Hi!
I just picked up an MZ-721, which is rather neat. Oddly, it loads Basic
>from tape, which seems fairly unusual for a cassette-based system.
Anyway, when I switched it on I got nothing but garbage on the screen,
and ning I do seems to change it at all. Shoud I consider this a dead
computer, take photos and treasure the manuals? Or is this the sort of
think which *may* be repaired, so I shoudl track down someone who fixes
these things and get them to look at it. Indeed, is it even worth the
effort?
I tried to find information on it, but almost everything seems to be in
Japanese. :)
Thanks heaps,
Adam.
I need the CMOS setup program for the Powermate SX/20; does anyone have
it?
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you, I don't know anyone who can.
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-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 11:06 PM
Subject: Z280 systems
>Some of you may remember one of the last issues of SuperMicro magazine
>had a Z280 S-100 boards on the cover and a nice article about the board
>and a system using the board, as I recall.
>
>Does anyone have an idea where I could find or look for a Z280 based
>system, either ZCPM, or???. And either single or multiple processors.
>
>My goal would be to have a fairly complete system, however I think that
>would be possible from most any S-100 components, if one had the CPU.
>
>Does anyone still manufature S-100 stuff or its replacement Bus, which I
>don't recall???
>
>Or Z280 Z380 VME systems.
>
>I guess I better stop there or I'll leave the realm of "classics"
>
>thans,
>
>Mike
>
What is "x286emu" on Linux?
I've seen it in directories, but I'll be damned if it does anything
yet. No references I've seen and no hits on Web search engines.
Does it exist by itself, or is it part of a library for another
program?? Or...????
Thanks,
-Mike Allison
> ;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk
> typed:
>
> [nip about REXX]
>
> >REXX is/was
> >quite a nice language to use, but some features rendered it unsuitable
> >for serious programming - numbers, for example, are stored as strings of
> >digits in the character code of the machine you are using...
>
> Uh, Sir Philip?
>
> Maybe there are other reasons that your statement of unsuitability stands,
> but I can think of one programming language that's very handy (& powerful &
> serious) which stores it's digits as charcter codes: Perl. From experience
> I can tell you that one heckuva lot more stuff gets done with Perl on the
> WWW than Java -- and it's a lot easier to pgm. in.
Sorry, Roger, I didn't mean to start a language war. I've never used
Perl, but I'm told it's good.
REXX, like (I think) Perl, is a macro language. It is designed for
doing little tasks that don't need lots of computing power. I like REXX
- I really enjoyed using it at IBM. But it is an interpreted language -
if I was writing a major application I'd use a compiler - and numbers
stored as strings are fundamentally slow - I'd use one which stored
numbers in a way that is fast to use.
But I was being careless. I was actually thinking "number crunching"
when I said "serious programming". (NB I _have_ done number crunching
in REXX - the potentially infinite precision is very useful!)
Philip.
PS *** OFF TOPIC - Sam Ismail need read no further :-) ***
Manhole covers (and the apertures at the entrances of manholes :-) ) are
indeed round because they then won't fall down the hole if you drop
them. But other shapes share this property - triangular manholes are
quite common over here. Any "Curve of constant diameter" also has this
property. Examples of such curves may be found in the 7-sided coins in
use in the UK for 50p and 20p
P.
I originally said it, but your email dosnt work manny.
-----Original Message-----
From: PG Manney <manney(a)nwohio.nwohio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 1998 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: Apple II GS
>
>> I'll take it!
>
>Who said dat?
>
>manney(a)nwohio.com
>"Why are manhole covers round?"
>
I don't even know what Turbo Prolog is.
Tim D. Hotze
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Allison <mallison(a)konnections.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 29, 1998 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Development, round II
>Gee, I was hoping for a Turbo Prolog trade.....Whatcha got???
>
>.,.
> v
>
>-Mike
>
>
>
>Hotze wrote:
>
>> BTW, if no one else wants it, can I have the OS/2 2.1?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim D. Hotze
>OS/2 Warp was 386, as I recall. 2.1, I can't remember, 1.2 was 286.
>You might need a 386 for the Program Manager, But I don't recall. I
>still have copies of 2.1 and 1.2, if you need to know....
Well, the phrase is OS/2 Warp IS, they're still selling it, *and* making a
new version, hopefully this one will be MS compatible, which gave IBM the
advantage over Windows 3.1
OS/2 Warp is a strange 32-bit OS, it RECOMMENDS a 386 or better, but
doesn't REQUIRE a 386 or better.
BTW, if no one else wants it, can I have the OS/2 2.1?
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
I looked in my never used copy of os2 version 1.3 standard edition and found
no mention of rexx so maybe it arrived in version 2.x but i'm not opening my
shrinkwrapped version to find out! minimum requirements for 1.3 are a 286,
2meg, and 12 meg of hdd space.
david
In a message dated 98-01-28 23:22:35 EST, you write:
<< OS/2 Warp was 386, as I recall. 2.1, I can't remember, 1.2 was 286.
You might need a 386 for the Program Manager, But I don't recall. I
still have copies of 2.1 and 1.2, if you need to know....
-Mike
Philip.Belben(a)powertech.co.uk wrote:
>
> > >REXX on a PC? >>
I got an E-mail from a fellow in New Zealand (don(a)daedalus.co.nz) who
needs info on the 20ma current loop hookup used in the old ASR-33 Teletype
machines. If anyone on here can help, please respond to him directly. Thanks!
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