On 1/25/10, Doc Shipley <doc at vaxen.net> wrote:
> emacs would be an awesome operating system, if it had a decent text editor....
It does...
M-x viper-mode
*ducks and runs*
-ethan
Of the items I posted earlier, the following is still available:
Qty 2 - HP Laserjet IIIP Printers
Box of Misc Network Adapter cards, ISA mixed 8 and 16 bit. Mostly 16 bit. All are Novell, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Lantastic Compatible.
I have the following to add:
1 ZIP 100 Drive and Power Supply
1 Ditto Tape Backup Drive (Not sure if it still works due to age of rubber rollers)
1 Apple Imagewriter II
Items are located in Keansburg, NJ 07734
Contact me off-list via PM.
Thanks!
Al Hartman
I haven't seen one but its not difficult to write one for yourself. I had one for H.P. RTL which we used for testing our large format printer drivers a few years ago. I think I still have an Epson manual which summarises their different small printer command codes I could copy, if you fancy writing something. I don't know if there is a collection of printer and plotter manuals online anywhere. BitSavers seems very light on them, I checked recently to see if I could free up the six feet of shelf space occupied by such manuals at my office but no such luck, so I will have to keep hold of them for now. Al seems to be snowed under at the moment, I scanned and sent him the ICT1301 programmers reference manual 12 months ago but it has not appeared yet.
Roger.
On 31 Jan 2010, at 10:59, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:00:43 -0500
> From: Michael Kerpan <madcrow.maxwell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Classic Epson printer emulators?
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
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> Are there any free or open-source programs that can convert raw ESC/P
> (Epson printer code) data into bitmap images or PDFs or something?
> Many classic home computer programs rely on having a printer of this
> sort in order to print, and while many emulators have a way to dump
> serial or parallel output to a file, the only interpreters I can find
> to turn that raw data into something useful are commercial programs
> that I can't really justify the purchase of, given my student
> budget...
>
> Any help on this front would be much appreciated,
> Mike
A couple weeks ago I was grousing about there being nothing in the realm
of non x86/amd64 motherboards. I stumbled across something new while
looking at the Minimig board: the X1000. Its appears to be a
multicore Power of some sort with ideas from the old Amiga machines mixed
in. See http://www.a-eon.com/ or http://www.a-eon.com/6.html if you don't
want to play the hide-and-seek game.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Are there any free or open-source programs that can convert raw ESC/P
(Epson printer code) data into bitmap images or PDFs or something?
Many classic home computer programs rely on having a printer of this
sort in order to print, and while many emulators have a way to dump
serial or parallel output to a file, the only interpreters I can find
to turn that raw data into something useful are commercial programs
that I can't really justify the purchase of, given my student
budget...
Any help on this front would be much appreciated,
Mike
> Tony Duell wrote:
> >> Having learned assembly language programming on the beautifully
> >> simple architecture and instruction set of the 6800, the Byte magazine
> >> article linked to below that I read when it was originally published
> >> really impressed me.? In the 6809 they made one of the earliest efforts
> >> I know of to really tweak an already great uP instruction set based upon
> >> an analysis of existing software:
> >
> > I found the 6809 to be by far the nicest 8-bit CPU I ever worked with.
> > The instruction set was simple and very orthogonal, the fact that you had
> > various relative addressing modes meant you could write truely
> > position-independant code, there were 2 stack points, and so on. Unlike
> > certain chips I could name, there were no major misfeatures that I came
> > across.
> >
> > Of course the problem (as we all know) is that it came out too late. By
> > that tine everybody was using the Z80 or 6502. Oh well.
> >
> > It always suprised me that hre BBC micro used the 6502 rather than the
> > 6809. By the time the Beeb was designed, Acorn had made a 6809 processor
> > board for their System machines, so they must have had experience with
> > the chip. THe Beeb is nice, but a Beeb with a 6809 processor would have
> > been something else :-)
> >
> > -tony
> >
> When I moved from the 6800 to the 6809 (in assembly language - *many*
> years ago) I was sort of astounded and at the same time very pleased by
> the way many of the little subroutines I had written for the 6800 became
> one instruction in the 6809.? I think it will always be my favorite
> 8-bit CPU.? My only annoyance at the time was the fact that there was no
> way for the software to reset the companion UART chip, whose number I've
> completely forgotten by now.? 6821 maybe???
> Later,
> Charlie Carothers
I was so impressed I even took a photo of it. A photo of the die of an Atmel EF6809CV is a short way down my page here:
http://diephotos.blogspot.com/
> Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> > William Blair wrote:
> > I was so impressed I even took a photo of it.? A photo of the die?
> > of an Atmel EF6809CV is a short way down my page here:
> >
> > http://diephotos.blogspot.com/
>
> ???Those images are nothing short of breathtaking.
>
> ? ? ? ? ???-Dave
Thanks. Thousands of people did 99.999% of the job, I just took a photo of their absolutely beautiful and incredibly useful product.
I have a 30lb or so box of Osborne manuals and software.
I also have a non-working Osborne. The disk drive is probably dirty,
it can't read disks.
If anyone wants these, they are available for the cost of
shipping. International is OK.
Let me know ASAP because I want this stuff gone. ^^
Grant
http://classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2010-January/282094.html
Is this article available on-line anywhere? Or do you have a reference to
it? It sounds as though it might be worth reading.
-tony
Hi Tony, there are several related articles here:
http://mdfs.net/Software/Tube/6809/
Like I said earlier, I am not familiar with the UK microcomputers but when I
was researching how to make a 6809 "host processor"/coprocessor it seems
like I found several 6809 coprocessor designs. I think Graham Harston
frequently posts on comp.os.cpm and he is a hosting the 6809 information
related to the BBC and Acorn computers. None of the designs I found were
exactly what I was looking for but there was enough ideas that I could
cobble together a working prototype.
The N8VEM 6809 host processor appears as an ECB 8255 PPI peripheral to the
SBC Z80 and as a 6821 PIA peripheral to the 6809. Whether that was a great
design or not remains to be seen although it seems to work well enough that
Dan got CUBIX ported and I got ASSIST09 and MINIBUG working. Frankly, I
think the 8255 PPI strobe and acknowledge handshaking leaves a lot to be
desired compared to the 6821 PIA but neither were exactly cooperative IMO.
I like 6809 architecture and personally think it was probably the apex of
the 8 bit CPUs and (albeit admitted only begrudgingly) better overall than
my beloved Z80. Also I think the 6809 hardware is obviously well thought
out as it was amazingly easy to get the breadboard systems working. So far
the N8VEM 6809 computer has worked great. It hasn't been terribly popular
but I made it mostly because I thought it was neat idea. I can see why
people like the 6809 so much.
Thanks and have a nice day!
Andrew Lynch, 73 de N8VEM
Hi Joe R.
I have a Intellec Series II/III System with a Universal Prom Programmer UPP
103
and I have lost my Eden Engineering Manual for Model EP-710A Ver 2.5
Personality
Programming Board, I would like to purchase a copy or If you could scan the
few
pages so I can set the dip switches for the proper eprom to program on the
board. The
board uses (2716, 2732, and 2764 Eproms)
I'm E-mailing you, because I found you with a web search for Eden
Engineering EP-170A
which show a list of all your MDS Manuals. If you could help me out, It
would be great.
Please E-mail me with a cost or what you could do for me.
My E-mail r.w.grier at worldnet.att.net
Or my Address Robert Grier
36876 Main St.
New Balitimore, Mi 48047
Thanks
Bob
