I wonder if any classic computer specialists would be interested in attending this conference. Please do let me know if so. Best wishes, Jeremy.
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Does anyone have manuals or any information about the DECwriter
correspondent? I managed to grab one today, and would like to at least
look at the docs before I plug it in, and turn it on, if anyone can
find a copy..
Thanks,
Pat
--
Purdue University Research Computing --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/
The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org
Not quite a computer but maybe a distant relative.
I am looking for anything on the Xerox 914; anything operation,
maintenance, or marketing material that I can get a copy of. Its for
a uh, performance that I am involved in and I would like to be more
technically accurate in describing the machine and its operation.
Thanks!
I assume the answer to the subject line is "no," but I figured I'd ask
just in case one of you has a stack of this stuff lying around somewhere
:).
Picked up a Corvus Concept -- just the main CPU unit, no monitor, no
keyboard, no drives. It appears to work (it beeps when I turn it on!)
but of course lacking any other hardware it's a rather bulky doorstop.
I'd like to get it running, it's a cool 68k-based machine with a
bit-mapped display and Apple II (!!) compatible expansion slots. (Are
there any other machines out there that used the Apple II bus for
expansion? Aside from Apple II-family machines and clones, of course...)
I suppose given enough time I could build a compatible monitor, hack
together a keyboard interface, and get it booting over OmniNet but
somehow having the original hardware would be nice too...
Thanks,
Josh
>
>Subject: Stack Depth requirements for CP/M 2.2 CBIOS
> From: "ROBO5.8" <robo58 at optonline.net>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:08:49 -0500
> To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only'" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>Hello,
>
>I have rewritten my old systems CP/M 2.2 CBIOS to add an IDE Drive.
>
>I've run into a problem that has me stumped. Everything works as long as I
>don't try and copy or assemble a large Assembly file (>80KB).
>
>I will be going along fine and then out of nowhere I will see CP/M request
>access to Drive "T". My debug info says SELDSK is requesting Drive 0FF00h.
>
Ok this is easy. CP/M 2.x (2.2 nominal) can only address 16 logical drives
so that's limitation one. Each drive is limited to 8Mb (65525sectors*128bytes).
If you use one of the CP/M like imperoved work a likes this is less an issue
and logical drives can be much larger (up to 1gb).
>I have added debug code to all the CBIOS routines so that they report what
>they are doing to the console (slow but nice).
>
>I've gone through my code many times and tested each routine via an embedded
>debug monitor. I believe I have added every CP/M 2.2 patch (1-6 and 9)that
>is specific to the CBIOS including those dealing with Blocking/Deblocking.
Good but likely not the problem itself.
>
>In the back of my mind I kept wondering if I was exceeding CP/M's Stack
>Depth. I can find no information on the web or in my doc's that specifies
>what the maximum Stack usage is for a CBIOS.
This does not could like a stack size issue. That tends to be very static
for any disk size.
>Do any of you have any thoughts on my Stack Question? Are there other
>issues with Blocking/Deblocking that become visible with large Disk Drives,
>and that are not covered in any of the published DRI patches?
Wrong plase to look.
Likely areas of breakage:
More than 16 drives
Alloc storage areas inadaquately sized or overlapping
BIOS local variables being trashed.
Bios logic in error (deblock, sector addressing other??)
Allison
>Thanks for your assistance.
>Robo
I am looking for volunteers to help reverse-engineer and document Apple
II VisiCalc.
Besides documenting this for future historians
--I plan to give all this work to the Smithsonian--
I'd like to get Apple II VisiCalc running in emulation.
Right now this isn't possible because of the copy protection.
(BTW the PC DOS version is available on the web, and doesn't have copy
protection).
I have three versions of the Apple II software. I know one of them
still boots (1983?)
and have some confidence that the other two versions (1979 and 1981)
work too.
I have been in contact with both Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin.
Of course you ask, well then why do you need volunteers?
The answer is because no one can find the sources.
Bob and I plan to dig around his garage when the weather gets warmer,
but there are no guarantees, and the 30th anniversary is in October 2009.
--Tim McNerney
http://www.4004.com
