On Aug 12 2004, 20:23, Witchy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
> > [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Pete Turnbull
> > I'm looking for ROMs (or ROM images would be better) for a
> > TQK50 controller. The ROMs I want are 23-330E5 and 23-331E5.
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Yep, I'm sure we've got a TQK50 on the shelves in stores; I can pull
it
> and dump the ROMs for you.
Thanks, but I've now got several copies of both sets of TQK50 ROMs
(23-248E5/23-249E5 and 23-330E5/23-331E5).
I did mail the list to say I had them now, but perhaps it got lost
amongst the archive messages :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
On Aug 12 2004, 12:05, Jay West wrote:
> Just obtained an M4 Data tape drive, model 9914
(800/1600/3200/6250)... just pulled from working service...desktop
enclosure... $50 bucks :)
>
> I believe it's Differential, not single ended. I haven't kept up with
PC technology (hooking this to a PC). Is this older Differential the
same as LVD? I believe it had a centronics 50 pin connector labeled
"differential". I'm wondering what SCSI card I can use with this...
Adaptec 2940?
No, older "differential" is not the same as Low-Voltage Differential.
It's often referred to as HVD (though that term didn't appear until
later, once LVD entered the scene). LVD devices can (almost always)
work with single-ended controllers, because it's supposed to recognise
the Diffsense signal (grounded for SE) -- hence you often see labels
"LVD/SE" -- but the same is *not* true for HVD. Connecting HVD to LVD
or SE won't work, and may let out the Magic Smoke forkm either or both
devices.
2940 is SE or LVD; the HVD equivalent is 2944 (3944 is also HVD).
There are a few on Ebay right now. I just bought one; I have a
similar problem.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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I'll be taking a day or so to re-cap all the messages I've saved, taking
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message to start off more formal discussions of the project.
I'll also create a web page from the VCF website that contains a
spec-in-progress for people to review and comment on.
I hope to see a lot of people joining in!
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What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
Are we counting one-off homebrews, or just production models. Surely a one-of-a-kind would have to be the rarest kind of all.
--T
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Hello, all:
I wanted to drop everyone a note to let you know that the latest version of
the Altair32 Emulator was released this evening. It has been more than a
year since the last update and a lot of work has gone into bug hunting and
enhancing operational performance. Scott made the timeslicer multi-threaded,
so now the Altair32 can achieve prototypical performance with a machine as
slow as a Pentium-III/500MHz (the slowest machine available for testing) at
a greatly reduced host system load (10-20%).
There are a few things on the drawing board for the next version. First, we
will be adding support for a to-be-named color graphics board. Second,
hopefully, we will be adding support for an operational Altair (or IMSAI)
front panel with a machined metal dress panel in the case of the Altair, or
a screenprinted plexiglass one for the IMSAI.
Thanks again for all of your support with this project, and enjoy. As
always, if anyone finds any bugs or anomalies in the code, please let me
know.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Altair32 Page: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/Altair32.htm
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> Decmate Software, copyright 1985, DM/WPS utility
> diskette 2.0 and DM/WPS system diskette v2.0. Don't know which version of
> decmate they are for, but they are 5.25 inch, not 8 inch.
These are the basic wordprocessing which is called WPS and should work on
the Decmate II and III.
Since the RX50s held 400K on each floppy they were fine for wordprocessing
and two RX50s was a common configuration. You could keep DM/WPS in drive A,
the Utility disk or another in Drive B and Data disks in C and D.
CPM was an option with a piggyback processing card as was a hard drive.
Neither are commonly found in Decmate IIs
Paxton
Astoria, OR
I agree in all what Hans had to say except for how data would be stored. This is supposed to be an archive format which would in my view preclude getting data from the outside world. My only other concern as I have stated before was that data should not be an integral part of the media. If a device happens to be a tape drive, the data on the tape still separates into "file" type data and overhead data required for the tape physical format. Enbedding the "file" tyupe data inside of the physical format makes the data inaccessible without special knowledge.
best regards, Steve Thatcher
-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)siemens.com>
Sent: Aug 12, 2004 9:30 AM
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: archive file format exmaple
> I'm not so sure about having the actual data within the archive element;
> I'd rather have it afterwards.
I would prefer an aproach where both ways are possible, includeing
a third wich allows to put the data even into another file. In the
CCDD definition almost every element (except META) may be empty and
have a HREF attribute pointing to it's content:
A take header record could have it's data included:
<DATA SIZE="80" ENCODING="CHAR" FILLER=" ">HDR2U020480204841 00</DATA>
or just point to the data
<DATA HREF="#DB1"/>
<DATA SIZE="80" ENCODING="CHAR" FILLER=" " ID="DB1">HDR2U020480204841 00</DATA>
which of course may even be in another file:
<DATA HREF="http://cc-archive.org/~hans/mytapes/T43782.xml#DB1"/>
I looked through my floppy library and came across three floppies that
might help.
They are labelled Decmate Software, copyright 1985, DM/WPS utility
diskette 2.0 and DM/WPS system diskette v2.0. Don't know which version of
decmate they are for, but they are 5.25 inch, not 8 inch. I don't think
I'll ever need them, but maybe somebody can put them out on the web?
Also, I haven't tried to read them, they may be bad, but I don't know.
Joe Heck
I have a MicroTechnology MLV11M, which connects to a MFM ST412 type of disk
and emulates a DEC RL02. I used to have the manual and formatting software
for this but they got lost.... It's a long story.
What I am looking for is a utility called RL02DG.SAV which runs under RT11
and allows you to format a disk connected to the controller. Anyone have
this very old software? Circa 1985 perhaps.
Doug