Hello,
I've been given an IBM system 60 (model 8560) computer
tower, but it won't boot from HD or FD.
Actually, it has a "601" error when booting - bad
floppy drive. Additionally, the floppy does not spin,
although the light does come on.
If I had a working floppy, I could boot the Set-up
diskette and hopefully configure it to boot off the
HD?
The floppy drive and interface is non-standard, so I
cannot just install a modern-day floppy drive.
If anyone has a working floppy drive they'd be willing
to donate, I'd be a happy camper.
Thanks!
Steve
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Anyone know where I can find more information on this?
More Info
Suitcase size portable with dedicated firmware to program PLC's from
Square D
Green screen display, fair keyboard, 6809 CPU , tape drive(no tapes),
motherboard with four cards, 86(?) contact double-sided bus.(EXORbus?),
16 6116 chips on a memory card also daughter card with some other chips
unreadable, another memory card with 8 6116 chips and 4 eproms labeled
crt u-2x(3-6), CPU card with HD6809P, two 6850PDS, one 6840PDS, four
EPROMs labeled CRT IC-xx(28-31), video card with 6845, 6821, 4 eproms
labeled crt u-xx(27-30), one eprom labeled 30606-205-50 and the system
crystal 12.000 MHZ and many glue chips on every board.
Thanks Tony for the reply.
I'm using a 350mhz PC, Win98, Corel Draw V8. I draw vector images, and always plot from print preview. I don't type any coordinates in, just send the image.
I was doing more snooping around the HP manuals, and between them, found this:
HP-GL/2 units of measure
The plotter can use plotter units or user units
"Under default conditions, the unit uses plotter-units"
1 plotter-unit=0.025mm(0.00098inch)
40 plotter-units=1mm
1016 plotter-units=1 inch
3.39 plotter-units=1 dot at 300 DPI
Here is a chart that was with the PS info I posted before:
parameter_______format______range________________________default
length integer 0 to 8388607 plotter-units depends on media size
width integer 0 to 8388607 plotter-units depends on media size.
These manuals were scanned and saved in Acrobat reader. Print quality seems good
but maybe there's a decimal I'm not seeing???
1016 into 8388607 is 8256.50... 12 into 8256.5 is 688.
688 feet? I'm missing something here. It did say plotter-units, not user units.
Oh well thanks again.
Over at BinaryDinosaurs Towers I was 'slightly' pleased to get sent an
Amiga 4000/040 that's been tricked out with a CyberStorm 3 68060/FastSCSI
II CPU card and CyberVision 64/3D graphics complete with CD and drives.
It's yellowed a lot so I'll be digging through the recent archives on
'curing yellowed plastic' that I foolishly ignored but the main question
is on disk cloning.
It's boot drive is a 2.5gb Fuji that needs percussive maintenance to get
it to run so I'm in a need of cloning it ASAP. I've got a known good 2.1gb
Quantum Fireball that I want to transfer the boot disk contents to, so far
my experiments with linux (aside from dd) haven't worked since the drives
are different sizes.
Any CBM experts got any pointers for me? The current boot drive has lots
of things on I want to keep though upgrading the OS to 3.5 would be nice
since it has more internet flavoured tools.
This brings me to another question - where can I get an ethernet board for
this beastie?
TIA :)
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
>From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>
>On 12/2/2005 at 2:42 PM woodelf wrote:
>
>>Well it is not standard with the windows I have.
>
>Was it ever standard with Windows or DOS? If memory serves, it was always
>an add-on package. IIRC, MASM 1.0 was abouit $100, which didn't make it
>much of a bargain.
>
>LIB and LINK were packaged with DOS, but not MASM. ASM was standard with
>CP/M, but it was kind of brain-dead (no macro facility, linking or
>relocation). Most folks who wanted to program assembler seriously on 8 bit
>stuff picked up either M80/L80 or RMAC.
>
>Didn't the Polymorphic or Processor Tech systems box ship with a resident
>editor (BASC-style with line numbers) and a simple assembler? I seem to
>remember hacking the I/O in it to work with my MITS box. Even added a few
>of my own commands.
>
>Cheers,
>Chuck
Hi
Polymorphic had a combined editor/assembler with its
cassette based assembler. The disk based assembler
is more normal text based( as I recall ).
Dwight
Sridhar -
> You didn't mention where you are. Shipping some of this stuff
> could get expensive.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
Fair point. The 9221 and I are in Hampshire, England. For the US, that's
still useful for individual cards, though admittedly not of course for
anything bulky. I'm flying back to the States for the holidays, anyway.
Posting domestically would be possible if there's an interest. Just don't
ask me to put a rackmount DASD in my carryon.
Thanks,
Colin Eby -- ceby2 at csc.com
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>From: "Hans Franke" <Hans.Franke at siemens.com>
>
>Am 4 Dec 2005 0:24 meinte Philip Pemberton:
>
>> In message <001801c5f835$21bac2d0$0401010a at jfcl.com>
>> "Robert Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
>> > I know there was at one time an OS/9 for the 6809 - does anybody know the
>> > status of that today? Is there other software for the 6809 floating around
>> > these days?
>
>> What I would REALLY like is something similar to OS/9, but for the 6502.
>
>Maybe try that one:
>http://www.6502.org/users/andre/osa/
Hi
A fellow named Dallas has a reasonably good DOS that could
be adapted to most any other disk configuration.
When I get time
to fiddle with things, I hope to get the original OS running
that came with the FDC-1 used on the SYM-1. My FDC-1 was
missing a number of parts. It was only recently that I've been
able to collect what I needed. Now, all I need is a little time
to bring it together. This DOS is a difficult one to use
but the one that Dallas has is a more complete DOS. I beleive
it was written by a fellow in Japan.
Later
Dwight
Folk,
I did an eBay run this weekend to pick up my first actual mainframe -- a
1992 IBM Model 9221. There's more of it than I really need for my own
fooling around and I wondered if anyone on the list was interested in bits.
Basically I have three I/O card cages and only really need one. And of
course a bunch of excess cards -- mostly feature 6310, 6031 and 6130. I
would consider swaps or pretty short money as I'm more concerned about not
buckling the ceiling of the flat down stairs than the money. Swap-wise I'd
consider main memory, missing cabling, media and that sort of thing. There
are also a number of manuals I can part with as well. I might also be
willing to part with some of the DASD. I'm not finished inventorying, so
if there's something you'd like me to check for, please let me know.
Colin Eby
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I have the DEC 3000 booting off the firmware upgrade bootp image, right?
When I enter "update" in the utility, it goes
UPD-> update
Read IO ROM Device ID
?05 HLT INSTR
PC= 00000000.00000044 PSL= 00000000.00001F00
>>> (dumps me back to SRM console)
What gives? Are my jumpers in the wrong position for updating?
Hello Friends:
Just cleaning out storage and decided to sell my one-owner HP150B.
But first I need to make it work. It was working when I put it back in its boxes 20 +/- years ago.
But, I can't get past the pre-boot error message, "Power-on test failed 0004" or sometimes "0000c".
Anybody know these error messages? Or better yet, where I can get a list of power-on error messages?
