13 Nov
2001
13 Nov
'01
1:58 p.m.
"Curt Vendel" <curt(a)atari-history.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info. If you happen by a Corvus
floppy in the future,
keep me in mind, I'd be interested in it. Now if I can find some spec's
on the 4 bus slots it would be fun to try and build a controller. I did a
Did you get any disks?
The bus slots are similar to Apple ][ slots. In fact I think
the Concept hard disk controller is really the Apple ][ Corvus
parallel-interface hard disk controller.
You probably want to webulate to
<http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/corvus/> where you will find several
scanned manuals including:
ConceptHWRef.pdf - the Concept Hardware Reference
ConceptServiceMan.pdf - the Concept service manual
Somewhere I have a (photocopied) schematic of the 8" floppy disk
controller too. I'll see if I can dig that out and scan it.
-Frank McConnell
14 Nov
14 Nov
1:51 a.m.
I raided Al Kossow's Corvus Concept PDF's yesterday, great stuff, a lot of
work on his behave, major kudo's to him.
Hmmmm..... The whole idea of designing the slot around the whole Apple II
design is interesting and makes a lot of sense since Apple II's were really
the mainstay of Corvus networks, IBM's came on later and Atari 800's were
limited to a 64 node multiplexing network and did not have Omninet
capabilities.
If you run across the schematic I would be willing to pay for any copying
and postage, thanks again Frank.
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank McConnell" <fmc(a)reanimators.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Corvus Floppy Drive?
"Curt Vendel" <curt(a)atari-history.com>
wrote:
> Thanks for the info. If you happen by a Corvus floppy in the
future,
> keep me in mind, I'd be interested in it.
Now if I can find some
spec's
> on the 4 bus slots it would be fun to try and
build a controller. I
did a
Did you get any disks?
The bus slots are similar to Apple ][ slots. In fact I think
the Concept hard disk controller is really the Apple ][ Corvus
parallel-interface hard disk controller.
You probably want to webulate to
<http://www.spies.com/~aek/pdf/corvus/> where you will find several
scanned manuals including:
ConceptHWRef.pdf - the Concept Hardware Reference
ConceptServiceMan.pdf - the Concept service manual
Somewhere I have a (photocopied) schematic of the 8" floppy disk
controller too. I'll see if I can dig that out and scan it.
-Frank McConnell
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