Hey guys,
I am working on a project to breath life back into some old hardware. I
order to do so, I need some documentation / assistance in writing low-level
routines to talk to various HPIB devices. Specifically: I would like to talk
to a HP 7978 tape drive, a CS80 compatible tape drive, or a common HPIB disk
drive.
I don't need help with HPIB protocol, I need to know the sequence of
commands (sent across the bus) to move data into and out of those devices. I
would expect to find this information in the programming manuals for those
devices but so far, have been unable to locate the docs.
If anyone can provide documentation for any of those devices or has
experience programming them, I'd appreciate the assistance.
Thanks,
SteveRob
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Somebody recently posted a fairly comprehensive list of floppy drive
model #s with their capacities & base specs. I'd like to grab a few
not-1.2M drives before we scrap them, but I've misplaced the list.
Would whoever it was be willing to repost?
Thanks
Doc
Well today I went down to one of the warehouses to look around for some
items I needed (didn't find them) and found the following items:
1. A box marked CP/M 2.2 for Commodore 64 in it was a manual and a large
black cartridge ( it has a Z80 microprocessor in it). I'm missing the
CP/M disk which contains both the operating system and some utility
programs. If anyone has a copy email me off list. THANKS in advance.
2. A green and off white plastic computer called a IQ 8300 with green
rubber keys. It has a POWER 3000 32K Ram black module about the size of
a Sinclair 1015 module. I have no Doc's or box for it and it's missing
the power supply as well. With have to do a google on this one, if
anyone has one or knows anything it let me know.
3. A Panasonic Personal Computer 32K memory model JR-200U. It's light
brown and silver in color with dark gray soft rubber keys and some dark
blue rubber keys also. It has a built in power supply with the cord
coming out the back. It also has the RF unit with so I will test it out
tonight.
4. A Sun type 5 kb missing four key caps.
5. Two HP model 9130A floppy disk drives.
6. hp 86 with 82936A rom drawer, 82937A HP-1B interface module,82900A
CP/M system module, and a 82909A 128K memory module.
7. hp 97 calculator missing adapter and battery.
All in all I had a ball opening boxes that have been packed for almost 6
years now while I was up North.
In a message dated 3/26/02 5:47:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,
ernestls(a)attbi.com writes:
> What size floppy disks does the HP 9114B drive use? Is it 720k or 1.44 meg?
>
To quote the 1988 HP Catalog "the HP9114B provides up to 710 Kbytes of
formatted capacity in a lightweight, battery-operated package. The 3.5" disk
drive reads, writes and initializes double-sided media in both single-sided
and double-sided formats.
Paxton
Astoria,
Oregon
On March 28, Gene Buckle wrote:
> > > > We all know there's only one real high level language :)
> > >
> > > German?
> >
> > No. Something even more fundamental: Bullshit.
> >
> > Peace... Sridhar
> >
> You bastard. Now I've got Cheeto bits all over my screen. Gah.
He shoots, he scores!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "...it's leaving me this unpleasant,
St. Petersburg, FL damp feeling on my shorts..." -Sridhar
The tread about storage tube terminals reminded me that my Tek4014 is in need of
repair...
1) Is it normal that it takes up to 10 minutes to warm up ?
It takes that long on my machine before the clear button actually clears the
screen.
2) and the real problem :
The cursor, existing of a 8x8 dotgrid, often collapses horizontally, i.e. it
becomes (much) smaller.
This is, due to the storage tube technology, repeated in all characters you
then type in.
Any pointers as to where I should start ?
Jos .
Hey, been asked to sort out my folks laptop, so I know nothing of its
past etc.
I noted your thread and thought this maybe interesting,
Their email address keeps getting mail from the "mail demon" notifying
them that their mail (that they did not send) was not delivered to the
address because it contains something that could be a virus.
The mail does point out that the virus attached is called
"sm3song.mp3.scr", but the fun doesn't stop there, however easy it may
seem from this point doesn't cut it.
As I said they get dozens of these mail, and each one says a different
name;
Humour.mp3.scr, hamster.mp3.scr, sm3song.mp3.scr... the most frequently
used one is sm3song.mp3.scr.
The email account, by the way they use outlook express :-(, is set up
for two different email accounts, the one a simple POP3 account through
freeserve, and the other (that I don't understand) through something
called freezone, where their website for my mums business is hosted, and
also works as a server for her mail.
Going back to the mail demon messages; they only represent addresses
(from her contact list) who have sent her mail through the freezone
account that she has not yet replied to.
If any of this seems to be familiar to anyone please email me at
Sanity_not_vanity(a)hotmail.com
I thought maybe the virus is on the freezone server as apposed to the
laptop, also note, the virus does not seem to be doing anything
destructive, nor does it show when I do a complete scan of the hard
drives using the latest versions of PC cillin antivirus.
Andy.
