 27400x.
I came across a pair of 1702's in a pile of junk a few weeks ago. they're
getting rare, now.
I also have all the bits to build the Elektor GAL programmer (Manfred
Nosswitz's design). First I'm going to redo the PCB layout, as I intend to
incorporate the daughter board (for the updated version) on the same PCB, and
possibly use a different DAC (the original one is a rarity, and expensive). I
have the disk for the s/ware as well, but I wish I could get the source -- it
grieves me to have to run it on a PC instead of a real computer.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
On Feb 28, 19:10, Tony Duell wrote:
> > The first machine I owned was a Sorcerer; I still have one (not the same
> > one, sadly) and I'd love to get the WP Pac and the DevPac (or copy of the
> > code) to replace those I sold nearly two decades ago.
>
> Again, I'd really have to hunt for it, but I think I have the word
> processor ROMs somewhere....
I'll send you some 2716's :-)
> I know I have (and I know where it is) the technical manual for the
> sorcerer and the S100 expansion box if you need any info.
I may have sold the original machine, but I wasn't daft enough to let the tech
manuals (as opposed to user guides) go with it. :-) In fact, I have both
versions of the tech manual, plus the software manual, and the S100 manual.
About two years ago, I used the Sorcerer for some serious development work --
debugging the code for an embedded Z80 -- and I updated the monitor ROMs.
Gosh, was there ever a lot of redundant junk in there! It must have been
cut-and-pasted out of something else, I reckon.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
