test-drb June 2005

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by doc＠mdrconsult.com

Would a DSHD floppy drive with a DSHD disk in it look like a 5.25" DSQD drive to an Altos 580? IOW, could I just plug it in and go? Doc

19 years, 2 months

Compaq DOS 3.31

by dieymir＠yahoo.es

> Hi if you 5.25 or 3.5's try this man, > Computer News 80 > PO Box 50127 > Casper, Wyoming 82605-0127 (compnews at trib.com) > he should have some. > Al DePermentier > Thanks a lot for the info, I'll try it. ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, m?s seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es

19 years, 2 months

Tom Jennings on History channel

by James＠jdfogg.com

> The show missed it though, since the MC Pacer was originally > a possible candidate for a rotary engine that was replaced by > a 6 cylinder for road. If they had refitted the Pacer with a > triced out 13B they would hav ehad a better show if they had\ > been racing Pacer vs something with 300 hp. The original Ford Mustang (1964 1/2) was slated to have a rotary too. Some early marketing material and a coffee-table book or two mention the existance of a rotary model, but none are known to have been registered as far as I can tell.

19 years, 2 months

CompuPro RAM14 switch settings

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: CompuPro RAM14 switch settings > From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net> > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 22:16:57 -0400 > To: CCTalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > >All: > > Does anyone have the configuration switch setting information for >the CompuPro RAM14 manual? I've gone to the usual manual archives and no one >seems to have the RAM14 manual. > > Thanks. >Rich I have the two volume compendium and a large assrotment of loose manuals for Compupro and I see no RAM14. Sure of that number? Allison

19 years, 2 months

CompuPro RAM14 switch settings

by rcini＠optonline.net

All: Does anyone have the configuration switch setting information for the CompuPro RAM14 manual? I've gone to the usual manual archives and no one seems to have the RAM14 manual. Thanks. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

19 years, 2 months

Tandy 2000 720k floppy drive

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

shouldnt they look like a 3.5 inch 720k drive to a PC? (when connected to one) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

19 years, 2 months

Wild-hair floppy drive question

by ajp166＠bellatlantic.net

> >Subject: Wild-hair floppy drive question > From: Doc Shipley <doc at mdrconsult.com> > Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:21:15 -0500 > To: General at mdrconsult.com, "Discussion at mdrconsult.com":On-Topic and Off-Topic > Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org> > > Would a DSHD floppy drive with a DSHD disk in it look like a 5.25" >DSQD drive to an Altos 580? IOW, could I just plug it in and go? > No! The drive should be jumperd for DSDD use. The media should be standard Floppy Brown stuff. All of the DSHD drive will do DSQD mode if setup (jumpers) correctly. The 5.25" HD mode is both higher data rate and differnt media and they must match. Unfortunatly the Altos does not drive the disk at that data rate. It may plug and go depending on the cable and the drive. Allison

19 years, 2 months

Progress on my migration from VT320 to Classic X11

by msokolov＠ivan.Harhan.ORG

Hello fellow ClassicCmp'ers, I have just completed another kilometre-post on my road of migration >from a VT320 to a Classic X11 environment. I wrote and released a library that can be used by X11 applications to turn the X11 keyboard into an IFCTF keyboard, i.e., an extended ASCII input generator rather than a random bank of buttons. It is called the X11 IFCTF keyboard library and can be found on my FTP site: ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/unix/X11/libXIFCTFkbd-1.0.tar.Z It takes the next step beyond keycode-to-keysym translation and turns the keyboard input into extended ASCII. For an explanation of what I mean by this you'll need to download the library and read the documentation. This library will be used by my HECterm/X11 terminal application. One thing that I absolutely have to have in order to migrate from the VT320 I'm typing this on to an X11 environment, even a Classic one (X11R4 client environment under 4.3BSD-Quasijarus talking to a standalone X11 display on Ethernet), is a text terminal application that can match the quality of a real DEC VT terminal. Since this is so critical to me, I have decided not to rely on anyone else's software and to write my own terminal application from scratch. I'm already well into it and it's coming along nicely. When it's ready, I'll of course release it as public domain software as well and announce it here. MS

19 years, 2 months

Proper name for Tandy Color Computer?

by vcf＠siconic.com

What is the "proper" name for the Tandy Color Computer? Is it that? Or is it "Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer"? Or is it "Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer"? I guess it also depends on what model we are talking about, so let's say the original and the CoCo2. I know the CoCo3 was pretty much labeled Tandy by then. Thanks! -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

19 years, 2 months

MITS 8800B CPU Board Info

by dave04a＠dunfield.com

At 17:07 11/06/2005 +1000, you wrote: >Hi, > >I've got an old MITS 8800B CPU (Rev 0) board. It's in a pretty sad state and >missing some chips and most of the voltage regulation components. Although I've >seen a few pics on the net of this board, none are clear enough to read the >chips. > >If anyone has one of these boards can you pls tell me what chip D, F and K are. >I think D is an 8216, and F is an 8224 clock chip, but would like confirmation. >A circuit diagram would be brilliant, if anyone has one. D: 8216 F: 8224 K: 8212 Rich Cini has a pile of Altair 8800B documentation on his site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ Look under "Altair 8800 Emulation", then "Technical Links". You could also try Howard Hart's site: http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals You may have to do a bit of digging, the 8800B CPU info may be buried in the 8800B system documentation. Regards, Dave -- 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

19 years, 2 months

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test-drb June 2005