I've been searching the net for DOS based electronics software, and I'm
coming up pretty dry. Was hoping someone had suggestions with all the
electronics folks here.
1) Looking for a dos based databook application, primarily for 74xx series
and such. Something that will give me quick access to pinouts, data sheet
info, etc. I did find a promising dos app called ICID, but alas, when it
goes to display pinout info it just blanks the screen on my Toshiba 3200
(only on the pinout page, the rest of the app displays fine).
2) Also need a DOS based semiconductor cross reference guide. I've found a
few out there that are free, but they are all windows based.
3) Lastly, looking for a program that will collect data from and control my
1631 logic analyser via HPIB. I can't find anything on this.
4) Any other handy dos programs for the bench.
Please help, I can't stand the thought of a Windows machine being on the
bench next to me vintage gear :>
Regards,
Jay West
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>From: "Terry Yager" <tyger69(a)chartermi.net>
>
>What I've seen (numerous times) with those double-sided 8" drives is when the
drives are shipped/moved without the proper head protecting cardboard inserts,
the heads themselves tend to slam against each other every time the truck hits a
bump. This causes the heads, which are made of glass, to chip, crack and break.
In the most extreme cases, the broken head will actually cut a groove in the
media. Look for holes or grooves in your floppies.
>
>--T
>
>Jam the computer...trash every lethal machine in the land! -- Timothy Leary
>
Hi
The other thing is, if this is a single sided disk, the pressure
pad may have accumulation on it such that it causes the media
to not set flat against the head. A little cleaning with a nail
file work well on these pads. It removes deposits and flattens
the surface. Just don't file it down to nothing.
Dwight
What I've seen (numerous times) with those double-sided 8" drives is when the drives are shipped/moved without the proper head protecting cardboard inserts, the heads themselves tend to slam against each other every time the truck hits a bump. This causes the heads, which are made of glass, to chip, crack and break. In the most extreme cases, the broken head will actually cut a groove in the media. Look for holes or grooves in your floppies.
--T
Jam the computer...trash every lethal machine in the land! -- Timothy Leary
I was on the original team that developed ABEL, the Data I/O PLD language.
I co-authored a book "Digital Design using ABEL" in 1994 that came with
a special copy of ABEL version 5.0. I have this book in electronic form.
I also have versions of ABEL from 1.0 to 5.0 that run without a dongal.
These are DOS versions. I have a mag tape of ABEL 1.0 for VMS (I think.)
Xilinx owns the current ABEL software and Prentice Hall owns the copyright
on the book. However I will post a copy of my book and a full version of
ABEL 5.0 on the web somewhere. I will make the link available on request.
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Michael Holley
swtpc6800(a)comcast.net
www.swtpc.com
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> I just landed hands on a Mac SE. It is currently running system 6, I
>only have a bout 2mb of memory
>and a 20mb hard drive. I even have an imagewriter to go with it!! :^)
If you want to raise that to 4 MB (the max it can handle), give me a
mailing address (off list), I'll send you 2 more 1 MB SIMMs for it.
>Will system 7 run ok on this machine?
Run? Yes, Ok? Eh. Not at all if you don't go to 4 MB, but yes it can run
7.5.5, it just runs it a bit slower then 6.0.8 (both are downloadable
>from Apple's Web site)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
>I don't know if it would work at all in your vintage of Mac SE, but I
>have piles and piles of the Macintosh high density 'super drive' floppy
>disk drives from a lot of different ages of Macs. Can someone chime in
>on wether your SE could be upgraded to use one just by swapping the
>drive? If so, you can have one or several for the cost of postage.
No, you can't just swap the drive. The FDHD or SuperDrive requires newer
ROMs. You would have to swap the logic board as well.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
"Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> I'm assuming there are no ISA wireless cards, especially with DOS drivers.
Actually I have in front of me an ISA card that accepts a PCMCIA
Lucent wireless card.
I have no clue as to whether you can get DOS (packet) drivers
for that card, but the card *is* supported under Linux/*BSD
Best Regards
**vp
Hello,
I've recently added an IRIS 3130 machine to my collection. It is a
MultiBus based SGI with a Motorola 68020 CPU, additional Floating
Point unit and the typical 5 or 6 board graphics subsystem. It's
complete with original UNIX documentation and owners guide as well
as the original extras (monitor, keyboard, mouse).
I'd like to get it up and running again but I can't get any of the
backups back on a "fresh" ESDI drive (the original died). According
to the Old IRIS FAQ the drive is supported. As far as I can see it
is also detected but the process that should restore the
installation back to harddisk dies quite early in the copy stage.
Thus the current status is: The machine passes POST without
problems, it can be talked into booting the installer and
partitioning tool from tape but it crashes during the copy
operation.
As I said I'd like to get this beast up and running (i.e. have an OS
Installed). A "nice to have bonus" would be having a working TCP/IP
stack on it so that it can run in my network (an Ethernet board is
present).
Any hints / help is *very* much appreciated. I can -of course-
provide additional information if it is needed.
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Best regards,
Gerhard mailto:mail@g-lenerz.de
Old SGI Stuff http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/
Has anyone got any models of the Toshiba Dynabook or Sharp Moebius? These
were models that were not generally sold within the US. This is for the
same project I referenced before, so I'm interested in acquiring certain
models.
Please contact me directly if you have any.
Thanks!
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Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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