Hello,
I have an old MFM drive (MiniScribe 8425) hooked up to a Xebec
1210C 8-bit ISA controller, pulled out of my Amiga 1060 sidecar, which
used to be the system drive for my A1000 (still in fine shape, thank
you, though the sidecar sadly isn't). The drive ought to have a 5Meg
DOS partition and the rest Amiga formatted.
Out of nostalgia and curiosity, I'd like to attempt to "image" the
drive, to see if I can get at the old Amiga files. Any idea how this
might be possible? I can get a hold of a 1998-era PC, mainly PCI but
still with a single 16-bit ISA slot - but I have no idea if there is
any software that can then get the bits off the drive. ISTR that the
xd driver in linux was broken or removed, or is the card WD100x
compatible? Can NetBSD talk to it? Will the 8-bit BIOS on the card
work in a Celeron class machine? If somehow I find a sufficiently old
PC, how can I get the data off the non-MS-DOS partition?
FWIW, if you're in the Montreal/Ottawa region, and you can make an
image of the drive for me, you can keep the controller and the card
for your collection, and I could even give you a Sidecar with or
without Amiga 1000 for your troubles :-) It is of course quite
possible that both the controller and/or the drive have gone to
silicon heaven, and might make nice wall decorations.
Joe.
PS. I'm thinking a A2000 with A2086 card would probably be a good way
to get at the data. I have neither, only an A3000.
--
Joachim Thiemann :: http://www.tsp.ece.mcgill.ca/~jthiem
Hi,
Although this video is old (uploaded to YouTube Jan 2007) I thought I would mention it. (I didn't get any hits when searching for "Tetris" in the archives)
"Brown's University fourteen-story Sciences Library transformed
into a giant video display which allows bystanders to play a game of
Tetris which can be seen for several miles."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU
It's a shame that there's no sound, or music, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
I wanted to let all of you know that the 2nd revision of my friend's
PC/XT IDE controller is now available. For those of you not in the
know, this is a way of using modern IDE hard drives in your 8bit PC or
XT system. Works with drives up to 137G (your O/S also has to support
it; 8.4G is way more common) and Compact Flash->IDE controllers too.
CD-ROM support is likely coming eventually, but he has to write an
entire driver that MSCDEX would talk to.
They're being sold at cost: $30 for a kit to solder your own, $40 for a
pre-built and tested card.
These are not quite the end production unit, but darn close. Works in
PC/XT clones, as well as Tandy 1000 series machines (anyone who knows
how hard it is to get an IDE drive into a Tandy will appreciate this).
They are also going to be building one that will fit into a PCjr sidecar
someday. ;)
Details are available on the last message of this forum page:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?t=12359&page=109
--
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/
I read an article today in 'New Scientist' entitled 'Innovation: Classic
computers on the danger list' with Tom Simonite writing: "Pretty much every
adult alive today has seen computers change the world, but we are doing
precious little to celebrate the influence of the computers and software
that created our society." Indeed! Are we failing to preserve the earliest
part of microcomputing history? Will classiccmp.org discuss early ucomputers
in 5 yrs., 10 yrs.?
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to ship the RZ25 to the UK since
I'm not absolutely certain that it works. I figured I'd pay the
shipping to someone local if they were interested and that nothing
would be lost if it turned out to be bad. I have no reason to believe
it doesn't work but I have never tried it since it was given to me.
David
On Sep 29, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
> Any idea what it might cost to ship the RZ25 to the UK?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
> bounces at classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of David Betz
> Sent: 29 September 2009 20:29
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Some DEC parts and a Sun-compatible CD-ROM drive
>
>
>> I have a few DEC items that might be of interest to people here:
>>
>> RZ25-E hard drive
>> BCC14-10 cable
>> BCC05 cable
>> H8574-A SCSI terminator
>>
>> I also have a Toshiba TXM3401E1 CD-ROM drive that I used to install
>> software on a Sun SPARCstation.
>>
>> Of course, I'd like to sell this stuff for millions or at least
>> trade it for an Apple 1 but I'll consider all offers that don't
>> involve negative numbers!
>>
>> Anyone interested in this stuff?
>
> I forgot to mention that this stuff is in Bedford, NH but it's small
> enough that it could be shipped. I also have a canvas bag with the
> NeXT logo and the text "The NeXT Day" on it that was given to me when
> I attended the introduction of the NeXT machine in San Francisco.
>
> Hint: zero is not a negative number
>
Hi, All,
I had great success recently, wedging in a "Dell 1150" Orinoco-based
802.11b card into a CRT-based iMac. I'm having less success with
finding something to fit a G4 cube that recently followed me home.
While at first glance, the antenna connectors look the same in the G4
Cube and iMac, they are not. I'm rather puzzled by that, unless Apple
happened to change connectors from one line to another. I searched
around a bit, but didn't seem to turn up any stated differences on
Apple's support site or on various fora that cover older Macs.
Does anyone have any experience with various G3 and G4 Macs and
Airport cards? Are there two "styles" with incompatible antenna
jacks?
Thanks,
-ethan
I'm subscribed to the digest version, so I'll reply to all questions at
once in this mail.
>>
Were you expecting something other than a bunch of relays? ;)
PBXen are typically very low-tech compared to the rest of the world.
<<
I hoped to find some electronics for for example dial tone generation.
>>
Is that an important question? I like it :-)
<<
I don't to trash it if it is valuable to someone.
>>
Nice device. Why not give it to a telecom museum or hook it up with
a few old rotary type phones? Would be a nice setup for demonstration.
<<
I did think of a telephony museum. But the reason for not choosing the
other option is that I have so many old systems now that probably even
if I started playing full time with them from now till the day I die I
probably cannot do everything I would like to do. So I choose to
restrict my time to just the systems that give me the most satisfaction.
I'm addicted to satisfaction! :-)
Regards,
Bert
