Allison -
IIRC, you were about to write some code to hook up one of these
parallel-IDE HD kits to a CP/M machine with an EPP. Could this be made into
a more generic project to allow file transfer over any CP/M parallel port?
I for one would like to be able to transfer CP/M files from a variety of old
systems to a portable IDE drive which could also be read on my PC in order
to make archival copies of software for CD-ROMs. And I think there would be
other interested parties as well.
On another matter, thanks for the RAM 17 manual. And I'm sending you 2
unopened boxes of Dysan 10-hole hard sectored disks for your N*, plus
another dozen of used, but perhaps not as used as some of yours, N* disks.
Bob Stek
bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com
So, I'm back from my short (2wks) vacation in Estonia.
And I have a new Baby: A Juku. Thats an estonian
Z-80 Home computer from 1990 (ok, less than 10 Years,
but it fitts well here :). And in fact it is a SU computer,
since estonia was still part of the SSSR at this time.
Anything beside CPU and PIO ist still discrete TTL. The
caracterset is a 8 bit code with ASCII in the lower 128
chars and cyrillic and special symbols in the upper 128.
CUTE! I also aquired a dual FD and a _mouse_. But I miss
the DOS. The previous owner tried to use all Disks in a
PC :(((( THere are also no Manuals. So, if anybody knows
any additional source of information, pleas give me a
hint.
Gruss
H.
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
If anyone has definitive information on obtaining / copying the ROM's needed
to convert the Lisa / Mac XL back to the original Lisa, please copy me with
the info. Never having had even a Mac before, I hate to think that I ALMOST
have a Lisa, but instead have just an old Mac.
Bob Stek
bobstek(a)ix.netcom.com
Well, not only did I win the Ebay auction for all the 70's electronics
parts (he didn't even want my winning bid), I went over this weekend to
fill up my car (a 1990 Ford T-bird).
I am going back to get the rest next weekend but I was able to fill my
then empty trunk with 74lsxxx parts, all brand new in tubes (the guy
believes there is at lease one tube of every part in the series in
there). My back seat is full of 3M ribbon cable (various wire counts)
and tons of din and card edge connectors. I think I grabbed a box full
of 68K and Z80 processors also.
What I'm nabbing next week; A NEC Spinwriter with a bunch of spindles, a
box full of 10MB Priam hard drives, a box full of Shugart 8" floppy
drives, more din and card edge connectors and (if I can get Allison's
help) a 19" 6-foot rack :)
Once I can go thru and sort all this stuff, I'll probably be offering
them online for people that need them. I'll probably just charge for
shipping, maybe a meager fee to offset the cost of storage.
Tony
Subject: Re: The glorious 12th.....
From: Sparky <dl(a)r-m-c.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:43:28 +0100
Message-ID: <eJeG6UAwMT31EwnX(a)r-m-c.demon.co.uk>
Organization: Timber Kitchen Utensils R Us
Newsgroups: demon.local
On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Sparky wibbled thusly:
Hmm... FUTOP :(
>>:We ripped our PDP out a couple of weeks ago, when we replaced our
>>:Process Control Software. I can make enquiries if you wish?
>>
>>Wow! That'd be brilliant (If you could)
>
>I'll ask around next week.
Coupla calls: One of our sites still uses PDP, and our old one is being
kept incase of problems. However, that site is upgrading in a few weeks.
The PDP will be available in about two months, free to a good home (at
least, that's what they're saying ATM), so remind me nearer the time.
As usual, I am willing to decode any cyrillic for you. No, I haven't
heard anything about this, but what does this thing look like?
Commodoreish?
>So, I'm back from my short (2wks) vacation in Estonia.
>And I have a new Baby: A Juku. Thats an estonian
>Z-80 Home computer from 1990 (ok, less than 10 Years,
>but it fitts well here :). And in fact it is a SU computer,
>since estonia was still part of the SSSR at this time.
>Anything beside CPU and PIO ist still discrete TTL. The
>caracterset is a 8 bit code with ASCII in the lower 128
>chars and cyrillic and special symbols in the upper 128.
>CUTE! I also aquired a dual FD and a _mouse_. But I miss
>the DOS. The previous owner tried to use all Disks in a
>PC :(((( THere are also no Manuals. So, if anybody knows
>any additional source of information, pleas give me a
>hint.
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
>HRK
>
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>OK, it's become obvious to me that I'm not going to figure out how to
>create a logical disk under RT-11. If someone would be so kind as to
>explain the steps involved, I would appreciate it.
Let's say you want a 2000-block logical disk, which you'll call
MYLOG.DSK, and you want it mounted as LD3:
.create du1:mylog.dsk[2000]
.mou ld3: du1:mylog.dsk
.init ld3:
LD3:/Initialize; Are you sure? Y
.dir ld3:
19-Aug-1998
0 Files, 0 Blocks
1986 Free blocks
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Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
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>Doh! Do you have any idea how stupid you just made me feel :^) Thanks, I
>just copied the files to RX50. Since I couldn't get the emulator to read
>the disk image I foolishly didn't consider that putr might be able to :^(
Bob Supnik's emulator is a fine emulator, but it's not the same
sort of all-purpose tool that PUTR is for dealing with certain file
systems.
>Ummm, two reasons. I'm not sure I've got the necessary hardware pieces in
>the Box (would I be able to go through a printer port)
You've got a console port, right? That's all you need!
See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/b/krt.doc for full installation
instructions.
> and secondly I
> haven't a clue as far as Kermit is concerned. I think I've used it once or
> twice to transfer data between a Honeywell Mainframe and a PC, but there
> was a written reciept to follow for that.
Too bad you suffered through so many years without realizing what
a wonderful took Kermit is. It's available for just about every
computer platform there is (or was), and can deal with communications
channels that X/Y/ZMODEM will just stare blankly at (for example,
one-way-at-a-time async channels common on IBM mainframes). Even
better, it can be just as fast or faster than ZMODEM. I use it just
about every day to move data between RT-11, RSX-11, CP/M, VMS, Unix,
MS-DOS, OS/8, etc...
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--- You wrote:
I have this document available on my website
http://www.asap.net/~rbedeaux/lisa
Rob Bedeaux
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Whew! That's far better than the 2MB pdf I put together.
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