In a message dated 2/3/2001 11:27:08 AM Pacific Standard Time,
vcf(a)siconic.com writes:
> Anyone ever heard of a Data General machine from the 70s with the model
> designation CS-20 or CS-30
I have had a couple of these go through my hands about 10 years ago. I think
they are late 70s or early 80s. IIRC they are a 16 bit systems with up to
128K or 512K of RAM.
The C indicates Commercial and the S indicates Scientific so I think this is
a multipurpose computer. I think they were a shrunk version of the Eclipse
S/200 and the C/300 which were introduced in 1975.
By shrunk I mean the circuit cards are about 8"X12" instead of the original
Eclipse cards which are about 16" square. I think MOS memory only. About 1990
I sold one of the 512K cards for good money. The original full size Eclipses
came with either core or MOS memory.
I looked it up in my in my "Computer Review" of 1977 and they are not
mentioned so I think they were manufactured after that.
Paxton
Portland, OR
If you are looking for C64 and 128 programs, contact me offlist. I bought a
complete C128 system and it came with about 300 floppies. They are all
labeled and I am sure they would all work, but since I'm an apple user, I
never got a round tuit. You could borrow them and make copies/archive them
all.
--
david +-+- www.nothingtodo.org
In a message dated 2/5/01 12:46:05 PM Central Standard Time,
r_beaudry(a)hotmail.com and somebody else wrote:
<< >Okay, I picked up quite a haul for $20:
Lucky Dog! :-)
>Now the question is, where on earth will I find some key
>programs -- mostly games (after all, games were its specialty!)
>but I REALLY want a 6502 assembler like Merlin, and to find
>connectors to fit the cartridge slot to hang some custom hardware
>off of and develop driver code for. I'll be careful. :)
www.cmdweb.com -- They are a commercial outfit that sells lots of Commodore
software/hardware.
>And if I find it somewhere on the 'net, how to get it into
>the C64? Has anyone solved that one? >>
>Okay, I picked up quite a haul for $20:
Lucky Dog! :-)
>Now the question is, where on earth will I find some key
>programs -- mostly games (after all, games were its specialty!)
>but I REALLY want a 6502 assembler like Merlin, and to find
>connectors to fit the cartridge slot to hang some custom hardware
>off of and develop driver code for. I'll be careful. :)
www.cmdweb.com -- They are a commercial outfit that sells lots of Commodore
software/hardware.
>And if I find it somewhere on the 'net, how to get it into
>the C64? Has anyone solved that one?
Yup... There is a cable called an X1541 (there are also a dizzying array of
variants) that connects from the PC Parallel port to the SERIAL input on the
1541 drive. There is also a piece of software called Star Commander that
will perform the transfers ...
See http://sta.c64.org/sc.html for much more information....
Rich B.
Marlene,
I can only read your mail when I answer it. I suppose you use a html
format. I use Mail and find this format very annoying. Please use plain
text in the future.
I suppose your email is about floppy disk formats. I have copied DEC PDP-11
hard disks to DD files ( a sort of tape).
Wim
----------
> Van: Miniminstrels(a)aol.com
> Aan: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> Onderwerp: transfer HD disk to DD
> Datum: zondag 4 februari 2001 20:16
>
Can you tell me hoe to copy a HD disk tp a DD disk so that I can use it in
my
PSR6000 ?
Marlene.
I just got my NeXT Cube (Yeah!!!). It's running NeXTStep 3.3, and I am
trying to connect it to my AppleTalk network, via LocalTalk or Ethernet.
Could anyone help me?
Thanks,
Owen
Well, I myself an a fellow shipmate stationed at Groton, Connecticut. As
hard as it seems to believe, I have only been in since August the 10th.
> At the moment, I have a bit of an identity crisis going on.
>I'm Navy working on an Air Force base and am supposed to be working
>supply but currently work for the IS Dept. because they needed
>another person, especially one with Mac skills. Just 3 more years
>and I can 'retire' from Navy life and move on! I know i've seen at
>least one other .MIL address post to this list at some point though.
>
> Jeff
>
>P.S. what's your background since you obviously know something about
>Navy rates?
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Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64C, 1802, 1541, FSD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Macintosh 128 (Plus upgrade), Nova SCSI HDD, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer 3, Disto 512K RAM board.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy Model 200, PDD, CCR-82
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Anyone ever heard of a Data General machine from the 70s with the model
designation CS-20 or CS-30?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Hi all
I went back to the place where I got the HX-40 and got...
An HP 150 II
a PET 4016
a Kaypro 2X
a busted TRS8- 100 but with a good screen so I can fix the one from
yesterday
a printer for the TI 59
Books Books and more books
a number of sextan magazine
An IBM AT Keyboard with unusual color (Brown and the IBM logo is Black)
Various Atari Joysticks and softwares
an ET 3300 unbuilt (not quite the 3400 but good anyway)
Lots of miscelaneous odds and ends like a sperry univac front pannel
I'm going back for a few Z100 and MAC stuff that I have not yet started to
look at
They also had a Compaq portable II with the cloth carrying bag, load of
printers and monitors
What looks like a PDP 11 clone, bunch od apple II cales new in the box and
super serial cards never opened. Terminals, VAX 3100, some SUN stuff.
That's all I can remember for now.
Francois
>Anyone have any idea how hard it would be to build a box with a DIMM in
it
>that looked like an RL02?
>
> Zane
I know how but it would take at least three more rounds with the flu to
convince
me of the sanity of doing it..
Consider this both RL02 and ESDI both use a SERIAL data path with a
FORMAT
defined but standard and the media. Thats a hell of a lot of trouble to
go to when disks
in the 32mb and smaller range are easy to find. Sure you get to use
existing drivers
but you have put a immense amount of time in the emulating of the disk so
it interfaces.
To ing it right, and simpler would be sothing like a DRV11 and a couple
of simms
add to that the glue to do refresh and battery back up and you done.
Then you need
a driver.
Allison
