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From: Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)oa.ptloma.edu>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, 11 March 1999 2:22
Subject: Re: Burst Nibbler?
>::Have a friend that has acquired a heavily optioned up Commodore 64.
>
>Whee, the best kind. :-))))
If you say so :^)
>(This is coming from memory, apologies for any inaccuracies.)
Any port in a storm....
>Dolphin DOS is actually a set of ROM upgrades, like JiffyDOS. As long as he
>has the matching Kernal ROM in the 64, and the matching DOS ROM in the 1541
>(check the board, they should be labeled), he should be golden.
Seems to be the case. (I should point out I haven't seen the machine/drives
yet, this is on a verbal description)
>The author is, fortunately for you, an Aussie -- his name is David Huggins.
Good grief. A miracle.
>Unfortunately, I don't have a current contact address for support.
I'll put out some feelers. Someone will know...
>Burst nibblers are simply GCR copy programs. You won't need one for this
>drive (and I don't think the 1541 could support it anyway, since burst
>transfer is a 1571<->128 serial trick).
Hmmm, I'm starting to wonder exactly what this guy has. He mentioned he
also had a 128. He might have this in a 1571 instead of a 1541. He's
pretty vague when asked for numbers. He said he had a disk drive with it, I
asked if it was a 1541 and he said, yeah, sounds like it.. So maybe it
ain't.
I might sit on this until he brings the machine in to the shop. He's very
limited in knowledge, so me might have fed me some duff gen.
> Where does it say he needs the burst nibbler? I think someone has their
signals crossed.
Seems to have come from the previous owner, but this guy might not know the
right questions to ask too.
Or he might have been asking specifically about copying stuff. I'll
clarify this and get back to you.
Thanks for your help...
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie, South Australia.
Email: geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
ICQ #: 1970476
Phone: 61-8-8633-8834
Mobile: 61-411-623-978
Fax: 61-8-8633-0104
Anyone know a where I can find an old RS-232 Acoustic coupled modem?
How about the specifications for paper-tape (i.e. hole spacing, paper
width, etc.)?
On Mar 10, 19:27, R. Stricklin (kjaeros) wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > That means that only a few CD-ROM drives will be bootable, such as
Toshiba
> > 3301, 3401, and a few old Sony drives -- and all of those will need to
be
> > set up correctly. On the Toshibas, that means a minor internal
> > modification, unless you get one that was previously used on a Vax,
> > Sparcstation, or SGI.
> Almost any Plextor CD-ROM drive will have a jumper that will enable it to
> be used on a host expecting 512k blocks.
I'd forgotten about the Plextors.
> I understand that many newer Toshiba CD-ROMs will also work equally well
> with 512k or 2048k blocks. As far as I'm aware, of the older Toshiba
> CD-ROM drives only the 3201B (3401B? I forget) is modifiable.
All the newer Toshibas -- and most other SCSI-2 CD-ROMs -- will accept the
appropriate MODE SELECT command. The 3201, 3301, and 3401 all have
internal jumper pads to hardwire the block size. I think the 5401 does as
well. The 3601 and later don't (the pads are there, but they don't set the
block size).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Well I tried to sign up with geocities (it banged on me...) they don't seem
to like people using their free service for a storage space for an outside
site:
</Quote>
Please refrain from using your Personal Home Page (free or
GeoPlus), GeoShop or GeoCities Chat and Forum session for the
following activities:
7.Developing restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden
pages or images (those not linked to from another accessible page);
8.Using your home page (or directory) as storage for remote
loading or as a door or signpost to another home page, whether
inside or beyond GeoCities;
</End Quote>
As for Yahoo I could not find where to sign up...
But I like the idea and will be looking around for solutions.
Francois
>Suggestion. Get a free yahoo or geocities web space so you can post this
>info at no out of pocket cost to you. You can put a link to the scans
>from your web site.
>
>Take advantage of what the web has to offer. It doesn't all need to be in
>one place anymore. Think distributed! To the end user its all the same
>anyway.
>
>Sellam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie to come out.
>
> Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
> See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
> [Last web site update: 02/15/99]
>
>>My Dyna Micro came without any chips, they apparently have ben canibalized
>
>I assume you've saved the list I posted the other night, then :-)
The articles have the nomenclature so no problem there
>
>> is there any way that I can obtain a 1702 with KEX???
>
>Since it was posted to the list, I feel I can mail it out to anyone on
>the list who wants it (I'll not post it again since I can't believe too
>many people need it).
Same here got the listing
>
>Then all you need to find is someone with a 1702 programmer (I _must_ get
>mine out) and some 1702 chips. Or I suppose you could stick it into a
>2716 and wire up a kludge-board to link it to the MMD1.
Kludge would work but I would lose the authenticity of the appartus. I'd
much prefer to find a source of 1702 and a programmer :)
>
>-tony
>
>> I have a couple of more questions. What did they use the GPIB interface
>> for? Is it just an instrument interface or did it connect to some of the
>> system devices like it did with the PET and HP computers? Are the
>AFAIK DEC never supported disks on the GPIB. It's just a card to link up lab
>equipment, etc. Of course you _could_ write a driver for a GPIB disk, but
>it's not going to be an easy job.
It's not that hard - everything you need to know about making a bootable
device driver under RT-11 is documented with extreme clarity and many examples.
Adding RSX-11 support for a new device to standalone BRU, now, that's not an
easy job!
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/
7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927
Eric Smith wrote:
> > The one attractive thing we loose by creating 60meg PDF files is the
> > ability to browse pages without downloading the entire thing....
> > Or am I missing something in Acrobat that will pull pages on demand
> > from a table of contents?
>
> If you "optimize" the PDF using Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or newer, and your
> web server supports HTTP 1.1 byte-serving, and the user has the Acrobat
> Reader plug-in for the browser, you do get page-at-a-time browsing.
At least on the one-piece docs such as found on 36bit.org, the first page is
displayed using the PDFViewer plug-in as soon as it's in, while Netscape
continues to download the entire document in the background. But this isn't
truly "pulling pages on demand", as the document has to be browsed serially.
Thus Acrobat Reader's "Go To Page" command isn't provided in the PDFViewer
plug-in.
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Jeffrey l Kaneko <jeff.kaneko(a)juno.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have the docs for these HP protocols?
Parts of CS/80, from the 7941/7945 service manual. I'd like to get
info on the rest too.
> The Amigo protocol is the oldest. Then the CS-80,
> and the SS-80 is the newest. I think any of
> these would be relevent to the work I'm doing.
For real? Can you talk about it?
-Frank McConnell
According to _The_Microcomputer_Buyers_Guide_ (1983 edition):
"The Eagle II, III, and IV integrate the the CPU, memory, disk
storage, CRT, display, and keyboard into one desktop unit. The
basic features common to all systems are: Z80A CPU (4Mhz); 64Kb
of memory,; two serial I/O ports; one Centrinonics compatible
parallel port; one paprllel port for hard disk expansion; 12"
green CRT display (1920 characters); 75-key keyboard; and various
disk storage capabilities depending upon the model. The Eagle II
includes two 5.25" mini-floppy disks of 390kb storage capacity each."
The entry goes on to say that a 7.5 or 10mb wichester was available
for it, and that it was supplied with CP/M & CBASIC. Sounds like a
pretty standard issue CP/M box, in vogue at the time.
MSRP (in 1983) was $2,995.
Eagle Computer was located in Los Gatos, CA.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:07:43 -0600 Arfon Gryffydd <arfonrg(a)texas.net>
writes:
>No clue.... Big blue case... Built-in monitor, two 5.25" black
>discs
>(like the TRS-80 Model IIIs). I think it was a Z-80 computer.
>
>
>At 03:48 PM 3/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>On Wednesday, March 10, 1999 3:42 PM, Arfon Gryffydd
>[SMTP:arfonrg@texas.net] wrote:
>>> Anyone want an old Eagle II computer? It's been at the local
>Goodwill
>>> store for awhile. If someone will save it, I'll get it for them.
>>>
>>> Arfon
>>>
>>
>>Not familiar with the Eagle II. What is it?
>>
>>Steve Robertson -<steverob(a)hotoffice.com>
>>
>>
>>
>
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