With Zane H. getting productive with his C64, I thought I would
throw in what I finally got working on my C64 setup...
Last night I was *finally* able to update one of the banks in my
Retro-Reply with "The Final Replay" rom. This gives you the command
"CODENET" which allows you to send and execute code on the C64 from
another computer over TCP/IP. I sent the WarpCopy server and now I
am able to archive disk to my PC or send D64 files to be wrote to
a floppy. It takes only 22 seconds to send the whole contents of
a disk to my PC! Now I just need to find three more drives...
WarpCopy can be found here: http://www.oxyron.de/html/wc64.html .
(The Final Replay rom is also available there.)
Cheers,
Bryan
For those interested in restoring old PDP-8's...
I received an 8/M in very rough shape; you can read the
adventures of restoration at:
http://www.parse.com/~museum/pdp8/pdp8m/restore.html
Cheers,
-RK
--
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com
Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!
All:
I'm playing around with VICE, the Commodore emulator and I
wondered how others who use it deal with key remapping. Sometimes I find it
hard locating the mapped keys because I look at the keycap and of course,
the key is wrong (like TAB is CTRL, ESC is RUN/STOP, etc.)
I'm looking for suggestions beyond sticking little labels on my
keyboard :-)
Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
Web site: <http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/>
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
Web site: http://www.altair32.com/
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This past spring I took up Jay's offer of free hosting for classic
computer web sites (thanks, Jay!). I had been sitting on some domain
names for a while doing nothing with them, but his offer got me in
motion. Unfortunately, things heated up at work and at home and I
couldn't find the time in the past few months to finish off that last 3%
before publishing the new web site. It is finally ready for action.
http://www.sol20.org
The old web site pages just redirect to the new web site.
The content is slightly reorganized but for the most part is identical
with the old site. The only new, but interesting, addition is a scan of
the Sol schematics and PCB artwork that were offered for SASE in the
Popular Electronics article that introduced the Sol. The production Sol
had further changes after the article was published.
The new web site makes use of CSS, but no javascript. The layout pretty
much assumes that you have at least 800 pixels of horizontal resolution.
I've tried it out in firefox, IE 6, and opera 9 and it looks pretty
much as intended. I've even added some code to make the css disappear
if the site is viewed with netscape 4.x. If you notice anything weird
about the new look in a modern browser, please let me know about it.
Thanks.
Hi folks,
I'm curious if anyone has media for older IRIX releases.
Specifically, I'm looking for IRIX 4.0.5E, 4.0.5F, 4.0.5IOP or
4.0.6IPR on CD. Anyone know if this is still floating around
somewhere? It's for a restoration of an Indigo running period
software (instead of IRIX 6.5.22 or 5.3, both of which I already
have, but are more recent).
-Seth
>
>Subject: Re: CompuPro floppy controller differences
> From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:00:18 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>> > >> keep all the FDC features you could put a 8" on a PC and read SSSD!
>On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Bryan Pope wrote:
>> You would need quite the desktop case to house an 8" floppy
>> drive! :)
>
>It says put an 8" ON a PC, not IN it.
>If you use two side by side drives horizontally,
>then it is a lot more stable to put the PC on the 8"
Of course starting with the half height 8" drives helps. They are only
about 2.5" tall.
What is more interesting is what a PC with two 8" drives would
weigh in at! Most of the good 8" drives were a very solid hunk
of aluminum.
I have a heath H207 dual drive. That's two half height doubled sided
drives one atop the other and a linear power supply. Weighs more
than full up NS* Horizon (wood case)! It's only 13.5x5.5x17 inches.
Allison
For people who have dealt with Joe before, they've uploaded a metric
buttload of stuff to their eBay store jcmparts. He claims they're going to
scrap whatever doesn't move in the next two months. At his listed prices, it
will probably be most of it.
Hi All,
I have a number of boxes with DEC-related material available. These
are systems I no longer have or have no real possibility of obtaining.
These are available near Buffalo, NY for pick-up. I will entertain
shipping these, but the boxes are heavy and would require arrangements
to reimburse me for shipping costs.
I will be regretfully forced to recycle these documents if I receive
no response by 8 October, 2006. I don't want these to be disposed of but
I need the space that they currently occupy.
If interested, please contact me via e-mail or telephone as I don't
get to read newsgroups as often as I'd like.
Here's what I have at present:
R80 User's Guide (EK-00R80-UG-001)
R80 Service Manual (EK-00R80-SM-001)
R80 Technical Description (EK-00R80-TD-001)
RL02 Field Maintenence (RL02-TK)
Field Maintenence (CFG PKG #76) {I believe for the VAX11-730}
Field Maintenence (11730-Z)
VAX-11/750 Print Set
VAX VMS Manual Set v4.0 {I believe to be complete}
RSX-11M v4.1 {I believe to be complete}
RSX-11M+ v3.0 {I believe to be complete}
RT-11 v4.0 manual set {I believe to be complete}
Misc VMS v5.5 manuals
Misc PDP-11/24 prints
Misc PDP-11/44 prints
Thank you,
-John
P.S. I need power supply repair tips for my PDP-11/84 or if you happen
to have a spare supply. :-) I suspect dried-out caps, but still would
like to know if anybody else has any ideas to try.
A power supply print set would be welcome, too.
Any help would be appreciated!
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>
>Subject: CP/M for Fairchild F8 : resolved.
> From: Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel <jos.mar at bluewin.ch>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 20:03:24 +0200
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>I asked around and, as many posters suspected, the box was part of a
>larger system : A Sentry IC tester, made by Fairchild. That would
>explain the use of the F8.
>
>The row of DRAMs I thought to have seen was, at closer inspection, a set
>of bipolar PROMs. Total real ram on the board : 4 x 2114. So no CP/M for
>sure....
>
>Still, I have never before seen a floppybox with printeroutput !
>
>The CP/M disks (SSSD) are therefore most probably from another, unknown
>system.
>
I'd bet they are from an old Intel MDS800 development system [big blue box].
They ran ISIS but CP/M was ported to them as the first system and standard
distrubution CP/M for years after had the MDS800 bios in the text
(CP/M alteration guide).
Allison
On 20/09/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> PS the real question is who can identify what I built it into :^)
TK50 box? Good for dice too :)
--
> Pete Edwards
> "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future" -
> Niels Bohr
