14 Aug
2001
14 Aug
'01
7:33 a.m.
I used to
feel the same way when I was running a TRS-80 Model
2000 and I'd see caching SCSI controllers that used the same 80186 as
a coprocessor on the board. There's something humbling about seeing
your main CPU relegated to coprocessor status!
Remember when the Apple Laserwriter was more powerful than any of the
computers that they sold to connect it to? 
14 Aug
14 Aug
1:41 p.m.
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2:33 p.m.
Tony Duell said:
As I think I've mentioned before, in about 1988, I
connected a CBM 8050
disk drive to a Philips P850 minicomputer (A homebrew board of TTL
between the GPIB port on the former and the DIOC ports on the latter).
Speaking of GPIB/HPIB disks, does anyone have one they'd be willing to part
with? I've got an HP 9000/300 (I don't remember which, but it has a 68030
with MMU so it'll run netbsd), but no disk for it so I haven't really done
anything with it yet...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
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15 Aug
9:11 a.m.
Tony Duell said:
Oy. That's good to know, thanks...
Speaking of
GPIB/HPIB disks, does anyone have one they'd be willing to part
with? I've got an HP 9000/300 (I don't remember which, but it has a 68030
Be careful. The HPIB interface standard does _not_ specify the command
set to be used by a disk drive. Both Commodore and HP made HPIB/GPIB
interfaced disks with totally different command sets. I think Tektronix
also made some, with yet another command set. You need an HP disk drive. Something like a 9122 (dual
3.5" floppy) or
9133 (3.5" floppy + 20M winchester IIRC). They're not that uncommon, but
they might be rather heavy to ship...
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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``Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honeydew hath fed, / and drunk the milk of Paradise.''
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
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