27 Jan
2018
27 Jan
'18
12:23 p.m.
A 380Z, nice! I used to use those when I was at University. My final year project used one
connected to a research machine called MU6-G for diagnostics. All the registers in the
machine were connected up as one enormous shift register, so you could get and set any
register in the machine from the 380Z. I wrote a program to do simple diagnostics on the
machine. It was a lot of fun.
They don?t come up very often and go for more money than I can justify.
Regards
Rob
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian
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Sent: 27 January 2018 19:16
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: TESTFDC
I?d like to thank whoever it was who added the Abit K8V Pro/Winbond
W83627HF with its test results to the TESTFDC page for writing SSSD disks. I?ve
been trying to get a similar setup going for a fortnight now and last week found
this motherboard on e*ay for Not Many UK Pounds. Coupled with a scrap
Athlon64 system from work and a scratched Windows98 CD I eventually got it
going earlier and can now read/write single density floppies meaning I can
archive the disks I got with my Research Machines 380Z :D
Typical of my luck a contact has also found an Adaptec 1522A that he?ll
hopefully send me too, then I?m covered for all eventualities.
Now where did I put that 8? drive...
?
Adrian/Witchy
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