11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
7:23 p.m.
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From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
duly noted.? Are you sure that you are the first?
C: Until someone proves otherwise, I'm damned sure.
If you want to write software that runs on the Canon, then working through
that would be a place to start.
C: I AIN'T GOT NO DOCS. Nor even a working boot diskette no more! Can't even try
out that int 13h stuff if I wanted to. AND I WANT TO!!
Good!? Then you've got a start on what you bneed to learn.
C: Oh I'm learning quite a bit dont' worry. I'm learning constantly that this
project is dead in the water.
C: Ok, I have a bunch of NEC APC I disks. I hope to
read them (hope
springs eternal). I have little more then a little hope that they still
work. I'd like to read them on my Canon AS-100. I have NO docs for the
AS-100, and little more then boiler plate for the APC.
Well, I'd recommend starting by getting code working to read them on an
ordinary PC.
?C: Again if I had the ability to read them on a pc, what need would there be for code?
ImageDisk would take care of that.
Yep!? Any "ordinary" "standard" (HAH!) 8" drive will work.? But,
you might
need to try a bunch of controllers to find one that's OK.
C: So the suggestion may be that all drives will work, as long as you have the right
controller. It's just a matter of mixing and matching properly. Man I am so up a creek
w/o a paddle!
Does it have
an Int13h that is close enough in calling structure?
C: Beats me Does it have a
similar INT1Eh if you need to change bytes per sector,
etc., or will you need to talk directly to the chip?? WD 179x chips
have a completely different communication than NEC 765 -like chips.
C: That I
could have told anyone > C: I believe I've plugged hd 5 1/4"
drives into my Canon though,
> w/little success. It utilizes both 5" and 8" off the same connector.
Then you need to work on jumpers.? Starting with Drive select.
C: On the drive? Give me some credit.
C: somewhere on the order of 10 years ago a guy named
Yogi in California
won a huge motherload of APC docs for 1$. I mean dozens of manuals,
totally unreal. I might have to look him up.
Good.? Find him.
C: I very well may find him. A lot of good that'll do me though, he doesn't have a
single page of AS-100 docs. Which is the computer I need to get to reading them disks.
SA 800
All others are just copies of it.? (with improvements)
C: I assume you mean Shugart. Ain't never even seen one.
?These disks have probably crapped the bed anyway, weren't stored properly. I've
not yet played w/8" disks. Are they anymore durable then 5 1/4" media (that is
have greater longevity)?