I just took a look at the SIMTEL arechives on the Walnut Creek CP/M
disk, and they appear to have all the disks (judging by the directors)
up through volume 310. Take a look at:
http://www.rain.org/~marvin/sigm.txt
if you want to see what has already been saved from the SIG/M archives.
For some reason, I can't ftp the sigm.txt file and the amount that gets
transferred before it chokes varies each time I do it. The txt file
there currently has most of the listings but is missing some stuff at
the end. But in any case, it appears that what you have has already been
saved. If you do take a look at the list, note that there *are* some
typos in the list.
> I just received some 8" diskettes that I "won" on e-pay. I was only
> buying used SSSD diskettes, but when they arrived they contained files.
> They are SIG/M #81 through #120 and #161 through #176.
>
> My question is this. Are these files already archived and preserved for
> the "community" or should I spend some time (lots of time, actually) and
> get the files to a CD or something similar so those of us who are
> interested in CP/M history have them?
>
> I don't mind doing it, but I don't want to spend this time if it is
> already done.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Mabry
> Intel MDS tinkerer
>
That would be yours truly; I had sent you a note off-list but didn't get a
reply. I've been copying/archiving some of it in PC format and sending
it to Randy for his Cromemco archive/museum (see his reply yesterday),
so contact him or me off-list & we'll see what we can do. Note that
Cromemco had at least 6 different (more or less [in]compatible) OS's
which may or may not be useful to you depending on what cards you
have in that Z2 (although CDOS is more or less the lowest common
denominator). Also, as Randy mentioned, if using PC-DOS format
images, you may have trouble with the oft-discussed FM/MFM issue.
mike
-------------------------Original Message:
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:15:35 -0500
From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com>
Subject: Some said they have CDOS and Cromemco disks
Hi,
Some recently mentioned that they had a significant amount of
Cromemco software, if that person would be willing to allow me to make
dup's of their disks I would appreciate it, I have a CP/M system with
both 5.25" and 8" disks on it so I can handle reading both types, I have
a Z2 that I'd like to get up and running again and I would really like
to get copies of CDOS and any Cromemco specific utils, thanks.
Curt
Still in the box. Contains the connector, cable, and barrell connector.
It's small and light -- postage will probably be under $2.
Let me know, or it gets tossed.
Thanks.
Paul Braun
nerdware at laidbak.com
Visit NerdWare on the Web at
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
Apologies up front.
I have a (potentially) wonderful PDP-8/e with TU-56 and RK05 just begging
for attention (as soon as I can get ONE of my ASR-33's to behave properly).
I WANT to spend time on that machine. I also have and sbc-6120 I want to get
OS/8 up on for the MARCH show.
Still the "real world" makes demands.
Yet another weekend supporting (gasp) modern systems.
But some of the things that strike me are.....
It STILL takes the same amount of time for a system to boot..
It STILL takes the same amount of time to format a disk..
It STILL takes the same amount of time to install a (basic) OS
It STILL takes the same amount of time to customize the OS
..I can keep ranting...
Amazing, the more things change.the less they do.. [I KNOW the original
saying is different].
Thanks again
David..
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 20:49:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com>
> Subject: Starting over with 8" drive on PC
> To: Classic Computers Mailing List <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0503252028580.784-100000 at siconic.com>
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>
> My drive is a Tandon TM 848-02. Someone e-mailed me a link
> to the manual they scanned, and now I can't find that
> person's e-mail nor remember who it was (I'm so sorry!) But
> at any rate, of the 3 measley links that come back from
> Google, I see that this drive is DSDD. Still don't know if
> it can do FM however.
Not sure it this is what you're looking for, but here is the service
manual for the TM 848-2 - perhaps this is the same as the "02":
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/tandon/TM848_service_1982.pdf
>Find the 8284a (82284 in the AT) timer chip in the PC. When pin 11 is
>shorted to ground momentarily it will start the reset process. Also
>shorting the "power good" line from the power supply will do the same
>thing. The power good pin is supposed to be P8-1.
I recall at one time having an original IBM PC/AT with a reset switch
wired to ground the "power good" line. It worked fine, and was still
working when I got rid of it ... I don't know if all power supplies
would tolerate this - might be a good idea to put a small resistor in
series with the PS output so that you are not shorting it directly.
Regards,
--
dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield
dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com
com Collector of vintage computing equipment:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
If you have a decent monitor, the sync on green should not be an issue. Older
Macs and many workstations (SGI, all 3w3) run sync-on-green. If you do a
search on "connecting PC monitors to SGIs"
or similar it should tell you known monitors that work SOG. In any case, it's
probably much cheaper to find a used monitor that supports SOG than to buy a
box. Sony's monitors are a good bet (have 2, one OEMed by Radius, one by IBM,
both work Sync-On-Green.
-Scott Quinn
I just received some 8" diskettes that I "won" on e-pay. I was only
buying used SSSD diskettes, but when they arrived they contained files.
They are SIG/M #81 through #120 and #161 through #176.
My question is this. Are these files already archived and preserved for
the "community" or should I spend some time (lots of time, actually) and
get the files to a CD or something similar so those of us who are
interested in CP/M history have them?
I don't mind doing it, but I don't want to spend this time if it is
already done.
Thanks,
Dave Mabry
Intel MDS tinkerer
Anyone able to tell me what the best source for a ?po boy? to find a
MicroVax?
Thanks
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