Folks,
Starting this coming Sunday (10/18), I'm planning to embark on a
road trip in a truck from SW Florida to Poughkeepsie, NY, then to
Boston, then back through the Columbus, OH area. I will have LOTS of
extra room (at least half of a 28' truck) on all legs of this trip.
The truck has a hydraulic lift gate and I have experience moving big,
heavy computer equipment.
I can be bribed to move big stuff along this route, should that be
of use to anyone. I'm looking to defray the cost of the trip for my
employer, but if it doesn't cost any extra money (i.e., not too far
out of the way and not too time-consuming) I can be bribed with Cool
Stuff too.
Also, if anyone along that route has any spare DEC H960 racks or
RA60 drives (preferably functional) that they want to unload, I'd
happily take them away. :)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Hi guys,
Does anyone know what the largest capacity MFM or RLL (i.e.
ST-506/ST-412 type interface) hard disk was? I know the AT drive types
go from 0 to 46 (plus user defined type 47), and the largest of these is
#46: 1224 cyls, 15 heads, 17 secs (152MB). Question is, did anyone
ever make an MFM drive that big, or was that strictly IDE territory?
I know 80MB and 120MB IDE drives existed -- I used to have a Conner
120MB that was an utter pig to make work with any other drive, and I
still have an IBM WDA-L80 80MB IDE drive. Thus far, the largest MFM
drive I've found is the Micropolis 1325 (85.3Mbytes unformatted).
Reason I'm asking is that I'm working on the seek logic for the disc
analyser. At the moment, you can seek 127 cylinders at a time in either
direction (there isn't a track-counter on the hardware, so all seeks are
relative) and I was wondering if there's any point in increasing this
further to accommodate drives with higher track counts.
Cheers,
--
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/
Hi! I just finished building and testing the new N8VEM VDU board PCB
version. It is a 6545 based video board for monochrome character display on
your home brew computer much like a KayPro 10 display. It works OK and
provides a composite video display, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse and a parallel
port printer interfaces.
It is meant for the N8VEM SBC but the design is general enough it should be
useable on most any Z80 style system. If you are interested in building
your own and/or writing software for the N8VEM VDU please contact me.
When the SBC, ECB backplane, Disk IO board and VDU are combined they offer
the potential for a completely stand alone home brew Z80 CP/M computer. The
software for the VDU is still in development and it
There are pictures and code on the N8VEM wiki in the VDU folder. Schematics
and PCB layout are available. I have several PCBs. Constructive comments
welcome. Please no flames.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
I "need" two of these things at $121 a piece. So I figure I'll start
ebaying some things to feed my habit. If anyone would like a working amiga
2000 with hard drive or a steel case commodore 128D, let me know. I'd
prefer to make a deal with someone on the list than to put up with ebay. I
also have three JVC TM-9U 9" studio color monitors with BNCs and RCAs on the
back. thanks.
brian
Sorry, that's "Controller" not "Controllers"
Hi! I seem to recall there was a scanned version of the "CRT Controller
Handbook" by Gerry Kane online someplace. Does anyone know if that is true
and if so, where?
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
PS, I already have the print edition but a scanned edition would be very
helpful.
Hi! I seem to recall there was a scanned version of the "CRT Controllers
Handbook" by Gerry Kane online someplace. Does anyone know if that is true
and if so, where?
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch
PS, I already have the print edition but a scanned edition would be very
helpful.
I am moving ou of some office space I have occupied forty years and
have come across a large cache of hard sectored NorthStar CP/M
diskettes that I would like to obtain the data from, a daunting task.
I have long wished to obtain a MicroSolutions MatchPoint board to
try this before my diskettes decompose. Would you consider either
selling me your board or loaning it to me for a fee? Inthe latter
case I would return it to you with the .286-based computer I would
have to build to access it. I am located in Southern California. Are
you interested. They are hard to comr by.
Sincerely,
John Riley
Sent from my iPhone
Anyone out there have the 3.4.2 drivers for the OrangePCi card? This is a
WinChip-type PC-on-a-card for classic Macs. Orange Micro seems defunct and
all the echo chamber download sites simply point to it.
--
------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com
-- BOND THEME NOW PLAYING: "Die Another Day" ----------------------------------
