test-drb April 2003

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486 discussions

by zorba＠mbari.org

Hello - I got your email address from a websearch - you seen to know about the Quadram Quadboard. I have a "Golden Quadboard", what the difference is between this and the regular variety - I don't know. However, I'd really like to be able to use the real time clock, is there a setclock program, and a readclock that sets the DOS clock from the board at bootup? Do you have any idea where I could get programs like these? Any help would be appreciated! Thanx! -Zorba

21 years, 8 months

TrantorMini SCSI Epp

by xdale＠yahoo.com

Hi Fred: You Wrote:Trantor was bought out by Adaptec. You might try them. There were three models that I'm aware of: T338 (rectangular thin box) that hangs off of the parallel port, or screw it on so that it gets enough leverage to break the connector. The black labelled earlier sub-model is significantly less reliablke than the later blue labelled one. Also marketed briefly through NEC (they once had the drivers on the web) T348 cable based model. T358 cable based model with ECP/EPP support NONE of them are very reliable; but it's a handy way to hook things up to laptops, etc that don't have provision for a "real" SCSI controller. Would you like me to snail mail a copy of the disk? Or would you prefer e-mail attachment? COULD YOU KINDLY SEND ME THAT DRIVER AS AN ATTACHMENT IN REPLYIN TO THIS EMAIL? THANKS Doug Crosdale The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo.

21 years, 8 months

B&C microsystems UP200 software

by yarnhook＠charter.net

I am in need of software for the UP200 programmer. LMK if you have it and could send me a copy via email. Just picked up a unit and want to get programming. Thanks, Stan

21 years, 8 months

5.25" drive identification

by alhartman＠yahoo.com

> From: dlormand(a)aztecfreenet.org (DAVID L. ORMAND) > > I have been told (by an IT professional, take that > for what it's worth) that 5.25" 360K drives have > the latch handle on the left side of the drive, and > the 1.2M drives have it on the right side. All the > drives I have in view right now, this is true. > > Anybody have a notion of whether this is absolutely > true in fact? You've already gotten an answer from others on the list on this. LOL! > It sure would make sorting drives easier than > trying them out on an old peecee! (Which actually > needs to be done anyways, to test for > functionality.) A rule of thumb I use, but I won't swear is universal... Is the LED color. USUALLY... Red LED signifies 360k/180k Drives, and a Green LED signifies 1.2mb Drives. And I also think that as for IBM Drives, the 360k at one point were made with and Asterisk molded into the front case. I could have this reverse. But, I seem to remember some discussion (perhaps here) that someone thought it was odd that IBM would start adding the asterisk to 360k Drives, hence having some with and some without, rather than just making all 1.2mb drives with asterisks. I may have this one reversed though. But, I've used the LED color as a good indicator for years. Also, if you look at the jumpers on the logic board, near the drive select jumpers... A 1.2mb drive should have a Speed Select Jumper (SS) to select High speed Data Transfer to work on AT-Standard Floppy Controllers, and low speed (for what? I don't know... Maybe to work on an 8in Drive Controller?) So, that's another indication of whether the drive is high or low density. Regards, Al Hartman The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com

21 years, 8 months

need CP/M boot disks

by xtguy＠mindspring.com

I was told that Don Maslin can help me with boot disks for some old CP/M computers. I need boot disks for the following: Morrow Micro Decision MD 1 Epson QX-10 several different Kaypro models I tried to make a boot disk for the Morrow using 22disk and the 'STDCPM22' file at 'www.retroarchive.org'. 22disk did not have a file format for the Morrow MD 1, so I used the format for the Morrow MD 2. (As far as I have been able to find out, the MD1 had full height floppy disk drives and the MD2 had half-height drives, but they were the same capacity). When I tried to use the floppy to boot the computer, it would spin for about 15 seconds, then the computer would reboot. I was making the boot disk on a computer which had a 360K floppy drive. Thanks! xtguy

21 years, 8 months

Seeking Lotus 1-2-3 or Symphony Developer Toolkit from 1986 ($$$)

by vcf＠siconic.com

I'm looking for the Lotus 1-2-3 or Symphony Developer Toolkit from the 1986 timeframe. If you have it, please contact me. There is a $$$ reward for finding this. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

21 years, 8 months

Installation Manual for Camintonn CMV-254

by jhfinepw4z＠compsys.to

Does anyone know where I can find the installation manual for the Camintonn CMV-254 memory board. This is a Qbus Dual board with 1 MByte of memory. Alternatively, I am actually looking for the CMV-5000 which is very similar, except that it has a battery backup option along with EDC capability. Sincerely yours, Jerome Fine -- If you attempted to send a reply and the original e-mail address has been discontinued due a high volume of junk e-mail, then the semi-permanent e-mail address can be obtained by replacing the four characters preceding the 'at' with the four digits of the current year.

21 years, 8 months

help! how to recover water logged floppies?

by Innfogra＠aol.com

How do you clean the media itself? Will a clean paper towel work or is > > some other procedure required? > > After removing the magnetic disk I use denatured ethyl alcohol and a soft lintless cotton cloth to wipe it down. Paper towns are too abrasive, use soft cotton, preferably lintless. Work on top of a cotton cloth also. If there is dirt or other abrasives I would rinse this off with water and do the final drying with the alcohol wipe. I have used a head cleaning diskette jacket as a holder for the truly floppy disk at this point. I do not think you can successfully dry out a wet jacket very well, better to discard it. Paxton Astoria, OR

21 years, 8 months

6850 IC needed

by acme＠ao.net

I have an old floppy disk drive interface with a dead MC6850P IC in it. Anyone know of a source for these? MCM, Jameco, and Digikey don't list them anymore :-( TIA -- Glen 0/0

21 years, 8 months

Compaq EISA Netflex-2 ENET/TR adapter?

by rschaefe＠gcfn.org

Well, in the Big Box of Token-Ring Stuff I received a few days ago, there was one EISA TR adapter, a Compaq Netflex-2 ENET/TR. ENET as in Ethernet, TR as in token-ring. That's right, this baby apparently can speak ethernet *and* token-ring! I've been going over Comp^H^H^HHPs site for the last half-hour, and the only thing I've found out about it is that a part number is COMX142151, the TR side is an option that I presubably have installed (as the card has a jumper block on the TR side and not the ENET side), and it was avaliable on just about everything from the pro-whatever-500 through the -4500. Does anyone know where I can find the .cfg file for this? Can it speak ethernet and token-ring at the same time? Is there a manual for it anywhere? Thanks! Bob

21 years, 8 months

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test-drb April 2003