Someone copied almost my ENTIRE pda history site onto the web forum at
http://tinyurl.com/bhvpv ... Does anyone know what the deal is with this
"britishinformation.com" site anyway? The thief who stole my work even
included the hyperlinks but they don't work. The site includes a web form
for contacting them so I sent a not-so-nice message, but I'm not optimistic
about hearing back. Unfortunately I don't see any way to contact the user
who posted this.
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Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net
Computer Collector Newsletter:
>> http://news.computercollector.com
Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists & Museum:
>> http://www.marchclub.org
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
I'm looking for something Unix-ey to run on this 80286 system. It
has 640KB RAM, and uses prorietary memory modules, so even Minix is
going to be an extremely tight fit. Mostly out of curiosity, I'd like
to try Xenix on it.
Does anyone have install images I could "evaluate"? Xenix 286 was
apparenly (judging by some BIOS parameters) a supported OS on this Compaq.
Doc
SCO was not blind to the advantages of having single-binaries across the product line when possible, so most XENIX-386 utilities et al were compiled segmented-286. The easiest way to check is as follows, if you have a Linux machine.
-build a kernel with SYSTEM V/XENIX/Coherent FS available as a module or built-it
-mount the N1 disk (standard SysV FS, bootable), or the image therof
-"file xenix" to see the kernel type. 386 kernels will have '386' in the output of the file command.
beware -- XENIX tends to be very hardware specific, and at least some of the Wyse distros were linked to Wyse HW. You may or may not be able to get it to install. The 2.3 series seems to be more forgiving than the 2.2 series, though. Remember that you will need a serial/activation code to get it installed and to get the devel environment working.
Does anyone here know how the XENIX 'brand' setup works? it somehow modifies the binaries, but I don't have the devel environment or a disassembler so I don't know how.
produced a 68000 based high end graphical unit. The
only mention Ive ever heard was this dude in Australia
(who has one). Referred to it as a big loverly
toaster. Imagine being able to make fractals and cook
your English muffins with the same unit. Maybe hes on
the list and can discuss it further. I remember him
saying he managed to track down a tech who worked for
the company (wonder of wonders), but was only able to
provide the most basic info,
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Does anyone know if Xenix / Unix were ever available on the NS 16032 second
processor for the BBC micro? I remember reading that it was intended to be
made available in the user's guide years ago.
Pete
Turns out the RX02 emulator needs an M105 and M7821 single height UNIBUS
card to work.
Anyone have an extra M105 and M7821?
I've never seen one of these, but that doesn't mean much. Are they common?
Also, does any one have Schematics for the M105 and M7821? I looked on
bitsavers and did not find anything.
-brad
> How many of you have done a road trip to get equipment?
3100 miles, one way. Flew out, drove rented truck back.
This was for a IBM mainframe system.
Brian
Thought I'd throw out to the list what was in my northstar haul, in case
there's something someone is desperate for a copy of..
Unopened box of DC300XL cartridges (5) (these must have gone with some other
system)
Opened box of DC300XL cartridges, 3 in original wrap (these must have gone
with some other system)
Box of 14 (blank?) floppy disks, 10 sector (hard) (hopefully not really
blank)
Box of floppies (originals) for Wordstar Professional release 5. Appears to
be two copies (both originals) all soft sector
Binder, northstar infomanager - manual but no diskettes :\
Binder, northstar infomanager II - manual but no diskettes :\
Manual - north star application software ASP utilites package Users manual
Manual - north star infomanager data management system
Manual - XL-Z80 software development system for the northstar micro disk
system
Manual - The north star disk operating system v2 rel 3
Release notes - release 4 system software changes north star computers 1978
Release notes - release 3 north star version 6 basic
Manual - North star basic version 6
Manual - north star system software manual addendum rev. 2.1
Manual - north star infomanager tutorial
Manual - north star horizon computer system (double density)
Manual - north star z80a processo board, zpb-a manual
Schematic - cromemco 16k memory board
Manual - zilog Z80-cpu Z80A-cpu technical manual
Manual - north star system software manual
Manual - north star 16k ram board
Release notes - XL-8080/XL-Z80 rel 5 software change description
Manual - cromemco 16k memory board technical manual
Manual - north star horizon computer system
Manual - north star z80a processor board zpb-a
Manual - Cromemco Z80 monitor instruction manual
Manual - Hazeltine 1420 reference manual
Product Data Sheet - Western Union model 32 telex KSR and ASR sets (NICE!)
Manual - Cromemco ZPU assembly
Schematic - Cromemco ZPU
Manual - Cromemco TU-ART digital interface
Scan/photocopies - Various Cromemco boards... trying to lift artwork maybe?
Manual - Cromemco 16kz ram instruction manual
Manual - Cromemco 16kz ram card technical manual (two copies)
One QUME QVT102 terminal
Two Hazeltine 1420 terminals
Three northstar horizon computers (two with wood trim, one with metal trim)
An external dual floppy drive for one of the three horizons
So, in all this mess, it sounds like there is no OS disks. Hopefully, there
are some Northstar fans around than can help :)
Regards,
Jay West
OK, now I know there are some mainframe freaks out there on this list
:-), but I would be absolutely flabbergasted if someone had a working
CDC mainframe running PLATO!
However, I figure there is still a small chance that someone has a
PLATO terminal? These were Z80-based, IIRC, had plasma screen
displays at first, and later had raster displays. They were *heavy*
and if I recall correctly they had a card cage on top of which sat the
monitor. They also had a funky PLATO specific keyboard.
Any other PLATO users out there? I was on udel's system in the
1978-1986 time frame, off and on, although PLATO wasn't the primary
focus of my activities. I did a little Tutor programming, but somehow
the language never quite gelled with me.
--
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I am attempting to build some code using BDS C for use on with our Model
100/102/200 memory upgrade ( http://bitchin100.com/remem_project.htm ).
BDS C was the one (free) C compiler that I could find that had basic
support for C syntax (it has pointers to structs, for example).
Anyway, I have a few CP/M based laptops, an NEC 8500, 8401a, and an
Amstrad NC200 (which can run "ZCN"). I'd like to use the NEC 8500 to
compile some short C programs to 8080 assem and then use them on the
Model 100.
Here's the thing: the 8500 defaults to a mode where ROM takes 32K of the
address space. It has several nice apps there but no programming
language. I believe the machine has 64K of RAM, but the software won't
let me switch to 64K all-ram mode unless I have an external drive
attached (either a floppy disk drive controller or a ramdisk cartridge).
I don't have either. In any event it's not real useful in all-ram mode
without some kind of external storage containing applications and
utilities.
So here's my question:
Can drivers for CP/M machines be loaded at run-time?
My idea is that I could make a simple driver that communicates to some
serial-based disk drive controller, or hopefully someone has already
done something similar. How do I structure such a driver, and would it
have to be part of CP/M or can I patch it in at run-time?
-- John.
