14 Dec
2000
14 Dec
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9:06 a.m.
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Subject: classiccmp-digest V1 #455
classiccmp-digest Wednesday, December 13 2000 Volume
01 : Number 455
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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:41:23 -0700
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:13:31 -0800
From: "Henry Broekhuyse" <broekh(a)interchange.ubc.ca>
Subject: RE: G4IDE and ][GS disks (slightly off topic)
If you don't have one already, get a 3.5" floppy drive for
your GS (even on
ebay these rarely cost more than $10). A Mac is able to read and write
ProDOS formatted 3.5" floppies, making this a convenient means of
transferring files.
I'd kind of hoped the 800k external Mac drive could do that but it won't.
controller. If you must use a PC, the "easiest to
implement"
method of file
transfer with an Apple II series computer is via a "null modem" serial
connection.
Dammit :) I'd kind of hoped there was some Apple ][ flavour of a program
like TransMac - read/write Mac disks on a PC. To get a null modem connection
going though I need some sort of operating environment on the GS. Varying
experiments with keypresses at powerup have got me into the control panel
but that's about it. Is it possible to boot to BASIC? It must be since the
ROM has Micro$oft written on it :)
Date: 14 Dec 00 00:26:28 +0100
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se>
Subject: RE: First personal computer nostalgia
I'm sorry, but I feel it's nitpicking time...
I've never heard of an Atari 1050ST before, nor of a 1 MB
hard drive fitted to
an ST. OTOH, there is the Atari 1040ST, which had 1 MB of RAM.
And you *could* get HDs for them too; can't remember their product
designation OTTOMH but a swift look at the Atari Historical Society should
tell you. Maybe it was a Falcon!
Date: 14 Dec 00 01:26:27 +0100
From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se>
Subject: Re: amiga 500
http://www.hardwarebook.net/ (everyone should have it
bookmarked) has got the
pinouts. Getting the D23 might be problematic, but I know
several sources
around here.
You'll get just about every 15KHz monitor to work, both
analogue and digital.
Possible models: Commodore 1081, 1084, 1085, 1940, 1942; Nec
Multisync II, 3D.
I've got a spare Amiga -> CVBS cable if needs be......
adrian/witchy
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the Online Computer Museum