13 Sep
2016
13 Sep
'16
10:43 a.m.
On 09/13/2016 09:58 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
yea.. another project. Getting an Apple 20 pin drive
working with a
flux transition reader.
Not that much of an issue--after all, the old CopyIIPC deluxe option
board came with a bunch of 400K/800K Mac utilities and uses standard
drives. I might have used that, but the system was buried at the
bottom of a pile and I wanted to preserve the Apple file structure as
much as was possible, not translate it into MS-DOS.
The one example that directly involved me was I asked
them to support
NTP internally on the engineering network, so I didn't have to set
the clock constantly (I had a prototype machine with an RTC that ran
fast). Around 1997 at the peak of the "dark times" an email (which
was FINALLY SMTP and not some stupidity like AppleLink) went out that
there was no budget to maintain the NTP server any more. Fortunately,
the NeXT purchase of Apple happened, the people that groked Unix came
in, and that bit of stupidity was killed.
Heh, the first message that I got after I changed the PRAM battery and
booted MacOS was that the system time didn't match the NTP time within
reasonable limits. But there the oddity hit--if I wanted to get rid of
the message, I had to open the Control Panel and manually set the time
to something close to NTP--Mac OS did not offer to do it for me.
--Chuck