On 9/29/11 12:48 AM, jim s wrote:
I just got a box of 8" media which included some
boxes with Fairchild Camera logos I usually see on high speed camera equipment I collect.
There is something called a Fairchild Series 70 with what appear to be floppies labeled
for such a system in one box. There were probably more, but they are full of Tarbell
media, which I need as well.
Any idea what this is? I will try to rig something or find someone with the means to
digitize it and donate it to Bitsavers, of course.
There was a thread on this in Jul 2010 called "More on mystery system" started
by Chuck
including:
* INSTRUMENT CONTROL SUBROUTINE
*
* FAIRCHILD SERIES 70/76
*
* WAVETEK 172A FUNCTION GENERATOR
SUBROUTINE SETUP,FG_2 SHAPE @1:C,DC_OFFSET @2:S,MODE @3:C
SET @1="W172A-2; 15/MAY/83";
IEEE_SEND(1:7)"S", at 1,"I";
B DECLARE S:0,I:0,C:0;
SET LC0 = "2";
SET LC0 = "1";
SET LC1 = "2";
* ( ISSUE 26 APR 1981 ) *
OUTPUT /LC3 "SHAPE:", at 1/;
OUTPUT /LC3 "MODE:", at 3/;
SET @1="W172A-2;
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Sounds like they are hard-sectored floppies from an ATE system.
Also, all of the links that Google points to for the classiccmp archive are broken,
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2010-July/116292.html
for example.