27 Nov
2004
27 Nov
'04
7:16 a.m.
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this site for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
The website does not (yet) give full details.
Please note that the project is not mine, we are just looking how much
interest there is, therefore raise hands if interested in a PCB.
Jos Dreesen
27 Nov
27 Nov
8:51 a.m.
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 22:16 +0100, Jos Dreesen wrote:
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this site
for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
The website does not (yet) give full details.
Please note that the project is not mine, we are just looking how much
interest there is, therefore raise hands if interested in a PCB.
Hmm, a way of backing up / restoring to / from a machine connected to
the serial port might be a handy feature, by the way - assuming the port
speed doesn't knock that on the head..
I'll mention it to the others at the museum - cool bit of hardware :)
We've got 4 working Profiles left (and a 5th that we haven't tested yet)
so we're doing OK for working units at the moment. Good to know this
exists though!
Getting working ST506 drives still of course isn't much of a problem,
but far as I recall the original drives were low level formatted by
Apple themselves prior to being shipped and neither the necessary
hardware or software is around to do this these days :-(
cheers
Jules
4 Dec
4 Dec
1:05 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 22:16 +0100, Jos Dreesen wrote:
Actually, a lot of it is floating around. The only thing I've never been
able to find is the 10MB ProFile formatting utility.
You can perform a low-level format using a Lisa or an Apple ///. The
hardest bit to find is a Z8 CPU with "piggyback" socket. There's a ROM
image which must be burned into a 2708 (from memory) and plugged onto the
uController. The entire unit replaces the masked-ROM Z8 in the ProFile.
Steve
Quote of the Year:
"The five person voting panel voted 57 to 3.14 in
favour of getting rid of the Diebold machines."
- 'Downside'
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this
site for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
The website does not (yet) give full details.
Please note that the project is not mine, we are just looking how much
interest there is, therefore raise hands if interested in a PCB.
Hmm, a way of backing up / restoring to / from a machine connected to
the serial port might be a handy feature, by the way - assuming the port
speed doesn't knock that on the head..
I'll mention it to the others at the museum - cool bit of hardware :)
We've got 4 working Profiles left (and a 5th that we haven't tested yet)
so we're doing OK for working units at the moment. Good to know this
exists though!
Getting working ST506 drives still of course isn't much of a problem,
but far as I recall the original drives were low level formatted by
Apple themselves prior to being shipped and neither the necessary
hardware or software is around to do this these days :-( 
27 Nov
27 Nov
11:33 p.m.
Not that I have any spare ones, but look at this site
for a description
of a IDE to Profile/widget translator.
http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/patrick/idefile.htm
That's fantastic! I guess as ever that interest will be directly related
to the cost of the unit....
cheers,
--
adrian/witchy
Binary Dinosaurs owner/curator
www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UKs biggest home computer collection?
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