Got an email offlist from a person in .de wanting a copy of Emulex
tape/disk/comm product diagnostics and formatters.
My replies keep bouncing, so go ahead and contact me again please.
I have 2 teledisk images and txt file zipped up.
Is there a place that archives this and would want a copy?
Ed
The EMULEX RX50 diagnostic kit consists of two RX50 diskettes. Diskette 1
contains all the disk and tape diagnostic required to allow you to format,
install, and troubleshoot the following EMULEX disk and tape products.
CONTROLLER PROGRAM NAME FUNCTION
SC03/BX SXBX0B FORMAT AND VERIFY
S1B19X RM DISK EXERCISER
S1B29A RP06 DISK EXERCISER
SC03/MS SXMX8B FORMAT,VERIFY,NOVRAM
QD01 LOADER
QD32
SC02/C SXCX0D FORMAT,VERIFY,
DISK EXERCISER
UC03 U1MX8E FORMAT AND VERIFY
UC01 U1LX0D FORMAT AND VERIFY
S1LX8A BAD SECTOR UTILITY
S1LX9A DISK EXERCISER
SC02/L S1LX8A BAD SECTOR UTILITY
S1LX9A DISK EXERCISER
TC02 T1SX2A DATA RELIABILITY
TC03
TC05
TC03 T1SX3A DATA RELIABILITY
FOR TAPE DRIVES
WITH NO READ REVERSE
CAPABILITY IN GCR
QT12 T1QX3A DATA RELIABILITY
Diskette 2 contains all the diagnostics necessary to install and test the
following EMULEX communications products.
CS01/H2 C1H21A COMPREHENSIVE TEST
C1H22A DATA RELIABILITY
CS01/H2/128 WD SILO OPT C1H21B COMPREHENSIVE TEST
C1H22A DATA RELIABILITY
CS01/H2/256 WD SILO OPT C1H21C COMPREHENSIVE TEST
C1H22A DATA RELIABILITY
CS02/H2- DH C1HX1A COMPREHENSIVE TEST
C1HX2A DATA RELIABILITY
- DHV C1HV1A FUNCTION TEST 1
C1HV2A FUNCTION TEST 2
C1HV3A FUNCTION TEST 3
On Aug 31 2004, 14:23, Ed Kelleher wrote:
> Got an email offlist from a person in .de wanting a copy of Emulex
> tape/disk/comm product diagnostics and formatters.
>
> My replies keep bouncing, so go ahead and contact me again please.
>
> I have 2 teledisk images and txt file zipped up.
> Is there a place that archives this and would want a copy?
I can't really put them online, but I'd like a copy if possible,
becasue I have an SC03/BX, an SC03/MS, a QD32, a TC02, and a CS02, but
only some of the software.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
>From: "Philip Pemberton" <philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com>
---snip---
>What I would like to do is build a replica of the MOS KIM-1 (or Synertek
>SYM-1, more likely the latter). I've got a CPU chip, but I'd need to source
>some 6530 (or 6532? can't remember the part number perfectly) RIOT chips or
>emulate them with an FPGA. As for the keyboard, well, there's always
>keyswitches and PCB blanks :)
>In case you haven't guessed, I like the 6502 - never really managed to get to
>grips with Z80 assembler, but 6502 ASM was easy (no worse than learning PIC16
>assembler).
>
>Later.
>--
>Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB,
Hi Phil
You could use a 6532 in place of the KIM's 6530. It
would require some external decoder logic to get the ROM
data to an external ROM. Also, the internal selects my
be masked different than the permanent selects of the 6532.
This would also require a little translation. There
are no original 6530's with the KIM mask available unless
one trashes a KIM to get it ( don't even think of doing that ).
The SYM-1's don't use a 6530 so that is not an issue for them :)
Dwight
Currently on eBay is an auction for a Poly 8810.
The seller shows pictures of the screen with random text garbage.
Anyone know if this is normal for these systems, if perhaps a boot disk is
not readable?
Or is this a hardware problem?
The eBay item number is 5119743938
>From: "Barry Watzman" <Watzman(a)neo.rr.com>
>
>I'd say that it's not working. The random display does suggest that a lot
>of the video card is functional. However, it also suggests that the ROM
>monitor on the CPU card isn't being run, which would clear the screen. This
>could suggest bad memory or CPU or both, but in any case I'd say that,
>contrary to what the seller says, the system is not functioning properly.
>
>
>
>
Hi
I'd tend to agree with Barry. I have 2 Poly88's and one 8813.
This is an indication that the system is not running. The video
memory quite commonly has failures but this usually shows up
as a chunk of the video not responding correctly. The video
uses 2111 chips ( often 9111 populated ). I am seeing some
quadrant like behavior so it might just be a lot of bad video
RAM. If anyone gets this that is on the list, I can help
them bring it back to life. Finding some of the RAM chips
that work may be an issue. I went through a pile of these that
Achor Electronics had and found only one in three that was
any good.
The fact that the disk seeks is a good indication though.
If it is in fact doing this, the ROM's must be doing something.
Dwight
>From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>
>> > Brent> Speaking of various keyboards: some time ago I received a bare
>> > Brent> (no machine, no case, no ID) keyboard utilising
>> > Brent> magnetically-activated reed relays for the key contacts. Reed
>> > Brent> relays were commonly used for calculator keyboards in the
>> > Brent> late-60s/early 70s and it probably dates from this era, but
>> > Brent> this is the only occasion I have seen reed relays used in an
>> > Brent> alphabetic keyboard.
>> >
>>
>> Tektronix also used this. The Tek 4014 has such a keyboard.
>
>Maybe we should make a list of the various keyboard technologies :
>
>Mecahnical switches
> Metal contacts pressed together by key
> 'Snap action' domes or strips (e.g. HP35)
> Membranes pressed together when key is pressed
> Metal contacts held apart and allowed to touch when key is pressed
> (e.g. VT100)
> Microswitches
> Reed switches
>
>Hall Effect sensors
>
>Capacitance change devices
> Plastic flap over PCB (e.g. IBM PC)
> 'Keytronics' type
>
>Transformer coupling between PCB tracks -- moving core on the key
>(e.g. ICL Termiprinter)
>
>Pair of balanced transformers, one of which is damped by the key (e.g HP9810)
>
>Mecahnical encoding, parallel output mechanical contacts (e.g. ASR33)
>
>Mechanical encoding, serial output mechanical contact (e.g. Creed 7E)
>
>What have I missed (I think I have examples of all of those in use here!)
>
>-tony
>
Hi
You missed acoustic delay line.
Dwight
I caught a glimpse of one of these today in major disrepair while picking up
something else. Unibody, dual 5.25" floppies. Billings Computer Corp.
Anybody else have any more info on these?
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"Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
|It was written...
|> I've come up with a way to read Heath hard-sectored disks with a
|1797-style
|> controller (with some modifications). I've now archived all of my old
|disks
|> with only one unrecoverable error in an unused sector (not bad for media
|that
|> is approaching 30 years in age). I do seem to have run through *drives*
|at
|> an alarming rate, though I hope that the cleaning disks I have on order
|will
|> restore some of them. Is anyone interested in:
|
|I have a huge cache of H8/H89/Z100 software, half a room full at the least
|(the other half of the room being documentation for same). Where are you
|located?
Gloucester, MA
|I'd rather not ship it all, but would welcome someone to come over
|and archive the bits.
I'd rather not move my computer, though. It's already reaching that
sensitive-to-shock stage, especially the Ethernet card. (Yes, my H100
has Ethernet, which is very convenient for the archiving process.)
|I would bet I have more than a few spare hard sector drives as well, many
|new in the box.
That might be good, since my cleaning kits arrived and they do not appear
to restore the drives in question. :( Of course, they just use isopropyl
alcohol which was never as good as the (now evil) chlorinated hydrocarbon
solvents. I wonder if there is something stronger I can use?
Dan Lanciani
ddl(a)danlan.*com
On Aug 31 2004, 0:44, Ron Hudson wrote:
> I am currently using an Imagewriter printer cable to hook up one
> device, and that
> seems to work ok, and there is no electronics there.. Perhaps the
> transformers are
> for some safety - decoupling purpose?
You have the equivalent of a point-to-point link, with Tx on one device
connected to Rx on the other. When you have things set up as a
network, all the Txs go onto a bus that connects all the Rxs. The
transformers allow the signals to combine, and separate them for each
station.
But I'd expect you could just find some proper boxes easily and cheaply
enough; they're not rare, even here in the UK.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> This was a B+ tree package produced by Peacock Systems
> (Walter Peacock) for MS-DOS (and written in C) in the late 80s
> Some applications I wrote 15 years ago have
> come back to haunt me and I no longer have the library source.
> Any help out there?
This rung a vague bell for me so I searched my entire disk and
found this:
pizzabox:/home/gtoal # find / -name '*[Cc][Bb][Tt][Rr][Ee][Ee]*' -print
/backup/acorn-www/NFS/A440/Informat/cbtree,ddc
/backup/acorn-www/NFS/A440/Informat/cbtree,ddc-spark.txt
I used a package of this name back in the 80's and by sheer chance
I happened to have a copy of it on a bunch of old Acorn Archimedes
floppies which I read back in a year or two ago.
I've unpacked the contents of the "Spark" format archive using
nspark - so, come and get it :-) (the C files will be in the cbtree/C
subdirectory)
http://www.gtoal.com/acme/
Graham
