test-drb August 2008

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Upgrading early BIOS (micro firmware ATA pro flash)

by brad＠heeltoe.com

In this discussion I kept waiting for someone to talk about the "Micro Firmware ATA Pro Flash" Did someone mention it and I missed it? They were http://www.firmware.com but they seem to be gone, sadly. It's a little ISA bus card which has code on it; The code seems to run as part of the bios bring up and it has allowed me to run newer, modern drives in old machines, "fixing" the bios problem. Or at least I thought it did. Maybe I'm on the wrong track. Every time I've used one I've been happy. I've bought 3-4 of them now. Perhaps they are not available anymore. -brad

16 years, 1 month

free - two large 9 track tape units; boston area

by brad＠heeltoe.com

Hi I have two (2x) 9-track tape units I no longer need. These are rack mounted units, not currently in racks. One is brand new. I'm pretty sure both have pertec interfaces and could be driven from most any pertec interface. I believe both will read 800 bpi & 1600 tapes. Not sure if they will go beyond that. The are physically clean and in good shape. Anyone want them? If you do, these need to be picked up. They are way too heavy for shipping. ps: if someone take them *both* I will offer to throw in a 19" rack on wheels. it's clean and in good shape with a dec power module on the bottom. -brad Brad Parker Heeltoe Consulting +1-781-483-3101 http://www.heeltoe.com

16 years, 1 month

Xerox 820-II

by snhirsch＠gmail.com

Does anyone in the northeast have a working Xerox 820-II system they'd like to part with? I have a line on one out West, but the shipping is going to be murderous. Steve --

16 years, 1 month

IBM 6094-020 LPFK (Lighted Program Function Keyboard)

by classiccmp＠philpem.me.uk

Hi, I've just got my two LPFKs -- one of which is now sitting out on the bench. The stuff on the codeninja page about the LPFK protocol seems to be inaccurate; my LPFK is completely mute. I can set the switch on the back to Loopback, which makes the light for whatever keys I press light up, but in "live" mode nothing happens at all. I've got a scope probe on the TX output of the MAX232 (pin 14), which connects straight to the serial connector, but all I've got is a steady -10V (negative ten volts) level. The crystal is oscillating and the 8051 appears to be running code. If I ground the RXD line (serial break?) and then release it, the LPFK resets and does its startup dance. Still no output after this, though. I suspect it's expecting some form of init sequence. Does anyone have an LPFK, the PC connection kit and the relevant software to hand? A serial trace would be tremendously useful. Has anyone managed to get one of these things working? I did spot a thread in the archive started by Michael Brutman -- <http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2007-July/082612.html>. Nothing after that until Paxton Hoag's LPFK bulk-order earlier this year though. Thanks, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

16 years, 1 month

PERQemu v0.2 and a Request for Software

by aek＠bitsavers.org

> Just in case anyone's interested, a new and significantly improved > PERQemu v0.2 is available Would you be willing to make the sources available at some point to help document the hardware, and make it possible to put it on something other than Windows?

16 years, 1 month

PERQemu v0.2 and a Request for Software

by derschjo＠msu.edu

Just in case anyone's interested, a new and significantly improved PERQemu v0.2 is available at: http://yahozna.dyndns.org/computers/perq/emulator/v0.2/ I would consider this a fairly usable release (v0.1 was very buggy). Improvements include: - A 25% or so speed increase (yay!) - A more or less complete and accurate Z80 simulation, which makes many, many more things work correctly. - Kriz Tablet support - now you can actually USE those graphical applications! - RS232 support (yes, now YOU can use a VT100 emulator running inside of a PERQ emulator to talk to your VAX!) - (Nearly) complete Floppy and Hard Disk support. Enough works to allow bringing up a completely fresh installation of POS on a new hard disk, from floppy. Next up on the list of things to do: Real RasterOp emulation, followed by 16K CPU support. Can't wait to run Accent on this thing... If any of you get a chance to try this out, I'd love to hear some feedback. If anyone out there has any PERQ1/1A compatible software that hasn't already been archived on Bitsavers (I know, it's unlikely...), please drop me a line. Much of the software that's been archived is for the PERQ2, which is incompatible in tiny (but annoying) ways. In particular, versions of POS G.x or any release of Accent that can run on the PERQ1A would be wonderful to have. (As an aside: Al Kossow - thank you so much for Bitsavers...) Additionally, if any of you have working PERQ1's and are willing to run it for a few hours to dump an image of your hard disk, let me know. It would be nice to have some other "real" hard disk images to work with. Thanks, Josh

16 years, 1 month

Terak 8510 system on eBay

by jeff.kaneko＠juno.com

Yep. price > $1,000 == investment grade AT this point I would usually remark about how rare machines didn't used to be about big bucks, but that horse died long, long ago. I'll return to my coffin now . . . . -- Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote: Got it! Actually I got it for less than I expected -- $1275. Still, its the single most expensive item I've bought to date. However, I'd say this is going to be one of the most important items in my collection of graphics gear. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ____________________________________________________________ Fast Computer Training. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3mAUC2eSzWdxFOW3XKWiahm67…

16 years, 1 month

Plus Hardcard 20 software?

by trixter＠oldskool.org

Against better judgement, I attempted to low-level format a Plus Hardcard 20 and completely borked it (with the wrong format, the controller won't init and the thing is now a brick). Does anyone have the Plus Hardcard 20 install diskette? The HardCard is shipped in a partitioned and formatted state, with a number of files included on it. The directory of files is as follows: INSTALL EXE 47479 1-01-80 12:06a HCD BAT 30 1-01-80 12:07a HCD1 BAT 128 1-01-80 12:07a HCD2 EXE 54769 1-01-80 12:07a HCD3 DAT 13440 1-01-80 12:07a HCD3 DIF 704 1-01-80 12:07a HCD6 SCR 4224 1-01-80 12:07a PREPARE BAT 235 1-01-80 12:08a SHELL BAT 18 1-01-80 12:07a LIGHT COM 145 1-01-80 12:07a SOUND COM 145 1-01-80 12:07a PATCHFMT EXE 12670 1-01-80 12:08a INSTALL DAT 425 1-01-80 12:06a The original Plus install program creates a floppy diskette containing the Plus files, as above, but also performs several other operations to make it what they refer to as the "REINSTALL" diskette. This Reinstall diskette can later be used for reformatting the HardCard. Anyone have this?? I am killing myself for bricking the card and would really love to get it back. -- 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/

16 years, 1 month

Upgrading early BIOS

by Hollandia＠ccountry.net

Eric J Korpela wrote: >On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman at yahoo.com> wrote: >> Why not try adding a PCI IDE adapter? It will have it's own BIOS that will >> over-ride the internal BIOS. > >With an Award 486 BIOS v1.01, this machine doesn't have PCI slots. In >fact I doubt that it would even have VESA Local Bus (VLB) slots. I >would make a wild assed guess that this is a reworked 386 motherboard >with 7 ISA slots, 3 of which are 16bit and one of which has a >proprietary 32bit ISA extension for use as memory expansion. > >How close did I come, Kurt? > >Eric > > I don't know exactly. This machine was bought used and I am only just starting to learn things about it. I wish I could be of more help.

16 years, 1 month

Upgrading early BIOS

by Hollandia＠ccountry.net

Fred Cisin wrote: > >Does the Packard Bell hardware support cable select? > I honestly don't know. I had thought they all did. >> Can someone suggest a good book that goes into this type of thing? > >Scott Mueller's Repairing and Upgrading PCs >prob'ly 3 or 4 editions before the current one. Try maybe ed 12 or 13 > > > I will look for a copy of it. Thanks.

16 years, 1 month

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