- test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org - classiccmp.org

by dan＠ekoan.com

http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?auctionId=48287 Looks like some screen burn-in, but otherwise in pretty good shape. Cheers, Dan www.decodesystems.com/wanted.html

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DECserver 500

by foo＠siconic.com

Of what use is a DECserver 500? What sort of processing power does it have? 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 *

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TRS80 Pocket PC or Sharp PC1211 Diagrams

by sipke＠wxs.nl

Does anybody have a scanned version of the TRS Pocket PC or the Sharp PC-1211 aviable. I've recently obtained one (TRS-type) including printer/cassette interface but after installing new batteries the machine seem a rather psychotic and is only eratically reacting toa few keypresses. I locks up pretty soon after. A reset does give a reaction that seems normal. PCB's and keyboard look ok, so the CPU is still doing something ????? On the backside of the main PCB there are two capacitors (small tanlatium) that seem to have been blown (could be RF-filters also) I can't really see the because of a ribboncable. Anyway these components have spilled some debris on the PCB so something is wrong there .....

24 years

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Legendary C64 group TRIAD

by taper＠triad.nu

If you are interested in recieving NEW games and demos for the everlasting Commodore 64, join up with the TRIAD spreadlist. This way you will get all future TRIAD releases instantly via e-mail. Note; This is NOT an ordinary mailinglist, it's a one-way spreadlist, so don't worry about getting your mailboxes filled with crap. Since c64 productions only take up some kb's, also people on slow connections won't have any problems signing up. Throw a mail to taper(a)triad.nu to sign up with the list, and also give our website a visit on www.triad.nu Taper/TRIAD

24 years

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[CCTECH] PDP-11/60 in UK on eBay

by lists＠subatomix.com

I'm not associated in any way with the seller. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2028620247 (Yes, this is a sneaky attempt to see if eBay happenings are on-topic.) -- Jeffrey Sharp The email address lists(a)subatomix.com is for mailing list traffic. Please send off-list mail to roach jay ess ess at wasp subatomix beetle dot com. You may need to remove some bugs first. _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

24 years

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[CCTECH] MicroPDP-11/23+ now boots!

by lists＠subatomix.com

After a few days of work, I have successfully restored and booted a MicroPDP-11/23+. This is the first PDP-11 that I've actually restored, and one of four that I want to get working this summer. This is also only the second PDP-11 that I've even *used*. Here's what the cards look like: Backplane: H9278-A (3xQ22/CD 5xQ22/Q22) AAAAAAAAAA BBBBBBBBBB CCCCCCCCCC DDDDDDDDDD 1 M8189----(KDF11-BF)------------------------ 2 M8067-LB-(MSV11-P)------------------------- 3 M9047---------------- SPACER-CARD---------- 4 M9047---------------- M9047---------------- 5 M9047---------------- M9047---------------- 6 M9047---------------- M9047---------------- 7 M7957----(DZV11-M)------------------------- 8 M8639-YA-(RQDX1)--------------------------- I've got another MSV11-P card that I'll stick in there as soon as I get its jumpers changed. Per Tony's info, I did not remove any grant jumpers on the CPU and memory cards; neither card uses the CD bus, so removal is not necesary. Per Ethan's help, the cards have been reorganized for maximum expansion ease. I did have to replace the power supply and the CPU card. Them's the breaks. It's got RT-11 5.1 and CTS-300 8.1 installed, and it boots. I've got some playing to do! Many thanks go out to: - The people who run documentation websites - Ethan Dicks and Tony Duell for help - Jeffrey Worley for the majority of the parts - Eric Dittman for the BA23 plastic shell -- Jeffrey Sharp The email address lists(a)subatomix.com is for mailing list traffic. Please send off-list mail to roach jay ess ess at wasp subatomix beetle dot com. You may need to remove some bugs first. _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

24 years

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transcript from the weird VAX 6000

by gunther＠aurora.regenstrief.org

O.K., I checked the DC cleanlyness with the scope and it is wonderfully clean. But it's strange. When I first power it on just power the memory, the lights on the key-switch console are all wild (like green and red all at the same time.) Again the DWMBA didn't work. And caused machine checks errors. Again two of the XBIA cards caused the CPU to shut down the moment it was going to test the VAXBI stuff. Can you tell from the transcript below what might be wrong? Whithout XBIA it seems to be working fine. Now I put in just one of them without an XBIB counterpart: #123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567# F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE # . A . . . . M M . . . . . P TYP . o . . . . + + . . . . . + STF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . + ETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD ?12 Machine check occurred during machine check processing. PC = 2007C25F SAVPSL = 041F1200 ISP = 201403F0 What the heck? Hit the reset button and: #123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567# F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE # . A . . . . M M . . . . . P TYP . o . . . . + + . . . . . + STF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . + ETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . A2 A1 . . . . . . ILV . . . . . . 32 32 . . . . . . 64 Mb ROM0 = V3.00 ROM1 = V3.00 EEPROM = 2.03/3.07 SN = AG94408846 This time it worked. No VAXBI stuff detected, sure, there is none. #123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567# F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE # . A . . . . M M . . . . . P TYP . o . . . . + + . . . . . + STF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . + ETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . A2 A1 . . . . . . ILV . . . . . . 32 32 . . . . . . 64 Mb ROM0 = V3.00 ROM1 = V3.00 EEPROM = 2.03/3.07 SN = AG94408846 Now I put the other XBIA in and two XBIBs to talk to. See what happens this time #123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567# F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE # A A . . . . M M . . . . . P TYP o o . . . . + + . . . . . + STF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD and boom, the CPU lights went out. What's going on here? hit reset button and: #123456789 0123456789 0123456789 01234567# F E D C B A 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 NODE # A A . . . . M M . . . . . P TYP o o . . . . + + . . . . . + STF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . + ETF . . . . . . . . . . . . . B BPD Machine Check Stack Frame: 80000011 21800000 2004C79C 00000000 0700130E 00000013 2004C78D 041F0004 PCSTS: 00000888 PCERR: 21800000 PCTAG: 40000000 BCSTS: 01800000 BCERR: 2004D7D0 BCBTS: 20000000 BCP1TS: 20000000 BCP2TS: 20000000 IPORT: 800003D1 XBER: 8000A041 XFADR: 61800000 RCSR: 01280001 Machine Check Stack Frame: 80000011 21800000 2004C79C 00000000 0700130E 00000013 2004C78D 041F0004 PCSTS: 000008C8 PCERR: 21800000 PCTAG: 40000000 BCSTS: 01800000 BCERR: 2004D7D0 BCBTS: 20000000 BCP1TS: 20000000 BCP2TS: 20000000 IPORT: 800003D1 XBER: 8000B041 XFADR: 61800000 RCSR: 01280011 ?12 Machine check occurred during machine check processing. PC = 2004FF02 SAVPSL = 041F1200 ISP = 201403EC Now that I see those machine check issues, I think I've seen those before. It might be that these problems had been waiting for the last year to come up. I guess I should be replacing everything with the spare set of guts that I have boxed up. This isn't right, and I don't know what else to do. cheers, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

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HP ScanJet ADF

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Uban [mailto:uban@ubanproductions.com] > I guess that I just saved some more space in a landfill somewhere for > someone elses ADF unit, because HP won't sell parts for these units. > Imagine what HP will do with anything that Compaq managed to save from > DEC (though I don't imagine that would be much)... You mean anything that Compaq hasn't yet managed to kill, right? Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

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Commodore 128 newbie question

by fernande＠internet1.net

Since I don't even know if this machine works yet, can I hook it up to a TV instead of a monitor? I'd hate to go buy another monitor from Goodwill only to find that the computer doesn't work. The computer is still disassembled. I may start reassembly tonight, However. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

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What is this? Looks like maybe a VAX of some sort...

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Alas, I cannot get the damned pictures to work, but if someone from the list buys it, I really REALLY could use the HP drives! heh Will J _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

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What is this? Looks like maybe a VAX of some sort...

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>I suppose it could just be the RA82 and the TK?? drive but maybe its a whole >system... Not that I'm going to Virgina to find out... Without seeing the inside, you cannot be sure. It's certainly a MicroVAX III enclosure with an RA drive. There's no guarantee that the innards have not been gutted or that the disk works. I guess shipping will cost much more than $35 ... Antonio

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What happens when... (Q/CD question)

by lists＠subatomix.com

...you plug a quad-width board into a Q/CD slot, and the board has its grant enable jumpers in place? Is there any chance that this would kill the board? -- Jeffrey Sharp The email address lists(a)subatomix.com is for mailing list traffic. Please send off-list mail to roach jay ess ess at wasp subatomix beetle dot com. You may need to remove some bugs first.

24 years

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[CCTECH] HP 1000 E-Series

by xds_sigma7＠hotmail.com

Ok, I was feeling brave so I stuck power into the sucker and turned it on.. no magic smoke or burnt smell, lol, but I'm wondering if its normal for the extend light and the rox of lights for the registers yo light up and stay lit up. Will J _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

24 years

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APPLEVISION Monitor

by jfoust＠threedee.com

At 04:40 PM 5/6/2002 -0500, Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> wrote: >Not required, but just for information, Mac pathnames are >traditionally colon-separated in a similar manner to Amiga >paths. Huh? Amiga volume names ended in colon "DH0:" but the folder names weren't separated by colons in a path string. I can't remember an instance where a Mac application allowed the user to enter the colons, although they were used internally, and you could use them in some developer tools that gave command lines or operated on "makefile"s. - John

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[CCTECH] Floppy drive cleaning kits

by dwightk.elvey＠amd.com

>From: "Richard A. Cini, Jr." <rcini(a)msn.com> > >Hello, all: > > What is the best current source for 5.25" floppy cleaning kits? > >Rich > Hi Rich A drug store. Dwight

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How do VMS Condists work?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>OTOH, what forces you to upgrade? - If you want to cluster a VAX to an >Alpha running 6.1, that should be OK: this is the usual way to upgrade a V6.0 on VAX was OK but short-lived; V6.1 was somewhat better. Most people either stayed with V5.5-2 or moved rapidly to V6.1 or V6.2. I believe that the VAX V6.1 CDs were the first ones that could be booted directly into OpenVMS (rather than just being able to boot S/A BACKUP to restore the .B saveset). The Hobbyist people should be able to supply V7.3. If they cannot do so, then I believe that you are allowed to acquire media by any means (specifically you can have someone copy the CD for you). Antonio

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[CCTECH] Anyone out there?

by foo＠siconic.com

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Kevin Murrell wrote: > I switched from the original group, as I was getting fed up with the > spam and the rants, but now I found i'm all alone! > > Should I have switched back to cctalk (?) Kevin, cctech is a pointless mailing list. It was supposed to stop off-topic postings but the concept wasn't thought out very well. Hence, no traffic. Everything is going on at cctalk. I suggest you switch. 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 * _______________________________________________ cctech mailing list cctech(a)classiccmp.org http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctech

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How do VMS Condists work?

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>I just tried, my VAX 7.2 VMS CD also boots into a minimal VMS from SYS1 >on my MicroVAX. So I guess they changed it between 7.1 and 7.2. I don't know where they changed but I looked at a V7.1 binary disk and it had a [SYS1] directory with many files underneath. The easy-to-spot difference between S/A BACKUP and full OpenVMS boot is the number of files. I don't have either V6.2 or V6.1 to hand so I don't know if this (undocumented and unsupported) facility was there back then. If you tried booting V7.1 and it didn't work, then either I looked at something other than V7.1 or you booted incorrectly. Antonio

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0T- Old linux question-Redhat 5-networking

by rhudson＠cnonline.net

Hi, This is a question about an older linux.. I am running redhat 5, on an IBM755c (486) OH perhaps my laptop is old enough... : ^ ) Anyway I have to enter the following lines every time I reboot: modprobe ne io=0x300 dhcpcd ifconfig eth0 up so networking is ready... my question, Anybody know the --proper-- place to put these 3 lines? I could just put them in local.rc and be done wid um, but that wouldn't be the --proper-- place to put them. Thanks! : ^ )

24 years

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[CCTECH] Anyone out there?

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Sellam Ismail <foo(a)siconic.com> > cctech is a pointless mailing list. It was supposed to stop off-topic > postings but the concept wasn't thought out very well. Hence, no traffic. > Everything is going on at cctalk. I suggest you switch. Yeah, but the flames and OTs sure have cooled down, so in that regard the switch helped. Glen 0/0

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[CCTECH] Floppy drive cleaning kits

by rcini＠msn.com

Hello, all: What is the best current source for 5.25" floppy cleaning kits? Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/

24 years

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[CCTECH] Anyone out there?

by fmc＠reanimators.org

"Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: > Sellam wrote... > > cctech is a pointless mailing list. It was supposed to stop off-topic > > postings but the concept wasn't thought out very well. Hence, no traffic. > > Everything is going on at cctalk. I suggest you switch. > > Sellam, do you have to be so derrogatory? Just because you didn't like the > way I set it up is no reason to say the concept wasn't thought out very > well. Sheesh, here we go again. OK, it's short shameful confession time. I read Jay's proposal (which he posted to classiccmp). I even replied (privately) with a suggestion about how to do one of the things he wanted to do. What I didn't do was think about the proposal and realize how this was likely to play out. Hindsight being 20/20, I now recognize my error. So. Can we just blame me and quit kvetching about this 'til the next time our most gracious list host feels like it's time to make a change? -Frank McConnell

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VAXBI trouble -- I just killed a bunch of boards -- haunted VAX in my basement

by Antonio.Carlini＠riverstonenet.com

>Normally, a machine that damages boards has got PSU problems (the 5V rail >sitting at 12V or something). Do you know what the outputs of the PSU >should be and can you check them? (use a 'scope as well if you have one >to look for HV ripple on the output -- a common failure mode of SMPSUs is >a high ESR (or open) output capacitor and you can then get 10-20V spikes >on the 5V output...). I no longer have one to look at, but from memory, the 6K regulators are at the back and the outputs are shielded by transparent plastic covers. Should be easy enough to remove these and 'scope away. Note however, that these are there for protection: the voltage is low but the current is high - remove metal from body before trying this out! >One board damaging another is less common unless some component failure >is shorting one of the pins to a supply line or ground. It can happen (as >here). Do you know what to expect on each pin (I guess not, as AFAIK DEC >never published real technical documentation for the VAX 6000 series). The 6000 tech manuals tended to concentrate on the programming aspects. There was an XMI handbook which covered the bus signals and protocol in some detail. >If there are any recognisable chips on the boards (especially bus >buffers), check them. And if there are picofuses for the supply lines >(some machines have them, I have no idea if the VAX 6000 is one of them), >check those too. It's not unheard-of for a bus short to blow a fuse and >not damage much else. The XMI connection was handled by a dedicated chip (in the "XMI corner") with possibly a few drivers and such strung around it (much the same concept as with the VAXBI bus). I would be surprised if a dead XBIA managed to also take out an associated XBIB. There are rules about which boards can go in which slots etc. I had a few "funny turns" with my 6K but it always turned out to be a badly seated board, or a missing cable or the problem being somewhere else and me being in a rush. My first step would be to ignore the VAXBI, remove as many boards as are needed to get the thing to start at all (which in this case seems to mean remove the BI-XMI interface boards) and then add in the XMI end of the interface. Now try to run diags and see whether the board is even partially alive. (Obviously it will fail the tests that go look for the other end of the interface). If OK so far, empty the VAXBI cage and add in the BI end of the interface board, properly hooked up. Pay careful attention to the transition headers and plugs on the BI and XMI interfaces. Now see if the diags are happy or not. If OK, season with further BI boards. I did this a few times myself and always ended up with a full set of working boards. Maybe I was lucky, maybe there really were problems with boards being badly seated or maybe I had a marginal board or two. Since all my problems happened when I needed to reconfigure the hardware, I assumed it was just seating rather than marginal hardware. Antonio

24 years

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Making an MMJ to DE25-F adapter

by bob_lafleur＠technologist.com

I have an adapter that has MMJ female and a DE25-F connector. The adapter needs to be "made" (i.e. I've got wires coming out of it that plug into holes in the DE25-F connector). I want to make it so that I'll use an MMJ cable from the console port of my MicroVAX 3100 to the adapter, and plug the adapter into the 9-25 adapter cable that's connected to my PC Serial port. How do I wire it? I've got these color wires (not in any particular order) Red White Blue Green Yellow Black Which holes should I plug which colors into? Please describe how I should orient the connector when describing which holes to plug the wires into. Thanks. - Bob

24 years

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

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Brain, Jim <JBrain(a)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. http://dunkels.com/adam/uip/ Glen 0/0

24 years

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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

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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

24 years

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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

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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

24 years

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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

24 years

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[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 ---------------------------------------

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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

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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 *

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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

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[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

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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 > > >

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[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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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