Hi all,
I recently found several INS8073 (aka SC/MP III, with Tiny Basic in ROM)
which I want to build a complete system for. I have the datasheet for
the 8070 which is the ROMless version. This gives of course hints how to
add RAM. The question is how to talk to the BASIC interpreter. From the
8060 (the SC/MP II) with NIBL BASIC I know that the CPU itself uses two
pins to implement a 1200Bd serial line which just needs some additional
RS232 drivers to work; serial I/O is done by software in the NIBL ROM. I
assume this works the same for the 8073. Unfortunately, the SC/MP III
does not have these specific pins. So: how does the interface look like
for the 8073? Does anyone have a specific application note for this
processor?
Regards & THX in advance
Holger
> I just got a Dell Pocket PC last week and I want to
> start seeking out some "classic" stuff for it. For starters,
> I've done some Googling for the adventure game interpreter
> ScottFree for thr PocketPC but I've come up empty.
>
> Does anyone have a pointer to one? Also, I'd appreciate
> any links to other classic stuff for the PocketPC.
Classic? PocketPC? Kinda new for "classic".
I can help you out with Adventure for the Palm, and the palm is 10 years
old now (or more).
Due to the inability of more one individual to follow up on 'firm'
commitments, I must now dispose of a Honeywell DPS-6 mainframe and
matching 9Trk tape drive.
This is "free, come and get it" - and there are loading facilities
on-site to do this. It will easily fit in the bed of most full-sized
pickup trucks. We just need it to go away, fast.
This gear is located in the Carson City area of northern Nevada - about
a 5 hour (beautiful!) drive from the Silicon Valley. It wieghs all up
about 600 pounds. For the right amount of bribe-money, I'd even consider
delivering it myself.
OTHERWISE, this equipment will be broken up for scrap and the cabinets
taken to the junk yard - it is in storage at a friend's and he needs the
space the computer is currently taking.
If there is no interest by this time next week, we're going to get out
the torches and the chainsaws - there are no other options.
Speak up, Folks! Don't make me have to kill a rare machine!!!
Cheers
John
In the "not-quite" category there is always the TI Professional
Around 1990 there were, AFAIK, several "superservers" that were supposed to
de-VAX the buisiness world, running XENIX/UNIX on multiple 3/486s
Mitac? made some, and NetFrame. Same period as the CPQ SystemPro. I think
they were serial-terminal console. Remember reading about it in PC magazine
back-issues.
I suppose we should *like* PCs-a bit- so much of the underlying contortions
are ca-1985 hacks, so it's not like we're running POWER, Alpha or PA-WideWord
based machines with modified Open Firmware (add touches of SRM and SGI ARCS),
extensible windowing system . . .
-Scott Quinn
>From: "der Mouse" <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
>
>> I have an Altos 586, an 8086 machine that is completely NOT a
>> pee-cee.
>
>Hm, that might be an interesting question. What machines are there
>built around x86 CPUs but which are definitely not peecees?
Hi
Convergent Technologies made a 8086 based machine that
was not PeeCee. It had some expansion slots that were
Multi-Bus but the processor board was not Multi-Bus.
I wish I had save one from a company that I worked for
that folded. Rats!
Dwight
>
>I suspect there are more of them with the earlier CPUs (8086) than with
>the later ('386, '486, Pentium, etc). The latest one that comes to my
>mind immediately is Sun's 386i (the "Road Runner").
>
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Last chance. If anyone wants this, shipping would be from New Jersey USA (or
you pick up). It is a case with 4 Hitachi interface (proprietary, not IDE),
8-bit (PEECEE) controller card, cable and some of the driver software (I
think it is a complete set). As is. You pay shipping if you want it.
Next step (if no one wants it) is to gut it and install the 8" tandon floppy
drive in it that I just got working with my catweasel and linux.
Kelly
eBay had a *major* outage last night for several
hours,
beginning around 7:30PM. Several of my snipes failed
with strange error reports. I also noticed that these
auctions had been extended for another day after eBay
had come back up. For several hours, eBay was
artially functional, but some categories were missing,
and "My Ebay" was reporting that much information was
unavailable. A status notice on eBay claimed there
had been a power failure at an eBay datacenter.
--Bill
14" drives - full rack width, with room for some casting on either side.
8" drives - two side-by-side in a rack width. (Perfect fit, in fact.)
5.25" drives - probably completely unconstrained by rack widths. I
think a recent document on bitsavers details the IBM DemiDiskette,
which was something like 4" :-).
Height of a FH 5.25" drive is the same as an 8" drive.
3.5" drives - ???? No idea
There was a joke in BYTE in the early 80's about diskette manufacturers
keeping the punched out "holes" from each size of floppy for use
as future floppy sizes :-).
Tim.
Is there any difference in the cartridges for
an RK05F drive vs. an RK05J (or plain RK05)?
I just acquired an RK05F and am getting ready
to hook it up to my system along with my RK05J
drives so I can test it out. I know the pack
holds twice as much data as the RK05/RK05J, but
is there any physical difference in the packs?
I suppose I'll have to reconfigure my existing
RK05J drives so that the RK05F is either drives
0/1 or 2/3 (or 4/5).
Thanks,
Ashley
