Hi,
I'm starting to get a rather large collection
of Amiga and PC disks.
What is better for storage and easy access,
small cardboard boxes (W:5" D:4" H:5") that I
can get for nothing from work or the proper
plastic case things that can hold 50 or 100
disks?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
I want to take the hundred or so TK50s I
have and restore them to the hard drive
--
I would suggest leaving them as blocked tape images and save them
uncompressed.
If the tapes read without errors, you can deal with them in the future using
an emulator or using file extraction programs on whatever system you
eventually deal with them on.
Tapes with errors are more difficult.
I'm going to be burning some M9312 boot roms within the next few days, as I
find myself short on the ones I want. If anyone wants a particular image,
let me know and I'll do it for my cost of the chip, plus $2.00 to get me a
rallyburger, plus postage :)
I have just a few blanks on hand, so if more than just a few people want
roms I'll have to place an order and it'll take a week or so. I don't mind
doing that if need be.
Off-list please...
Jay West
I've had a hard time finding inexpensive H8571-J equivalent adapters, but
I have a huge box of surplus DE9-F to 6-conductor RJ11 adapter kits. I was
planning to make up a batch of H8571-J equivalent adapters out of these
and some RJ11 to MMJ cords and wondered if anyone else out there could use
some? Based on what I've seen on eBay, I suspect I could sell some there,
but I wasn't sure if there would be any demand from classiccmp folks as
well.
I could also wire up some H8571-B equivalent adapters if there is any
interest in those as well. Those would actually be simpler to make than
the H8571-J. I personally don't need any more H8571-B adapters as I have
plenty for the few MicroVAX systems that I have, but they aren't always
easy to find.
-Toth
I'm going to be burning some M9312 boot roms within the next few days, as I
find myself short on the ones I want. If anyone wants a particular image,
let me know and I'll do it for my cost of the chip, plus $2.00 to get me a
rallyburger, plus postage :)
I have just a few blanks on hand, so if more than just a few people want
roms I'll have to place an order and it'll take a week or so. I don't mind
doing that if need be.
Off-list please...
Jay West
Hi all,
I must be missing something, but I have not found a good way to
preserve a bunch of vax/vms files. I've looked at VMSZip, Gzip, VMSTar,
etc, and I must be missing something.
Here is what I am trying to do:
Before my vax finally dies, I want to take the hundred or so TK50s I
have and restore them to the hard drive and then move them to PC-land
for long term storage. This is halfway done with the tapes that are
easily readable. I now have a bunch of directories, one for each tape,
with files in them on the VAX. So the tree is only two levels deep on
the vax. The files are pretty mixed: backup files, savesets,
distributions, text files, etc. Right now the files amount to about 2Gb.
Now, the environment is: VAX 3100-30 with SCSI external. THis is where
I hooked up the TK70 (TZ30?) to read the tapes. I have network access
and can get to it via FTP and TELNET from elsewhere, namely my PC. I
also have a bunch of different SCSI tape drives, 8mm, 4mm, 9 track, etc.
So, I could transfer all the files if I could containerize (zip) them.
Do I try to Zip them somehow (what program) and FTP them, or do I just
write them to duplicate disks/tapes and throw them on a shelf, hoping I
have a machine to read them in the future?
I'm usually pretty good with this stuff, having been around the VMS
world for a few decades, but I just have this memory block, or the
blinders are on.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Joe Heck
Dear Mr
I am working on a project and I need gate level
schematic or VHDL code of any one 4bit (or a
simple)processor like AM2901 .
Description by details will be useful .
Do you have any ideas where I can find it?
Respectfully,
Amir
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Re: " Hmmm, I've still got a few 3.5' BP drives in original shrinkwrap..."
No go. There is no demand for either the 3.5" drives or the CD drives.
Only the 5.25" drives ($192 was high, but these usually go for about $100).
Reason: There ARE USB 3.5" floppy drives, and USB external CD drives.
But, at present, if you need to read a 5.25" floppy on a PC, there is no
easy way to do it. Modern motherboards no longer even support two floppy
drives [at all, of any kind]. And laptops? Forget it.
We NEED a USB 5.25" (and I'd argue even 8") drive interface device. It
should support both 360k and 1.2MB 5.15" drives, and perhaps 8" drives as
well.
At present, the old parallel port 5.25" drives are the only option for many
people. So they will fetch absurd prices.
I have a 3.5" backpack also. And a backpack tape drive, which used a floppy
interface. I'd love to convert either/both to a 5.25" drive if you know
how.
>From the header of the assembled files:
SYSTEM ANALYZER IN-III
IN-III MACRO ASMB
IN-III LINKER VERSION 3-2 840801
IN-III MACRO ASMB. (Z80.ZILOG) VER. 1-01 830131 DATE 58.09.22
(Japanese style date, Showa 58 = 1983)
Dates to around 1983/1984. Supports the 6301, 6809 and Z80.
Thanks,
Kelly