Hi
I was wondering if there were any people who were wanting to sell any HP 1000 computer peripherals. Preferably disk oriented Such as a disk controller or a 79xx drive
(I live in the UK so shipping may be an issue for larger things)
Thanks for the tips. The reason I?m not using Ethernet cable is because the
Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor around a
couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone line are in
the 1st floor study. Would take a long run and some drilling, or duct taping
it to the banister and hoping the dog and cats don?t eat it ;)
However, after finally giving up on the wireless cards... I realized that I
had a simple Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card in the PC junk pile. I installed
that (it was recognized by 98SE and the drivers worked first time too), then
brought my laptop upstairs and set it up as a bridge. That works, but is
clumsy and requires another computer.
My next idea was to find a wireless device to connect to the Ethernet card.
I found out about WLAN, bridging, and most importantly, that many models of
router can be reflashed with dd-wrt software, and act as the bridge I
needed! Also in the closet was a Linksys E1200 router, which is one of the
models supported by dd-wrt. So I flashed it and hooked it up.
After a bit of struggle (incomplete directions but I managed to fill in the
missing pieces) I now have wireless network and Internet access on the old
machine :)
Incidentally, PUTR now works perfectly since I?m running 98SE/DOS.
> From: John Foust
> I missed the start of this discussion... exactly why did you want to
> rely on a wireless connection and couldn't string a network cable?
The list archive:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/
is your friend. (That's actually how I read it, so my emailbox won't
get buried in sludge.)
Noel
>You could have installed a gaming adapter, opened the web page,
>connected it to the wireless and been done.
Sure, but you assume I know anything about online gaming (I don't); it would
require purchasing one, *and* I already had the Linksys router and card,
just gathering dust for years!
I like to improvise with what's on hand rather than spending money on a
really ancient PC :)
So, I've been porting Frotz to TOPS-20.
https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz
It's been going fine, except that I have something going on with the linker
I don't have enough expertise to understand.
On Mark Crispin's panda distribution, "cc -o frotz *.c" does the trick.
But on TOPS-20 on the LCML's TOAD-2, I get a bunch of undefined global
symbols, which all seem to be from libc.
That suggests to me that KCC at LCML isn't configured to automatically
trigger the linker with the right library path (something like
unix:<root.usr.lib>) for the C standard libraries.
So the first question is: where's the KCC configuration stored, so we can
add the right library path, and the second one is, failing that, how do I
link all my .rel files against the C library to get a working executable
(an answer simplified from "read the linker manual" would be appreciated;
I've started that but it's a little daunting and I suspect it will take me
a while to chew through)?
Adam
JUST? ?DOWN THE? ?ROAD A? FEW? HOURS? FROM? US HERE!
ED#
In a message dated 5/11/2019 2:33:48 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
Great! Good luck with the visit. The other day I wrote to Kristina to express interest.
> On 11 May 2019, at 04:38, Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>
>> On 5/10/19 6:42 PM, Adam Thornton via cctech wrote:
>> I have been invited out to the site tomorrow morning to take an inventory of what?s there (I live near the machines).
>> I imagine that I may well have a lot of photos that I bring to the list and say ?what is this??
>
> Standing by to help out!? Go get it, Adam -- (come on, you can _make_ room! :-))
> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 17:41:24 -0500
> From: "Charles" <charlesmorris800 at centurytel.net>
> To: "cctalk digest" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Network cards and Win98SE
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>
> I have tried for two days to get wireless networking running on my old PC
> under Win 98SE, so I can use PUTR without a separate partition or boot. XP
> is on an 8.4 GB drive. 98SE is on an older 540 MB drive.
>
> There are two network cards (a Netgear WPN311 with Atheros chipset, and
> an
> Encore ENWLI-G2 with Realtek 8185 chip) and neither will work with
> Win98SE.
> I have tried the manufacturer's drivers, Atheros drivers, Realtek
drivers...
> none of it works. The Realtek driver installs but gives a fault in
RUNDLL32.
>
> Netgear's website claims that the WPN311 can run under 98SE and later.
> Some
> sources for that driver package say it starts with XP. Although I would
tend
> to believe the manufacturer...
> The same Netgear card in the same motherboard was working correctly with
> the
> XP drive.
>
> I even did a fresh install of 98SE. Then installed the WPN311 software,
then
> the card. Windows says the card is installed and working properly.
> But the Netgear utility won't run (hangs, Task Manager showing wlancfg5
not
> responding). That's usually because it can't see the card.
>
> Searching the net including various forums from years ago hasn't helped.
> So I'm about to give up. Wasted enough hours on this. Back to XP with a
DOS
> partition for running PUTR.
> Unless someone has a better idea :)
>
> thanks
> Charles
Hi Charles,
About 5 years ago I spent way too much time trying to sort out a PC platform
that would meet my needs for disk imaging (ImageDisk), PUTR, network file
transfers and ISA-based EPROM programmers. I eventually settled on a
Pentium II bare motherboard, AHA-1522A SCSI card (for its floppy controller
which supports single-density disks), CF card as a hard drive, FDADAP
adapter (for 8" drives), a generic ISA network interface card, MSDOS 6.22,
Norton Commander and Michael Brutman's mTCP package.
With this setup I can run PUTR and ImageDisk without any Windows-related
issues. File transfers to other computers are a breeze: mTCP includes an FTP
server and I just run FileZilla on my Windows machines to connect to the
MSDOS machine. Alternatively I can power down the MSDOS machine, and plug
the CF card into a USB adapter and copy files that way instead.
I appreciate these suggestions won't help if you need to have Win98 on the
same machine for other reasons.
Malcolm.
I use? ? 3? com? stuff? I? think? ? the other brands? ?I? toss in a? box in the warehouse.
later? ?3? com? stuff auto? finds? etc? works? fine... lats a long? time!
( paint it? grey and It? will not? rust )
Ed#
In a message dated 5/13/2019 3:39:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
On 5/13/19 3:56 PM, Charles via cctalk wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. The reason I?m not using Ethernet cable is because
> the Vintage Computer Room (where this PC resides) is on the 2nd floor
> around a couple of corners, and my DSL modem/router and unfiltered phone
> line are in the 1st floor study. Would take a long run and some
> drilling, or duct taping it to the banister and hoping the dog and cats
> don?t eat it ;)
>
> However, after finally giving up on the wireless cards... I realized
> that I had a simple Linksys LNE100TX Ethernet card in the PC junk pile.
> I installed that (it was recognized by 98SE and the drivers worked first
> time too), then brought my laptop upstairs and set it up as a bridge.
> That works, but is clumsy and requires another computer.
So you turned your laptop into a gaming adapter.
> My next idea was to find a wireless device to connect to the Ethernet
> card. I found out about WLAN, bridging, and most importantly, that many
> models of router can be reflashed with dd-wrt software, and act as the
> bridge I needed! Also in the closet was a Linksys E1200 router, which is
> one of the models supported by dd-wrt. So I flashed it and hooked it up.
You turned the Linksys into a gaming adapter.
> After a bit of struggle (incomplete directions but I managed to fill in
> the missing pieces) I now have wireless network and Internet access on
> the old machine :)
You could have installed a gaming adapter, opened the web page,
connected it to the wireless and been done.
> Incidentally, PUTR now works perfectly since I?m running 98SE/DOS.
Ya.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
I've been working on an MSCP controller implemented on top of Joerg Hoppe's
Unibone and that's been going fairly well, modulo a few oddities here and
there (if you have a Unibone and want to beta-test it, it's up at
https://github.com/livingcomputermuseum/UniBone).
It'd be nice to extend it to do TMSCP as well. Is there an equivalent to
the "MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual" (AA-L619A-TK) for TMSCP? I can
probably glean most of the information I need from various *nix device
driver sources out there, but it'd be nice to have the definitive reference
on hand, and so far it's been eluding me. But maybe I'm just not looking
hard enough...
Thanks!
Josh
I'm building my own 8-bit CPU from TTL chips, and this caused me to think:
how were 32-bit minis built in the late 70s and early 80s? In particular,
how was the ALU built? I know about the 74181 4-bit ALU, and I know (from
reading A Soul of a New Machine) that PALs were also used.
Did companies get custom chips fabricated, or was it all off-the-shelf chips
with a few PALs sprinkled in?
Thanks, Warren
