test-drb February 2006

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by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

I'm guessing so. Am wondering if the 1.67 amp 24 vdc regulated wall warts from BGMicro are sufficient to power an 8" floppy drive (NEC FD1165-A). Needs 24 vdc @ 18 watts. Would love to devise a circuit to get the 5 vdc (@ 5 watts) off the same brick, but that may be asking too much ;). __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 5 months

Commodore SX 64 for sale

by aggressive_mimicry＠yahoo.com

Wondering If your SX 64 was still for sale Thanks Al __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

18 years, 5 months

Tandy Xenix disks in imagedisk format

by CCTalk＠catcorner.org

> > Thanks to Dave Dunfield you can now create your own disks > using Image Disk. > You have to have version 1.11 of Imagedisk to write these to > 5.25" HD media. > see: http://www.catcorner.org/Xenix > > Kelly > Here I go replying to my own email again. And before anyone asks, I talk to myself too. Based on a couple of received emails, there seems to be some confusion here. My email was not announcing ImageDisk. I was announcing that the images of the Tandy Xenix disk I recently posted in catweasel/.dmk format are now available in ImageDisk's .imd format. Don't care how anyone feels about either tool, they're what I had to use. One format (imagedisk) is available to anyone on a limited budget, with minimal investment. I got mine running from parts pulled from my board storage. I actualy found two floppy controllers in my stash that could handle FM/MFM mixed formats. The other (catweasel) requires special hardware, but works well to. If there are other ways to make these images and other formats to store them in, let me know. I'll try to gather what I need to create them too wherever possible, although I don't think I could possibly install another floppy in the machine I created for making these images. Right now it has 8 floppy drives in various configurations. Watch the catcorner.org site. I also plan to image the other various Tandy model II/12/16/6000 disks I have. Here is a partial list of the software I have for these systems: Cobol, Fortran, Basic (and Xenix mBasic) 4 different versions of Xenix 2 versions of the development system a couple of CP/Ms TRS-DOS II, 4.2 and 16. Scripsit, Scripsit 2.0, Scripsit 16 Multiplan, VisiCalc, Informix, Unify the list goes on... I have ProFile, filePro and filePro 16+, but I probably won't make images of that since they're still around. At least not until I get permission. Let me know if there is anything in the list anyone needs. Kelly

18 years, 5 months

Anyone with an ATW800 (Transputer workstation)?

by RMeenaks＠olf.com

Forgot to mention that this is basically a problem with the host.con file. If you go to the links I provided, it will tell you how to change it to work off of the regular monitor. I suspect it is configured to run X instead. You can use a regular RGB to VGA adapter which is what most people do. Ram > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org > [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of > dave04a at dunfield.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:52 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: RE: Anyone with an ATW800 (Transputer workstation)? > > > > Curt has one. The software is on my website at > > http://www.classiccmp.org/transputer.... > > Thanks (Already found your website :-) > > Actually, I received software with the unit, and it appears > to have an installation already on the hard drive. > > I first powered the unit with the hard drive disconnected. > This got me to the GEM desktop of the integrated Mega-ST. > Booting the ATW800 Boot Disk resulted in an expected message > that there is no SCSI drive. > > Connecting the SCSI drive, the unit did not appear to boot > on it's own, however booting the ATW800 boot disk results > in access to the hard drive, followed by startup message > for the Helios server, and ends with the message > "Booted..." > > After that, no more data comes from the Atari monitor > connected to the Mega. However entering "trash" on > the keyboard and pressing ENTER results in hard drive > activity, so I assume the system is actually running, > and outputting to the Blossum video display (?) > > I currently do not have an RGB monitor suitable for > connection to the Blossum card - is there any way to > direct the Helios console to the Atari Monitor. > > I have the Helios documents from your site (many thanks), > but I have not found information specific to the ATW800, > and how to get it up and running ...any pointers you can > give me would be most helpful. > > Regards, > Dave > > BTW: I have already posted IMD images of the disks that I > received with it to my site. This includes the ATW800 boot > disk, Helios dsiks, Something called "Mira shading", several > disks marked "Xdemos", and several more marked "Public Domain". > > -- > dave04a (at) Dave Dunfield > dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Vintage computing equipment collector.

18 years, 5 months

Tandy Xenix disks in imagedisk format

by CCTalk＠catcorner.org

Thanks to Dave Dunfield you can now create your own disks using Image Disk. You have to have version 1.11 of Imagedisk to write these to 5.25" HD media. see: http://www.catcorner.org/Xenix Kelly

18 years, 5 months

5160 motherboard slot restrictions?

by trixter＠oldskool.org

I discovered tonight that the right-most ISA slot (the one closest to the power supply) in my newly-unearthed 5160 won't take the Silicon Valley Computer ADP50L IDE controller I'm playing with. It will take other (very short!) cards, but when I put the IDE controller into it, either the option ROM is invisible (ie. 55AA not found) or won't initialize for some reason, because I don't get functionality out of it (least of all, the boot "banner" produced by the card is missing). I can only conclude that: 1. The IDE board is slightly awry 2. The right-most ISA slot is slightly awry 3. There is some technical limitation I'm not aware of #1 and #2 are easy to accept, but not #3. Is there such a limitation? I remember that some of the very first PCI Pentium boards (circa 1994-1995) would only take PCI video cards in one particular PCI slot, so maybe that's where I'm pulling this from... -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Help our electronic games project: http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ A child borne of the home computer wars: http://trixter.wordpress.com/

18 years, 5 months

SGI Indyzone CDs + older SGI demos

by julesrichardsonuk＠yahoo.co.uk

Out of interest, has anyone archived the Indyzone CDs on the web? We've got one or two at the museum, but it'd be nice to find some others. I also picked up a 4D/35 (IP12, 80MB memory, Elan graphics) and an Indigo (only an R3k, but also with the Elan option). As both of these have the top of the range graphics options, if anyone has a pointer to any SGI demos / stuff that'd run under IRIX 5.3 and really show off the hardware it'd be much appreciated! (Actually I think one of our pair of existing Indigos is an R4k, so I can see a bit of mixing and matching coming on there) cheers Jules

18 years, 5 months

Free PDP Memory/BA11/Modem Manuals

by sanyo.hs＠ix.netcom.com

Hi, Do you still have a copy of the Mostek MK8015 manual ? Howard

18 years, 5 months

eBay Item Not Won: Vintage Digital DECWriter IV terminal,DEC,

by dm561＠torfree.net

>Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:09:52 +0000 (GMT) >From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) >Subject: Re: cctalk Digest, Vol 30, Issue 39 >> respectively; I have a few of those myself awaiting a trip to the dumpster, as >Why? I regard them as one of the more interesting dot-matrix printers of >the time. Not quite a Sanders, but higher resolution than it should be. Well, I'm not a "collector" myself and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be enough interest in printers & terminals to justify the time, trouble and expense of properly packing & shipping them. >> well as some parts & ribbons. Tony, I naturally assume you have the >> documentation set? >I think so. I certain;y have the Letterwriter 210 programmer's mamuals, >etc (and the control codes are much the same -- heck, the design is much >the same). I know I have the LA100 printset as well (which for some odd >reason doesn't include a schrmatic of the PSU). True enough; the PSU had its own separate printset (B-TC-H7837-0-1, which I don't have either), although there is a block diagram and functional description in the Tech manual. mike

18 years, 5 months

Slightly OT: Bastard plagiarists

by marvin＠rain.org

One of the best ways I've heard of to "encourage" people not to directly link is to: 1) change the image name for your site 2) change the linked image to a porno type photo. That tends to get auctions shut down fairly quickly :). > here or there... I had a huge spike in bandwidth usage one time and > started to investigate, I had found nearly 4 dozen Atari related > auctions running on ebay at any given time using stolen images directly > linking from my server, so I cut off access to the ebay and subset > Curt

18 years, 5 months

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test-drb February 2006