21 Feb
2008
21 Feb
'08
12:13 p.m.
I was going through some old code and discovered that I wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
Cheers,
Chuck
21 Feb
21 Feb
12:35 p.m.
Chuck,
You should speak with Sellam Ismail, he acquired such a beastie about
18 months ago and I'm sure he would want such a valuable utility...
Curt
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I was going through some old code and discovered that
I wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
Cheers,
Chuck
12:55 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
You should speak with Sellam Ismail, he acquired
such a beastie about 18
months ago and I'm sure he would want such a valuable utility...
I had a DPS6, not the 9000, and I gave it away a few years back when I
realized I would never do anything with it and it was taking up more space
than was worth the effort.
I recently heard it was still floating around in Nevada.
But, all the same, I think putting a copy of the code up somewhere in an
archive would be a good idea.
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1:42 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I was going through some old code and discovered that
I wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
I have one of these machines, and would be interested in a copy of the code.
Peace... Sridhar
1:47 p.m.
Of course you do... Sridhar, dude... what don't you own? You are
going to give the Computer Museum a run for their money ;-)
I'm waiting to read in the local paper that NYSEG is going to build a
22kv stepdown power relay station next door to your home to offset the
demand on the grid when you power your systems up in the morning ;-)
Curt
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I was going through some old code and discovered
that I wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
I have one of these machines, and would be interested in a copy of the
code.
Peace... Sridhar
3:48 p.m.
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
Of course you do... Sridhar, dude... what don't
you own? You are
going to give the Computer Museum a run for their money ;-)
What don't I have? S/360. 7xx or 7xxx series IBM. Big-iron Univac
stuff. DEC 20 stuff (I dream about having a 2065). VAX 9000. An IBM
3090. A System/z. A DPS9000/TA200. An SGI Origin 3900. A Cray. A GE
645. I don't yet have a LISPM.
Any of the above would be more than welcome in my collection.
I'm waiting to read in the local paper that NYSEG
is going to build a
22kv stepdown power relay station next door to your home to offset the
demand on the grid when you power your systems up in the morning ;-)
If I could get them to do that without me paying for it, I would be as
happy as a clam.
Peace... Sridhar
8:06 p.m.
In article <47BDE388.601 at gmail.com>,
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
You left off Connection Machine....
:-)
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Of course you do... Sridhar, dude... what
don't you own? You are
going to give the Computer Museum a run for their money ;-)
What don't I have? S/360. 7xx or 7xxx series IBM. Big-iron Univac
stuff. DEC 20 stuff (I dream about having a 2065). VAX 9000. An IBM
3090. A System/z. A DPS9000/TA200. An SGI Origin 3900. A Cray. A GE
645. I don't yet have a LISPM.
Any of the above would be more than welcome in my collection.
8:59 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <47BDE388.601 at gmail.com>,
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
And CDC 6000 and 6600. And probably a whole bunch of others.
Peace... Sridhar
Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
You left off Connection Machine....
:-) Of course you do... Sridhar, dude... what
don't you own? You are
going to give the Computer Museum a run for their money ;-)
What don't I have?
S/360. 7xx or 7xxx series IBM. Big-iron Univac
stuff. DEC 20 stuff (I dream about having a 2065). VAX 9000. An IBM
3090. A System/z. A DPS9000/TA200. An SGI Origin 3900. A Cray. A GE
645. I don't yet have a LISPM.
Any of the above would be more than welcome in my collection.
3:41 p.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Don't be *that* impressed. It's actually not that old of a DPS9000.
It's a DPS9000/900, if memory serves. 1990ish? It runs a version of
GCOS 8, but I don't remember which exactly.
It should be operational, but the only time I've powered it up is when
they powered it at my behest up at the place I got it. It's been
sitting in storage for a few years.
Peace... Sridhar
I have one of
these machines, and would be interested in a copy of the code.
Peace... Sridhar
I'm *IMPRESSED*!!! Is it operational? If so what OS are you running. 
1:48 p.m.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be
interested in a
copy of the code?
I'd be interested in a copy of the code. I'm not aware of anyone collecting
them, they aren't exactly something that is available to collect. I was a
Systems Analyst on a DPS-8 running GCOS-8 in the early 90's, and have some
documentation, but that is it.
Zane
8:50 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: Hoeneywell-Bull DPS9000
I was going through some old code and discovered that I
wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
Cheers,
Chuck
I would like to have a copy of the code also.
John K
9:45 p.m.
Hi John,
I don't recall too much about this thing except that we sold a bunch
of boxes to Bull that had a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy in them connected
to a compaticard.
You can easily make this run without the external setup by just
editing the DISKETTE.CFG file. The code has drive X: defined as the
3.5" drive and Y: as the 5.25".
There's something itching at the back of my mind that says that the
DPS9000 3.5" floppies were of the 360 RPM persuasion and not the
usual 300 RPM. If you're interested in handling the 3.5" media and
don't have the appropriate drive, I can tell you how to modify a Teac
FD-235HF to have it run at 360 RPM.
The LHARC archive contains a self-extracting diskette image file
(720K 3.5" DS2D media). Your ISP doesn't like EXEs sent in ZIP files
but
is blissfully ignorant of LHARC--WinRAR should unpack the archive
just
fine.
I can probably provide source code, but I'm going to have to puzzle
the thing out--it's been a very long time since I've looked at it.
Cheers,
Chuck
On 21 Feb 2008 at 19:50, Keys wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:13 AM
Subject: Hoeneywell-Bull DPS9000
I was going through some old code and discovered
that I wrote a DOS
driver to handle Honeywell-Bull DPS9000 GCOS floppies. I don't
recall the exact circumstances, only that we equipped the customer
with a Compaticard and a modified dual drive (5.25" and 3.5") box,
although one isn't required for operation.
Does anyone collect these old systems? Would you be interested in a
copy of the code?
Cheers,
Chuck
I would like to have a copy of the code also.
John K
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