< Has anyone tried wiring an 8" RX52 floppy straight to a modern PC
< controller? I did the best I know how, and I *appear* to have a
What is an RX52 floppy? I'll presume you mean the rather large dual
drive RX02. The DEC 8" floppies are RX01/2 and have their own internal
controller. That would make RX01 or 02 disk system very hard to wire
to a PC floppy controller, like near impossible.
FYI: The DEC RX02 DD format is not readable by any standard floppy
controller chip. RX01 however is standard 128 bytes IBM softsector
format.
RX50 drives are fairly easy to wire to a PC it is however single sided
and dual drive with one spindle. The later item will cause all mannor
of errors if the driver doesn't internally know the two drives have a
common positioner. However FD55s jumperd for slow spindle and only
using one side work better!
< On a similar note, does anyone happen to have a Compaticard for
< trade/sale?
Compaticard can only read RX01.
Allison
< use my m.2 and m.3 to check out OS9. I don't think m.1 can use it. There
< to be a respectable amount of software that supports OS9.
< ISTR also that there were other platforms that used it . Any idea what
< were ?
SWTP and other SS50 bus machine with 6809s in them. there was a 6809 S100
CPU that could run it. Generally speaking Moto based systems were not on
my hot list back then (there was some nice stuff though!). The 6809
however did catch my eye as a pretty decent 8bit bus cpu from moto.
Allison
Sorry, I forgot to give the number of the Heath
manual replacement service. It's (616) 925-5899.
If you ever lose the number, it's available on
Heath's site at http://www.heathkit.com/.
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Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
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I just grabbed a Rainbow out of the garbage with the garbage truck
literally meters away from getting it. After major industrial cleanup
(removing the half gallon of house paint from it and the cigarette goo),
Its up and running mostly. It came with the MS-Dos 2.05 OS, some
manuals, and thats it.
I know diddly squat about this beast (other than the legend of
it possessing two CPU's) and CP/M. So this is a very basic question. When
I get to the menu at boot up it recognizes a: and b: (though a: is a bit
wonky). It will also respond to W which tells me that
there are two cp/m partitions: e: and f: however, when I try to go to
them I get a "message 23 - Non-System Diskette". I seem to be missing the
manual with numbered error messages. I'm assuming that this means that
there is a hard drive problem. However, it is recognizing the partitions
so something is being read. I also don't have the CP/M diskette, only the
DOS. This DOS doesn't have FDISK so I can't look at the partitions via an
OS I know well (though I could do it through debug but I'm being lazy
here), and when I bit the bullet and tried to format the hard
drive it keeps telling me to stick in the diskette to format.
Any help would be appreciated otherwise I'll do a low level
format on the segate drive and pray to the appropriate dieties.
Colan
I went trift store shopping today and picked a copy of "Problem Solving and
the Computer; A Structured Concept with PL/1 (Pl/C)" by Shortt-Wilson.
Does anyone need it?
Joe
That reminds me, does anyone have a burner that can both read & program
16-pin 256x4 PROMs?
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Coward [mailto:dcoward@pressstart.com]
Sent: Friday, October 16, 1998 3:27 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: PROM Burner
Joe said:
> DataI/O is the lousy about supporting the older equipment. I have a
>model 29 and a 2B module. I do have instructions for the 29 but not for
>the module. The 29 can be programmed from a computer by simple data
>transfer via Rs-232. Or you can use the keypad to enter all the data or to
>modify the data. BUT you need the instructions for the module since they
>include the code numbers used to identify the various EPROMS to the
>programmer. Without those codes the programmer is useless.
I can't believe all of the hammering that Data I/O
is taking on this list.
When I got my series 22 I when right to the Obsolete
Programmer Support section of Data I/Os site to get
the list of code for it. They are right there!!
http://www.dataio.com/support/obsolete.html
or their FTP site
ftp://ftp.data-io.com/dataio/
=========================================
Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
=========================================
Joe said:
> DataI/O is the lousy about supporting the older equipment. I have a
>model 29 and a 2B module. I do have instructions for the 29 but not for
>the module. The 29 can be programmed from a computer by simple data
>transfer via Rs-232. Or you can use the keypad to enter all the data or to
>modify the data. BUT you need the instructions for the module since they
>include the code numbers used to identify the various EPROMS to the
>programmer. Without those codes the programmer is useless.
I can't believe all of the hammering that Data I/O
is taking on this list.
When I got my series 22 I when right to the Obsolete
Programmer Support section of Data I/Os site to get
the list of code for it. They are right there!!
http://www.dataio.com/support/obsolete.html
or their FTP site
ftp://ftp.data-io.com/dataio/
=========================================
Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
=========================================
Wow, I didn't expect this much help getting rid of our "trash".
Basically, there's nothing much unique here. Just some Apple LCs
(bottom of the line) circa 1990 no fancy add ons, some Apple IIGSes,
extra drives, monitors, Imagewriter printers. I'll check on Monday to
see how many of each are in the store room. Perhaps, next Saturday
morning we can clear the room.
Write to me at:
backofene(a)hotmail.com (not to the list) if you're interested and I will
send you directions.
Eileen
>
>We're located in northern VA, 7 miles from DC. The challenge is to get
>the old stuff in the hands of those who want it so it doesn't wind up
in
>landfills.
>We used to have "yard sales" to clear out the old stuff, but I got
tired
>of answering questions/complaints months later from people who bought
an
>entire system for $10, so eventually we just set the stuff out and let
>any interested people take it away. With our student population
>increasing, we're using every available space as classrooms.
>Write me at backofene(a)hotmail.com if you want to help us "take out the
>trash".
>
>Eileen
>
>
>>
>>> I checked the storeroom at school today to discover that all the old
>>> Tandy equipment (which had collected dust there for 2 years) has
been
>>> disposed of. Not even a keyboard left. All I could find is an
>>> assortment of Apple II GSes, drives, Imagewriters etc & a few old
Mac
>>> LCs.
>>
>>Where was this at? I wouldn't mind getting a IIgs setup but don't
want
>to
>>pay a lot of shipping since I can probably find them locally
>eventually.
>>
>>
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There was a 101 keyboard sold by Tandy that did work with the old 1000
SXs. It has dip switches that had to be set correctly. I think it was
marketed under the name Keyboard 1000 or 2000. Anyway, they were quite
expensive (about $100) and we bought a few to keep our old lab going a
few more years.
Eileen
>
>A 101 keyboard will not work at all. The special 8-pin plug is there
for a
>reason - If you do not have a Tandy 1000 keyboard, then the keboard
will
>not work.
>--
> -Jason
>(roblwill(a)usaor.net)
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>
>> I have a 1000sx buried under a bunch of other stuff and the KB is
>different.
>> In the Tandy 1000 FAQ it says:
>> II.E.2. Can I replace my old 90-key Tandy keyboard with a
101-key
>> keyboard?
>> On the EX and HX, no. On other systems, yes, but it won't work
>exactly
>> like a standard 101-key keyboard since the Tandy keyboard BIOS
is
>> different. A special 101-key keyboard made for the 1000's must
be
>used.
>> See section IV.G. (SL and later systems came with a 101-key
>keyboard,
>> and a compatible BIOS.)
>>
>> > THROWING the 1000's away?? You ought to b4e ashamed. <g>
>> >
>> Landfill for the 90s. Reminds me of all the rusting autoframes
scattered
>across
>> the country. Can't help but think that coming generations will pay
for
>this
>> some way.
>>
>> ciao larry
>> lwalker(a)interlog.com
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On Oct 16, 19:19, Olminkhof wrote:
> Subject: Joined Messages
> I am finding an unusual number of inappropriately joined messages. A
> Listserv problem?
> Does anyone know how to get this fixed?
Hmm... I've had this problem from time to time with Pine (a well-known but
in some respects very iffy UNIX mailer) and with other mail software based
on similar library code (elm, and a new GUI one whose name escapes me).
The author of the library made some unwarranted assumptions about what
exactly are the rules that govern separation of messages in a mailbox, and
the allowed formated for the date, with the result that messages sometimes
get stuck together. The author forgot the adage "be forgiving in what you
accept and strict in what you transmit". It's my pet hate at the moment
:-)
Perhaps yuo have a similar problem, either on your local system or your
ISP's?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
