On 7/22/10, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 12:48 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> If I were to take this for a spin, I could probably come up with an
>> Adaptec 1542A (guessing it won't work with a 1542C).
>
> 1542C was preferred, actually.
Excellent. For an ISA card, it's not that uncommon. I bought one
when they were brand new and really liked it (I think I was upgrading
>from a 1542B at the time). The BIOS-accessible formatter and surface
tester was really, really handy.
-ethan
I have the first 6 issues of Borland's Turbo Technix available for the cost
of postage. Bimonthly issues run from November/December 1987 through
September/October 1988.
Please reply offlist.
Jack
Anyone have a copy of or knows where I can get a copy of:
"IBM 4321/4331 Processors Compatibility Features," IBM GA33-1528, any
revision?
Revision 3 was published in September 1982.
Contact off line please
Tom
Somebody gave me this a couple of years back and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since. Now it's time to clean off the shelf. If someone wants it before I haul it off to the landfill, please let me know. I never tried it, but the person that gave it to me said that it was working for them. Local pickup in Southern New Hampshire (USA). If someone wants it bad enough and can't pick it up, I'm willing to pack it up and ship it for them.
-Mardy
At 11:16 AM 7/20/2010, Liam Proven wrote:
>All fair points, but then, who ever used serial ports to connect mass
>storage? (I know there was a serial port hard disk for the first ever
>Mac, but that was from complete lack of any alternative.)
I can think of the Commodore 64- 1541 drive and the external floppy drive
for the Tandy Model 100.
At 11:21 AM 7/20/2010, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>Works beautifully under VMWare Fusion. And when I did have to use
>windows, it worked nicely under VMWare server.
I was referring to ESXi, the small-to-medium enterprise version.
At 12:00 PM 7/20/2010, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>Generic cables? The ends are generic, sure, but there's A, B, mini A,
>several types of mini B (one dominant, but hardly unique), and then
>there's USB 1.1 vs USB 2.0 in terms of cable ratings (but will a USB
>1.1-marked cable pushed to 2.0 speeds really be too noisy or is that
>just marketing?) I have no less than 5 flavors of USB cables lying
>around the house, though two of the 5 are the most common.
Plus the variations and quirks in terms of the power requirements for
various devices. There's wall transformers with USB connectors that
don't supply enough power for some devices, some PC ports that don't
supply enough power, some hubs that that don't, some devices that
come with dual USB connectors in order to suck more amps, etc.
- John
I am experimenting with using Hummingbird Exceed to get a DECWindows
environment running on my PC. I have managed to get this to work using XDM,
but there are some other things about Exceed that I don't really understand
and would like to explore.
The first is that Hummingbird offers an option to use something called
PCX$SERVER. I have not been able to find out much about this and was
wondering if someone might tell me what this is and where I might find it?
The second is that Hummingbird also seems to offer DECnet as a transport,
but I don't see how to set this up on the PC side and again the docs I have
don't say anything on this. Does anyone know how you might do this?
Thanks
Rob
Hi folks,
> If it was developed on the Lisa, would they have used LisaPascal?
Actually the answer is in:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=3rd_Party_Deve…
It was done using the "Lisa Monitor development environment" which was command line based with a UCSD p-system style command structure (early Mac programmers considered MPW to be the PorkShop).
-cheers from julz @P
Hi folks,
> If it was developed on the Lisa, would they have used LisaPascal? There's a
> Lisa emulator out there -- I might play with it this weekend and see if it
> works.
www.folklore.org has lots of juicy stories about early Mac development.
In 1981 they were using Lisas for development (obviously).
MacPaint development details:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=MacPaint_Evolu…
The following article explains that "Macintosh development in the early
days (circa 1983-1985) was done using the Apple Lisa computer and its Lisa
Workshop development environment."
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=3rd_Party_Deve…
I remember using (the interpreted) MacPascal in 1986. There weren't any
Mac-hosted Pascal compiler environments that could fit into <=512Kb
(128K Macs could support 256KBit DRAMs).
I'm really wondering how easy it would be to convert MacPaint so that it
can be compiled in, say, MPW Pascal / 68K.
-cheers from julz @p
Found the link below this morning, mostly assembly with some Pascal as
to be expected. Hopefully more will show up.
Looks like there's a nice history there as well.
http://www.computerhistory.org/highlights/macpaint/
