Is there a source for new 8in floppy disks? New old stock is fine. I
just would like a box of unused blank disks.
Two reasons, first I have a STD bus computer with a Z80 CPU and dual 8in
drives (one that does not work) that I might like to play with. Second I
have an IBM S/34 that has an 8in drive and I need a box of disk for
someone to copy some disks for me...
-chuck
I picked up another load of early PC software last week. Everything was
in nearly new condition :-) :-) One of the things that I got was a
package of Lotus 123 version 2.01. It's marked as a Government Edition and
has an eagle of the disk labels. Anybody know what this is all about? The
manuals seem to be standard and don't say anything about it having
different features. However I'm thinking that it might be a
non-copyprotected version.
Joe
>>If anyone has the original setup disk for the Portable III, I would love to
>>get an image of it - the "generic" AT setup disks work in that you can
>configure
>>the drives and get it to boot, however Compaq apparently "rolled their own"
>>checksum algorithm, as once configured with any of the generic disks, it
>gets a
>>CMOS Checksum error.
>
> Mike Haas has has the setup disk. I gave it to him along with the P-IIIs
>that I had. The setup program should also be one several of the machines.
>FWIW I once found a third party setup program that worked on them. I don't
>remember the name of it but I'm pretty sure that it was put out by a
>company in Clearwater Florida that was later bought out by Quarterdeck. I
>may still have a copy of it or the Compaq setup program. I'll look and see.
>One thing to be aware of is that only the very first few drive table enties
>match that used by IBM so be carefull setting the hard drive type.
>
> Joe
Thanks Joe, however the one I downloaded from other instructions posted in this
thread appears to do the job, so no need to bother.
Regards,
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I have a DEC VT102 terminal that I got some time ago from a listmember. On
the right of the keyboard where the numeric keypad is, the keys don't match
the color of the other keys on the keyboard. The upper left key in the
keypad is gold, and the other keys on the keypad are different colors - red,
blue, white - and have editing words on them, I think words like "left,
copy, print", something like that.
My question is - is it likely that someone scavenged keys from another
non-vt100 keyboard to replace missing keys, or was this some option used
with some word processing software? If the later, I'm happy I have something
unusual. If the former, I am going to yank those keycaps off and scavenge
the "correct" keys from one of the other VT100's I'm going to junk.
Anyone know the answer?
Thanks!
Jay West
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If anyone could help this woman out with the question of memory options for an original Compaq Portable, please do respond directly back to her, as well as to the list. Thanks, David
My, I'm just full of terminal questions...
I have a Televideo 910.. maybe it's a 950 but I think it said 910 on it.
When the terminal is just sitting there with stuff on the screen, no data is
being sent or received... it will suddenly flip to a "previous screen" all
by itself. I don't know if the terminal supports multiple pages of display
memory, but the symptom is as if it does support multiple display memory and
spontaneously all by itself it switches pages and I see data on the screen
that came by a while ago.
Can anyone point to a likely culprit that may be causing this? The terminal
itself is in perfect mint condition so I hate to get rid of it but this
problem is annoying!
Regards,
Jay West
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About a month ago I picked up what I thought were a couple of HP-IB
disk drives made by a compnay by the name of IEM of Ft. Collins Colorado. I
searched the net for information about them but didn't find anything
useful. I also posted message here asking about them but didn't get any
replies.
Last week I got one of my PCs up and running with a HP Hyper Viper card
(a HP 9000 300 computer on a card) in it so I decided to use it to check
out some of the HP-IB drives and such that have been piling up around here.
I found a couple of sites that said what kind of MO disks were supposed to
be used in the IEM MO drive but I didn't have the right ones so I stuck in
a HP MO disk that I had laying round. It worked! The system thinks the
drive is a HP 7935 with 404Mb capacity. Flip the disk over and you've got
another 404Mb to play with. Not bad!
The 2nd IEM drive turned out to be even stranger. In addition to the
HP-IB port it has what looked like a SCSI port on the back. It has a LCD
display on and it keeps saying off-line. There are also three buttons on it
marked Select, Next and Previous. Pressing the buttons did nothing except
make the display say "Next Pressed" etc. I finally turned it off then held
down the Select button and turned it on and it came up in a demo mode. It
says that it's a "Rewriteable Optical Jukebox Controller"!! It says that
it's compatible with the HP 1000, 3000, 9000, etc etc and that it is CS-80
and plug and play with MPE, HPUX, Pascal BASIC, RTE, etc etc. It also says
that it supports the C1700/C1701 HP Library System. So it's not a drive
after all. (I never opened it up, I just assumed that it was!) That also
explains why it has a SCSI connector on it.
Anybody here have any experience with optical jukeboxs?
I've done a lot of searching on the net for IEM but it appears that
they're long gone. I found phone numbers for them but didn't get an answer
on either one. I didn't find ANYTHING about the jukebox controler but found
a couple of sites that gave cross references for disks that can be used in
the MO drive. Of course I'm not using any of those disks but it's working!
Joe
I see that my RS232 lore needs a bit of brushing up!
As much work as I've done with serial data thingys, ya think I'dve
remembered something fundamental like that.
And I was so pompously positive, too..
Let the Lashing begin! ;{}
Cheers
John
PS: this certainly goes to the value of this List as educational tool -
>On my VT220, as connected to a VAXStation 3100, depressing the 'BREAK'
>key on the LK401 causes an immediate processor halt and the display of a
>monitor prompt... >>> . Since I have it hooked up using the RS232
>port, and since there is no such thing as a real interrupting 'break' in
>RS232 - it must be some other code... or, is it? The VT220 Programmer
>Pocket Guide just says that he first 5 top-row keys are "local function
>keys and do not generate codes."
>
> But it still doesn't tell me what the hardware does when pressing
>'BREAK'. IF no one knows, I'll have to get out the break-out box and
>see if I can trap it.
BREAK on typical RS-232 terminal simply sets the line to the SPACE condition
for a number of character intervals. This causes a framing error at the
receiver (no stop bit) and many system will time this and if it persists
long enough will interpret it as a system attention function.
Better terminals will generate a timed pulse when break is depressed, some
terminals simply send a space condition for as long as the key is held down.
Regards,
Dave Dunfield
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