As usual, I am willing to decode any cyrillic for you. No, I haven't
heard anything about this, but what does this thing look like?
Commodoreish?
>So, I'm back from my short (2wks) vacation in Estonia.
>And I have a new Baby: A Juku. Thats an estonian
>Z-80 Home computer from 1990 (ok, less than 10 Years,
>but it fitts well here :). And in fact it is a SU computer,
>since estonia was still part of the SSSR at this time.
>Anything beside CPU and PIO ist still discrete TTL. The
>caracterset is a 8 bit code with ASCII in the lower 128
>chars and cyrillic and special symbols in the upper 128.
>CUTE! I also aquired a dual FD and a _mouse_. But I miss
>the DOS. The previous owner tried to use all Disks in a
>PC :(((( THere are also no Manuals. So, if anybody knows
>any additional source of information, pleas give me a
>hint.
>
>Gruss
>H.
>
>--
>Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
>HRK
>
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>OK, it's become obvious to me that I'm not going to figure out how to
>create a logical disk under RT-11. If someone would be so kind as to
>explain the steps involved, I would appreciate it.
Let's say you want a 2000-block logical disk, which you'll call
MYLOG.DSK, and you want it mounted as LD3:
.create du1:mylog.dsk[2000]
.mou ld3: du1:mylog.dsk
.init ld3:
LD3:/Initialize; Are you sure? Y
.dir ld3:
19-Aug-1998
0 Files, 0 Blocks
1986 Free blocks
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>Doh! Do you have any idea how stupid you just made me feel :^) Thanks, I
>just copied the files to RX50. Since I couldn't get the emulator to read
>the disk image I foolishly didn't consider that putr might be able to :^(
Bob Supnik's emulator is a fine emulator, but it's not the same
sort of all-purpose tool that PUTR is for dealing with certain file
systems.
>Ummm, two reasons. I'm not sure I've got the necessary hardware pieces in
>the Box (would I be able to go through a printer port)
You've got a console port, right? That's all you need!
See ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/kermit/b/krt.doc for full installation
instructions.
> and secondly I
> haven't a clue as far as Kermit is concerned. I think I've used it once or
> twice to transfer data between a Honeywell Mainframe and a PC, but there
> was a written reciept to follow for that.
Too bad you suffered through so many years without realizing what
a wonderful took Kermit is. It's available for just about every
computer platform there is (or was), and can deal with communications
channels that X/Y/ZMODEM will just stare blankly at (for example,
one-way-at-a-time async channels common on IBM mainframes). Even
better, it can be just as fast or faster than ZMODEM. I use it just
about every day to move data between RT-11, RSX-11, CP/M, VMS, Unix,
MS-DOS, OS/8, etc...
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--- You wrote:
I have this document available on my website
http://www.asap.net/~rbedeaux/lisa
Rob Bedeaux
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Whew! That's far better than the 2MB pdf I put together.
-- MB
< In the case of this SMS-1000 and it's wierd disk controller I suspect th
< it might be able to emulate the RX02 on a 5.25" disk, which was the reas
< for the original statement. However, I've got a second SMS-1000 that wa
< Identical to this one, prior to my changing some stuff, that is differen
< only in that it has a 8" drive.
Maybe but more likely it was an 8" drive so that RX02 media could actually
be read.
The use of ODD drives to simulate a different media was common enough but
it was generally done to allow use of older software that was media
dependent.
Allison
In a message dated 98-08-23 14:33:15 EDT, you write:
<< Anyone who wants a copy by email, let me know. If you have a PC or are
using
UNIX (anything other than a Mac), tell me what kind of compression to use (I
can create a pkzip archive, if needed). >>
how about putting it somewhere like on a web page or something?
OK, it's become obvious to me that I'm not going to figure out how to
create a logical disk under RT-11. If someone would be so kind as to
explain the steps involved, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Zane
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>>Umm... 8" is what pretty much defines RX02s... I don't know of an RX02
>>which was other than 8"
>
>You gotta get out of the development world and into the real world
>a little more often, Megan :-). I do a lot of software development
>for ADAC NMR (aka MRI) scanners that run a heavily modified RT-11 V4,
>where the 5.25" 80-track floppies are basically treated as if they
>were double-sided RX02's. (i.e. the geometry only uses 77 tracks,
>and actually skips the first track, just like a real RX02!)
That may be (about getting out of the development world...) but
my statement stands. A true RX02 is pretty much defined as being
an 8" floppy... you said so yourself in this response by saying that
it was 'treated as if' it were an RX02... But the fact is that a
3.5" or 5.25" (or some size other than 8") device which is 'treated
as if' it were an RX02 *IS NOT* an RX02.
Megan Gentry
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