15 Sep
1999
15 Sep
'99
1:43 a.m.
I have one of these. Does anyone know how it's hooked up?
Anybody got the S/W for this thing? Supposedly, you can
write any format on the planet with this thing. I've
heard that it won't run i faster, newer machines. Does
anyone know what the limitations are?
Jeff
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:32:56 -0700 Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com>
writes:
Given the current discussion, has anyone looked the
Central Point
"copy
card" floppy controller over?
I am looking at one of mine right now, and to my limited "PC" eyes
it seems
fairly normal. Barely the length of a short ISA slot, with fingers
on a
edge connector as well as a set of header pins for the floppy drive
cable.
It has one main chip:
Transcopy 3 c CPS
TC19GO32AP-0036
Japan 8819EA! the ! could be just a vertical line.
Its about 8051 sized, maybe 60 pins. There is a 48 khz crystal, and
a 1987
copyright. Two sets of jumpers seem to select between PC/XT and
AT/Compaq,
another set looks like DMA1 or DMA2.
Remaining chips are a LS245 to the ISA bus, a 7406 by the PC/XT
jumpers,
and a 8812S UM8326B next to the crystal.
This is one of the cards I check every old PC I see for.
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15 Sep
15 Sep
2:05 a.m.
I have one of these. Does anyone know how it's
hooked up?
Anybody got the S/W for this thing? Supposedly, you can
write any format on the planet with this thing. I've
Nope, only softsector formats that used standard address marks. That
leaves out apple, some CBM, Most heath H89 and all northstar systems
at least.
heard that it won't run i faster, newer machines.
Does
anyone know what the limitations are?
The board is slow, make sure the ISA bus transactions are set up to not
exceed 8mhz and also there should be IO waits. Bet best is to find and
use an old 386 or 486.
Allison
8:42 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
The last version - to my knowledge - the Deluxe Option Card claimed that
it can copy the following "three basic types:
MFM example: IBM PX, Kaypro, Amiga
FM example: Atari
GCR example: Apple, Macintosh, Commodore
...The TC software may not be able to copy all protected Apple and
Atari disks, however. It also can't copy the back side of "flippy"
diskettes. It should be noted that not all IBM drives are capable of
reliably reading and writing GCR formats (Apple disks)."
- don
I have one of
these. Does anyone know how it's hooked up?
Anybody got the S/W for this thing? Supposedly, you can
write any format on the planet with this thing. I've
Nope, only softsector formats that used standard address marks. That
leaves out apple, some CBM, Most heath H89 and all northstar systems
at least. heard that it
won't run i faster, newer machines. Does
anyone know what the limitations are?
The board is slow, make sure the ISA bus transactions are set up to not
exceed 8mhz and also there should be IO waits. Bet best is to find and
use an old 386 or 486.
Allison
9 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
I have one of these. Does anyone know how it's
hooked up?
Anybody got the S/W for this thing? Supposedly, you can
write any format on the planet with this thing. I've
heard that it won't run i faster, newer machines. Does
anyone know what the limitations are?
Jeff, there were various versions of the card, including one copyrighted
in 1986 whose largest chip was 20 pins. Each required a different version
of the software, I believe.
I have several of the versions, but am unsure as to which card they are
applicable.
- don
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