27 Jan
2018
27 Jan
'18
1:01 p.m.
On 27 Jan 2018, at 20:23, Rob Jarratt
<robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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.
It was the first machine I used at school so when someone offered me a broken one back in
2011 I jumped at the chance. I tried fixing it back then with Tony?s help but wasn?t as
confident as I am now so it only took me a few hours to fix. Fortunately it came with boot
disks but making new ones has been a massive lesson in CP/M compatibility and
reintroduction to assembler coupled with swearing :)
It uses an odd format that 22DISK doesn?t like though, but ImageDisk works nicely now that
I have the right PC hardware to do it. I?m now keen to try cpmtools on linux once I find
out if that floppy controller is still supported, and if it isn?t how far back to I need
to go!
Much writing and pictures (no swearing) at
http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/rml/380z.php
Cheers
A
Regards
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
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> Graham via cctalk
> Sent: 27 January 2018 19:16
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> 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
> Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
> w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk <http://binarydinosaurs.co.uk/> t: @binarydinosaurs
> f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs
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Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs - Celebrating Computing History from 1972 onwards
w: binarydinosaurs.co.uk t: @binarydinosaurs
f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs