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Osborne 1 Video Adapter? (was:RE: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman(a)jdedwards.com> > The adaptor fits on the 20-contact video edge connector near the middle of > the front panel. Just remove the shunt and replace it with the TTL-Composite > adaptor. The shunt just takes the signal from the contact on the bottom of > the O1's circuit board and carries it to the corresponding contact on the > top. So, if the converter does not also run the signals to the top of the O1 > board, the internal monitor will not be on -- only the external composite > monitor will be. Thanks. Glen 0/0

23 years, 10 months

Osborne 1 Video Adapter? (was:RE: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Gary Hildebrand <ghldbrd(a)ccp.com> > I think it plugs in the frint, where that dummy plug is --- says DO NOT > REMOVE. I've only seen one Ozzie with a compositve video output, and it > was hacked into the unit with a phono connector on the front panel. > ISTR it was standard NTSC b&w video. > > If this is the proper adapter I'd like to get a couple myself. Got two > of those pigs sitting here. Pigs? I kinda like mine. Glen 0/0

23 years, 10 months

CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question)

by JBrain＠aegonusa.com

Leave the BIOS in there, and use uIP stack. It works on a C64, which is 1MHz, so 4.77 should be a breeze. I don't know the URL offhand, but Cameron probably does. Jim Jim Brain, jbrain(a)aegonusa.com "Researching tomorrow's decisions today." (319) 369-2070 (work) SYSTEMS ARCHITECT, ITS, AEGON FINANCIAL PARTNERS -----Original Message----- From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk [mailto:ard@p850ug1.demon.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:55 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question) > I'm starting to have some second thoughts about how I'm going to do this. > I'm considering an external 'black box' that will connect to a PPP server > on one end and have a RS-232 connection on the other that will provide Not realy the same thing, but related... I've considered pulling the BIOS ROMs from an old XT or AT system (preferably IBM as I have the schematics...) and replacing them with some kind of TCP/IP stack. Stick an ISA ethernet card in one of the slots (or a serial card and use SLIP or PPP) and fill up the other slots with whatever I/O cards would be appropriate to connect to the CP/M box or whatever. Without the IBM BIOS getting in the way, the 8088 should have enough power for this, and without the BIOS there'd be no reason to have a video card or keyboard (or disk drives). Has anyone ever tried this, or anything like it? I really don't feel like writing all the code from scratch... -tony

23 years, 10 months

CP/M coding question

by pat＠purdueriots.com

I'm working on writing a program for CP/M 2.2, and would like to make it stay 'resident' in the system memory. Is there any way I can locate to bottom of the CCP so I don't overwrite it, without doing it at compile time? I'm planning on using only Z-80 based systems (so I can use an offset-based jump) so I should be able to pretty easily make the code re-locatable. All I need to do is be able to figure out where the CCP is so I don't overwrite it. Alternatively, would it be a better idea to write something that loads its own replacement CCP under it, and overloads the old CCP just under the BDOS? I would probably need to intercept the 'JMP WBOOT' and 'JMP BDOS' vectors at address 0 and 5, and keep the old BIOS from overwriting my resident program. Or, would it be better to just modify and re-compile the BIOS for each machine I want to run this on (most of the code would probably remain the same...)? What I'm looking to do is provide a (small) SLIP or PPP based TCP/IP stack for a machine that will stay resident and can be used by CP/M 2.2 [or perhaps MP/M II] user programs. Thanks for any suggestions. -- Pat

23 years, 10 months

Fujitsu eagle manuals?

by kevin＠ps8.co.uk

Can anyone point me to a scanned copy of the manual for a Fujitsu Eagle drive - an M2351A In particular I need the drive selection switch settings, the operation the head lock mechanism, and the meaning of the status codes (on a two digit 7 segment display). Many thanks Kevin Murrell

23 years, 10 months

[CCTECH] Re: anybody out there?

by john_boffemmyer_iv＠boff-net.dhs.org

Dave: check into Eudora, seems to work better =) -John At 10:47 AM 5/30/02, you wrote: >***This should've went out yesterday. Seems like a small "problem" between >the way Win/Outlook and D/UX3.2/Netscape handle the Reply-To (or is it >Sender) field in a message..**** > >! From: Bob Bramwell [mailto:bob@copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca] >! >! Sure is quiet, isn't it? But I'm listening, and this can >! serve as a test of my >! ability to submit to the list by the simple expedient of >! hitting "reply" in my >! mailer window. > > Yeah, cctech is kinda quiet, but I believe that has to do with the >whole moderation thing, and discussions branching off once they get >re-posted to cctalk. > I'm currently subscribed to both. I have rules in place to send >messages from each list to separate folders. That way, depending on my >mood, and workload, I can follow the wandering discussion on cctalk, or >just read whatever meat comes through on cctech. > > >--- David A Woyciesjes >--- C & IS Support Specialist >--- Yale University Press >--- (203) 432-0953 >--- ICQ # - 905818 >Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: >Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash >_______________________________________________ >cctech mailing list >cctech(a)classiccmp.org >http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------

23 years, 10 months

CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Pat Finnegan <pat(a)purdueriots.com> > What I'm looking to do is provide a (small) SLIP or PPP based TCP/IP stack > for a machine that will stay resident and can be used by CP/M 2.2 [or > perhaps MP/M II] user programs. Pat -- I would be extremely interested to learn of your progress in this area. Please keep us posted, or contact me off-list. Thanks, Glen 0/0

23 years, 10 months

IBM 026 Printing Card Punch

by foo＠siconic.com

Here is the latest acquisiton of the VCF Archives: http://www.vintage.org/gallery.php?title=IBM%20026%20Printing%20Card%20Punc… A very neat machine. John Lawson helped me clean it up a bit over the weekend and we got it to do "stuff" but it's still not printing or punching so it definitely needs some more TLC. Look for it to be operational by and on display at VCF 5.0 this September (dates to be announced very, very soon). Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *

23 years, 10 months

Quicktake disks: never mind...

by dtwright＠uiuc.edu

I found a copy someplace. Thanks! - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

23 years, 10 months

[CCTECH] Re: cctech digest, Vol 1 #11 - 4 msgs

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

Bob --- Well, the problem that I had, is like I guessed. I did a little test with my cctalk subscription... Netscape(D/UX) does pass some different header info than Outlook. So I just subscribed to cctalk on the D/UX box also, supplying the other address (and disabled delivery, so I don't get all the posts duplicated), and now it works. Now, I just have to add the other address to cctech... --- David A Woyciesjes ! -----Original Message----- ! From: Bob Bramwell ! ! Actually the delay was amost certainly my own fault. I ! subscribed to the list using one mail address and then ! tried to reply to an incoming digest using a different ! one. So I un- and re- subscribed, and now *this* ! should serve as a test that I can post to the group. ! Look no further than the nearest user for ! your software "problems" :-) ! >Message: 4 ! >From: David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> ! > ! >***This should've went out yesterday. Seems like a small ! >"problem" between the way Win/Outlook and D/UX3.2/Netscape ! >handle the Reply-To (or is it Sender) field in a message..**** ! >! From: Bob Bramwell [mailto:bob@copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca] ! >! ! >! Sure is quiet, isn't it? _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

23 years, 10 months

Apple II cards from Topeka

by ghldbrd＠ccp.com

Calling all Apple II gurus . . . . . I procured the following and am wondering if you can add/subtract to what little I know: Street Electronics Corp. Echo+ [some sort of speech synthesizer] Apricorn super serial imager card [serial/modem and ?/printer outs, some sort of super fx] unknown mfg. pn-1300-42 Super Serial Pro, has pigtail with 8 pin mini-DIN plug [serial card?? has two DIP switches next to xtal] Apple Workstation card [Appletalk??] The Appletalk and synthesizer boards look interesting . . . Gary Hildebrand St. JOseph, MO

23 years, 10 months

[CCTECH] Re: cctech digest, Vol 1 #11 - 4 msgs

by bob＠copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca

Actually the delay was amost certainly my own fault. I subscribed to the list using one mail address and then tried to reply to an incoming digest using a different one. So I un- and re- subscribed, and now *this* should serve as a test that I can post to the group. Look no further than the nearest user for your software "problems" :-) >Message: 4 >From: David Woyciesjes <DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu> >To: "'cctech(a)classiccmp.org'" <cctech(a)classiccmp.org> >Subject: RE: [CCTECH] Re: anybody out there? >Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 10:47:09 -0400 >Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org > >***This should've went out yesterday. Seems like a small "problem" between >the way Win/Outlook and D/UX3.2/Netscape handle the Reply-To (or is it >Sender) field in a message..**** > >! From: Bob Bramwell [mailto:bob@copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca] >! >! Sure is quiet, isn't it? | the digital divide is an issue of poverty; Bob Bramwell 60 Baker Cr. NW | if we can eliminate the information ProntoLogical Calgary, AB | barriers, we'll all live in a safer, +1 403/861-8827 T2L 1R4, Canada | more prosperous world. | - John Gage, Sun's chief researcher. _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

23 years, 10 months

Apple QuickTake disks

by dtwright＠uiuc.edu

I recently got an Apple QuickTake 150 digital camera, but I can't find the disks for it anywhere, and they don't seem to be available from apple's web site. Does anyone have these disks so I could get copies of them? Thanks! - Dan Wright (dtwright(a)uiuc.edu) (http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright) -] ------------------------------ [-] -------------------------------- [- ``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.'' Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan

23 years, 10 months

First IBM PS/2 Mouse

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com [re old IBM mice] > jeez, i just round filed dozens of them a while back! the buttons start > getting dodgy after long term use. So did I! Someone brought in a paper grocery sack full of them and wanted to sell them. When I said no, they just left the shop, and left the mice behind, so I chucked 'em. Are you sure that's not a PS/1 mouse in the photo? The ones I trashed were exactly like the photo, but I didn't think they were the really early mice. Glen 0/0

23 years, 10 months

CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question)

by dan＠ekoan.com

At 09:30 AM 5/30/02 -0500, you wrote: >Any suggestions on a good uC to use? This is getting off-topic, but you might find this cheaper as long as you're okay programming in Java: http://www.ibutton.com/TINI/index.html Cheers, Dan www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html

23 years, 10 months

CP/M TCP/IP (was Re: CP/M coding question)

by uban＠ubanproductions.com

You could use a Rabbit board: http://www.rabbitsemiconductor.com/ --tom At 09:30 AM 5/30/02 -0500, you wrote: >On Thu, 30 May 2002, Glen Goodwin wrote: > >> > From: Pat Finnegan <pat(a)purdueriots.com> >> >> > What I'm looking to do is provide a (small) SLIP or PPP based TCP/IP >> stack >> > for a machine that will stay resident and can be used by CP/M 2.2 [or >> > perhaps MP/M II] user programs. >> >> Pat -- >> >> I would be extremely interested to learn of your progress in this area. >> Please keep us posted, or contact me off-list. > >I'm starting to have some second thoughts about how I'm going to do this. >I'm considering an external 'black box' that will connect to a PPP server >on one end and have a RS-232 connection on the other that will provide >something like a serialized verion of BSD's sockets. I'm also thinking >about implementing a raw tcp port that would connect to an extra RS-232 >port [optionally password protected] that could be used to attach to the >system's console, and replicate it on the other end of the network. > >Right now I'm looking at either a Z80 with 32k of ram, 16k of flash, a CTC >and one or two DUARTS, or a uC that'll provide as much of that in hardware >as possible. PICs are nice, but generally seem to have too little memory >for TX/RX buffers, and Basic stamps are too slow. (and who wants to >program in BASIC anyways?) > >Any suggestions on a good uC to use? > >-- Pat > > >

23 years, 10 months

[CCTECH] Re: anybody out there?

by DAW＠yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu

***This should've went out yesterday. Seems like a small "problem" between the way Win/Outlook and D/UX3.2/Netscape handle the Reply-To (or is it Sender) field in a message..**** ! From: Bob Bramwell [mailto:bob@copenhagen.cuug.ab.ca] ! ! Sure is quiet, isn't it? But I'm listening, and this can ! serve as a test of my ! ability to submit to the list by the simple expedient of ! hitting "reply" in my ! mailer window. Yeah, cctech is kinda quiet, but I believe that has to do with the whole moderation thing, and discussions branching off once they get re-posted to cctalk. I'm currently subscribed to both. I have rules in place to send messages from each list to separate folders. That way, depending on my mood, and workload, I can follow the wandering discussion on cctalk, or just read whatever meat comes through on cctech. --- David A Woyciesjes --- C & IS Support Specialist --- Yale University Press --- (203) 432-0953 --- ICQ # - 905818 Mac OS X 10.1.2 - Darwin Kernel Version 5.2: Running since 01/22/2002 without a crash _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

23 years, 10 months

Dual-booting my DEC 4000-710 at last!

by erd_6502＠yahoo.com

Thanks to a friend around the corner, booting DKA0 now gives me AXP/VMS 6.1, and, as before, booting DKC0 gives me Digital Unix 3.2. Now all I need is for the same benefactor to dig out his layered products CDs for AXP and I'm set! One problem... we tried to put a CD-R of the AXP/VMS 6.1 disc into the RRD42 and it didn't like it. Has anyone else had any experience with DEC CD-ROM drives and burned media? Do I need to get a different drive here? Will a Sun-compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive work in place of an RRD42? (in case the 512 byte/2048 byte sector thing is an issue). Thanks again for all who helped recently. I'm one step closer on my journey to bring my VAX experience to the end of the 20th C. -ethan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

23 years, 10 months

Osborne 1 Video Adapter? (was:RE: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch )

by Robert_Feldman＠jdedwards.com

The adaptor fits on the 20-contact video edge connector near the middle of the front panel. Just remove the shunt and replace it with the TTL-Composite adaptor. The shunt just takes the signal from the contact on the bottom of the O1's circuit board and carries it to the corresponding contact on the top. So, if the converter does not also run the signals to the top of the O1 board, the internal monitor will not be on -- only the external composite monitor will be. -----Original Message----- From: Glen Goodwin [mailto:acme_ent@bellsouth.net] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:03 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Osborne 1 Video Adapter? (was:RE: IBM 026 Printing Card Punch) > From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman(a)jdedwards.com> > I was looking through the Alltronics listings and noticed a TTL-Composite > video adaptor (http://www.alltronics.com/computer_miscellaneous.htm , > #92C024) that looks like the adaptor I have for my Osborne 1! Robert -- Please tell me more about this adapter. I like my Oz 1 but hate the screen. Where does it connect to the Oz? Glen 0/0

23 years, 10 months

Dual-booting my DEC 4000-710 at last!

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

> I've got a couple of CD-R v7.2 sets, and haven't had a problem booting >from them on my RRD42. But Roxio, on my Spousal Equivalent's Windows >box, hurled trying to dupe the original. I used dd. I believe Roxio (EZ CD Creator, as was) insists that the initial 64 (?) blocks (which ISO9660 deliberately leaves undefined) must be zero (or some fixed values) and gets upset when they are not. Almost anything else will happily blindly copy a CD even if it cannot interpret the contents (e.g. Gear and CDR-Win both seem fine with creating OpenVMS CDs). Antonio

23 years, 10 months

Looking for documentation/software for a 32032 based coprocessor card man...

by Innfogra＠aol.com

In a message dated 5/30/02 12:35:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, bernd(a)kopriva.de writes: > it's not a SPARC card (such cards have been produced some years after my > card), it's a card > containing a National Semicoductor NS32032. The card maybe named Opus > Sys/32 (or something > like that, there have been some different versions with 32032 and 32332 > processors). What bus is the card for or is it standalone? I had some Opus cards for an ISA bus but they were based on the 88000 chipset, not the 32032. Paxton Astoria, OR

23 years, 10 months

Looking for documentation/software for a 32032 based coprocessor card manufactured by Opus

by bernd＠kopriva.de

Today, i got a Opus coprocessor card ... ... it includes a 32032-10 processor and 2 MB Ram. Is there any documentation available or maybe some software (there must have been even a Unix implementation) to get the card up and running ? Thanks Bernd Bernd Kopriva Phone: ++49-7195-179452 Weilerstr. 24 E-Mail: bernd(a)kopriva.de D-71397 Leutenbach Germany

23 years, 10 months

Call Me Crazy Anytime You Want

by doc＠mdrconsult.com

I've been trying to get a clue what I'm talking about, but there are just too many unrelated hits on Google. I was at a company barbeque Sunday and my boss was busting on me, telling a co-worker I heat my house with my computer collection. When he mentioned the PDP-11, Nici looks over at her cousin and says "He'd fall in LOVE with that Prime..." Evidently, their family has one, in storage in Oregon. She has no idea what model it is, but describes it as being waist-high, "deep as a regular rack", and 7 or 8 feet long. So roughly 36"x30"x84". The next time she goes home to Oregon, the Prime is coming home to Papa. :) Probably July or August. Woohoo! Doc

23 years, 10 months

Dual-booting my DEC 4000-710 at last!

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>One problem... we tried to put a CD-R of the AXP/VMS 6.1 disc into >the RRD42 and it didn't like it. Has anyone else had any experience >with DEC CD-ROM drives and burned media? Do I need to get a different >drive here? Will a Sun-compatible SCSI CD-ROM drive work in place >of an RRD42? (in case the 512 byte/2048 byte sector thing is an >issue). I have the same problems with an RRD42 here. Two RRD43s and a TOSHIBA XM-3401TA all work well. My RRD44 spat out a CD-R when I tried it just now (but that may be a bad CD-R). I suspect it's an age thing - an RRD46 would probably be fine. Antonio

23 years, 10 months

A couple of firsts for me (Commodore)

by fernande＠internet1.net

Well, a friend whose moving was digging through his attic and found the families old Commodore 128. This is the first time a friend has ever given me an old computer, I think. It's also the first Commodore in my collection. I had sort of been avoiding Commodores since my only experience with them was with my old Vic 20. I had fun with it, but I wished it had been an Apple //e..... that's what I really wanted. I eventually got an Apple //e and used them in school, too. I got the C128, and a 1581 floppy drive. No monitor and no software, unfortunetly. The other day, I saw a Commodore monitor at Goodwill, along with another model floppy drive. I think I may go pick those up tomorrow. Does this have an OS in Rom, or does it need a "boot" disk like an Apple //? I like the slim design, although and internal power supply would have been nice. I think I like the was the Apple //'s are built, better. The C128 was kind of difficult to disassemble. I actually had to use a soldering iron..... something I've never done while disassembling a computer. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

23 years, 10 months

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